Check out the information on www.linuxtv.org. There is more than the HD-3000 now for ATSC reception. If I recall there is a card called the Air2pc with a 3rd generation ATSC receiver on it.
Another way to record HD programs is if your cable company enabled the Firewire port on your cable box. Mythtv supports recording via Firewire.
> You need directory services, scheduling, global address book, forms and sophisticated IMAP folder sharing even in a very small company (100 employees), so even in small-and-medium enterprises, people do need Exchange-like functionality and not only SMTP/IMAP/Webmail.
Directory services: LDAP or AD with winbind Scheduling: Outlook can save free/busy information on any webdav or ftp server. Global Address Book: LDAP? Though you might be talking about allowing users to modify the global address book. I've never set that up before. Something like that might require a special MAPI shim. Forms: Never set that up. IMAP Folder sharing: Cyrus has no problem with that.
I'm able to get over half the functionality without a MAPI shim. I can get the rest of the functionality with a MAPI plugin. I can assue you that running with Apache/LDAP/Cyrus is very fast and efficient. It can handle the load *much* better than Exchange.
I ran Cyrus-imap on a production server for a.com back in the day. It had.5 million accounts on the box with around 100-200 simultaneous web users hitting the daemon constantly. This was back in cyrus-imap 1.6 days. Cyrus performed very well except for logins. This was due to a flatfile that no longer exists in the 2.x release. Cyrus is probably the fastest most scalable opensource imapd/pop server out there.
If you don't mind a commercial solution, I can't imagine anything more scalable than Communicate from Stalker Technologies.
Either that or maybe the United States will actually address and attempt to fix global warming with this hurricane blow?
Some around her mentioned that global warming would have helped prevent the hurricane in this location by getting cooler waters from the arctic to the equator. Hurricanes run on warm water, so lots of ice melting would have helped cool the waters.
It seems like you're talking about how Beagle does things. Beagle sits around and when a file is created or changed (it watches it via inotify) it indexes it. An extended attribute is added to the file so when the file is moved or renamed it can keep track of it. The only thing it doesn't do is handle metadata very well. For example, it should know that an email has To, From, Date, and Subject attributes. It seems to me that we don't really need gnome-storage to get that functionality, which, I think, is your point.
I sat back and saw most of the video demonstrating the WinFS beta. Clearly the guys in the video are pretty excited about what they've done. But shouldn't the gnome community be excited by projects like Dashboard? What about gnome storage. It seems like both of these projects accomplished a lot in a short period of time. It seems like these projects should get "marketed" a bit more.
Dashboard is a great example of what can be done once information is easily searchable. MS makes these demos and tries to get people all excited about search. But come on, how hard are these things once the data is indexed? Like most things, it's all about how the applications use the API that make it cool. Having folders in a DB only goes so far.
What about Reiserfs4? Another project that could take the whole gnome-storage and WinFS concepts a bit farther.
BTW, It's interesting that MS has decided to try the non-polished look to get the word out on things.:) The video reminded me of the Wobbly Windows demo.
It is kind of amusing to point out "manual hacker attacks" when SCO is shipping many of the same open source and free products that a standard linux distribution ships. An application written for Apache would be attacked no matter what platform it's running on.
Superior kernel? How is that measured? Each of the points he makes for a superior kernel Linux can equal or surpass. Linux supports multithreading. Linux supports at least 32 processors in a single system image (see SGI products). Linux supports a huge amount of RAM.
Is there a trusted version of Openserver? I have the choice of taking advantage of SELinux or RSBAC Linux. Good stuff. It will be interesting to note if RedHat EL4 with SELinux enabled has less problems with "manual hacker attacks" over the next year or so.
As far as I can tell the mouse only generates an event during movement over the sensor. Using xev I could see these movements get turned into buttons 3, 4, 5, 6(?). So moving your finger to the left generated a "middle click" or button 3. Moving your finger up and down generated "buttons" 4 and 5 (as do other wheel mice).
Now maybe the mouse had a "button 7" that means a tap, but I didn't see that behavior. I decided to return the mouse since moving my finger to the left to generate a single "middle click" was pretty much impossible.
Since there is no way to press down on that panel, that means there is no middle click for us X users out there. That middle click turns into the command for left scroll.
