The fact is, you won't get perfect code, whether you need it or not. You should design things to minimize the amount of code that does have to be perfect, and the damage done if it isn't.
I'd like to see a shell interface to Gnome (not a shell interface in Gnome, which we have). I find it peculiar that such a thing doesn't exist, actually.
eg, it should be able to mount gnome-vfs filesystems as described here.
Also the wildcarding scheme of pretty much all unix shells has fundamental design flaws IMAO, but that's another issue.
Intermezzo is designed for this and a bit more - if one of the machines is a laptop you can take it away and work on it, and it'll resync when you get back.
It isn't particularly high-performance, from what I know, and may be more complexity than you need.
If SCO said, lines 200-20000 of fubar.c are ours, then the community would move to validate that claim and, if it was valid, remove the offending code ASAP.
If Linux does in fact contain a fubar.c, it probably is SCO code that needs to be removed.
#4 makes sense to me, too. CPUs are so insanely fast now that you usually have more than you need even in a bitty 1U server, and sharing them makes good sense.
Solaris has better resource management than anything this side of MVS (SRM is pretty nice); User-Mode-Linux on top of Solaris would be pretty darn cool.
Yeah, that's different. But honestly, if you actually have enormous numbers of *files* it's probably protocol overhead killing you anyway, rather than bandwidth or server capacity.
I mean, you may be able to buy a bit by throwing hardware at it, but I'd bet money that you don't actually saturate that gigabit ethernet.
I admint it would matter if you're trying to build a fileserver into your digital camera or some crazy thing like that...
Do you have any idea how much solar panel it would take to replace the gas and oil we burn? Or the size of the infrastructure to store that power? (Because we won't be burning fuel oil to heat our homes in the NE all winter, right?)
Ground-based-solar is not going to be our major energy source. Ever. The watts are just not there. Get over it.
A nice supplement, maybe. Keep all that AC from killing the grid during the summer, hey, I'm all for it. I just don't see it powering cars.
What's interesting is that HP obviously has access to SCO's Holy System V Magic Code (TM), and undoubtedly did their own comparisons before issuing this annoucement...
UV would be easy. UV tends to be hard on plastics, though; I don't know if the high-grade stuff used for cellphone cases would be damaged by heavy doses of it or not.
This is misleading, of course; most US Government spending is "Non-discretionary", which mostly means "cash money paid to voters that we don't dare touch."
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are about 40% of US Government spending; only about 16% of the US Federal budget is on defense. And even that is misleadingly high, because of the state and local spending (ie, primary education, roads) that is almost 100% non-defense. The US defense budget is a little large by world standards, relative to our economy, but not outrageous.
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The fact is, you won't get perfect code, whether you need it or not. You should design things to minimize the amount of code that does have to be perfect, and the damage done if it isn't.
I'd like to see a shell interface to Gnome (not a shell interface in Gnome, which we have). I find it peculiar that such a thing doesn't exist, actually.
eg, it should be able to mount gnome-vfs filesystems as described here.
Also the wildcarding scheme of pretty much all unix shells has fundamental design flaws IMAO, but that's another issue.
So what did you settle on?
Intermezzo is designed for this and a bit more - if one of the machines is a laptop you can take it away and work on it, and it'll resync when you get back.
It isn't particularly high-performance, from what I know, and may be more complexity than you need.
First-rate people hire first-rate people.
Second-rate people hire third-rate people.
No, but it would be patentable. I'm just waiting for top chefs to start in on this - should be fun to watch.
It's not Commander Gates they're worried about, it's General Protection Fault.
12th Affirmative Defense: BSD is dying.
Veritas' VVR (remote mirroring of volumes over IP, synchronous or not) is really quite nice once you're familiar with it.
Are there respectable free alternatives?
No, the GPL whining is because your expensive, pre-paid support contract is invalidated if you exercise certain of your GPL-guarenteed rights.
I'm still dubious about this.
If SCO said, lines 200-20000 of fubar.c are ours, then the community would move to validate that claim and, if it was valid, remove the offending code ASAP.
If Linux does in fact contain a fubar.c, it probably is SCO code that needs to be removed.
#4 makes sense to me, too. CPUs are so insanely fast now that you usually have more than you need even in a bitty 1U server, and sharing them makes good sense.
Solaris has better resource management than anything this side of MVS (SRM is pretty nice); User-Mode-Linux on top of Solaris would be pretty darn cool.
Yeah, that's different. But honestly, if you actually have enormous numbers of *files* it's probably protocol overhead killing you anyway, rather than bandwidth or server capacity.
I mean, you may be able to buy a bit by throwing hardware at it, but I'd bet money that you don't actually saturate that gigabit ethernet.
I admint it would matter if you're trying to build a fileserver into your digital camera or some crazy thing like that...
Even assuming this is true, does it matter?
I mean, has it ever actually happened that somebody says "Gosh, my 2Ghz fileserver with fast ethernet and half-a-gig of RAM serves files too slowly?"
I don't think in the last 5 years I've seen a fileserver running above 5% utilization unless the virus-scanner was doing a sweep.
Building robust, real-time control systems to adjust the attitude during flight at a sub-millisecond rate can't be that easy either.
Gosh. If only Armadillo had a competent programmer to work on that.....
No, it's not.
Do you have any idea how much solar panel it would take to replace the gas and oil we burn? Or the size of the infrastructure to store that power? (Because we won't be burning fuel oil to heat our homes in the NE all winter, right?)
Ground-based-solar is not going to be our major energy source. Ever. The watts are just not there. Get over it.
A nice supplement, maybe. Keep all that AC from killing the grid during the summer, hey, I'm all for it. I just don't see it powering cars.
"Will you be indemnifying SCO users against violation of IBM's patents?"
What's interesting is that HP obviously has access to SCO's Holy System V Magic Code (TM), and undoubtedly did their own comparisons before issuing this annoucement...
UV would be easy. UV tends to be hard on plastics, though; I don't know if the high-grade stuff used for cellphone cases would be damaged by heavy doses of it or not.
When I was in school, one sick $#%@#$$ did a programming problem set in Postscript. You had to send his code to the printer to execute it. :)
I have finally found people who wear more layers of foil on their heads than I.
You fool! If you wear more than one layer the psychotronic carrier waves will resonate and penetrate the barrier!
This is misleading, of course; most US Government spending is "Non-discretionary", which mostly means "cash money paid to voters that we don't dare touch."
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are about 40% of US Government spending; only about 16% of the US Federal budget is on defense. And even that is misleadingly high, because of the state and local spending (ie, primary education, roads) that is almost 100% non-defense. The US defense budget is a little large by world standards, relative to our economy, but not outrageous.
You, sir, are a credit to BOFH everywhere, and I salute you.
:)
Assuming your story is true, which, frankly, I doubt.
Check out The Boondocks if your paper has it, or find it online.
It even had DMCA bashing in it at one point!
And it cunningly anticipated Berke Breathed's return.
So, can I have a shell script manipulating these files when I'm not logged in? No? No thanks.
What is needed, IMAO, is a tool to mount Gnome/KDE vfs 'filesystems' as, well, filesystems.