At work a group implimented a Oracle data wharehouse on Sun equipment running solaris. The database sizes are expected to scale to 1 TB. But if I am remembering correctly the cost on the equipment/oracle was about $2.0 million.
This has to be FUD.... Lets see, I can download Redhat, Mandrake & SUSE for free (or get them from cheapbytes for $3-$4). So what are these companies giving the reviewers that would sway them so much? A CD, that will be outdated in a few months? I think both tucows and zdnet should publish another article on how to download, install and evaluate linux for yourself, without ever contacting the vendor, one for each distribution mentioned. That would be a real plus for all in the community. My biggest problem is that a lot of people probably took the articles seriously. And if these people did review the product but did not talk about bugs they found, the webzines should not let that person do a review again.
That's a very good point. Now that slashdot is owned by Andover, who is in control of accepting adds? Does someone at the home office take care of that. Would CmdTaco realize what.gif file he's putting in until it's too late.
At my job I was asked to do a Linux vs. AIX running Websphere and Apache evaluation. When I was asked about hardware recommendations I said we should probably use a company that is part of the 'Linux community', one like VA Linux Systems. The execs said, 'Who? No, we want to use someone like Dell, IBM or Compaq. We want to leverage the economies of scale...Yadda, yadda, yadd....' What, if anything, are you doing to get over that type of reaction?
Thank God (whichever you like)...I hope this gives some of the less technical users out there some sort of apreciation for 'us techies'. I've been there...done that....(Way tooooo often).... Anyway.....Has anyone ever done a study about why we feel guilty when we leave a situation like this? I know the author did...I have....I'll have to talk to my wife (a psych major...going for her Doctorate)... Well...for me anyway...most of this stuff is over...I've just gotten a job as a Senior Systems Design Architect....I can let the engineers deal with these problems....:-)
The Seagate drive is actually just a sony drive relabeled...we had problems with the seagate drives and after a month of swapping and dealing with tech support we got a sony drive instead...and walla it was the same exact drive as the seagate...Even seagate tech support said they were waiting for a firmware update from sony for their drives...BTW: the sony firmware update will allow the drives to do 35/70GB or so instead of the 25/50 GB...Can we say free upgrade?
You will need new tapes though...Also one other note...using the AIT drives with ARKEIA..Do not buy the Tapes with a MIC (in cartridge memory), ARKEIA does not use it..(nor does tar, BRU, etc)..Save yourself $20 per tape...
Also...It looks like the casue of our problem was a bad batch of tapes from seagate (also made by sony, confirmed by a seagate rep.)..Unfortuanatly I don't have any more info to pass on (like lot numbers)..
Good luck with backups...and the restores when need be...
Why NT? Whats the benfit? NT costs more (than Linux/*BSD) Linux/*BSD+Samba+Apache+Scripts..You have a box that can practically talk to everything...IP/IPX/Appletalk.. Just doesn't make any sense... Can someone please explain the business decision to me? NT will cost them more and overload under any real strain.... Please, someone explain this to me??????
I remeber when I used to be totally engrosed in M$ Windows and its related products (Office, VB, NT, etc...). I wouldn't really explain to people that when their M$ Windows machines chrashed....it was usually MICROSOFT'S FAULT. Now...that I'm a little more...enlightened...I try my best to explain to people who run MS Windows, when their machine crashes, that the reason why it crashed was because of MS WINDOWS. Not something they did (because it usually isn't), but because the sh$t from M$ sucks...
Lately I've really only been using Google. It seems to me that the google people have created a great serch engine that actually returns GOOD results. At the moment they (google) don't even have any add on their site. Don't know if it will stay that way, but I hope it does. I've since stopped using excite/yahoo/altavista/hotbot/etc.....
Since when has Windows been able to: "scale on high-end PC servers." From what I understand, unless the application was specifically written to take advantage of multiple processors on NT then the OS itself would make little use of the other processors. This is what I've been told by people who write SQL database software for Informix/MS SQL/etc...
Now that I read the whole article, they (PC Week) still missed the 'LINUX' point. Oh well...Maybe one day we can all live in a free software world....
For your login name in your ppp scripts you may need to add a # in front of them..If your email address is lets say: johndoe@ix.netcom.com then your login for ppp would be #johndoe. I only know this because I recently configured a router for a client (and analog dialup router at that) and had their tech support on the line. The damn sales rep didn't tell the customer that they needed to have a # infront of their login name...
Most ISP's don't support linux. Silly since most of the people who work at a LOT of ISPs use Linux or worse...Many ISPs run their web servers on Linux....
The new interface looked really nice. The old one was getting...well old...It's scoop's site...let him do what he wants with it...and as far as I'm concerned he's been doing a great job. I would hate to loose freshmeat. Great Job Scoop...Keep up the GREAT work. I hope you put the site back up soon... BTW: This in no way means that I don't think/. is also great:-)
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At work a group implimented a Oracle data wharehouse on Sun equipment running solaris. The database sizes are expected to scale to 1 TB. But if I am remembering correctly the cost on the equipment/oracle was about $2.0 million.