Other than that, the mouse is pretty nice. No moving parts except for the right/left buttons. When the mouse is in off mode, the right/left buttons dis-engage.
You had to hit an enter key? Hmm. With kickstart I don't have to do that. Anaconda will autodetect the hardware and load all the right drivers automatically and run the install script.
As far as non-x86 goes, I just installed AlphaCore for the hey of it on my DEC Alpha and the installer was exactly the same.
Hmmm. Two ports driving two projectors with polarized film in front of them... put the glasses on and you have 12-foot-high 3-D gaming.:) Sounds good to me.
What are of rpm is badly designed compared to deb? Not apt-get, just deb.
How was RedHat trying to lock people in by putting a header on a cpio file? Wouldn't they try something a bit more complex?
Using package overlays like apt-get, yum, smart, aptitude add the power to the base packaging system. I really don't see how running dpkg is any easier than running rpm.
From the comments of this slashdot.org story it seems setting an ATA password after wiping the disk would help head off a person trying to read the data. It would raise the bar pretty high. A person would need fancy equipment to get back into the drive.
According to the article, resetting the password wipes the drive automatically via the drive's firmware.
According to these links, Microsoft has finally figured out how Linux boots with tftp:
BartPE using PXE Booting Windows from a Debian box
It's nice to see Microsoft pick this up. Booting Windows with standard tools, what a concept!
I'm sooooo spoiled with anaconda kickstarts... can Microsoft make deploying servers as easy as RedHat/Fedora?
Wasn't TiVo always software? I mean, yeah, they did make hardware designs that ran the TiVo software. But those were simply reference designs. They never manufactured the hardware themselves. Hughes, Sony, Philips, and Humax did that.
Who cares as long as something happens. From what I can tell so far, CalDAV is a better system, though more complex than GroupDAV. CAP? I wish there was an opensource project years ago. It hasn't happened... so we're on to using DAV. DAV is fine with me. Dunno for sure, but it sounds like I can use Apache with some web app back end (e.g. PHP, java, etc). This is good. I like modular. I like being able to use OpenLDAP and Cyrus IMAP, but being able to choose something else if something better comes along.
I keep hearing about Citadel, isn't that a monolithic app? That's what I'm trying to get away from!
Due to a recent posting on slashdot I looked up the current status of CalDAV and GroupDAV. There are pros and cons to each. One of the nice things about CalDAV is that someone is already working on a MAPI CalDAV connector for Outlook (http://openconnector.org/). Maybe it could be re-worked for GroupDAV, but right now it's CalDAV. That gives it a big lead in my book. This could easily change of course.
Personally I don't care which one is better right now. I just need software that will make Outlook work with my Unix/Linux servers. I have not doubt Evolution/Sunbird/etc will work with whatever standard becomes popular.
Yup! SuSE does an excellent job of configuring LDAP for you. This includes:
Configuring Samba for LDAP and populating the LDAP server with the proper entries.
Putting the dhcp server configuration in LDAP.
Custom scripts for Samba to add/remove machines and users in LDAP via Samba.
Configuring Bind to use LDAP as a backend.
I'm pretty impressed. I love RedHat/Fedora, but those distros don't have anything like SuSE has for bootstrapping the LDAP configuration. Maybe RedHat will get more serious about it once they release the GPL'd version of iPlanet Directory Server.
Personally, I can't wait until Samba 4 comes out that will bring this all together (Kerb, LDAP, AD) with it's own LDAP server.
I wonder how many other banks are doing this, but don't shout it from the rooftops. My understanding is that Washington Mutual has a Linux team. It would be interesting to find out how extensively they are using or planning to use Linux.
I know they recently deployed a huge web farm of Windows boxes for some business web site. It's not surprising they use Solaris, AIX, Windows, Netware, and zOS, but how much do they and other banks use Linux?
Anyone have first hand knowledge that they can share?
Slashdot Mirror
Check out the information on www.linuxtv.org. There is more than the HD-3000 now for ATSC reception. If I recall there is a card called the Air2pc with a 3rd generation ATSC receiver on it.
Another way to record HD programs is if your cable company enabled the Firewire port on your cable box. Mythtv supports recording via Firewire.
This is not a news article. It appears under the Opinion section. Maybe we should all email Fox and request that a rebuttal article be published.
