Wow - thanks to all that are hitting my site, I'm sitting here at work watching multitail try and keep up with all the requests on my home server! Typo uses Lighttpd (I have Apache2 running, but it's using mod_proxy to pass all requests to fak3r.com to Lighttpd) which is supposed to be 'lighter' and perform much better under load than Apache. I assume that's true because the logs are flying by, and the log from the Typo server is saying things like:
Am I reading this right? Most are coming up with 10-40/reqs/second, but damn, this is on a homeserver (FreeBSD 6.0 - 1.2Gig - 512Megs) with a 384/1.5 DSL! I'm doing full refreshes here and not seeing any obvious lag - I've never had this much sustained traffic, but this looks very good for Lighttpd! (only been using it for this blog, which started ~ a week ago). Checking top I see 'ruby' but it's way down there, below multilog/tail and such... Hmm...need to check that migration from Apache to Lighty perhaps!;)
For those late to the party, that's fak3r.com! (just try and bring it down hehe...)
Before any bashes it as being a flash in the pan, watch the demo and see the framework that it provides and how natural it is to build webapps on top of. Truly an interesting language for the web.
Speaking of, why don't you check out my Ruby on Rails/Typo based blog, fak3r.com;) be sure to try out that 'live search' (try 'bsd') for a taste of RoR/AJAX fun!
yep, I've gotten this question numberous times, but when I bought my iBook 2 years ago I planned on dual booting OS X and Gentoo Linux. For me the iBook was the perfect form factor, small (12" screen), great battery life, integrated wireless (yes, I had that installed), good memory (maxed it out to 512M on purchse) and just asthetically a nice looking laptop. My job at the time required me to admin many *nix boxes (Sun, Linux, AIX) and since I was used to running Linux to control all of these, having them on the iBook was just natural. Then when I needed to work with Devs on their builds I could bring my laptop to their cube and work on the servers from there to rectify errors. I'd do the same at meetings; fix things while they were brought up in the meetings. Could I have done this with an IBM T21? Sure, but for me, the iBook was just more of what I wanted at that time. With a fresh Ubuntu install the iBook is my favorite thing to check email, surf with at night while I sit in my big comfy chair and sip on some wheat beer. Could I have gotten a pale ale instead? Sure, but I have my reasons.;)
Zimbra is pretty much full featured, and does allot more (AJAX wise and otherwise) than Roundcube. Give it a look too. Having said that, Roundcube is basically one person, and it's a very impressive project in that regards; nice clean UI, and a somewhat new way to deal with 'webmail'. I see Zimbra as being a great comapany (all stuff is 'ZPL' btw) but Roundcube should attract some devs now, and I expect it to be a real nice 'light' solution for us home mailserver folks.
Ubuntu has become my main desktop and laptop (iBook) distro of choice, beating out Gentoo last year. I just did a fresh install of 5.10 Monday on the iBook, and it's just so nice. On the workstation we've been tracking Breezy for about a month now, and the polish just keeps coming. Can't wait till they move on Daper, an am especially excited about it being supported for so many years; you can just feel the momentium.
Use whatever Linux distro you like, but if you're looking for one to change to, give this a shot, there's a reason there's so much good press about this company.
I'm shopping for DirecTV now, and was amazed that their 'free' PVRs come with a monthly fee! While the software PVRs get better and easier to install, I'm going to go that route to be free of fees and restrictions. So, the million dollar question, which is the best bet right now:
While I've seen things like this before, I'm liking Novell's approaches to Open Source more an more these days. With the excellent SUSE 10 (still may replace Ubuntu on my main workstation) and projects like Beagle and Hula, they're set to really make a splash if they take this useability idea seriously. They seem to be gelling more on the desktop than anyone else of late, 3 years ago who'd have expected Novell to be doing this? Awesome.
It seems that AJAX, while being a rather old idea, has taken over all new webapps these days. From Gmail to the Hula Project to the fantastic looking Zimbra Collaboration Suite, this reduced reliance on the old client => server model is a great step. I found more info on Kahuna beta from someone who wrote about it back in August.
Now that I'm playing with Ruby on Rails I'll be very interested in the next 'killer app'; a Ruby on Rails/AJAX based webapp client....drool...
yep, this is what I said before: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16434 7&cid=13721775 and why I bought a cheaper machine (with better hardware *and* XP (ugg)) from Dell! The open-ness is kinda a joke, unless it means 'opening' your wallet. Thanks Dell.
