It's so much easier to put together a cluster of Windows machines when you don't know a lot about it that a cluster of *nix.
Not any more! Search google for 'cluster knoppix'. Or go here
It's this simple: boot a server with the.ISO, boot the clients via network or.ISO and presto! A Mosix Cluster!
It's a facinating this to turn a Windows network into a temporary Mosix cluster in under an hour. Pull the CD's out and reboot, and your back to Windows. (Or other OS)
Re:Misuse of "Open Source"
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Open Source Law
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s/open source/in the public domain/g
For you MSCEs out there
Menu Bar -> Edit -> Search & Replace -> Search For: Open Source -> Replace With: in the public domain -> "It looks like your Searching and Replacing" -> Right clicn, Hide Asistant -> Start from Begining on Document -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok
Remember when Windows CE had been out for a couple of years and everyone was declaring it a failed technology? Look what happened after that...
Microsoft is still proping up Pocket PC 2003 (what CE is now) - it doesen't make the company any money.
Basically, MS gives away PPC 2003 to the OEM for almost nothing. Rumor has it, that it sells for $3 a pop - Palm charges around $25 for high end units as an example of of a real business harging mone for vale.
There was a Microsoft guy giving a presentation about Windows 2003 server - he proudly claimed that MSN.com was using it a getting six weeks of uptime..and more!
Most of us snickered. Except for the MCSEs - they were impressed. Of course most MCSEs are impressed with a bundle of sticks with a clown hat on top, but I digress.
And some, such as guns, where the trade-off is a lot more questionable?
Here in the USA, personal ownership of weapons are here are for three things, personal defence, war, and lastly and most importantly - to preven our governemnt from becoming an evil tyrany.
Imagine the destruction the world would face if it's only superpower became as evil as Nazi Germany. That's why the personal ownership is *especially* important, at this time in history, for citizens of the USA.
It is not a conicdence that the four most deadly govenements (Hitler's Germany, China, Stalins USSR, and the Empire of Japam of the 20th century - responsibly for over 120,000,000 deaths all banned personal ownership of weapons?
The USA may have faults - but killing millions of people is not one of them. Let's keep it that way.
The N64 was also seriously flawed because Nintendo
Not to take away from your post but the N64 - financially, was a sucuess. Nintendo made a lot of money on the N64 - they diden't sell it at a loss for long, and most N64 owners bought a lot of first-party Nintenso titles.
The GameCube is looking to follow the N64 - smallar following than Sony, but very profitable.
IBM at that time, was trying to 0W3N the PC market again. MicroChannel was the first step and OS/2 was the second step.
I feared that if I suported IBM, then IBM would kill the clone market.
And there was this nice little company in Redmond that would sell you an OS for $75.
(Fifteen years ago MS was one of the good guys - they sold their software typically at half of what the competition did. For example - SCO Unix was $2000 a seat and a C compuler set you back another $800 at least (if you wern't clued in enough to know about GCC))
Show us an operating system besides Windows that doesn't require you to hold esoteric knowledge to install an easy-to-use word processor and email app.
Yes.
Get a Mandrake 9.0 ISO.
Serisously. It goes somthing like this:
Insert CD.
Partition things. Install things. Add a password. Reboot.
Congrats, you now have Linux with a pretty desktop, OpenOffice, Kmail and Mozilla.
Compair with XP:
Insert CD. Partion things. Format. Reboot. Install. Type in long setrial number. Reboot. Install more things. Install Office XP. Reboot. Register XP. Install SP 1-3. Reboot.
Hell, Sony sells more PSOne's in Japan than Microsoft selles XBOX's in Japan. And Microsoft subsidises the XBOX heavily. Nintendo and Sony both make money on hardware sales.
Tried it. Our staff practially revolted at the idea of solely using web-based email instead of having a client.
That's easy to fix: Install Firebird and set ther home page to your groupware server. Then rename the Firebird desktop icon to "Groupware XP Professional 2004."
Linux is not for ordinary people. It's for computer enthusiasts.
Linux is great for ordinary people.
I've has a really good expeienced seting up KDE / KMail for some of our more ordanry users our there - I locked down the desktop and they like it.
I liked it because they can't break it, most of these FreeBSD computers are doing double duty as NAT boxes, RSync backup boxes and Samba servers, so that takes a lot of worry out the situation.
I was pleasently supried to stumble on one of then one day - and they were browsing a MS Office attachemnt without any problems. He'd been doing if for months.
Where the Linux/BDS desktops fall down is for the MS Office "Power Users" - the ones that create Excell tables from Hell.
The NEW EXCITING Pocket PC 2003.NET - the best possible portable Bluescreen(tm) technology, now optomised for Intel Xscale for a 20% faster experience.
Europe does lack American style "Freedom Of Speach." There's nothing wrong with the European model, it's just that most Americans woulden't put up with it, it's too damn letigious to open your mouth in Europe.
Just last week and Italian food-reviewer decried McDonald's food as ashitty food - and guess what, the Italian McDonald's compay is suing him for $25 million (USD) for his statments: more info
German libal laws are so strict, that you might as well not say anything controversial if your wan't to remain outside of the courts.
