you're probably right, though i don't think that the primary purpose of college is to educate someone to be plunked down into the job market. i thought that's what vocational colleges were for. no doubt the world has moved on, and i'm stuck in the past, imagining that college is there for the broadening of one's mind and not to teach one job skills, per se.
ugh, i think IE is part of your problem. it's dog slow, especially if it has to render a large or complex html page. it must have something to do with the way MS carbonized it. i'd suggest either omniweb or chimera/navigator. chimera is very fast, and does tabbed browsing, etc. both are cocoa apps. you probably don't have enough RAM, either. I think apple should put up something that says 256MB is mandatory. I ran 10.1 on my g4/400 powerbook (with 512MB and pokey stock 10GB ide drive) and it was quite snappy. I sold it before 10.2 came out, but i suspect it would've been much more responsive. same with my old graphite imac - g3/500 and 512MB makes it a decent machine for everything but games.
since knowledge learned from one version of Windows is rarely entirely transferrable to another version, I think it's stupid to be teaching courses about specific versions of Windows or Windows software. Think of the differences between 9x or ME and NT/2000, and the differences between NT/2000 and XP. or between office 97 and office XP. schools are supposed to be teaching concepts, not 'how-to' information for an OS that will be outdated and replaced in 5 years. How well equipped will you be for that oracle job if you've spent all your time in a database theory class that uses sql server exclusively? market share of software should have nothing to do with what's taught in schools. i'll say it again, you're learning principals, not keystrokes.
if your 'sanbox' could run in target mode, and keep track of file locking issues, this might work. the only computers i know of that can operate in target mode with firewire are macs, and i don't think they can be used simultaneously by more than one machine when in target mode. I think you'd still need some sort of agent on the client (device driver, whatever) to communicate with the management device (or OS running on your single device) to get the right partition, or at least keep track of file-locking issues on a shared partition.
places like firewire depot sell firewire raid enclosures, is that what you're asking about? it might be cheaper to get a mini-tower, some firewire bridge boards, and make your own disk box.
you forgot to mention something he'd gain by using firewire - it's available now. he won't have to wait a year before native serial ata drives and controllers are out, and he can use 1.0 drivers with this new hardware...
those specifications are worthless. the only thing you should be interested in when measuring bandwidth is sustained throughput. a real-life 32-bit PCI bus (not just the slot, but the entire bus, which may have as many as 6 devices on it) has a sustained throughput of about 80 MB per second. even 64-bit 66MHz PCI 'only' does about 220MB/sec, depending on the implementation.
well, i thought that, given the power of the origin servers (even the 300 line) it might make sense to run one or two origins and several Xterms instead of putting an O2 or Fire on every desktop. This is why i was wondering about ID and the tools... wow, this could be a big coup for SGI, since i'd think they'd have gotten the intel chips to work with the numaflex shared memory setup. that could be cool indeed.
got it now... so when this goes down, will the linux systems sold by sgi run interactive desktop/4wm/whatever, or will they be using gnome or kde? will they release cosmo and annotator and the rest of their tools for it?
why would sgi want to put IRIX on intel? intel hardware isn't impressive at all for i/o intensive loads. the cpus are pretty fast, sure, but stick that with a workstation-derived memory controller and bus controller, and you've got major bottlenecks. obviously not an issue if you're running a renderfarm on them, true enough. i hear IBM is doing some interesting stuff with smp servers, but i've tested compaq 4 and 8-way servers, and they're readily beat by my 5-year-old 4-way rs6k in terms of memory throughput and i/os per second.
the qdaemon system is a queueing system, not just the printing system. aix uses qdaemon to spool print jobs by default, and manage cron, and at, and user-definable batch queues as well. that said, it is still possible to use lpd on AIX, if you wanted to.
syslog is still there - aix keeps hardware and software error messages separate from other messages, is all. just a different way of doing things.
why would i need to call support? i learned the AIX commands to do AIX administration. my main application server is an RS6K running DB2 and CICS, accepting several hundred concurrent client connections per day, with an uptime of 326 days. administering AIX is not that hard, unless you insist on treating it like solaris or BSDI, which it isn't.
i don't see where not using PAM is a liability, but if you're a shop where you need to use the same type of non-standard authentication across different types of unix, it could be more difficult than porting PAM modules between solaris, linux, and hpux, maybe.
wow, all this time i've been using rc, rc.net, rc.tcpip to configure stuff during boot, but since it doesn't work, i better stop!
no comment on the man pages:)
since AIX has a package manager to add and remove software, why would it matter what the default directory is, as long as you know where it's at? if you install without using the package manager, there's nothing preventing you from editing the default.profile and adding/opt to the path, though.
