Re:You will have to work to not travel.
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So why are you spending time reading/posting to slashdot instead of spending it with your family?
Same reason I browse and post from work... because I needed a break.
You spend thirty minutes helping a 4.5 year old practice 'twinkle, twinkle little star' on a violin, and all parties need some down time afterwards. It is all about choices - for me it's good compromise to hang out in the living room with a wireless connection while she watches House of Mouse.
Re:You will have to work to not travel.
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Forgive the bitterness... I've been on the road 80-90% since spring. As a father and husband, traveling the world lost much of its glamour. I say goodbye to my family again in a few hours.
I suspect we are in agreement, however. Seeing the world is a state of mind, rather than being a tourist or worker bee abroad.
You will have to work to not travel.
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This doesn't really bother me, however i'd like to see the world before being confined to a cube for the rest of my life. Are there any jobs in an IT field where I can travel?
You have got to be kidding me. Join most any company that has a significant consulting services or sales branch, and it is easy to see the world. Within the next six weeks I'll hit cities in four continents.... Surprisingly, the view is about the same as a cube. A card table if the client planned ahead, a hotel every nigh where you spend the rest of the evening making magic, and eating at whatever restaurant is nearby. I know where the plane is on some international flight just by the snack cart shuffling about.
There was a point - travel is easy. If you want to spelunk the world and enjoy it, better to do it as a vacationer than trying to 'see the world' after a shift is done. I saw more of Europe backpacking on the cheap in college than I have 'commuting' back and forth.
As a bonus, make sure you pick a career that affords you the purchasing power to see the world. Air and hotel miles are a brutal way to do it... (grin)
Well, call it a hunch - but if you look at all the partner programs, SuSE is prime on just about every one of them. I've never seen a non-SuSE distro used on a zSeries or pSeries machine in production land. If memory serves correctly, they were tossing in a copy of SuSE on some of the later pSeries hardware...
More important to me, I'll ask the IBM engineers what they use for their personal development workstation. Almost always, SuSE. Matching the developer's setup usually saves for much weeping and gnashing of teeth IMHO.
A while back I got a tadpole (a sparc based laptop) needed for one of the gigs I was working on. It seemed pretty locked down... again, lan access via hotel, not behind a firewall. When I asked the IS guys about it, he responded "We set it up like the rest of our Solaris boxes. What, you think that was how we got it?"
Windows NT-based operating systems listen on so many ports, and are designed so wide open, because they are meant to sit inside a secured corporate network.
Windows does listen on a wide variety of ports, but the conclusion is wrong IMHO. Windows has all those ports open and services running because it focused on a marketing requirement to make it 'easy' for the person responsible for the box and rushing features to hit a deadline. World according to me, a firewall should be another layer of defense - the OS should not be running services I'm not aware of. Course, I've been burned enough times I'll take nothing for granted - and add that extra layer (*nix or windows).
(a properly designed network, even if none of the machines had been patched, should've been able to stay free of worms I've still be burned by a buffer overflow hack (code red if I remember right) when all the ports were blocked (except 80), but still got nailed because another security patch broke the fix.
I'm not an MCSE (or IT director), and the number of new services I kept finding after trying to harden things scares me. Same goes for a 540MB 'router' install with Fedora - what the heck is running. As I tend to live out of hotels (what a cesspool for a connection) I have to keep my stuff clean. Can't imagine what folks who don't diligently look out for their system manage. If you think the security issues are new, you never carried a pager and supported the early cuts of IIS (grin).
I'm thinking workstation rather than server.... Granted, its been a few years since I've done anything (math or otherwise) that took advantage of an extra 32 bits. I'm thinking 2 way, not even a quad setup. SuSE x86-64 can, but Solaris x86 is still unknown from what I've seen.
The question in my mind is are they going to use the full x86-64 extensions, or keep the sparc as the 'real' 64-bit processor and let Solaris x86 remain 32 bit...
Uh, no it's not Howard. I use Mozilla with pop-up supression as do thousands of others. $30? Try free
Not sure about XP, but if you do a default Win2K install, the 'messenger' service is set to Automatic - meaning it is up and running when you start your computer. What is key here is this is essentially a windows application, not anything to do with the far too frequent HTML popups everyone is use to.
On Win2K, go to Administrative Tools > Services, find the messenger service with the description "Sends and receives messages transmitted by administrators or by the Alerter service.", stop it, and disable it so you don't have to deal with the (messenger based) pop ups again.
Its great that they want to pack everything in... my beef is they should at least try to package up the distro so the most common 'pre selected' options are on the first CD, rather than spread out over several. I love downloading a third ISO image because of 2M worth of RPM's did not fit - not that I am bitter...
