Legal tender only concerns that which cannot be refused in payment of a debt. Anything can be used in payment if it is aceptable to both parties. For instance, credit cards are not legal tender but that doesn't stop you using them.
There's no magic bullet for this - you can't say use GNUfoo or Sun iMumble, it'll do all you want and wipe you bum too.
The only one liner I can give you is Security In Depth. Use lots of layers of security and at every layer assume that the one above has been fully compromised. Your DMZ should be well firewalled, permit only ports 80 and 443 (HTTP and HTTPS), deny and log anything else. Your DMZ servers should assume that they can be attacked on any port from any host what so ever. Use the most minimal OS install you can and pick an OS that can be secured and will let you do a minimal install. RedHat has too many features for my taste - you don't want a friendly machine, you want a very unfriendly machine. I would suggest Slackware or Solaris from the general purpose OS pool, or Bastille Linux or OpenBSD from the secured OS pool. Disable or remove inetd completely - it tries to be friendly. Permit no unencrypted traffic. Use tripwire, and be able to reimage the mahines rapidly.
Your inner firewall should be of a different make to the outer one and should assume that all hosts in the DMZ are compromised. Permit only connections from specific hosts on specific ports to specific hosts on specific ports. Anything else should be denied, logged and the warning sirens sounded.
Behind here would be your working net where (relativly) non-secure business functions live. Once again, these hosts should assume the worst and that they have to fend for themselves. Etc. Use your imagination.
One last firewall, preferably a different make again, similar to the last, specific hosts and ports only. You may want to be more cautious about sounding the claxons however, windows likes to chat to things and users occasionally do silly but harmless things - this is not to say drop your guard, just that sleep is sometimes useful.
Next is the secure net. Absolute bare bones here. What this consists of depends on your application, but usually business logic, database and credit card processing live here, each on their own box, set to maximum paranoia security. Log everything, every login, every logout every process run, every request made, when and by whom. You'll need lots of disk space, archive regularly to read-only media, make several copies and store them in multiple secure locations.
IDS - Intrusion Detection Systems. These're useful, use lots - different types, different makes, even write a few of your own.
Incident response. What to do when your firewall is breached. What to do when your web servers are breached. What to do when your working net is breached. What to do when it is an inside job. What to do when your data is stolen. This is where your IDS comes in handy, if your data does walk, you must know where, when, how and who. Access procedures are useful. You will probably never be able to ensure that no one employee can steal your data, but you can ensure that no one employee can steal your data and cover their tracks. Note that the word "if" was missing from the last paragraph. If lets you cross your fingers and hope it wont happen. Plan for when, not if.
Software. Encryption is good. Make sure and pick the right encryption for the job. Credit card data needs to be decrypted, I would suggest BlowFish, passwords don't - try MD5. Always practice safe key management remember your data is only as safe as your keys. Having said that, if your database encryption is ever tested for real you are this > < far away from a Worst Case Scenario.
Literature. There's lots of literature about, read some of it. Learn to break into computers, try to break into yours. Read some of the OpenBSD stuff, read Bugtraq and the other stuff at SecurityFocus, even if it isn't directly related, the attackers can think laterally, you must too. Try farther afield - failsafe engineering disciplines are a good start (try a google on SAFF for places it really matters.)
I bought a 1989 Honda Civic 12 years ago, and
it's starting to get old. A bit of rust here
and there, occasionally it has trouble
starting... the sort of things you often
hear about with old cars.
I wanted to replace one of the suspension springs, but guess what? They don't make 1989 half inch bolts anymore. If I want a new bolt, the tell me, I'll have to buy a whole new car which not only looks different and is more expensive but they have replaced the steering wheel with the controls out of a segway and the acellerator is voice operated.
Somehow I don't buy (no pun intended) that half inch bolts have changed again.
It is exactly because of the subjectiveness of music that valves vs. solid state is not one of objective quality. They are different, not better or worse. Using ethernet will result in a _different_ colouration and whether this is better or worse depends on the effect you are trying to acheive. I'll bet that ther are many guitarists who will look at this and go "Cool, what can I make this do?" and that is what drives music forwards. You don't have to lose the tone you have, you can just add a new one to your collection.
