That's the point: they are definately NOT the same. Yes, its based on Red Hat, but there are so many differences on Unbreakable Linux (here we call it Broken Linux) that annoy the hell out of you. The cluster application Oracle sold to our customer is not cluster aware (how did they do that?), furthermore the cluster service needs to be restarted when a node goes down (WTF? what's the point in having a cluster if one of your nodes can't fail???) and there are more diffences and issues. I've worked with it over half a year now. I've only had issues for those past 8 months with those Unbreakable Linux systems. In the meantime a cluster 3x larger - and much heavier used - is running without a hitch on a Red Hat base install and the same whole Oracle shebang on top of it. Go figure.
Yes you get support from 1 vendor, however I recently had to deal with that vendor. There was already a support case, all kinds of log files uploaded for them to analyse and after 1,5 week they hadn't found the issue yet. What was the problem? at 4:20 every night 1 of the servers in a cluster of 4 went down. The issue was that updatedb was configured to run on OCFS filesystems, and updatedb is triggered by cron.daily. They had about 5 different engineers looking at our case. No solution, until someone from my company decided to dig a little further into the updatedb config. It seems that you shouldn't run updatedb on OCFS filesystems (we have another customer who has been doing that for more than half a year with way more nodes concurrently connected, but hey). Note: this happened after issuing a Oracle CRS (cluster software) update, the config had been running fine for more than a year. And Oracle support just kept on looking to the Oracle part, ignoring the OS stack. From Oracle Applications support I was told to "just update glibc from 3.2 to 4.x because there's a bug that's fixed in 3.6". Right. Break compatibility with all your major tooling and applications so you can run an Oracle App because they've been too lazy to test in an "old" environment (RHEL 4 U4).
In short: I'd rather deal with 2 or 3 independent vendors who know their shit (and know it well), than with 1 vendor who would - even when told differently - kept looking from the wrong POV.
I read the article before the site went down, and the video is very impressive, the screen is recognized as a secondary screen, so you can basically display anything you want on it. In the video it shows playing some videos, an iTunes visualization and the output of the built in webcam (iSight).
are the benchmarks done on OS X, linux & Windows?
I didn't RTFA, but it would be fair to run all applications on different platforms and see if it makes a difference. I bet they didn't do that.
then you should've RTFA (yeah yeah I know...) 1. he says Gimp is a very capable if somewhat overpowered photo editor 2. he uses FireFox on his other systems (winxp/vista) and has an add-on called "foxmarks" to sync his bookmarks across the board 3. AIM is a generic term, he uses Trillian on Windows and states Pidgin is also available on Windows and is a good match to Trillian 4. he doesn't play top end games, therefore he would be an ideal convert since most software isn't as dependant on Windows as games are. If he _really_ needs MS Office he can purchase X-Over Office and install his precious Word, Excel and Outlook on linux.
I did twitch a little while reading the article though, he suggested to uncheck all updates except those that look familiar, and the Bind update he mentions in the article (probably the DNS vulnerability fix) would therefore not be installed. Maybe a label "critical" for some updates would resolve that, then again Windows Update telling me to update.Net Runtime (in 2 different versions) and the Root Certificate wouldn't tell me much as a novice user either...
Evolution acts as a front end to Outlook Web Access, which is nowhere near as feature packed (ridden sometimes) as Outlook.
Have you ever tried accessing someone else's calendar? checked meeting rooms, attendance, public folders, PST data files, etc?
I think it's very good what the Evolution developers have made, but to say it's a drop-in replacement for Outlook is stretching it more than a little
I guess what everybody is also forgetting is that most people *don't flash their firmware!*
The ones who do have at least a basic understanding of what they are doing in the first place, so you won't have to explain everything.
This GUI thing is probably geared towards the end-user who has a geek relative/friend that set them up with the initial flashed product, so they can add a MAC filtered device or change some firewall rules.
I think the best tradeoff in this is a basic interface with few options like adding a firewall rule, port forwarding, MAC address filtering and statistics. The rest should be put in the advanced interface designed to look a bit intimidating so a user that clicks "Advanced" (and they will!) is encouraged back towards the basic interface so they won't break anything easily.
