Finally, a computer that takes little desk space, and is just big enough to hold my coffee, and with intel inside, it should keep my coffee hot, and the office warm!
My RS6000 uses regular UW scsi connectors, nothing proprietary there! However, I don't like the box either. Here's why:
1: Overpriced. - Need I say more?
2: Poor design. - There is NO ROOM inside the damn thing. Granted the tower has some room, the desktop version has no room, looks like a rats nest under the hood. - Also, the sliding door on the front conveniently covers the air slots for the two UW hard disks (in our system) which causes most of them to cook. (and crash). - Another thing, the box was DOA. This customized server (read 100,000.00$+ box) would just display some useless number on the front, and no boot/video. I called IBM (which was a battle to just talk to them) said to remove ALL the connectors from the system and reconnect. If this didn't work they would send a tech with a new MOBO.
I dismantled it three times, and no luck. The fourth time, I walked by it and in discust, I smacked it's power switch for the last time, it came up to my surprise and has been fine ever since.
Back on topic though, AIX is SLOW!! One nice thing though, it is consistently slow, 1 or 1000 users, it always works, and JFS is quite kewl! I have no problems pressing the power switch on a fully operational system, knowing that it will come back without an argument is GREAT!
The Alpha did not go to intel. Samsung has been keeping it alive and well, ever hear about the 21264?? You should check the specInt/FP's on this puppy if you want fast. The Mercede doesn't even come close on its estimates to the current real-world 21264. Hell, even the 21164 / 533 MHz that I am using now is faster than intels fastest pIII Xeon @ 550! (which is now about two years old, where was intel when the 500+ bandwagon drove by then, 550 is slow, alpha is already shipping 700Mhz plus, using a.25 core).
I thought it was going to be based on a Cray T3E..
Agreed though, who wants ANOTHER computer platform. And if they go proprietary again, it will be just like the old days, only they will die more rapidly this time since what can they offer that the rest of the industry cannot? And if its PPC based, who wants another one of those systems around, don't we have enough already (Macs, Powerstacs, RS6000, AS400, etc.etc.etc)
IMHO, the only reason apple has survived (before the Imac revival) is due to all the advertising hype. When the amiga was around years ago, if you asked me what IBM was, I woud say "computer". If you asked me what a mac was, I could say "computer". Hell, if you asked me what a TANDY was, I would say "computer"(ugh). But Amiga, the first image that came to mind was a new space ship in the starwars line of toys.
If they run linux, get themselves known, keep the system open, they may stand a chance. Best of luck to the Amiga. (the'll need it!)
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Diddit, dunnit, left mark on bottom of m-wave, but the light show was fantastic!!
Yea... and what's the price for flush?? Do I need a phone line in the can? How much is that silver seat service? Waddaya mean my five free rolls of asswipe expires on dec 31, 2001!!!
GST is 7%. Should try living in New Brunswick, here they compounded the sals and GST. GST = 7% + 11% sales, compounded = 18.77%. Now they harmonized (sp?) it and now it is 15%, but there are no more exclusions (like unsalted penuts were GST free, but not salted ones:-/ )
Yes, and I checked this, and currently it is set to 256, still does not prevent the chaos. I will try reducing it, but 256 processes is not that much, and this should not affect the system if it is just process forks.
All this talk of virus/trojans/etc... has anyone come up with a preventative to a 5 liner fork attack on linux??? I wrote this quickie about 4 years ago, and it took out my system in a flash. I decided that I would try it on my sparc today, and an i386 linux system (both running RH6.0) and it made both systems unusable, requiring a reboot. My AIX box has a limiter (max processes per user, my default is 1000 on my RS6000) to user processes, but I have yet to find a limiter under linux short of plowing through source code.
