IBM has never used Red Hat and has had alliances and product lines with SuSE Linux FOR YEARS. Get it straight.
Uh, right. IBM has had alliances & product lines with Red Hat FOR YEARS, too. Travel to Kansas City & I'll show you the (still shrink-wrapped) Red Hat CDs that IBM shipped with our HMC for a pSeries 630 in December, 2002.
Why did they send me these CDs, you ask? Because the HMC uses RH as the base SW; there's a gui control app on top, but IBM was fulfilling the GPL by sending us the source code along with the binaries on the hard drive of the HMC.
[sigh]Probably feeding a troll, but just in case....[/sigh]
IBM has been far from a "Red Hat shop" in the past. SuSE has had -- until the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 -- better mainframe support, and SuSE's Enterprise distros for the Power architecture (pSeries & iSeries) has also been better.
You've been able to get SuSE Enterprise for Power with your pSeries box for a while now (sorry, no time to look up specifics, and this is/. anyway; why clutter a good post up with verifiable facts). IBM has also had a relationship with Red Hat (Hardware Management Consoles for the partitionable pSeries boxes use a customized RH distro), so it's not like they've been *only* SuSE.
Remember, at one time, in the not-to-distant past, IBM was a "partner" with 4 different Linux distributors: Red Hat, SuSE, TurboLinux, and (gasp) Caldera. So, you might as well say IBM's been a "SCO shop" for a while, too.....
Actually, no. There are age and birthplace requirements; check the US Constitution for details. Look for Article II, Section 1, Clause 5. Note that writing in some[one|thing]s name doesn't mean anything about whether or not that entity is electible & can actually serve as President.
Also, even though most US citizens can run for president, actually getting on the ballot isn't always that easy. There are different requirements in different states.
Is there any change from the book that actually bothers people?
Yes, lots. Did anything bother me enough to dislike the movies? NO! As other have pointed out, movies and books aren't the same, and there's no (reasonable) way to go from a book to a movie without changes, deletions, etc.
Having said that, I'll mention a couple of things that I haven't seen after reading through this thread:
Eowyn being scared. She was pissed -- Theoden was dying -- and she didn't care any more -- she couldn't have Aragorn. She also didn't take two strokes to kill the beast -- the head came off in one "skilled and deadly" stroke.
Mountains in the Shire. 'nuf said
Glamdring not glowing blue at the approach of orcs.
The courtship of Faramir and Eowen. If they are going to devote all that time to her character's romantic frustration, they should at least show some resolution of it.
We saw some resolution -- they were standing together, looking kind of starry-eyed, at the coronation. My problem was unless you read the books, you don't have any basis for that. I'm hoping we get "The Houses of Healing & "The Steward and the King" in the extended edition of the DVD....
One more point on the Fahrenheit (sorry for the spellin on the prev. post, we use Celsius): The guy must have had a big ego using his own ass in defining the scale:)
As opposed to Anders Celsius, the guy who developed the Celsius scale? Or Lord Kelvin, the proud namer of his own temperature scale?
...you dont actually do any creative writing until college usually.
Apparently, 1st grade is part of college, then. My children have had creative writing assignments in school as long as they've been able to write.
BTW, my 5th grader has known for a while now that one of the technical parts of writing is use an apostrophe to replace the letter or letters removed in a contraction.
I really don't understand the motivation for charging more for access to more than one CPU. Why does everybody want to emulate IBM mainframe pricing policies?
Maybe it's because IBM built itself up to a $80B company in large part due to their mainframe pricing policies?
# Related to tech: telecommunications. fucking joke. With lots dark fiber out there, phone services should be a dirt cheap commindity. land lines are a joke. Everyone, please get broadband, if you can, and dump your landline. The baby bells need to suffer. # Music and Video on demand. There is no good technical reason that I shouldn't be able to purchase and instantly listen to any audio or video thing ever created. Big media blows, I hope they bankrupt with the telecoms.
Uh, not that I'm a fan of lots of telecos, but exactly who do you think runs most of the backbones? I guess if your audio/video on demand server is close, it's no problem for you. But some of us live farther away....
Besides, I would never use Linux or BSD for a large DB server -- that's a job for a mainframe computer with a mainframe OS, like Sun or IBM big iron.
Sun != mainframe. Sun doesn't make mainframes, and never has. E15Ks are way to big to be called "midrange", but they aren't mainframes, either. And despite what Sun might want you to believe, they don't have the same system reliability that mainframes have had for years.
There will never, ever be any radioactive material launched into space, for very good reason.
Please. Get a clue -- gullible people might actually believe you know what you're talking about, which you obviously don't.
