At my job, we the sysadmins have full responsibility for our Unix workstations (whether they be Sun, HP-UX, Mac OS X, et al.) However, the corporate Windows boxes, we're completely hands-off.
That's fine with me; I'm not a Windows expert nor do I play one on TV.
All I ask is that the tools I need there (mostly the Remedy client and Reflections X) work. And work well.
If you can make things stable for me, I'm a happy camper. The machines are just tools to get my job done; like any other tool, if it doesn't work, I want to smash it with a sledgehammer.:)
This was one of my favorite games many years ago. Who am I kidding? It still is!
What a BLAST it was. Always something new to find, explore, or otherwise.
I bet I could still remember which trees to burn so I could buy cheap shields; and which ones took your money.:)
Fun times; I guess I'm getting old. The new games just don't do it for me anymore. Too complicated.
I still somewhat regularly plug in my Intellivision and NES, but that's about where I stop. The newer games are all show, no go. There's just no gameplay compared to, say, Astrosmash. Or Super Mario Bros (1, 2 or 3, take your pick!) Or for sports games, try Super Sprint. Or of course, Intellivision Baseball (one of the best games ever written, anywhere, by anyone -- except for that annoying get-the-run-in-before-the-third-out-and-it-still-c ounts bug.:)
Good stuff; I think the gaming industry today should be locked in a room with these old games to remind them how to make the games FUN!
It's guarded by a railing, but you're literally within feet of it. In fact, you can stand under the wing.
It's a fantastic sight. Really, truly fantastic.
What I found interesting is the leading carbon-carbon edge is missing on one of the wings (I forget which); that's the one they took to test after the Columbia disaster.
A significant piece of history; for me, it was even more interesting than seeing the Blackbird parked in the hangar; and the Blackbird is pretty damned interesting.:)
See though, it depends on the company. If the job req clearly states "Attach resume in Word.doc format", then sending a URL instead is a bad idea.
What I'm going to think is, "wow, this guy can't follow simple directions, and thinks he knows what I want more than I do."
That's a show-stopper right there; I never even get to see your resume.
If, however, you put a URL on your resume, expect to see some hits from me; I want to get to know what makes you tick; it'll help me determine if you fit in with us or not.
The folks there are absolutely fantastic. Very helpful, knowledgable, and offer a fair price. You can probably find stuff for a few dollars less elsewhere, but you don't know who you're dealing with.
Ask for Peter in the telescope department; he's sharp!
Now *that* is what volume management is all about. I agree, SVM is a piece of junk, but that's why we have VxVM....
Now, I have to take issue with what you're saying about Sun hardware -- it's a lot EASIER to maintain than any generic x86 box I've ever seen.
You don't understand just how cool it is until you start dynamically replacing system boards -- and you can do that in any server from the 2900 on up....
It's all about availability -- and none of the x86 vendors (Sun's x86 stuff included) can touch that...
They need 2x 60amp feeds, but off those feeds you can run 8 hard partitions, and many virtual partitions (vPars) on top of those...
Much more convenient and flexible than dealing with blades, or even small 2u-type servers. And the reliability can't be beat..... the only thing that outdoes the Domes for us is the mainframe, and well, the Dome is a lot cheaper.:)
1990, 1993, either way, Jobs wasn't at Apple then.
Maybe someone else called them "wicked fast", but since calling everything 'wicked' is a Bah-stahn (pahk the cah by tha hahbah) thing, I doubt it was His Steveness.
Versions 6 and above of VINES were heavily Windows-oriented and integrated. If I recall, Version 7 went even further and had all sorts of NT hooks and hacks to get some variety of integration going with where NT was headed.
Right towards the end, Banyan announced a 'strategic partnership' with Microsoft, which basically means 'we're going to steal your technology and let you die by the wayside.'
Damn shame -- Banyan had some kick-ass technology there. StreetTalk was WAY ahead of its time (well, except for STDA -- that thing was flaky!) And let's not talk about BeyondSnail, err, BeyondMail.... what a disaster.:)
Anyway, I still have a copy of VINES 6.0 if anyone wants it (server key and all!)
Could you please do me a favor? Could y ou please tell your grandparents 'thank you' for being good people?
You know, the-lowest-price isn't always the answer. Doing research, well, that's fine. But not at someone's expense, and in your example, that's the guy trying to make a living by selling cars.
I believe in paying for honest work. If people do right by me, then I'll do right by them.
It's not a religious thing, it's not a moral thing, it's just The Right Thing To Do.
Again, thank your grandparents for being decent folk, and for raising their family that way as well.
