Several people now have dragged IP into this...
The guy isn't asking for a TCP/IP intercom, he's asking for an Ethernet intercom. There is a difference.
I'm assuming that they are already putting the Ethernet infrastructure in place, and figure that if they can use that for what they are doing then why put a second (or third or...) infrastructure in place.
Most places are already using CAT5 throughout and running multiple points for the computer network and the phone system and... I've been in places like that (I still am) and just because it's Cat5 doesn't mean it's running IP.
I don't have a solution using Ethernet, but a quick google search showed one or two possibilities...
First of all, no matter what the marketing people tell you, doing everything over IP is not the best solution for every idea out there. You have to ask yourself what you stand to gain by using an IP-based implementation;
Where did the questioner say IP?
This was a request for an ETHERNET based solution, my guess was that he is already planning on putting the cabling in, and using ethernet switches/hubs anyway. If he already has this communications infrastructure in place then why would he need to run different cabling. I can see the point in using an ethernet solution if he already has an ethernet network with the spare capacity. But nobody mentioned running TCP/IP over the top of it.
Frankly I suspect a decent multi channel wireless system would be a much more reasonable use of the money. From memory Motorola Do a reasonable range of professional two way radios.
I would personally say that as a newcomer you might want to consider selling the book electronically.
There are some companies (do a search) that have a print on demand set up, that way you can set up your own web site, release either sample chapters, or the whole book (in multiple formats would be nice, HTML, Text, PDF for starters) plus have a link to a "buy this book" form for the print on demand guys...
You probably won't make as much money as if a large company buys the book from you and then sells it on... you won't have the advertising budget for a start. But if you get a small print run done then you could hawk it round local bookshops, send sample copies to Papers and magazines... All of that stuff.
You might want to have a look at some of the e-book sites to see what people suggest as well. There are a lot of other small/self published authors out there... and some are really good.
But I'd love to see some sort of low cost wireless networking out there.
If it was cheap enough for rural/developing countries I'm sure it would be used in cities as well. Who wouldn't be willing to run a small local node that could talk to other local nodes and act as a base station for mobile nodes within the immediate vicinity?
Does anyone know how SAN devices would work in this kind of setting? 200 Gb is just about the smallest SAN device you coulld get, but presumably it would be more optimized than a real computer. But I'm not sure.
Do you Really mean SAN (Storage Area Network)? It sounds more like you mean NAS (Network Attached Storage) which is analogous to an NFS server. Usually these devices are capable of using NFS/SMB to share drives across the network.
BRM may not be used for any purpose other than that intended by the permit holder, even if postage is affixed. In cases where a BRM card or letter is used improperly as a label, the USPS treats the item as waste.
So, we can stuff all of the bits of paper that they expect us to return in the envelope and mail it back. Just don't fill them in.
Technically anything else is a breach of this rule. I'm sure they can't claim that it's improper usage to return blank forms to the junk mail sender.
Zwack.
p.s. for an interesting experiment in what HAS been sent through the US mail try this article from Hot-AIR
In the group I work in which does nothing but Unix and AS/400 Systems Administration there are 14 people. Four of us have had previous development experience...
However, if we were to hire a developer to work in our section they would spend most of their time sitting around doing nothing.
I work for a company that runs computer systems for other companies. There are other sections within this company that do "development" but if you think Microsoft databases and ASP are going to suit those departments to work on Linux code then I have some interesting beach front property in Idaho to sell you.
My group does not have enough work to keep a developer busy, and equally the bosses don't care if WE could do the work. This is more about liablility as far as I can tell.
If the bosses think they can go to another company and say "it's your problem, fix it" then they feel happier. I think it gives our customers more of a warm fuzzy feeling that our bosses say "problem X was a fault in the Y from Z, and they have provided a fix" than if they say "problem X was a fault in the Y and our engineers have fixed it themselves."
And above all, companies that are willing to provide paid for support for it so that other large companies will accept it as an alternative OS. "What do you mean that there isn't anyone responsible for fixing bugs?"
Oh cmon. You cannot be serious!
