Using sh as a normal user,/usr/sbin is not in your default path. ping on solaris is installed in/usr/sbin/ping, and depending on the security policies that your sysadmins have in place, may not be runnable by non-root users. Solaris still correctly believes that not all tools belong in/bin. Fix your path to where the actual command is, and it will work.
No, since the fuel tank in question (the external one) is dropped during launch. I'd say the possiblity of it overheating and exploding is fairly low, since it's in the ocean and has been for several days.
Actually, sites who are displaying Doubleclick ads have *full* control over which ads they show. Any ads that they don't wish to show they can easily turn off, and those ads will never be shown on their site. Slashdot showing.Net ads means that either Slashdot has incompetent people running their ad department, that they don't care/know they can turn them off, or that they want them there.
I've got the cool Sun hardware, and I still run Solaris x86. I do so for a couple of reasons, including the fact that it gives me a little more diversity in my platforms that I run, and therefore makes the automated hacks a little less likely to directly affect me. Back when there was the automated worm infecting Solaris machines, I was able to disconnect my Sparcs from the net, and continue to use my x86 Solaris boxes without fear (the hack still cracked the daemon, but the sparc code failed to execute on the x86 platform, so it just dumped core. Since the daemon was launched from inetd, that didn't cause a problem). Diversity is a good thing in software and hardware.
I've used Sun's $20 early access versions before (with Solaris 8, as an example). It covers the cost of shipping and the media itself. Comes in a nice plastic floder, and usually has around 10-12 cds in it. I don't think that they make any money off the early access versions, it just covers their costs in making and distributing the cds to people who want them. There is usually also a free download of the isos if you want to make your own copies.
The Gimp is a nice program. However, if you need to do CMYK, then Photoshop is your only recourse, since the GIMP only does RGB. Therefore, the BEST option for CMYK photo editing is Photoshop (out of the Photoshop and the GIMP), since the GIMP doesn't do that necessary feature. Why would I need an industry standard office suite? For the simple reason that when I send my resume to someplace, I want them to be able to read it and have it look good. OpenOffice works for me to read other people's files, but I don't send OpenOffice files to other people - I need them to look correct when they open them.
Hopefullly, there are at least some restrictions. I don't want to have to add SBC to my spam blocks because of idiots running unsecured servers (no problems with ISPS who allow servers, but verify that they don't relay). Or even more code red attempts from stupid SBC customers.
STS is Sport Track Suspension. You see it in several of the newer Cadillac's. I have no idea what on earth WSTDNS might be, unless it is Wide Sport Track Domain Name System, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Actually, this only applies in cases where the free market has competition. How else do you explain the fact that CDs haven't changed prices (except in an upward direction) since they were introduced? It's not like it costs anywhere near $20 to make one...
Having family that work in the Newspaper industry, I can tell you that while the statement that the subscription revenue doesn't cover the cost of the paper may have been true 10 years ago. In most cases, as the newspapers move to the newer presses that are all digital, (and away from plates and so forth), the actual costs of producing the paper itself are significantly reduced.
Admittedly, what you pay for the paper probably only covers the actual costs in producing the phsysical article, not the salaries for the writers, editors, photographers and so forth. The Arizona Republic, on any given weekday, for instance, breaks approximately even on printing costs and subscription income. Advertising accounts for the salaries and the capital investment. The Sunday paper is an exception, the additional inserts of advertising skew the ecomonics of the actual printing.
Having used qfes in 13 E220s in a very high traffic situation, I can honestly say that Solaris 8 handled them correctly (in at least our situation). I did not see any issues with the nics at all, and, once we had the correct patches for fiber channel, no issues with the boxes or the os at all.
Based on how hard it was to get Win2k working correctly on my dual Athlon box, I'd have to assume this has already happened, and we just haven't been told.
Because of the situation, my other roommate and I have been trying to help her get a vehicle. But it's all a big catch-22. She can't (legally) drive a car until she gets her license and regristration, but she can't get a license and registration until she passes both a written and a road test, which requires her practing by driving a car.
