I had failing memory in a box running XP. It trashed out the filesystem, very very slowly. It rarely crashed for the first few months, then started to hang up, occasional BSOD. Replaced a DIMM, reinstalled once (to fix the hosed files, probably mostly the registry), and it has crashed.once. in the last year, while I was running a beta video driver (ATI).
I'm not the first person to defend MS, not by a long shot. I use it as one of my desktop machines (along with OS X), but draw the line at my servers. Give me Solaris, Linux or OpenBSD depending on the task. However, it is stable as a desktop. Current versions (2000, XP) don't rot unless there's something else wrong.
I strongly recommend downloading Timo's Rescue CD Set. this is not a paid promotion;)
It can boot to either a Linux install or to a memory testing tool. Run it overnight. If you don't have a bad stick of RAM (or random errors in the CPU cache), I'll buy you a beer.
Oh, no. Network Naming Services (NNS) has *nothing* to do with NDS/eDirectory. NNS was an extraordinarily ugly hack that worked surprisingly well.
Little basic info about Netware 2/3 -- user and group data (as well as printers, etc) were stored in a database called the bindery. Each server had a binary, and there was no way to join multiple servers to a single administrative domain. Netware 4, with NDS, replaced the binary with an x.500 derivative.
Now that you've got the history, you might be wonder how they could use NNS to allow you to admin 4 servers at a time. Simple. There were no changes to the server at all. The utilities used to modify the bindery changed. Instead of using SYSCON ($DEITY, it's been a long time) to modify a user, you would use NETCON. If you used SYSCON, it would warn you that you were working on a NNS domain and that it would go out of sync if you continued. Since replication happened whenever any change was made by the DOS utility, the servers would go out of sync if any of them were down, and you would have to run a resync, which locked the bindery on all servers in the domain... for a couple of hours. Gah.
As far as I remember, there were only a couple of hundred licenses sold. By the time NDS rolled around, there were very few actually used. According to a Novell rep, my employer was either the last using it or close to it.
So, really, only count from the release of Netware 4.0 - and probably start at the release of 4.1. Netware 4.1 was finally stable enough to use in production as a replacement for a Netware 3 server.
In the case of the cloned Ferarri, who is more at fault: the person who produces the cloned Ferarri and distributes it (at a profit, of course), or the person who buys it?
I don't honestly have a problem with patents and copyright, unlike RMS. I think that the original idea was right -- to encourage invention by creating a temporary monopoly for the inventor [allowing them to recoup the design costs, make a profit, then the invention is released to the public]. However, the law has been perverted to a point where those original goals aren't possible -- the original term was what, 10 years? Now it's 70 years past the death of the inventor and has been extended by Congress every time Mickey Mouse was within a year of becoming public domain.
This is going so far off topic that it's getting ridiculous, but it's an interesting tangent. I'm almost asleep, so please correct or ignore any incoherency.
Yeah, it does. I don't think that he's wrong. He's a wee bit of a nutcase, but I don't disagree with a lot of his statements. I'm not saying it's right, but there are varying degrees of offense. It's odd to me that a person could get a larger fine and more jail time for ``piracy'' or defacing a web site than for rape...
Not similar. If you don't have a Ferrari, and you steal one, you've deprived someone else of the Ferrari they had, changing what others have. If I were to ``pirate'' the mythical copy of 3DSMax, what have I deprived any other entity of?
You've taken someone's Ferrari. I've duplicated their Ferrari. The only person that loses anything (by the BSA's logic) is an Italian car maker. In this case, I can't afford either the Ferrari or 3DS. Therefore, there is 0 net loss by the {manufacturer|copyright holder}.
Does it make this morally right? Hell no. But is it equivalent to stealing a physical object from someone? No. If I'm just a cheap bastard and copy a work that has a cost of $0.99US (downloading a single song when it is available from iTunes [and I'm on either Windows or a Mac]), I consider that a less moral act than copying 3DS, simply because I could pay for it. And yes, I would consider someone stealing food to be significantly less immoral than stealing a luxury. Still wrong, but more justifiable.
No, I thought that it used Display Postscript as well. I could be mistaken. I have dealt with the hell of the NeWSprinter, actually. My understanding was that the NeWSprinter was extremely similar to the NeXTprinter -- software rendering on the host, printer was the equivalent of a dumb framebuffer.
NeWS is unfortunately encumbered by Adobe licenses, and therefore will not [ever?] be a candidate for any form of source release. Adobe is not friendly to such ideas.
