I still have my 486 with 16MB memory running a firewall/DSL router. It is now near 10 years old and still running. This machine is never powered-off, unless there is a black-out. The only problem I had was with the CPU fan I replaced many years ago and the power-supply fan I replaced about two years ago.
Linux Kernel 2.2.X has been continuously updated on this machine without a glitch.
This machine has seen pre-1.0 kernels and was my first PC. I just don't remember the very early Linux distributions I tested on this machine. For sure, Slackware was installed on it at some point in its life.
Well, seems your infinite loop has side effects. The Loadleveler seems to be available only for AIX. So, that's exactly my point, it's missing on Linux.
is missing. If you are dedicating a machine per application, per department, you don't need this.
However, if you manage a single machine with more than one application running from more than one department, you may need to determine the amount of ressources each application can use at minimum and/or maximum. If an application is almost idle, you may need it doesn't lock ressources and let other applications use them with a given priority pattern.
Also, partitionning is not available as far as I know.
I remember while working at IBM, we received a e-mail to explain us how well those were made. The PS/2 was made at this time to meet DoD requirements. And the mail described a test made with regular PS/2. The were installed on a platform lifted by an helicopter somewhere in the wild. The platform was dropped (I don't remember the height) and due to the rotor of the helicopter and the density of mosquitoes, the fans where simply stucked with a lot of mosquitoes and the PS/2 was still working.
For sure, they no longer made them as strong as this. However, you probably can buy a PC or a server as resistant as this PS/2 if you buy an industrial quality computer. But, be ready to pay the price!
It has proven to be a good strategy from IBM to decrease the price of their PCs by a few thousands dollars by making them more suitable for the "normal" environment. After all, that's a lot a steel that was going to the scrap for nothing.
this interesting technical solution is too expensive to widespread imho.
Each node will cost around 80$, plus a network adapter if not already included with the node. So, it's around 100$ per node. Wireless is about the same price or cheaper and it is a cleaner solution, no external box for each node.
The phoneline equivalent is cheaper and cleaner. But still expensive, in particular the Ethernet-to-phoneline bridge or the Cable/DSL-to-phoneline bridge. Also, a phoneline adapter is required for each node, twice the price of an Ethernet adapter.
You are right. This idea is not new. I read few years ago in the SysAdmin review an article from someone who present similar experiments at LISA. Unfortunately, I have not the review at hand, but it is somewhat similar to what you describe.
The guy sythetises sounds from network monitoring software and can even modify sound when some intrusion on the network is detected.
So, it's not a new idea. However, what about deaf or hard of earing surgeons?
The intent use seems to me simply an opportunist approach to a problem the can be resolved better by other means.
Maybe they were developing a copyrighted screensaver in order switch their business from music piracy to something more legal or a pathetic attempt to diversify their business...
a new RDBMS player in the Unix market. This was back in 1993. This new player, was DB2/6000 for AIX. At this time, almost everyone was using Oracle. And Oracle was very happy. However, with this newcomer, Oracle started to realign its marketing strategy, starting bashing IBM and DB2/6000. In short, they were saying what IBM is saying today about MySQL.
And they were not wrong at all. At this time, DB2/6000 was missing some exotic features Oracle was having. Anyway, some peoples decided to adopt DB2 and IBM continued to improve DB2.
I don't see the point about a lack of endorsement of OSS by IBM because they are just saying some features, they think are required by enterprises class architectures, are missing by MySQL. It's just plain truth, MySQL is missing some features. It's up to the customer to decide if these features are required or not.
Well, is it to say if they are not making money they are losing money?
If fact, there is actual costs for a special 9/11 insert, special broadcast, etc... So, someone must be paid to direct, produce, research, interview, typeset, film, etc...
Is it you feel everyone should work on a special issue for free? Work a couple months on the subject without eating anything else than what his citizen fellows are willing to throw in his hat at the street corner?
