Unless you mean things like getting the 6/08 media and install that which includes all patched up until then. Then you still have to install patches since 8/08 via descriptive names as 1-1854298.zip
What if you need real uptime with a load of 80 on a 32 cpu system? Can Linux handle the load and have years of uptime?
Yea, stay away. If you have a load of 80 on a 32 CPU system, you didn't design the hardware or software correctly.
Solaris just works and its made for servers. Linux seems always beta quality with its cutting edgness and is desktop oriented. I would not trust my job to it unless its Debian or RHES which costs $$$ as cutting edge features are not needed on a mission critical server. Solaris scales far better than any BSD or Linux distro out there.
Debian doesn't cost anything, and there's always CentOS if you want the RHEL reliability without the cost.
Ask any *real* Unix admin who uses both and more than likely they will say Linux is great for small jobs but Solaris is king for anything else.
Yea, these were the same Unix admins who used to ask me if I installed the latest kernel patch while they were still using sendmail (and patching it about as frequently). I didn't put a lot of faith in their opinion.
Oh and the article discussed a scarcity of third party apps. I found the opposite as most server ERP and database apps are on Solaris than Linux.
For the big big things, probably. Oracle? Works perfectly fine. I'm building a RAC now using commodity hardware that will probably be 1/3 the price of what it would cost to get something from Sun.
To be fair, I haven't used much Sun equipment (hardware or OS) in the past 6 years or so. There's a number of things they get right, like the Open Firmware. But from an OS and maintenance perspective, does Sun still have patch clusters? Do I have to head over to SunFreeware.com to get useful applications installed? I can provision a Linux server literally in a few minutes, but it would take the better part of a day to get Solaris set up (have to remember to disable telnet, find the latest patch cluster, reboot, install gcc and other apps). Bleah.
Switched video's been a problem for over a year (I remember worrying about it before buying my Tivo HD). The 'solution' from Tivo has been 'coming' for months - I want to say this was announced in January.
There's at least one good reason this shouldn't be allowed. Once you enter private property, a warrant would be needed to follow a suspect. So long as the GPS recognizes what is public and private property and stops recording when on private property, I guess I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Of course, Sirius XM should be able to sink or swim on its own merits. I mean, aside from the restrictions that the FCC put on them (and the NAB demanded), oh, and the onerous fees that the RIAA put on their music but not on traditional broadcast radio.
But then again, where is the government actually helping Sirius XM aside from giving them the ability to pool resources (so they won't need to put up as many satellites)?
The gp stated, 'Satellite Radio is not a monopoly; it is competing against FREE terrestrial radio, mp3 players, ipods, FREE internet radio, etc.'
This part is true.
I argue that satellite radio is a far different way of using our airwaves than terrestrial radio. Terrestrial radio is bound by ground-wave propagation -- I can't listen to Philadelphia's radio stations when I'm in my car driving in Seattle. I can listen to XM/Sirius wherever I am, though. The FCC limited terrestrial radio in this way by design. So satellite radio is not competing against free terrestrial radio.
Incorrect. Sorta. Take the example of any talk radio host, Dr. Demento, or NPR/PRI. They're providing the same show across the country. Aside from a few minutes of local news, All Things Considered is the same in Boston as it is in Miami. The FCC doesn't crack down on that. From a broadcasting standpoint, no one FM or AM station can transmit across the country, but there's no limiting propagating the content.
mp3 players and the like are also no comparison to the service that satellite radio offers, because they aren't broadcast (I can't get breaking news on my ipod). So satellite radio is not competing against mp3 player and ipods.
The iPhone can get breaking news and your e-mail. But the intent is really content since you can get breaking news via FM radio, which your car most likely already has. The iPod/mp3 player makes for full control over your content and many people are happy with that level of control.
And internet 'radio' doesn't exactly use radio waves, unless you count wifi.
Or if you get it over your cell phone (think iPhone again)
The easiest and cheapest way of making this best-interest assurance is to require a competitor. If I don't think that XM/Sirius is working in my best interest, I could at least change carriers. I know, I know, it sounds horribly European. Sorry about that. Really, the other option to make sure that a satellite radio company provides unbiased public information services is to have constant and intense oversight of Sirius/XM by the FCC. In a sense, I'm really making the 'smaller' government argument here;-).
Actually, you're making a big government argument if you want the FCC to have such control over Sirius/XM. But anyway, portions of the spectrum will be set aside for minority programming, there are a variety of news stations (CNN, CNNHN, MSNBC, FNC, NPR, etc.) and a variety of talk radio stations. I think the spectrum is already being well represented on at least Sirius, and probably XM as well (I've been a Sirius subscriber for a number of years). If Sirius doesn't provide what I want, then I'll cancel the subs I have and go back to my iPod, internet radio, or plain 'ol FM.
