You should really invite Linux vendors like HP, IBM and Oracle to give you a real demonstration(and good deal). Here's a brief of our recent deal with them:
Oracle 9iAS RAC(clustering)
Dell RAID array for share storage of the cluster nodes
RedHat 9.1 Advance Server(I wish I'd use something else but Oracle only support RH)
The setup is simple atm, two 2-way Xeon to form a RAC(cluster) which share the same RAID array, running on RH AS. The entire deal is around US$40000 before best offer.
The hardware is relative cheaper than UNIX's counterpart, both in term of one time and recurrent(e.g. maintenance) cost. The major cost center is the share storage and (SURPRISE) Redhat AS, which charges US$5,000 per x86 processor
I've to say Oracle RAC on RH AS is a very(if not most) stupid thing Oracle has been doing. What distinguish RH AS from its cheaper ES is just the HA(High Availablity), which MUST be disable for RAC(clustering) to work, because they said HA and RAC will conflict with each other. Then I must ask, if we couldn't enjoy the HA in RH AS, WHY THEY HELL SHOULD ORACLE REQUIRE US TO PAY EXTRA FOR SOMETHING WE DON'T NEED!!!
Damn, the exp sharing turns out to be a ranting, sorry about that.:(
The author stated his stance in the very first paragraph:
For example, it is incorrect to assume that a request-response programming model dictates an RPC-style message format. The Document style can also be used for request-response communication.
And in this regard, he chose his side:
In this case, Microsoft is right. Document/literal Web services are a better choice for data interoperability. While focusing on JAX-RPC instead of JAXM is in line with Sun's attempt to simplify Java development, it's the wrong approach for Web services.
Then the followings are mainly pointing out the flaws in Apache Axis.
First of all, I can see in his article what Axis does wrong. However, I don't see how Microsoft's way - Document/literal Web services - could solve the problem.
I've mixed feeling about his arguments. First I do think the present RPC implemention in WSDL is getting out of hand(chaotic and complicated), but if we could only do document style transfer as he said the Microsoft's way, why the hell should we consider adopting WS in the first place? Isn't what SUN and Apache(and IBM, he didn't mention) does exactly what we really need for interoperative protocols?
To put it simpler, in the pure document transfer model, the processing logics will lie in the senders and receivers. That is defeating the major merit of WS on interoperability, where the processing logics are not hard-coded into one framework.
The author is a scientist in DOD and he really has some insight in WSDL, but if WSDL is really implemented in Microsoft's way then many wouldn't even consider adopting WS in the first place.
The games displays excesive violence e.g. raping, killing and bombing cities with mass destruction weapons; and it's highly intolerable for this game to allow pointing guns at legal enforcement officers and sometime even shooting at them!
The game system itself is very unfair to majority of players. Few rich people can enhance their characters by spending lot of cash to buy equipment and trainings. The more popular MMORPG EQ has proved that players are generally displeased with the premium characters packages, and now 'real life' doesn't learn from history! This has a very adverse influrence to the kid-players whom we lied to them in school that the 'real life' is fair and balance.
I once asked my boss why our company has to raise so many lawsuits each year. He told me under the influerence of a couple of beers that if we don't keep our lawyers busy they'd find something to sue us.
"They're like guarddogs" after more beers "if you don't feed them well they might bite you one day"
I know this is an unfair comparison. Accept my apology to all the faithful employees...I meant to those guarddogs.
It truely is an outstanding program and has earned 5 out of 5 Penguins on Tucow's Linuxberg and IceWalker review
You mean 5 out of 5 penguins use it? Get me one baby!
Don't make a fool of the kids nowsday
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· Score: 5, Funny
(Not in US)While I was a kid my grade school teacher showed us a video on sex education. It uses very indirect approach to describe the act of sex - pollunation of flowers. We didn't know what the heck it was showing or ask much question about it.
