I would question HP's commitment in the Linux arena from a software point of view. For the last 12 months I have tried to migrate a Tru64 system to a pair of HP DL585 servers running RHEL 3.
Now the horsepower in the DL585's is immense compared to the Tru64 boxes, but the HP Insight Management software has proved pitiful. This software is pretty much required if you want to know if various parts of the hardware fail.
The Insight Management agents however caused us no end of problems in taking up too much resources.
For a start, I could crash the machine at will by copying around 2Gb of files around my disk configuration.
When this was fixed, we found that the Management Agents would chew up 25% of the CPU time of a dual Opteron setup despite the machine doing absolutely nothing!
This situation took a LONG time for HP to fix.
Now the machines are in the production environment and they hang at random (we think due to the crappy bonding software HP have for the dual NICs)
We would investigate this by getting the dumps written to a network device, but the bonding driver prevents this too.
We have seriously gone from pillar to post with HP on this.
I have no doubts about the power of the hardware, but don't rely on the software to pull you through!
The tsunami actually caused very little in the way of disruption on Mauritius.
I was there several weeks after the tsunami and discovered that there was no more than a large wave. Certainly not like the pictures everyone has seen of the tsunami hitting other islands.
Besides, there isn't a single area of coastline in the world that is immune to tsunami.
The Portugese first landed on the island, and it is their sailors who are widely credited with hunting the hapless Dodo to extinction.
The Dutch, French and British then fought numerous times to gain control of the island. The last victors were the British (hence English and the language of government, driving on the left etc), but not before the French had got the whole island speaking French.
Try to engage your brain before blurting out crap like this!
In this case, wireless is the ONLY option because the island is very heavily made up of volcanic rock.
It's a lovely island. A wireless network will work great on the island. Very little around the island goes underground.
One of the vulnerabilities of the island is that the current telephone and power networks (on telegraph poles & pylons) are knocked out by the tropical storms in the area. If the networks were capable of being put underground, they would have done it by now!
Any country (my own included - UK) which imposes virtually ANY form of trade sanctions, does so to protect their over-priced home produce. This perpetuates global poverty by preventing someone from competing against you.
This is a bizarre twist on trade sanctions - I'll give you that. But to demand that a certain percentage of a product is manufactured in your own country just smacks too much of trade protection.
It is not acceptable to state that you did not know how fast you were travelling.
It is also not acceptable to have a faulty speedometer in a car.
The LAW states the speed limits.
If you are driving outwith those limits you are driving ILLEGALLY. Regardless of whether you realised it.
And the news on averaging speed cameras is that they will be mounted on motorway gantries. So pretty much no chance of "Angle Grinder Man" taking them out.
The basics of the law are pretty straight - drive within the speed limits and the speed cameras cannot catch you. It's not bloody rocket science.
I think you will find that for every automatic ticket issued, there will be an appeals process.
If you genuinely have acted to save a life in your excursion over the boundaries of our parking or speed laws, then you have the chance to present that as a reason for the incident.
However, the overwhelming majority of speeding and parking tickets issued are due to people speeding illegally or parking illegally - without good reason.
Driver: "I'm late for a concert officer, so I drove at 90mph all the way here and then parked on the zig-zag lines of this pedestrian crossing"
Officer: "Well that's OK Sir, as long as you have a reason. Enjoy the concert Sir."
You will note that I did not mention your speedometer.
If you are DRIVING at a certain speed (and let's call it 80mph for ease this time perhaps) that is over the speed limit, then you are liable to be penalised under the laws governing speed limits on UK roads. Full stop.
Don't care if you are late for a meeting, late leaving work, no-one else on the road, think you are a rather better driver than other people on the road etc.
If you are caught - you are caught.
Personally I can't wait to have averaging speed cameras along the entire UK motorway and major roads network. If you stick within the speed limits, pay your road tax, and are NOT driving a stolen vehicle - then you have nothing to worry about.
However - fall into any one of these three categories and I have no sympathy for you.
There is currently an investigation underway to remove cameras from places that have not proven to be blackspots.
A camera can ONLY be errected if a certain level of accidents occurs on that stretch. There are regulations covering where cameras are allowed to be errected.
Recently, a copper was forced to resign as he had been found to be flouting these regs.
Your statement that MOST cameras are placed to generate maximum revenue is both baseless and a flagrant lie. Get some facts behind you first.
Oh - and stop speeding. That way you'll not get fucking caught!!!
And although speed does not necessarily mean accidents, speed is the major contributing factor to the seriousness of ALL accidents on the UK road network.
In other words:
Lower Speed = Fewer accidents and fewer deaths
A side benefit of fewer accidents is a lower cost to our overstretched emergency services who have to jump to your fucking rescue every time you wrap your car round a tree because you were driving too fast.
