Your Oracle server in the DMZ? Is this common place? I would never think of putting my Oracle cluster in a DMZ. I can't think of any reason for Oracle to be in the DMZ...
No, Dells are just priced cheaper than others. I bought a couple of PowerEdge 750 with 4GB ram as Oracle R&D cluster boxes for $1,500 each. HP, IBM, and a hoard of other suppliers wanted well in excess of $3k each.
also sports a 256MB nVidia graphics card, 60GB hard drive
60GB hard drives is quite small for a *gaming PC*. Between todays OS (several GBs) and games sizes reaching into the GBs, mp3/ogg collections reaching into the GBs whats up with a 60GB HD? I'm supprised the default isn't at least a 120GB. I don't even game much (though I keep Quake 3 installed for the times when I want to get my blood flowing) have 3 drives. (1) ATA 120GB, and (2) 35GB 10K rpm SATA in raid 0. That gives me 70GB for fast loading software, video, etc, and another 120 for the OS, backups, and scrach media.
Ok, as a desktop Ubuntu is great, but how does it compare in HA, fault tolerance, enterprise hardware support and other enterprise areas? Sure a Ubuntu Apache server is one thing but what about everything beyond the generic services like Email, FTP, HTTP, etc.
This is the reason my Linux servers arn't Gentoo, Ubuntu, and even Debian. I could use them for Email, FTP, etc, but I prefer to standardize my environment so I'm not emerging or apt-get on different servers because it's not an Oracle database or a critical financial package. SUSE and RedHat dump a ton of money in making their enterprise offerings capable.
I'm sure Oracle could fix this for Oracle's products, but you arn't going to get an DB2 help from Oracle or any other competing product. Oracle will kill any distribution that it buys as it would be in their best interest to incorporate Oracle into it as a single product relegating any other OS as unneeded overhead. (my last statement is obviously only an opinion)
No pre-existing apps/OS generally take anything by storm. People don't like *change* The only apps I can think of that took anything by storm are *new* apps that do something revolutionary. (i.e Napster, ICQ, and DOOM for gaming) (Yes, I know of Wolfenstein 3D but it was only a concept footstep to Doom which added the graphics to make the experience truely revolutionary) A new version of Office or a new version of Windows isn't going to make huge waves in the way people do things immediately. Google was so far ahead of all the other search engines and they still took several years to catch on and dominate with the general public acceptance.
I love how a zealot of one face uses news of another that has nothing to do with it's own make it seem as if the world they live in just got brighter. MS gets defections everyday and has for years. Apple's overall usage is still around 3% right?
I find that *most* (not all) Mac users to be one of three types. In the Hollywood business, a woman, or of metrosexual *type*. All three types usually are controlled by emotions rather than logic.
I'm sure I will get negative karma for saying that, but it's normally what I see.
Wow, please recommend Oracle on CentOS to your employer and then call Oracle when you have a problem and see how fast you get fired. If you are having bloat problems with a RedHat server, then it's your administrative skill set that requires some bloating. I have lots of RHEL and Fedora servers and I don't have any bloat problems. Our RHEL-64 Oracle cluster WOW'ed me once it was up and running after we converted from Solaris SPARC to RHEL-32 (money savings wow) and now RHEL64 on the same hardware. (sheer performance wow)
As for Gentoo. I'm actually a Gentoo fan and we have Gentoo boxes. Though they where here before I got here and there won't be any more installed as servers. In our environment time is very important and emerge can be a major time sponge! I just don't find Gentoo's emerge pratical in a large server environment. We can do huge image backups of every server we have, so when a major failure happens, we have to rebuild then restore the data. Emerge takes way to much time while services are down.
Chances are he doesn't see his background very often. The only time I see mine is on bootup. After that my desktop is littered with apps. I'm sure he minimized his windows so everyone could see he was running WindowsXP. (Just another reason it's the default desktop too is that everyone will recognize it)
they expect 20-80x compression because they're marketing themselves as backup to disk (doing repetitive full backups). you get the same patterns over and over again.
