No DG stuff, but the DECs bring back memories. The paper tape was kinda fun; we used to make wreaths out of it for xmas. And who hasn't had the electric thrill of ducking a flying magtape when the hub froze on rewind? ];)
"Munich's attempt to migrate to Open Source ends in total disaster! Billions wasted! Budget destroyed! Fires! Floods! Dogs and cats living together! MASS HYSTERIA!"
Look, folks, it's really quite simple; the researchers who go along with the thundering herd get the research grants. The researchers who don't go along with the thundering herd don't get the research grants.
Thus, the same researchers who were once yelling about 'global cooling' are now yelling about 'global warming.' Why? Because that's where the money is these days.
Keep this in mind when the next 'environmental crisis' hits the headlines.
HP makes some pretty spiffy square-hole racks, as well; I was a little leery of the design at first, but now I don't know how I lived without them. Snap-in mounting rails: Whee!
I'd like to have a little heart-to-heart with HP's shipping department, though; the last rack they sent me arrived bent. It took me and another guy three hours with a 10-ton hydraulic ram to get the thing back into shape. What the hell did they do to it, run over it with a locomotive?
"I wonder if they finally did away with raised floors."
Are you out of your mind??? I don't know what sort of rinky-dink operation you're used to, but without raised floors our server rooms would rapidly turn into a bloody jungle and a hazard to both life and limb.:P
As a small aside, Novell has ported it's high-performance file system, NSS, to Linux. The first implementation is pretty clunky (requires its own physical array) and Reiser has a leg-up on a couple of items (like block suballocation), but it shows a lot of promise, especially if you run a good-sized network.
....But after you receive your 56th "I pushed the PF26 thingie and it didn't go" call while chained to the luser helpdesk, you begin to reminisce quite fondly of those halcyon days when you needed a CS degree just to be allowed *near* a computer.
"What is wrong with admitting you were speeding because you wanted to and face the music?"
Absolutely nothing. In fact, it's rather entertaining to see the look of astonishment on the cop's face as he says "you mean you're not going to argue with me!?"
There have been SuSE ISOs available for quite some time now, and multiple FTP sites; the one at suse.de is always overloaded, so just switch to one of the mirror sites.
P.S.: It looks like opensuse.org is supporting BitTorrent, as well. Haven't tested it yet, though, and it's currently only for the development images. Maybe with a little nudging, they'll expand BitTorrent support to the current production release....
Simply put, it's the distro that I put on an IBM 600X laptop and gave to my technophobic wife when she came to the conclusion that she had no choice but to use a PC.
If it doesn't make a "purty pichur", John Q. Sixpack isn't interested. If John Q. Sixpack isn't interested, then neither is the mainstream media that caters to John Q. Sixpack.
I'm Instrument-rated, and I don't know any Morse. It actually might help with cockpit workload a bit if I did, but since the dashes and dots are printed on the charts right next to the navaids, I've never bothered.
I wish certain people "peacefully assembling" in Scotland earlier this year had had your discipline; perhaps then they wouldn't have ended up looking like a mob of frothing lunatics.:(
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No DG stuff, but the DECs bring back memories.
The paper tape was kinda fun; we used to make wreaths out of it for xmas. And who hasn't had the electric thrill of ducking a flying magtape when the hub froze on rewind?
];)
....with Gates playing the part of the Emperor, it's fine with me.
];)
When I was serving in the military, the term "active response" to an intrusion meant a half-dozen pissed-off MPs with automatic weapons.
....I'm not all-that sure the military doesn't have the right idea, either....
....That would be a first.
:(
"Munich's attempt to migrate to Open Source ends in total disaster! Billions wasted! Budget destroyed! Fires! Floods! Dogs and cats living together! MASS HYSTERIA!"
];)
....Then Microsoft can buy the place up and turn it into a parking lot; thus eliminating some of the competition for Windows CE.
Bleck.
