1) slot incompatiblitys are no big deal... i've been dealing with them since before 386's, and i will no doubt continue to...
2) To the best of my knowledge, Motorola makes G3's, and i do trust motorola.. but i don't trust a chip made by a single h/w vendor... call it burned to many times by intel.:) And I know G3 is non-apple hardware, yes, i seem to recall amiga also using them... but I can't get G3's from all the same places I can get x86 now. Yea, I'll be glad when I can get superior hardware the same way i get the inferior stuff now... but till I can walk into my local parts store and get G3's and such like pentiums and k6's now, i don't have much of a choice.....
That's be a disaster... every script kiddie in the world would be using it to bother people, imho.... better idea is just to post *.psnw.com in my case, ie just the domain name, or 206.43.250.* if it's not doing reverse dns at the moment. Be even worse if you've got a static ip.. you'd have no end of troubles... there are small benefits to dynamic ip's, thou not many.
You're forgetting 2 things. 1) powerpc is a better arch, yes, but x86 is not dead by any means. clunky? yes. Lots of baggage included? yes. But still a better choice of arch for me, and many others I suspect... because of..
2) Show me where I can get a G3 chip + mb + case, etc... until G3 has the exposure, and the ability to build/replace as I have now, it's worthless. Locked into one chip, made by one company, no matter how good the chip is, is a bad idea. Give me Intel, AMD, cyrix(ok, bad choice...:) ) anyday over a G3. But if i can do G3 systems like i do x86 systems today, they I'll join ya in G3 world. I'll won't run that lousy thing called macos, however...
Lately there's been alot of positive stuff on UNIX/Linux coming from mainstram media.... hopefully I'm not the only paranoid one who is afraid this all might be a by product of the current state of legal affairs of a certain corporation. Course, always the chance that people are seeing UNIX for what it is, superior in some cases, the same that can be said for anything.. Don't know, just wondering if maybe my Linux interest and knowledge might be something that I can use the same way NT knowledge seems to useful now...
End of my rambling, please return to your regular browsing.
i'd love to either be compiling or making love, as either are better than driving slowly down the road for 8 hours... and it's funny, imho. i doubt if many here are really taking it seriously. i know i'm not... my gf would kill me...:)
Not accusing anyone of being pro-anything, but let's please *NOT* mix physical security and OS security... two different ball games. Linux/UNIX in general seems to have more options than any windows varient to me, thus more ways you can do things like "linux init=/bin/sh", which is a nice recovery tool, imho, btw...:) but let's talk about OS security, where there's gonna be a winner, or physical security, where anything but a headless computer in a secure location looses at...
Computer consultant on the side, but all I'm gotta deploy during Annual Traning this year is vechicles... transportation mos's only get to do computer work when things have gotta be fixed for missions, it seems... but good luck in your deployment, the computer kind anyway, hopefully not the company kind...
yet anyway... I've done some work on computers in the army, even though it's not my MOS...:) But I've gotten tired of windows 3.1 stuff, which some military places still use alot of, in my experience with their computers... Some of their apps are gonna need special considerations too, due to security concerns.. still, I'll support it, as I'll support anything that helps our government stopwasting money.:)
David, who's always hopeful about things like this working out...
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1) slot incompatiblitys are no big deal... i've been dealing with them since before 386's, and i will no doubt continue to...
:) And I know G3 is non-apple hardware, yes, i seem to recall amiga also using them... but I can't get G3's from all the same places I can get x86 now. Yea, I'll be glad when I can get superior hardware the same way i get the inferior stuff now... but till I can walk into my local parts store and get G3's and such like pentiums and k6's now, i don't have much of a choice.....
2) To the best of my knowledge, Motorola makes G3's, and i do trust motorola.. but i don't trust a chip made by a single h/w vendor... call it burned to many times by intel.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
David
> posted from: dhcp-345.test456.domain.net
That's be a disaster... every script kiddie in the world would be using it to bother people, imho.... better idea is just to post *.psnw.com in my case, ie just the domain name, or 206.43.250.* if it's not doing reverse dns at the moment. Be even worse if you've got a static ip.. you'd have no end of troubles... there are small benefits to dynamic ip's, thou not many.
You're forgetting 2 things.
:) ) anyday over a G3. But if i can do G3 systems like i do x86 systems today, they I'll join ya in G3 world. I'll won't run that lousy thing called macos, however...
1) powerpc is a better arch, yes, but x86 is not dead by any means. clunky? yes. Lots of baggage included? yes. But still a better choice of arch for me, and many others I suspect... because of..
2) Show me where I can get a G3 chip + mb + case, etc... until G3 has the exposure, and the ability to build/replace as I have now, it's worthless. Locked into one chip, made by one company, no matter how good the chip is, is a bad idea. Give me Intel, AMD, cyrix(ok, bad choice...
David
Lately there's been alot of positive stuff on UNIX/Linux coming from mainstram media.... hopefully I'm not the only paranoid one who is afraid this all might be a by product of the current state of legal affairs of a certain corporation. Course, always the chance that people are seeing UNIX for what it is, superior in some cases, the same that can be said for anything.. Don't know, just wondering if maybe my Linux interest and knowledge might be something that I can use the same way NT knowledge seems to useful now...
End of my rambling, please return to your regular browsing.
i'd love to either be compiling or making love, as either are better than driving slowly down the road for 8 hours... and it's funny, imho. i doubt if many here are really taking it seriously. i know i'm not... my gf would kill me... :)
Not accusing anyone of being pro-anything, but let's please *NOT* mix physical security and OS security... two different ball games. Linux/UNIX in general seems to have more options than any windows varient to me, thus more ways you can do things like "linux init=/bin/sh", which is a nice recovery tool, imho, btw... :) but let's talk about OS security, where there's gonna be a winner, or physical security, where anything but a headless computer in a secure location looses at...
David
Computer consultant on the side, but all I'm gotta deploy during Annual Traning this year is vechicles... transportation mos's only get to do computer work when things have gotta be fixed for missions, it seems... but good luck in your deployment, the computer kind anyway, hopefully not the company kind...
David
yet anyway... I've done some work on computers in the army, even though it's not my MOS... :) But I've gotten tired of windows 3.1 stuff, which some military places still use alot of, in my experience with their computers... Some of their apps are gonna need special considerations too, due to security concerns.. still, I'll support it, as I'll support anything that helps our government stopwasting money. :)
David, who's always hopeful about things like this working out...