I have not used Sumatra. I think fighting over between the 2 is silly like fighting over Firefox or Chrome when IE is still at 6.
I use Foxit because I am used to it. I ditched reader early last year and I needed something compatible with most PDFs and at the time FoxIT had broader compatibility. Yes Foxit does have javascript support which can be a security risk but it will not execute it without your permission first. Also the javascript is sandboxed too and you have to click an option to turn all of it on, unlike Reader. Foxit has plugins and more tools from the reviews I have read about Sumatra back in 2011.
Maybe that has changed?
But either or is better than Adobe. Integrating flash unsigned applets that your AV software can't read is inexecusable! Wow. Or a better idea could also be to use Chrome with its built-in PDF reader? I use FoxIT for many office workers because it looks like reader and is compatible iwth mostly everything.
It gets worse than that my friend. Reader X supports unsigned and unsandboxed flash embedded!
So your browser will simply run it and run whatever code from an infected ad server without even your AV software being able to detect nor stop it before its too late.
Someone needs to be fired over that. Oh wait Adobe outsourced the team to India. What could possibly go wrong??
Adobe products are a security nightmare. It is 8 years behind even IE and XP! Just recently started signing apps? Just added a cutting edge feature called a sandbox a few months ago. Auto updates added just this year?? IE 7 had all of these.
No wonder hackers exploit this. It is a convenient way to byepass modern browser security that works across all platforms. No longer is it the case that using Firefox and going on familiar websites made you invincible. Just have unupdated flash or reader and BAM instant infection!
Anyway foxit does not execute code unless you tell it too. PDFs should only render data. Never execute flash or javascript! Flash can run without it being signed nor scanned by your AV or even sandboxed from within Reader X. Stupid. Whoever thought of that needs to be fired.
You can get Foxit from www.filehippo.com or ninite.com. Every IT professional should know about it.
Google would never, ever cut off their product, which is user data and patterns. It doesn't make any business sense at all.
All this can possibly do is turn of targeted ads to give the illusion of not being tracked.
They do not have too. At least not at the browser level. Why do you think Google introduced Google DNS? All Google needs is a DNS record at your IP address on what you do by IP address. This way Google's ad network is covered while competitors are not;-)
So they can still put DNT and it is good as least you have 1 stalker Google. No one else.
Shoot in the TCP/IP RFC specs it specifically states root level access for ports below 1024. User mode for apps using above 1024. That was considered security when it was designed.
Admins ran the whole internet back then, not everyone and their PC, phone, or who knows what. You didn't have Russian Mobfia running scams and infected PCs aka microcomputers they used to call back then.
The whole infrastrucutre was designed to run apps remotely! It was never designed to be used like it is today. DNS should be SSL secure enabled, traffic should be always encrypted, hosts should have a trusted relationship with the DNS which should also double as certificate servers. Routers and Computers should have DEP and ASLR by default for ALL apps. Even then there are still ways to infect an ad server to infect millions of casual internet users.
XP does not have full DEP for everything because it would break shitty Win 98 apps. ASLR is turned off unless you have the latest ATI cat drivers made from October! on Windows 7. All of these are needed to make computers more secure and it is a great argument to kill XP.
I got modded down for daring to question just use Firefox and do not click on banners and you WILL NEVER BE HACKED!!
Meanwhile the poster I responded to is a Firefox 3.6 loyalist which has +50 security holes!! Worse he probably uses XP on an admin account talking about how these silly IE users are retards to get infected.
I also mentioned IE 9 is sandboxed and so is Chrome. That is what got me modded down.
Worse I have seen literal slashdotters claim the above and are so proud they do not even run AV software with a smile! Holy crap..
I seen one malware here on slashdot! March or April one of the Ad-Networks for THinkGeek got compromised and if you came on here with FF 3.6 without AV software you got 0wned. IT professionals are very arrogant and many of them are correct that back in the 1990s all you needed to do was not run shit and go on safe websites and you were fine. No AV software was needed oh and use a good password etc. They still believe this practice. Today you need ad-block, patches, a modern PDF and Flahs plugin which auto-updates, a modern (not 11 year old OS) OS design for security, AV software, and of course no java. Sadly many IT professionals also are +100 patches behind with WIndows Updates at work too.
You really should not have to recertify every app for a freaking security update! These machines get infected ALOT because they are not properly patched. Either software needs to stop being shitty or they need to their job. Windows 8 auto updates and you can't turn this off. IT and corporate America hate this but it is essential in this decade. Do all these things and the chances of getting hacked become a lot lower.