This is not so much a bug/security glitch, but if you have a malicious user, he/she could take the system out in a snap (read-- no root access required)
WRONG!!!! Lynx != Linux. Sorry, but I too got excited when I cracked the top on an old DCS35 and saw Lynx, and though hmmm. I work in Xerox support for these products. However, splash are building their colour rips (M series) running slackware linux. These puppies fly as colour servers and do drive Xerox colour copiers.
I know I posted further up the page, just to comment on reliability, I suggest using apache for the front end sine it appears to restart python servers/services if they happen to die. (ZAP for zope is what I am testing now, and have not had a zope die-off since). The default python web server seems to "shut down" without warning.
Currently ours searches a database (mysql) and has been working great, blows the NT / Oracle server out of the water (and the Zope machine is running on a computer with fewer resources and is doing much more than the NT box). So far, we have put together a server that is faster, feature rich, much easier to use, doesn't crash, and everyone is happy with and done in a couple of months where the NT / oracle equiv. took about six months, crashed continuously, needed more ram than what we had, had no remote admin/ hard to input data, and was SLOW!
I have been experimenting with Zope on two systems. I love the management capabilities of it (all you need is a web browser). I have one interfaced to a mysql database for searching info, and there has been only one problem to date, the python web server it ships with seemes to shut down randomly (crash perhaps, but see no error in logs) and gobbles up memory.
I strongly suggest using ZAP (Zope Apache Server, or configure your apache server for the task) since it will start python with a CGI script. I have yet to have a crash, and even simulating one with a "killall python" and connecting back up to the server, apache will restart the cgi in a few seconds.
One other word of advice, edit the apache start script where:
and change to: -c "RewriteRule ^/(.*) $dot/../Zope.cgi/\$1 [last,e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t =application/x-httpd-cgi,l]" \
if you wish not to have to put your web server address with a/Zope/ in order to access the pages. (in other words, wish it to act as a normal web server).
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Finally, a computer that takes little desk space, and is just big enough to hold my coffee, and with intel inside, it should keep my coffee hot, and the office warm!
My RS6000 uses regular UW scsi connectors, nothing proprietary there! However, I don't like the box either. Here's why:
1: Overpriced.
- Need I say more?
2: Poor design.
- There is NO ROOM inside the damn thing. Granted the tower has some room, the desktop version has no room, looks like a rats nest under the hood.
- Also, the sliding door on the front conveniently covers the air slots for the two UW hard disks (in our system) which causes most of them to cook. (and crash).
- Another thing, the box was DOA. This customized server (read 100,000.00$+ box) would just display some useless number on the front, and no boot/video. I called IBM (which was a battle to just talk to them) said to remove ALL the connectors from the system and reconnect. If this didn't work they would send a tech with a new MOBO.
I dismantled it three times, and no luck. The fourth time, I walked by it and in discust, I smacked it's power switch for the last time, it came up to my surprise and has been fine ever since.
Back on topic though, AIX is SLOW!! One nice thing though, it is consistently slow, 1 or 1000 users, it always works, and JFS is quite kewl! I have no problems pressing the power switch on a fully operational system, knowing that it will come back without an argument is GREAT!
Lets hope XFS can do the same for linux!
The Alpha did not go to intel. Samsung has been keeping it alive and well, ever hear about the 21264?? You should check the specInt/FP's on this puppy if you want fast. The Mercede doesn't even come close on its estimates to the current real-world 21264. Hell, even the 21164 / 533 MHz that I am using now is faster than intels fastest pIII Xeon @ 550! (which is now about two years old, where was intel when the 500+ bandwagon drove by then, 550 is slow, alpha is already shipping 700Mhz plus, using a .25 core).
Get with it!
I thought it was going to be based on a Cray T3E..
Agreed though, who wants ANOTHER computer platform. And if they go proprietary again, it will be just like the old days, only they will die more rapidly this time since what can they offer that the rest of the industry cannot? And if its PPC based, who wants another one of those systems around, don't we have enough already (Macs, Powerstacs, RS6000, AS400, etc.etc.etc)
IMHO, the only reason apple has survived (before the Imac revival) is due to all the advertising hype. When the amiga was around years ago, if you asked me what IBM was, I woud say "computer". If you asked me what a mac was, I could say "computer". Hell, if you asked me what a TANDY was, I would say "computer"(ugh). But Amiga, the first image that came to mind was a new space ship in the starwars line of toys.
