If you're going to spend that much money on a box, then use the OS it was designed for. Thats great you can run 40,000 simultaneous copies of linux, but what happens when they actually start doing work? I seriously doubt its like having 40,000 seperate computers.
Do a ftp install then or make your own ISO image, its not that difficult. Show your support to the project by purchasing the cd. So your opinion of an OS is based on the the fact he doesn't like ISO images? Give me a break.
A lot of the spam I get usually comes from some box over in asia. A quick scan of the boxes revealed solaris 2.7, someone just plugged it in and never bothered to fix inetd. EVERY service is usually running, useless shit like chargen and echo. Sun managed to fix sendmail in Solaris 8 so mail relaying is off by default. Finding out who owns the IP block is no good because 99% of the addresses don't work.
And whats wrong with not liking someone? You can't force me to like anyone. Do you see the pigeons hanging out with the crows? Nope. Its my right to form an opinion, and no one opinion is more right than the other.
And to quote Voltaire:
"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
yahoo, hotmail, sony japan, and cdrom.com all use FreeBSD for a reason. I'll take the BSD ipfilter over linux ipchains any day. ipfwadm was fucking horrible, trying to setup complicated firewall rules at the command line? ipchains is slightly better but nowhere near as good as ipfilter.
I'm interested in how all these people come to the conclusion that solaris is slow. Did you untar a large file on a sparc20 with a *SCSI2* drive? Well thats why its slow. A cheap upgrade for the new Ultras is to get a 7200 rpm IDE drive and dump the stock 5400 rpm. According to benchmars Solaris x86 outperformed linux and NT on transactions per second. I find FreeBSD to be much more zippy than linux. Why do large sites such as yahoo, apache, hotmail, sony japan and cdrom.com use FreeBSD?
How many people who hack linux in their spare time have exclusive access to a 16 or 32 way $500k server? Thats why you are better off running commercial unix, after all it was designed specifically for that hardware.
I think having to compile a kernel for a hardware change is archaic, when was the last time you had to recompile SunOS or IRIX when adding a second cpu or network card? Just load the module and you're ready to go.
"unless they're happy just knowing that some of their code is buried in a Microsoft or Apple program somewhere, one that they can't even use unless they pay Microsoft or Apple for the privilege. Still, it seems that there are such folks out there."
Thats me, althought why would I have to pay MS or apple, its the BSD license.
If you think fill rate is all that matters when doing professional graphics then you're wrong. What about mpeg/jpeg render engines, or geometry calculations, image quality, etc etc.
They almost went ahead with using nukes to blow up a mountain or something out in the desert, for a civil engineering project. It was stopped because a town was only like 20 miles down wind from the site.
I can tell you NeWS came with Irix 3.2.2. I have an ancient SGI Personal Iris 4D/20 circa 1990. The GUI was pretty good for its day, I wish it was ported to linux or some other OS. Anyhow heres a screenshot I took.
Mpeg is an open standard on almost every platform, I don't see many quicktime tools for SGI which most professional video is done. Quicktime is just some "standard" that apple pushed on everyone. Of course windows will be the dominant platform, how can it not be when over 80% of the world uses it.
What are your chances of being mugged on the street? England has no guns and it has some of the highest petty crime rates there is. Does the rise in home invasion crime scare you? Are you a strict vegetarian? Someone had to kill that hamburger you just ate. Killing smaller animals is the natural order of things. Cats eat mice and birds alligators eat almost anything, etc etc. I'm not afraid of a tool, which is exactly what a gun is. Someone stabs you with a knife, should all knives and anything remotely pointy be outlawed? No you punish the person not the instrument. I bet you're a fan of socialism too, right?
I'll make that crackhead pause a few seconds before stabbing me so I can dial 911. Its like the nuclear arms race, once both countries have nukes we know we can destroy each other and there is no winner. Joe crackhead might think twice before trying to rob someone.
Your rights are disappearing because the average person is a mindless sheep who is happy as long as this weeks episode of "er" isn't a repeat. Think about how you would want to slowly take control of the population. First dumb them down, sheep are easy to manage, they will do what the government tells them. Second they can't have a way to fight back, you can't have a revolution without some type of weapons. This may sound far fetched but its all part of the move towards a one world government. Its been brewing since ww2.
Check out that link to see what disarming the honest citizens has done. Did you really think the criminals who break laws will turn in their guns? Armed robberies are up 44%. Numbers don't lie.
Isn't the sound quality bad when you route voice over the internet? Especially with places like dialpad.com. Reliability is another issue, you don't know how often I see some alter.net router taking a shit or seeing 10.x IP's in a traceroute to @home.
When you use html there is no guarantee the person viewing it will have the correct fonts, screen resolution, etc etc. How many good free postscript viewers are there for windows? Maybe 2 or 3.
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If you're going to spend that much money on a box, then use the OS it was designed for. Thats great you can run 40,000 simultaneous copies of linux, but what happens when they actually start doing work? I seriously doubt its like having 40,000 seperate computers.
Do a ftp install then or make your own ISO image, its not that difficult. Show your support to the project by purchasing the cd. So your opinion of an OS is based on the the fact he doesn't like ISO images? Give me a break.
