Well, the 'free version where we develop everything' is sortof like Debian Testing, except that things that go in there don't necessarily make it into the absolutely-stable RHEL offering. Another reason to go RedHat is that they are major contributors to the kernel.
I think that's about it though, You do pay for RH support, but the kind of people who buy it are the ones who want that, and (apparently) get good support too. If you don't need it, then there's not much point in going RH. Maybe you'd be better off with Centos, in which case you have something very comparable with Debian, with the 'non-free' packages added.
The other good reason is the security backporting. RH is excellent at keeping a stable system going, which is one reason they keep a the same kernel the release shipped with and only add security fixes to it, instead of releasing newer kernels. That kind of 'it will not break' attitude makes a lot of sense to the people who run it.
So should you switch? why would you want to if you're happy with what you've got. If you're not happy though... try Centos when it comes out.
yeah, 'cos I have enough of a heartattack when I lose my internet connection due to hardware failure. Purposefully screwing it will be just my way of acclimitising myself to not having it anymore.
there are issues of monopoly regarding the connections, here in the UK there was a big deal about BT operating the ADSL lines that all other ISPs used. They rented BT kit, and were obviously not able to charge less than BT charged them! The regulator was quite happy to police it though, until BT organised a system where the line-rental arm was split off to a separate company nd they then charged BT similarly.
There is also the LLU (local loop unbundling) where the ISP puts its own kit into the exchanges, so feasibly a small ISP could compete, if it had the scale to pay off the very large investment in exchange kit, especially as it would need a lot of customers attached to that exchange in order to make ends meet. So, really, no - its still the big boys that can offer the cheapest deals.
Sure - just try it. I am in the UK and they all have quotas (though they may not make a song and dance about it). Plusnet a while back had an issue with a few users who were using the system literally 100% and they were told they could leave or reduce their usage. It makes sense, if you want cheap connections then expect not to use it as if you were the only user. Plusnet, incidentally has a 'fair use' policy where you can download 100% between the hours of midnight and 4pm, but at peak time.. expect to be monitored.
The old adslguide website used to have stories of cable operators who were.. more aggressive in their targetting of seriously heavy users. (and we are talking people who don't use 150gb here, we're talking people who use it 100% 24/7).
I can add another link for you - right not on BBC TV is a summary of a programme that was on Sunday about how climate change is, basically, guff and CO2 emissions from humans is nothing compared to natural sources. (oh, they also had a slightly humourous piece about a Danish scientist who first said that CO2 emissions would heat the planet - mainly as a way of debunking the scientific consensus of the time (20 odd years ago) that we were heading into anothe rice age!)
Its on Newsnight and you can see it on their video podcast
I really don't think so, people hae pointed out in the past that the cost of an OS is not the unit price, but the cost of hiring staff to maintain it (hence many people say linux is cheaper overall...). Regardless of the religious debates, if *Dell* wanted to sell linux *and* offer tech support... think what would happen when someone called in.
First they'd have to determine which linux was installed, then determine which package was faulty, then determine which version of that package was installed, then determine what to do about it. The permutations are trult horrific. At least with Windows, you have a far smaller set of options to deal with. That in itself makes the cost of supporting Windows significantly cheaper.
Now, if Dell decided to reduce the options and only support RedHat (say), loaded with the latest packages only, then they'd have a much easier time - comparable to the Windows support. But then Dell would get criticised for not offering Ubuntu too:)
Personally, I think Dell should offer Centos support on its servers - they are very widely used in the web hosting industry, and Centos seems to be the most common distro for that. Dell would capture a significant part of its customer base that way.
Admittedly, the SEC might act too slowly, but we're assuming the spammers need a few days to pump the market up, and that they will not sell until the stock has risen a certain amount. So, the SEC only has to stop trading of the stocks *before* the spammers have sold, then the spammers will have placed a load of money into stock they cannot sell. When trading resumes, these stocks will have their price set at the level it was before the pumping began.
