They need to have a look at perhaps doing some embedded hardware hacks which will allow them less resistance in the SCSI channel on the motherboard as opposed to quantum magnetic research.
WTF?
A likely story, you sat on the "SCSI board", your consultancy domain name is a spammy squatter domain, you cite some BS ratio, you can't spell "resonance".
I may be making an ass of myself if you really do know what you are talking about, but I call bullshit.
For many Windows "sysadmins", the cost of is the cost of actually learning the basics of how TCP/IP works, some basics about how their computer works, and basics about how some application level protocols work.
The hidden cost of Linux is the time you have to spend learning things you should already know, for many Windows admins.
We got one of the large Antec cases at work, it has about sixteen 5 1/4 inch bays. Dual hot swappable power supplies, hot swappable fans(!), overall a great case. Antec knows engineering, and their cases show it.
Apparently it has been decided that Serial ATA 2 (pdf doc) and Serial Attached SCSI are the answers."
I'm usually a supporter of ATA hard disks in all but the most high end servers, due to the outrageous cost benefits they offer, but this is just stupid.
SCSI is a far superior technology, there is no denying that. ATA is a hack ontop of a hack, just barely "good enough" in most cases. Only recently have large ATA RAIDs been available, through people like AXUS, Promise, and 3ware, by placing one controller per disk. Another hack on top of a hack, but very cost effective, and it works well.
If we are going to change our interface anyway, why not get rid of the SCSI vs ATA argument completely and just stick with one or the other?
I see no need for a serial SCSI and a serial ATA except for reasons of price descrimination against people who think SCSI is more reliable due to supersitions and tech mythology. The HDAs have been the same in many cases for a long time.
So why not ditch Serial ATA, or ditch serial SCSI, or ditch both and use a mature technology like Fibre Channel (which is already basically serial SCSI).
You could do what I recently did, remove nautilus. Gnome runs a lot faster and you still get the panel and pager and such. Of course your solution is more light weight, but nautilus-less gnome is pretty nice.
On the down side, I couldn't figure out the "right" way to get rid of nautilus, so I just renamed the executable. Works fine now.
The "Evercase" cases from newegg, at least the one I got, has a case fan mounted on a swivel above there the CPU generally is, and it comes with a layer of that black open cell foam air filter material on it, that can be removed and cleaned.
I looked for other places to buy that air filter foam, and the only place I found was Grainger, and the smallest amount is a huge 25 foot roll of it for about $30. I got the maintenence department at work to order the roll for me to use at work, and there is plenty if I want to take a few inches home too.
The only problem with an air filter is that it must be cleaned regularly or it will cause the problem you are seeking to avoid, overheating to due lack of airflow. Generally at home in my smoky environment, it should be cleaned at least once a month or two, at work in our pretty clean server room, they rarely get dirty at all. Luckily it's easy to clean in the Evercase from newegg becuase the case is almost totally screwless.
I once had a computer at work that wouldn't boot up, and I couldn't tell if the power was on or not (sometimes we don't hook up the front panel LEDs if we are busy). I did what all of us do, I reached around and felt for air coming out of the power supply. Painful mistake. The fan had quit and that thing was hot enough to burn me instantly, which means it was probably near 100C. One plus is that the case itself acts like a heat sink in a case like this.
My cluster at home is powered by a stack of bare power supplies, I always worry if one of their fans go out, there will be less heat sink in the form of a case that normal supplies have.
Other adventures at work involve cracked IEC connectors that short out when you pull on the plug on the power supply side, and monitors with fire and sparks (monitors are much more likely to arc over because of higher voltages internally than computer power supplies).
Don't view it as a fire hazard, view it as adventure! After all, how often does a geek's house burn down?:) (Slashdot editors excepted)
and since most Desktops are running Windows, it's obvious why standard keyboards have this layout.
It really had nothing to do with that, the way I understand it. IBM based the more-or-less current PC keyboard off the IBM Selectric electric typewriter. I can vouch for that for the most part, we still use Selectrics where I work for typing up things that don't translate easily to computers, like forms people send in.