QuinetiQ, DERA, balloons and AWACS TNG.
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Look, people, it even says in the story that QuinetiQ used to be DERA. For those who don't know, I'll spell it out, Defense Evaluation and Research Agency. This may be a civillian do, but it is a government project. Why? Replace "132000 feet" with "well beyond the maximum altitude for any current or projected missile system" and it makes more sense. The latest rumour down the grapevine says that this is an AWACS replacement. You lose the turbulence and engine noise that requires lots of fancy signal processing to get around, you lose the cost of the airframe. Current AWACS are low, slow and expensive, a perfect target which is why you can never take them near the front line where they are really needed. Whilst these balloons will need set up in advance, they can cover whole countries at once whilst still being in conventional radio range, unlike satellites.
So? Americans can't play football either, they're too busy with the broken versions of rugby and rounders that thay are always yapping on about. Most of them wouldn't know Pele from Gazza.
I consider the Jedi to be a modern version of the Zen Samurai tradition, as do many others. The traditional views all look to the past whereas the Jedi appear to look to the future. It is just a matter of perspective.
Wouldn't the religion be just "Jedi"?
Names are unimportant, feel free to call it Fred if it makes you happier. The Zen that can be spoken is not the true Zen, and so it is with the Jedi.
Does this cover the dark side of the force as well?
The dark side is a religious schism, but, it appears that each variant on other religions is seperatly catergorised, including the anti-whatervers, therefore the Sith would need their own catergory.
Can you be of the Jedi religion without being a knight?
If you beleive that being a Jedi Knight is akin to being a Zen Samurai, losing the martial element is entirely possible and leaves you with a variant on buddhism. ie. yes.
What's the official Jedi position on abortion, contraception and religious killing?
It is unlikely that there is one religion that is correct for everyone. There are many paths, several of which are likely to lead to where you want to go. Being a Jedi Knight is just one outlook on life, one mental discipline. It has a point of view on emotions and self control but for your first two questions, you must look to other religions. Regarding you last point, there is no official position, but i find it unlikely that a religion that recognises the validity and indeed the necessity of other religions would seek to kill anybody over it. On points of doctrine, I usually defer to the Dali Lama.
How do you make those lightsabers anyway?
With great difficulty.
Linux also runs on UltraSPARC and Alpha, both 64-bit platforms. But don't forget that NT4 also runs on the Alpha so both sides have supported 64-bit platforms for years, so it's not like MS were having to start from scratch.
Those who appealed to the chimney effect - hot air rising within the shower causes cool air to come in from below. This hypothesis can be readily defeated by taking a cold shower and observing that the curtain billows nonetheless.
It can also be confirmed by taking a cold shower and observing that it does not in fact billow in.
Having considered this problem some years ago and taken a number of showers of varying temperatures, it was observed that billowing is proportional to the diference in temperature between the shower water and the temperature of the room.
Indeed, if the temperature is less than that of the room, it billows outwards.
Consequently, since this explanation fails to match the experimental evidence, I fart in your general direction.
There's no need to #include the gcc source tree, and the memory mapped file is just a waste, and means you have to think about the security aspects of the temp file. Just read it in via stdio and copy the data to a set of mmapped pages. You need the copy because you don't know ahead of time how big the program will be, thus how many pages you need to mmap.
The logs are held in a ring buffer in RAM. What you are supposed to do is configure the router/switch with the address of a syslogd server which will handle the logs better.
X is affected by the speed of the graphics card that it's displaying with. A 486/33 will be running an ISA, possibly VESA graphics card, which will be slow, whatever you do. Now, running Solaris 8 on an SS10 (40MHz) gives a fast display to a fast X-server, so even a slow box can be a good X client (remember the display is the server, the app runs on the client).
I would reccomend that you try and use PCI 486s so you can get a fast card, and one that has good acceleration support under XFree86. Given the hardware we are talking about, spending an extra couple of quid in the right place can make a world of difference.
