...probably the one targeting the most knowledgable audience of system administrators and 'IT professionals.'
I guess the person who submitted this has never seen a copy of SysAdmin magazine.
Seriously, from everything I've always heard about this magazine, I was expecting something more along the lines of SysAdmin... it turns out a better comparison would be InfoWorld, a wonderful magazine, but a considerably different market.
SysAmin is targeted at the hardcore system administrator and system architects, where InforWorld (and possibly iX) appear to be more suited for IT managers _as_well_as_ system administrators and system architects.
Either way you look at it, I applaud their willingness to finally produce an english language version... I'm sure it will be very popular! I, for one, will be reading it.
Before you reply with a knee-jerk reaction telling me about the Evolution Connector (originally by Ximian), it is useless unless your company runs OWA (Outlook Web Access).
What we need is a module similar to Connector that works via MAPI, not HTTP, for the majority of companies out there who do not run a web server for email.
I would _love_ to be able to run Linux on my main work computer, but unfortunately I have to stick with MS-Windows for that system to be able to communicate with the rest of the company, and run Linux on an abandoned dinosaur for real work.
Bugs mainly... like the one that causes all the windows that belong to a single client to cycle focus when the mouse is moved from one to another, or a new window popped up (most commonly seen in web browsers). Insanely annoying, requiring that you shade all of the windows to get it to stop.
There are others, but that was by far the most annoying and common.
Also features... you should have a look at AfterStep, it's quite nice (if it weren't for the weird decision to reverse the mouse-buttons, I'd already be using it as my main WM).
Anyone know of a comparison between GNUstep, WindowMaker, and AfterStep?
I'd finally given up on WindowMaker a few weeks back, nothing has been happening with it for so long - I was looking at AfterStep, but the configuration and user-interface are a bit different and tough to get used to (AS uses the wrong mouse button for menus, for example). Glad to see it hasn't been completely abandoned.
Anyways, the original question: Are there any reasonably current (within the last few years) comparisons out there?
Exactly what I was thinking. HP and Intel deserve this for killing off the two most powerful processor lines in history.
Back when PA-RISC and Alpha were in production, the gap between them and the next fastest CPU lines were staggering. I used to check the CPU Info Center at Berkeley every time a new one was released, just to see how badly it humiliated the competition (sadly, the CPU Info Center is no longer maintained).
The Athlon (before it was named such) uses the Alpha's bus... and the original slot-A design was compatible with both the Alpha and the Athlon, all you would need to sell a motherboard for the other one is a different BIOS. This was the selling point that convinced many motherboard manufacturers to actually make these boards. Unfortunately, only a tiny handful of companies actually marketed the resulting systems using the Alpha CPUs (mostly in Linux Journal & Linux Magazine as rackmount servers).
They could have done so much more... oh well. My current favorites are UltraSPARC and PowerPC (with POWER close behind).
Yeah, too bad TechTV went down the toilet after the buyout. G4TechTV seems to be all-gamerz - all-the-time. They dumped nearly every show I ever watched on that channel. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against gamerz, I love playing UT or bzflag every once in a while, but I'm not the kind of person who lives for it, nor am I the kind of person who wants to watch others play games... that's even less exciting than watching other people play sports (rather than actually playing them).
If the boneheads running the networks had any brains at all, they would have MOVED the gamer-dood shows from TechTV to G4 and added more tech-content to TechTV. Start with 2 channels, end up with 2 _better_ and more content-focused channels.
I am really hoping the Discovery/TLC guys make a new high-tech channel to fill this void. Something between the old TechTV and the Research Channel would be perfect. Discovery-Geek has a nice ring to it (just kidding).
Well, count the number of people suggesting you find a laser disk version on Bit Torrent. There are at least a half a dozen posted on this story already.
True, but the people doing that are interested in the original version anyways... which he won't release.
1. Don't give people what they want, give them something you want. 2. Insult customers. 3. What do you mean "no profit!"???