If they run linux, get themselves known, keep the system open, they may stand a chance. Best of luck to the Amiga. (the'll need it!)
Diddit, dunnit, left mark on bottom of m-wave, but the light show was fantastic!!
Yea... and what's the price for flush?? Do I need a phone line in the can? How much is that silver seat service? Waddaya mean my five free rolls of asswipe expires on dec 31, 2001!!!
GST is 7%. Should try living in New Brunswick, here they compounded the sals and GST. GST = 7% + 11% sales, compounded = 18.77%. Now they harmonized (sp?) it and now it is 15%, but there are no more exclusions (like unsalted penuts were GST free, but not salted ones :-/ )
Yes, and I checked this, and currently it is set to 256, still does not prevent the chaos. I will try reducing it, but 256 processes is not that much, and this should not affect the system if it is just process forks.
All this talk of virus/trojans/etc... has anyone come up with a preventative to a 5 liner fork attack on linux??? I wrote this quickie about 4 years ago, and it took out my system in a flash. I decided that I would try it on my sparc today, and an i386 linux system (both running RH6.0) and it made both systems unusable, requiring a reboot. My AIX box has a limiter (max processes per user, my default is 1000 on my RS6000) to user processes, but I have yet to find a limiter under linux short of plowing through source code.
This is not so much a bug/security glitch, but if you have a malicious user, he/she could take the system out in a snap (read-- no root access required)
Any suggestions appreciated.
Hmmm, just when I was getting worried about warming my basement with my old pII, guess I'll just have to upgrade to one of these.
WRONG!!!! Lynx != Linux. Sorry, but I too got excited when I cracked the top on an old DCS35 and saw Lynx, and though hmmm. I work in Xerox support for these products. However, splash are building their colour rips (M series) running slackware linux. These puppies fly as colour servers and do drive Xerox colour copiers.
I know I posted further up the page, just to comment on reliability, I suggest using apache for the front end sine it appears to restart python servers/services if they happen to die. (ZAP for zope is what I am testing now, and have not had a zope die-off since). The default python web server seems to "shut down" without warning.
Currently ours searches a database (mysql) and has been working great, blows the NT / Oracle server out of the water (and the Zope machine is running on a computer with fewer resources and is doing much more than the NT box). So far, we have put together a server that is faster, feature rich, much easier to use, doesn't crash, and everyone is happy with and done in a couple of months where the NT / oracle equiv. took about six months, crashed continuously, needed more ram than what we had, had no remote admin/ hard to input data, and was SLOW!
Zope Rules!
I have been experimenting with Zope on two systems. I love the management capabilities of it (all you need is a web browser). I have one interfaced to a mysql database for searching info, and there has been only one problem to date, the python web server it ships with seemes to shut down randomly (crash perhaps, but see no error in logs) and gobbles up memory.
/Zope/ in order to access the pages. (in other words, wish it to act as a normal web server).
I strongly suggest using ZAP (Zope Apache Server, or configure your apache server for the task) since it will start python with a CGI script. I have yet to have a crash, and even simulating one with a "killall python" and connecting back up to the server, apache will restart the cgi in a few seconds.
One other word of advice, edit the apache start script where:
-c "RewriteRule ^/Zope/(.*) $dot/../Zope.cgi/\$1 [last,e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t
=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]" \
and change to:
-c "RewriteRule ^/(.*) $dot/../Zope.cgi/\$1 [last,e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t
=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]" \
if you wish not to have to put your web server address with a
..if it too will heat my basement, fry eggs, keep my coffee hot, and make the lights dim every time I start up a process (netscape comes to mind) :-P