Now what happens in linux if you buy a new harddrive? It magicly melts into/usr without the need of another partition? It doesn't on my system...
It doesn't on windows either. On my Linux systems new hard drives do magically melt into/usr or wherever I like. Why you ask? Because I have all my Linux systems (even my laptop) setup using LVM on root and all other partitions (except/boot). I can grow and shrink as I wish. LVM is stable and has been around on Linux for over two years. I don't know why more distros haven't made it a standard part of their setup.
I have a Sony C1VP Picturebook with a 667Mhz Transmeta Crusoe TM5600 in it. With the Quad battery pack I get 10+ hours of operation. It is very nice for those all nighters in the datacenter when you don't have a spare socket to plug into or road trips. I love my C1VP and I think that if you need a small system to get work done they are great.
I have done a few power benchmarks on it. Doing continuous kernel recompiles and running updatedb constantly (Maxed out CPU and Maxed out disk I/O) I was able to get 8 hours of operation out of it. I routinely get over 10 hours of use on battery.
A co-worker of mine has a fujitsu lifebook and he has nothing but great things to say about it. It's a bit larger than the picturebook and doesn't have battery as robust as the C1VP, but it is on the smaller end of the laptop spectrum.
I think that the above is an old list. There are several stations that I know are Clear Channel stations in Dallas that are not on this list. Clear channel's own station search is probably better:
I have heard so many evil things about Clear Channel and I think that thier stations suck; I refuse to listen to them. If I'm listening to the radio it is going to be NPR.
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It took me maybe 10 minutes and most of that was on hold. I told them that I never used the service and they cancelled it. So, is it the fiddler or the fddle that caused the above situation?
I remember back in the day when Win2k was in beta and I worked at a Dot com. Some of our customers had setup Win2k boxes from their house. They were attempting bogus updates with our DNS and were filling our bind logs and, therefore, my email box with errors.
The funniest thing was that when I notified one of the users ( a MCSE/MCSD ) he asked me to come to his house and configure his Win2k box to stop the bogus updates, because he did not understand DNS. I laughed.
And my employer (A fortune five company) had no problem with me owning the code that I write on my own time. I can't imagine that any employer would unless they are planning on screwing you.
The funny part is that my current employer is very liberal with the licensing on my code and their environment is not very Linux friendly. My former employer was a.com Linux shop they were very adamant about owning all of my code. Guess who is paying me more?
One of the companies that I recently worked for spent 8 million on Sun hardware (E10k's, Solaris, Veritas, etc.) and 16 million on Oracle 8i software licenses. That's right, the hardware cost was half of what the software cost. And the hardware was scaled for one year's increase in work load. When they plan to add more hardware guess what, Oracle will get even more money.
This is the where the real software costs are. Forget about your piddling $200 for an OS crap. The other apps which run on that OS are often MUCH more expensive that the OS (i.e. WinXP versus MS Office).
I guess that is why the above mentioned company is planning on moving to a clustered Linux solution.
8 hours of operation on the battery is marketing BS ehh? I get 10+ hours of battery operation on my Transmeta based Sony VAIO C1VP on a daily basis. Mind you that is using the quad capacity battery, but the 10 hours of work without having to plug-in is pretty sweet I must say.:)
Several members of the Tucson Free UNIX Group setup a Linux system at Corbell elementary school in Tucson, AZ. The kids (6+ years old) all had no problems using the system. As a matter of fact they looked forward to working in the computer lab.
These were debian boxes with KDE on the desktop. Of course much planning and work went into the creation of our system images so that all things that were not needed were removed (GCC, header files, etc.). Special scripts were written to prevent user error (i.e. A perl script which would only allow one instance of Netscape to be spawned since Netscape has a very slow startup time.) and NIS with NFS home directories were setup so that any user could log onto to any node and get their desktop/user data.
This was done about four years ago and with the DRAMATIC improvement of Linux on the desktop, I would think that this task would be even easier today.
The administration benefits alone are worth using Linux versus Windows. You SSH-in and remotely fix any box at anytime. No PC-Anywhere licenses, no waiting until you come into the office tomorrow, it rocks!
I also have setup all my systems at my house with Linux and all of my computer illiterate family members has never had a problem using the systems.
The key is that you as the sysadmin need to setup the environment for the user and make it stupid simple for them. Then you show them how to use it. A little scripting and creation of a desktop icon on your part will go a long way to helping your users have a good experience.
From the brief description that you give of your problems it is evident to me that not much care was taken to give your users a gentle transition. It should come as no surprise that if you just plop your users in front of a UNIX box and tell them to get to work they are going to have problems.