NASA's been using plutonium as an energy source for decades. Voyager I & II, launched in 1977, used RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectic generators) for power. These use the heat generated by the decay of the plutonium to generate electricity. Now I don't recall off the top of my head if any probes before Voyager used RTGs, but I know other probes since have also used them. Given the low light intensity in the outer solar system, and the weight involved in fuel cells or (laugh) batteries, I suspect RTGs, or something similar, will continue to be used for power.
And we'll have more idiots protesting the "nuclearization" of space, or something similar, when they think they've discovered something new. See the Cassini launch for an example.
Now, AFAIK, I can agree with you about no radioactive material on Columbia. So today, anyone concerned with that kind of debris problem probably can go back to sleep.
Almost every even slightly complicated AIX command ends up needing a syntax like 'command -x -T -f -q0 -R 4096 -n foo -a bar=baz'
As compared to what? ps, tar, or even ls on Linux have fewer parms than the AIX implementations? rpm doesn't exactly have a concise set of options, does it? Maybe I'm missing something, but any "slightly complicated" command, AIX or otherwise, probably has a complicated list of options.
It doesn't help that AIX manpages tend to be about ten feet long and put the options near the end
Funny, every command I just looked at had the options list at the top, and / finds things in the AIX man program just as well as the Linux version. If the man page doesn't explain the command (and since this is a "slightly complicated" command we're talking about, it probably *needs* some explaination) what good is it?
IBM can make SMIT for AIX because they can control the interface for every part of AIX...
Since smitty really only ends up running THE SAME COMMAND that you'd type in, what interface is there to control? Return codes? Parms for the commands can change, sure; but smitty's set up allows changes to be made fairly easily (but not trivally).
I think the bigger problem than command interfaces would be smitty's use of the ODM to store menus, commands to call, etc. All of that would either have to be re-written to be able to use smitty elsewhere, or the ODM would have to be implemented on the target platform. Not that I've seen the source code, but I suspect it's enough of a job that it ain't worth the trouble.
But I sure wish IBM would do the port -- smitty beats the crap out of YaST or the Red Hat tools.
About one time in 10, the Hardware Management Console stops the system during boot, and unless you can get to the HMC, you're f*k*d.
Remote HMC, baby. Set up SSL, load up your keys on your workstation, and use wsm. I'm a mile away from my HMC and could care less. Unless, of course, the network goes down; but at that point, I probably have bigger problems than an LPAR not booting -- if I even could *tell* it wasn't up.:-)
And ask me about the time smitty dumped core on me every time I ran it. OK, I'm asking -- what happened? I've had minor issues with smitty over the last 10 years, but I don't ever recall a core dump.
Weapons found a barrow down which were forged by the ancient kings of Numenor (sp?) which were specifically designed to defeat the Old Enemy (Sauron's master), which travels with Pippin to the gates of Gondor where it find itself buried in the knee of the King of the Nazgul (Thus fulfilling it's 10,000 year destiny) which distracts him long enough to get killed which distracts Sauron long enough to allow Frodo to reach Mt. Doom... Whew! Sounds pretty important to me, actually.
How about "weapons that were forged by the Men of Westernesse (who were the foes of the Witch-King of Angmar) and were specifically designed to fight him. Such a knife travels with Meriadoc to the battle of the Pelennor Fields and gets buried in the King of the Nazgul's knee, breaking the spell which keeps him together, allowing Eowyn to destroy him (thus fullfilling the knife's 2000 or so year destiny). After this, and after the rest of the battle is won, the allies marched on the Morannon, thus distracting Sauron long enough for Frodo & Gollum to reach Mt. Doom."
Yeah, Tom was important (and the source of the barrow-swords even more), but I can live with the omission. Aragorn logically could have (or get) ancient blades & therefore gave them to the hobbits. I suspect that won't be explained in the third movie, but it really won't matter. The general public only needs a good movie, and we Tolkien geeks know what happened in the *real* story (this *is* only a movie, remember). And, as long as the general public keeps spending money on the movie & related merchandise, we geeks get DVDs out of the deal!
We're already planning our 10-hour marathon in front of one of the guy's big screen for 2004....
Third, although the p690 has only 32 processors, it has 64 cores. Much as I hate to disagree with someone defending IBM vs. Sun, I have to correct this. Each Power4 chip has 2 CPUs. The 690 has CPUs in 4-chip modules -- 8 CPUs/module. 4 modules gives us 16 Power4 chips with 32 CPUs in a maxed-out 690.
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I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong.
This is slashdot -- you'll be corrected even if you are correct.
IBM has never used Red Hat and has had alliances and product lines with SuSE Linux FOR YEARS. Get it straight.
Uh, right. IBM has had alliances & product lines with Red Hat FOR YEARS, too. Travel to Kansas City & I'll show you the (still shrink-wrapped) Red Hat CDs that IBM shipped with our HMC for a pSeries 630 in December, 2002.
