They are still made, by these guys. AFAIK, they're IBM's old keyboard division that got spun off or something. And the new ones have win^H^H^Hmeta and compose keys and an integrated pointing stick, like on thinkpads. Still no USB though...
Look for the ones with "Buckling spring (BS) technology".
This reminds me, back on old-school unix dialects, there used to be a command learn that had short tutorials on different tools. You'd do
learn vi
and it'd start an interactive little course on it. And if you quit it, it would remember where you were so you could pick up where you left off. As I remember it, it was pretty cool. It had data in some vaguely troff-like format IIRC. Anyway, I haven't seen it around any linux or other modern boxes. Anybody know what happened to it, and where it came from?
In fact, we still have IBM 340 workstations deployed. Those are 6 or 7 years old.
6 or 7? More like about 10 or 12. They were introduced in 1992.
Do IBM still support AIX on those things? AIX 5.x?
It's got to be false economics keeping those old things running to this day. I'm guessing you haven't got a support contract for them, but just the power bills should offset a nice new cheap box in a couple years... And besides, IIRC they have a 33MHz cpu. I think we got rid of all 320/340s a couple of years ago, but I'm not sure there aren't still a few still running in a closet somewhere.
Good keyboards on them though.
/August, got a 6150 IBM PC RT in my basement. And original AIX 2.2.1 floppies. Not running.
You should see a Netra T1/t1/X1/Sunfire v120. They are 1RU servers, and they have a sun logo all over the top face. Ah. found a picture. I thought it was pretty cool though, and it isn't visible in the rack.
I wish more vendors would do what IBM did with the x445, and US Robotics did in the 80s and include as much of the manual as you can on the actual machine.
All of this time, I have been cursing at my printers, rather than blssing them.
Well, I'm pretty sure printers are evil, but maybe this tames them somehow. Kind of the same reasoning as with those snake-wielding southern pentecostals. (Or whatever they are. Baptists?)
Could be worth a try. The chickens didn't work, but they're really for SCSI so maybe that was it...
When was the last time you heard of someone walking into Sears and purchasing a dishwasher because it has an R52JU actuator servo? Never.
Oh, yeah, the good old R52JU. Mine is overclocked to 4600 RPM. Of course, I had to cool it a bit, so I got a 8" fan in there, and I'm watercooling that. For some reason they didn't have any peltiers that size at fry's.
A bit of work, but damn, my plates come out clean.
Look up NERVA.
It was a nuclear-thermal rocket program back in the 60s. It had pretty good performance (about 900s Isp) and it's a lot more feasible than Orion and other bomb-propelled versions.
As it stands, corporations get a tax incentive to outsource to the third world.
If there really is a tax incentive on offshoring then that's just as bad as protectionism "the other way" and I'd fully support repealing that. Unless what you mean is that the taxes abroad are lower and that somehow would constitute a tax incentive. That's just normal competition between countries, and that's proper and good.
Yeah, to hell with all those lazy b*stards in Flint MI, and those stupid pillotex people. Dammit, just because theres not enough jobs for everone is no excuse not to go have a job. Obviously if your GED isn't getting you a job, it's you're fault that the world economic trend has screwed you over.
I'm not familiar with pillotex, but a quick googling suggests they were just another manufacturing company that got outcompeted. It's tough to compete against low-overhead countries on low-skill labor.
After all, you could have stolen a presidential election, or leveraged junk bonds to a hostile takeover. Phbt. Only stupid people are poor, and Capitalism is referenced over 8800 times in the King James Bible.
Ok, that was weird...
Listen you conservative dingus - Capitalism is neither inherently good OR bad.
It works, and it's fair. It doesn't care about junk bonds, hostile takeovers or the bible. That makes it good, I guess.
What IS bad is people who use loaded words and tricks to ram their agenda past all cogent discussion for their own benefit. WITHOUT DEBATE THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY. THAT'S why I am so disgusted with the conserative party. You're destroying this county for the benefit of the highest bidder/buyer.
I'm not a conservative, I'm a libertarian. I won't vote for the donkey or the elephant.