He's basically saying that all Star Wars fans are pirates suffering from obsessive/compulsive disorder!
He's saying we will all pirate his movies as soon as they are posted somewhere, but if he releases them... we will all go out and buy them rather than waiting for someone to post them.
It's been in the kernel for while, though I don't know much about using it. I never bothered even looking at it (had no need) until a coworker wanted to use it (on Thursday) to do some testing and asked me about it.
Here's the chunk of Kconfig:
config NET_SCH_DELAY
tristate "Delay simulator"
depends on NET_SCHED
help
Say Y if you want to delay packets by a fixed amount of
time. This is often useful to simulate network delay when
testing applications or protocols.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called sch_delay.
Please reply to this if you have been able to get this working... the tuning parameters to tc we found give errors (and yes, we built installed the latest iproute2 tarball). Then again, we only spent a few minutes playing with it (he had to leave).
The wealthiest man in the world, who tries to take over any market that appears to be about to boom, has not bothered funding his own space flight project.
Then again, he always did wait until a boom had already occurred before jumping in (like the internet, for example).
Heh, 'sides... would anyone actually want to fly on something made by the people who bring you the BSOD?
Maybe it was a good business-decision after-all.;)
I tried numerous times today to scp a 1MB file from an XP box running the current version of Cygwin to a Linux box (#1) with the most recent OpenSSH. It would xfer a random amount (0-43%) and hang every time I tried. I finally ended up using Linux's SMB mounting capability to access the file and used the Linux box (#2) to scp the file - no problem.
The XP box and 2nd Linux box mentioned are on the same network, the 1st Linux box (that I was trying to scp to) was on another network many hops away.
I have no idea why it would hang every time, but I went to check the installed version using Cygwin's setup tool and it said openssh and openssl were both current.
Tell you what... install the software on Linux and provide the customer with the BSOD screen-saver, they'll think they got MS-Windows.;)
Anyone know if they plan to offer upgrade discounts to existing sidekick customers?
I'd love to get my hands on the new one, but I'm not going to fork over another $300 for the thing! Heck, my 1st gen is only a year old (well, newer... I'm on my 3rd replacement) and I bought it right after it came out!
Yeah, the promises are getting old... the OLD ONE was supposed to get all of the software updates the NEW ONE has... that's pretty sleazy and they WILL lose a lot of customers because of it.
There's a huge following for this device, and they've been beating on the walls waiting for some of these updates that they (we) were told a year ago would be out shortly.
These folk won't be too happy if they find out they've been lied to for this long and have to repurchase what they originally were sold.
One place I used to admin, one of the users was Jim Root! Not kidding... always ended up having to call the helpdesk every time the root password was changed on all the servers - some dork didn't know how to write scripts that handle usernames with "root" in 'em. He was amazingly patient with us, kinda backwards situation.
You know how much most geeks (including myself) would pay to be able to do what comes naturally to you? If you're not tired, you probably don't need the sleep.
Even with megadoses of caffeine, I either get the shakes and am jumpy, or nothing happens and I'm still tired... I'd LOVE to be able to reduce my sleep down to a few hours - I'd have SO much more time for research, learning, working on my computers, etc.
As it is, if I get more than 8-1/2 hours of sleep, I'm groggy as hell and my muscles are all stiff and sore. If I sleep less than 6 hours, I'm tired unless something very interesting has my attention (or I'm up and moving about). If I get less than 4-1/2, I'm only about 60% there all day.
At least with the Apple ][ line, Apple eventually released DOS 3.3 and ProDOS for free.
It'd be really nice if they ever released (and open-sourced) the Newton OS... you'd think with brass like Scully behind 'em, they'd be able to get this done. It has no value to Apple any more, so why not?
The only reason I can imagine for them hanging onto the OS is if they plan to release a new version of it (and the hardware), and I can't imagine them doing that after this amount of time out of the market.
Maybe Scully will talk Apple into allowing an offshoot company to produce a new one and see how it sells... should sell much better than before, considering how much of a "movement" is behind then with the iPods already... they've figured out the marketing hooks to use, so why not?