Dual or quad CPU systems tend not to be much good for web serving as this tends to bottleneck on the network card, we've recently abandoned E250s in favour or netra t1s, but there are still a few E450s serving very heavy CGI loads. I will admit that I hate to see our database servers too, I'm going to turn one into a minibar when we finaly get rid of the dam things.
One of ten Netra t1s...
Apache Server Status for (restricted)
Server Version: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24
Current Time: Monday, 21-May-2001 11:35:36 BST
Restart Time: Saturday, 19-May-2001 19:14:10 BST
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 1 day 16 hours 21 minutes 26 seconds
Total accesses: 1650360 - Total Traffic: 3.8 GB
CPU Usage: u250.07 s78.74 cu7.47 cs2.02 -.233% CPU load
11.4 requests/sec - 27.1 kB/second - 2444 B/request
25 requests currently being processed, 7 idle servers
One of two E450s....
Apache Server Status for (restricted)
Server Version: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)
Current Time: Monday, 21-May-2001 11:43:40 BST
Restart Time: Monday, 21-May-2001 00:00:00 BST
Parent Server Generation: 234
Server uptime: 11 hours 43 minutes 40 seconds
Total accesses: 62688 - Total Traffic: 396.9 MB
CPU Usage: u1 s1.11 cu.09 cs.04 -.00531% CPU load
1.48 requests/sec - 9.6 kB/second - 6.5 kB/request
12 requests currently being processed, 6 idle servers
Passing information by system utilisation is not a new concept. For instance the various versions of STOP, from Wang Federal, implement a form of jitter on resource reporting and quanta so that the noise is greater than the signal. You can be reasonably certain that the NSA are familliar with these techniques and how to circumvent them.
One more thing: we're slowly destroying Darwin's theory - the fittest no longer survive. Now everyone makes it, even if they have some genetic disease that gives them no chance in life. It's just another view to consider...
This isn't the destruction of Darwin's theories, the fittest still survive - you just have to look at what fittest actually means. Survival of the fittest is not about physical fitness, but about how well your adaptation fits the ecological niche. Consider examples like sickle cell anemia - it leaves the sufferers unfit by normal standards but protects them from malaria. The benefits of being less fit are bigger than the panalties. In this case, it reinforces the view that the next step in evolution will be mental rather than physical. If the benefits of being smarter (or richer, in this society) outweigh the costs then they will survive because they fit the environment better.
I'm sure some smart-alec will come along and mention some configuration change that makes Linux more robust with regard to unclean shutdowns
But of course... You can try things like ext3 or Reiserfs etc. However you can try the old standby of mounting the filesystem "-o sync". Try having only / and/var local, mount / sync and/var async and mount the other software and files off a server. A small / which is rarely written to will survive quite happily.
Uptime - Are you secretly trying to agree with me here? Uptime is not a desktop client feature - it is a server feature. Nearly all desktop clients get rebooted daily.
Having worked support, The main complaint about MS software was that it crashed. It doesn't matter if the workstations have low uptime provided that the reboots are voluntary, not crashes. In a large office, there is always someone who has just lost X amount of work because Windows has just crashed - uptime == lack of downtime for the person using the computer. Uptime on the workstation leads to happier less stressed users - which leads to a happier less stressed admin. This is good.
It isn't actually outside the atmosphere, there is just very little air. You use huge balloons - have a look at Lindstrand Balloons, they do lots of pioneering stuff like the ballooning equivalent of satelites and heavy lift airships. Actually, there is a very good chance that they will make this balloon. Either them or Cameron Balloons.
Took me about 5 trys to get it right (damn sun partion table/cant boot a partition above 1 gig)
Not quite true, it's the firmware that can't handle it, not the partition table. Remember how old the SS10s are, if you read the documentation from those days it says things like:
It all depends on the application. Solaris has much faster networking code, but Linux has much faster task switch/process spawn. If you are running a web server then serving static pages or PHP or pages from builtin apache modules then Solaris is much faster because the networking is the bottleneck, but if you are running lots of external CGI programs then Linux can win because the bottleneck is spawning processes.
