As you can probably tell, I realised that this wasn't a Roblimo joint sometime between typing the first paragraph, and hitting submit without rereading my post. Oops.
Maybe I just haven't read a lot of distro reviews, but it struck me as odd, even unfair that Roblimo spent so much time whining about VMware crashing. What the heck does that have to do with the quality of the product in question?
"All 2002 model year Toyotas have serious engine problems. Also, I urinated in the gas tanks of all cars tested."
Then he goes on to nmap his virtual machine, then asks what port 1030 is. Before nmap(1), there was netstat(8). Read about it
And timothy, unless I'm mistaken, the article details Matt Michie's impresions, not Roblimo's.
If you port your app to different OSs, they MUST behave in the same way in each system (obviously there's a limit held by an OS ability to do something). For example, "save file" can't be F2 in Windows and CTRL-S in Unix.
I've got to disagree with you there. A user sitting at a computer shouldn't have to know that XYZ Pro was originally developed for the Florp2000 platform and not the Shebang Station, and therefore uses Control-Meta-Z to frobnicate. All of the other applications on her Shebang Station use Alt-Z for that common function.
Ported programs should BE PORTED, NOT COPIED. Use whatever keystrokes are expected by the users of that environment.
Warning, SNMP exists. As with other protocols, the software that implimentes it may be poorly written and in some circumstances may have serious flaws, leading to security problems.
In other news, OSHA reccomends not wearing a wedding dress while repairing heavy machinery.
Please people, someone explain to me why this is news.
It does not cost too much. If you can't afford it, don't use it. Did you think buying a computer was just the hardware?
Are you serious? I havent even been ASKED to pay for software since I got on the open/free bandwagon back in 1997. (My employer's hardware is a different story.)
But you're right about PuTTY. I didn't think the SecureCRT people were even in business any more.
Their site doesn't support Netscape or other browsers (read:gecko). They're "working on it." It's embarrasing and hypocritical when/. links to a site which won't even render with free software. Mark this down as flamebait if you wish, but who we think we are kidding here?
Arcane command syntax? Where? The best thing GRUB has going for it is the whole unix command line identity crisis. All of the keys that bash users are accustomed to are available from GRUB, including autocompletion. That said, how complicated is the syntax for booting from, say, that kernel you just built?
The partition synatx may be new, but I think 'arcane' is a little harsh. (hd0,0) means first bios disk, first partition. Pretty self-explanitory and logical.
Also has MS Intellimouse support. Plus, the keyboard switching is easy and generally doesn't intrude into the computer -- while at least one brand (Belkin?) regularly leaked the display number (scroll-scroll-3, switches to display 3) into the current window.
I have an OmniView 4 port which I adore, but it does have one fatal flaw. I never had it leak the display number, but I often end up leaving scroll lock on a console. Ever have a line like this in syslog.conf:
*.*/dev/tty8
...and hit scroll lock? Stuff starts to hang after a while, anything that uses syslog in fact! Control or Num Lock would have been a better choice.
All discusion on quality versus quantity aside, anyone who appriciates what he's trying to do should donate some money towards an ergonomic workstation for this poor guy...
That is trivialy easy to circumvent. Process accounting only kicks in when a process exists. So as long as/tmp/../sploit exec()s ls instead of quitting, it will never reach accounting. Unless you notice that something claiming to be ls has taken 10 minutes of cpu time in under a week, or something like that...
Yeah, manpages are a great thing and all (hell, I even own the original BSD4.3 rainbow series) but recently, I discovered the gnu info system. apt-get install pinfo sometime, even if just for kicks. Compare tar(1) with tar.info: fucking volumes of chapters of pages of great information. And if a package doesn't have any info nodes (it's a sort of hypertext, BTW), most info readers will bring up the appropriate manpage.
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Think climate control, not air conditioning. The moisture is important too. Opening windows (except in a desert and you already said we can't build there) will corrode all your systems.
That depends on your definition of 'desert', which really means 'almost no liquid water.' There are places in the Arctic and Antarctic where sea lions that died a hundred years ago have yet do decay because there is no liquid water. It's well below freezing all the time, but it's still a desert. Too bad their probably isn't any high speed access on the ice continent.
Stay FAR away from ViewTouch. This guy is a scam artist. None of the pictures on his website are of real products. One of them at least is even stolen from an article ZDNet ran a few months back about a TransMeta tablet. It is most definatly NOT GPL, either.
The overall low quality of VT products is exactly why JWZ was forced to come up with his own system for the DNA Lounge. When I was evaluating POS systems for a local night club, I communicated briefly with Jamie. Neither of us had any success getting VT to work at all, even after I had access to the source code.
Sadly, that nightclub ended up going with an NT-based solution becaus the Linux POS market was so barren. Ah well, hopefully LinuxPOS is mature enough to save the rest of you from that plight. I'm just glad my current employer doesn't deal with cash.
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sudo asks you for your password, not the root password.
Slashdot has what, 10,000 users? Would you rather we all have the same opionion?
Here is the site in question, or follow this link if you want to skip the flash intro.
+1, best four-word post of the evening.
As you can probably tell, I realised that this wasn't a Roblimo joint sometime between typing the first paragraph, and hitting submit without rereading my post. Oops.
Maybe I just haven't read a lot of distro reviews, but it struck me as odd, even unfair that Roblimo spent so much time whining about VMware crashing. What the heck does that have to do with the quality of the product in question?
