IBM considers it user-servicable. If you order it after the fact, they send you the mimi-pci card and the instructions on how to install it.
The thing here is that it's really just a matter of support. IBM sells branded IBM mini-pci wireless cards for IBM laptops. I wouldn't expect them to support a Dell card for any reason whatsoever.
Same with Dell.
As you might have noticed from the work arounds on most websites, it's just a matter of adding the PCI ID of the new card to the BIOS.
Kerberos and LDAP are not the same product. Kerberos handles authentication but openldap is about authorization. Fine line but don't ever confuse the two.
Huh...I would think that THE ENTIRE FUCKING STAFF OF IBM is large enough to warrant investing in a Linux client. Remember the repeated statements about Linux desktops throughout IBM by EOY or some such? Well those IBM'ers are going to need Notes Clients on those shiny new Linux desktops!
That's actually opposite of what we're doing. Because of IBM Linux support, we buy pretty much nothing but IBM hardware. And it all runs Linux save 3 MS Sql servers for Navision and our pSeries boxes (p520 and dual-CEC p570).
IBM hardware works very well with Linux except for the occasional ASM driver screw up but it doesn't take the whole box down.
There WAS that write-through cache mode bug on our EXP400 but we fixed that pretty quickly.
I think we need to start a fucking campaign and educate the masses about democracy vs. republic. I fucking HATE the fact that we're out trying to spread democracy in the middle east. All they have to do under a democract is convince 51% of the population that keeping 49% of the population down is a good thing and you have a wonderful democracy.
We are a fucking republic people. The rule of law rules not the majority.
In the sense of MQSeries and Rendevous, it's exactly what you describe except with guaranteed delivery. I know they sound a bit useless today but it's like transaction support for network communications among other things.
Let me give you a PERFECT example of how I've seen MQ Series used.
DB2 has/had (gone with Stinger, I think) something called userexit. This was a compiled program that was called whenever DB2 was in archival log mode.
In our case, we use a TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) userexit. When DB2 is ready to archive a log file, it ships the log to TSM and it's on tape. One company I've heard does MQ Series userexits.
DB2 userexit's to archive the log and ships it to MQ Series. MQ Series breaks it up into smaller chunks (64k maybe? I can't remember) and sends it to a remote MQ Series server. From that server, the logs are stored locally and backed up or used to roll-forward a read-only copy of database.
The upside is that this remote MQ server is across the country at another datacenter and you know the log files got there and they got there the way they were when the MQ server got them.
Check this link. I think it's provided the best simple description of Message Queuing I've seen yet:
". In a democracy, laws (should) reflect what everyone wants,"
And this is why democracies are always doomed to failure.
A few quotes:
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Thomas Jefferson
"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death." James Madison
"A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic, negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy." Democracy, 1927, The U. S. Army Training Manual
"Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself! There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide." Samuel Adams
"If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditures You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete." 1850, Benjamin Disraeli
Now according to the CIA World factbook here: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factboo k/geos/ as.html#Govt
Australia is:
democratic, federal-state system recognizing the British monarch as sovereign
So your argument would actually work in Australia but not in the U.S. which is "Constitution-based federal repulbic" where the rule of law governs the land and not the majority.
Look at it this way, if the majority wants you dead and your belongings scattered to the wind, they can do that in a democracy as long as 51% of the people agree.
You would think so but it's dynamic SQL so you can't really optimize it that much. The way hibernate generated the SQL, DB2 couldn't really optimize it.
You can bring the prep times down with heavy indexing and what not but the best solution is to move it into a stored proc (which, by the way, there was a bug in the DB2 JDBC driver provided in 8.1fp4. Sprocs would stop executing after an undeterminable time period or number of uses. We only saw it with Hibernate though. The JDBC driver in 8.2 Stinger or fp7 resolves it).
The generated SQL was realy the problem in the end though. Take a SELECT query on a customer table generated by hibernate from a form with multiple optional search criteria. Hibernate would pass wildcards for unused search criteria and thus bypass all of our indices (or at least the way DB2 does it. DB2 indices are case sensitive FYI). We would ALWAYS escalate to a table scan because we weren't using our indices. A bit of recoding to handle case, additional indices and a sproc later and the problem was resolved.
Our experience is that it executes slower. Take DB2, our database. The SQL generated by hibernate can have preparation times of 15s and hand-coded sql doing the same thing can prep in 4ms. Alot of it can be fixed with indices and what not but they have to be more universal in the generation of SQL.