The real question is will Romney's loss energy the right for even more extreme candidates who will differentiate more? Or will the Republican party stop sabatoging themselves and moving seats to moderate democrats by kicking out the incumbents with far right wing types who can't stand agaisn't democrats?
The third option is the Republican party splits into two! This has been discussed for awhile. Women are what put Obama back into Office a second time. Many ladies I know who were apolitical really thought Romney was going to peeping into their vaginas looking for fetuses. 70% of women supported Obama! That is very large.
Many women like us men care about the economy, budget deficits, and healthcare and would not mind voting for a Republican. Those who vow to end contraception and abortions and gay marriage is simply unacceptable to them.
I do not want to wait 40 seconds for MS Office or iWorks to open for once. Yes my 11 year old Xp box 10 years took that long to open Star Office 5.2 aka OpenOffice. I thought it was ok and fast.
You dont remember that in these 10 year old systems because you did not know better.
An ARM is as fast as a 2002 era Pentium III 700 mhz system. Great for tiny applets and checking your HTML email which preloaded during bootk. Not to run Photoshop or Office or anything complex.
Shit he is a blessing compared to Bush. Are you kidding? There was not a week that went by where you didn't read on slashdot about Bush firing Ashcroft for saying Do not do this it is illegal! Or how a new revision to the DMCA or Patriot Act is being made, or how the oath of office changed to make perjury ok, etc.
I really do not understand how anyone can say there is no difference between Obama and Bush. I just don't!
Mitts strategy was to rely on moderate Republicans (who vote for the party and what it ideally stands for, even if it falls short) and appease the far right, in an effort to push him over the line. Essentially playing the numbers game (Hey, it made him rich!).
The Republicans didn't bother trying to engage broader America. This is now proven to be a loser move (and demographics are against this). So: Is the Republican party going to move towards the centre or go further right? A reagan-esque war is about to happen in the GOP.
Mark my words in 2016, you will see Rick Santorum stand on stage with a few grayer hairs. He will claim Romney as to far the left and a radical socialist and communist just like OBL. He was rejected because he was too much of a Democrat and we need some far right wing libertarian reactionary like me to lead America!!
Then win and be shocked again! Then will be saying why are these dems winning! They all must be welfare recipients!... or something retarded bla bla bla.
The problem is the Tea Party. The Tea Party just kicked out popular Republican Luger (FYI is not a moderate) for a far right wing candidate. Gee, a democrat in this conservative district just won! Sigh...
Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, and Fox news mixed with the Tea Party makes up the Republican base. There is no moderate Nixon/Goldwater/Eisenhower GOP leaders of old left. Just angry ones who hate government and believe they are on a mandate to stop everything and cut taxes and regulation at all costs.
My Android is about as fast as Pentium III 700 mhz with 768 ram I built during the start of the XP era. It survived its purpose and it was fast. I liked it. Are you suggesting I use today and speed doesn't matter>
I read an old blog post from 10 years and benchmarked it 1. StarOffice 5.2 (AKA OpenOffice) took 40 seconds to load! 2. XP took 3+ minutes to boot and I assumed that was fast 3. It took 1:40 seconds to boot linux (before the gui and to type startx) 4. Ripping a mp3 from a wav took a good 2 mins.
I thought was wickedly fast! Would you, I, or anyone slashdotter put up with that performance today? Hell no! We have selective memories based on our perception of the time as we never had a Windows 8 SSD notebook boot in 4 seconds. That was just unfathomable back in 2001.
An ARM from an IPAD or Android phone is as fast as I described above and not acceptable in 2012. Beside my joking sig, I once thought IE 6 was blazing fast too compared to Netscape 4.7 10 years ago and conceeded the loss to MS too. Times change when things improve.
Your 5 year old laptop you are reading this on is still many times faster than a 12 year old PC/Phone of today.
Rumor has it that Apple is very interesting in AMD so it can own the whole vertical supply of it's machines. They tried to make their own x86 and intel said no. They almost used AMD APU for the mac book air but backed at hte last minute.
It doesn't make performance sense for an ARM. With AMD they can own the ATI graphics market too.
Unfortunately for us that is bad news with less competition. But I could see the appeal. They can put DRM into the cpu's and do custom configurations for their tinkering.
U of Michigan has such a program now. Let me tell yo the kids out of there knew more than the 35 year olds!