"All 2002 model year Toyotas have serious engine problems. Also, I urinated in the gas tanks of all cars tested."Then he goes on to nmap his virtual machine, then asks what port 1030 is. Before nmap(1), there was netstat(8). Read about it
And timothy, unless I'm mistaken, the article details Matt Michie's impresions, not Roblimo's.I've got to disagree with you there. A user sitting at a computer shouldn't have to know that XYZ Pro was originally developed for the Florp2000 platform and not the Shebang Station, and therefore uses Control-Meta-Z to frobnicate. All of the other applications on her Shebang Station use Alt-Z for that common function.
Ported programs should BE PORTED, NOT COPIED. Use whatever keystrokes are expected by the users of that environment.
Nothing like broadcasts of a global killer pandemic of a killer virus or a nuclear war to boost the morale of the ship...
I would think that would only solidify their determination to reach that distant Class M Planet intact and start reproducing.
Warning, SNMP exists. As with other protocols, the software that implimentes it may be poorly written and in some circumstances may have serious flaws, leading to security problems.
In other news, OSHA reccomends not wearing a wedding dress while repairing heavy machinery.
Please people, someone explain to me why this is news.
I love the smell of cooperation in the morning. It smells like... victory.
It does not cost too much. If you can't afford it, don't use it. Did you think buying a computer was just the hardware?
Are you serious? I havent even been ASKED to pay for software since I got on the open/free bandwagon back in 1997. (My employer's hardware is a different story.)
But you're right about PuTTY. I didn't think the SecureCRT people were even in business any more.
Their site doesn't support Netscape or other browsers (read:gecko). They're "working on it." It's embarrasing and hypocritical when /. links to a site which won't even render with free software. Mark this down as flamebait if you wish, but who we think we are kidding here?
Arcane command syntax? Where? The best thing GRUB has going for it is the whole unix command line identity crisis. All of the keys that bash users are accustomed to are available from GRUB, including autocompletion. That said, how complicated is the syntax for booting from, say, that kernel you just built?
grub> kernel (hd0,0)/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage vga=5 idebus=66grub> boot
The partition synatx may be new, but I think 'arcane' is a little harsh. (hd0,0) means first bios disk, first partition. Pretty self-explanitory and logical.
Also has MS Intellimouse support. Plus, the keyboard switching is easy and generally doesn't intrude into the computer -- while at least one brand (Belkin?) regularly leaked the display number (scroll-scroll-3, switches to display 3) into the current window.
/dev/tty8
I have an OmniView 4 port which I adore, but it does have one fatal flaw. I never had it leak the display number, but I often end up leaving scroll lock on a console. Ever have a line like this in syslog.conf:
*.*
...and hit scroll lock? Stuff starts to hang after a while, anything that uses syslog in fact! Control or Num Lock would have been a better choice.
All discusion on quality versus quantity aside, anyone who appriciates what he's trying to do should donate some money towards an ergonomic workstation for this poor guy...
kerneltrap.org is having MySQL troubles. Fortunatly, Google Groups, is not.
Dude, since when are NICs represented in /dev?
That is trivialy easy to circumvent. Process accounting only kicks in when a process exists. So as long as /tmp/.. /sploit exec()s ls instead of quitting, it will never reach accounting. Unless you notice that something claiming to be ls has taken 10 minutes of cpu time in under a week, or something like that...
Well I have been reading a few webpages and I follow BUGTRAQ and a pgp newsgroup, so I feel I qualify as a Slashdot Expert(tm).
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That's why I suggested people install pinfo. Did I mention that it's a colorful ncurses app with lynx-like keybindings?
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Yeah, manpages are a great thing and all (hell, I even own the original BSD4.3 rainbow series) but recently, I discovered the gnu info system. apt-get install pinfo sometime, even if just for kicks. Compare tar(1) with tar.info: fucking volumes of chapters of pages of great information. And if a package doesn't have any info nodes (it's a sort of hypertext, BTW), most info readers will bring up the appropriate manpage.
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When I read this, the footer on the page was:
:-) -- Larry Wall in
Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.
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Think climate control, not air conditioning. The moisture is important too. Opening windows (except in a desert and you already said we can't build there) will corrode all your systems.
That depends on your definition of 'desert', which really means 'almost no liquid water.' There are places in the Arctic and Antarctic where sea lions that died a hundred years ago have yet do decay because there is no liquid water. It's well below freezing all the time, but it's still a desert. Too bad their probably isn't any high speed access on the ice continent.
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Stay FAR away from ViewTouch. This guy is a scam artist. None of the pictures on his website are of real products. One of them at least is even stolen from an article ZDNet ran a few months back about a TransMeta tablet. It is most definatly NOT GPL, either.
The overall low quality of VT products is exactly why JWZ was forced to come up with his own system for the DNA Lounge. When I was evaluating POS systems for a local night club, I communicated briefly with Jamie. Neither of us had any success getting VT to work at all, even after I had access to the source code.
Sadly, that nightclub ended up going with an NT-based solution becaus the Linux POS market was so barren. Ah well, hopefully LinuxPOS is mature enough to save the rest of you from that plight. I'm just glad my current employer doesn't deal with cash.
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Yeah, but they do feel a lot like freshmeat. I wonder if they realised that. It's cool though, since I have long since forgotten my fm account info.
/. should not carry fm-like stories can just block this section.
Also, people that strongly believe that
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