> Amtrak was pretty notorious for lots of bad derailments.
Which is funny because Amtrak doesn't own most of the track it runs on, so track condition isn't their problem. Blame it on (insert local freight rr here).
Where do you think most of us learned to do this in the first place? : )
Seriously now, I was an engineering major at Cal Poly and did the sysadmin thing on the side... I graduated in '99, and they were looking for more sysadmins than metallurgists, so there I went. Not to say that all of that time went to waste by any means.
The university environment is a great one to learn in, and get paid doing it if you're lucky. Such a wide array of environments that you'd never dream of on your linux box at home. Sun, IBM, HP, NeXT (well, not any more, obviously), Linux, all in one place. Great learning, and shameless resume padding.
This is no longer true. The "alliance" has been functionally dead since AOL decided to lay off its people in the alliance and Sun rehired most of them. AOL was shipping its hardware out of Santa Clara weekly back in November (IIRC, it may have been later).
What?!
The 85 and 86 (I've owned one each, still have the 86) have a function whereby you can find the intersection of two functions in GRAPH mode. You give it an upper and lower limit, and it finds the intersection between.
I just ordered some tire chains for my truck, and they were shipped UPS. All 27lb of chain arrived in pristine condition. I suppose you can't destroy what you can hardly lift.;)
Please, why stick to one? Remember that there are still people out there using OpenWindows (X-based Solaris installs use OW), and there will be people using CDE for years to come. So there's three you have to understand (OW, CDE, GNOME). But for your own purposes, fine one you like.
I use Icewm on Solaris, my next-office neighbor uses windowmaker.
In a press conference this morning (well, this morning on this coast), Giuliani said they would rebuild, almost as if not rebuilding was unthinkable.
More power to him.
--Ben
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Just so they didn't have to move the mental patients when they built the new campus there, Sun hired them all and called it iPlanet. Trust me on this, the place is full of nuts.
IIRC, A/US hasn't been supported by Apple since 1994-5ish. We had a wacky Mac tech at Poly who put it on a box that no longer booted MacOS. (It was a Workgroup Server 95 with some form of bad firmware).
The freakiest thing, seeing that login: prompt on a Mac... before mklinux or linuxppc.
What falls in the middle there, I think, are some of their high-end MP workstations, such as the Ultra 60 (up to 2 procs) and 80 (up to 4). They're SCSI/SCA on the disk end, so they'd make great small servers. Yank the framebuffer, run it through a serial port, slap in some PCI QFE cards (maybe just one), and you'd be good to go. And if you want an old-style indestructable MP Sun box, find an Ultra 2 or a UE2. They support up to 2 400's, and rackmount easier.
There are machines in the middle, they just aren't marketed as such.:)
I have a 380ED, and when I got it when it was 3 years old and most of the hell had *already* been banged out of it. A very durable little box, though at 7lb, it is a bit rough to use on the go, so I prefer to think of it as a "portable". And as a bonus, all of the h/w is fully supported by Linux, so it runs Slackware wonderfully.
I keep hearing that the new Thinkpads aren't as tough ad the old ones. Guess I'll keep mine.:)
BTW, the OK and FAILED thing in RH is actually a shameless lookalike of the HP-UX boot sequence. In HP, each service goes from LOADING to OK as it loads.
Other than all of the opposing ideas previously mentioned, I can think of a few things wrong with this, from a railroading standpoint.
1. Russia's track gauge is 5ft0in. The US/UK/Canadian (among others) standard gauge is 4ft8.5in. This is more a nuisance than a problem, as the Russians already have to change gauges of cars at their Chinese and Eastern European borders.
2. The nearest rail connection to Western Alaska is Fairbanks or Anchorage (IIRC). It would be difficult at best to bore/grade your way from Nome to Central Alaska. (But then, if you've ALREADY gone under the Bering Strait...)
2a. The Alaska Railroad's only connection to the outside world is by sea to Seattle/Vancouver. So... unless they want to connect the tunnel to the ARR and the ARR to the Canadian (CN/CP/BCR) rail system, there's not much point to the whole thing.
If they do it, I want a ticket on the first one across... and here's to hoping they use US motive power.;)
In my experience, SparcLinux has been a nice way to give older (sun4c/sun4/sun4m) boxes a new lease on life (esp. the SS5/10/20 that still have a little power). I've run it on both an SS2 and an SSClassic, and other than distro-specific bugs (RH was the only Sparc distro at the time... ugh), they worked well.
Also, Solaris 8 drops support for the sun4 and sun4c boxes, IIRC, and it has way too much overhead for a lot of the pre-sun4u boxes.
