We already do with existing gas taxes. Unless you push, or mule team those couple miles.
Or buy red-dye diesel.
Of course then you can never put the vehicle on the road again. But I know there are gravel quarries & mining operations that have entire fleets of pickup trucks running on red dye.
I was recently tasked with doing an inventory and repurposing of a stack of older Sun machines (Sunfire, Netra, etc).
What I discovered is that OpenSolaris won't even install on some of the models. Install from CD? Nope. Install remotely via a network install? Nope, and let me go on record as saying that the network install process is *absurdly* complex.
On the other hand, I popped a Debian CD in, and it installed beautifully once I booted into expert mode and loaded fdisk (parted blows when dealing with Sun tables).
That's right, Linux was easier to work with on these Sun servers than OpenSolaris. OSOL has some really cool features (ZFS and DTrace, for example), and I've mucked around in it on my x86 boxes before, but overall Linux is still easier to work with in my experience, even on Sun servers.
I always keep an OSOL VM in VirtualBox, but it doesn't see much use. I'd rather use Linux or BSD.
Network install isn't finished yet on OpenSolaris. Regular Solaris Jumpstart (net install) on SPARC is trivial compared to Linux (Or Solaris x86). PXE boot is some kind of absurd joke.
When it was introduced it had a 4:1 performance advantage over x86. Intel didn't take the lead until the Pentium, and SPARC was in the game until about 1999. It's been downhill since then for single CPU tasks.
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Temkin's corollary to Godwin's Law: The first person to mention the "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)" looses the climate change argument by default. Anything said afterwards is the beginning of a new argument.
But they would be even stupider not to ask for a counter-offer from Oracle before formally jumping ship.
Except they're in the nebulous legal gray zone where the Sun Board has approved the deal, but DOJ & the SEC haven't given their blessing yet. The companies continue to make decisions and operate as separate entities, and people can actually get in legal trouble for attempting to do otherwise.
So... They couldn't go to Oracle and ask, and Oracle couldn't have given them an answer if they did.
How far west? Hill country land is getting snapped up at ridiculous prices. It's turning into a bunch of retirement "gentlemen's ranches". West of Junction maybe.
Somewhere at my parent's house I have a PDP-11/03 in Heathkit trim (Heathkit H11). It worked last time I tried it. RT-11... Mmmmm.... Ok. No, it was nasty, but back in 1977 it was a 16 bit TRS-80 killer. I think I still have a 300 baud acoustic modem somewhere in a box. It wouldn't be '60's vintage, but mid-70's, not that they evolved much before the Ma Bell lawsuit. I do have a working TRS-80 model 100 laptop.
I didn't filter the supply well enough, but that had the advantage of when it started working erratically by skipping lights or suddenly reversing direction, I knew it was time to change the distributor points;-)
I'll wager a 555 in 8 pin TO can that half of Slashdot knows nothing of distributors or points.;-)
Big risks come with big rewards. Going against the boss can pay off bigtime IF it works. If it doesn't, it's usually your ass...
But for cables? I wouldn't call that a big risk, and definately don't think it's worth going against the boss for... Just buy the cables (unless it's a very custom run)...
I'm going to guess you've been flat out fired at some point in your career. Just call it a hunch.
You're better off making a business case that proves your point. People keep employees around because they're more successful with them than without them. The best way to take your bosses job is to get him promoted out of it.
I've had pretty good luck making my own cables over the years. I've had very few fail in service once I got them crimped right. So I'd call it a wash.
One thing I've never had any luck at... Going against my boss. Whatever else he may be... Regardless of what everyone on Slashdot says... He's the boss. It's his expense account. I know if I was the boss, I'd not look kindly on having to argue with a subordinate over a cable.
I downloaded it to 5.25 inch floppy from "tsx-11" using a whole row of computers in the south-sci computer lab at CSU Hayward. Having been previously jaded by waiting several years for the 386BSD project to be useable, I had low expectations.
I was pleasantly surprised. 0.95b brought in the parallel port driver, and I could make my printer work. DOS got ditched.
By 0.97 I was writing science software, and needed a more polished platform. I bought a used Sun and moved on. I checked in now and again, but never recaptured the thrill of those 0.95 - 0.96 kernels. It took Linux another 10 years to catch Solaris. Now days I use Centos & Ubuntu for desktop and commodity server duty, and only reach for Solaris for large high-scale server applications.
Sorry, I know this is off topic but I can't let it pass without comment.
So you REALLY think that it was Prop 13 that sank California?
Well.... The thing about prop 13... It set up a conflict of interest between the cities and counties and their populace. After prop 13, the cities and counties were opposed to new housing development. Housing demands services that is not covered by the revenue generated. As time goes by, the cities and counties develop complex ways of hiding this problem by implementing all manner of permit fees and revenue enhancements. For example in 2000, in one small east SF Bay area city, in order to build a house, it cost in excess of $70,000 for the required building permits. That means that every single house that has a valid occupancy permit, no matter what condition, has a built in base price of $70,000.
