The HP9000s aren't going away anytime soon because, from a hardware perspective, they're more mature, reliable servers in a lot of ways. But as an OS, I think everyone has been a lot happier with Linux (even the BSD guy who still complains that he can't do a 'ps -ef' in Linux).
Just get him the right version of 'ps'. I run SuSE 7 and the 'ps' that comes standard with it will do 'ps -ef' just like any good old SysV unix.
The GPL is definately a borg-ish license (funny considering the picture of good old Bill that slashdot uses). This isn't a bad thing, but it is accurate.
The absolute best Bloom County episode of them all: When the female scolds the three guys and tells them that they need to take a close look at the one thing that gives their lives meaning... They all three look down their underwear at their manhood. If any one episode needs to survive tens of thousands of years, to be found by some future historian.... that's the one.
although PKZ is only saying "I can't guarantee future versions won't be backdoored" it *will* be read as "I left because future versions WILL be backdoored"
If I have to pay a subscription, I better be getting support 24/7 for the application for as long as I'm a subscriber. Of course, If you load any applications that aren't MS approved, that would violate your EULA for the support of the subscribed application.
You get support alright, but you'll pay on a per-incident basis for it... and for your $100/hour you'll get to wait on hold forever, then finally get to talk to some bubblegum-smacking teenager who only knows how to parrot the owners manual back to you over the phone, exactly just like the quality of software support available today. Think about it.
Usually you think of underground caves as having cool temperatures. What makes these so hot? Geothermal heat close by? If that's the case, would you really want to have the general public visting down there on a regular basis, given that Mexico does have it's fair share of volcanos and earthquakes. I smell a bad Hollywood movie in the making here.
I currently administer 8 different brands & flavors of *nix servers, including commercial ones and free ones, including AIX and Linux, and including SuSE. SuSE is NOT necessarily laid out like AIX, and AIX happens to be for all practical intents and purposes, laid out very similar to HP-UX and Solaris or just about any other contemporary flavor of SysV Unix, disk and volume management and other piddly things different, of course. My two most stable machines are RS6000's running AIX. One of them had an uptime of more than 300 days before I finally had to reboot it when the network interface card hung on it after a thunderstorm. Up to that reboot, the Informix 7.xx database engine had been running on that AIX box for 260 days without an engine bounce. That's phenominally stable. I've never in my entire career had an Informix uptime on *any* unix box anywhere near that long, nor had I obtained a Unix uptime of that duration. This speaks volumes for the quality of AIX.
A long, long time ago....
In a Usenet newsgroup far, far away....
Lived the world's first motorcycle gang in cyberspace.
They were known as the "Denizens of Doom".
Their motto was "Live to Flame, Flame to Live".
... and it was a good motto.
Long Live the FreeBSD vs Linux flamewars!
Long Live "Geeky", the DoD's mascot!
(I wish I could post the ascii art of "Geeky" here, but you need to read the What Is The DoD FAQ to see that.
Re: your machine naming scheme
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While you change the names of your machines should it's vehicle have a Challenger-style disaster? Inevitably, there will be another failure.
Dude, Bite your toungue for saying that. We should all hope that the rest of the existing shuttle fleet all suffer the fate of getting to be grounded and placed on display at museums when they get too old, worn out and unpractical to remain spaceworthy.
My servers will keep their names as long as they remain in service. Belive it or not, I also have a machine named "Mir" and this machine will keep its name as long as it remains in service, since this is a different situation and the Mir space station is being intentionally end-of-lifed... a quite "honorable" and meaningful death IMHO.
Will Microsoft air a bunch of anti-Linux TV ads?
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Remember many years ago, an Apple tv commercial depicted a couple of frustrated, struggling Windows users trying to configure some software on their machine and manually editing their config files?.. and then they cut to a scene where an Apple owner was happily enjoying his completely trouble-free plug-n-play-style Macintosh?
Will we start to see a barage of MS tv ads showing a bunch of frustrated Linux newbies who are incapable of getting their system running, and then cut to a scene where their neighbor is happily running his shiny new Win2k machine?
The Challenger disaster changed my life.. no joke.
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I was working in Austin TX, as a college dropout, for a company that built automated television station equipment (I built and programmed Z-80 based embedded systems). I watched the event happen live in the company's "presentation room" on a huge wall-sized Sony projection TV system. When Challenger exploded, I felt like a bug that had just been squashed on the floor. People tend to make hasty, brash decisions when under the shock of emotional trauma and mine was to decide that day to write up my resignation notice and prepare for going back to college to finish my degree in computer science. I guess I had grand delusions of perhaps trying to get a job at NASA after graduation, but of course that was only a crazy dream. I'd grown up as a kid in the late 60s - early 70's with my face glued to the television screen for all the Apollo moon missions and as a tribute to the space program, all my servers at my current job are named after the Apollo lunar landers, except there's none named "Challeger", of course (Apollo 17, the very last moon mission's lander), and some are named after the current fleet of shuttles.