Come on! We are interested in this commemoration and are willing to spend some money to have someone working on a special issue for your local newspaper or favorite magazine. You would like to have the opinion of this personnality or this politician or just the guy beside you. That's the main reason you are reading/. right now!
So, why shouldn't anybody make money in order to provide the service you are asking for?
Maybe they feel you will work better if you have more to lose in case of failure. Or, another way to say the same thing, if you have a decent profit margin, in case you run into problems, you will have some way to solve them...
The point is they probably don't want to see you come back and tell them you need more cash, because some unexpected problem arise and blablabla...
So, they are paying for a solution without any blabla. So, price your blablaless projects accordingly.
The buyer is not necessarily buying source code. He is buying coder's time to produce a fonctionality he is seeking for. He may not at all be interested in owning the whole thing, he just wants to use it.
You don't need to own the routers, links, cabling of the Internet to use it. And in fact, most of the time you just don't care who is the actual owner if you have a contract granting you to use it at satisfactory conditions.
However, if in this case, the coder is selling source code, it is a different matter.
I haven't try with the actual Walmart PC, however, I own a Lucent modem and I made it working fine without recompiling the kernel.
The source code compiles fine and a script complete the installation. There is even pre-packaged drivers for many distros including: RedHat and Debian. So, yes it is not straight forward, but is not as painful as recompiling the kernel.
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Well, in terms of money raised by Tomb Raider, we could think about it as a half-success.
However, teenagers boosted the numbers just to see Angelina's breast and they could not be taken into account for a real success. Angelina Jolie was very very bad at acting into TombRaider.
Saying that, I will probably go watching Resident Evil just for Milla Jovavich even if I am not a teenager, I just hope she's a better actress than Angelina (kuff, kuff, kuff...). Anyway, she cannot be worst than Angelina, so, let's go...
Well, you are taking short cuts. RMS has contributed since 1985 to the open software community like not much people here had. If RMS hasn't done his job since 1985, there is chances Linux would not be alive. And without Linux, XFree, etc, Gnome wouldn't exist at all.
So, step back and remove your dark sunglasses and may be you will see the light!
Gnome is owned by the community, including users.
Transform a traffic jam into a party?
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Add wirless networking capabilities and each traffic jam will transform into a huge gaming party.
Anyway, there is many practical uses for this. However, a sticker should state: "Don't surf and drive!"
I'm concerned as well. However, I am concerned about those who contributed to open software projects and never get paid for their work and suddenly these projects become closed source projects. I have no problem at all with selling software for Linux and Ximian can do it, however, they cannot make money from the free labour of the open source community developers. This is not fair.
Look at what seems to happen to GNOME. The official GNOME CVS source tree (anoncvs.gnome.org/pub/gnome) is out of sync. Why?
Slashdot Mirror
"T-Y-R, no, R, R like Raymond, A, like Ananas, N, no, not M, N like Nancy, ..."
- Could you repeat, just to make sure I have it right?
Linux Kernel 2.2.X has been continuously updated on this machine without a glitch.
This machine has seen pre-1.0 kernels and was my first PC. I just don't remember the very early Linux distributions I tested on this machine. For sure, Slackware was installed on it at some point in its life.
However, if you manage a single machine with more than one application running from more than one department, you may need to determine the amount of ressources each application can use at minimum and/or maximum. If an application is almost idle, you may need it doesn't lock ressources and let other applications use them with a given priority pattern.
Also, partitionning is not available as far as I know.
For sure, they no longer made them as strong as this. However, you probably can buy a PC or a server as resistant as this PS/2 if you buy an industrial quality computer. But, be ready to pay the price!