hahaha, no comment on the LCD:)
I dunno. it's just different than solaris. that doesn't make it worse, though. it just means you don't get the job as an aix administrator.
would you not automate the administration of 45 individual unix servers? i don't get your point here - that smit didn't let you manage more than one machine? btw, every smit function is repeatable as either a command or a series of commands at the shell level. perhaps you need AIX administrators to manage your AIX machines?
sure one mcse can do it all, if his solution to everything is "reboot the server", after the wizard he used to do his 'troubleshooting' didn't provide an answer. i think competent windows administrators are more rare than a decent unix admin. i've never worked with a windows administrator who knew his stuff (though i've read stuff from people who certainly seem competent). all the windows admins i've worked with have been of the 'meat puppet' variety. sure, they've got their mcse, but they can't seem to tie that knowledge into how things work on their platform of choice. bizarre.
i keep hearing about this clientless mode in NW6, but it doesn't give the user full access to the NDS tree. Basically, you're defining a share that may or may not have a password, but that password is not synched in any way with any user object in the tree. it's a handy way to share files with people who don't need NDS. if you're managing users with NDS, they need to run the client.
maybe versions of UNIX available on the PC platform at the time, but otherwise, no... netware 3 is pretty stable, to be sure, but it's just a file and print sharing setup.
you can buy the DVD from a distributor who sells overseas stock. the spirited away DVD is region 0, has two discs (one the normal flick, the other the dialog and sound over the original storyboards), and can easily be found on ebay... i think i paid $18US for mine from some distributor in new york...
framework was an old 'suite' put out by ashton tate (well, fw3 was sold by them, at any rate). same people who were selling dbase back in the day.
total DOS application. pretty fast, though. and, as was previously mentioned, completely integrated. not a bad text editor. i'd think the only downside would be the lack of printer support.
another vote for slackware from this peanut gallery - my g/f's packard bell p90 (well, p75 clocked to p90) runs slackware 8 very well (machine has 72MB of RAM). slackware seems to kept away from bloat all these years. in contrast, i was totally amazed by the bloat evident when using redhat 7.3 (vs 6.2)(default install won't fit on 1GB?! wtf?). i'd suggest running X and icewm and Abiword or something. it should make for a very servicable machine.
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you can go back to using your visual basic - no harm done...
you're probably right, though i don't think that the primary purpose of college is to educate someone to be plunked down into the job market. i thought that's what vocational colleges were for.
no doubt the world has moved on, and i'm stuck in the past, imagining that college is there for the broadening of one's mind and not to teach one job skills, per se.
ugh, i think IE is part of your problem. it's dog slow, especially if it has to render a large or complex html page. it must have something to do with the way MS carbonized it. i'd suggest either omniweb or chimera/navigator. chimera is very fast, and does tabbed browsing, etc. both are cocoa apps. you probably don't have enough RAM, either. I think apple should put up something that says 256MB is mandatory. I ran 10.1 on my g4/400 powerbook (with 512MB and pokey stock 10GB ide drive) and it was quite snappy. I sold it before 10.2 came out, but i suspect it would've been much more responsive. same with my old graphite imac - g3/500 and 512MB makes it a decent machine for everything but games.
since knowledge learned from one version of Windows is rarely entirely transferrable to another version, I think it's stupid to be teaching courses about specific versions of Windows or Windows software. Think of the differences between 9x or ME and NT/2000, and the differences between NT/2000 and XP. or between office 97 and office XP. schools are supposed to be teaching concepts, not 'how-to' information for an OS that will be outdated and replaced in 5 years. How well equipped will you be for that oracle job if you've spent all your time in a database theory class that uses sql server exclusively?
market share of software should have nothing to do with what's taught in schools. i'll say it again, you're learning principals, not keystrokes.
if your 'sanbox' could run in target mode, and keep track of file locking issues, this might work. the only computers i know of that can operate in target mode with firewire are macs, and i don't think they can be used simultaneously by more than one machine when in target mode.
I think you'd still need some sort of agent on the client (device driver, whatever) to communicate with the management device (or OS running on your single device) to get the right partition, or at least keep track of file-locking issues on a shared partition.
places like firewire depot sell firewire raid enclosures, is that what you're asking about? it might be cheaper to get a mini-tower, some firewire bridge boards, and make your own disk box.
you forgot to mention something he'd gain by using firewire - it's available now. he won't have to wait a year before native serial ata drives and controllers are out, and he can use 1.0 drivers with this new hardware...
those specifications are worthless. the only thing you should be interested in when measuring bandwidth is sustained throughput. a real-life 32-bit PCI bus (not just the slot, but the entire bus, which may have as many as 6 devices on it) has a sustained throughput of about 80 MB per second. even 64-bit 66MHz PCI 'only' does about 220MB/sec, depending on the implementation.
