I use Vectra Vl's and Netservers. The build quality is good, the thought that goes into the maintainability is good - no tools needed for desktops - every thing is replaceable easily with levers. But their support has just plummeted in the last year. Two years ago I had a user destroy his floppy disk drive by shoving a disk in backwards. HP sent out a guy to replace it for me. It's not like that any more. My LH4 Quad CPU server even had a "how to install Linux" guide, and they certify MS, OS/2, NOVELL and Redhat on most of their new boxes, but I no longer have that confidence in the company.
I run 6 SAMBA boxes in an NT network, and they all authenticate back to PDC and BDC boxes. The SAMBA technical lists indicate that authenticating back to an LDAP backend such as NDS is mature. I have one "large" (150Gb storage) box that the other units trickle back to via rsync on 15 minute crons for backup, and a meagre 30Gb of archived files which barely fit on my 40Gb Tape backup unit. Check with the manufacturers for a supported hardware combination for your archive unit. I use HP, but they seem to be getting worse at support. IBM, for all their advertising, are probably just fine, or you could use an independant vendor. I don't recommend DELL. You will have to rsync via ssh the passwd and group files, and these will have to be generated independant from the NDS backend, or you can use "bad user" mapping, or even guest if you want.
I have had nothing but grief with LPR, then LPRNG, all due to bugs. Currently LPRNG hangs with many print jobs, and I have confirmed that this is a bug, but there isn't an updated RPM yet. Printing support for W2K/NT clients in Samba 2.2.2 changed dramatically, if you have only 9x clients, you should be fine, otherwise take some time to set up your "shares" and do stress testing. You may find you need to manually compile your printing engine, so you can rapidly update it. Some have suggested CUPS, I'll try that next.
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If 2.2 had been released with BDC support, we'd probably have dropped any plans to roll out W2k on the server. PDC is great, until you throw it on a WAN, and then it's even less usable than NT. I use Samba as a PDC at home, and it's great, but I'm stuck with domain members for all my samba boxen at work. Sigh.
After listening to the daily tripe dished out by the Taliban leader of how many planes he shot down that day, at the start of military action, and the bile spewed out by Saddam and Usama over the years, it's clear this device is useless. These people don't even *know* when they are lying! To them, there probably is no such thing as lies, unless it's said by a westener.
Once I was able to access wells fargo with mozilla, I quit using ie. There's some minor javascript stuff I have that doesn't work, but everything else is great. I'm just waiting for deployment kits, so I can slam it on the 50 W2K boxes I maintain. Only real gripe at this stage, after having used mozilla from early M releases (M8 I can remember, but I think I was using it before then, too) is lack of a pgp plug-in in the mail client. This has been the case for some time, though, and I'd gladly accept gpg, but I suspect that's not going to show up anytime soon.
So many distributions have left machines in a highly insecure state that they've gotten a bad reputation. The problem is significantly less now, but you'd have to come up with some "manufacturers" claims to back that up. Is the administration open to BSD? That may be a good alternative.
It took a few times before I noticed the recurrence - they tried this with DNS, and now with CLI. I am so done with Microsoft - it seems like they can't make a single move without wanting to own or subvert a technology.
Say what you will about Microsoft, all the tools to create a managed environment have been there for years. Use system policies, group policies, anything you like, and you can enforce compliance. You won't even need VNC - besides, VNC is a troubleshooting/support tool par excellence, not a great surveillance device. Just read up on ZAK, or any other Microsoft white paper on managing the environment, and then spend a day or so implementing it. This is not rocket science, people just get used to not trying hard when faced with Windows boxes.
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... when I was reading about how you "think forward" and forward you go, or "think backward" and you go backwards. That thing about stopping whenever you want too. I was convinced I already had a "ginger" but then I realized I was walking.
Run Sybase. From the File menu, choose Save As... select "postgresql" from the drop down list.
Aaarrgh! I just woke from a bizarre dream! Seriously, the Perl::DBD stuff should take care of it, without the need for an intermediary "file based" stage. And I echo another posters sentiment - exporting the schema, then manually reading it, has some significant benefits, including the ability to "tweak" it and do some "what ifs". I did this during the design of a postgresql db once and using a simple shell script was able to build and destroy different schemas for testing very quickly.
... performs excellently under W2K, and also NTWS. I would respectfully suggest that the problems you are getting are simply a limitation of 9x's large file handling. In addition, I've found a lot of helpful performance boosts by running two SCSI drives - one for system and the other for data. SCSI will handle large file data transfer across disks much better than IDE too.
That's a crock. Unless you have some statistical facts you've done on mailing stats, to back this statement up, you are making mistaking opinion for research. I decided, for fun, to look at the flames, then research them in the OBSD FAQ and mailing archives. The result? OBSD mailing lists are overwhelmingly a symptom of juvenile venting, they bear no relation to the content of the FAQ's, or mailing list threads, and are simply self-righteous chest-beating by folks who never learned manners.
And I've used Linux "RAID" before, for regular mirroring. I'm quite sure you can do software mirroring of the system partition, though I don't know if it's available during a typical install. If this is your issue though, it seems somewhat odd, as most shops I know and work with rely on hardware only for this function. I've seen enough dead NT servers that had mirrored system drives, to wonder if it is the right approach.
