Opinion: How to hire great open source developers

2004-03-03 Thread linux-il
I hope it's not considered too much off-topic. Here is the intro from the forwarding page: Martin Fink has written an article on the issues of hiring open source developers, and how to hire good open source developers. This comes at a time where there is a lot of discussion in the industry on the

Re: upgrading a production server

2004-03-03 Thread Miki Lewinger
Hi. Wanted to thks all the wonderful oppinions. Except for a lone adventurous admin, it seems I'll be installing a new server soon, and transferring all files there. Alas, the Microsoft world on upgrading a production server is equal. Funny no one suggested me to prepare a mirror server and try th

RE: updating a production server

2004-03-03 Thread Iftach Hyams
Just a thought : If the server is dedicated to (IIRC) web server and SQL one can carefully make two versions available simultaniously (bounded to different IP). It will work with apache for sure. About SQL - it may conflict on the database (or the database structure) so deepen check is needed. T

Re: Disk On Key support in Linux

2004-03-03 Thread Erez Boym
Read the following it mite help: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6867 And - quate - Why USB Devices Mount Read-Only In the December 2003 issue, an article by Rick Moen on the use of USB Flash storage devices (“Floppies for the New Millennium”) includes the followin

Re: updating a production server

2004-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:33:27PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > Mandrake 9.2 upgrades cleanly older Mandrake systems (and at least on one > occasion, a RedHat 8.x) - just stick it into your coffee holder and > run /mnt/cdrom/live_update as root from X. it will present you with the > Mandrake 9.2

Re: updating a production server

2004-03-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I feel this is being dragged into a distro flamewar, but I'll bite anyways. Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I wanted to comment briefly on that. I have no experience with Mandrake, but a long history with Red Hat. In my experience: - Each system that was kept up-to-date by hand and on which newer, greater

Re: updating a production server

2004-03-03 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Jonathan Ben Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > > > > >Hi Miki, > > >It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this > > >out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it, > > >eve

Re: apache2-friendly web mail software?

2004-03-03 Thread linux-il
Oded Arbel wrote: ×Wednesday 03 March 2004 18:21, ×× ××× [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now as far as I understand PHP(4) doesn't play with Apache2, and all the good ones (e.g. squirrelmail, imp3) seem to require PHP. I'm using squirrelmail on Apache 2.0 w/o a problem. I'm not aware of any compa

Re: apache2-friendly web mail software?

2004-03-03 Thread Oded Arbel
×Wednesday 03 March 2004 18:21, ×× ××× [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Now as far as I understand PHP(4) doesn't play with Apache2, and all the > good > ones (e.g. squirrelmail, imp3) seem to require PHP. I'm using squirrelmail on Apache 2.0 w/o a problem. I'm not aware of any compatability issues with

apache2-friendly web mail software?

2004-03-03 Thread linux-il
Hello, Getting tired from broken Apache 1.3 packages on my debian unstable I got rid of it and installed Apache2. I'm looking for a webmail software as a backup for using Thunderbird from outside my home. Now as far as I understand PHP(4) doesn't play with Apache2, and all the good ones (e.g. squ

Re: updating a production server

2004-03-03 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Jonathan Ben Avraham: > It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this > out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it, ever. Wisest advice ever seen on this forum. Live upgrades are an idea for the adventure-minded. > Instead, use different hardware

Re: updating a production server

2004-03-03 Thread Oded Arbel
ביום רביעי 03 מרץ 2004, 10:39, נכתב על ידי Jonathan Ben Avraham: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > > >Hi Miki, > > >It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this > > >out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it,

Re: wireless keyboard and mouse

2004-03-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:40:48PM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote: > In regard to Linux compatibility, I don't think you can expect any > compatibility problems (except, possibly, for "weird" nonstandard > keyboard or mouse buttons). > > For mice, go with Logitech. The wireless optical model (cheaper

Re: wireless keyboard and mouse

2004-03-03 Thread Leonid Podolny
Shachar Shemesh wrote: David Sapir wrote: Hi, I would like to buy a wireless keyboard and mouse for a Linux RH9 machine. Has any of you tried it before? Does anyone know of a problem with this? Are there "good" and "bad" models/types? Your answers are highly appreciated. Thanks, David. Havn't t

Re: Disk On Key support in Linux

2004-03-03 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
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Re: updating a production server

2004-03-03 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > > >Hi Miki, > >It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this > >out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it, ever. > > > > > Well, I have had one good experience with a Debian stabl

Re: wireless keyboard and mouse

2004-03-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
David Sapir wrote: Hi, I would like to buy a wireless keyboard and mouse for a Linux RH9 machine. Has any of you tried it before? Does anyone know of a problem with this? Are there "good" and "bad" models/types? Your answers are highly appreciated. Thanks, David. Havn't tried any of them myself.

Re: updating a production server

2004-03-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Miki, It is not good policy to upgrade production servers, ever. I found this out through many bad experiences of many years. Don't do it, ever. Well, I have had one good experience with a Debian stable server. Upgrade from Potato to Woody via remote SSH session,

wireless keyboard and mouse

2004-03-03 Thread David Sapir
Hi, I would like to buy a wireless keyboard and mouse for a Linux RH9 machine. Has any of you tried it before? Does anyone know of a problem with this? Are there "good" and "bad" models/types? Your answers are highly appreciated. Thanks, David. __