User: sudo

Where is order book

On: Casemodding Enterprise Hardware

Damn fine idea, It will look good on ours, especially since they have been dimming the lights in the computer room at night.

Now to convince the boss....

Re:D'uh.

On: Linux Worm Creating "Attack Network"

On the other hand, when we transferred our single Unix web server(Apache) to a bunch of Windows servers they are lucky to have an uptime more than a couple of weeks.
I only need an outage during a system upgrade/patch, once in a blue moon (149 days uptime and I need to update the kernel next week).
An Apache cutover takes 2 seconds after a parallel test period of a couple weeks.
I'm getting a lot of people moving back to a stable managed box after they have been burnt.

Mind you, the Microsoft techs get a lot more overtime than me.

licensing model is quite common but..

On: Corporate America Wary of Subscription Software

Microsofts licensing charges are proportionally steeper than the software systems we have.

Also licensing, typically, gives you technical support and escalation facilities.

Will we be able to ring them when things break?

Re:wat r the implications for mainframes?

On: One-Machine Linux Cluster

yeah, 44K accounts idling.

I think you can remove a zero and querter it to
see how many machines it can probably run adequately.

not to buy

On: Multi-Million Dollar LAN Event In Germany

They probably would have made a deal with a leasing company to rent the computers for a week.

Mind you, thats a lot of hardware to tie up at the same time.

I like the prize-money option :)

Re:Does Cyrus support LDAP?

On: What Mailbox Format Do You Use And Why?

yes

Re:Why?

On: Rice Genome Mapped

> I ask this because its not like this is in short > suply or is hard to grow

A couple things, I'd say, they would look at doing:
- Disease resistance (for obvious reasons)
- Can be grown in less/salt water, as a lot of water is needed to grow rice.