Sell most off em off, but please donate a few to your favorite distro (Debian will gladly take some of those off your hands, the BSD's would love them too)
One that includes an image-casting process that allows 100s of computers to be managed (deployed, updated, etc.) from a central console (PXE boot, the works).
I've seen a managed environment of over 1000 servers in RH Satellite done by about 6 people (including developers extending the Satellite default capabilities), impressive. Spacewalk is kind of the next generation of Satellite, but completely free (and thus only community supported). FAI is used for rollout of small and big projects alike, they have an acknowledgement section on their site where you can look around.
pops up, people universally click "OK" without a second thought.
Then label the buttons differently. "Are you sure you want to send this e-mail to n users?" (where n is the recipient count) and "Cancel"
In most cases people will click the short answer if they don't read the large message, or they will read what's in the dialog box so they know what they're about to do.
Or the BOFH solution: make the user click OK for every recipient they are replying to...
It's really not that hard. Granted, Exchange is a bit of a beast to install and manage initially, but once everything is set up and the other servers know each other it works pretty smoothy.
Try to do a restore of an Exchange Store from a crashed Exchange server. You will need to set up a new system and import everything into it, offline because some unique identifier prevents you from restoring to that new system once it's taken into the AD.
I've seen it twice and it's ugly. Glad I didn't have to do it. In one of my previous jobs we switched to drive imaging (dd, Ghost, Altiris, whatever) just because of this. If a server crashed, we could roll back to the image from the day before and start over. Not much lost, 1 day of productivity max. My boss' attitude was simple after that 1 crash (he was a former Sun Solaris admin so he got outraged by the restore procedure taking 3 days by specialist consultants, he was used to stuff just working right on Unix): storage is cheap, just backup an image to disk for normal systems, critical systems got an additional tape backup of the important stuff.
but isn't the first thing you do with a new piece of hardware is throw away the CD and download the current drivers off the net?
Actually I keep the CD, especially for those circumstances where either: the RAID driver must be loaded because Windows doesn't have a working driver or the NIC is driver is not included in the Windows release, making it impossible to download the current driver. I've seen both happen on my previous and current hardware (previous system had RAID enabled, current system not). In both instances the network driver wasn't integrated in the Windows release.
Linux however detects, installs & configures the NIC on both systems out of the box. I've only had trouble with some linux distros that see a RAID option in the BIOS (disabled) and during the install assume I want to have both disks in an array instead of JBOD and won't let me configure otherwise. Both Fedora 9 & Sabayon 4 have this issue, Ubuntu & Debian don't (they don't load a RAID driver unless you tell 'em to).
Well, my SO got an iPhone, and she has had the following issues: - no easy way to import contacts - importing contacts from SIM caused contact info to be LOST - sending vCard over bluetooth doesn't work (tried with Nokia, WinMobile 5 & 6) - importing vCard from Gmail doesn't work
The list is longer, but you get the idea. We were discussing this yesterday actually, and I'm very disappointed that Apple doesn't get this right. Every mobile phone I've owned over the past 8 years was able to transfer (either through a connection suite or bundled software) the contacts reliably. It's a basic requirement, especially if you have over 400 contacts (this is a business phone for my SO).
It does have very nice features, feels sleek and very responsive, but it does have its limitations and quirks.
You probably meant that funny, but actually it is a very sound idea. Keep the titles/labeling of the pictures the same, but instead of serving the normal image post an image of the DMCA takedown notice and an explanation of them wanting to invoice the site instead, so people *WILL* take notice, especially if this site has heavy traffic.
To go even further: have the site owner contact your affiliate sites and have them post something related to the takedown notice and refer to the originating site. Then inform Toyota of the actions that were taken to "help" them.
And to make them really mad, contact someone in Europe (where the DMCA doesn't stand a chance), set up a mirror of the Toyota category and provide a handy link on your site, front page and all.
I know this is flamebait, but why "God bless America" when the segregation was allowed until so recently?
