There's a reason why the popular distros are Debian based. Apt just plain works better than rpm. It handles dependency management far better, and if a repository is down, installers like apt-get based on apt note that the repo is down and keep right on going. I went from FC6 to Debian Etch a year ago, and installation has worked so much better since then that my main regret about Debian is that I didn't do it right to begin with and start my Linux experience with it.
SuSE YaST works better than yum for software installation because of some elaborate hacks. I see it as a clever, impressive way of avoiding the basic problem.
A year or so ago, RH promised to fix rpm to make it as useful as apt. If Red Hat wants to take over the Linux world, either making rpm as good as apt or switching its package management over to apt is where they should start. A good package management environment would probably save Red Hat enough money to allow them to break even within a year on their investment even if it doesn't increase their sales.
Given a choice, I'd rather see them fix rpm. Software monocultures make me nervous, and a better rpm would probably make conversions via Debian alien work better on this box.
it's unlikely they would have survived long enough to dominate the search space. Few people would return to a search site that crashes whenever used, as shown by hitting the Google Search button followed by nothing happening. Then, there's the cost issue.
The only problems I've had with my Flash9 install are the windows-oriented sites that don't recognize that it's installed, and that it's a good idea to have symlinks from/usr/bin/mozilla/plugins to every other browser plugin directory on the computer so when I update Flash, the upgrade shows up on all the browsers I use.
Business models that don't depend on Federal criminal enforcement will evolve. We get cheaper and more convenient music. The corporate players in the current industry will adapt or die. The average musician will probably make a bit more money, though we'll have fewer "superstars" and no more manufactured "superstars". (i.e. nobody will ever replace Hannah Montana. How sad.)
Pogue might as well have lamented the passing of the horse 100 years ago. While it's ironic for someone to use the Internet to dispense punditocratic Old Wise Man views of the horrors of change, the Net lends itself to that sort of irony.
Times change and business models either change with them or wither away.
persuaded me to spend more money and move my domains to dotster. While I've actually had issues personally above the annoyance level with godaddy, better safe than sorry.
Dvorak was informative a generation ago and funny a decade ago.
He's a waste of bandwidth now. The only way he can get page hits now is by saying things so outrageously stupid that people promptly blog about them with links.
I've read 275 or so. I prefer reading on a PDA to reading deadtree books and find that I now avoid getting books unless I can get them in a Palm-compatible format. The only thing I miss is illustrations, but that's my fault for picking a PDA with a limited color/gray scale range. I'd like a larger screen, but if the desire for this becomes overwhelming, I'll simply upgrade to an N800, which with the purchase of an adapter, gives me smartphone capabilities as well.
Actually, the PDA goes into the back pocket of my backpack when I'm on the road... or a jacket pocket this time of year. This should work equally well with a N800.
How can you get a whole bunch of books into something you can stick into a pocket and walk away with?
I've got 327 books loaded into my Palm PDA.
I've got room for another several hundred. That's several boxes of paperbacks I won't have to move the next time I change my residence address, And the Palm goes with me when I go anywhere, so I don't have to worry about running out of reading material. Or listening, there's plenty of room in the 1G flash memory for MP3s.
push-button bookmarks, being able to make notes without messing up the book itself, and being able to cut and paste paragraphs or sections from a book into the applications of your choice. I paid full price for a current PDA because I wanted to write a how-to Linux article and wanted to make sure I had current hardware to base it on. Now, of course, one simply downloads a copy of JPilot or KPilot and lets the app talk to the device.
in the same box as the main drive is that there's a good chance whatever killed the main drive to begin with, whether it was a power surge or somebody knocking over the tower also killed your backup drive.
I keep my backup drive in a mobile rack that's unplugged when not in use. It's worth the extra $25 for the rack and the extra couple of minutes in carrying the tray to the computer and plugging it in is worth it for the extra peace of mind.
IMO, a mobile rack makes sense for a single workstation backup. Above that, it is indeed time to think of network storage solutions.
Get the latest version 1.x of VMware Server (the new UI for beta-2 is Web-based and should be avoided), install the latest any-any patch if your distro needs it (since my Debian box does, I'd expect Ubuntu to), run the installation off the any-any patch script. Install VMware Tools from the iso you will create when you dearchive VMware in the install process.
