They won't use a plane next time. They have eliminated hijacking as a viable method of terrorism. In the past people on a hijacked plane would wait passivly because that's what was expected of them "no one move and no one gets hurt", which was generally true, the terrorists got to broadcast their message and then were arrested, people were rarely harmed, and if they were it was generally during an attempt to board the plane by anti-terror police/military units, not in the air. Now people must assume that not only will THEY die, but many others on the ground, potentially including their friends and families will die, so every person on the plane will do what they must to stop the terrorists, even fear of death from guns and knives won't stop them. In a crowded space a couple hundred people who have nothing to lose will beat out just about any realistic number of terrorists.
Women love money and guys they can manipulate (read sensitive in chick terms), so many will love geeks even if they don't look like vin diesel. Just wait till you get out of school and you're pulling down near 6 figures, dress like the money you are making and chicks will probably eventually come around.
Almost all the manufacturers have a decent sub $900 color laser, and they are getting cheaper every month. With a cost per page of about 1/10th that of injets for full coverage they are a sure bargain if you print a lot of color. Consumables can be expensive but you buy them much less frequently so it works out in the long run. Check out cnet for printer reviews that do real cost per page analysis for some of their reviews and real page per minute counts. Checking their sub $700 street priced printers shows 4 contenders, though the cheapest is around $650, kind of close to what to origional poster was asking for.
That's funny, I add user in windows using ssh and the command line as well. It's called the resource kit and a bit of scripting, any decent consultant would figure this out pretty quickly. Also terminal services is usable on a 28.8 connection, not sure about 9600, but most cellular networks will get you to 28.8.
If they "defeat" the GPL then their liscense to others code reverts to copyright law and then they have NO rights to it because no one would give SCO rights to their work at this point.
Yes but in copyright law there has to be a sufficiently large violation to warrent enforcement. So far they have shown only one function that was aparantly copied and they have not shown proof that the function in question even origionated in SysV (It could well have origionated in project Monterey in which case IBM probably has at least some ownership over it). All we know so far is that the code in question is pretty trivial and not some huge architectural construct that was copied wholesale. When they get to discovery and we find out how much code was actually copied THEN we can have an informed discussion on the issue, until then we are just blowing hot wind into SCO's PR sails.
Ever hear of ghostscript? Yeah it can output to pdf, sure you can't do some things easily (imbedded links require putting raw pdf codes into the postscript intermediary file), but if you just want to create device independant versions of paper documents it works well, in fact that's how my dad's company creates pdf's of their MSDS sheets under windows.
What's the most funny is when the French ban English words that are taken from French, like Fax, it is short for Faxcimile which derives from French, yet the French buerocrats decided to ban it from commercial speech! I think this was true of almost 1/3rd the "English" words they banned several years ago.
Actually they include recover cd's because it is a MS REQUIREMENT for being a large volume OEM partner. MS decided they were losing too much revenue with people taking OEM cd's and installing them willie nillie so they made the OEM's agree to make customized recovery cd's that would only install on one particular model of their PC's. The OEM's basically had no say in the issue because it was either accept the liscensing terms or lose your volume purchasing price (effectivly putting them out of business). The thing I most hated about the antitrust trial is that no one in the prosuction team seemed to realize that all of MS's power comes from their ballcrushing controll of the OEM's.
WTF? A 4U system can definitly be 4-way, people cram 4 power hungry Xeon's into a 2U case so there is no reason IBM would have any problems putting 4 PPC970's into a 4U case.
Compare it to a Dell 6650 4-way Xeon with 2.0Ghz chips and only 4GB of ram, $12,288 according to Dell.com. Even the lowest speed (1.6Ghz) PPC970 will blow this out of the water, for about 1/4th the price! Don't compare it to a homebuilt, compare it to other top tier vendors (this was a stripped down server from Dell with their lowest level of support and only a single small HDD and no addons)
If your server room is at ambiant+5 degrees you have some SERIOUS problems (unless it is winter). A good datacenter is between 65-75 Farenheight all year round no matter where in the world it is.
