There has been intense speculation (fueled by the release of Selective Service planning documents) that a future draft will come in the form of "special skills" drafts. The military faces a shortage of troops with specialized medical, technical, and linguistic skills that would not be met by a lottery based draft of the general 18-25 population.
Plans have been drawn up for a draft of health-care workers should the military become too overwhelmed with casualties. You can bet there are similar plans for pilots and others with highly trained skills, including some IT professionals.
If Selective Service could easily run reports such as "give me everyone under 35 with a BA or higher in Comp Sci or MidEast studies who graduated with at least a 2.5 GPA", I'm sure this would be incorporated into draft planning. Whether or not that is the primary intention of this proposed database, it would be foolish to believe that such a database would never be used in this way.
so if real work is needed, the ole dual boot may be needed
Actually, I believe YDL atleast used to come with MOL (Mac on Linux?) which allowed you to run Mac OS 8/9 applications on your linux desktop in much the same way that OS X does. So it makes sense to keep the OS 8 partition but you probably won't have to do any dual booting provided you have enough memory.
* vnc (or other RFB) server support, so I can view my desktop -- the one shown on the monitor -- from another computer.
This has already been done, it's called x0rfbserver and it's linked to under the contrib section of the official VNC page.
From the page:
Description:
x0rfbserver is a software application that is able to export an X desktop to another machine. It exports the framebuffer of the X server to one or more clients using strong compression and injects keyboard and mouse inputs from the clients into the server. The protocol used is the well documented RFB 3.3 protocol, so x0rfbserver should be compatible with every client speaking that protocol too, e.g. it should work together with the vnc viewers of AT&T.
x0rfbserver provides a complete remote control of the desktop on the computer it is running on.
the makers of that doc would probably approve of the latter but the for loop is more robust and will keep chugging if one of the ssh connections fails. xargs won't.
openssh is the only util that has given me this problem, but it goes to show that sometimes you have to deviate.
You can do something similar in Solaris 8 with flash images.
Use/usr/sbin/flarcreate to create a flash archive which can be a file or go direct to tape. Boot off the Solaris 8 webstart cd and you can make all the clones from tape that you want. If you want to be able to restore to different hardware architecture (i.e. going from an sbus based system to pci based hardware), exclude/dev and/devices when creating the flash image and you're good to go.
The flash archive can also be installed via jumpstart from an nfs or http server.
If you're stuck with older versions of Solaris, it is actually possible to adapt flash to create images of older systems. (At least tested on Solaris 7 but their are a few caveats when using with jumpstart)
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They're not running their touted monoculture on their own web servers!
oh no, they're vulnerable to terrorists!
ya know, with the number of viri and M$ IIS/SQL attacks that have hit american corporations and originated from potential enemies like china, you'd think the "pro-america" republicrats would be all over alternatives. good 'ol money..
I do this with KDE3 as well, though I use the meta (windows) key + arrows instead. I also define meta+m = next screen and meta+n = previous due to Amiga nostalgia. KDE finally meets all my desktop needs now desktop switching via active desktop borders is in 3.0.
Even if you don't use KDE, check out Konsole. The ability to have multiple term sessions in a single window and quickly switch between them with ALT+Arrows just about makes it a killer app. Plus the cluster console ability in 3.0 helps out when making identical changes on many boxen at once.
The Linux software raid and LVM support are actually fairly comparable to Sun's free Solaris equivilant (Disk Suite). This changes with the new version now called Solaris Volume Manager howerver, which introduces "soft partitions" which makes it more like VxVM. This should be bundled with Solaris 9.
VxVM and VxFS have been ported to Linux, though who knows when it will ever be publicly released. RedHat has been bankrolling the port and the release should be available for their Advanced Server product. I have an early beta version that only compiles against a 2.4.0-pre kernel but it works. I think the many changes that have occured as 2.4 has only recently stabilized have probably held things up. Veritas is doing a lot of kernel work and I'm unsure how widely it would be accepted by the community if/when it's released since it won't be entirely open or cheap.
I think the real areas where Solaris far outshines Linux include scalability beyond 8-procs and things like hotswap CPU support. But all these areas are being actively addressed. The new scheduler in 2.5 should go far towards addressing scalability and pretty much everything else is being actively worked on. Given the fast pace of Linux development, the real gap is probably only a year or two. If the big iron issues don't affect you and you don't need anything >4 procs, I don't think there even is a meaningful gap. Just massive $$$ savings and easier administration (at least w/Debian).
Erm, third world immigration is some how a threat to your programming job? (H1-B is another issue entirely.) I don't get your fascist fearmongering. Or your "facts", as there are a lot more than 800 million people in the third world.
As I said, the current processors don't have the problem. But the percentage of deployed servers that have the problem is significant and will hurt Sun's image for years to come. Sun's solution with the USII was the Sombra design which mirrors the L2 cache. Having to manufature chips with 16MB of L2 of which 8MB is usable is hideously expensive. Sun offered a Sombra upgrade program for a while. At my work Sun performed upgrades on perhaps 50 out of 400 servers with potential problems. Since this time the upgrade program has been discontinued due to cost and short supply of the new CPU's. And throughout this time, Sun's policy has remained to replace a failed CPU with the same type as the original. A service call to replace a failed USII will result in Sun giving you a new chip with the same design flaws, NOT a Sombra! The problem may be fixed but it sure as hell isn't for the majority of their existing customer base who may be exposed.
