I was very fortunate to meet the cofounder and VP of Cobalt at last springs ISPCon in Baltimore. I must say I was very impressed with the CacheRAQ2 (consequently, we bought a couple for trying out in one of our POPs). I was not only impressed with the equipment, but actually to have the "suits" that were there to sell the products seemed to treat my other netadmin and I (who were dressed... shall we say in attire more becoming sys admins.. i.e. shorts, hawaiian shirts, etc...) with respect and actually KNEW the technical issues that we were addressing, and truly seemed to care about our concerns (r.e. uptime, remote administration, security, ssh, caching stats, caching of java applets, etc). Not that this has anything to do with their IPO announcement, but I feel that this will be another company that I would like to support. I am also concerned as was mentioned in previous posts if they are going to release their (per)version of RH in the manner becoming of the Open Source community, or if they plan on keeping it under lock and key and proprietarily (sp?) IMHO in just the few minutes that I talked to the people from Cobalt, I feel that they are probably waiting for their source to be bulletproofed before releasing it to the masses. If this is the case, then I applaud them and will back them wholeheartedly. BUT if they decided to keep it under lock and key to try to keep their product to themselves, I will probably NOT opt to buy their stock, but I WILL keep investing in their products. These boxes are FAST, reliable, and with a very small footprint... I'd like to turn one over to a (play) server just to see what it would take to crash it:)
Actually I was just making a tongue in cheek observation on if slashdot hits on redhat's server leads to marketing types going ga-ga over % of hits which then leads to people buying stock I dunno... then again that's why they lock me in a closet with a bunch of machines.... It's safer that way:)
I couldn't get my broker on the day it opened, and the *cough* idiot decided to buy it on the second day at 86, so I was a little grumpy, but hey! I just wanted to own a piece of the OS that I run:) so I was in it for the long haul regardless. So I've been VERY happy the past day or so watching it generate at 120+ (Thanks Mom) but now I'm wondering if someone could do a little interpolation to see this phenomenon..... It seems like the stock climbed everytime that there was a story posted on/., hmmmmmm mayhaps Rob and the gang have some vested interest?????? (j/k), but it has been shown to be true
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With all the hype about craptops, I would definately recommend Dell.... My LCD went a little Nuts on me around 6 months ago,(prolly because of me trying to tweak out the little NM 2160 on it for X), but the tech talked me through some minor boot procedures, then said 'OK We'll have a Box for you there tomorrow, and We should have it back for you in 3-5 days' True to their word, I got my laptop back in 4 days all fixed and ready to rock (GRRR now If I only told them about the !@#%!$#@ soundcard problem I created YES I KNOW THIS ONE IS MY FAULT... Don't try running your laptop through a 32-channel Peavey powered mixer to encode your favourite jams in MP3 format... Word to the (un)Wise )
After I just posted above, I realized a little quirky thing that is happening to my Dell 233MMX with 144MB running RH6.0 I HAVE to press Enter during LILO, or else I get a Kernel Panic when VFS tries to open the root partition, anyone have any kinda nifty tricks that I have missed? (I tried lowering the Timeout, that didn't work, Ran Disk Druid and Re-Partitioned the hda5 which Root resides, that didn't work) It's not a MAJOR problem, just a PITA when I go to get a cup of coffee and forget to hit Enter:)
My other Net Admin and I have been running RH on our Dell Inspiron Laptops for the past year. Recently "the Admiral" has turned his laptop into an FTP/Network Monitoring server that not only our techies, but Cu's can use to get software updates. Aside from the initial NeoMagic Chipset problems with RH 5.1 where I had to tweak out the XF86Config file, we really haven't had much problems getting these little badboys working and staying running. He's got somewhere around 79+ day uptime. ( and that's only because of rebooting for quotas).. My laptop I've been using as a workstation for remote access to my servers, checking connectivity problems at remote locations with a variety of modems ( my Fave being the Megahertz 56K from 3Com which works even with the quirky 3.9b12 from Livingston*cough*/lucent) Why haven't they caught on???? mayhaps people are just too happy *cough,cough* leaving 'Doze on em and using netterm/hyperterm to connext