On ultra 5s and 10s then Linux can be a better choice because it handles IDE better than Solaris, but when you move up to an Ultra 60 then Solaris is a better choice because its SCSI handling is better than Linux's. The default Solaris install can be pretty bare, compared to Linux and if the person installing it is not familliar with it then it can be daunting, however if you are doing lots of installs then Sun's jumpstart is easier than Redhat's kickstart and creating Solaris packages the way you want them is easyer than creating custom RPMs(YMMV).
In short, know your tools and pick the right one for the job.
Yup, seven different projects for Lego Mindstorms, but no window manager that works.
how
many real life bazaars have ever actually built anything larger than a hep of camel shit?
It appears that the cathedral builders haven't done much better in these regards. Take CDE (Please!), there was much rejoicing at the possibility that it might be replaced by GNOME etc. Microsoft don't seem to have done any better, Windows might be a bit more useable if I could run WindowMaker and GNOME on it.
In short, regarding window managers, Apple seem to have built the only cathedral any bigger than your heap of camel shit. (Ignoring NeXT etc.)
The difference is the style of server. Linux is naturally Unix based, but Netware could just about be called an OS/390 clone for PCs. The similarities are rather striking. You don't get all the resilience features because many of them are hardware specific, but the internals suggest to me that Netware was designed by exIBM people. I can't confirm whether that is true, but I always felt that Netware was the son of OS/390.
With Netware, AS/400 and OS/390 IBM would have mainframe style OSes that cover the whole range from mom and pop stores to fortune 500 companies. With Linux and AIX, they have the same range with UNIX. Both the currently viable styles of OS in all sizes, and one directory service to bind them.
This doesn't seem at all unexpected, Netware fills the mainframe-OS-on-commodity-hardware hole in IBM's product line that Linux created with the Unix-derivative-on-commodity-hardware solution.
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Legal tender only concerns that which cannot be refused in payment of a debt. Anything can be used in payment if it is aceptable to both parties. For instance, credit cards are not legal tender but that doesn't stop you using them.
There's no magic bullet for this - you can't say use GNUfoo or Sun iMumble, it'll do all you want and wipe you bum too.
The only one liner I can give you is Security In Depth. Use lots of layers of security and at every layer assume that the one above has been fully compromised. Your DMZ should be well firewalled, permit only ports 80 and 443 (HTTP and HTTPS), deny and log anything else. Your DMZ servers should assume that they can be attacked on any port from any host what so ever. Use the most minimal OS install you can and pick an OS that can be secured and will let you do a minimal install. RedHat has too many features for my taste - you don't want a friendly machine, you want a very unfriendly machine. I would suggest Slackware or Solaris from the general purpose OS pool, or Bastille Linux or OpenBSD from the secured OS pool. Disable or remove inetd completely - it tries to be friendly. Permit no unencrypted traffic. Use tripwire, and be able to reimage the mahines rapidly.
Your inner firewall should be of a different make to the outer one and should assume that all hosts in the DMZ are compromised. Permit only connections from specific hosts on specific ports to specific hosts on specific ports. Anything else should be denied, logged and the warning sirens sounded.
Behind here would be your working net where (relativly) non-secure business functions live. Once again, these hosts should assume the worst and that they have to fend for themselves. Etc. Use your imagination.
One last firewall, preferably a different make again, similar to the last, specific hosts and ports only. You may want to be more cautious about sounding the claxons however, windows likes to chat to things and users occasionally do silly but harmless things - this is not to say drop your guard, just that sleep is sometimes useful.
Next is the secure net. Absolute bare bones here. What this consists of depends on your application, but usually business logic, database and credit card processing live here, each on their own box, set to maximum paranoia security. Log everything, every login, every logout every process run, every request made, when and by whom. You'll need lots of disk space, archive regularly to read-only media, make several copies and store them in multiple secure locations.
IDS - Intrusion Detection Systems. These're useful, use lots - different types, different makes, even write a few of your own.
