You have obviously not used OS X, if you believe that is caters to the GCD.
I've been in the field for 20+ years, used or am using VMS, MVS, Gaurdian (Tandem), DOS, WIndows, Novell and more "flavors" of UNIX than I care to rememeber (Currently manage Linux (Gentoo, CentOS, RHEL, Debian), AIX, Solaris, OpenBSD, and OSX.
OS X, in my opinion, is the best all-around operating system I have ever used, and while it may not be "perfect", if such a thing exists, it has yet to let me down.
Games, Applications (MS Office no less), and CLI are all readily available.
(I'll note, that I'm not a gamer, so they may be somewhat lacking, but the games I have played were better than what I found available on Linux).
If you haven't used it, I recommend you give it a "run"...
I've found (finally) the one computer that can do everything I need. I work in a MS environment, and being able to use MS Office is a godsend. I also administer multiple flavors of UN*X, and have found the tools I need either already installed, or easily compiled.
I used to have 3 or 4 computers to be able to do everthing I needed, and now I have "The ONE"
""California is one of approximately 44 or 45 states that have adopted [the] Uniform Trade Secrets Act. That statute makes it wrongful to acquire or publish without authorization information you know or have a reasonable basis to know is a trade secret of another," Milgrim said."
While this isn't one of their Fictional Products, I don't think I'd be willing to bet the security of my $3000+ laptop on a product from a company that doesn't produce much else.
I'll stick with my backpack, and never letting it out of my site...
All of the vendors that sell big iron use the RAS acronymn: Reliability, Availability, and Servicablility.
So they claim it, but does it work?
Reliabilty: The quality or state of being reliable
Is the system built using good design methodologies, and practices?
Quality components?
Availability: The quality or state of being available
Does the system have many single points of failure?
Are those points truly supseptible?
Servicability: The quality or state of being serviceable
Can I change broken parts with incuring an outage?
Can I add/remove/change without incuring a outage
When we spend hundreds of thousands, to millions of dollars on equipment, it better run, and be fixable without the system having to be stopped, and incuring a outage!
Test those things, prove they etiher work or don't, and the best is what will be bought.
I, for one, love driving. But I would use this for my commute to/from work. While buses and other forms of public transportation are great, the schedules or routes sometimes cause problems that make it unusable
I belive is TCO studies include the cost of administrators, Correct me if I'm wrong...
I'm not trying to be sarcastic, but from my experience a mediocre UN*X/Linux administrator draws a higher salary than a "expert" Windows administrator. But on the other hand a good UN*X/Linux administrator can do "more", in less time, than the MS Administrators I know...
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Do we really want any extraterrestrials to see that era, I lived it and try hard to forget it...
That alone may be cause for attack or destruction!
You have obviously not used OS X, if you believe that is caters to the GCD.
I've been in the field for 20+ years, used or am using VMS, MVS, Gaurdian (Tandem), DOS, WIndows, Novell and more "flavors" of UNIX than I care to rememeber (Currently manage Linux (Gentoo, CentOS, RHEL, Debian), AIX, Solaris, OpenBSD, and OSX.
OS X, in my opinion, is the best all-around operating system I have ever used, and while it may not be "perfect", if such a thing exists, it has yet to let me down.
Games, Applications (MS Office no less), and CLI are all readily available.
(I'll note, that I'm not a gamer, so they may be somewhat lacking, but the games I have played were better than what I found available on Linux).
If you haven't used it, I recommend you give it a "run"...
I used to have 3 or 4 computers to be able to do everthing I needed, and now I have "The ONE"
And how many "regulars" of /. would be considered addicts by this?
Is there a list of software that they donated? I'm curious if its "newer" stuff, of old stuff they no longer user, nor implement themselves...
""California is one of approximately 44 or 45 states that have adopted [the] Uniform Trade Secrets Act. That statute makes it wrongful to acquire or publish without authorization information you know or have a reasonable basis to know is a trade secret of another," Milgrim said."
I'll stick with my backpack, and never letting it out of my site...
I was told I had to take something called COBOL...
Changed career directions (a couple of times), and ended up in electronics. Went to work for a little outfit in Arizona called Intel...
The rest they say is history...
I have a P550 running right now, and it has 2 AIX (5.3), 2 SuSE linux, and 2 virtual IO servers running on 4 processors and eight Gig ram...
So they claim it, but does it work?
Reliabilty: The quality or state of being reliable
Is the system built using good design methodologies, and practices?
Quality components?
Availability: The quality or state of being available
Does the system have many single points of failure?
Are those points truly supseptible?
Servicability: The quality or state of being serviceable
Can I change broken parts with incuring an outage?
Can I add/remove/change without incuring a outage
When we spend hundreds of thousands, to millions of dollars on equipment, it better run, and be fixable without the system having to be stopped, and incuring a outage!
Test those things, prove they etiher work or don't, and the best is what will be bought.
But having a law, and actually enforcing it are two wholly different things. Not to mention the prosecution...
The installation and update of operating systems is so easy any more, a blind one armed monkey masturbating could do it.
I've worked with EDS people, and the one armed monkey would be a godsend compared to most of them that I've had the "fortune" of working with...
It would be nice if somebody made a "channel" to provide the basics, and allowed for inexpensive or free franchise rights.
Cisco doesn't test " real world situations in solving real world examples and problems using real Cisco gear"
Cisco tests "real world situations in solving real world examples and problems using real Cisco solutions"
Meaning if you don't do it "their" way, then it isn't correct!
have more than likely already voted...
This is for those of you calling foul for them...
Like most of the geeks on this site, I'm afraid we are really all alone...
I think every slashdotter should chip in $100, and WE buy SCO!
That is nice tool, However I think you missed that part about using apple based systems
What programs for MS Windows, other than Office/Outlook are needed? And since MS Office is available for OS X...
This seems like a solution looking for a problem to me.
It uses the POWER5 today!
I belive is TCO studies include the cost of administrators, Correct me if I'm wrong...
I'm not trying to be sarcastic, but from my experience a mediocre UN*X/Linux administrator draws a higher salary than a "expert" Windows administrator. But on the other hand a good UN*X/Linux administrator can do "more", in less time, than the MS Administrators I know...
Linux has been around since 1991 (13 years old)
How many people that use PC's now, could have intalled and setup DOS/Windows/networking in the 80's and 90's?
Patience is a virtue!
we are making great progress!
ant speeling aint e mpotent too, no be grmmr
even Microsoft donated to Bush, but not Kerry...