One thing I don't like about hibernate is that you have to bypass it totally to use any custom SQL. At least that's my understanding. And the only way you have insight into the SQL it generates is to run in debug mode and catch it in the console OR snoop at the database level. For databases that don't include dynamic sql values when snapshotting, it's a real pain in the ass.
Then again I'm not one of the developers but when a system performs poorly, I'm the one that gets called first so I have to know everything - from dev to dba so I can ask the right person.
Actually we're currently working on putting our new warehouse in MySQL but I think that might have been a poor decision. We may end up moving to PostgreSQL if the ODBC driver plays nice with Informatica.
One of the problems that our warehouse guy keeps complaining about is lack of views and sprocs. They were the ones that picked mysql over postgresql because the ODBC driver actually worked with Informatica.
I'm going to install a test environment today and give it a shot.
Well the interesting thing that IBM has added to the Power line is the ability to MICROpartition the LPARs. Think about being able to carve out portions of a CPU instead of having to waste a full CPU on the LPAR.
When you really think about "On Demand" in relation to technologies like paritioning and virtualization, it really sinks in what they mean. Why waste a full system set of resources allocated to a database server just for backup capability. Why not partition a micropartition of resources such has 1 half a CPU and enough memory to run the OS and then when you have a failover or volume need, have the hypervisor reallocate the resources more evenly or fail them all over to the backup LPAR.
Imagine if slashdot we're able to fire up extra instances of apache on LPARs to meet a big demand for a specific story and then drop the resources down when not needed? It becomes really visible when you have a 32bit JVM that can only use X amount of memory but you can fire up entire OS lpars instantly to add more app servers to a cluster.
Yeah evolution is a theory..... Know what else is a theory?
GRAVITY
I'm not going to flame you but I think the problem that many people who have strong fundamental beliefs (myself in another life included) is that the issue is not which idea is real or right. It's about SCOPE CREEP. The religious ideas are best in a philosophy or religion class. Keep the scientific ideas in a science class.
I don't want my doctor learning faith-healing in a medical class any more than I want my child learning about christian creationism in a science class. Maybe the general concept of intelligent design but not a specific religious belief.
Let me clarify. I graduated from one of the most deep woods schools in Cobb County - North Cobb High School. I remember the first time evolution came up in a class while I was in the throes of fundamentalism. I also know the environment of Cobb County.
I think the author of the book really nailed it when he said (at least in the AJC article I read) that "SCIENTIFIC theory is not the same as a stupid hunch" that some TV detective has. The whole thing is definition, pure and simple.
I bought that rig for my wife's new computer at christmas. It makes my old cordless duo feel like shit when I use hers. I LOVE not having to buy batteries for it. I do, however, hate the mouse going out when I'm standing in under a streetlight in Thief: Deadly Shadows. It bit me a few times while I was playing HL2 as well.
Oh yeah I didn't even THINK about the IBM RSA adapters in a previous post. Those things rock. They have an embedded version of VNC that you can access via a web interface for full control of the system.
Sounds like the guy needs to recommend different hardware. heh.
The serial stuff only really works with Linux or BSD. Something that has native console over serial support built in. We have ONE windows server (not 2003 but 2000) at our datacenter and it's the only reason I have a 1U keyboard drawer installed. All of the IBM stuff (and Dell/HP/Compaq too I would assume) allows you to redirect BIOS to the serial port. It's nice when you have hardware problems to be able to reboot a box and go in and change BIOS settings on the machine itself or the SCSI controller.
FYI, we use Cyclades console servers and IPDU for power. They have a new KVM over as well. I think Microsoft added bluescreen over serial to the 2003 server line though.
I don't know that intelligence has much to do with it.
I'm a fairly smart person (or so I'm told) and I still wait a few minutes after playing a game for a long period of time just to go to the store.
My main reason is that my mind is still wrapped up in the game. I used to play ultima online so much that I could drive past a field and say to myself for a short instant "That would be a good place for a house". I've been playing Prince of Persia: Warrior Within for a few weeks now and if I've been playing for an extended period without a break (like an hour or two), I see myself looking around me for places to jump and grab a handhold. It's more a repetitive behaviour than anything.
Try this on for size, have you ever had a marathon reading session and had trouble stepping away from the book? Not from a "I wonder what happens next!" perspective but more of a "my mind is wrapped up in these characters and mannerisms". You might find yourself thinking like one of the characters.
I take it neither of you have been reading anything from IBM lately?
