Me, I couldn't give a rat's ass how loud my desktop PCs are -- there 9 servers less than 5 feet away from me, sharing a total of.. oh, 22 + 22 + 5 + 2 + 2=53 disks and about twelve billion freakin' noisy fans, what with the quad CPU and redundant PS configurations.
It's a wonder I get anything done. Somehow, I do.
Oh, and I can hear the relays in the PBX click from 25 feet away. Astounding. They must have dug those suckers up from a 50 year old landfill. Or maybe they used starter solenoids from an automotive recycling yard.
Really? I find it much easier to read "poco a poco decrescendo" than to read "play note at volume 120 play not at volume 110 play note at volume 100 play note at volume 90 play note at volume 80 play note at volume 70 play note at volume play note at volume 60 play note at volume 50 play note at volume 40".
I even find it easier to read "con sordino" than "switch to patch 52"
Obviously you know nothing of music. Would you let a football player redesign your favourite programming language?
At least you had the insight not to buy random tubes. Next time his amp is open, look inside (don't touch anything) and write down the numbers on the tubes. Then go buy some. He'll thank you for it.
> if you shut it down (init 5) you can only switch it back on by either > (a) opening the unit up or (b) attaching a Sun keyboard and using the 'power' button.
Tell me about it.
The first time that happened, I called a Sun SE... who proceeded to hardware troubleshoot it as a fault in the motherboard. It was only AFTER he got the FRU in that he realized what the problem was.
The second time, I had to drive 135 miles (each way) to plug in a keyboard and push the button.
I was glad to get rid of those awful things.. though I must say, I bet they could take a two-storey fall without missing a beat. Built like tanks, they were, the two layers of steel case almost make the E450 look wimpy in contrast (what with the plastic case and only half the foam).
Oddly enough, we had to use those wretched boxes because the customer *insisted* on them (we'd specified SparcStation 5s). Their high-paid monkeys wouldn't allow anything in the DataCenter without the word "Enterprise" in the name. You should have seen how mad they got when one of their precious Ultra Enterprise 2s arrived with Creator 3D badges on them instead. I thought they were going to sue the vendor!
I think the Linux advocates in the crowd should form their own lobby. Then lobby the same people SCO is lobbying.
But wait -- don't say anything about Open-Source, software, UNIX, Linux, etc.
Just re-hash the same arguments SCO is making, but in a parody. We should argue that it should be illegal to fix your car in your driveway, since it robs tax-paying mechanics of their livelihood.
With enough access to the drivel coming out of the SCO lobbyist's mouth, it could make for some pretty hilarious (and pointed) commentary.
Note: The article says "just about any" standard monitor with an HD15 will work -- not so. At least on the earlier Ultra 5s, you had to be somewhat choosy with your monitor.
From personal experience;
Doesn't work: MAG DJ530 IBM G70
Does work: Panasonic SL70i Panasonic E70i Panasonic S70 Sun monitors (duh) Sony 15", 17" (can't remember model numbers).
Symptom: No display with incompatible monitor, regardless of m64 settings.
Lesson: Try the monitor with the box before you buy it.
The 'ah..ahhha..ahahahahhahaaaa" was sung for the first two seasons of ST:TOS. She was replaced by a synthesizer in season three because GR couldn't stand the thought of her making royalties off each show.
Similarly, GR wrote some assinine lyrics to the theme so he could claim co-authorship and half the royalties.
Um, me three. It's come to the point where I don't even want to post real sunmanagers-type questions because I figure somebody who can't even install RAM in a 420 will try and answer me.
I think we need sunmanagers-karma points or something. But then it would probably degenerate into expertsexchange (where bad advice is dispensed at least as often as good.. which is worse than it being all bad!)
I can't wait for SCO to try extracting extortion money from people who already own DVD players.
- DeCSS was developed under Linux
- Linux is a derivative of UNIX
- DeCSS understands CSS, so it must be a derivative
- Hence all devices using CSS are UNIX derivatives
- All DVD players require a $699 UNIX license
Yeah, I'm Canadian, and I agree with you (the Aussie), I think the American is on crack. Or maybe just being perverse.
The "200 six packs" phrase is a good example. Maybe he should say "two hundred and zero six packs" for clarity? No, the people would think there was 0.06 bottles of beer (a bottle cap?) extra. I guess he's stuck with "6 packs, two hundred of them".
Any way you count 'em, though, let me know where the party is.
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Me, I couldn't give a rat's ass how loud my desktop PCs are -- there 9 servers less than 5 feet away from me, sharing a total of.. oh, 22 + 22 + 5 + 2 + 2=53 disks and about twelve billion freakin' noisy fans, what with the quad CPU and redundant PS configurations.
It's a wonder I get anything done. Somehow, I do.
Oh, and I can hear the relays in the PBX click from 25 feet away. Astounding. They must have dug those suckers up from a 50 year old landfill. Or maybe they used starter solenoids from an automotive recycling yard.
> First of all, the binary formats do do the job.
Really? I find it much easier to read "poco a poco decrescendo" than to read "play note at volume 120 play not at volume 110 play note at volume 100 play note at volume 90 play note at volume 80 play note at volume 70 play note at volume play note at volume 60 play note at volume 50 play note at volume 40".
I even find it easier to read "con sordino" than "switch to patch 52"
Obviously you know nothing of music. Would you let a football player redesign your favourite programming language?
MIDI is to music what ASCII is to art.
MOD is to music what a jigsaw puzzle is to painting.
Funny, I always spell "what" properly when authoring XML documents..
