With all due respect to a friend-of-a-friend, it looks like you may not have worked with modern enterprise gear and environment goals. VMWare ESX is not your everyday VMWare.
"In order to apply the power of an IBM x440 16CPU server with 32G of memory, because you only get to buy one this year.
BFD. It's a server, use remote sessions."
This is what pointed it out to me. The parent was referring to the primary modern IT goal of having machines run at or near 100% utilization, in CPU, disk, and memory. Not to overuse memory to the point of causing massive swapping, but to bring it right to the wall.
ESX lets you run 64 virtual machines in a single box and provides incredible flexibility wrt allocating CPU, RAM, disk, and network. He wasn't talking about running one session on the x440 and using VMWare just to get a remote desktop. He was literally referring to maximizing the utilization of a very powerful box.
As to the rest of your replies, you should flip through this book, and perhaps search the IBM Redbooks site for many freely downloadable books, particularly those with "patterns" in the title. All of the things that the parent recommended are signs of a professional IT Architect with current enterprise experience.
You have a good point here... I've been passively looking for cheap colo for a 2U box with 2 or 3 ethernet runs. So far, I found a friends-only rate of $100/mo for 5Mbit/s uncapped service.
While people have mentioned pointing any shoutcast-compatible client at the Squeezebox server (Winamp 3 doesn't work -- server always returns 0, but xmms works fine), no one has mentioned being able to stream Shoutcast/MP3 streams to the player.
Sure iTunes is all the rage these days, so people probably forget about Shoutcast. I supplement my 4,000-song inventory with a very complete list of.pls files. However, they do change quite a bit, so does anyone know of a Shoutcast scraper?
I'm with you. I've said for years that apt-get and rpm should be modified to take news:// URLs, with digitally signed binaries being posted to groups. The pan newsreader seems the perfect candidate to modify to handle reassembling binaries on behalf of the package managers. Package maintainers could ship updates over dialup and not have to maintain a single mirror. Oh, but that would be "abusing someone else's resources".
Its interesting that you mention that. A couple years ago, I was involved in a school system trying to deploy 802.11 Linux-based tablets to students, and they wanted to use an OSS office suite.
We entered into talks with a vendor to ask them to modify the functionality such that minimal functionality would be present when the tablets were out of range of the school, but full functionality would return when the student entered school property. I wonder how much of the user-requested bloat could/should be implemented as plugins that are turned on by default.
Nothing came of the work as the customer ran out of money, but I still think it would be pretty cool to see fluff activate/deactivate based on availability of the network.
Not exactly true in my experience. Jigdo will hit just one mirror that you select at runtime. I usually run netselect -vv `cat mirrors.jigdo` and then sort it by hit quality (sort -k 6 -g), tail -n 10 and reverse sort by the response time (sort -k 2 -g -r) to find the 10 best suppliers, sorted by speed of their response time, with the fastest at the bottom.
It would be nice if jigdo could be configured to spread the load across all 10 of the highest-quality servers ("swarm mode" as they call it). Having said that, I do enjoy being able to run Debian on Intel, RS/6000, SPARC, and s390. Unfortunately, IBM prefers SuSE as the best cross-platform distro, so I really need to keep up with them, instead.
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Us older geeks probably have fond memories of a movie from the early 80's that touched on this sort of thing. Looker, anyone? It features a company that does full body scans of actors/actresses and then uses computers to create commercials that feature the scanned actors/actresses. Besides, much like Runaway, who wouldn't want to have the futuristic weapon featured in the movie -- a gun that, with a flash of light, freezes time for its victim. The ultimate excuse for government spooks to go running around with dark sunglasses.
Imagine S1M0NE 20 years ago, when she was just getting started in her career:)
not to mention, i can't imagine that anything even remotely modern uses fixed frequencies anymore, vs spread spectrum (and therefore undetectable by a so-called "bug sweeper")
This is similar to what I was thinking.. I never expected to get this far without anyone mentioning snort and Hogwash. Snort, being the open source IDS, and Hogwash, being an add-on that alters traffic as it passes through the IDS, based on customizable rules. It modifies the malware or just removes it before it gets passed onto the main part of the network, thus killing all virus infection attempts as they enter the network (and as any kind of unencrypted traffic -- web, smtp/pop3, etc) long before your users get around to updating their virus definition files.
