The main reasons I haven't looked at colocation are:
How are backups performed?
What happens when some hardware breaks?
What happens if a config change fails and the box doesn't boot?
Where a company hosts your site, they will (hopefully) perform backups and restores and will also fix any broken hardware. With coloc, this is your responsibility.
Also, some updates will require reboots and where they go wrong, you could have problems getting access to the system (especially if it's some distance from you) or getting an onsite engineer to check it out for you.
This is why I'm currently using a hosting company for my site and email, so I don't have to worry about those problems.
As an admin, I need, mainly, two bits of information: who I'm logged in as and where. I just use something like PS1="%n:%m%# " (zsh syntax) which gives a login like
jr:larien%
or
root:box#
It means I can tell at a glance which system I'm logged into and as who, so I don't do something stupid as root (well, I'm less likely to!).
For those not using zsh, you can use something like PS1="`whoami`:`hostname`% ". --
Try to find the monster manual entry for Barney sometime (I could, but I can't be bothered). Basically, it has Barney attended by a number of zombies... --
The problem with those figures is that they will almost certainly include things like storage which Sun sells a lot of but which isn't really "Unix".
The numbers are interesting in their own right, however, since it shows that Sun is a larger company and it could be argued that therefore Apple isn't the largest Unix vendor. --
Performance is one thing Star Office is desperately needing. I don't have a problem with it on my home PC, but then, it has 384MB of RAM and a 600MHz Athlon; on a Ultra 1 with a 167MHz UltraSPARC it wasn't particularly hot, even with 256MB of RAM. On anything slower it was painful... --
With the release of OS X, Apple will literally be the largest Unix
vendor on the planet.
Is that for real? Ok, they will be one of the largest, but I would have thought that Sun would have been largest, if not SCO (from what I've heard, a lot of people still use SCO Unix, even if new shipments are low). Anyone got any figures on this? --
"A lot of Third World countries without a lot of resources don't have bulldozers and heavy equipment," Clemmons said. "Maybe they can use kites for heavy construction."
I think this is where the work shows value; hypothesising about how the Egyptians raised their obelisks and pyramids is conjecture, but at least there may be some value to the work if it helps poorer nations build bridges, houses and hospitals.
Also, it could be used as a "greener" way to do building in richer nations! --
The problem with relicensing GPL'd code is where there have been updates from others. For instance, when I was still working on the XMMS-solaris plugin, I had code submitted from others. Could I have redistributed the code including the 3rd party updates? I don't believe so, at least not without contacting all contributors.
The fact that my code was initially derived from other GPL code (ie, the OSS output plugin) also threw a spanner in the works, but the principle is still there. --
They reported a net profit, which is different from a positive cash flow. A company can have a positive cash flow (eg, just after a rights issue) but still be making a loss and it can have a negative cash flow (eg, large capital purchases which don't fully affect profit in the year of purchase) and still make a profit.
A full look at the finances would reveal if they do have a positive cash flow, but the two don't go hand-in-hand. --
They can when the two companies can make an agreement regarding sharing the source; the company which owns the code can, if they wish, license the code to another company.
Or, in MS's case, they could just buy out (assimilate) the company and get their code.
That said, it's a very valid argument; both the GPL and proprietry license prevent code re-use. What is galling to Bill et al is that they can see the code, but they can't use it... --
the importance of downloading your code from a "mainstream" high-use site
Hence the common use of FTP sites. That way, you can get the code from "Joe Stranger's Fly-by-night FTP Site" and be fairly certain that your code matches the versions available from the main FTP sites.
The main thing is that most people are fairly near (in net terms) a major FTP site (eg, I tend to use sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk), so there's really very little need to go outside those channels. --
For some people, 64.28.67.150 would be easier to type if they were used to working with a calculator or the numeric keypad.
That said, I still think it's easier to remember slashdot.org than an IP address, and as someone has already pointed out, IPv6 nullifies the argument. --
I've done a few W2k installs, and I have to say it's the worst MS installer I've ever seen.
The process took me 45 minutes on a fairly decent machine (AMD600MHz, 128MB Ram, ATA/66 disk), almost none of which was me having to think about questions or read help. That wouldn't be so bad, but the installer litters questions through the install process so you can't just leave it alone for a while to do the install; you have to be there for those 45 minutes (or more; an install time of an hour isn't unheard of), mostly twiddling your thumbs.
What would have been far better would have been an installer that saved all the questions for the start or end of the install process (ie, at the start it asks for disk partitioning and install options; at the end you configure things like admin password). --
It's plugged into the phone line to get the time from Tivo's time server. From what I can gather, it's either impossible or difficult to set the time on a unit which isn't plugged in to the phone line. Check the board from the first article for more detail. --
Ah; I'd thought that this was done at a BIOS level, but of course, linux will go below that to read the disks.
That said, the software RAID options within linux are still valid, and if you're mirroring, the performance impact shouldn't be much (indeed, reads should be faster if using round-robin). --
The common approach (from what I've heard) is to use gcc/g++ for development and Sun's compilers for the final compile. The reason is that gcc and g++ compile far more quickly that Sun's compilers, but generally produce less efficient (usually slower) code due to better optimisations in Sun's compilers.
In many cases, this isn't an issue, but where you're doing batch jobs on data, you want the fastest code you can get. --
I don't believe the RAID stuff changed much between 2.2 and 2.4, FWIW, so the instructions should largely hold true.
