Changing the name of Linux sounded odd to me at first, but after thinking about it for a while, it kind of makes sense.
For example, Sun still refers to the kernel of their operating system as SunOS (perhaps not publicly so much now, but that's still what the kernel identifies itself as). They define Solaris as the "operating environment" -- the kernel with all their utilities and software.
And we don't insist on calling Mac OS X Mach, even though that's the kernel it uses.
But while the FSF certainly has a good case for "GNU/Linux," we may well be too far along in the lifecycle of Linux to make that kind of a change.
The web GUI inside Veritas Cluster Server (Veritas' high-availability manager) is Tomcat with a wrapper around it. Plenty of people are using this software in production.
NIS is simple to set up, but any user on one of your systems can run ypcat passwd (or ypcat shadow, depending on how you've set things up) and see everyone's encrypted passwords.
Another problem with NIS is that is distributes the complete maps every time a change is made. If you're looking for an enterprise solution, you'll have a passwd map with thousands of entries, and you don't need to be pushing that whole thing around the network every time a user changes his password.
They operate in the Internet community, yet claim 16 million addresses for themselves, even though practically all of their internal machines are hidden behind a solid firewall system for which NAT would not be a big problem (and possibly a security asset.)
My employer has a similar setup -- many class B networks, all allocated to systems that are firewalled off from the Internet, set up this way because it required less thinking than NAT.
When IPv6 is widely used, I imagine we'll see much more of this foolishness.
A Unix machine without a C compiler? Can you name a few popular systems that have this problem?
Every production and testing system I work with has no compiler, because we build software on development systems. The compilation and the installation are separate functions.
There's no reason to install software you don't need, and you don't need a compiler to install a software package.
One reason not to compile your software everywhere you want to install it is because when you test the software and find that it works on your system, you don't want to invalidate that test by installing a different build of the software on subsequent systems.
Think large enterprises which have huge databases. Oracle might know better about how to organize and access and cache the data than the OS does. The OS buffer could make things LESS efficient. Think read-ahead in situations where it is not appropriate.
I've seen numbers from a Sun engineer where mounting cooked partitions with the Solaris 'directio' option (which disables buffering) makes cooked Oracle partitions perform better than raw.
Granted, that was Solaris, but it shows that raw partitions don't necessarily beat cooked partitions hands-down every time.
I received no auto-replies, no real replies, no acknowledgements, nothing.
I did the same, and got a written response from one of my senators (Bill Nelson, D-FL) saying he knows it's important not to give up our civil liberties in the name of national defense. That gave me a nice warm fuzzy.
Of course, the bill just passed the senate 96-1. He shouldn't have even bothered writing me.
No, this is the abuse of monopoly power in the radio markets to control the content of what we are exposed to.
You're right, some broadcasting companies have almost become monopolies. I live in Orlando, where there are about six Clear Channel stations.
If we don't like this, we should tell our senators and representatives that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 [fcc.gov], which tried to reduce telco monopolies by opening competition, has helped to create radio monopolies by removing the limit on the number of stations a company may own nationwide.
Editing configuration files by hand is fine, but what you have to realize is that unlike the stupid registry in windows, the ODM does not get corrupted on a regular basis. It was designed to be reliable from the start.
How is having configuration information in the ODM any better than keeping it plaintext files? At best, it seems like it would be as reliable but more difficult to manipulate.
Unlike other flavours of UNIX, AIX does not use flat files to define parameters for daemons. AIX has all the relevant information stored in an internal database (The ODM).
How is not being able to edit text files to change your system's configuration a "really cool thing?"
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Changing the name of Linux sounded odd to me at first, but after thinking about it for a while, it kind of makes sense.
For example, Sun still refers to the kernel of their operating system as SunOS (perhaps not publicly so much now, but that's still what the kernel identifies itself as). They define Solaris as the "operating environment" -- the kernel with all their utilities and software.
And we don't insist on calling Mac OS X Mach, even though that's the kernel it uses.
But while the FSF certainly has a good case for "GNU/Linux," we may well be too far along in the lifecycle of Linux to make that kind of a change.
The web GUI inside Veritas Cluster Server (Veritas' high-availability manager) is Tomcat with a wrapper around it. Plenty of people are using this software in production.