Artificial scarceness drives up prices. When a house changes hands, it can be reassessed under prop 13. So churn is good for cities.
Finally... The banks get to collect 5 - 6 - 7% interest on all this property tax avoidance chicanery. Lather rinse repeat for 30+ years...
We're reading about the results in the paper every day. The house of cards finally folded. Now some of the gross abuses of the state expense structure are coming into view. My favorite... The police and correctional officers union. You do your 20 years, and get to retire with full benefits. So you can retire at roughly 40 years old, and have full pay and benefits for life while you go double dip as a security consultant, etc... Same deal with the firefighter unions.
The problem is... It's easy enough to say "yea, that's wrong. They shouldn't sign those contracts." or "they should repeal prop 13", but they're entrenched. If you benefit from them, you support them. My parents love prop 13. And why shouldn't they? They're paying property taxes last reassessed in 1978. Their son bought a cardboard box of a house, payed 11% income tax, 5% of his income in property tax, 9.25% sales tax, 1% vehicle property tax, and countless fees... and double that again in inflated prices so others could do the same... and got fed up sold his house and transferred his job out of state. They still don't understand why.
Personally, I don't have enough computers at home to need ipv6.
I take it you're not developing software that needs to support IPv6 either.
Tomato is great, but I need/want IPv6 autoconfig on my home net. A spare Cisco 1700 handles this nicely. One of these days when I have some spare time, I'll get a v6 tunnel set up on it.
Well... Looks like all that's left is the really important task of defining the nomenclature that will be used to describe this obscure switch tendency.
SMS has been around for a while. Not sure about Exchange, but Sun has had it since 97 or so. I'd have to go back and read the article again, but I don't believe they were using even Exchange.
The government tends to keep old stuff well past it's shelf life. I worked for a govt. agency back in the early 90's that was still running 1970's era PDP-11/03's, complete with 8" hard sectored disks... Admittedly, not any kind of critical role, just obscure lab equipment. If I had to guess... I'd bet they're still there.
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We already do with existing gas taxes. Unless you push, or mule team those couple miles.
Or buy red-dye diesel.
Of course then you can never put the vehicle on the road again. But I know there are gravel quarries & mining operations that have entire fleets of pickup trucks running on red dye.
My family owns a couple miles of private dirt roads. You're going to tax me for driving on my own road?
In other news... 10 year old Linux 2.4 kernel patched yesterday...
I was recently tasked with doing an inventory and repurposing of a stack of older Sun machines (Sunfire, Netra, etc).
What I discovered is that OpenSolaris won't even install on some of the models. Install from CD? Nope. Install remotely via a network install? Nope, and let me go on record as saying that the network install process is *absurdly* complex.
On the other hand, I popped a Debian CD in, and it installed beautifully once I booted into expert mode and loaded fdisk (parted blows when dealing with Sun tables).
That's right, Linux was easier to work with on these Sun servers than OpenSolaris. OSOL has some really cool features (ZFS and DTrace, for example), and I've mucked around in it on my x86 boxes before, but overall Linux is still easier to work with in my experience, even on Sun servers.
I always keep an OSOL VM in VirtualBox, but it doesn't see much use. I'd rather use Linux or BSD.
Network install isn't finished yet on OpenSolaris. Regular Solaris Jumpstart (net install) on SPARC is trivial compared to Linux (Or Solaris x86). PXE boot is some kind of absurd joke.
SPARC always sucked in terms of performance.
When it was introduced it had a 4:1 performance advantage over x86. Intel didn't take the lead until the Pentium, and SPARC was in the game until about 1999. It's been downhill since then for single CPU tasks.
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ok power-off
Rather.... Slashdot ate my chevrons!
It's been a few years since the type 4 keyboard and the "L1" key.
What's funny is most Solaris admins don't seem to know about the always rude "uadmin 2 0".
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Temkin's corollary to Godwin's Law: The first person to mention the "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)" looses the climate change argument by default. Anything said afterwards is the beginning of a new argument.
But they would be even stupider not to ask for a counter-offer from Oracle before formally jumping ship.
Except they're in the nebulous legal gray zone where the Sun Board has approved the deal, but DOJ & the SEC haven't given their blessing yet. The companies continue to make decisions and operate as separate entities, and people can actually get in legal trouble for attempting to do otherwise.
So... They couldn't go to Oracle and ask, and Oracle couldn't have given them an answer if they did.
How far west? Hill country land is getting snapped up at ridiculous prices. It's turning into a bunch of retirement "gentlemen's ranches". West of Junction maybe.
Fear invasion from Russia???
That was a good joke, I have to admit!
Really...
Sun?.... you are crazy to go with sun and there platform now.. its all dead now..
Larry? Is that you?
Somewhere at my parent's house I have a PDP-11/03 in Heathkit trim (Heathkit H11). It worked last time I tried it. RT-11... Mmmmm.... Ok. No, it was nasty, but back in 1977 it was a 16 bit TRS-80 killer. I think I still have a 300 baud acoustic modem somewhere in a box. It wouldn't be '60's vintage, but mid-70's, not that they evolved much before the Ma Bell lawsuit. I do have a working TRS-80 model 100 laptop.
