There a theory about this exact thing: (I don't remember the name of the inventor) It says that as long as you are good at the level at which you work, you are going to climb in your enterprise. But as soon as you are less efficient, you won't climb anymore and stay at this level for a long time. So most business end up with management staff just being one level too high for their abilities, completely wasting human resources... If someone remember who said this, please give the author the credits he deserves...
From what I read on the Linux-IRDA howto, some phones are supported... The list includes: The linux-irda page is here The phone list is here
The method they use is IrOBEX (Infrared Object exchange), which allows to send/receive data such as contacts from/to the phone... (woah, that's a multiple choice sentence)
I'm just gettin' my Siemens S25 (nifty phone) to work with my laptop. I don't know about serial cables support, but as the irda port emulates a serial, it should be similar. I haven't tried the PC Cards you can get with some phones, but you may want to stay away from them because they are often doing the modem work themselves (à la winmodem) making linux drivers less likely...
Do you have access to the online course? I'm asking this because it includes a nice little java router sim for doing the lab parts... And by looking at the necessary config on their site netscape 4.61 is compatible, so Linux shouldn't be a problem... Quentin
VNC (Virtual Network computing) is the best solution I have found yet to display X apps on my mac... The advantage over an X server is that if the machine displaying the apps crashes (it's not to say that macs crash a lot but, ya know, it happens...) the applications are not killed on the Linux box, so you can reboot and carry on working exactly where you were. It's also practical because you can easily launch a full KDE or GNOME environment in it. my 0.02 euros...
In the low range, I would say ATI, ecause their cards are in all new macs... You might also want to check the new Voodoos, because they are mac friendly now... (I don't know if they're out yet) In the 600 - 1000 $ range you have plenty of choice for the mac, but I haven't had the chance to test one of these...
I have a limited experience with webobjects from Apple (http://www.apple.com/webobjects) and I find it really powerful: - You can choose your language (java on client and server, objective-C and Webscript) - It supports many databases (Oracle, sybase, M$ SQL, postgres, etc) and there's a JDBC option allowing you to use any DB with JDBC support - Runs on Linux, MacoSXServer, Solaris and NT - The price: 700$ (slashed (errr. Steved) last week) is ridiculous because webobjects supports all the enterprise functions found in high end apps servers.
Zope (http://www.zope.org) and enhydra (http://www.enhydra.org) may be the best choices if you're looking for free and/or open source apps servers... BTW: First!
Your point is a bit weak: What about games/sports with more than 2 participants... Cycling would be a good example... If I'm #2, #3 or #10 of the Tour de France, I think I still would be yelling it at everybody's face...
I'm astonished that nobody made a remark about the RAID setup so far: Usually RAID 5 and a database is a pretty bad match, because RAID 5 read/write performance is lower than RAID 0, 1, 0+1 read/write performance... Is it an exception to the rule or hasn't anybody in the slashdot crew taken a database course?
I'm using XFree 4 since it was out, and I have yet to get it to crash... It also has many advantages over 3.3.x like: - Truetype fonts support out of the box (or out of the.rpm) - 3D support, including DRI and if you have a voodoo3, you can now get 3D in a window (at last) - It's fully modularized: One example, when X Free starts up, it loads a module for scanning the PCI bus to find graphic cards, and when the scanning is complete, it just unloads the module... So memory usage is lower than 3.3.x and it also has the effect that X starts really faster...
BTW for those of you using a SuSE distro, rpm updates are available on ftp.suse.com
You might want to check TogetherJ: They have a free(feature limited) version available The site is http://www.togethersoft.com Otherwise, dia from the gnome project is looking really good, even if it's not Java...
The hum! was because I had so many probs with YaST2 on the 6.3 version that I had to use the old YaST... BTW It's really clever from them to let you choose between graphical and console install, and the way they do it is cool too: Just pop in CD 1 for the GUI or CD 2 for the console install... What I would like to see is a graphical version of the configuration part of YAST, because it's already quite effective as a console app...
I spoke a bit to my DBMS teacher (who is also the school's DBA) about Linux last year when Oracle became available:
I just told him, I've tested Linux, it's a really powerful system, you should try using it for Oracle databases. If you want, I can set up a Linux server for you and teach you a bit how to use it...
Now, one year later they moved ALL their Oracle databases to Linux...
At the sysadmin course, we were only doing some NT stuff (click here to add a user, click here to change his name) so I asked the teacher if we could do some UNIX (notice no Linux here...) he told me that he would like to, but that he had no UNIX server on hand...
I was more than happy to install linux on an old 486 for him....
So my advice is: Find a good use for it, and don't forget to always advocate it positively... The standard "It's windows, it's just normal if it crashes" just doesn't work...
This is one of the few good comments on this article... First Design, second design, third design and then you can start your implementation... A bad design (or no design at all) is the best way to generate real headaches for you...