Unfortunately I am...
You mentioned several things that I wasn't aware of, but... Those seemed to all be Red Hat specific.
And if I am not aware of them how likely is it that the average IT Manager is aware of them?
The company that I work for also does outsourcing. I am sure that when a customer asks us to run Linux we will... However, at the moment, the biggest objection is the lack of anyone that you can go to and say "fix this bug..."
"There probably won't be much data in managers hands supporting Linux compared to all the nice, expensive, colorful, glossy booklets M$ sends them."
Excellent point, but who should be providing that Data? Perhaps companies whose business is based around Linux can help produce it. If LinuxCare were to go to some of their customers and ask them some questions, they could put it on a web site and the info would be out there. RedHat/SuSe/... Could do the same... VaLinux/Penguin Systems/... could join in... and anyone and everyone trying to sell a Linux solution to a customer could use the mass data that was thus collected to the mutual advantage of all.
So, who is going to start the Linux Marketing Project, or does it already exist?
In my own time I run a number of servers for other people.
The number of times that a problem with the server is mentioned to me, along with the suggestion of "Why don't you just reboot it?" is scary.
That is part of the MS mind set. If it doesn't work, reboot.
I would rather that we found the cause of the problem, and then fixed it. It will stop it recurring, and... it may not require a reboot.
On our Sun boxes here, there is only one problem that is fixed with a reboot. Oracle has problems when it's been up around 130 days due to some internal counter. Solution, Reboot...
Here various products are used because they provide X or Y. We use exchange, not because it's any good, but because of the scheduling stuff. I would rather use a real mail program, but that is not acceptable as people can't then add appointments to my calendar...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Linux. I just know what the arguments against using it that are brought up here are. I like Linux, I use Linux...
But I work with a bunch of people, some of whom don't know anything about software development. They don't want to be able to read the source code, they want to be able to ask someone else why did your application/os/driver/hardware do THIS?
These arguments are universally applicable and LinuxCare is a partial solution... If they were willing to go one step further and provide patches then I wouldn't worry. At least with MS the managers know if this fails because of a problem with the stuff Microsoft provided, then we can go ask microsoft to fix it.
No. I'm sorry, I don't mean that... At least not quite...
I'm basing my answer entirely on their web site information.
I'm thinking more of the sort of relationship that we have with Sun or EMC or HP. We can contact any of those companies and tell them that we have a problem with X. They will replace hardware, provide software support, whatever it takes.
If you have a problem then you can get a good answer about what should be replaced and why within a very short timespan.
As an example, one of our Sun machines running Solaris 2.5.1 crashed. I called in a report, and uploaded the core files to their ftp site. Within minutes the Kernel engineer had pointed the cause of the problem as a third party driver. That driver was provided by a different group within Sun and he transferred the call to an engineer in that group. We went through a couple of quick checks and had the patches that needed to be applied within a couple of minutes.
Linuxcare does not seem to have the same level of support as far as I can tell. They claim they can answer my stickiest questions, but they only guarantee a response within one business day.
In addition they do not guarantee that if a problem is found with X then they will provide a solution. From their FAQ "Technical support does not include: Software development or code fixes for Open Source applications."
Unfortunately that is precisely what my boss would look for. It's all very well someone at LinuxCare telling me "OOOH, looks like you've found a nasty bug in X." But if nobody is willing to say "And here is a fix for it." then my boss will not want to have to go there.
Yes, it's nice that I can fix my own problems, but in the environment I work in that is not acceptable. The higher ups want to get the warm fuzzy feeling that "Well, X from Sun is working on a fix" gives them...
...with infighting about package formats and which distribution is the best.
Then Microsoft will produce lots of documentation "proving" to managers that Linux is much more costly to run.
OS/2 was better than it's MS competition. It still lost because it wasn't marketed correctly. Linux has to be seen to be a viable, trustworthy and above all useful alternative for it to be accepted.
Much as I hate to say this, MS has the minds of the managers, what Linux needs is...
Easy install and use by "normal" users that are ALREADY used to the MS way.