> You need directory services, scheduling, global address book, forms and sophisticated IMAP folder sharing even in a very small company (100 employees), so even in small-and-medium enterprises, people do need Exchange-like functionality and not only SMTP/IMAP/Webmail.
Directory services: LDAP or AD with winbind
Scheduling: Outlook can save free/busy information on any webdav or ftp server.
Global Address Book: LDAP? Though you might be talking about allowing users to modify the global address book. I've never set that up before. Something like that might require a special MAPI shim.
Forms: Never set that up.
IMAP Folder sharing: Cyrus has no problem with that.
I'm able to get over half the functionality without a MAPI shim. I can get the rest of the functionality with a MAPI plugin. I can assue you that running with Apache/LDAP/Cyrus is very fast and efficient. It can handle the load *much* better than Exchange.
I ran Cyrus-imap on a production server for a .com back in the day. It had .5 million accounts on the box with around 100-200 simultaneous web users hitting the daemon constantly. This was back in cyrus-imap 1.6 days. Cyrus performed very well except for logins. This was due to a flatfile that no longer exists in the 2.x release. Cyrus is probably the fastest most scalable opensource imapd/pop server out there.
If you don't mind a commercial solution, I can't imagine anything more scalable than Communicate from Stalker Technologies.
Either that or maybe the United States will actually address and attempt to fix global warming with this hurricane blow?
Some around her mentioned that global warming would have helped prevent the hurricane in this location by getting cooler waters from the arctic to the equator. Hurricanes run on warm water, so lots of ice melting would have helped cool the waters.
It seems like you're talking about how Beagle does things. Beagle sits around and when a file is created or changed (it watches it via inotify) it indexes it. An extended attribute is added to the file so when the file is moved or renamed it can keep track of it. The only thing it doesn't do is handle metadata very well. For example, it should know that an email has To, From, Date, and Subject attributes. It seems to me that we don't really need gnome-storage to get that functionality, which, I think, is your point.
I sat back and saw most of the video demonstrating the WinFS beta. Clearly the guys in the video are pretty excited about what they've done. But shouldn't the gnome community be excited by projects like Dashboard? What about gnome storage. It seems like both of these projects accomplished a lot in a short period of time. It seems like these projects should get "marketed" a bit more.
:) The video reminded me of the Wobbly Windows demo.
Dashboard is a great example of what can be done once information is easily searchable. MS makes these demos and tries to get people all excited about search. But come on, how hard are these things once the data is indexed? Like most things, it's all about how the applications use the API that make it cool. Having folders in a DB only goes so far.
What about Reiserfs4? Another project that could take the whole gnome-storage and WinFS concepts a bit farther.
BTW, It's interesting that MS has decided to try the non-polished look to get the word out on things.
It is kind of amusing to point out "manual hacker attacks" when SCO is shipping many of the same open source and free products that a standard linux distribution ships. An application written for Apache would be attacked no matter what platform it's running on.
Superior kernel? How is that measured? Each of the points he makes for a superior kernel Linux can equal or surpass. Linux supports multithreading. Linux supports at least 32 processors in a single system image (see SGI products). Linux supports a huge amount of RAM.
Is there a trusted version of Openserver? I have the choice of taking advantage of SELinux or RSBAC Linux. Good stuff. It will be interesting to note if RedHat EL4 with SELinux enabled has less problems with "manual hacker attacks" over the next year or so.
As far as I can tell the mouse only generates an event during movement over the sensor. Using xev I could see these movements get turned into buttons 3, 4, 5, 6(?). So moving your finger to the left generated a "middle click" or button 3. Moving your finger up and down generated "buttons" 4 and 5 (as do other wheel mice).
Now maybe the mouse had a "button 7" that means a tap, but I didn't see that behavior. I decided to return the mouse since moving my finger to the left to generate a single "middle click" was pretty much impossible.
Since there is no way to press down on that panel, that means there is no middle click for us X users out there. That middle click turns into the command for left scroll.
Other than that, the mouse is pretty nice. No moving parts except for the right/left buttons. When the mouse is in off mode, the right/left buttons dis-engage.
You had to hit an enter key? Hmm. With kickstart I don't have to do that. Anaconda will autodetect the hardware and load all the right drivers automatically and run the install script.