"pounded... IBM and Microsoft... at their own game" (sorry for the paraphrasing) but didn't you say a couple sentances before, that IBM Motorola and Apple were working on this project together? So, is Apple just "pounding themselves"?:)
It's very interesting, I've been thinking about this for a while.... I used to use Scripsit which had it's formats saved in txt. Then to Apple Works and a brief flash with WordPerfect back in the early 80's... With a little bit of tweaking, these Text based formats were pretty easily transferable, If you could get the DOS's to agree... NewDOS ProDOS TrsDOS MS-DOS et al. Then came the "AGE OF INDIVIDUALITY" Apples/Macs couldn't talk to "PC's" easily,(Or should I flip that around the PC's couldn't read the Mac Discs easily?) WordPerfect and MSWord were battling on that front, Claris was having a field day with MacLinkPlus allowing Cross-platform processing, meanwhile all the people still using vi,pico,and emacs were going "WTF is the fuss about".. I used to use *embarrased* Netscape Composer for my word processing, this was for 2 reasons, I could always backup my docs on a server, I did everything I wanted, and there was no annoying assistant. Now I'm back to the promised land of using vi(m) for just about everything, unless I'm stuck on a Windows or mac, then I'll usually use Notepad or Simpletext (but I keep getting:wq at the bottom of all my pages:)) HEY ROB, how about a poll on favourite file formats for word processing!!!!! But hey I digress, and I need another cup of coffee Thanks for shopping S-Mart
Well, I believe this must have been one of the more difficult moderation jobs done by the/. guys You're fingertips must still be raw after weeding through all that flammable material. As for Abe.... nice cover-up on both the ego, and for the misnomers that non-technologically minded Hollywood-types thrust upon you.... Even though I have to say WTF is up with a MS.doc file Didja have to run WINE to get OFFICE to Load up..... BRRRRR the mere thought of that paperclip on a Linux box gives me the willies
I was going to try to go hit a few, but with the GPS Rollover, I'll lose the ability to track those lil buggers as I shank em off to the right:) yeah OK -1 me allready
OH GOODY!!!!! now I can run IE and Outlook Express on my Linux box... Just to have all the messages I send to myself denied 'cause I'm using OE.... sendmail DOES have some good filtering!
This is GREAT News for me.. My 3 year old has claimed my old Mac Performa as her computer for her CD-Rom games, but in the grand tradition of Mac vs Windows, more child-oriented games are *readily accessible* for me on the Windows platform. I would much rather set her up with a shell account on my workstation at home rather than have to purchase a copy of Windows to please hers *cough,cough* and mine gaming habit. My goal, to have her programming device drivers by the time she hits kindergarten:) Hmmm.... Fisher Price's "How to Code in Perl for Toddler's" I may have something here:)
Well rather than get lost in the strings above I decided to post here. YES! Guinness most definately tastes better abroad (take that whichever way you like) Being an avid beer drinker/Irishman I could definately notice the difference quaffing a pint in Galway Ireland vs Galway NY,USA. In order for export, there does have to be an addition of preservatives, primarily since the shipping is usually sea-borne. (much like the Nouveau Beajolais in Nov. when the vineyards ship quantities via air and by boat. Air is just much more expensive) As far as the alcoholic % of beer in the US. They usually peter out around 4-4.5 % for commercial brands. I try to keep my homebrew around 5-6% to match my canadian favourites (Molson Canadian and Labatts 50) But I have tipped the scales once with a 10% batch of porter *mmmmmm* When I was going to school in UT, there was a law that you could only buy 3.2% beer from convenience/grocery stores, everything else had to be bought in either state run liquor stores, or on the Class 6 stores on Military bases (Thanks for the dependant ID Dad! saved me a LOT of money on beer:) ) The highest alcohol content for a commercial "beer" Ive found is around 11% that is found in the Samual adams triple bock (not too sure about that one) but definately in EKU from europe. I believe that the % for Guinness in the states runs the gambit between 5-6% to keep in accordance with certain import and truth in advertising laws that are rampant in this country. Hence why you an also get the better Molson's and Labatts by heading "North" of the border. Just a quick heads up on the beer observations. Have fun at the party guys I wish I could be there.
