I know that this is included with Red Hat Linux but are features like LVM logical volume resizing, journaling filesystems, and logical volume mirroring really ready and stable enough to be used in production systems?
This is no diss on Linux. I really enjoy using it and think it's great but I have my doubts at the moment that these features really work as advertised by Red Hat and SuSE.
Anyone using them and can affirm that they really work and are stable and you don't risk data-loss?
btw: I'm pretty comfortable with using ext2 and other standard linux stuff but I have my doubts with these high end features as I haven't been keen enough to try them out on a production system yet.
What I'd really like to know what email client someone should use on OS X. I'm pretty much used to mutt and emacs-type of handling mail and I don't really like Outlook.
What are all the geeks out there using on their Ti and AlBooks?
Why do so many people seem to work with people they don't trust?
If you don't trust them, don't work with them. It's that simple.
I, at least, wouldn't want to work in a company where everything has to be restricted to 'protect' the company's 'trade secrets' (or whatever this is called) from malicious employees who're trying to sell them to someone.
I don't know anything about your workplace but I'm sure you're using off-the-shelf products and haven't hired SWG to make specific software for you.
The installation of Linux you most likely use is not some-kind-of-fairly-standard version, it will most likely be Red Hat, SuSe, or Debian for zSeries.
Please specify in more detail what "Tivoli Unix" and "TSM/ADSM OS" you're using.
AFAIK there is only a TSM server version 5.1.5 which supports "OS/390® with z/OS, Version 1, Release 1 or later, or Version 2, Release 8 or later."
Please also keep in mind that running 6 virtual machines isn't really impressive. There are people out there running hundreds or thousands of VM Linux web servers on these boxes. Basically it all comes down to the value you extract from the product. It makes most sense in enterprise deployments to use VM technology to use one box for production and testing purposes w/o the need to purchase multiple physical zSeries machines.
AFAIK this has not been built yet and it runs on the same OS and not multiple OSes for each VM, which makes it less a VM than a shared environment that shields processes from each other.
In all that discussion please don't forget how long IBM needed to make VM and all their partitioning systems 'work right' and 'feel right'.
IMHO they're coming out too late with this to be a serious competitor in this space and the machines windows supports are mostly just too small to make any serious use of VMs.
I'm currently in the same situation and looked at it last Saturday in a store. Looks like a great little machine.
But I wouldn't install Linux on it. I'd just live with what is on the machine which didn't look like a bad Unix. - I know of some people who have Linux on their TiBook and it works great but I have no info about the compatibility with Linux on the 12" PB.
There are certainly advantages with cooking over coding:
- You don't need to learn how to use a text editor - Debugging is more intuitive - You taste bugs instantly - You don't get bug reports long after you abandoned the project (well... if you did especially bad you actually might...)
3.
"Geeks tend towards packaged, junk foods since they prefer to work and think and aren't all that into cooking for themselves." This is probably the first true thing for the most part, but remember, cooking is a whole other kind of geekiness and some of us love it as well. See: Alton Brown, and fascination therewith.
Sure... And you want to tell me that this is not true for everyone in their 20s and 30s today??
Do you know anyone who actually likes cooking and doesn't only do it on special occasions?
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I know that this is included with Red Hat Linux but are features like LVM logical volume resizing, journaling filesystems, and logical volume mirroring really ready and stable enough to be used in production systems?
This is no diss on Linux. I really enjoy using it and think it's great but I have my doubts at the moment that these features really work as advertised by Red Hat and SuSE.
Anyone using them and can affirm that they really work and are stable and you don't risk data-loss?
btw: I'm pretty comfortable with using ext2 and other standard linux stuff but I have my doubts with these high end features as I haven't been keen enough to try them out on a production system yet.
I'm not really sure if it's a good choice but PairNIC doesn't look so bad. What do you think?
Do you read the mail from a local mailbox or via IMAP? - How do you deliver local mail? fetchmail?
thanks for your help!
