Nononono! Don't confuse me mentioning SMS's feature set with anything resembling recommending it... it's an evil, scary, horrible program. It just sounds like the Ask Slashdot poster was looking for something that does some of the things SMS does, but correctly, and on a real OS, and I was pointing out that OpenNMS does not really do change management, just network management, so it's not a correct fit (yet). =)
Phew! Don't do that to me... I nearly got a heart attack thinking I came off as suggesting SMS. <shudder>
Despite the fact that PS2 has more games, Super Monkey Ball is reason enough to buy a GameCube. I would think CmdrTaco makes enough money by now that he could buy each of the consoles and not feel the need to slam the ones he didn't get... =)
It sounds like he's wanting to do things that systems like OpenView and Tivoli (and, more specifically, SMS) do that we (OpenNMS) don't do yet, unfortunately.
OpenNMS is not agent-based (other than SNMP agents for performance data), and so has no real way to initiate network backups and/or push configurations. It sounds he's more interested in the parts of MS's SMS that do change management than the bits that do network management.
If you're looking for the network management functionality that SMS/NNM/ITO/Tivoli/Unicenter/etc. provide, OpenNMS is quickly becoming quite spiffy; if you're looking for change management, we're not even broadly focused on that. Unless someone gives us a big development contract to veer from our 1.0 goal, I doubt it will be anytime soon.
Re:I haven't finished downloading the last release
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What makes a "verification language" different from any other? The linked site appears to already assume a knowledge of what one is, and it wasn't explained in the blurb.
At work we have put together a communal MP3 archive, and it's at 76GB right now, and still growing.
We've got about 180GB of space total, so we're not even close to filled, but at this rate I would say we'll have it filled up by the end of 2002 if not sooner. Last I checked (at 72GB or so) we had over 15,000 songs that were a total of about 45 days of continuous uninterrupted, non-repeat music. =)
Not a typo, that was the suggested way of doing it (at least used to be). "clean" doesn't clear out dependency files; 'mrproper' is the "super clean" that erases those, along with your.config and other things (makes a pristine tree as if you just untarred it).
Yeah, I felt the same way about the Jordan books. It was kind of like:
Book 1: wow, this is great!
Book 2: ooh, pretty good!
Book 3: still decent
Book 4: how many books are there?
Book 5: Jesus, this guy can't close a subplot without opening 3 more.
Book 6: MAKE IT STOP!
Book 7: Screw it, I'm not reading any more.
I like his epic style of writing -- very descriptive without bogging things down -- but I just want it to frelling end. It's not worth the aggravation anymore.
...is that a topic that Jon Kats can make into an unintelligible mess can be succinctly summed up at an article on a similar topic at k5. He's really saying the same thing, but doesn't fill it with buzzwords, a much more interesting read. =)
For example, they're using ext3. Blech. It is a journaling system tacked on to the old ext2 system, which seems a little too much like the evolution of FAT to me.
The on-disk format is the same, but because the algorithms for accessing it are dramatically different, ext3 is faster than ext2 *and* journaled. It's not a "paradigm shift" like ReiserFS is, but it isn't just a crap incremental upgrade.
Secondly, GNOME? Can they give any rational reason for choosing GNOME over KDE2?
They went with Gnome before KDE2 was around, if I remember correctly. And they now include both and allow the choice at install time, so it's nothing other than which radio button is selected by default.
I think you can count me out on this distro, for now I'm sticking with SuSE (which several rigorous reviewers prefer over Redhat anyway), with ReiserFS and KDE2.
I used to like SuSE until I saw how their RPM packages are put together. Now I wonder how it runs at all, but to each his own.
LILO is not synonymous with GRUB
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GRUB kicks LILO's ass, feature-wise.
GRUB understands filesystems.
GRUB doesn't screw you if you forget to run a program after changing the configuration file.
GRUB lets you enter a configuration manually at boot time if you *do* screw up the configuration file.
GRUB can boot on some broken BIOSes and hard drives that LILO cant.
GRUB has the same interface across all platforms it runs on, which saves RedHat from having different boot instructions on different architectures (and having to do extra testing on each of those architectures).
Besides, RedHat lets you choose at installation, so you can <sarcasm>"leverage" the mountain of knowledge you have about LILO</sarcasm>. Like there's so much to know...
Follows my timeline too...
I've recently been loving the extra effective screen space I get out of AA font support in *every* QT app already being available. Along with mosfet, I've got a desktop that's both beautiful and (gasp!) useful... (screenshot).
Same here. Tabbed shells is so freakin' awesome, I have no idea how they didn't exist before. It's great being able to work on something and change the tabs to match the host or system or program I'm working with in that window...
That's what switched me; 90% of my work is either browsing or working in a shell. KDE excels at that...
Dvorak doesn't magically make you better at hand coordination. =)
Regardless of how well you type, a dvorak keyboard does feel more comfortable; whether it actually improves your typing is still a subject of much debate, but it does seem to help me some, comfort-wise.
It wasn't Access they were replacing, it was a specific "application" written with Access that they replaced.
Re:Okay, sure... good points but incomplete...
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Of course it's incomplete. He said so. The client and he worked out specific requirements, regardless of what OS they were going to use, and he matched them up, and Linux came out ahead. Period.