> I'm tired of seeing whining and helplessness on Slashdot when all you need to do
> is get up and proactively use the system in your favor.
I'll make you a deal.
Find 10 open source things worth patenting. PAY FOR THE PATENT.
Once you have arrange for 10 patent grants, I'll chip in one of my own.
I sure hope you make about $100,000/yr, you're gonna need most of it.
Lemme guess... you're a liberal arts major?
At least you had the insight not to buy random tubes. Next time his amp is open, look inside (don't touch anything) and write down the numbers on the tubes. Then go buy some. He'll thank you for it.
Surely you're not thinking of the TRS-80 model 100/102?
I *still* want one of those.
http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-10.htm
The old fortune program is always wise. This morning it sent this to my cell phone:
Pro is to progress as Con is to congress
I thought it was pretty funny.
> if you shut it down (init 5) you can only switch it back on by either
> (a) opening the unit up or (b) attaching a Sun keyboard and using the 'power' button.
Tell me about it.
The first time that happened, I called a Sun SE... who proceeded to hardware troubleshoot it as a fault in the motherboard. It was only AFTER he got the FRU in that he realized what the problem was.
The second time, I had to drive 135 miles (each way) to plug in a keyboard and push the button.
I was glad to get rid of those awful things.. though I must say, I bet they could take a two-storey fall without missing a beat. Built like tanks, they were, the two layers of steel case almost make the E450 look wimpy in contrast (what with the plastic case and only half the foam).
Oddly enough, we had to use those wretched boxes because the customer *insisted* on them (we'd specified SparcStation 5s). Their high-paid monkeys wouldn't allow anything in the DataCenter without the word "Enterprise" in the name. You should have seen how mad they got when one of their precious Ultra Enterprise 2s arrived with Creator 3D badges on them instead. I thought they were going to sue the vendor!
I think the Linux advocates in the crowd should form their own lobby. Then lobby the same people SCO is lobbying.
But wait -- don't say anything about Open-Source, software, UNIX, Linux, etc.
Just re-hash the same arguments SCO is making, but in a parody. We should argue that it should be illegal to fix your car in your driveway, since it robs tax-paying mechanics of their livelihood.
With enough access to the drivel coming out of the SCO lobbyist's mouth, it could make for some pretty hilarious (and pointed) commentary.
> Those "really old, really crappy sun4m" workstations make for some really fantastic systems.
:)
Hmm, so you're saying I should find something more useful for my old 6-way E3000 to do than syslog -r?
s/Sparc5/Ultra5
Geez, I'm dopy today. Oh, look, so is the slashdot editor.
Sparc5 - aka Sparcstation 5 - is a really old, really crappy sun4m that is suitable for use as an X terminal and not much else.
Ultra 1s have the same motherboard as the Enterprise 150. IIRC, they are 170 MHz sun4u; SBUS, SCSI; hme on board, probably only one CPU slot.
Creator/Enterprise almost certainly indicates what video card shipped with it.
Note: The article says "just about any" standard monitor with an HD15 will work -- not so. At least on the earlier Ultra 5s, you had to be somewhat choosy with your monitor.
From personal experience;
Doesn't work:
MAG DJ530
IBM G70
Does work:
Panasonic SL70i
Panasonic E70i
Panasonic S70
Sun monitors (duh)
Sony 15", 17" (can't remember model numbers).
Symptom: No display with incompatible monitor, regardless of m64 settings.
Lesson: Try the monitor with the box before you buy it.
> There is no singing in Star Trek!
The 'ah..ahhha..ahahahahhahaaaa" was sung for the first two seasons of ST:TOS. She was replaced by a synthesizer in season three because GR couldn't stand the thought of her making royalties off each show.
Similarly, GR wrote some assinine lyrics to the theme so he could claim co-authorship and half the royalties.
I did that once, and I dumped core because I ran out of stack space.
Hey, at least now we know why the consoles in Star Trek blow up so easily.
Gene Roddenberry truly *was* a visionary.
> pstools (which adds pskill)
You sound like a LISP programmer looking for expertise-adding shit.
> Thank God someone else noticed it.
Um, me three. It's come to the point where I don't even want to post real sunmanagers-type questions because I figure somebody who can't even install RAM in a 420 will try and answer me.
I think we need sunmanagers-karma points or something. But then it would probably degenerate into expertsexchange (where bad advice is dispensed at least as often as good.. which is worse than it being all bad!)
> Ssssshhhh! Just dont tell SCO
I can't wait for SCO to try extracting extortion money from people who already own DVD players.
- DeCSS was developed under Linux
- Linux is a derivative of UNIX
- DeCSS understands CSS, so it must be a derivative
- Hence all devices using CSS are UNIX derivatives
- All DVD players require a $699 UNIX license
No, he's saying that if his employer was unethical, that he would quit and eat his childern.
Yeah, I'm Canadian, and I agree with you (the Aussie), I think the American is on crack. Or maybe just being perverse.
The "200 six packs" phrase is a good example. Maybe he should say "two hundred and zero six packs" for clarity? No, the people would think there was 0.06 bottles of beer (a bottle cap?) extra. I guess he's stuck with "6 packs, two hundred of them".
Any way you count 'em, though, let me know where the party is.
> 9520, to be precise, as of this moment
;>
Wouldn't that be "about 9520"? Doesn't sound very precise to me.
> assuming your date(1) supports the %s extension
And you're running bash or ksh.
> Nothing too important, just things like weapons control software for warships :-).
Don't forget the spam relay systems!