75 Mhz SS20 with 320 meg ram, 4 gig baracuda scsi. Maybe it wasn't _THAT_ slow. I'm probably just too used to my production boxen. Dual PIII 900mhz boxen with gig of ram will spoil you. I am going to put 3.2 on there. Maybe I just had something seriously configured wrong, but it just felt like it was sluggish. Oh well, we shall see!
Good question. I'm finding it hard to decide on an OS for my old sparc32's. Solaris 2.6 seems to run fast, but I fear the security. I've ran Obsd 3.1 on it, and even with 320 meg of ram, its still quite slow. Redhat 6.2 is out of date. Debian I'm just not fond of (sorry, I'm a slack person). Slack quit devel, and someone picked it up with Splack, which is still beta, and well, has problems. SuSE? Never ran it, don't want to, MDK? See SuSE. I haven't tried NetBSD, maybe I'll give that a shot next. Anyone got any other suggestions? (And no, I'm not going to try to compile Gentoo on my poor ole sparc.)
I think it would be fun for 5 minutes (since thats about how long I spent on brak). But at the same time, look at all the hardware and bandwidth it took to do that. You can't put up that kinda hardware & band just for something fun.
For the latter I would suggest FreeBSD. Leave it in Runlevel 5, and install the OSX themese for KDE or Gnome (Your choice). But, I have this odd feeling that you are probably wanting the macintosh compatibility.
that it plans eventually to eliminate users' ability to disable Microsoft's access to their systems.
Ok, this sucks to start with. Why the hell does MS need access to banking systems? Besides to rape accounts that belong to companies that cheat licensing. (sorry, conspiracy theory again) The other thing here the TOTALLY bugs me is that this effects me! I've put alot of effort into removing MS products from my life. But, if banks are running MS, and they have access to those systems, then my efforts seem to be useless. "I'm sure Microsoft wouldn't do anything bad with that kind of power". PFFT.
Here comes another conspiracy theory:
MSFT: Hrm, rmAdmin has $0.34 in his checking account, must be having money problems, lets see, we'll sell his contact info to every 'debt consolidation' service on earth.
Ring ring
rmAdmin: Hello?
StupidTelemarketter: Hello Mr AIDmen...
rmAdmin: ACK!! DIE DIE DIE
click
I'd agree. I'd really like to know what the problem is. And where the DMCA has any damn right to tell me I can't read it. I cannot fathom what could be in that stupid text that would violate the DMCA. Anyway. Since this is an explination of the changes made to the software that I run, that I risk my data on, I think I have the right to that text. And if the goverment disagrees, then I'll take my ass and my money, and my vote over seas.
But they probably are running a bit different 8086 than the one that was in my first computer. My guess is that a little more love was put into the chips they use. But I do see your point. I actually would have thought they'd be running some "super cool proprietery NASA space chip" or something.
Amen to that. They probably considered waging war on us, and taking over, but then they probably noticed that we are always at war with ourselves, sat back and laughed at us.
I take it that they haven't been using the 'Windows Update' Icon. I remember back in the day hearing of *nix boxen in the oriental that were like swiss cheese. Is this some trend with oriental people? They just don't think they need to patch stuffs up?
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Keep in mind that theirs already LOADS of BSD in linux. All the applications you load on top of linux are the same as the ones on FreeBSD (Except I think freebsd tweaks the code a tad for ports). Also, due to licensing, their is BSD code in the Linux Kernel itself. Nothing great, but its a start:-d
How many admins do you know that actually do "other" productive work when they aren't working on the servers? Unless you count fscking around on the internet, chat rooms, and/. as 'other productive' work.:-D Maybe the Windows admins just spend 'several times' as much time screwing around.:-D
Hrm... I had an idea. Verizon throw in a clause in the AUP saying 'If we get a P2P complaint, and we can prove that it is a valid complaint, your cut off'
I didn't. I haven't boughten a CD in YEARS. Their are pleany of streaming audio stations out there. Plus our local radio stations are for the most part good too.
I got the same feeling from the article. Like the person who wrote it just doesn't have a clue about linux. At one point the author says something to the point of 'I prefer stuff to just work, like in XP and Mac'. Well, when I installed FreeBSD on my laptop, the PCMCIA and NIC took off with not problem. Windows 98... nope, no PCMCIA here, 2000, Nope, no PCMCIA here, XP, 'Is this a lapto*CRASH*'. So much for windows 'Just working'.
Uhm... I think something very important to consider here is that you know Square will do some tweaks to make it run near perfect on Dell boxen. Theirs a certain game that says it can be played on a PII 450 and it totally played like ass on my 1.6ghz with 512M ram.. Now, if FFXI runs near perfect on a Dell, I want to buy said Dell so I don't have to fight performance issues. I don't think many people will take this into consideration when they are buying a machine. BUT, I want a Dell anyways, I've gotten to like them in the last few years, hell I'm on one now! So I'm just going to wait till I see the FFXI package included and then I'll buy my new home Dell. Woop woop!
