I got ssh and a terminal what the hell more does one need. I admin 300 linux machines and don't need a gui to do any of it. Hell user wants a icon on his desktop I don't even need a gui to put it there for him. Do yourselves a favor and really learn how to admin a machine.
Ok I will bite on this one and for the uninformed listen closely. In a real operating system a user mode application should never ever be able to cause a kernel failure. I don't care if it is a badly behaved application or not the only thing that should be able to panic the kernel is a major hardware fault not a crappy coded game.
I guess I was correct after all and there was a bsod caused by a user level application, I call a turd a turd.
It was my understanding that the machine suffered a BSOD. If it did not in fact BSOD and only had ir pointer problem then what is the big deal. I hate MS as much as anyone but I am not going to bust anyones chops over a ir pointer gone haywire. On the other hand if it did BSOD or suffer a shell reset then they deserve every bit of criticism they get.
Hate to tell you this but if you look at the python code it is not nearly as small as it could be. I am willing to bet it could get to half it's size in characters at the cost of some readability.
No idiot I am not saying one should not be critical of the quality of it. What I am saying is that I thank him for the many long hours he has spent and if the ui was a problem, I WOULD FIX IT MY DAMN SELF. For another thing when some idiot plops some MS crap on my desk and I don't have one hell of alot of choice in fixing it now do I?
Dude I love python as much as the next python coder but QT designer does not actually support python natively does it? Last time I used it I could build a interface with it then I had to write a bunch of code to load the screens, set event handlers and a bunch of other crap. This gambas thing is one language but it is all integrated not a afterthought hack.
I actually downloaded the source a few days ago and compiled and installed it. I find that it is a extremely well done VB like environement for linux. Any day I can get a decent programming ide complete with the source and licensed under the GPL it is a wonderful day.
1. The app uses multiple windows but guess what if you don't like that then make it a single window interface. The ide is written in gambus so a little refactoring and you can have a single window interface.
2. It is extremely complete for a 1.0 release and the design of the interpreter, debugger, libraries are all rather complete.
3. I can build a gui front end to a my sql table with barely a dozen lines of code.
4. The language is not actually VB it is improved and corrected VB.
5. It had a project packager that is extremely well done.
6. The forms designer is fairly top notch and easy to work with.
Ok when all you cry babies get done writing your own interpreter, compiler, ide and make it work even half as well come back and talk to me, till then shut up. No I have no involvment in the project other than using it a little but I applaud the developer for his efforts.
Be quiet we hope our manufacturing competitors read that banner and believe it, let them spend the money on a buggy os while we cut our prices to drive them out of the market.
This is nothing more than a cleverly disguised pimping of SAP'S netweaver app server.
First and foremost SAP I do not want to have to run your hacked up JVM. Is it a good idea, yea probably but implementing it is gonna be hard because of the closed nature of JVM.
No sys admin and or programmer in his right mind wants to work with or support some third party JVM.
All that being said what's up JBOSS developers? Is this a good idea? I most certainly trust your skill far and beyond anything these guys can produce.
When I am not spending insane amounts of time behind a keyboard I pick up my second favorite tool (airbrush) and do some custom painting. I use a automotive paint called Auto Air which is a water based product. If you make a mistake with this stuff you just spray on a little amonia and water (I use windex) and this stuff just runs right off. To make it permenant you clear coat it with a urethane clear which penetrates and seals it from damage. I could imagine spraying a entire car with it then going to the local car wash and wasing it right off as long as it was not cleared.
Actually the raw desktops are kde all of the custom apps we run are qt based programs built with borland kylix.
Compaq Quad Boxes CentOS with GFS and Mosix Kernel Hitachi SAN shared fiber channel scsi
To get a great and simple introduction to the architecture just grab a copy of Kluster Knoppix and boot about 10 nodes and play with it. Our environment is slightly more complicated but it is esentially the same thing.
All the MS fan boys on here need to repeat after me.
Windows does not have clustering!
Although they may have the capability of real clustering some day they do not have that capability today no matter how much your resident MCSE talks about his great exchange clusters etc. Windows can load balance and it can provide failover and it can run some distributed processing software but it cannot natively cluster.
Linux on the other hand has the tools available to run a true cluster, failover, load balancing and a real cluster aware file system meaning all nodes can share, distribute and balance processes. A clustered file system means that all processes even running on cluster nodes can access the same exact data.