Computer science is worthless in comparison. Sure everyone older learned on the job knows his or her own speciality but the kids coming out of these admin programs know every nook and cranny of AD. Not just how to do a task, but actually how it works. Not wasting time with calculus where it is not used on the job.
I probably will get modded down from the CS grads on this but I wish more universities would start this. As a result my opinion is changed and if I were hiring an entry level 23 year old out of school I would prefer the Network admin degree over the CS one if I needed help managing an enterprise.
I used to be like you when I was 20 a decade ago. Here is what I have learned. Your enterprise hates change and looks at you as a financial burden and unnecessary cost unless you work for an IT company. If they have AD why switch? If what they have works don't mess with it.
I saw this pop up last week on slashdot when Microsoft suggested business users stop using XP. Shockingly a decade ago on slashdot people would be laughing at everyone using a 11 year old platform who refuses change all based on Microsoft. Fast forward today you see folks under 35 freak out and DEMAND XP BE SUPPORTED FOREVER because changing is something you never ever do! Those over 35 got modded down saying upgrading is part of your job. The point is to put SAMBA 4 in you have to fight such people. They hate change and will cling to obsolete products as their behaviors in the last decade taught htem to lock versions with no updates and view everything as a cost center. Even a free product like Samba as such.
If it breaks who do you sue? Who do you call for support? Will you be handed a pink slip with a boot up your ass out of the door if something breaks? AD is standard, it is used by everyone else, other products like SQL Server, Sharepoint, and Exchange use it. It is part of the proprietary eco system at work and even though slashdotters breathe down Linux as the end all for everything it is not in an already established enterprise environment.
Just stick with AD. It is what you will be quizzed on and expected to know in your first job interview. If you do not know it they will find someone else who will. It is that simple.
The iAPX-86 (http://www.datasheetarchive.com/dataframe.php?file=DSA-276782.pdf&dir=Datasheets-14&part=IAPX86#) *is* an 8086 processor combined with an 80139 peripheral/ROM chip, which contained OS support code.
The application binary should use the UNIX API, and may be transportable to any x86 UNIX system with a compatible ABI (Application Binary Interface).
Booting the dd image on any other hardware is a lost cause, since the OS is certain to rely on the ROM code or the peripherals in the 80130 chip. Unless, of course, you are able to find an 80130 emulator (which a search failed to reveal).
So, grab the dd image, mount it using a compatible UNIX (virtually or physically), and see if your app will start. My Magic-8 Ball (tm) says "Signs point to YES"!
I stand corrected. I confused the iAPX-86 with the iAPX-4432 when googling this. Unisys made strange 6800 series systems too so who knows. the u6000 was the first hit that ran Unixware and is probably what he is running as the 6800 ran QNX.
I freely admit I was in 1st grade when these systems came out so maybe the grayhairs can assist better as I am not an expert. Just imagining the nightmare on what could go wrong.
If is binary compatible than get Unixware 7.1 for its VMWare support and retire that dinosaur server asap. If not then there is going to be pain and that ancient platform has got to go.
Can it emulate ancient iAPX-86 family processors? Can it emulate the firmware of these 30 year old Unisys servers? What about emulate the pre-ethernet cards of these 30 year old machines? Just because it can convert a motorolla 68602 from an Apple II into x86 code does not mean it can emulate everything about the other machine.
This argument was why people dumped Unix and VMS in the 1990s for crappy wintel servers. One standard helps when shit becomes obsolete. At least lintel is now in the picture but it does little help if it is a different version of Unixware compiled for non x86 CPUs. Infact it could even be an x86 CPU but the Unisys version of Unixware is so proprietary it wont run on any other piece of hardware. Ugh
Why not just set up a new system on Linux. Then find some way to get PostGres, mysql or modern database client/library of your choice running on the old Unixware server. Then write a script to run on the old Unixware server that accesses the old data on whatever database is being used on the old Unix server using the database driver/client for that old database, grabs that data off the old database, and then using the newly installed *sql client, sends the data to the new Linux server. On the new linux server new software can be written to use the data or you can try to port over the code if you have the sources for the old information system.
It is not that simple. What if it uses PIC and not SQL. PIC is what really old databases use before relational math came into the picture and I have seen it used with HP-UX.
Also it probably does something with many use cases too like monitors equipment, uses custom math formulas people forgotten about for cost analysis, or who knows what. Maybe there is another program maybe not. This is not a simple index like your MySQL class was in college. Data is just part of it. Doing more investigative work in this as I found out most Unisys systems not even being x86 compatible really is aching.
