If I'm going to run my company's mission-critical code on Solaris, I need to have the developers running Solaris too, which means I have to have a nice desktop environment they will want to use.
KDE and GNOME have been running on Solaris for years, and there are official builds. Sun's JDS is GNOME with Java applets (to slow it down a bit).
...it's not, "You are a professional engineer, I trust you, go and fix this," it's "I am a PHB trying to make my mark. This is how you should do it. What do you mean, that's not 100% of the solution? Do my bidding, serf."
What do you mean, that didn't fix it? Are you stupid? How dare you suggest that your idea may have been right.
Are you an imbecile? It should have taken you 2 hours. Why has it taken you a week? You make me look like a dick in fromt of MY boss!
Here's an idea why don't you ${YOUR_FIRST_IDEA}.
It worked? Good. You are crap and are getting no pay rise this year. I am a professional. You are lucky to have a job here.
I don't do RAID at home since it's too complicated and ropey on Linux(*). The advantage of it being on non-raided separate drives is that they can be spun down when not in use, they can be different sizes and different manufacturers. They can even be on different interfaces i.e. IDE, SCSI and SATA.
* I say that as a Linux fanboi since 1995. I do Linux RAID at work:-( I like to upgrade my kernels at home quite frequently. There is no guaranteeing that a RAID from one kernel version will work on the next. This, folks, is the wonder of the Linux development model.
I'd rather have two different hard disks in two separate machines than a Linux RAID on the sort of hardware that I can afford.
I've been ripping all my CDs using cdparanoia and encoding with FLAC. I keep two copies of all the FLAC'd suff on separate hard disks, and verey year or two, when I buy new hard disks, I migrate the data to the new disks in case the old ones fail.
There's no point in burning to DVD for "archival" since DVD is too unreliable. Anecdotally, DVDs seem to last only a few months to a year or two. Perhaps good quality tape archival would be good if you need the security? But really, hard disks are so cheap nowadays, it's feasible to have many PeeCees with new, high-qulaity disks in your house and to have multiple copies of the data.
Through the magic of bash scripting, I can produce ogg/vorbis and mp3s of all my music whenever I like. My old Athlon XP 2000+ used to do this really quickly. I haven't tried it on my new box yet.
Every 5 or so years someone asks the rhetorical question, "Is rock 'n' roll dead?" Then, hangs up their guitar and goes off and makes handbag music, disappearing into obscurity or top-40 banality.
Yes, and the government that completely ignored the 750 000 (official) protesters that went to London, and still went to war in contravention of the UN, and without a shred of evidence that Iraq had WMD.
I was one of the idiots who actually believed that the government must have had good evidence which they couldn't make public.
Never mind. Imagine how much more difficult and costly it would have been if he'd been installing Linux. I mean, he'd have had to buy all new hardware, since Linux doesn't have many drivers, and Linux is so expensive for Red Hat.
I started with Slackware in 1995, and I consider myself to be a newbie. RedHat came along with much fanfare, I tried it, it sucked, I went straight back to Slackware.
Debian was then next big thing. I tried it, it sucked, went back to Slackware.
Now I work at a Debian site. Machines that have been "maintained" with daily updates superficially work, but try to install additional packages, and they fall down.
I got an EMT-64 box. So I put on Umbongo Crusty Warthog. It was impossible to do anything with it except point at pictures on the screen...
I went back to Slackware.
I use Slackware. It works, I get my work done, it's cost-effective, it saves me time.
GNUstep might let you compile and run it on Linux (or other Unix-like platforms). Someone has done a Cocoa/GNUstep port of emacs, for example, that compiles from the same source tree on both platforms.
Excellent idea, but simply because it would make enforcing the TV Licence 100% accurate, since only those who actually own and operate a TV would be billed (and visited by the inspectors).
The thing that annoys me about this stuff is that the justificaiton for it seems to be mainly catching terrorists, but it will only catch the stupid or incompetant ones.
If the UK government really wants to catch terrorists, it should ban cross-dressing.
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So, which one of you is CAPTAIN CAVEMAN! and where are the Teen Angels?
Well, is it? Were the camera lenses made in the same way?
Be thankful you've never had to use it.
Heed this man's warning while you can. Many a millions of $ have been spent on aborted SAP roll-outs.
Is that real? If I click on it, will it redirect me to a pr0n site?
If I'm going to run my company's mission-critical code on Solaris, I need to have the developers running Solaris too, which means I have to have a nice desktop environment they will want to use.
KDE and GNOME have been running on Solaris for years, and there are official builds. Sun's JDS is GNOME with Java applets (to slow it down a bit).
...it's not, "You are a professional engineer, I trust you, go and fix this," it's "I am a PHB trying to make my mark. This is how you should do it. What do you mean, that's not 100% of the solution? Do my bidding, serf."
