If you want unlimited flexibility then build your own box and run BSD or Linux.
Why do it this way (the hard way)? Because you can do ANYTHING you want with it. IPSEC tunels, NAT, DHCP, IPmasq, http cache, DNS cache, spam filtering, your own domain, your own email server, web server, instant message server, streaming audio server, and on and on. Add a third network card and you can set up a DMZ network too.
If you just want to surf and email then get one of the sealed box router/firewalls.
"Urpmi is less succeptable to broken dependancies than apt-get is, due to better design."
I have to disagree. Each is only as good as the packages being installed. Why? Because the package provides the dependancy info.
If you use apt-get and have dependancy trouble it's likely that your packages are sh*t. If you use apt-get to install and manage official debian packages you will rarely encounter trouble. I have maintained a debian box with apt-get for going on 4 years, doing monthly "apt-get upgrade" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" sessions that have carried it from Debian version 2.0 through 2.3(unstable) through the years with no reinstall.
It's the package maintainers who ultimately determine how well it works because it's the dependency info in the packages that make or break your experience.
Here is a screenshot of gnome running on my wife's windows box (remote x-session on my Linux box). She has a icon on her desktop and with just a double-click she can fire up a remote gnome session and run all things Linux.:)
All my searches came back looking like yellow-page listings. Nothing but businesses. It should be "thecommercialindex.com"
Now if they added a radio button to switch between "show only commercial sites", "show only personal sites", and "show all sites". That might be usefull.
Everyone in the DIY thread keeps saying you can't have reliability if you're hosting your own domain at home on a single box. That's total BS! You have to consider server load. Your ISP's servers are straining under the load of hundreds or thousands of users. Your box has to support you and maybe a few friends. It will be very reliable. I have two sites running like this off of DSL. They have been on-line for over 2 years with no unplanned outages. With Debian they get updated without being taken off-line. Not a single email has failed to be delivered in over two years. If that isn't good enough for you then you'll never find what you're looking for.
Just about all of us in our local LUG do this. You get a static ip, register a domain (it's cheap and easy), and you're up and running. Because you are running Linux or BSD or another real OS you can easily run your own servers for mail, http, ftp, IRCII, SSH, DNS, Quake, or whatever. You can even set up mail accounts for friends and family, or whatever you want. You have total freedom. You're no longer just connected to the Internet, you are part of it.
..go to their web site, type in your credit-card number, and then get a one-time-cardnumber to use somewhere else. You still had to use your real number to get the one-time number.
"American Express cardholders will be able to log onto a secure Web site and receive a one-time-use credit card number for purchases over the Internet"
Anonymity? I doubt it. Amex still knows who they assigned each one-time number to. I am sure they will keep records of each OTN linked to your account. Anyone who can track you down by card purchases today will still be able to under the new plan. Big Brother is still in the house.
The use of sockets in X is not a problem. It's how X works. Blocking ports is not "fixing the symptom rather than the problem" as you stated. Your box is like a house. You don't want strangers wandering into your house, right? So lock the front door, but don't lock every room in the house. If you lock the outer doors, then you have no need to lock every room within the house - and you can move about freely within. You can do wonderful things with sockets. To say that they should not be used shows your short sightedness.
The FBI is going to decide who does the review? If true, that just doesn't sound right. Do those accused of crimes routinely get to select the procecuting attorney?
Witches burn
Wood also burns
Witches must be made of wood
Wood floats
Ducks float
Ducks must be made of wood
If a person weighs the same as a duck they are a witch.
If you want to compare bugs between os's then tally the total number of apps/utils provided with each and then compare the bugs as a ratio of bugs to apps/utils. Most Linux distro's come with thousands of apps/utils. How many apps/utils come with NT?
Fuel Cells still cost to much to produce. Even with high petrol prices it is still cheaper to use internal combustion engines than to produce fuel cells. If/when fuel cells get cheaper to produce than we will see them enter mainstream useage. Cheap trumps efficient every time.