How much are you willing to pay for a complete set of genuine, vintage Slackware install floppies which I painfully downloaded from a BBS at 2400 baud sometime way back around 1993?
My instructors drilled into my brain to *always* offer up a PIREP upon initially calling up Flightwatch before asking for the wx info you want. It's good karma to give something of value first, and any FSS likes to receive confirmations of the wx data they already have on hand. More knowledge, even redundant knowledge is always a good thing when you're flying.
There sure do seem to be a lot of pilots here on Slashdot, Just out of curiosity, let's see how many read and respond to this. I'm a recent, new PP-ASEL (passed checkride in summer 2000) in northern Texas and currently working on my instrument rating. I fly Cessna 172's, a 150 and hopefully real soon now, my own (50% share) 1960's Piper Cherokee.
As a private pilot, I can tell you that the "avionics" per se, are not that vulnerable, especially to any EM above UHF frequencies (400-500MHz and upwards). Believe it or not, the most vulerable piece of navigation equipment on board is also the oldest. The venerable magnetic compass is VERY susceptable to give erroneous readings when even the slightest artificially-generated magnetic field is switched on in the aircraft. Even any ferro-magnetic metals placed near the compass will screw with its readings. A non-pilot may dismiss the importance of a mag compass, but it is an essential piece of life insurance on baord an aircraft. When all the rest of the fancy electronic junk fails and you get lost, that lowly mag compass will point you back home and save your bacon.
When the Enola Gay encountered the EMP from the bomb blast, all mag compasses on board became useless due to all the ferromagnetic materials near it becoming re-magnetized in unpredictable polarizations. They steered their heading back home by the (vacuum-operated) directional gyro, and made sure the DG was set to the mag compass *before* the blast.
Loyalty and responsibility between an employer ( and management) and the employee is a two-way relationship. Not only does the employee have to be responsible and loyal to his employer, but the employer and management must also be loyal and responsible to their employees. That includes providing stable and dependable employment, plus all the tangible and intangible attributes of a productive and goodwill-fostering workplace.
From your description of your scenario, I'd have to agree that your employer and its incompetant management has fallen short of their responsibilities to you and your fellow employees and it is definitely time to bail out, and keep *your* best interests in mind. If you stay, then philosophically you're the same thing as a battered spouse who keeps clinging to the one who beats you up.
Now there was an oddball machine. Made by CDC, I think it was called the Cyber 660, and UT had two of them connected together in some sort of load-sharing fashion. Had a 60-bit word length with 6-bit 'bytes'. The most popular application running on the monster was a software PDP-11 emulator/debugger. For my CS-410 class, I had to write an assembler and loader for the PDP-11 in assembly language itself, and get the emulator to assemble, load and run those two programs within the simulated PDP-11 environment. I was one of about 5 students in the class to get mine to work... out of 55 students who finished the class at the end of the semester in a class that began with about 275 at the start of the semester. Talk about a weed-out class in CompSci. Ahh, those were the good old days.
wouldn't chopping a huge chunk of metal from the side of the case and replacing it with glass leave a gap for electronic emissions?
Now if only Scotty would time warp back here and give us that damned recipe for Transparent Aluminum
8-)
1st Product=Audio Oscillator, 1st Customer=Disney
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He disn't "invent" the variable frequency audio oscillator, but instead his first commercial product was an audio VFO... for use as a piece of electronics test equipment. His first customer for that audio oscillator was none other than Walt Disney, for use in calibrating audio recorders used in film production.
The Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 was the king daddy paw-paw of the 1980's synths. Nothing else came close to the way fat sound of a P5, well maybe a MemoryMoog, which also used the Curtis CEM* chips for VCO/VCA/VCF functions. The P5 defined the way that hard rock synth music should sound. I picked up a decent rev 3.3 P5 and the "Remote Prophet" remote handheld controller keyboard at a used equipment store for $200, what a deal. I even have the factory service manuals and schematics for both rev2.0 and rev3.x hardware. Did you know that the P5 used a genuine Zilog Z-80 as its processor? Cool.
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The HP9000s aren't going away anytime soon because, from a hardware perspective, they're more mature, reliable servers in a lot of ways. But as an OS, I think everyone has been a lot happier with Linux (even the BSD guy who still complains that he can't do a 'ps -ef' in Linux).