"The donations have seriously slumped in the last year, but that is probably just due to industry tightening of the belts." says De Raadt. Based on what evidence? Many other OS and software projects are getting serious funding. Perhaps it's something to do with the reponses that the core development team post on the mailing lists? If you've seen some of the bile that gets spewed up over journalling, boot loaders, and anyone who dare make a security question, you'll probably understand that a lot of folks get alienated against the project. When you see stuff like "journalling is for linux weenies" (all fs problems are solved by soft updates - oh yeah? what did you do before you had 'em ?), referring to the user base as "whiners", and comments such as "we don't care if you use OBSD", from the core developers themselves it makes you wonder why there's even an advocacy mailing list. My personal favorite from the last de Raadt interview posted on/. was the comment along the lines "Linux only has SMP because they don't know what SMP really means". That may be so, but OBSD is one of the few *nix like products I'm aware of that still doesn't have SMP. And there's a lot of software that will show a big performance boost on SMP these days. One final caveat, the security of the product is great, providing you want Apache the way Theo gives it to you, and you don't intend installing any ports....
Which would be an IE "replicant" theme, for the visuals, coupled with modified headers etc. for complete simulation of IE. I would personally take a crack at this, but I have not been able to find out how to even write themes for mozilla (go ahead - try a web search and see if you come up with a HOWTO - I'd be delighted if it were posted). Unless your company is using some ocx controls, or just has lame javascript, or applets with depracated java, most stuff should work acceptably or very well in Mozilla - yes folks, it's now that good. Galeon is excellent too, but no plug-ins seem to be in it.
RedHat have stated over and over, their commitment to the GPL, both for the stuff they distribute, and for the stuff they produce. You may not like their public MO, but you don't need to make snide comments like this.
Though I haven't checked 6.0 yet. If the Mozilla team can straighten out some of the plug in problems (for example, it takes some voodoo before java actually works), or at least come up with a definitive install procedure, we'll be rockin'. The browser is solid, but I don't want to have to be asked what MIME type an m3u file (winamp playlist) is. Heck, I don't actually know! I'm so used to it being taken care of. This kind of "plays nice with others" is something we take for granted - even if it's fake in Bill Gates' case!
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I use Vectra Vl's and Netservers. The build quality is good, the thought that goes into the maintainability is good - no tools needed for desktops - every thing is replaceable easily with levers. But their support has just plummeted in the last year. Two years ago I had a user destroy his floppy disk drive by shoving a disk in backwards. HP sent out a guy to replace it for me. It's not like that any more. My LH4 Quad CPU server even had a "how to install Linux" guide, and they certify MS, OS/2, NOVELL and Redhat on most of their new boxes, but I no longer have that confidence in the company.
Amazing!
I run 6 SAMBA boxes in an NT network, and they all authenticate back to PDC and BDC boxes. The SAMBA technical lists indicate that authenticating back to an LDAP backend such as NDS is mature.
I have one "large" (150Gb storage) box that the other units trickle back to via rsync on 15 minute crons for backup, and a meagre 30Gb of archived files which barely fit on my 40Gb Tape backup unit. Check with the manufacturers for a supported hardware combination for your archive unit. I use HP, but they seem to be getting worse at support. IBM, for all their advertising, are probably just fine, or you could use an independant vendor. I don't recommend DELL. You will have to rsync via ssh the passwd and group files, and these will have to be generated independant from the NDS backend, or you can use "bad user" mapping, or even guest if you want.
I have had nothing but grief with LPR, then LPRNG, all due to bugs. Currently LPRNG hangs with many print jobs, and I have confirmed that this is a bug, but there isn't an updated RPM yet. Printing support for W2K/NT clients in Samba 2.2.2 changed dramatically, if you have only 9x clients, you should be fine, otherwise take some time to set up your "shares" and do stress testing. You may find you need to manually compile your printing engine, so you can rapidly update it. Some have suggested CUPS, I'll try that next.
If 2.2 had been released with BDC support, we'd probably have dropped any plans to roll out W2k on the server. PDC is great, until you throw it on a WAN, and then it's even less usable than NT. I use Samba as a PDC at home, and it's great, but I'm stuck with domain members for all my samba boxen at work. Sigh.
What's that thing that looks like a water droplet (or maybe a push pin - drawing pin to the brits) next to postings ?
After listening to the daily tripe dished out by the Taliban leader of how many planes he shot down that day, at the start of military action, and the bile spewed out by Saddam and Usama over the years, it's clear this device is useless. These people don't even *know* when they are lying! To them, there probably is no such thing as lies, unless it's said by a westener.
Once I was able to access wells fargo with mozilla, I quit using ie. There's some minor javascript stuff I have that doesn't work, but everything else is great. I'm just waiting for deployment kits, so I can slam it on the 50 W2K boxes I maintain. Only real gripe at this stage, after having used mozilla from early M releases (M8 I can remember, but I think I was using it before then, too) is lack of a pgp plug-in in the mail client. This has been the case for some time, though, and I'd gladly accept gpg, but I suspect that's not going to show up anytime soon.
