think the problem is, we have *ALLOT* more space in America than they do in Europe. It takes 3 days to travel across Texas, alone. THREE FREAKING DAYS.
While I agree that most Europeans don't understand the concept of "large empty space" that is the US west. I'd say that's a bit of an exaggeration.
I've woken up in Tuscon, AZ, and made Austin, Texas by dinner. Texas is big, but it isn't that big.
Most of us in the US wonder as well. They're mostly used as police cars & taxis here. The big-three automakers spend a large majority of the racing R&D money promoting them via NASCAR racing. Which is kind of silly, as this in now way pushes the bleeding edge like F1 or Indy does.
As for diesel... The US doesn't have any spare refining capacity for diesel. That die has been cast. A switch to diesel cars at this point would just needlessly drive up costs. It would take 10 years for the refiners to catch up.
Many larger vehichle drivers have already made this choice. When was the last time you saw a gas powered semi? The big three all have diesel option for their larger pickup trucks. Most people don't realize it, but farmer John's diesel pickup is getting 18-20 mpg unloaded, and 12-14 puliing a trailer. The gas engines in the same truck get 15 - 16 unloaded, and about 7 mpg with a trailer.
Here's the problem... There is no additional refining capacity for diesel in the US. A shift from gasoline to diesel cars would simply drive up the cost of diesel.
Channels 1 thru 6 are inside the 2.4Ghz ham radio band. If you have a valid amateur radio license, you have the right to operate with homebrew equipment.
The July 2005 QST magazine has an article about ham expermenting with 24dbi dish antennas and standard off the shelf AP's. They claim 12 miles is easy, but they run into problems with ack timing at longer ranges. Bandwidth rolls off significantly... at 34 miles!
No... No... Certifications are about vendor lock in. Employment for the cert holder is secondary. The vendor's know that if you spend $5K on a MCSE/CCIE/RHCE cert, you're going to recommend that which you're certified in!
Seriously, have you ever seen a MCSE holder recommend against a MS product?
It's hot here in Texas, at or above 100F in the summer, and both of my Chevy trucks (an '02 and an '03) blow frigid air.
Here in Austin, we have Kali style traffic. I have yet to find a vehicle with R-134a refrigereant that will hold it's own in commute stop and go. I've tried Honda, Toyota's, Ford's, and Dodge's. The A/C will be just kind of tepid until you can sustain 1000 rpm and get some airflow over the condenser.
Only one car I've found has really kick ass A/C here in the summer. The hybrid Toyota Prius. I'm told it uses a sealed electric compressor that runs off the electrical side of the powerplant, but I haven't gotten a good look under the hood.
I've been looking into playing with Asterisk on my "Unslung" NSLU2. It lacks a FPU, which prevents using the more bandwidth effecient codecs. You'll be stuck with G.711 or GSM. GSM isn't bad, it just doesn't have a lot of support with the various IP phones.
I'm told it can handle about 4 phone calls at a time.
Complete bufoonery indeed. I just found the Ophiuchus problem amusing when I took Astronomy way back in College.
Astronomy is a good class for those of you still in college. I'm something of an advanced amateur astronomer these days. It's one of the few fields where amateurs can still contribute to real science. Occultation timing, variable star tracking, and even more cutting edge stuff like gamma-ray burst optical remnant detection, provided you have the equipment.
The TV and Movie industries are desperate to get the 12 to 24 year old males back in front of their crap. Killing game innovation could be just the ticket.
Packages work really well for things that can never occur on a machine more than once.
Not true. You just apparently don't know how.
Before this, you could simply install two separate stand-alone versions of the directory server, running on different ports, and know that the two were completely uninvolved with each other. There is a huge value to that.
You can still do this with packages. It's a requirement for clustered services, take a looking in the docs for installation instructions on a cluster. Specificly, you need the "-R" flag or "-a" with a custom pkg admin file.
As far as I know, there's nothing of SIMS in iMS/ONE MS/JES MS (thank goodness - it was the pits).
SIMS had PMDF back in 97. The Innosoft aquisition came years later. Are you referring to SIMS 1 & 2? SIMS 3.x & 4 were pretty good unless you mismanaged the message store. Then you were at the headwaters of this certain creek...
What I'm wondering, is where is Netscape's version of the code?