Do you think Ford build a bespoke car for each and every different FCUKing driver???
Do you think Burger Kind hand prepare and cook a bespoke burger for every FCUKing customer???
Do you think . . . oh this is getting boring.
The whole FCUKing world revolves around the average person. Trust me - I'm 260lbs and 6 foot 6 inches in the buff. I KNOW how things get built and sold for Mr Average.
You can't complain just because you are different however. The GNOME team are tageting one very big area - not you, not me, not my Gran and not the bloke next door. They are targeting a huge number of users - and that means that the average rule has to come into play.
So pack your FCUKing bags you ass-hole. Go and FCUK off and use some obscure desktop environment. Better still - return your FCUKing computer to whoever you bought it from and return to pen and FCUKing paper because you can do whatever you FCUKing want with that.
Hold on - SHIT. Paper comes in STANDARD FCUKING SIZES. BOLLOX. Guess you're going to have to make your FCUKing own you immature little shit.
And as a footnote . . . 12 hours a day on a FCUKing computer??? You REALLY ought to get out, have some beers and get laid. It's usually someone from the opposite sex, but hell - choose bespoke sex if you really want to.
Perhaps it's the bleating that the US forces did about the European system being available to "terrorists" unless the Europeans let the US forces govern the accuracy in certain areas?
Acutally that excuse was only used a handfull of times. It's become folklore now - so people bring it up all the time.
The problem came about when they switched the brakes to using disk brakes rather than clamping the outer edge of the wheel. The clamping action would help scrape the leaf mulch off the wheels so the wheels were clean to grip the track. The leaf mulch couldn't be cleaned off when the disk brakes were used.
As for the wrong kind of snow, it's more that the de-icer was sprayed on the tracks - then the temperature rose and it started raining and washed off the de-icer - then the temperature dropped and the rain froze on the tracks. Odd circumstances, but you can easily understand how it happens!
And when you're NOT in Edinburgh . . . your "girlfriend" turns tricks down in Leith! Seriously - she's pretty well known down there.
As for flying vs train between Edinburgh & London, the train beats the airports every time. Total travel time for each method is going to be around 4 hours. But trains don't have check-in, security scanning, boarding, sitting around on tarmac, fat bastard sitting next to you sweating all over you, disembark, collect baggage, get taxi to city centre etc.
Having experience of Concorde, I'd like to point out the following.
Concorde flew at Mach 2.0 for the duration of the flight that I was on WITHOUT afterburner.
The afterburner was only used on take-off and to accelerate from Mach 0.9 to Mach 1.76. The afterburners were switched off at Mach 1.76 and not used again for the duration of the flight.
In responce to another comment, the cabin is perfectly adequate in size. The 2x2 seat arrangement gives ample room to even large fliers like myself (6 foot 6 inches and 21 stone).
I can't figure out whether or not it would be good for the Ogg codecs (Vorbis and Theora) to be supplied as standard on loads more media devices.
Part of me says "Yay - supply it on everything"
whilst another part (probably somewhere in the brain bit) says "if these things gain a wide use too fast, the RIAA will bully their way into making them illegal somehow":(
Slashdot Mirror
I would question HP's commitment in the Linux arena from a software point of view. For the last 12 months I have tried to migrate a Tru64 system to a pair of HP DL585 servers running RHEL 3.
Now the horsepower in the DL585's is immense compared to the Tru64 boxes, but the HP Insight Management software has proved pitiful. This software is pretty much required if you want to know if various parts of the hardware fail.
The Insight Management agents however caused us no end of problems in taking up too much resources.
For a start, I could crash the machine at will by copying around 2Gb of files around my disk configuration.
When this was fixed, we found that the Management Agents would chew up 25% of the CPU time of a dual Opteron setup despite the machine doing absolutely nothing!
This situation took a LONG time for HP to fix.
Now the machines are in the production environment and they hang at random (we think due to the crappy bonding software HP have for the dual NICs)
We would investigate this by getting the dumps written to a network device, but the bonding driver prevents this too.
We have seriously gone from pillar to post with HP on this.
I have no doubts about the power of the hardware, but don't rely on the software to pull you through!
Just to correct ignorance.
Britain actually declared war on Germany. One of the only (if not the only) country to do so during WWII.
The tsunami actually caused very little in the way of disruption on Mauritius.
I was there several weeks after the tsunami and discovered that there was no more than a large wave. Certainly not like the pictures everyone has seen of the tsunami hitting other islands.
Besides, there isn't a single area of coastline in the world that is immune to tsunami.
I'd certainly go and live there.
This kind of comment gives idiots a bad name!
The Portugese first landed on the island, and it is their sailors who are widely credited with hunting the hapless Dodo to extinction.