Linux on Power is where it's at right now with IBM. They've made a serious push to get the OS where it needs to be and the entire enterprise product line (Websphere, DB2, Tivoli, Lotus) has been ported to Power. The current incarnation, Power5, is a site to behold. We've got a p520 setup for our Development DB2 Server and a P570 with two CECs waiting to be installed at our datacenter. With LPARs, we're set and we can expand to two more CECs for a total of 16 CPUs. IBM claims each Power5 is the same as 2.5 Intel Xeons. They're dual core.
The ONLY reason that we didn't go with Linux on our Power5 setup is the "bake time". While IBM may be pushing us to run Linux on it, we chose AIX because it's been baked much longer than Linux. Redhat/Power5 is brand new and Suse is as well. Both have been on Power4 for a year or two but AIX has been there for a LONG time.
Look around google for IBM and OpenPower. Those should give you most of the hits. IBM is using Linux to sell hardware and software. Pretty damn succesful if you ask me. Linux is on able to run on every single hardware platform the make from xSeries (intel/amd) to pSeries (power) to zSeries (big iron).
It hit me one day like this. Start your company and run Linux on xSeries. Scale beyond that and you can run pSeries with AIX or Linux. The same software is there and it runs the same. Have a bigger need? Run zSeries with Linux instances or z/OS. Again, the same software is there.
You could scale as high as IBM will go in hardware and never have to change software or operating systems. You can take the knowledge base you already have and with a few modifications for hardware platform, you still run the same thing.
Much nicer than running Windows then scaling to Solaris then moving up to something else.
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IBM considers it user-servicable. If you order it after the fact, they send you the mimi-pci card and the instructions on how to install it.
The thing here is that it's really just a matter of support. IBM sells branded IBM mini-pci wireless cards for IBM laptops. I wouldn't expect them to support a Dell card for any reason whatsoever.
Same with Dell.
As you might have noticed from the work arounds on most websites, it's just a matter of adding the PCI ID of the new card to the BIOS.
Damnit slashdot stripped out my script tag even in plain text! Go to snopes and view source for the page and you'll see:
c gi/v=2.0S/sz=468x60A|728x90A/'+rnum+'/RETURN-CODE/ JS/"></scr'+'ipt>');
document.write('<scr'+'ipt src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad1874c.
You know. Based on your recommendation, I went over to snopes and didn't get an ad. I browsed source on the page and guess what I saw?
document.write('');
I swear to god the ad companies are taking lessons from the spammers. Mispell or concat word together to try and get past popup blockers!
Kerberos is easier to administer then OpenLDAP
Kerberos and LDAP are not the same product. Kerberos handles authentication but openldap is about authorization. Fine line but don't ever confuse the two.
Huh...I would think that THE ENTIRE FUCKING STAFF OF IBM is large enough to warrant investing in a Linux client. Remember the repeated statements about Linux desktops throughout IBM by EOY or some such? Well those IBM'ers are going to need Notes Clients on those shiny new Linux desktops!
That's actually opposite of what we're doing. Because of IBM Linux support, we buy pretty much nothing but IBM hardware. And it all runs Linux save 3 MS Sql servers for Navision and our pSeries boxes (p520 and dual-CEC p570).
IBM hardware works very well with Linux except for the occasional ASM driver screw up but it doesn't take the whole box down.
There WAS that write-through cache mode bug on our EXP400 but we fixed that pretty quickly.
I don't know which is geekier -
Modifying your email headers
or
Your friend READING the email headers
I think we need to start a fucking campaign and educate the masses about democracy vs. republic. I fucking HATE the fact that we're out trying to spread democracy in the middle east. All they have to do under a democract is convince 51% of the population that keeping 49% of the population down is a good thing and you have a wonderful democracy.
We are a fucking republic people. The rule of law rules not the majority.
In the sense of MQSeries and Rendevous, it's exactly what you describe except with guaranteed delivery. I know they sound a bit useless today but it's like transaction support for network communications among other things.
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Let me give you a PERFECT example of how I've seen MQ Series used.
DB2 has/had (gone with Stinger, I think) something called userexit. This was a compiled program that was called whenever DB2 was in archival log mode.
In our case, we use a TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) userexit. When DB2 is ready to archive a log file, it ships the log to TSM and it's on tape. One company I've heard does MQ Series userexits.
DB2 userexit's to archive the log and ships it to MQ Series. MQ Series breaks it up into smaller chunks (64k maybe? I can't remember) and sends it to a remote MQ Series server. From that server, the logs are stored locally and backed up or used to roll-forward a read-only copy of database.