I am quite stunned that all the comments mention really specialized stuff (PCGI, mod_perl) but do not seem to care about the design of the thing:
You can really obviously tell this person to move to a three tier architecture, for example... Even before saying the least thing about the technology used... My.02 swiss francs;-)
I think SuSE is based on slackware... They use RPM since 5.x (x means I don't know) and before, they were using.tgz packages.(like slackware) Moreover, they credit Patrick Volkerding (from slackware) in their user manual...
Someone with the last word on this?
BTW I also find SuSE to be one of the best distros... And their mascot rules
I have a dual celeron box (ABIT BP6 Motherboard). If you run it in VMWARE, NT only uses 1 proc, but then the other one is still there to run all your linux apps:-)
The technique they use is quite cool, and it's even called "The Flame";-) The guy doing Le vrai journal (Karl Zero) explained how they could get access to this really expensive technology: They rent the hardware for a bargain (that is, compared to the normal price) when it's not used to make movies and commercials. Quite clever... The show runs on Canal + on sunday 12:00 (or 12:30, I don't remember exactly)
Oracle on Linux has been very stable for some time now... I've used it since version 8.0.5 and I can say it is really stable...
The main problems are installation related: Oracle expects to be linked against specific versions of libraries (Glibc, Tk libs, etc...) so it can become a problem if your distro hasn't got the good ones... For example, you can't install oracle 8i (8.1.5, the last version) on SuSE linux 6.1 because SuSE 6.1 has Glibc 2.0.7 and Oracle wants 2.1.1
Once you get around these little quirks you can try to crash it...;-)
Since I did a demo of Linux (and remote admin via VNC) to the Database guy, my school has moved all the oracle DBs to Linux (from Digital Unix and NT...)
I remember having seen screenshots of the linux mac emulator (sheepshaver) running Macos running Virtual PC running Win95 running some arcade emulator (maybe MAME)
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There a theory about this exact thing:
(I don't remember the name of the inventor)
It says that as long as you are good at the level at which you work, you are going to climb in your enterprise.
But as soon as you are less efficient, you won't climb anymore and stay at this level for a long time.
So most business end up with management staff just being one level too high for their abilities, completely wasting human resources...
If someone remember who said this, please give the author the credits he deserves...
From what I read on the Linux-IRDA howto, some phones are supported...
The list includes: The linux-irda page is here
The phone list is here
The method they use is IrOBEX (Infrared Object exchange), which allows to send/receive data such as contacts from/to the phone... (woah, that's a multiple choice sentence)
I'm just gettin' my Siemens S25 (nifty phone) to work with my laptop.
I don't know about serial cables support, but as the irda port emulates a serial, it should be similar. I haven't tried the PC Cards you can get with some phones, but you may want to stay away from them because they are often doing the modem work themselves (à la winmodem) making linux drivers less likely...
In fact, for me it's actually free...
It's included in my school's program.
It's cool because I would pay the $$$ for it...
BTW Good luck!
Do you have access to the online course?
I'm asking this because it includes a nice little java router sim for doing the lab parts...
And by looking at the necessary config on their site netscape 4.61 is compatible, so Linux shouldn't be a problem...
Quentin
VNC (Virtual Network computing) is the best solution I have found yet to display X apps on my mac...
The advantage over an X server is that if the machine displaying the apps crashes (it's not to say that macs crash a lot but, ya know, it happens...) the applications are not killed on the Linux box, so you can reboot and carry on working exactly where you were.
It's also practical because you can easily launch a full KDE or GNOME environment in it.
my 0.02 euros...
In the low range, I would say ATI, ecause their cards are in all new macs...
You might also want to check the new Voodoos, because they are mac friendly now... (I don't know if they're out yet)
In the 600 - 1000 $ range you have plenty of choice for the mac, but I haven't had the chance to test one of these...
I have a limited experience with webobjects from Apple (http://www.apple.com/webobjects) and I find it really powerful:
- You can choose your language (java on client and server, objective-C and Webscript)
- It supports many databases (Oracle, sybase, M$ SQL, postgres, etc) and there's a JDBC option allowing you to use any DB with JDBC support
- Runs on Linux, MacoSXServer, Solaris and NT
- The price: 700$ (slashed (errr. Steved) last week) is ridiculous because webobjects supports all the enterprise functions found in high end apps servers.
Zope (http://www.zope.org) and enhydra (http://www.enhydra.org) may be the best choices if you're looking for free and/or open source apps servers...
BTW: First!
Your point is a bit weak:
What about games/sports with more than 2 participants...
Cycling would be a good example... If I'm #2, #3 or #10 of the Tour de France, I think I still would be yelling it at everybody's face...
I'm astonished that nobody made a remark about the RAID setup so far:
Usually RAID 5 and a database is a pretty bad match, because RAID 5 read/write performance is lower than RAID 0, 1, 0+1 read/write performance...
Is it an exception to the rule or hasn't anybody in the slashdot crew taken a database course?
There's something strange here:
The only people I ever hear saying that are ALL coming from inside the US...
Nobody from any other country in the world would dare to say that...