Also, there's KT-7 RAID MB which supports ATA-100 and Athlons. In that, you can set up mirrors or stripes as you want. Buy a couple of identical HD's and you're set. --
If there are punitave penalties based on this charge and the defendant doesn't pay up, (s)he's guilty of contempt of court which is a criminal offence.
the defendant is NOT A PERSON
It's not unknown for the directors of a company to be held liable for the sins of the company. Quite apart from this, there's a precendent potentially being set where a real person could be sued by a foreign national and then they are barred from the country.
In any event, a company is often legally equivalent to a person; any criminal charge against it would prevent it performing any business in Australia, which would be a disaster for a multinational (or multinational-wannabe) company. That said, the company would probably spin off a subsiduary to do trade in the relevant country.
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The point is, that if you limit freedom of speech to "acceptable" views, you limit its effect. Who decides what is "acceptable"? If you let the government decide, you leave yourself open to the sort of censorship you expect in a dictatorship.
Much as I hate racism, if you want freedom of speech, you must allow racists to express their views. To that extent, saying/writing "I hate blacks" is allowed under freedom of speech. Actually discriminating against blacks is not allowed under various equal opportunities laws.
BTW, feel free to s/blacks/$ETHNIC_GROUP_OF_CHOICE/g; the meaning is the same. --
Slashdot Mirror
Also, some updates will require reboots and where they go wrong, you could have problems getting access to the system (especially if it's some distance from you) or getting an onsite engineer to check it out for you.
This is why I'm currently using a hosting company for my site and email, so I don't have to worry about those problems.
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For those not using zsh, you can use something like PS1="`whoami`:`hostname`% ".
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Try to find the monster manual entry for Barney sometime (I could, but I can't be bothered). Basically, it has Barney attended by a number of zombies...
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Or, in Debian's case, apt-get install pppd; apt-get install modutils :)
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The numbers are interesting in their own right, however, since it shows that Sun is a larger company and it could be argued that therefore Apple isn't the largest Unix vendor.
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Performance is one thing Star Office is desperately needing. I don't have a problem with it on my home PC, but then, it has 384MB of RAM and a 600MHz Athlon; on a Ultra 1 with a 167MHz UltraSPARC it wasn't particularly hot, even with 256MB of RAM. On anything slower it was painful...
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Hehe, there are the DoD complaining that linux doesn't have CDE and Sun are looking to drop it in favour of Gnome, or so the rumours go...
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Hrm, sounds like a cheap, fast and easy way to protect stuff and sounds plausible. Anyone else heard of this?
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Also, it could be used as a "greener" way to do building in richer nations!
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The fact that my code was initially derived from other GPL code (ie, the OSS output plugin) also threw a spanner in the works, but the principle is still there.
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A full look at the finances would reveal if they do have a positive cash flow, but the two don't go hand-in-hand.
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Or, in MS's case, they could just buy out (assimilate) the company and get their code.
That said, it's a very valid argument; both the GPL and proprietry license prevent code re-use. What is galling to Bill et al is that they can see the code, but they can't use it...
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Blame it on the fact I've just had win2k inflicted on me....
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The main thing is that most people are fairly near (in net terms) a major FTP site (eg, I tend to use sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk), so there's really very little need to go outside those channels.
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That said, I still think it's easier to remember slashdot.org than an IP address, and as someone has already pointed out, IPv6 nullifies the argument.
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The process took me 45 minutes on a fairly decent machine (AMD600MHz, 128MB Ram, ATA/66 disk), almost none of which was me having to think about questions or read help. That wouldn't be so bad, but the installer litters questions through the install process so you can't just leave it alone for a while to do the install; you have to be there for those 45 minutes (or more; an install time of an hour isn't unheard of), mostly twiddling your thumbs.
What would have been far better would have been an installer that saved all the questions for the start or end of the install process (ie, at the start it asks for disk partitioning and install options; at the end you configure things like admin password).
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It's plugged into the phone line to get the time from Tivo's time server. From what I can gather, it's either impossible or difficult to set the time on a unit which isn't plugged in to the phone line. Check the board from the first article for more detail.
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That said, the software RAID options within linux are still valid, and if you're mirroring, the performance impact shouldn't be much (indeed, reads should be faster if using round-robin).
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In many cases, this isn't an issue, but where you're doing batch jobs on data, you want the fastest code you can get.
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In any case, the two products do the same thing (ie, turn Apache into an https server) and seem to work just as well, so use whichever you want.
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Also, there's KT-7 RAID MB which supports ATA-100 and Athlons. In that, you can set up mirrors or stripes as you want. Buy a couple of identical HD's and you're set.
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If there are punitave penalties based on this charge and the defendant doesn't pay up, (s)he's guilty of contempt of court which is a criminal offence.
It's not unknown for the directors of a company to be held liable for the sins of the company. Quite apart from this, there's a precendent potentially being set where a real person could be sued by a foreign national and then they are barred from the country.
In any event, a company is often legally equivalent to a person; any criminal charge against it would prevent it performing any business in Australia, which would be a disaster for a multinational (or multinational-wannabe) company. That said, the company would probably spin off a subsiduary to do trade in the relevant country.
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Much as I hate racism, if you want freedom of speech, you must allow racists to express their views. To that extent, saying/writing "I hate blacks" is allowed under freedom of speech. Actually discriminating against blacks is not allowed under various equal opportunities laws.
BTW, feel free to s/blacks/$ETHNIC_GROUP_OF_CHOICE/g; the meaning is the same.
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