Great news that the world has an effective working oil retreival device. Now can you send the first batch of product to New Zealand to remove the oil being spilt from the Rena. Please !!!!!
1979. About 1/2 hr before my 6th Form (Year 11 for the non-oldies, non-Kiwis) Tech Drawing Exam. Played some form of Star Trek on a home built computer at school. Built by a new music teacher (!) at the school (from dim dark memory). The computer was a home etched motherboard sitting in a cardboard box. Used a black & white television as a monitor. Still remember it vividly to this day. Spent the whole exam thinking about the computer and the game. Failed the exam miserably. Been addicted to computers and games ever since.
Too bloody right mate. Us Kiwis prove how stupid we really are. Surrounded by water on all sides, we prove that we can conquer someone else's ocean too !!!!!
Oiii!
The rest of australiasia (including NEW ZEALAND (remember we won the AMERICAS CUP twice)) is also part of the Southern Cross Cable, and it was in part financed by our bloody monopoly telephone company too. One entry point into this part of the world is in Auckland, and there is a link back to Sydney to complete the loop.
It is a good thing (tm) too.
Your point about citizens pushing for consititutional protection is a good one, except that NZ DOESNT have a consititution. It is currently an underground debate that no politicion will address as it means every law has no legal right to exist (and no politicion thereof has any right to suck money off a taxpayer and for that matter taxes are illegal too). Scary stuff
There is a service in the process of being offered via an organisation called smart-cash that WILL enable micro-payments against you telephone account. It is secure, runs on *nix and provides content that costs you to see.
The organisation has links with enough major telecos to ensure that any surfer from any country around the world (dont forget you Americans cant figure out that the world is more than the East Coast to the West Coast ) can click on the smart-cash icon on a web page, be disconnected from their current session , and connected to a pay per view session, and agree to it so that payment is made against their telephone account.
I see some interesting situations for Internet Cafes !
Any just wait till the boxing fan gets his / her telephone bill after watching the latest HeavyWeight Championship of the World fight and starts spitting tacks about the $200-00 charge for the fight.
Credit cards wont match the transaction cost and have to find a new model, probably buying out the product. As the internet evolves older methods of business are going to lose their appeal to corporates, simply because each transaction cost is too high. This provides a new payment model for the 21st century.
I work for an IBM reseller in NZ (the sunny South Pacific). Two things come up time and again. 1. Management *wont* / *dont* spend money to buy printed manuals unless they see a cost / benefit plus (read profit). Distribution costs to the rest of the world are too high. 2. Every manual produced by a vendor *may* not be relevant to your / my job situation or requirements. By selectively printing the manuals I need / want I gain a better library at a zero distribution cost, than I would get by have every manual from the vendor sitting by my desk, and I would then have to have read and know each one. Whereas if they are electronic, I can search to find the relevant ones, and print those.
Why print them. It is easier to read a PDF page on A4 (not all the world uses American standards(?)) where you can scan a page, and flick between two sections that need to be read in context with other. I find it hard to stick my finger in page 432, and jump back to page 192 when I am viewing a file on my 800x600 laptop display. Plus for those who learned to speed read, you see a page at a time of printed material. I *cant* see a full page of text on any PDF or HTML. Maybe we should have monitors that have a taller resolution than they are wide.... Ooops did someone say Apple !
my $0.02 worth (not much US$, probably about $0.01)
I work in for an IBM reseller and deal with AIX, esp. the High Availability product HACMP. The big key to making this technology work successfully is using SSA hard disks, with the loops going to both machines. Run different apps. on both machines. When one fails for any reason, the other takes over the IP address and starts the application, as the disk is shared between the machines. Also 160MB / sec around the SSA loop rocks. Plus you get 48 disks on one loop.
This thread of the discussion is going onto to be a High Availability thread, not so much a database thread. To get 'real' availability you need a solution that has no single point of failure. Commercial solutions for this exist (AIX HACMP from IBM, using SSA disks and your choice of database) that work very well. As per the above post, run two machines with a raid array looped to both machines.
NZ suffers from daylight saving so our clocks are GMT-13 at present, so their article is posted at 11:00 am GMT correctly, and the skies DID light up over Auckland.
Well it's now 00:07 1/1/2000 local time in New Zealand. The power is still on, the water still flows, and the Internet still works. My supported *nix boxes havent crashed, nor has my Windoze98 PC either for that matter. The fireworks are loud and impressive, and the parties are swinging, provided you arent working:-(
Someone needs to give Rob a map showing the bloody international date line. NZ will be 2 hours into Y2K before Sydney, Australia even thinks about it. And some 18 hours before the West Coast of the US. So us suckers get to test all the vendors Y2K ready systems.... Tell you about it in 8 hours time.