This is just my ten cents.
p.s. In regards to your browser issue with your bank did you try Mozilla?
Instead of blowing them up we can send them hugs. Because hugs have solved more problems then bombs right guys? And we can have a nice hippy orgy, smoke a fat joint, and then all our problems will be solved and the whole world will be a better place {:D Sounds great huh?
Do you think that the Palenstinians would like a hug? Perhaps while they celebrate the deaths of thousands of US civilians in their streets. I wonder how some of you anti-retaliation posters would feel if someone murdered your family and then celebrated in the streets?
I think that there is some confusion between the iishack exploit for IIS 4.0 and the new IIS exploit implemented in Code Red. When iishack was reported and released by Eeye MS had taken their sweet time releasing a fix. This is clearly not the case with Code Red.
Get out of Austin. The job market is much better in areas who's tech market doesn't revolve around the Internet. Dallas and Houston are doing well, but then again I work on large UNIX systems (E10K, EMC, etc.). People with experience in that area aren't growing on trees exactly. If you are an x86 dude or low end Sun guy, it's rough.
JRE 1.3 and later use HotSpot by default and that makes a HUGE difference in performance. I have seen three fold performance increases without changing a line of code.
What the hell is that? Sounds like a five year old talking. Perhaps they mean constitutional rights. I hate when someone that has a good cause writes like a jackass. It makes the whole cause seem like it is foolish. Oh Well....
Why would you want to go with one of those crappy national ISP's that have terrible service and require Windows specific software? Go with MindSpring.
Although they don't officially support Linux, they very Linux friendly, have a great service, they are the only national ISP that I know of that does not take on new clients if they don't have the bandwidth, and they require no special software to use their service.
They even have Linux articles in their online knowledge base. Which is nice since I run nothing but Linux at home.
I think that they are meaning Pedis as in latin for foot. The Foot Eaters. You know like putting one's foot in their mouth (i.e. people who make comments without thinking first):)
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I've been looking at a Fujitsu Lifebook
Alas they come with Windows. :(
One can only hope that the NSYNC clips will be included. HA!
Now what happens in linux if you buy a new harddrive? It magicly melts into /usr without the need of another partition? It doesn't on my system...
/usr or wherever I like. Why you ask? Because I have all my Linux systems (even my laptop) setup using LVM on root and all other partitions (except /boot). I can grow and shrink as I wish. LVM is stable and has been around on Linux for over two years. I don't know why more distros haven't made it a standard part of their setup.
It doesn't on windows either. On my Linux systems new hard drives do magically melt into
I have a Sony C1VP Picturebook with a 667Mhz Transmeta Crusoe TM5600 in it. With the Quad battery pack I get 10+ hours of operation. It is very nice for those all nighters in the datacenter when you don't have a spare socket to plug into or road trips. I love my C1VP and I think that if you need a small system to get work done they are great.
I have done a few power benchmarks on it. Doing continuous kernel recompiles and running updatedb constantly (Maxed out CPU and Maxed out disk I/O) I was able to get 8 hours of operation out of it. I routinely get over 10 hours of use on battery.
A co-worker of mine has a fujitsu lifebook and he has nothing but great things to say about it. It's a bit larger than the picturebook and doesn't have battery as robust as the C1VP, but it is on the smaller end of the laptop spectrum.
I think that the above is an old list. There are several stations that I know are Clear Channel stations in Dallas that are not on this list. Clear channel's own station search is probably better:
HereI have heard so many evil things about Clear Channel and I think that thier stations suck; I refuse to listen to them. If I'm listening to the radio it is going to be NPR.
It took me maybe 10 minutes and most of that was on hold. I told them that I never used the service and they cancelled it. So, is it the fiddler or the fddle that caused the above situation?
I remember back in the day when Win2k was in beta and I worked at a Dot com. Some of our customers had setup Win2k boxes from their house. They were attempting bogus updates with our DNS and were filling our bind logs and, therefore, my email box with errors.
The funniest thing was that when I notified one of the users ( a MCSE/MCSD ) he asked me to come to his house and configure his Win2k box to stop the bogus updates, because he did not understand DNS. I laughed.
I guess the Root Servers aren't laughing now!
And my employer (A fortune five company) had no problem with me owning the code that I write on my own time. I can't imagine that any employer would unless they are planning on screwing you.
.com Linux shop they were very adamant about owning all of my code. Guess who is paying me more?
The funny part is that my current employer is very liberal with the licensing on my code and their environment is not very Linux friendly. My former employer was a
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So then this bug doesn't exist?:
NTFS Corruption
There are probably better FS bugs under windows, but this one was all that was required to render you statement false.
