But you couldn't add that chipset to an existing system, you had to buy a new machine because it was integrated on the motherboard.. And those new systems all came with OS 3.x anyway. The chipset was also called AA or AGA, not AAA... the AAA chipset was under development when commodore went under, and consequently got shelved.
The advantage being, on the original amiga.. you couldn't display more than 32 colours without resorting to HAM mode, which was slow and caused visual artefacts.. So you could use multiple screens with different pallettes to get the impression of more colours, for instance the old flight sims which had the lower half of the screen representing your cockpit and the upper half representing what you can see outside of the aircraft..
Well seeing as those enterasys boxes run linux, theres nothing to stop you rolling your own installation cd with the serial console enabled... Still, that should be filed as a bug with the vendor.
Ohh yes, 1000 load balanced OSX machines outperforming 2 windows machines is just as valid a comparison as the ones ms makes, such as the "windows on an intel whitebox is cheaper than linux on an ibm mainframe" comparison they published a few months ago.
Press F from the main minicom menu to send a break... Unless your USB dongle doesn't support a break signal, the shitty belkin ones don't for instance.
If your using sudo then su doesn't need to be setuid root, also if you sudo su - it will set your path properly, since most os's dont put things like/sbin and/usr/sbin in the non root path by default.
Or get one of those power passthrough cables, so you remove the power cable from the server, plug it into your device which then branches off to your device and to the server.. Well, if your server is screwed up enough that it needs physical access then your not gonna mind the power going out for a while.
You can get small LCD screens and small keyboards nowadays, they wouldn't weigh more than a laptop or be any bigger, if you dont mind having seperate devices.. As for those peoples ex-workstations, well surely when used as workstations these machines had monitors and keyboards which could be kept sitting nearby for maintenence purposes.. Otherwise, you can pick up old sun hardware really cheap on ebay which will be far more reliable and have serial consoles by default.
Don't the Xserves support a remote serial console? Theres no reason they shouldn't, seeing they run BSD and OpenFirmware, but i don't know.. I'm considering buying some Xserves, but i won't do so if they dont support a remote serial console, that would render them useless in my environment.
And virtually all non x86 unix machines (with the possible exception of macs?) do this.. SUN, SGI, HP, DEC etc... They can also all netboot by default... I installed a sun netra t1 yesterday which is physically located 50 miles away, much cheaper than driving there.
Dell actually researched something? I thought they just buy up designs someone else did the research work on, and then cheapen them as much as possible and mass produce low quality units.. As for VNC.. why the hell do people use it? There are native protocols to do the same thing! UNIX has X11 and even windows has it`s own called RDP now, both of which are hugely faster than vnc.
That's useless, it requires a working configured OS to already be running, any sensible OS lets you access it remotely with the default tools available with the OS, such as telnet, SSH, X11 etc. Besides, any serious server hardware should be bootable from a serial console, anything that doesn't let you remotely administer it using the serial console is unsuitable as a server in my book.
Real hardware designed for use as a server should have a serial console.. Companies like SUN put serial consoles even in their lowest end workstations, and many of their servers are only accessible from serial and have no keyboard ports or video output whatsoever. Today, stingy people and companies are using low quality hardware that was never designed to be used as a server, and as such it doesn't implement the essential features you would expect.. All routers/switches/etc from cisco still have serial, machines from sun, hp, sgi, ibm support serial... It's only the lowend x86 machines that don't, because x86 was designed as a toy, not as a serious server platform.
Why not just unplug it ? Or better yet, use more of your machines headless. I have a mac workstation hooked up to 1 monitor (CRT) and an athlon64, an alpha and a sparc running headless with their apps accessed via ssh or X11 onto the mac.
No, NT4 was a steaming pile of shit.. Sure it represented a major breakthrough for MS, but it was still complete and utter crap compared to other platforms available at the time.
Actually there WILL be a difference in performance... The newer version will consume more ram and run considerably slower than the older one.. Afterall, it does need to store those fancy pixmaps somewhere.
You would assume they have a SUN support contract if theyre critical systems... SUN will still support SunOS 4.x (Solaris 1.x) if you pay them to. As for breaking down, sun hardware and solaris is a very reliable combination, far moreso than any x86 hardware running any version of windows. And finally, solaris has a very good compatibility between releases, the software running on solaris 2.1 will almost certainly run without problems on solaris 10 or anything in between, just that upgrading would almost certainly involve replacing the hardware too, and some downtime which they don't want. If the hardware failed i'm sure they could get it back up and running on solaris 10 on modern hardware just as quickly as if they replaced the existing hardware and restarted solaris 2.1
Yes, gentoo will update too.. It does take longer since it's compiling from source, but it works much the same as debian. You can upgrade anything except the kernel without downtime atall, aside from the minimal time of restarting the service daemon.
But this is good for virtually everyone, except the software-only vendors.. End users need not spend money on software, they can get support from friends and family or pay for it from a support company (exactly how they do it now, microsoft don't give you support with windows) Those people who pay for support will still do so, but they will have more money since they saved on buying software... Hardware will always cost money simply because it has a physical cost to produce. Support aswell costs's someone's time and therefore money. Software once written costs nothing to reproduce infinitely, selling it really is a scam.
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But you couldn't add that chipset to an existing system, you had to buy a new machine because it was integrated on the motherboard.. And those new systems all came with OS 3.x anyway.
The chipset was also called AA or AGA, not AAA... the AAA chipset was under development when commodore went under, and consequently got shelved.