IBM announced a new offering today, extending the outsourcing to include the desktop.. I thought this was a great step in the right direction since basically no one really follows all the way through with desktop management. If IBM owns the hardware and bills flat rate per desktop, it behooves them to minimize TCO.
Paired up with ebusiness initiatives (i.e. "webifying" apps and streamlining business processes), this could lead to some IBM-sponsored Linux desktops.
Sick of gentoo zealots throwing plugs in completely unrelated topics? Me too!
I guess I just need a Corporate Linux site. I'm sick of hearing how great these distros are that only run handwritten apps. Ever try to run Oracle or DB2 on Debian for SPARC? Didn't think so... give me people running commercial apps in a corporate setting with real PHBs who don't give a shit about TCO.. big enterprises run Linux because it runs Domino, DB2, Websphere, BEA and Oracle on numerous platforms and doesn't barf. I need peers who understand that businesses do indeed spend $50k on software, and could care less about windows vs linux until their people can't do their jobs for one reason or another. I guess I thought this place would grow with me, but it really is staying the same as time goes by.. kinda like being too old for MTV:)
I second this.. run SuSE if you want to actually be able to install something you didn't compile yourself.. SuSE runs on every IBM server from Intel to midrange and mainframe, and is a supported configuration for running all your commercial Linux apps. It is very well supported and very PHB-friendly..
and they stream mp3, too! I also spent high school and college listening to WRSU, Rutgers, New Brunswick and WKDU Drexel University. God save college radio!
And for all you NPR fans, check out Current.org. I used it to find a bunch of different streaming NPR stations for my SliMP3 player. Worked like a charm until I brought my streaming server to the office:( I really need to bring my PC home.
Whats the big deal about spam... (Score:-1, Flamebait) by Garak (100517) on 10:48 AM October 23rd, 2003 (#7290424) (http://garak.dyndns.org/)
I never hide my email when posting on forums or anywhere online.
(Score:-1, Flat out liar)
I, on the other hand, used to spend a ton of time reading and replying in comp.os.linux.help years ago with an unblocked email address, and I now get over 140 spams a day. So there goes your theory.
My mother took it for $2,500. Sorry, bud. Either way, its a miniscule cost in the big picture of things that is not borne by the patient. Big picture, here.
When the discussions first started happening about the Concorde going EOL, I remember reading a quote from a famed heart surgeon, saying he'll miss it because it enabled him to be called back to London from NYC in order to perform emergency surgery. The 3 hours that the Concorde saved dramatically changed the chances of the heart (and/or patient) surviving.
Asshat, indeed.
I did enjoy the description of catching the 8pm flight out of Heathrow for JFK (after dark). You would literally watch the sunset reverse directions and get to experience it all over again in NYC. That was definitely cool reading.
A company (say, a drug company) might want to pay people to provide them with computation
you might be onto something.. how about insurance companies that offer improved prescription drug benefits to customers who install a grid-enabled screensaver? of course they would never let on to how much the extranet grid really helps them out.. and they better encrypt the hell out of any data going out to the users' homes.
With any reasonably new Nextel phone, you can configure profiles covering the different ring tones and notification preferences (i.e. ring or vibrate for each of about 5 different notifications). You can also filter your inbound cell calls or Direct Connects, by either allowing all inbound callers, limiting inbound callers to up to 5 entries from your phonebook, or your entire phonebook.
My wife must've picked up a previously popular phone number, because her phone had 4 voicemails waiting when we pulled it out of the box it was shipped in!! The previous owner owned an alarm monitoring service and she would get called in the middle of the night when the local bank's silent alarm went off. Real comforting, I know. The alarm company refused to take her number out of the emergency notification profile for this guy's entire customer list, literally stating that they will only be able to delete the number each time they call for the 1st time for each of his customers.
He also did furnace work and during last year's cold winter, we would field calls on busted furnaces all the time. I literally asked one customer to kick his ass for me when he finally tracks down the business owner. He replied, "you got it, man!"
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With all due respect to a friend-of-a-friend, it looks like you may not have worked with modern enterprise gear and environment goals. VMWare ESX is not your everyday VMWare.
"In order to apply the power of an IBM x440 16CPU server with 32G of memory, because you only get to buy one this year.
BFD. It's a server, use remote sessions."
This is what pointed it out to me. The parent was referring to the primary modern IT goal of having machines run at or near 100% utilization, in CPU, disk, and memory. Not to overuse memory to the point of causing massive swapping, but to bring it right to the wall.
