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 Wednesday, February 19, 2003
started 2/19/2003; 7:46:23 AM - last post 2/20/2003; 12:41:14 AM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, February 19, 2003 
2/19/2003; 11:46:23 AM (reads: 6011, responses: 8)
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Scram? 
Kevin does the math
Bluetrain
| | For $50-something I rode Amtrak's Surfliner from Santa Barbara to San Diego in under six hours, in first class comfort, with laptop and cell phone both plugged into AC power, and a view you don't get when you're riding the pavement instead of the rails. |
| | This photo set, compiled when the Surfliner launched in May Y2K, pretty much tells the story. |
| | There are a few disappointments. For example, those TVs in the backs of the seats apparently crapped out soon after the train was launched. But still, it's a helluva deal. |
Operation Desert Hack
| | And Sheila, pro journo (pun intended) that she is, gets to the bottom of the whole thing. Well done. |
Bound to help
There goes the neighborhood
| | Just kidding. I'm sure Mr. Kellner's a fine guy, and I welcome him home to Santa Barbara. It's just too bad he'll be remembered for making one of the dumbest statements in the history of both TV and the Net — at the same time, no less. |
| | Thanks to Britt for the news. |
Big blang
We're back. Or front. Or something.
| | I'm writing this on my old TiBook, and it's a huge relief. Still, it's complicated reconciling this one with the one I rented for a week, plus the donated (now semi-fixed) one I'm preparing for my friend Joe, which is now a digital clone (thanks to Carbon Copy Cloner, an amazing piece of shareware) of the rented unit. Unfortunately, it has to go back to the shop for a couple minor glitches (e.g. it doesn't seem to know it has a battery). |
| | Anyway, I've got some Linux Journal items to wrap before I hop on the train for San Diego. Expect light blogging. |
| | Meanwhile, I'll ask some of you techie types the same thing I've been asking in various LJ pieces lately: In what quiet ways is Linux quietly being put to use by the rank & file inside large organizations? I'm not looking for front office PR here. I'm looking for what's actually happening. I know the story differs from one organization to another, but more first-hand detail will help me put together the big picture — something we sorely need right now. Thanks. |
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Nothing startling in our offices. Our firewall machine is a Smoothwall box. We have two servers. The file server is a Red Hat machine and the web development server is a Debian box. We always have at least one machine in the shop to control the telescopes we build. That, of course is a Red Hat box, as well.
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lou josephs - Storm mop up/Iraqi website hacked
2/19/2003; 1:51:17 PM (reads: 1282, responses: 0)
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Two feet of snow on Long Island, Jim Cutler who's a voice over guy has a nice QuickTime look at the snow, and since's he's a production guy it's well produced. www.jimcutler.com
Iraq website has been hacked. And the hacker left his email.
http://www.iraqtv.ws/
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deuce868 - Re: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
2/19/2003; 6:22:24 PM (reads: 494, responses: 0)
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We are a small educational non-profit. I actually took out a Linux server when I started because I did not know it. We became an all MS shop. Nearly two years later the same old PII is running RH8 with a bare bones apache, mysql, and php server. It seeped in as a way for me to build custom intranet apps for our office and three other hospitals we work with. (it runs on port 8080 while the main site is ASP driven on IIS).
Really it was a matter of MS Access did not work as a web back end because you had to take it down to add a table, add a field or edit a record each time. That time got to be huge when working with several projects in dev. stages. Mysql with phpmyadmin allows me to leave existing apps running without a problem without having to go through the joy of another MS licensing scheme for SQL Server.
The plan is to consolidate all of out website to the Linux server. (I received approval to purchase a faster server) The more things I find to use the linux server for the more comfortable the office gets with having it around. We run terminal services, exchange, and Intellisync Server software so I am currently evaluating Linux based alternatives for these functions. Change is a slow process however.
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lou josephs - Iraqi ws update
2/19/2003; 7:24:53 PM (reads: 472, responses: 3)
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Looks like they let the domain expire and someone else picked it up.
This site was used to stream Windows Media of Saddams speeches etc.
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lou josephs - Re: Iraqi ws update
2/19/2003; 7:25:33 PM (reads: 515, responses: 1)
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And thanks to someone from the Providence Journal for tipping me on that one. Everyone reads DOC.
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lou josephs - Swiss are just 2 wins away from taking the Americas Cup
2/19/2003; 7:27:52 PM (reads: 566, responses: 0)
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It takes the best of nine and the Swiss team is 3 up on the defending New Zealand Team. If the Swiss win 2006 will be in the Med either off France or Italy. So perhaps for the first time in 152 years the Cup comes back to "old europe."
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Maurice - Re: Iraqi ws update
2/19/2003; 11:47:15 PM (reads: 510, responses: 0)
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I'm not sure I understand the reason Saddam would host such a thing in Samoa--note the .ws TLD. If it were an official site that'd been hacked, I'd expect it to have an .iq TLD.
To me, this looks a lot more like some guy's personal site, on which he's put up this message he'd like the Iraqi people to see. Nothing more than that.
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Emmanuel - Re: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
2/20/2003; 4:41:14 AM (reads: 891, responses: 0)
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