I'd be more than happy to send you digital copies of the Detroit Tigers games, if you supply me with the hardware to get it into one of my Linux boxes.:-)
Of course, watching a Detroit Tigers game probably isn't going to be all that interesting, though with Trammel, Parrish, and Gibson behind the scenes now, it should at least be better than the last few seasons! All we need is Mr. Sweet Lou Whitaker back.
I think Mr. Roosevelt's meaning would have been more like "You should attempt to not use the stick. But some people are just so stupid, that you'd better have the big ass stick to back it up. Not only will that help you in the talking, but should they not be reasonable persons you are dealing with, they just might only listen to force."
It's all about bandwidth, not server load. I'd be willing to bet money that I could hook up a 486 to a gigabit ethernet connection, and it could handle being slashdotted.
The ability to accomplish this task successfully has taken AT&T, Novell and SCO at least 20 years, with access to expensive equipment for design and testing, well-trained UNIX engineers and a wealth of experience in UNIX methods and concepts
Well, duh. I seriously doubt that 18 years ago, for example, AT&T, Novell, or SCO would have had 32 processor systems around. For that matter, likely having -2- processors around would have been a miracle, although i certainly recognize that mainframes would have had that capability.. i don't think we're discussing mainframes necessarily. More on the order of personal to mini-computers, not going to the Big Iron level.
The hardware business has been commoditized (I was -given- a server box capable of handling 2-4 Pentium 3 CPU's, unfortunatly it only had one installed.. because the hard drive didn't work. *boggle*).. there have been people studying operating systems design and implementation and such for 30-40 years now in schools, with much of their learning coming from Unixes such as HP/UX, AIX, and yes... BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux. This is all just absoluetly silly.
...a machine running 2.0.38. It's primarily a router, though it also runs mailserver and web server. It's a 486sx/25. In fact, it was once called a Tandy Sensation. Still has it's original 270mb or thereabouts hard drive, it's sound board (though nothing has been plugged into it for speakers for years).. cranked it from 4MB RAM to 40MB RAM, threw in a pair of Ethernet cards, and it's been happy ever since. It actually has Linux and OS/2 installed on it.. Linux boots from floppy, OS/2 from the hard drive.. OS/2 is also configured with some software to act as a router....
They are just pissed off that SCO is a big smoking chunk of shit, whereas all the other Unixes (Unices?) ever created (yes, including HP/UX... HP/UX is nowhere near the trash pile most here seem to think it is) beat it into the ground.
As far as I can tell, the last major updated in SCO was when AT&T SOLD it to SCO, and they changed the name from "AT&T Unix System 7" to "SCO Unix". And I'm not even going to talk about Xenix. Well, too late. Oops.
So this will be just like having libc.so.4 vs libc.so.5.
Or just like having MSVBRNT40.DLL MSVBRNT50.DLL MSVBRNT60.DLL (i don't remember the names.. referring to the MS Visual Basic runtime DLL)..
It's like DUH... Have the application tell the OS what version of the library it's expecting, then have the OS query the library to find out what works for it./
Could SOMEONE PLEASE use the Acronym tag? I don't mean to flame (and i'm going to turn off my karma bonus, so please don't moderate this into nothingness as troll or flame) but that whole story reads kind of like Robin Williams dialogue in Good Morning Vietnam where he goes on for like 2 minutes saying nothing but acronyms.
I don't have any specific information about it, but I've got a server on my home LAN that has a single NFS share exported out into the LAN world, and I occasionally get kernel panics on that machine, in the NFS code. I only use it to export my MP3 directory to the machine that's right next to it, so I don't really let it bother me too much.. but I do have to reboot if I want to get access back to my MP3's on the LAN. Fortunatly I'm not normally home enough to want the MP3's on there too often.
It's kernel 2.4.20, I think. And any other client that does connect to it is Linux 2.5.x.
While we're on this thread, I have a P100 laptop with 40MB ram and a 700MB hard drive. The floppy disk drive is completely shot on it, and I can't boot anything from it.
Is there any sort of relatively modern distribution out there that can be installed say UMSDOS (any distros even support that anymore?) from the file system they are residing on?
Ie, I want to download a bunch of files to a directory on my DOS drive, run a program, and have it install from there.
Considering that the caller ID information is transmitted by the TELEPHONE company, that would mean that these guys would need to have an alliance with the TELCOS to access/change the databases. Interesting.
Cheap DC->AC inverters are often just that - CHEAP. Might work ok for radios and things that don't require necessarily consistent power but I wouldn't want to plug really power sensitive devices into a $30-$40 300 watt inverter. I'm sure there's very good reason that places that aren't truck stops sell a 300 watt inverter for the area of $150 or more.