It looks like it is 100% Java now, and no non-GUI install interface.
If you're looking for a non-graphical installation, use JumpStart. It's non-interactive as well.
The thing your looking for is called NIS...
NIS is simple to set up, but any user on one of your systems can run ypcat passwd (or ypcat shadow, depending on how you've set things up) and see everyone's encrypted passwords.
Another problem with NIS is that is distributes the complete maps every time a change is made. If you're looking for an enterprise solution, you'll have a passwd map with thousands of entries, and you don't need to be pushing that whole thing around the network every time a user changes his password.
NIS+ solves both of these problems, but is more complicated. But more importantly, Sun plans to remove NIS+ from Solaris after Solaris 9. They're encouraging everyone to switch to LDAP.
I'm mostly into prog metal/heavy metal, but i love listening to Celine Dion. If that makes you think less of me, fine, but don't generalize too much
Yes, it actually does make me think less of you.
Not that I don't wonder about a company with no continuing revenue stream, but fwiw, there's no cost.
TV manufacturers don't make us pay each month for the privilege of watching the set we bought, and they seem to be doing just fine.
They operate in the Internet community, yet claim 16 million addresses for themselves, even though practically all of their internal machines are hidden behind a solid firewall system for which NAT would not be a big problem (and possibly a security asset.)
My employer has a similar setup -- many class B networks, all allocated to systems that are firewalled off from the Internet, set up this way because it required less thinking than NAT.
When IPv6 is widely used, I imagine we'll see much more of this foolishness.
What additional services will they provide for $70?
Maybe they'll stop blocking inbound port 80 on my RoadRunner connection.
Seriously, if I'm going to pay that kind of money, I'd expect unrestricted Internet access.
A Unix machine without a C compiler? Can you name a few popular systems that have this problem?
Every production and testing system I work with has no compiler, because we build software on development systems. The compilation and the installation are separate functions.
There's no reason to install software you don't need, and you don't need a compiler to install a software package.
One reason not to compile your software everywhere you want to install it is because when you test the software and find that it works on your system, you don't want to invalidate that test by installing a different build of the software on subsequent systems.
Think large enterprises which have huge databases. Oracle might know better about how to organize and access and cache the data than the OS does. The OS buffer could make things LESS efficient. Think read-ahead in situations where it is not appropriate.
I've seen numbers from a Sun engineer where mounting cooked partitions with the Solaris 'directio' option (which disables buffering) makes cooked Oracle partitions perform better than raw.
Granted, that was Solaris, but it shows that raw partitions don't necessarily beat cooked partitions hands-down every time.
I received no auto-replies, no real replies, no acknowledgements, nothing.
I did the same, and got a written response from one of my senators (Bill Nelson, D-FL) saying he knows it's important not to give up our civil liberties in the name of national defense. That gave me a nice warm fuzzy.
Of course, the bill just passed the senate 96-1. He shouldn't have even bothered writing me.
I thought we weren't supposed to use strcat anymore, because it's subject to buffer overflows?
You're right, a strnfire is a much better system.
No, this is the abuse of monopoly power in the radio markets to control the content of what we are exposed to.
You're right, some broadcasting companies have almost become monopolies. I live in Orlando, where there are about six Clear Channel stations.
If we don't like this, we should tell our senators and representatives that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 [fcc.gov], which tried to reduce telco monopolies by opening competition, has helped to create radio monopolies by removing the limit on the number of stations a company may own nationwide.
Editing configuration files by hand is fine, but what you have to realize is that unlike the stupid registry in windows, the ODM does not get corrupted on a regular basis. It was designed to be reliable from the start.
How is having configuration information in the ODM any better than keeping it plaintext files? At best, it seems like it would be as reliable but more difficult to manipulate.
Unlike other flavours of UNIX, AIX does not use flat files to define parameters for daemons. AIX has all the relevant information stored in an internal database (The ODM).
How is not being able to edit text files to change your system's configuration a "really cool thing?"
I once was "Ungrounded Lightning Rod" but /. slashed off my " Rod".
I'd be pissed, too, if someone slashed off my rod.
Then, is this Schroedinger's pager?