On a serious note, people, including myself, are starting to worry about power consumption. I'd like to pick up a low power device for a BSD gateway.
Agreed! I'm currently interesting in replacing my 400Mhz desktop. (I've got a 1ghz dell laptop, and 12"TiBook) It's used mostly when I either don't want to unpack my notebook, or want to take advantage of my 21" monitor.
I have three major "wants": 1. Be good on power...I don't want to power it down. (Does linux suspend well yet?) 2. I want it to be quiet...I don't want to be able to hear it. 3. Major brand. I can build and support my own machines, but don't want the hastle with this one.
It is very hard to shop for something like this, as it's not something that is well marketed. I don't need it bad enough to be willing to spend major time comparing hard to find specs on a model at a time basis. I am sure swordbuy and myself are not the only ones with desires like this.
AMD was high on my list, and it just jumped a little bit higher.
I see AMD advertisements on the web all the time, but they don't seem to have much of the "big name maker" market. Why not? Is Intel so intreched that their value doesn't even matter any more?
AMD seems to have been kicking Intel's butt for a little while now technically.
I'd love to see some brand name servers start using AMD chips, look at what AMD's doing on the low end!
Last time around suggestions were things that were needed to function as "real" server.
Anyone else notice the "enlightened" comments here seem to be more aimed at matching Solaris this time around? Solaris (either purposly or not) may be put squarely in Linux's sights. Based on the track record of recent Linux developments, Sun should be worried. It's now or never to start coming up with a real business plan to address Linux. They can't consider it a "toy" for much longer and keep what little marketshare they are holding onto. On the low end, the Solaris advantage is already gone. Linux will soon be moving up the stack.
Isn't Aquada the group Bin Laden runs? Maybe this is really for fast getaways over land or sea? Maybe this is an improvement on the exposives under a rubber raft concept.
Why not just buy an Untralight? Sure, then you need a a stretch of open space like a runway, but in many parts of the world that's much easier to find than a river that just happens to follow your commute.
Put powered wheels on it and you've got a "flying car" (who needs a floating car?) if you're in this for the bragging rights.
I know other people have mentioned Evolution's vFolders, but here a little more.
My goal is to never have an email that has value to me land in my inbox. Every time I get an email of "value" which stays in Evolution's inbox, I right click, and "Create Filter from Message". (I'm paraphrasing.)
Every good message should have at least one filter putting it into at least one folder. Some emails have more than one rule, but the whole right click -> create filter thing makes this quick and easy.
So it's like Karma on Slashdot, but on a more stealth level, like Google PageRank.
It's more like a Google PageRank implemented Newsgroup posters instead of Web Sites, and run by Microsoft instead of Google. Microsoft is just adding true statistics and tracking to the already existant "human credibility" of posters.
And you will know enough to either get rid of it or not get it in the first place. Think of how many people have things like Gator on their machine...which they in a way installed (kazaa, etc)...and have not a clue why they get so many popups.
For the rest of the people out there who would never even know they have this, I'd much rather have them infected with this version.
I would hope after a certain amount of time, it stops trying to find other infected machines. My previous post is based on this assumption.
Some are arguing all this does is waste more bandwidth...
For the short term yes. Long term bandwidth is saved. I don't know the specific workings of this "fixer worm", but here's how I see it.
Short term, traffic will be twice as bad as if blaster were on the loose. More traffic = bad.
One the critical mass of open machines are patched by this sucker, the "total bandwidth" used by this whole RPC problem will plummet to almost nothing as more machines are patched and stop looking for others to patch. Less traffic = good.
Short term the traffic is worse, but in the long term less overall bandwidth is used.
I don't know where I stand overall on the ethical issues of this worm, but from a traffic perspective I see it as a good thing.
Someone who knows more about how exactly this fixer exploit works...feel free to reinforce or correct me.
There are three of us out of a company with about 20 Nextel phones who are looking to switch to Verizon. The Nextel network and converage is horrible.
Sometimes on normal phone calls the static is horrible....if we have coverage at all. Verizon in the same area has crystal clear calls. We are looking to switch for that reason alone.
Do these phones have bluetooth? Among the three of us, we all have at least one reason for wanting a bluetooth enabled phone.
We bought an EMC SAN from a bankruptcy auction of a failed telecom.
We payed $5k for the unit (bid price), which came to probaly about twice that once all was said and done.
EMC wanted some obsene amount of money to license us the software to boot the puppy up, so it sat in from of our datacenter for a few months. Then a sister division bought started looking into an IBM Shark for their datacenter that we would be using part of. Rumor is IBM gave us a $200k discount on the shark for the trade in of our EMC unit.
So we made off with $190k from the deal! (kind of) Not a bad profit after our horror of EMC's license cost!
To top it off, the EMC has been sitting in front of our datacenter for an addition 6 months or so. I fegure they don't even want the unit. They just didn't want us using it.
