I'd love to help my kids' grade school setup dumb X terminals connected to a big box that runs a vmware intance of windoze for each student who's logged in for a class. The collection of aging *shit* machines their school has is pathetic. Problem is I guess it would take such a huge monster linux box to run 30-50 simultaneous copies of vmware/windoze it wouldn't be practical
The only drawback I found was that to start and stop the services and do other general
admin you would have to use something like PC anywhere to get onto the servers
You can start/stop services from the commandline with the net command. If you can get a command.com via telnet, you don't need gui (at least to start/stop services).
I've actually implemented a realserver solution and written a shitload of code for realserver on linux/solaris/nt. Haven't had exp with MS, Ogg, or QT yet, but wouldn't mind the chance. Real isn't terribly clueful about linux community friendliness, but they do have a beta player that runs on linux, solaris etc. Their server runs NT, linux, solaris etc. Which is all far more than we'll see from MS any time soon.
They have the "surestream" thing which scales stream quality up or down depending on user connection. You can point a user at one URL (and one file on the back end) with multiple bitrate encodings and the server/player will deal.
Real has had a bug in their server for several months. It keeps causes the server to start using 100% cpu for no reason. We have not been able to get a single realserver instance to handle more than around 500 streams (on more than heafy enough hardware) without it getting really pissed at us over time. It took alot of bitch slapping, but real finally admitted they have the bug. So don't believe any numbers like one server on one monster box will handle 3000 users. Real will tell you memory usage per user and users per cpu mips. But we ended up running enough realserver instances across enough linux boxes to keep each instance below 300 users (a fuzzy happiness level we found). Hey real, if you've fixed the bug already, doh. Guess you should've told me, eh?
Also, check into mixing stereo streams with mono streams in one surestream file. Mono is actually better sounding than stereo below like 30kbps. But above that roughly, you want stereo. But realproducer won't let you mix and match all combinations of everything you'd want.
I've recently been evaluating high end NAS/SAN (network attached storage arrays / storage area networks). The rep from netapp (makes high end NFS based devices) said Oracle is using their devices as the backing for their new E(whatever) service to compete with MS.NET.... AND in the process, Oracle has forgone using their raw block access methods for, you guessed it, NFS-based Oracle database (to connect to netapp's netfilers) powering their own site. He said Oracle found they could map to netapp's high performance custom NFS file system and start to free up a huge engineering group devoted to optimized raw block access architectures.
Sounds pretty f'd to me. And not surprising to hear from netapp, given their whole universe seems to revolve around NAS (NFS) as opposed to SAN (fiber). Anyone out there actually running Oracle on an array via NFS ?
A Sun sales rep will tell you that the E10k is a scalable flexible near infinitely configurable
enterprise solution. He'd be right on everything except the word enterprise...
Then in the next paragraph, it says:
We rank this product with 3 stars, but only for high-end enterprise situations.
Over a year ago I spent a good several weeks in the learning curve on linux. The first 2 were wasted trying to configure and tweak things via the gnome gui tools. (which was clear to me are a vain attempt at a pretty front end to the REAL config tools - config files). I like to know how to *really* use a system and forced myself to do everything with the original base command line tools and config files using man pages, howtos and some online help.
I cursed and cursed. I learned emacs. I unlearned all those windows keystrokes. (not really, its kool to switch my fingers to windows mode on a win box). I killed gnome and kde and installed a gui that used only a few megs (in code and execution) and was as foreign looking to Windoze as possible, Windowmaker
But as I learned to make major changes to my system without a gui or goddamn, *f-ing rebooting every 5 minutes I began to feel that godlike power agian that hooked me on computers back when I was 9. I began to love Linux. I feel natural with it and can really get around.
Funny, but just after that transition phase I took an engineering management role in a dot com and help in the setup of a several hundred K in unix hardware (smp sun boxes, linux, raid arrays, yada). I can tell you being able to live at the command line (and I mead live - getting help, light browsing, writing code (java and c++), working with multiple apps, email) was incredibly useful - I'd say mecessary
Though I've said alot, I don't know what to say. Sometimes I actually don't want every joe 6 pack to be running linux. The prideful part of me says, "learn the goddamn system and stop complaining. And if you can't, puleeze go back to windows. Grandma shouldn't be anywhere near a linux box anyway." The human part of me (oh, pride IS human, Doh) says, "*sniff*, try these:"
Hot Damn! When I saw a story about Zork, it brought back memories for me. So I downloaded and compiled the P code engine and the Zork I/II/II game files, wrote a quick bash script and hung them off of inetd on my web page. If you want to play Zork I, II or III, goto my webpage
Hot Damn! Seeing a story about Zork brought back memories for me. So I downloaded and compiled the P code engine and the Zork I/II/II game files, wrote a quick bash script and hung them off of inetd on my web page. If you want to play Zork I, II or III, goto my webpage
It's the opposite problem from the jock who's so great at athletics that everyone lets him slide on academics. Then he ends his athletic career,
broke, stupid and becomes a bartender.
The bartending association of America collectively spits in your drink.
RMS said, "The Free Software Movement has a more far-reaching and deeper goal: to give users the freedom to cooperate and participate in a community together. To have freedom, we must use software that respects our freedom. A non-free program takes away its users' freedom, so the only way to be free if you use a computer is to keep the non-free software off your computer."
It seems to me that the very computer platform you're running this free software on is itself loaded with software that is not free thus taking away the users' freedom, thus being a failure.