Yes, I know that since then a lot has changed, but don't be too proud and go around saying that African Americans (or whatever the current politically correct term it is now) are now at equal foot with other ethnic groups (including "white"), because that is simply not true (not implying that you said that though, I just read that between the lines). Although it must be refreshing to have a black man positively on TV news instead of crimewatch or whatever.
Slashdot Mirror
there must be more to that than cat spelled backwards
on the front page it says 149 comments, however there are only 17 real comments (as of my posting)
and I'm unable to tag this story as well.
is really slow, this tech needs to evolve a bit snort post!
That's the point: they are definately NOT the same. Yes, its based on Red Hat, but there are so many differences on Unbreakable Linux (here we call it Broken Linux) that annoy the hell out of you. The cluster application Oracle sold to our customer is not cluster aware (how did they do that?), furthermore the cluster service needs to be restarted when a node goes down (WTF? what's the point in having a cluster if one of your nodes can't fail???) and there are more diffences and issues. I've worked with it over half a year now. I've only had issues for those past 8 months with those Unbreakable Linux systems. In the meantime a cluster 3x larger - and much heavier used - is running without a hitch on a Red Hat base install and the same whole Oracle shebang on top of it. Go figure.
In short: I'd rather deal with 2 or 3 independent vendors who know their shit (and know it well), than with 1 vendor who would - even when told differently - kept looking from the wrong POV.
I read the article before the site went down, and the video is very impressive, the screen is recognized as a secondary screen, so you can basically display anything you want on it. In the video it shows playing some videos, an iTunes visualization and the output of the built in webcam (iSight).
are the benchmarks done on OS X, linux & Windows?
I didn't RTFA, but it would be fair to run all applications on different platforms and see if it makes a difference. I bet they didn't do that.
1. he says Gimp is a very capable if somewhat overpowered photo editor
2. he uses FireFox on his other systems (winxp/vista) and has an add-on called "foxmarks" to sync his bookmarks across the board
3. AIM is a generic term, he uses Trillian on Windows and states Pidgin is also available on Windows and is a good match to Trillian
4. he doesn't play top end games, therefore he would be an ideal convert since most software isn't as dependant on Windows as games are. If he _really_ needs MS Office he can purchase X-Over Office and install his precious Word, Excel and Outlook on linux.
I did twitch a little while reading the article though, he suggested to uncheck all updates except those that look familiar, and the Bind update he mentions in the article (probably the DNS vulnerability fix) would therefore not be installed. Maybe a label "critical" for some updates would resolve that, then again Windows Update telling me to update .Net Runtime (in 2 different versions) and the Root Certificate wouldn't tell me much as a novice user either...
Evolution acts as a front end to Outlook Web Access, which is nowhere near as feature packed (ridden sometimes) as Outlook. Have you ever tried accessing someone else's calendar? checked meeting rooms, attendance, public folders, PST data files, etc?
I think it's very good what the Evolution developers have made, but to say it's a drop-in replacement for Outlook is stretching it more than a little
isn't this already somewhat covered by distrowatch.com?
I guess what everybody is also forgetting is that most people *don't flash their firmware!* The ones who do have at least a basic understanding of what they are doing in the first place, so you won't have to explain everything. This GUI thing is probably geared towards the end-user who has a geek relative/friend that set them up with the initial flashed product, so they can add a MAC filtered device or change some firewall rules. I think the best tradeoff in this is a basic interface with few options like adding a firewall rule, port forwarding, MAC address filtering and statistics. The rest should be put in the advanced interface designed to look a bit intimidating so a user that clicks "Advanced" (and they will!) is encouraged back towards the basic interface so they won't break anything easily.
Sell most off em off, but please donate a few to your favorite distro (Debian will gladly take some of those off your hands, the BSD's would love them too)
my current server however is called butler...
And most impportantly it doesn't crashes and it doesn't corrupsts files like MC does.
Uhuh... but it doesn't have a builttin spellcheckster I thinks
One that includes an image-casting process that allows 100s of computers to be managed (deployed, updated, etc.) from a central console (PXE boot, the works).
Then you might want to take a look at RedHat Satellite or RedHat Spacewalk. Debian has a similar project called FAI - Fully Automated Installer.
