Solaris is an operating environment consisting of SunOS (kernel) and other programs and utilities. Same with RedHat, Debian, etc. consisting of Linux (kernel) and other programs and utilities.
Names not mentioned, and locations intentionally made vague.
We had a big customer, whom everyone would recognize if I mentioned the name (but won't). They were relocating from the Southeast to the Southwest (including their data center).
They had lots of RS/6000's plus network gear, and PC's. I think all of their SA's chose not to move. So, they powered off the RS/6000's (could have been a problem their) without shutting them down.
They then packed the whole data center in one freight plane and flew it to the area. There would have been one big business failure had that plane crashed. It didn't, and to my knowledge, their were no issues involved with the move itself.
I was working at a customer to install a pair of E10Ks. A Sun SSE (at the time) was the only person allowed to accept these. We got one the proper way (the SSE accepted and directed offloading). We wondered where the other one was. It turns out someone in receiving accepted it. Besides that being wrong, they accepted it at the loading dock (about a foot drop from the delivery truck). We had a nice big dent in our new E10K. My customer wasn't happy (and I'm not sure what happened to those in receiving). Happily, nothing showed up during the burn-in period.
Perhaps... unless one of these things hits you in the head... methinks you'd have at least a walloping headache (at the minimum). I'm partial to my head, so I don't think I want one of these things hitting me.
HP's management has a fiduciary interest to the shareholders (the owners of the company). That said, I would rather have a profitable company (i.e. one that makes money), rather than some high growth enterprise that has a loss each quarter (unless you look at the totally bogus pro-forma numbers -- business-speak for we can't make a profit, so let's massage the numbers so it "appears" we make a profit).
I used to think the same thing. But, I have had issues compiling certain apps (i.e. mcrypt and it's libraries) and getting them to run successfully. It is also slow. I have recently switched to running Linux in a VMware VM. I use PuTTY and ActiveState Perl to round out my toolset.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think you would be opening yourself up to some liability with expiring code. Picture some critical function no longer functioning due to code expiration.
I also don't need someone "telling" me how to administer my machines.
Unfortunate. I can see Apple's point. In the USA, you generally can not enter into contracts unless you are at least 18 years old. Now, I don't see why they can't get a parent or guardian to sign.
MP3's do not suck in general. It depends on the quality of the rip and the encode. If you use a quality ripper like paranoia (Linux) or EAC (Windows) coupled with LAME, most audiophile ears can't tell the difference. CBR 256Kbps is CD quality. LAME VBR gives you the advantage of compression with high audio quality (essentially CD quality -- my ears can't tell the difference).
Well said. Sun wants, no, demands you use a 100% Sun solution. In the past the only way to get support when using EMC storage and Sun Cluster, was to go to the VP of North American Sales. If you were a big enough customer, you'd get your approval, if not, tough.
I love Solaris and I like Sun hardware. I dislike Sun's attitude (and you hit it on the head). HP and IBM are going to run Sun over soon if Sun doesn't change it's ways. Soon might be a couple of quarters (esp. if their revenue stays weak).
I think this is the beginning of the end for Sun. That is a shame. They have great hardware and a great OS. However, they have lost focus (IMO).
Mr. McNealy is so bent on destroying Microsoft, that Sun is becoming another Microsoft. Sun thinks it can do it all: software, storage, you name it. What ever happened to doing one or two things brilliantly and being happy with it. Sun should stick to building systems and Solaris. However, they are getting ready to be stomped from two sides.
Scott, listen up, you aren't going to destroy Microsoft. They're bigger than you (and you aren't David). You had also better check six... IBM is about to send a missile up your tailpipe.
Um, no you cannot check your bag, leave the airport and have it fly to the destination. That changed a few weeks ago. All bags are matched with the manifest. You, obviously don't fly frequently. I hear all of the time folks being paged because the flight is about to leave. Why do you think that is? It's because if those dumbasses don't show up, they are going to have to offload their luggage.