The main thing I've noticed is just better 'out of the box' support for hardware in 6.0. I don't have massive requirements, as I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 for my primary server (mail, web, chat, database, file) at home. I didn't need to rebuilt the kernel as I did with 5.2 - but that was to support an older NIC. Basically it 'just works' and I've stuck with GENERIC for the kernel with no issues. I use Ports like they're going out of style, and I haven't had anything break (that I couldn't fix;))
Anyway, better 'out of the box' support, which would manifest mostly for folks installing 6.0 for a desktop, or someone who has some new(er) RAID or 1G NIC to support. I couldn't be happier, not using Linux for a server anymore, but it's still my Desktop of choice.
I would have bought this earlier this year, as it stands I bought a Dimension 3.2G box for less than 500$. I DID NOT want to buy a machine with XP already installed on it, but get this; it was 80$ CHEAPER to buy the same machine with Windows than a 'naked' machine with a freeDOS option! I guess it's supply and demand, but it still irks the hell outta me that I paid the MS 'tax' and continued the 'look at home many ppl buy machines with XP installed!' FUD. Can these "Open" machines compete in price with Dell's (constantly) adverstised special? If not, I can't see too many ppl paying more for a machine with no OS vs a cheaper machine with XP (That I immediately installed over - no, I didn't look into the 'rebate' - sounds like it's a hassle anyway).
I really think POS is an important step for Linux acceptance. The beauty of Linux, of corse, is that it can run on an AS/400 or a wristwatch; and everything inbetween. I cringe when I see POS machines just running a terminal within Windows; think of what they are paying just to have telnet to a main system! While I, and most good geeks, run nothing but Linux for desktops, it'll take time to get them past the exec level; but for POS it's all about the bottom line, and no one will be able to beat Linux in that field. I think that will be the tipping point, but feel it's still ~3 years off.
This is why I have my mom running Firefox on windows, and for those who will say FF has vulns, yes, they do, but with the 'auto-updating' option on 1.5 it will change that view. No one (save for us geeks) want to reinstall software all the time; most of the time if it works, they're not going to upgrade. 1.5 will 'auto-update' the bits to keep the browser secure, and I'm sure it will continue to while the browser moves to 1.6 and beyond.
For all that this game is, it just 'fits' the Gamecube perfectly. It's def a game I would play as much as the kids, and I appreciate that more titles for the Gamecube fall in this category. Nintendo has the right idea, and I hope they stick with it for the Revolution; just make great games and let Sony and MS deal with the realisticly violent games.
Oh, and let's get another Mario game, Sunshine wasn't it (though Kart and Golf are a blast!)
At my current consulting gig I have to use XP. I make myself more at home by running bb4win, one of the excellent Blackbox implementations for windows. Having everything under the left-click mouse button just makes sense to me, and doesn't look like the office clones around here. Throw on PuTTY, Cygwin, Firefox, Gaim and I'm almost home...
I know this article is about the defective/cracked screens, but I've also read where ppl are upset that the screen is scratched easily. Hello, it's plastic, not glass, it's going to get scratched up, just like your car is going to get door dinged in the parking lot; that's life. My 20G iPod is always on, and yeah, it's 'trashed' according to some, but hey, I think it's worn nicely, it was never my goal to keep it in 'mint condition'; it's not a 1965 Mustang or anything. As for the cases, they're just silly IMO; you take a beautifully designed piece of technology, and then wrap it in some guady piece of rubber. Uggg...to each his own, but ppl that *need* to put cases on their iPods are the same ppl that put bras on the front of their cars. Listen to the music, that's what it's there for...
This worked great for me, we signed up at the beginning, and the local Texas one at the same time. We went from getting 2-3 calls a night to none, or perhaps one a month; it was awesome. This is a big deal as it's just such an intrusion. Back before I knew you could say "Please add me to your do not call list", I used to tell them to hold on, and put the phone down right next to the television speaker for 10 mins or so...but this is much better. Now how about a do-not-email-list?;) I know, how the heck would it be run/administarted or maintained, blah, time for some greylisting!
This may be slighty OT, but I don't see ANY reason why a closed source system that's this vulnurable should be allowed in any Medical/Govermental or Military implementation. Sure, lot's of Apps are written ABOVE the OS and thus in control of the branch maintaining them, but damnit, the OS is at the root of the problem here! Makes you understand why trains all across Europe are still kept track of (punny, eh?) by old Digital DEC's running VMS or OpenVMS. The whole idea that mindshare of the mainframe is growing old and retiring is going to be an issue, Windows 2000 server is not a replacement for something like VMS.