Years later I was shocked to hear that they still use the very same tape to teach sex education for my kids. Needless to say, the whole class was laughing their ass off, and everybody raising so many questions that embarrassing the teacher very much, like - the role of bee in real life sex, the way of using condem on a flower, and the actual sexual position if we want to do it in 'flower way', etc.
spread by sputum and other bodily fluids. No magic
Hi there.
Even some experts in University of Hong Kong believe that there are multiple ways of spreading the disease, and that include airborne. You still remember the panic when the unusal outbreak in Amoy Garden? My friend who worked in related research told me it's rather unusal that the disease were spreading so fast, with spray like spreading method has you described. The Government only chose what they want you to believe.
In Hong Kong we don't. Local Laws here prohibits this kind of activities.
But some other place very near to us do....fortunately, in order to fight SARS, they recently passed similar laws to forbid people from killing wild and domestic animals for meal. (yeah:)
Re:it's about time...
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SARS Contained
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· Score: 5, Informative
I guess the every people in Hong Kong are not so worried these days. Would that be fair to say?
Very true. Although there are lots of uncertainty about SARS but after the disaster we've confidence in facing it again.
The high casualty is due to the infficiency of our local Government and their lack of risk awareness(which anger a lot of people and triggered a mass protest of the centaury). Fortunately for us we've a lot of brave people who are willingly to risk their live to take the most dangerous and dirty job and nobody(but the governer) retreat. We're really proud of them.
Re:it's about time...
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SARS Contained
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· Score: 5, Interesting
This SARS is not a stupid virus as you might think. Here are the facts about the virus that really worried the experts:
1) Regardless of what the press said, the method of spreading is still UNKNOWN
2) Different regions revealed different format of the virus itself. Its true(or original) form is still UNKNOWN
3) Some believed that the original infestion started by the contact of wild animal with human like it did for AIDS. However, experts later found that multiple generations of SARS were found in one region and even one host at the same time! It's rather different from AIDS. Thus, the origin of the virus is UNKNOWN
Disclaimer: I live in Hong Kong - the city which has the major outbreak of SARS.
Oh, and by the way, there are also native Linux Windows Remote Desktop clients. My brother uses it at his job, and it's also bundled with probably multiple distros... I believe Mandrake 9.1 has it.
It's called tsclient.
In Debian:
apt-get install tsclient
In Gentoo:
emerge tsclient
Mandrake and Redhat has it in their distro, too.
The downside is that you must install Terminal Server in the XP, but it works exactly the same as Windows' terminal client and performs much better than VNC.
It actually WAS BG's idea that they use the (then) new Intel 8088 cpu.
It sounds like nobody but BG was interested in 8088 when you say it that way.
How aobut Nimbus computers from Research Machines Ltd? Though I must admit BG suceeded where the others failed, but BG was definitely not the only one betting on that IBM's 16-bit addressing processor.
in China SMS spams are usually falling three categories:
1) Broadcasting messages
2) Bulk messages sent ad companies via your carrier
3) Your boring friends
1) could be easily stopped by turning off your mobile phone's ability in receiving broadcast messages(I'm sorry if you don't know how). 2) are sent from some advertising companies which signed deals with your mobile carrier such that you can't screen them off as in 1), but you can always ask your mobile carrier to get you off from their advertising bulk list or face lawsuit. Unless, of course, your service agreement explicitly revoked your right in denying advertising(have you read it before signing it?).:)
Man 3) is hardest to stop, in view of the fact that each SMS message only cost them less than $0.1 RMB(US$0.014)!:)
I'm very appreciated your effort in bring enterprise elements to Linux, it's people like you make Linux success nowaday. However, I see that you or your project team seems to push the journalling fs concept too far: from root to/usr, to any single partition in a system. May be I'm a bit old-school, but journalling fs should be used only on fs which require failover protection. It's a plain waste of resource to make, say, boot and/usr journalling, for example, as they are supposed to be running readonly in normal circumstance.
