"I forgot to pay my property taxes. I know about property taxes, but I happend to miss this years bill. I was kinda hoping that that meant I diddnt have to pay. Now there is an exiled Iranian General living in my house. Help me. Stay away from my cookies, Ishmael!"
The phrase "dumbass" is what came to my mind when I read this.
Well, OES is an upgrade from Netware. Netware customers with support contracts have already payed for OES.
You seem to be confused with what OES is. OES is all the services of Netware (improved as they are, same deal as any major version upgrade) that runs on either Netware or SUSE. You can run OES with out any Linux at all.
Novell has previously released many of the services that traditionaly came with Netware on Linux. NDS has been multiplatform for damm near a decade. The released a bunch of these services in a packaged and polished sytem as Novell eNterprise Linux Services a couple of years ago; NNLS could happly work inside a generally Netware/NDS operation... OES takes this to the next step - managing OES/Netware and OES/Linux is exactly the same, save for the very low level OS stuff. And most of that has all been polished available via a common management interface.
Netware administrators have little to worry about.. Netware itself requires very little maintanance - the 99% of their work which doesnt involve Netware proper will work exactly the same under OES/Linux (at least as similar as any major version change). As of NDS, Netware 4.0, cira 1993, you dont manage servers; you manage the network; what OS network services run under is almost entirely irrelevent.
Well, if you are running two physcial servers, then the next version of Netware does look exactly the same, can run NLMs, and somewhat be replaced by Linux. Open Enterprise Server, which is the upgrade path from Netware, is your typical incremental services changes, except that those services can run either on a Linux (SuSE) or Netware kernel. Linux and Netware servers can co-exist in the same cluster (2 way clusters being included in the base price of Netware since 5.0, and still with OES), including sharing Novell Storage Services resources.
So you just run all your old legacy NLMs on a Netware OES server, and everything on a Linux OES systems. Actually, the licensing is somewhat tricky: its per user; you can run an infinite number of Netware servers, but some ratio of users:: Linux systems, so you might want to run everything on Netware except for some Linux specific things on Linux.
I say you would need two physcial servers to have a NLM and Linux able Netware, but Novell is working on getting Netware running on Xen, to the point its been a (staged) demo. So you can have a Linux OES system with Netware running under Xen, with the very few remaining NLMs you need.
The name Netscape has been all but pissed on by AOL. Early 2004 they branded a low cost ISP as Netscape, prompting a former Netscaper-er to comment "AOL makes me want to cry" in JWZs blog.
I suppose there are still some grandmothers out there who think Netscape==Internet, but no one important.
You keep talking about software packages. Software packages exist that are alternatives to OOo word processing. Software packages exist that export to PDF.
Thats not the point. Its not about open applications.
Its about open file formats.
With open file formats, you can use whatever software you want. In 5 years, you can change software providers, easily. If your software provider leaves the market, kills that product, or attempts to force a file format upgrade on you, you can change providers, easily.
See? The application doesnt matter if the format is open.
The idea of an "open" format isn't that it will get preference to the OSS community. It is that it will give preference to no one.
The standard in question isnt the "Open Office" format, its "OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications". OO.o 2.0 happens to support that format nativly.
Anyone, including Microsoft, is free to implement the Open Document format.
You're right, Sun might not be able to magicly add "enterprise features" to Linux.. But its not a question of abandoning Solaris, but embracing Linux.
IBM hasnt abandoned AIX (or MVS/zOS, or...) but they have embraced Linux. While I doubt that IBM has sold any mainframes in the past decade that exclusivly run Linux, Im sure some sales, upgrades, leases, have been influenced because they can now run linux. Ditto, and especially, for their POWER line.
And consider Novell. They have been porting bits and peices of products to Linux for nearly a decade; packaged a bunch as eNterprise Linux Services, which provideds similar capabilities as Netware. Open Enterprise Server (now out ~1 year) runs on either Netware or SUSE - providing exactly the same services on both.
Without abandoning their older systems, IBM and Novell have managed to embrase Linux with a clear strategy, and demonstrated that clear strategy to the public. Suns attitude towards Linux has best been described as schizophrenic. Perception is reality.
But this is what it all boils down to:
Its easy to reconcile IBM, Novell (good, Linux friendly), and even Microsoft (evil, period). But Sun? I dont know WTF Sun is up to. I dont think Sun knows WTF Sun is up to. And that worries me.
The amazing part of this story is that todays drives usualy have an effective life span of 2 years, whereas XT drives could live 2 years beyond a reasonable death!
Going from a framebuffer to a graphic processor was a significant leap. It added new capabilities. Having an OS GUI take advantages of that 3d processor isn't quite the same thing. Its finding a new genre of software for the same hardware - hell, even the same software (assuming that its done in d3d).
And in the early PCI/AGP days, AGP had enough memory bandwidth to use system RAM, too. Perhaps technically true (I dont care),. but just marketing BS and irrelevent for all but the lowest end hardware.
For some people, what they have is good enough... they dont need to upgrade. Yes. So? If what they have is good enough, they why would they upgrade to a new OS? Why does the hardware requirements for something that is more then they need relevent to anything?