Then install W2000 as a VMware Server guest. After that, install SAMBA to make it possible for your Linux and Windows apps to work with the same filespace on the Linux box. Note that the Windows "disk" is one or more flat-files which exist in the Linux filesystem as.vmdk files and a.vmx config file. No separate disk partition is needed.
You get out of this a working shared clipboard between Linux host and Windows guest (cut and paste from your Linux web browser to your open copy of Word, for instance) and a stabler W2000 than you've ever seen running on native hardware.
I found dual-boot such a PITA that it drove me off Linux until I could get a virtualization app that worked. It's far easier and much more productive to have Windows as an X-Window in an integrated virtualization environment. It's a lot of work in initial setup, but you only have to do it once.
And when you back up, you can back up your Windows and Linux setup at the same time.
Are you trying to backup a workstation or a LAN?
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Commercial or homebrew NAS is a reasonable network solution.
If you're just backing up a single workstation, get either another HD of the same make/model or a pair of something else, put the second drive in a mobile rack (mine is for SATA, they also have these for IDE as well), and run that drive as a bootable drive mirror. This solution cost me $22.99 + S/H over the cost of the HD, and I recommend it (with software that works on your OS) to everyone who is backing up a single machine.
Remove the tray with the HD in it and put it somewhere else when it's not being actively used in backup. If the main drive packs it in, make sure there isn't a hard drive-eating problem, then plug in the backup and boot.
I can say that my backup solution has saved my ass more than once. I also back up to DVD+R archives, but thankfully, I've only had to test bare-metal restores, my backup mirror has made it unnecessary for me to actually use them.
Simply find or create special fonts to work with the screen resolution. (as Amazon did) I do most of my leisure reading on a 160x160 pixel Palm without significant eyestrain. And if the comments about Mobipocket (I usually use their Palm app as an e-book reader) being owned by Amazon are correct, they did exactly the same thing on Kindle.
Not that I'd object to a reader with a 300 dpi e-ink or OLED screen, but nobody sells one.
and running them on my ~$100 Palm Zire 31. In fact, that's how I usually buy fiction. And since most of my leisure reading is SF, I get DRM-free downloads from Baen Books. I can also convert documents most major formats into something readable via Palm.
Add Linux e-reader software to a Linux-based Nokia N800 Internet Tablet and you're there, and if you insist on having access that isn't via WiFi, add a
Better performance, and no vendor lockin.
and it's my right to move my mobile service to a different carrier before the obvious new mismanagement carries this kind of stupidity out to where my phone service is degraded.
I guess those clowns have never heard of global warming. Or they think their employees exist for the purpose of boosting managers egos by laboring under their personal eyes instead of doing things that might actually improve AT&T's bottom line via telecommute. If I owned any of their stock, I'd be unloading.
combination of Win98SE on a VMware Server guest on Debian stable/testing right now. Works great. (reliable, stable, fast, secure) In fact, it runs far better than it ever did running as the native OS. And since all I do with it is Eudora, MS Word97 (rarely used-except for envelope printing), Excel97, and PaintShopPro (haven't gotten through the Krita or Xara LX learning curve yet), it's exactly as much Windows as I ever expect to need.
if you load Vista on a home box and it takes you a few hours and some research to get it working, unless you've got a deadline, you're in for some annoyance. If you roll it out to 10,000 PCs and none work, you have a real problem.
Times have changed and he hasn't. He used to be incisive, insightful, and funny. Now, he barely qualifies as funny, and there are plenty of better places to get high-tech humor.
The only way he can get page hits now is to say something so mind-blowingly ridiculous that people will spread it around with a 'silly' tag attached to it. Which leads me to the question "what the hell am I doing reading this?".
Nothing useful, so I'm exiting this discussion. I know better than to click on anything with Dvorak's name on it.
I've managed to run Windows 98SE stably and reliably in Win4Lin 9.x on a Fedora Core host and VMware Server on a Debian host, though this is a desktop, not a server environment.
If virtualization can stabilize Windows 98, I'm sure that it can provide any help with stabilizing Oracle it can possibly use. If I had to run Oracle, I think I'd look for third-party support for Oracle and thumb my nose at Oracle Corp in the hope of getting more uptime than I can get with a native Oracle environment.
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There's a reason why the popular distros are Debian based. Apt just plain works better than rpm. It handles dependency management far better, and if a repository is down, installers like apt-get based on apt note that the repo is down and keep right on going. I went from FC6 to Debian Etch a year ago, and installation has worked so much better since then that my main regret about Debian is that I didn't do it right to begin with and start my Linux experience with it.
