Owners of first-generation Intel Macs that used (32-bit only) Core Duo CPUs may not be so happy knowing that Vista will be the last Windows they will be able to run."
No, I'm pretty sure they won't give the slightest crap whatsoever.
Re:"Support" model seems to be a misnomer
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I think also saying they make their money from "support" may be a strong word, but it isn't so far off, they make money by selling the promise of support. I've seen numerous installations where the organization deploying knew for all practical technical reasons, they could go with either RHEL or CentOS and have the same experience. However, they were willing to pay for the support contract they more often than not never use.
You're actually more right than you know. When a company like redhat sells support, people who pay for it actually benefit from it *without even making one single support call*. The reason is simple: support costs money. Call centers, employees, training, management, frustrated customers. None of that is cheap. The end result is that it is in redhat's own *fiscal best interest* to do as good a job as humanly possible to provide a stable, secure, and most of all well-integrated product. Because the better job they do, the more likely that they'll only have to field one support call per X licenses sold. Their goal is to stretch that ratio as much as possible.
Point being, just because you don't use support, doesn't mean its not worth something.
My former employer is using three relatively simple Tyan dual Xeons with a couple of Syskonnekt cards to shove 4-5 gigabits per second of traffic over the internet (yes, full routing, and over 240 peers on AMS-IX and NL-IX). Most of that is usenet (http://www.top1000.org/top1000.current.txt look for 'tweaknews') but well over a gigabit is DSL end user traffic and some hosting. Those boxes cost in the order of 7000 euro's a piece, and are about as stable as a cisco running an current IOS (not as stable as you'd like). 7 grand buys me a single linecard for a 7200 on the secondhand market, and no 7200 will do as much traffic.
Cisco and Juniper: start getting scared *now*
a 7204VXR with a G2 could do that. A G1 could probably just barely make it, since the spec it at 1GB of 64kbyte packets. I don't think your horse porn (sorry usenet) is exactly in the voip category. A G2 would have no problem. Although to be honest, at that level most people would run a 7600 or a 6500 depending on port density.
You would have to be a pretty die hard MiKKKro$uX troll to continue trying to use a palmOS based treo. I don't care if my next one is based on windows, linux or fucking os/2, so long as its not palm again. My company doled out 650's to our oncall sysadmins and each and every one of us has had to replace the phone at least once, repeatedly hardreset and reinstall everything, and just generally live with the fact that it will crash, will hang, will not multitask, oh and did I mention it crashes. From an operating system standpoint it is pre-windows-3.11. You cannot run your ssh client and your web browser at the same time*. Any given application can hang and take the whole phone with it.
Its funny actually, if you call verizon's tech support line they have a giant "press 1 if this is about a treo" early in the menu system.
*not that the browser is of any use, for instance slashdot and wikipedia both render as a single charachter wide page several thousand lines long.
This is no longer true with the use of Intel's VT or AMD's Pacifica CPU features. Xen originally had to have this OS-level hack because of limitations of the x86 architecture making it impossible to completely virtualize. Intel and AMD have solved this. You can buy Pentium 4's with VT *right now* and run un-modified windows guest's on Xen. The AMD M2 and the next set of Intel chips (the core/core-duo's desktop and server cousins) will all support this.
None of those five had anything to do with why we can't use it. Postgres's replication options are niche afterthought hacks. This immediatly makes it an unacceptable choice for anyone who's reliability or performance needs exceed that of one server. Which is pretty much any system where the cost of downtime is non-trivial.
Has the shift in corporate america really occurred or are activities like the profitability of Red Hat signalling that the CEO's are still holding on to the old way of business?"
What the hell does this mean? Are you saying the "new" way of doing business means not achieving profitability?
These features led RedHat to PostgreSQL for their RedHat Database [redhat.com] product
FYI, RHDB is an almost completely abandoned project. The documentation you linked to was last updated in 2002. Redhat doesn't even use it in their own RHN proxy satellite server (they use oracle). Its also not mentioned on their "Solutions" page at all: http://www.redhat.com/solutions/
do body modifications such as tattoos and piercings still hinder IT professionals in the workplace?
no more than any other method of looking like an idiot
Re:Intel working on silicon laser to link cores
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No, because AMD and Intel crosslicense their patents.
What? Not all of them silly. Improvements in chip making process and related technology are the heart and core of how these companies compete. Negitiating a truce on the instruction set architecture with another company, partly to avoid antitrust concerns and partly to just keep it a larger market, is a completely different matter than giving away your entire market advantage from sucessful r&d.
Back when I worked for my college's web department I oversaw moving their website from the old server platform to a load balanced cluster of x86 servers using LVS/linux/apache/php/mysql. It is not a minor undertaking in any way. Configuring, tweaking, and troubleshooting all the various elements requires an intense amount of trial and error and confusion. Think of it like sendmail or asterisk (its not quite that bad). Overall, the cost of implimenting it in manhours and downtime from learning-experiences weren't worth it being "free". If I had to do it again, I'd buy real network equipment. Even if used off ebay, just get a failover pair.
