As someone who has had to dicker far too long with xorg.conf it's getting there, but it's not there yet. Until some arrangement is made where 90% of the after-market video cards work WELL (none of this non-3d accelerated crap) out of the box it's not ready. Trying to get Compiz and ATI playing nicely together is beyond maddening.
Linux needs to move it's ass too. The people that are fed up with Windows and want something slim that just works are defecting to Mac.
I have a standard line for that: "Is it a Mac? Oh... I only know how to fix Macs." Yeah, so I work with AD and UNIX at work, he doesn't have a clue with that means.
Part of me wants to think: "You know if you're serious about firewalling you'll write your own rules", but I think you're right. Someone (not it) needs to take a look at this research and confirm it, preferably from another machine on the subnet and not localhost. If I say 'drop outside access' by damned the OS/UI should do that.
All that said Apple REALLLLLLLY needs to offer up a pro firewall config tool. I'm all about writing my own rules, but I know they could provide a nice interface to this if they wanted to.
Who in their right mind runs X on a Sun box? Seriously. Turn that shit off, hook up a serial terminal and reduce your security, cpu and memory footprint. Better, use the LOM card for that.
Of course... I could point out that Solaris went to Gnome as it's default WM a few years ago....
I could site the standard disclaimer that I'm a Solaris SysAdmin and have worked with most major versions of UNIX over the years. Hrm.. I think I just did.
Having just come out of a project to implement a large multi-system Oracle project on Linux, in a Solaris shop, this announcement brings me a little hope, and a little trepidation. Linux is better for day-to-day usage by non-sysadmins. Bash lets you be lazy, which is good, and the default path lets you do all sorts of things that you have to know where they are on Solaris. Bottom line for me though is I can do more with fewer Solaris machines. We've implemented this current solution on about 16 little linux boxes and 4 'big' linux boxes. The sysadmin overhead of attending to this small flock of systems is aggravating, especially when I know I could do about the same thing on 2 Sun machines. Yeah, I don't get the cool 'up2date -u' command to patch, but in our environment we can't just turn that on in cron, we have to test releases and such. What really cheeses me off about Linux is how well it doesn't do for really large databases and memory foot prints. You have to jump through a lot of hoops to use more than 4GB of RAM, and it doesn't get much better when you start heading north of that point. Solaris lets me be lazy in that regard. "Oh, we need more processors and memory? Hrm... my 2900 has a blade left, let's just drop in 4 more cores and another 8 GB of RAM. Sure I've gotta re-boot but it'll go out of the box and I don't have to monkey with the clustering."
Solaris (or AIX or HP-UX:shudder:) is the OS for the data-center and things that are big. Linux is fine for most things that are mid-sized to smallish, and let's face it, the majority of things these days are mid-sized to smallish, despite what we may say when we're explaining things to management. If it's not maintaining over 20 concurrent Apache threads, or using a SGA of upwards of 8 GB Linux is fine. (and I'd bet the Apache thing would be fine there too).
Quit whining and learn UNIX. The greybeards are better to have on your side than to be fighting with.
While I agree that for things that are easily available at your local used CD place this logic makes sense... try buying an Adrian Legg CD in po-dunk-ville. Half.com isn't as friendly as clicking 'buy' on an album on iTunes, and certainly not delivered as quickly.
What you're saying makse sense for people that don't have eclectic tastes (or who have the same eclectic tastes as every other eclectic).
As I've read through this thread the problem seems obvious to me. I'm an IT professional, who did graduate from a Tech School with a degree in EET (Applied Electrical Engineering). The parent poster is absolutely correct, the vast majority of IT professionals aren't Computer Scientists and could care less to be. We are wrench turners and hole drillers. The problem as I see it is that employers don't quite get that yet. I'm a SysAdmin (and manager of SysAdmins), the practical troubleshooting skills I learned from the old electrical wrenches in tech school serve me far better than any computer theory that I ever learned. Every employer I look at, as well as my own institution, seems to think that a SysAdmin needs to be a CS major. The same can be said, to some degree, across the IT Career path. Help Desk? CS degree. Desktop Support? CS Degree. It's starting to get better with places realizing that MIS is a valid alternative degree path, but the vast majority of IT professionals in my opinion don't need an advanced degree, certainly not a theory heavy science degree.