Hopefully, when the spammers then try to sell the ton of stock they hold, they will depress the price. Personally, I like the idea of the spammers holding loads of worthless stock:)
The thing is, if you dressed up your comments about NAT as:
"I have super NAT 2.0, its just like ordinary NAT but it allows multiple hosts behind the NAT to be configured for forwarding to the same port", then the same people who complain about removing the need for NAT will be jumping up and down at the possibilities of the new version.
I think all home/SME routers that connect to the internet have firewalls that are enabled to block incoming traffic by default. Mine even has a button to auto-block all outbound IM traffic! IPv6 routers just need to have the same kind of default rules set, and there's no worries.
they look better in reality. The ones I've seen have been off the coast - just on the horizon, and as they're painted grey and are distant on a grey north welsh coast you have to look hard to see them. Ghost mills in the sky:)
Then there is a single one slapped in the middle of a new business park, its HUGE and just off the motorway. That doesn't exactly harm the view anyone has because its, well, in a concrete and glass business park.
not quite (well, not unless you get yourself a hosting account with ssh access and run rsync yourself), but there is mozy.com which is very similar (if you do go mozy, please use my referral link). It's a backup service really but it sends changes over the net periodically, and has a web interface to restore files. Everything is encrypted and you can specify your own key.
If you do go the rsync-yourself route, try BackupPC which is a web frontend to a rsync server, you can get your files from it over the web too then.
Go to Webhostingtalk.com and search their forums, you will find many (no, Many) hosting providers and a ton of comments about them all.
If you want cheap and cheerful go for the hugely large providers like 1&1 or fasthosts. They may lack customer service, but you're not going there for that after all.
exactly - despite there being potentially better sites, they went and placed it on the east coast of Florida. Substantial logistical advantages? Its near the shops? I mean, they ship parts all over the place.
It beats me why they couldn't have negotiated a base elsewhere on the planet that doesn't have golf-ball sized hailstones and killer woodpeckers.:)
Ok, so they should move the launch site to somewhere where they don't get stupidly large hailstorms, massive amounts of ice, super strong winds! (and is barren of trees, too).
I mean, is it me, or did they get sold some 'prime real estate' to build the launch centre?
The first series was shockingly different not because of the 'advanced' technology, but because of its portrayal of a society where we've put aside our petty tribal differences. I mean, they had a *black* *actress* as a major character.
To do the same kind of shock today would need a female Muslim character in charge of the photon torpedoes, a gay security chief, and a Frenchman for captain.
Yeah, and listening to the comments, that one computer is a no-brand motherboard with some generic ram.
Lets have some common sense please Mind you, this is/., you must be new here:)
Still, Brian Kernighan (yeah, some guy who had hardly any effect on the world of programming languages:) ) was a Canadian (I am informed, I don't know him personally)
If you have any kind of fast CPU, it'll be faster than those crappy cheap raid controllers (or, the raid built into motherboard bios chips). I'm not sure about reliability (apparently linux software raid5 isn't the best) but with software raid you can get at the data even if you change motherboard. If you used bios or raid card, you'd have to stick with that - as changing would require different drivers.
Right, nobody does that because it's practically impossible to get it working. Instead they discover that it's not in the apt repository and give up. Hey! that's what I do, and I do consider myself at least a linux power user. (well, my distrouses Yum, but its the same difference).
The biggest issue for packaged apps though, is not the app (that comes in both yum or apt repos generally) but the directories the app installs to. This is where the LSB is such an important project to the Linux community - only most people don't recognise the subtle fact.
When a friend broke down, she asked the breakdown man who came what were the most reliable cars. He said he wasn't allowed to comment but that "he carried no honda parts". I guess the same thing applies here - Google won't say, they'd get sued.
On the other hand, hard drives change so much that this year's model will be totally different design and mechanics than next years, so blaming (say) IBM for its crappy deskstar range should not be reason to blame their (ok, Hitachi's) current line.
If you do want to know more about which drives are best - check out storeagereview and enter details of your drives to their reliability database.
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Well, the 'free version where we develop everything' is sortof like Debian Testing, except that things that go in there don't necessarily make it into the absolutely-stable RHEL offering. Another reason to go RedHat is that they are major contributors to the kernel.