For the linux crowd I would not exactly worry about this as MS is light years behind when it comes to this capability. We run some CFD solvers at work which where initially put on some 2K boxes and have been since migrated to linux to eliminate system crashes and improve the solution speed by nearly 50%.
We do have some oracle rac installations but those I don't consider real clusters either as the database file system clustering is not general purpose like Luster or GFS.
WLBS is absolutely nothing close to being a cluster it us just mearly a way to balance load between machines. I know we have a couple of MCSE's that I work with that talk about their great clusters but what they really mean is they have failover capability. On the other hand I run a few REAL linux clusters at work, clustered file system, distributed lock manager, cluster aware process management etc and all of that software was yes ZERO dollars. One of these clusters is actually running thin client kde desktops and even the desktop apps run process balanced across the nodes.
We also run a CFD lab with a parallel processing solver. The engineers initially tried to run it on windows but instability moved us to linux. On linux we seen a immediate 50% reduction in solver compute times.
And If your friends where smart they would use linux to do CFD. We switched from windows to linux in our CFD lab and cut solution computation time nearly in half. On top of that we no longer have system crashes that ruin the results.
Actually by looking at your web site I see you have various quotes from open source hero's on your web site. By looking at your post it is quite apparent to me that you have little or no experience with linux administration in a corporate environment. You go ahead and walk into a small business armed with your server 2003 disk. I on the other hand am walking in with my Red Hat disk. In a matter of 4 hours I will have them a thin client environment with 20 desktops booting, if the network already exists, web server, email server, mailing list , forums, BPS business process server, database server, web mail the whole deal....for zero frigging dollars not that my misguided friend is providing one hell of alot of value.
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I got ssh and a terminal what the hell more does one need. I admin 300 linux machines and don't need a gui to do any of it. Hell user wants a icon on his desktop I don't even need a gui to put it there for him. Do yourselves a favor and really learn how to admin a machine.
Ok I will bite on this one and for the uninformed listen closely. In a real operating system a user mode application should never ever be able to cause a kernel failure. I don't care if it is a badly behaved application or not the only thing that should be able to panic the kernel is a major hardware fault not a crappy coded game.
I guess I was correct after all and there was a bsod caused by a user level application, I call a turd a turd.
It was my understanding that the machine suffered a BSOD. If it did not in fact BSOD and only had ir pointer problem then what is the big deal. I hate MS as much as anyone but I am not going to bust anyones chops over a ir pointer gone haywire. On the other hand if it did BSOD or suffer a shell reset then they deserve every bit of criticism they get.
Hate to tell you this but if you look at the python code it is not nearly as small as it could be. I am willing to bet it could get to half it's size in characters at the cost of some readability.
They crash all the time the os just fails to tell you it did.
No idiot I am not saying one should not be critical of the quality of it. What I am saying is that I thank him for the many long hours he has spent and if the ui was a problem, I WOULD FIX IT MY DAMN SELF. For another thing when some idiot plops some MS crap on my desk and I don't have one hell of alot of choice in fixing it now do I?
My cell phone can talk around the world on it's itty
bitty power output.
Possible since it works perfectly under fedora for me...
Dude I love python as much as the next python coder but QT designer does not actually support python natively does it? Last time I used it I could build a interface with it then I had to write a bunch of code to load the screens, set event handlers and a bunch of other crap. This gambas thing is one language but it is all integrated not a afterthought hack.
I actually downloaded the source a few days ago and compiled and installed it. I find that it is a extremely well done VB like environement for linux. Any day I can get a decent programming ide complete with the source and licensed under the GPL it is a wonderful day.
1. The app uses multiple windows but guess what if you don't like that then make it a single window interface. The ide is written in gambus so a little refactoring and you can have a single window interface.
2. It is extremely complete for a 1.0 release and the design of the interpreter, debugger, libraries are all rather complete.
3. I can build a gui front end to a my sql table with barely a dozen lines of code.
4. The language is not actually VB it is improved and corrected VB.
5. It had a project packager that is extremely well done.
6. The forms designer is fairly top notch and easy to work with.
Ok when all you cry babies get done writing your own interpreter, compiler, ide and make it work even half as well come back and talk to me, till then shut up. No I have no involvment in the project other than using it a little but I applaud the developer for his efforts.