What do you mean, that didn't fix it? Are you stupid? How dare you suggest that your idea may have been right.
Are you an imbecile? It should have taken you 2 hours. Why has it taken you a week? You make me look like a dick in fromt of MY boss!
Here's an idea why don't you ${YOUR_FIRST_IDEA}.
It worked? Good. You are crap and are getting no pay rise this year. I am a professional. You are lucky to have a job here.
Sorry, I work for a dreadful company and it's causing me much bitterness. Please, pay no attention to my rantings.
Actually, maybe I'm being a bit harsh on the Linux RAID stuff. Some of our machines at work have months of uptime.
The thing is, I haven't got the time or money to do RAID on Linux at home.
I don't do RAID at home since it's too complicated and ropey on Linux(*). The advantage of it being on non-raided separate drives is that they can be spun down when not in use, they can be different sizes and different manufacturers. They can even be on different interfaces i.e. IDE, SCSI and SATA.
* I say that as a Linux fanboi since 1995. I do Linux RAID at work :-( I like to upgrade my kernels at home quite frequently. There is no guaranteeing that a RAID from one kernel version will work on the next. This, folks, is the wonder of the Linux development model.
I'd rather have two different hard disks in two separate machines than a Linux RAID on the sort of hardware that I can afford.
I've been ripping all my CDs using cdparanoia and encoding with FLAC. I keep two copies of all the FLAC'd suff on separate hard disks, and verey year or two, when I buy new hard disks, I migrate the data to the new disks in case the old ones fail.
There's no point in burning to DVD for "archival" since DVD is too unreliable. Anecdotally, DVDs seem to last only a few months to a year or two. Perhaps good quality tape archival would be good if you need the security? But really, hard disks are so cheap nowadays, it's feasible to have many PeeCees with new, high-qulaity disks in your house and to have multiple copies of the data.
Through the magic of bash scripting, I can produce ogg/vorbis and mp3s of all my music whenever I like. My old Athlon XP 2000+ used to do this really quickly. I haven't tried it on my new box yet.
Every 5 or so years someone asks the rhetorical question, "Is rock 'n' roll dead?" Then, hangs up their guitar and goes off and makes handbag music, disappearing into obscurity or top-40 banality.
Rock on, computer scientists.
That would only work on all x86 platforms.. so like, four.
Ideal for testing the portability of Windows applications!
Yes, and the government that completely ignored the 750 000 (official) protesters that went to London, and still went to war in contravention of the UN, and without a shred of evidence that Iraq had WMD.
I was one of the idiots who actually believed that the government must have had good evidence which they couldn't make public.
Buy a book. You can keep it under your pillow.
Orinoco? My dear fellow, I'll give you Orinoco
Now don't get me started on marmalade sandwiches...
Never mind. Imagine how much more difficult and costly it would have been if he'd been installing Linux. I mean, he'd have had to buy all new hardware, since Linux doesn't have many drivers, and Linux is so expensive for Red Hat.
I just felt a tremendous disturbance in the Force. It was if millions of slashbots cried out in pain as their heads asploded.
With apologies to the late Sir Alec.
I download Slackware Linux and OpenOffice.org using bittorrent. Both are copyrighted and both are already available legitimately for free-as-in-beer.
I wish people would use the term "copyrighted" correctly.
Even more British farmers will go out of business, and for Sunday roast, you'll be eating monkey with grub stuffing on a bed of banana leaves.
And then you realize, you are so ready for Solaris 10.
Got the T-shirt.
I started with Slackware in 1995, and I consider myself to be a newbie. RedHat came along with much fanfare, I tried it, it sucked, I went straight back to Slackware.
Debian was then next big thing. I tried it, it sucked, went back to Slackware.
Now I work at a Debian site. Machines that have been "maintained" with daily updates superficially work, but try to install additional packages, and they fall down.
I got an EMT-64 box. So I put on Umbongo Crusty Warthog. It was impossible to do anything with it except point at pictures on the screen...
I went back to Slackware.
I use Slackware. It works, I get my work done, it's cost-effective, it saves me time.
..should be enough for anyone.
GNUstep might let you compile and run it on Linux (or other Unix-like platforms). Someone has done a Cocoa/GNUstep port of emacs, for example, that compiles from the same source tree on both platforms.
Excellent idea, but simply because it would make enforcing the TV Licence 100% accurate, since only those who actually own and operate a TV would be billed (and visited by the inspectors).
The thing that annoys me about this stuff is that the justificaiton for it seems to be mainly catching terrorists, but it will only catch the stupid or incompetant ones.
If the UK government really wants to catch terrorists, it should ban cross-dressing.