ESX lets you run 64 virtual machines in a single box and provides incredible flexibility wrt allocating CPU, RAM, disk, and network. He wasn't talking about running one session on the x440 and using VMWare just to get a remote desktop. He was literally referring to maximizing the utilization of a very powerful box.
As to the rest of your replies, you should flip through this book, and perhaps search the IBM Redbooks site for many freely downloadable books, particularly those with "patterns" in the title. All of the things that the parent recommended are signs of a professional IT Architect with current enterprise experience.
Again, as a friend-of-a-friend.
You have a good point here... I've been passively looking for cheap colo for a 2U box with 2 or 3 ethernet runs. So far, I found a friends-only rate of $100/mo for 5Mbit/s uncapped service.
I was wondering that, too.. at least the Bar Monkey showed us the bottles connected to the windshield washer pumps..
If you want to consider IBM's well-publicized support, then don't forget about SuSE.
While people have mentioned pointing any shoutcast-compatible client at the Squeezebox server (Winamp 3 doesn't work -- server always returns 0, but xmms works fine), no one has mentioned being able to stream Shoutcast/MP3 streams to the player.
.pls files. However, they do change quite a bit, so does anyone know of a Shoutcast scraper?
Sure iTunes is all the rage these days, so people probably forget about Shoutcast. I supplement my 4,000-song inventory with a very complete list of
I'm with you. I've said for years that apt-get and rpm should be modified to take news:// URLs, with digitally signed binaries being posted to groups. The pan newsreader seems the perfect candidate to modify to handle reassembling binaries on behalf of the package managers. Package maintainers could ship updates over dialup and not have to maintain a single mirror. Oh, but that would be "abusing someone else's resources".
Its interesting that you mention that. A couple years ago, I was involved in a school system trying to deploy 802.11 Linux-based tablets to students, and they wanted to use an OSS office suite.
We entered into talks with a vendor to ask them to modify the functionality such that minimal functionality would be present when the tablets were out of range of the school, but full functionality would return when the student entered school property. I wonder how much of the user-requested bloat could/should be implemented as plugins that are turned on by default.
Nothing came of the work as the customer ran out of money, but I still think it would be pretty cool to see fluff activate/deactivate based on availability of the network.
Not exactly true in my experience. Jigdo will hit just one mirror that you select at runtime. I usually run netselect -vv `cat mirrors.jigdo` and then sort it by hit quality (sort -k 6 -g), tail -n 10 and reverse sort by the response time (sort -k 2 -g -r) to find the 10 best suppliers, sorted by speed of their response time, with the fastest at the bottom.
It would be nice if jigdo could be configured to spread the load across all 10 of the highest-quality servers ("swarm mode" as they call it). Having said that, I do enjoy being able to run Debian on Intel, RS/6000, SPARC, and s390. Unfortunately, IBM prefers SuSE as the best cross-platform distro, so I really need to keep up with them, instead.
Us older geeks probably have fond memories of a movie from the early 80's that touched on this sort of thing. Looker, anyone? It features a company that does full body scans of actors/actresses and then uses computers to create commercials that feature the scanned actors/actresses. Besides, much like Runaway, who wouldn't want to have the futuristic weapon featured in the movie -- a gun that, with a flash of light, freezes time for its victim. The ultimate excuse for government spooks to go running around with dark sunglasses.
:)
Imagine S1M0NE 20 years ago, when she was just getting started in her career
not to mention, i can't imagine that anything even remotely modern uses fixed frequencies anymore, vs spread spectrum (and therefore undetectable by a so-called "bug sweeper")
This is similar to what I was thinking.. I never expected to get this far without anyone mentioning snort and Hogwash. Snort, being the open source IDS, and Hogwash, being an add-on that alters traffic as it passes through the IDS, based on customizable rules. It modifies the malware or just removes it before it gets passed onto the main part of the network, thus killing all virus infection attempts as they enter the network (and as any kind of unencrypted traffic -- web, smtp/pop3, etc) long before your users get around to updating their virus definition files.
Not sure why you're led to believe that no one else can sell RedHat Linux and say that it is the real RedHat Linux.
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outs ourcing/story/0,10801,86826,00.html
IBM announced a new offering today, extending the outsourcing to include the desktop.. I thought this was a great step in the right direction since basically no one really follows all the way through with desktop management. If IBM owns the hardware and bills flat rate per desktop, it behooves them to minimize TCO.