As far as I know, it's not public. I'm pretty sure RedHat did not aquire it with DS.
My interest in it is purely selfish - if I had it I could fix the issues we currently have with iMS, and I could stop implementing really awful workarounds and/or rewriting parts of the MTA to do my bidding.
Do tell... Are you on HP-UX or W2K? Why haven't you moved to 6.x?
I feel that this may be karmic retribution for Sun railroading us into having to use ^$@#%$&ing pkgadd, instead of those lovely tarball installs of yore, where it all installed into a single directory that I could tar up, or simply blow away if it screwed up... ah, the days of control...
Oh excuses... excuses... You could still do this, you just need to know how to hack the package DB as well. Packages make field support much easier, and following standards for disk layout, seperating data and binaries, makes managing backups much simpler.
So where is the other Netscape software? I'm mostly talking about Messaging Server, which is an awesome piece of software
Sun still sells JES Messaging Server, which is a blend of NMS and Sun's old SIMS. There's still a Linux port. It runs some of the larger ISP mail systems on the planet, competing with OpenWave's Email Mx.
I'm not sure who got ahold of Netscape's rights after iPlanet. The old NMS message store has it's roots in CMU's Cyrus IMAP. The last versions of the iPlanet server used Sun's MTA (formerly PMDF), which can pretty much claim the crown for speed/features.
Speed, and certain enterprise features like multi-master replication if I remember correctly. It's been a while since Netscape dropped off everyone's radar, and I know they continued work on it after iPlanet broke up.
now I can't use Windows for the life of me. I stumble around through it like, well, someone who's never used it before.
It only gets worse too... I started playing with Linux when it was v0.95a, and went on to master SunOS 4.x and various flavors of Solaris up to present day, as well as MacOS X.2 and up. The last version of Windows I was any good with was 3.11 WFW, and my Mom still expects me to fix her XP machine...
Ahhh... I remember the rabid Amiga fans of the late 1980's. Never passing up an opportunity to deliver an unsolicited "the Amiga is better, you should get one because... blah blah blah..." I remember being on the receiving end of this while wirewrapping a 8051 microcontroller, with the suggestion that I use a $500 GP computer to replace a $40 uC. They were really quite a PITA. The Amiga was a groundbreaking machine and all, but it's groundbreaking features were of little use in business, which was driving the PC market at that point, and AmigaOS was just horrible.
Years ago, I myself have made the observation that some in the Linux community had started to sound like the Amiga shills of old. I find myself sitting on the fence on this one. The Linux crew isn't always so obviously wrong and out of touch like the Amiga zelots were... But then I go read some makefile that generates statements like:
gcc... -Wall... 2>&1 >/dev/null
and I start thinking... They're either BOFH sysadmins... or just insane!
Not only not peer reviewed, but I question the timing. Kyoto just went into effect this week. Such vocalizatons this week, in the popular press just screams "propaganda".
Good science is not done in the popular press. This paper should have been submitted, peer reviewed, and published before we even heard about it. I'd love to see this topic put to bed, once and for all, but I fear now the study will have to be done again, just to be rid of the stigma of its premature introduction. Which is probably exactly the intended effect... more funding.
You didn't hear about the vote last night, did you?
Also... Toll estimates for Austin's toll roads are starting to push $0.40 per mile! Talk about not cost effective! Even my 3/4-ton diesel pickup truck at 16 mpg only pays about 4 cents per mile in fuel taxes. Austin's toll roads are 10 times more expensive for someone driving a 6000 lb. truck, a person driving a fuel effecient Prius will pay several multiples of that. Where will this money go? The banks that buy the bonds, of course!
A full install didnt seem to install SSH as a service
I had trouble with a late beta build failing to create the ssh keys for zones. I don't remember if the global zone had the same problem or not. I'd call it a bug, but it does force you to at least think about the sshd config before using it, which is a good thing.
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think the problem is, we have *ALLOT* more space in America than they do in Europe.
It takes 3 days to travel across Texas, alone. THREE FREAKING DAYS.
While I agree that most Europeans don't understand the concept of "large empty space" that is the US west. I'd say that's a bit of an exaggeration.
I've woken up in Tuscon, AZ, and made Austin, Texas by dinner. Texas is big, but it isn't that big.