Dude. Can your cheap 4-way Xeon dynamically remove a failed processor from the running system? Can it dynamically remove a memory bank from use if it fails? If you spend the money on Sun, you're not buying it for performance. You're buying it because you can hotswap a fucking system board or I/O card on the bigger models. You're buying it because you can push I/O through it. You can take a 4[89]10 with three system boards, dynamically remove one system board, bring it up as a second system to test something, then reconfigure the board back in to the main partition without missing a beat. If you only have two boards installed, but you start to hit a bottleneck that's not I/O, buy another board, configure it in -- without rebooting.
does not have dependency hell by avoiding dependency checking altogeather.
Why is this considered a good thing? Yes, the dependency trap does make it more difficult to work with RPM -- get the source RPM, rpmbuild --rebuild it, install the resulting binary. Dependencies on specific library versions you don't have are generally solved. I understand that it doesn't help you run Gnome 2.6 on Redhat 7.3. You could recompile the whole system for that, but if that's what you need, you're better off running Gentoo where the system will take care of recompiling the entire tree for you.
Basically, just because Slack doesn't enforce dependencies does *not* mean they aren't there. Versioning of shared libraries is done for a reason.
Actually, in a sense, 7.2 is still the stable release from Redhat. They just call it RH Enterprise Linux 2.1. If you buy the server version of it (actually, support for the server version), it's supported by Redhat for five years from release. 3.0 is equivalently stable.;)
The real problem with testing comes back when a security update is released. Security updates generally make it to Sid immediately -- can you wait 10 days with vulnerable (and publically known to be vulnerable) software on an Internet-connected system? Must be nice.
Stable or unstable. Testing is for just that -- testing, not to live on.
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Dude? You just repeated the post. The post is "For those who have not seen the Beeb article..." and you said "Even for those who have not seen the Beeb article..." as if it was something different.
Now, I just need to figure out how to do strong biometric identification over ssh or SSL-imap... preferably authenticating against some part they won't let people play with for mere chocolate...
Personally, I'd rather have Freehand. Never really liked Corel Draw all that much. Illustrator is an acceptable substitute.
Unfortunately, the Gimp is less than adequate as well for high-end work -- no CMYK support. I can't run a separation from it. There are good reasons for Photoshop -- and most of those reasons are patent-encumbered.
Google is not a publically-held company, so... no. (the whole idea behind those SEC rules is so they can't pull a SCO -- fling some poo around to convince people you're worth more, crank the stock price, and get out with the cash before the investors figure it out.)
Hey, weaselnuts, we're talking back a little bit before the days of the 386, 486, and various socket 7 processors. Ya see, back in the bad old days, IBM was the *only* manufacturer of PCs. They were the only ones. That's it. You couldn't go to Frys and buy a new mobo or proc. They did, however, make one mistake/miscalculation/whatever -- IBM used off-the-shelf parts. Standard chips, from Intel and others. Compaq made the first clone, IIRC -- ye olde luggable. They only had to reverse-engineer the BIOS. MS was willing to sell them the OS. There was no manual. They had to design a new board, new BIOS software, new everything to match the specs of IBM's design. Not easy at all, but a lot easier than copying the Macintosh, since Apple wasn't quite willing to sell a copy of the OS to anyone off the street.
In short, parent was talking about 1984, not 1994. The world was a very different place. (Young whippersnapper!).
Gah! "Free" email sites -- since you have not paid them -- have no obligation to continue offering you service! Why, for the love of Dog, would you even consider using one for *business?* If the provider of any free service decides to shut it down, or change the ToS, you have no legal recourse, as they have no obligation to you. Why would you risk your own livelihood on another company's benevolence?
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Dude. Seriously. You have hardware problems.
I had failing memory in a box running XP. It trashed out the filesystem, very very slowly. It rarely crashed for the first few months, then started to hang up, occasional BSOD. Replaced a DIMM, reinstalled once (to fix the hosed files, probably mostly the registry), and it has crashed .once. in the last year, while I was running a beta video driver (ATI).
I'm not the first person to defend MS, not by a long shot. I use it as one of my desktop machines (along with OS X), but draw the line at my servers. Give me Solaris, Linux or OpenBSD depending on the task. However, it is stable as a desktop. Current versions (2000, XP) don't rot unless there's something else wrong.
I strongly recommend downloading Timo's Rescue CD Set. this is not a paid promotion ;)
It can boot to either a Linux install or to a memory testing tool. Run it overnight. If you don't have a bad stick of RAM (or random errors in the CPU cache), I'll buy you a beer.
So, what you're saying is that you want an Apple eMate 300. Sadly, the Newton met it's demise many years ago.
Yeah, you just brought back bad memories when you mentioned NNS. They did learn what not to do with it...
Little basic info about Netware 2/3 -- user and group data (as well as printers, etc) were stored in a database called the bindery. Each server had a binary, and there was no way to join multiple servers to a single administrative domain. Netware 4, with NDS, replaced the binary with an x.500 derivative.