In both Arizona and California (and I assume most other stateS) you can pass the written test and receive what's known as a "learner's permit". Said permit allows you to drive with a licensed driver in the car, while you are learning to drive. The permits are good for 6 months, and once you have learned to driv e sufficiently to pass the driving exam, you go in and take the test. No catch-22 at all here.
What you seem to be missing is that these mailings are real life mailboxes, not email boxes. They are sending out proxy solicitations to HP shareholders to get them to vote for the merger. Nothing to see here, folks.
For those who admin their own email servers, I've found that Spamcops blackhole list is extremely effective at stopping spam. The only downside to it it is that there is the possibility that you might also block legitimate mail, but that is simply a question of priorities. On my server, I have sendmail configured to query the inputs.orbz.org, the bl.spamcop.net, and the sbl.spamhaus.org blackhole lists. I just signed up for the spamhous one, so I don't have any statistics yet on how effective it is. The Spamcop and orbz lists *are* extremely effective, though, and cut my spam from about 50-60/day to 5-6/week.
Actually, Sun's lawsuit had nothing to do with that. Sun's lawsuit was over namespace, and licensing agreements which Microsoft, which stipulated that the Java spec would be the only thing that lived in java.blah and that anything microsoft added would live in microsoft.blah.
Microsoft took it upon themselves to extend the Java spec with new features that only worked with Microsoft's JVM, and only worked on Windows. Sun took exception to that (cause it would break the write once, use anywhere goal for java and anything which depended solely on Java) and sued and won.
Where do you come up with these ridiculous assertions that Sun only wants things to run in a JVM? Can you point a source that has anything similar to this statement made by anyone involved with Java?
We use clearcase here at my current company, and we have the same boxes serving clearcase to both pcs and unix machines. The secret to doing this (fully supported by Rational, no less)? Samba.
Works like a charm, most of the time, but that's not due to problems on Samba, but more likely our network connection screwing up our remote synchs.
Actually, it's the exact same story as on the washington post web site. The story is an AP (Associated Press) story, and any newspaper or publication that subscribes to the AP wire can reprint the story with proper credit (which msnbc has done).
They could, if they wished, even edit it for space, per many AP agreements, but on the web, they don't need to do so. NBC appears to do most of the news for the msnbc site, while MS seems to do more of the opinion type stuff.
But, don't take my word for it, check for yourself, as in everything.
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This has got to be one of the dumbest comments ever spoken on Slashdot.
Can you imagine Linus (or Alan Cox or whoever) putting in optimizations into the kernel to support Sparc hardware to the possible detriment of x86 hardware? Can you imagine Linus *caring* and working on a problem that a Sun customer has when running on a box with more than 32 cpus?
Sun makes great rock-solid hardware. Sun makes great, rock-solid software. As a system admin, software and hardware that keep running or detect problems and let me know about them are more important and valuable to me then Linux feature du-jour ("We support cool new graphics cards!") Even if Linus did insert hardware specific enhancements to the operating system, could you imagine how large the kernel would be with Sparc, Alpha, MIPS, etc, enhancements all trying to get into it? It would bloat worse than anything from Microsoft, and without true regression testing, it would be absolutely impossible to verify that Compaq's Alpha optimizations don't cause problems for something on Sparc.
What I care about is the fact that my operating system will continue working in the event of a hardware failure that is recoverable. Lost a cpu? Solaris shuts it down automatically, and reboots to prevent data corruption from corrupted buffers that the misperforming cpu might have touched.
With the LOM (Lights Out Management), you can remotely reboot a Sun box, and never have to visit the hardware for anything except a hardware problem.