Now if someone came out with a good embedded linux running lvs with a nice web and cli interface, on solid state hardware, that was a decent amount cheaper than brand name equipment, put up a respectably proffessional looking site, and develop a loyal following, I'd consider it.
My old employer used to lower the DNS TTL time of records to five minutes for switching services over from one server to another. There were often cases where entire ISP's would ignore it and the users would be SOL for the 24 - 48 hours it took for them to update their record. Frankly, I agree with any ISP setting a floor on TTLs, otherwise it exponentially increases the load on the DNS servers.
How is this a Managers Journal topic? This is an anandtech/toms-hardware topic. My manager has no idea what type of ram is in our machines. Heck *I* have no idea what type of ram is in our machines. Its whatever Dell/IBM/Sun provided.
just fyi to anyone actually interested in a free RHEL rebuild, look into CentOS. When RHEL rebuilding first became a need, there were half a dozen different rebuild projects, of which Whitebox was the first/most-popular. However since then tao is all but dead, scientific is looking to merge with centos, and wbel went weeks and sometimes months between when redhat would release a security update and when he would get around to repackaging it. CentOS has emerged as "the" RHEL rebuild because it doesnt try to do its own thing at all, just rebuild RHEL, and because there is usually a less than 24 hour lag behind official RHEL packages.
In fact, this very article announced whitebox finnaly got RHEL4 rebuilt, yet the CentOS team had it finished over a month ago, and I'll be putting my first live instance of it in production on monday.
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You're actually more right than you know. When a company like redhat sells support, people who pay for it actually benefit from it *without even making one single support call*. The reason is simple: support costs money. Call centers, employees, training, management, frustrated customers. None of that is cheap. The end result is that it is in redhat's own *fiscal best interest* to do as good a job as humanly possible to provide a stable, secure, and most of all well-integrated product. Because the better job they do, the more likely that they'll only have to field one support call per X licenses sold. Their goal is to stretch that ratio as much as possible.
Point being, just because you don't use support, doesn't mean its not worth something.
Its funny actually, if you call verizon's tech support line they have a giant "press 1 if this is about a treo" early in the menu system.
*not that the browser is of any use, for instance slashdot and wikipedia both render as a single charachter wide page several thousand lines long.
You could just as easily say the opposite, Oracle is helping linux.
How about donating 10K to developers who can fix memory leaks?
Only on slashdot could something with 90+% market share be declared "not dead yet".
This is no longer true with the use of Intel's VT or AMD's Pacifica CPU features. Xen originally had to have this OS-level hack because of limitations of the x86 architecture making it impossible to completely virtualize. Intel and AMD have solved this. You can buy Pentium 4's with VT *right now* and run un-modified windows guest's on Xen. The AMD M2 and the next set of Intel chips (the core/core-duo's desktop and server cousins) will all support this.
None of those five had anything to do with why we can't use it. Postgres's replication options are niche afterthought hacks. This immediatly makes it an unacceptable choice for anyone who's reliability or performance needs exceed that of one server. Which is pretty much any system where the cost of downtime is non-trivial.
They probably made him use redhat enterprise and forced him to use the rpm-provided versions of software.
There is a firefox extension that provides a similar feature to Quick Tabs called foXpose
What the hell does this mean? Are you saying the "new" way of doing business means not achieving profitability?
Thats not counting phones, network upgrades, and whatever cards you'll need for your asterisk box to talk to things. So figure 10K.
Has any major distro changed or announced plans to change their password hash format in /etc/shadow?
We need an Equalization of Opportunity in Video Games Act.
Google should just CNAME pr.google.com to slashdot.org
no more than any other method of looking like an idiot
What? Not all of them silly. Improvements in chip making process and related technology are the heart and core of how these companies compete. Negitiating a truce on the instruction set architecture with another company, partly to avoid antitrust concerns and partly to just keep it a larger market, is a completely different matter than giving away your entire market advantage from sucessful r&d.
Now if someone came out with a good embedded linux running lvs with a nice web and cli interface, on solid state hardware, that was a decent amount cheaper than brand name equipment, put up a respectably proffessional looking site, and develop a loyal following, I'd consider it.
I was wondering why Amazon.com bought Wine.com two weeks ago. Looks like that investmet will pay off nicely now.
My old employer used to lower the DNS TTL time of records to five minutes for switching services over from one server to another. There were often cases where entire ISP's would ignore it and the users would be SOL for the 24 - 48 hours it took for them to update their record. Frankly, I agree with any ISP setting a floor on TTLs, otherwise it exponentially increases the load on the DNS servers.
How is this a Managers Journal topic? This is an anandtech/toms-hardware topic. My manager has no idea what type of ram is in our machines. Heck *I* have no idea what type of ram is in our machines. Its whatever Dell/IBM/Sun provided.
In fact, this very article announced whitebox finnaly got RHEL4 rebuilt, yet the CentOS team had it finished over a month ago, and I'll be putting my first live instance of it in production on monday.