MS compatible applications.
And above all, companies that are willing to provide paid for support for it so that other large companies will accept it as an alternative OS. "What do you mean that there isn't anyone responsible for fixing bugs?"
What's with the marketing blurb used on the website...
"The goal of the "Infotronic" system is to provide Infotainment, Edutainment and Entertainment services that meet the lifestyle of each individual driver or passenger. "
So now I'll not only be driving a seriously ugly car, but it will be simultaneously feeding me adverts that it thinks I will like based on my "lifestyle"...
How in heck is it going to know anything about my lifestyle? Is it going to require me to fill in a lifestyle questionnaire before I can start the engine? And what do those words mean?
Infotainment - Information that is entertaining. So it won't tell me "You are now wasting gas at 2MPG" or "There is a problem with the Brakes" because they are not entertaining. Instead it will tell me "You are now passing the largest stockist of Microsoft software in the state of Oregon" as everyone in marketing knows that Geeks like Software...
Edutainment - Educational facts that are entertaining? What the photon is this? I get to find out about stuff I couldn't care less for, because they think I want to know...
Entertainment - AAAARRRGGGGGHHHH it's going to force feed more adverts to me on the grounds that they are entertaining. At least this one is a real word.
Zwack...
p.s. The car looks like they took the worst of 50's and 90's design, combined them and said "hey that looks good" If I see one of these on the street I'll probably barf on it... it will improve the paint job.
We have a few hundred machines here, and which have the most problems...
Um, well, we have some E6500 machines which have never worked properly... (They hang at random points, Sun are STILL trying to fix them almost three months after they first delivered them)...
Excluding that... We have NEVER had a problem with the memory riser boards on our 420Rs... We occasionally lose CPUs or Memory due to hardware failures, across all machines. We lose disks every now and again (the oldest ones go first) but as they're almost all mirrored this isn't a big problem... Can you say Hot Swappable?
In your case it sounds like something is jarring those memory riser boards loose... I'd check into your environment...
We do not reccommend the 450 for use in our Data center as they are physically large. The 420R provides basically similar hardware levels and comes in a nice small rackmount case (4U). As we use Fibre Channel connected EMC frames for storage the lack of internal drive bays is not a problem.
Are they really that much better than paper? I mean, okay, they save space. I can fit the Bible and a good half-dozen classics on my Palm and still have room for other stuff, and I don't have to lug around a few pounds of paper.
Beyond that... isn't it easier to just turn a page? Instead of scrolling the text, just move your eyes? Are we so freakin' lazy we don't even want to move our eyes, just push a button to scroll down a line?
IMHO, YES... I have a Rocket E-book one of the few dedicated electronic book readers and it's MUCH better in general, than the paper equivalents. Firstly, there is a LARGE selection of free texts available for it, including a number I wouldn't otherwise read. Check out the selection at the rocket library... These are all free to download and read.
Next, I find it a lot easier to read during my commute by train and I can carry a wide variety of books with me so that it doesn't matter if I get bored reading one particular book...
The only objection I have to this book is that If I was ever to buy a book for it I would have to have it encoded for my particular e-book and so I wouldn't be able to lend it to someone else to read.
If you're interested turning a page consists of pressing one button (Up or down), It jumps an entire page, not a little scroll, but it is good.
I can bookmark a given paragraph, underline sections, scribble notes (it uses graffiti or a keyboard) in fact do almost anything that I can do to a real book.
Sure, we use base 10 for everything, so one could argue that the US will switch to metrics shortly because it makes sense. But we (as a nation) are so comfortable with the english system, as we are with the Windows platform, that change will be slow and painful. ESR says that the fact that PCs are getting cheaper is a good indicator that PC manufacturers will get fed up, but this I doubt.
It's not "the english system" it's "Imperial"... Except with the usual simplifications introduced by Americans, it's not even the same imperial measurement system as used in the UK...
An American pint is 16 fluid ounces. A British pint is 20 fluid ounces.
Not everyone using Slashdot is American... So please try not to refer to us and we when you mean
US citizens by birth.