The guy's paper said "this is what makes sense for this client", not "this is what makes sense for anyone ever wanting to migrate off of Windows." He never said it was true for everyone, just that it's something worth looking at.
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Just an FYI, depending on your thinkpad model, the mwave thinkpad modem is supported under linux. It worked fine on my 600E.
Nononono! Don't confuse me mentioning SMS's feature set with anything resembling recommending it... it's an evil, scary, horrible program. It just sounds like the Ask Slashdot poster was looking for something that does some of the things SMS does, but correctly, and on a real OS, and I was pointing out that OpenNMS does not really do change management, just network management, so it's not a correct fit (yet). =)
Phew! Don't do that to me... I nearly got a heart attack thinking I came off as suggesting SMS. <shudder>
Despite the fact that PS2 has more games, Super Monkey Ball is reason enough to buy a GameCube. I would think CmdrTaco makes enough money by now that he could buy each of the consoles and not feel the need to slam the ones he didn't get... =)
It sounds like he's wanting to do things that systems like OpenView and Tivoli (and, more specifically, SMS) do that we (OpenNMS) don't do yet, unfortunately.
OpenNMS is not agent-based (other than SNMP agents for performance data), and so has no real way to initiate network backups and/or push configurations. It sounds he's more interested in the parts of MS's SMS that do change management than the bits that do network management.
If you're looking for the network management functionality that SMS/NNM/ITO/Tivoli/Unicenter/etc. provide, OpenNMS is quickly becoming quite spiffy; if you're looking for change management, we're not even broadly focused on that. Unless someone gives us a big development contract to veer from our 1.0 goal, I doubt it will be anytime soon.
get the patch
Damn, totally missed that! =)
No "grok"?
You mean besides the one that's linked in the linuxdevices.com article?
It's one or the other.... the modem thing pops out and you replace it with an ethernet interface.
What makes a "verification language" different from any other? The linked site appears to already assume a knowledge of what one is, and it wasn't explained in the blurb.
At work we have put together a communal MP3 archive, and it's at 76GB right now, and still growing.
We've got about 180GB of space total, so we're not even close to filled, but at this rate I would say we'll have it filled up by the end of 2002 if not sooner. Last I checked (at 72GB or so) we had over 15,000 songs that were a total of about 45 days of continuous uninterrupted, non-repeat music. =)
Not a typo, that was the suggested way of doing it (at least used to be). "clean" doesn't clear out dependency files; 'mrproper' is the "super clean" that erases those, along with your .config and other things (makes a pristine tree as if you just untarred it).
Yeah, I felt the same way about the Jordan books. It was kind of like:
I like his epic style of writing -- very descriptive without bogging things down -- but I just want it to frelling end. It's not worth the aggravation anymore.
...is that a topic that Jon Kats can make into an unintelligible mess can be succinctly summed up at an article on a similar topic at k5. He's really saying the same thing, but doesn't fill it with buzzwords, a much more interesting read. =)
For example, they're using ext3. Blech. It is a journaling system tacked on to the old ext2 system, which seems a little too much like the evolution of FAT to me.
The on-disk format is the same, but because the algorithms for accessing it are dramatically different, ext3 is faster than ext2 *and* journaled. It's not a "paradigm shift" like ReiserFS is, but it isn't just a crap incremental upgrade.
Secondly, GNOME? Can they give any rational reason for choosing GNOME over KDE2?
They went with Gnome before KDE2 was around, if I remember correctly. And they now include both and allow the choice at install time, so it's nothing other than which radio button is selected by default.
I think you can count me out on this distro, for now I'm sticking with SuSE (which several rigorous reviewers prefer over Redhat anyway), with ReiserFS and KDE2.
I used to like SuSE until I saw how their RPM packages are put together. Now I wonder how it runs at all, but to each his own.
Besides, RedHat lets you choose at installation, so you can <sarcasm>"leverage" the mountain of knowledge you have about LILO</sarcasm>. Like there's so much to know...
Follows my timeline too... I've recently been loving the extra effective screen space I get out of AA font support in *every* QT app already being available. Along with mosfet, I've got a desktop that's both beautiful and (gasp!) useful... (screenshot).
Same here. Tabbed shells is so freakin' awesome, I have no idea how they didn't exist before. It's great being able to work on something and change the tabs to match the host or system or program I'm working with in that window...
That's what switched me; 90% of my work is either browsing or working in a shell. KDE excels at that...
Nothing sexual??
She was nippin', and he had a woody! (although they obviously tried to film around his... uh... "enthusiasm")
Dvorak doesn't magically make you better at hand coordination. =)
Regardless of how well you type, a dvorak keyboard does feel more comfortable; whether it actually improves your typing is still a subject of much debate, but it does seem to help me some, comfort-wise.
It wasn't Access they were replacing, it was a specific "application" written with Access that they replaced.
Of course it's incomplete. He said so. The client and he worked out specific requirements, regardless of what OS they were going to use, and he matched them up, and Linux came out ahead. Period.
The guy's paper said "this is what makes sense for this client", not "this is what makes sense for anyone ever wanting to migrate off of Windows." He never said it was true for everyone, just that it's something worth looking at.
Wow, that takes me back.
Happiness is mandatory. Are You Happy?
According to someone in our LUG, it's in the forword of the (official) DOS 3.0 manual that he has. Never seen it myself, so I can't say for sure.
Why is everyone speaking in questions?