>> I've had it up to here with whining special interest whom are all uniquely deserving of other people's money in their own heads
Then Stop Corporate Welfare A-hole!
Exactly, that's what I'm saying. What is special steel tariffs, subsidies and protectionism if not
Corporate Welfare? It's keeping nonproductive companies alive on the expense of viable businesses and the rest of society.
The gub-ment could provide tax incentives to keep employees in the states, etc. There are things that could be done.
Tax incentives? You want other people to be forced to subsidize your paycheck?
In what way is that better than the utterly immoral subsidies some other industries (steel, textile etc) get? I'm talking about the specialty steel tariffs and so on.
If you can't compete with the indians, tough luck, get another job. That's how capitalism works. That's how it's supposed to work. That means better prices on the products for everyone.
Lowering the overall tax rate is the only good tax incentive, I've had it up to here with whining special interest whom are all uniquely deserving of other people's money in their own heads.
OTOH, "The Way Things Go" is a single 30 minute take.
As impressive as it is, no, it isn't one take. It has about 5-6 cuts in it, where the camera will zoom into something (usually fire or some foamy chemical reaction), hold for a while and then zoom out again, post cut.
What's with all the negativism? This could be really good, if it worked[1]. Think about it, there are no privacy concerns here, the advertiser doesn't know who you are, just what station you're listening to. [2]
If this can make billboard ads more interesting to me (which is what it's about, really) then I'm all for it.
/August.
[1] I have doubts about that though. Problem 1: I don't always listen to something interesting, just whatever tuned in first and wasn't horrible. Problem 2: what if there's lots of cars close by, even on a reasonably full highway they'd have real problems figuring out which car is listening to what and flic the sign at high speeds. And in a gridlock?
[2] Of course, the guy behind you might figure out which channel you're listening to by watching "your" sign. Big deal...
There once was a snake breeder who had two snakes he was trying to
mate. For the life of him, he couldn't get them within two feet of
each other. Frustrated, he called up the local zoologist, and explained
the situation. She hurried over, picked up the snakes and looked at
them. "You know what I would do?" she said. "See that tree over
there? Chop it down, chop off a good sized log, split the log in two,
and make two tables out of them. Put the tables and the snakes into a
cage, and let them go at it."
Well, the breeder thought that this was insane, but having no other
options, he tried it. Sure enough, a few days later he had a whole
slew of baby snakes. He called up the zoologist, and asked her how
that was possible. She replied, "Well, you see, those snakes were
adders. And everybody knows that to get adders to multiply you need
log tables."
A long time favourite of mine, this version google found for me.
One major problem I have with solaris (and I do run it on sparcs) is that the whole userland has been neglected for years. You have to install a great number of third-party apps to get a usable system. And unless you get into the solaris-package-building-business in a major way you'll do it from source, and then you have an interesting time patching all your systems when the time comes.
With Red Hat, you're pretty much set with what's included. Stuff like vim, lsof, nmap, ethereal, screen, cvs... They are all just there.
Well, as I see it, the two main advantages for running at home is:
One. You don't have to allocate your storage at install-time. I always screw up and make some filesystem too small, and end up wth a maze of symlinks after a while. With LVM, just make some volumes, add enough space to install and then some, and grow them as you need more space.
Two. One day, you're going to run out of space on your disk. So you buy more. For old-style installs, moving all the data around is a problem, but with LVM you just add the new disk, tell the system to use it for Physical Partitions, and grow your old volumes.
And if you have hot-swap disks and a growable filesystem, you don't even need any downtime! (Note: RH9 does not support growing ext3 filesystems online, so you need to umount the volume to grow it.)
Also, I like to tell it to allocate some of the volumes (the ones I really care about) on both disks, so they get mirrored.
I've always thought that with tape robot prices the way they are (think "Yeah, or I could buy a new car instead!") the freaking things would work better.
I've had to deal with many a tape robot, and they've all acted up at some point, and way before getting obsolete. Quantum DLT 4700 is probably the worst ones, they pretty much got everything wrong with those, those springs that die, tapes getting stuck, loading tray getting jammed... The current one is a spectralogic 10k w/ AIT, and its' drives keep refusing to eject tapes, to the point where we get to actually disassemble the robot!