SuSE YaST works better than yum for software installation because of some elaborate hacks. I see it as a clever, impressive way of avoiding the basic problem.
A year or so ago, RH promised to fix rpm to make it as useful as apt. If Red Hat wants to take over the Linux world, either making rpm as good as apt or switching its package management over to apt is where they should start. A good package management environment would probably save Red Hat enough money to allow them to break even within a year on their investment even if it doesn't increase their sales.
Given a choice, I'd rather see them fix rpm. Software monocultures make me nervous, and a better rpm would probably make conversions via Debian alien work better on this box.
it's unlikely they would have survived long enough to dominate the search space. Few people would return to a search site that crashes whenever used, as shown by hitting the Google Search button followed by nothing happening. Then, there's the cost issue.
The only problems I've had with my Flash9 install are the windows-oriented sites that don't recognize that it's installed, and that it's a good idea to have symlinks from /usr/bin/mozilla/plugins to every other browser plugin directory on the computer so when I update Flash, the upgrade shows up on all the browsers I use.
for them,
"give a man firewood and he'll be warm for a day.
Burn a man to death and he'll be warm for the rest of his life".
I think it's called winning "hearts and minds", and works about as well as one would expect.
Business models that don't depend on Federal criminal enforcement will evolve. We get cheaper and more convenient music. The corporate players in the current industry will adapt or die. The average musician will probably make a bit more money, though we'll have fewer "superstars" and no more manufactured "superstars". (i.e. nobody will ever replace Hannah Montana. How sad.)
Pogue might as well have lamented the passing of the horse 100 years ago. While it's ironic for someone to use the Internet to dispense punditocratic Old Wise Man views of the horrors of change, the Net lends itself to that sort of irony.
Times change and business models either change with them or wither away.
persuaded me to spend more money and move my domains to dotster. While I've actually had issues personally above the annoyance level with godaddy, better safe than sorry.
Dvorak was informative a generation ago and funny a decade ago.
He's a waste of bandwidth now. The only way he can get page hits now is by saying things so outrageously stupid that people promptly blog about them with links.
Ignore him and he really will go away.
I've read 275 or so. I prefer reading on a PDA to reading deadtree books and find that I now avoid getting books unless I can get them in a Palm-compatible format. The only thing I miss is illustrations, but that's my fault for picking a PDA with a limited color/gray scale range. I'd like a larger screen, but if the desire for this becomes overwhelming, I'll simply upgrade to an N800, which with the purchase of an adapter, gives me smartphone capabilities as well.
Actually, the PDA goes into the back pocket of my backpack when I'm on the road... or a jacket pocket this time of year. This should work equally well with a N800.
fit into even a large pocket?
How can you get a whole bunch of books into something you can stick into a pocket and walk away with?
I've got 327 books loaded into my Palm PDA.
I've got room for another several hundred. That's several boxes of paperbacks I won't have to move the next time I change my residence address, And the Palm goes with me when I go anywhere, so I don't have to worry about running out of reading material. Or listening, there's plenty of room in the 1G flash memory for MP3s.
see title.
and if you insist on having access that isn't via WiFi, add a mobile phone adapter for under $100.
push-button bookmarks, being able to make notes without messing up the book itself, and being able to cut and paste paragraphs or sections from a book into the applications of your choice. I paid full price for a current PDA because I wanted to write a how-to Linux article and wanted to make sure I had current hardware to base it on. Now, of course, one simply downloads a copy of JPilot or KPilot and lets the app talk to the device.
Fewer crashes and more inherent immunity to malware are things office workers might appreciate.
in the same box as the main drive is that there's a good chance whatever killed the main drive to begin with, whether it was a power surge or somebody knocking over the tower also killed your backup drive.
I keep my backup drive in a mobile rack that's unplugged when not in use. It's worth the extra $25 for the rack and the extra couple of minutes in carrying the tray to the computer and plugging it in is worth it for the extra peace of mind.
IMO, a mobile rack makes sense for a single workstation backup. Above that, it is indeed time to think of network storage solutions.
Get the latest version 1.x of VMware Server (the new UI for beta-2 is Web-based and should be avoided), install the latest any-any patch if your distro needs it (since my Debian box does, I'd expect Ubuntu to), run the installation off the any-any patch script. Install VMware Tools from the iso you will create when you dearchive VMware in the install process.