It has proven to be a good strategy from IBM to decrease the price of their PCs by a few thousands dollars by making them more suitable for the "normal" environment. After all, that's a lot a steel that was going to the scrap for nothing.
this interesting technical solution is too expensive to widespread imho. Each node will cost around 80$, plus a network adapter if not already included with the node. So, it's around 100$ per node. Wireless is about the same price or cheaper and it is a cleaner solution, no external box for each node. The phoneline equivalent is cheaper and cleaner. But still expensive, in particular the Ethernet-to-phoneline bridge or the Cable/DSL-to-phoneline bridge. Also, a phoneline adapter is required for each node, twice the price of an Ethernet adapter.
some rumors leaks leading to this liquidation?
You are right. This idea is not new. I read few years ago in the SysAdmin review an article from someone who present similar experiments at LISA. Unfortunately, I have not the review at hand, but it is somewhat similar to what you describe. The guy sythetises sounds from network monitoring software and can even modify sound when some intrusion on the network is detected. So, it's not a new idea. However, what about deaf or hard of earing surgeons? The intent use seems to me simply an opportunist approach to a problem the can be resolved better by other means.
Maybe they were developing a copyrighted screensaver in order switch their business from music piracy to something more legal or a pathetic attempt to diversify their business...
its hostname will be "junior"?
And they were not wrong at all. At this time, DB2/6000 was missing some exotic features Oracle was having. Anyway, some peoples decided to adopt DB2 and IBM continued to improve DB2.
I don't see the point about a lack of endorsement of OSS by IBM because they are just saying some features, they think are required by enterprises class architectures, are missing by MySQL. It's just plain truth, MySQL is missing some features. It's up to the customer to decide if these features are required or not.
In short, a storm in a glass of water...
So, why did you say you need a unified desktop?
If fact, there is actual costs for a special 9/11 insert, special broadcast, etc... So, someone must be paid to direct, produce, research, interview, typeset, film, etc...
Is it you feel everyone should work on a special issue for free? Work a couple months on the subject without eating anything else than what his citizen fellows are willing to throw in his hat at the street corner?
Come on! We are interested in this commemoration and are willing to spend some money to have someone working on a special issue for your local newspaper or favorite magazine. You would like to have the opinion of this personnality or this politician or just the guy beside you. That's the main reason you are reading /. right now!
So, why shouldn't anybody make money in order to provide the service you are asking for?
The point is they probably don't want to see you come back and tell them you need more cash, because some unexpected problem arise and blablabla...
So, they are paying for a solution without any blabla. So, price your blablaless projects accordingly.
Not necessarily stupid.
It depends on what he was seeking for? Doesn't he just want to be recognized by someone else as someone special, no matters what special may mean?
You must recognized he hitted the target hardly...
The buyer is not necessarily buying source code. He is buying coder's time to produce a fonctionality he is seeking for. He may not at all be interested in owning the whole thing, he just wants to use it.
You don't need to own the routers, links, cabling of the Internet to use it. And in fact, most of the time you just don't care who is the actual owner if you have a contract granting you to use it at satisfactory conditions.
However, if in this case, the coder is selling source code, it is a different matter.
So, it is a hassle free modem, it doesn't work and there is nothing you can do to make it working! ;-)
The source code compiles fine and a script complete the installation. There is even pre-packaged drivers for many distros including: RedHat and Debian. So, yes it is not straight forward, but is not as painful as recompiling the kernel.
Well, in terms of money raised by Tomb Raider, we could think about it as a half-success. However, teenagers boosted the numbers just to see Angelina's breast and they could not be taken into account for a real success. Angelina Jolie was very very bad at acting into TombRaider. Saying that, I will probably go watching Resident Evil just for Milla Jovavich even if I am not a teenager, I just hope she's a better actress than Angelina (kuff, kuff, kuff...). Anyway, she cannot be worst than Angelina, so, let's go...
So, step back and remove your dark sunglasses and may be you will see the light!
Gnome is owned by the community, including users.
Anyway, there is many practical uses for this. However, a sticker should state: "Don't surf and drive!"
Look at what seems to happen to GNOME. The official GNOME CVS source tree (anoncvs.gnome.org/pub/gnome) is out of sync. Why?