I saw a presentation at CA World by an employee of Novell (Think he was president of R&D IIRC, Nat was there too BTW). In the Novell presentation they stressed their focus on the use of their directory services and management tools on linux.
I think their acquisition of SuSE along with their recent purchase of Ximian puts them in the postion of selling their directory server along with SuSE email server and Ximians client to companies searching for an alternative to AD/Exchange.
IMO they have positioned themselves perfectly to dominate the Open Source desktop world. Novell has always had a very solid set of directory services (even though the old client was clunky as hell). Novell's name and their obvious touting of Open Source will surely be beneficial to the whole movement when corporate purchasers get tired of the endless amount of updates and expensive upgrade paths that Microsoft provides.
Another famous New York Landmark also suffered an airplane collision. Now granted the airplane that hit the side of the Empire State Building was not the same size as the two that hit the World Trade Center, the B25 did quite a bit of structural damage. Enough damage in fact, that if simply the collision caused the Trade Center collapse, then the Empire STate (the plane did hit somewhere between the 78th and 79th floors)building should have also collapsed. In actuality the reason that
the Trade Center collapsed and the Empire State building did not, is one of metallurgy. The thousands of gallons of jet fuel that were burning in the Trade Centers got hot enough to anneal the structural steel. When that happened the sheer mass of the floors above the impact zone collapsed triggering the chain reaction. Had the Jets that hit the Trade centers been nearly empty of fuel (ie. getting ready to land, instead of just taking off) the buildings would have survived the impact.
"Army Lieutenant Colonel William Smith Jr., a 27-year-old veteran of 34 bombing missions over Germany, had been flying a twin-engine B-25 bomber from Bedford, Massachusetts, to New York's LaGuardia Airport, and had secured permission to continue to Newark, New Jersey.
The fog was blinding. When he dropped down out of the clouds, he found himself approaching a forest of skyscrapers. In a panic, he banked away from the Grand Central Building, then from another tower on Fifth Avenue, only to find himself bearing down on the biggest one of all.
In desperation, he pulled up hard, twisting. The 10-ton (9-tonne) bomber plowed into the office of War Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference on the 78th and 79th floors, 913 feet (278 meters) off the street, tearing a gaping hole in the Empire State Building's north side."
Solaris doesnt ship with a c compiler anymore. You either buy Suns' Forte C Compiler or dload a precompiled version of gcc and use it. IIRC AIX doesnt ship with a compiler either, you must buy a compiler from IBM or get a binary of gcc.
This would be a nice piece of equipment for a small business. It could be deployed in an existing machine and serve two important functions. Small business owners usually dont have the kind of capital to buy routers and a firewall and this can serve both funcs. The same thing is easily done with a linux box and two nic's, but this is a hardware solution, and most 'consumers' would choose a cheap piece of hardware w/ support over a free piece of software w/o support.
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I saw a presentation at CA World by an employee of Novell (Think he was president of R&D IIRC, Nat was there too BTW). In the Novell presentation they stressed their focus on the use of their directory services and management tools on linux.
I think their acquisition of SuSE along with their recent purchase of Ximian puts them in the postion of selling their directory server along with SuSE email server and Ximians client to companies searching for an alternative to AD/Exchange.
IMO they have positioned themselves perfectly to dominate the Open Source desktop world. Novell has always had a very solid set of directory services (even though the old client was clunky as hell). Novell's name and their obvious touting of Open Source will surely be beneficial to the whole movement when corporate purchasers get tired of the endless amount of updates and expensive upgrade paths that Microsoft provides.
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These are the books in the bin of my cube, in no particular order.
Sed and Awk - Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins
Exploring Expect - Don Libes
UNIX System Administration Handbook - Evi Nemeth
Mastering Regular Expressions - by Jeffrey Friedl
Sun Performance and Tuning: Sparc & Solaris -Adrian Cockcroft
Solaris Internals: Core Kernel Architecture -
Jim Mauro, Richard McDougall
PANIC! UNIX System Crash Dump Analysis Handbook -
Chris Drake, Kimberley Brown
AIX Performance Tuning Guide - Frank Waters
UNIX Shell Programming, Revised Edition -
Stephen G. Kochan, Patrick H. Wood
The Korn Shell - Anatole Olczak
I dont remember the article saying where he worked. Maybe the Polish Parliment
Another famous New York Landmark also suffered an airplane collision. Now granted the airplane that hit the side of the Empire State Building was not the same size as the two that hit the World Trade Center, the B25 did quite a bit of structural damage. Enough damage in fact, that if simply the collision caused the Trade Center collapse, then the Empire STate (the plane did hit somewhere between the 78th and 79th floors)building should have also collapsed. In actuality the reason that the Trade Center collapsed and the Empire State building did not, is one of metallurgy. The thousands of gallons of jet fuel that were burning in the Trade Centers got hot enough to anneal the structural steel. When that happened the sheer mass of the floors above the impact zone collapsed triggering the chain reaction. Had the Jets that hit the Trade centers been nearly empty of fuel (ie. getting ready to land, instead of just taking off) the buildings would have survived the impact.
The following excerpt is from "Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon", copyright © 2001, available from John Wiley & Sons. It describes the impact of the B25 that hit the Empire State Building in 1945.
"Army Lieutenant Colonel William Smith Jr., a 27-year-old veteran of 34 bombing missions over Germany, had been flying a twin-engine B-25 bomber from Bedford, Massachusetts, to New York's LaGuardia Airport, and had secured permission to continue to Newark, New Jersey.
The fog was blinding. When he dropped down out of the clouds, he found himself approaching a forest of skyscrapers. In a panic, he banked away from the Grand Central Building, then from another tower on Fifth Avenue, only to find himself bearing down on the biggest one of all.
In desperation, he pulled up hard, twisting. The 10-ton (9-tonne) bomber plowed into the office of War Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference on the 78th and 79th floors, 913 feet (278 meters) off the street, tearing a gaping hole in the Empire State Building's north side."
The full article describing the impact in 1945 can be found here: Empire State Building Collision.
Solaris doesnt ship with a c compiler anymore. You either buy Suns' Forte C Compiler or dload a precompiled version of gcc and use it. IIRC AIX doesnt ship with a compiler either, you must buy a compiler from IBM or get a binary of gcc.
It is very noble of the DoD to step in to prevent "widespread anxiety" of these satellites dropping into the atmosphere.
This would be a nice piece of equipment for a small business. It could be deployed in an existing machine and serve two important functions. Small business owners usually dont have the kind of capital to buy routers and a firewall and this can serve both funcs. The same thing is easily done with a linux box and two nic's, but this is a hardware solution, and most 'consumers' would choose a cheap piece of hardware w/ support over a free piece of software w/o support. Hasta