You use the code that's on the tag on the bottom of the laptop...
Next, you find yourself an ISO image or an install disk.
Next you grab nLite, and create your own install disk image - prior to re-creating your new iso, you modify one of the install files by changing the code so that it's now an XYZ OEM install disk, instead of ABC OEM install disk, then have it generate the ISO image, burn to disk and install...
The nice thing about nLite is that you can slipstream in things like service packs, additional drivers (as needed), remove parts you don't want, tweak settings, add the install key so you don't have to, etc...
Lots of fun and works beautifully....
You have the license for the OS, you can use it with any installation disk (as long as you modify the code to work with your key)
I was discussing this with a co-worker, and he mentioned that back in the 70s, a lot of IBM's system 360 parts were cloned by a 3rd party, and that they tried to tie their software to their hardware in an attempt to prevent the 3rd party vendor from running their software on 3rd party hardware. It went to court, and IBM lost...
Apple will just kill off the retail channel for upgrades of OS X.
Actually if psystar wins here, and Apple closes off the retail channel, then chances are a return lawsuit will follow and Apple will have more than it's wrist slapped... aka - they will be forced to offer OS/X to anyone that wants it...
#1 - There is no Piracy of IP - because IP doesn't exist. It cannot exist. Thought is not a tangible object. You can copyright specific code, or patent a specific object. You cannot call thought an object, it's an action. Ideas are your own, only if you never share them with anyone else. Once an idea is shared, it belongs as well to the person you've shared that idea with. You may have been the original thinker who came up with it, but it's no longer your thought alone.
#2 - DRM is a sham. It was never intended to stop piracy. It's the next generation of faulty media to be sold by the MPAA/RIAA in an attempt to continue to sell products that will fail / fall apart, degrade - so that you have to buy it again. Just like vinyl, tapes, compact discs and DVDs - DRM is designed to be broken. The MAFIAAS complain, and release the next version they had up their sleeves, ready for it to be broken as well. They want it to break, so that they can release something new, and force the consumer to buy another copy in the latest and greatest, unbreakable encryption version - which of course is broken within hours of release.
Sorry - I still don't classify HP with the compaq gear they throw their label on.
When I say HP - I mean PA-RISC or ITANIUM based servers - which for the most part rely on HP-UX as an OS, which I did reference in my previous post - just not in the same sentence - so I can understand the confusion.
Migrating from an old SAN to a new SAN has been a major pain in the ass for the Linux servers - drive letters changing, size of virtual disks changing, layouts changing - and all trying to use their replication utilities.... ugh...
ZFS has been a dream... I wrote a simple script that writes the scripts to map the old drives to the new drives, run it (a series of zpool replace commands) and done.
I would presume that presenting the raw disks using ASM on Solaris would be similiar - although, yes, it may require that a label be present - but that's such an easy chore. I've got a script that will scan disks for those that aren't labeled, presents that list, you answer yes and it labels them.... One extra step... Not going to worry about it.
And all you have to do is label... once labeled, use slice 2 on SMI labeled drives as your device and nothing else needed. With ZFS, you don't even use the slice numbers, it relabels to an EFI format and uses the disk.
Not too much BS, and beats having to deal with drive names changing on every other boot when you've added additional disks to the zones.
Hmmm - yes - we have lots of luns - however, they increment the target on the disk in order to go beyond 8 - btw - this is on HP-UX 11i - we haven't gone further or up as the legacy software took a lot of tweaking to get it to run at this level.
Now - the tape driver, they didn't do this "target" increment trick that they implemented on the disk driver - this means that you have to manually present a new zone, which would map to a new target within the OS to go beyond 8 tape drives.
With disks, it runs cXtXd0 throug cXtXd7 - then it goes cXtX+1d0 through cXtX+1d7, then cXtX+2d0 through cXtX+2d7 - etc....
As to the Linux vs Solaris - we've had so many databases get corrupted due to RAC on linux, that they've stopped using the RAC filesystem and gone to another one. We've had issues with Linux servers (3 identical systems, identical hardware, identical builds) that just behave differently, it's uncanny. One of the servers will mount about 1/3rd of their filesystems and then error out the rest as though it timed out scanning all the devices down the san before mounting. We've had Linux servers decide they just want to shutdown - no errors in the logs, nothing wrong with the hardware - just poof - down. Hardware vendor is at a loss, RedHat is clueless.