Paired up with ebusiness initiatives (i.e. "webifying" apps and streamlining business processes), this could lead to some IBM-sponsored Linux desktops.
Sick of gentoo zealots throwing plugs in completely unrelated topics? Me too!
:)
I guess I just need a Corporate Linux site. I'm sick of hearing how great these distros are that only run handwritten apps. Ever try to run Oracle or DB2 on Debian for SPARC? Didn't think so... give me people running commercial apps in a corporate setting with real PHBs who don't give a shit about TCO.. big enterprises run Linux because it runs Domino, DB2, Websphere, BEA and Oracle on numerous platforms and doesn't barf. I need peers who understand that businesses do indeed spend $50k on software, and could care less about windows vs linux until their people can't do their jobs for one reason or another. I guess I thought this place would grow with me, but it really is staying the same as time goes by.. kinda like being too old for MTV
I second this.. run SuSE if you want to actually be able to install something you didn't compile yourself.. SuSE runs on every IBM server from Intel to midrange and mainframe, and is a supported configuration for running all your commercial Linux apps. It is very well supported and very PHB-friendly..
redhat long ago abandoned everything non-x86
Not true. Some would argue it runs on the only true "enterprise server" out there. Is 2.4.21 released on Friday recent enough?
and they stream mp3, too! I also spent high school and college listening to WRSU, Rutgers, New Brunswick and WKDU Drexel University. God save college radio!
:( I really need to bring my PC home.
And for all you NPR fans, check out Current.org. I used it to find a bunch of different streaming NPR stations for my SliMP3 player. Worked like a charm until I brought my streaming server to the office
Whats the big deal about spam... (Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Garak (100517) on 10:48 AM October 23rd, 2003 (#7290424)
(http://garak.dyndns.org/)
I never hide my email when posting on forums or anywhere online.
(Score:-1, Flat out liar)
I, on the other hand, used to spend a ton of time reading and replying in comp.os.linux.help years ago with an unblocked email address, and I now get over 140 spams a day. So there goes your theory.
No, they're not.
My mother took it for $2,500. Sorry, bud. Either way, its a miniscule cost in the big picture of things that is not borne by the patient. Big picture, here.
I've had a $125k surgery and my wife, $265k. Do you really think
a) the patients fly the surgeons around, and
b) anyone gives a SHIT about a $2,500 airplane ticket in order to start a $500,000 surgery?!?!
You are out of your league here and don't know that which of you speak. Give it up.
When the discussions first started happening about the Concorde going EOL, I remember reading a quote from a famed heart surgeon, saying he'll miss it because it enabled him to be called back to London from NYC in order to perform emergency surgery. The 3 hours that the Concorde saved dramatically changed the chances of the heart (and/or patient) surviving.
Asshat, indeed.
I did enjoy the description of catching the 8pm flight out of Heathrow for JFK (after dark). You would literally watch the sunset reverse directions and get to experience it all over again in NYC. That was definitely cool reading.
"$2000 from that 12 year old girl probably covered the lawyer team costs and whoever is gathering the evidence" emphasis mine.
You have absolutely no idea how much corporate lawyers make. None whatsoever.
A company (say, a drug company) might want to pay people to provide them with computation
you might be onto something.. how about insurance companies that offer improved prescription drug benefits to customers who install a grid-enabled screensaver? of course they would never let on to how much the extranet grid really helps them out.. and they better encrypt the hell out of any data going out to the users' homes.
With any reasonably new Nextel phone, you can configure profiles covering the different ring tones and notification preferences (i.e. ring or vibrate for each of about 5 different notifications). You can also filter your inbound cell calls or Direct Connects, by either allowing all inbound callers, limiting inbound callers to up to 5 entries from your phonebook, or your entire phonebook.
My wife must've picked up a previously popular phone number, because her phone had 4 voicemails waiting when we pulled it out of the box it was shipped in!! The previous owner owned an alarm monitoring service and she would get called in the middle of the night when the local bank's silent alarm went off. Real comforting, I know. The alarm company refused to take her number out of the emergency notification profile for this guy's entire customer list, literally stating that they will only be able to delete the number each time they call for the 1st time for each of his customers.
He also did furnace work and during last year's cold winter, we would field calls on busted furnaces all the time. I literally asked one customer to kick his ass for me when he finally tracks down the business owner. He replied, "you got it, man!"