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Skriven 2011-06-13 19:14:10 av James Bradley (1:342/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: don't fence me in
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-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to James Bradley <=-
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 MK> From what I see in slackware-current it isn't all that bleeding edge.
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 MK> As for FireFox and the like, I am a poor judge of them, bleeding edge
 MK> or otherwise.  They all look goofey to me ever since I saw the very
 MK> first spinney icon thingy on the web.  I forget when that happened and
...

Right. Let the blood be let, *then* Slack releases, *then* I'll pick up on 
it. <chuckle> A plugin was "required" on a page here, where there was 
one HIGHLY buried document I *just* found on where to stick the dammed 
.so(d). What a PITA! If I want to use more than firefox with the page, I 
have to put another cp of it into the respective plugin directories on the 
other browsers... ... ...

Eye candie:
Those can be turned off, but the same happens on a work site. "*Look* like 
your doing more than you should, and you can take longer to do it."

I *know* you'll hate me for it, but as *if* that is about to stop me (:
Ubuntu went into two rigs here, and it *is* nice to have those frilly bits 
just work, but I still would rather setup an ftp server without that sudo 
dance that Ubuntu seems to dictate. Besides, there's only an unofficial 
64-bit version. Maybe their 32-bit "server" flavor allows a root login. I 
wonder if inittab is still in 'em to coerse 'em?

Update since I drafted the above RE: 64-bit:
Ubuntu (three different flavours) were crammed into two old SMP Xeons and 
a laptop here. For the media work, I *have* to be team Ubuntu. *You* might 
get a Linux f/Scratch on a CL to jump through these hoops, but idjiats like 
me appreciate "out of the box". It's bloatware, it's frilly, but it *is* 
fast to upgrade and utilize.

 JB> When as bombastic as I am, it helps to have a few backup machines
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 MK> Or just a spare drive or partition.

Or a backup plan. <G+cower>

We'll see what kinda SAN rolls into here in the next week, and if the pig 
is going to be workable without M$. 

PS: 2G fibres cable just arrived in mail. One shelf full of FC drives, and 
one switch ready for "smoke test". <holding breath>
 
 JB> Which reminds me, was it you who expressed an attempt to
 JB> use the SMB (System Management Bus) as a third NIC to one of your
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 MK> First time I've heard this.

 JB> Sure could make for a sweet firewall!

 MK> Or just for network management.

The plan was - if the bandwidth is sufficient to handle the I-net traffic 
- to segment out the two Gigabit controllers, and keep one server dedicated 
as a firewall. I'm sure I'm not the first to think about using it this way, 
so we'll see what the evil I-net has to say about the matter.

Sorry for the spurious quoting. It's a good thing in retrospect, as it took 
me so long to get back to this.

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