People don't just use Linux because it is free. People use Linux because it is good.
The corporate world couldn't care less that Linux is free... they only care that it does the job that's needed. So, if a product comes out at a nominal price that does the job they want, then they will pay for it.
I use VMware - it isn't free either - but it's a damn fine product. I paid for my license - and it was money well spent.
Don't get me wrong, as a home user I will go for free (as in beer or speech - I'm not fussy) software before I will buy software. However, I won't do without if there isn't a free equivalent.
I guess this means that Tradewars 2002 will be ported to linux then... i was written in borland turbo pascal, and the current owner of the code said that he would port it over as delphi was available for linux.
Obviously they can't make money on these machines at $99... they want to sell the ISP service with them, and that's where they are going to make their cash - they hope.
So they don't care what OS you run on it - as long as you pay them their $20 a month (or whatever it is) to get the service from them.
That's why they were discouraging the conversion - because then you aren't tied to them any more, and they los money on the hardware. People were treating it as if $99 was the actual price tag - and trying to dump the ISP service - so they could just get a cheap, relatively protable, linux box with a flat-screen.
What's the bandwidth like on these suckers?
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'cause that would truly dictate how useful they are.
Heck... let's see... I'll just take a picture of myself with my credit card - change the name, number and expiry date wit a good graphics editor - and wham... a pointless exercise in paranoia is proven insecure.
Is this because you are ordering internationally? Maybe they just want to see if you would do it... "Hey look at this joker... let's put him up on the wall - and order some pizza on him too!"
I'm sorry, anyone who came up with this idea has their head up their @$$.
Come get some - ask Bruce Campbell about this one Hail to the king - and this one too...
In fact, aren't a lot of the expressions from Duke Nukem (forget the R or the TM... come sue me - I'm in Canada) just ripped off from Bruce? (Okay, the bubblegum/kick ass comment was from Rowdy Roddy Piper in "they live").
Making the assumption that you want a web-farm, and for maximum availability, you are using two cisco switches, and two cisco PIXes, and two cisco local directors... you can still get away with a single NIC (not that you have to) put half of your web-servers on one switch, and half on the other.
Otherwise, you can put two NICs in (one on each switch) and assign them each their own IP address... no need to fail over... although I would look at the F5 BIG/IP - as it can make sure that your servers are serving up content... the Local director isn't as good at this.
I think we need more information here.
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What kind of application are you trying to fail-over? A database? A web-server?
If you wanted a web-farm, that's dead stupid easy. Fail-over database/ftp/nfs isn't too hard, but (presently) requires commercial software. Understudy Polyserve, Wizard Watchdog, or even RSF-1 are just some of the HA clustering products available.
I don't believe in vendor specific certification... RHCE, MCSE, CCNA, etc... I do believe that a company such as redhat could join an organisation such as the LPI to create a non-vendor specific certification. In the process, the linux communitiy would benefit greatly... vendors, developers and users a like... along with the corporations that want certified staff...
1. There are some commercial (under $500 though) products that will do this quite nicely, and easily. 2. Don't know... 3. Well, it all depends on what you are trying to achieve... it does speed things up... but it depends on load... if you're worried about security... well, don't punch those ports through the firewall...
1. Cluster the SQL box for high availability and fail-over. 2. Switch from NFS to SMB - even the apache site recommends this for speed. 2a. Get rid of NFS and just sync all your web-servers from one server - hence having local copies of all the code. 3. Look into having local instances of SQL running on the web-servers - read-only copies that are replicated from the main DB... then the central DB would only be used for write (aka comments and postings...)
The deal went sour because Corel's stock went in the toilet... since the deal would've seen inprise/borland stock holders getting corel stock, and independant report judged it unfair to iprise stock holders.
It's amazing how far society has come in the last century... and yet how much everything has remained the same...
If the same thing were planned today, there would be tons of protests... back then it would have probably been "Yay for us!"...
And you know, if they had nuked the moon, that would've been when they discovered afterward that it had amazing resources or a hidden ancient technology... at least that's what would've happened on the "Outer Limits"...;)
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Slugbot does.
So you guys are actually using something other than Linux to play a game?
That may shatter the foundations of reality...
Shut up you bloody vikings...
Sorry, to this day whenever I hear the word spam - I think of Monty Python.
IT was written...
I assume you meant "You were" - which makes the criticism all the more amusing.
People don't just use Linux because it is free. People use Linux because it is good.
The corporate world couldn't care less that Linux is free... they only care that it does the job that's needed. So, if a product comes out at a nominal price that does the job they want, then they will pay for it.
I use VMware - it isn't free either - but it's a damn fine product. I paid for my license - and it was money well spent.