1) What is a global trademark? One registered in several countries? One registered in all countries?
2) Aren't trademarks registered in particular categories? So a trademarked "Cornflakes" in breakfast cereals is different from a trademarked "Cornflakes" in foot care.
3) Shouldn't country trademark domains be under the country domain? e.g. tm.ca tm.uk and tm.us rather than.catm.uktm and.ustm
4) Shouldn't the use of the country domains be left up to the registrars for those countries rather than having them subjugated by the US governement appointed ICANN?
Your property interests in your own liberty (one of the many sticks in the bundle of sticks that comprises your property, to use an old analogy) is not a "hard good", yet you'd be sad to see it denied any consideration.
I hate to have to say this, but... BOLLOCKS!!!
Liberty (and indeed any of the other basic rights, shelter, food,...) is completely distinct from artificial concepts like property rights.
Property Rights are artificial, but make sense, I am bartering the results of my knowledge and my skill for tokens that I can then barter for the results of your knowledge and your skill.
Intellectual Property rights make a mockery of that... I can't barter the results of my knowledge and my skill because Joe Bloggs has asserted that he OWNS those results. He produced the first piece of software that did X so I can't produce a piece of software that does X (no, not copyright, that allows me to do this, but patents)...
If I was to spend my time and skill writing a piece of software that allowed someone to purchase items over the internet with only one click I wouldn't be allowed to sell (or even give away) this software, as someone else already owns the rights to my creative work.
Imagine if this applied to real goods. "I'm sorry, but you can't buy a loaf of sliced bread because the Whammo sliced bread company who holds the patents on slicing bread doesn't distribute their product to this part of the country. And don't you go buying whole loaves and slicing them yourself, because that's still patented by the Whammo bread slicing patent."
Sorry, but IP is not a RIGHT. Liberty is not a "property"... Stop talking rubbish.
Zwack (more than slightly pissed off at the lack of sense that you're making)
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And yeah, I know telnet is insecure, but I like it both on my home and work LANs. (Neither one of which includes people who would be capable of rooting a box.) I haven't looked around for this, but has anyone seen a telnet client for Windows 9x that will provide pretty colors like RedHat's directory listings or so that I can actually use Lynx?
Get the best of both worlds... Try Teraterm Pro (look on tucows for it) it's free, and it has an extension (TTSSH) for SSH access. I believe it has colour support... it's a really nice APP in my opinion.
Hmmm... You missed out Government book burnings...
What, I hear you cry, the government doesn't burn books...
Well, in 1957 the American Medical Association campaigned against Wilhelm Reich... A scientist with some VERY strange ideas... The end result was that the FDA burned his published research and arrested him...
Not what I would call "the cut and thrust of scientific debate"...
While I may or may not agree with what Reich said, I do not believe that arresting him and burning his books is a valid scientific argument.
They also have to look at building space, lots and lots of building space, near a POP on the backbone (naturally very expensive land).
Hmmm, And where exactly are the Military Intelligence Headquarters? On the banks of the Thames. And where exactly are the major communications exchange points (both for ISPs and phone companies)... Well, on the banks of the Thames... I guess they only need to run a cable along the banks of the Thames then...
From memory all phone companies HAVE to interchange with BT, and BT only has a limited number of major interchange points. Granted it's something like 64, but that's not so bad, and they all have good bandwidth...
O.K. they wouldn't get any purely local traffic this way, but, it's not too much work for them...
And of course "normal social skills" is defined by who exactly? I guess I'm falling for your expert troll, but frankly I would rather not have "normal social skills"...
An example of "normal social skills" at play... My 16 year old step daughter is being pilloried by her "friends" at the moment. Why? Because the guy that she likes has a new girlfriend.
At no point has she said anything nasty about this girl, nor has she said anything nasty about him. But she is being treated as an outcast because of this.
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Reading the Article it's only a problem if they have access to your private key.
:-)
PGP signing a form seems a more secure method to me than seeing which (faked?) e-mail address it was sent from.
But I'm probably just too good at faking e-mails...