Anyone who's interested in this idea should send either Scully himself, or this new association recommending such. With enough "grassroots" effort, they might be convinced to go with it!
I dunno... I think the MS deal is worse, as the government is helping them maintain their monopoly, when they're supposed to be doing the exact opposite.
Both are sleazy, underhanded ways around a real penalty, but the record deal just dumps garbage, the MS deal ends up making them even more money and creating more people that think that MS is the only solution.
OK, the Microsoft deal was worse, as it propogates their monopoly, but still... give one gigacorp a massive break, you have to give it to all of 'em, right?
I'm very curious which Sun array this is, and which drives you are using.
I've worked in the Sun market for well over a decade, and I haven't seen failure rates like you're describing since the old Seagate 2.9G 5-1/4" full-height drives they used to have in their "Mass Storage" cabinets (the ones that looked exactly like a SPARCcenter 2000)... and that was only after the drives were out of production for a few YEARS (all replacements were refurbs).
My guess is you have serious environmental issues... heat/humidity due to a non-datacenter environment (do you have raised-floor-cooling? is it under 70F?), or non-isolated air (is the A/C air-handler the same one used for the rest of the building?), or you have non-isolated power and have regular spikes (in Miami maybe?). You need a _true_ UPS system, not an SPS labeled as a UPS.
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I guess the person who submitted this has never seen a copy of SysAdmin magazine.
Seriously, from everything I've always heard about this magazine, I was expecting something more along the lines of SysAdmin... it turns out a better comparison would be InfoWorld, a wonderful magazine, but a considerably different market.
SysAmin is targeted at the hardcore system administrator and system architects, where InforWorld (and possibly iX) appear to be more suited for IT managers _as_well_as_ system administrators and system architects.
Either way you look at it, I applaud their willingness to finally produce an english language version... I'm sure it will be very popular!
I, for one, will be reading it.
Before you reply with a knee-jerk reaction telling me about the Evolution Connector (originally by Ximian), it is useless unless your company runs OWA (Outlook Web Access).
What we need is a module similar to Connector that works via MAPI, not HTTP, for the majority of companies out there who do not run a web server for email.
I would _love_ to be able to run Linux on my main work computer, but unfortunately I have to stick with MS-Windows for that system to be able to communicate with the rest of the company, and run Linux on an abandoned dinosaur for real work.
Read the rest of the posting.
I will not reply to any more of your trolls.
That's already been established, so your post is redundant and not at all helpful.
The original question still stands unanswered.
Bugs mainly... like the one that causes all the windows that belong to a single client to cycle focus when the mouse is moved from one to another, or a new window popped up (most commonly seen in web browsers). Insanely annoying, requiring that you shade all of the windows to get it to stop.
There are others, but that was by far the most annoying and common.
Also features... you should have a look at AfterStep, it's quite nice (if it weren't for the weird decision to reverse the mouse-buttons, I'd already be using it as my main WM).
Anyone know of a comparison between GNUstep, WindowMaker, and AfterStep?
I'd finally given up on WindowMaker a few weeks back, nothing has been happening with it for so long - I was looking at AfterStep, but the configuration and user-interface are a bit different and tough to get used to (AS uses the wrong mouse button for menus, for example). Glad to see it hasn't been completely abandoned.
Anyways, the original question: Are there any reasonably current (within the last few years) comparisons out there?
http://www.opensecrets.org/ is a great place to find out what organizations and industries are giving the most $$ to each candidate.
There's a lot more content than that there, check it out.
Exactly what I was thinking.
HP and Intel deserve this for killing off the two most powerful processor lines in history.
Back when PA-RISC and Alpha were in production, the gap between them and the next fastest CPU lines were staggering. I used to check the CPU Info Center at Berkeley every time a new one was released, just to see how badly it humiliated the competition (sadly, the CPU Info Center is no longer maintained).