99.9% availability is for un-planned outages. Lets see, that equals 3 DAYS a year. I do a lot of work with RS/6000's running AIX, and IBM claim 99.999% availability, which is 6 MINUTES a year. That should be Linux's target for availability - btw if MS could produce a server OS with the same reliability, then 99.9% of the anti-MS sentiment would go away.:-)
From someone who learned this on a SCO System V course. When deleting large files, instead of just using rm filename, do the following;
> filename;rm filename
This forces the OS to make the file a zero length, and free up all the indirect blocks, then removes the file. On SCO systems, this means the free space is reported immediately the file is deleted, not a some remote point in the future after the free list has been updated.
Smile. Everyone wonders just what you got up to...
My previous experience with Windows Updates for Win98 has been okay, however it would be nice if the update gave you a serious indication of what it would actually do, and a log to follow to figure out why the updates fail - when an update fails it is power off reboot, I'm glad it is only my notebook, not a server supporting hundreds of users.....
Read the report. There seems to be an issue that the people whom did the benchmark didnt/dont know how to tune Linux, Samba & Apache. However they did know enough to disable NT services and edit the Registry (which MS states is at your own risk), and dedicate a CPU per NIC. Multi-threaded ? Multi-tasking ? O/S. There are enough comments from knowledgeable people posted to this article to indicate that the knowledge to tune Linux to outperform NT does exist. Here is how to fix the problem. Offer to support Mindcraft to tune Samba correctly, recompile the kernel to use 1GB of RAM and fix the Apache configuration. Then challenge Mindcraft to post the result of the re-run benchmark. If Mindcraft wish to be seen as accurate and un-biased they will jump at the chance to re-run the benchmark with a correctly tuned Linux server. Otherwise simply sounding off in a forum like this only serves MS's purposes further, by allowing them to get your focus on irrelevant activities, not saving the world. P.S. I too expect Linux, Samba, Apache properly tuned will outperform NT.
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Great news that the world has an effective working oil retreival device. Now can you send the first batch of product to New Zealand to remove the oil being spilt from the Rena. Please !!!!!
1979. About 1/2 hr before my 6th Form (Year 11 for the non-oldies, non-Kiwis) Tech Drawing Exam. Played some form of Star Trek on a home built computer at school. Built by a new music teacher (!) at the school (from dim dark memory). The computer was a home etched motherboard sitting in a cardboard box. Used a black & white television as a monitor. Still remember it vividly to this day. Spent the whole exam thinking about the computer and the game. Failed the exam miserably. Been addicted to computers and games ever since.
Before the environment was the great bad thing that Governments kept their populations under control with, the Cold War was the fear factor of choice.
CnD I remember not.
/. and liked what I found. ....
/. going, its read daily down-under, from the land of the long white cloud
It was early-98 I first hit
Now I've had to grow up and were a suit & sell sh!t
But I do remember posting the first postY2K submission on Slashdot.
Douglas
P.S. Keep
Not quite sure how old your information is, but Solaris is now FREE (as in free beer) only for single CPU capable machines.
Anything bigger needs a licence from Sun. Go enjoy Solaris 9 for X86 on a single CPU machine today
Too bloody right mate. Us Kiwis prove how stupid we really are. Surrounded by water on all sides, we prove that we can conquer someone else's ocean too !!!!!
Oiii!
The rest of australiasia (including NEW ZEALAND (remember we won the AMERICAS CUP twice)) is also part of the Southern Cross Cable, and it was in part financed by our bloody monopoly telephone company too. One entry point into this part of the world is in Auckland, and there is a link back to Sydney to complete the loop.
It is a good thing (tm) too.
Your point about citizens pushing for consititutional protection is a good one, except that NZ DOESNT have a consititution. It is currently an underground debate that no politicion will address as it means every law has no legal right to exist (and no politicion thereof has any right to suck money off a taxpayer and for that matter taxes are illegal too). Scary stuff
Genuine NZ Kiwi - Eats roots and leaves.
The Cheif Censor in NZ has today passed the same restriction.
Tough.
Will the Feds be very interested in Rambus Inc.'s behaviour ?
Maybe this will be a Good Thing Real Soon Now (tm)
You're missing the point here. If the billing mechanism is NOT a credit card, but your teleco, then the problem of cost per transaction goes away.
There is a service in the process of being offered via an organisation called smart-cash that WILL enable micro-payments against you telephone account. It is secure, runs on *nix and provides content that costs you to see.
The organisation has links with enough major telecos to ensure that any surfer from any country around the world (dont forget you Americans cant figure out that the world is more than the East Coast to the West Coast ) can click on the smart-cash icon on a web page, be disconnected from their current session , and connected to a pay per view session, and agree to it so that payment is made against their telephone account.
I see some interesting situations for Internet Cafes !