Shouldn't you do something to educate people journalling is just part of the system and shouldn't be used for everything like Windows NT, and waste precious processing power?
You're right. The problem is in the wording of the headline: A 32-processor Itanium machine performed 600,000 transactions per minute under Linux, leading the way before Windows as Unix.
I think he meant " leading the way next to Windows and Unix. It's rather confusing and should have been fixed before getting out of registered zone.
Also, in your post: and Oracle on Linux is a serious contender.
Hmm...I might have to disgree with you on this. Linux(RedHat AS, or ES) works really closely with Oracle in the enterprise market. Big Tux are travalling worldwide to promote Redhat AS+Oracle Enterprise solution. I just attended a local conference held by Redhat+Oracle.
The solution is not cheap, though. The AS alone cost around US$6000 per (intel)processor, not including the cost of RAC (Oracle clusters). The stupid pricing might really kills much of the incentive adopting Linux+Oracle, especially when the customers realize that AS's High Availability and Oracle's cluster does not work well together. (straight out of my experience. That's why I said that's really stupid pricing - spending extra for something that can't work together)
Oh btw, fyi, if it's running on Redhat AS 2.1, it's using a 2.4 based kernel. AS would not support next version of kernel til next year.
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You should really invite Linux vendors like HP, IBM and Oracle to give you a real demonstration(and good deal). Here's a brief of our recent deal with them:
:(
Oracle 9iAS RAC(clustering)
Dell RAID array for share storage of the cluster nodes
RedHat 9.1 Advance Server(I wish I'd use something else but Oracle only support RH)
The setup is simple atm, two 2-way Xeon to form a RAC(cluster) which share the same RAID array, running on RH AS. The entire deal is around US$40000 before best offer.
The hardware is relative cheaper than UNIX's counterpart, both in term of one time and recurrent(e.g. maintenance) cost. The major cost center is the share storage and (SURPRISE) Redhat AS, which charges US$5,000 per x86 processor
I've to say Oracle RAC on RH AS is a very(if not most) stupid thing Oracle has been doing. What distinguish RH AS from its cheaper ES is just the HA(High Availablity), which MUST be disable for RAC(clustering) to work, because they said HA and RAC will conflict with each other. Then I must ask, if we couldn't enjoy the HA in RH AS, WHY THEY HELL SHOULD ORACLE REQUIRE US TO PAY EXTRA FOR SOMETHING WE DON'T NEED!!!
Damn, the exp sharing turns out to be a ranting, sorry about that.
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Hint: The shorter the header, the faster.
P.S. This is a joke, for humor-impaired
The author stated his stance in the very first paragraph:
For example, it is incorrect to assume that a request-response programming model dictates an RPC-style message format. The Document style can also be used for request-response communication.
And in this regard, he chose his side:
In this case, Microsoft is right. Document/literal Web services are a better choice for data interoperability. While focusing on JAX-RPC instead of JAXM is in line with Sun's attempt to simplify Java development, it's the wrong approach for Web services.
Then the followings are mainly pointing out the flaws in Apache Axis.
First of all, I can see in his article what Axis does wrong. However, I don't see how Microsoft's way - Document/literal Web services - could solve the problem.
I've mixed feeling about his arguments. First I do think the present RPC implemention in WSDL is getting out of hand(chaotic and complicated), but if we could only do document style transfer as he said the Microsoft's way, why the hell should we consider adopting WS in the first place? Isn't what SUN and Apache(and IBM, he didn't mention) does exactly what we really need for interoperative protocols?
To put it simpler, in the pure document transfer model, the processing logics will lie in the senders and receivers. That is defeating the major merit of WS on interoperability, where the processing logics are not hard-coded into one framework.
The author is a scientist in DOD and he really has some insight in WSDL, but if WSDL is really implemented in Microsoft's way then many wouldn't even consider adopting WS in the first place.
