Another good solution for situations where you want the convenience of a laser sight without the visibility is IR laser sights meant to be used with night vision. The dot is still considerably brighter than the target despite the monochrome vision.
I really do like to tinker, I learn a lot from it. Debian is a noble cause, or at least they were, I don't keep up with it much anymore. Gentoo is a bit more bleeding edge, it suits me better. You can tinker and still get things done though. I tinker Gentoo on dev boxes, and deploy the results to Gentoo production boxes that are based on customized portage trees and customized ebuilds.
For me it's not about the 2% speedup (well in some cases it's a lot better for certain apps, but I digress...), it's about the ease of source modification.
You see, if I have a RedHat isntallation that uses an RPM of apache, and I decide I need to tweak the apache source a bit, it's a pain in the ass. I suppose if you get really used to using SRPMs it's manageable, sorta.
With Gentoo, it's real easy for me to add a patch to an ebuild and re-install - or to unpack an ebuild, edit the soruce in/var/tmp/portage, and then finish off the install with "ebuild qmerge..."
And well, a bunch of other things, but I guess the overall point is that for the draw is the power over the system, not the speed of the binaries.
I'm not saying that the current ice blocks could be a sign... what I'm saying is that perhaps the 7 plagues and all actually start 10 years from now, and God wills them to come about in "natural" ways like climactic changes (I like to believe that even God makes things play out by the laws of physics, he just messes with probabilistic outcomes to get the desired result).
So if this 100lb ice storm is to come about naturally as the 7th plague of a series that starts a decade from now, would it not be possible that the climactic changes leading up to this would induce rarer and smaller chunk today?
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Go there for a month and have a blast and come back here to work is probably your best bet. I've been enamored with Japanese culture myself from time to time, which started when I was dating an Americanized Japanese girl when I lived in Singapore.
While Japanese people and culture and fascinating, and it would be wonderful to be a part of it, the problem is you never will be. You were born an outsider and you will die one, even if you master the language and the subtleties of social interaction.
While I respect them and their culture a great deal, please understand that at their core they're among the most racist cultures around. You'll never really have true respect among them, although they'll certainly be polite to you if you're trying. They have some good reasons for their arrogance, but being from the west I would imagine their inability to do anything but look down on you will eventually turn you off.
I loved it while they were paying me an exorbitant amount of money. But then the stock dropped, so they laid me off. IMHO if they had never bought MCI both Worldcom and MCI would have been so much better off in the end.
IANABB (I am not a Bible Basher), but for argument's sake - If revelations predicts a plague of 100lb ice blocks falling from teh sky all over the place late in the sequence (when thunderstorms and earthquakes are apparently also rampant?), this could just be a sign of it coming. Perhaps these "plagues" are meant to come about by somewhat natural means, and the atmosphere is just getting warmed up for swarming us with 100lb blocks a few years down the road.
One the one hand, you're well-respected in technical circles for your engineer efforts in the early days of the internet, and generally thought of as a correct and forward-thinking person. On the other hand, you were employed for most of recent history (perhaps still?) by MCI/WorldCom, who've been accused of being shortsighted in many ways, and not very true to the spirit of the net. How do you reconcile these things? Do you have any say or sway?
What I saw of XFS was I ran a 2.4.19 kernel with the "release" XFS source in it, and about my fifth reboot of the machine or so, it decided to hang when mounting my xfs root filesystem read-only, leaving me pretty hosed, had to boot back off a cd.
The DSL at your freind's house might be 1.5+ mbps downstream, but he'll be using the upstream side to send you video, which is typically much smaller (somewhere in the 128-384kbps range) - I don't remember offhand how many kilobits it takes to transmit a broadcast-quality mpeg at TV resolution, but I bet you're cutting it close.
The original submission, as well as countless comments, is just trying to find something to Microsoft bash, and you're being stupid. I hate Microsoft, and I still see the wisdom in the statement "Surround sound will be important..."