The Dutch, French and British then fought numerous times to gain control of the island. The last victors were the British (hence English and the language of government, driving on the left etc), but not before the French had got the whole island speaking French.
Try to engage your brain before blurting out crap like this!
That would entirely depend on the island.
In this case, wireless is the ONLY option because the island is very heavily made up of volcanic rock.
It's a lovely island. A wireless network will work great on the island. Very little around the island goes underground.
One of the vulnerabilities of the island is that the current telephone and power networks (on telegraph poles & pylons) are knocked out by the tropical storms in the area. If the networks were capable of being put underground, they would have done it by now!
It's bloody true!
Any country (my own included - UK) which imposes virtually ANY form of trade sanctions, does so to protect their over-priced home produce. This perpetuates global poverty by preventing someone from competing against you.
This is a bizarre twist on trade sanctions - I'll give you that. But to demand that a certain percentage of a product is manufactured in your own country just smacks too much of trade protection.
For security? Give me a break. . .
Sure they are words . . .
I stabled the horse. Therefore I was the stabler of the horse.
I secured the stable. Therefore I was the securer of the stable.
Or thereabouts anyway. If in doubt - make words up. It's more fun. Just as long as you spell them properly.
Deep offense???
Unless they shat in your shoe or pissed in your beer , I find it hard to understand your deep offense.
You may have been pissed off - or even slightly irked. But "deeply offended"??? Give us a break.
I've told you a million times not to exagerate.
I'm not supporting the councils decisions as to what parts of roads have what types of parking restrictions (or none at all).
I'm merely stating basic fact. Park on a double yellow line and you are parked illegally. Finished. Over. Done. Nicked.
You MAY well be able to appeal any charge that is brought - but you cannot cry foul when the letter of the law is applied to you.
It is not acceptable to state that you did not know how fast you were travelling.
It is also not acceptable to have a faulty speedometer in a car.
The LAW states the speed limits.
If you are driving outwith those limits you are driving ILLEGALLY. Regardless of whether you realised it.
And the news on averaging speed cameras is that they will be mounted on motorway gantries. So pretty much no chance of "Angle Grinder Man" taking them out.
The basics of the law are pretty straight - drive within the speed limits and the speed cameras cannot catch you. It's not bloody rocket science.
I think you will find that for every automatic ticket issued, there will be an appeals process.
If you genuinely have acted to save a life in your excursion over the boundaries of our parking or speed laws, then you have the chance to present that as a reason for the incident.
However, the overwhelming majority of speeding and parking tickets issued are due to people speeding illegally or parking illegally - without good reason.
Driver: "I'm late for a concert officer, so I drove at 90mph all the way here and then parked on the zig-zag lines of this pedestrian crossing"
Officer: "Well that's OK Sir, as long as you have a reason. Enjoy the concert Sir."
You will note that I did not mention your speedometer.
If you are DRIVING at a certain speed (and let's call it 80mph for ease this time perhaps) that is over the speed limit, then you are liable to be penalised under the laws governing speed limits on UK roads. Full stop.
Don't care if you are late for a meeting, late leaving work, no-one else on the road, think you are a rather better driver than other people on the road etc.
If you are caught - you are caught.
Personally I can't wait to have averaging speed cameras along the entire UK motorway and major roads network. If you stick within the speed limits, pay your road tax, and are NOT driving a stolen vehicle - then you have nothing to worry about.
However - fall into any one of these three categories and I have no sympathy for you.
That's just plain old bollocks.
There is currently an investigation underway to remove cameras from places that have not proven to be blackspots.
A camera can ONLY be errected if a certain level of accidents occurs on that stretch. There are regulations covering where cameras are allowed to be errected.
Recently, a copper was forced to resign as he had been found to be flouting these regs.
Your statement that MOST cameras are placed to generate maximum revenue is both baseless and a flagrant lie. Get some facts behind you first.
Oh - and stop speeding. That way you'll not get fucking caught!!!
And although speed does not necessarily mean accidents, speed is the major contributing factor to the seriousness of ALL accidents on the UK road network.
In other words:
Lower Speed = Fewer accidents and fewer deaths
A side benefit of fewer accidents is a lower cost to our overstretched emergency services who have to jump to your fucking rescue every time you wrap your car round a tree because you were driving too fast.
Basically - tough shit.
If any part of your car touches the yellow lines, you are in breech of parking regulations.
These are NOT hazy lines. It is a clear distinction between legal parking and illegal parking.
Doesn't matter how long it was for, or how much obstruction was being caused, or how much of an infringement there was of the regulations.
If you want to bitch at someone, bitch at the local council. THEY are the ones who approve the parking regulations.
