As long as we're twising quotes form TFA around. Sheesh.
"We've chosen free and open software because it's better, and because it means the children can participate in making the software better over time," Negroponte said.
Don't worry, Sun isn't sure of the motives either. It was Wednesday, and the cries of "do something!" were reaching a crescendo.
For me, and just me, the added value of SPARC was a reliable sales and support channel, an active and knowledgeable user community, Openboot, the ability to set up enterprise-wide, usable Jumpstart and patch management infrastructures in just a few keystrokes, and above average quality hardware.
One by one, Sun has tossed all those things, or let them slide, while distracting themselves by slinging new stuff at the walls and seeing what sticks.
Big LED displays aren't cheap. Usually they have serial data input, so you can scroll random stuff on them.
Anyway, I used to work in support at <company that used to build really fast, big, expensive supercomputers>. Just for the hell of it, a user wanted to hook up their $30 Epson dot matrix printer up to their new supercomputer, and we didn't really have a decent cheapo Epson printer driver.
"I just paid $15 million for this damn computer and what do you mean the serial port doesn't work?"
Gmail routes everything phishy to my spam box and puts a red bar over it. They are batting nearly 100% at spam blocking too. I get about 20 per day, and 1 or 2 slip through every other day on the average.
The Phishes they catch are faily subtle, they are burying their evil link in HMTL which renders OK, and only the phony grammar of the message gives it away:
"Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal=AE session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Go to the link below.
OK, just for a test - set your cookie restrictions to prompt for everything - type "true" into Google search, and you will prompted to allow true.com, the online dating service, to put a cookie on your system.
The laziest, whiniest, least productive member of the group will be the constant target of my sharp-tongued, replace-your-own-damned-toner-cartridge BOFH sysadmin skills.
They will find that to be a far worse fate than death.
Besides, I got my Master Marksman back in the day, so I'm probably a better shot than they are.
Sun opteron servers are shipping with Segate Savvio 2.5" 10K serial attach SCSI drives. Astonishingly expensive, and they suck about 8 watts each. Burn your thighs today . . .
The LOM just randomly hung. I would suggest just pounding it I guess. Try connecting from different marginally compatible browsers like older Mozillas. Use the virtual console applet heavily.
The other issues were that we just could not get consistent serial port access all the way through the boot process. The documentation was either nonexistent of inconsistent (like, it said to supply the/devices path for the serial port as a kernel parameter, but never said what those values were except that it was "hardware dependent")
Also the move to GRUB required that we make major reworks to our finely honed Jumpstart architecture. It was just cheaper and quicker to order OpenBoot SPARC boxes than do that.
I documented all this stuff is several postings to Sun's old support forums, and then about two weeks later they deleted the support forums when they performed a major update to their web site. A typical f***-up.
They are nice hardware, if you have an established Linux or Windows netinstall infrastructrue I am sure they work OK. We could see our Windows net install server on the 4100s.
Very roughly, this is what GFS does. I dn't have 25,000 servers at my disposal, so I haven't been able to test it though. Maybe next week. Meanwhile, I muddle through with tape.
"Sorry, your password is based on a Romulan dictionary word. Please choose a password with at least three non-alphanumeric characters, a "!" in position 5, a number at the end, at least 3 different puntuation marks, then write it down and tape it to the bottom of your keyboard."
I would strongly suspect the kiosk is running the exact same application as the web site: http://kroger.com/careers.htm.
I'll put on my BOFH hat: If you don't have a computer, go to the library. If you dont have a library, move to a place with one. You're obviously not a completely computer illiterate whining dumbass, you managed to get your post on slashdot.
Sun is a shadow of its former self and it doesn't have to do with McNealy, except to the extent that he could make the rounds and "moticate" people. Personally:
- Tried to call Sun 4 times to get quotes for hardware and support contracts. Did not get hold of a human, phone system made me leave messages each time. No one ever returned my calls.
- All Sun's patches, and their treasure trove of support information, SunSolve, is behind a paid firewall now, and you need to buy a support contract to get access. See item above. Why not just a support subscription I can charge to my credit card. Zillions of people would probably pay $500 per year for that. I would, gladly.
- We bought several of the new X4100 boxes. Nicely designed, but serial console management did not work in Solaris 10 (or else required a fistful of undocumented hacks), and the LOM remote console was buggy and crashed a couple of times, requiring a system power cycle. We sent the servers back.
- It takes me twice as long to build any OSS on Solaris - no one is really developing on it consistently. Ever tried building Firefox on Solaris?
Basically, this is all execution. It's just easier to buy something other than a Sun. If need a Web server, I can have a Linux host installed and up from CDROM in 15 min, 45 min if I care about building the absolute latest version of Apache or an obscure Apache module.