Right, nowadays you meet people who like to talk about technology, but when I talk/think about my time in the "Computer Club" in High School back in the 80s, it was a different story. We *were* the folks learning about phreaking via a IBM PC in my friends parents bedroom, with the old Hayes modem, on some BBSs. I think it's just that it now touches peoples' lives so much deeper; from email to shopping on the web, it's just more mainstream and people can relate better.
Here's what I had to say on my little bio site about myself: geek - while it used to be a four letter word, it is now a (somewhat?) coveted title. Either that or people just have short memories. Regardless, knowing about technology and having a desire to constantly improve it is now almost as accepted as jaywalking.
Opposite problem at my work
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This is a problem, however at my work (and a few other gigs) I've seen Password deficiency in the workplace. Too many projects headed up by non-technical people that don't understand the importance of passwords. Obviously a unified solution (NFS or the like) would help tremdously, but for things like servers, getting to a root acount woudln't be a good use, so I think it'd need to be a biometrics (fingerprints) solution, with a "sudo like" funtionality on the server. ie- the user with this fingerprint can do these things, etc.
"While certain words such as "democracy" are banned in online chat rooms, China's Web users sometimes transmit sensitive information as images, or simply speak in code, inserting special characters such as underscoring into typing.'"
This harks back to the early days of IRC and the attempts at blocking, or simply censoring, conversation. Enter elite speak (l33tsp3ak, l337sp35k, etc) and how it can constanly evolve/change and eventually there's no stopping it. Democracy? Hmm...d3m0racy, demoKrazy, d3m0cr5cy... For an example more near and dear to/. hearts; see pr0n as an example.
Hehe, thanks for noticing - I'm running Firefox 1.5 beta1 on XP. The problem is my original screenshot was a PNG of the whole browser window; saved it via Gimp in windows, scp'd it to my home server. When the/. traffic started hitting, with eveyone downloading a 200K image was killing my bandwidth. I quickly cropped and resaved it as a 40K gif, scp'd it over and then just renamed the gif to png, and all of a sudden the bandwidth was available again.
So yeah, long story short(*er), XP, but with my limited screen grab skillz it looks like crap. Oh well, going on 1400+ hits for that image along, it's a nice light slashdotting to get my feet wet and test Apache2 on FreeBSD 6.0!
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For those late to the party, that's fak3r.com! (just try and bring it down hehe...)
Before any bashes it as being a flash in the pan, watch the demo and see the framework that it provides and how natural it is to build webapps on top of. Truly an interesting language for the web.
;) be sure to try out that 'live search' (try 'bsd') for a taste of RoR/AJAX fun!
Speaking of, why don't you check out my Ruby on Rails/Typo based blog, fak3r.com
Better? (note that != means 'not equal to'
[ RoundCube = Squirrelmail = Horde/IMP ] != [ Zimbra = Hula Project = Horde/IMP/Turba/etc = OpenExchange = Novell NetMail = MS Exchange ]
yep, I've gotten this question numberous times, but when I bought my iBook 2 years ago I planned on dual booting OS X and Gentoo Linux. For me the iBook was the perfect form factor, small (12" screen), great battery life, integrated wireless (yes, I had that installed), good memory (maxed it out to 512M on purchse) and just asthetically a nice looking laptop. My job at the time required me to admin many *nix boxes (Sun, Linux, AIX) and since I was used to running Linux to control all of these, having them on the iBook was just natural. Then when I needed to work with Devs on their builds I could bring my laptop to their cube and work on the servers from there to rectify errors. I'd do the same at meetings; fix things while they were brought up in the meetings. Could I have done this with an IBM T21? Sure, but for me, the iBook was just more of what I wanted at that time. With a fresh Ubuntu install the iBook is my favorite thing to check email, surf with at night while I sit in my big comfy chair and sip on some wheat beer. Could I have gotten a pale ale instead? Sure, but I have my reasons. ;)
right, so I see it like this:
RoundCube = Squirrelmail = Horde != Zimbra = Hula Project = OpenExchange = Exchange
Ok I'm oversimplifying it, but that's how I'm thinking of the relation of the various projects now.