There is a need for people to develop the next great google algorithm, and the next idea for database management systems. There's a larger need for people that know the right spot to apply the sledgehammer when these systems screw up. The problem is that business seems to think that the cost of entry into the later is the qualifications of the former.
(or something like that. I'm a SysAdmin damnit, not a DBA)
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2 words: Supported Configurations.
Last time I looked Oracle won't support you on BSD. Once you start playing with big-boy databases you start worrying about supported and certified configurations. We have enough trouble trying to get some of the off the wall things we do through Oracle support without having to worry about doing it with an unsupported config.
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RAC is a beast unto itself, but being able to use OCFS does seem to help. I live on the SysAdmin side of the house, but my DBA friends seem to have life better when they can use OCFS for RAC.
Why in the name of all that is holy would you run Oracle on NAS rather than a SAN?
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I've heard from Sun people that Linux/Oracle problems are replicated on SolarisX86, detraced, and then the solutions back-ported to Linux. Now, probably doesn't work with everything, and I heard it from a Sun sales guy, but still...
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone out there in Slashdotland had good luck with enterprise IDE solutions? Who knows. Perhaps some success stories might change my pro-SCSI/fibre view.
Yeah, kinda. We've got a tray of PATA in our EMC Clariion. Don't ask it to perform with multi-threaded I/O, and it's certainly slower than the FC stuff, but it works okay for test and backups. Can't say we've seen a higher failure rate on the disks than we have with the FC trays. I hear that the SATA stuff is much better about handling multi-threaded I/O.
While I pine softly for the departure of SG1, as others have said, it's time. Now... Move Eureka into it's timeslot. It's got the same vibe, fun, irreverent, dumbed down to some degree, but it's got a great vibe to it that I haven't felt since the X-Files.
Either that, or... oh. Duh. They're making room for the 2nd BSG series. nm.
Um... While NASA may be saying that the new evidence supports the big bang theory what they MEAN to say is that this new evidence supports the Theory of Inflation as proposed by Guth, et. al. The big bang is one thing, exponential expansion of spacetime, quite another.
Bingo. What's the OSS project that implements an ERP solution? Now, I'll admit I'm not an OSS zealot (except for Apache and erm... OpenSolaris) but I can rattle off, SAP, Oracle Apps, Microsoft's Great Pains, er Plains.... That's three, why can't I come up with one OSS ERP system off the top of my head? Because the parent post is spot on.
Now take the ERP idea and twist it on it's side to get an integrated Student System. One that deals with Registration, Grades, Financials, room scheduling, recruitment, grants, residence..... the list goes on. Ultimately the fact is NO ONE does these things well, not even the Oracles and the SAP's of the world. They dedicate a lot of cycles to making their products work better in this market, but there's not a whole lot of incentive for them to do so, as opposed to say... manufacturing. Schools (Universities) don't have money to spend on Oracle consultants OR OSS consultants to get this stuff working, oh and all their old legacy systems converted.
So what's the situation? Pay $300/hr for an SAP person to come out and implement a known system, however crappy it is, or pay an OSS consultant to glom enough stuff together to do 80% of your business and let Legacy continue to do that last 20%? If I were a (public) University President in this day of dwindling budgets I'd do whatever I had to to keep the current systems running and wait for an administration that sees investment in University Management Systems as a strategic goal, and spends enough political clout to get the funding through. I doubt it will happen in my life time. With all the Boomers retiring and turning into Old Man Smithers yelling about how he doesn't want to fund education it ain't happening until Gen X rises from the ashes of the world left behind by the Boomers.
I actually played around a little bit this morning trying to make my own 'evil zip file' It's not trivial, but it's something that someone with 1/2 a clue could whip up in an hour or so, or make a shell script that Kiddies could use to automate the creating of evil things.
The parent here is spot on. This isn't a Safari or Mail problem. This is a problem in how the zip launcher handles embedded meta-data. It's ripe for 'Kornikovina.jpg' type exploitation.
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What are you saying? Religion is really behind all the probing of young boys? We already knew that.
As someone who has had to dicker far too long with xorg.conf it's getting there, but it's not there yet. Until some arrangement is made where 90% of the after-market video cards work WELL (none of this non-3d accelerated crap) out of the box it's not ready. Trying to get Compiz and ATI playing nicely together is beyond maddening.
Linux needs to move it's ass too. The people that are fed up with Windows and want something slim that just works are defecting to Mac.