You can get most of that with IE6 and crazybrowser, ~150K download if you are already running IE6, about the same as Mozilla if you need to upgrade from IE5+
Actually it looks like I was a bit hasty in rejecting this, I had looked at volume shadow copy only from a developers POV, in what it allowed for backup clients because that is where it was first implemented (backup for XP and then Veritas's backup for server 2003), I hadn't seen the client side app until I did some searching prompted by your suggestion. It IS just about what I want, though the limited number of deltas is annoying (only 64 and you have no controll over which ones are kept, oldest always gets pushed off the heap so you can't do staggered hourly, daily, weekly, monthly like you can with a netapp), the other annoying thing is the need for a special client (MS's site only lists XP and.Net as clients, others have said 98 and above), either way it would be nice to simply have them available as hidden named subdirectories. But all in all I guess it's the best implementation out there for the money, so it's the quasi functional and cheap server 2003 at the low end and the very functional but expensive netapp at the high end, just wish there was a free and functional linux choice in the mix too =)
Nope, although something decent could probably be made using the volume shadow copy interface, but it would still be much worse from a diskspace usage perspective then a properly implemented low level snapshot like the Netapps. As I mentioned above 21 levels of snapshotting plus the origionals only take up ~140% of the diskspace of the current files, I haven't seen anything else that even comes close, and the convenience of training users to simply go into the subdirectory named.snapshot to retieve their own backups can't be overlooked.
How about export to pdf, or save as rtf, both work well on just about any platform out there (pdf for exact layout and rtf for basic layout and preservation of information)
The Netapp implementation is pretty damn good, like I said in a busy engineering environment we only needed 140% of normal disk space to keep the current data plus quite a bit of online backups. You still need tape but the only time we ever needed it was when we ran into a bug where backing off a recursive subdirectory application of NTFS permissions was going to take several days for some reason so recovering it from tape was faster (the developers were not happy, they wanted sourcode locked down but the netapp admin applied the wrong group permissions and they were not able to get to the code at all for over a full working day, ugh). I really couldn't believe how much admin time is saved by the snapshot feature, and then there is the fact that hourly backups are automated, not something most places do with tape.
That can be done, in fact I remember someone bitching about it being the default in some distro (redhat?, ximian?). Of course defaulting to saving in a format that isn't native to the app isn't the smartest thing in the world because you WILL have people wondering why the document the opened doesn't look quite the same as the document they just saved.
Last I had read Gnumeric has all Excel functions plus a couple hundred unique ones, can you please list something that Excel supports that Gnumeric doesn't??
Ahhh, now we understand why minimizing primitives is useful in the real world. If the internal structure of a file is split into many small files, each representing a facet of the presentation (each slide, each bullet point on the slide, font weight of that bullet point etc) then suddenly it becomes much simpler to write a generic differential analyzer, we can just snapshot the mini files that changed.
Why go to all that trouble, just keep a list of changed blocks, the way that netapps do it is the snapshotted file stays in place and any changes are placed in a new block, then the filetable has a pointer to the new file which may include blocks from the old file, and of course the snapshot directory information just points to the old file on disk. This works very well overall, we only had about a 40% disk overhead for 8 hourly backups, 7 daily backups, and 6 weekly backups.
Are you talking about the LVM, because that is partition at a time backups and there are some serious issues with the way it is implemented. If not I would love to hear some info on it as it's not documented anywhere on RH's site.
Is for someone to come up with a real unlimited snapshotting filesystem for linux. I don't want to use user mode hacks (as nice as they are rsync style snapshotting isn't reliable enough), or snapshotting that only allows a shadow copy of the entire volume, I want to be able to tell the users that they can just go into ~/.snapshot/time (where time can be hours, days, or weeks in the past) and copy the file they messed up back into their home directory. Basically I want the most usefull feature of netapps without the HUGE markup =) The cost in admin time both in user interaction and reduced need to do tape retrieval and file restores is immense.
