Painhope, my view of reasonable and your view of reasonable might be different.
I must say, I am floored. If RedHat's view of reasonable differs from its customer's view of reasonable (which it obviously does), then this is going to be a disaster.
As a consultant and long time RedHat user who has brought RedHat into many companies with no Linux presence, I can no longer recommend them. RedHat's primary advantage was its low cost for a fully supported product. Now, that advantage no longer exists.
Sad too, because RedHat was really starting to gain some brand recognition. Now, it's going to be known as the Linux that's too expensive to use.
Metaframe allows you to access bandwidth-intensive applications like Outlook over low bandwidth links such as 56k modems. The application runs on the server, and Citrix only sends compressed screen deltas and keystokes across the WAN.
Client software runs on any operating system, including OS X and Linux. I use this configuration daily to access Outlook and MS Office from my home Linux and Solaris machines, and it works great.
A Cisco 2512 has an ethernet port and 16 serial ports, and they are available used for less than $400. To access a system, you telnet to port 200x, where x = the serial port you want to connect to. Here's one on eBay
If your net connection is that critical, get more than one.
xDSL and a cable modem, with dial-up as a last resort, will give you redundent connections for far less than a frame-relay or T1 connection. With some creativity and free software (Linux or *BSD), or a couple of low-end routers, you could even set them up to fail over seamlessly.
make people think that anyone can better their life by going to school for 6 months to learn MS products...
It's much worse than that. Most of these 'schools' are 10 day boot-camp things, where you pass the test without learning anything. I heard a radio commerical this morning claiming that "to get one of these high-paying jobs, you need years of experience or M$ and Cisco certification."
Who here thinks that M$ and Cisco certs are a substitute for years of experience?
Compaq's SMART array controllers work well under Linux, and support RAID 0, 1, 5, and 0+1 with hot spares. I have been running RedHat 7.1 on one of these for months, in a production environment, with great success.
Just wait till it's time to move your site to another machine. Or try to set up multiple web servers with the same setup to sit behind a load balancer. That's when you'll be wishing you had config files you could just copy to the new machines.
You can use the iissync utility to copy the entire metabase from server to server, which makes site duplication as simple as Apache.
The benefit of this type of hybrid research is that you grow an organ in an animal, which you can then kill to 'harvest' the organ. The question then becomes "Is this creature human or animal?"
Thus, using Internet-exposed IIS Web servers securely has a high cost of ownership. Enterprises using Microsoft's IIS Web server software have to update every IIS server with every Microsoft security patch that comes out ? almost weekly.
This is the biggest problem with maintaining Microsoft networks. Exploits in IIS or Windows are far too frequent, and almost all patches require reboots. You can imagine the response I get when I call management every other week and say "I need emergency downtime to patch 65 of our servers...".
Microsoft loves to talk about how their software has a lower TCO than other operating systems. Perhaps they don't count the cost of man-hours spent applying patches, or the downtime involved?
Ultra 5/10: Sun's first try at cheap workstations, using IDE disks.
The Sun Ultra 5/10 is also available in a SCSI model. These are your best bet for a fast, inexpensive Sun box that will run Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8. Look for a used one for under $1000.
"Is Linus a "Certified Linux Engineer?" Is Alan Cox? " The difference here is that everyone knows that Linus and Alan are qualified Linux experts. But the rest of us mere mortals need proof of our skills in order to get good jobs. Certifications provide that proof.
"It's hard enough to find and keep talented IT people, and Red Hat is asking us not only to spend $5,000 a person, which eats heavily into our cost, but we also have to lose a $60,000 employee for two weeks, who after being certified, can move almost anywhere he wants, maybe even over to Red Hat. There aren't that many Linux-certified people out there." This is a typical attitude. Employers in IT want highly trained, qualified people at the cheapest possible price. By getting their employees certified, the employees now have written proof that they are qualified. This makes it easier for the employee to switch jobs, and subsequently, the employer has to compensate the employee, or risk losing them.
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Painhope, my view of reasonable and your view of reasonable might be different.
I must say, I am floored. If RedHat's view of reasonable differs from its customer's view of reasonable (which it obviously does), then this is going to be a disaster.
As a consultant and long time RedHat user who has brought RedHat into many companies with no Linux presence, I can no longer recommend them. RedHat's primary advantage was its low cost for a fully supported product. Now, that advantage no longer exists.
Sad too, because RedHat was really starting to gain some brand recognition. Now, it's going to be known as the Linux that's too expensive to use.
With those blue 'bubbles' that appear over the player's head when he starts typing, and disappear when complete.
Pam was my ex-wife. She was pluggable by too many.
Yes, sorry about that. I discovered an exploit when I inserted a 'long' into a 'short' buffer in PAM's module...
