From the article, It cost 45 cents to process every dollar comming in. This number has been the same for over 20 years.
This is BS...We work more than a third of our lives for taxes and they have the efficiency of a MBA on a Winblows system. Come on, get with the system.
stay away from any hosting company who can deploy windows faster than GNU/Linux.
If they knew what they were doing I know that the GNU/Linux Deploy is much faster. For instance if they used kickstart for RH installs or FAI for Debian they could have a configured server in a matter of minutes.
This is right on and one of the major problems. If Java was opened sourced and any branch of the origional source had to meat some testing to ensure compatability with the offical code base we wouldn't have all these issues.
As it is, each Java app has to come with it's own JRE. This is rediculous. Why does one need 20 JREs on one machine? The only thing that should chage should be the custom classes for each application included by:
mod parrent down, way down! It is best for everybody if nobody in the OSS community downloads this code.
If one gets called to court in some future trial over M$ IP in GNU/Linux code it would be best if we could say, "We never downloaded the code." If we have to say, "We downloaded the code but didn't use it." it will look bad.
One thing you are forgetting:
For the M$ install the time didn't include partitioning and for Mandrake it did, so instead of it being 10 mins faster it's more like 15-20
I am sick and tired of a select few companies proposing things that only intrest them.
If all ISP or individuals who run mail servers would configure them to authenticate a user before allowing them to send mail would take care of just as much spam as what they are proposing to do.
The spam you aren't going to stop in either method will be comming from infected microblow(M$) machines.
If such a postage scheme takes off all reply after me,
"Do not send any mail to user on systems the abide by this system."
If everybody stops sending mail to users on these systems it will die a horable death!
You are off topic. The caps the article is talking about is GB/month.
But I will take a stab at your reply.
That's still slow, compared to cable. I get 350+ KB/sec or 2800+kb/sec. That's 6 times faster than what you are getting.
Look at a case that has an external power suply(brick) like a notebook. I just got a casetronics case and it's very quiet. the only noice is 2 small fans.
No complaints here. As pointed out you are using this services for free.
One thing I do to eliminate the time of checking my yahoo account is by using YoSucker. YoSucker pops your yahoo account and can be set up to empty the Spam folder. I have it running every 5 mins along with fetchmail so that all my mail is at my server.
If you had read you would have found out that the Debian installer team has an issue of supporting many arcitectures (x86, ppc, s/390, spark, etc...). They want a single installer that works properly on all platforms.
Now that they have the hardware detection working on all platforms for all devices supported by Linux it is easy for somebody to write a GUI interface to interact with the installer. I for one wouldn't use a GUI if it was around, takes a hell of a lot longer to install and have to have more memory in a machine just to run the damn installer. Some of us still have machines with 32 M mem and have full Debian systems running in less than 100M disk space.
You don't need NTFS write support in knoppix for partimage/NFS solution.
partimage works like dd but only copies the used blocks. And the only mention of mounting the NFS export (assuming user has a Unix box around) to store backups. Yes if you want to use mount -t smbfs -o.... to save the partimage files to a remote windows file server that would work as well. The fileserver you store the backups to isn't the issue, just used NFS in my origional post as an example.
In the NFS example there isn't anything related to having NTFS write, you need to know what't going on before stating comments like the one you posted.
For backups partimage is much better than dd. This is because partimage only copies the used blocks, whereas dd copies every block.
Partimage can compress data by a factor of 2. I have used it to backup/restore windows boxes on many occations and works great.
from winblows box:
1. boot off knoppix
2. nfs mount an export that has enough room to hold the backups.
3. use partimage to backup patition(s) to nfs mounted frive.
There are option on partimage to break the backup into managable sizes (say 600MB chuncks) for easy CD archiving.
we mostly run AIX here where I work. We were considering redhat for non-production servers, but if SCO will pay us to stick with IBM...
-- Begin Scumlord SCO Recation
SCO SCUM would tell you that you are using an illegal copy of AIX since they revoked IBMs license.
Any day now you will be sued for bringing this to their attention.
BS...This is bad in many ways, only will go over one here.
If you are going to charge for a feature then you have to estimate how many hours it will take to complete and charge based on that. If your estimate is way low you just screwed yourself.
