Worked in an office. Then worked at home for two years. Then went back to the office. Pretty soon we will all go back home. All the same company. I think that it is just whats hot, or what will save money short term. Or what the latest Overlords feel we need to do.
This is no different than watching companies consolidate computer data centres, then ditribute them, over and over. At least that makes us money.
The same could be said for outsourcing, lord knows we have seen that go back and forth too.
Countries outside of The United States of America discovered. Reports suggest that the inhabitants of these non-USA countries actually have different market places and needs than the USA. Other reports show that these "countries" make up approximately %94 of the global population.
Americans shocked that what is popular in the USA might not be as popular elsewhere. More investigation required.
About 2/3 months ago I downloaded the beta of Sol9 for Intel. It has been deleted since. I can't see it being a big deal for Sun to go forward since almost all the work has already been done. I think they were just dipping their toes in the Linux pool.
I Run Solaris on my Sparc boxes, and Slackware Linux on my Intel. I play on Linux, but work on Solaris It is the better OS (at this moment in time).
All those years ago when I was young, home taping was the only way to get cool music. In Toronto, I would hear some really cool stuff on the spirit of radio cfny (102.1), and a friend would tape it for me. I would either tape over, or buy the bands music. Same diff with Napster/Usenet, if they are good, they get my money.
The misic Industry is pumping out some real crap these days, now they are paying for it. I have a hard time feeling sorry for these jerks who are trying to force rehashed garbage on the buying public.
Internet or no internet, the music industry would be in serious trouble anyway. If a company has a bad product, no one will buy. Dont blame the internet on your troubles.
One of the most overlooked computer companies on./ is Fujitsu. They are the second biggest computer company, behind only IBM. They have been in the Unix server market in Japan and Europe for years, and have started in North America with their Primepower SPARC servers. The Primepower 2000 is a very powerful 128 SPARC CPU (SPARC64 GP) Solaris box. Fujitsu owns a good chunk of Sun already (25-30% I think, I have no hard numbers on this). If any body were to buy Sun, its Fujitsu.
Sure IBM makes chips for Sun, so does TI, Motorola and Fujitsu. Everybody makes chips for everybody these days, its the way of business. Infineon does a lot of chips for IBM, Infineon is owned by Siemens, in turn, owned by Fujitsu. Give the market 10 more years, and there will only be 3 computer companies.
The benefits of the mainframe are plenty. Awsome uptime, its in years, not months. Amazing I/O and storage capabilities. ESCON is unbelievable in the way it works, sharing I/O through timeslicing it. Time slicing CPUs. What you can do on the new Sunfires (Ex800 and E15K) are pretty minimal compared to the slicing and dicing of mainframe. Its more a story of hardware than software.
The best solution would be Solaris on the mainframe:-)
The more a system is up, the more you can break into it. The BSOD (copyright MS) is the security that Linux needs. Its the one secure feature that even the best crackers cannot get past. Show me a room full of BSOD NT Servers, and you'll also see a room of secure data and apps.
Linux does win with file security though. If you direct all data to/dev/null, I dare anybody to break in and read that data. We call that Write many, read none.
My Dad threw it out last year, A P75 with 32 MB and an 800 MB dirve. Its headless, but it runs slackware 8.0 and is my dns, mail server, web server, ssh server and pop mail client for the whole family.
For style I spray painted it green, but ran out 3/4 of the way. Gotta love it.
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swaret.
swaret is the tool to automate upgrades. Running that in conjunction with dropline gives a great up to date gnome environment and slackware system.
Worked in an office. Then worked at home for two years. Then went back to the office. Pretty soon we will all go back home. All the same company. I think that it is just whats hot, or what will save money short term. Or what the latest Overlords feel we need to do.
This is no different than watching companies consolidate computer data centres, then ditribute them, over and over. At least that makes us money.
The same could be said for outsourcing, lord knows we have seen that go back and forth too.
It's cuz' we're cheap!
Actually it would be 1/5, only the US does month/day/year.
Great, only 675 hours to go! I Guess test 4 will be out by then.
for the latest killer app on linux???
I saw one about a stable MS Windows environment.
Like anyone would believe that.
Yup, we did not fail. We do not seem to have any provincial borders either.
I'm sure lots of people have seen the matrix or star wars on their i-macs.
to the blind quake players, like they only just got the game 'n everything.
Countries outside of The United States of America discovered. Reports suggest that the inhabitants of these non-USA countries actually have different market places and needs than the USA. Other reports show that these "countries" make up approximately %94 of the global population.
Americans shocked that what is popular in the USA might not be as popular elsewhere. More investigation required.
The world is not the USA get over it.
About 2/3 months ago I downloaded the beta of Sol9 for Intel. It has been deleted since. I can't see it being a big deal for Sun to go forward since almost all the work has already been done. I think they were just dipping their toes in the Linux pool.
I Run Solaris on my Sparc boxes, and Slackware Linux on my Intel. I play on Linux, but work on Solaris It is the better OS (at this moment in time).
All those years ago when I was young, home taping was the only way to get cool music. In Toronto, I would hear some really cool stuff on the spirit of radio cfny (102.1), and a friend would tape it for me. I would either tape over, or buy the bands music. Same diff with Napster/Usenet, if they are good, they get my money.
The misic Industry is pumping out some real crap these days, now they are paying for it. I have a hard time feeling sorry for these jerks who are trying to force rehashed garbage on the buying public.
Internet or no internet, the music industry would be in serious trouble anyway. If a company has a bad product, no one will buy. Dont blame the internet on your troubles.
Don't confuse this with the new Lindows Wonghorn release.
One of the most overlooked computer companies on ./ is Fujitsu. They are the second biggest computer company, behind only IBM. They have been in the Unix server market in Japan and Europe for years, and have started in North America with their Primepower SPARC servers. The Primepower 2000 is a very powerful 128 SPARC CPU (SPARC64 GP) Solaris box. Fujitsu owns a good chunk of Sun already (25-30% I think, I have no hard numbers on this). If any body were to buy Sun, its Fujitsu.
Sure IBM makes chips for Sun, so does TI, Motorola and Fujitsu. Everybody makes chips for everybody these days, its the way of business. Infineon does a lot of chips for IBM, Infineon is owned by Siemens, in turn, owned by Fujitsu. Give the market 10 more years, and there will only be 3 computer companies.
> Maybe by next year they'll report on the 2000 USA elections. What? they're over? So soon?
The benefits of the mainframe are plenty. Awsome uptime, its in years, not months. Amazing I/O and storage capabilities. ESCON is unbelievable in the way it works, sharing I/O through timeslicing it. Time slicing CPUs. What you can do on the new Sunfires (Ex800 and E15K) are pretty minimal compared to the slicing and dicing of mainframe. Its more a story of hardware than software. The best solution would be Solaris on the mainframe :-)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
The more a system is up, the more you can break into it. The BSOD (copyright MS) is the security that Linux needs. Its the one secure feature that even the best crackers cannot get past. Show me a room full of BSOD NT Servers, and you'll also see a room of secure data and apps. Linux does win with file security though. If you direct all data to /dev/null, I dare anybody to break in and read that data. We call that Write many, read none.
I didn't know the government was into pr0n with all thos SECs sites.
are they charging for it?
Page3.com. Well, its not about the processors, but it is about a pair of things.
My Dad threw it out last year, A P75 with 32 MB and an 800 MB dirve. Its headless, but it runs slackware 8.0 and is my dns, mail server, web server, ssh server and pop mail client for the whole family. For style I spray painted it green, but ran out 3/4 of the way. Gotta love it.