I have extensive experience with Sun. I believe the Sun Fire line are the best midrange servers available and that Solaris is by far the best commercial Unix. That doesn't mean that Sun didn't drop the ball big time, nor does it mean that the RAS qualities of the Enterprise series owes a damn thing the the USII design as the original post claimed. God, and to think you got modded up...
If the AMD Hammer can guarantee the same uptime that the UltraSPARC processors do, then you have a point, but, in general, there is more to a computer than just the CPU.
Hello.. I see Intel hardware running linux routinely beat Sun hardware on uptime and the single reason for that is the UltraSparc II processor and a little thing called e-cache... The USIII/III+ seem to be very stable but c'mon, the reliability of Sun boxes is hardly due to CPU design and for the last few years has been in spite of it.
The US doesn't sell tanks to Israel, pretty much just avionics. We sell tanks to a bunch of Arab nations however.
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Keep in mind that Debian had packages in sid for kde 2.1 and 2.2 way before redhat. At the time there was alot of grumbling from redhat users, if only I used distro x..
I agree completely. Can dpkg do anything like the "tar+spec" for source packages? It would be nice if people could distribute a single tarball and keep the RPM, DPKG, and hand-compile fans all happy.
Yes, it's contained in a debian directory under the top level which contains several files which together are the equivilant to an rpm spec. With that in place, you just run "dpkg-buildpackage -r fakeroot" (assuming you aren't root, which you generally shouldn't be for this) from the top level directory. In fact, if you "apt-get source package", you get a tarball of the debian version of the source, ready to package.
from the article: And, this problem hits us because Linux 2.4 kernels compiled with a Pentium-Classic or higher Processor family kernel configuration
setting will automatically take advantage of extended paging
so the question is, if I configure my kernel for the K7 family, do I need to pass the kernel "mem=nopentium" or is this the default?
Not actively, since IBM bought Sequent I think they're only doing necessary maintenance and hope to migrate customers to AIX once their support contracts expire.
The KDE problem is with artsd which recent versions of sdl support. You can always put ao=sdl in your/etc/mplayer.conf and save yourself on keystrokes.
If you use KDE and don't have a version of sdl compiled for artsd support, another solution is to set artsd to goto sleep after just a 1 or 2 seconds of inactivity in the kde config, this will allow apps that don't support artsd (like q3a) to run without any hassle.
this is all the more reason the US gov should be *promoting* encryption. unlikely that the chinese government will be able to filter by keyword when the content is properly encrypted.
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Plans have been drawn up for a draft of health-care workers should the military become too overwhelmed with casualties. You can bet there are similar plans for pilots and others with highly trained skills, including some IT professionals.
If Selective Service could easily run reports such as "give me everyone under 35 with a BA or higher in Comp Sci or MidEast studies who graduated with at least a 2.5 GPA", I'm sure this would be incorporated into draft planning. Whether or not that is the primary intention of this proposed database, it would be foolish to believe that such a database would never be used in this way.
Actually, I believe YDL atleast used to come with MOL (Mac on Linux?) which allowed you to run Mac OS 8/9 applications on your linux desktop in much the same way that OS X does. So it makes sense to keep the OS 8 partition but you probably won't have to do any dual booting provided you have enough memory.
This has already been done, it's called x0rfbserver and it's linked to under the contrib section of the official VNC page.
From the page:
Dang, lost the redirects...
that's a really good doc, but you know.. with solaris ksh at least :
:
while read host ; do
ssh $host echo 'hello world'
done list_of_hosts
does not work. openssh kills the while loop after the first connection in this case. you have to make a "useless" use of cat and
"for host in `cat list_of_hosts` etc.."
but if you want to avoid cat that bad, you could use:
xargs -I {} ssh {} echo 'hello world' list_of_hosts
the makers of that doc would probably approve of the latter but the for loop is more robust and will keep chugging if one of the ssh connections fails. xargs won't.
openssh is the only util that has given me this problem, but it goes to show that sometimes you have to deviate.
You can do something similar in Solaris 8 with flash images.
/usr/sbin/flarcreate to create a flash archive which can be a file or go direct to tape. Boot off the Solaris 8 webstart cd and you can make all the clones from tape that you want. If you want to be able to restore to different hardware architecture (i.e. going from an sbus based system to pci based hardware), exclude /dev and /devices when creating the flash image and you're good to go.
Use
The flash archive can also be installed via jumpstart from an nfs or http server.
If you're stuck with older versions of Solaris, it is actually possible to adapt flash to create images of older systems. (At least tested on Solaris 7 but their are a few caveats when using with jumpstart)
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anyone need an experienced sysadmin in 916, 408, 415, 510, or 650 area codes?
