If UPS runs heavily on OS/2, then why are all of their site based shipping software only running under NT with Access/foxPro ODBS support. I've never seen any of the UPS shipping software come with OS/2 apps, Much less provide server based LAN functions from OS/2. Always requiring NT and ODBS stuff with Access or FoxPro.
I was so excited when i got my StarOffice 5.1 CD. I saw x86, sparc, solaris, windows, etc... But upon firther investigation and taking a second look at the CD, No Sparc Linux version. I was like WTF? all these platforms and no dist fo rmy new toy. Damn. Oh well , I have yet to install it under Win9x. Maybe I'll try that tonite. I also had a small problem with GnomeICU under sparc linux. But i prolly built it wrong.. who knows.
My most recently left job was with an ISP. They had a Sparc Ultra 1 and a Sparc 10. I tried for weeks to get RH installed. There are some strange inherent problems with the Sun hardware you need to know if you are going to install Linux on one. Most of the older Sparc adn Ultra Sparc machines have old firmware on them. With this older firmware you cannot boot from a floopy sometimes. I had to take Solaris 7 and install on the machine and it told me that my bios was old and did i want to upgrade. So i said yes... it chugged for a minute then pooped out telling me i could not write to the EPROM. So i had to search the net and find where the Jumper was to enable EPROM Writing. On the Ultra 1 machines this is under the video card... Take 4 screws out , pop the case, unsnap the video daughtercard out, move a jumper, put the video back in. Then restart the install of solaris. it will update the BIOS. Then i had the problem of it not wanting to read the ISO i had made. It never would recognise the CD i put in there. SO i ended mounting the CD on an Intel box, ( I DL all the RPMS and other install files from RedHat and made a CD ) in the pub FTP directory, made a bootnet.img floppy and did a networked install. After all that work It runs Great. Sound, Video at 1280x1024 on the Sun 21 " monitor. Sweet. The hardware was a Sun Ultra 1, 256M / 4G. I wish i could have bought that machine, But i had to leave it there. I'll get one one day. I think thats all the caveats i ran into... OH! I almost forgot... My first experience with that machine was trying to get it to do a NFS install and use SUN's "boot net" feature. I never figured that one out. Hope this Helps anyone Aspiring to run an UltraPenguin. Any questions about what i had to do to get it up and running email me.
Macintosh video has always been rather odd. I remember a few of the macs i had in the past and the res was always limited by the monitor. different monitors would let the mac video run at different resolutions. Kinda like an INF in windows will set the parms for the monitor you have and not let a destructive res be attained. Possibly the IMAC video will allow a higher res on a different monitor but i havent tested it out. ( access to imacs and big monitors is limited ) I'm sure it will run higher but inorder to get the desktop to correctly appear in the digi pic he left it at 800x600 so it would be readable in low res picure. I would like to see that thing running at like 1280x1024 but alas... why not email him and see if he would make a pic with high res to see if its really worth going to all the trouble of hacking one up to pieces. If all it will do is 800x600 whats the point? Big monitors means higher res in my book. I'll be damned if i run anything lower than 1024x768 on ANY monitor. 14" or otherwise. And yes i do have a 14" monitor that runs X at 1024x768 on a 4MB S3 GX. Cluster
I installed a IBM Netfinity RACK system and it came ( was ordered with ) a switch. Totally electronic, you hit the print screen key to bring up a menu. It worked very well between a Linux box and a NT box. THe machines were netfinity 7000 M10s and all the other hardware was IBM stuff. I.E. IBM kbd, monitor, and mouse... BUT the switch was from a different manufacturer. Can't remember which one but it was sold as a package. It was all PS/2 based and I'm really sure it would work with other hardware. Neither GDM or X ever threw a fit about the switchover and Neither did NT. It really worked well. Also it would handle up to 10 devices i believe.
Well im sure ill be old and grey before hellsouth decides that they will offer anything more than ISDN here... places like Nashville already have it but the tennessee public service commission is much better than the bastards in alabama. Im sure ill get raped with charges that rival leased lines whenever DSL comes out... or maybe they'll try and meter every bit that squeaks through. Im getting raped now with ISDN and bellsouth im sure will rape us on DSL. bellsouth is like an out of control rapist/mistress. Microsoft is not who should be under scrutiny for anti trust it should be bellsouth!
I have lost 4 keyboards to beer in the past year.... Most recentlyu my nice ligitech internet keyboard. I like lots of programmable buttons...but alas.. im back to a $4 keyboard until i can muster up the courage to go buy anotherone to spill beer in... ( it seems my keyboards get as thirsty as i do)
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If UPS runs heavily on OS/2, then why are all of their site based shipping software only running under NT with Access/foxPro ODBS support. I've never seen any of the UPS shipping software come with OS/2 apps, Much less provide server based LAN functions from OS/2. Always requiring NT and ODBS stuff with Access or FoxPro.