I was wondering if this might be part of the fine print that is at the end of your contract with andover "and the party of the first part (also known as Andover.net) shall grant a party to the party of the second part (a.k.a CmndrTaco and Hemos) and hereto fore be known as a Party for all Parties (aka/. readers)..:) Either way... great job you guys wish I could be there with ya...
I just want to know who is on Illiad's payroll at my ISP.... It seems that everytime we are having situations or crises that there just "happens" to be a UF out around that time that mirrors or is an exact rendition of what is happening to us. Perhaps it's due to the fact that we have roughly the same amount of staff as Columbia Internet??? But my question is WHERE'S MIRANDA...... We don't have a Miranda!!!!!! Thanks for the humour Illiad.. It helps me and the other techies "sane" in an otherwise insane world.:-)
My server guru has been working on a box like this for the past couple months. basically running the same services. However we didn't have a *real* linux box to work on so we ran it on a rehashed P133 with ~70MB RAM. It's running sweetly, but about a week before we're ready to unleash it on one of our real servers RH decideds to package it?????? C'mon guys couldn't ya at least throw us a copy on CD??? or a couple shares of IPO would be nice *wink wink* oh well enough whining.... at least RH is firing up to help us all out before they get gobbled up by the big ugly dogs.
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Now I'm thinking back on the good ol' days of waiting for the tape to rewind on my Mod I so I could play a Scott Adams Adventure... or the weeks waiting patiently for my first all in one box (the ever popular Mod III) to come in so I could have DUAL disc drives.... Thanks for the nostalgia, Now I have to go home and dig up those forgotten relic s of yore JUST to see what I could do with them now:^)
Hmmm.. I still get the Networks on mine? I think it may have to do with the areas in question... I live in a pretty rural area, where Television reception is vell.. For a Better Term. non-existant. But as late as this morning, I woke up to WNBC out of NY. I agree with you on the Channel Selection though, I started with getting all the garbage channels, but now I'm happy with my 7 Networks, 7 HBO's 3 Cinemax and PPV all for ~$20 a mo.
I just talked with an authorized agent of the Dish Network who told me that they are putting out a combo Dish Network/WebTV unit for about $299 or so it has a 8.5 GB drive (supposedly to download games or other software) adaptors for digital/video cameras... with a PiP facility, it could make my lazy butt very happy to check out imdb.com during those times when I *need* to know what other movies Peter Weller and John Lithgow were in other than Buckaroo Banzai,and not have to travel the 6 feet to my workstation. Definately not for the Serious user, but could be a nifty toy, especially if your going to buy a DSS/Dish system anyway. Plus I also heard that they are going to be reshaping Dish Networks "dish" for Dual LNB's on a slightly exaggerated oval shaped dish. This is to include future channel availability. All in all I'm still very happy with my Sony DSS system.
Could one of the "Hazards of the Internet" be that we are getting so used to having information sent instantly from one location to another, processed, then returned with an applicable response, that we are starting to "speed" up our own concept of time prematurely? Hmmm sounds like a preamble to a philosophical discussion from Fred W. Hagen. I guess this is a perfect example of how the Internet is NOT just a global complex entity relying on technology solely, but rather a transport mechanism for human thought. It also shows that posts to Ask/. can be lost just as easily as a Post-It with that all-too-important phone # (or email addy).. Congo Rats on the graduation, and enjoy your summer.. now where's my coffee?