The games displays excesive violence e.g. raping, killing and bombing cities with mass destruction weapons; and it's highly intolerable for this game to allow pointing guns at legal enforcement officers and sometime even shooting at them!
The game system itself is very unfair to majority of players. Few rich people can enhance their characters by spending lot of cash to buy equipment and trainings. The more popular MMORPG EQ has proved that players are generally displeased with the premium characters packages, and now 'real life' doesn't learn from history! This has a very adverse influrence to the kid-players whom we lied to them in school that the 'real life' is fair and balance.
Think about the children! You incensitive clod!
I once asked my boss why our company has to raise so many lawsuits each year. He told me under the influerence of a couple of beers that if we don't keep our lawyers busy they'd find something to sue us.
"They're like guarddogs" after more beers "if you don't feed them well they might bite you one day"
I know this is an unfair comparison. Accept my apology to all the faithful employees...I meant to those guarddogs.
I'm not sure if I'd like to have a kiss from one of those....
It truely is an outstanding program and has earned 5 out of 5 Penguins on Tucow's Linuxberg and IceWalker review
You mean 5 out of 5 penguins use it? Get me one baby!
(Not in US)While I was a kid my grade school teacher showed us a video on sex education. It uses very indirect approach to describe the act of sex - pollunation of flowers. We didn't know what the heck it was showing or ask much question about it.
Years later I was shocked to hear that they still use the very same tape to teach sex education for my kids. Needless to say, the whole class was laughing their ass off, and everybody raising so many questions that embarrassing the teacher very much, like - the role of bee in real life sex, the way of using condem on a flower, and the actual sexual position if we want to do it in 'flower way', etc.
Man, don't fool nowaday kids.
spread by sputum and other bodily fluids. No magic
Hi there.
Even some experts in University of Hong Kong believe that there are multiple ways of spreading the disease, and that include airborne. You still remember the panic when the unusal outbreak in Amoy Garden? My friend who worked in related research told me it's rather unusal that the disease were spreading so fast, with spray like spreading method has you described. The Government only chose what they want you to believe.
Stop eating monkeys and dogs, damn it!
:)
In Hong Kong we don't. Local Laws here prohibits this kind of activities.
But some other place very near to us do....fortunately, in order to fight SARS, they recently passed similar laws to forbid people from killing wild and domestic animals for meal. (yeah
I guess the every people in Hong Kong are not so worried these days. Would that be fair to say?
Very true. Although there are lots of uncertainty about SARS but after the disaster we've confidence in facing it again.
The high casualty is due to the infficiency of our local Government and their lack of risk awareness(which anger a lot of people and triggered a mass protest of the centaury). Fortunately for us we've a lot of brave people who are willingly to risk their live to take the most dangerous and dirty job and nobody(but the governer) retreat. We're really proud of them.
This SARS is not a stupid virus as you might think. Here are the facts about the virus that really worried the experts:
1) Regardless of what the press said, the method of spreading is still UNKNOWN
2) Different regions revealed different format of the virus itself. Its true(or original) form is still UNKNOWN
3) Some believed that the original infestion started by the contact of wild animal with human like it did for AIDS. However, experts later found that multiple generations of SARS were found in one region and even one host at the same time! It's rather different from AIDS. Thus, the origin of the virus is UNKNOWN
Disclaimer: I live in Hong Kong - the city which has the major outbreak of SARS.
Oh, and by the way, there are also native Linux Windows Remote Desktop clients. My brother uses it at his job, and it's also bundled with probably multiple distros... I believe Mandrake 9.1 has it.
It's called tsclient.
In Debian:
apt-get install tsclient
In Gentoo:
emerge tsclient
Mandrake and Redhat has it in their distro, too.
The downside is that you must install Terminal Server in the XP, but it works exactly the same as Windows' terminal client and performs much better than VNC.
It's long, it's complex and it's in German and it's written by a professor, so don't expect to understand anything, if you are not a German lawyer
:)
We'd not read it even when it's short, simple and in English, so how hard could it be.
