My favorite anecdote from Sun is riding up and down the office on top of an e450 (purple & grey monster the size of a dorm room fridge and with 4 convenience caster-enabled wheels on the bottom).
Although one could argue that GEB would be too much for an 18 year old. Even the first 3 chapters of GEB would be awesome reading for anyone even remotely interested in the subject.
The name Aurora was used internally in 96-97 to describe the "push technology" elements of the Netscape 5 browser (code named Constellation). Neither technology shipped. Interesting that Mozilla chooses a name like that considering the history.
Does anyone else think it's ironic that a person wanting to run a database on Vista has an issue with Java? Yea, must be Java's massive memory requirements, right?
There's one item you didnt list, though it might be folded under capabilities or ease of use...
Manageability is a key item for these types of setups. As people being to depend more and more on virtualization technologies (whatever those might be) and roll out virtualized production environments, you have to figure out how to monitor and manage them. This is one area where VMWare currently has the upper hand, as Xen's management API has not yet been stabilized.
The reason this is important is because with all the hype surrounding virtualization, people seem to be focused on 'getting virtualized' (server consolidation being the primary driver) rather than the consequences (application capacity issues, constant live migrations to keep things healthy, etc.).
Manageability is a key stepping stone into the enterprise. Xen's made great strides recently (both in the open source form and in the commercial form), but there's a ton of work left to do on that end to catch up to VMWare.
GPL, 30-minute or less setup time, auto discovery and built in support for monitoring, controlling, and log tracking for anything you can think of. 9 OS's, 42 apps, network devices, extensible plugins....
Nagios is great, but I agree with the parent that the time it takes to set up and maintain is unreasonable. Oh, and yes, I'm biased. I work for Hyperic.
Ballpark figures are required for site wide licenses only, and this is because it's not something you can simply post. Some customers have 200 boxes, some have 2000. Hence, the need to develop custom proposals.
Heh... it doesnt take MS involvement to have JBoss developers break compatibility. JBoss does a fine job of that on their own. Anyone who's tried to migrate from JBoss x.x.X to x.x.X+1 knows this pain well.
Heh... That's a memorable quote... "CA's job is writing software"
I cant believe any such a debate emerges over quotes from one of the worst managed, maligned companies in enterprise software. Slashdot is doing them a favor by advertising this dude's comments...
Knowing assembler is having a 'deep understanding' of computers.
Those who cant program assembler don't "really" know how computers work...
I'll agree that knowing what assembler is and how it works may yield a better understanding of computing as a whole, especially when compared to someone who's only programmed in a high level language. But to suggest that those who know assembler are generally better programmers is frankly ridiculous. I know plenty of people who know assembler (6800, x86, etc.) who couldnt develop software, let alone program themselves out of a paper bag.
Too late. I just went to the site using Konqueror and the ads worked. So all the comments about it being IE only are, unfortunately for us non-IE users, are incorrect.
I tried it out on my machine which has a Hi-Val (Pioneer) DVD drive. The pc friendly thingy attempts to do a soft-DVD playback on the movie which causes the playback to be jittery and basically intolerable.
When I played it with the DVD player software from the ATI card, it worked fine, except that the 'special features' menu item did not work.
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You should check out Hyperic (www.hyperic.com). We designed it with a lot of this in mind.
-javier
My favorite anecdote from Sun is riding up and down the office on top of an e450 (purple & grey monster the size of a dorm room fridge and with 4 convenience caster-enabled wheels on the bottom).
They sure dont make em like they used to...
Although one could argue that GEB would be too much for an 18 year old. Even the first 3 chapters of GEB would be awesome reading for anyone even remotely interested in the subject.
The name Aurora was used internally in 96-97 to describe the "push technology" elements of the Netscape 5 browser (code named Constellation). Neither technology shipped. Interesting that Mozilla chooses a name like that considering the history.
Does anyone else think it's ironic that a person wanting to run a database on Vista has an issue with Java? Yea, must be Java's massive memory requirements, right?