Which filesystem were you using in your test for disk / i/o bandwidth? ufs? zfs? qfs? vxfs? some other filesystem? zfs hasn't been tuned for database performance - yet, so I wouldn't use that. I'd either use qfs or samfs - or possibly use oracle's own built in disk management system and see how that goes.
We've been migrating a ton of web applications off of 6800s, 3800s, 280Rs, etc onto just a few T2000s (yes, a 3 year old platform) and the performance of those applications has improved dramatically.
I can't wait to try out a few 5240s to replace a handful of T2000s.
So... sorry to burst your bubble - but unless they've done some new tricks (and multiple calls to HP support suggest that they haven't), they can only handle 8 luns per target, before incrementing the target number.
Having been a UNIX admin for 23 years and Solaris for 10 years, I'm not sure what you're drinking, but I'm staying away from it.
Solaris support has rocked. We've never had an issue that Sun hasn't been able to solve, and yes, we've thrown them some curves (and sliders for that matter). IBM's support has told us on multiple occasions to re-install the system as a fix for a problem. RedHat we've stumped more often than not. HP? Well - they still can't figure out how to handle more than 8 luns per target for scsi (as well as fibre)...
Solaris performance has been fantastic - outperforming Linux, AIX, HP-UX on modern equipment.
We've migrated workloads to and from Solaris - no big deal - as long as you know what you're doing. (Our misguided DBA's started migrating from old SunOS 5.8 boxes to Linux - and are now migrating back.)
If you use tools that are available on multiple platforms, migrating isn't all that tough.
If you are developing native language apps, porting isn't terribly difficult although finding workarounds for pesky native quirks is troublesome at times.
So I guess it depends on what you call "experienced"...
Since release 10, Solaris has been pretty well stomping the competition in price, performance and throughput. With Solaris supporting pretty much every type of virtualization (including some not offered anywhere else), it's hard to beat.
Solaris as well as OpenSolaris are free, you can download and use either flavor with no cash outlay. Want support? It's cheaper to buy Solaris support from Sun than to buy Linux support from RedHat.
There's no *tying* with Solaris, it's all about choice. I personally choose Solaris over Linux for pretty much any task.
Now that Apple is on an Intel platform, it's no different than all the other reverse engineering that went on with the IBM PC. IBM tried to stop it and couldn't. Do you think Apple has more money than IBM? Sorry...
The cat's out of the bag, and never going back in.
In it they pinpointed cooking as being the transition point from early man to modern man (as far as brain capacity/size/etc...) due to less energy being expended in food digestion...
No one's starving anyone from corn use for ethanol, or soybean use for bio-diesel. Those are crop lands that were sitting idle, that are now put to use to raise crops specifically for non-food use.
There's still a crop surplus being produced in the grain belts. The price hikes are 100% caused by the Oil industry and their artificially created price hikes from last-barrel pricing.
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You use the code that's on the tag on the bottom of the laptop...
Next, you find yourself an ISO image or an install disk.
Next you grab nLite, and create your own install disk image - prior to re-creating your new iso, you modify one of the install files by changing the code so that it's now an XYZ OEM install disk, instead of ABC OEM install disk, then have it generate the ISO image, burn to disk and install...
The nice thing about nLite is that you can slipstream in things like service packs, additional drivers (as needed), remove parts you don't want, tweak settings, add the install key so you don't have to, etc...
Lots of fun and works beautifully....
You have the license for the OS, you can use it with any installation disk (as long as you modify the code to work with your key)
GAH!!!!
You caught me repeating what the poster used instead of using the correct term...
Where's the edit post feature (with onion skin ability to read what was edited)???
I dunno... I think I'd have your socket screened for carbon buildup... =)
it writes over IE7, then when uninstalled, restores it.
good grief... I can't even spell tonight... "same way".... argh......
I've been the say way since Windows 2.0.....
I never install any toolbar add-ins... so at least in my case, that's not the issue...
Installed it.