Several people now have dragged IP into this... The guy isn't asking for a TCP/IP intercom, he's asking for an Ethernet intercom. There is a difference.
I'm assuming that they are already putting the Ethernet infrastructure in place, and figure that if they can use that for what they are doing then why put a second (or third or...) infrastructure in place.
Most places are already using CAT5 throughout and running multiple points for the computer network and the phone system and... I've been in places like that (I still am) and just because it's Cat5 doesn't mean it's running IP.
I don't have a solution using Ethernet, but a quick google search showed one or two possibilities...
First of all, no matter what the marketing people tell you, doing everything over IP is not the best solution for every idea out there. You have to ask yourself what you stand to gain by using an IP-based implementation;
Where did the questioner say IP?
This was a request for an ETHERNET based solution, my guess was that he is already planning on putting the cabling in, and using ethernet switches/hubs anyway. If he already has this communications infrastructure in place then why would he need to run different cabling. I can see the point in using an ethernet solution if he already has an ethernet network with the spare capacity. But nobody mentioned running TCP/IP over the top of it.
Frankly I suspect a decent multi channel wireless system would be a much more reasonable use of the money. From memory Motorola Do a reasonable range of professional two way radios.
I would personally say that as a newcomer you might want to consider selling the book electronically.
There are some companies (do a search) that have a print on demand set up, that way you can set up your own web site, release either sample chapters, or the whole book (in multiple formats would be nice, HTML, Text, PDF for starters) plus have a link to a "buy this book" form for the print on demand guys...
You probably won't make as much money as if a large company buys the book from you and then sells it on... you won't have the advertising budget for a start. But if you get a small print run done then you could hawk it round local bookshops, send sample copies to Papers and magazines... All of that stuff.
You might want to have a look at some of the e-book sites to see what people suggest as well. There are a lot of other small/self published authors out there... and some are really good.
But I'd love to see some sort of low cost wireless networking out there.
If it was cheap enough for rural/developing countries I'm sure it would be used in cities as well. Who wouldn't be willing to run a small local node that could talk to other local nodes and act as a base station for mobile nodes within the immediate vicinity?
I know that I would run one of these if I could.
Does anyone know how SAN devices would work in this kind of setting? 200 Gb is just about the smallest SAN device you coulld get, but presumably it would be more optimized than a real computer. But I'm not sure.
Do you Really mean SAN (Storage Area Network)? It sounds more like you mean NAS (Network Attached Storage) which is analogous to an NFS server. Usually these devices are capable of using NFS/SMB to share drives across the network.
Zwack
BRM may not be used for any purpose other than that intended by the permit holder, even if postage is affixed. In cases where a BRM card or letter is used improperly as a label, the USPS treats the item as waste.
So, we can stuff all of the bits of paper that they expect us to return in the envelope and mail it back. Just don't fill them in.
Technically anything else is a breach of this rule. I'm sure they can't claim that it's improper usage to return blank forms to the junk mail sender.
Zwack.
p.s. for an interesting experiment in what HAS been sent through the US mail try this article from Hot-AIR
In the group I work in which does nothing but Unix and AS/400 Systems Administration there are 14 people. Four of us have had previous development experience...
However, if we were to hire a developer to work in our section they would spend most of their time sitting around doing nothing.
I work for a company that runs computer systems for other companies. There are other sections within this company that do "development" but if you think Microsoft databases and ASP are going to suit those departments to work on Linux code then I have some interesting beach front property in Idaho to sell you.
My group does not have enough work to keep a developer busy, and equally the bosses don't care if WE could do the work. This is more about liablility as far as I can tell.
If the bosses think they can go to another company and say "it's your problem, fix it" then they feel happier. I think it gives our customers more of a warm fuzzy feeling that our bosses say "problem X was a fault in the Y from Z, and they have provided a fix" than if they say "problem X was a fault in the Y and our engineers have fixed it themselves."
Think PR not REAL problems...
Zwack.