The linux kernel is a fine piece of software. However, it is certainly *NOT* up to the task of managing the stuff that Solaris has been excelling at for years. Sun sells service contracts that mean something, and will get your problems resolved. Several years ago (with the introduction of Solaris 2.6) we had a problem with the network code and hard drive code interacting under extremely heavy loads, and causing problems. Within 4 hours, we were talking to the engineer who had overseen the rewrite of the drive code, and he solved our problem for us. Can you imagine trying to get a hold of "joe@somewhere.com" to find out what the problem with the network driver code for a POS 10/100 nic card that was made in 96? Wouldn't happen, and it makes it difficult to recommend Linux is situations where you absolutely have to have reliability, and are willing to pay for it.
> Their CEO is just going to half to face it that Sun will never be another Microsoft.
Of course it won't be another Microsoft. They make a quality product. In addition, the correct word is have, not half.
One of the first things you do with a new Solaris install is get rid of the install disk, and instead, boot off of Disk 1 of 2. The normal Solaris installer that everyone is familiar with is present on Disk 1 of 2, and works much better. The "pretty" graphical interface present on the Installer disk causes more problems than it solves.
I've run Solaris x86 from 2.6 on several machines at home, and it makes a fantastic platform. Security through obscurity is no panacea, but it certainly helps prevent the script kiddies from causing problems if the machine is running an os designed for another platform, since the Sparc executable code will fail to run.
In addition, with quality "non-bells and whistles" hardware, I've never had any problems, and the machines *never* crash (current uptime 63 days, and that was when the ups had issues...). Makes for cheaper hardware purchases as well, since you don't have to spend more than $80 on a graphics card, and buying the 10/100 3com nics that don't have all the "extra" features make them less expensive as well.
While it is true that only priveleged users can open ports below 1024, there is no reason that you can't open a smtp server at a higher port.
For instance, I can configure sendmail to run on port 10025 if I wanted, and it would work just fine as far as sending mail that it received. However, it would be a little harder for other machines to send mail to it, since they wouldn't have the right port number... but if all you're interested in is sending mail, that's not a problem at all.
In addition, A lot of places actually run all services as unpriveleged users, and use firewalls to redirect lower numbers (such as 80) to unpriveleged ports on the actual servers.
Sendmail works great for me and my users as far as spam prevention goes, no reason to switch to postfix. All you need to do is put the rbl relay blockers in, which you can do via m4 configuration. I personally use inputs.orbz.org and bl.spamcop.net as my open relay lists, and haven't received one spam in over two weeks.
Whats nice is that sendmail is a tried and proven technology, that a lot of competent admins know, so you have fewer problems finding assistance on problems. Just my two cents, but spam prevention isn't a reason to switch away from Sendmail. There's plenty of other reasons to switch away (personal preference probably being the most common), but spam prevention isn't one.
Don't blame issues you have with configuration on the fine piece of programming that is Sendmail.
Go to www.openoffice.org, and download the latest build. You will get icons (in your start bar if you are using windows, but you can easily copy them anywhere) for: Drawing, Formulas, HTML Document, Master Document, Presentation, Spreadsheet, and Text.
Select the appropriate one, and just that portion launches.
Works well for me, and it loads faster too.
In addition, the Star Office 6 (which will beta soon) is based on the same openoffice code, so you can be using it early.
Also, the stupid web browser seems to be completely gone!
As far as the Solaris 7 licensing costs go, almost any machine you purchase from Sun will give you the choice of either Solaris 7 or Solaris 8. License is included with the purchase of a new machine, although you should be aware that several of the newer machines (Netra X series or Sun Blades) will only run Solaris 8 or above.
Honestly, as a Solaris admin and fan, I cannot name a reason that I would stay with Solaris 7 if it was at all possible to move to 8. I haven't seen any incompatabilities between 7 and 8 except with a few tools like top, which needed to be recompiled. I'd recommend picking up an inexpensive box with Solaris 7 on it, (make sure that they transfer the RTU with it) and install everything you plan to. Then, upgrade to Solaris 8, and see if it all works. I think that in almost every case, it will work without problem, and you'll have added benefits of Live Upgrade, more stability, and fewer security problems.