I agree, it is the clueless jerk who is messing up air travel. I would like to have a frequent traveler card, so I can bypass the clueless idiots and get on to my next consulting engagement.
I'll go further and say we, in the US, can see a long term horizon about as far away as our nose. mjh hits on the head about wanting payout now.
This is why I doubt many, if any, of our corporations will be around 200 years from now. There is no long term thinking here... just about the next quarter.
One way to fix this would be to not allow analysts to analyze companies their firms do business with. They would have to sell that analysis to make $$$. Guess what, that will improve the quality of analysis because who in their right mind will pay for shoddy analysis. Blodget, et. al. will have to get off their duffs, learn the industries they are analyzing, and then go out and do their homework.
This is quite common for disaster recovery protection. It is known as replication, and is quite effective.
As has been stated, his house is a single point of failure (utilities, etc.). Even locating his backup server next door is not a good thing, as they are most likely on the same power grid.
That being said, his current setup is quite sufficient given the above caveat. The only thing I would add is to consider placing your 900VA UPS's on separate circuits. That way if a breaker trips, you can still manually promote the standby machine to primary.
There is supposed to be an upcoming firmware revision that will take this to 999. OTH, my Casio PZ-5000 has something like a 150 song limitation. I doubt I'll hit that as I use LAME VBR with -r3mix -b112.
This is a good unit. I encode my MP3's with LAME (-r3mix -b112) VBR. The time goes wacky (it looks like you're speeding through the MP3) on the display, but what is actually played is accurate.
Combine this with my Total Airhead and Etymotic ER4S cans -- it rocks!
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There is a big difference between NUMA and SMP.
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This is actually quite correct and informative.
Linux is the kernel, as SunOS is the kernel.
Solaris is an operating environment consisting of SunOS (kernel) and other programs and utilities. Same with RedHat, Debian, etc. consisting of Linux (kernel) and other programs and utilities.
Names not mentioned, and locations intentionally made vague.
We had a big customer, whom everyone would recognize if I mentioned the name (but won't). They were relocating from the Southeast to the Southwest (including their data center).
They had lots of RS/6000's plus network gear, and PC's. I think all of their SA's chose not to move. So, they powered off the RS/6000's (could have been a problem their) without shutting them down.
They then packed the whole data center in one freight plane and flew it to the area. There would have been one big business failure had that plane crashed. It didn't, and to my knowledge, their were no issues involved with the move itself.
I was working at a customer to install a pair of E10Ks. A Sun SSE (at the time) was the only person allowed to accept these. We got one the proper way (the SSE accepted and directed offloading). We wondered where the other one was. It turns out someone in receiving accepted it. Besides that being wrong, they accepted it at the loading dock (about a foot drop from the delivery truck). We had a nice big dent in our new E10K. My customer wasn't happy (and I'm not sure what happened to those in receiving). Happily, nothing showed up during the burn-in period.
Perhaps... unless one of these things hits you in the head... methinks you'd have at least a walloping headache (at the minimum). I'm partial to my head, so I don't think I want one of these things hitting me.
HP's management has a fiduciary interest to the shareholders (the owners of the company). That said, I would rather have a profitable company (i.e. one that makes money), rather than some high growth enterprise that has a loss each quarter (unless you look at the totally bogus pro-forma numbers -- business-speak for we can't make a profit, so let's massage the numbers so it "appears" we make a profit).
I used to think the same thing. But, I have had issues compiling certain apps (i.e. mcrypt and it's libraries) and getting them to run successfully. It is also slow. I have recently switched to running Linux in a VMware VM. I use PuTTY and ActiveState Perl to round out my toolset.
The DLP group is, indeed, situated at the TI facility across Legacy from the Cinemark theatre.
The version of VMware tools they are using is incompatible. The display is unintelligible.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think you would be opening yourself up to some liability with expiring code. Picture some critical function no longer functioning due to code expiration.