ugh, and watch your bandwidth go down as your load goes up? no thanks...
maybe watersports?
well, i thought that, given the power of the origin servers (even the 300 line) it might make sense to run one or two origins and several Xterms instead of putting an O2 or Fire on every desktop. This is why i was wondering about ID and the tools... wow, this could be a big coup for SGI, since i'd think they'd have gotten the intel chips to work with the numaflex shared memory setup. that could be cool indeed.
got it now... so when this goes down, will the linux systems sold by sgi run interactive desktop/4wm/whatever, or will they be using gnome or kde? will they release cosmo and annotator and the rest of their tools for it?
why would sgi want to put IRIX on intel? intel hardware isn't impressive at all for i/o intensive loads. the cpus are pretty fast, sure, but stick that with a workstation-derived memory controller and bus controller, and you've got major bottlenecks. obviously not an issue if you're running a renderfarm on them, true enough. i hear IBM is doing some interesting stuff with smp servers, but i've tested compaq 4 and 8-way servers, and they're readily beat by my 5-year-old 4-way rs6k in terms of memory throughput and i/os per second.
the same argument could be used that windows is much better than solaris, since there is so much more documentation available for it.
the qdaemon system is a queueing system, not just the printing system. aix uses qdaemon to spool print jobs by default, and manage cron, and at, and user-definable batch queues as well. that said, it is still possible to use lpd on AIX, if you wanted to.
:)
.profile and adding /opt to the path, though.
:)
syslog is still there - aix keeps hardware and software error messages separate from other messages, is all. just a different way of doing things.
why would i need to call support? i learned the AIX commands to do AIX administration. my main application server is an RS6K running DB2 and CICS, accepting several hundred concurrent client connections per day, with an uptime of 326 days. administering AIX is not that hard, unless you insist on treating it like solaris or BSDI, which it isn't.
i don't see where not using PAM is a liability, but if you're a shop where you need to use the same type of non-standard authentication across different types of unix, it could be more difficult than porting PAM modules between solaris, linux, and hpux, maybe.
wow, all this time i've been using rc, rc.net, rc.tcpip to configure stuff during boot, but since it doesn't work, i better stop!
no comment on the man pages
since AIX has a package manager to add and remove software, why would it matter what the default directory is, as long as you know where it's at? if you install without using the package manager, there's nothing preventing you from editing the default
hahaha, no comment on the LCD
I dunno. it's just different than solaris. that doesn't make it worse, though. it just means you don't get the job as an aix administrator.
would you not automate the administration of 45 individual unix servers? i don't get your point here - that smit didn't let you manage more than one machine?
btw, every smit function is repeatable as either a command or a series of commands at the shell level. perhaps you need AIX administrators to manage your AIX machines?
damn, a pro-AIX post, and I didn't make it. what is this world coming to?
sure one mcse can do it all, if his solution to everything is "reboot the server", after the wizard he used to do his 'troubleshooting' didn't provide an answer.
i think competent windows administrators are more rare than a decent unix admin. i've never worked with a windows administrator who knew his stuff (though i've read stuff from people who certainly seem competent). all the windows admins i've worked with have been of the 'meat puppet' variety. sure, they've got their mcse, but they can't seem to tie that knowledge into how things work on their platform of choice. bizarre.
i keep hearing about this clientless mode in NW6, but it doesn't give the user full access to the NDS tree. Basically, you're defining a share that may or may not have a password, but that password is not synched in any way with any user object in the tree. it's a handy way to share files with people who don't need NDS. if you're managing users with NDS, they need to run the client.
maybe versions of UNIX available on the PC platform at the time, but otherwise, no... netware 3 is pretty stable, to be sure, but it's just a file and print sharing setup.
you can buy the DVD from a distributor who sells overseas stock. the spirited away DVD is region 0, has two discs (one the normal flick, the other the dialog and sound over the original storyboards), and can easily be found on ebay... i think i paid $18US for mine from some distributor in new york...
naw she's wearing one of those combat-ready leotards...
framework was an old 'suite' put out by ashton tate (well, fw3 was sold by them, at any rate). same people who were selling dbase back in the day.
total DOS application. pretty fast, though. and, as was previously mentioned, completely integrated. not a bad text editor. i'd think the only downside would be the lack of printer support.
*l* if i had mod points, i'd mod you up...
another vote for slackware from this peanut gallery - my g/f's packard bell p90 (well, p75 clocked to p90) runs slackware 8 very well (machine has 72MB of RAM). slackware seems to kept away from bloat all these years. in contrast, i was totally amazed by the bloat evident when using redhat 7.3 (vs 6.2)(default install won't fit on 1GB?! wtf?). i'd suggest running X and icewm and Abiword or something. it should make for a very servicable machine.