Why, how DARE they even THINK about charging people! They're using Open Source products and tools, and therefore they should be GIVING THEM away for FREE!
Why, the only thing they could be doing that would be worse than this, I think, would be using advertising on top of the product that other people put together.
Idiot. You do realize that the FSF used to sell their stuff too, right?
He didn't say that they make the best FPU core in the world. Can I run down to Future Shop and snag an Alpha station, a copy of Windows and Office so I can read word docs? No? Doesn't sound like so good a chip to me. Sure, it can do everything faster, cheaper, and while playing a symphonic orchestra, but if I can't get my hands on it, and use it for whatever I use computers for on a daily basis, it sure as hell doesn't qualify as 'the best.'
(I still like the fact that I can put a console server on the serial port and do anything to the server, including os installs, from anywhere in the world.)
Just as a point of order, on Dell you can plug in a Dell Remote Administration Card and get the same effect. Compaq has a similar dealie for it's Intel servers. I'm sure other high end Intel server solutions have similar options.
It's also largely in part to the fact that processors are starting to require program targetting to get maximum performance; the G4's no hell until you start programming altivec, for example. The Pentium 4 is no different; it's no hell until you start programming in SSE2...then watch the fur fly.
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True, true, you'd have to make it a pentium class. But a good 100baseT NIC can spew a lot of bandwitdh.
And given what we're paying Exodus for ourselves, one router dying shouldn't affect a damn thing. That could just as simply been Exodus personelle talking, and it shouldn't, or should I say needent, have taken more than four hours to have new hardware onsite. Upload your router config, and off you go. Let alone talk of redundancy and stuff.:-)
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Shouldn't it have gone something like this?
Dude, router's dead.
Crap. Can we ping through the switch to other servers?
Yup.
Can we ping this side of the router? What about the other side?
Nope.
Is it on?
Yup.
Spool up the console. Does the configuration match this handy printed version we have?
Yup.
Great. Call up Cisco, here's our service agreement number, and have a replacement sent within four hours. Better yet, plug in the spare. Better yet, grab the 486 in the corner, throw in a second NIC, Throw in pretty much any current OS other than MacOS 9, and turn on IP forwarding. Router, schmouter, at least until we get a new one.
OK.
Buddy, when I posted that comment, there was, I believe, one comment that I could read at my +1 threshold. I was railing against the poster and the slashdot editor, not against slashdot at large.
IIS has always been a kernel space server. Or, I should say, has always had the option of running in kernel space. Similarly, NT 3.x had the graphical subsystem in userspace, but moved it into kernel space in the 4.x version.
We've got an electronic toll highway here in Toronto (or, for the natives, Toe-rannah) which notes when you get onto the highway, notes when you get off of it, and calculates toll based on distance. Seeing as how they also have a timestamp, I've wondered why they don't auto-fine speeders.
Distance travelled: 50 km. Time taken: 15 minutes. Speed limit: 100 kph. Speeding fine attached.
Statement: Hey, everybody, IIS is blazing fast because it runs in Kernal space!
Response: That's stupid! It'll crash the server! It'll compromise security!
Statement: Hey, everybody, TUX is blazing fast because it runs in Kernal space!
Response: Wooohooo! This is a major turning point in web servers! Yay Linux!
If you can get onto the website, you can put up a binary. Oh, and change the MD5 checksum that's listed on the webpage.:-)
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Apology accepted, but next time, you might try a question rather than an accusation. "Say, it looks like every post you've ever made is modded up at least one." "What? No, only six or seven are modded up; I start at 2 because I have lots and lots of Karma. Note the FAQ." "Oh, ok, cool. Thanks."
Just for fun, I'll post this one at 1.
Oh, and bye the bye, the post you were referring to, where I mentioned that I don't have any other accounts, WAS NOT MODDED UP. Read the damn slashdot faq.
Logged-in users start at 1 (although this can vary from 0 to 2 based on their karma) and anonymous users start at 0.
I have no idea what your problem is. Jealousy? Self-righteousness? Penis envy?
Oh no, somebody has more Karma than I do. But because I personally don't think they deserve it, he must have gotten it by cheating! There is NO possible way that any moderator could possibly think differently than I do, therefore there is NO possible way that any legitimate moderator would ever mod this guy up! Oh no, I've only posted 9 posts, one or two of which have gotten modded up! He's posted 30 or 40, and they almost all did! Waahhh! Waahh! It's not fair!
Budda Flying on a Gods-damned bicycle. I hope for both our sakes that somebody does decide to listen to your pissing and moaning, take a look at the logs, and tell you that yes, I only have one account, that yes, all of my modded posts were modded by people other than myself, and then you'll shut up.
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Actually, according to the article, the motherboard itself had an ethernet chip, but there was no physical ethernet port; I guess that's actually more useless than not having an ethernet chip onboard. But once again, it was also a beta board.