The advantage being, on the original amiga.. you couldn't display more than 32 colours without resorting to HAM mode, which was slow and caused visual artefacts.. So you could use multiple screens with different pallettes to get the impression of more colours, for instance the old flight sims which had the lower half of the screen representing your cockpit and the upper half representing what you can see outside of the aircraft..
I'm aware of these, but then you need one per rack, and they're not much use for hardware which isn't in a rack either...
Well seeing as those enterasys boxes run linux, theres nothing to stop you rolling your own installation cd with the serial console enabled... Still, that should be filed as a bug with the vendor.
Ohh yes, 1000 load balanced OSX machines outperforming 2 windows machines is just as valid a comparison as the ones ms makes, such as the "windows on an intel whitebox is cheaper than linux on an ibm mainframe" comparison they published a few months ago.
Press F from the main minicom menu to send a break... Unless your USB dongle doesn't support a break signal, the shitty belkin ones don't for instance.
Surely your network is screwed anyway if the switches got waterlogged...
If your using sudo then su doesn't need to be setuid root, also if you sudo su - it will set your path properly, since most os's dont put things like /sbin and /usr/sbin in the non root path by default.
Or get one of those power passthrough cables, so you remove the power cable from the server, plug it into your device which then branches off to your device and to the server.. Well, if your server is screwed up enough that it needs physical access then your not gonna mind the power going out for a while.
You can get small LCD screens and small keyboards nowadays, they wouldn't weigh more than a laptop or be any bigger, if you dont mind having seperate devices..
As for those peoples ex-workstations, well surely when used as workstations these machines had monitors and keyboards which could be kept sitting nearby for maintenence purposes..
Otherwise, you can pick up old sun hardware really cheap on ebay which will be far more reliable and have serial consoles by default.
Well, some systems, like the sun netra t1, have these features built in, you can power cycle from the serial console quite easily with LOM
Don't the Xserves support a remote serial console? Theres no reason they shouldn't, seeing they run BSD and OpenFirmware, but i don't know..
I'm considering buying some Xserves, but i won't do so if they dont support a remote serial console, that would render them useless in my environment.
And virtually all non x86 unix machines (with the possible exception of macs?) do this.. SUN, SGI, HP, DEC etc... They can also all netboot by default... I installed a sun netra t1 yesterday which is physically located 50 miles away, much cheaper than driving there.
Dell actually researched something? I thought they just buy up designs someone else did the research work on, and then cheapen them as much as possible and mass produce low quality units..
As for VNC.. why the hell do people use it? There are native protocols to do the same thing! UNIX has X11 and even windows has it`s own called RDP now, both of which are hugely faster than vnc.
That's useless, it requires a working configured OS to already be running, any sensible OS lets you access it remotely with the default tools available with the OS, such as telnet, SSH, X11 etc.
Besides, any serious server hardware should be bootable from a serial console, anything that doesn't let you remotely administer it using the serial console is unsuitable as a server in my book.
Do remember that the store has to do all the SSL processing, even tho it only supports 128-bit RC4.. I would have hoped for 256-bit AES nowadays.
Real hardware designed for use as a server should have a serial console.. Companies like SUN put serial consoles even in their lowest end workstations, and many of their servers are only accessible from serial and have no keyboard ports or video output whatsoever.
Today, stingy people and companies are using low quality hardware that was never designed to be used as a server, and as such it doesn't implement the essential features you would expect..
All routers/switches/etc from cisco still have serial, machines from sun, hp, sgi, ibm support serial... It's only the lowend x86 machines that don't, because x86 was designed as a toy, not as a serious server platform.
Why not just unplug it ? Or better yet, use more of your machines headless. I have a mac workstation hooked up to 1 monitor (CRT) and an athlon64, an alpha and a sparc running headless with their apps accessed via ssh or X11 onto the mac.
And what would be the IP range of these unfirewalled NT4 machines?
No, NT4 was a steaming pile of shit.. Sure it represented a major breakthrough for MS, but it was still complete and utter crap compared to other platforms available at the time.
Actually there WILL be a difference in performance... The newer version will consume more ram and run considerably slower than the older one.. Afterall, it does need to store those fancy pixmaps somewhere.
You would assume they have a SUN support contract if theyre critical systems... SUN will still support SunOS 4.x (Solaris 1.x) if you pay them to. As for breaking down, sun hardware and solaris is a very reliable combination, far moreso than any x86 hardware running any version of windows.
And finally, solaris has a very good compatibility between releases, the software running on solaris 2.1 will almost certainly run without problems on solaris 10 or anything in between, just that upgrading would almost certainly involve replacing the hardware too, and some downtime which they don't want. If the hardware failed i'm sure they could get it back up and running on solaris 10 on modern hardware just as quickly as if they replaced the existing hardware and restarted solaris 2.1
NT4 suffers from all the same IE flaws that 2000 does.
Yes, gentoo will update too.. It does take longer since it's compiling from source, but it works much the same as debian.
You can upgrade anything except the kernel without downtime atall, aside from the minimal time of restarting the service daemon.
But this is good for virtually everyone, except the software-only vendors..
End users need not spend money on software, they can get support from friends and family or pay for it from a support company (exactly how they do it now, microsoft don't give you support with windows)
Those people who pay for support will still do so, but they will have more money since they saved on buying software...
Hardware will always cost money simply because it has a physical cost to produce. Support aswell costs's someone's time and therefore money. Software once written costs nothing to reproduce infinitely, selling it really is a scam.