As long as we have something like this then Linux will NOT be ready for the desktop. Having over sixty packages to install just to obtain a desktop environment is kinda stupid and makes MS Windows 2000/XP installation seem a simple task.
Insert Windows CD, boot, let installation and plug & play take over. By now it should be this easy when it comes to Linux.
Wake up and smell the coffee guys !!
Ed Almos
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I have a friend who is both a computer geek and a keeper of tropical fish. He has a very large tank in his lounge (nearly two metres long) which is also used to cool his dual Athlon server. The computer is not fed water straight from the tank, that would be silly, he has a heat exchanger and pump system underneath the gravel bed which circulates water from the tank to the CPUs and back again in a closed loop.
A friend of mine used Messagelabs during his last job in the UK and he reckons that they are the best thing out there. Over eighteen months he had ZERO virus hits on a sixty-user site and this was during the Code Red / Nimda boom times.
Like you we are about to join the E.U. so I think our positions are similar. I have spoken over the last weeks to quite a few people in the technical community and the comments varied from 'If you used Microsoft you would not have these problems' (Unisys) to an IBM manager who burst out laughing when I asked him for the company position on the matter.
Even if US law applied in the E.U. this would not affect us for a number of years as no evidence has been presented and, in all certainty, whoever won the case it will likely go to appeal. As for us, we are running a sixteen node Linux cluster plus a dozen or so servers and according to our legal department we don't owe SCO a single Forint.
If SCO turn up at our door the last thing they would hear as they are escorted back out the door would be our laughter.
I posted something similar about a month ago. In our system room we have an Aten four-port KVM switch wired to a Logitech wheel mouse and a conventional PS2 keyboard. Things only work if the system is setup to use standard PS2 mice.
The problem is that the KVM electronics attempt to emulate a standard PS2 mouse and when you set your system up and tell it that you have a wheel mouse the KVM sends and receives the wrong codes. So far as I am aware the only solution is to specify that you want your KVM switch to work with a wheel mouse when you buy it, and if it doesn't work then take it back.
Whilst still on this topic. Wheel mice have been around for years, why is it that a new KVM switch cannot cater for these devices ?
We've started a local Linux User Group here are some of the ideas we came up with, some of them may be of use:
1) Talks, lots of talks from outside people. Try your local ISPs, Sun, IBM etc. Not only will they talk about cool stuff but they might bring stuff to take away.
2) Security. Show the group how to setup a firewall then how to secure their desktop boxes.
3) Dual-head systems. Not everyone has two monitors, setup a dual-head system just for the fun of it.
4) Not everyone has broadband. Download a set of each Linux distribution for use by the members.
5) Visits to cool places. Your local ISP, places that have some 'Big Iron' installations.
6) If there are any hard-core Linux hackers you could always build your own distro. It's a great way of understanding the boot process.
7) Don't forget the newbie stuff, show how to set systems up, share files, share passwords between machines.
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As long as we have something like this then Linux will NOT be ready for the desktop. Having over sixty packages to install just to obtain a desktop environment is kinda stupid and makes MS Windows 2000/XP installation seem a simple task.
Insert Windows CD, boot, let installation and plug & play take over. By now it should be this easy when it comes to Linux.
Wake up and smell the coffee guys !!
Ed Almos
I have a friend who is both a computer geek and a keeper of tropical fish. He has a very large tank in his lounge (nearly two metres long) which is also used to cool his dual Athlon server. The computer is not fed water straight from the tank, that would be silly, he has a heat exchanger and pump system underneath the gravel bed which circulates water from the tank to the CPUs and back again in a closed loop.
Ed Almos
Hmmm, let's see here
Nine IBM servers all running AIX 24/7
Seven IBM servers all running SuSE Linux 24/7
A set of bogus claims from SCO that get wilder by the day.
If the SCO Scooby gang try and take any of these babies away from me I'll see them in court.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
Too right
A friend of mine used Messagelabs during his last job in the UK and he reckons that they are the best thing out there. Over eighteen months he had ZERO virus hits on a sixty-user site and this was during the Code Red / Nimda boom times.
Speak to Messagelabs
Ed Almos
Like you we are about to join the E.U. so I think our positions are similar. I have spoken over the last weeks to quite a few people in the technical community and the comments varied from 'If you used Microsoft you would not have these problems' (Unisys) to an IBM manager who burst out laughing when I asked him for the company position on the matter.
Even if US law applied in the E.U. this would not affect us for a number of years as no evidence has been presented and, in all certainty, whoever won the case it will likely go to appeal. As for us, we are running a sixteen node Linux cluster plus a dozen or so servers and according to our legal department we don't owe SCO a single Forint.
If SCO turn up at our door the last thing they would hear as they are escorted back out the door would be our laughter.
Ed Almos
Given the ability of my ex-wife to nag for hours without a break I hope to God that she was the donor.
Ed Almos
These guys are obviously experts at cramming NIC interfaces into small spaces. How about a web server built into an RJ45 socket ?
http://www.commanderx.com/productinfo.html
Ed Almos
I posted something similar about a month ago. In our system room we have an Aten four-port KVM switch wired to a Logitech wheel mouse and a conventional PS2 keyboard. Things only work if the system is setup to use standard PS2 mice.
The problem is that the KVM electronics attempt to emulate a standard PS2 mouse and when you set your system up and tell it that you have a wheel mouse the KVM sends and receives the wrong codes. So far as I am aware the only solution is to specify that you want your KVM switch to work with a wheel mouse when you buy it, and if it doesn't work then take it back.
Whilst still on this topic. Wheel mice have been around for years, why is it that a new KVM switch cannot cater for these devices ?
Ed Almos
A few days ago I seem to remember a Slashdot article on running page ranking systems on your own PC, something similar to Google.
Why not use a system similar to this to index all your information ?
Ed Almos
We've started a local Linux User Group here are some of the ideas we came up with, some of them may be of use:
1) Talks, lots of talks from outside people. Try your local ISPs, Sun, IBM etc. Not only will they talk about cool stuff but they might bring stuff to take away.
2) Security. Show the group how to setup a firewall then how to secure their desktop boxes.
3) Dual-head systems. Not everyone has two monitors, setup a dual-head system just for the fun of it.
4) Not everyone has broadband. Download a set of each Linux distribution for use by the members.
5) Visits to cool places. Your local ISP, places that have some 'Big Iron' installations.
6) If there are any hard-core Linux hackers you could always build your own distro. It's a great way of understanding the boot process.
7) Don't forget the newbie stuff, show how to set systems up, share files, share passwords between machines.
Hope these ideas help
Ed Almos