I'm using XFree 4 since it was out, and I have yet to get it to crash... It also has many advantages over 3.3.x like: .rpm)
- Truetype fonts support out of the box (or out of the
- 3D support, including DRI and if you have a voodoo3, you can now get 3D in a window (at last)
- It's fully modularized: One example, when X Free starts up, it loads a module for scanning the PCI bus to find graphic cards, and when the scanning is complete, it just unloads the module... So memory usage is lower than 3.3.x and it also has the effect that X starts really faster...
BTW for those of you using a SuSE distro, rpm updates are available on ftp.suse.com
You might want to check TogetherJ:
They have a free(feature limited) version available
The site is http://www.togethersoft.com
Otherwise, dia from the gnome project is looking really good, even if it's not Java...
The hum! was because I had so many probs with YaST2 on the 6.3 version that I had to use the old YaST...
BTW It's really clever from them to let you choose between graphical and console install, and the way they do it is cool too: Just pop in CD 1 for the GUI or CD 2 for the console install...
What I would like to see is a graphical version of the configuration part of YAST, because it's already quite effective as a console app...
I spoke a bit to my DBMS teacher (who is also the school's DBA) about Linux last year when Oracle became available:
I just told him, I've tested Linux, it's a really powerful system, you should try using it for Oracle databases. If you want, I can set up a Linux server for you and teach you a bit how to use it...
Now, one year later they moved ALL their Oracle databases to Linux...
At the sysadmin course, we were only doing some NT stuff (click here to add a user, click here to change his name) so I asked the teacher if we could do some UNIX (notice no Linux here...) he told me that he would like to, but that he had no UNIX server on hand...
I was more than happy to install linux on an old 486 for him....
So my advice is: Find a good use for it, and don't forget to always advocate it positively... The standard "It's windows, it's just normal if it crashes" just doesn't work...
This is one of the few good comments on this article...
.02 swiss francs ;-)
First Design, second design, third design and then you can start your implementation...
A bad design (or no design at all) is the best way to generate real headaches for you...
I am quite stunned that all the comments mention really specialized stuff (PCGI, mod_perl) but do not seem to care about the design of the thing:
You can really obviously tell this person to move to a three tier architecture, for example...
Even before saying the least thing about the technology used... My
I think SuSE is based on slackware... .tgz packages.(like slackware)
They use RPM since 5.x (x means I don't know) and before, they were using
Moreover, they credit Patrick Volkerding (from slackware) in their user manual...
Someone with the last word on this?
BTW I also find SuSE to be one of the best distros...
And their mascot rules
ADC (the apple developer connection for novices) membership is quite cheap(per year):
:-)
99$ for students (all Macos updates, not including macos X server, and Codewarrior for Java)
199$ for the mailing edition (all macos updates also without macos X server)
499$ for the "all the stuff" edition (this one even includes macos X preview CDs and FTP access to apple's servers...)
Once you're a member you can buy Macos X server for 99$, and that's cheap because it includes a Webobjects license
So if you're a student, there is absolutely no reason not to subscribe...
even if you're not a student, the mailing edition is a bargain...
I have a dual celeron box (ABIT BP6 Motherboard). :-)
If you run it in VMWARE, NT only uses 1 proc, but then the other one is still there to run all your linux apps
VMWARE and dual processors make a good couple...
SuSE Sells stuffed penguins too...
They even sell their stuffed chameleon logo...
Check the german site (.de) as the US one doesn't seem to sell stuffed material...
The technique they use is quite cool, and it's even called "The Flame" ;-) The guy doing Le vrai journal (Karl Zero) explained how they could get access to this really expensive technology: They rent the hardware for a bargain (that is, compared to the normal price) when it's not used to make movies and commercials. Quite clever... The show runs on Canal + on sunday 12:00 (or 12:30, I don't remember exactly)
If i'm correct, there is a Java version of Quicktime...
It could be some kind of a solution...
Has anybody tried it?
Oracle on Linux has been very stable for some time now...
;-)
I've used it since version 8.0.5 and I can say it is really stable...
The main problems are installation related:
Oracle expects to be linked against specific versions of libraries (Glibc, Tk libs, etc...) so it can become a problem if your distro hasn't got the good ones...
For example, you can't install oracle 8i (8.1.5, the last version) on SuSE linux 6.1 because SuSE 6.1 has Glibc 2.0.7 and Oracle wants 2.1.1
Once you get around these little quirks you can try to crash it...
Since I did a demo of Linux (and remote admin via VNC) to the Database guy, my school has moved all the oracle DBs to Linux (from Digital Unix and NT...)
Quentin
If you haven't read it yet (dead tree or online) do it now!
I think this is the absolute must-read-open-source-book...
It's been done already....
I remember having seen screenshots of the linux mac emulator (sheepshaver) running Macos running Virtual PC running Win95 running some arcade emulator (maybe MAME)
So nothing new here...
http://rs45.bv.tu-berlin.de/JOCHEN/KPROJECT/kproje ct.php3
I think it's not quite functional yet, but you can help if you want...