Incident response. What to do when your firewall is breached. What to do when your web servers are breached. What to do when your working net is breached. What to do when it is an inside job. What to do when your data is stolen. This is where your IDS comes in handy, if your data does walk, you must know where, when, how and who. Access procedures are useful. You will probably never be able to ensure that no one employee can steal your data, but you can ensure that no one employee can steal your data and cover their tracks.
Note that the word "if" was missing from the last paragraph. If lets you cross your fingers and hope it wont happen. Plan for when, not if.
Software. Encryption is good. Make sure and pick the right encryption for the job. Credit card data needs to be decrypted, I would suggest BlowFish, passwords don't - try MD5. Always practice safe key management remember your data is only as safe as your keys. Having said that, if your database encryption is ever tested for real you are this > < far away from a Worst Case Scenario.
Literature. There's lots of literature about, read some of it. Learn to break into computers, try to break into yours. Read some of the OpenBSD stuff, read Bugtraq and the other stuff at SecurityFocus, even if it isn't directly related, the attackers can think laterally, you must too. Try farther afield - failsafe engineering disciplines are a good start (try a google on SAFF for places it really matters.)
I wanted to replace one of the suspension springs, but guess what? They don't make 1989 half inch bolts anymore. If I want a new bolt, the tell me, I'll have to buy a whole new car which not only looks different and is more expensive but they have replaced the steering wheel with the controls out of a segway and the acellerator is voice operated.
Somehow I don't buy (no pun intended) that half inch bolts have changed again.
cats have souls (meaning they consistently break down quantum phenomena by observation,
Yippee, my calculator has a soul! Not only that, but so do my socks!
It is exactly because of the subjectiveness of music that valves vs. solid state is not one of objective quality. They are different, not better or worse. Using ethernet will result in a _different_ colouration and whether this is better or worse depends on the effect you are trying to acheive. I'll bet that ther are many guitarists who will look at this and go "Cool, what can I make this do?" and that is what drives music forwards. You don't have to lose the tone you have, you can just add a new one to your collection.
Look, people, it even says in the story that QuinetiQ used to be DERA. For those who don't know, I'll spell it out, Defense Evaluation and Research Agency. This may be a civillian do, but it is a government project. Why? Replace "132000 feet" with "well beyond the maximum altitude for any current or projected missile system" and it makes more sense. The latest rumour down the grapevine says that this is an AWACS replacement. You lose the turbulence and engine noise that requires lots of fancy signal processing to get around, you lose the cost of the airframe. Current AWACS are low, slow and expensive, a perfect target which is why you can never take them near the front line where they are really needed. Whilst these balloons will need set up in advance, they can cover whole countries at once whilst still being in conventional radio range, unlike satellites.
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So? Americans can't play football either, they're too busy with the broken versions of rugby and rounders that thay are always yapping on about. Most of them wouldn't know Pele from Gazza.
I consider the Jedi to be a modern version of the Zen Samurai tradition, as do many others. The traditional views all look to the past whereas the Jedi appear to look to the future. It is just a matter of perspective.
Wouldn't the religion be just "Jedi"?
Names are unimportant, feel free to call it Fred if it makes you happier. The Zen that can be spoken is not the true Zen, and so it is with the Jedi.
Does this cover the dark side of the force as well?
The dark side is a religious schism, but, it appears that each variant on other religions is seperatly catergorised, including the anti-whatervers, therefore the Sith would need their own catergory.
Can you be of the Jedi religion without being a knight?
If you beleive that being a Jedi Knight is akin to being a Zen Samurai, losing the martial element is entirely possible and leaves you with a variant on buddhism. ie. yes.
What's the official Jedi position on abortion, contraception and religious killing?
It is unlikely that there is one religion that is correct for everyone. There are many paths, several of which are likely to lead to where you want to go. Being a Jedi Knight is just one outlook on life, one mental discipline. It has a point of view on emotions and self control but for your first two questions, you must look to other religions. Regarding you last point, there is no official position, but i find it unlikely that a religion that recognises the validity and indeed the necessity of other religions would seek to kill anybody over it. On points of doctrine, I usually defer to the Dali Lama.
