1.) "Cutting edge" was in quotes - it was play on words with "Blade" - I see you missed the humor in the comment.
2.) I've been a Unix System admin for several years and have considerable exposure to Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and a small amount of experience with some other flavors.
3.) I don't have to worry about an "similarly configured PC" keeping up with a Sun Blade because for the SAME MONEY as the Sun box, you can get a hell of a lot of PC, especially if, as I do, you build your own. If you have too many to build, choose your components and configuration and get one of hundreds (thousands?) of stores or businesses to put them together for you.
4.) True, the Blades are 64-bit and your apps may require that but between the most recent Pentium 4 and AMD's latest and greatest, affordable 64-bit has (FINALLY) come to x86.
5.) Who said anything about Win32?
6.) Of course, if your apps require 64-bit Solaris, then this is all moot. But there's a hell
of a difference between technical superiority and platform lock-in - which I abhor.
7.) Some diversity is good; too much is pointless, especially if they're re-inventiing the wheel. I love Linux but do we need all those distros?
But, since the price of copper is 1/6th that of silver and copper's thermal conductivity is only 10%
worse than that of silver, is it worth it to buy silver paste and (possibly) get ripped of in two ways: too high price for the benefit and possibility of dishonesty by the supplier?
Perhaps you should read this article about "The darker side of Muhammad Ali". I'm an Ali fan and have been since the age of eight but he never was as angelic as his face would suggest.
I'm delighted that IBM is running a Linux commercial but I felt it was too cerebral. I'd like to see something lively along the lines of Microsoft's "Start Me Up" campaign that launched Windows 95.
This Linux ad is too much like their OS/2 Warp ads with the nuns and the old Parisians, original, clever but just too subtle and dull.
Statistics on deaths due to traffic accidents are easily come by. But, just how do you ascertain that
the trace amounts of toxic chemicals in a person's food caused their death?
Wouldn't you need a control group and long-term studies? Has this ever been done? How big is the sample size?
( While I personally believe that toxins in food or stored in body fat pose a serious health risk, I freely admit that PROVING it is a major undertaking, especially since the science behind it all is very young)
Well, their bias is clearly stated on their web page- this is the Linux Test project - which is dedicated to evaluating the capabilities and limits of Linux.
They aren't making a comparison to other OSes or saying that Linux is more suitable than such-and-such operating system; just that it is suitable for particular tasks or environments.
A comparison between different OSes should be carried out by an independent testing facility but, in this particular case, I don't see anything wrong with their modus operandi.
Having been the creators of Xenix which, I believe eventually became SCO Unix, Microsoft had absolutely no need for a SCO license.
It was a cash transfer to support SCO's assault on Linux.
That didn't occur to me and that would explain their interest but that still seems like a ridiculous amount of money for VMware - unless they've been doing VERY well for several years.
Of course, being privately held, it's hard to know
their financial situation without insider info.
Here is the link to get those AMD64 manuals:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_875_4622,00.html
If you're located outside the US and Canada, you can download them from here:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_739_7044,00.html
For helping to give birth to the nightmare that is C++?
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According to this: http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/sctp/, SCTP IS connection-oriented. I don't have any experience with it myself but at first glance, it doesn't appear to offer any major advantages over TCP/IP, at least in terms of overhead.
Plan 9's IL has recently been phased out since it
doesn't handle long-distance connections well.
See here: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/release4.html
Although, for LANs it's probably an acceptable compromise between UDP and TCP.
RDM is basically unknown to me but I did come across a posting answered by answered by Alan Cox
here : http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0001.1/0115.html
explaining why RDM hasn't been implemented for Linux ( well, back then, anyway)
How much is enough? Of course I don't believe that one should stint on production machines. But, if we didn't care about always striving for efficiency, wouldn't we all be running on mainframes - those who could afford it?
Has anyone tried using Mandrake? I have a USB-to-IDE external kit that I use to add a second hard drive to my laptop. Under Mandrake 9.1, I pop the 20gig drive into the case, connect both ends of the cable and the drive gets automounted. Couldn't be simpler.
