Rebuild one of the computers they give you. Do whatever you want to secure it. Give it back to them for the kids to use. If your build is any good, when they see how it runs, they will ask you to sort out their other PC, and the kids won't interrupt you.
> b) It has never been known to be transmitted from swine to humans.
Actually, shortly after this article was printed, there was a case in Soviet Russia where...
It's like teaching a programming class in D--yeah, the language is nice, but it's not what people use.
This is a lousy example that works against you. As many programmers have, I learned one programming language (Java) at Uni and have *never* used it since. I have since, however, worked in asp, c, c++, c#, asp.net, perl, sh, vb, vbscript, ruby, python... and probably more that I can't remember; none of these ever presented any problems to me, nor should they to any real programmer, regardless of previous experience.
The point, as many other people have been saying, is that if the principles are taught well, rather than procedure, then the platform becomes absolutely irrelevant.
Remote detonation as soon as you see the guy pick it up. It says in the summary that this thing provides images before it lands; there need be no wait for the video feed to be acquired.
I really don't understand this "n00buntu" mentality. There's nothing stopping you from manually installing Ubuntu by bootstrapping your disks and installing minimal packages then building your own sleek build on top. There's nothing stopping you from doing all your setup and administration in vi. There's nothing stopping you from compiling your kernel and all your apps from source.... You just don't have to, and you get to take advantage of the largest package repos in the Linux world at the minute (I think, but am prepared to be corrected...), and use an enterprise class, business supported Debian OS for free.
You chose an unstable (7.04) release of Ubuntu for a server? I'm all behind Ubuntu servers but you should definitely be using a stable (LTS) release for a production system.
Can you point me to any other free.deb based distro that is officially supported by VMWare?
Heck, can you even point me to another.deb based distro, free or not, that is officially supported by VMWare?
I would almost guarantee that somewhere inside the next computer you build will be Foxconn logo. They are a hugely popular supplier of mobo components like usb or network ports. Not buying Foxconn is definitely an active pass time.
nothing particularly new and surprising here except Internet enabling the homework to be farmed out further afield. And cheaper! In my day I used to get at least £20 for doing assignments;) If the Romanians had been undercutting by that much when I was at Uni I would have starved:(
> It could be called "green" to keep something that meets your needs out of the landfill though.
True, but you can do that by by buying a new lappy then redeploying your old lappy as something slightly frivolous - how about turning the screen round and making yourself a 15" living picture frame? A permanent DivX media player for in the lounge? Firewall anybody? Shoutcast radio in the shower? Internet alarm clock???
A bit disappointing that he missed a trick there: Considering the tight budget, telling us to fork out $40+ on backup software instead of pointing tghe reader to e.g. clonezilla live cd.
That's, like, another 33% on top of the stated budget.
Plus: How is this news? Anyone on/. that doesn't know to put more memory in an old machine should really be somewhere else...
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To add to that, could there be a link here with why the pricing has f_cked up on the newer Eees with Windows being cheaper than the Linux version? Maybe Xandros kicked up a fuss about how little they made from the revolutionary gadget and stung Asus for more cash this time round. Combine that with MS anticompetitive practices and you get the hugely disproportiante difference in prices that are now evident rather than just a small undercut.
Sorry about replying to my own post, my mind is working overtime on this now. Does anyone know anything about the licensing deal between Asus and Xandros? Does Xandros have some kind of exclusivity deal on the eee platform, for example?
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Rebuild one of the computers they give you. Do whatever you want to secure it. Give it back to them for the kids to use. If your build is any good, when they see how it runs, they will ask you to sort out their other PC, and the kids won't interrupt you.
> b) It has never been known to be transmitted from swine to humans.
Actually, shortly after this article was printed, there was a case in Soviet Russia where...
It's like teaching a programming class in D--yeah, the language is nice, but it's not what people use.
This is a lousy example that works against you. As many programmers have, I learned one programming language (Java) at Uni and have *never* used it since. I have since, however, worked in asp, c, c++, c#, asp.net, perl, sh, vb, vbscript, ruby, python... and probably more that I can't remember; none of these ever presented any problems to me, nor should they to any real programmer, regardless of previous experience.
The point, as many other people have been saying, is that if the principles are taught well, rather than procedure, then the platform becomes absolutely irrelevant.
Remote detonation as soon as you see the guy pick it up. It says in the summary that this thing provides images before it lands; there need be no wait for the video feed to be acquired.
What's an Off button?
Because they don't
I had to write right handed for a week.
How do you think I feel? I've been made to do it for 25 years!
Similarly, if one of those 5 accounts is compromised, you can see that someone is trying to brute force the root password before it is broken.
/var/www then why the hell give them root in the first place?
If you cant trust someone with root privileges not to rm -rf
PROTIP: shopt -s dotglob
No one wants to feed the troll...
... how about "sudo -s"?
I really don't understand this "n00buntu" mentality. There's nothing stopping you from manually installing Ubuntu by bootstrapping your disks and installing minimal packages then building your own sleek build on top. There's nothing stopping you from doing all your setup and administration in vi. There's nothing stopping you from compiling your kernel and all your apps from source.... You just don't have to, and you get to take advantage of the largest package repos in the Linux world at the minute (I think, but am prepared to be corrected...), and use an enterprise class, business supported Debian OS for free.
You chose an unstable (7.04) release of Ubuntu for a server? I'm all behind Ubuntu servers but you should definitely be using a stable (LTS) release for a production system.
Can you point me to any other free .deb based distro that is officially supported by VMWare?
Heck, can you even point me to another .deb based distro, free or not, that is officially supported by VMWare?
See Ubuntu bug #1 for your answer.
What I'm supposed to RTFA? I don't come to /. so that I can RTFA.
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They aren't even that coy about it; they admit they've been doing some market research.
Call me old fashioned, but I still use Unix with the command line interface. Much cleaner and faster to me.
I would almost guarantee that somewhere inside the next computer you build will be Foxconn logo. They are a hugely popular supplier of mobo components like usb or network ports. Not buying Foxconn is definitely an active pass time.
If I had seen you casually using that in some Starbucks somewhere, your lunch would definitely have been on me!
> It could be called "green" to keep something that meets your needs out of the landfill though.
True, but you can do that by by buying a new lappy then redeploying your old lappy as something slightly frivolous - how about turning the screen round and making yourself a 15" living picture frame? A permanent DivX media player for in the lounge? Firewall anybody? Shoutcast radio in the shower? Internet alarm clock???
A bit disappointing that he missed a trick there: Considering the tight budget, telling us to fork out $40+ on backup software instead of pointing tghe reader to e.g. clonezilla live cd. That's, like, another 33% on top of the stated budget. Plus: How is this news? Anyone on /. that doesn't know to put more memory in an old machine should really be somewhere else...
To add to that, could there be a link here with why the pricing has f_cked up on the newer Eees with Windows being cheaper than the Linux version? Maybe Xandros kicked up a fuss about how little they made from the revolutionary gadget and stung Asus for more cash this time round. Combine that with MS anticompetitive practices and you get the hugely disproportiante difference in prices that are now evident rather than just a small undercut.
Sorry about replying to my own post, my mind is working overtime on this now. Does anyone know anything about the licensing deal between Asus and Xandros? Does Xandros have some kind of exclusivity deal on the eee platform, for example?