Any just wait till the boxing fan gets his / her telephone bill after watching the latest HeavyWeight Championship of the World fight and starts spitting tacks about the $200-00 charge for the fight.
Credit cards wont match the transaction cost and have to find a new model, probably buying out the product. As the internet evolves older methods of business are going to lose their appeal to corporates, simply because each transaction cost is too high. This provides a new payment model for the 21st century.
I work for an IBM reseller in NZ (the sunny South Pacific).
Two things come up time and again.
1. Management *wont* / *dont* spend money to buy printed manuals unless they see a cost / benefit plus (read profit). Distribution costs to the rest of the world are too high.
2. Every manual produced by a vendor *may* not be relevant to your / my job situation or requirements.
By selectively printing the manuals I need / want I gain a better library at a zero distribution cost, than I would get by have every manual from the vendor sitting by my desk, and I would then have to have read and know each one. Whereas if they are electronic, I can search to find the relevant ones, and print those.
Why print them.
It is easier to read a PDF page on A4 (not all the world uses American standards(?)) where you can scan a page, and flick between two sections that need to be read in context with other. I find it hard to stick my finger in page 432, and jump back to page 192 when I am viewing a file on my 800x600 laptop display. Plus for those who learned to speed read, you see a page at a time of printed material. I *cant* see a full page of text on any PDF or HTML. Maybe we should have monitors that have a taller resolution than they are wide.... Ooops did someone say Apple !
my $0.02 worth (not much US$, probably about $0.01)
I work in for an IBM reseller and deal with AIX, esp. the High Availability product HACMP. The big key to making this technology work successfully is using SSA hard disks, with the loops going to both machines. Run different apps. on both machines. When one fails for any reason, the other takes over the IP address and starts the application, as the disk is shared between the machines.
Also 160MB / sec around the SSA loop rocks. Plus you get 48 disks on one loop.
This thread of the discussion is going onto to be a High Availability thread, not so much a database thread.
To get 'real' availability you need a solution that has no single point of failure.
Commercial solutions for this exist (AIX HACMP from IBM, using SSA disks and your choice of database) that work very well. As per the above post, run two machines with a raid array looped to both machines.
Oops GMT + 13...
NZ suffers from daylight saving so our clocks are GMT-13 at present, so their article is posted at 11:00 am GMT correctly, and the skies DID light up over Auckland.
Well it's now 00:07 1/1/2000 local time in New Zealand. The power is still on, the water still flows, and the Internet still works. My supported *nix boxes havent crashed, nor has my Windoze98 PC either for that matter. The fireworks are loud and impressive, and the parties are swinging, provided you arent working :-(
Someone needs to give Rob a map showing the bloody international date line. NZ will be 2 hours into Y2K before Sydney, Australia even thinks about it. And some 18 hours before the West Coast of the US. So us suckers get to test all the vendors Y2K ready systems.... Tell you about it in 8 hours time.
99.9% availability is for un-planned outages. Lets see, that equals 3 DAYS a year. I do a lot of work with RS/6000's running AIX, and IBM claim 99.999% availability, which is 6 MINUTES a year. That should be Linux's target for availability - btw if MS could produce a server OS with the same reliability, then 99.9% of the anti-MS sentiment would go away. :-)
From someone who learned this on a SCO System V course. When deleting large files, instead of just using rm filename, do the following;
;rm filename
> filename
This forces the OS to make the file a zero length, and free up all the indirect blocks, then removes the file. On SCO systems, this means the free space is reported immediately the file is deleted, not a some remote point in the future after the free list has been updated.
Smile. Everyone wonders just what you got up to...
My previous experience with Windows Updates for Win98 has been okay, however it would be nice if the update gave you a serious indication of what it would actually do, and a log to follow to figure out why the updates fail - when an update fails it is power off reboot, I'm glad it is only my notebook, not a server supporting hundreds of users.....
Read the report. There seems to be an issue that the people whom did the benchmark didnt/dont know how to tune Linux, Samba & Apache. However they did know enough to disable NT services and edit the Registry (which MS states is at your own risk), and dedicate a CPU per NIC. Multi-threaded ? Multi-tasking ? O/S.
There are enough comments from knowledgeable people posted to this article to indicate that the knowledge to tune Linux to outperform NT does exist.
Here is how to fix the problem. Offer to support Mindcraft to tune Samba correctly, recompile the kernel to use 1GB of RAM and fix the Apache configuration. Then challenge Mindcraft to post the result of the re-run benchmark. If Mindcraft wish to be seen as accurate and un-biased they will jump at the chance to re-run the benchmark with a correctly tuned Linux server.
Otherwise simply sounding off in a forum like this only serves MS's purposes further, by allowing them to get your focus on irrelevant activities, not saving the world.
P.S. I too expect Linux, Samba, Apache properly tuned will outperform NT.