See Greene, Brian.
I have a standard line for that: "Is it a Mac? Oh... I only know how to fix Macs." Yeah, so I work with AD and UNIX at work, he doesn't have a clue with that means.
VMS. When's the last time you saw a torjan for that??! HUH?!?!
Part of me wants to think: "You know if you're serious about firewalling you'll write your own rules", but I think you're right. Someone (not it) needs to take a look at this research and confirm it, preferably from another machine on the subnet and not localhost. If I say 'drop outside access' by damned the OS/UI should do that.
All that said Apple REALLLLLLLY needs to offer up a pro firewall config tool. I'm all about writing my own rules, but I know they could provide a nice interface to this if they wanted to.
> Anyone who tries to excel outside of sports is shot down immediately and ridiculed in all kinds of ways.
So *THAT'S* where I get my Iowegean modesty. You sound bitter. Here. Have a cookie.
Did anyone else read the title and post and immediately think: "Shit, what's Adam done now?"
Now if only they'd try this with Edwin's cat. Bam! Superpossition of perpetual motion and non-perpetual motion... Ugh. Head hertz now.
Who in their right mind runs X on a Sun box? Seriously. Turn that shit off, hook up a serial terminal and reduce your security, cpu and memory footprint. Better, use the LOM card for that.
Of course... I could point out that Solaris went to Gnome as it's default WM a few years ago....
I could site the standard disclaimer that I'm a Solaris SysAdmin and have worked with most major versions of UNIX over the years. Hrm.. I think I just did.
:shudder:) is the OS for the data-center and things that are big. Linux is fine for most things that are mid-sized to smallish, and let's face it, the majority of things these days are mid-sized to smallish, despite what we may say when we're explaining things to management. If it's not maintaining over 20 concurrent Apache threads, or using a SGA of upwards of 8 GB Linux is fine. (and I'd bet the Apache thing would be fine there too).
Having just come out of a project to implement a large multi-system Oracle project on Linux, in a Solaris shop, this announcement brings me a little hope, and a little trepidation. Linux is better for day-to-day usage by non-sysadmins. Bash lets you be lazy, which is good, and the default path lets you do all sorts of things that you have to know where they are on Solaris. Bottom line for me though is I can do more with fewer Solaris machines. We've implemented this current solution on about 16 little linux boxes and 4 'big' linux boxes. The sysadmin overhead of attending to this small flock of systems is aggravating, especially when I know I could do about the same thing on 2 Sun machines. Yeah, I don't get the cool 'up2date -u' command to patch, but in our environment we can't just turn that on in cron, we have to test releases and such. What really cheeses me off about Linux is how well it doesn't do for really large databases and memory foot prints. You have to jump through a lot of hoops to use more than 4GB of RAM, and it doesn't get much better when you start heading north of that point. Solaris lets me be lazy in that regard. "Oh, we need more processors and memory? Hrm... my 2900 has a blade left, let's just drop in 4 more cores and another 8 GB of RAM. Sure I've gotta re-boot but it'll go out of the box and I don't have to monkey with the clustering."
Solaris (or AIX or HP-UX
Quit whining and learn UNIX. The greybeards are better to have on your side than to be fighting with.
While I agree that for things that are easily available at your local used CD place this logic makes sense... try buying an Adrian Legg CD in po-dunk-ville. Half.com isn't as friendly as clicking 'buy' on an album on iTunes, and certainly not delivered as quickly.
What you're saying makse sense for people that don't have eclectic tastes (or who have the same eclectic tastes as every other eclectic).
"Death sort of loses its meaning when you can continually return from it without consequence."
and THIS is one big reason I like caucusing with the Buddhists.
As I've read through this thread the problem seems obvious to me. I'm an IT professional, who did graduate from a Tech School with a degree in EET (Applied Electrical Engineering). The parent poster is absolutely correct, the vast majority of IT professionals aren't Computer Scientists and could care less to be. We are wrench turners and hole drillers. The problem as I see it is that employers don't quite get that yet. I'm a SysAdmin (and manager of SysAdmins), the practical troubleshooting skills I learned from the old electrical wrenches in tech school serve me far better than any computer theory that I ever learned. Every employer I look at, as well as my own institution, seems to think that a SysAdmin needs to be a CS major. The same can be said, to some degree, across the IT Career path. Help Desk? CS degree. Desktop Support? CS Degree. It's starting to get better with places realizing that MIS is a valid alternative degree path, but the vast majority of IT professionals in my opinion don't need an advanced degree, certainly not a theory heavy science degree.
