Free Shit

[skroo]

Okay, for everyone who oredered one of these things... Mine hit my P.O. box this week. Haven't played with it yet, but they are shipping. Just a heads-up.

[zapphire]

Protect your walls!

Tripwire offers "Servers Under Siege: A Day in the Life of an IT Defender," a respectable office poster; alternatively, they also provide a lovely wine-colored "Common Exploits & Vulnerabilities Matrix."

https://www.tripwire.com/resources/posters/index.cfm

You can view the "IT Defender" poster through the above link; to access an image (PDF) of the second poster, google it without quotes.

[murakami]

My Novell Suse linux kit came in about 2 weeks ago. Its a 3 DVD set with Server 8.0, and Suse desktop 8 and 9. Also included are Ximian and Novell stuff.

[Eugene Da Vinci]

T_T i was too late. They're no longer taking orders. =(

-xchris.

[allentrace]

e-mail

All the free stuff offers want my e-mail address. NO THANKS!

use dodgeit.com it is an openended recieve only e-mail site.

[astcell]

The latest thing is that you need to sign up for junk mai options like Columbia House and othjer freebiew to get the big freebie, that way they have your open e-mail account and can spam you for the contract term, ugh.

DAMNED smart though.

[AlxRogan]

In case anyone cares, they are still shipping out the Novell Technical Resource Kit, got mine in today with their Suse 9 Enterprise Linux w/2.6 kernel.

[murakami]

In case anyone cares, they are still shipping out the Novell Technical Resource Kit, got mine in today with their Suse 9 Enterprise Linux w/2.6 kernel.

Here's the deal. You can download most of the stuff directly off of Novell's site. Depending on the product they will give you the registration number that is valid for x number of days.

The pain in the ass part of the Resource Kit is that they don't give you the registration number. This was a PITA for me because I wanted to try out Oracle on Suse on my shiny new dual opteron server. However, you need Service Pack 3 for Suse to install Oracle necesitating a call to Novell to get a registration number. Anyway, I'm glad to see that things are still as efficient as ever at Novell, when I last worked there 16 years ago.

Anyway, I'm kinda liking Suse. Setup and config was easy. When I switched monitors X wasn't working, so I launced sax2 and it reconfigged X like magic. I've had a test samba/print server up for 2 weeks and its been running without a hitch despite heavy usage.