Watch for Sony to turn this whole thing around and sue the guy for disassembling the game.
Good thing this was Ico, and not Gran Turismo...
There's one item you didnt list, though it might be folded under capabilities or ease of use...
Manageability is a key item for these types of setups. As people being to depend more and more on virtualization technologies (whatever those might be) and roll out virtualized production environments, you have to figure out how to monitor and manage them. This is one area where VMWare currently has the upper hand, as Xen's management API has not yet been stabilized.
The reason this is important is because with all the hype surrounding virtualization, people seem to be focused on 'getting virtualized' (server consolidation being the primary driver) rather than the consequences (application capacity issues, constant live migrations to keep things healthy, etc.).
Manageability is a key stepping stone into the enterprise. Xen's made great strides recently (both in the open source form and in the commercial form), but there's a ton of work left to do on that end to catch up to VMWare.
-javier
http://www.hyperic.com/
Try Hyperic: http://www.hyperic.com/
GPL, 30-minute or less setup time, auto discovery and built in support for monitoring, controlling, and log tracking for anything you can think of. 9 OS's, 42 apps, network devices, extensible plugins....
Nagios is great, but I agree with the parent that the time it takes to set up and maintain is unreasonable. Oh, and yes, I'm biased. I work for Hyperic.
-javier
Interesting how the submitter writes the post suggesting as if they're a user....
"I've been playing around with it for six months and have been totally impressed!"
Easy to be impressed by your own products, isn't it?
Pricing info is posted here:
http://www.hyperic.com/products/how_to_buy.html
Ballpark figures are required for site wide licenses only, and this is because it's not something you can simply post. Some customers have 200 boxes, some have 2000. Hence, the need to develop custom proposals.
Heh... it doesnt take MS involvement to have JBoss developers break compatibility. JBoss does a fine job of that on their own. Anyone who's tried to migrate from JBoss x.x.X to x.x.X+1 knows this pain well.
Heh... That's a memorable quote... "CA's job is writing software"
I cant believe any such a debate emerges over quotes from one of the worst managed, maligned companies in enterprise software. Slashdot is doing them a favor by advertising this dude's comments...
When I was a student there (early-mid-nineties) there used to be a shirt that said "MIT: the CMU of Massachusets".... aah, pre-slashdot nerd humor...
The service is great, they dont hassle you, the planes are cool, and the flight attendants are good looking.
Well, it seems like unxtools qualify as spyware. Makes one wonder how they determine the signatures of files they believe are spyware.
Hmm.... let's try a bit of 'reductio-ad-absurdum'
Best programmers are the ones who know assembler.
Knowing assembler is having a 'deep understanding' of computers.
Those who cant program assembler don't "really" know how computers work...
I'll agree that knowing what assembler is and how it works may yield a better understanding of computing as a whole, especially when compared to someone who's only programmed in a high level language. But to suggest that those who know assembler are generally better programmers is frankly ridiculous. I know plenty of people who know assembler (6800, x86, etc.) who couldnt develop software, let alone program themselves out of a paper bag.
Error at instruction 0x00 the memory could not be "read"
:)
(quotes are theirs, not mine
My guess is most of what we consider "cheats" in games are used by QA in the testing of the game.
:)
Think about it, if you're the QA guy working on testing the Nth level of a game, would you like to play through the whole game every time?
Oh, and while you're at it, if you finish it, share your insight with /. since most people here own it, yet have never made it past the 3rd chapter!
Too late. I just went to the site using Konqueror and the ads worked. So all the comments about it being IE only are, unfortunately for us non-IE users, are incorrect.
I tried it out on my machine which has a Hi-Val (Pioneer) DVD drive. The pc friendly thingy attempts to do a soft-DVD playback on the movie which causes the playback to be jittery and basically intolerable.
When I played it with the DVD player software from the ATI card, it worked fine, except that the 'special features' menu item did not work.