One of the companies that I recently worked for spent 8 million on Sun hardware (E10k's, Solaris, Veritas, etc.) and 16 million on Oracle 8i software licenses. That's right, the hardware cost was half of what the software cost. And the hardware was scaled for one year's increase in work load. When they plan to add more hardware guess what, Oracle will get even more money.
This is the where the real software costs are. Forget about your piddling $200 for an OS crap. The other apps which run on that OS are often MUCH more expensive that the OS (i.e. WinXP versus MS Office).
I guess that is why the above mentioned company is planning on moving to a clustered Linux solution.
8 hours of operation on the battery is marketing BS ehh? I get 10+ hours of battery operation on my Transmeta based Sony VAIO C1VP on a daily basis. Mind you that is using the quad capacity battery, but the 10 hours of work without having to plug-in is pretty sweet I must say. :)
Several members of the Tucson Free UNIX Group setup a Linux system at Corbell elementary school in Tucson, AZ. The kids (6+ years old) all had no problems using the system. As a matter of fact they looked forward to working in the computer lab.
These were debian boxes with KDE on the desktop. Of course much planning and work went into the creation of our system images so that all things that were not needed were removed (GCC, header files, etc.). Special scripts were written to prevent user error (i.e. A perl script which would only allow one instance of Netscape to be spawned since Netscape has a very slow startup time.) and NIS with NFS home directories were setup so that any user could log onto to any node and get their desktop/user data.
This was done about four years ago and with the DRAMATIC improvement of Linux on the desktop, I would think that this task would be even easier today.
The administration benefits alone are worth using Linux versus Windows. You SSH-in and remotely fix any box at anytime. No PC-Anywhere licenses, no waiting until you come into the office tomorrow, it rocks!
I also have setup all my systems at my house with Linux and all of my computer illiterate family members has never had a problem using the systems.
The key is that you as the sysadmin need to setup the environment for the user and make it stupid simple for them. Then you show them how to use it. A little scripting and creation of a desktop icon on your part will go a long way to helping your users have a good experience.
From the brief description that you give of your problems it is evident to me that not much care was taken to give your users a gentle transition. It should come as no surprise that if you just plop your users in front of a UNIX box and tell them to get to work they are going to have problems.
This is just my ten cents.
p.s. In regards to your browser issue with your bank did you try Mozilla?
Instead of blowing them up we can send them hugs. Because hugs have solved more problems then bombs right guys? And we can have a nice hippy orgy, smoke a fat joint, and then all our problems will be solved and the whole world will be a better place {:D Sounds great huh?
Do you think that the Palenstinians would like a hug? Perhaps while they celebrate the deaths of thousands of US civilians in their streets. I wonder how some of you anti-retaliation posters would feel if someone murdered your family and then celebrated in the streets?
Food for thought I hope.
Umm,
I think that there is some confusion between the iishack exploit for IIS 4.0 and the new IIS exploit implemented in Code Red. When iishack was reported and released by Eeye MS had taken their sweet time releasing a fix. This is clearly not the case with Code Red.
Dude,
Get out of Austin. The job market is much better in areas who's tech market doesn't revolve around the Internet. Dallas and Houston are doing well, but then again I work on large UNIX systems (E10K, EMC, etc.). People with experience in that area aren't growing on trees exactly. If you are an x86 dude or low end Sun guy, it's rough.
Good Luck!
JRE 1.3 and later use HotSpot by default and that makes a HUGE difference in performance. I have seen three fold performance increases without changing a line of code.
FYI
What the hell is that? Sounds like a five year old talking. Perhaps they mean constitutional rights. I hate when someone that has a good cause writes like a jackass. It makes the whole cause seem like it is foolish. Oh Well....
The new empegs have voice recognition software on it. Check out the new EMPEG Mark2 at http://www2.empeg.com/mark2
Why would you want to go with one of those crappy national ISP's that have terrible service and require Windows specific software? Go with MindSpring.
Although they don't officially support Linux, they very Linux friendly, have a great service, they are the only national ISP that I know of that does not take on new clients if they don't have the bandwidth, and they require no special software to use their service.
They even have Linux articles in their online knowledge base. Which is nice since I run nothing but Linux at home.
MindSpring is cool!
You can sign up at 1-888-mspring :)
-Bryan p.s. I don't work for MindSpring.I think that they are meaning Pedis as in latin for foot. The Foot Eaters. You know like putting one's foot in their mouth (i.e. people who make comments without thinking first) :)
But maybe I'm wrong
Typo! Try this link
perl bindings
These are really good for simple apps. Sys admins will love this stuff!