Police are generally trained to empty their pistols entire clip. (At least with pistols, I dont know if the shooting in question was something larger). As the theory goes the police have multiple levels of response and multiple ways of subduing people; if the situation warrents deadly force then you use deadly force and make damm sure your target is down.
My bet is that they rewrote slash in Ruby on Rails, and as a result it actually takes negative storage space. slashcode isnt realy slashdotted, the extra hard drives that are popping out of that server have knocked out the ethernet line....
Except that you dont send the hash across the wire, you use a chalange and response system (shared secret). The password crosses the wire once - when it is chosen; or for pre chosen / printed passwords, never.
This always seemed strange to me. Hot air rises. You pump cold air into the floor? WTF?
Shouldnt you have a false (T-Bar) ceiling, pump cold air into that, preasure plus gravity pushed the cold air down the rack, and you then suck the (now hot) air out the raised floor?
Fine then. The keyboard controls the whole computer. I want the computer to "sleep". I want the computer to put in a "A" or "delete" something. I dont want to "eject" the computer, nor do I want to "eject" whatever is currently highlighted.
But as others have pointed out, the problem is not the existance of an extra eject button, but the lack of a eject button where EVERY OTHER CD/DVD DEVICE HAS ONE, ON THE DEVICE.
Dammit, this is reminding me of the year that I worked on SparcStations and Macs. The same year that I always. ALWAYS had a straightened out paperclip in the seam of my jeans. GIVE ME THE DISC NOW, COCKSUCKER!
Option "Mac": - Move hand to eject button. - Press Button. - Move hand to drive - get disc Option "Sanity": - Move hand to drive - press button. - Get disc.
While some games, and some parts of some games have performance penalities under Cedega. most games (or at least the meat of most games) runs just fine. (ie, loading may be slow, demos/cutscreenes/movies may be slow, but the game is at speed) In fact, doom3 runs faster under wine then the native Linux version (or at least it did.. inline asm that was incompatable with gcc, this may be fixed now).
There are three reasons why I dont dual boot into XP to play games: 1) I dont own XP, 2) it would take a long time if I did and 3) it wouldnt be any faster, anyway.
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I have to second this question.
"I forgot to pay my property taxes. I know about property taxes, but I happend to miss this years bill. I was kinda hoping that that meant I diddnt have to pay. Now there is an exiled Iranian General living in my house. Help me. Stay away from my cookies, Ishmael!"
The phrase "dumbass" is what came to my mind when I read this.
You mean it doesnt help you to get laid when you whip it out at bars on Friday night?
Well, OES is an upgrade from Netware. Netware customers with support contracts have already payed for OES.
You seem to be confused with what OES is. OES is all the services of Netware (improved as they are, same deal as any major version upgrade) that runs on either Netware or SUSE. You can run OES with out any Linux at all.
Novell has previously released many of the services that traditionaly came with Netware on Linux. NDS has been multiplatform for damm near a decade. The released a bunch of these services in a packaged and polished sytem as Novell eNterprise Linux Services a couple of years ago; NNLS could happly work inside a generally Netware/NDS operation... OES takes this to the next step - managing OES/Netware and OES/Linux is exactly the same, save for the very low level OS stuff. And most of that has all been polished available via a common management interface.
Netware administrators have little to worry about.. Netware itself requires very little maintanance - the 99% of their work which doesnt involve Netware proper will work exactly the same under OES/Linux (at least as similar as any major version change). As of NDS, Netware 4.0, cira 1993, you dont manage servers; you manage the network; what OS network services run under is almost entirely irrelevent.
Well, if you are running two physcial servers, then the next version of Netware does look exactly the same, can run NLMs, and somewhat be replaced by Linux. Open Enterprise Server, which is the upgrade path from Netware, is your typical incremental services changes, except that those services can run either on a Linux (SuSE) or Netware kernel. Linux and Netware servers can co-exist in the same cluster (2 way clusters being included in the base price of Netware since 5.0, and still with OES), including sharing Novell Storage Services resources.
:: Linux systems, so you might want to run everything on Netware except for some Linux specific things on Linux.
So you just run all your old legacy NLMs on a Netware OES server, and everything on a Linux OES systems. Actually, the licensing is somewhat tricky: its per user; you can run an infinite number of Netware servers, but some ratio of users
I say you would need two physcial servers to have a NLM and Linux able Netware, but Novell is working on getting Netware running on Xen, to the point its been a (staged) demo. So you can have a Linux OES system with Netware running under Xen, with the very few remaining NLMs you need.
The name Netscape has been all but pissed on by AOL. Early 2004 they branded a low cost ISP as Netscape, prompting a former Netscaper-er to comment "AOL makes me want to cry" in JWZs blog.
I suppose there are still some grandmothers out there who think Netscape==Internet, but no one important.
see: http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/268332.html
Sure, a wiki would be even better. But a spreadsheet is better then a text file.
Not if you want to sort by anything except the first field. Yes, grep, cut, col, sort can do it, but who doesnt have a spreadsheet?
You keep talking about software packages. Software packages exist that are alternatives to OOo word processing. Software packages exist that export to PDF.
Thats not the point. Its not about open applications.