The Athlon (before it was named such) uses the Alpha's bus... and the original slot-A design was compatible with both the Alpha and the Athlon, all you would need to sell a motherboard for the other one is a different BIOS. This was the selling point that convinced many motherboard manufacturers to actually make these boards. Unfortunately, only a tiny handful of companies actually marketed the resulting systems using the Alpha CPUs (mostly in Linux Journal & Linux Magazine as rackmount servers).
They could have done so much more... oh well.
My current favorites are UltraSPARC and PowerPC (with POWER close behind).
Yeah, too bad TechTV went down the toilet after the buyout.
G4TechTV seems to be all-gamerz - all-the-time. They dumped nearly every show I ever watched on that channel.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against gamerz, I love playing UT or bzflag every once in a while, but I'm not the kind of person who lives for it, nor am I the kind of person who wants to watch others play games... that's even less exciting than watching other people play sports (rather than actually playing them).
If the boneheads running the networks had any brains at all, they would have MOVED the gamer-dood shows from TechTV to G4 and added more tech-content to TechTV.
Start with 2 channels, end up with 2 _better_ and more content-focused channels.
I am really hoping the Discovery/TLC guys make a new high-tech channel to fill this void. Something between the old TechTV and the Research Channel would be perfect. Discovery-Geek has a nice ring to it (just kidding).
Well, count the number of people suggesting you find a laser disk version on Bit Torrent. There are at least a half a dozen posted on this story already.
True, but the people doing that are interested in the original version anyways... which he won't release.
1. Don't give people what they want, give them something you want.
2. Insult customers.
3. What do you mean "no profit!"???
He's basically saying that all Star Wars fans are pirates suffering from obsessive/compulsive disorder!
He's saying we will all pirate his movies as soon as they are posted somewhere, but if he releases them... we will all go out and buy them rather than waiting for someone to post them.
WTF?!?
Way to win a loyal customer base, bonehead!
I'm shocked no-one has posted this!
It's been in the kernel for while, though I don't know much about using it. I never bothered even looking at it (had no need) until a coworker wanted to use it (on Thursday) to do some testing and asked me about it.
Here's the chunk of Kconfig:
config NET_SCH_DELAY
tristate "Delay simulator"
depends on NET_SCHED
help
Say Y if you want to delay packets by a fixed amount of
time. This is often useful to simulate network delay when
testing applications or protocols.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called sch_delay.
Please reply to this if you have been able to get this working... the tuning parameters to tc we found give errors (and yes, we built installed the latest iproute2 tarball).
Then again, we only spent a few minutes playing with it (he had to leave).
The wealthiest man in the world, who tries to take over any market that appears to be about to boom, has not bothered funding his own space flight project.
Then again, he always did wait until a boom had already occurred before jumping in (like the internet, for example).
Heh, 'sides... would anyone actually want to fly on something made by the people who bring you the BSOD?
Maybe it was a good business-decision after-all.
I tried numerous times today to scp a 1MB file from an XP box running the current version of Cygwin to a Linux box (#1) with the most recent OpenSSH.
It would xfer a random amount (0-43%) and hang every time I tried.
I finally ended up using Linux's SMB mounting capability to access the file and used the Linux box (#2) to scp the file - no problem.
The XP box and 2nd Linux box mentioned are on the same network, the 1st Linux box (that I was trying to scp to) was on another network many hops away.
I have no idea why it would hang every time, but I went to check the installed version using Cygwin's setup tool and it said openssh and openssl were both current.
Tell you what... install the software on Linux and provide the customer with the BSOD screen-saver, they'll think they got MS-Windows.
Yep, 2.5.1 is the only release that supported PPC... and I'd love to get my hands on a copy.
I have a Motorola PowerStack, an early PReP (pre-CHRP) based machine, that I'd love to see running Solaris.
"most" != "all"
As for the rest, we shall see what they do.
Because of the wording of the article.
Most of the stated improvements over the 1st-generation of the color Sidekick are software.
