Comment Re:See what is going on with NETSTAT (Score 1) 491
'find' can be used as grep on Windows. Windows does not come with grep.
Comment Re:Not OpenDNS (Score 1) 352
DD-WRT already runs DNSMasq, but you could probably get BIND. DNSMasq does have some nice features, though, like fixing bogus NXDOMAIN replies (I use this on my ISP's page, which also has hijacked DNS).
Comment Re:SMB still sucks (Score 1) 792
My biggest problem with NFS is share permissions as well as some bad experiences I've had with it previously.
I remember an old FreeBSD installation I had (6.0?) had a mounted NFS share, which was subsequently disconnected (without unmounting, I had forgotten). It stuck the process in some state that made it completely unkillable. I had a zombie NFS client process for about a month before I gave up and rebooted the computer remotely. Never had such a problem with SMB. (Although, that was probably an implementation problem and not a protocol problem.)
NFS also requires a lot of configuration, with SMB I can just open smb.conf and set up another [share] section, usually pretty much just copied from another one. And after setting it up, I can easily access it from anywhere without having to change much.
And, with SMB, I have easy compatability with my Windows machines as well as my Linux/FreeBSD machines, as well as a very stable implementation pretty much everywhere. It's bloated, but it gets the job done for the most part. I just want to share files, after all.
I remember an old FreeBSD installation I had (6.0?) had a mounted NFS share, which was subsequently disconnected (without unmounting, I had forgotten). It stuck the process in some state that made it completely unkillable. I had a zombie NFS client process for about a month before I gave up and rebooted the computer remotely. Never had such a problem with SMB. (Although, that was probably an implementation problem and not a protocol problem.)
NFS also requires a lot of configuration, with SMB I can just open smb.conf and set up another [share] section, usually pretty much just copied from another one. And after setting it up, I can easily access it from anywhere without having to change much.
And, with SMB, I have easy compatability with my Windows machines as well as my Linux/FreeBSD machines, as well as a very stable implementation pretty much everywhere. It's bloated, but it gets the job done for the most part. I just want to share files, after all.
Comment Re:The competition is OSX (Score 1) 792
Removing Bash (and the rest of the shells) will break shell scripts. Removing the terminal emulators is a better idea.
Comment Re:Doesn't really justify Twitter. (Score 1) 76
I would classify Google as a web service.
Comment Re:A reasoned analysis? That's good. (Score 1) 869
A desktop environment is a suite of programs bundled together with a window manager. The three biggest desktop environments are KDE, Gnome, and Xfce. KDE's window manager is Kwin, and Gnome's is Metacity. There are also a bunch of standalone window managers floating around, such as Fluxbox, DWM, and the like.
Comment Re:Tried the fix, but burned out the drive (Score 1) 361
All the drives I've RMA'd (all internal ones, though) were replaced with recertified drives, which come low-level formatted. Presumably they low-level format anything that comes in the door, unless they want to test to see why it failed. Either way, if you're really afraid of people getting your data, why not encrypt it?
Submission + - New fabrication process promises faster chips
unchiujar writes: BBC reports chips could run faster and be more energy efficient thanks to a process from IBM that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes. The process, called airgap, enables trillions of microscopic vacuum holes to be placed between the copper wire in chips to act as an insulator.
Submission + - "Save a Penguin, Unplug a Linux Server"
robertthefox writes: "Flame suits ready.
Probably the first rule that anyone learns in sales is, "don't knock the competition." Probably even more fundamental is to not knock your friends.
A user just got an e-mail from Sun which is probably the largest violation of L. Ron Hubbard's Survey tech that I've ever seen. It was an e-mail with the title of, "Save a Penguin — Unplug a Linux Server Today". The e-mail was fairly good-natured, with a headline paragraph stating,
"Linux x86-based servers have enjoyed success in the Web tier by delivering UNIX capabilities in a low-cost, open-source platform. However, power-hungry commodity Linux servers are driving up costs as companies continue to build-out Web tier infrastructures horizontally. Yesterday's cost-cutting solutions, inexpensive servers, are today's resource wasters. High-growth Linux Web infrastructures are inefficient, costly, and difficult to manage."
Now, noting the average demographic who is a Linux/Sun SysAdmin, knocking Microsoft may be acceptable, even lauded. Cracking a funny joke about retiring a tired old NT server in favor of a nice, spiffy new Solaris or Linux box running Sun hardware would definitely slide right in there. But knocking Linux in a Sun ad?"
Would You Install Pirated Software at Work? 848
An anonymous reader asks: "I am an IT professional, and due to budget constraints, I have been told to install multiple copies of MS Office, despite offering to install OpenOffice, and other OpenSource Office products. Even though most of the uses are for people using Excel like a database, or formatting of text in cells, other programs are not tolerated. I have been over ruled by our controller, to my disagreement. I would never turn them in, but I am in tough place by knowing doing something illegal. I want to keep my job, but disagree with some of the decision making on this issue. Other than drafting a letter to the owners of the company on how I disagree with the policy, what else can I do?"