Reading these threads give slashdotters an insight why corps do strange things like keep IE 6 as dumbfounded as it sounds. It is nightmares like what I described to upgrade that no one really wants to do. SCO is hated too but running something godawful proprietary are a bitch to change and then the middle aged workers who go on and on how great XP is hate change and will fight you tooth and nail to change to any newer better solution.
The operating system does not really matter as it is the program and its hardware compatibility. That program wont run on Linux more than it will run on Windows. Anything x86 is good as it is well supported and will be for a long time and can live on a virtual machine when the operating system becomes obsolete. An old Unisys u6000 is so out of date and proprietary as an example. Unisys also makes some 68000 servers too. This means you can not VM it as x86 is not compatible.
If the poster is really lucky and it is a 386 or 186 then it might run on Unixware 7.1 for VMWare..... this assumes his boss is understanding and so is he paying SCO. It is an expensive and colossal waste of time
The poster is screwed. If it is u6000 Unisys model it uses a iAPX-86 family cpu. No it is not x86 compatible. So if something does happen your employer goes out of business! Find out asap what kind of Unisys system it is!!
Newer business plan... My recommendation is to migrate to another platform and start over. Your boss will hate that! Your workers will hate that! Your accountants will hate that! But you need to be able to migrate to a platform that can at least run on a virtual machine forever and ever and not be caught with your pants down again. I do not know how important this server is or what it does or hopefully does not have ancient database records needed for daily operation GOD FORBID.
Make a business case with the owners or IT department depending on size and say we have A LIABILITY. Liability gets there attention fast and explain you are one outage or parts failure from disaster that you can't recover from. It will cost money and workers who resist change will hate you and complain how great the other product is, but ask them how much it will cost when it dies?
Believe it or not there are workers who hate leaving IE 6 and 7 behind too. Just because it was what htey used for 10 years even though they used Firefox from home. Your intentions of just replacing SCO in a VM are a good one but from how I see it you just discovered a big problem that a good IT employer would recommend to fix.
You need Unixware 7.1 to run. DD wont work as it is not a VMWare image disk file.
I know the cost of a new license is $699 per CPU plus $1999 for a TCP/IP, but I would upgrade. The business reason is your ancient 15 year old server is going to die. All it takes is a single prolonged power outage like the one in New York City that your APC can keep on forever and your ancient PSU is TOAST! Systems that old do not reboot reliable.
So your business case it to virtualize it so it can run on newer hardware forever and you wont be caught with your pants down if something happens and it will on such an ancient beast. So buy a new shiny Linux box, install VMWorkstation (VSX or VSPhere is waaaay too expensive unless you run a server farm/data center) and install a fresh copy of Unixware 7.x on a virtual machine and over the network copy the program, config files, and database files. With virtualization you can consolidate and you can put more things on the same box to save power like your DNS Server or a Windows file share too on a different vms to cut down on the amount of servers.
With dd you can create an exact image. Unfortunately you need to figure out if your hard drive can be read in a modern system. Xenix aka OpenServer was far more popular than Unixware in the x86 arena so I wonder what kind of architecture it is?
Here are the steps 1. Create a Linux system 2. Hook up the hard drive to it and mount it (Can Linux read Unixware formatted volumes?) and then run dd off the old hard drive and output it as a binary to the new hard drive. 3. Find a Virtualization solution that is compatilbe to load the image in
I doubt VMWare supports Unixware but it might. This is going to be a challenge and I know you may hate me for saying it but keep the server. Unless there is a new version of the software that is Linux compatible why fix what isn't broken? Keep in mind old SCO is Tarantula and owns Unixware. New SCO aka SCO Group does not own Unixware but is a just a licensing troll.
It could still have x86 code in the rendering engine? I do wonder and I was shocked to see it on the mac last year. But even then there are no good opengl drivers for Linux. Nvidia is the only semi stable one and it is not professional grade like the Windows ones are. I doubt they want to support ATI users.
I agree with Autodesk that Linux is not worth the effort. Not enough users and they do not pay for software.
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But they sure wont help you keep your job if HR finds out about it.
I have not used Sumatra. I think fighting over between the 2 is silly like fighting over Firefox or Chrome when IE is still at 6.