FYI: You can use @example.com, which is IANA reserved.
What I'd really like to know what email client someone should use on OS X. I'm pretty much used to mutt and emacs-type of handling mail and I don't really like Outlook.
What are all the geeks out there using on their Ti and AlBooks?
OK... If I would've read the IBM press release earlier I would've noticed that they announced the new blades in exactly that press release.
Oooopppss... troll me hard!
Which Blade servers from IBM are you talking about? - The Blade servers I've seen are only based on x86. In the case of IBM the blades or Intel Xeon.
Only Sun has a Blade server running on SPARC. (x86 blades with AMD chips will follow)
But the p610 is a server and not a workstation. :)
Maybe he knows why he wants to have a server. He also didn't suggest to buy a PowerMac but he wanted an XServe.
well said. - But IMHO the same applies to coding IBM Assembler on a zSeries or S/390.
Why do so many people seem to work with people they don't trust?
If you don't trust them, don't work with them. It's that simple.
I, at least, wouldn't want to work in a company where everything has to be restricted to 'protect' the company's 'trade secrets' (or whatever this is called) from malicious employees who're trying to sell them to someone.
I just don't get it.
I don't know anything about your workplace but I'm sure you're using off-the-shelf products and haven't hired SWG to make specific software for you.
The installation of Linux you most likely use is not some-kind-of-fairly-standard version, it will most likely be Red Hat, SuSe, or Debian for zSeries.
Please specify in more detail what "Tivoli Unix" and "TSM/ADSM OS" you're using.
AFAIK there is only a TSM server version 5.1.5 which supports "OS/390® with z/OS, Version 1, Release 1 or later, or Version 2, Release 8 or later."
Please also keep in mind that running 6 virtual machines isn't really impressive. There are people out there running hundreds or thousands of VM Linux web servers on these boxes. Basically it all comes down to the value you extract from the product. It makes most sense in enterprise deployments to use VM technology to use one box for production and testing purposes w/o the need to purchase multiple physical zSeries machines.
AFAIK this has not been built yet and it runs on the same OS and not multiple OSes for each VM, which makes it less a VM than a shared environment that shields processes from each other.
please consult your systems administrator again before spreading this nonsense. tnx.
Where again is Sun's VM capability?
In all that discussion please don't forget how long IBM needed to make VM and all their partitioning systems 'work right' and 'feel right'.
IMHO they're coming out too late with this to be a serious competitor in this space and the machines windows supports are mostly just too small to make any serious use of VMs.
Right... Must be the first "consumer" running emacs on a PowerBook.
:-)))
Since when was emacs a consumer product? I guess even Richard Stallman would be stunned about this statement
oh... and why again is life with emacs meaningless again?
I'm currently in the same situation and looked at it last Saturday in a store. Looks like a great little machine.
But I wouldn't install Linux on it. I'd just live with what is on the machine which didn't look like a bad Unix. - I know of some people who have Linux on their TiBook and it works great but I have no info about the compatibility with Linux on the 12" PB.
read the benchmarks!
It's only slower where you really need the L3 cache. If we're just talking computing power it's usually equally fast as the "faster" PBs.
I'd seriously doubt that theory ;-)))
There are certainly advantages with cooking over coding:
- You don't need to learn how to use a text editor
- Debugging is more intuitive
- You taste bugs instantly
- You don't get bug reports long after you abandoned the project (well... if you did especially bad you actually might...)
Do you know anyone who actually likes cooking and doesn't only do it on special occasions?
Bad bad world... but know what?
:-)
Who cares? - Just adopt the attitude of everyone else
No RISC, no fun.
There's also a story about this at CNET.
Maybe I got that wrong, but aren't all the routers they're talking about using BGP to decide their routes?
So don't they decide which is the best link based on AS length and load balance if the length is equal on multiple links?
How can this article be true if basically the admins and the architecture of the net determine a route and not the router itself?
AFAIK no normal backbone router decides the best path based on some obscure metrics.