I also don't need someone "telling" me how to administer my machines.
Subject says it all. Their cache is a SPOF. You lose the master cache card, you are dead.
Unfortunate. I can see Apple's point. In the USA, you generally can not enter into contracts unless you are at least 18 years old. Now, I don't see why they can't get a parent or guardian to sign.
Please! Get over it. Sore Loser lost. Deal with it.
MP3's do not suck in general. It depends on the quality of the rip and the encode. If you use a quality ripper like paranoia (Linux) or EAC (Windows) coupled with LAME, most audiophile ears can't tell the difference. CBR 256Kbps is CD quality. LAME VBR gives you the advantage of compression with high audio quality (essentially CD quality -- my ears can't tell the difference).
What does multi-level undo have to do with the VERITAS File System? We (yes, I work for VERITAS as a consultant) don't do undo in the filesystem.
Well said. Sun wants, no, demands you use a 100% Sun solution. In the past the only way to get support when using EMC storage and Sun Cluster, was to go to the VP of North American Sales. If you were a big enough customer, you'd get your approval, if not, tough.
I love Solaris and I like Sun hardware. I dislike Sun's attitude (and you hit it on the head). HP and IBM are going to run Sun over soon if Sun doesn't change it's ways. Soon might be a couple of quarters (esp. if their revenue stays weak).
I think this is the beginning of the end for Sun. That is a shame. They have great hardware and a great OS. However, they have lost focus (IMO).
Mr. McNealy is so bent on destroying Microsoft, that Sun is becoming another Microsoft. Sun thinks it can do it all: software, storage, you name it. What ever happened to doing one or two things brilliantly and being happy with it. Sun should stick to building systems and Solaris. However, they are getting ready to be stomped from two sides.
Scott, listen up, you aren't going to destroy Microsoft. They're bigger than you (and you aren't David). You had also better check six... IBM is about to send a missile up your tailpipe.
Um, no you cannot check your bag, leave the airport and have it fly to the destination. That changed a few weeks ago. All bags are matched with the manifest. You, obviously don't fly frequently. I hear all of the time folks being paged because the flight is about to leave. Why do you think that is? It's because if those dumbasses don't show up, they are going to have to offload their luggage.
I agree, it is the clueless jerk who is messing up air travel. I would like to have a frequent traveler card, so I can bypass the clueless idiots and get on to my next consulting engagement.
Excellent analysis!
I'll go further and say we, in the US, can see a long term horizon about as far away as our nose. mjh hits on the head about wanting payout now.
This is why I doubt many, if any, of our corporations will be around 200 years from now. There is no long term thinking here... just about the next quarter.
One way to fix this would be to not allow analysts to analyze companies their firms do business with. They would have to sell that analysis to make $$$. Guess what, that will improve the quality of analysis because who in their right mind will pay for shoddy analysis. Blodget, et. al. will have to get off their duffs, learn the industries they are analyzing, and then go out and do their homework.
This is quite common for disaster recovery protection. It is known as replication, and is quite effective.
As has been stated, his house is a single point of failure (utilities, etc.). Even locating his backup server next door is not a good thing, as they are most likely on the same power grid.
That being said, his current setup is quite sufficient given the above caveat. The only thing I would add is to consider placing your 900VA UPS's on separate circuits. That way if a breaker trips, you can still manually promote the standby machine to primary.
The subject says it all.
There is supposed to be an upcoming firmware revision that will take this to 999. OTH, my Casio PZ-5000 has something like a 150 song limitation. I doubt I'll hit that as I use LAME VBR with -r3mix -b112.
This is a good unit. I encode my MP3's with LAME (-r3mix -b112) VBR. The time goes wacky (it looks like you're speeding through the MP3) on the display, but what is actually played is accurate. Combine this with my Total Airhead and Etymotic ER4S cans -- it rocks!
Watching to the tune of... "Burnin' down the house"