From the article:
These documents, applications and solutions are hosed on a server analogous to today's "Web application servers".
That's a true assessment of Lotus Notes if I ever saw one.
Lets just say that you don`t want to Google for "+latex +pictures"
Not to ruin a good joke, but actually, the first result is exactly what you want.
So what you are saying is, search Google for +latex +pictures and click "I'm feeling lucky"?
Metaframe allows you to access bandwidth-intensive applications like Outlook over low bandwidth links such as 56k modems. The application runs on the server, and Citrix only sends compressed screen deltas and keystokes across the WAN.
Client software runs on any operating system, including OS X and Linux. I use this configuration daily to access Outlook and MS Office from my home Linux and Solaris machines, and it works great.
How many people can learn just the VI editor in 24 hours?!
I just upgraded from a Pentium to a dual Athlon MP 2000+ system at home. It raised the temperature in the 11x11 foot room by 8 degrees.
The Stomping Grounds is one. Perhaps they can offer some advice, if you aren't directly competing with them.
From Netcraft:
The site www.linuxworldexpo.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98.
A Cisco 2512 has an ethernet port and 16 serial ports, and they are available used for less than $400. To access a system, you telnet to port 200x, where x = the serial port you want to connect to. Here's one on eBay
s/Homeland Security Autofilter/Lameness Filter/
TRUE geeks know how to get X Windows working without the latest and greatest.
Actually, TRUE geeks know that it's not called X Windows...
4. Remove foot from mouth.
ITYM remove head from butt...
Referral Denied/ index.html" on this server.
You don't have permission to access "http://applesw.download.akamai.com/ep2/clone_war
Your feeble OSX is no match for the power of Slashdot...
If your net connection is that critical, get more than one.
xDSL and a cable modem, with dial-up as a last resort, will give you redundent connections for far less than a frame-relay or T1 connection. With some creativity and free software (Linux or *BSD), or a couple of low-end routers, you could even set them up to fail over seamlessly.
make people think that anyone can better their life by going to school for 6 months to learn MS products...
It's much worse than that. Most of these 'schools' are 10 day boot-camp things, where you pass the test without learning anything. I heard a radio commerical this morning claiming that "to get one of these high-paying jobs, you need years of experience or M$ and Cisco certification. "
Who here thinks that M$ and Cisco certs are a substitute for years of experience?
Compaq's SMART array controllers work well under Linux, and support RAID 0, 1, 5, and 0+1 with hot spares. I have been running RedHat 7.1 on one of these for months, in a production environment, with great success.
Just wait till it's time to move your site to another machine. Or try to set up multiple web servers with the same setup to sit behind a load balancer. That's when you'll be wishing you had config files you could just copy to the new machines.
You can use the iissync utility to copy the entire metabase from server to server, which makes site duplication as simple as Apache.
The benefit of this type of hybrid research is that you grow an organ in an animal, which you can then kill to 'harvest' the organ. The question then becomes "Is this creature human or animal?"
Thus, using Internet-exposed IIS Web servers securely has a high cost of ownership. Enterprises using Microsoft's IIS Web server software have to update every IIS server with every Microsoft security patch that comes out ? almost weekly.
This is the biggest problem with maintaining Microsoft networks. Exploits in IIS or Windows are far too frequent, and almost all patches require reboots. You can imagine the response I get when I call management every other week and say "I need emergency downtime to patch 65 of our servers...".
Microsoft loves to talk about how their software has a lower TCO than other operating systems. Perhaps they don't count the cost of man-hours spent applying patches, or the downtime involved?
Ultra 5/10: Sun's first try at cheap workstations, using IDE disks.
The Sun Ultra 5/10 is also available in a SCSI model. These are your best bet for a fast, inexpensive Sun box that will run Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8. Look for a used one for under $1000.
Great! I have a Web server running IIS that I would be happy to donate...
"Is Linus a "Certified Linux Engineer?" Is Alan Cox? "
The difference here is that everyone knows that Linus and Alan are qualified Linux experts. But the rest of us mere mortals need proof of our skills in order to get good jobs. Certifications provide that proof.
"It's hard enough to find and keep talented IT people, and Red Hat is asking us not only to spend $5,000 a person, which eats heavily into our cost, but we also have to lose a $60,000 employee for two weeks, who after being certified, can move almost anywhere he wants, maybe even over to Red Hat. There aren't that many Linux-certified people out there."
This is a typical attitude. Employers in IT want highly trained, qualified people at the cheapest possible price. By getting their employees certified, the employees now have written proof that they are qualified. This makes it easier for the employee to switch jobs, and subsequently, the employer has to compensate the employee, or risk losing them.