Is it cheaper than pork? Less cholesterol than beef? What is the best way to prepare it? What does a polymer steak taste like? Will it constipate me? What is the nutritional value? Imagine the shelf life! No more ecoli or sam&ella! Wow, I'm gonna get rich selling polymer bergers!
Must run as root Locks up X Subversively reports user info 23mb download (per single user install) Download file is a self-extracting (*.exe) pkzip archive
Hey, I submitted this story first thing this morning and it was rejected! I want to see a submission time-stamp on these things. Why does "Big Joe" get the credit for this! GRRRRR. I want justice!!!!! I want equality! I want Hemos to read my submissions instead of whoever. Who rejected me this morning? Was it you Rob? Grrrr. Where are my pills...
Wow, I must be some kind of kernel hacking God (kidding) because I have been using AGP with the stable kernel for about a year. Me thinkest thou art mistaken, my friend.
I saw that add too. We all should have seen it since it was on durring or right at the end of The X-Files. I almost missed it (reading mail on my PalmPilot) because at first it was just some guy screaming at the pigeons. It was an IBM add right? Anyway, the device in the add looked a heck-of-a-lot better than the pictures on the IBMjapan site. The monical was really tiny and translucent. Gimme gimme gimme. Rather than a mouse and win98, how about a twiddler and Linux?
I have to agree that Linux for the masses is probably not a good thing. Some things are great, but just not suited to everyone.
I am a pilot. I think airplanes and helicopters are wonderful, but I don't think everyone on earth should have a helicopter. The average person is not willing or in some cases capable of aquiring the mental and physical skills and knowledge to operate one responsibly. The same goes for advanced operating systems - especially ones connected to networks.
Making a 'click-and-drool' Linux is a road to disaster. It would be like making a helicopter for the general population that "comes with a simple 10 step instruction sheet." You would end-up with a user-friendly and simple to use COFFIN!
Today Seattle authorities seized the underware of a young hacker accused of breaking into government networks. "We were able to prove the suspects guilt by placing a 'sniffer' program in his shorts last week". The police crime lab also reported that upon examining the shorts they found evidence that the young hacker had contracted the Melissa virus.
SMP thermal underware exclusively at Cabellas!
on
Wearable PCs
·
· Score: 1
Stay warm in your duck blind this winter. If you start to get a chill just perform some intense statistical analysis or process weather pattern data with the new Beowulf thermal underware from Cabellas. You will quickly learn to adjust processor load to find that "just right" temerature zone. You will enjoy worry-free outings knowing that _your_ underware is fully Y2k compliant, and has an average battery life of 4 full hours*. Act now and get an exteded 6 month warranty free**.
*Estimated run time using optional 400 cell mobile battery cart. ** Waranty void if user fails to follow propper grounding procedures before dressing. Warning: Overclocking will void waranty and may result in burn injury.
I used to be a software "warez" hunter. At one time I bet I had $20,000 worth of software I shouldn't have had. I was addicted, but I also did it because I couldn't afford the software I needed. It isn't right to steal, but I can see why some do.
Now that I have taught myself to use Linux and other Linux-like operating systems such as Unix, I leverage the rich selection of free software. No more guilt. No more breaking the law. And, the free-source *nix stuff is actually better than that other stuff I was using before anyway.
Many thanks to all the coders providing us with the free stuff. I don't steal any more because I don't have to.
Only quicktime? That is like giving away furniture for free but specifying that it _must_ be taken home in a chevy. Screw it. If he wants to give away content for free why should he care about the mode of delivery. Pirating something _not_ intended for mass distribution is wrong though - But this trailer is intended to be available for everyone.
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Why do it this way (the hard way)? Because you can do ANYTHING you want with it. IPSEC tunels, NAT, DHCP, IPmasq, http cache, DNS cache, spam filtering, your own domain, your own email server, web server, instant message server, streaming audio server, and on and on. Add a third network card and you can set up a DMZ network too.