Now that you've got the history, you might be wonder how they could use NNS to allow you to admin 4 servers at a time. Simple. There were no changes to the server at all. The utilities used to modify the bindery changed. Instead of using SYSCON ($DEITY, it's been a long time) to modify a user, you would use NETCON. If you used SYSCON, it would warn you that you were working on a NNS domain and that it would go out of sync if you continued. Since replication happened whenever any change was made by the DOS utility, the servers would go out of sync if any of them were down, and you would have to run a resync, which locked the bindery on all servers in the domain... for a couple of hours. Gah.
As far as I remember, there were only a couple of hundred licenses sold. By the time NDS rolled around, there were very few actually used. According to a Novell rep, my employer was either the last using it or close to it.
So, really, only count from the release of Netware 4.0 - and probably start at the release of 4.1. Netware 4.1 was finally stable enough to use in production as a replacement for a Netware 3 server.
I don't honestly have a problem with patents and copyright, unlike RMS. I think that the original idea was right -- to encourage invention by creating a temporary monopoly for the inventor [allowing them to recoup the design costs, make a profit, then the invention is released to the public]. However, the law has been perverted to a point where those original goals aren't possible -- the original term was what, 10 years? Now it's 70 years past the death of the inventor and has been extended by Congress every time Mickey Mouse was within a year of becoming public domain.
This is going so far off topic that it's getting ridiculous, but it's an interesting tangent. I'm almost asleep, so please correct or ignore any incoherency.
Yeah, it does. I don't think that he's wrong. He's a wee bit of a nutcase, but I don't disagree with a lot of his statements. I'm not saying it's right, but there are varying degrees of offense. It's odd to me that a person could get a larger fine and more jail time for ``piracy'' or defacing a web site than for rape...
Not similar. If you don't have a Ferrari, and you steal one, you've deprived someone else of the Ferrari they had, changing what others have. If I were to ``pirate'' the mythical copy of 3DSMax, what have I deprived any other entity of?
You've taken someone's Ferrari. I've duplicated their Ferrari. The only person that loses anything (by the BSA's logic) is an Italian car maker. In this case, I can't afford either the Ferrari or 3DS. Therefore, there is 0 net loss by the {manufacturer|copyright holder}.Does it make this morally right? Hell no. But is it equivalent to stealing a physical object from someone? No. If I'm just a cheap bastard and copy a work that has a cost of $0.99US (downloading a single song when it is available from iTunes [and I'm on either Windows or a Mac]), I consider that a less moral act than copying 3DS, simply because I could pay for it. And yes, I would consider someone stealing food to be significantly less immoral than stealing a luxury. Still wrong, but more justifiable.
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No, but it's a metric assload cheaper. I'm trying to build a decent install server for Jumpstart on the cheap and the old Ultra 10 just don't cut it.
No, I thought that it used Display Postscript as well. I could be mistaken. I have dealt with the hell of the NeWSprinter, actually. My understanding was that the NeWSprinter was extremely similar to the NeXTprinter -- software rendering on the host, printer was the equivalent of a dumb framebuffer.
D'ya know any PCI IDE or SATA cards that will work with Solaris? I need more than the two motherboard IDE channels...
NeWS is unfortunately encumbered by Adobe licenses, and therefore will not [ever?] be a candidate for any form of source release. Adobe is not friendly to such ideas.
It's not about speed. It's about reliability.
Basically, just because Slack doesn't enforce dependencies does *not* mean they aren't there. Versioning of shared libraries is done for a reason.
Actually, in a sense, 7.2 is still the stable release from Redhat. They just call it RH Enterprise Linux 2.1. If you buy the server version of it (actually, support for the server version), it's supported by Redhat for five years from release. 3.0 is equivalently stable. ;)
Stable or unstable. Testing is for just that -- testing, not to live on.
Sorry to nitpick, but dammit...
Now, I just need to figure out how to do strong biometric identification over ssh or SSL-imap... preferably authenticating against some part they won't let people play with for mere chocolate...
Two words. American Idol. Unfortunately.
Unfortunately, the Gimp is less than adequate as well for high-end work -- no CMYK support. I can't run a separation from it. There are good reasons for Photoshop -- and most of those reasons are patent-encumbered.
Google is not a publically-held company, so ... no. (the whole idea behind those SEC rules is so they can't pull a SCO -- fling some poo around to convince people you're worth more, crank the stock price, and get out with the cash before the investors figure it out.)
New York taxes cigs a wee bit. There's apparently a healthy black market for tobacco there. ;)
And, if you believe Gary Kildall (RIP), s/someone else had created/someone else had stolen from Intergalactic Digital Research, makers of CP\/M/.
In short, parent was talking about 1984, not 1994. The world was a very different place. (Young whippersnapper!).
Jebus.
No thanks.