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Using sh as a normal user, /usr/sbin is not in your default path. ping on solaris is installed in /usr/sbin/ping, and depending on the security policies that your sysadmins have in place, may not be runnable by non-root users. /bin. Fix your path to where the actual command is, and it will work.
Solaris still correctly believes that not all tools belong in
No, since the fuel tank in question (the external one) is dropped during launch. I'd say the possiblity of it overheating and exploding is fairly low, since it's in the ocean and has been for several days.
Actually, sites who are displaying Doubleclick ads have *full* control over which ads they show. Any ads that they don't wish to show they can easily turn off, and those ads will never be shown on their site. Slashdot showing .Net ads means that either Slashdot has incompetent people running their ad department, that they don't care/know they can turn them off, or that they want them there.
Ah, but the joke was/is that Australia *WAS* a prison! Great Britain used to dump their convicts there, so therefore it's funny!
I've got the cool Sun hardware, and I still run Solaris x86. I do so for a couple of reasons, including the fact that it gives me a little more diversity in my platforms that I run, and therefore makes the automated hacks a little less likely to directly affect me. Back when there was the automated worm infecting Solaris machines, I was able to disconnect my Sparcs from the net, and continue to use my x86 Solaris boxes without fear (the hack still cracked the daemon, but the sparc code failed to execute on the x86 platform, so it just dumped core. Since the daemon was launched from inetd, that didn't cause a problem). Diversity is a good thing in software and hardware.
I've used Sun's $20 early access versions before (with Solaris 8, as an example). It covers the cost of shipping and the media itself. Comes in a nice plastic floder, and usually has around 10-12 cds in it. I don't think that they make any money off the early access versions, it just covers their costs in making and distributing the cds to people who want them. There is usually also a free download of the isos if you want to make your own copies.
The Gimp is a nice program. However, if you need to do CMYK, then Photoshop is your only recourse, since the GIMP only does RGB. Therefore, the BEST option for CMYK photo editing is Photoshop (out of the Photoshop and the GIMP), since the GIMP doesn't do that necessary feature.
Why would I need an industry standard office suite? For the simple reason that when I send my resume to someplace, I want them to be able to read it and have it look good. OpenOffice works for me to read other people's files, but I don't send OpenOffice files to other people - I need them to look correct when they open them.
Hopefullly, there are at least some restrictions. I don't want to have to add SBC to my spam blocks because of idiots running unsecured servers (no problems with ISPS who allow servers, but verify that they don't relay). Or even more code red attempts from stupid SBC customers.
STS is Sport Track Suspension. You see it in several of the newer Cadillac's. I have no idea what on earth WSTDNS might be, unless it is Wide Sport Track Domain Name System, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Actually, this only applies in cases where the free market has competition. How else do you explain the fact that CDs haven't changed prices (except in an upward direction) since they were introduced? It's not like it costs anywhere near $20 to make one...
Having family that work in the Newspaper industry, I can tell you that while the statement that the subscription revenue doesn't cover the cost of the paper may have been true 10 years ago. In most cases, as the newspapers move to the newer presses that are all digital, (and away from plates and so forth), the actual costs of producing the paper itself are significantly reduced.
Admittedly, what you pay for the paper probably only covers the actual costs in producing the phsysical article, not the salaries for the writers, editors, photographers and so forth. The Arizona Republic, on any given weekday, for instance, breaks approximately even on printing costs and subscription income. Advertising accounts for the salaries and the capital investment. The Sunday paper is an exception, the additional inserts of advertising skew the ecomonics of the actual printing.
Having used qfes in 13 E220s in a very high traffic situation, I can honestly say that Solaris 8 handled them correctly (in at least our situation). I did not see any issues with the nics at all, and, once we had the correct patches for fiber channel, no issues with the boxes or the os at all.
Based on how hard it was to get Win2k working correctly on my dual Athlon box, I'd have to assume this has already happened, and we just haven't been told.
