Anything that makes it easier to use Linux as the primary OS for the corporate desktop is a Good Thing. This makes the mulation of the Windows API on Linux is a Good Thing. As long as the OS on the desktop is Linux, users will have the option to run Linux versions of their software if it is available, otherwise the ONLY option is to run Windows applications in most real world situations. When a Linux application is truly superior to its Windows counterpart people will use the Linux application.
Just like the ability to run Win16 apps on Windows 95 didn't kill the demand for (superior) Win32 apps, the ability to run Windows apps on Linux won't kill the demand for something better. Provide that something and people will use it.
I actually used to have a bag of these things, small ones that were designed to stick on to high powered DIP chips with thermal epoxy. Peltier Junctions is the proper name. I tried to sell some of them to a surplus dealer when I moved and had to clean out the workshop but they wouldn't take them because they were classified as hazardous waste! Seems that they used to use Beryllium in the manufacturing process, so I was told, and they were very toxic if they got chipped.
Gosh dude! Take a Prozac. Sounds like you are having a rough day.
I was actually thinking of the HP Netserver E40's we run Novell on and how much better I feel about them than I do about the built-from-local-parts Athlon system I built to replace a failed Exchange server. I keep seeing it going up in smoke in my dreams like the first one did when the CPU fan failed. I have yet to have one of the main fans fail on one of the HP's. Even the older Netserver 6/66's that I have converted to Linux after they were retired have never seen a failed main fan. Not all servers are huge multi-processor beasts with redundant systems.
Sorry, haven't been 13 in many years...
Try to get some rest. Drink a beer.
Big fans and ducting is the way to go...
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I'd much rather trust my components to one large, well made fan with some intelligent ducting inside the case to deliver the air flow where its needed. I think this is one area where some of the big system manufacturers still have a big advantage over a typical 'roll your own' case. Small cooling devices are just too fragile and unreliable, and multiple points of failure are unacceptable, especially in server applications IMHO.
I've had the same Slackware system running on my home desktop since 1996 and run about 12 Slackware servers in production. I've never had any problems (other than in the pre-glibc days, ugh!) with getting anything installed and running on any of them without any fancy package managment stuff other than pkgtool. In the same space of time I've also had 2 or 3 Redhat installations and one Debian installation get so completely fouled up in the package management that I fixed them the MS way, just gave up, reformatted and re-installed. I honestly think package management, at least the way it stands with apt and rpm today is more problems than it is worth.
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Anything that makes it easier to use Linux as the primary OS for the corporate desktop is a Good Thing. This makes the mulation of the Windows API on Linux is a Good Thing. As long as the OS on the desktop is Linux, users will have the option to run Linux versions of their software if it is available, otherwise the ONLY option is to run Windows applications in most real world situations. When a Linux application is truly superior to its Windows counterpart people will use the Linux application.
Just like the ability to run Win16 apps on Windows 95 didn't kill the demand for (superior) Win32 apps, the ability to run Windows apps on Linux won't kill the demand for something better. Provide that something and people will use it.
I actually used to have a bag of these things, small ones that were designed to stick on to high powered DIP chips with thermal epoxy. Peltier Junctions is the proper name. I tried to sell some of them to a surplus dealer when I moved and had to clean out the workshop but they wouldn't take them because they were classified as hazardous waste! Seems that they used to use Beryllium in the manufacturing process, so I was told, and they were very toxic if they got chipped.
Gosh dude! Take a Prozac. Sounds like you are having a rough day. I was actually thinking of the HP Netserver E40's we run Novell on and how much better I feel about them than I do about the built-from-local-parts Athlon system I built to replace a failed Exchange server. I keep seeing it going up in smoke in my dreams like the first one did when the CPU fan failed. I have yet to have one of the main fans fail on one of the HP's. Even the older Netserver 6/66's that I have converted to Linux after they were retired have never seen a failed main fan. Not all servers are huge multi-processor beasts with redundant systems. Sorry, haven't been 13 in many years... Try to get some rest. Drink a beer.
I'd much rather trust my components to one large, well made fan with some intelligent ducting inside the case to deliver the air flow where its needed. I think this is one area where some of the big system manufacturers still have a big advantage over a typical 'roll your own' case. Small cooling devices are just too fragile and unreliable, and multiple points of failure are unacceptable, especially in server applications IMHO.
I've had the same Slackware system running on my home desktop since 1996 and run about 12 Slackware servers in production. I've never had any problems (other than in the pre-glibc days, ugh!) with getting anything installed and running on any of them without any fancy package managment stuff other than pkgtool. In the same space of time I've also had 2 or 3 Redhat installations and one Debian installation get so completely fouled up in the package management that I fixed them the MS way, just gave up, reformatted and re-installed. I honestly think package management, at least the way it stands with apt and rpm today is more problems than it is worth.