Are there any good ones?
And don't get me started on backup software, it costs vast amounts of money, sucks, plus you need plugins for both ends (apps and tape drives), which are really expensive and doesn't work.
No, it is not odd. It is expected, in fact. Microsoft's rating was for common criteria "CAPP/EAL4". The CAPP part means that the OS provides "a level of protection which is appropriate for an assumed non-hostile and well-managed user community requiring protection against threats of inadvertent or casual attempts to breach the system security". I don't consider the internet to be a non-hostile and well-managed user community, so I'm not the least bit surprised that hostile remote attacks are possible. The evaluations didn't say that it was safe to hang the microsoft box - or the linux one - on the internet.
I agree with all that, but one thing is missing, and that is which Protection profile this linux configuration was tested against.
I'd assume it was CAPP, but you never know. I can't see it in the press release...
As far as I understand the CC you can't "just" be EALx, you name a set of features (normally a standard set like CAPP or LSPP, but it can be completely custom) that you claim to fulfill, and the testers assign an assurance rating depending on how probable it is you actually got it right.
Oh, and since it's still not known enough- the Hindenburg burned because it was painted with the chemical equivalent of rocket fuel(the chemical composition of the paint etc is very close to solid rocket fuel)- not because it was full of Hydrogen, which, by itself, doesn't burn.
Nothing, "by itself" burns. There is always a fuel and some kind of oxidiser. The hindenburg burned very fuel rich, but if the hydrogen in it had been mixed with enough oxygen, it would have flattened everything in sight when it went up.
When it DOES burn, it burns a)instantly
Yeah, think explosion.
b)practically invisibly, c)with no smoke. Watch those films of the hindenburg, and note the a)slow b)bright yellow c)sooty fire.
Classic features of a fue-rich fire.
It's interesting to note that hydrogen's qualities make it much safer should there be, say, an accident with a truck carrying it. It dissipates as it leaks, versus the major fire hazard/toxic waste problem created by a gasoline spill.
In open air, yes. But the scenario I'm worried about is when it happens somewhere semi-enclosed, like a parking garage, or a tunnel. Some kind of area where the hydrogen can't quickly escape upwards, but has time to form an explosive mixture with the air. In a parking garage under other buildings it seems like it would be pretty devastating, but I haven't seen that scenario discussed anywhere.
The way I see it after I die, my heirs inherit my stuff, including the meat. If they sell it (along with most of my other stuff that I'm sure they won't want to keep), and get money for the house-on-the-hill, great!
I can't really see myself being further victimized after I'm already dead! (Though this is of course dependent on whatever religious beliefs you and your heirs might have.)
Don't know much about China in this context, do they have a free market in post-consumer organs there? That'd be ironic...
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Look for the ones with "Buckling spring (BS) technology".
This reminds me, back on old-school unix dialects, there used to be a command learn that had short tutorials on different tools. You'd do
and it'd start an interactive little course on it. And if you quit it, it would remember where you were so you could pick up where you left off. As I remember it, it was pretty cool. It had data in some vaguely troff-like format IIRC. Anyway, I haven't seen it around any linux or other modern boxes. Anybody know what happened to it, and where it came from?
6 or 7? More like about 10 or 12. They were introduced in 1992.
Do IBM still support AIX on those things? AIX 5.x?
It's got to be false economics keeping those old things running to this day. I'm guessing you haven't got a support contract for them, but just the power bills should offset a nice new cheap box in a couple years... And besides, IIRC they have a 33MHz cpu. I think we got rid of all 320/340s a couple of years ago, but I'm not sure there aren't still a few still running in a closet somewhere.
Good keyboards on them though.
I wish more vendors would do what IBM did with the x445, and US Robotics did in the 80s and include as much of the manual as you can on the actual machine.
Well, I'm pretty sure printers are evil, but maybe this tames them somehow. Kind of the same reasoning as with those snake-wielding southern pentecostals. (Or whatever they are. Baptists?)