You don't need palladium to do this, just set up a terminal server (Windows or Linux) and lean clients of some sort. I avoid the term thin clients because you can put as much or as little on them as you want to. Everything is optional except power supply, RAM, PXE compliant motherboard and processor. (And monitor/KB/Mouse)
I've done this myself at home with several totally diskless nodes for a OpenMosix beowulf cluster, and it works fine. Why would you want crippled systems when you can do it with the technology that exists today?
That story was run a while back. There weren't as many details to it since they hadn't been worked out yet, but I'm sure that's the reason for the rejection.
I'm not sure how they set it up, but they only have to release source to the people they distribute the binaries to, and they are allowed to charge a fee for either or both. The source fee must be reasonable to cover costs of distribution and not be for profit, however, and it sounds like this may not be the case.
Heh, There are like 10 BeOS users left and a very limited selection of applications. Why would a virus writer aim at an OS with such a small following? The virus would never propagate very well with such limited numbers of potential targets.
This same effect protected Linux and MacOS for a long time. I'm not trying to bash BeOS, but claiming it has no viruses as a selling point is pretty weak.
Sure. Like if I want to run a program, there is only one way, oh wait, I can open up "My computer" find the EXE and run it, I can open up IE, and browse my local drives that way, I can run the two pane explorer.exe and get a different interface to run things from, I can make a short cut on my desktop to run it, I can make a shortcut in the taskbar to run it, I could select it from the "Start" menu, or even pop up cmd.exe and run it there.
Face it, MS is just as complex as something like Linux, without the freedom that you get with Linux along with complexity.
The following packages are currently not included but will be in a future version. gnomemeeting openh323 pwlib rpm2html rpmfind
The following packages have been removed from this release of Red Hat Linux. alien blt dip fvwm2 ee elm extace gnomeicu gnome-pim gnorpm ical jikes kaffe metamailmi cq netscape playmidi rxvt sliplogin taper xbill xdaliclock xlockmore xmailbox xpilot
The following packages have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Red Hat Linux. LPRng
Well, that's good, and it may turn out that some of Tesla's ideas will become practical at some point, which will be great.
Maybe I misjudged, but there are so many Tesla fanatics that view his inventions as "lost secrets", that it's easy to jump to conclusions when someone mentions Tesla in regard to a problem with no apparent solution, with no further details.
I doubt it, their "normal" distribution is already desktop focused for the most part, though it does well as a server. They want their larger customers to use their commercial enterprise level server products, so it makes sense that their free version is more desktop/small-medium server oriented.
There might be some Tesla type of technology needed here to make this work
Oh yeah, I just just hear the geek protests now when every passing train knocks out all wireless communications for a 10 mile radius.
Tesla's "energy transfer through free air" was no more than huge electromagnetic fields, (i.e., big ass crude radio transmitters). It wasn't a particularly good idea then, and it still isn't.
I read Tesla's work, and while much of it was brilliant, I don't buy into the hype and conspiracy theories that these inventions were somehow "lost". They proved economically or practically infeasible, or were replaced by more effective inventions.
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They need to have a look at perhaps doing some embedded hardware hacks which will allow them less resistance in the SCSI channel on the motherboard as opposed to quantum magnetic research.
WTF?
A likely story, you sat on the "SCSI board", your consultancy domain name is a spammy squatter domain, you cite some BS ratio, you can't spell "resonance".
I may be making an ass of myself if you really do know what you are talking about, but I call bullshit.
cost of using linux.
For many Windows "sysadmins", the cost of is the cost of actually learning the basics of how TCP/IP works, some basics about how their computer works, and basics about how some application level protocols work.
The hidden cost of Linux is the time you have to spend learning things you should already know, for many Windows admins.
If you would have payed attention, I was comparing Fibre Channel to the brand new Serial SCSI and ATA, not to traditional SCSI and ATA.
We got one of the large Antec cases at work, it has about sixteen 5 1/4 inch bays. Dual hot swappable power supplies, hot swappable fans(!), overall a great case. Antec knows engineering, and their cases show it.