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They won't use a plane next time. They have eliminated hijacking as a viable method of terrorism. In the past people on a hijacked plane would wait passivly because that's what was expected of them "no one move and no one gets hurt", which was generally true, the terrorists got to broadcast their message and then were arrested, people were rarely harmed, and if they were it was generally during an attempt to board the plane by anti-terror police/military units, not in the air. Now people must assume that not only will THEY die, but many others on the ground, potentially including their friends and families will die, so every person on the plane will do what they must to stop the terrorists, even fear of death from guns and knives won't stop them. In a crowded space a couple hundred people who have nothing to lose will beat out just about any realistic number of terrorists.
Women love money and guys they can manipulate (read sensitive in chick terms), so many will love geeks even if they don't look like vin diesel. Just wait till you get out of school and you're pulling down near 6 figures, dress like the money you are making and chicks will probably eventually come around.
Almost all the manufacturers have a decent sub $900 color laser, and they are getting cheaper every month. With a cost per page of about 1/10th that of injets for full coverage they are a sure bargain if you print a lot of color. Consumables can be expensive but you buy them much less frequently so it works out in the long run. Check out cnet for printer reviews that do real cost per page analysis for some of their reviews and real page per minute counts. Checking their sub $700 street priced printers shows 4 contenders, though the cheapest is around $650, kind of close to what to origional poster was asking for.
That's funny, I add user in windows using ssh and the command line as well. It's called the resource kit and a bit of scripting, any decent consultant would figure this out pretty quickly. Also terminal services is usable on a 28.8 connection, not sure about 9600, but most cellular networks will get you to 28.8.
If they "defeat" the GPL then their liscense to others code reverts to copyright law and then they have NO rights to it because no one would give SCO rights to their work at this point.
Yes but in copyright law there has to be a sufficiently large violation to warrent enforcement. So far they have shown only one function that was aparantly copied and they have not shown proof that the function in question even origionated in SysV (It could well have origionated in project Monterey in which case IBM probably has at least some ownership over it). All we know so far is that the code in question is pretty trivial and not some huge architectural construct that was copied wholesale. When they get to discovery and we find out how much code was actually copied THEN we can have an informed discussion on the issue, until then we are just blowing hot wind into SCO's PR sails.
Ever hear of ghostscript? Yeah it can output to pdf, sure you can't do some things easily (imbedded links require putting raw pdf codes into the postscript intermediary file), but if you just want to create device independant versions of paper documents it works well, in fact that's how my dad's company creates pdf's of their MSDS sheets under windows.
If they ARE buying thousands of copies then I am sure they can get a hell of a volume discount from VMWare.
What's the most funny is when the French ban English words that are taken from French, like Fax, it is short for Faxcimile which derives from French, yet the French buerocrats decided to ban it from commercial speech! I think this was true of almost 1/3rd the "English" words they banned several years ago.
Actually they include recover cd's because it is a MS REQUIREMENT for being a large volume OEM partner. MS decided they were losing too much revenue with people taking OEM cd's and installing them willie nillie so they made the OEM's agree to make customized recovery cd's that would only install on one particular model of their PC's. The OEM's basically had no say in the issue because it was either accept the liscensing terms or lose your volume purchasing price (effectivly putting them out of business). The thing I most hated about the antitrust trial is that no one in the prosuction team seemed to realize that all of MS's power comes from their ballcrushing controll of the OEM's.
WTF? A 4U system can definitly be 4-way, people cram 4 power hungry Xeon's into a 2U case so there is no reason IBM would have any problems putting 4 PPC970's into a 4U case.
Compare it to a Dell 6650 4-way Xeon with 2.0Ghz chips and only 4GB of ram, $12,288 according to Dell.com. Even the lowest speed (1.6Ghz) PPC970 will blow this out of the water, for about 1/4th the price! Don't compare it to a homebuilt, compare it to other top tier vendors (this was a stripped down server from Dell with their lowest level of support and only a single small HDD and no addons)
If your server room is at ambiant+5 degrees you have some SERIOUS problems (unless it is winter). A good datacenter is between 65-75 Farenheight all year round no matter where in the world it is.
No autopatchers for IOS, what the hell do you call CiscoWorks??? Just tell it all devices of type X should be on IOS version Y and it updates em.