I can't see this happening, but here's the way I think this should work:
The phone company should be forced to "sell off"/"split off" a company that owns and maintains the poles and or last mile. This new company should continue to be government regulated, and maybe even get public funds. Forcing it to run as a non-profit run for the public good may not be a bad idea.
All companies that want, including the current incumbant, should have to purchase or lease access from this new company to provide copper based services.
This is what the mid 90's telecom act tried to create, but the "line owner" was virtual, and part of the largest service provider. The obvious conflict of interest caused problem. The solution? Eliminate the conflict, by making them two companies.
To take this a little further, I purchase my water from the town I live in. Why can't the copper last mile infrastructure be like that?
I know this is never going to happen, but that's my utopian vision.
I found it interesting how much these guys seem to like Dual AMD machines.
Not that is really suprises me, they are an "cheap" way to get really good performance. Whoever, they referred to them quite a few times in their promo material.
Two Points: 1. I believe Java is great for applications that do not have a fat client GUI. "Server-Side" components, and web applications, etc. seem to perform just fine.
2. Java is used the most by in house development teams. Many times in this evironment, the advantages of developing in Java outway the speed problem experienced by the users of a FAT GUI.
As a side note, I use IDEA for Java development, which is an IDE written in Java. The UI seems very responsive on my 1ghz linux laptop. Not sure what they do different than everyone else.
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On a serious note, people, including myself, are starting to worry about power consumption. I'd like to pick up a low power device for a BSD gateway.
Agreed! I'm currently interesting in replacing my 400Mhz desktop. (I've got a 1ghz dell laptop, and 12"TiBook) It's used mostly when I either don't want to unpack my notebook, or want to take advantage of my 21" monitor.
I have three major "wants":
1. Be good on power...I don't want to power it down. (Does linux suspend well yet?)
2. I want it to be quiet...I don't want to be able to hear it.
3. Major brand. I can build and support my own machines, but don't want the hastle with this one.
It is very hard to shop for something like this, as it's not something that is well marketed. I don't need it bad enough to be willing to spend major time comparing hard to find specs on a model at a time basis. I am sure swordbuy and myself are not the only ones with desires like this.
AMD was high on my list, and it just jumped a little bit higher.
-Pete
I see AMD advertisements on the web all the time, but they don't seem to have much of the "big name maker" market. Why not? Is Intel so intreched that their value doesn't even matter any more?
AMD seems to have been kicking Intel's butt for a little while now technically.
I'd love to see some brand name servers start using AMD chips, look at what AMD's doing on the low end!
-Pete
I say SCO is a big pile of poo!
Does that make it so? No, even though it may be true.
Funny how a company trying to revoke a "irrevokable" contract is calling a similar contract Unenforceable.
-Pete
I have heard that Panther has X11 support built in. Does this mean (for example) run OpenOffice without having to first start up X11?
That would make running "ported/recompiled" X11 apps much simpler.
Can someone with the developer version comment on how this works?
-Pete
Last time around suggestions were things that were needed to function as "real" server.
Anyone else notice the "enlightened" comments here seem to be more aimed at matching Solaris this time around? Solaris (either purposly or not) may be put squarely in Linux's sights. Based on the track record of recent Linux developments, Sun should be worried. It's now or never to start coming up with a real business plan to address Linux. They can't consider it a "toy" for much longer and keep what little marketshare they are holding onto. On the low end, the Solaris advantage is already gone. Linux will soon be moving up the stack.
-Pete
If the name of keeping up with the leader of the industry, I think we should integrate Mozilla. A web browser is an integral part of a modern OS.
-Pete
The GrokLaw site has been slashdotted and is cooling off. Please check again in a few minutes or try the "old" site at Radio or the Google cache.
Our apologies for this interruption of service, the Webmaster.
Tiny Minds must have Tiny Server two. :-)
./'ing I've seen in a while.
That's the fastest
-Pete
1 +2 comment, and it't already slashdotted!
Either people are actually READING the article...or this guys got a small server configuration. (MySQL connections are full.)
As a linux user since 1995, I have a lot of respect for this guy. Too bad we're all SOL with the interview.
-Pete
Isn't Aquada the group Bin Laden runs? Maybe this is really for fast getaways over land or sea? Maybe this is an improvement on the exposives under a rubber raft concept.
Hmmm...
-Pete
Why not just buy an Untralight? Sure, then you need a a stretch of open space like a runway, but in many parts of the world that's much easier to find than a river that just happens to follow your commute.
Put powered wheels on it and you've got a "flying car" (who needs a floating car?) if you're in this for the bragging rights.
-Pete
I know other people have mentioned Evolution's vFolders, but here a little more.
My goal is to never have an email that has value to me land in my inbox. Every time I get an email of "value" which stays in Evolution's inbox, I right click, and "Create Filter from Message". (I'm paraphrasing.)