Just get him the right version of 'ps'. I run SuSE 7 and the 'ps' that comes standard with it will do 'ps -ef' just like any good old SysV unix.
The GPL is definately a borg-ish license (funny considering the picture of good old Bill that slashdot uses). This isn't a bad thing, but it is accurate.
Maybe we need an RMS Borg icon too!!!
and it was half a decade before SNL!
Was he?
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The absolute best Bloom County episode of them all: When the female scolds the three guys and tells them that they need to take a close look at the one thing that gives their lives meaning... They all three look down their underwear at their manhood. If any one episode needs to survive tens of thousands of years, to be found by some future historian.... that's the one.
although PKZ is only saying "I can't guarantee future versions won't be backdoored" it *will* be read as "I left because future versions WILL be backdoored"
I thought this too.
If I have to pay a subscription, I better be getting support 24/7 for the application for as long as I'm a subscriber. Of course, If you load any applications that aren't MS approved, that would violate your EULA for the support of the subscribed application.
You get support alright, but you'll pay on a per-incident basis for it... and for your $100/hour you'll get to wait on hold forever, then finally get to talk to some bubblegum-smacking teenager who only knows how to parrot the owners manual back to you over the phone, exactly just like the quality of software support available today. Think about it.
Then by definition, your use of the (non-private) network immediately constitutes violation of your NDA.
Usually you think of underground caves as having cool temperatures. What makes these so hot? Geothermal heat close by? If that's the case, would you really want to have the general public visting down there on a regular basis, given that Mexico does have it's fair share of volcanos and earthquakes. I smell a bad Hollywood movie in the making here.
"I'm fully functional, and programmed in multiple techniques. . ."
:)
It'd be hilarious to hear Data say that to Seven's face upon their very first meeting
I currently administer 8 different brands & flavors of *nix servers, including commercial ones and free ones, including AIX and Linux, and including SuSE. SuSE is NOT necessarily laid out like AIX, and AIX happens to be for all practical intents and purposes, laid out very similar to HP-UX and Solaris or just about any other contemporary flavor of SysV Unix, disk and volume management and other piddly things different, of course. My two most stable machines are RS6000's running AIX. One of them had an uptime of more than 300 days before I finally had to reboot it when the network interface card hung on it after a thunderstorm. Up to that reboot, the Informix 7.xx database engine had been running on that AIX box for 260 days without an engine bounce. That's phenominally stable. I've never in my entire career had an Informix uptime on *any* unix box anywhere near that long, nor had I obtained a Unix uptime of that duration. This speaks volumes for the quality of AIX.
A long, long time ago....
In a Usenet newsgroup far, far away....
Lived the world's first motorcycle gang in cyberspace.
They were known as the "Denizens of Doom".
Their motto was "Live to Flame, Flame to Live".
... and it was a good motto.
Long Live the FreeBSD vs Linux flamewars!
Long Live "Geeky", the DoD's mascot!
(I wish I could post the ascii art of "Geeky" here, but you need to read the What Is The DoD FAQ to see that.
I wonder what clock speed the HAL 9000 ran at?
HAL9000 ran at 24 frames per second. It was just a MOVIE, ya know.
cha' jIH lIj ngoqDe'
While you change the names of your machines should it's vehicle have a Challenger-style disaster? Inevitably, there will be another failure.
Dude, Bite your toungue for saying that. We should all hope that the rest of the existing shuttle fleet all suffer the fate of getting to be grounded and placed on display at museums when they get too old, worn out and unpractical to remain spaceworthy. My servers will keep their names as long as they remain in service. Belive it or not, I also have a machine named "Mir" and this machine will keep its name as long as it remains in service, since this is a different situation and the Mir space station is being intentionally end-of-lifed... a quite "honorable" and meaningful death IMHO.
Remember many years ago, an Apple tv commercial depicted a couple of frustrated, struggling Windows users trying to configure some software on their machine and manually editing their config files? .. and then they cut to a scene where an Apple owner was happily enjoying his completely trouble-free plug-n-play-style Macintosh?
Will we start to see a barage of MS tv ads showing a bunch of frustrated Linux newbies who are incapable of getting their system running, and then cut to a scene where their neighbor is happily running his shiny new Win2k machine?