A lot of the spam I get usually comes from some box over in asia. A quick scan of the boxes revealed solaris 2.7, someone just plugged it in and never bothered to fix inetd. EVERY service is usually running, useless shit like chargen and echo. Sun managed to fix sendmail in Solaris 8 so mail relaying is off by default. Finding out who owns the IP block is no good because 99% of the addresses don't work.
And whats wrong with not liking someone? You can't force me to like anyone. Do you see the pigeons hanging out with the crows? Nope. Its my right to form an opinion, and no one opinion is more right than the other.
And to quote Voltaire:
"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
The recent redhat fiasco where the default password was left at "q" or something like that?
yahoo, hotmail, sony japan, and cdrom.com all use FreeBSD for a reason. I'll take the BSD ipfilter over linux ipchains any day. ipfwadm was fucking horrible, trying to setup complicated firewall rules at the command line? ipchains is slightly better but nowhere near as good as ipfilter.
Go to www.openbsd.org and www.freebsd.org and read the FAQ. Then make your decision.
I'm interested in how all these people come to the conclusion that solaris is slow. Did you untar a large file on a sparc20 with a *SCSI2* drive? Well thats why its slow. A cheap upgrade for the new Ultras is to get a 7200 rpm IDE drive and dump the stock 5400 rpm. According to benchmars Solaris x86 outperformed linux and NT on transactions per second. I find FreeBSD to be much more zippy than linux. Why do large sites such as yahoo, apache, hotmail, sony japan and cdrom.com use FreeBSD?
How many people who hack linux in their spare time have exclusive access to a 16 or 32 way $500k server? Thats why you are better off running commercial unix, after all it was designed specifically for that hardware.
I think having to compile a kernel for a hardware change is archaic, when was the last time you had to recompile SunOS or IRIX when adding a second cpu or network card? Just load the module and you're ready to go.
"unless they're happy just knowing that some of their code is buried in a Microsoft or Apple program somewhere, one that they can't even use unless they pay Microsoft or Apple for the privilege. Still, it seems that there are such folks out there."
Thats me, althought why would I have to pay MS or apple, its the BSD license.
If you think fill rate is all that matters when doing professional graphics then you're wrong. What about mpeg/jpeg render engines, or geometry calculations, image quality, etc etc.
They almost went ahead with using nukes to blow up a mountain or something out in the desert, for a civil engineering project. It was stopped because a town was only like 20 miles down wind from the site.
ftp://216.156.49.34/sgi.jpg
Irix 3.2.2 from an ancient SGI Personal Iris, that amazingly still works.
I can tell you NeWS came with Irix 3.2.2. I have an ancient SGI Personal Iris 4D/20 circa 1990. The GUI was pretty good for its day, I wish it was ported to linux or some other OS. Anyhow heres a screenshot I took.
ftp://216.156.49.34/sgi.jpg
Mpeg is an open standard on almost every platform, I don't see many quicktime tools for SGI which most professional video is done. Quicktime is just some "standard" that apple pushed on everyone. Of course windows will be the dominant platform, how can it not be when over 80% of the world uses it.
What are your chances of being mugged on the street? England has no guns and it has some of the highest petty crime rates there is. Does the rise in home invasion crime scare you? Are you a strict vegetarian? Someone had to kill that hamburger you just ate. Killing smaller animals is the natural order of things. Cats eat mice and birds alligators eat almost anything, etc etc. I'm not afraid of a tool, which is exactly what a gun is. Someone stabs you with a knife, should all knives and anything remotely pointy be outlawed? No you punish the person not the instrument. I bet you're a fan of socialism too, right?
then all the secret service and FBI agents in DC are criminals according to you.
I'll make that crackhead pause a few seconds before stabbing me so I can dial 911. Its like the nuclear arms race, once both countries have nukes we know we can destroy each other and there is no winner. Joe crackhead might think twice before trying to rob someone.
Your rights are disappearing because the average person is a mindless sheep who is happy as long as this weeks episode of "er" isn't a repeat. Think about how you would want to slowly take control of the population. First dumb them down, sheep are easy to manage, they will do what the government tells them. Second they can't have a way to fight back, you can't have a revolution without some type of weapons. This may sound far fetched but its all part of the move towards a one world government. Its been brewing since ww2.
http://www.warroom.com/ausguncontrol.htm
Check out that link to see what disarming the honest citizens has done. Did you really think the criminals who break laws will turn in their guns? Armed robberies are up 44%. Numbers don't lie.
Isn't the sound quality bad when you route voice over the internet? Especially with places like dialpad.com. Reliability is another issue, you don't know how often I see some alter.net router taking a shit or seeing 10.x IP's in a traceroute to @home.
None of the staff seem to be admitting otherwise, they probably can't confirm or deny for legal reasons.
Ok this is starting to bother me now, what the hell does OTOH mean?
When you use html there is no guarantee the person viewing it will have the correct fonts, screen resolution, etc etc. How many good free postscript viewers are there for windows? Maybe 2 or 3.
If linux is so great why does 90% of the world use windows?