Because of the situation, my other roommate and I have been trying to help her get a vehicle. But it's all a big catch-22. She can't (legally) drive a car until she gets her license and regristration, but she can't get a license and registration until she passes both a written and a road test, which requires her practing by driving a car. In both Arizona and California (and I assume most other stateS) you can pass the written test and receive what's known as a "learner's permit". Said permit allows you to drive with a licensed driver in the car, while you are learning to drive. The permits are good for 6 months, and once you have learned to driv e sufficiently to pass the driving exam, you go in and take the test. No catch-22 at all here.
What you seem to be missing is that these mailings are real life mailboxes, not email boxes. They are sending out proxy solicitations to HP shareholders to get them to vote for the merger. Nothing to see here, folks.
For those who admin their own email servers, I've found that Spamcops blackhole list is extremely effective at stopping spam.
The only downside to it it is that there is the possibility that you might also block legitimate mail, but that is simply a question of priorities.
On my server, I have sendmail configured to query the inputs.orbz.org, the bl.spamcop.net, and the sbl.spamhaus.org blackhole lists. I just signed up for the spamhous one, so I don't have any statistics yet on how effective it is. The Spamcop and orbz lists *are* extremely effective, though, and cut my spam from about 50-60/day to 5-6/week.
Microsoft took it upon themselves to extend the Java spec with new features that only worked with Microsoft's JVM, and only worked on Windows. Sun took exception to that (cause it would break the write once, use anywhere goal for java and anything which depended solely on Java) and sued and won.
Where do you come up with these ridiculous assertions that Sun only wants things to run in a JVM? Can you point a source that has anything similar to this statement made by anyone involved with Java?
We use clearcase here at my current company, and we have the same boxes serving clearcase to both pcs and unix machines. The secret to doing this (fully supported by Rational, no less)? Samba.
Works like a charm, most of the time, but that's not due to problems on Samba, but more likely our network connection screwing up our remote synchs.
Actually, it's the exact same story as on the washington post web site. The story is an AP (Associated Press) story, and any newspaper or publication that subscribes to the AP wire can reprint the story with proper credit (which msnbc has done).
They could, if they wished, even edit it for space, per many AP agreements, but on the web, they don't need to do so. NBC appears to do most of the news for the msnbc site, while MS seems to do more of the opinion type stuff.
But, don't take my word for it, check for yourself, as in everything.
This has got to be one of the dumbest comments ever spoken on Slashdot.
Can you imagine Linus (or Alan Cox or whoever) putting in optimizations into the kernel to support Sparc hardware to the possible detriment of x86 hardware? Can you imagine Linus *caring* and working on a problem that a Sun customer has when running on a box with more than 32 cpus?
Sun makes great rock-solid hardware. Sun makes great, rock-solid software. As a system admin, software and hardware that keep running or detect problems and let me know about them are more important and valuable to me then Linux feature du-jour ("We support cool new graphics cards!") Even if Linus did insert hardware specific enhancements to the operating system, could you imagine how large the kernel would be with Sparc, Alpha, MIPS, etc, enhancements all trying to get into it? It would bloat worse than anything from Microsoft, and without true regression testing, it would be absolutely impossible to verify that Compaq's Alpha optimizations don't cause problems for something on Sparc.
What I care about is the fact that my operating system will continue working in the event of a hardware failure that is recoverable. Lost a cpu? Solaris shuts it down automatically, and reboots to prevent data corruption from corrupted buffers that the misperforming cpu might have touched.
With the LOM (Lights Out Management), you can remotely reboot a Sun box, and never have to visit the hardware for anything except a hardware problem.