And above all, companies that are willing to provide paid for support for it so that other large companies will accept it as an alternative OS. "What do you mean that there isn't anyone responsible for fixing bugs?"
Oh cmon. You cannot be serious!
Unfortunately I am...
You mentioned several things that I wasn't aware of, but... Those seemed to all be Red Hat specific.
And if I am not aware of them how likely is it that the average IT Manager is aware of them?
The company that I work for also does outsourcing. I am sure that when a customer asks us to run Linux we will... However, at the moment, the biggest objection is the lack of anyone that you can go to and say "fix this bug..."
Zwack.
"There probably won't be much data in managers hands supporting Linux compared to all the nice, expensive, colorful, glossy booklets M$ sends them."
Excellent point, but who should be providing that Data? Perhaps companies whose business is based around Linux can help produce it. If LinuxCare were to go to some of their customers and ask them some questions, they could put it on a web site and the info would be out there. RedHat/SuSe/... Could do the same... VaLinux/Penguin Systems/... could join in... and anyone and everyone trying to sell a Linux solution to a customer could use the mass data that was thus collected to the mutual advantage of all.
So, who is going to start the Linux Marketing Project, or does it already exist?
Zwack
In my own time I run a number of servers for other people.
The number of times that a problem with the server is mentioned to me, along with the suggestion of "Why don't you just reboot it?" is scary.
That is part of the MS mind set. If it doesn't work, reboot.
I would rather that we found the cause of the problem, and then fixed it. It will stop it recurring, and... it may not require a reboot.
On our Sun boxes here, there is only one problem that is fixed with a reboot. Oracle has problems when it's been up around 130 days due to some internal counter. Solution, Reboot...
Here various products are used because they provide X or Y. We use exchange, not because it's any good, but because of the scheduling stuff. I would rather use a real mail program, but that is not acceptable as people can't then add appointments to my calendar...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Linux. I just know what the arguments against using it that are brought up here are. I like Linux, I use Linux...
But I work with a bunch of people, some of whom don't know anything about software development. They don't want to be able to read the source code, they want to be able to ask someone else why did your application/os/driver/hardware do THIS?
These arguments are universally applicable and LinuxCare is a partial solution... If they were willing to go one step further and provide patches then I wouldn't worry. At least with MS the managers know if this fails because of a problem with the stuff Microsoft provided, then we can go ask microsoft to fix it.
Zwack.
Hmmm...Let me think...
No. I'm sorry, I don't mean that... At least not quite...
I'm basing my answer entirely on their web site information.
I'm thinking more of the sort of relationship that we have with Sun or EMC or HP. We can contact any of those companies and tell them that we have a problem with X. They will replace hardware, provide software support, whatever it takes.
If you have a problem then you can get a good answer about what should be replaced and why within a very short timespan.
As an example, one of our Sun machines running Solaris 2.5.1 crashed. I called in a report, and uploaded the core files to their ftp site. Within minutes the Kernel engineer had pointed the cause of the problem as a third party driver. That driver was provided by a different group within Sun and he transferred the call to an engineer in that group. We went through a couple of quick checks and had the patches that needed to be applied within a couple of minutes.
Linuxcare does not seem to have the same level of support as far as I can tell. They claim they can answer my stickiest questions, but they only guarantee a response within one business day.
In addition they do not guarantee that if a problem is found with X then they will provide a solution. From their FAQ "Technical support does not include: Software development or code fixes for Open Source applications."
Unfortunately that is precisely what my boss would look for. It's all very well someone at LinuxCare telling me "OOOH, looks like you've found a nasty bug in X." But if nobody is willing to say "And here is a fix for it." then my boss will not want to have to go there.
Yes, it's nice that I can fix my own problems, but in the environment I work in that is not acceptable. The higher ups want to get the warm fuzzy feeling that "Well, X from Sun is working on a fix" gives them...
Zwack
...with infighting about package formats and which distribution is the best.
Then Microsoft will produce lots of documentation "proving" to managers that Linux is much more costly to run.
OS/2 was better than it's MS competition. It still lost because it wasn't marketed correctly. Linux has to be seen to be a viable, trustworthy and above all useful alternative for it to be accepted.