Pollution may be unavoidable but so is death - and would you dispute that hundreds of millions of people go to great lengths to prolong the quality of their lives, sometimes at great cost?
A great many of us are also willing to go to great lengths for clean water and air and less garbage.
Even if the computer I'm using caused pollution - and I'm well aware of the amounts of water modern fabs use - there are ways to mitigate it.
Don't buy the latest and greatest as you can get a
lot of great stuff secondhand. Use power saving, don't leave it running unnecessarily and, admittedly much more difficult, dispose of old or broken computers responsibly.
I don't think that the WTO has the clout to strongarm China. They are so big that and their labor so cheap that they can fight back against just about any economic threat.
The only way I could see them knuckling under is if the rest of the world sides against them.
If they were to establish a free trade agreement with India, we'd be royally screwed.
Disabling DCOM on Win2000 requires SP 3. If you don't want to edit the registry to manually create the key used to Enable/Disable it, use Steve Gibson's DCOMbobulator: http://grc.com/dcom/
I first heard that proverb at the end of an episode of Counterstrike - it's one of those things you wish
you'd thought up yourself.
Before I added it as my.sig, I went looking for the author but all the links I found at the
time said it was anonymous.
After seeing your message, I decided to search Google again, this time including Chief Seattle's name.
Well, this link : http://www.gbpca.org/tour/connection.htm as well as this one: http://demelza.sphosting.com/DancesWithWolves.ht ml
DON'T credit Chief Seattle but they, and other pages, DO identify it as an American Indian proverb.
Therefore, I'll modify my.sig accordingly.
It looks as if IBM squeezed SCO so hard they became this: scojuice.com . On the plus side, they've finally made a decent product. I recommend the ginger ale.
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Oh and Sun, FFS stop calling your workstations "blades" would you?
Especially since those workstations are hardly "cutting edge"
Perhaps you should read this article about "The darker side of Muhammad Ali". I'm an Ali fan and have been since the age of eight but he never was as angelic as his face would suggest.
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http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2001/06/
Well, their bias is clearly stated on their web page- this is the Linux Test project - which is dedicated to evaluating the capabilities and limits of Linux.
They aren't making a comparison to other OSes or saying that Linux is more suitable than such-and-such operating system; just that it is suitable for particular tasks or environments.
A comparison between different OSes should be carried out by an independent testing facility but, in this particular case, I don't see anything
wrong with their modus operandi.
As he has for previous versions of icc and gcc http://www.coyotegulch.com/reviews/index.html
that VMWare would be worth that kind of money.
Isn't that more than the combined worth of Redhat, Mandrake and Suse?
And why is a method to accomplish this not available from Microsoft themselves?
If they get INTERNET access through dialup, then they need to have an IP stack.
Here is the link to get those AMD64 manuals:D /0,,30_2252_875_4622,00.html
D /0,,30_2252_739_7044,00.html
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAM
If you're located outside the US and Canada, you can download them from here:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAM
"We invented personal computing"
Yet another revisionist reading of computing history
by Microshaft's Head Cheese.
For helping to give birth to the nightmare that is C++?
How much is enough? Of course I don't believe that one should stint on production machines. But, if we
didn't care about always striving for efficiency, wouldn't we all be running on mainframes - those who
could afford it?
Has anyone tried using Mandrake? I have a USB-to-IDE
external kit that I use to add a second hard drive to my laptop.
Under Mandrake 9.1, I pop the 20gig drive into the case, connect both ends of the cable and the drive gets automounted. Couldn't be simpler.
Disabling DCOM on Win2000 requires SP 3. If you don't want to edit the registry to manually create the key used to Enable/Disable it, use Steve Gibson's DCOMbobulator:
http://grc.com/dcom/
I'm one of those unemployed techies and would love to be involved with any project migrating from Windows to Unix.
It looks as if IBM squeezed SCO so hard they became
this: scojuice.com . On the plus side, they've finally made a decent product. I recommend the ginger ale.