These won't be selling points for the new one if the old one gets the same software.
These patents can't stand, and should never have been given in the first place.
To receive a patent on something, you have to have INVENTED IT (like a lightbulb).
You cannot patent something you DISCOVER (like a comet).
Do these companies claim to have invented humans, or just certain diseases that have been around for millenia?
Anyone know if they plan to offer upgrade discounts to existing sidekick customers?
I'd love to get my hands on the new one, but I'm not going to fork over another $300 for the thing!
Heck, my 1st gen is only a year old (well, newer... I'm on my 3rd replacement) and I bought it right after it came out!
Yeah, the promises are getting old... the OLD ONE was supposed to get all of the software updates the NEW ONE has... that's pretty sleazy and they WILL lose a lot of customers because of it.
There's a huge following for this device, and they've been beating on the walls waiting for some of these updates that they (we) were told a year ago would be out shortly.
These folk won't be too happy if they find out they've been lied to for this long and have to repurchase what they originally were sold.
One place I used to admin, one of the users was Jim Root!
Not kidding... always ended up having to call the helpdesk every time the root password was changed on all the servers - some dork didn't know how to write scripts that handle usernames with "root" in 'em.
He was amazingly patient with us, kinda backwards situation.
You know how much most geeks (including myself) would pay to be able to do what comes naturally to you?
If you're not tired, you probably don't need the sleep.
Even with megadoses of caffeine, I either get the shakes and am jumpy, or nothing happens and I'm still tired... I'd LOVE to be able to reduce my sleep down to a few hours - I'd have SO much more time for research, learning, working on my computers, etc.
As it is, if I get more than 8-1/2 hours of sleep, I'm groggy as hell and my muscles are all stiff and sore.
If I sleep less than 6 hours, I'm tired unless something very interesting has my attention (or I'm up and moving about).
If I get less than 4-1/2, I'm only about 60% there all day.
Man, I'm jealous!
At least with the Apple ][ line, Apple eventually released DOS 3.3 and ProDOS for free.
It'd be really nice if they ever released (and open-sourced) the Newton OS... you'd think with brass like Scully behind 'em, they'd be able to get this done. It has no value to Apple any more, so why not?
The only reason I can imagine for them hanging onto the OS is if they plan to release a new version of it (and the hardware), and I can't imagine them doing that after this amount of time out of the market.
Maybe Scully will talk Apple into allowing an offshoot company to produce a new one and see how it sells... should sell much better than before, considering how much of a "movement" is behind then with the iPods already... they've figured out the marketing hooks to use, so why not?
Anyone who's interested in this idea should send either Scully himself, or this new association recommending such. With enough "grassroots" effort, they might be convinced to go with it!
I dunno... I think the MS deal is worse, as the government is helping them maintain their monopoly, when they're supposed to be doing the exact opposite.
Both are sleazy, underhanded ways around a real penalty, but the record deal just dumps garbage, the MS deal ends up making them even more money and creating more people that think that MS is the only solution.
By the way - I love your
How is this that much different from the gov't allowing Microsoft to pay off its penalties with vouchers for schools to get more Microsoft products?
OK, the Microsoft deal was worse, as it propogates their monopoly, but still... give one gigacorp a massive break, you have to give it to all of 'em, right?
I'm very curious which Sun array this is, and which drives you are using.
I've worked in the Sun market for well over a decade, and I haven't seen failure rates like you're describing since the old Seagate 2.9G 5-1/4" full-height drives they used to have in their "Mass Storage" cabinets (the ones that looked exactly like a SPARCcenter 2000)... and that was only after the drives were out of production for a few YEARS (all replacements were refurbs).
My guess is you have serious environmental issues... heat/humidity due to a non-datacenter environment (do you have raised-floor-cooling? is it under 70F?), or non-isolated air (is the A/C air-handler the same one used for the rest of the building?), or you have non-isolated power and have regular spikes (in Miami maybe?).
You need a _true_ UPS system, not an SPS labeled as a UPS.