Hmm, I don't like the thought of all my backups utilizing a single copy of a pattern that happens a million times. Imagine; You have 30 days of backups, and a single pattern occurs 25,000 times between all 30 backups. You get block errors where that single pattern exist on the disk there by destorying all 30 backups. Now, I can understand keeping a copy for each backup that way the loss of a single copy of said pattern only mangles that single backup. Sharing a copy with your entire archive of backups is crazy. (IMHO anyhow)
Your nitpicking with your Class Bar and method Foo() analogy. On the other hand. OpenBSD is a kernel just like Linux is a kernel. The rest of it is just a bunch of software. As I noted before. I use OpenSSH.
I brought this up in a "Ask Slashdot" a few days ago. (still pending) I'm a huge OpenSSH fan, but I do not use OpenBSD. I mainly use Linux for several reasons that I don't need to explain here. While I like OpenBSD I don't have a need to support OpenBSD. On the other hand I do use and would donate money to OpenSSH. The problem is, like so many of the children's charities among others. You donate $x amount of dollars and in the end not even a 4th of it goes to what you donated too. I wish OpenBSD lots of luck, but my interest lies only with OpenSSH and thats where I want my money to go.
A quote from the donations page:
Simply send a donation cheque in CDN/US/EUR funds made out to Theo de Raadt, since cheques made out to "OpenBSD" cannot be cashed.
There isn't a entity setup for OpenBSD or any other of their projects it seems. It's questionable what actually happens with the money donated.
Circumstances cause it. I've landed a new job. They hired me because I have over 7 year Unix/Linux experence. Well, they are 90% windows shop, but they do have a small factor of *nix. Now, where I use Windows VM to support Linux. Since I've started we've been consolidating many servers. Some Windows stacking, but also some conversion to Linux. In many areas, we have Windows VM Linux for testing and even use. We have a large FTP site that actually runs more like 5 different FTP sites that have different types of authentication. We are converting it all to Linux site by site. Right now they are all on the same server running under different platforms as the trasformation takes place. Plus, if you have a big peice of hardware, why not VM it if no single server takes a 10th of it's resources. We have a Windows Update server, CIF file server thats also VMed Linux/Apache web serves and Postfix SMTP anti-virus server. It works great!:)
I don't know... Maybe boot from a network drive? Load a FPS in a reasonable amount of time. Have you ever used a 5mb connection? Using a Termial on a 5mb connection is one thing, but accessing all your system storage over a 5mb connection would slow everything down consideribly. Start Q4 while loading those enormous pack files... Can you do it... Yes, would you. Not more than a few times.
Remote storage with hard driveless boxes. You can rent movies with OnDemand now, what about storing you PVR data offsite so no matter where you go you can watch your shows. As for gaming. Loading say FPS mods on the fly. (even large ones) And of course the most important. Everyone can cache sites before they are/.ed and/. can just load-balance the cache;)
Road and Track gives great reviews to "Select" autos because the auto makers buy tons of add space.
Hardware review sites and prints give great reviews to hardware because they get lots of free hardware and lots of cash for *other things* *cough*addspace*cough*.
I will tell you how great NewEgg.com has been because they send me all kinds of *Good Stuff*.. but damnit I have to pay for it..:(
Everyone makes everything a war of who has better technology or just plain better.
First off, building wooden ships 300 years ago no longer counts as experience in ship building as that would be common knowledge today. America as 12 carriers which is more than all European nations combine I beleive. (UK 2, France 1, etc) They also have 15 nuclear-powered ICBM submarines. (which doesn't include any other type subs i.e. attack subs) I have no idea what you mean by saying "France and Britain have more experience in developing their navies than the US will ever achieve." You're statements are obviously just hostilites towards the US. This whole thing is stupid. European countries have great technology, the only reason the US has all that it does is because of Capitalism and the immense amount of resources the US has had. (it's own wood supplies, oil supplies, iron supplies, etc) During the industrial age (around WWII) the US hardly depended on anyone to produce what it needed and therefor had the ability to become the world power that it is today.