I've seen a managed environment of over 1000 servers in RH Satellite done by about 6 people (including developers extending the Satellite default capabilities), impressive. Spacewalk is kind of the next generation of Satellite, but completely free (and thus only community supported). FAI is used for rollout of small and big projects alike, they have an acknowledgement section on their site where you can look around.
pops up, people universally click "OK" without a second thought.
Then label the buttons differently. "Are you sure you want to send this e-mail to n users?" (where n is the recipient count) and "Cancel" In most cases people will click the short answer if they don't read the large message, or they will read what's in the dialog box so they know what they're about to do.
Or the BOFH solution: make the user click OK for every recipient they are replying to...
It's really not that hard. Granted, Exchange is a bit of a beast to install and manage initially, but once everything is set up and the other servers know each other it works pretty smoothy.
Try to do a restore of an Exchange Store from a crashed Exchange server. You will need to set up a new system and import everything into it, offline because some unique identifier prevents you from restoring to that new system once it's taken into the AD.
I've seen it twice and it's ugly. Glad I didn't have to do it. In one of my previous jobs we switched to drive imaging (dd, Ghost, Altiris, whatever) just because of this. If a server crashed, we could roll back to the image from the day before and start over. Not much lost, 1 day of productivity max. My boss' attitude was simple after that 1 crash (he was a former Sun Solaris admin so he got outraged by the restore procedure taking 3 days by specialist consultants, he was used to stuff just working right on Unix): storage is cheap, just backup an image to disk for normal systems, critical systems got an additional tape backup of the important stuff.
but isn't the first thing you do with a new piece of hardware is throw away the CD and download the current drivers off the net?
Actually I keep the CD, especially for those circumstances where either: the RAID driver must be loaded because Windows doesn't have a working driver or the NIC is driver is not included in the Windows release, making it impossible to download the current driver. I've seen both happen on my previous and current hardware (previous system had RAID enabled, current system not). In both instances the network driver wasn't integrated in the Windows release.
Linux however detects, installs & configures the NIC on both systems out of the box. I've only had trouble with some linux distros that see a RAID option in the BIOS (disabled) and during the install assume I want to have both disks in an array instead of JBOD and won't let me configure otherwise. Both Fedora 9 & Sabayon 4 have this issue, Ubuntu & Debian don't (they don't load a RAID driver unless you tell 'em to).
Well, my SO got an iPhone, and she has had the following issues:
- no easy way to import contacts
- importing contacts from SIM caused contact info to be LOST
- sending vCard over bluetooth doesn't work (tried with Nokia, WinMobile 5 & 6)
- importing vCard from Gmail doesn't work
The list is longer, but you get the idea. We were discussing this yesterday actually, and I'm very disappointed that Apple doesn't get this right. Every mobile phone I've owned over the past 8 years was able to transfer (either through a connection suite or bundled software) the contacts reliably. It's a basic requirement, especially if you have over 400 contacts (this is a business phone for my SO).
It does have very nice features, feels sleek and very responsive, but it does have its limitations and quirks.
bombs ;-)
Looks intelligent enough to not get caught, but gets smiles and sniffles if the error pops up :-)
Keep the titles/labeling of the pictures the same, but instead of serving the normal image post an image of the DMCA takedown notice and an explanation of them wanting to invoice the site instead, so people *WILL* take notice, especially if this site has heavy traffic.
To go even further: have the site owner contact your affiliate sites and have them post something related to the takedown notice and refer to the originating site. Then inform Toyota of the actions that were taken to "help" them.
And to make them really mad, contact someone in Europe (where the DMCA doesn't stand a chance), set up a mirror of the Toyota category and provide a handy link on your site, front page and all.
Yes, I know that since then a lot has changed, but don't be too proud and go around saying that African Americans (or whatever the current politically correct term it is now) are now at equal foot with other ethnic groups (including "white"), because that is simply not true (not implying that you said that though, I just read that between the lines). Although it must be refreshing to have a black man positively on TV news instead of crimewatch or whatever.
uhm wait...
that wasn't so hard:
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~balazsi/