Why did they send me these CDs, you ask? Because the HMC uses RH as the base SW; there's a gui control app on top, but IBM was fulfilling the GPL by sending us the source code along with the binaries on the hard drive of the HMC.
[sigh]Probably feeding a troll, but just in case....[/sigh]
IBM has been far from a "Red Hat shop" in the past. SuSE has had -- until the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 -- better mainframe support, and SuSE's Enterprise distros for the Power architecture (pSeries & iSeries) has also been better.
/. anyway; why clutter a good post up with verifiable facts). IBM has also had a relationship with Red Hat (Hardware Management Consoles for the partitionable pSeries boxes use a customized RH distro), so it's not like they've been *only* SuSE.
You've been able to get SuSE Enterprise for Power with your pSeries box for a while now (sorry, no time to look up specifics, and this is
Remember, at one time, in the not-to-distant past, IBM was a "partner" with 4 different Linux distributors: Red Hat, SuSE, TurboLinux, and (gasp) Caldera. So, you might as well say IBM's been a "SCO shop" for a while, too.....
ANYONE can run for president
Actually, no. There are age and birthplace requirements; check the US Constitution for details. Look for Article II, Section 1, Clause 5. Note that writing in some[one|thing]s name doesn't mean anything about whether or not that entity is electible & can actually serve as President.
Also, even though most US citizens can run for president, actually getting on the ballot isn't always that easy. There are different requirements in different states.
Uh, no. "too" is a synonym for "also" and is appropriate in this case.
Thanks for playing, though. Talk to Cowboy Neal about getting your Lovely Parting Gift(tm).
Yes, lots. Did anything bother me enough to dislike the movies? NO! As other have pointed out, movies and books aren't the same, and there's no (reasonable) way to go from a book to a movie without changes, deletions, etc.
Having said that, I'll mention a couple of things that I haven't seen after reading through this thread:
The courtship of Faramir and Eowen. If they are going to devote all that time to her character's romantic frustration, they should at least show some resolution of it.
We saw some resolution -- they were standing together, looking kind of starry-eyed, at the coronation. My problem was unless you read the books, you don't have any basis for that. I'm hoping we get "The Houses of Healing & "The Steward and the King" in the extended edition of the DVD....
Oddly enough I don't keep a four-volume set in my office.
Yes, why keep the books (I'm assuming you're counting The Hobbit as the 4th) in your office, when they fit nicely on the memory stick in my PDA?
They've had 30 years to read a really popular book....
Almost 50 years, actually.
One more point on the Fahrenheit (sorry for the spellin on the prev. post, we use Celsius): :)
The guy must have had a big ego using his own ass in defining the scale
As opposed to Anders Celsius, the guy who developed the Celsius scale? Or Lord Kelvin, the proud namer of his own temperature scale?
What's your point?
...you dont actually do any creative writing until college usually.
Apparently, 1st grade is part of college, then. My children have had creative writing assignments in school as long as they've been able to write.
BTW, my 5th grader has known for a while now that one of the technical parts of writing is use an apostrophe to replace the letter or letters removed in a contraction.
Thank you. I almost sent milk through my nose all over my laptop, but thank you.
Maybe it's because IBM built itself up to a $80B company in large part due to their mainframe pricing policies?
:-)
# Related to tech: telecommunications. fucking joke. With lots dark fiber out there, phone services should be a dirt cheap commindity. land lines are a joke. Everyone, please get broadband, if you can, and dump your landline. The baby bells need to suffer.
# Music and Video on demand. There is no good technical reason that I shouldn't be able to purchase and instantly listen to any audio or video thing ever created. Big media blows, I hope they bankrupt with the telecoms.
Uh, not that I'm a fan of lots of telecos, but exactly who do you think runs most of the backbones? I guess if your audio/video on demand server is close, it's no problem for you. But some of us live farther away....
Besides, I would never use Linux or BSD for a large DB server -- that's a job for a mainframe computer with a mainframe OS, like Sun or IBM big iron.
Sun != mainframe. Sun doesn't make mainframes, and never has. E15Ks are way to big to be called "midrange", but they aren't mainframes, either. And despite what Sun might want you to believe, they don't have the same system reliability that mainframes have had for years.
There will never, ever be any radioactive material launched into space, for very good reason.
Please. Get a clue -- gullible people might actually believe you know what you're talking about, which you obviously don't.
NASA's been using plutonium as an energy source for decades. Voyager I & II, launched in 1977, used RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectic generators) for power. These use the heat generated by the decay of the plutonium to generate electricity. Now I don't recall off the top of my head if any probes before Voyager used RTGs, but I know other probes since have also used them. Given the low light intensity in the outer solar system, and the weight involved in fuel cells or (laugh) batteries, I suspect RTGs, or something similar, will continue to be used for power.