How do you make those lightsabers anyway?
With great difficulty.
Exchange automatically does the conversion when it goes out the SMTP layer
There appears to be a clause missing from your sentence, it should read "Exchange should automatically" or "Exchange fails to automatically".
Linux also runs on UltraSPARC and Alpha, both 64-bit platforms. But don't forget that NT4 also runs on the Alpha so both sides have supported 64-bit platforms for years, so it's not like MS were having to start from scratch.
Those who appealed to the chimney effect - hot air rising within the shower causes cool air to come in from below. This hypothesis can be readily defeated by taking a cold shower and observing that the curtain billows nonetheless.
It can also be confirmed by taking a cold shower and observing that it does not in fact billow in.
Having considered this problem some years ago and taken a number of showers of varying temperatures, it was observed that billowing is proportional to the diference in temperature between the shower water and the temperature of the room.
Indeed, if the temperature is less than that of the room, it billows outwards.
Consequently, since this explanation fails to match the experimental evidence, I fart in your general direction.
There's no need to #include the gcc source tree, and the memory mapped file is just a waste, and means you have to think about the security aspects of the temp file. Just read it in via stdio and copy the data to a set of mmapped pages. You need the copy because you don't know ahead of time how big the program will be, thus how many pages you need to mmap.
The logs are held in a ring buffer in RAM. What you are supposed to do is configure the router/switch with the address of a syslogd server which will handle the logs better.
X is affected by the speed of the graphics card that it's displaying with. A 486/33 will be running an ISA, possibly VESA graphics card, which will be slow, whatever you do. Now, running Solaris 8 on an SS10 (40MHz) gives a fast display to a fast X-server, so even a slow box can be a good X client (remember the display is the server, the app runs on the client).
I would reccomend that you try and use PCI 486s so you can get a fast card, and one that has good acceleration support under XFree86. Given the hardware we are talking about, spending an extra couple of quid in the right place can make a world of difference.
Dual or quad CPU systems tend not to be much good for web serving as this tends to bottleneck on the network card, we've recently abandoned E250s in favour or netra t1s, but there are still a few E450s serving very heavy CGI loads. I will admit that I hate to see our database servers too, I'm going to turn one into a minibar when we finaly get rid of the dam things.
.233% CPU load
.00531% CPU load
One of ten Netra t1s...
Apache Server Status for (restricted)
Server Version: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24
Current Time: Monday, 21-May-2001 11:35:36 BST
Restart Time: Saturday, 19-May-2001 19:14:10 BST
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 1 day 16 hours 21 minutes 26 seconds
Total accesses: 1650360 - Total Traffic: 3.8 GB
CPU Usage: u250.07 s78.74 cu7.47 cs2.02 -
11.4 requests/sec - 27.1 kB/second - 2444 B/request
25 requests currently being processed, 7 idle servers
One of two E450s....
Apache Server Status for (restricted)
Server Version: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)
Current Time: Monday, 21-May-2001 11:43:40 BST
Restart Time: Monday, 21-May-2001 00:00:00 BST
Parent Server Generation: 234
Server uptime: 11 hours 43 minutes 40 seconds
Total accesses: 62688 - Total Traffic: 396.9 MB
CPU Usage: u1 s1.11 cu.09 cs.04 -
1.48 requests/sec - 9.6 kB/second - 6.5 kB/request
12 requests currently being processed, 6 idle servers
/* You can declare a variable with the same name
* as a type if you want. */
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void){
time_t time_t=987654321;
printf("%s\n",ctime(&time_t));
return 0;
}
Passing information by system utilisation is not a new concept. For instance the various versions of STOP, from Wang Federal, implement a form of jitter on resource reporting and quanta so that the noise is greater than the signal. You can be reasonably certain that the NSA are familliar with these techniques and how to circumvent them.
One more thing: we're slowly destroying Darwin's theory - the fittest no longer survive. Now everyone makes it, even if they have some genetic disease that gives them no chance in life. It's just another view to consider...