Technology comes from everywhere. They US and UK share much of what we learn and produce better technology together. It's not a war of whos better, but a war of how to survive in a world of hostilies. The problem isn't whos better, the problem is everyone wants more than the next guy. If you don't have more, you feel that someone else is an elitist and hate them for it.
1) strace (Program stalling or not working with ambiguous error messages?) 2) nmap 3) sysstat utilities (sar, iostat, vmstat, etc) 4) python (my automation tool of choice) 5) grep/awk/sed (filtering output etc) 6) Nagios 7) DenyHost (log watcher that blocks hosts via deny.hosts file) 8) snort 9) screen 10) lsof (list open file discriptors (sockets, streams, and actual files))
As for those who keep saying "ImageMagick? What kind admin uses ImageMagick!" Well, I used to work for a e-commerice bookseller. We delt with millions of bookcover images and ImageMagick was a golden for mass manipulation of images. As for MP3 tools, I like my music why I work! Whats wrong with that? It's not essential for the job, but it is for my happiness.
You forgot to list SCO Unixware as a OS that MySQL runs on!;)
I would like to add that I run 2 PostgreSQL servers...but I have found it to be overly cumbersome for the majority of my applications.
Hmm, maybe it's learning curve is to cumbersome as it isn't quite the Plug-and-Play database MySQL is. Also as to your speed comment. Postgres is quite fast even compared to MySQL. (not faster but very fast)
While what you say is true, there is no excuse for saving the root password in the install log. Doesn't matter how bleeding edge, alpha, beta or even if it's the 24th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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Your Oracle server in the DMZ? Is this common place? I would never think of putting my Oracle cluster in a DMZ. I can't think of any reason for Oracle to be in the DMZ...
The easiest way is by using Acronis True Image and Microsoft's Sys-Prep utility.
A lot of people talk about Ghost and I used Ghost for years, but once you try Acronis True Image you will dump ghost and never look back!
http://www.acronis.com/
No, Dells are just priced cheaper than others. I bought a couple of PowerEdge 750 with 4GB ram as Oracle R&D cluster boxes for $1,500 each. HP, IBM, and a hoard of other suppliers wanted well in excess of $3k each.
also sports a 256MB nVidia graphics card, 60GB hard drive
60GB hard drives is quite small for a *gaming PC*. Between todays OS (several GBs) and games sizes reaching into the GBs, mp3/ogg collections reaching into the GBs whats up with a 60GB HD? I'm supprised the default isn't at least a 120GB. I don't even game much (though I keep Quake 3 installed for the times when I want to get my blood flowing) have 3 drives. (1) ATA 120GB, and (2) 35GB 10K rpm SATA in raid 0. That gives me 70GB for fast loading software, video, etc, and another 120 for the OS, backups, and scrach media.
The patent also suggests that the system could offer viewers the chance to pay a fee interactively to go back to skipping adverts."
It also offers the viewers the chance to tell Philips to stick up their @$$ by buying a non-philips product.
Ok, as a desktop Ubuntu is great, but how does it compare in HA, fault tolerance, enterprise hardware support and other enterprise areas? Sure a Ubuntu Apache server is one thing but what about everything beyond the generic services like Email, FTP, HTTP, etc.
This is the reason my Linux servers arn't Gentoo, Ubuntu, and even Debian. I could use them for Email, FTP, etc, but I prefer to standardize my environment so I'm not emerging or apt-get on different servers because it's not an Oracle database or a critical financial package. SUSE and RedHat dump a ton of money in making their enterprise offerings capable.