And we'll have more idiots protesting the "nuclearization" of space, or something similar, when they think they've discovered something new. See the Cassini launch for an example.
Now, AFAIK, I can agree with you about no radioactive material on Columbia. So today, anyone concerned with that kind of debris problem probably can go back to sleep.
And like Sun, IBM is mainly in the hardware business.
No, IBM is mainly in the services business. The majority of their revenue has been that way for a number of years.
Almost every even slightly complicated AIX command ends up needing a syntax like 'command -x -T -f -q0 -R 4096 -n foo -a bar=baz'
As compared to what? ps, tar, or even ls on Linux have fewer parms than the AIX implementations? rpm doesn't exactly have a concise set of options, does it? Maybe I'm missing something, but any "slightly complicated" command, AIX or otherwise, probably has a complicated list of options.
It doesn't help that AIX manpages tend to be about ten feet long and put the options near the end
Funny, every command I just looked at had the options list at the top, and / finds things in the AIX man program just as well as the Linux version. If the man page doesn't explain the command (and since this is a "slightly complicated" command we're talking about, it probably *needs* some explaination) what good is it?
IBM can make SMIT for AIX because they can control the interface for every part of AIX...
Since smitty really only ends up running THE SAME COMMAND that you'd type in, what interface is there to control? Return codes? Parms for the commands can change, sure; but smitty's set up allows changes to be made fairly easily (but not trivally).
I think the bigger problem than command interfaces would be smitty's use of the ODM to store menus, commands to call, etc. All of that would either have to be re-written to be able to use smitty elsewhere, or the ODM would have to be implemented on the target platform. Not that I've seen the source code, but I suspect it's enough of a job that it ain't worth the trouble.
But I sure wish IBM would do the port -- smitty beats the crap out of YaST or the Red Hat tools.
About one time in 10, the Hardware Management Console stops the system during boot, and unless you can get to the HMC, you're f*k*d.
:-)
Remote HMC, baby. Set up SSL, load up your keys on your workstation, and use wsm. I'm a mile away from my HMC and could care less. Unless, of course, the network goes down; but at that point, I probably have bigger problems than an LPAR not booting -- if I even could *tell* it wasn't up.
And ask me about the time smitty dumped core on me every time I ran it.
OK, I'm asking -- what happened? I've had minor issues with smitty over the last 10 years, but I don't ever recall a core dump.
Please tell me you don't actually think that the only source of protein is animal products.
OK. I don't actually think that all protien comes from animal products.
Please tell me that you actually do understand the meaning of sarcasm.
So these people get their protein from earthworms?
Also, isn't Glorfindel a bigger player in the Similarion(sp?)?
Different Glorifindel. The first one was killed while killing a Balrog during the escape from the fall of Gondolin.
How about as flashbacks at appropriate times?
Weapons found a barrow down which were forged by the ancient kings of Numenor (sp?) which were specifically designed to defeat the Old Enemy (Sauron's master), which travels with Pippin to the gates of Gondor where it find itself buried in the knee of the King of the Nazgul (Thus fulfilling it's 10,000 year destiny) which distracts him long enough to get killed which distracts Sauron long enough to allow Frodo to reach Mt. Doom... Whew! Sounds pretty important to me, actually.
How about "weapons that were forged by the Men of Westernesse (who were the foes of the Witch-King of Angmar) and were specifically designed to fight him. Such a knife travels with Meriadoc to the battle of the Pelennor Fields and gets buried in the King of the Nazgul's knee, breaking the spell which keeps him together, allowing Eowyn to destroy him (thus fullfilling the knife's 2000 or so year destiny). After this, and after the rest of the battle is won, the allies marched on the Morannon, thus distracting Sauron long enough for Frodo & Gollum to reach Mt. Doom."
Yeah, Tom was important (and the source of the barrow-swords even more), but I can live with the omission. Aragorn logically could have (or get) ancient blades & therefore gave them to the hobbits. I suspect that won't be explained in the third movie, but it really won't matter. The general public only needs a good movie, and we Tolkien geeks know what happened in the *real* story (this *is* only a movie, remember). And, as long as the general public keeps spending money on the movie & related merchandise, we geeks get DVDs out of the deal!
We're already planning our 10-hour marathon in front of one of the guy's big screen for 2004....
Third, although the p690 has only 32 processors, it has 64 cores.
Much as I hate to disagree with someone defending IBM vs. Sun, I have to correct this. Each Power4 chip has 2 CPUs. The 690 has CPUs in 4-chip modules -- 8 CPUs/module. 4 modules gives us 16 Power4 chips with 32 CPUs in a maxed-out 690.