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I was very fortunate to meet the cofounder and VP of Cobalt at last springs ISPCon in Baltimore. I must say I was very impressed with the CacheRAQ2 (consequently, we bought a couple for trying out in one of our POPs). I was not only impressed with the equipment, but actually to have the "suits" that were there to sell the products seemed to treat my other netadmin and I (who were dressed... shall we say in attire more becoming sys admins.. i.e. shorts, hawaiian shirts, etc...) with respect and actually KNEW the technical issues that we were addressing, and truly seemed to care about our concerns (r.e. uptime, remote administration, security, ssh, caching stats, caching of java applets, etc). Not that this has anything to do with their IPO announcement, but I feel that this will be another company that I would like to support.
I am also concerned as was mentioned in previous posts if they are going to release their (per)version of RH in the manner becoming of the Open Source community, or if they plan on keeping it under lock and key and proprietarily (sp?)
IMHO in just the few minutes that I talked to the people from Cobalt, I feel that they are probably waiting for their source to be bulletproofed before releasing it to the masses. If this is the case, then I applaud them and will back them wholeheartedly. BUT if they decided to keep it under lock and key to try to keep their product to themselves, I will probably NOT opt to buy their stock, but I WILL keep investing in their products.
These boxes are FAST, reliable, and with a very small footprint... I'd like to turn one over to a (play) server just to see what it would take to crash it:)
Actually I was just making a tongue in cheek observation on if slashdot hits on redhat's server leads to marketing types going ga-ga over % of hits which then leads to people buying stock :)
I dunno... then again that's why they lock me in a closet with a bunch of machines.... It's safer that way
I couldn't get my broker on the day it opened, and the *cough* idiot decided to buy it on the second day at 86, so I was a little grumpy, but hey! I just wanted to own a piece of the OS that I run :) so I was in it for the long haul regardless. /., hmmmmmm mayhaps Rob and the gang have some vested interest?????? (j/k), but it has been shown to be true
So I've been VERY happy the past day or so watching it generate at 120+ (Thanks Mom)
but now I'm wondering if someone could do a little interpolation to see this phenomenon.....
It seems like the stock climbed everytime that there was a story posted on
With all the hype about craptops, I would definately recommend Dell.... My LCD went a little Nuts on me around 6 months ago,(prolly because of me trying to tweak out the little NM 2160 on it for X), but the tech talked me through some minor boot procedures, then said 'OK We'll have a Box for you there tomorrow, and We should have it back for you in 3-5 days' True to their word, I got my laptop back in 4 days all fixed and ready to rock (GRRR now If I only told them about the !@#%!$#@ soundcard problem I created YES I KNOW THIS ONE IS MY FAULT... Don't try running your laptop through a 32-channel Peavey powered mixer to encode your favourite jams in MP3 format... Word to the (un)Wise )
After I just posted above, I realized a little quirky thing that is happening to my Dell 233MMX with 144MB running RH6.0 :)
I HAVE to press Enter during LILO, or else I get a Kernel Panic when VFS tries to open the root partition, anyone have any kinda nifty tricks that I have missed? (I tried lowering the Timeout, that didn't work, Ran Disk Druid and Re-Partitioned the hda5 which Root resides, that didn't work) It's not a MAJOR problem, just a PITA when I go to get a cup of coffee and forget to hit Enter
My other Net Admin and I have been running RH on our Dell Inspiron Laptops for the past year.
Recently "the Admiral" has turned his laptop into an FTP/Network Monitoring server that not only our techies, but Cu's can use to get software updates.
Aside from the initial NeoMagic Chipset problems with RH 5.1 where I had to tweak out the XF86Config file, we really haven't had much problems getting these little badboys working and staying running. He's got somewhere around 79+ day uptime. ( and that's only because of rebooting for quotas).. My laptop I've been using as a workstation for remote access to my servers, checking connectivity problems at remote locations with a variety of modems ( my Fave being the Megahertz 56K from 3Com which works even with the quirky 3.9b12 from Livingston*cough*/lucent)
Why haven't they caught on???? mayhaps people are just too happy *cough,cough* leaving 'Doze on em and using netterm/hyperterm to connext
yeah yeah -1 me allready
"pounded ... IBM and Microsoft... at their own game" (sorry for the paraphrasing) but didn't you say a couple sentances before, that IBM Motorola and Apple were working on this project together? :)
So, is Apple just "pounding themselves"?
yeah yeah ok -1 me allready!!!