If you just want to surf and email then get one of the sealed box router/firewalls.
In 1998 I bought a Debian cd set for $2.
I downloaded the then beta of "apt".
$> apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
I've had a current GNU/Linux install ever since and I've not purchased a Linux cd since 1998.
"Urpmi is less succeptable to broken dependancies than apt-get is, due to better design."
I have to disagree. Each is only as good as the packages being installed. Why? Because the package provides the dependancy info.
If you use apt-get and have dependancy trouble it's likely that your packages are sh*t. If you use apt-get to install and manage official debian packages you will rarely encounter trouble. I have maintained a debian box with apt-get for going on 4 years, doing monthly "apt-get upgrade" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" sessions that have carried it from Debian version 2.0 through 2.3(unstable) through the years with no reinstall.
It's the package maintainers who ultimately determine how well it works because it's the dependency info in the packages that make or break your experience.
-Ben
Who can possibly read all their email in an hour?
: )
There's an easier way...
:)
Here is a screenshot of gnome running on my wife's windows box (remote x-session on my Linux box). She has a icon on her desktop and with just a double-click she can fire up a remote gnome session and run all things Linux.
screenshot
All my searches came back looking like yellow-page listings. Nothing but businesses. It should be "thecommercialindex.com"
Now if they added a radio button to switch between "show only commercial sites", "show only personal sites", and "show all sites". That might be usefull.
Everyone in the DIY thread keeps saying you can't have reliability if you're hosting your own domain at home on a single box. That's total BS! You have to consider server load. Your ISP's servers are straining under the load of hundreds or thousands of users. Your box has to support you and maybe a few friends. It will be very reliable. I have two sites running like this off of DSL. They have been on-line for over 2 years with no unplanned outages. With Debian they get updated without being taken off-line. Not a single email has failed to be delivered in over two years. If that isn't good enough for you then you'll never find what you're looking for.
Just about all of us in our local LUG do this. You get a static ip, register a domain (it's cheap and easy), and you're up and running. Because you are running Linux or BSD or another real OS you can easily run your own servers for mail, http, ftp, IRCII, SSH, DNS, Quake, or whatever. You can even set up mail accounts for friends and family, or whatever you want. You have total freedom. You're no longer just connected to the Internet, you are part of it.
..go to their web site, type in your credit-card number, and then get a one-time-cardnumber to use somewhere else. You still had to use your real number to get the one-time number.
"American Express cardholders will be able to log onto a secure Web site and receive a one-time-use credit card number for purchases over the Internet"
Anonymity? I doubt it. Amex still knows who they assigned each one-time number to. I am sure they will keep records of each OTN linked to your account. Anyone who can track you down by card purchases today will still be able to under the new plan. Big Brother is still in the house.
The use of sockets in X is not a problem. It's how X works. Blocking ports is not "fixing the symptom rather than the problem" as you stated. Your box is like a house. You don't want strangers wandering into your house, right? So lock the front door, but don't lock every room in the house. If you lock the outer doors, then you have no need to lock every room within the house - and you can move about freely within. You can do wonderful things with sockets. To say that they should not be used shows your short sightedness.
The FBI is going to decide who does the review? If true, that just doesn't sound right. Do those accused of crimes routinely get to select the procecuting attorney?
Fred Moody logic:
Witches burn
Wood also burns
Witches must be made of wood
Wood floats
Ducks float
Ducks must be made of wood
If a person weighs the same as a duck they are a witch.
If you want to compare bugs between os's then tally the total number of apps/utils provided with each and then compare the bugs as a ratio of bugs to apps/utils. Most Linux distro's come with thousands of apps/utils. How many apps/utils come with NT?
Fuel Cells still cost to much to produce. Even with high petrol prices it is still cheaper to use internal combustion engines than to produce fuel cells. If/when fuel cells get cheaper to produce than we will see them enter mainstream useage. Cheap trumps efficient every time.