Apparently it has been decided that Serial ATA 2 (pdf doc) and Serial Attached SCSI are the answers."
I'm usually a supporter of ATA hard disks in all but the most high end servers, due to the outrageous cost benefits they offer, but this is just stupid.
SCSI is a far superior technology, there is no denying that. ATA is a hack ontop of a hack, just barely "good enough" in most cases. Only recently have large ATA RAIDs been available, through people like AXUS, Promise, and 3ware, by placing one controller per disk. Another hack on top of a hack, but very cost effective, and it works well.
If we are going to change our interface anyway, why not get rid of the SCSI vs ATA argument completely and just stick with one or the other?
I see no need for a serial SCSI and a serial ATA except for reasons of price descrimination against people who think SCSI is more reliable due to supersitions and tech mythology. The HDAs have been the same in many cases for a long time.
So why not ditch Serial ATA, or ditch serial SCSI, or ditch both and use a mature technology like Fibre Channel (which is already basically serial SCSI).
I don't see what this fragmentation gets us.
You could do what I recently did, remove nautilus. Gnome runs a lot faster and you still get the panel and pager and such. Of course your solution is more light weight, but nautilus-less gnome is pretty nice.
On the down side, I couldn't figure out the "right" way to get rid of nautilus, so I just renamed the executable. Works fine now.
The "Evercase" cases from newegg, at least the one I got, has a case fan mounted on a swivel above there the CPU generally is, and it comes with a layer of that black open cell foam air filter material on it, that can be removed and cleaned.
I looked for other places to buy that air filter foam, and the only place I found was Grainger, and the smallest amount is a huge 25 foot roll of it for about $30. I got the maintenence department at work to order the roll for me to use at work, and there is plenty if I want to take a few inches home too.
The only problem with an air filter is that it must be cleaned regularly or it will cause the problem you are seeking to avoid, overheating to due lack of airflow.
Generally at home in my smoky environment, it should be cleaned at least once a month or two, at work in our pretty clean server room, they rarely get dirty at all. Luckily it's easy to clean in the Evercase from newegg becuase the case is almost totally screwless.
I once had a computer at work that wouldn't boot up, and I couldn't tell if the power was on or not (sometimes we don't hook up the front panel LEDs if we are busy). I did what all of us do, I reached around and felt for air coming out of the power supply. Painful mistake. The fan had quit and that thing was hot enough to burn me instantly, which means it was probably near 100C. One plus is that the case itself acts like a heat sink in a case like this.
:) (Slashdot editors excepted)
My cluster at home is powered by a stack of bare power supplies, I always worry if one of their fans go out, there will be less heat sink in the form of a case that normal supplies have.
Other adventures at work involve cracked IEC connectors that short out when you pull on the plug on the power supply side, and monitors with fire and sparks (monitors are much more likely to arc over because of higher voltages internally than computer power supplies).
Don't view it as a fire hazard, view it as adventure! After all, how often does a geek's house burn down?
Since when is the truth trolling?
and since most Desktops are running Windows, it's obvious why standard keyboards have this layout.
It really had nothing to do with that, the way I understand it. IBM based the more-or-less current PC keyboard off the IBM Selectric electric typewriter. I can vouch for that for the most part, we still use Selectrics where I work for typing up things that don't translate easily to computers, like forms people send in.
Japan is close to russia, apparently they had exchange students at WhassamataU, and often ask people to watch them pull a rabbit out of their hat.
You don't need palladium to do this, just set up a terminal server (Windows or Linux) and lean clients of some sort. I avoid the term thin clients because you can put as much or as little on them as you want to. Everything is optional except power supply, RAM, PXE compliant motherboard and processor. (And monitor/KB/Mouse)
I've done this myself at home with several totally diskless nodes for a OpenMosix beowulf cluster, and it works fine. Why would you want crippled systems when you can do it with the technology that exists today?
That story was run a while back. There weren't as many details to it since they hadn't been worked out yet, but I'm sure that's the reason for the rejection.