Don't get me wrong, as a home user I will go for free (as in beer or speech - I'm not fussy) software before I will buy software. However, I won't do without if there isn't a free equivalent.
I guess this means that Tradewars 2002 will be ported to linux then... i was written in borland turbo pascal, and the current owner of the code said that he would port it over as delphi was available for linux.
Obviously they can't make money on these machines at $99... they want to sell the ISP service with them, and that's where they are going to make their cash - they hope.
So they don't care what OS you run on it - as long as you pay them their $20 a month (or whatever it is) to get the service from them.
That's why they were discouraging the conversion - because then you aren't tied to them any more, and they los money on the hardware. People were treating it as if $99 was the actual price tag - and trying to dump the ISP service - so they could just get a cheap, relatively protable, linux box with a flat-screen.
'cause that would truly dictate how useful they are.
I was hoping for the fireworks show... when they blowed up real good and re-entered the atmosphere...
A picture of you with your credit card?
Heck... let's see... I'll just take a picture of myself with my credit card - change the name, number and expiry date wit a good graphics editor - and wham... a pointless exercise in paranoia is proven insecure.
Is this because you are ordering internationally? Maybe they just want to see if you would do it... "Hey look at this joker... let's put him up on the wall - and order some pizza on him too!"
I'm sorry, anyone who came up with this idea has their head up their @$$.
Come get some - ask Bruce Campbell about this one
Hail to the king - and this one too...
In fact, aren't a lot of the expressions from Duke Nukem (forget the R or the TM... come sue me - I'm in Canada) just ripped off from Bruce? (Okay, the bubblegum/kick ass comment was from Rowdy Roddy Piper in "they live").
I'm sure that CSIS and CSE agents are passing on your info to customs right now...
We wouldn't want you importing stuff and not paying the government for the privilege...
You could make these things hot pluggable and manufacture web-farm "arrays" of the little buggers.
;)
Take a couple more and make a DB cluster, and you got yourself the world's smallest slashdot site...
Make sure that you drive up demand and decrease the supply so they can jack up the price more!
Or you could be patient and wait things out.
;)
Making the assumption that you want a web-farm, and for maximum availability, you are using two cisco switches, and two cisco PIXes, and two cisco local directors... you can still get away with a single NIC (not that you have to) put half of your web-servers on one switch, and half on the other.
Otherwise, you can put two NICs in (one on each switch) and assign them each their own IP address... no need to fail over... although I would look at the F5 BIG/IP - as it can make sure that your servers are serving up content... the Local director isn't as good at this.
What kind of application are you trying to fail-over? A database? A web-server?
If you wanted a web-farm, that's dead stupid easy. Fail-over database/ftp/nfs isn't too hard, but (presently) requires commercial software. Understudy Polyserve, Wizard Watchdog, or even RSF-1 are just some of the HA clustering products available.
I'm sure I had heard about this one before...
...not.
Think about it from this perspective then...
You could have core linux courses that are (reasonably) independent of distribution:
Networking (TCP/IP, NFS/SMB, LPR, etc)
System admin (User admin, file system admin, cron, scripting)
Various application courses (MySQL/Postgres, Apache, sendmail, etc)
That's just off the top of my head - I'm sure there could be a whole plethora - and then you could chose your stream.
I don't believe in vendor specific certification... RHCE, MCSE, CCNA, etc... I do believe that a company such as redhat could join an organisation such as the LPI to create a non-vendor specific certification. In the process, the linux communitiy would benefit greatly... vendors, developers and users a like... along with the corporations that want certified staff...
AMD Moron processor as well...
1. There are some commercial (under $500 though) products that will do this quite nicely, and easily.
2. Don't know...
3. Well, it all depends on what you are trying to achieve... it does speed things up... but it depends on load... if you're worried about security... well, don't punch those ports through the firewall...
1. Cluster the SQL box for high availability and fail-over.
2. Switch from NFS to SMB - even the apache site recommends this for speed.
2a. Get rid of NFS and just sync all your web-servers from one server - hence having local copies of all the code.
3. Look into having local instances of SQL running on the web-servers - read-only copies that are replicated from the main DB... then the central DB would only be used for write (aka comments and postings...)
Just my less than humble ideas...
The deal went sour because Corel's stock went in the toilet... since the deal would've seen inprise/borland stock holders getting corel stock, and independant report judged it unfair to iprise stock holders.
It's amazing how far society has come in the last century... and yet how much everything has remained the same...
;)
If the same thing were planned today, there would be tons of protests... back then it would have probably been "Yay for us!"...
And you know, if they had nuked the moon, that would've been when they discovered afterward that it had amazing resources or a hidden ancient technology... at least that's what would've happened on the "Outer Limits"...