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I'd love to help my kids' grade school setup dumb X terminals connected to a big box that runs a vmware intance of windoze for each student who's logged in for a class. The collection of aging *shit* machines their school has is pathetic. Problem is I guess it would take such a huge monster linux box to run 30-50 simultaneous copies of vmware/windoze it wouldn't be practical
You can start/stop services from the commandline with the net command. If you can get a command.com via telnet, you don't need gui (at least to start/stop services).
They have the "surestream" thing which scales stream quality up or down depending on user connection. You can point a user at one URL (and one file on the back end) with multiple bitrate encodings and the server/player will deal. Real has had a bug in their server for several months. It keeps causes the server to start using 100% cpu for no reason. We have not been able to get a single realserver instance to handle more than around 500 streams (on more than heafy enough hardware) without it getting really pissed at us over time. It took alot of bitch slapping, but real finally admitted they have the bug. So don't believe any numbers like one server on one monster box will handle 3000 users. Real will tell you memory usage per user and users per cpu mips. But we ended up running enough realserver instances across enough linux boxes to keep each instance below 300 users (a fuzzy happiness level we found). Hey real, if you've fixed the bug already, doh. Guess you should've told me, eh?
Also, check into mixing stereo streams with mono streams in one surestream file. Mono is actually better sounding than stereo below like 30kbps. But above that roughly, you want stereo. But realproducer won't let you mix and match all combinations of everything you'd want.
Yeah. And so can employees. And their salary disappears from the bottom line too.
Mmmmm. PDP Eelllevveennn.... Back to high school. I remember my comp teacher telling me what "debug" meant when cleaning out our pdp 11 box.
I've recently been evaluating high end NAS/SAN (network attached storage arrays / storage area networks). The rep from netapp (makes high end NFS based devices) said Oracle is using their devices as the backing for their new E(whatever) service to compete with MS .NET. ... AND in the process, Oracle has forgone using their raw block access methods for, you guessed it, NFS-based Oracle database (to connect to netapp's netfilers) powering their own site. He said Oracle found they could map to netapp's high performance custom NFS file system and start to free up a huge engineering group devoted to optimized raw block access architectures.
Sounds pretty f'd to me. And not surprising to hear from netapp, given their whole universe seems to revolve around NAS (NFS) as opposed to SAN (fiber). Anyone out there actually running Oracle on an array via NFS ?
DOH!
I think it is long overdue for the gov't to give up it's farcical policies on regulating encryption and supercomputers.
I'm glad I'm running squid webcache with adzapper. Looks beautiful to me.
Seems like if you're a hard drive company, you ARE a "big boy" as making hard drives does not happen in garage operations.
Holy schitt... over...
A Sun sales rep will tell you that the E10k is a scalable flexible near infinitely configurable enterprise solution. He'd be right on everything except the word enterprise...
Then in the next paragraph, it says:
We rank this product with 3 stars, but only for high-end enterprise situations.
Doh.
I cursed and cursed. I learned emacs. I unlearned all those windows keystrokes. (not really, its kool to switch my fingers to windows mode on a win box). I killed gnome and kde and installed a gui that used only a few megs (in code and execution) and was as foreign looking to Windoze as possible, Windowmaker
But as I learned to make major changes to my system without a gui or goddamn, *f-ing rebooting every 5 minutes I began to feel that godlike power agian that hooked me on computers back when I was 9. I began to love Linux. I feel natural with it and can really get around.
Funny, but just after that transition phase I took an engineering management role in a dot com and help in the setup of a several hundred K in unix hardware (smp sun boxes, linux, raid arrays, yada). I can tell you being able to live at the command line (and I mead live - getting help, light browsing, writing code (java and c++), working with multiple apps, email) was incredibly useful - I'd say mecessary
Though I've said alot, I don't know what to say. Sometimes I actually don't want every joe 6 pack to be running linux. The prideful part of me says, "learn the goddamn system and stop complaining. And if you can't, puleeze go back to windows. Grandma shouldn't be anywhere near a linux box anyway." The human part of me (oh, pride IS human, Doh) says, "*sniff*, try these:"
linuxhelp.net
linuxhelp.org
linuxselfhelp.com
linuxnewbie.org
How To's
If you floppy drive wasn't plugged in right, windows wouldn't boot
Don't forget ssh 1 and 2
Hot Damn! When I saw a story about Zork, it brought back memories for me. So I downloaded and compiled the P code engine and the Zork I/II/II game files, wrote a quick bash script and hung them off of inetd on my web page. If you want to play Zork I, II or III, goto my webpage
Hot Damn! Seeing a story about Zork brought back memories for me. So I downloaded and compiled the P code engine and the Zork I/II/II game files, wrote a quick bash script and hung them off of inetd on my web page. If you want to play Zork I, II or III, goto my webpage
The bartending association of America collectively spits in your drink.
I use squid with adzapper. It's great
Bush knocked up his girlfriend in 1970 and got her an illegal abortion. Is abortion good enough for his family, but no one else's ?
I don't believe Gate would write that kind of email and send it to ALL at MS. The whole thing is troll/flamebait.
-- Surely you must admit the law is not on Wesley's side. No I don't. And stop calling me Surely.
Where are mirrors of the documents?
Visio is way kool for designing software
RMS said, "The Free Software Movement has a more far-reaching and deeper goal: to give users the freedom to cooperate and participate in a community together. To have freedom, we must use software that respects our freedom. A non-free program takes away its users' freedom, so the only way to be free if you use a computer is to keep the non-free software off your computer." It seems to me that the very computer platform you're running this free software on is itself loaded with software that is not free thus taking away the users' freedom, thus being a failure.