They're not running their touted monoculture on their own web servers!
oh no, they're vulnerable to terrorists!
ya know, with the number of viri and M$ IIS/SQL attacks that have hit american corporations and originated from potential enemies like china, you'd think the "pro-america" republicrats would be all over alternatives. good 'ol money..
rumour has it that Debian will prepare to go gcc 3.1 as the default compiler after woody is released.
I do this with KDE3 as well, though I use the meta (windows) key + arrows instead. I also define meta+m = next screen and meta+n = previous due to Amiga nostalgia. KDE finally meets all my desktop needs now desktop switching via active desktop borders is in 3.0.
Even if you don't use KDE, check out Konsole. The ability to have multiple term sessions in a single window and quickly switch between them with ALT+Arrows just about makes it a killer app. Plus the cluster console ability in 3.0 helps out when making identical changes on many boxen at once.
The Linux software raid and LVM support are actually fairly comparable to Sun's free Solaris equivilant (Disk Suite). This changes with the new version now called Solaris Volume Manager howerver, which introduces "soft partitions" which makes it more like VxVM. This should be bundled with Solaris 9.
VxVM and VxFS have been ported to Linux, though who knows when it will ever be publicly released. RedHat has been bankrolling the port and the release should be available for their Advanced Server product. I have an early beta version that only compiles against a 2.4.0-pre kernel but it works. I think the many changes that have occured as 2.4 has only recently stabilized have probably held things up. Veritas is doing a lot of kernel work and I'm unsure how widely it would be accepted by the community if/when it's released since it won't be entirely open or cheap.
I think the real areas where Solaris far outshines Linux include scalability beyond 8-procs and things like hotswap CPU support. But all these areas are being actively addressed. The new scheduler in 2.5 should go far towards addressing scalability and pretty much everything else is being actively worked on. Given the fast pace of Linux development, the real gap is probably only a year or two. If the big iron issues don't affect you and you don't need anything >4 procs, I don't think there even is a meaningful gap. Just massive $$$ savings and easier administration (at least w/Debian).
More likely, IBM would just buy Sun..
Erm, third world immigration is some how a threat to your programming job? (H1-B is another issue entirely.) I don't get your fascist fearmongering. Or your "facts", as there are a lot more than 800 million people in the third world.
As I said, the current processors don't have the problem. But the percentage of deployed servers that have the problem is significant and will hurt Sun's image for years to come. Sun's solution with the USII was the Sombra design which mirrors the L2 cache. Having to manufature chips with 16MB of L2 of which 8MB is usable is hideously expensive. Sun offered a Sombra upgrade program for a while. At my work Sun performed upgrades on perhaps 50 out of 400 servers with potential problems. Since this time the upgrade program has been discontinued due to cost and short supply of the new CPU's. And throughout this time, Sun's policy has remained to replace a failed CPU with the same type as the original. A service call to replace a failed USII will result in Sun giving you a new chip with the same design flaws, NOT a Sombra! The problem may be fixed but it sure as hell isn't for the majority of their existing customer base who may be exposed.
I have extensive experience with Sun. I believe the Sun Fire line are the best midrange servers available and that Solaris is by far the best commercial Unix. That doesn't mean that Sun didn't drop the ball big time, nor does it mean that the RAS qualities of the Enterprise series owes a damn thing the the USII design as the original post claimed. God, and to think you got modded up...
Hello.. I see Intel hardware running linux routinely beat Sun hardware on uptime and the single reason for that is the UltraSparc II processor and a little thing called e-cache... The USIII/III+ seem to be very stable but c'mon, the reliability of Sun boxes is hardly due to CPU design and for the last few years has been in spite of it.
I really wish that was the explination...
The US doesn't sell tanks to Israel, pretty much just avionics. We sell tanks to a bunch of Arab nations however.
Keep in mind that Debian had packages in sid for kde 2.1 and 2.2 way before redhat. At the time there was alot of grumbling from redhat users, if only I used distro x..
Yes, it's contained in a debian directory under the top level which contains several files which together are the equivilant to an rpm spec. With that in place, you just run "dpkg-buildpackage -r fakeroot" (assuming you aren't root, which you generally shouldn't be for this) from the top level directory. In fact, if you "apt-get source package", you get a tarball of the debian version of the source, ready to package.
I've run tcp/ip over FC (with JNI hba's) under solaris. It wasn't faster than gigabit ethernet in testing.
so the question is, if I configure my kernel for the K7 family, do I need to pass the kernel "mem=nopentium" or is this the default?
Not actively, since IBM bought Sequent I think they're only doing necessary maintenance and hope to migrate customers to AIX once their support contracts expire.
The KDE problem is with artsd which recent versions of sdl support. You can always put ao=sdl in your /etc/mplayer.conf and save yourself on keystrokes.
If you use KDE and don't have a version of sdl compiled for artsd support, another solution is to set artsd to goto sleep after just a 1 or 2 seconds of inactivity in the kde config, this will allow apps that don't support artsd (like q3a) to run without any hassle.
What's this music production version of debian?
it would even replace the need for being awake!
this is all the more reason the US gov should be *promoting* encryption. unlikely that the chinese government will be able to filter by keyword when the content is properly encrypted.