Moron...we're talking about Linux vs. AIX...and no, I haven't heard of Service guard, but unless it comprises:
- robust LVM+mgmt tools (which sistina's LVM is not yet) - HACMP-level clustering+mgmt tools - true virtualization of hardware including dynamicity and scheduling - and oh, the other zillion other things that AIX has that makes managing it a dream....then I think your point, however offtopic, is still inaccurate.
Aside from GNU utils (which AIX does have packages for), what on earth does Linux have that's 'way better, in all respects' ?
As a long-time sysadmin for AIX and Linux, I find this laughable at best. AIX has so many enterprise-level tools and resources that are so well-developed, that Linux, IMNSHO is still far FAR behind.
It's not doing the company nor the consultants any good to provide a report that isn't valuable. I've done I'd guess more than 50 vuln/pen assessments, and when I've spent the time to understand the environments and evaluate the security issues presented, the client always reacted wonderfully to the reports and commented on what a great value they were.
Before I was seasoned enough to do that, reports were largely ignored; vulnerabilities rarely fixed.
It's disappointing to see. I am solely a network engineer now (with a security emphasis). We just had an organization-wide audit and the report...what a complete waste of time, paper and electrons.
What if Valve is NOT AROUND IN TWO YEARS? What if they lose a massive lawsuit and shut down? What if they're acquired and go console-only? Sure you can argue the likelihood, but that doesn't resolve the trueness of the statement of the parent - it's pointless, cumbersome and potentially crippled.
Your guess is the activation servers will be up for years to come? I sure am glad you know what the fuck you're talking about. This sets a bad precedent and I find it abhorrent that people like yourself will apparently accept your already-pair-for, spoon-fed content on someone else's terms, rather than yours.
Why is it that everybody who thinks they have the insight and right to malign AIX is a developer?
Jeesh dudes - it's by far the best UNIX on the planet for a systems admin. Systems admins/engineers and managers are the ones who make the decisions on whether or not to buy this stuff - perhaps it is the best choice for what they want to do?
Not much time to respond to this but I'll say that I agree with much of what you're saying.
The AIX toolbox is somewhat outdated. We got a new shipment of servers that contained 5.2 ML01 and the Toolbox was dated 10/03. You're right though, a lot of what they have they built once and forgot about, so perhaps my statement about 5L was exagerrated.
You do have packages and modified source available from aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu, and oen from frecbull or bull or some such place.
As far as library linking - there was a thread a number of years ago about sendmail which had relative paths in the library search path. This was resolved using a argument to LD when building the package.
I don't know of a way to add directories to ld's search path - this can be a real problem. It would rock to have an/etc/ld.so.conf like Linux has.
Nevertheless - you can build source to include a library search path in the XCOFF header after linking. man 'dump' will yield much information and should help at least a little, although there's still no dynamicity there. (dump -n or dump -H are typical uses)
Thanks for clarifying the rest - esp about Oracle/PPC64:-)
At my fairly large organization, we have a healthy mix of 4.3.3, 5.1 and 5.2. Systems ranging from F/H50's all the way to 8 fully-loaded p690s.
I run./configure && make commonly and although it is nowhere near as consistent at successfully building software as Linux, it is FAR from impossible. All I can think is that you're either forced to use XLC, or you're stuck on 4.3.x systems (or older) upon which compiling is much more difficult.
What really burns me though, is that you wholesale claim that AIX sucks apparently because it fails to easily compile whatever software you want. With the "5L" Linux initiatives, not only do they distribute packages to many of the most common apps, but there's direction coming from Big Blue for Linux support. You certainly cannot say that about HP or Sun - and I defy you to build nearly as many packages on HPUX as you can on AIX 5.2.
AIX is the most feature-rich and easily managed UNIX I know of...and I've adminned virtually all the major players (and a good many oddball ones) in a production environment.
Managing AIX is a godsend, and I'm tired of all the slamming it gets - especially from people who don't understand/know it, or who become irritated that it doesn't meet their specific need. If you NEED open-source application software, you probably should deploy some x86 servers.
I'm not sure you'd be happy with anything other than Linux - except possibly Solaris - it tends to be a bit more friendly than the rest WRT building open-source software.
And your statement about Oracle is outright moronic. Is Linux/PPC64 Oracle even available? Is there even a plan to have it? This would be a niche inside an already (marginally) niche market.
Why would a company install Oracle on Linux/PPC64, when they can run it, fully supported with its known track record, natively on AIX?
Computer manufacturer conspiracy influencing or directing the development of new programming languages?
Man you are completely nuts. bonkers. whacked.