.vmdk files and a .vmx config file. No separate disk partition is needed.
Then install W2000 as a VMware Server guest. After that, install SAMBA to make it possible for your Linux and Windows apps to work with the same filespace on the Linux box. Note that the Windows "disk" is one or more flat-files which exist in the Linux filesystem as
You get out of this a working shared clipboard between Linux host and Windows guest (cut and paste from your Linux web browser to your open copy of Word, for instance) and a stabler W2000 than you've ever seen running on native hardware.
I found dual-boot such a PITA that it drove me off Linux until I could get a virtualization app that worked. It's far easier and much more productive to have Windows as an X-Window in an integrated virtualization environment. It's a lot of work in initial setup, but you only have to do it once.
And when you back up, you can back up your Windows and Linux setup at the same time.
Commercial or homebrew NAS is a reasonable network solution.
If you're just backing up a single workstation, get either another HD of the same make/model or a pair of something else, put the second drive in a mobile rack (mine is for SATA, they also have these for IDE as well), and run that drive as a bootable drive mirror. This solution cost me $22.99 + S/H over the cost of the HD, and I recommend it (with software that works on your OS) to everyone who is backing up a single machine.
Remove the tray with the HD in it and put it somewhere else when it's not being actively used in backup. If the main drive packs it in, make sure there isn't a hard drive-eating problem, then plug in the backup and boot.
I use an rsync script running off a customized Knoppix disk on my Linux box, I'm not sure what one would use in Windows these days.
I can say that my backup solution has saved my ass more than once. I also back up to DVD+R archives, but thankfully, I've only had to test bare-metal restores, my backup mirror has made it unnecessary for me to actually use them.
Simply find or create special fonts to work with the screen resolution. (as Amazon did) I do most of my leisure reading on a 160x160 pixel Palm without significant eyestrain. And if the comments about Mobipocket (I usually use their Palm app as an e-book reader) being owned by Amazon are correct, they did exactly the same thing on Kindle.
Not that I'd object to a reader with a 300 dpi e-ink or OLED screen, but nobody sells one.
and running them on my ~$100 Palm Zire 31. In fact, that's how I usually buy fiction. And since most of my leisure reading is SF, I get DRM-free downloads from Baen Books. I can also convert documents most major formats into something readable via Palm.
Add Linux e-reader software to a Linux-based Nokia N800 Internet Tablet and you're there, and if you insist on having access that isn't via WiFi, add a
Better performance, and no vendor lockin.
and it's my right to move my mobile service to a different carrier before the obvious new mismanagement carries this kind of stupidity out to where my phone service is degraded.
I guess those clowns have never heard of global warming. Or they think their employees exist for the purpose of boosting managers egos by laboring under their personal eyes instead of doing things that might actually improve AT&T's bottom line via telecommute. If I owned any of their stock, I'd be unloading.
This goes past stupid into offensively stupid.
combination of Win98SE on a VMware Server guest on Debian stable/testing right now. Works great. (reliable, stable, fast, secure) In fact, it runs far better than it ever did running as the native OS. And since all I do with it is Eudora, MS Word97 (rarely used-except for envelope printing), Excel97, and PaintShopPro (haven't gotten through the Krita or Xara LX learning curve yet), it's exactly as much Windows as I ever expect to need.
if you load Vista on a home box and it takes you a few hours and some research to get it working, unless you've got a deadline, you're in for some annoyance. If you roll it out to 10,000 PCs and none work, you have a real problem.
Times have changed and he hasn't. He used to be incisive, insightful, and funny. Now, he barely qualifies as funny, and there are plenty of better places to get high-tech humor.
The only way he can get page hits now is to say something so mind-blowingly ridiculous that people will spread it around with a 'silly' tag attached to it. Which leads me to the question "what the hell am I doing reading this?".
Nothing useful, so I'm exiting this discussion. I know better than to click on anything with Dvorak's name on it.
I've managed to run Windows 98SE stably and reliably in Win4Lin 9.x on a Fedora Core host and VMware Server on a Debian host, though this is a desktop, not a server environment.
If virtualization can stabilize Windows 98, I'm sure that it can provide any help with stabilizing Oracle it can possibly use. If I had to run Oracle, I think I'd look for third-party support for Oracle and thumb my nose at Oracle Corp in the hope of getting more uptime than I can get with a native Oracle environment.
Any Oracle admins care to comment?