And the DHS doesn't have a "Directory", it has a Secretary, Michael Chertoff.
Don't know why you'd belittle them, first disaster that wipes out your ass, I'll bet your standing in line bitching about not getting any free cheese from the gov't just like everyone else.
Mostly I was curious about whether running 10 rm's in "parallel" was faster than running one "rm -r". I had to do this on several machines so I was able to compare, and since the 10 rm's in parallel used a lot more CPU than a single "rm -r", based on the "BOFH's Razor" Principle the method that consumed more CPU was obviously better
The problem with his global warming book was that all the "pro-global-warming" types were steel-jawed action heroes and and the "anti-global warming" types were simpering pussies. That kind of BS rhetoric doesn't help anymore than equally absurd about how great global warming will be because you'll be able to grow bananas in Alaska and hurricanes will give us an endless construction boom on the Gulf Coast.Especially since Crichton's book was actually well-footnoted and contained quite a bit of supplemental material.
Academic fascism is a real problem in some schools. In the humanities I know a few people that have been kicked out of school for not having sufficient purity of thought, and it's creeping into physics and engineering. Doubleplus notgood!
The only use for nice I've ever been forced to implement was renicing processes based on the job submitter's rank in the company. (This was a CPU-intensive render/simulation farm.)
Well, there was time some bozo's log rotation script filled up var with log copies - he copied every file every day, even copies of copies, until the filesystem ran out of inodes. THere were too many files to delete with "rm *", so I did something like "for n in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do nice -n $n rm ${n}*; done". I don't think it made one bit of difference, the buffer cache is still mad at me.
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As long as we're twising quotes form TFA around. Sheesh.
"We've chosen free and open software because it's better, and because it means the children can participate in making the software better over time," Negroponte said.
Don't worry, Sun isn't sure of the motives either. It was Wednesday, and the cries of "do something!" were reaching a crescendo.
For me, and just me, the added value of SPARC was a reliable sales and support channel, an active and knowledgeable user community, Openboot, the ability to set up enterprise-wide, usable Jumpstart and patch management infrastructures in just a few keystrokes, and above average quality hardware.
One by one, Sun has tossed all those things, or let them slide, while distracting themselves by slinging new stuff at the walls and seeing what sticks.
Was he a member of "the pool"? TFA I saw didn't really say,
These are the [0-3].north-america.pool.ntp.org lines you put in your conf files these days, unless you are D-Link.
The 4 IPs are set up to round robin to a big bunch of volunteer servers.
Big LED displays aren't cheap. Usually they have serial data input, so you can scroll random stuff on them.
Anyway, I used to work in support at <company that used to build really fast, big, expensive supercomputers>. Just for the hell of it, a user wanted to hook up their $30 Epson dot matrix printer up to their new supercomputer, and we didn't really have a decent cheapo Epson printer driver.
"I just paid $15 million for this damn computer and what do you mean the serial port doesn't work?"
We fixed the serial port driver...
Ooops, that didn't work - now let's switch to code post mode....
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Gmail routes everything phishy to my spam box and puts a red bar over it. They are batting nearly 100% at spam blocking too. I get about 20 per day, and 1 or 2 slip through every other day on the average.
- run
The Phishes they catch are faily subtle, they are burying their evil link in HMTL which renders OK, and only the phony grammar of the message gives it away:
"Once you have updated your account records, your
PayPal=AE session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Go to the link below.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=3D_login
OK, just for a test - set your cookie restrictions to prompt for everything - type "true" into Google search, and you will prompted to allow true.com, the online dating service, to put a cookie on your system.
Sleaazy!
The laziest, whiniest, least productive member of the group will be the constant target of my sharp-tongued, replace-your-own-damned-toner-cartridge BOFH sysadmin skills.
They will find that to be a far worse fate than death.
Besides, I got my Master Marksman back in the day, so I'm probably a better shot than they are.
"Sorry, that's all I remember from my classes..."
-Dilbert
The next generation of disks will be fuel-injected, and not subject to this problem.
Other poster is right, the drives are too tall to fit in a laptop.
Sun opteron servers are shipping with Segate Savvio 2.5" 10K serial attach SCSI drives. Astonishingly expensive, and they suck about 8 watts each. Burn your thighs today . . .
S eagate+ST973401SS&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
The LOM just randomly hung. I would suggest just pounding it I guess. Try connecting from different marginally compatible browsers like older Mozillas. Use the virtual console applet heavily.
/devices path for the serial port as a kernel parameter, but never said what those values were except that it was "hardware dependent")
The other issues were that we just could not get consistent serial port access all the way through the boot process. The documentation was either nonexistent of inconsistent (like, it said to supply the
Also the move to GRUB required that we make major reworks to our finely honed Jumpstart architecture. It was just cheaper and quicker to order OpenBoot SPARC boxes than do that.