All of you Opteron and Xeon fanboys are missing the point: SCALABILITY.
Until you can stick 128 of those suckers in a box, and have them all run in a full SMP environment, * EFFICIENTLY *, then they're useless in the enterprise world.
The coherency that's required between x86 processors is a killer. Not something that can be fixed with faster clocks and more cache, but an architectural design that just does not lend itself to SMP well.
Go look up TLB coherency and let me know what you find.
*that* is part of what makes the Itanium a REAL enterprise CPU.
Would you run it on your $300 Linux box? Of course not. You wouldn't put a PA-8800 processor there either.
But for the enterprise, Itanium will be fine. It had some initial growing pains, but the current crop run pretty much on-par with the fast CPU's out there -- PA-8800 and Alpha EV7z.
Slashdot Mirror
Here you go, be sure to thank HP for them.
d ex.htmln e/index.html
http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/hpjmeter/in
http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/java2/hpjtu
I call BS!
:) .. and eDirectory is one incredibly great product. Netware != eDirectory ...
NOTHING is NIS > NIS+. Plaintext > NIS+. Hell, even StreetTalk > NIS+!
And StreetTalk's been dead for at least 5 years now.
I expect stuff that WORKS.
:)
At my job, we the sysadmins have full responsibility for our Unix workstations (whether they be Sun, HP-UX, Mac OS X, et al.) However, the corporate Windows boxes, we're completely hands-off.
That's fine with me; I'm not a Windows expert nor do I play one on TV.
All I ask is that the tools I need there (mostly the Remedy client and Reflections X) work. And work well.
If you can make things stable for me, I'm a happy camper. The machines are just tools to get my job done; like any other tool, if it doesn't work, I want to smash it with a sledgehammer.
Well of course!
How about Triple Action? Or AD&D? Or Shark! Shark! Or even Bowling?
I don't know what was in the water at Mattel, but those guys turned out some incredible games!
He wasn't BSing, the Intellivision is SO MUCH way better than Atari ever way.
George Plimpton told me so.
Wow, 20 years ago.
:)
c ounts bug. :)
Man, I feel old.
This was one of my favorite games many years ago. Who am I kidding? It still is!
What a BLAST it was. Always something new to find, explore, or otherwise.
I bet I could still remember which trees to burn so I could buy cheap shields; and which ones took your money.
Fun times; I guess I'm getting old. The new games just don't do it for me anymore. Too complicated.
I still somewhat regularly plug in my Intellivision and NES, but that's about where I stop. The newer games are all show, no go. There's just no gameplay compared to, say, Astrosmash. Or Super Mario Bros (1, 2 or 3, take your pick!) Or for sports games, try Super Sprint. Or of course, Intellivision Baseball (one of the best games ever written, anywhere, by anyone -- except for that annoying get-the-run-in-before-the-third-out-and-it-still-
Good stuff; I think the gaming industry today should be locked in a room with these old games to remind them how to make the games FUN!
Not that you can get very close? Are you kidding?
:)
It's guarded by a railing, but you're literally within feet of it. In fact, you can stand under the wing.
It's a fantastic sight. Really, truly fantastic.
What I found interesting is the leading carbon-carbon edge is missing on one of the wings (I forget which); that's the one they took to test after the Columbia disaster.
A significant piece of history; for me, it was even more interesting than seeing the Blackbird parked in the hangar; and the Blackbird is pretty damned interesting.
See though, it depends on the company. If the job req clearly states "Attach resume in Word .doc format", then sending a URL instead is a bad idea.
What I'm going to think is, "wow, this guy can't follow simple directions, and thinks he knows what I want more than I do."
That's a show-stopper right there; I never even get to see your resume.
If, however, you put a URL on your resume, expect to see some hits from me; I want to get to know what makes you tick; it'll help me determine if you fit in with us or not.
Even still, with an FW800 to FW400 cable, that FW800 enclosure will work just fine with the MacBook Pro.
Please, this is a complete non-issue. Very few devices have FW800 ports anyway; it's pretty pointless.
Excuse me?
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http://phone.ioerror.us/2005/09/verizon-wireless-
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT
If you want to pick on someone, pick on someone other than Verizon Wireless... they're trying to protect you.
Actually, Solaris 8 is SunOS 5.8. (just as Solaris 10 is SunOS 5.10)
But thanks for playing.
Remember our history:
SunOS 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x
and then SunOS 5 became Solaris 2, and "retroactively" SunOS 4.1.3 became Solaris 1.
--DM
No, they're "that good".
I have no affiliation with them, just some very happy camera & telescope purchases. Myself, friends and family.
+50 points for mentioning Adorama!