Every good message should have at least one filter putting it into at least one folder. Some emails have more than one rule, but the whole right click -> create filter thing makes this quick and easy.
-Pete
With $40+ billion in the bank...that's the best they can do?
That's sad.
-Pete
I know New York State added their entire existing state wide do not call list into the national one.
If many states are doing that it is not suprising the number is that high.
-Pete
So it's like Karma on Slashdot, but on a more stealth level, like Google PageRank.
It's more like a Google PageRank implemented Newsgroup posters instead of Web Sites, and run by Microsoft instead of Google. Microsoft is just adding true statistics and tracking to the already existant "human credibility" of posters.
Newgroups posts are public.
I don't see this as a problem.
-Pete
I don't care! At those rates and ranges, if they can provide equipment at consumer market prices and linux drivers I'll buy their product.
They may be a logical jump for "private" networks still on 802.11b. Skip G all together, which last I knew had little to know Linux support.
Not only faster, but my whole house should be covered. Now w/ 11b, I have dead spots in the far reaches of my not so large house. 100m/b to boot!
-Pete
And you will know enough to either get rid of it or not get it in the first place. Think of how many people have things like Gator on their machine...which they in a way installed (kazaa, etc)...and have not a clue why they get so many popups.
For the rest of the people out there who would never even know they have this, I'd much rather have them infected with this version.
I would hope after a certain amount of time, it stops trying to find other infected machines. My previous post is based on this assumption.
-Pete
Some are arguing all this does is waste more bandwidth...
For the short term yes. Long term bandwidth is saved. I don't know the specific workings of this "fixer worm", but here's how I see it.
Short term, traffic will be twice as bad as if blaster were on the loose. More traffic = bad.
One the critical mass of open machines are patched by this sucker, the "total bandwidth" used by this whole RPC problem will plummet to almost nothing as more machines are patched and stop looking for others to patch. Less traffic = good.
Short term the traffic is worse, but in the long term less overall bandwidth is used.
I don't know where I stand overall on the ethical issues of this worm, but from a traffic perspective I see it as a good thing.
Someone who knows more about how exactly this fixer exploit works...feel free to reinforce or correct me.
-Pete
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is not quite sure whether this is a good or a bad thing.
My conscience and ethics are torn apart by this...
-Pete
There are three of us out of a company with about 20 Nextel phones who are looking to switch to Verizon. The Nextel network and converage is horrible.
Sometimes on normal phone calls the static is horrible....if we have coverage at all. Verizon in the same area has crystal clear calls. We are looking to switch for that reason alone.
Do these phones have bluetooth? Among the three of us, we all have at least one reason for wanting a bluetooth enabled phone.
Anyone know?
Thanks,
-Pete
We bought an EMC SAN from a bankruptcy auction of a failed telecom.
We payed $5k for the unit (bid price), which came to probaly about twice that once all was said and done.
EMC wanted some obsene amount of money to license us the software to boot the puppy up, so it sat in from of our datacenter for a few months. Then a sister division bought started looking into an IBM Shark for their datacenter that we would be using part of. Rumor is IBM gave us a $200k discount on the shark for the trade in of our EMC unit.
So we made off with $190k from the deal! (kind of) Not a bad profit after our horror of EMC's license cost!
To top it off, the EMC has been sitting in front of our datacenter for an addition 6 months or so. I fegure they don't even want the unit. They just didn't want us using it.
That's my interesting experience with this.
-Pete
I can't see this happening, but here's the way I think this should work:
The phone company should be forced to "sell off"/"split off" a company that owns and maintains the poles and or last mile. This new company should continue to be government regulated, and maybe even get public funds. Forcing it to run as a non-profit run for the public good may not be a bad idea.
All companies that want, including the current incumbant, should have to purchase or lease access from this new company to provide copper based services.
This is what the mid 90's telecom act tried to create, but the "line owner" was virtual, and part of the largest service provider. The obvious conflict of interest caused problem. The solution? Eliminate the conflict, by making them two companies.
To take this a little further, I purchase my water from the town I live in. Why can't the copper last mile infrastructure be like that?
I know this is never going to happen, but that's my utopian vision.
-Pete
I found it interesting how much these guys seem to like Dual AMD machines.
Not that is really suprises me, they are an "cheap" way to get really good performance. Whoever, they referred to them quite a few times in their promo material.
-Pete
Two Points:
1. I believe Java is great for applications that do not have a fat client GUI. "Server-Side" components, and web applications, etc. seem to perform just fine.
2. Java is used the most by in house development teams. Many times in this evironment, the advantages of developing in Java outway the speed problem experienced by the users of a FAT GUI.
As a side note, I use IDEA for Java development, which is an IDE written in Java. The UI seems very responsive on my 1ghz linux laptop. Not sure what they do different than everyone else.
-Pete
Is it just me, or do you think cell-phone company when you read "Windows Mobile"?
-Pete