Sorry, but you're way off here. Mainframes are much different beasts to what you seem to be thinking of. They're not big PCs.
And no, a VAX is not a mainframe, a VAX is a mini.
Can you not use just normal toilet paper on baby?
What is it with saying "on Baby?" You wouldn't say "Can you not use just normal toilet paper on wife?", would you? You'd say "on your wife".
I think you'll find that it was incredulity that one program and it's associated libs takes up that amount of space. So? Replace it with python for example, and that'd take up the same space - it's not language bashing, just program-size bashing. get off your perl high-horse, perf.
hot-swap memory, hot-swap CPUs, memory failure resiliency (OS quits using memory if recoverable but warning-sign single-bit ECC memory errors get too great), [...] multipath IO...
no, you don't. But i've watched a fairly big geek friend boot the latest FreeBSD install CD and give up after half an hour of going "what? what?!". He then asked me for my copy of Mandrake 9.1b3 which he glided through with no help.
At the end of the day, which one is he going to be using - the free UNIX that he could install, or the one that he couldn't?
No, nerds use FreeBSD "just because it is nerdier". Geeks are smarter than that. Ever compare FreeBSD's installer to say, Mandrake 9's? Or RedHat 7.1's? Or Mandrake 5's?
Redhat 5 is easier to install, ffs. I'm a geek, but some things in life are meant to be easier.
...I don't see the problem. If it's secure paid work in these times, who cares? Hell, i'd do it.
"Oh no, a company is going to great lengths to make itself appear enticing to prospective employees".
Let me break it to you: These are hard times we are living in. A job is just a job. You earn your shit from 9-5 and get out of there, it's what you do to pay the bills so that you don't sit at home twiddling your knob all day bored out of your skull, so that you can afford a roof, to eat, and buy funky cool things.
Yeah, that sounds about right. To get it back, you have to set yourself little challenges - "i'm going to finish this mission in the next 2 mins or i'll quit out and start again" etc
I'd much rather that we mined asteroids - to me the moon is an international treasure (I wanted to say "wonder of the World, but heh) and to start to slowly erode it would be a crime second only to ruining our own planet.
...I hate paranoid companies. I have a pdp11 that used to control an experimental blast furnace at British Steel. Guess what the obvious thing to do with a disk rack full of company when the experiment was ended...:(
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I've got a 4000/200 as my bedside table, a 3100/m10 keeping my feet warm and an 11/750 in the basement heating the house up
Lovely mixture of Ultrix, VMS and NetBSD/VAX
Sorry, but you're way off here. Mainframes are much different beasts to what you seem to be thinking of. They're not big PCs. And no, a VAX is not a mainframe, a VAX is a mini.
Can you not use just normal toilet paper on baby?
What is it with saying "on Baby?" You wouldn't say "Can you not use just normal toilet paper on wife?", would you? You'd say "on your wife".
Same with baby. With ^your^ baby.
nah man, didn't you hear? BSD's dying.
posted from a VAX running NetBSD...
I don't know if this is meant to be funny or not! *screams*
Happy April the First.
we know. However, most of us would call this a "joke". Look that word up on e2 sometime.
I think you'll find that it was incredulity that one program and it's associated libs takes up that amount of space. So? Replace it with python for example, and that'd take up the same space - it's not language bashing, just program-size bashing. get off your perl high-horse, perf.
hot-swap memory, hot-swap CPUs, memory failure resiliency (OS quits using memory if recoverable but warning-sign single-bit ECC memory errors get too great), [...] multipath IO...
Aren't these commodity PC hardware shortcomings?
ooh, what's this?
i'm fairly sure there was a drake 5, although back then it was pretty much an s/Redhat/Mandrake on the sources ;)
no, you don't. But i've watched a fairly big geek friend boot the latest FreeBSD install CD and give up after half an hour of going "what? what?!". He then asked me for my copy of Mandrake 9.1b3 which he glided through with no help.
At the end of the day, which one is he going to be using - the free UNIX that he could install, or the one that he couldn't?
Yes, but is is a huge entry barrier. Come on, ahve you seen it? Argh!
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by the way, i'm a tester for NetBSD/VAX
No, nerds use FreeBSD "just because it is nerdier". Geeks are smarter than that. Ever compare FreeBSD's installer to say, Mandrake 9's? Or RedHat 7.1's? Or Mandrake 5's?
Redhat 5 is easier to install, ffs. I'm a geek, but some things in life are meant to be easier.
...I don't see the problem. If it's secure paid work in these times, who cares? Hell, i'd do it.
"Oh no, a company is going to great lengths to make itself appear enticing to prospective employees".
Let me break it to you: These are hard times we are living in. A job is just a job. You earn your shit from 9-5 and get out of there, it's what you do to pay the bills so that you don't sit at home twiddling your knob all day bored out of your skull, so that you can afford a roof, to eat, and buy funky cool things.
er, it's not?
Yeah, that sounds about right. To get it back, you have to set yourself little challenges - "i'm going to finish this mission in the next 2 mins or i'll quit out and start again" etc
thankyou.
Blondes? Eew no. I prefer a nice, natural pinkhaired-one myself...
Yeah I know, but the post author said nothing about relavent technical difficulties, did they now? ;)
I'd much rather that we mined asteroids - to me the moon is an international treasure (I wanted to say "wonder of the World, but heh) and to start to slowly erode it would be a crime second only to ruining our own planet.
Mine the asteroids.
If email becomes paid, how will free mailing lists survive, such as the ones for the NetBSD ports, LKML etc etc?
Yup, but I don't know how to correctly describe how I feel. I'll just leave it to the experts, then...
Besides, who's to say God and evolution cannot coexist? What if that's the method He used?
*nods* which is how I justify the theory behind religion. I think the implementation's all wrong though...
...I hate paranoid companies. I have a pdp11 that used to control an experimental blast furnace at British Steel. Guess what the obvious thing to do with a disk rack full of company when the experiment was ended... :(