Thats certainly not my experience. Dell's service is awful in comparision to sun. We paid for gold sun support (4 hour call out), and a dell's 4 hour contract. Sun turned up with a replacement CPU within 3 hours when the sun system failed. Dell took 2 weeks to even accept that the motherboard was dead. And then took another 2 days before an engineer even turned up. They refused to send an engineeer to diagnose the problem. They also refused our own diagnosis.
(For those intrested, the machine locked solid whenever you tried to use the onboard network card. Dell gave us a program to run on the server that found no faults, but this program didn't even test the networking.)
Kent was mostly technical staff. The mirror service as a whole certainly wasn't that top heavy.
Although slightly out of date, you can see the mirror's staff and positions here
It may be cheaper on the face of it. But what details do you know of the new service? The old one had 3 sites, lancaster, kent and reading. The new service could be based at a single place, and that would mean more real downtime due to the reduced redundancy.
Also, a cheaper service may (and certainlly initially probably can't) mirror such a comprehensive list of software. That means people will stop using the new service, and download elsewhere.
If people on the JANET stop using the mirror service provided on its network, and use external mirrors, that meants more bandwidth needs to be found. Thus, costs more. (And they used to charge uni's until recently a price per mb for everything across the transatlantic link)
Well, yes:) Its not free, nor open source.. But its good, its better than exchange in a lot of areas. But sun's E-Mail, Calendar, & Collaboration software works very well.
It also has connectors for evolution if you want a thick client.
But on the other hand, it's about a decade behind the time on some very fundamental items. Packet sniffers, and the need to use ssh/scp instead of telnet/ftp, don't appear to exist in the Solaris world. They aren't installed by default, they aren't covered by the exams. It doesn't come with a compiler. Etc and so on.
Solaris 9 *does* come with ssh/scp etc installed by default. And im pretty sure that gcc etc is on one of the optional extra cd's with the distribution. (And that was the case even in solaris 8)
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Thats certainly not my experience. Dell's service is awful in comparision to sun. We paid for gold sun support (4 hour call out), and a dell's 4 hour contract. Sun turned up with a replacement CPU within 3 hours when the sun system failed. Dell took 2 weeks to even accept that the motherboard was dead. And then took another 2 days before an engineer even turned up. They refused to send an engineeer to diagnose the problem. They also refused our own diagnosis.
(For those intrested, the machine locked solid whenever you tried to use the onboard network card. Dell gave us a program to run on the server that found no faults, but this program didn't even test the networking.)
Kent was mostly technical staff. The mirror service as a whole certainly wasn't that top heavy. Although slightly out of date, you can see the mirror's staff and positions here
It may be cheaper on the face of it. But what details do you know of the new service? The old one had 3 sites, lancaster, kent and reading. The new service could be based at a single place, and that would mean more real downtime due to the reduced redundancy.
Also, a cheaper service may (and certainlly initially probably can't) mirror such a comprehensive list of software. That means people will stop using the new service, and download elsewhere.
If people on the JANET stop using the mirror service provided on its network, and use external mirrors, that meants more bandwidth needs to be found. Thus, costs more. (And they used to charge uni's until recently a price per mb for everything across the transatlantic link)
Well, yes :) Its not free, nor open source.. But its good, its better than exchange in a lot of areas. But sun's E-Mail, Calendar, & Collaboration software works very well.
It also has connectors for evolution if you want a thick client.
As someone sitting in front of a sun with a microsoft mouse (and yes, even the wheel works) i can say that is wrong.
Also, provided the usb device supports the mass storage spec, it will also work on a sun.
man scsa2usb
msxml3.dll
/library/toolbar/3.0/js.asp, line 36
error '80072f76'
The requested header was not found
This is using konqueror.
I think this is the only "fact" i needed to know.:)