I think that's about it though, You do pay for RH support, but the kind of people who buy it are the ones who want that, and (apparently) get good support too. If you don't need it, then there's not much point in going RH. Maybe you'd be better off with Centos, in which case you have something very comparable with Debian, with the 'non-free' packages added.
The other good reason is the security backporting. RH is excellent at keeping a stable system going, which is one reason they keep a the same kernel the release shipped with and only add security fixes to it, instead of releasing newer kernels. That kind of 'it will not break' attitude makes a lot of sense to the people who run it.
So should you switch? why would you want to if you're happy with what you've got. If you're not happy though... try Centos when it comes out.
erm.. Lawyers fees per hour.
oh no sorry, that's *damn* relevant here.
yeah, 'cos I have enough of a heartattack when I lose my internet connection due to hardware failure. Purposefully screwing it will be just my way of acclimitising myself to not having it anymore.
there are issues of monopoly regarding the connections, here in the UK there was a big deal about BT operating the ADSL lines that all other ISPs used. They rented BT kit, and were obviously not able to charge less than BT charged them! The regulator was quite happy to police it though, until BT organised a system where the line-rental arm was split off to a separate company nd they then charged BT similarly.
There is also the LLU (local loop unbundling) where the ISP puts its own kit into the exchanges, so feasibly a small ISP could compete, if it had the scale to pay off the very large investment in exchange kit, especially as it would need a lot of customers attached to that exchange in order to make ends meet. So, really, no - its still the big boys that can offer the cheapest deals.
Sure - just try it. I am in the UK and they all have quotas (though they may not make a song and dance about it). Plusnet a while back had an issue with a few users who were using the system literally 100% and they were told they could leave or reduce their usage. It makes sense, if you want cheap connections then expect not to use it as if you were the only user. Plusnet, incidentally has a 'fair use' policy where you can download 100% between the hours of midnight and 4pm, but at peak time.. expect to be monitored.
.. more aggressive in their targetting of seriously heavy users. (and we are talking people who don't use 150gb here, we're talking people who use it 100% 24/7).
The old adslguide website used to have stories of cable operators who were
I can add another link for you - right not on BBC TV is a summary of a programme that was on Sunday about how climate change is, basically, guff and CO2 emissions from humans is nothing compared to natural sources. (oh, they also had a slightly humourous piece about a Danish scientist who first said that CO2 emissions would heat the planet - mainly as a way of debunking the scientific consensus of the time (20 odd years ago) that we were heading into anothe rice age!)
Its on Newsnight and you can see it on their video podcast
I really don't think so, people hae pointed out in the past that the cost of an OS is not the unit price, but the cost of hiring staff to maintain it (hence many people say linux is cheaper overall...). Regardless of the religious debates, if *Dell* wanted to sell linux *and* offer tech support... think what would happen when someone called in.
:)
First they'd have to determine which linux was installed, then determine which package was faulty, then determine which version of that package was installed, then determine what to do about it. The permutations are trult horrific. At least with Windows, you have a far smaller set of options to deal with. That in itself makes the cost of supporting Windows significantly cheaper.
Now, if Dell decided to reduce the options and only support RedHat (say), loaded with the latest packages only, then they'd have a much easier time - comparable to the Windows support. But then Dell would get criticised for not offering Ubuntu too
Personally, I think Dell should offer Centos support on its servers - they are very widely used in the web hosting industry, and Centos seems to be the most common distro for that. Dell would capture a significant part of its customer base that way.
Admittedly, the SEC might act too slowly, but we're assuming the spammers need a few days to pump the market up, and that they will not sell until the stock has risen a certain amount. So, the SEC only has to stop trading of the stocks *before* the spammers have sold, then the spammers will have placed a load of money into stock they cannot sell. When trading resumes, these stocks will have their price set at the level it was before the pumping began.
:)
Hopefully, when the spammers then try to sell the ton of stock they hold, they will depress the price. Personally, I like the idea of the spammers holding loads of worthless stock
The thing is, if you dressed up your comments about NAT as:
"I have super NAT 2.0, its just like ordinary NAT but it allows multiple hosts behind the NAT to be configured for forwarding to the same port", then the same people who complain about removing the need for NAT will be jumping up and down at the possibilities of the new version.