The upside is that this remote MQ server is across the country at another datacenter and you know the log files got there and they got there the way they were when the MQ server got them.
Check this link. I think it's provided the best simple description of Message Queuing I've seen yet:
http://www.techworld.com/applications/features/
". In a democracy, laws (should) reflect what everyone wants,"
o k/geos/ as.html#Govt
And this is why democracies are always doomed to failure.
A few quotes:
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
Thomas Jefferson
"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property;
and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death."
James Madison
"A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic, negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy."
Democracy, 1927, The U. S. Army Training Manual
"Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself! There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide."
Samuel Adams
"If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditures You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete."
1850, Benjamin Disraeli
Now according to the CIA World factbook here:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbo
Australia is:
democratic, federal-state system recognizing the British monarch as sovereign
So your argument would actually work in Australia but not in the U.S. which is "Constitution-based federal repulbic" where the rule of law governs the land and not the majority.
Look at it this way, if the majority wants you dead and your belongings scattered to the wind, they can do that in a democracy as long as 51% of the people agree.
But just as you would not want someone to override your personal religious beliefs, it is wrong for you to try and override another person's belief.
I'm an organ donor but I would in no way deny someone his personal religious convictions just for his organs.
You would think so but it's dynamic SQL so you can't really optimize it that much. The way hibernate generated the SQL, DB2 couldn't really optimize it.
You can bring the prep times down with heavy indexing and what not but the best solution is to move it into a stored proc (which, by the way, there was a bug in the DB2 JDBC driver provided in 8.1fp4. Sprocs would stop executing after an undeterminable time period or number of uses. We only saw it with Hibernate though. The JDBC driver in 8.2 Stinger or fp7 resolves it).
The generated SQL was realy the problem in the end though. Take a SELECT query on a customer table generated by hibernate from a form with multiple optional search criteria. Hibernate would pass wildcards for unused search criteria and thus bypass all of our indices (or at least the way DB2 does it. DB2 indices are case sensitive FYI). We would ALWAYS escalate to a table scan because we weren't using our indices. A bit of recoding to handle case, additional indices and a sproc later and the problem was resolved.
I think DB2 and other commercial databases do it this way anyway. They just encapsulate all the steps in an the ALTER table function.
One thing to add is that you might have to rebuild any indices that use that column though. That's bitten us a few times using third party tools.
Our experience is that it executes slower. Take DB2, our database. The SQL generated by hibernate can have preparation times of 15s and hand-coded sql doing the same thing can prep in 4ms. Alot of it can be fixed with indices and what not but they have to be more universal in the generation of SQL.
One thing I don't like about hibernate is that you have to bypass it totally to use any custom SQL. At least that's my understanding. And the only way you have insight into the SQL it generates is to run in debug mode and catch it in the console OR snoop at the database level. For databases that don't include dynamic sql values when snapshotting, it's a real pain in the ass.
Then again I'm not one of the developers but when a system performs poorly, I'm the one that gets called first so I have to know everything - from dev to dba so I can ask the right person.
Not at all. Redhat sells PGSQL under the moniker RedHat Database if I'm not mistaken.
Except that hibernate generates horribly inefficient sql at times.
Actually we're currently working on putting our new warehouse in MySQL but I think that might have been a poor decision. We may end up moving to PostgreSQL if the ODBC driver plays nice with Informatica.
One of the problems that our warehouse guy keeps complaining about is lack of views and sprocs. They were the ones that picked mysql over postgresql because the ODBC driver actually worked with Informatica.
I'm going to install a test environment today and give it a shot.
Well the interesting thing that IBM has added to the Power line is the ability to MICROpartition the LPARs. Think about being able to carve out portions of a CPU instead of having to waste a full CPU on the LPAR.
When you really think about "On Demand" in relation to technologies like paritioning and virtualization, it really sinks in what they mean. Why waste a full system set of resources allocated to a database server just for backup capability. Why not partition a micropartition of resources such has 1 half a CPU and enough memory to run the OS and then when you have a failover or volume need, have the hypervisor reallocate the resources more evenly or fail them all over to the backup LPAR.
Imagine if slashdot we're able to fire up extra instances of apache on LPARs to meet a big demand for a specific story and then drop the resources down when not needed? It becomes really visible when you have a 32bit JVM that can only use X amount of memory but you can fire up entire OS lpars instantly to add more app servers to a cluster.
Yeah evolution is a theory.....
Know what else is a theory?