I was working in Austin TX, as a college dropout, for a company that built automated television station equipment (I built and programmed Z-80 based embedded systems). I watched the event happen live in the company's "presentation room" on a huge wall-sized Sony projection TV system. When Challenger exploded, I felt like a bug that had just been squashed on the floor. People tend to make hasty, brash decisions when under the shock of emotional trauma and mine was to decide that day to write up my resignation notice and prepare for going back to college to finish my degree in computer science. I guess I had grand delusions of perhaps trying to get a job at NASA after graduation, but of course that was only a crazy dream. I'd grown up as a kid in the late 60s - early 70's with my face glued to the television screen for all the Apollo moon missions and as a tribute to the space program, all my servers at my current job are named after the Apollo lunar landers, except there's none named "Challeger", of course (Apollo 17, the very last moon mission's lander), and some are named after the current fleet of shuttles.
How much are you willing to pay for a complete set of genuine, vintage Slackware install floppies which I painfully downloaded from a BBS at 2400 baud sometime way back around 1993?
Nick "Ye Olde Slackware Pharte" Driver
Nope not Lubbock. Much worse than there. Wichita Falls :-)
My instructors drilled into my brain to *always* offer up a PIREP upon initially calling up Flightwatch before asking for the wx info you want. It's good karma to give something of value first, and any FSS likes to receive confirmations of the wx data they already have on hand. More knowledge, even redundant knowledge is always a good thing when you're flying.
There sure do seem to be a lot of pilots here on Slashdot, Just out of curiosity, let's see how many read and respond to this. I'm a recent, new PP-ASEL (passed checkride in summer 2000) in northern Texas and currently working on my instrument rating. I fly Cessna 172's, a 150 and hopefully real soon now, my own (50% share) 1960's Piper Cherokee.
As a private pilot, I can tell you that the "avionics" per se, are not that vulnerable, especially to any EM above UHF frequencies (400-500MHz and upwards). Believe it or not, the most vulerable piece of navigation equipment on board is also the oldest. The venerable magnetic compass is VERY susceptable to give erroneous readings when even the slightest artificially-generated magnetic field is switched on in the aircraft. Even any ferro-magnetic metals placed near the compass will screw with its readings. A non-pilot may dismiss the importance of a mag compass, but it is an essential piece of life insurance on baord an aircraft. When all the rest of the fancy electronic junk fails and you get lost, that lowly mag compass will point you back home and save your bacon.
When the Enola Gay encountered the EMP from the bomb blast, all mag compasses on board became useless due to all the ferromagnetic materials near it becoming re-magnetized in unpredictable polarizations. They steered their heading back home by the (vacuum-operated) directional gyro, and made sure the DG was set to the mag compass *before* the blast.
Loyalty and responsibility between an employer ( and management) and the employee is a two-way relationship. Not only does the employee have to be responsible and loyal to his employer, but the employer and management must also be loyal and responsible to their employees. That includes providing stable and dependable employment, plus all the tangible and intangible attributes of a productive and goodwill-fostering workplace.
From your description of your scenario, I'd have to agree that your employer and its incompetant management has fallen short of their responsibilities to you and your fellow employees and it is definitely time to bail out, and keep *your* best interests in mind. If you stay, then philosophically you're the same thing as a battered spouse who keeps clinging to the one who beats you up.
Now there was an oddball machine. Made by CDC, I think it was called the Cyber 660, and UT had two of them connected together in some sort of load-sharing fashion. Had a 60-bit word length with 6-bit 'bytes'. The most popular application running on the monster was a software PDP-11 emulator/debugger. For my CS-410 class, I had to write an assembler and loader for the PDP-11 in assembly language itself, and get the emulator to assemble, load and run those two programs within the simulated PDP-11 environment. I was one of about 5 students in the class to get mine to work... out of 55 students who finished the class at the end of the semester in a class that began with about 275 at the start of the semester. Talk about a weed-out class in CompSci. Ahh, those were the good old days.
wouldn't chopping a huge chunk of metal from the side of the case and replacing it with glass leave a gap for electronic emissions?
Now if only Scotty would time warp back here and give us that damned recipe for Transparent Aluminum
8-)
He disn't "invent" the variable frequency audio oscillator, but instead his first commercial product was an audio VFO... for use as a piece of electronics test equipment. His first customer for that audio oscillator was none other than Walt Disney, for use in calibrating audio recorders used in film production.
The Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 was the king daddy paw-paw of the 1980's synths. Nothing else came close to the way fat sound of a P5, well maybe a MemoryMoog, which also used the Curtis CEM* chips for VCO/VCA/VCF functions. The P5 defined the way that hard rock synth music should sound. I picked up a decent rev 3.3 P5 and the "Remote Prophet" remote handheld controller keyboard at a used equipment store for $200, what a deal. I even have the factory service manuals and schematics for both rev2.0 and rev3.x hardware. Did you know that the P5 used a genuine Zilog Z-80 as its processor? Cool.