As far as non-x86 goes, I just installed AlphaCore for the hey of it on my DEC Alpha and the installer was exactly the same.
Or should I say Mac on Linux x86?
So I could run Linux programs all day long and load into MoL to run Microsoft Office?
Or even better... maybe a Wine like program for MacOS programs on Linux.
Hmmm. Two ports driving two projectors with polarized film in front of them... put the glasses on and you have 12-foot-high 3-D gaming. :) Sounds good to me.
What are of rpm is badly designed compared to deb? Not apt-get, just deb.
How was RedHat trying to lock people in by putting a header on a cpio file? Wouldn't they try something a bit more complex?
Using package overlays like apt-get, yum, smart, aptitude add the power to the base packaging system. I really don't see how running dpkg is any easier than running rpm.
Okay.... now will all the Debian people figure out it's not deb that's better, it's how it's packaged!
Now that there is a major deb based distro out there, Debian people will understand the difference. Welcome to deb hell!
From the comments of this slashdot.org story it seems setting an ATA password after wiping the disk would help head off a person trying to read the data. It would raise the bar pretty high. A person would need fancy equipment to get back into the drive.
According to the article, resetting the password wipes the drive automatically via the drive's firmware.
You should have read the links before you responded. I wasn't just talking about PXE. Notice that I mentioned tftp in the posting.
According to these links, Microsoft has finally figured out how Linux boots with tftp:
BartPE using PXE
Booting Windows from a Debian box
It's nice to see Microsoft pick this up. Booting Windows with standard tools, what a concept!
I'm sooooo spoiled with anaconda kickstarts... can Microsoft make deploying servers as easy as RedHat/Fedora?
Wasn't TiVo always software? I mean, yeah, they did make hardware designs that ran the TiVo software. But those were simply reference designs. They never manufactured the hardware themselves. Hughes, Sony, Philips, and Humax did that.
Who cares as long as something happens. From what I can tell so far, CalDAV is a better system, though more complex than GroupDAV. CAP? I wish there was an opensource project years ago. It hasn't happened... so we're on to using DAV. DAV is fine with me. Dunno for sure, but it sounds like I can use Apache with some web app back end (e.g. PHP, java, etc). This is good. I like modular. I like being able to use OpenLDAP and Cyrus IMAP, but being able to choose something else if something better comes along.
I keep hearing about Citadel, isn't that a monolithic app? That's what I'm trying to get away from!
Due to a recent posting on slashdot I looked up the current status of CalDAV and GroupDAV. There are pros and cons to each. One of the nice things about CalDAV is that someone is already working on a MAPI CalDAV connector for Outlook (http://openconnector.org/). Maybe it could be re-worked for GroupDAV, but right now it's CalDAV. That gives it a big lead in my book. This could easily change of course.
Personally I don't care which one is better right now. I just need software that will make Outlook work with my Unix/Linux servers. I have not doubt Evolution/Sunbird/etc will work with whatever standard becomes popular.
Yup! SuSE does an excellent job of configuring LDAP for you. This includes:
Configuring Samba for LDAP and populating the LDAP server with the proper entries.
Putting the dhcp server configuration in LDAP.
Custom scripts for Samba to add/remove machines and users in LDAP via Samba.
Configuring Bind to use LDAP as a backend.
I'm pretty impressed. I love RedHat/Fedora, but those distros don't have anything like SuSE has for bootstrapping the LDAP configuration. Maybe RedHat will get more serious about it once they release the GPL'd version of iPlanet Directory Server.
Personally, I can't wait until Samba 4 comes out that will bring this all together (Kerb, LDAP, AD) with it's own LDAP server.
I wonder how many other banks are doing this, but don't shout it from the rooftops. My understanding is that Washington Mutual has a Linux team. It would be interesting to find out how extensively they are using or planning to use Linux.
I know they recently deployed a huge web farm of Windows boxes for some business web site. It's not surprising they use Solaris, AIX, Windows, Netware, and zOS, but how much do they and other banks use Linux?
Anyone have first hand knowledge that they can share?
Easy to install? Compared to what?
I did find FreeBSD fairly easy to install, but not as easy as Fedora/RedHat. The Anaconda installer truely is easy.
I thought Linux already had hot swap CPU support. It just depends on the right hardware.