This isn't the destruction of Darwin's theories, the fittest still survive - you just have to look at what fittest actually means. Survival of the fittest is not about physical fitness, but about how well your adaptation fits the ecological niche. Consider examples like sickle cell anemia - it leaves the sufferers unfit by normal standards but protects them from malaria. The benefits of being less fit are bigger than the panalties. In this case, it reinforces the view that the next step in evolution will be mental rather than physical. If the benefits of being smarter (or richer, in this society) outweigh the costs then they will survive because they fit the environment better.
I'm sure some smart-alec will come along and mention some configuration change that makes Linux more robust with regard to unclean shutdowns /var local, mount / sync and /var async and mount the other software and files off a server. A small / which is rarely written to will survive quite happily.
But of course... You can try things like ext3 or Reiserfs etc. However you can try the old standby of mounting the filesystem "-o sync". Try having only / and
Uptime - Are you secretly trying to agree with me here? Uptime is not a desktop client feature - it is a server feature. Nearly all desktop clients get rebooted daily.
Having worked support, The main complaint about MS software was that it crashed. It doesn't matter if the workstations have low uptime provided that the reboots are voluntary, not crashes. In a large office, there is always someone who has just lost X amount of work because Windows has just crashed - uptime == lack of downtime for the person using the computer. Uptime on the workstation leads to happier less stressed users - which leads to a happier less stressed admin. This is good.
It isn't actually outside the atmosphere, there is just very little air. You use huge balloons - have a look at Lindstrand Balloons, they do lots of pioneering stuff like the ballooning equivalent of satelites and heavy lift airships. Actually, there is a very good chance that they will make this balloon. Either them or Cameron Balloons.
Not quite true, it's the firmware that can't handle it, not the partition table. Remember how old the SS10s are, if you read the documentation from those days it says things like:
"support for large disks (ie. over 310Mb)"
It all depends on the application. Solaris has much faster networking code, but Linux has much faster task switch/process spawn. If you are running a web server then serving static pages or PHP or pages from builtin apache modules then Solaris is much faster because the networking is the bottleneck, but if you are running lots of external CGI programs then Linux can win because the bottleneck is spawning processes.
On ultra 5s and 10s then Linux can be a better choice because it handles IDE better than Solaris, but when you move up to an Ultra 60 then Solaris is a better choice because its SCSI handling is better than Linux's. The default Solaris install can be pretty bare, compared to Linux and if the person installing it is not familliar with it then it can be daunting, however if you are doing lots of installs then Sun's jumpstart is easier than Redhat's kickstart and creating Solaris packages the way you want them is easyer than creating custom RPMs(YMMV).
In short, know your tools and pick the right one for the job.
Yup, seven different projects for Lego Mindstorms, but no window manager that works.
how many real life bazaars have ever actually built anything larger than a hep of camel shit?
It appears that the cathedral builders haven't done much better in these regards. Take CDE (Please!), there was much rejoicing at the possibility that it might be replaced by GNOME etc. Microsoft don't seem to have done any better, Windows might be a bit more useable if I could run WindowMaker and GNOME on it. In short, regarding window managers, Apple seem to have built the only cathedral any bigger than your heap of camel shit. (Ignoring NeXT etc.)
The difference is the style of server. Linux is naturally Unix based, but Netware could just about be called an OS/390 clone for PCs. The similarities are rather striking. You don't get all the resilience features because many of them are hardware specific, but the internals suggest to me that Netware was designed by exIBM people. I can't confirm whether that is true, but I always felt that Netware was the son of OS/390.
With Netware, AS/400 and OS/390 IBM would have mainframe style OSes that cover the whole range from mom and pop stores to fortune 500 companies. With Linux and AIX, they have the same range with UNIX. Both the currently viable styles of OS in all sizes, and one directory service to bind them.
This doesn't seem at all unexpected, Netware fills the mainframe-OS-on-commodity-hardware hole in IBM's product line that Linux created with the Unix-derivative-on-commodity-hardware solution.