Zimbra is pretty much full featured, and does allot more (AJAX wise and otherwise) than Roundcube. Give it a look too. Having said that, Roundcube is basically one person, and it's a very impressive project in that regards; nice clean UI, and a somewhat new way to deal with 'webmail'. I see Zimbra as being a great comapany (all stuff is 'ZPL' btw) but Roundcube should attract some devs now, and I expect it to be a real nice 'light' solution for us home mailserver folks.
Ubuntu has become my main desktop and laptop (iBook) distro of choice, beating out Gentoo last year. I just did a fresh install of 5.10 Monday on the iBook, and it's just so nice. On the workstation we've been tracking Breezy for about a month now, and the polish just keeps coming. Can't wait till they move on Daper, an am especially excited about it being supported for so many years; you can just feel the momentium.
Use whatever Linux distro you like, but if you're looking for one to change to, give this a shot, there's a reason there's so much good press about this company.
I'm shopping for DirecTV now, and was amazed that their 'free' PVRs come with a monthly fee! While the software PVRs get better and easier to install, I'm going to go that route to be free of fees and restrictions. So, the million dollar question, which is the best bet right now:
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
or
http://www.mythtv.org/
or is there another option I'm missing?
While I've seen things like this before, I'm liking Novell's approaches to Open Source more an more these days. With the excellent SUSE 10 (still may replace Ubuntu on my main workstation) and projects like Beagle and Hula, they're set to really make a splash if they take this useability idea seriously. They seem to be gelling more on the desktop than anyone else of late, 3 years ago who'd have expected Novell to be doing this? Awesome.
It seems that AJAX, while being a rather old idea, has taken over all new webapps these days. From Gmail to the Hula Project to the fantastic looking Zimbra Collaboration Suite, this reduced reliance on the old client => server model is a great step. I found more info on Kahuna beta from someone who wrote about it back in August.
...drool...
Now that I'm playing with Ruby on Rails I'll be very interested in the next 'killer app'; a Ruby on Rails/AJAX based webapp client.
yep, this is what I said before: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16434 7&cid=13721775 and why I bought a cheaper machine (with better hardware *and* XP (ugg)) from Dell! The open-ness is kinda a joke, unless it means 'opening' your wallet. Thanks Dell.
The main thing I've noticed is just better 'out of the box' support for hardware in 6.0. I don't have massive requirements, as I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 for my primary server (mail, web, chat, database, file) at home. I didn't need to rebuilt the kernel as I did with 5.2 - but that was to support an older NIC. Basically it 'just works' and I've stuck with GENERIC for the kernel with no issues. I use Ports like they're going out of style, and I haven't had anything break (that I couldn't fix ;))
Anyway, better 'out of the box' support, which would manifest mostly for folks installing 6.0 for a desktop, or someone who has some new(er) RAID or 1G NIC to support. I couldn't be happier, not using Linux for a server anymore, but it's still my Desktop of choice.
I would have bought this earlier this year, as it stands I bought a Dimension 3.2G box for less than 500$. I DID NOT want to buy a machine with XP already installed on it, but get this; it was 80$ CHEAPER to buy the same machine with Windows than a 'naked' machine with a freeDOS option! I guess it's supply and demand, but it still irks the hell outta me that I paid the MS 'tax' and continued the 'look at home many ppl buy machines with XP installed!' FUD. Can these "Open" machines compete in price with Dell's (constantly) adverstised special? If not, I can't see too many ppl paying more for a machine with no OS vs a cheaper machine with XP (That I immediately installed over - no, I didn't look into the 'rebate' - sounds like it's a hassle anyway).
I really think POS is an important step for Linux acceptance. The beauty of Linux, of corse, is that it can run on an AS/400 or a wristwatch; and everything inbetween. I cringe when I see POS machines just running a terminal within Windows; think of what they are paying just to have telnet to a main system! While I, and most good geeks, run nothing but Linux for desktops, it'll take time to get them past the exec level; but for POS it's all about the bottom line, and no one will be able to beat Linux in that field. I think that will be the tipping point, but feel it's still ~3 years off.
This is why I have my mom running Firefox on windows, and for those who will say FF has vulns, yes, they do, but with the 'auto-updating' option on 1.5 it will change that view. No one (save for us geeks) want to reinstall software all the time; most of the time if it works, they're not going to upgrade. 1.5 will 'auto-update' the bits to keep the browser secure, and I'm sure it will continue to while the browser moves to 1.6 and beyond.