It's very interesting, I've been thinking about this for a while.... :wq at the bottom of all my pages :))
I used to use Scripsit which had it's formats saved in txt. Then to Apple Works and a brief flash with WordPerfect back in the early 80's...
With a little bit of tweaking, these Text based formats were pretty easily transferable, If you could get the DOS's to agree... NewDOS ProDOS TrsDOS MS-DOS et al.
Then came the "AGE OF INDIVIDUALITY" Apples/Macs couldn't talk to "PC's" easily,(Or should I flip that around the PC's couldn't read the Mac Discs easily?) WordPerfect and MSWord were battling on that front, Claris was having a field day with MacLinkPlus allowing Cross-platform processing,
meanwhile all the people still using vi,pico,and emacs were going "WTF is the fuss about"..
I used to use *embarrased* Netscape Composer for my word processing, this was for 2 reasons, I could always backup my docs on a server, I did everything I wanted, and there was no annoying assistant.
Now I'm back to the promised land of using vi(m) for just about everything, unless I'm stuck on a Windows or mac, then I'll usually use Notepad or Simpletext (but I keep getting
HEY ROB, how about a poll on favourite file formats for word processing!!!!!
But hey I digress, and I need another cup of coffee
Thanks for shopping S-Mart
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Well, I believe this must have been one of the more difficult moderation jobs done by the /. guys .doc file
You're fingertips must still be raw after weeding through all that flammable material. As for Abe.... nice cover-up on both the ego, and for the misnomers that non-technologically minded Hollywood-types thrust upon you.... Even though I have to say WTF is up with a MS
Didja have to run WINE to get OFFICE to Load up..... BRRRRR the mere thought of that paperclip on a Linux box gives me the willies
I was going to try to go hit a few, but with the GPS Rollover, I'll lose the ability to track those lil buggers as I shank em off to the right :)
yeah OK -1 me allready
OH GOODY!!!!! now I can run IE and Outlook Express on my Linux box... Just to have all the messages I send to myself denied 'cause I'm using OE.... sendmail DOES have some good filtering!
This is GREAT News for me.. My 3 year old has claimed my old Mac Performa as her computer for her CD-Rom games, but in the grand tradition of Mac vs Windows, more child-oriented games are *readily accessible* for me on the Windows platform. I would much rather set her up with a shell account on my workstation at home rather than have to purchase a copy of Windows to please hers *cough,cough* and mine gaming habit. My goal, to have her programming device drivers by the time she hits kindergarten :) Hmmm.... Fisher Price's "How to Code in Perl for Toddler's" I may have something here :)
thanks for the correction after enjoying one, I wasn't able to even read the bottle !!! thanks for the update
Well rather than get lost in the strings above I decided to post here. /grocery stores, everything else had to be bought in either state run liquor stores, or on the Class 6 stores on Military bases (Thanks for the dependant ID Dad! saved me a LOT of money on beer :) )
YES! Guinness most definately tastes better abroad (take that whichever way you like) Being an avid beer drinker/Irishman I could definately notice the difference quaffing a pint in Galway Ireland vs Galway NY,USA. In order for export, there does have to be an addition of preservatives, primarily since the shipping is usually sea-borne. (much like the Nouveau Beajolais in Nov. when the vineyards ship quantities via air and by boat. Air is just much more expensive)
As far as the alcoholic % of beer in the US. They usually peter out around 4-4.5 % for commercial brands. I try to keep my homebrew around 5-6% to match my canadian favourites (Molson Canadian and Labatts 50) But I have tipped the scales once with a 10% batch of porter *mmmmmm*
When I was going to school in UT, there was a law that you could only buy 3.2% beer from convenience
The highest alcohol content for a commercial "beer" Ive found is around 11% that is found in the Samual adams triple bock (not too sure about that one) but definately in EKU from europe.
