hlz | i just switched from arch to freebsd :P |
rindolf | hlz: as a desktop OS? |
hlz | kind of. i'm planning on building a new computer in the near future for music production (windows). so i plan on using this current desktop as a file server for data storage, torrenting, etc. will keep a monitor connected to it so it wont be headless; this way i'll still have a *nix computer to play with. freebsd has built-in zfs which meets my needs.... more stable, not rolling release like arch so |
hlz | i wont have to update packges everyday. just something stable and fun to use on the side :P rindolf |
rindolf | hlz: ah... |
rindolf | hlz: [[5. An interesting talk happened a bit before the panel. The man who set to |
rindolf | me had an "Something Insurance" on his tag. I wondered what an insurance |
rindolf | company did with Linux and asked him. He said: "a file server". That's |
rindolf | right an _SMB_ file server. Why not Windows? Windows 2000 Professional |
rindolf | allows only 10 connections, so they setup an extra Linux server. This |
rindolf | allows thousands of simultaenous connections, and at a much greater speed. |
rindolf | They have quite a lot of scanned images which open almost instanteously in |
rindolf | Linux. Thus, instead of buying Windows 2000 Server, they got a Linux |
rindolf | server at the cost of the hardware, with very low TCO. (it's stable and |
rindolf | you can block its IP completely on the firewall]] |
rindolf | -- me at https://web.archive.org/web/20041221161703/https://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/04-2003/1357.html |
Paperbot_ | Link title(s): [ Linux-IL: My impressions from the event [was Re: The tiger didn't know what hit him...] ] |
buZz | holy wall |
buZz | rindolf: hahah same experience here, samba is soooo much faster than any native SMB fileserver |
buZz | night and day really |
buZz | especially with >1 user |
hlz | :D |
buZz | it also always amuses me that SMB filesharing is just a relic from LanManager days |
rindolf | buZz: heh. +1 |
buZz | rindolf: and toDAY we still use lanmanager relics! |
buZz | if you have a LDAP setup for WPA Enterprise |
buZz | it will require NTLM(!!!!!!!) encrypted passwords in your ldap |
buZz | aka ~2 seconds to bruteforce on a atom |
rindolf | LOL |
thrig | the other AD stuff I've seen for LDAP involved cleartext passwords getting passed around so I was like uh no passwords in LDAP |
buZz | thrig: ldap on linux can use SSL just fine |
buZz | but you'r talking about ldap on windos? |
buZz | havent touched that in ages |
thrig | SSL is very much unrelated to janky password handling in LDAP |
kjetilho | thrig: the bind operation usually requires you to send the cleartext password to the server, yes. the password should be hashed in the LDAP database, though. |
kjetilho | this is really par for the course for most protocols, e.g., IMAP, SMTP |
thrig | "wow this is shitty" and I kept the passwords in kerberos |
rindolf | hlz: i like non-purely-rollng-OSes too: fedora, deb testing |
buZz | thrig: yeah kerberos is fix for it, but such a drag to setup |
hlz | rindolf: i've only used arch. it's the linux i started with. befor that i installed linux mint once i think lol :D |
hlz | i'm still just more of a hobbyist to be honest. aside from all the nice open source software and useful command line programs; i also just really like being in a tiling window manager and not having to move applications around on the screen all the time :> |
rindolf | hlz: https://www.shlomifish.org/prog-evolution/shlomif-at-cortext.html |
Paperbot_ | Link title(s): [ Shlomi Fish at Cortext: HTML, UNIX and Perl - oh my! - Shlomi Fish’s Homesite ] |
hlz | what's this? this is you? |
rindolf | hlz: yes |
hlz | haha nice. i'm reading |
hlz | i definitely would like to learn more about the command line, shell scripting, and perl. |
rindolf | perlbot: faq |
perlbot | rindolf: The #perl FAQ is at http://perl-begin.org/FAQs/freenode-perl/ . Make sure you skim over it before asking questions. The Perl FAQ is http://faq.perl.org/ . |