Now get off my lawn...
I didn't filter the supply well enough, but that had the advantage of when it started working erratically by skipping lights or suddenly reversing direction, I knew it was time to change the distributor points ;-)
I'll wager a 555 in 8 pin TO can that half of Slashdot knows nothing of distributors or points. ;-)
Big risks come with big rewards. Going against the boss can pay off bigtime IF it works. If it doesn't, it's usually your ass...
But for cables? I wouldn't call that a big risk, and definately don't think it's worth going against the boss for... Just buy the cables (unless it's a very custom run)...
I'm going to guess you've been flat out fired at some point in your career. Just call it a hunch.
You're better off making a business case that proves your point. People keep employees around because they're more successful with them than without them. The best way to take your bosses job is to get him promoted out of it.
I've had pretty good luck making my own cables over the years. I've had very few fail in service once I got them crimped right. So I'd call it a wash.
One thing I've never had any luck at... Going against my boss. Whatever else he may be... Regardless of what everyone on Slashdot says... He's the boss. It's his expense account. I know if I was the boss, I'd not look kindly on having to argue with a subordinate over a cable.
I downloaded it to 5.25 inch floppy from "tsx-11" using a whole row of computers in the south-sci computer lab at CSU Hayward. Having been previously jaded by waiting several years for the 386BSD project to be useable, I had low expectations.
I was pleasantly surprised. 0.95b brought in the parallel port driver, and I could make my printer work. DOS got ditched.
By 0.97 I was writing science software, and needed a more polished platform. I bought a used Sun and moved on. I checked in now and again, but never recaptured the thrill of those 0.95 - 0.96 kernels. It took Linux another 10 years to catch Solaris. Now days I use Centos & Ubuntu for desktop and commodity server duty, and only reach for Solaris for large high-scale server applications.
This is an excellent use for Fresno. I approve.
Not S100... It was Multibus. Later they went to VME.
I read 2^4 days in a row. I knew there was a reason I logged out... I'd have made 2^7 easy...
Sorry, I know this is off topic but I can't let it pass without comment.
So you REALLY think that it was Prop 13 that sank California?
Well.... The thing about prop 13... It set up a conflict of interest between the cities and counties and their populace. After prop 13, the cities and counties were opposed to new housing development. Housing demands services that is not covered by the revenue generated. As time goes by, the cities and counties develop complex ways of hiding this problem by implementing all manner of permit fees and revenue enhancements. For example in 2000, in one small east SF Bay area city, in order to build a house, it cost in excess of $70,000 for the required building permits. That means that every single house that has a valid occupancy permit, no matter what condition, has a built in base price of $70,000.
Artificial scarceness drives up prices. When a house changes hands, it can be reassessed under prop 13. So churn is good for cities.
Finally... The banks get to collect 5 - 6 - 7% interest on all this property tax avoidance chicanery. Lather rinse repeat for 30+ years...
We're reading about the results in the paper every day. The house of cards finally folded. Now some of the gross abuses of the state expense structure are coming into view. My favorite... The police and correctional officers union. You do your 20 years, and get to retire with full benefits. So you can retire at roughly 40 years old, and have full pay and benefits for life while you go double dip as a security consultant, etc... Same deal with the firefighter unions.
The problem is... It's easy enough to say "yea, that's wrong. They shouldn't sign those contracts." or "they should repeal prop 13", but they're entrenched. If you benefit from them, you support them. My parents love prop 13. And why shouldn't they? They're paying property taxes last reassessed in 1978. Their son bought a cardboard box of a house, payed 11% income tax, 5% of his income in property tax, 9.25% sales tax, 1% vehicle property tax, and countless fees... and double that again in inflated prices so others could do the same... and got fed up sold his house and transferred his job out of state. They still don't understand why.
Personally, I don't have enough computers at home to need ipv6.
I take it you're not developing software that needs to support IPv6 either.
Tomato is great, but I need/want IPv6 autoconfig on my home net. A spare Cisco 1700 handles this nicely. One of these days when I have some spare time, I'll get a v6 tunnel set up on it.
Well... Looks like all that's left is the really important task of defining the nomenclature that will be used to describe this obscure switch tendency.
I'm going to suggest: "autoslashdoticisim"
Agreed... There's no "why" there, just "who". Otherwise pointing out what we've all already discovered.
Sadly Netflix seems to think they're grand. This makes me feel better about canceling my Netflix account.
That's OK... Take a look at any of several email RFC's. CNAME records are not just a bad idea, they're not allowed in some cases.
SMS has been around for a while. Not sure about Exchange, but Sun has had it since 97 or so. I'd have to go back and read the article again, but I don't believe they were using even Exchange.
The government tends to keep old stuff well past it's shelf life. I worked for a govt. agency back in the early 90's that was still running 1970's era PDP-11/03's, complete with 8" hard sectored disks... Admittedly, not any kind of critical role, just obscure lab equipment. If I had to guess... I'd bet they're still there.