I'm sure Oracle could fix this for Oracle's products, but you arn't going to get an DB2 help from Oracle or any other competing product. Oracle will kill any distribution that it buys as it would be in their best interest to incorporate Oracle into it as a single product relegating any other OS as unneeded overhead. (my last statement is obviously only an opinion)
No pre-existing apps/OS generally take anything by storm. People don't like *change* The only apps I can think of that took anything by storm are *new* apps that do something revolutionary. (i.e Napster, ICQ, and DOOM for gaming) (Yes, I know of Wolfenstein 3D but it was only a concept footstep to Doom which added the graphics to make the experience truely revolutionary) A new version of Office or a new version of Windows isn't going to make huge waves in the way people do things immediately. Google was so far ahead of all the other search engines and they still took several years to catch on and dominate with the general public acceptance.
Mass Microsoft Defections to Apple Possible
I love how a zealot of one face uses news of another that has nothing to do with it's own make it seem as if the world they live in just got brighter. MS gets defections everyday and has for years. Apple's overall usage is still around 3% right?
I find that *most* (not all) Mac users to be one of three types. In the Hollywood business, a woman, or of metrosexual *type*. All three types usually are controlled by emotions rather than logic.
I'm sure I will get negative karma for saying that, but it's normally what I see.
Some people believe a penis is a meaningless appendage for geeks...
Screw that, just release a termimal/media server for it and I will have a terminal in every room! :)
Wow, please recommend Oracle on CentOS to your employer and then call Oracle when you have a problem and see how fast you get fired. If you are having bloat problems with a RedHat server, then it's your administrative skill set that requires some bloating. I have lots of RHEL and Fedora servers and I don't have any bloat problems. Our RHEL-64 Oracle cluster WOW'ed me once it was up and running after we converted from Solaris SPARC to RHEL-32 (money savings wow) and now RHEL64 on the same hardware. (sheer performance wow)
As for Gentoo. I'm actually a Gentoo fan and we have Gentoo boxes. Though they where here before I got here and there won't be any more installed as servers. In our environment time is very important and emerge can be a major time sponge! I just don't find Gentoo's emerge pratical in a large server environment. We can do huge image backups of every server we have, so when a major failure happens, we have to rebuild then restore the data. Emerge takes way to much time while services are down.
Chances are he doesn't see his background very often. The only time I see mine is on bootup. After that my desktop is littered with apps. I'm sure he minimized his windows so everyone could see he was running WindowsXP. (Just another reason it's the default desktop too is that everyone will recognize it)
they expect 20-80x compression because they're marketing themselves as backup to disk (doing repetitive full backups). you get the same patterns over and over again.
Hmm, I don't like the thought of all my backups utilizing a single copy of a pattern that happens a million times. Imagine; You have 30 days of backups, and a single pattern occurs 25,000 times between all 30 backups. You get block errors where that single pattern exist on the disk there by destorying all 30 backups. Now, I can understand keeping a copy for each backup that way the loss of a single copy of said pattern only mangles that single backup. Sharing a copy with your entire archive of backups is crazy. (IMHO anyhow)
Your nitpicking with your Class Bar and method Foo() analogy. On the other hand. OpenBSD is a kernel just like Linux is a kernel. The rest of it is just a bunch of software. As I noted before. I use OpenSSH.
I brought this up in a "Ask Slashdot" a few days ago. (still pending) I'm a huge OpenSSH fan, but I do not use OpenBSD. I mainly use Linux for several reasons that I don't need to explain here. While I like OpenBSD I don't have a need to support OpenBSD. On the other hand I do use and would donate money to OpenSSH. The problem is, like so many of the children's charities among others. You donate $x amount of dollars and in the end not even a 4th of it goes to what you donated too. I wish OpenBSD lots of luck, but my interest lies only with OpenSSH and thats where I want my money to go.
A quote from the donations page:
Simply send a donation cheque in CDN/US/EUR funds made out to Theo de Raadt, since cheques made out to "OpenBSD" cannot be cashed.
There isn't a entity setup for OpenBSD or any other of their projects it seems. It's questionable what actually happens with the money donated.