Kept google as search engine.
declined accelerators
declined web screening
turned off view of favorites, menu bar.
click favorite button that appears next to tabs, crash...
repeat the experiment...
uninstalled IE8 3 minutes after installing...
Actually, I know they can...
I was discussing this with a co-worker, and he mentioned that back in the 70s, a lot of IBM's system 360 parts were cloned by a 3rd party, and that they tried to tie their software to their hardware in an attempt to prevent the 3rd party vendor from running their software on 3rd party hardware. It went to court, and IBM lost...
Please note...
I said...
if psystar wins...
If they win, that sets the tone for any followup lawsuits and sort of ties the hands of Apple as to what they can do...
Please remember that IBM tried to force clone makers out of business and lost. I doubt that Apple has more resources than IBM.
Apple will just kill off the retail channel for upgrades of OS X.
Actually if psystar wins here, and Apple closes off the retail channel, then chances are a return lawsuit will follow and Apple will have more than it's wrist slapped... aka - they will be forced to offer OS/X to anyone that wants it...
As all decisions end up being their responsibility in the long run.
Crap may run downhill, but legal responsibility runs uphill.
At least in a world set in reality, that's how it should be...
Of course, they'd claim "we didn't know" and try to weasel their way out of it....
Just because someone writes a law claiming something exists, doesn't mean that it does.
It's a broken law, based on false pretenses.
Next thing you'll be telling me they passed a law stating that Elvis is alive, aliens exist, and bigfoot is our president.
#1 - There is no Piracy of IP - because IP doesn't exist. It cannot exist. Thought is not a tangible object. You can copyright specific code, or patent a specific object. You cannot call thought an object, it's an action. Ideas are your own, only if you never share them with anyone else. Once an idea is shared, it belongs as well to the person you've shared that idea with. You may have been the original thinker who came up with it, but it's no longer your thought alone.
#2 - DRM is a sham. It was never intended to stop piracy. It's the next generation of faulty media to be sold by the MPAA/RIAA in an attempt to continue to sell products that will fail / fall apart, degrade - so that you have to buy it again. Just like vinyl, tapes, compact discs and DVDs - DRM is designed to be broken. The MAFIAAS complain, and release the next version they had up their sleeves, ready for it to be broken as well. They want it to break, so that they can release something new, and force the consumer to buy another copy in the latest and greatest, unbreakable encryption version - which of course is broken within hours of release.
...dream mode on...
Yeah, that's the ticket...
Put that bastage in jail with the scammers - better yet - execute him..... ...awaken to reality...
filthy politician....
Actually, if you're at Best Buy, and it's a Sony, then it's probably their Sony "Express" line for big retailers, high on features, low on quality.
If you go to a mom and pop, or custom shop and buy a Sony, then it's of the "We stand behind what we sell" product line and the quality is higher.
^^^^^^^^ Stuff I've learned being in a family with retail shop owners...
Sorry - I still don't classify HP with the compaq gear they throw their label on.
When I say HP - I mean PA-RISC or ITANIUM based servers - which for the most part rely on HP-UX as an OS, which I did reference in my previous post - just not in the same sentence - so I can understand the confusion.
Migrating from an old SAN to a new SAN has been a major pain in the ass for the Linux servers - drive letters changing, size of virtual disks changing, layouts changing - and all trying to use their replication utilities.... ugh...
ZFS has been a dream... I wrote a simple script that writes the scripts to map the old drives to the new drives, run it (a series of zpool replace commands) and done.
I would presume that presenting the raw disks using ASM on Solaris would be similiar - although, yes, it may require that a label be present - but that's such an easy chore. I've got a script that will scan disks for those that aren't labeled, presents that list, you answer yes and it labels them.... One extra step... Not going to worry about it.
And all you have to do is label... once labeled, use slice 2 on SMI labeled drives as your device and nothing else needed.
With ZFS, you don't even use the slice numbers, it relabels to an EFI format and uses the disk.
Not too much BS, and beats having to deal with drive names changing on every other boot when you've added additional disks to the zones.
Sorry - but the "we" remains anonymous...
While the package management isn't the best, it's definitely not bad...
Able to manage the packages (and dependencies) of the global zone and all running containers with a single command...