I use Foxit because I am used to it. I ditched reader early last year and I needed something compatible with most PDFs and at the time FoxIT had broader compatibility. Yes Foxit does have javascript support which can be a security risk but it will not execute it without your permission first. Also the javascript is sandboxed too and you have to click an option to turn all of it on, unlike Reader. Foxit has plugins and more tools from the reviews I have read about Sumatra back in 2011.
Maybe that has changed?
But either or is better than Adobe. Integrating flash unsigned applets that your AV software can't read is inexecusable! Wow. Or a better idea could also be to use Chrome with its built-in PDF reader? I use FoxIT for many office workers because it looks like reader and is compatible iwth mostly everything.
It gets worse than that my friend. Reader X supports unsigned and unsandboxed flash embedded!
So your browser will simply run it and run whatever code from an infected ad server without even your AV software being able to detect nor stop it before its too late.
Someone needs to be fired over that. Oh wait Adobe outsourced the team to India. What could possibly go wrong??
Get Foxit
Adobe products are a security nightmare. It is 8 years behind even IE and XP! Just recently started signing apps? Just added a cutting edge feature called a sandbox a few months ago. Auto updates added just this year?? IE 7 had all of these.
No wonder hackers exploit this. It is a convenient way to byepass modern browser security that works across all platforms. No longer is it the case that using Firefox and going on familiar websites made you invincible. Just have unupdated flash or reader and BAM instant infection!
Anyway foxit does not execute code unless you tell it too. PDFs should only render data. Never execute flash or javascript! Flash can run without it being signed nor scanned by your AV or even sandboxed from within Reader X. Stupid. Whoever thought of that needs to be fired.
You can get Foxit from www.filehippo.com or ninite.com. Every IT professional should know about it.
Google would never, ever cut off their product, which is user data and patterns. It doesn't make any business sense at all.
All this can possibly do is turn of targeted ads to give the illusion of not being tracked.
They do not have too. At least not at the browser level. Why do you think Google introduced Google DNS? All Google needs is a DNS record at your IP address on what you do by IP address. This way Google's ad network is covered while competitors are not ;-)
So they can still put DNT and it is good as least you have 1 stalker Google. No one else.
Get the tar and feathers! How dare they not follow industry standards once again ...
Oh wait we are not talking about IE?!
Awesome Google good job
Shoot in the TCP/IP RFC specs it specifically states root level access for ports below 1024. User mode for apps using above 1024. That was considered security when it was designed.
Admins ran the whole internet back then, not everyone and their PC, phone, or who knows what. You didn't have Russian Mobfia running scams and infected PCs aka microcomputers they used to call back then.
The whole infrastrucutre was designed to run apps remotely! It was never designed to be used like it is today. DNS should be SSL secure enabled, traffic should be always encrypted, hosts should have a trusted relationship with the DNS which should also double as certificate servers. Routers and Computers should have DEP and ASLR by default for ALL apps. Even then there are still ways to infect an ad server to infect millions of casual internet users.
XP does not have full DEP for everything because it would break shitty Win 98 apps. ASLR is turned off unless you have the latest ATI cat drivers made from October! on Windows 7. All of these are needed to make computers more secure and it is a great argument to kill XP.
Mod up!
I got modded down for daring to question just use Firefox and do not click on banners and you WILL NEVER BE HACKED!!
Meanwhile the poster I responded to is a Firefox 3.6 loyalist which has +50 security holes!! Worse he probably uses XP on an admin account talking about how these silly IE users are retards to get infected.
I also mentioned IE 9 is sandboxed and so is Chrome. That is what got me modded down.
Worse I have seen literal slashdotters claim the above and are so proud they do not even run AV software with a smile! Holy crap ..
I seen one malware here on slashdot! March or April one of the Ad-Networks for THinkGeek got compromised and if you came on here with FF 3.6 without AV software you got 0wned. IT professionals are very arrogant and many of them are correct that back in the 1990s all you needed to do was not run shit and go on safe websites and you were fine. No AV software was needed oh and use a good password etc. They still believe this practice. Today you need ad-block, patches, a modern PDF and Flahs plugin which auto-updates, a modern (not 11 year old OS) OS design for security, AV software, and of course no java. Sadly many IT professionals also are +100 patches behind with WIndows Updates at work too.
You really should not have to recertify every app for a freaking security update! These machines get infected ALOT because they are not properly patched. Either software needs to stop being shitty or they need to their job. Windows 8 auto updates and you can't turn this off. IT and corporate America hate this but it is essential in this decade. Do all these things and the chances of getting hacked become a lot lower.