PS: I'd put Slack on the Ultra 10/440 in my office... but only as a dual-boot setup with SunOS 5.7. Just out of morbid curiousity. I doubt I'd ever get XFree to fully use the Creator3D.:)
Nothing wrong with MD at all! I have a portable player/recorder, and it rocks. Media's cheaper than the memory in my buddies' mp3 players, and it's more durable than the CDR. (That, and everyone thinks no one uses it, so while mp3 will be first up on the wall when the RIAA comes, the MD will still be useful.)
Newer versions of the ATRAC spec give great sound, too.
Let's not forget the BOMARC, a surface-to-air nuclear weapon stationed here and there along
the US's borders (Upstate NY was one place, somewhere in MN was another) designed to shoot
straight out to the oncoming (Soviet) bombers, and *poof*. Even if it didn't get close
enough to destroy the bombers, it would at least blind and irradiate the crews, pretty much
ending the mission.
IIRC, they were removed from service in the 70's sometime, and some ended up at Vandenberg
AFB as radar calibration and target drones.
Amen! I can't believe the original poster neglected Orbital Sciences Corporation.
OSC produces and launches the Taurus and Pegasus rockets for all sorts of customers.
The Pegasus is the air-launched vehicle mentioned in the article. The Taurus is the Pegasus upper stage with a larger lower stage for ground launching. Pegasus launches started in 1991, and Taurus launches in 1995 (both dates are IIRC from my days doing safety design review at Vandenberg).
The Pegasus link in the post is flawed, as only test launches were done from B-52's. Now OSC has it's very own Lockheed Tri-Star from which to launch.
Anyway, this really should have been in the original post. : )
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... they should fold after they give me my severance package. :)
> And a lot of IT people could potentially
> be out of work!
Don't remind me! I work in IT at Sun!
> Amtrak was pretty notorious for lots of bad derailments.
Which is funny because Amtrak doesn't own most of the track it runs on, so track condition isn't their problem. Blame it on (insert local freight rr here).
--Ben
Where do you think most of us learned to do this in the first place? : )
Seriously now, I was an engineering major at Cal Poly and did the sysadmin thing on the side... I graduated in '99, and they were looking for more sysadmins than metallurgists, so there I went. Not to say that all of that time went to waste by any means.
The university environment is a great one to learn in, and get paid doing it if you're lucky. Such a wide array of environments that you'd never dream of on your linux box at home. Sun, IBM, HP, NeXT (well, not any more, obviously), Linux, all in one place. Great learning, and shameless resume padding.
--Ben
I think so...
here
I'll defend this office with my life!
Damn dirty IBM!
--Ben, from the aforementioned HQ on Montague
This is no longer true. The "alliance" has been functionally dead since AOL decided to lay off its people in the alliance and Sun rehired most of them. AOL was shipping its hardware out of Santa Clara weekly back in November (IIRC, it may have been later).
It's been officially dead since 17-18 March.
--Ben "What, you didn't get the memo?" August
What?!
The 85 and 86 (I've owned one each, still have the 86) have a function whereby you can find the intersection of two functions in GRAPH mode. You give it an upper and lower limit, and it finds the intersection between.
Or am I crazy?
--Ben "oooh... a calculator and PDA" August
I believe none of the foods you mentioned come in cans, hence, they are not on the Strangest Canned Foods page.
:)
That aside, I think this guy needs to head to his nearest Ranch 99 Supermarket and scope THEIR canned foods... it would definitely expand his stash.
--Ben
Sorry... "kick" might have been a more appropriate word there. :)
--Ben
I just ordered some tire chains for my truck, and they were shipped UPS. All 27lb of chain arrived in pristine condition. I suppose you can't destroy what you can hardly lift. ;)
--Ben
Jobs would be an Insanely Great[TM] President!
Please, why stick to one? Remember that there are still people out there using OpenWindows (X-based Solaris installs use OW), and there will be people using CDE for years to come. So there's three you have to understand (OW, CDE, GNOME). But for your own purposes, fine one you like.
;)
I use Icewm on Solaris, my next-office neighbor uses windowmaker.
Anything's better than CDE.
--Ben
In a press conference this morning (well, this morning on this coast), Giuliani said they would rebuild, almost as if not rebuilding was unthinkable.
More power to him.
--Ben
Just so they didn't have to move the mental patients when they built the new campus there, Sun hired them all and called it iPlanet. Trust me on this, the place is full of nuts.