Had anybody noticed the GNU/Linux ymessenger from yahoo gives the message,
"Yahoo! is upgrading to its newest version of Yahoo! Messenger on September 24, 2003. The upgrade is part of an ongoing process to continually enhance the overall quality of the Yahoo! Messenger service for our millions of users"
My question to Yahoo!, Are you going to release a new Unix version that gets rid of this message. I'm sick of seeing it pop up everytime I open ymessenger.
RTFA:
The ULE models, which will run Linux and IBM's AIX OS, will ship in 2U two-way and 4U four-way configurations. A base configuration of the 4U is expected to cost less than $3,500, sources said.
This is just one statement that shows that they are targetting AIX and Linux. This is just what they will put on the box by default. You can always go and install other OSs that are PPC compatable.
Quite simply, the very nature of open-source development does not lend itself to the establishment of centralized technical support, which is exactly what corporations are looking for.
-->RANT=ON
This is just another example how managers are full of shit and should get their heads out of their asses!
-->RANT=OFF
There is plenty of support available as others have mentioned a few (IBM, SuSe, etc...). Why would want just one company providing support? One central company providing support is called a monopoly.
What is this reviewer smoking? Statements such as,
The wizard worked well and mostly made astute choices, although it divided our disk arrays into seemingly bite-sized devices with seven partitions. By contrast, the UnitedLinux distributions divided the two disks we used into larger chunks, which is a better way to reserve server space for future operations.
Shows that Tom Henderson doesn't know what he's talking about. How could anybody think that one large partition is better than lots of smaller ones. If one is consentrating on enterprise level systems one would be using LVM and have lots of partitions so they could add drives as they go and increase the partition sizes on the fly.
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From the article, It cost 45 cents to process every dollar comming in. This number has been the same for over 20 years.
This is BS...We work more than a third of our lives for taxes and they have the efficiency of a MBA on a Winblows system. Come on, get with the system.
stay away from any hosting company who can deploy windows faster than GNU/Linux.
If they knew what they were doing I know that the GNU/Linux Deploy is much faster. For instance if they used kickstart for RH installs or FAI for Debian they could have a configured server in a matter of minutes.
Hope users see this and boycott them!
Umm, not hard to find...take another look there are pics in the presentation: Navigation:
s e-slides_files/v3_document.htm
Projects -> The Eclipse Project -> Eclipse Project Slide Presentation
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/presentation/eclip
This took less than a min to find, what's your problem?! Crack?!
This is right on and one of the major problems. If Java was opened sourced and any branch of the origional source had to meat some testing to ensure compatability with the offical code base we wouldn't have all these issues.
As it is, each Java app has to come with it's own JRE. This is rediculous. Why does one need 20 JREs on one machine? The only thing that should chage should be the custom classes for each application included by:
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -cp $CLASSPTH
End the madness!
mod parrent down, way down! It is best for everybody if nobody in the OSS community downloads this code.
If one gets called to court in some future trial over M$ IP in GNU/Linux code it would be best if we could say, "We never downloaded the code." If we have to say, "We downloaded the code but didn't use it." it will look bad.
Damn bastards stop posting crap like this.
One thing you are forgetting:
For the M$ install the time didn't include partitioning and for Mandrake it did, so instead of it being 10 mins faster it's more like 15-20
Damn Bastards, you killed email.
I am sick and tired of a select few companies proposing things that only intrest them.
If all ISP or individuals who run mail servers would configure them to authenticate a user before allowing them to send mail would take care of just as much spam as what they are proposing to do.
The spam you aren't going to stop in either method will be comming from infected microblow(M$) machines.
If such a postage scheme takes off all reply after me,
"Do not send any mail to user on systems the abide by this system."
If everybody stops sending mail to users on these systems it will die a horable death!
Enough said!
You are off topic. The caps the article is talking about is GB/month.
But I will take a stab at your reply. That's still slow, compared to cable. I get 350+ KB/sec or 2800+kb/sec. That's 6 times faster than what you are getting.
Look at a case that has an external power suply(brick) like a notebook. I just got a casetronics case and it's very quiet. the only noice is 2 small fans.
o dcd=HDRCM269BR
http://www1.computergate.com/products/item.cfm?pr
I have all of 1., 2., 3,. 4., 5., 6.,7.,8.,9......
No complaints here. As pointed out you are using this services for free.
One thing I do to eliminate the time of checking my yahoo account is by using YoSucker. YoSucker pops your yahoo account and can be set up to empty the Spam folder. I have it running every 5 mins along with fetchmail so that all my mail is at my server.
http://yosucker.sourceforge.net/
Did you even read the fucking article, hell no.