Just my $.02 worth (0.0178 EU)
No more car tinkering...
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42-Volt Autos
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On of the great things about 12V car systems - that (except for the coils and spark circut)is almost impossible to kill yourself electrically when you tinker with your car.
42 vols can kill you though - it can easily jump across wet skin.
No it not on FreeBSD anymore - Hotmail use to be relaible and fast. It crashes and has security problems - so I grather they did migrate to over to Windows.
BTW, off the top of my head, the Phillips-Conoco data center in Houston serves 120,000 transactions a day on six clustered Windows 2000 AS boxes.
120,000 transactions? - I'm *not* impressed - that's barely a transaction a second. Shit, I have a $2,000,000 manufacuter that does more transaction from the factory floor per day on a SINGLE 486 OS/2 box. If it takes a cluster fuck of Windows boxes to fo 120,000 transactions - that sad.
Nothing else, not even your beloved Linux can cut it in those scenarios.
Ahem - I don't deploy Linux for servers. But if I was forced to - I'd deploy Linix over Windows under most circumstaces.
That's the problem with Windows - it doesen't scale. With most Unix varients you have clear upgrade path.
(No Windows clusters don't count - their a toy, apenetly it takes 6 of them to do 120,000 transactions)
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It's so much easier to put together a cluster of Windows machines when you don't know a lot about it that a cluster of *nix.
.ISO, boot the clients via network or .ISO and presto! A Mosix Cluster!
Not any more! Search google for 'cluster knoppix'. Or go here
It's this simple: boot a server with the
It's a facinating this to turn a Windows network into a temporary Mosix cluster in under an hour. Pull the CD's out and reboot, and your back to Windows. (Or other OS)
s/open source/in the public domain/g
For you MSCEs out there
Menu Bar -> Edit -> Search & Replace -> Search For: Open Source -> Replace With: in the public domain -> "It looks like your Searching and Replacing" -> Right clicn, Hide Asistant -> Start from Begining on Document -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok
Remember when Windows CE had been out for a couple of years and everyone was declaring it a failed technology? Look what happened after that...
Microsoft is still proping up Pocket PC 2003 (what CE is now) - it doesen't make the company any money.
Basically, MS gives away PPC 2003 to the OEM for almost nothing. Rumor has it, that it sells for $3 a pop - Palm charges around $25 for high end units as an example of of a real business harging mone for vale.
Just run a game server at port 80?
Port 80? But that's for the Interweb.
A few weeks uptime is nothing to brag about.
There was a Microsoft guy giving a presentation about Windows 2003 server - he proudly claimed that MSN.com was using it a getting six weeks of uptime..and more!
Most of us snickered. Except for the MCSEs - they were impressed. Of course most MCSEs are impressed with a bundle of sticks with a clown hat on top, but I digress.
And some, such as guns, where the trade-off is a lot more questionable?
Here in the USA, personal ownership of weapons are here are for three things, personal defence, war, and lastly and most importantly - to preven our governemnt from becoming an evil tyrany.
Imagine the destruction the world would face if it's only superpower became as evil as Nazi Germany. That's why the personal ownership is *especially* important, at this time in history, for citizens of the USA.
It is not a conicdence that the four most deadly govenements (Hitler's Germany, China, Stalins USSR, and the Empire of Japam of the 20th century - responsibly for over 120,000,000 deaths all banned personal ownership of weapons?
The USA may have faults - but killing millions of people is not one of them. Let's keep it that way.
The N64 was also seriously flawed because Nintendo
Not to take away from your post but the N64 - financially, was a sucuess. Nintendo made a lot of money on the N64 - they diden't sell it at a loss for long, and most N64 owners bought a lot of first-party Nintenso titles.
The GameCube is looking to follow the N64 - smallar following than Sony, but very profitable.
Why I dien't buy OS/2/...
IBM at that time, was trying to 0W3N the PC market again. MicroChannel was the first step and OS/2 was the second step.
I feared that if I suported IBM, then IBM would kill the clone market.
And there was this nice little company in Redmond that would sell you an OS for $75.
(Fifteen years ago MS was one of the good guys - they sold their software typically at half of what the competition did. For example - SCO Unix was $2000 a seat and a C compuler set you back another $800 at least (if you wern't clued in enough to know about GCC))
Show us an operating system besides Windows that doesn't require you to hold esoteric knowledge to install an easy-to-use word processor and email app.
Yes.
Get a Mandrake 9.0 ISO.
Serisously. It goes somthing like this:
Insert CD.
Partition things. Install things. Add a password. Reboot.
Congrats, you now have Linux with a pretty desktop, OpenOffice, Kmail and Mozilla.
Compair with XP:
Insert CD. Partion things. Format. Reboot. Install. Type in long setrial number. Reboot. Install more things. Install Office XP. Reboot. Register XP. Install SP 1-3. Reboot.
Ok....