Hmm. Interesting. I wasn't an IE or Netscape user back in those days (IBM WebExplorer was the deal then... man that was one fast browser compared to both of those lugs) so that gives me some insight.
I would tell myself the winning lottery numbers to some mega huge jackpot.
I would tell myself that I would find the love of my life 3 years from then, and that to preserve my own sanity, I should find a way to save her from herself that didn't include breaking up with her 3 years after that. (it worked.. she's still alive... but I've lived a miserable time w/o her)
I would tell myself that if I continued hacking on Linux 0.98, instead of giving it up for more mature systems (OS/2), I could have a really kick ass job doing something in Linux, and use my current retail job to gain extra holiday income.. lol
I would tell myself NOT to abandon the killer software project that I was working on that would likely have been a LOT better than the WWW, simply beacuse Windows was the dominant operating system and Windows '95 didn't have the multi-threaded ness that it was promised to have brought in, which Linux and OS/2 had, and I wanted to go for a market share.
I would tell myself to find a better way to keep my best friend from joining the Air Force than just begging incessantly. Maybe shooting him in the foot or something.
Hmm. The place I work for has "Sony" branded CD-R's for sale. Or, at least, we used to, until the buyer realised they were pieces of junk compared to Fuji and Philips brands that we now carry.
hmm. fair enough. I guess I never noticed that all the reports said 5am UTC, and just assumed they were EST. oopsie!
Still, when I woke up, most of the world was back to normal except for some internal networks that were crashed to halts. Though I think most of the problems that I had with issues were when dealing with corporations who had taken themselves completely offline to avoid being hit harder (at least, that's what one of the companies i work with did.. i think the other one probably uses MS SQL internally and got their internal network fairly well destroyed, since they don't have competent people at ANY level that i've ever met, so i doubt sysadmins are any better)
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If I had mod points, I'd give this a couple plusses for Funny.
I'd be more than happy to send you digital copies of the Detroit Tigers games, if you supply me with the hardware to get it into one of my Linux boxes. :-)
Of course, watching a Detroit Tigers game probably isn't going to be all that interesting, though with Trammel, Parrish, and Gibson behind the scenes now, it should at least be better than the last few seasons! All we need is Mr. Sweet Lou Whitaker back.
Exactly my point. :)
I think Mr. Roosevelt's meaning would have been more like "You should attempt to not use the stick. But some people are just so stupid, that you'd better have the big ass stick to back it up. Not only will that help you in the talking, but should they not be reasonable persons you are dealing with, they just might only listen to force."
They are claiming the Omni print driver? Isn't the Omni print driver available for virtually everything?
*boggle*
It's all about bandwidth, not server load. I'd be willing to bet money that I could hook up a 486 to a gigabit ethernet connection, and it could handle being slashdotted.
Well, duh. I seriously doubt that 18 years ago, for example, AT&T, Novell, or SCO would have had 32 processor systems around. For that matter, likely having -2- processors around would have been a miracle, although i certainly recognize that mainframes would have had that capability.. i don't think we're discussing mainframes necessarily. More on the order of personal to mini-computers, not going to the Big Iron level.
The hardware business has been commoditized (I was -given- a server box capable of handling 2-4 Pentium 3 CPU's, unfortunatly it only had one installed.. because the hard drive didn't work. *boggle*).. there have been people studying operating systems design and implementation and such for 30-40 years now in schools, with much of their learning coming from Unixes such as HP/UX, AIX, and yes... BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux. This is all just absoluetly silly.
...a machine running 2.0.38. It's primarily a router, though it also runs mailserver and web server. It's a 486sx/25. In fact, it was once called a Tandy Sensation. Still has it's original 270mb or thereabouts hard drive, it's sound board (though nothing has been plugged into it for speakers for years) .. cranked it from 4MB RAM to 40MB RAM, threw in a pair of Ethernet cards, and it's been happy ever since. It actually has Linux and OS/2 installed on it.. Linux boots from floppy, OS/2 from the hard drive.. OS/2 is also configured with some software to act as a router....
They are just pissed off that SCO is a big smoking chunk of shit, whereas all the other Unixes (Unices?) ever created (yes, including HP/UX... HP/UX is nowhere near the trash pile most here seem to think it is) beat it into the ground.
As far as I can tell, the last major updated in SCO was when AT&T SOLD it to SCO, and they changed the name from "AT&T Unix System 7" to "SCO Unix". And I'm not even going to talk about Xenix. Well, too late. Oops.
So this will be just like having libc.so.4 vs libc.so.5.
..