The folks there are absolutely fantastic. Very helpful, knowledgable, and offer a fair price. You can probably find stuff for a few dollars less elsewhere, but you don't know who you're dealing with.
Ask for Peter in the telescope department; he's sharp!
No, you really don't.
:-)
It's like the circus --- just 'cause they give the elephant poop away for free doesn't mean you want it.
Seriously, Sun Cluster is broken. I personally have converted many a' cluster to VCS just to get away from Sun cluster.
May I introduce you to a product known as Veritas Volume Manager?
....
....
...
Now *that* is what volume management is all about. I agree, SVM is a piece of junk, but that's why we have VxVM
Now, I have to take issue with what you're saying about Sun hardware -- it's a lot EASIER to maintain than any generic x86 box I've ever seen.
You don't understand just how cool it is until you start dynamically replacing system boards -- and you can do that in any server from the 2900 on up
It's all about availability -- and none of the x86 vendors (Sun's x86 stuff included) can touch that
Just buy more Superdomes and partition away.
...
:)
They need 2x 60amp feeds, but off those feeds you can run 8 hard partitions, and many virtual partitions (vPars) on top of those
Much more convenient and flexible than dealing with blades, or even small 2u-type servers. And the reliability can't be beat..... the only thing that outdoes the Domes for us is the mainframe, and well, the Dome is a lot cheaper.
Proof please.
Ironport is a fine company that makes a GREAT product.
Senderbase is *not* pay to play (prove to me otherwise), and it's widely used by their C-series appliances.
And it characterizes a lot more than just quantity of mail; there are other factors that go into an SBRS (Senderbase Reputation Score) as well.
1990, 1993, either way, Jobs wasn't at Apple then.
Maybe someone else called them "wicked fast", but since calling everything 'wicked' is a Bah-stahn (pahk the cah by tha hahbah) thing, I doubt it was His Steveness.
first time I've ever been happy to be a wannabe.
:)
I know I'm getting old... I'm totally out of touch with what's posted on Slushdot these days.
In fact, I'm watching Wally Gator on Boomerang right now.... now *that* was a quality cartoon.
Not really true.
:)
Versions 6 and above of VINES were heavily Windows-oriented and integrated. If I recall, Version 7 went even further and had all sorts of NT hooks and hacks to get some variety of integration going with where NT was headed.
Right towards the end, Banyan announced a 'strategic partnership' with Microsoft, which basically means 'we're going to steal your technology and let you die by the wayside.'
Damn shame -- Banyan had some kick-ass technology there. StreetTalk was WAY ahead of its time (well, except for STDA -- that thing was flaky!) And let's not talk about BeyondSnail, err, BeyondMail.... what a disaster.
Anyway, I still have a copy of VINES 6.0 if anyone wants it (server key and all!)
Sincerely,
DENNIS@MIS@WMG01
Could you please do me a favor? Could y ou please tell your grandparents 'thank you' for being good people?
You know, the-lowest-price isn't always the answer. Doing research, well, that's fine. But not at someone's expense, and in your example, that's the guy trying to make a living by selling cars.
I believe in paying for honest work. If people do right by me, then I'll do right by them.
It's not a religious thing, it's not a moral thing, it's just The Right Thing To Do.
Again, thank your grandparents for being decent folk, and for raising their family that way as well.
Funnier yet is that with a Mac, he's got forth running under the hood.
OpenFirmware is based on forth.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/broadbandaccess/
Even at 1xRTT speeds, that's still 'good enough' to get data out.
All of you Opteron and Xeon fanboys are missing the point: SCALABILITY.
Until you can stick 128 of those suckers in a box, and have them all run in a full SMP environment, * EFFICIENTLY *, then they're useless in the enterprise world.
The coherency that's required between x86 processors is a killer. Not something that can be fixed with faster clocks and more cache, but an architectural design that just does not lend itself to SMP well.
Go look up TLB coherency and let me know what you find.
*that* is part of what makes the Itanium a REAL enterprise CPU.
Would you run it on your $300 Linux box? Of course not. You wouldn't put a PA-8800 processor there either.
But for the enterprise, Itanium will be fine. It had some initial growing pains, but the current crop run pretty much on-par with the fast CPU's out there -- PA-8800 and Alpha EV7z.
Right, they issued a bad point release, so that makes the OS a non-datacenter-OS?
Go back under your rock.
I guess you've never seen a Sun BADPATCH.
Or a withdrawn patch under HP-UX.
Or even a bad patch with OpenVMS.
Grow up. Get a clue. Bugs happen. The magic is in what the vendors *do* about it.