You can get most of that with IE6 and crazybrowser, ~150K download if you are already running IE6, about the same as Mozilla if you need to upgrade from IE5+
Actually it looks like I was a bit hasty in rejecting this, I had looked at volume shadow copy only from a developers POV, in what it allowed for backup clients because that is where it was first implemented (backup for XP and then Veritas's backup for server 2003), I hadn't seen the client side app until I did some searching prompted by your suggestion. It IS just about what I want, though the limited number of deltas is annoying (only 64 and you have no controll over which ones are kept, oldest always gets pushed off the heap so you can't do staggered hourly, daily, weekly, monthly like you can with a netapp), the other annoying thing is the need for a special client (MS's site only lists XP and .Net as clients, others have said 98 and above), either way it would be nice to simply have them available as hidden named subdirectories. But all in all I guess it's the best implementation out there for the money, so it's the quasi functional and cheap server 2003 at the low end and the very functional but expensive netapp at the high end, just wish there was a free and functional linux choice in the mix too =)
I'll let the good folks at netapp do a description, they are far better at it than I. Descrition
Nope, although something decent could probably be made using the volume shadow copy interface, but it would still be much worse from a diskspace usage perspective then a properly implemented low level snapshot like the Netapps. As I mentioned above 21 levels of snapshotting plus the origionals only take up ~140% of the diskspace of the current files, I haven't seen anything else that even comes close, and the convenience of training users to simply go into the subdirectory named .snapshot to retieve their own backups can't be overlooked.
How about export to pdf, or save as rtf, both work well on just about any platform out there (pdf for exact layout and rtf for basic layout and preservation of information)
The Netapp implementation is pretty damn good, like I said in a busy engineering environment we only needed 140% of normal disk space to keep the current data plus quite a bit of online backups. You still need tape but the only time we ever needed it was when we ran into a bug where backing off a recursive subdirectory application of NTFS permissions was going to take several days for some reason so recovering it from tape was faster (the developers were not happy, they wanted sourcode locked down but the netapp admin applied the wrong group permissions and they were not able to get to the code at all for over a full working day, ugh). I really couldn't believe how much admin time is saved by the snapshot feature, and then there is the fact that hourly backups are automated, not something most places do with tape.
That can be done, in fact I remember someone bitching about it being the default in some distro (redhat?, ximian?). Of course defaulting to saving in a format that isn't native to the app isn't the smartest thing in the world because you WILL have people wondering why the document the opened doesn't look quite the same as the document they just saved.
Last I had read Gnumeric has all Excel functions plus a couple hundred unique ones, can you please list something that Excel supports that Gnumeric doesn't??
Ahhh, now we understand why minimizing primitives is useful in the real world. If the internal structure of a file is split into many small files, each representing a facet of the presentation (each slide, each bullet point on the slide, font weight of that bullet point etc) then suddenly it becomes much simpler to write a generic differential analyzer, we can just snapshot the mini files that changed.
Why go to all that trouble, just keep a list of changed blocks, the way that netapps do it is the snapshotted file stays in place and any changes are placed in a new block, then the filetable has a pointer to the new file which may include blocks from the old file, and of course the snapshot directory information just points to the old file on disk. This works very well overall, we only had about a 40% disk overhead for 8 hourly backups, 7 daily backups, and 6 weekly backups.
Are you talking about the LVM, because that is partition at a time backups and there are some serious issues with the way it is implemented. If not I would love to hear some info on it as it's not documented anywhere on RH's site.
Is for someone to come up with a real unlimited snapshotting filesystem for linux. I don't want to use user mode hacks (as nice as they are rsync style snapshotting isn't reliable enough), or snapshotting that only allows a shadow copy of the entire volume, I want to be able to tell the users that they can just go into ~/.snapshot/time (where time can be hours, days, or weeks in the past) and copy the file they messed up back into their home directory. Basically I want the most usefull feature of netapps without the HUGE markup =) The cost in admin time both in user interaction and reduced need to do tape retrieval and file restores is immense.