Most of us in the US wonder as well. They're mostly used as police cars & taxis here. The big-three automakers spend a large majority of the racing R&D money promoting them via NASCAR racing. Which is kind of silly, as this in now way pushes the bleeding edge like F1 or Indy does.
As for diesel... The US doesn't have any spare refining capacity for diesel. That die has been cast. A switch to diesel cars at this point would just needlessly drive up costs. It would take 10 years for the refiners to catch up.
Many larger vehichle drivers have already made this choice. When was the last time you saw a gas powered semi? The big three all have diesel option for their larger pickup trucks. Most people don't realize it, but farmer John's diesel pickup is getting 18-20 mpg unloaded, and 12-14 puliing a trailer. The gas engines in the same truck get 15 - 16 unloaded, and about 7 mpg with a trailer.
Here's the problem... There is no additional refining capacity for diesel in the US. A shift from gasoline to diesel cars would simply drive up the cost of diesel.
Channels 1 thru 6 are inside the 2.4Ghz ham radio band. If you have a valid amateur radio license, you have the right to operate with homebrew equipment.
The July 2005 QST magazine has an article about ham expermenting with 24dbi dish antennas and standard off the shelf AP's. They claim 12 miles is easy, but they run into problems with ack timing at longer ranges. Bandwidth rolls off significantly... at 34 miles!
No... No... Certifications are about vendor lock in. Employment for the cert holder is secondary. The vendor's know that if you spend $5K on a MCSE/CCIE/RHCE cert, you're going to recommend that which you're certified in!
Seriously, have you ever seen a MCSE holder recommend against a MS product?
It's hot here in Texas, at or above 100F in the summer, and both of my Chevy trucks (an '02 and an '03) blow frigid air.
Here in Austin, we have Kali style traffic. I have yet to find a vehicle with R-134a refrigereant that will hold it's own in commute stop and go. I've tried Honda, Toyota's, Ford's, and Dodge's. The A/C will be just kind of tepid until you can sustain 1000 rpm and get some airflow over the condenser.
Only one car I've found has really kick ass A/C here in the summer. The hybrid Toyota Prius. I'm told it uses a sealed electric compressor that runs off the electrical side of the powerplant, but I haven't gotten a good look under the hood.
I've been looking into playing with Asterisk on my "Unslung" NSLU2. It lacks a FPU, which prevents using the more bandwidth effecient codecs. You'll be stuck with G.711 or GSM. GSM isn't bad, it just doesn't have a lot of support with the various IP phones.
I'm told it can handle about 4 phone calls at a time.
Complete bufoonery indeed. I just found the Ophiuchus problem amusing when I took Astronomy way back in College.
Astronomy is a good class for those of you still in college. I'm something of an advanced amateur astronomer these days. It's one of the few fields where amateurs can still contribute to real science. Occultation timing, variable star tracking, and even more cutting edge stuff like gamma-ray burst optical remnant detection, provided you have the equipment.
Not only this, but for some parts of some months the Sun is in non-Zodiac constellations. I have a cousin that's an Ophiuchan...
Almost true. I gave my PDP-11/03 to my little brother last year!
The TV and Movie industries are desperate to get the 12 to 24 year old males back in front of their crap. Killing game innovation could be just the ticket.
Heh, you must not work with middleware much.
Actually... I QA middleware all day long.
Packages work really well for things that can never occur on a machine more than once.
Not true. You just apparently don't know how.
Before this, you could simply install two separate stand-alone versions of the directory server, running on different ports, and know that the two were completely uninvolved with each other. There is a huge value to that.
You can still do this with packages. It's a requirement for clustered services, take a looking in the docs for installation instructions on a cluster. Specificly, you need the "-R" flag or "-a" with a custom pkg admin file.
As far as I know, there's nothing of SIMS in iMS/ONE MS/JES MS (thank goodness - it was the pits).
SIMS had PMDF back in 97. The Innosoft aquisition came years later. Are you referring to SIMS 1 & 2? SIMS 3.x & 4 were pretty good unless you mismanaged the message store. Then you were at the headwaters of this certain creek...
What I'm wondering, is where is Netscape's version of the code?
As far as I know, it's not public. I'm pretty sure RedHat did not aquire it with DS.