I am guessing that SuSE thinks Novell can help them into the American market because of their contacts and longevity. I think SuSE could have done better - I don't get it - they are already working with IBM on s390 platform!!
That was my thought too. SuSE owns the zSeries s/390 space these days. I've never seen anything other than SuSE 7 or 8 installed on the dozen systems I've got to work with. Granted a small sampling, but you would figure someone Stateside would give RH a whirl on the big iron.
Another thing SuSE is pushing is Linux for the IBM pSeries boxes. I'm waiting for the under $3,500 quad 970 CPU servers to hit the market. They already bundle the SuSE distro with some of the current pSeries boxes. If hardware prices drop that low, they should have made a killing with a Linux bundle.
They have distros for the AMD and Intel variants of a 64-bit CPU as well.... seems to me SuSE has the workstation and server market nicely covered these days. Runs several databases, app servers, and the other bits of kit I need for my day to day work. (tragically, sans hardware on my part). The lack of an ISO had kept me from fiddling with it on the home front, but now that the playing field is level...
WS price starts at 179$, and AS price at 1499$ for the Intel x86 platform.
I did the beta for RH3 on the zSeries - The sales guy told me this is the subscription price, per year, per machine, for the software. I've got a zSeries emulator running on a thinkpad - so that would have been two copies, one x86 the other zSeries running inside for that alone. It is really sad when it was cheaper to set up a partnership with one of the other distros than get licenses for just the machines in my cubespace.
Manditory support contract? Dumb, dumb, dumb... And this comes from someone who bought at least one box set every major rev since the 6.x series.
I never, ever, not once, ever, heard of a customer fixing a bad tape with a stanley knife and sellotape. Not once
God help me, I did something like this almost twenty years ago. We had some commercial software that shipped on a cassette tape - ran an IBM XT. Tape jammed, removal was less than delicate, and it broke. I spliced the tape and it worked.... Go figure.
Got it to work on RH9 when it first came out, but had issues getting it to work with my Gentoo box. (my bad) The newer version might fix that. Of course we can get it to work - just would like a bit more love when I paid $300 for it. God help you if you use a kernel that did not come with a distro and call support...
And next to that they show a screenshot of Windows XP running in a Window through VMWare.
If VMWare allows this distro as a 'supported' host, this is great news. One of my issues with VMWare on Linux is you even look funny at a kernel, it is not supported. Looks like they just added RH9 to the list. Bout time...
of for that matter, i think IBM is using PPC970 (aka G5) as server cpu too, isn't?
You bet. Not only that, but the quad CPU offering shoudl be cheap.
In pursuit of this goal, IBM is poised to introduce two tiers of products: a low-end blade server and an "ultra -low-end" (ULE) rack/deskside model. The initial blade server will be based on the Power PC 970 processor (known internally as the GPUL), which made its debut this month in Apple Computer Inc.'s Power Mac G5 line.
The ULE models, which will run Linux and IBM's AIX OS, will ship in 2U two-way and 4U four-way configurations. A base configuration of the 4U is expected to cost less than $3,500, sources said.
If carrying a few books hurts your back/shoulders, it sounds like your problem is a lack of exercise, not the weight of books
I'm unpacking from a road trip, and over half the weight of my suitcase - including the case itself and a pair of laptops - is from the books. Every once in a while I end up without net access, which means packing in a foot and a half of reference books. PDF versions would be a godsend for when I'm mobile.
They should be afraid if they charge me a monthly fee - more than a quarter or two - for the 'privilege' of this service. Assuming telco service is a commodity item (some more than others), one of the key differentiators will be what does it cost to maintain your old number with this new service. Looks like AT&T tacks on a fee already.
Course they could collude rather than compete... nah... what are the odds of that happening?
Could somebody tell the non-web-developers in the audience how a 1x1 pixel can track you? Sounds a bit evil to me...
Most folks call them web bugs. The idea is the img src makes an HTTP request to a web server - the sneaky buggers then return a transparent 1x1px graphic. One the client side, it has very little impact. On the server side, you get all sorts of data you can mine from the request - browser type, os, IP, etc - usually just pulled from the log files, though some go strait to cgi (or their counterparts).
Even more interesting is sticking these into office documents. Not a guaranty, but when someone who is connected to the net opens it, its logged. Nothing quite like seeing if someone bothered to look at something, or better yet, if they passed it around....
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So why are you spending time reading/posting to slashdot instead of spending it with your family?
Same reason I browse and post from work... because I needed a break.
You spend thirty minutes helping a 4.5 year old practice 'twinkle, twinkle little star' on a violin, and all parties need some down time afterwards. It is all about choices - for me it's good compromise to hang out in the living room with a wireless connection while she watches House of Mouse.