Much as I hate to say this, MS has the minds of the managers, what Linux needs is...
Easy install and use by "normal" users that are ALREADY used to the MS way.
MS compatible applications.
And above all, companies that are willing to provide paid for support for it so that other large companies will accept it as an alternative OS. "What do you mean that there isn't anyone responsible for fixing bugs?"
Zwack...
What's with the marketing blurb used on the website...
"The goal of the "Infotronic" system is to provide Infotainment, Edutainment and Entertainment services that meet the lifestyle of each individual driver or passenger. "
So now I'll not only be driving a seriously ugly car, but it will be simultaneously feeding me adverts that it thinks I will like based on my "lifestyle"...
How in heck is it going to know anything about my lifestyle? Is it going to require me to fill in a lifestyle questionnaire before I can start the engine? And what do those words mean?
Infotainment - Information that is entertaining. So it won't tell me "You are now wasting gas at 2MPG" or "There is a problem with the Brakes" because they are not entertaining. Instead it will tell me "You are now passing the largest stockist of Microsoft software in the state of Oregon" as everyone in marketing knows that Geeks like Software...
Edutainment - Educational facts that are entertaining? What the photon is this? I get to find out about stuff I couldn't care less for, because they think I want to know...
Entertainment - AAAARRRGGGGGHHHH it's going to force feed more adverts to me on the grounds that they are entertaining. At least this one is a real word.
Zwack...
p.s. The car looks like they took the worst of 50's and 90's design, combined them and said "hey that looks good" If I see one of these on the street I'll probably barf on it... it will improve the paint job.
Hmmm... Let me see...
We have a few hundred machines here, and which have the most problems...
Um, well, we have some E6500 machines which have never worked properly... (They hang at random points, Sun are STILL trying to fix them almost three months after they first delivered them)...
Excluding that... We have NEVER had a problem with the memory riser boards on our 420Rs... We occasionally lose CPUs or Memory due to hardware failures, across all machines. We lose disks every now and again (the oldest ones go first) but as they're almost all mirrored this isn't a big problem... Can you say Hot Swappable?
In your case it sounds like something is jarring those memory riser boards loose... I'd check into your environment...
What about the Sun 420R?
We do not reccommend the 450 for use in our Data center as they are physically large. The 420R provides basically similar hardware levels and comes in a nice small rackmount case (4U). As we use Fibre Channel connected EMC frames for storage the lack of internal drive bays is not a problem.
This is mentioned in "Where wizards stay up late" By Katie Hafner (et al)...
It's an excellent read if anyone is interested in the beginnings of the internet...
Zwack
Are they really that much better than paper? I mean, okay, they save space. I can fit the Bible and a good half-dozen classics on my Palm and still have room for other stuff, and I don't have to lug around a few pounds of paper.
Beyond that... isn't it easier to just turn a page? Instead of scrolling the text, just move your eyes? Are we so freakin' lazy we don't even want to move our eyes, just push a button to scroll down a line?
IMHO, YES... I have a Rocket E-book one of the few dedicated electronic book readers and it's MUCH better in general, than the paper equivalents. Firstly, there is a LARGE selection of free texts available for it, including a number I wouldn't otherwise read. Check out the selection at the rocket library... These are all free to download and read.
Next, I find it a lot easier to read during my commute by train and I can carry a wide variety of books with me so that it doesn't matter if I get bored reading one particular book...
The only objection I have to this book is that If I was ever to buy a book for it I would have to have it encoded for my particular e-book and so I wouldn't be able to lend it to someone else to read.
If you're interested turning a page consists of pressing one button (Up or down), It jumps an entire page, not a little scroll, but it is good.
I can bookmark a given paragraph, underline sections, scribble notes (it uses graffiti or a keyboard) in fact do almost anything that I can do to a real book.
Sure, we use base 10 for everything, so one could argue that the US will switch to metrics shortly because it makes sense. But we (as a nation) are so comfortable with the english system, as we are with the Windows platform, that change will be slow and painful. ESR says that the fact that PCs are getting cheaper is a good indicator that PC manufacturers will get fed up, but this I doubt.