GRAVITY
I'm not going to flame you but I think the problem that many people who have strong fundamental beliefs (myself in another life included) is that the issue is not which idea is real or right. It's about SCOPE CREEP. The religious ideas are best in a philosophy or religion class. Keep the scientific ideas in a science class.
I don't want my doctor learning faith-healing in a medical class any more than I want my child learning about christian creationism in a science class. Maybe the general concept of intelligent design but not a specific religious belief.
Let me clarify. I graduated from one of the most deep woods schools in Cobb County - North Cobb High School. I remember the first time evolution came up in a class while I was in the throes of fundamentalism. I also know the environment of Cobb County.
I think the author of the book really nailed it when he said (at least in the AJC article I read) that "SCIENTIFIC theory is not the same as a stupid hunch" that some TV detective has. The whole thing is definition, pure and simple.
I bought that rig for my wife's new computer at christmas. It makes my old cordless duo feel like shit when I use hers. I LOVE not having to buy batteries for it. I do, however, hate the mouse going out when I'm standing in under a streetlight in Thief: Deadly Shadows. It bit me a few times while I was playing HL2 as well.
Oh yeah I didn't even THINK about the IBM RSA adapters in a previous post. Those things rock. They have an embedded version of VNC that you can access via a web interface for full control of the system.
Sounds like the guy needs to recommend different hardware. heh.
The serial stuff only really works with Linux or BSD. Something that has native console over serial support built in. We have ONE windows server (not 2003 but 2000) at our datacenter and it's the only reason I have a 1U keyboard drawer installed. All of the IBM stuff (and Dell/HP/Compaq too I would assume) allows you to redirect BIOS to the serial port. It's nice when you have hardware problems to be able to reboot a box and go in and change BIOS settings on the machine itself or the SCSI controller.
FYI, we use Cyclades console servers and IPDU for power. They have a new KVM over as well. I think Microsoft added bluescreen over serial to the 2003 server line though.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE SECRET SERVICE DOING CONDUCTING BUSINESS OVER T-FUCKING-MOBILE NETWORKS?
thank you.
Seriously the dumbass agent who was mentioned in the article should be canned not lauded.
I don't know that intelligence has much to do with it.
I'm a fairly smart person (or so I'm told) and I still wait a few minutes after playing a game for a long period of time just to go to the store.
My main reason is that my mind is still wrapped up in the game. I used to play ultima online so much that I could drive past a field and say to myself for a short instant "That would be a good place for a house". I've been playing Prince of Persia: Warrior Within for a few weeks now and if I've been playing for an extended period without a break (like an hour or two), I see myself looking around me for places to jump and grab a handhold. It's more a repetitive behaviour than anything.
Try this on for size, have you ever had a marathon reading session and had trouble stepping away from the book? Not from a "I wonder what happens next!" perspective but more of a "my mind is wrapped up in these characters and mannerisms". You might find yourself thinking like one of the characters.
I take it neither of you have been reading anything from IBM lately?
Linux on Power is where it's at right now with IBM. They've made a serious push to get the OS where it needs to be and the entire enterprise product line (Websphere, DB2, Tivoli, Lotus) has been ported to Power. The current incarnation, Power5, is a site to behold. We've got a p520 setup for our Development DB2 Server and a P570 with two CECs waiting to be installed at our datacenter. With LPARs, we're set and we can expand to two more CECs for a total of 16 CPUs. IBM claims each Power5 is the same as 2.5 Intel Xeons. They're dual core.
The ONLY reason that we didn't go with Linux on our Power5 setup is the "bake time". While IBM may be pushing us to run Linux on it, we chose AIX because it's been baked much longer than Linux. Redhat/Power5 is brand new and Suse is as well. Both have been on Power4 for a year or two but AIX has been there for a LONG time.
Look around google for IBM and OpenPower. Those should give you most of the hits. IBM is using Linux to sell hardware and software. Pretty damn succesful if you ask me. Linux is on able to run on every single hardware platform the make from xSeries (intel/amd) to pSeries (power) to zSeries (big iron).
It hit me one day like this. Start your company and run Linux on xSeries. Scale beyond that and you can run pSeries with AIX or Linux. The same software is there and it runs the same. Have a bigger need? Run zSeries with Linux instances or z/OS. Again, the same software is there.
You could scale as high as IBM will go in hardware and never have to change software or operating systems. You can take the knowledge base you already have and with a few modifications for hardware platform, you still run the same thing.
Much nicer than running Windows then scaling to Solaris then moving up to something else.