For that matter, so will a 3 dimensional desktop. On the Surround Sound front, it's not to watch DVDs, it's to give you better aural cues while you're working. When an application in the tray needs attention, the beeps come from the lower right. When your MS Office paperclip assistant wants you're attention, the sound comes from that direction, etc. Audio cues can make things more usable - and it becomes even more true if you consider a 3-d desktop environment to be the future.
Here's a blurb from Oracle's Linux Page about some patches they've done to linux for low-cost firewire SANs:
Firewire Patches fixes some issues with Firewire on Linux and enables shared disk on top of firewire drivers. Firewire allows developers to easily and cheaply build a clustered system on a shared disk, which is useful for testing clustered applications and checking out the advanced features of Oracle's Real Application Clusters technology. The Firewire cards needed to build a cluster can cost as little as 10% as much as the required FiberChannel hardware.
I have old sun boxes that run great on netbsd, but like shit on Linux.
Old Sun hardware and NetBSD go great together I'm sure, they're both half-dead legacy stuff.
FreeBSD is for new hardware, NetBSD bring a really modern incarnation of 4.4BSD to all hardware big or small, short or tall. I'm not a dumpster diver, but there are boxes that are useful but too old to upgrade, too useful to throw out, and not new enough to handle bloasted linux distros.
Too old to upgrade and too useful to throw out? Really? You can buy a decent homemade PC clone for FreeBSD and/or Linux for $500 and blow the pants off of 20-40 older peice of crap machines like 680x0s and old Suns. So why bother? Throw them out. And not all Linux distros are bloated - try Gentoo.
I also like NetBSD better than OpenBSD. If anything troll OpenBSD and trojaned tar theo the idiot. OpenSSH should be ripped away from those morons. Mr theo no package management.
Theo does some good work, and I'd really like to see all of the other opensource projects audit their code like they did. I'm tired of hearing losers like you dump on OpenBSD when they finally have a hole. They're still outperforming [insert OS here]'s security by orders of magnitude. Their lack of package management and whatnot sucks, but it's still great for a dedicated firewall box that doesn't change much.
And the EXT3 filesystem, and Reiser, is crap. If anything say, JFS or XFS.
Also, the linux kernel is rarely seen in a 100% working sate. Seriously. Configure it, select everything and compile with the recommended compiler. See how many warnings and show stoppers you get.
Sorry, Ext3 kicks ass. JFS and XFS are promising, but what I've seen of XFS has been very unstable. Reiserfs is buggy too. In any case, all I mentioned was ext3, and it does kick ass.
I've seen linux kernels in 100% working states for years, all the way back to version 1.1.x. Turning everything on and compiling sounds like a pretty stupid idea, maybe you need to read the docs. A stable series kernel well-configured is a beatiful thing (outside the early 2.4 series, they went "stable" too early imho), and can run for years on end.
At least with FreeBSD its clean, source is formatted readably, and has comments.
Great, clean source with comments. My little ping monitoring package I wrote at work is clean source with comments, but that doesn't make it a domineering force in the world of OS's. Linux won the popularity contest early on, and hence has attracted the most attention and developers, which leads to a win in an opensource world unless the lead developers go crazy.
They're not out to eliminate the sysadmin, they're just trying to "do it right", to do the things that many intelligent sysadmins do already. It will eliminate some sysadmin jobs, where departments had too many people because their processes were inefficient, but the good sysadmins will still have jobs.
I've seen some companies running a unix datacenter with 100 machines and 30 unix admins, which is just crazy. Other places, I've seen 1000 machines run by 5 guys, which is how it should be. The guys at the smart places write good management scripts, and know how to scale their management of the systems well. Sun is just trying to encapsulate these things so that even the companies too dumb to do it on their own can now have such benefits.
Actually, the reall strange thing is I posted the first comment with my default "score:2", and it's only got a single flamebait mod, and it's at zero. Does flamebait count double or something? I'm sure lots of inquiring mod system abusers want to know.
netphilter is right that open doors don't make B&E legal. If you leave your door hanging open, and a robber comes in in the middle of the night, "the door was open" does not work as a defense strategy.
