Can your cheap 4-way Xeon dynamically remove a failed processor from the running system? Can it dynamically remove a memory bank from use if it fails?
Who fucking cares? For the cost of one of your "super-reliable" Suns, I can run a dozen PCs -- and if one, or even two fail, I can -- *gasp* -- simply replace them. Whole-unit replacement is a hell of a lot simpler and cheaper than fucking about inside a Sun.
Have you ever read through Sun's FE Handbook? It's a nightmare. Ever tried to hot-swap hardware inside a production Sun server while it's online and in use? Bah. Give me a room full of Linux PCs any day!
Hold on people. Let me try to offer my two cents on the situation. Backing my opinion is (a) that I'm a Sun Certified System Administrator of almost ten years experience, and (b) that I've worked for several all-Sun shops.
Where Sun is getting killed is price point. I don't consider their hardware to be any more or less reliable than an x86 PC from Compaq, Dell, or HP. So let's say I have a massive computing need for, oh say, chip design. Chip designers, like Texas Instruments, Cirrus Logic, or General Semiconductor, require massive amounts of CPU time and even more memory. Sun's ultra-high-end offerings are worthless, since you simply can't cram enough RAM into their higher-end Enterprise servers. And guess what? It's a hell of a lot cheaper to setup fifty Linux PCs than twenty Sun Blades.
Oh, you want those servers to load balance/load share? To be in a cluster? More $$$'s. Want RAID? Want some kind of SAN solution? Even more big bucks for proprietary solutions from Sun, VERITAS, or Legato. But when they're Linux, clustering is free (software-wise.) And while the hardware costs for RAID and SAN remain high, the software to make them work is dirt cheap compared to anything you would have to buy for Solaris.
And now that major vendors are offering Linux versions of their design tools, we are no longer tied to Solaris. In fact, Sun's been slaughtered on the desktop; no longer do we stick Ultra 5's and 10's on the designer's desktops, now they're running their tools on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP. Admittedly this is way worse from a stability standpoint, but nonetheless, Sun has lost.
Sun has priced themselves right out of the market, and the few executives who are still there (after the previous mass exit) are too stupid to see the writing on the wall. It really sucks that I own Sun stock, with my shares being totally underwater and whatnot. Not to mention all the Sun hardware I have sitting on the floor next to me here, which isn't even worth the effort to eBay.:^)
Ctrl+N to open a new window. IE starts to re-load the contents of the previous window.
Actually, this is a great feature. In addition to duplicating the first window, it also duplicates the first window's history, so the back and forward buttons work the same. On a dual-monitor PC, this is wonderful if I want to go back to a previous page while still viewing the current page. Hit ^N, go back in the second window, and viola!
Another reason why dumping IE is very nearly impossible is that an aweful lot of the web is written for IE. I know, you'll rant about how that's wrong, how HTML is a cross-platform standard, etc. But the fact remains, a lot of sites will simply dump you to a "IE required" page if you come at them in something like Opera or Mozilla. Of course, with Opera, you can change what the browser reports itself as, which will sometimes get you in; but just as often, the "IE required" warning was valid, and the code found after that page causes Opera to choke and gag.
You're going at this issue from the wrong end. Don't try to convince the average user that IE sucks; they couldn't care less about monopolies, open standards, freedom of code, et al. They just want to view their favorite web sites, and IE does this fine. Rather, you should be convincing the web site designers and coders to code in a W3C-compliant fashion, so that their site renders the same under all W3C-compliant browsers. Once this happens, then switching the end users from IE will be trivial, since the web will look, and work, the same on non-IE browsers.
That was truly horrifying. The image of a fat geek who lives with his mom stuffed inside that spandex costume will forever haunt me. I think I'll go gaze upon goat.cx in an effort at ridding myself of the TRON costume memory!
...And when running, have your.45 ACP pistol out. When you're approaching the target, quickly holster it, and whip out your Panzerfaust. Switch back the instant your Panzer shot has been fired, and use the keypad to strafe, jump, and run backward all at the same time. Works in RtCW:ET everytime!