So many distributions have left machines in a highly insecure state that they've gotten a bad reputation. The problem is significantly less now, but you'd have to come up with some "manufacturers" claims to back that up. Is the administration open to BSD? That may be a good alternative.
Jeez, that's the third mysql based site I've seen die today.
It took a few times before I noticed the recurrence - they tried this with DNS, and now with CLI. I am so done with Microsoft - it seems like they can't make a single move without wanting to own or subvert a technology.
Because of course, it's not a natural phenomenon, huh?
Say what you will about Microsoft, all the tools to create a managed environment have been there for years. Use system policies, group policies, anything you like, and you can enforce compliance. You won't even need VNC - besides, VNC is a troubleshooting/support tool par excellence, not a great surveillance device. Just read up on ZAK, or any other Microsoft white paper on managing the environment, and then spend a day or so implementing it. This is not rocket science, people just get used to not trying hard when faced with Windows boxes.
... when I was reading about how you "think forward" and forward you go, or "think backward" and you go backwards. That thing about stopping whenever you want too. I was convinced I already had a "ginger" but then I realized I was walking.
did you consider trying "segway.com" ? huh? did ya? what about a SEARCH ENGINE? Or is slashdot your search engine?
My trusty C5 has held up well, but has started to look a little dated. Now I can make the switch to a snazzy new platform, without looking dorky!
Run Sybase. From the File menu, choose Save As... select "postgresql" from the drop down list.
Aaarrgh! I just woke from a bizarre dream! Seriously, the Perl::DBD stuff should take care of it, without the need for an intermediary "file based" stage. And I echo another posters sentiment - exporting the schema, then manually reading it, has some significant benefits, including the ability to "tweak" it and do some "what ifs". I did this during the design of a postgresql db once and using a simple shell script was able to build and destroy different schemas for testing very quickly.
... performs excellently under W2K, and also NTWS. I would respectfully suggest that the problems you are getting are simply a limitation of 9x's large file handling. In addition, I've found a lot of helpful performance boosts by running two SCSI drives - one for system and the other for data. SCSI will handle large file data transfer across disks much better than IDE too.
That's a crock. Unless you have some statistical facts you've done on mailing stats, to back this statement up, you are making mistaking opinion for research. I decided, for fun, to look at the flames, then research them in the OBSD FAQ and mailing archives. The result? OBSD mailing lists are overwhelmingly a symptom of juvenile venting, they bear no relation to the content of the FAQ's, or mailing list threads, and are simply self-righteous chest-beating by folks who never learned manners.
And I've used Linux "RAID" before, for regular mirroring. I'm quite sure you can do software mirroring of the system partition, though I don't know if it's available during a typical install. If this is your issue though, it seems somewhat odd, as most shops I know and work with rely on hardware only for this function. I've seen enough dead NT servers that had mirrored system drives, to wonder if it is the right approach.
"The donations have seriously slumped in the last year, but that is probably just due to industry tightening of the belts." says De Raadt. /. was the comment along the lines "Linux only has SMP because they don't know what SMP really means". That may be so, but OBSD is one of the few *nix like products I'm aware of that still doesn't have SMP. And there's a lot of software that will show a big performance boost on SMP these days.
Based on what evidence? Many other OS and software projects are getting serious funding. Perhaps it's something to do with the reponses that the core development team post on the mailing lists? If you've seen some of the bile that gets spewed up over journalling, boot loaders, and anyone who dare make a security question, you'll probably understand that a lot of folks get alienated against the project.
When you see stuff like "journalling is for linux weenies" (all fs problems are solved by soft updates - oh yeah? what did you do before you had 'em ?), referring to the user base as "whiners", and comments such as "we don't care if you use OBSD", from the core developers themselves it makes you wonder why there's even an advocacy mailing list.
My personal favorite from the last de Raadt interview posted on
One final caveat, the security of the product is great, providing you want Apache the way Theo gives it to you, and you don't intend installing any ports....
Which would be an IE "replicant" theme, for the visuals, coupled with modified headers etc. for complete simulation of IE. I would personally take a crack at this, but I have not been able to find out how to even write themes for mozilla (go ahead - try a web search and see if you come up with a HOWTO - I'd be delighted if it were posted). Unless your company is using some ocx controls, or just has lame javascript, or applets with depracated java, most stuff should work acceptably or very well in Mozilla - yes folks, it's now that good. Galeon is excellent too, but no plug-ins seem to be in it.
None. Only minge benefits...
RedHat have stated over and over, their commitment to the GPL, both for the stuff they distribute, and for the stuff they produce. You may not like their public MO, but you don't need to make snide comments like this.
Though I haven't checked 6.0 yet. If the Mozilla team can straighten out some of the plug in problems (for example, it takes some voodoo before java actually works), or at least come up with a definitive install procedure, we'll be rockin'. The browser is solid, but I don't want to have to be asked what MIME type an m3u file (winamp playlist) is. Heck, I don't actually know! I'm so used to it being taken care of. This kind of "plays nice with others" is something we take for granted - even if it's fake in Bill Gates' case!