;)
--Ben, who knows this all too well
IIRC, A/US hasn't been supported by Apple since 1994-5ish. We had a wacky Mac tech at Poly who put it on a box that no longer booted MacOS. (It was a Workgroup Server 95 with some form of bad firmware).
The freakiest thing, seeing that login: prompt on a Mac... before mklinux or linuxppc.
What falls in the middle there, I think, are some of their high-end MP workstations, such as the Ultra 60 (up to 2 procs) and 80 (up to 4). They're SCSI/SCA on the disk end, so they'd make great small servers. Yank the framebuffer, run it through a serial port, slap in some PCI QFE cards (maybe just one), and you'd be good to go. And if you want an old-style indestructable MP Sun box, find an Ultra 2 or a UE2. They support up to 2 400's, and rackmount easier.
:)
There are machines in the middle, they just aren't marketed as such.
--Ben (who spends waaay too much time at Sun)
I have a 380ED, and when I got it when it was 3 years old and most of the hell had *already* been banged out of it. A very durable little box, though at 7lb, it is a bit rough to use on the go, so I prefer to think of it as a "portable". And as a bonus, all of the h/w is fully supported by Linux, so it runs Slackware wonderfully.
:)
I keep hearing that the new Thinkpads aren't as tough ad the old ones. Guess I'll keep mine.
BTW, the OK and FAILED thing in RH is actually a shameless lookalike of the HP-UX boot sequence. In HP, each service goes from LOADING to OK as it loads.
--Ben
Other than all of the opposing ideas previously mentioned, I can think of a few things wrong with this, from a railroading standpoint.
;)
1. Russia's track gauge is 5ft0in. The US/UK/Canadian (among others) standard gauge is 4ft8.5in. This is more a nuisance than a problem, as the Russians already have to change gauges of cars at their Chinese and Eastern European borders.
2. The nearest rail connection to Western Alaska is Fairbanks or Anchorage (IIRC). It would be difficult at best to bore/grade your way from Nome to Central Alaska. (But then, if you've ALREADY gone under the Bering Strait...)
2a. The Alaska Railroad's only connection to the outside world is by sea to Seattle/Vancouver. So... unless they want to connect the tunnel to the ARR and the ARR to the Canadian (CN/CP/BCR) rail system, there's not much point to the whole thing.
If they do it, I want a ticket on the first one across... and here's to hoping they use US motive power.
In my experience, SparcLinux has been a nice way to give older (sun4c/sun4/sun4m) boxes a new lease on life (esp. the SS5/10/20 that still have a little power). I've run it on both an SS2 and an SSClassic, and other than distro-specific bugs (RH was the only Sparc distro at the time... ugh), they worked well.
:)
Also, Solaris 8 drops support for the sun4 and sun4c boxes, IIRC, and it has way too much overhead for a lot of the pre-sun4u boxes.
PS: I'd put Slack on the Ultra 10/440 in my office... but only as a dual-boot setup with SunOS 5.7. Just out of morbid curiousity. I doubt I'd ever get XFree to fully use the Creator3D.
Nothing wrong with MD at all! I have a portable player/recorder, and it rocks. Media's cheaper than the memory in my buddies' mp3 players, and it's more durable than the CDR. (That, and everyone thinks no one uses it, so while mp3 will be first up on the wall when the RIAA comes, the MD will still be useful.)
Newer versions of the ATRAC spec give great sound, too.
--Ben
Let's not forget the BOMARC, a surface-to-air nuclear weapon stationed here and there along
the US's borders (Upstate NY was one place, somewhere in MN was another) designed to shoot
straight out to the oncoming (Soviet) bombers, and *poof*. Even if it didn't get close
enough to destroy the bombers, it would at least blind and irradiate the crews, pretty much
ending the mission.
IIRC, they were removed from service in the 70's sometime, and some ended up at Vandenberg
AFB as radar calibration and target drones.
--Ben
Wait a minute...
Look at Elle McPherson (sp?).
--Ben
Amen! I can't believe the original poster neglected Orbital Sciences Corporation.
OSC produces and launches the Taurus and Pegasus rockets for all sorts of customers.
The Pegasus is the air-launched vehicle mentioned in the article. The Taurus is the Pegasus upper stage with a larger lower stage for ground launching. Pegasus launches started in 1991, and Taurus launches in 1995 (both dates are IIRC from my days doing safety design review at Vandenberg).
The Pegasus link in the post is flawed, as only test launches were done from B-52's. Now OSC has it's very own Lockheed Tri-Star from which to launch.
Anyway, this really should have been in the original post. : )
--Ben