Honestly - I've heard some crackpot ideas, but this is so far out there, that it scares me that a person could think of something like this in anything more than an anecdotal way.
I have nothing to add except to say that I agree 100%.
The development of the characters, and the serial storyline made the show. I absolutely loved Quark and Garak. They were intelligently written and consistent.
IMO it was the height of all things Star Trek and I am always wondering why so few trekkies actually like it. Perhaps it was because you say - they abandoned it early-on and never looked back.
Springs is a bit lower than Boulder in cost of living...
But FotF has money...they don't have just a big building - they have an entire campus; and much of it is very new. This organization has money...lots of it.
While I haven't done this in YEARS, I think you need to add a Ciphers line to/etc/ssh/sshd_config that contains 'none'. Be sure to include all the ciphers you may want to use because this list is exclusionary.
Otherwise, you can always use blowfish, rc4, or even AES (I think...) as they are all *MUCH* faster than 3des.
I think the majority of people in the world, in order to elevate themselves and their opinions, have demoted the term "art" to have little more meaning or significance than to describe something created with only a modicum of technical skill combined with a modicum of creativity.
Or it might be that I, for lack of a better word, have elevated the term beyond its practical, commonplace connotation.
Still, I hesitate to use the word 'art' or 'artist' just as I hesitate to use the word 'genius.' There should be a way to differentiate the common skilled from those who are truly exceptional and create true art that is timeless, without using words like 'transcendental' and the like.
But you know what, if you actually put forth an effort to not splash your e-mail address around, you can avoid enormous amounts of spam before they ever reach you.
I've had one main e-mail address at a major e-mail/web provider for just over four years. I am constantly checking it and I use it for virtually all of my e-mail correspondence.
Right now the spam is the worst it's ever been for me; I get about 12 a day.
I would think that the references the person supplies and the interview they give would be enough.
It's been enough for hundreds of years and up until today - it should be enough for the foreseeable future.
Besides - if they screw up, fire them. It isn't like your credit history is really an indicator that you're NEVER going to do something unwise with the company's money.
You let other people dictate to you the terms upon which you're allowed to do things. Even work. I agree that a criminal background check is probably worthwhile and a legitimate business concern - but a credit check? No. The only people to whom that should matter are those who can LEND me money.
I don't see this being any different than an employer asking to see what kind of food you have in your fridge, in order to determine if you're a healthy eater. If you're a conciously unhealthy dieter, it's probably reflective on your work habits, your personal life, etc.
No thanks. Take your job and shove it up your ass. I'd rather work blue-collar than submit to that type of fascist regime.
I love my country but jesus christ...people need to stop putting the almighty dollar above personal privacy and freedoms. It's like the executives who make these ridiculous decisions are so insulated from reality that they don't even realize that they're chipping away at the foundations of American life. I wonder how freedom-less life will be in 50 years.
That this could be a Microsoft (or other console manufacturer) attempt to see if this is something that would gain any public acceptance at all, without devoting significant resources to promoting it?
I mean, none of the big three are willing to step too far away from the current paradigm. The Xbox was a failed attempt at a Palladium-based system, but otherwise it's not significantly different from any other console. (from a paradigm standpoint, not talking specs or quality) If this is simply a front for them to see, through feedback on web-sites and such, it would prove valuable insight into consumer desires and give them potentially a huge leg-up on the next generation system.
Like it has been posted about a thousand times for this article - this company cannot possibly succeed in the home market. They might find business in fringe areas like Hotels, but doubtful elsewhere.
Without a modified BIOS being active, you cannot run unsigned or code with an invalid cryptographic sign. All binaries are signed; modifying them would would invalidate that.
"Load the hack onto the harddrive"...do you even have the most remote idea of what you're saying? There is no mechanism in the Xbox to load TSRs or other memory-resident tools...and like I said before - having no (or an inactive) modchip prevents you from running this type of code.
Hell - even the saved games are signed.
You should really research things before you just assume something like this.
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Now I can do 'show cdp neighbor eth0' on my linux box and actually get something back!
Moron...we're talking about Linux vs. AIX...and no, I haven't heard of Service guard, but unless it comprises:
...then I think your point, however offtopic, is still inaccurate.
- robust LVM+mgmt tools (which sistina's LVM is not yet)
- HACMP-level clustering+mgmt tools
- true virtualization of hardware including dynamicity and scheduling
- and oh, the other zillion other things that AIX has that makes managing it a dream.
Aside from GNU utils (which AIX does have packages for), what on earth does Linux have that's 'way better, in all respects' ?
As a long-time sysadmin for AIX and Linux, I find this laughable at best. AIX has so many enterprise-level tools and resources that are so well-developed, that Linux, IMNSHO is still far FAR behind.