There is a need for people to develop the next great google algorithm, and the next idea for database management systems. There's a larger need for people that know the right spot to apply the sledgehammer when these systems screw up. The problem is that business seems to think that the cost of entry into the later is the qualifications of the former.
sqlplus sysdba@myserver/tiger
update SYSV_INIT.INITLEVEL='6';
commit;
(or something like that. I'm a SysAdmin damnit, not a DBA)
2 words: Supported Configurations.
Last time I looked Oracle won't support you on BSD. Once you start playing with big-boy databases you start worrying about supported and certified configurations. We have enough trouble trying to get some of the off the wall things we do through Oracle support without having to worry about doing it with an unsupported config.
RAC is a beast unto itself, but being able to use OCFS does seem to help. I live on the SysAdmin side of the house, but my DBA friends seem to have life better when they can use OCFS for RAC.
Why in the name of all that is holy would you run Oracle on NAS rather than a SAN?
I've heard from Sun people that Linux/Oracle problems are replicated on SolarisX86, detraced, and then the solutions back-ported to Linux. Now, probably doesn't work with everything, and I heard it from a Sun sales guy, but still...
Just out of curiosity, has anyone out there in Slashdotland had good luck with enterprise IDE solutions? Who knows. Perhaps some success stories might change my pro-SCSI/fibre view.
Yeah, kinda. We've got a tray of PATA in our EMC Clariion. Don't ask it to perform with multi-threaded I/O, and it's certainly slower than the FC stuff, but it works okay for test and backups. Can't say we've seen a higher failure rate on the disks than we have with the FC trays. I hear that the SATA stuff is much better about handling multi-threaded I/O.
While I pine softly for the departure of SG1, as others have said, it's time. Now... Move Eureka into it's timeslot. It's got the same vibe, fun, irreverent, dumbed down to some degree, but it's got a great vibe to it that I haven't felt since the X-Files.
Either that, or... oh. Duh. They're making room for the 2nd BSG series. nm.
You sir, are blessed to never have had to touch the E-Business suite.
Frakin' posers.
Um... While NASA may be saying that the new evidence supports the big bang theory what they MEAN to say is that this new evidence supports the Theory of Inflation as proposed by Guth, et. al. The big bang is one thing, exponential expansion of spacetime, quite another.
Bingo. What's the OSS project that implements an ERP solution? Now, I'll admit I'm not an OSS zealot (except for Apache and erm... OpenSolaris) but I can rattle off, SAP, Oracle Apps, Microsoft's Great Pains, er Plains.... That's three, why can't I come up with one OSS ERP system off the top of my head? Because the parent post is spot on.
Now take the ERP idea and twist it on it's side to get an integrated Student System. One that deals with Registration, Grades, Financials, room scheduling, recruitment, grants, residence..... the list goes on. Ultimately the fact is NO ONE does these things well, not even the Oracles and the SAP's of the world. They dedicate a lot of cycles to making their products work better in this market, but there's not a whole lot of incentive for them to do so, as opposed to say... manufacturing. Schools (Universities) don't have money to spend on Oracle consultants OR OSS consultants to get this stuff working, oh and all their old legacy systems converted.
So what's the situation? Pay $300/hr for an SAP person to come out and implement a known system, however crappy it is, or pay an OSS consultant to glom enough stuff together to do 80% of your business and let Legacy continue to do that last 20%? If I were a (public) University President in this day of dwindling budgets I'd do whatever I had to to keep the current systems running and wait for an administration that sees investment in University Management Systems as a strategic goal, and spends enough political clout to get the funding through. I doubt it will happen in my life time. With all the Boomers retiring and turning into Old Man Smithers yelling about how he doesn't want to fund education it ain't happening until Gen X rises from the ashes of the world left behind by the Boomers.
I actually played around a little bit this morning trying to make my own 'evil zip file' It's not trivial, but it's something that someone with 1/2 a clue could whip up in an hour or so, or make a shell script that Kiddies could use to automate the creating of evil things.
The parent here is spot on. This isn't a Safari or Mail problem. This is a problem in how the zip launcher handles embedded meta-data. It's ripe for 'Kornikovina.jpg' type exploitation.