I'm not sure how they set it up, but they only have to release source to the people they distribute the binaries to, and they are allowed to charge a fee for either or both. The source fee must be reasonable to cover costs of distribution and not be for profit, however, and it sounds like this may not be the case.
To date, there are no BeOs viruses
Heh, There are like 10 BeOS users left and a very limited selection of applications. Why would a virus writer aim at an OS with such a small following? The virus would never propagate very well with such limited numbers of potential targets.
This same effect protected Linux and MacOS for a long time. I'm not trying to bash BeOS, but claiming it has no viruses as a selling point is pretty weak.
Microsoft offers you one way of doing things
Sure. Like if I want to run a program, there is only one way, oh wait, I can open up "My computer" find the EXE and run it, I can open up IE, and browse my local drives that way, I can run the two pane explorer.exe and get a different interface to run things from, I can make a short cut on my desktop to run it, I can make a shortcut in the taskbar to run it, I could select it from the "Start" menu, or even pop up cmd.exe and run it there.
Face it, MS is just as complex as something like Linux, without the freedom that you get with Linux along with complexity.
The following packages are currently not included but will be in a future version.
gnomemeeting openh323 pwlib rpm2html rpmfind
The following packages have been removed from this release of Red Hat Linux.
alien blt dip fvwm2 ee elm extace gnomeicu gnome-pim gnorpm ical jikes kaffe metamailmi cq netscape playmidi rxvt sliplogin taper xbill xdaliclock xlockmore xmailbox xpilot
The following packages have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Red Hat Linux.
LPRng
I'll sure miss xbill.
Some apps have been completely ignored by their maintainers for years and it would be a pain not being able to compile them.
:)
It sounds like the apps are incompatible with gcc, not the other way around.
Maybe you were just trolling, in which case, IHBT, I'll have a nice day.
Well, that's good, and it may turn out that some of Tesla's ideas will become practical at some point, which will be great.
Maybe I misjudged, but there are so many Tesla fanatics that view his inventions as "lost secrets", that it's easy to jump to conclusions when someone mentions Tesla in regard to a problem with no apparent solution, with no further details.
The mirrors link in the writeup is all the mirrors, I checked and most of them havn't updated yet.
/ limbo/ (http and also rsync access)s /redhat/redhat/linux/beta/limbo// linux/beta/limbo/l imbo/i nux/beta/limbo/ (also rsync access)l inux/beta/limbo/ Europe:h at/linux/beta/limbo/m bo/l imbo/u x/beta/limbo/i nux/beta/limbo/ (http and also rsync access)r edhat/linux/beta/limbo/ (also rsync access)i mbo/
These mirrors are from the announcement link, so they all have the beta:
- ftp://redhat.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta
- ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distribution
- ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/redhat/redhat
- ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/
- ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/redhat/beta/limbo/
- ftp://ftp.shuttleamerica.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/l
- ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/
- ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/red
- ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/li
- ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/redhat/linux/beta/
- ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/lin
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/redhat.com/dist/l
- ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/
- ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/redhat/linux/beta/l
I doubt it, their "normal" distribution is already desktop focused for the most part, though it does well as a server. They want their larger customers to use their commercial enterprise level server products, so it makes sense that their free version is more desktop/small-medium server oriented.
New gcc version means this is most definitely destined to be Red Hat 8.0.
They will probably change glibc versions in a major way also.
Ooooo, 99X CDROM, with that, you could run nuclear simulations nearly twice as fast from read-only media.
Man, you're so full of shit.
I've never heard of this. Where did you hear this? Do you have anything to back it up?
There might be some Tesla type of technology needed here to make this work
Oh yeah, I just just hear the geek protests now when every passing train knocks out all wireless communications for a 10 mile radius.
Tesla's "energy transfer through free air" was no more than huge electromagnetic fields, (i.e., big ass crude radio transmitters). It wasn't a particularly good idea then, and it still isn't.
I read Tesla's work, and while much of it was brilliant, I don't buy into the hype and conspiracy theories that these inventions were somehow "lost". They proved economically or practically infeasible, or were replaced by more effective inventions.