Forgive the bitterness... I've been on the road 80-90% since spring. As a father and husband, traveling the world lost much of its glamour. I say goodbye to my family again in a few hours.
I suspect we are in agreement, however. Seeing the world is a state of mind, rather than being a tourist or worker bee abroad.
This doesn't really bother me, however i'd like to see the world before being confined to a cube for the rest of my life. Are there any jobs in an IT field where I can travel?
You have got to be kidding me. Join most any company that has a significant consulting services or sales branch, and it is easy to see the world. Within the next six weeks I'll hit cities in four continents.... Surprisingly, the view is about the same as a cube. A card table if the client planned ahead, a hotel every nigh where you spend the rest of the evening making magic, and eating at whatever restaurant is nearby. I know where the plane is on some international flight just by the snack cart shuffling about.
There was a point - travel is easy. If you want to spelunk the world and enjoy it, better to do it as a vacationer than trying to 'see the world' after a shift is done. I saw more of Europe backpacking on the cheap in college than I have 'commuting' back and forth.
As a bonus, make sure you pick a career that affords you the purchasing power to see the world. Air and hotel miles are a brutal way to do it... (grin)
IBM should release specs for a reference G5 motherboard that you can run linux on.
As you wish
Product features
* Two 1.6 GHz PowerPC 970 processors with full-speed 512 KB ECC L2 cache
(snip)
The following network operating systems have been tested for compatibility with the JS20 blade:
* SuSE Linux Enterprise Service 8 (Service Pack 3)
* Turbo Linux Enterprise Service 8 (Service Pack 3)
Under 3K..... course this is a real machine rather than a reference board. (grin)
Well, call it a hunch - but if you look at all the partner programs, SuSE is prime on just about every one of them. I've never seen a non-SuSE distro used on a zSeries or pSeries machine in production land. If memory serves correctly, they were tossing in a copy of SuSE on some of the later pSeries hardware...
More important to me, I'll ask the IBM engineers what they use for their personal development workstation. Almost always, SuSE. Matching the developer's setup usually saves for much weeping and gnashing of teeth IMHO.
Price-wise, it is a wash....
Ah - That is what I get for assuming.
A while back I got a tadpole (a sparc based laptop) needed for one of the gigs I was working on. It seemed pretty locked down... again, lan access via hotel, not behind a firewall. When I asked the IS guys about it, he responded "We set it up like the rest of our Solaris boxes. What, you think that was how we got it?"
Metropolis was a very pretty looking movie.
And sounded great too. I was shocked to get jazz compaired to what I'd expected.
Windows NT-based operating systems listen on so many ports, and are designed so wide open, because they are meant to sit inside a secured corporate network.
Windows does listen on a wide variety of ports, but the conclusion is wrong IMHO. Windows has all those ports open and services running because it focused on a marketing requirement to make it 'easy' for the person responsible for the box and rushing features to hit a deadline. World according to me, a firewall should be another layer of defense - the OS should not be running services I'm not aware of. Course, I've been burned enough times I'll take nothing for granted - and add that extra layer (*nix or windows).
(a properly designed network, even if none of the machines had been patched, should've been able to stay free of worms
I've still be burned by a buffer overflow hack (code red if I remember right) when all the ports were blocked (except 80), but still got nailed because another security patch broke the fix.
I'm not an MCSE (or IT director), and the number of new services I kept finding after trying to harden things scares me. Same goes for a 540MB 'router' install with Fedora - what the heck is running. As I tend to live out of hotels (what a cesspool for a connection) I have to keep my stuff clean. Can't imagine what folks who don't diligently look out for their system manage.
If you think the security issues are new, you never carried a pager and supported the early cuts of IIS (grin).
I'm thinking workstation rather than server.... Granted, its been a few years since I've done anything (math or otherwise) that took advantage of an extra 32 bits. I'm thinking 2 way, not even a quad setup. SuSE x86-64 can, but Solaris x86 is still unknown from what I've seen.
I got an image in my head of a polygonal guy in a wheelchair with a robotic arm holding a monstrous gun zipping all over the screen.
Oh come now, this is Hawking after all - I'm sure the translocator would be his weapon of choice.
The question in my mind is are they going to use the full x86-64 extensions, or keep the sparc as the 'real' 64-bit processor and let Solaris x86 remain 32 bit...
If any wants, I can sell them a copy of that database for just $25,000. A brief sample to show I have the goods:
0 .4
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
192.168.
{Dark Helmet voice}
192.168.0.1-2-3-4-5 -- what a coincidence, I have that combination on my network.
{/Dark Helmet voice}
Uh, no it's not Howard. I use Mozilla with pop-up supression as do thousands of others. $30? Try free
Not sure about XP, but if you do a default Win2K install, the 'messenger' service is set to Automatic - meaning it is up and running when you start your computer. What is key here is this is essentially a windows application, not anything to do with the far too frequent HTML popups everyone is use to.