That being said, the important problem with the new federal hacking bill(s) is the harshess of the punishment. You can spend more time in jail for cracking someone's podunk little website than for rape.
Several companies already make commercially-available large solid-state flash disks. They come in IDE and SCSI, sizes down to 2.5" IDE form factor that fits in notebooks, and sizes as large as 77G (in 3.5" ultra scsi). Some of the manufacturers have even solved the write-cycle problem by having a block remapper that evens out the writes, making it a non-issue. Other benefits over regular drives (besides the low power, low heat, and no moving parts to break), is that the latency can be in the low microseconds, and the sustained transfer rates can match the bus speed in most cases.
The only real caveat remaining is the cost. They're running in the range of $1-2/MB on the smaller ones (1-4G range), so even a little 4 gigger can cost obver $4k. Haven't seen prices on the larger capacities, hopefully it scales better up there, and the 77g drives don't cost more than a really nice car.
I'm sticking to my guns - I hate AIX religiously. Now on the other hand, I love IBM. They got some great engineering talent on the hardware and software sides, and I think they're going to go far with their linux strategies. I reconcile it by think of the AIX group as some rogue cancerous group within IBM that they're finally starting to take medication for.
Using SMIT for everything becomes a problem at even a moderate number of nodes. The SP/2's I was admining at the time totalled about 45 nodes in dev/qa, and about 26 production nodes. Opening 45 windows on a control workstation and trying to simul-type in them (or worse, trying to use their auto-simul-typing cluster console thingy) was a nightmare, we had to go automated, which meant writing our own perl scripts to replace SMIT functionality. Since the AIX documentation is so poor, the way we had to learn was by capturing the commands SMIT runs (F6 or something? been a while), and basing our scripts on that.
And yes, we blew our leg off a lot. A similar scripting approach has worked well for me in other unices, but AIX has far too many un-unixy idiosynchracies. Based on my experience, I don't really consider AIX to be a *nix, but rather a totally different OS from the ground up, that has had a veneer of slight unix compatibility applied.
Their re-invention of several wheels has left them with a few more bugs than most. I still remember fighting rampant deep code bugs with their tech support, in subsystem ranging from their kerberos implementation, to their korn shell, to their resolver, and on. These are things that are somewhat more stable on other platforms that haven't deviated so far from the norm.
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Another good solution for situations where you want the convenience of a laser sight without the visibility is IR laser sights meant to be used with night vision. The dot is still considerably brighter than the target despite the monochrome vision.
I really do like to tinker, I learn a lot from it. Debian is a noble cause, or at least they were, I don't keep up with it much anymore. Gentoo is a bit more bleeding edge, it suits me better. You can tinker and still get things done though. I tinker Gentoo on dev boxes, and deploy the results to Gentoo production boxes that are based on customized portage trees and customized ebuilds.
For me it's not about the 2% speedup (well in some cases it's a lot better for certain apps, but I digress...), it's about the ease of source modification.
You see, if I have a RedHat isntallation that uses an RPM of apache, and I decide I need to tweak the apache source a bit, it's a pain in the ass. I suppose if you get really used to using SRPMs it's manageable, sorta.
With Gentoo, it's real easy for me to add a patch to an ebuild and re-install - or to unpack an ebuild, edit the soruce in
And well, a bunch of other things, but I guess the overall point is that for the draw is the power over the system, not the speed of the binaries.
I'm not saying that the current ice blocks could be a sign... what I'm saying is that perhaps the 7 plagues and all actually start 10 years from now, and God wills them to come about in "natural" ways like climactic changes (I like to believe that even God makes things play out by the laws of physics, he just messes with probabilistic outcomes to get the desired result).
So if this 100lb ice storm is to come about naturally as the 7th plague of a series that starts a decade from now, would it not be possible that the climactic changes leading up to this would induce rarer and smaller chunk today?
Go there for a month and have a blast and come back here to work is probably your best bet. I've been enamored with Japanese culture myself from time to time, which started when I was dating an Americanized Japanese girl when I lived in Singapore.