My interest in it is purely selfish - if I had it I could fix the issues we currently have with iMS, and I could stop implementing really awful workarounds and/or rewriting parts of the MTA to do my bidding.
Do tell... Are you on HP-UX or W2K? Why haven't you moved to 6.x?
I feel that this may be karmic retribution for Sun railroading us into having to use ^$@#%$&ing pkgadd, instead of those lovely tarball installs of yore, where it all installed into a single directory that I could tar up, or simply blow away if it screwed up... ah, the days of control...
Oh excuses... excuses... You could still do this, you just need to know how to hack the package DB as well. Packages make field support much easier, and following standards for disk layout, seperating data and binaries, makes managing backups much simpler.
So where is the other Netscape software? I'm mostly talking about Messaging Server, which is an awesome piece of software
Sun still sells JES Messaging Server, which is a blend of NMS and Sun's old SIMS. There's still a Linux port. It runs some of the larger ISP mail systems on the planet, competing with OpenWave's Email Mx.
I'm not sure who got ahold of Netscape's rights after iPlanet. The old NMS message store has it's roots in CMU's Cyrus IMAP. The last versions of the iPlanet server used Sun's MTA (formerly PMDF), which can pretty much claim the crown for speed/features.
Speed, and certain enterprise features like multi-master replication if I remember correctly. It's been a while since Netscape dropped off everyone's radar, and I know they continued work on it after iPlanet broke up.
You can compare them using SLAMD. www.slamd.com
now I can't use Windows for the life of me. I stumble around through it like, well, someone who's never used it before.
It only gets worse too... I started playing with Linux when it was v0.95a, and went on to master SunOS 4.x and various flavors of Solaris up to present day, as well as MacOS X.2 and up. The last version of Windows I was any good with was 3.11 WFW, and my Mom still expects me to fix her XP machine...
So when Linus moved to the US from Europe back in the 90's, did Europe complain that Linux development was being "outsourced"?
Ahhh... I remember the rabid Amiga fans of the late 1980's. Never passing up an opportunity to deliver an unsolicited "the Amiga is better, you should get one because... blah blah blah..." I remember being on the receiving end of this while wirewrapping a 8051 microcontroller, with the suggestion that I use a $500 GP computer to replace a $40 uC. They were really quite a PITA. The Amiga was a groundbreaking machine and all, but it's groundbreaking features were of little use in business, which was driving the PC market at that point, and AmigaOS was just horrible.
Years ago, I myself have made the observation that some in the Linux community had started to sound like the Amiga shills of old. I find myself sitting on the fence on this one. The Linux crew isn't always so obviously wrong and out of touch like the Amiga zelots were... But then I go read some makefile that generates statements like:
gcc ... -Wall ... 2>&1 > /dev/null
and I start thinking... They're either BOFH sysadmins... or just insane!
Echo.... echo...
:P
Hmmmm... Note to self... Use Preview, and don't stutter while typing...
So how long until some kid gets mugged for his/her Pez candy candy dispenser?
Oh wait... This is Slashdot...
Not only not peer reviewed, but I question the timing. Kyoto just went into effect this week. Such vocalizatons this week, in the popular press just screams "propaganda".
Good science is not done in the popular press. This paper should have been submitted, peer reviewed, and published before we even heard about it. I'd love to see this topic put to bed, once and for all, but I fear now the study will have to be done again, just to be rid of the stigma of its premature introduction. Which is probably exactly the intended effect... more funding.
You didn't hear about the vote last night, did you?
Also... Toll estimates for Austin's toll roads are starting to push $0.40 per mile! Talk about not cost effective! Even my 3/4-ton diesel pickup truck at 16 mpg only pays about 4 cents per mile in fuel taxes. Austin's toll roads are 10 times more expensive for someone driving a 6000 lb. truck, a person driving a fuel effecient Prius will pay several multiples of that. Where will this money go? The banks that buy the bonds, of course!
"uname -r" will return "5.10". Which can apparently confuse some poorly crafted shell scripts.
A full install didnt seem to install SSH as a service
I had trouble with a late beta build failing to create the ssh keys for zones. I don't remember if the global zone had the same problem or not. I'd call it a bug, but it does force you to at least think about the sshd config before using it, which is a good thing.
Easy enough to fix:
foo#
Creating...
Creating...
foo#