So uhm, after they stomp out linux, what then, stomp out BSD? And uhm, after that? Apple's OSX? RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.. I'm shaking in my Open Source boots.
1) Don't enable services and features you don't need (or in MS sysadmin speak--DISABLE all of the services and features you don't need that have "
helpfully" been activated in the base install);
Or in Solaris sysadmin speak, or in redhat sysadmin speak. For instance, solaris tends to run NFS stuffs by default. And Redhat (probably a few other distro's too), tend to have a dozen or so unused services running.
Na, not that way, they are going to do it the Valentine way. "I'm not proud," Valentine said, as he spoke to a crowd of developers here at the company's Windows.Net Server developer conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
Translation: We'll outsmart them by making them think our product sucks, then we'll surprise them with... oh wait, our product does suck.
When you hack an XBox, and put linux on it, you are now using the box as a computer. You likely won't be playing XBox games on it anymore. Thus, Microsoft is loosing business becasue you are not buying games.
Uhm.. If I ever did buy an Xbox, it would be to put linux on it. I'd never buy Xbox games..
Maybe the said ISP has, or is planning to block P2P traffic, Because, after all, you don't need to advertise to someone who is already on your service. But then again, why would kazaa agree to something like that. Never mind, another conspiracy theory shot to hell.
Theirs lots of places where I've heard of $9.95/month dialup plans, and even with the Monopolistic Qwest in our state, an 'Internet Line' is only $12/month. So thats roughly $20/month real cost. How about the people that don't have a second line? Yes, it happens. I work for an ISP, and my techs have said quite a few times that they are amazed how few people have a second line.
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Tux actually looks pretty mean in that cover! Why can't he ever look that mean in the picture of the BSD Demon ass raping him? ITS JUST NOT FAIR!! :-(
75 Mhz SS20 with 320 meg ram, 4 gig baracuda scsi. Maybe it wasn't _THAT_ slow. I'm probably just too used to my production boxen. Dual PIII 900mhz boxen with gig of ram will spoil you. I am going to put 3.2 on there. Maybe I just had something seriously configured wrong, but it just felt like it was sluggish. Oh well, we shall see!
Good question. I'm finding it hard to decide on an OS for my old sparc32's. Solaris 2.6 seems to run fast, but I fear the security. I've ran Obsd 3.1 on it, and even with 320 meg of ram, its still quite slow. Redhat 6.2 is out of date. Debian I'm just not fond of (sorry, I'm a slack person). Slack quit devel, and someone picked it up with Splack, which is still beta, and well, has problems. SuSE? Never ran it, don't want to, MDK? See SuSE. I haven't tried NetBSD, maybe I'll give that a shot next. Anyone got any other suggestions? (And no, I'm not going to try to compile Gentoo on my poor ole sparc.)
I think it would be fun for 5 minutes (since thats about how long I spent on brak). But at the same time, look at all the hardware and bandwidth it took to do that. You can't put up that kinda hardware & band just for something fun.
Just for clarification.. thats 36~ meg compressed!
[KungFu] rmadmin:~$ ls -sh linux-2.5.44.tar.gz
36M linux-2.5.44.tar.gz
[KungFu] rmadmin:~$ gunzip linux-2.5.44.tar.gz
[KungFu] rmadmin:~$ ls -sh linux-2.5.44.tar
160M linux-2.5.44.tar
[KungFu] rmadmin:~$
Wanna rephrase your statement?
For the latter I would suggest FreeBSD. Leave it in Runlevel 5, and install the OSX themese for KDE or Gnome (Your choice). But, I have this odd feeling that you are probably wanting the macintosh compatibility.
that it plans eventually to eliminate users' ability to disable Microsoft's access to their systems.
Ok, this sucks to start with. Why the hell does MS need access to banking systems? Besides to rape accounts that belong to companies that cheat licensing. (sorry, conspiracy theory again) The other thing here the TOTALLY bugs me is that this effects me! I've put alot of effort into removing MS products from my life. But, if banks are running MS, and they have access to those systems, then my efforts seem to be useless. "I'm sure Microsoft wouldn't do anything bad with that kind of power". PFFT.
Here comes another conspiracy theory:
MSFT: Hrm, rmAdmin has $0.34 in his checking account, must be having money problems, lets see, we'll sell his contact info to every 'debt consolidation' service on earth.
Ring ring
rmAdmin: Hello?
StupidTelemarketter: Hello Mr AIDmen...
rmAdmin: ACK!! DIE DIE DIE
click
Ok, maybe not that bad, but who knows...