Here's a recent Microsoft (financial) failure:
XBOX.
Hell, Sony sells more PSOne's in Japan than Microsoft selles XBOX's in Japan. And Microsoft subsidises the XBOX heavily. Nintendo and Sony both make money on hardware sales.
for i in `select * from users`; do /usr/sbin/sendmail $i.email
M y Users]
Here's the Official MSDN sample code (complete with gotos)
Dim Suckers as Recordset
Set Suckers = MyComputer.MyDatabases.ThisDatabase.MyRecordset.[
Rem Whay_Kind_of_Jerk_Puts_Spaces_in_Table_names?
Top:
if ROT13(Suckers.Secret_Account) = "HAX0R3D" then Suckers.[Needs Mail] = True.
If Suckers.EOF() then goto TheEnd:
Suckers.NextRecord
Goto Top
TheEnd:
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Then Go to word and do a mail merge. Ask the paperclip for help.
Tried it. Our staff practially revolted at the idea of solely using web-based email instead of having a client.
That's easy to fix: Install Firebird and set ther home page to your groupware server. Then rename the Firebird desktop icon to "Groupware XP Professional 2004."
Chances are the'll never catch on...
Linux is not for ordinary people. It's for computer enthusiasts.
Linux is great for ordinary people.
I've has a really good expeienced seting up KDE / KMail for some of our more ordanry users our there - I locked down the desktop and they like it.
I liked it because they can't break it, most of these FreeBSD computers are doing double duty as NAT boxes, RSync backup boxes and Samba servers, so that takes a lot of worry out the situation.
I was pleasently supried to stumble on one of then one day - and they were browsing a MS Office attachemnt without any problems. He'd been doing if for months.
Where the Linux/BDS desktops fall down is for the MS Office "Power Users" - the ones that create Excell tables from Hell.
Have you noticed when a Stallman-defender responds to this, it usually involves a personal attack and makes them look somewhat fanatical as a whole?
Shut up you pompus twit. I've no time for jerks like you - I have to go play with my RMS and ESR action-figures.
(kidding)
Damn, this looks REALLY REALLY cool. Thanks for the link!
WORK HARDER! Millions on welfare are depending on YOU!
(swiped from a bumper sticker)
Dutch Firm Says Dell Motherboards Violate Its Patent
We'll ae least The Firm Dutch Are't Patently Violating Dell's Mother.
A single fix turnaround in Xcode takes about 3 seconds on average.
If this works - this may change the way people develope large C++ projects.
I typically imbed a small parer into all of my large apps so I can quickly tweak the behavoiur of the app without a compile/link cycle.
IF I can tweak things and compile/like at this speed - who cares?
The NEW EXCITING Pocket PC 2003.NET - the best possible portable Bluescreen(tm) technology, now optomised for Intel Xscale for a 20% faster experience.
. . . I checked, and it forwards to a soft-porn cam site, and then takes you into pop-up hell.
After switching to Mozilla, the only pop-ups I get when visiting a porn site are in my pants.
http://www.mozilla.org -> Download version1.4b -> Install -> Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy and Security -> Poppup Windows -> Block Unrequested Popup Windows
Eh, McDonalds is an American company
It's the Italian branch of McDonalds that's sueing the Italian critic for $25,000,000.
Europe does lack American style "Freedom Of Speach." There's nothing wrong with the European model, it's just that most Americans woulden't put up with it, it's too damn letigious to open your mouth in Europe.
Just last week and Italian food-reviewer decried McDonald's food as ashitty food - and guess what, the Italian McDonald's compay is suing him for $25 million (USD) for his statments: more info
German libal laws are so strict, that you might as well not say anything controversial if your wan't to remain outside of the courts.
Just my $.02 worth (0.0178 EU)
On of the great things about 12V car systems - that (except for the coils and spark circut)is almost impossible to kill yourself electrically when you tinker with your car.
42 vols can kill you though - it can easily jump across wet skin.
You're kind of cute, in a little-boy-blue sort of way.
Run along now, and go play with Teddy.
"OMFG M$ IS RUNNING HOTMAIL ON BSD!!!"?
No it not on FreeBSD anymore - Hotmail use to be relaible and fast. It crashes and has security problems - so I grather they did migrate to over to Windows.
BTW, off the top of my head, the Phillips-Conoco data center in Houston serves 120,000 transactions a day on six clustered Windows 2000 AS boxes.
120,000 transactions? - I'm *not* impressed - that's barely a transaction a second. Shit, I have a $2,000,000 manufacuter that does more transaction from the factory floor per day on a SINGLE 486 OS/2 box. If it takes a cluster fuck of Windows boxes to fo 120,000 transactions - that sad.
Nothing else, not even your beloved Linux can cut it in those scenarios.
Ahem - I don't deploy Linux for servers. But if I was forced to - I'd deploy Linix over Windows under most circumstaces.
That's the problem with Windows - it doesen't scale. With most Unix varients you have clear upgrade path.
(No Windows clusters don't count - their a toy, apenetly it takes 6 of them to do 120,000 transactions)