Could be worth a try. The chickens didn't work, but they're really for SCSI so maybe that was it...
Oh, yeah, the good old R52JU. Mine is overclocked to 4600 RPM. Of course, I had to cool it a bit, so I got a 8" fan in there, and I'm watercooling that. For some reason they didn't have any peltiers that size at fry's.
A bit of work, but damn, my plates come out clean.
Note that he's using the word liberalism on his page in the european sense, ie an american would say libertarianism.
The ultimate diet drug then?
(Makes a lot of sense, other stimulants like amphetamines were used that way back when they were legal.)
If there really is a tax incentive on offshoring then that's just as bad as protectionism "the other way" and I'd fully support repealing that. Unless what you mean is that the taxes abroad are lower and that somehow would constitute a tax incentive. That's just normal competition between countries, and that's proper and good.
Yeah, to hell with all those lazy b*stards in Flint MI, and those stupid pillotex people. Dammit, just because theres not enough jobs for everone is no excuse not to go have a job. Obviously if your GED isn't getting you a job, it's you're fault that the world economic trend has screwed you over.
I'm not familiar with pillotex, but a quick googling suggests they were just another manufacturing company that got outcompeted. It's tough to compete against low-overhead countries on low-skill labor.
After all, you could have stolen a presidential election, or leveraged junk bonds to a hostile takeover. Phbt. Only stupid people are poor, and Capitalism is referenced over 8800 times in the King James Bible.
Ok, that was weird...
Listen you conservative dingus - Capitalism is neither inherently good OR bad.
It works, and it's fair. It doesn't care about junk bonds, hostile takeovers or the bible. That makes it good, I guess.
What IS bad is people who use loaded words and tricks to ram their agenda past all cogent discussion for their own benefit. WITHOUT DEBATE THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY. THAT'S why I am so disgusted with the conserative party. You're destroying this county for the benefit of the highest bidder/buyer.
I'm not a conservative, I'm a libertarian. I won't vote for the donkey or the elephant.
>> I've had it up to here with whining special interest whom are all uniquely deserving of other people's money in their own heads
Then Stop Corporate Welfare A-hole!
Exactly, that's what I'm saying. What is special steel tariffs, subsidies and protectionism if not Corporate Welfare? It's keeping nonproductive companies alive on the expense of viable businesses and the rest of society.
Tax incentives? You want other people to be forced to subsidize your paycheck?
In what way is that better than the utterly immoral subsidies some other industries (steel, textile etc) get? I'm talking about the specialty steel tariffs and so on.
If you can't compete with the indians, tough luck, get another job. That's how capitalism works. That's how it's supposed to work. That means better prices on the products for everyone.
Lowering the overall tax rate is the only good tax incentive, I've had it up to here with whining special interest whom are all uniquely deserving of other people's money in their own heads.
Coffe doesn't suppress hunger, it increases your matabolism so reasonably it should do the reverse.
As impressive as it is, no, it isn't one take. It has about 5-6 cuts in it, where the camera will zoom into something (usually fire or some foamy chemical reaction), hold for a while and then zoom out again, post cut.
If this can make billboard ads more interesting to me (which is what it's about, really) then I'm all for it.
[1] I have doubts about that though. Problem 1: I don't always listen to something interesting, just whatever tuned in first and wasn't horrible. Problem 2: what if there's lots of cars close by, even on a reasonably full highway they'd have real problems figuring out which car is listening to what and flic the sign at high speeds. And in a gridlock?
[2] Of course, the guy behind you might figure out which channel you're listening to by watching "your" sign. Big deal...
It had some problems, too small, too slow, WAY too noisy (being a ramjet helicopter) too little fuel capacity, etc.
There once was a snake breeder who had two snakes he was trying to mate. For the life of him, he couldn't get them within two feet of each other. Frustrated, he called up the local zoologist, and explained the situation. She hurried over, picked up the snakes and looked at them. "You know what I would do?" she said. "See that tree over there? Chop it down, chop off a good sized log, split the log in two, and make two tables out of them. Put the tables and the snakes into a cage, and let them go at it."