Heh. Eight years later and Microsoft's biggest contributions to internet culture are browser integration, Outlook backdoors, and e-mail trojans.
Together with Windows' Update, there are HUGE contribution I tell ya.
It 'contributes' ~45% of our bandwidth cost.
This is obviously some use of the word 'new' with which I am not familiar.
.NEW
It actually WAS BG's idea that they use the (then) new Intel 8088 cpu.
It sounds like nobody but BG was interested in 8088 when you say it that way.
How aobut Nimbus computers from Research Machines Ltd? Though I must admit BG suceeded where the others failed, but BG was definitely not the only one betting on that IBM's 16-bit addressing processor.
We bet on the 16-bit PC.
.Net
Yeah, that's IBM's thing...
We bet on graphical user interface.
Wasn't that from PARC, Xerox?...
We bet on the NT technology base.
That's VAX's thing, right?
Now we're in the process of betting on a combination of technologies called
Hold you bet cowboy! This time is different! That's YOURS thing to bet with!!
Think again!
in China SMS spams are usually falling three categories:
:)
:)
1) Broadcasting messages
2) Bulk messages sent ad companies via your carrier
3) Your boring friends
1) could be easily stopped by turning off your mobile phone's ability in receiving broadcast messages(I'm sorry if you don't know how). 2) are sent from some advertising companies which signed deals with your mobile carrier such that you can't screen them off as in 1), but you can always ask your mobile carrier to get you off from their advertising bulk list or face lawsuit. Unless, of course, your service agreement explicitly revoked your right in denying advertising(have you read it before signing it?).
Man 3) is hardest to stop, in view of the fact that each SMS message only cost them less than $0.1 RMB(US$0.014)!
Although good in theory, in practice the RPM technology experienced problems with dependencies.
:)
Get apt-get for rpm. I don't even bother to register at rhn.redhat.com for getting that 'up2date' to work.
I'm going to donate my $13 to the EFF.
:)
Let me make the job easiler for everyone.
EFF
FSF
Los Angeles officially becomes the world's first city to have its own Internet domain
.hk? Hong Kong is a city of China(before that HK is a British colony city) and has its own TLD for years.
What about
I'm very appreciated your effort in bring enterprise elements to Linux, it's people like you make Linux success nowaday. However, I see that you or your project team seems to push the journalling fs concept too far: from root to /usr, to any single partition in a system. May be I'm a bit old-school, but journalling fs should be used only on fs which require failover protection. It's a plain waste of resource to make, say, boot and /usr journalling, for example, as they are supposed to be running readonly in normal circumstance.
Shouldn't you do something to educate people journalling is just part of the system and shouldn't be used for everything like Windows NT, and waste precious processing power?
Two clicks... anyone do better?
Do it anything better might violate my patent on "One-click problem solver".
You're right. The problem is in the wording of the headline:
A 32-processor Itanium machine performed 600,000 transactions per minute under Linux, leading the way before Windows as Unix.
I think he meant " leading the way next to Windows and Unix. It's rather confusing and should have been fixed before getting out of registered zone.
Also, in your post:
and Oracle on Linux is a serious contender.
Hmm...I might have to disgree with you on this. Linux(RedHat AS, or ES) works really closely with Oracle in the enterprise market. Big Tux are travalling worldwide to promote Redhat AS+Oracle Enterprise solution. I just attended a local conference held by Redhat+Oracle.
The solution is not cheap, though. The AS alone cost around US$6000 per (intel)processor, not including the cost of RAC (Oracle clusters). The stupid pricing might really kills much of the incentive adopting Linux+Oracle, especially when the customers realize that AS's High Availability and Oracle's cluster does not work well together. (straight out of my experience. That's why I said that's really stupid pricing - spending extra for something that can't work together)
Oh btw, fyi, if it's running on Redhat AS 2.1, it's using a 2.4 based kernel. AS would not support next version of kernel til next year.