The reason programmers don't get paid jack is that most of them are as dumb as rocks. For example, you'd get better Perl code out of/dev/urandom than most Perl programmers:
perl -e 'open(F,"/dev/urandom") || die; while (<F>) { eval; }'
I ordinarily don't respond to Trolls, but I had been wondering for awhile what a teabagger was. I looked it up, and for the edification of my fellow/. readers, here is the definition:
Teabagger, a man who squats on top of a man's or woman's face and lowers his genitals into his or her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging."
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Budda-ching!
Have you ever read through Sun's FE Handbook? It's a nightmare. Ever tried to hot-swap hardware inside a production Sun server while it's online and in use? Bah. Give me a room full of Linux PCs any day!
Where Sun is getting killed is price point. I don't consider their hardware to be any more or less reliable than an x86 PC from Compaq, Dell, or HP. So let's say I have a massive computing need for, oh say, chip design. Chip designers, like Texas Instruments, Cirrus Logic, or General Semiconductor, require massive amounts of CPU time and even more memory. Sun's ultra-high-end offerings are worthless, since you simply can't cram enough RAM into their higher-end Enterprise servers. And guess what? It's a hell of a lot cheaper to setup fifty Linux PCs than twenty Sun Blades.
Oh, you want those servers to load balance/load share? To be in a cluster? More $$$'s. Want RAID? Want some kind of SAN solution? Even more big bucks for proprietary solutions from Sun, VERITAS, or Legato. But when they're Linux, clustering is free (software-wise.) And while the hardware costs for RAID and SAN remain high, the software to make them work is dirt cheap compared to anything you would have to buy for Solaris.
And now that major vendors are offering Linux versions of their design tools, we are no longer tied to Solaris. In fact, Sun's been slaughtered on the desktop; no longer do we stick Ultra 5's and 10's on the designer's desktops, now they're running their tools on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP. Admittedly this is way worse from a stability standpoint, but nonetheless, Sun has lost.
Sun has priced themselves right out of the market, and the few executives who are still there (after the previous mass exit) are too stupid to see the writing on the wall. It really sucks that I own Sun stock, with my shares being totally underwater and whatnot. Not to mention all the Sun hardware I have sitting on the floor next to me here, which isn't even worth the effort to eBay. :^)
Wait just a damned minute! Your wife has headlights?
*ducks and runs for cover*
Clearly, you are not a GoatSex aficionado, like everyone else on /. The link was moved to http://goat.cx, duh.
LOL! Mod the parent up. That's a very funny quip.
Another reason why dumping IE is very nearly impossible is that an aweful lot of the web is written for IE. I know, you'll rant about how that's wrong, how HTML is a cross-platform standard, etc. But the fact remains, a lot of sites will simply dump you to a "IE required" page if you come at them in something like Opera or Mozilla. Of course, with Opera, you can change what the browser reports itself as, which will sometimes get you in; but just as often, the "IE required" warning was valid, and the code found after that page causes Opera to choke and gag.
You're going at this issue from the wrong end. Don't try to convince the average user that IE sucks; they couldn't care less about monopolies, open standards, freedom of code, et al. They just want to view their favorite web sites, and IE does this fine. Rather, you should be convincing the web site designers and coders to code in a W3C-compliant fashion, so that their site renders the same under all W3C-compliant browsers. Once this happens, then switching the end users from IE will be trivial, since the web will look, and work, the same on non-IE browsers.
That, or your friends will all amuse themselves with poking it repeatedly in its Achilles buttock.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
...And when running, have your .45 ACP pistol out. When you're approaching the target, quickly holster it, and whip out your Panzerfaust. Switch back the instant your Panzer shot has been fired, and use the keypad to strafe, jump, and run backward all at the same time. Works in RtCW:ET everytime!
"He who runs away lives to fight another day."
I am a liberal pinhead, you insensitive clod!
Hello!
Negative, private! We're running PunkBuster!
But, the $64,000 question is ... will you be allowed to camp the enemy spawn point?
If you have no chance of survival, do you still get to make your time?
Well, duh! You not only live in the armpit of the United States, but also the automobile theft capital of the world!
Cthulhu for President in 2004. Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
Teabagger, a man who squats on top of a man's or woman's face and lowers his genitals into his or her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging."
In Soviet Russia, your baggage looses you!
perl -e '$??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{;; y; -/:-@[-`{-};`-{/" -;;s;;print $_;see'