While Japanese people and culture and fascinating, and it would be wonderful to be a part of it, the problem is you never will be. You were born an outsider and you will die one, even if you master the language and the subtleties of social interaction.
While I respect them and their culture a great deal, please understand that at their core they're among the most racist cultures around. You'll never really have true respect among them, although they'll certainly be polite to you if you're trying. They have some good reasons for their arrogance, but being from the west I would imagine their inability to do anything but look down on you will eventually turn you off.
I loved it while they were paying me an exorbitant amount of money. But then the stock dropped, so they laid me off. IMHO if they had never bought MCI both Worldcom and MCI would have been so much better off in the end.
IANABB (I am not a Bible Basher), but for argument's sake - If revelations predicts a plague of 100lb ice blocks falling from teh sky all over the place late in the sequence (when thunderstorms and earthquakes are apparently also rampant?), this could just be a sign of it coming. Perhaps these "plagues" are meant to come about by somewhat natural means, and the atmosphere is just getting warmed up for swarming us with 100lb blocks a few years down the road.
One the one hand, you're well-respected in technical circles for your engineer efforts in the early days of the internet, and generally thought of as a correct and forward-thinking person. On the other hand, you were employed for most of recent history (perhaps still?) by MCI/WorldCom, who've been accused of being shortsighted in many ways, and not very true to the spirit of the net. How do you reconcile these things? Do you have any say or sway?
What I saw of XFS was I ran a 2.4.19 kernel with the "release" XFS source in it, and about my fifth reboot of the machine or so, it decided to hang when mounting my xfs root filesystem read-only, leaving me pretty hosed, had to boot back off a cd.
The DSL at your freind's house might be 1.5+ mbps downstream, but he'll be using the upstream side to send you video, which is typically much smaller (somewhere in the 128-384kbps range) - I don't remember offhand how many kilobits it takes to transmit a broadcast-quality mpeg at TV resolution, but I bet you're cutting it close.
The original submission, as well as countless comments, is just trying to find something to Microsoft bash, and you're being stupid. I hate Microsoft, and I still see the wisdom in the statement "Surround sound will be important..."
For that matter, so will a 3 dimensional desktop. On the Surround Sound front, it's not to watch DVDs, it's to give you better aural cues while you're working. When an application in the tray needs attention, the beeps come from the lower right. When your MS Office paperclip assistant wants you're attention, the sound comes from that direction, etc. Audio cues can make things more usable - and it becomes even more true if you consider a 3-d desktop environment to be the future.
Still bugged, I'm now at "-1 Troll", with a total of two downmods (1 troll, 1 offtopic).
Actually, they outdid themselves not long afterwards. There's a second 64k demo on the same site that blows away even the first one, check it out.
Old Sun hardware and NetBSD go great together I'm sure, they're both half-dead legacy stuff.
Too old to upgrade and too useful to throw out? Really? You can buy a decent homemade PC clone for FreeBSD and/or Linux for $500 and blow the pants off of 20-40 older peice of crap machines like 680x0s and old Suns. So why bother? Throw them out. And not all Linux distros are bloated - try Gentoo.
Theo does some good work, and I'd really like to see all of the other opensource projects audit their code like they did. I'm tired of hearing losers like you dump on OpenBSD when they finally have a hole. They're still outperforming [insert OS here]'s security by orders of magnitude. Their lack of package management and whatnot sucks, but it's still great for a dedicated firewall box that doesn't change much.
Sorry, Ext3 kicks ass. JFS and XFS are promising, but what I've seen of XFS has been very unstable. Reiserfs is buggy too. In any case, all I mentioned was ext3, and it does kick ass.
I've seen linux kernels in 100% working states for years, all the way back to version 1.1.x. Turning everything on and compiling sounds like a pretty stupid idea, maybe you need to read the docs. A stable series kernel well-configured is a beatiful thing (outside the early 2.4 series, they went "stable" too early imho), and can run for years on end.
Great, clean source with comments. My little ping monitoring package I wrote at work is clean source with comments, but that doesn't make it a domineering force in the world of OS's. Linux won the popularity contest early on, and hence has attracted the most attention and developers, which leads to a win in an opensource world unless the lead developers go crazy.