Circumstances cause it. I've landed a new job. They hired me because I have over 7 year Unix/Linux experence. Well, they are 90% windows shop, but they do have a small factor of *nix. Now, where I use Windows VM to support Linux. Since I've started we've been consolidating many servers. Some Windows stacking, but also some conversion to Linux. In many areas, we have Windows VM Linux for testing and even use. We have a large FTP site that actually runs more like 5 different FTP sites that have different types of authentication. We are converting it all to Linux site by site. Right now they are all on the same server running under different platforms as the trasformation takes place. Plus, if you have a big peice of hardware, why not VM it if no single server takes a 10th of it's resources. We have a Windows Update server, CIF file server thats also VMed Linux/Apache web serves and Postfix SMTP anti-virus server. It works great! :)
I don't know... Maybe boot from a network drive? Load a FPS in a reasonable amount of time. Have you ever used a 5mb connection? Using a Termial on a 5mb connection is one thing, but accessing all your system storage over a 5mb connection would slow everything down consideribly. Start Q4 while loading those enormous pack files... Can you do it... Yes, would you. Not more than a few times.
Remote storage with hard driveless boxes. You can rent movies with OnDemand now, what about storing you PVR data offsite so no matter where you go you can watch your shows. As for gaming. Loading say FPS mods on the fly. (even large ones) And of course the most important. Everyone can cache sites before they are /.ed and /. can just load-balance the cache ;)
What do you mean? It's just like how smoking cures cancer.
Road and Track gives great reviews to "Select" autos because the auto makers buy tons of add space.
:(
Hardware review sites and prints give great reviews to hardware because they get lots of free hardware and lots of cash for *other things* *cough*addspace*cough*.
I will tell you how great NewEgg.com has been because they send me all kinds of *Good Stuff*.. but damnit I have to pay for it..
I buy all my tech books from BookPool.
Everyone makes everything a war of who has better technology or just plain better.
First off, building wooden ships 300 years ago no longer counts as experience in ship building as that would be common knowledge today. America as 12 carriers which is more than all European nations combine I beleive. (UK 2, France 1, etc) They also have 15 nuclear-powered ICBM submarines. (which doesn't include any other type subs i.e. attack subs) I have no idea what you mean by saying "France and Britain have more experience in developing their navies than the US will ever achieve." You're statements are obviously just hostilites towards the US. This whole thing is stupid. European countries have great technology, the only reason the US has all that it does is because of Capitalism and the immense amount of resources the US has had. (it's own wood supplies, oil supplies, iron supplies, etc) During the industrial age (around WWII) the US hardly depended on anyone to produce what it needed and therefor had the ability to become the world power that it is today.
Technology comes from everywhere. They US and UK share much of what we learn and produce better technology together. It's not a war of whos better, but a war of how to survive in a world of hostilies. The problem isn't whos better, the problem is everyone wants more than the next guy. If you don't have more, you feel that someone else is an elitist and hate them for it.
1) strace (Program stalling or not working with ambiguous error messages?)
2) nmap
3) sysstat utilities (sar, iostat, vmstat, etc)
4) python (my automation tool of choice)
5) grep/awk/sed (filtering output etc)
6) Nagios
7) DenyHost (log watcher that blocks hosts via deny.hosts file)
8) snort
9) screen
10) lsof (list open file discriptors (sockets, streams, and actual files))
As for those who keep saying "ImageMagick? What kind admin uses ImageMagick!" Well, I used to work for a e-commerice bookseller. We delt with millions of bookcover images and ImageMagick was a golden for mass manipulation of images. As for MP3 tools, I like my music why I work! Whats wrong with that? It's not essential for the job, but it is for my happiness.
You forgot to list SCO Unixware as a OS that MySQL runs on! ;)
I would like to add that I run 2 PostgreSQL servers...but I have found it to be overly cumbersome for the majority of my applications.
Hmm, maybe it's learning curve is to cumbersome as it isn't quite the Plug-and-Play database MySQL is. Also as to your speed comment. Postgres is quite fast even compared to MySQL. (not faster but very fast)
While what you say is true, there is no excuse for saving the root password in the install log. Doesn't matter how bleeding edge, alpha, beta or even if it's the 24th letter of the Greek alphabet.