I had a discussion with SuiteSisterMary and noticed that each of his (her?) responses was moderated up to 2 as soon as it appeared, as was the case with all but one of SuiteSisterMary's other postings postings on that article.
Actually, if you understood Slashdot's Karma system, you'd know that if you have high enough Karma, you automatically post at +1, and if you have low enough karma, you automatically post at -1. ACs post at 0, and registered users post at 1, followed by the above modifiers.
And I don't have other accounts.
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...no onboard ethernet...
According to the article, it does.
The MCP also has all the typical I/O connectivity and functionality you'd expect from a south bridge. These include two ATA/100 channels for hard drives, a hardware Ethernet 10/100 MAC
And although the ref board only has two PCI slots, the chipset supports 5. Asus already has one in the pipeline.
Andromeda has come under fire, rightly so, for being derivative, "Star-Trek Lite", as it were. I agree with this, as Andromeda clearly has its derivative parts. Where Star Trek has the Federation, Andromeda has the Systems Commonwealth. Where star Trek had Warp Drive, Andromeda has the Slip Stream. And so on..
That's because it originally WAS intended to set after the fall of the Federation. It WAS intended to be Star Trek three hundred years after The Original Series.
Got a bit trigger happy on the 'submit' button.
What the question should have read like is 'I'd LIKE to move my office over to Linux, for all these good reasons, but haven't been able to find a Linux-based replacement for our HR system. Does anybody know of any?
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Why, how DARE they even THINK about charging people! They're using Open Source products and tools, and therefore they should be GIVING THEM away for FREE! Why, the only thing they could be doing that would be worse than this, I think, would be using advertising on top of the product that other people put together. Idiot. You do realize that the FSF used to sell their stuff too, right?
He didn't say that they make the best FPU core in the world. Can I run down to Future Shop and snag an Alpha station, a copy of Windows and Office so I can read word docs? No? Doesn't sound like so good a chip to me. Sure, it can do everything faster, cheaper, and while playing a symphonic orchestra, but if I can't get my hands on it, and use it for whatever I use computers for on a daily basis, it sure as hell doesn't qualify as 'the best.'
It's also largely in part to the fact that processors are starting to require program targetting to get maximum performance; the G4's no hell until you start programming altivec, for example. The Pentium 4 is no different; it's no hell until you start programming in SSE2...then watch the fur fly.
True, true, you'd have to make it a pentium class. But a good 100baseT NIC can spew a lot of bandwitdh. And given what we're paying Exodus for ourselves, one router dying shouldn't affect a damn thing. That could just as simply been Exodus personelle talking, and it shouldn't, or should I say needent, have taken more than four hours to have new hardware onsite. Upload your router config, and off you go. Let alone talk of redundancy and stuff. :-)
Shouldn't it have gone something like this? Dude, router's dead.
Crap. Can we ping through the switch to other servers?
Yup.
Can we ping this side of the router? What about the other side?
Nope.
Is it on?
Yup.
Spool up the console. Does the configuration match this handy printed version we have?
Yup.
Great. Call up Cisco, here's our service agreement number, and have a replacement sent within four hours. Better yet, plug in the spare. Better yet, grab the 486 in the corner, throw in a second NIC, Throw in pretty much any current OS other than MacOS 9, and turn on IP forwarding. Router, schmouter, at least until we get a new one.
OK.
Training should be like bloodless battles, and battles should be like bloody training.
Acutally, properly bumpy concrete for better traction. :-)
Buddy, when I posted that comment, there was, I believe, one comment that I could read at my +1 threshold. I was railing against the poster and the slashdot editor, not against slashdot at large.
IIS has always been a kernel space server. Or, I should say, has always had the option of running in kernel space. Similarly, NT 3.x had the graphical subsystem in userspace, but moved it into kernel space in the 4.x version.
Vielen danken for the correction.
Statement: Hey, everybody, IIS is blazing fast because it runs in Kernal space!
Response: That's stupid! It'll crash the server! It'll compromise security! Statement: Hey, everybody, TUX is blazing fast because it runs in Kernal space!
Response: Wooohooo! This is a major turning point in web servers! Yay Linux!
If you can get onto the website, you can put up a binary. Oh, and change the MD5 checksum that's listed on the webpage. :-)
Apology accepted, but next time, you might try a question rather than an accusation. "Say, it looks like every post you've ever made is modded up at least one." "What? No, only six or seven are modded up; I start at 2 because I have lots and lots of Karma. Note the FAQ." "Oh, ok, cool. Thanks." Just for fun, I'll post this one at 1.
Actually, according to the article, the motherboard itself had an ethernet chip, but there was no physical ethernet port; I guess that's actually more useless than not having an ethernet chip onboard. But once again, it was also a beta board.
Got a bit trigger happy on the 'submit' button. What the question should have read like is 'I'd LIKE to move my office over to Linux, for all these good reasons, but haven't been able to find a Linux-based replacement for our HR system. Does anybody know of any?