Or just like having MSVBRNT40.DLL MSVBRNT50.DLL MSVBRNT60.DLL (i don't remember the names.. referring to the MS Visual Basic runtime DLL)
It's like DUH... Have the application tell the OS what version of the library it's expecting, then have the OS query the library to find out what works for it./
Could SOMEONE PLEASE use the Acronym tag? I don't mean to flame (and i'm going to turn off my karma bonus, so please don't moderate this into nothingness as troll or flame) but that whole story reads kind of like Robin Williams dialogue in Good Morning Vietnam where he goes on for like 2 minutes saying nothing but acronyms.
They never stop working for you or something like that.
I've been all OVER BFE, and I've never had Verizon not work.
Of course, this is assuming that you are in the U.S. somewhere.
I don't have any specific information about it, but I've got a server on my home LAN that has a single NFS share exported out into the LAN world, and I occasionally get kernel panics on that machine, in the NFS code. I only use it to export my MP3 directory to the machine that's right next to it, so I don't really let it bother me too much.. but I do have to reboot if I want to get access back to my MP3's on the LAN. Fortunatly I'm not normally home enough to want the MP3's on there too often.
It's kernel 2.4.20, I think.
And any other client that does connect to it is Linux 2.5.x.
While we're on this thread, I have a P100 laptop with 40MB ram and a 700MB hard drive. The floppy disk drive is completely shot on it, and I can't boot anything from it.
Is there any sort of relatively modern distribution out there that can be installed say UMSDOS (any distros even support that anymore?) from the file system they are residing on?
Ie, I want to download a bunch of files to a directory on my DOS drive, run a program, and have it install from there.
Is this possible?
Considering that the caller ID information is transmitted by the TELEPHONE company, that would mean that these guys would need to have an alliance with the TELCOS to access/change the databases. Interesting.
Cheap DC->AC inverters are often just that - CHEAP. Might work ok for radios and things that don't require necessarily consistent power but I wouldn't want to plug really power sensitive devices into a $30-$40 300 watt inverter. I'm sure there's very good reason that places that aren't truck stops sell a 300 watt inverter for the area of $150 or more.
Hasn't anyone come to the conclusion yet, that the entire question is "Digital 4 track recorders?"
Sometimes all you need is a subject, without any elaboration. So, everyone talk about DIGITAL 4 TRACK RECORDERS. sheesh.
Hmm. Interesting. I wasn't an IE or Netscape user back in those days (IBM WebExplorer was the deal then... man that was one fast browser compared to both of those lugs) so that gives me some insight.
For some reason, I especially like a lot of your suggestions. Especially the ones that can be applied by anyone anywhere at any age.
Unfortunatly, I can guarantee you that you can NOT accelerate faster than radio waves, though. :)
Hmm. It points to some sort of built-in IE resource, rather than just the standard "about:..." blah blah blah.
Wonder what that's all about. Interesting, in some weird sort of way.
Surprised I haven't seen this one.
I would tell myself the winning lottery numbers to some mega huge jackpot.
I would tell myself that I would find the love of my life 3 years from then, and that to preserve my own sanity, I should find a way to save her from herself that didn't include breaking up with her 3 years after that. (it worked.. she's still alive... but I've lived a miserable time w/o her)
I would tell myself that if I continued hacking on Linux 0.98, instead of giving it up for more mature systems (OS/2), I could have a really kick ass job doing something in Linux, and use my current retail job to gain extra holiday income.. lol
I would tell myself NOT to abandon the killer software project that I was working on that would likely have been a LOT better than the WWW, simply beacuse Windows was the dominant operating system and Windows '95 didn't have the multi-threaded ness that it was promised to have brought in, which Linux and OS/2 had, and I wanted to go for a market share.
I would tell myself to find a better way to keep my best friend from joining the Air Force than just begging incessantly. Maybe shooting him in the foot or something.
Hmm. The place I work for has "Sony" branded CD-R's for sale. Or, at least, we used to, until the buyer realised they were pieces of junk compared to Fuji and Philips brands that we now carry.
I can't say that there's much to talk about here... (First Post! *laugh*)
But in my hometown of Galesburg, Michigan, there is a city park that is also a combination landing strip. It's never actually been used.
hmm. fair enough. I guess I never noticed that all the reports said 5am UTC, and just assumed they were EST. oopsie!
Still, when I woke up, most of the world was back to normal except for some internal networks that were crashed to halts. Though I think most of the problems that I had with issues were when dealing with corporations who had taken themselves completely offline to avoid being hit harder (at least, that's what one of the companies i work with did.. i think the other one probably uses MS SQL internally and got their internal network fairly well destroyed, since they don't have competent people at ANY level that i've ever met, so i doubt sysadmins are any better)