I'd agree. I'd really like to know what the problem is. And where the DMCA has any damn right to tell me I can't read it. I cannot fathom what could be in that stupid text that would violate the DMCA. Anyway. Since this is an explination of the changes made to the software that I run, that I risk my data on, I think I have the right to that text. And if the goverment disagrees, then I'll take my ass and my money, and my vote over seas.
But they probably are running a bit different 8086 than the one that was in my first computer. My guess is that a little more love was put into the chips they use. But I do see your point. I actually would have thought they'd be running some "super cool proprietery NASA space chip" or something.
Amen to that. They probably considered waging war on us, and taking over, but then they probably noticed that we are always at war with ourselves, sat back and laughed at us.
I take it that they haven't been using the 'Windows Update' Icon. I remember back in the day hearing of *nix boxen in the oriental that were like swiss cheese. Is this some trend with oriental people? They just don't think they need to patch stuffs up?
Keep in mind that theirs already LOADS of BSD in linux. All the applications you load on top of linux are the same as the ones on FreeBSD (Except I think freebsd tweaks the code a tad for ports). Also, due to licensing, their is BSD code in the Linux Kernel itself. Nothing great, but its a start :-d
Generation XI ? :-d
:-D
Hey, why not, SquareSoft did it with Final Fantasy
How many admins do you know that actually do "other" productive work when they aren't working on the servers? Unless you count fscking around on the internet, chat rooms, and /. as 'other productive' work. :-D Maybe the Windows admins just spend 'several times' as much time screwing around. :-D
*note: This is supposed to be a joke
Hrm... I had an idea. Verizon throw in a clause in the AUP saying 'If we get a P2P complaint, and we can prove that it is a valid complaint, your cut off'
Then... RIAA: Uhm.. joeuser is doing p2p stuffs
Verizon: We'll look into it, yup he is, *BOOT*
Sounds more reasonable to me...
Conspiricy theory here:
Who would know how to disable AV/Firewall software better than AV/Firewall software makers??? Hrm... job security eh?
I didn't. I haven't boughten a CD in YEARS. Their are pleany of streaming audio stations out there. Plus our local radio stations are for the most part good too.
I got the same feeling from the article. Like the person who wrote it just doesn't have a clue about linux. At one point the author says something to the point of 'I prefer stuff to just work, like in XP and Mac'. Well, when I installed FreeBSD on my laptop, the PCMCIA and NIC took off with not problem. Windows 98... nope, no PCMCIA here, 2000, Nope, no PCMCIA here, XP, 'Is this a lapto*CRASH*'. So much for windows 'Just working'.
Uhm... I think something very important to consider here is that you know Square will do some tweaks to make it run near perfect on Dell boxen. Theirs a certain game that says it can be played on a PII 450 and it totally played like ass on my 1.6ghz with 512M ram.. Now, if FFXI runs near perfect on a Dell, I want to buy said Dell so I don't have to fight performance issues. I don't think many people will take this into consideration when they are buying a machine. BUT, I want a Dell anyways, I've gotten to like them in the last few years, hell I'm on one now! So I'm just going to wait till I see the FFXI package included and then I'll buy my new home Dell. Woop woop!
So uhm, after they stomp out linux, what then, stomp out BSD? And uhm, after that? Apple's OSX? RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.. I'm shaking in my Open Source boots.
1) Don't enable services and features you don't need (or in MS sysadmin speak--DISABLE all of the services and features you don't need that have " helpfully" been activated in the base install);
Or in Solaris sysadmin speak, or in redhat sysadmin speak. For instance, solaris tends to run NFS stuffs by default. And Redhat (probably a few other distro's too), tend to have a dozen or so unused services running.
Na, not that way, they are going to do it the Valentine way. "I'm not proud," Valentine said, as he spoke to a crowd of developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
Translation: We'll outsmart them by making them think our product sucks, then we'll surprise them with... oh wait, our product does suck.
When you hack an XBox, and put linux on it, you are now using the box as a computer. You likely won't be playing XBox games on it anymore. Thus, Microsoft is loosing business becasue you are not buying games.
Uhm.. If I ever did buy an Xbox, it would be to put linux on it. I'd never buy Xbox games..
Maybe the said ISP has, or is planning to block P2P traffic, Because, after all, you don't need to advertise to someone who is already on your service. But then again, why would kazaa agree to something like that. Never mind, another conspiracy theory shot to hell.
Theirs lots of places where I've heard of $9.95/month dialup plans, and even with the Monopolistic Qwest in our state, an 'Internet Line' is only $12/month. So thats roughly $20/month real cost. How about the people that don't have a second line? Yes, it happens. I work for an ISP, and my techs have said quite a few times that they are amazed how few people have a second line.