So please, enlighten us.
You are 100% correct.
It's not doing the company nor the consultants any good to provide a report that isn't valuable. I've done I'd guess more than 50 vuln/pen assessments, and when I've spent the time to understand the environments and evaluate the security issues presented, the client always reacted wonderfully to the reports and commented on what a great value they were.
Before I was seasoned enough to do that, reports were largely ignored; vulnerabilities rarely fixed.
It's disappointing to see. I am solely a network engineer now (with a security emphasis). We just had an organization-wide audit and the report...what a complete waste of time, paper and electrons.
sedawkgrep
Dude - you don't get the fucking point do you?
What if Valve is NOT AROUND IN TWO YEARS? What if they lose a massive lawsuit and shut down? What if they're acquired and go console-only? Sure you can argue the likelihood, but that doesn't resolve the trueness of the statement of the parent - it's pointless, cumbersome and potentially crippled.
Your guess is the activation servers will be up for years to come? I sure am glad you know what the fuck you're talking about. This sets a bad precedent and I find it abhorrent that people like yourself will apparently accept your already-pair-for, spoon-fed content on someone else's terms, rather than yours.
sedawkgrep
Why is it that everybody who thinks they have the insight and right to malign AIX is a developer?
Jeesh dudes - it's by far the best UNIX on the planet for a systems admin. Systems admins/engineers and managers are the ones who make the decisions on whether or not to buy this stuff - perhaps it is the best choice for what they want to do?
Not much time to respond to this but I'll say that I agree with much of what you're saying.
/etc/ld.so.conf like Linux has.
:-)
The AIX toolbox is somewhat outdated. We got a new shipment of servers that contained 5.2 ML01 and the Toolbox was dated 10/03. You're right though, a lot of what they have they built once and forgot about, so perhaps my statement about 5L was exagerrated.
You do have packages and modified source available from aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu, and oen from frecbull or bull or some such place.
As far as library linking - there was a thread a number of years ago about sendmail which had relative paths in the library search path. This was resolved using a argument to LD when building the package.
I don't know of a way to add directories to ld's search path - this can be a real problem. It would rock to have an
Nevertheless - you can build source to include a library search path in the XCOFF header after linking. man 'dump' will yield much information and should help at least a little, although there's still no dynamicity there. (dump -n or dump -H are typical uses)
Thanks for clarifying the rest - esp about Oracle/PPC64
Happy Memorial Day.
sedawkgrep
At my fairly large organization, we have a healthy mix of 4.3.3, 5.1 and 5.2. Systems ranging from F/H50's all the way to 8 fully-loaded p690s.
./configure && make commonly and although it is nowhere near as consistent at successfully building software as Linux, it is FAR from impossible. All I can think is that you're either forced to use XLC, or you're stuck on 4.3.x systems (or older) upon which compiling is much more difficult.
I run
What really burns me though, is that you wholesale claim that AIX sucks apparently because it fails to easily compile whatever software you want. With the "5L" Linux initiatives, not only do they distribute packages to many of the most common apps, but there's direction coming from Big Blue for Linux support. You certainly cannot say that about HP or Sun - and I defy you to build nearly as many packages on HPUX as you can on AIX 5.2.
AIX is the most feature-rich and easily managed UNIX I know of...and I've adminned virtually all the major players (and a good many oddball ones) in a production environment.
Managing AIX is a godsend, and I'm tired of all the slamming it gets - especially from people who don't understand/know it, or who become irritated that it doesn't meet their specific need. If you NEED open-source application software, you probably should deploy some x86 servers.
I'm not sure you'd be happy with anything other than Linux - except possibly Solaris - it tends to be a bit more friendly than the rest WRT building open-source software.
And your statement about Oracle is outright moronic. Is Linux/PPC64 Oracle even available? Is there even a plan to have it? This would be a niche inside an already (marginally) niche market.
Why would a company install Oracle on Linux/PPC64, when they can run it, fully supported with its known track record, natively on AIX?
sedawkgrep
I'm using the 7xxx drivers (2944UW connected to an A1000) with 2.6.3. I've had no problems whatsoever.
If they're failing on one server, I think you need to investigate that one server.....
sedawkgrep
Computer manufacturer conspiracy influencing or directing the development of new programming languages?
Man you are completely nuts. bonkers. whacked.
Honestly - I've heard some crackpot ideas, but this is so far out there, that it scares me that a person could think of something like this in anything more than an anecdotal way.
I have nothing to add except to say that I agree 100%.
The development of the characters, and the serial storyline made the show. I absolutely loved Quark and Garak. They were intelligently written and consistent.