This has to be FUD.... Lets see, I can download Redhat, Mandrake & SUSE for free (or get them from cheapbytes for $3-$4). So what are these companies giving the reviewers that would sway them so much? A CD, that will be outdated in a few months? I think both tucows and zdnet should publish another article on how to download, install and evaluate linux for yourself, without ever contacting the vendor, one for each distribution mentioned. That would be a real plus for all in the community. My biggest problem is that a lot of people probably took the articles seriously. And if these people did review the product but did not talk about bugs they found, the webzines should not let that person do a review again.
That's a very good point. Now that slashdot is owned by Andover, who is in control of accepting adds? Does someone at the home office take care of that. Would CmdTaco realize what .gif file he's putting in until it's too late.
At my job I was asked to do a Linux vs. AIX running Websphere and Apache evaluation. When I was asked about hardware recommendations I said we should probably use a company that is part of the 'Linux community', one like VA Linux Systems. The execs said, 'Who? No, we want to use someone like Dell, IBM or Compaq. We want to leverage the economies of scale...Yadda, yadda, yadd....' What, if anything, are you doing to get over that type of reaction?
What provider do you have? @home? I've been running linux w/@home's cable modems for over a year now....DHCP has never been a problem....
Thank God (whichever you like)...I hope this gives some of the less technical users out there some sort of apreciation for 'us techies'. I've been there...done that....(Way tooooo often).... Anyway.....Has anyone ever done a study about why we feel guilty when we leave a situation like this? I know the author did...I have....I'll have to talk to my wife (a psych major...going for her Doctorate)... Well...for me anyway...most of this stuff is over...I've just gotten a job as a Senior Systems Design Architect....I can let the engineers deal with these problems....:-)
The Seagate drive is actually just a sony drive relabeled...we had problems with the seagate drives and after a month of swapping and dealing with tech support we got a sony drive instead...and walla it was the same exact drive as the seagate...Even seagate tech support said they were waiting for a firmware update from sony for their drives...BTW: the sony firmware update will allow the drives to do 35/70GB or so instead of the 25/50 GB...Can we say free upgrade?
You will need new tapes though...Also one other note...using the AIT drives with ARKEIA..Do not buy the Tapes with a MIC (in cartridge memory), ARKEIA does not use it..(nor does tar, BRU, etc)..Save yourself $20 per tape...
Also...It looks like the casue of our problem was a bad batch of tapes from seagate (also made by sony, confirmed by a seagate rep.)..Unfortuanatly I don't have any more info to pass on (like lot numbers)..
Good luck with backups...and the restores when need be...
Arkeia is good...go check it out...www.arkeia.com...
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Why NT? Whats the benfit? NT costs more (than Linux/*BSD) Linux/*BSD+Samba+Apache+Scripts..You have a box that can practically talk to everything...IP/IPX/Appletalk.. Just doesn't make any sense... Can someone please explain the business decision to me? NT will cost them more and overload under any real strain.... Please, someone explain this to me??????
I remeber when I used to be totally engrosed in M$ Windows and its related products (Office, VB, NT, etc...). I wouldn't really explain to people that when their M$ Windows machines chrashed....it was usually MICROSOFT'S FAULT. Now...that I'm a little more...enlightened...I try my best to explain to people who run MS Windows, when their machine crashes, that the reason why it crashed was because of MS WINDOWS. Not something they did (because it usually isn't), but because the sh$t from M$ sucks...
Just my two cents...
Lately I've really only been using Google. It seems to me that the google people have created a great serch engine that actually returns GOOD results. At the moment they (google) don't even have any add on their site. Don't know if it will stay that way, but I hope it does. I've since stopped using excite/yahoo/altavista/hotbot/etc.....
Depending on the age of the lexmark boxes they should support lpr. The HP ones definetly do (as long as you get the 'multiprotocol' ones).
Since when has Windows been able to: "scale on high-end PC servers." From what I understand, unless the application was specifically written to take advantage of multiple processors on NT then the OS itself would make little use of the other processors. This is what I've been told by people who write SQL database software for Informix/MS SQL/etc...
Now that I read the whole article, they (PC Week) still missed the 'LINUX' point. Oh well...Maybe one day we can all live in a free software world....
Linus is too Cool...
For your login name in your ppp scripts you may need to add a # in front of them..If your email address is lets say: johndoe@ix.netcom.com then your login for ppp would be #johndoe. I only know this because I recently configured a router for a client (and analog dialup router at that) and had their tech support on the line. The damn sales rep didn't tell the customer that they needed to have a # infront of their login name...
Most ISP's don't support linux. Silly since most of the people who work at a LOT of ISPs use Linux or worse...Many ISPs run their web servers on Linux....
:-)
The new interface looked really nice. The old one was getting...well old...It's scoop's site...let him do what he wants with it...and as far as I'm concerned he's been doing a great job. I would hate to loose freshmeat. Great Job Scoop...Keep up the GREAT work. I hope you put the site back up soon... BTW: This in no way means that I don't think /. is also great :-)