M$ system = date driven
Debian system = version driven
M$ system = server tells client what to update
Debian system = client determines updates
M$ system = remote database queried by client
Debian system = client reads a flat text file
used to update client's local
database.
Less cholesterol than beef?
What is the best way to prepare it? What does a polymer steak taste like? Will it constipate me? What is the nutritional value? Imagine the shelf life! No more ecoli or sam&ella! Wow, I'm gonna get rich selling polymer bergers!
Must run as root
Locks up X
Subversively reports user info
23mb download (per single user install)
Download file is a self-extracting (*.exe) pkzip archive
What do you bet I'm right on at least 2 of the 5?
Hey, I submitted this story first thing this morning and it was rejected! I want to see a submission time-stamp on these things. Why does "Big Joe" get the credit for this! GRRRRR. I want justice!!!!! I want equality! I want Hemos to read my submissions instead of whoever. Who rejected me this morning? Was it you Rob? Grrrr. Where are my pills...
Wow, I must be some kind of kernel hacking God (kidding) because I have been using AGP with the stable kernel for about a year. Me thinkest thou art mistaken, my friend.
I saw that add too. We all should have seen it since it was on durring or right at the end of The X-Files. I almost missed it (reading mail on my PalmPilot) because at first it was just some guy screaming at the pigeons. It was an IBM add right? Anyway, the device in the add looked a heck-of-a-lot better than the pictures on the IBMjapan site. The monical was really tiny and translucent. Gimme gimme gimme. Rather than a mouse and win98, how about a twiddler and Linux?
Where do we send legal defense contributions? Do not let these coders suffer for their efforts!
I have to agree that Linux for the masses is probably not a good thing. Some things are great, but just not suited to everyone.
I am a pilot. I think airplanes and helicopters are wonderful, but I don't think everyone on earth should have a helicopter. The average person is not willing or in some cases capable of aquiring the mental and physical skills and knowledge to operate one responsibly. The same goes for advanced operating systems - especially ones connected to networks.
Making a 'click-and-drool' Linux is a road to disaster. It would be like making a helicopter for the general population that "comes with a simple 10 step instruction sheet." You would end-up with a user-friendly and simple to use COFFIN!
Today Seattle authorities seized the underware of a young hacker accused of breaking into government networks. "We were able to prove the suspects guilt by placing a 'sniffer' program in his shorts last week". The police crime lab also reported that upon examining the shorts they found evidence that the young hacker had contracted the Melissa virus.
Stay warm in your duck blind this winter. If you start to get a chill just perform some intense statistical analysis or process weather pattern data with the new Beowulf thermal underware from Cabellas. You will quickly learn to adjust processor load to find that "just right" temerature zone. You will enjoy worry-free outings knowing that _your_ underware is fully Y2k compliant, and has an average battery life of 4 full hours*. Act now and get an exteded 6 month warranty free**.
*Estimated run time using optional 400 cell mobile battery cart.
** Waranty void if user fails to follow propper grounding procedures before dressing. Warning: Overclocking will void waranty and may result in burn injury.
These are the people we need to convert!
I used to be a software "warez" hunter. At one time I bet I had $20,000 worth of software I shouldn't have had. I was addicted, but I also did it because I couldn't afford the software I needed. It isn't right to steal, but I can see why some do.
Now that I have taught myself to use Linux and other Linux-like operating systems such as Unix, I leverage the rich selection of free software. No more guilt. No more breaking the law. And, the free-source *nix stuff is actually better than that other stuff I was using before anyway.
Many thanks to all the coders providing us with the free stuff. I don't steal any more because I don't have to.
Only quicktime? That is like giving away furniture for free but specifying that it _must_ be taken home in a chevy. Screw it. If he wants to give away content for free why should he care about the mode of delivery. Pirating something _not_ intended for mass distribution is wrong though - But this trailer is intended to be available for everyone.