It is a gift people, treat it as such...
Be quiet we hope our manufacturing competitors read that banner and believe it, let them spend the money on a buggy os while we cut our prices to drive them out of the market.
This is nothing more than a cleverly disguised pimping of SAP'S netweaver app server.
First and foremost SAP I do not want to have to run your hacked up JVM. Is it a good idea, yea probably but implementing it is gonna be hard because of the closed nature of JVM.
No sys admin and or programmer in his right mind wants to work with or support some third party JVM.
All that being said what's up JBOSS developers? Is this a good idea? I most certainly trust your skill far and beyond anything these guys can produce.
The mosix kernel will migrate the process to the least loaded node. You can manually migrate them if you wish using the mosix admin tools.
When I am not spending insane amounts of time behind a keyboard I pick up my second favorite tool (airbrush) and do some custom painting. I use a automotive paint called Auto Air which is a water based product. If you make a mistake with this stuff you just spray on a little amonia and water (I use windex) and this stuff just runs right off. To make it permenant you clear coat it with a urethane clear which penetrates and seals it from damage. I could imagine spraying a entire car with it then going to the local car wash and wasing it right off as long as it was not cleared.
Behold the worlds largest lighting rod, how do they hope to manage that little problem?
http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/
Actually the raw desktops are kde all of the custom
apps we run are qt based programs built with borland kylix.
Compaq Quad Boxes
CentOS with GFS and Mosix Kernel
Hitachi SAN shared fiber channel scsi
To get a great and simple introduction to the architecture just grab a copy of Kluster Knoppix
and boot about 10 nodes and play with it. Our environment is slightly more complicated but it
is esentially the same thing.
Does it have a clustered file system?
Nope, shut up and go back to playing with the hot wheels you got for christmas.
All the MS fan boys on here need to repeat after me.
Windows does not have clustering!
Although they may have the capability of real clustering some day they do not have that capability today no matter how much your resident MCSE talks about his great exchange clusters etc. Windows can load balance and it can provide failover and it can run some distributed processing software but it cannot natively cluster.
Linux on the other hand has the tools available to run a true cluster, failover, load balancing and a real cluster aware file system meaning all nodes can share, distribute and balance processes. A clustered file system means that all processes even running on cluster nodes can access the same exact data.
For the linux crowd I would not exactly worry about this as MS is light years behind when it comes to this capability. We run some CFD solvers at work which where initially put on some 2K boxes and have been since migrated to linux to eliminate system crashes and improve the solution speed by nearly 50%.
We do have some oracle rac installations but those I don't consider real clusters either as the database file system clustering is not general purpose like Luster or GFS.
WLBS is absolutely nothing close to being a cluster it us just mearly a way to balance load between machines. I know we have a couple of MCSE's that I work with that talk about their great clusters but what they really mean is they have failover capability. On the other hand I run a few REAL linux clusters at work, clustered file system, distributed lock manager, cluster aware process management etc and all of that software was yes ZERO dollars. One of these clusters is actually running thin client kde desktops and even the desktop apps run process balanced across the nodes.
We also run a CFD lab with a parallel processing solver. The engineers initially tried to run it on windows but instability moved us to linux. On linux we seen a immediate 50% reduction in solver compute times.
And If your friends where smart they would use linux to do CFD. We switched from windows to linux in our CFD lab and cut solution computation time nearly in half. On top of that we no longer have system crashes that ruin the results.
Take one down pass it around 80 slashdot trolls I mean astroturfs on the wall....
Actually by looking at your web site I see you have various quotes from open source hero's on your web site. By looking at your post it is quite apparent to me that you have little or no experience with linux administration in a corporate environment. You go ahead and walk into a small business armed with your server 2003 disk. I on the other hand am walking in with my Red Hat disk. In a matter of 4 hours I will have them a thin client environment with 20 desktops booting, if the network already exists, web server, email server, mailing list , forums, BPS business process server, database server, web mail the whole deal....for zero frigging dollars not that my misguided friend is providing one hell of alot of value.
1. Modification For Direct Power +2
2. IR Controller made with a PIC +8
3. Powered By Windows -9
Total 1 Point on the coolnes factor
Tech Note: 1 additional point could be gained
farily easily with the addition of a blue led.
Yea lets upgrade this one to a 4 so we can lean on
the budget and get us a big ole fat grant from the govt.