What the consumer needs is something that works. Now I love *NIX as I like to tweak, recompile etc but I'm a geek. My wife wants something she can turn on, type a letter, click print and then do something else. Windows does that well. You know that software will work on all PC's rather than having to make sure libfoo >=0.9.18.
I'm sure other ehere will suggest NFS but why not just go whole hog and setup you clients to boot off a server then mount the same NFS filesystem. That way total transparency without having to make sure that n FS is always mounted
It seems that the numbre of security exploits and updates seems to be growing as more people start experimenting with trying the break systems. Now I'm subscribe to BugTraq et all but find it hard to keep on top of what is going on and what I need to update. What would you say are good tools for keeping up to date across multiple systems and platforms?
I can say that my JPEG can deliver more than 50% compression than that of normal JPEG settings. However it doesn't mention that the image quality will be awful. Its all relative
I must admit that I've sometimes found blogs more helpful than mailing lists as they normally give instruction on howto do something as the blogger just wants a personal copy for the next time they want to do it.
Mailing lists on the otherhand sometimes just target one small part of the problem however they are both definitly useful. Of course I'm also nosy so do like to read other peoples live's ocassionaly:)
Wouldn't some sort of software solution be the Hurd (if/when it becomes ready) in that as each system is a micro-kernel you just restart that bit of the operating system. As said in another post this is like/etc/rc.d but at a lower level.
Or you could just have some sort of failover setup.
Its nice to see OSS being pushed but it should be kept in mind that OSS isn't necessarily the best for every task. For example old Mainframes might be old, but they are reliable bugs are know and are good at what they do.
M$ has a place on the desktop as if like most governments the machines are old but work anddo what the staff need. Everything has it place and that place is not necessarily the trash
I will say that Network Solutions surpised me once in that I rang up as needed some DNS servers changed (old domain so web interface didn't work). I though that it would take ages to get sorted. Loads of faxing etc. However rang up, got through to CS, said what I wanted to do and had it done 10 minutes. However I guess that I just got lucky that day
I think this going to end up claiming that somone time travelled to register the trade mark similar to the recent news item where someone on the NYSE managed to turn $800 into $30 million. When arrested for insider trading he claimed he was a time traveller who had knowledge of the stock market.
Well with any luck this will help RedHat get ever more big iron support. ATM it has support from SGI in the shape of the Altix which scales to 64 CPU's using Itaniums 2's. TBH though I'm not sure of Futitsu marketing at the high end.
The only think I would like to see improved is RPM in being able to handel downloads and upgrades better rather than having to use apt-rpm. However good on them and good luck for the future
One problem with having all this storage is backing it all up. Even taking a moderatly sized drive today of 120GB, chuck in some compression and be generous by saying 2:1 (1.5 is much more likely). That means you need 60GB of data.
To thats 15 DVD-R's at 4 GB of piece or 100 CD-Roms. Of course we could start looking at tape but whichever way you look at it there is no cheapish way of being able to make a backup you could keep offsite.
Microsoft go for the release fast and patch after option. Get something out the door and go "Look, WOW new bit of software come and use it". Then patch it afterwards. Now you can't expect any software to be bugfree but you can't help but think they could try harder
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And commerical UNIX's can be technically superior to BSD + Linux. Ever seen Linux go above 64 CPUs in an SSI? IRIX can and I believe so can solaris
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What the consumer needs is something that works. Now I love *NIX as I like to tweak, recompile etc but I'm a geek. My wife wants something she can turn on, type a letter, click print and then do something else. Windows does that well. You know that software will work on all PC's rather than having to make sure libfoo >=0.9.18.
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You might have luck googling for "clusted filesystems" as well. things like HP's CFS (no idea how good it is though)
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I'm sure other ehere will suggest NFS but why not just go whole hog and setup you clients to boot off a server then mount the same NFS filesystem. That way total transparency without having to make sure that n FS is always mounted
Just my $00.2
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How long does it take an Itanium to count to 10?
I don't know but will let you know when it gets there
OMG I don't believe I just wrote that
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It seems that the numbre of security exploits and updates seems to be growing as more people start experimenting with trying the break systems. Now I'm subscribe to BugTraq et all but find it hard to keep on top of what is going on and what I need to update. What would you say are good tools for keeping up to date across multiple systems and platforms?
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I can say that my JPEG can deliver more than 50% compression than that of normal JPEG settings. However it doesn't mention that the image quality will be awful. Its all relative
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I must admit that I've sometimes found blogs more helpful than mailing lists as they normally give instruction on howto do something as the blogger just wants a personal copy for the next time they want to do it.
:)
Mailing lists on the otherhand sometimes just target one small part of the problem however they are both definitly useful. Of course I'm also nosy so do like to read other peoples live's ocassionaly
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I wouldn't worry about your english. Its better than some native speaks I've seen
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Wouldn't some sort of software solution be the Hurd (if/when it becomes ready) in that as each system is a micro-kernel you just restart that bit of the operating system. As said in another post this is like /etc/rc.d but at a lower level.
Or you could just have some sort of failover setup.
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Its nice to see OSS being pushed but it should be kept in mind that OSS isn't necessarily the best for every task. For example old Mainframes might be old, but they are reliable bugs are know and are good at what they do.
M$ has a place on the desktop as if like most governments the machines are old but work anddo what the staff need. Everything has it place and that place is not necessarily the trash
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Any linux distro with a mixture of cp -r, mv and ln can be setup as requested. Though it might just break things that are hard wired
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Whatever its called (and I've seen both) I still can't but help Kryten (Robert Lwellyn) is the best host. Also use of the term bodger is fun :)
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Don't suppose with this there will be a native FreeBSD port will there rather than having to patch and have 3GB have disk space free to compile it?
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Its been /.'ed. Any mirrors?
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I will say that Network Solutions surpised me once in that I rang up as needed some DNS servers changed (old domain so web interface didn't work). I though that it would take ages to get sorted. Loads of faxing etc. However rang up, got through to CS, said what I wanted to do and had it done 10 minutes. However I guess that I just got lucky that day
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Also AOL use to block Scunthorpe on their signup pages as well.
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I think this going to end up claiming that somone time travelled to register the trade mark similar to the recent news item where someone on the NYSE managed to turn $800 into $30 million. When arrested for insider trading he claimed he was a time traveller who had knowledge of the stock market.
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Well with any luck this will help RedHat get ever more big iron support. ATM it has support from SGI in the shape of the Altix which scales to 64 CPU's using Itaniums 2's. TBH though I'm not sure of Futitsu marketing at the high end.
The only think I would like to see improved is RPM in being able to handel downloads and upgrades better rather than having to use apt-rpm. However good on them and good luck for the future
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And there was me sitting happily with my 8" floppy hanging off the wall
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Would a helicopter be better as you already have the circular motion?
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Wonder what would happen with 8"? The extinction of the human race :)
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One problem with having all this storage is backing it all up. Even taking a moderatly sized drive today of 120GB, chuck in some compression and be generous by saying 2:1 (1.5 is much more likely). That means you need 60GB of data.
To thats 15 DVD-R's at 4 GB of piece or 100 CD-Roms. Of course we could start looking at tape but whichever way you look at it there is no cheapish way of being able to make a backup you could keep offsite.
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Microsoft go for the release fast and patch after option. Get something out the door and go "Look, WOW new bit of software come and use it". Then patch it afterwards. Now you can't expect any software to be bugfree but you can't help but think they could try harder
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or just go for abuse@hotmail.com.
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