Why does it have to be just Windows? Write it in a cross platform language like Java. The benefit then is that any modern browser can run the app.
Yeah, no security holes with that brilliant idea. Much better than an up to date PATCHED browser.
The real question is will Romney's loss energy the right for even more extreme candidates who will differentiate more? Or will the Republican party stop sabatoging themselves and moving seats to moderate democrats by kicking out the incumbents with far right wing types who can't stand agaisn't democrats?
The third option is the Republican party splits into two! This has been discussed for awhile. Women are what put Obama back into Office a second time. Many ladies I know who were apolitical really thought Romney was going to peeping into their vaginas looking for fetuses. 70% of women supported Obama! That is very large.
Many women like us men care about the economy, budget deficits, and healthcare and would not mind voting for a Republican. Those who vow to end contraception and abortions and gay marriage is simply unacceptable to them.
I do not want to wait 40 seconds for MS Office or iWorks to open for once. Yes my 11 year old Xp box 10 years took that long to open Star Office 5.2 aka OpenOffice. I thought it was ok and fast.
You dont remember that in these 10 year old systems because you did not know better.
An ARM is as fast as a 2002 era Pentium III 700 mhz system. Great for tiny applets and checking your HTML email which preloaded during bootk. Not to run Photoshop or Office or anything complex.
Shit he is a blessing compared to Bush. Are you kidding? There was not a week that went by where you didn't read on slashdot about Bush firing Ashcroft for saying Do not do this it is illegal! Or how a new revision to the DMCA or Patriot Act is being made, or how the oath of office changed to make perjury ok, etc.
I really do not understand how anyone can say there is no difference between Obama and Bush. I just don't!
Mitts strategy was to rely on moderate Republicans (who vote for the party and what it ideally stands for, even if it falls short) and appease the far right, in an effort to push him over the line. Essentially playing the numbers game (Hey, it made him rich!).
The Republicans didn't bother trying to engage broader America. This is now proven to be a loser move (and demographics are against this). So: Is the Republican party going to move towards the centre or go further right? A reagan-esque war is about to happen in the GOP.
Mark my words in 2016, you will see Rick Santorum stand on stage with a few grayer hairs. He will claim Romney as to far the left and a radical socialist and communist just like OBL. He was rejected because he was too much of a Democrat and we need some far right wing libertarian reactionary like me to lead America!!
Then win and be shocked again! Then will be saying why are these dems winning! They all must be welfare recipients! ... or something retarded bla bla bla.
The problem is the Tea Party. The Tea Party just kicked out popular Republican Luger (FYI is not a moderate) for a far right wing candidate. Gee, a democrat in this conservative district just won! Sigh ...
Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, and Fox news mixed with the Tea Party makes up the Republican base. There is no moderate Nixon/Goldwater/Eisenhower GOP leaders of old left. Just angry ones who hate government and believe they are on a mandate to stop everything and cut taxes and regulation at all costs.
Emphasize yesterdays.
My Android is about as fast as Pentium III 700 mhz with 768 ram I built during the start of the XP era. It survived its purpose and it was fast. I liked it. Are you suggesting I use today and speed doesn't matter>
I read an old blog post from 10 years and benchmarked it
1. StarOffice 5.2 (AKA OpenOffice) took 40 seconds to load!
2. XP took 3+ minutes to boot and I assumed that was fast
3. It took 1:40 seconds to boot linux (before the gui and to type startx)
4. Ripping a mp3 from a wav took a good 2 mins.
I thought was wickedly fast! Would you, I, or anyone slashdotter put up with that performance today? Hell no! We have selective memories based on our perception of the time as we never had a Windows 8 SSD notebook boot in 4 seconds. That was just unfathomable back in 2001.
An ARM from an IPAD or Android phone is as fast as I described above and not acceptable in 2012. Beside my joking sig, I once thought IE 6 was blazing fast too compared to Netscape 4.7 10 years ago and conceeded the loss to MS too. Times change when things improve.
Your 5 year old laptop you are reading this on is still many times faster than a 12 year old PC/Phone of today.
Rumor has it that Apple is very interesting in AMD so it can own the whole vertical supply of it's machines. They tried to make their own x86 and intel said no. They almost used AMD APU for the mac book air but backed at hte last minute.
It doesn't make performance sense for an ARM. With AMD they can own the ATI graphics market too.