Well, the breeder thought that this was insane, but having no other options, he tried it. Sure enough, a few days later he had a whole slew of baby snakes. He called up the zoologist, and asked her how that was possible. She replied, "Well, you see, those snakes were adders. And everybody knows that to get adders to multiply you need log tables."
A long time favourite of mine, this version google found for me.
/August
One major problem I have with solaris (and I do run it on sparcs) is that the whole userland has been neglected for years. You have to install a great number of third-party apps to get a usable system. And unless you get into the solaris-package-building-business in a major way you'll do it from source, and then you have an interesting time patching all your systems when the time comes.
With Red Hat, you're pretty much set with what's included. Stuff like vim, lsof, nmap, ethereal, screen, cvs... They are all just there.
Wow, this really gave me a chill...
Managed? By whom? You?
One. You don't have to allocate your storage at install-time. I always screw up and make some filesystem too small, and end up wth a maze of symlinks after a while. With LVM, just make some volumes, add enough space to install and then some, and grow them as you need more space.
Two. One day, you're going to run out of space on your disk. So you buy more. For old-style installs, moving all the data around is a problem, but with LVM you just add the new disk, tell the system to use it for Physical Partitions, and grow your old volumes.
And if you have hot-swap disks and a growable filesystem, you don't even need any downtime! (Note: RH9 does not support growing ext3 filesystems online, so you need to umount the volume to grow it.)
Also, I like to tell it to allocate some of the volumes (the ones I really care about) on both disks, so they get mirrored.
I've always thought that with tape robot prices the way they are (think "Yeah, or I could buy a new car instead!") the freaking things would work better.
I've had to deal with many a tape robot, and they've all acted up at some point, and way before getting obsolete. Quantum DLT 4700 is probably the worst ones, they pretty much got everything wrong with those, those springs that die, tapes getting stuck, loading tray getting jammed... The current one is a spectralogic 10k w/ AIT, and its' drives keep refusing to eject tapes, to the point where we get to actually disassemble the robot!
Are there any good ones?
And don't get me started on backup software, it costs vast amounts of money, sucks, plus you need plugins for both ends (apps and tape drives), which are really expensive and doesn't work.
I agree with all that, but one thing is missing, and that is which Protection profile this linux configuration was tested against.
I'd assume it was CAPP, but you never know. I can't see it in the press release...
As far as I understand the CC you can't "just" be EALx, you name a set of features (normally a standard set like CAPP or LSPP, but it can be completely custom) that you claim to fulfill, and the testers assign an assurance rating depending on how probable it is you actually got it right.
Nothing, "by itself" burns. There is always a fuel and some kind of oxidiser. The hindenburg burned very fuel rich, but if the hydrogen in it had been mixed with enough oxygen, it would have flattened everything in sight when it went up.
When it DOES burn, it burns a)instantly
Yeah, think explosion.
b)practically invisibly, c)with no smoke. Watch those films of the hindenburg, and note the a)slow b)bright yellow c)sooty fire.
Classic features of a fue-rich fire.
It's interesting to note that hydrogen's qualities make it much safer should there be, say, an accident with a truck carrying it. It dissipates as it leaks, versus the major fire hazard/toxic waste problem created by a gasoline spill.
In open air, yes. But the scenario I'm worried about is when it happens somewhere semi-enclosed, like a parking garage, or a tunnel. Some kind of area where the hydrogen can't quickly escape upwards, but has time to form an explosive mixture with the air. In a parking garage under other buildings it seems like it would be pretty devastating, but I haven't seen that scenario discussed anywhere.
The way I see it after I die, my heirs inherit my stuff, including the meat. If they sell it (along with most of my other stuff that I'm sure they won't want to keep), and get money for the house-on-the-hill, great!
I can't really see myself being further victimized after I'm already dead! (Though this is of course dependent on whatever religious beliefs you and your heirs might have.)
Don't know much about China in this context, do they have a free market in post-consumer organs there? That'd be ironic...