On Win2K, go to Administrative Tools > Services, find the messenger service with the description "Sends and receives messages transmitted by administrators or by the Alerter service.", stop it, and disable it so you don't have to deal with the (messenger based) pop ups again.
what the *7#$ is on those 3 CDs?!.
Its great that they want to pack everything in... my beef is they should at least try to package up the distro so the most common 'pre selected' options are on the first CD, rather than spread out over several. I love downloading a third ISO image because of 2M worth of RPM's did not fit - not that I am bitter...
I am guessing that SuSE thinks Novell can help them into the American market because of their contacts and longevity. I think SuSE could have done better - I don't get it - they are already working with IBM on s390 platform!!
That was my thought too. SuSE owns the zSeries s/390 space these days. I've never seen anything other than SuSE 7 or 8 installed on the dozen systems I've got to work with. Granted a small sampling, but you would figure someone Stateside would give RH a whirl on the big iron.
Another thing SuSE is pushing is Linux for the IBM pSeries boxes. I'm waiting for the under $3,500 quad 970 CPU servers to hit the market. They already bundle the SuSE distro with some of the current pSeries boxes. If hardware prices drop that low, they should have made a killing with a Linux bundle.
They have distros for the AMD and Intel variants of a 64-bit CPU as well.... seems to me SuSE has the workstation and server market nicely covered these days. Runs several databases, app servers, and the other bits of kit I need for my day to day work. (tragically, sans hardware on my part). The lack of an ISO had kept me from fiddling with it on the home front, but now that the playing field is level...
May we live in interesting days?
WS price starts at 179$, and AS price at 1499$ for the Intel x86 platform.
I did the beta for RH3 on the zSeries - The sales guy told me this is the subscription price, per year, per machine, for the software. I've got a zSeries emulator running on a thinkpad - so that would have been two copies, one x86 the other zSeries running inside for that alone. It is really sad when it was cheaper to set up a partnership with one of the other distros than get licenses for just the machines in my cubespace.
Manditory support contract? Dumb, dumb, dumb... And this comes from someone who bought at least one box set every major rev since the 6.x series.
In the US versions a book may say "Micro$oft iz teh gay" where the Brit versions say "Microoft iz teh guay, mate."
No, no, no... a proper Brit would say "Microsoft is pants".
I never, ever, not once, ever, heard of a customer fixing a bad tape with a stanley knife and sellotape. Not once
God help me, I did something like this almost twenty years ago. We had some commercial software that shipped on a cassette tape - ran an IBM XT. Tape jammed, removal was less than delicate, and it broke. I spliced the tape and it worked.... Go figure.
Got it to work on RH9 when it first came out, but had issues getting it to work with my Gentoo box. (my bad) The newer version might fix that. Of course we can get it to work - just would like a bit more love when I paid $300 for it. God help you if you use a kernel that did not come with a distro and call support...
And next to that they show a screenshot of Windows XP running in a Window through VMWare.
If VMWare allows this distro as a 'supported' host, this is great news. One of my issues with VMWare on Linux is you even look funny at a kernel, it is not supported. Looks like they just added RH9 to the list. Bout time...
You bet. Not only that, but the quad CPU offering shoudl be cheap.
If carrying a few books hurts your back/shoulders, it sounds like your problem is a lack of exercise, not the weight of books
I'm unpacking from a road trip, and over half the weight of my suitcase - including the case itself and a pair of laptops - is from the books. Every once in a while I end up without net access, which means packing in a foot and a half of reference books. PDF versions would be a godsend for when I'm mobile.
They should be afraid if they charge me a monthly fee - more than a quarter or two - for the 'privilege' of this service. Assuming telco service is a commodity item (some more than others), one of the key differentiators will be what does it cost to maintain your old number with this new service. Looks like AT&T tacks on a fee already.
Course they could collude rather than compete... nah... what are the odds of that happening?
Could somebody tell the non-web-developers in the audience how a 1x1 pixel can track you? Sounds a bit evil to me...
Most folks call them web bugs. The idea is the img src makes an HTTP request to a web server - the sneaky buggers then return a transparent 1x1px graphic. One the client side, it has very little impact. On the server side, you get all sorts of data you can mine from the request - browser type, os, IP, etc - usually just pulled from the log files, though some go strait to cgi (or their counterparts).
Even more interesting is sticking these into office documents. Not a guaranty, but when someone who is connected to the net opens it, its logged. Nothing quite like seeing if someone bothered to look at something, or better yet, if they passed it around....
Do you tax the...
This is Minnesota we are talking about. Of course the answer is yes.