Unfortunately for us that is bad news with less competition. But I could see the appeal. They can put DRM into the cpu's and do custom configurations for their tinkering.
U of Michigan has such a program now. Let me tell yo the kids out of there knew more than the 35 year olds!
Computer science is worthless in comparison. Sure everyone older learned on the job knows his or her own speciality but the kids coming out of these admin programs know every nook and cranny of AD. Not just how to do a task, but actually how it works. Not wasting time with calculus where it is not used on the job.
I probably will get modded down from the CS grads on this but I wish more universities would start this. As a result my opinion is changed and if I were hiring an entry level 23 year old out of school I would prefer the Network admin degree over the CS one if I needed help managing an enterprise.
Ask yourself why?
I used to be like you when I was 20 a decade ago. Here is what I have learned. Your enterprise hates change and looks at you as a financial burden and unnecessary cost unless you work for an IT company. If they have AD why switch? If what they have works don't mess with it.
I saw this pop up last week on slashdot when Microsoft suggested business users stop using XP. Shockingly a decade ago on slashdot people would be laughing at everyone using a 11 year old platform who refuses change all based on Microsoft. Fast forward today you see folks under 35 freak out and DEMAND XP BE SUPPORTED FOREVER because changing is something you never ever do! Those over 35 got modded down saying upgrading is part of your job. The point is to put SAMBA 4 in you have to fight such people. They hate change and will cling to obsolete products as their behaviors in the last decade taught htem to lock versions with no updates and view everything as a cost center. Even a free product like Samba as such.
If it breaks who do you sue? Who do you call for support? Will you be handed a pink slip with a boot up your ass out of the door if something breaks? AD is standard, it is used by everyone else, other products like SQL Server, Sharepoint, and Exchange use it. It is part of the proprietary eco system at work and even though slashdotters breathe down Linux as the end all for everything it is not in an already established enterprise environment.
Just stick with AD. It is what you will be quizzed on and expected to know in your first job interview. If you do not know it they will find someone else who will. It is that simple.
The iAPX-86 (http://www.datasheetarchive.com/dataframe.php?file=DSA-276782.pdf&dir=Datasheets-14&part=IAPX86#) *is* an 8086 processor combined with an 80139 peripheral/ROM chip, which contained OS support code.
The application binary should use the UNIX API, and may be transportable to any x86 UNIX system with a compatible ABI (Application Binary Interface).
Booting the dd image on any other hardware is a lost cause, since the OS is certain to rely on the ROM code or the peripherals in the 80130 chip. Unless, of course, you are able to find an 80130 emulator (which a search failed to reveal).
So, grab the dd image, mount it using a compatible UNIX (virtually or physically), and see if your app will start. My Magic-8 Ball (tm) says "Signs point to YES"!
I stand corrected. I confused the iAPX-86 with the iAPX-4432 when googling this. Unisys made strange 6800 series systems too so who knows. the u6000 was the first hit that ran Unixware and is probably what he is running as the 6800 ran QNX.
I freely admit I was in 1st grade when these systems came out so maybe the grayhairs can assist better as I am not an expert. Just imagining the nightmare on what could go wrong.
If is binary compatible than get Unixware 7.1 for its VMWare support and retire that dinosaur server asap. If not then there is going to be pain and that ancient platform has got to go.
Can it emulate ancient iAPX-86 family processors? Can it emulate the firmware of these 30 year old Unisys servers? What about emulate the pre-ethernet cards of these 30 year old machines? Just because it can convert a motorolla 68602 from an Apple II into x86 code does not mean it can emulate everything about the other machine.
This argument was why people dumped Unix and VMS in the 1990s for crappy wintel servers. One standard helps when shit becomes obsolete. At least lintel is now in the picture but it does little help if it is a different version of Unixware compiled for non x86 CPUs. Infact it could even be an x86 CPU but the Unisys version of Unixware is so proprietary it wont run on any other piece of hardware. Ugh
Why not just set up a new system on Linux. Then find some way to get PostGres, mysql or modern database client/library of your choice running on the old Unixware server. Then write a script to run on the old Unixware server that accesses the old data on whatever database is being used on the old Unix server using the database driver/client for that old database, grabs that data off the old database, and then using the newly installed *sql client, sends the data to the new Linux server. On the new linux server new software can be written to use the data or you can try to port over the code if you have the sources for the old information system.
It is not that simple. What if it uses PIC and not SQL. PIC is what really old databases use before relational math came into the picture and I have seen it used with HP-UX.