Its about open file formats.
With open file formats, you can use whatever software you want. In 5 years, you can change software providers, easily. If your software provider leaves the market, kills that product, or attempts to force a file format upgrade on you, you can change providers, easily.
See? The application doesnt matter if the format is open.
The idea of an "open" format isn't that it will get preference to the OSS community. It is that it will give preference to no one.
The standard in question isnt the "Open Office" format, its "OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications". OO.o 2.0 happens to support that format nativly.
Anyone, including Microsoft, is free to implement the Open Document format.
I knew that OpenPROM is crazilly powerful, but it has a Doom/Quake engine in it now? Kick ass.
You're right, Sun might not be able to magicly add "enterprise features" to Linux.. But its not a question of abandoning Solaris, but embracing Linux.
...) but they have embraced Linux. While I doubt that IBM has sold any mainframes in the past decade that exclusivly run Linux, Im sure some sales, upgrades, leases, have been influenced because they can now run linux. Ditto, and especially, for their POWER line.
IBM hasnt abandoned AIX (or MVS/zOS, or
And consider Novell. They have been porting bits and peices of products to Linux for nearly a decade; packaged a bunch as eNterprise Linux Services, which provideds similar capabilities as Netware. Open Enterprise Server (now out ~1 year) runs on either Netware or SUSE - providing exactly the same services on both.
Without abandoning their older systems, IBM and Novell have managed to embrase Linux with a clear strategy, and demonstrated that clear strategy to the public. Suns attitude towards Linux has best been described as schizophrenic. Perception is reality.
But this is what it all boils down to:
Its easy to reconcile IBM, Novell (good, Linux friendly), and even Microsoft (evil, period). But Sun? I dont know WTF Sun is up to. I dont think Sun knows WTF Sun is up to. And that worries me.
The amazing part of this story is that todays drives usualy have an effective life span of 2 years, whereas XT drives could live 2 years beyond a reasonable death!
1. Ziploc bag ....
2. TGP
3. Freezer
4.
5. Children young enough to be your grand-grand-grand children
Going from a framebuffer to a graphic processor was a significant leap. It added new capabilities. Having an OS GUI take advantages of that 3d processor isn't quite the same thing. Its finding a new genre of software for the same hardware - hell, even the same software (assuming that its done in d3d).
And in the early PCI/AGP days, AGP had enough memory bandwidth to use system RAM, too. Perhaps technically true (I dont care),. but just marketing BS and irrelevent for all but the lowest end hardware.
For some people, what they have is good enough ... they dont need to upgrade. Yes. So? If what they have is good enough, they why would they upgrade to a new OS? Why does the hardware requirements for something that is more then they need relevent to anything?
I could argue that 256mb cards will be a dime a dozen in 15 months, but all I have to say is:
256mb of vram should be enough for anyone.
Talk to me in 10 years and tell me then if you think that thats stupid.
Police are generally trained to empty their pistols entire clip. (At least with pistols, I dont know if the shooting in question was something larger). As the theory goes the police have multiple levels of response and multiple ways of subduing people; if the situation warrents deadly force then you use deadly force and make damm sure your target is down.
But here in reality, that hast to be "design for a subset of standards that major browsers actually use"
My bet is that they rewrote slash in Ruby on Rails, and as a result it actually takes negative storage space. slashcode isnt realy slashdotted, the extra hard drives that are popping out of that server have knocked out the ethernet line....
Except that you dont send the hash across the wire, you use a chalange and response system (shared secret). The password crosses the wire once - when it is chosen; or for pre chosen / printed passwords, never.
This always seemed strange to me. Hot air rises. You pump cold air into the floor? WTF?
Shouldnt you have a false (T-Bar) ceiling, pump cold air into that, preasure plus gravity pushed the cold air down the rack, and you then suck the (now hot) air out the raised floor?
Fine then. The keyboard controls the whole computer. I want the computer to "sleep". I want the computer to put in a "A" or "delete" something. I dont want to "eject" the computer, nor do I want to "eject" whatever is currently highlighted.
But as others have pointed out, the problem is not the existance of an extra eject button, but the lack of a eject button where EVERY OTHER CD/DVD DEVICE HAS ONE, ON THE DEVICE.
Dammit, this is reminding me of the year that I worked on SparcStations and Macs. The same year that I always. ALWAYS had a straightened out paperclip in the seam of my jeans. GIVE ME THE DISC NOW, COCKSUCKER!
Option "Mac":
- Move hand to eject button.
- Press Button.
- Move hand to drive
- get disc
Option "Sanity":
- Move hand to drive
- press button.
- Get disc.
The Mac way clearly has more steps.
While some games, and some parts of some games have performance penalities under Cedega. most games (or at least the meat of most games) runs just fine. (ie, loading may be slow, demos/cutscreenes/movies may be slow, but the game is at speed) In fact, doom3 runs faster under wine then the native Linux version (or at least it did.. inline asm that was incompatable with gcc, this may be fixed now).
There are three reasons why I dont dual boot into XP to play games: 1) I dont own XP, 2) it would take a long time if I did and 3) it wouldnt be any faster, anyway.
Why would you ever want to eject you keyboard?