I documented all this stuff is several postings to Sun's old support forums, and then about two weeks later they deleted the support forums when they performed a major update to their web site. A typical f***-up.
They are nice hardware, if you have an established Linux or Windows netinstall infrastructrue I am sure they work OK. We could see our Windows net install server on the 4100s.
Yes, you can do this, it's actually firly common:
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/1369/LWD000606S390/
I thought the problem was old, tube-based hardware in the TRACONS and elsewhere always going blinky. Software would be the least of their worries.
http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html
Very roughly, this is what GFS does. I dn't have 25,000 servers at my disposal, so I haven't been able to test it though. Maybe next week. Meanwhile, I muddle through with tape.
"Sorry, your password is based on a Romulan dictionary word. Please choose a password with at least three non-alphanumeric characters, a "!" in position 5, a number at the end, at least 3 different puntuation marks, then write it down and tape it to the bottom of your keyboard."
Either the program is new, or none of the people I've talked to have known about it. Thanks for the link.
You'd think they'd put a links allover their web site to rope in all the legacy Sunsolve users and the people downloading free Solairs 10.
I know Sun's trying; with my past connection to them and Silicon Valley, it's physically painful to watch.
I would strongly suspect the kiosk is running the exact same application as the web site: http://kroger.com/careers.htm.
I'll put on my BOFH hat: If you don't have a computer, go to the library. If you dont have a library, move to a place with one. You're obviously not a completely computer illiterate whining dumbass, you managed to get your post on slashdot.
Sheesh!
Sun is a shadow of its former self and it doesn't have to do with McNealy, except to the extent that he could make the rounds and "moticate" people. Personally:
- Tried to call Sun 4 times to get quotes for hardware and support contracts. Did not get hold of a human, phone system made me leave messages each time. No one ever returned my calls.
- All Sun's patches, and their treasure trove of support information, SunSolve, is behind a paid firewall now, and you need to buy a support contract to get access. See item above. Why not just a support subscription I can charge to my credit card. Zillions of people would probably pay $500 per year for that. I would, gladly.
- We bought several of the new X4100 boxes. Nicely designed, but serial console management did not work in Solaris 10 (or else required a fistful of undocumented hacks), and the LOM remote console was buggy and crashed a couple of times, requiring a system power cycle. We sent the servers back.
- It takes me twice as long to build any OSS on Solaris - no one is really developing on it consistently. Ever tried building Firefox on Solaris?
Basically, this is all execution. It's just easier to buy something other than a Sun. If need a Web server, I can have a Linux host installed and up from CDROM in 15 min, 45 min if I care about building the absolute latest version of Apache or an obscure Apache module.
No, that was Brian Doyle, Deputy Press Secretary.
And the DHS doesn't have a "Directory", it has a Secretary, Michael Chertoff.
Don't know why you'd belittle them, first disaster that wipes out your ass, I'll bet your standing in line bitching about not getting any free cheese from the gov't just like everyone else.
You have a big random number, like having someone's public key. BFD. Unless you have access to The Big Government Passport Database.
Mostly I was curious about whether running 10 rm's in "parallel" was faster than running one "rm -r". I had to do this on several machines so I was able to compare, and since the 10 rm's in parallel used a lot more CPU than a single "rm -r", based on the "BOFH's Razor" Principle the method that consumed more CPU was obviously better
The problem with his global warming book was that all the "pro-global-warming" types were steel-jawed action heroes and and the "anti-global warming" types were simpering pussies. That kind of BS rhetoric doesn't help anymore than equally absurd about how great global warming will be because you'll be able to grow bananas in Alaska and hurricanes will give us an endless construction boom on the Gulf Coast.Especially since Crichton's book was actually well-footnoted and contained quite a bit of supplemental material.
Academic fascism is a real problem in some schools. In the humanities I know a few people that have been kicked out of school for not having sufficient purity of thought, and it's creeping into physics and engineering. Doubleplus notgood!
Your kids will eventually stop throwing tantrums and will move out. Your co-workers will not.
I agree though, telecommuting is not a way to save on day care.
The only use for nice I've ever been forced to implement was renicing processes based on the job submitter's rank in the company. (This was a CPU-intensive render/simulation farm.)
Well, there was time some bozo's log rotation script filled up var with log copies - he copied every file every day, even copies of copies, until the filesystem ran out of inodes. THere were too many files to delete with "rm *", so I did something like "for n in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do nice -n $n rm ${n}*; done". I don't think it made one bit of difference, the buffer cache is still mad at me.
I guess my fingers are just habituated, but I have learned NEVER to type ANY domain name starting with the letters "goat....."