Also it probably does something with many use cases too like monitors equipment, uses custom math formulas people forgotten about for cost analysis, or who knows what. Maybe there is another program maybe not. This is not a simple index like your MySQL class was in college. Data is just part of it. Doing more investigative work in this as I found out most Unisys systems not even being x86 compatible really is aching.
Reading these threads give slashdotters an insight why corps do strange things like keep IE 6 as dumbfounded as it sounds. It is nightmares like what I described to upgrade that no one really wants to do. SCO is hated too but running something godawful proprietary are a bitch to change and then the middle aged workers who go on and on how great XP is hate change and will fight you tooth and nail to change to any newer better solution.
The operating system does not really matter as it is the program and its hardware compatibility. That program wont run on Linux more than it will run on Windows. Anything x86 is good as it is well supported and will be for a long time and can live on a virtual machine when the operating system becomes obsolete. An old Unisys u6000 is so out of date and proprietary as an example. Unisys also makes some 68000 servers too. This means you can not VM it as x86 is not compatible.
If the poster is really lucky and it is a 386 or 186 then it might run on Unixware 7.1 for VMWare. .... this assumes his boss is understanding and so is he paying SCO. It is an expensive and colossal waste of time
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The poster is screwed. If it is u6000 Unisys model it uses a iAPX-86 family cpu. No it is not x86 compatible. So if something does happen your employer goes out of business! Find out asap what kind of Unisys system it is!!
Newer business plan ...
My recommendation is to migrate to another platform and start over. Your boss will hate that! Your workers will hate that! Your accountants will hate that! But you need to be able to migrate to a platform that can at least run on a virtual machine forever and ever and not be caught with your pants down again. I do not know how important this server is or what it does or hopefully does not have ancient database records needed for daily operation GOD FORBID.
Make a business case with the owners or IT department depending on size and say we have A LIABILITY. Liability gets there attention fast and explain you are one outage or parts failure from disaster that you can't recover from. It will cost money and workers who resist change will hate you and complain how great the other product is, but ask them how much it will cost when it dies?
Believe it or not there are workers who hate leaving IE 6 and 7 behind too. Just because it was what htey used for 10 years even though they used Firefox from home. Your intentions of just replacing SCO in a VM are a good one but from how I see it you just discovered a big problem that a good IT employer would recommend to fix.
Again Good Luck
... and dump them exactly where?
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You need Unixware 7.1 to run. DD wont work as it is not a VMWare image disk file.
I know the cost of a new license is $699 per CPU plus $1999 for a TCP/IP, but I would upgrade. The business reason is your ancient 15 year old server is going to die. All it takes is a single prolonged power outage like the one in New York City that your APC can keep on forever and your ancient PSU is TOAST! Systems that old do not reboot reliable.
So your business case it to virtualize it so it can run on newer hardware forever and you wont be caught with your pants down if something happens and it will on such an ancient beast. So buy a new shiny Linux box, install VMWorkstation (VSX or VSPhere is waaaay too expensive unless you run a server farm/data center) and install a fresh copy of Unixware 7.x on a virtual machine and over the network copy the program, config files, and database files. With virtualization you can consolidate and you can put more things on the same box to save power like your DNS Server or a Windows file share too on a different vms to cut down on the amount of servers.
Good luck.
With dd you can create an exact image. Unfortunately you need to figure out if your hard drive can be read in a modern system. Xenix aka OpenServer was far more popular than Unixware in the x86 arena so I wonder what kind of architecture it is?
Here are the steps
1. Create a Linux system
2. Hook up the hard drive to it and mount it (Can Linux read Unixware formatted volumes?) and then run dd off the old hard drive and output it as a binary to the new hard drive.
3. Find a Virtualization solution that is compatilbe to load the image in
I doubt VMWare supports Unixware but it might. This is going to be a challenge and I know you may hate me for saying it but keep the server. Unless there is a new version of the software that is Linux compatible why fix what isn't broken? Keep in mind old SCO is Tarantula and owns Unixware. New SCO aka SCO Group does not own Unixware but is a just a licensing troll.
It could still have x86 code in the rendering engine? I do wonder and I was shocked to see it on the mac last year. But even then there are no good opengl drivers for Linux. Nvidia is the only semi stable one and it is not professional grade like the Windows ones are. I doubt they want to support ATI users.
I agree with Autodesk that Linux is not worth the effort. Not enough users and they do not pay for software.