Hmmm - yes - we have lots of luns - however, they increment the target on the disk in order to go beyond 8 - btw - this is on HP-UX 11i - we haven't gone further or up as the legacy software took a lot of tweaking to get it to run at this level.
Now - the tape driver, they didn't do this "target" increment trick that they implemented on the disk driver - this means that you have to manually present a new zone, which would map to a new target within the OS to go beyond 8 tape drives.
With disks, it runs cXtXd0 throug cXtXd7 - then it goes cXtX+1d0 through cXtX+1d7, then cXtX+2d0 through cXtX+2d7 - etc....
As to the Linux vs Solaris - we've had so many databases get corrupted due to RAC on linux, that they've stopped using the RAC filesystem and gone to another one. We've had issues with Linux servers (3 identical systems, identical hardware, identical builds) that just behave differently, it's uncanny. One of the servers will mount about 1/3rd of their filesystems and then error out the rest as though it timed out scanning all the devices down the san before mounting. We've had Linux servers decide they just want to shutdown - no errors in the logs, nothing wrong with the hardware - just poof - down. Hardware vendor is at a loss, RedHat is clueless.
Which filesystem were you using in your test for disk / i/o bandwidth? ufs? zfs? qfs? vxfs? some other filesystem? zfs hasn't been tuned for database performance - yet, so I wouldn't use that. I'd either use qfs or samfs - or possibly use oracle's own built in disk management system and see how that goes.
We've been migrating a ton of web applications off of 6800s, 3800s, 280Rs, etc onto just a few T2000s (yes, a 3 year old platform) and the performance of those applications has improved dramatically.
I can't wait to try out a few 5240s to replace a handful of T2000s.
So... sorry to burst your bubble - but unless they've done some new tricks (and multiple calls to HP support suggest that they haven't), they can only handle 8 luns per target, before incrementing the target number.
Having been a UNIX admin for 23 years and Solaris for 10 years, I'm not sure what you're drinking, but I'm staying away from it.
Solaris support has rocked. We've never had an issue that Sun hasn't been able to solve, and yes, we've thrown them some curves (and sliders for that matter). IBM's support has told us on multiple occasions to re-install the system as a fix for a problem. RedHat we've stumped more often than not. HP? Well - they still can't figure out how to handle more than 8 luns per target for scsi (as well as fibre)...
Solaris performance has been fantastic - outperforming Linux, AIX, HP-UX on modern equipment.
We've migrated workloads to and from Solaris - no big deal - as long as you know what you're doing.
(Our misguided DBA's started migrating from old SunOS 5.8 boxes to Linux - and are now migrating back.)
If you use tools that are available on multiple platforms, migrating isn't all that tough.
If you are developing native language apps, porting isn't terribly difficult although finding workarounds for pesky native quirks is troublesome at times.
So I guess it depends on what you call "experienced"...
Ahem...
Actually the reverse is true...
Since release 10, Solaris has been pretty well stomping the competition in price, performance and throughput. With Solaris supporting pretty much every type of virtualization (including some not offered anywhere else), it's hard to beat.
Solaris as well as OpenSolaris are free, you can download and use either flavor with no cash outlay. Want support? It's cheaper to buy Solaris support from Sun than to buy Linux support from RedHat.
There's no *tying* with Solaris, it's all about choice. I personally choose Solaris over Linux for pretty much any task.
Not at all..
Now that Apple is on an Intel platform, it's no different than all the other reverse engineering that went on with the IBM PC. IBM tried to stop it and couldn't. Do you think Apple has more money than IBM? Sorry...
The cat's out of the bag, and never going back in.
In it they pinpointed cooking as being the transition point from early man to modern man (as far as brain capacity/size/etc...) due to less energy being expended in food digestion...
There was an entire episode of "Evolve" dedicated to digestive tracks and their role in evolution.
This was on last week.
No one's starving anyone from corn use for ethanol, or soybean use for bio-diesel. Those are crop lands that were sitting idle, that are now put to use to raise crops specifically for non-food use.
There's still a crop surplus being produced in the grain belts. The price hikes are 100% caused by the Oil industry and their artificially created price hikes from last-barrel pricing.