I think all home/SME routers that connect to the internet have firewalls that are enabled to block incoming traffic by default. Mine even has a button to auto-block all outbound IM traffic! IPv6 routers just need to have the same kind of default rules set, and there's no worries.
ok then, have it your way.
"Too many watermills: water stops running downhill".
they look better in reality. The ones I've seen have been off the coast - just on the horizon, and as they're painted grey and are distant on a grey north welsh coast you have to look hard to see them. Ghost mills in the sky :)
Then there is a single one slapped in the middle of a new business park, its HUGE and just off the motorway. That doesn't exactly harm the view anyone has because its, well, in a concrete and glass business park.
not quite (well, not unless you get yourself a hosting account with ssh access and run rsync yourself), but there is mozy.com which is very similar (if you do go mozy, please use my referral link). It's a backup service really but it sends changes over the net periodically, and has a web interface to restore files. Everything is encrypted and you can specify your own key.
If you do go the rsync-yourself route, try BackupPC which is a web frontend to a rsync server, you can get your files from it over the web too then.
Go to Webhostingtalk.com and search their forums, you will find many (no, Many) hosting providers and a ton of comments about them all.
If you want cheap and cheerful go for the hugely large providers like 1&1 or fasthosts. They may lack customer service, but you're not going there for that after all.
exactly - despite there being potentially better sites, they went and placed it on the east coast of Florida. Substantial logistical advantages? Its near the shops? I mean, they ship parts all over the place.
:)
It beats me why they couldn't have negotiated a base elsewhere on the planet that doesn't have golf-ball sized hailstones and killer woodpeckers.
Ok, so they should move the launch site to somewhere where they don't get stupidly large hailstorms, massive amounts of ice, super strong winds! (and is barren of trees, too).
I mean, is it me, or did they get sold some 'prime real estate' to build the launch centre?
The first series was shockingly different not because of the 'advanced' technology, but because of its portrayal of a society where we've put aside our petty tribal differences. I mean, they had a *black* *actress* as a major character.
To do the same kind of shock today would need a female Muslim character in charge of the photon torpedoes, a gay security chief, and a Frenchman for captain.
Spock: "Captain, the warp coils are overloaded and the enemy has us locked in weapons range".
Kirk: "Yes Spock, looks like we need a montage".
Funny how MS gets criticism on /. even though eBay has run on Java and Solaris since 2005.
i bm/
p
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/13/ebay_sun_
and
http://sun.ebay.com/odcs/custom.htm?template=popu
So, yeah I'l agree with you - its probably bad architecure that's at fault.
I said that and was modded flamebait. .
:) ) was a Canadian (I am informed, I don't know him personally)
Still, Brian Kernighan (yeah, some guy who had hardly any effect on the world of programming languages
Perhaps the rest of us should be awarded the Order of Canada for having to write code in that crappy language!
Have any other language authors been recognised by this Order?
If you have any kind of fast CPU, it'll be faster than those crappy cheap raid controllers (or, the raid built into motherboard bios chips). I'm not sure about reliability (apparently linux software raid5 isn't the best) but with software raid you can get at the data even if you change motherboard. If you used bios or raid card, you'd have to stick with that - as changing would require different drivers.
The biggest issue for packaged apps though, is not the app (that comes in both yum or apt repos generally) but the directories the app installs to. This is where the LSB is such an important project to the Linux community - only most people don't recognise the subtle fact.
When a friend broke down, she asked the breakdown man who came what were the most reliable cars. He said he wasn't allowed to comment but that "he carried no honda parts". I guess the same thing applies here - Google won't say, they'd get sued.
On the other hand, hard drives change so much that this year's model will be totally different design and mechanics than next years, so blaming (say) IBM for its crappy deskstar range should not be reason to blame their (ok, Hitachi's) current line.
If you do want to know more about which drives are best - check out storeagereview and enter details of your drives to their reliability database.
They used to have 10, but then ok, they used to have 9 but . Yeah, 8 employed electricians