Cable net rates that complete with dial-up has happend in Canada, both http://www.bell.ca/ (DSL) and http://www.rogers.ca/ (Cable) offer rate capped services intended to replace dial-up.
-So multiple power supplies that can be replaced while the machine is running. -The ability to turn off the power on a PCI slot, so a card can be replaced or added without a reboot. -Even CPUs can be changed, hey OS stop using that CPU and hardware turn off the power it's acting up and we want to switch it. -You also get hardware monitoring systems, so you get emailed when a power supply is broken.
In the last few years all these features have also shown up on intel server hardware. Linux and Windows software is also available from the vendors that rivals the sun stuff, in some cases exceeds it.
So maybe Sun is dead. I think Sun would be better served embracing Linux, and producing their own distribution which they could even call Solaris 11. In most of the companies these are critical systems, the money is secondary to the support, but Linux and Windows are unstoppible forces like the Intel architechture.
I have a Friendly Robots model, which is the same as the iMow. I have used is for a few years now and find it very useful in the open back lawn. It is a few feet long and so does not work well in the narrow strip between the houses. In automatic mode it's safty software turns it off on hills greater than 15 degrees, but I can use the game pad like control to manually drive it and have set the wire to have it avoid the hill. I leave it out many Saturdays or at night and go shopping or make dinner and it is done when I return. It's more a 80% solution, a way to reduce the work than a complete solutions, your will still need a edge trimmer. I normally in a wet summer put it out every few days and run the normally mower over the edges and strip between the house every two weeks. There are some OS bugs in the firmware, but I think the product is generally good and I recommend it. It is very safe with lots of sensors safty features and warning lights. The quality of cut is very nice.
MS Application Center is not bad. It is web focused, but with webservices alot of things can be web systems.
Good Features.
Easy to use GUI
Definition and replication of application file, database and IIS settings.
Collects problem and performance data from all the applications into a main console.
Problems
Focused on the Microsoft was of doing bussiness, for example easy ASP replication harder JSP replication.
A little buggy. Sometimes losses internal replication password, no way of dumping application setup, built-in fallover technology does not handle more than a class C.
Sort of expensive $3000 per CPU.
Windows is still not as reliable as Linux/Unix systems.
It has advantages over the Linux systems I have see with the GUI and aggregation of preformance data. The GUI is useful because you can not delegate tasks to junior staff, if they do not understand it. I have 60 web servers many running Linux and some W2K and a few have been trying app center for a while now and need performance information to know when to add and hopefully remove machines. I have run mainframes, but there are less software problems with popular systems like intel Linux and Windows machine so zSeries and big Suns which I have used in the past our not the magic bullet.
In Canada it is also the last 7 years of filed tax returns and supporting documents. I believe it is the same in the US and may be a common length of time in western coutries.
The top or front of the
fridge is a good spot for
a computer in the kitchen. If you clear off the
top, the computer can survey the room and
provide information services.
I can reach up and use the mouse or
keyboard on the fridge front if needed. The
network and power goes behind and is tucked away.
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Cable net rates that complete with dial-up has happend in Canada, both http://www.bell.ca/ (DSL) and http://www.rogers.ca/ (Cable) offer rate capped services intended to replace dial-up.
You are supposed to get reliabilty
-So multiple power supplies that can be replaced while the machine is running.
-The ability to turn off the power on a PCI slot, so a card can be replaced or added without a reboot.
-Even CPUs can be changed, hey OS stop using that CPU and hardware turn off the power it's acting up and we want to switch it.
-You also get hardware monitoring systems, so you get emailed when a power supply is broken.
In the last few years all these features have also shown up on intel server hardware. Linux and Windows software is also available from the vendors that rivals the sun stuff, in some cases exceeds it.
So maybe Sun is dead. I think Sun would be better served embracing Linux, and producing their own distribution which they could even call Solaris 11. In most of the companies these are critical systems, the money is secondary to the support, but Linux and Windows are unstoppible forces like the Intel architechture.
I have a Friendly Robots model, which is the same as the iMow. I have used is for a few years now and find it very useful in the open back lawn. It is a few feet long and so does not work well in the narrow strip between the houses. In automatic mode it's safty software turns it off on hills greater than 15 degrees, but I can use the game pad like control to manually drive it and have set the wire to have it avoid the hill. I leave it out many Saturdays or at night and go shopping or make dinner and it is done when I return.
It's more a 80% solution, a way to reduce the work than a complete solutions, your will still need a edge trimmer. I normally in a wet summer put it out every few days and run the normally mower over the edges and strip between the house every two weeks. There are some OS bugs in the firmware, but I think the product is generally good and I recommend it.
It is very safe with lots of sensors safty features and warning lights. The quality of cut is very nice.
You likely need the CD.
At least in the past the RedHat network would only patch your system.
RedHat understands you may still need to run an old distribution so patches continue to be made for the old versions.
MS Application Center is not bad. It is web focused, but with webservices alot of things can be web systems.
Good Features.
Problems
It has advantages over the Linux systems I have see with the GUI and aggregation of preformance data. The GUI is useful because you can not delegate tasks to junior staff, if they do not understand it. I have 60 web servers many running Linux and some W2K and a few have been trying app center for a while now and need performance information to know when to add and hopefully remove machines. I have run mainframes, but there are less software problems with popular systems like intel Linux and Windows machine so zSeries and big Suns which I have used in the past our not the magic bullet.
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In Canada it is also the last 7 years of filed tax returns and supporting documents. I believe it is the same in the US and may be a common length of time in western coutries.
The top or front of the fridge is a good spot for a computer in the kitchen. If you clear off the top, the computer can survey the room and provide information services. I can reach up and use the mouse or keyboard on the fridge front if needed. The network and power goes behind and is tucked away.