I look upon speeding similarly. 72mph on the motorway is SPEEDING. Under ANY circumstances. Until the law ALLOWS 72mph, 72mph is SPEEDING.
THERE IS NO GREY AREA HERE PEOPLE.
If you are caught, you are caught. Your only recourse is to drive slower and park in proper places.
TWAT
Strong reply for a strong post.
Do you think Ford build a bespoke car for each and every different FCUKing driver???
Do you think Burger Kind hand prepare and cook a bespoke burger for every FCUKing customer???
Do you think . . . oh this is getting boring.
The whole FCUKing world revolves around the average person. Trust me - I'm 260lbs and 6 foot 6 inches in the buff. I KNOW how things get built and sold for Mr Average.
You can't complain just because you are different however. The GNOME team are tageting one very big area - not you, not me, not my Gran and not the bloke next door. They are targeting a huge number of users - and that means that the average rule has to come into play.
So pack your FCUKing bags you ass-hole. Go and FCUK off and use some obscure desktop environment. Better still - return your FCUKing computer to whoever you bought it from and return to pen and FCUKing paper because you can do whatever you FCUKing want with that.
Hold on - SHIT. Paper comes in STANDARD FCUKING SIZES. BOLLOX. Guess you're going to have to make your FCUKing own you immature little shit.
And as a footnote . . . 12 hours a day on a FCUKing computer??? You REALLY ought to get out, have some beers and get laid. It's usually someone from the opposite sex, but hell - choose bespoke sex if you really want to.
The article also points out that Microsoft are "helping" rebuild the country with huge discounts on licenses (i.e. free???).
How long are these licenses to be free?
It's not just drug dealers that get people hooked by supplying freebies until users get dependant.
Perhaps it's the bleating that the US forces did about the European system being available to "terrorists" unless the Europeans let the US forces govern the accuracy in certain areas?
It should also be pointed out that osnews.com has done a LOT of linking to "news" posted on /.
Nope - GNER is running it on their GNER services. Not any other services.
Although Virgin Trains is also trialling a service too.
Acutally that excuse was only used a handfull of times. It's become folklore now - so people bring it up all the time.
The problem came about when they switched the brakes to using disk brakes rather than clamping the outer edge of the wheel. The clamping action would help scrape the leaf mulch off the wheels so the wheels were clean to grip the track. The leaf mulch couldn't be cleaned off when the disk brakes were used.
As for the wrong kind of snow, it's more that the de-icer was sprayed on the tracks - then the temperature rose and it started raining and washed off the de-icer - then the temperature dropped and the rain froze on the tracks. Odd circumstances, but you can easily understand how it happens!
Dunk
And when you're NOT in Edinburgh . . . your "girlfriend" turns tricks down in Leith! Seriously - she's pretty well known down there.
As for flying vs train between Edinburgh & London, the train beats the airports every time. Total travel time for each method is going to be around 4 hours. But trains don't have check-in, security scanning, boarding, sitting around on tarmac, fat bastard sitting next to you sweating all over you, disembark, collect baggage, get taxi to city centre etc.
Dunk
Having experience of Concorde, I'd like to point out the following.
Concorde flew at Mach 2.0 for the duration of the flight that I was on WITHOUT afterburner.
The afterburner was only used on take-off and to accelerate from Mach 0.9 to Mach 1.76. The afterburners were switched off at Mach 1.76 and not used again for the duration of the flight.
In responce to another comment, the cabin is perfectly adequate in size. The 2x2 seat arrangement gives ample room to even large fliers like myself (6 foot 6 inches and 21 stone).
Duncan
Sorry, but WROOOOOOOOONG
MemoryStickPRO is currently in sizes up to 1Gb.
The future scalability of MemoryStickPRO reaches right up to 32Gb.
Also the speed of the MemoryStickPRO is designed to allow digital video recording straight to the stick.
In other words - watch out for Sony moving to MemoryStick PRO in their digital video cameras and perhaps ditching tape on some models.
(And in other "news" the MemoryStick PRO is actally designed in conjunction with SD, so it isn't even as proprietary as some people claim)
Dunk
I hope it's a bit more accurate than my patented Random Movement Piss Technology.
:(
I employ this technology every time I have had rather too many beers (and probably a bloody kebab) before returning home.
The Random Movement Piss Technology has no problems in pub urinals, but my missus gets rather narked when I use the technique at home
I can't figure out whether or not it would be good for the Ogg codecs (Vorbis and Theora) to be supplied as standard on loads more media devices.
:(
Part of me says "Yay - supply it on everything"
whilst another part (probably somewhere in the brain bit) says "if these things gain a wide use too fast, the RIAA will bully their way into making them illegal somehow"
I'm NOT schizophrenic BTW