As a geek, I'd co to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California - The Head Curator, Michael Williams is an amazing person and has millions of interesting stories - He used to teach a computer history course at my university that everyone raved about (heh, he tought me COBOL in my second year).
Alas, I'd really like to see what any government, or any company spends as a ratio of salary to software. I seriously wonder how much there is to be saved by switching to OSS, versus giving the fatcats a bit of a paycut. Like that would ever happen, but...
Regardless, I'll never argue againt anyone migrating to Linux, xBSD, etc.
But, looks like someone has been doing some early studying for the course; our DNS is pooched. Oh well, its after hours now - it'll have to wait until tomorrow...
Red carpet is a great tool for people learning what's going on in their system, and providing explanations of what all the packages are for. After you've got mor than a few boxes, it becomes really unruly to keep them 'current'.
I'm running about 80 redhat boxes here, all of which are nicely kept up to date using autoupdate. The update server fetches from ximian and redhat nightly, and the workstations update themselves from there weekly. No worries about bandwidth!
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Slightly OT, but does anyone know of any OS's / Distros that can boot from USB? If so, how do I set this up? My whizzy new laptop supports it, but...
As a geek, I'd co to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California - The Head Curator, Michael Williams is an amazing person and has millions of interesting stories - He used to teach a computer history course at my university that everyone raved about (heh, he tought me COBOL in my second year).
Alas, I'd really like to see what any government, or any company spends as a ratio of salary to software. I seriously wonder how much there is to be saved by switching to OSS, versus giving the fatcats a bit of a paycut. Like that would ever happen, but...
Regardless, I'll never argue againt anyone migrating to Linux, xBSD, etc.
We've released a statement outlining our position. Happy Reading...
I could prove it: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~erik
But, looks like someone has been doing some early studying for the course; our DNS is pooched. Oh well, its after hours now - it'll have to wait until tomorrow...
Was this something that could have been discovered by testing the patches before they were rolled out?
Red carpet is a great tool for people learning what's going on in their system, and providing explanations of what all the packages are for. After you've got mor than a few boxes, it becomes really unruly to keep them 'current'. I'm running about 80 redhat boxes here, all of which are nicely kept up to date using autoupdate. The update server fetches from ximian and redhat nightly, and the workstations update themselves from there weekly. No worries about bandwidth!