The linux kernel is a fine piece of software. However, it is certainly *NOT* up to the task of managing the stuff that Solaris has been excelling at for years. Sun sells service contracts that mean something, and will get your problems resolved. Several years ago (with the introduction of Solaris 2.6) we had a problem with the network code and hard drive code interacting under extremely heavy loads, and causing problems. Within 4 hours, we were talking to the engineer who had overseen the rewrite of the drive code, and he solved our problem for us. Can you imagine trying to get a hold of "joe@somewhere.com" to find out what the problem with the network driver code for a POS 10/100 nic card that was made in 96? Wouldn't happen, and it makes it difficult to recommend Linux is situations where you absolutely have to have reliability, and are willing to pay for it.
> Their CEO is just going to half to face it that Sun will never be another Microsoft.
Of course it won't be another Microsoft. They make a quality product. In addition, the correct word is have, not half.
One of the first things you do with a new Solaris install is get rid of the install disk, and instead, boot off of Disk 1 of 2. The normal Solaris installer that everyone is familiar with is present on Disk 1 of 2, and works much better. The "pretty" graphical interface present on the Installer disk causes more problems than it solves.
I've run Solaris x86 from 2.6 on several machines at home, and it makes a fantastic platform. Security through obscurity is no panacea, but it certainly helps prevent the script kiddies from causing problems if the machine is running an os designed for another platform, since the Sparc executable code will fail to run.
In addition, with quality "non-bells and whistles" hardware, I've never had any problems, and the machines *never* crash (current uptime 63 days, and that was when the ups had issues...). Makes for cheaper hardware purchases as well, since you don't have to spend more than $80 on a graphics card, and buying the 10/100 3com nics that don't have all the "extra" features make them less expensive as well.
While it is true that only priveleged users can open ports below 1024, there is no reason that you can't open a smtp server at a higher port.
For instance, I can configure sendmail to run on port 10025 if I wanted, and it would work just fine as far as sending mail that it received. However, it would be a little harder for other machines to send mail to it, since they wouldn't have the right port number... but if all you're interested in is sending mail, that's not a problem at all.
In addition, A lot of places actually run all services as unpriveleged users, and use firewalls to redirect lower numbers (such as 80) to unpriveleged ports on the actual servers.
Sendmail works great for me and my users as far as spam prevention goes, no reason to switch to postfix. All you need to do is put the rbl relay blockers in, which you can do via m4 configuration. I personally use inputs.orbz.org and bl.spamcop.net as my open relay lists, and haven't received one spam in over two weeks.
Whats nice is that sendmail is a tried and proven technology, that a lot of competent admins know, so you have fewer problems finding assistance on problems. Just my two cents, but spam prevention isn't a reason to switch away from Sendmail. There's plenty of other reasons to switch away (personal preference probably being the most common), but spam prevention isn't one.
Don't blame issues you have with configuration on the fine piece of programming that is Sendmail.
Go to www.openoffice.org, and download the latest build. You will get icons (in your start bar if you are using windows, but you can easily copy them anywhere) for: Drawing, Formulas, HTML Document, Master Document, Presentation, Spreadsheet, and Text.
Select the appropriate one, and just that portion launches.
Works well for me, and it loads faster too.
In addition, the Star Office 6 (which will beta soon) is based on the same openoffice code, so you can be using it early.
Also, the stupid web browser seems to be completely gone!
As far as the Solaris 7 licensing costs go, almost any machine you purchase from Sun will give you the choice of either Solaris 7 or Solaris 8. License is included with the purchase of a new machine, although you should be aware that several of the newer machines (Netra X series or Sun Blades) will only run Solaris 8 or above.
Honestly, as a Solaris admin and fan, I cannot name a reason that I would stay with Solaris 7 if it was at all possible to move to 8. I haven't seen any incompatabilities between 7 and 8 except with a few tools like top, which needed to be recompiled. I'd recommend picking up an inexpensive box with Solaris 7 on it, (make sure that they transfer the RTU with it) and install everything you plan to. Then, upgrade to Solaris 8, and see if it all works. I think that in almost every case, it will work without problem, and you'll have added benefits of Live Upgrade, more stability, and fewer security problems.