It's not "the english system" it's "Imperial"... Except with the usual simplifications introduced by Americans, it's not even the same imperial measurement system as used in the UK...
An American pint is 16 fluid ounces. A British pint is 20 fluid ounces.
Not everyone using Slashdot is American... So please try not to refer to us and we when you mean
US citizens by birth.
Zwack
Some points...
.catm .uktm and .ustm
1) What is a global trademark? One registered in several countries? One registered in all countries?
2) Aren't trademarks registered in particular categories? So a trademarked "Cornflakes" in breakfast cereals is different from a trademarked "Cornflakes" in foot care.
3) Shouldn't country trademark domains be under the country domain? e.g. tm.ca tm.uk and tm.us rather than
4) Shouldn't the use of the country domains be left up to the registrars for those countries rather than having them subjugated by the US governement appointed ICANN?
Zwack
Your property interests in your own liberty (one of the many sticks in the bundle of sticks that comprises your property, to use an old analogy) is not a "hard good", yet you'd be sad to see it denied any consideration.
I hate to have to say this, but... BOLLOCKS!!!
Liberty (and indeed any of the other basic rights, shelter, food,...) is completely distinct from artificial concepts like property rights.
Property Rights are artificial, but make sense, I am bartering the results of my knowledge and my skill for tokens that I can then barter for the results of your knowledge and your skill.
Intellectual Property rights make a mockery of that... I can't barter the results of my knowledge and my skill because Joe Bloggs has asserted that he OWNS those results. He produced the first piece of software that did X so I can't produce a piece of software that does X (no, not copyright, that allows me to do this, but patents)...
If I was to spend my time and skill writing a piece of software that allowed someone to purchase items over the internet with only one click I wouldn't be allowed to sell (or even give away) this software, as someone else already owns the rights to my creative work.
Imagine if this applied to real goods. "I'm sorry, but you can't buy a loaf of sliced bread because the Whammo sliced bread company who holds the patents on slicing bread doesn't distribute their product to this part of the country. And don't you go buying whole loaves and slicing them yourself, because that's still patented by the Whammo bread slicing patent."
Sorry, but IP is not a RIGHT. Liberty is not a "property"... Stop talking rubbish.
Zwack (more than slightly pissed off at the lack of sense that you're making)
Get the best of both worlds... Try Teraterm Pro (look on tucows for it) it's free, and it has an extension (TTSSH) for SSH access. I believe it has colour support... it's a really nice APP in my opinion.
Hmmm... You missed out Government book burnings...
What, I hear you cry, the government doesn't burn books...
Well, in 1957 the American Medical Association campaigned against Wilhelm Reich... A scientist with some VERY strange ideas... The end result was that the FDA burned his published research and arrested him...
Not what I would call "the cut and thrust of scientific debate"...
While I may or may not agree with what Reich said, I do not believe that arresting him and burning his books is a valid scientific argument.
I guess his rights to free speech didn't count.
Adam/Zwack
Hmmm, And where exactly are the Military Intelligence Headquarters? On the banks of the Thames. And where exactly are the major communications exchange points (both for ISPs and phone companies)... Well, on the banks of the Thames... I guess they only need to run a cable along the banks of the Thames then...
From memory all phone companies HAVE to interchange with BT, and BT only has a limited number of major interchange points. Granted it's something like 64, but that's not so bad, and they all have good bandwidth...
O.K. they wouldn't get any purely local traffic this way, but, it's not too much work for them...
And of course "normal social skills" is defined by who exactly? I guess I'm falling for your expert troll, but frankly I would rather not have "normal social skills"...
An example of "normal social skills" at play... My 16 year old step daughter is being pilloried by her "friends" at the moment. Why? Because the guy that she likes has a new girlfriend.
At no point has she said anything nasty about this girl, nor has she said anything nasty about him. But she is being treated as an outcast because of this.
If that is normal then I don't want to be...
Zwack