NetBSD Project Resuscitation Plan (Score:0, Flamebait) ...... Moderation Totals: Flamebait=1, Total=1.
As I saw before, and see now, on my screen. I'm not dumb, Slashcode is buggy.
They're not out to eliminate the sysadmin, they're just trying to "do it right", to do the things that many intelligent sysadmins do already. It will eliminate some sysadmin jobs, where departments had too many people because their processes were inefficient, but the good sysadmins will still have jobs.
I've seen some companies running a unix datacenter with 100 machines and 30 unix admins, which is just crazy. Other places, I've seen 1000 machines run by 5 guys, which is how it should be. The guys at the smart places write good management scripts, and know how to scale their management of the systems well. Sun is just trying to encapsulate these things so that even the companies too dumb to do it on their own can now have such benefits.
Actually, the reall strange thing is I posted the first comment with my default "score:2", and it's only got a single flamebait mod, and it's at zero. Does flamebait count double or something? I'm sure lots of inquiring mod system abusers want to know.
Only -2 flamebait? Surely you idiot mods can do better than that right? Pummel away, and watch yourself get metamodded to hell.
Seriously, NetBSD is dying, and it's a funny post with a hint of truth to it.
5Mhz goes through walls like a hot knife through butter. 5Ghz on the other hand...
1. Replace drivers with Linux ones (done)
2. Replace Filesystems with ext3
3. Replace kernel with Linux
4. ??????????
5. Profit!
netphilter is right that open doors don't make B&E legal. If you leave your door hanging open, and a robber comes in in the middle of the night, "the door was open" does not work as a defense strategy.
That being said, the important problem with the new federal hacking bill(s) is the harshess of the punishment. You can spend more time in jail for cracking someone's podunk little website than for rape.
Several companies already make commercially-available large solid-state flash disks. They come in IDE and SCSI, sizes down to 2.5" IDE form factor that fits in notebooks, and sizes as large as 77G (in 3.5" ultra scsi). Some of the manufacturers have even solved the write-cycle problem by having a block remapper that evens out the writes, making it a non-issue. Other benefits over regular drives (besides the low power, low heat, and no moving parts to break), is that the latency can be in the low microseconds, and the sustained transfer rates can match the bus speed in most cases.
The only real caveat remaining is the cost. They're running in the range of $1-2/MB on the smaller ones (1-4G range), so even a little 4 gigger can cost obver $4k. Haven't seen prices on the larger capacities, hopefully it scales better up there, and the 77g drives don't cost more than a really nice car.
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I'm sticking to my guns - I hate AIX religiously. Now on the other hand, I love IBM. They got some great engineering talent on the hardware and software sides, and I think they're going to go far with their linux strategies. I reconcile it by think of the AIX group as some rogue cancerous group within IBM that they're finally starting to take medication for.
Using SMIT for everything becomes a problem at even a moderate number of nodes. The SP/2's I was admining at the time totalled about 45 nodes in dev/qa, and about 26 production nodes. Opening 45 windows on a control workstation and trying to simul-type in them (or worse, trying to use their auto-simul-typing cluster console thingy) was a nightmare, we had to go automated, which meant writing our own perl scripts to replace SMIT functionality. Since the AIX documentation is so poor, the way we had to learn was by capturing the commands SMIT runs (F6 or something? been a while), and basing our scripts on that.
And yes, we blew our leg off a lot. A similar scripting approach has worked well for me in other unices, but AIX has far too many un-unixy idiosynchracies. Based on my experience, I don't really consider AIX to be a *nix, but rather a totally different OS from the ground up, that has had a veneer of slight unix compatibility applied.
Their re-invention of several wheels has left them with a few more bugs than most. I still remember fighting rampant deep code bugs with their tech support, in subsystem ranging from their kerberos implementation, to their korn shell, to their resolver, and on. These are things that are somewhat more stable on other platforms that haven't deviated so far from the norm.