If you had read you would have found out that the Debian installer team has an issue of supporting many arcitectures (x86, ppc, s/390, spark, etc...). They want a single installer that works properly on all platforms.
Now that they have the hardware detection working on all platforms for all devices supported by Linux it is easy for somebody to write a GUI interface to interact with the installer. I for one wouldn't use a GUI if it was around, takes a hell of a lot longer to install and have to have more memory in a machine just to run the damn installer. Some of us still have machines with 32 M mem and have full Debian systems running in less than 100M disk space.
RTFA!
Right on. I have even had others see my bug reports in Debian(unstable) and contact me to see if I found a solution.
Bug reports will get seen by more eyes with Debian and get fixed faster!
You don't need NTFS write support in knoppix for partimage/NFS solution.
partimage works like dd but only copies the used blocks. And the only mention of mounting the NFS export (assuming user has a Unix box around) to store backups. Yes if you want to use mount -t smbfs -o.... to save the partimage files to a remote windows file server that would work as well. The fileserver you store the backups to isn't the issue, just used NFS in my origional post as an example.
In the NFS example there isn't anything related to having NTFS write, you need to know what't going on before stating comments like the one you posted.
It is experimental, but has worked for me on several win2k NTFS machines.
Doh, Forgot to preview on parrent and noticed lots of typos......good thing didn't major in english...
For backups partimage is much better than dd. This is because partimage only copies the used blocks, whereas dd copies every block.
Partimage can compress data by a factor of 2. I have used it to backup/restore windows boxes on many occations and works great.
from winblows box:
1. boot off knoppix 2. nfs mount an export that has enough room to hold the backups. 3. use partimage to backup patition(s) to nfs mounted frive.
There are option on partimage to break the backup into managable sizes (say 600MB chuncks) for easy CD archiving.
we mostly run AIX here where I work. We were considering redhat for non-production servers, but if SCO will pay us to stick with IBM...
-- Begin Scumlord SCO Recation
SCO SCUM would tell you that you are using an illegal copy of AIX since they revoked IBMs license.
Any day now you will be sued for bringing this to their attention.
-- End Scumlord SCO Reaction
and you sir, are a prick.
Using winblows is the #1 way to loose data!
BS...This is bad in many ways, only will go over one here.
If you are going to charge for a feature then you have to estimate how many hours it will take to complete and charge based on that. If your estimate is way low you just screwed yourself.
Had anybody noticed the GNU/Linux ymessenger from yahoo gives the message,
"Yahoo! is upgrading to its newest version of Yahoo! Messenger on September 24, 2003. The upgrade is part of an ongoing process to continually enhance the overall quality of the Yahoo! Messenger service for our millions of users"
My question to Yahoo!, Are you going to release a new Unix version that gets rid of this message. I'm sick of seeing it pop up everytime I open ymessenger.
RTFA: The ULE models, which will run Linux and IBM's AIX OS, will ship in 2U two-way and 4U four-way configurations. A base configuration of the 4U is expected to cost less than $3,500, sources said.
This is just one statement that shows that they are targetting AIX and Linux. This is just what they will put on the box by default. You can always go and install other OSs that are PPC compatable.
I don't see this as a problem. I personally am glad that there are many packaging systems. This gives me the freedom to use what I like best (deb).
If things were unified to one system your freedom would be taken away. It is surpassing on how many people are willing to give up this freedom.
One of the biggest advantages of the OpenSource movement is that the end user has many choices for just about every aspect of the system.
Live Free Or Die!
Quite simply, the very nature of open-source development does not lend itself to the establishment of centralized technical support, which is exactly what corporations are looking for.
-->RANT=ON
This is just another example how managers are full of shit and should get their heads out of their asses!
-->RANT=OFF
There is plenty of support available as others have mentioned a few (IBM, SuSe, etc...). Why would want just one company providing support? One central company providing support is called a monopoly.
What is this reviewer smoking? Statements such as,
The wizard worked well and mostly made astute choices, although it divided our disk arrays into seemingly bite-sized devices with seven partitions. By contrast, the UnitedLinux distributions divided the two disks we used into larger chunks, which is a better way to reserve server space for future operations.
Shows that Tom Henderson doesn't know what he's talking about. How could anybody think that one large partition is better than lots of smaller ones. If one is consentrating on enterprise level systems one would be using LVM and have lots of partitions so they could add drives as they go and increase the partition sizes on the fly.