IMO it was the height of all things Star Trek and I am always wondering why so few trekkies actually like it. Perhaps it was because you say - they abandoned it early-on and never looked back.
sedawkgrep
Springs is a bit lower than Boulder in cost of living...
But FotF has money...they don't have just a big building - they have an entire campus; and much of it is very new. This organization has money...lots of it.
Jeez...did you even read what you were typing? I'm reading your post, wondering what the hell the proof is that you keep incorrectly mentioning.
You're pretty funny...for a conkimus maximus.
HJ
While I haven't done this in YEARS, I think you need to add a Ciphers line to /etc/ssh/sshd_config that contains 'none'. Be sure to include all the ciphers you may want to use because this list is exclusionary.
Otherwise, you can always use blowfish, rc4, or even AES (I think...) as they are all *MUCH* faster than 3des.
sedawkgrep
I think the majority of people in the world, in order to elevate themselves and their opinions, have demoted the term "art" to have little more meaning or significance than to describe something created with only a modicum of technical skill combined with a modicum of creativity.
Or it might be that I, for lack of a better word, have elevated the term beyond its practical, commonplace connotation.
Still, I hesitate to use the word 'art' or 'artist' just as I hesitate to use the word 'genius.' There should be a way to differentiate the common skilled from those who are truly exceptional and create true art that is timeless, without using words like 'transcendental' and the like.
sedawkgrep
Spam sucks...yeah we all hate it.
But you know what, if you actually put forth an effort to not splash your e-mail address around, you can avoid enormous amounts of spam before they ever reach you.
I've had one main e-mail address at a major e-mail/web provider for just over four years. I am constantly checking it and I use it for virtually all of my e-mail correspondence.
Right now the spam is the worst it's ever been for me; I get about 12 a day.
sedawkgrep
Anybody interested in organizing a Denver-based OpenBSD user group? I'd be willing to help out some.
sedawkgrep _at_ yahoo
Still there!
Go east on Fillmore from I-25, turn left (north) on Hancock and it's on the right, about 1.5 blocks.
The *ONLY* decent surplus place I've seen in Colorado...
sedawkgrep
I'm 31, been out of college for years, and spent most of 2002 (9 1/2 months) out of work.
It's up to you if you want to succumb to this. Even in my dire state I wouldn't have.
I would think that the references the person supplies and the interview they give would be enough.
It's been enough for hundreds of years and up until today - it should be enough for the foreseeable future.
Besides - if they screw up, fire them. It isn't like your credit history is really an indicator that you're NEVER going to do something unwise with the company's money.
sedawkgrep
People like you scare the hell out of me.
You let other people dictate to you the terms upon which you're allowed to do things. Even work. I agree that a criminal background check is probably worthwhile and a legitimate business concern - but a credit check? No. The only people to whom that should matter are those who can LEND me money.
I don't see this being any different than an employer asking to see what kind of food you have in your fridge, in order to determine if you're a healthy eater. If you're a conciously unhealthy dieter, it's probably reflective on your work habits, your personal life, etc.
No thanks. Take your job and shove it up your ass. I'd rather work blue-collar than submit to that type of fascist regime.
I love my country but jesus christ...people need to stop putting the almighty dollar above personal privacy and freedoms. It's like the executives who make these ridiculous decisions are so insulated from reality that they don't even realize that they're chipping away at the foundations of American life. I wonder how freedom-less life will be in 50 years.
I'm scared.
sedawkgrep
That this could be a Microsoft (or other console manufacturer) attempt to see if this is something that would gain any public acceptance at all, without devoting significant resources to promoting it?
I mean, none of the big three are willing to step too far away from the current paradigm. The Xbox was a failed attempt at a Palladium-based system, but otherwise it's not significantly different from any other console. (from a paradigm standpoint, not talking specs or quality) If this is simply a front for them to see, through feedback on web-sites and such, it would prove valuable insight into consumer desires and give them potentially a huge leg-up on the next generation system.
Like it has been posted about a thousand times for this article - this company cannot possibly succeed in the home market. They might find business in fringe areas like Hotels, but doubtful elsewhere.
Or I might just be a complete and utter moron.
sedawkgrep
No.
Without a modified BIOS being active, you cannot run unsigned or code with an invalid cryptographic sign. All binaries are signed; modifying them would would invalidate that.
"Load the hack onto the harddrive"...do you even have the most remote idea of what you're saying? There is no mechanism in the Xbox to load TSRs or other memory-resident tools...and like I said before - having no (or an inactive) modchip prevents you from running this type of code.
Hell - even the saved games are signed.
You should really research things before you just assume something like this.
The comment should be +5 Insightful.