I believe that the % for Guinness in the states runs the gambit between 5-6% to keep in accordance with certain import and truth in advertising laws that are rampant in this country. Hence why you an also get the better Molson's and Labatts by heading "North" of the border.
Just a quick heads up on the beer observations.
Have fun at the party guys I wish I could be there.
Thank you for the submission... nice job.. and way to sneak in under the submission size restrictions as well :)
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yeah yeah -1 me allready!
I was wondering if this might be part of the fine print that is at the end of your contract with andover /. readers).. :)
"and the party of the first part (also known as Andover.net) shall grant a party to the party of the second part (a.k.a CmndrTaco and Hemos) and hereto fore be known as a Party for all Parties (aka
Either way... great job you guys wish I could be there with ya...
Man you must be a lucky stiff:-)
take that any way you please
I just want to know who is on Illiad's payroll at my ISP.... It seems that everytime we are having situations or crises that there just "happens" to be a UF out around that time that mirrors or is an exact rendition of what is happening to us. Perhaps it's due to the fact that we have roughly the same amount of staff as Columbia Internet??? :-)
But my question is WHERE'S MIRANDA...... We don't have a Miranda!!!!!!
Thanks for the humour Illiad.. It helps me and the other techies "sane" in an otherwise insane world.
My server guru has been working on a box like this for the past couple months. basically running the same services. However we didn't have a *real* linux box to work on so we ran it on a rehashed P133 with ~70MB RAM. It's running sweetly, but about a week before we're ready to unleash it on one of our real servers RH decideds to package it?????? C'mon guys couldn't ya at least throw us a copy on CD??? or a couple shares of IPO would be nice *wink wink*
oh well enough whining.... at least RH is firing up to help us all out before they get gobbled up by the big ugly dogs.
Now I'm thinking back on the good ol' days of waiting for the tape to rewind on my Mod I so I could play a Scott Adams Adventure... or the weeks waiting patiently for my first all in one box (the ever popular Mod III) to come in so I could have DUAL disc drives.... Thanks for the nostalgia, Now I have to go home and dig up those forgotten relic s of yore JUST to see what I could do with them now:^)
Hmmm.. I still get the Networks on mine? I think it may have to do with the areas in question... I live in a pretty rural area, where Television reception is vell.. For a Better Term. non-existant. But as late as this morning, I woke up to WNBC out of NY. I agree with you on the Channel Selection though, I started with getting all the garbage channels, but now I'm happy with my 7 Networks, 7 HBO's 3 Cinemax and PPV all for ~$20 a mo.
I just talked with an authorized agent of the Dish Network who told me that they are putting out a combo Dish Network/WebTV unit for about $299 or so
it has a 8.5 GB drive (supposedly to download games or other software) adaptors for digital/video cameras... with a PiP facility, it could make my lazy butt very happy to check out imdb.com during those times when I *need* to know what other movies Peter Weller and John Lithgow were in other than Buckaroo Banzai,and not have to travel the 6 feet to my workstation. Definately not for the Serious user, but could be a nifty toy, especially if your going to buy a DSS/Dish system anyway. Plus I also heard that they are going to be reshaping Dish Networks "dish" for Dual LNB's on a slightly exaggerated oval shaped dish. This is to include future channel availability.
All in all I'm still very happy with my Sony DSS system.
Could one of the "Hazards of the Internet" be that we are getting so used to having information sent instantly from one location to another, processed, then returned with an applicable response, that we are starting to "speed" up our own concept of time prematurely? Hmmm sounds like a preamble to a philosophical discussion from Fred W. Hagen. /. can be lost just as easily as a Post-It with that all-too-important phone # (or email addy)..
I guess this is a perfect example of how the Internet is NOT just a global complex entity relying on technology solely, but rather a transport mechanism for human thought. It also shows that posts to Ask
Congo Rats on the graduation, and enjoy your summer.. now where's my coffee?