"....It's not prone to crashes any more than any other embedded system is...."
I take it that you've never worked on aerospace or military systems, correct? If you had, you'd have choked before making a statement like that.
And, speaking of choking, ever been in an aircraft that just dumped cabin pressure at 36,000 feet?
It's a pity that no-one ever did this sort of safety hand-wringing over far more dangerous substances, such as gasoline and jet fuel.
:P
Look, folks, it's really quite simple; the researchers who go along with the thundering herd get the research grants. The researchers who don't go along with the thundering herd don't get the research grants.
Thus, the same researchers who were once yelling about 'global cooling' are now yelling about 'global warming.' Why? Because that's where the money is these days.
Keep this in mind when the next 'environmental crisis' hits the headlines.
....Don't build a city atop a sinking heap of river silt.
:P
HP makes some pretty spiffy square-hole racks, as well; I was a little leery of the design at first, but now I don't know how I lived without them. Snap-in mounting rails: Whee!
I'd like to have a little heart-to-heart with HP's shipping department, though; the last rack they sent me arrived bent. It took me and another guy three hours with a 10-ton hydraulic ram to get the thing back into shape. What the hell did they do to it, run over it with a locomotive?
:(
"I wonder if they finally did away with raised floors."
:P
Are you out of your mind??? I don't know what sort of rinky-dink operation you're used to, but without raised floors our server rooms would rapidly turn into a bloody jungle and a hazard to both life and limb.
As a small aside, Novell has ported it's high-performance file system, NSS, to Linux. The first implementation is pretty clunky (requires its own physical array) and Reiser has a leg-up on a couple of items (like block suballocation), but it shows a lot of promise, especially if you run a good-sized network.
As Lou Gerstner once said, "There are things that go on in the IT field that would earn you jail time anywhere else."
>.
....But after you receive your 56th "I pushed the PF26 thingie and it didn't go" call while chained to the luser helpdesk, you begin to reminisce quite fondly of those halcyon days when you needed a CS degree just to be allowed *near* a computer.
"What is wrong with admitting you were speeding because you wanted to and face the music?"
Absolutely nothing. In fact, it's rather entertaining to see the look of astonishment on the cop's face as he says "you mean you're not going to argue with me!?"
];)
There have been SuSE ISOs available for quite some time now, and multiple FTP sites; the one at suse.de is always overloaded, so just switch to one of the mirror sites.
P.S.: It looks like opensuse.org is supporting BitTorrent, as well. Haven't tested it yet, though, and it's currently only for the development images. Maybe with a little nudging, they'll expand BitTorrent support to the current production release....
Simply put, it's the distro that I put on an IBM 600X laptop and gave to my technophobic wife when she came to the conclusion that she had no choice but to use a PC.
How's that?
;)
....courtesy of the American Public School System. :P
If it doesn't make a "purty pichur", John Q. Sixpack isn't interested. If John Q. Sixpack isn't interested, then neither is the mainstream media that caters to John Q. Sixpack.
"Stopping sniffers and vulnerability scanners by using encrypted network traffic (eg: IPSec, Sun SKIP, or something similar)"
Simply running a switched topology can put a heck of a big dent in the sniffer threat, without any of an encrypted network's headaches.
Or, we could simply fill the chassis full of concrete and chuck it into a volcano.
The only 'secure' data is data that has been physically destroyed. All other measures are nothing more than varying levels of risk.
"Let's hope Vista is more than a new color scheme and fancy GUI components."
Why would MS care what we hope for? '95 and '98 were little more than glitzed-up versions of 3.11, and they sold just fine.
I'm Instrument-rated, and I don't know any Morse. It actually might help with cockpit workload a bit if I did, but since the dashes and dots are printed on the charts right next to the navaids, I've never bothered.
I wish certain people "peacefully assembling" in Scotland earlier this year had had your discipline; perhaps then they wouldn't have ended up looking like a mob of frothing lunatics. :(