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Experience with Linux
A rave about installing Linux
We found a 10G hard disk and installed Red Hat Version 9.0 workstation version, adding in an Apache server so we can test websites locallly.
Configuration of Red Hat Version 9.0 is easier than configuring Windows. Everything makes kind of sense. You may need to know a little TCP/IP, but that is not hard to learn. Basically, an IP address is a number like 192.168.1.1 (which is a local address for ordinary local networks ordinary follk use).
Future devices will demand the stellar expodential increase in address space afforded by the IP6 address space. GSI satallite positioning devices will be imbedded in children's shoes so parents can track fhem.
The private world of children will be sacrificed for the security of parents, and time saved by police. Any missing person could be tracked, and knowledge of this would mean that removal of shoes becomes fashionable for hostages so will a perceived demand for "invisble shoes" develop? Cinderella's glass slippers became a tracking device and we all become the fairy god mother.
Should we consider our computers with due suspicion? We gengerly approach something new as something strange. This is a massive system for human communication.
People will try and sell to us here. But rules of communication apply. Of course Spam does not work, right? Of course it doesn't when it can get you locked up in some US States! But opt in /opt out email is not Spam. Next we will set up one of those.
Over 15,000 people a month have started to read these columns since we started. That is something, An audience. Phew.
An audience should be respected not just for what dollar they spend with you next, but for the quality of their engagement with the state of the art.
Here is a good website, done in Linux with PHP by some friends. Compare it with your site.
Back to Linux. We started surfing the web after activating the Internet Connection Wizard. Everything worked first time.
Red Hat 9.0 is an excellent web surfing speed demon, it surfs faster than Windows and with Mozilla standard, it is simply more productive and less distracting than Windows. About 1 minute to boot up, and you are away. No stess, no system panics or BSOD (Blue screen of death) crashing nightmares.
Last time I went online with Linux, I did it with my production machine. This time, I am a little more wary. RH 9.0 seems much more organised than previous versions. I like my internal Version 7.3 platform for development, but keep it away from the internet.
If someone invades this Linux 9.0 it does not matter.
And that is the advantage of remote updates to sites. You can update your site without too many security worries. If someone invades your workstation, your work is safely somewhere else, and on your website. But not on your local machine, until you take a backup via FTP.
What is a good FTP program? For Windows, it is hard to beat WS-FTP Lite. For Linux, there are a few million versions of the immnitable GFTP which works most of the time. Be extra careful to default to ASCII and only use Binary to transfer graphics and tar archives.
That is another thing Linux is good at. Tar archives. Backup all your work in seconds. Easy. Do it automatically. Easy.
Simply start a terminal session, position your current directory to the site you want to backup and enter:
tar cvfz archivefilename.tar.gz html
this will backup all files under the html directory, with full path names and permissions into a much smaller file.
Legislators in the US are starting criminalise spammers. Spam is filling in-boxes with offers, usually from those who respond to offers to make an income from home, sending out more spam.
It is analogous to highwaymen (and women) lightening carriages of jewellry, as they rushed from New York to Boston back in the nineteenth century. As we try and conduct legit business on the internet, there are those who mindlessly market their product by pushing it everywhere.
It is more like having a TV with millions of channels. You can turn a TV off, but how will laws stem the flood of spam?
How will prosecuters reach into China? What about into countries that tolerate spam or believe it is a good way of doing business?
A better analogy to spam is sending everyone in the phone book a brief letter. When jobseeking, many intrepid unemployed send their CV out to all and sundry. Sometimes it gets them a job.
The real problem with Spam is that there is no code of conduct. Spamming should be allowed per US constitutional law allowing "freedom of speech".
The easy solution to spam is to setup filters so that your email is sorted into known souces, and suspect sources.
A better solution may be to allow spam on certain domain suffixes. I suggest to ICANN that .spam be setup and any email address under that domain CAN be spammed by anyone.
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