For all that this game is, it just 'fits' the Gamecube perfectly. It's def a game I would play as much as the kids, and I appreciate that more titles for the Gamecube fall in this category. Nintendo has the right idea, and I hope they stick with it for the Revolution; just make great games and let Sony and MS deal with the realisticly violent games. Oh, and let's get another Mario game, Sunshine wasn't it (though Kart and Golf are a blast!)
At my current consulting gig I have to use XP. I make myself more at home by running bb4win, one of the excellent Blackbox implementations for windows. Having everything under the left-click mouse button just makes sense to me, and doesn't look like the office clones around here. Throw on PuTTY, Cygwin, Firefox, Gaim and I'm almost home...
I know this article is about the defective/cracked screens, but I've also read where ppl are upset that the screen is scratched easily. Hello, it's plastic, not glass, it's going to get scratched up, just like your car is going to get door dinged in the parking lot; that's life. My 20G iPod is always on, and yeah, it's 'trashed' according to some, but hey, I think it's worn nicely, it was never my goal to keep it in 'mint condition'; it's not a 1965 Mustang or anything. As for the cases, they're just silly IMO; you take a beautifully designed piece of technology, and then wrap it in some guady piece of rubber. Uggg...to each his own, but ppl that *need* to put cases on their iPods are the same ppl that put bras on the front of their cars. Listen to the music, that's what it's there for...
This worked great for me, we signed up at the beginning, and the local Texas one at the same time. We went from getting 2-3 calls a night to none, or perhaps one a month; it was awesome. This is a big deal as it's just such an intrusion. Back before I knew you could say "Please add me to your do not call list", I used to tell them to hold on, and put the phone down right next to the television speaker for 10 mins or so...but this is much better. Now how about a do-not-email-list? ;) I know, how the heck would it be run/administarted or maintained, blah, time for some greylisting!
This may be slighty OT, but I don't see ANY reason why a closed source system that's this vulnurable should be allowed in any Medical/Govermental or Military implementation. Sure, lot's of Apps are written ABOVE the OS and thus in control of the branch maintaining them, but damnit, the OS is at the root of the problem here! Makes you understand why trains all across Europe are still kept track of (punny, eh?) by old Digital DEC's running VMS or OpenVMS. The whole idea that mindshare of the mainframe is growing old and retiring is going to be an issue, Windows 2000 server is not a replacement for something like VMS.
Right, nowadays you meet people who like to talk about technology, but when I talk/think about my time in the "Computer Club" in High School back in the 80s, it was a different story. We *were* the folks learning about phreaking via a IBM PC in my friends parents bedroom, with the old Hayes modem, on some BBSs. I think it's just that it now touches peoples' lives so much deeper; from email to shopping on the web, it's just more mainstream and people can relate better.
Here's what I had to say on my little bio site about myself: geek - while it used to be a four letter word, it is now a (somewhat?) coveted title. Either that or people just have short memories. Regardless, knowing about technology and having a desire to constantly improve it is now almost as accepted as jaywalking.
This is a problem, however at my work (and a few other gigs) I've seen Password deficiency in the workplace. Too many projects headed up by non-technical people that don't understand the importance of passwords. Obviously a unified solution (NFS or the like) would help tremdously, but for things like servers, getting to a root acount woudln't be a good use, so I think it'd need to be a biometrics (fingerprints) solution, with a "sudo like" funtionality on the server. ie- the user with this fingerprint can do these things, etc.
This harks back to the early days of IRC and the attempts at blocking, or simply censoring, conversation. Enter elite speak (l33tsp3ak, l337sp35k, etc) and how it can constanly evolve/change and eventually there's no stopping it. Democracy? Hmm...d3m0racy, demoKrazy, d3m0cr5cy... For an example more near and dear to
Hehe, thanks for noticing - I'm running Firefox 1.5 beta1 on XP. The problem is my original screenshot was a PNG of the whole browser window; saved it via Gimp in windows, scp'd it to my home server. When the /. traffic started hitting, with eveyone downloading a 200K image was killing my bandwidth. I quickly cropped and resaved it as a 40K gif, scp'd it over and then just renamed the gif to png, and all of a sudden the bandwidth was available again.
So yeah, long story short(*er), XP, but with my limited screen grab skillz it looks like crap. Oh well, going on 1400+ hits for that image along, it's a nice light slashdotting to get my feet wet and test Apache2 on FreeBSD 6.0!