Maybe i wasn't looking in the right place.
I was so excited when i got my StarOffice 5.1 CD. I saw x86, sparc, solaris, windows, etc... But upon firther investigation and taking a second look at the CD, No Sparc Linux version. I was like WTF? all these platforms and no dist fo rmy new toy. Damn. Oh well , I have yet to install it under Win9x. Maybe I'll try that tonite. I also had a small problem with GnomeICU under sparc linux. But i prolly built it wrong.. who knows.
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My most recently left job was with an ISP. They had a Sparc Ultra 1 and a Sparc 10. I tried for weeks to get RH installed. There are some strange inherent problems with the Sun hardware you need to know if you are going to install Linux on one. Most of the older Sparc adn Ultra Sparc machines have old firmware on them. With this older firmware you cannot boot from a floopy sometimes. I had to take Solaris 7 and install on the machine and it told me that my bios was old and did i want to upgrade. So i said yes... it chugged for a minute then pooped out telling me i could not write to the EPROM. So i had to search the net and find where the Jumper was to enable EPROM Writing. On the Ultra 1 machines this is under the video card... Take 4 screws out , pop the case, unsnap the video daughtercard out, move a jumper, put the video back in. Then restart the install of solaris. it will update the BIOS. Then i had the problem of it not wanting to read the ISO i had made. It never would recognise the CD i put in there. SO i ended mounting the CD on an Intel box, ( I DL all the RPMS and other install files from RedHat and made a CD ) in the pub FTP directory, made a bootnet.img floppy and did a networked install. After all that work It runs Great. Sound, Video at 1280x1024 on the Sun 21 " monitor. Sweet. The hardware was a Sun Ultra 1, 256M / 4G. ... OH! I almost forgot... My first experience with that machine was trying to get it to do a NFS install and use SUN's "boot net" feature. I never figured that one out. Hope this Helps anyone Aspiring to run an UltraPenguin. Any questions about what i had to do to get it up and running email me.
I wish i could have bought that machine, But i had to leave it there. I'll get one one day.
I think thats all the caveats i ran into
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Macintosh video has always been rather odd. I remember a few of the macs i had in the past and the res was always limited by the monitor. different monitors would let the mac video run at different resolutions. Kinda like an INF in windows will set the parms for the monitor you have and not let a destructive res be attained. Possibly the IMAC video will allow a higher res on a different monitor but i havent tested it out. ( access to imacs and big monitors is limited ) I'm sure it will run higher but inorder to get the desktop to correctly appear in the digi pic he left it at 800x600 so it would be readable in low res picure. I would like to see that thing running at like 1280x1024 but alas... why not email him and see if he would make a pic with high res to see if its really worth going to all the trouble of hacking one up to pieces. If all it will do is 800x600 whats the point? Big monitors means higher res in my book. I'll be damned if i run anything lower than 1024x768 on ANY monitor. 14" or otherwise. And yes i do have a 14" monitor that runs X at 1024x768 on a 4MB S3 GX.
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I installed a IBM Netfinity RACK system and it came ( was ordered with ) a switch. Totally electronic, you hit the print screen key to bring up a menu. It worked very well between a Linux box and a NT box. THe machines were netfinity 7000 M10s and all the other hardware was IBM stuff. I.E. IBM kbd, monitor, and mouse... BUT the switch was from a different manufacturer. Can't remember which one but it was sold as a package. It was all PS/2 based and I'm really sure it would work with other hardware. Neither GDM or X ever threw a fit about the switchover and Neither did NT. It really worked well. Also it would handle up to 10 devices i believe.
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Well im sure ill be old and grey before hellsouth decides that they will offer anything more than ISDN here... places like Nashville already have it but the tennessee public service commission is much better than the bastards in alabama. Im sure ill get raped with charges that rival leased lines whenever DSL comes out... or maybe they'll try and meter every bit that squeaks through. Im getting raped now with ISDN and bellsouth im sure will rape us on DSL. bellsouth is like an out of control rapist/mistress. Microsoft is not who should be under scrutiny for anti trust it should be bellsouth!
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I have lost 4 keyboards to beer in the past year.... Most recentlyu my nice ligitech internet keyboard. I like lots of programmable buttons.. .but alas.. im back to a $4 keyboard until i can muster up the courage to go buy anotherone to spill beer in... ( it seems my keyboards get as thirsty as i do)
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