My dad hates Stern with a passion (I like him, but that's just me). After listening to Sirius in my car for a while, he decided he wants it. He's had it and has enjoyed it for two years. I don't think he's ever once come across Stern by accident.
I don't like some of the channel selections that is on Sirius (I don't want my money going towards Fox News), but that's the choice I'm given. The benefits of Sirius outweighs the few pennies I send to Roger Ailes every months.
And yes, I can't stand O&A, but I won't cancel my subscription if they were on Sirius. Get over yourself.
Have you ever listened to satellite radio? I'm not sure who modded you up, but they (and you) have no clue.
There's a few top-40 stations, but I never hear them. I have my favorite songs and groups programmed in and it'll alert me when any of them appear on any channel (try doing that, HD Radio).
There's a monthly fee. There's a monthly fee for your Internet service too I bet. So what?
I'm not sure where you get commercials from. A few stations have them, and I don't think any of the music ones on Sirius do (Clear Channel programs some on XM and thus do).
What genres are unrepresented? There seems to be a great mix.
For crap's sake, their competition has hardly changed since they came out with their product - radio and TV aren't getting any "more free" after all and my internet bill has yet to go down.
Aside from the arrival of HD Radio, the explosion of ipods and MP3 players, and Internet Radio, you're right.
Last, from TFA: "The companies said they would introduce radios that receive both XM and Sirius channels." If memory serves, they said the same 10+ years ago. Can someone tell me why companies are allowed (seemingly encouraged) so often to act like petulant 5 year olds?
Given neither Sirus nor XM were broadcasting until 7-8 years ago, I'm not sure how you could have heard that, or thought they would make compatible radios.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but translated that means in at most another 10 years, SeriousExcem is already going to have to start replacing these satellites. Of course, none of the existing satellites will have a problem in the mean time.
That's why at least XM and I think Sirius have launched new satellites recently, and yea, the life expectancy is about 20 years. So what?
This. I've been using mice since 1986(ish). It's not going away anytime soon as touchscreens aren't standard on desktops. and I rarely use my touchscreen on my laptop - I'll use the mouse instead. There will have to be a big UI shift before mice become obsolete and disappear. The speed that Linux and Windows move at means this will take a long long time to do.
It is also important to note that the people who might have access to this data - the IT people, HVAC people, and building engineers, are almost certainly not the people who see and pay the bills. At my workplace, the data center expenses comes out of the data center funds, so while you're right that the HVAC person doesn't literally see the bill, the head of the department needs to know those numbers to stay on-budget. Whether the department head shares that with the staff...perhaps that is another question (in our case he does).
An HPC cluster can easily consume 20+KW per rack. Across 5-10 racks (or more) per cluster. And that's not counting the AC that's required to keep the air cool.
While setting monitors to sleep mode and powering things off do help, data centers have a lot of power use in a small space. It's clearly in everyone's interest to reduce that power since it results in a lot of savings across the board.
Users can put in more systems per square foot, data center managers can rely on fewer UPS systems and fewer tons of AC, and the resulting lower utility bills is just icing on the cake.
Data centers have to know how much they're using as they have to have sufficient UPS backup to keep their systems running in the event of street power outage.
Groups that maintain these data centers also wind up paying the electric bills, so even if they don't know how much is actually in use at ant single point in time, it's pretty easy to look at a few bills and see what the usage over the past 30 days were.
It was VMWare? Why the hell didn't you take a snapshot before performing this major OS update? Meh.
Guess you've never suffered through a botched libc update. Ohhhh yes I did. Back in the days when where were no live CDs. Then, you were kinda stuck with a reinstall, but that was about 12 years ago since that last happend. I've been able to fix a lot of problems easily with a live CD under Linux including things like corrupted MBRs.
I'm actually going through this process now and can answer your question.
I went to install XP SP3 in VMWare and I hosed the image while it was updating, rendering the underlying OS completely useless. The only way I could coax it back to life was to reinstall the OS over the old one, and even that didn't work. I'm now spending way too much of this morning creating a new image and reinstalling everything from scratch. I don't use XP for much, so I didn't really lose anything in the process.
But compare this to most Linux distributions. If there was a failure of one part (e-mail, SSH, even the kernel), you only need to repair or fix that one piece and you're back and running again and that repair can be done independently of other parts of the system. I'd wager the only time you'd need to wipe a Linux disk and start from scratch is if you've been pwn3d and the binaries have been replaced with trojans. In the case of Windows, it's hard to track down the actual cause of a problem, and even then replace whatever configuration or binaries were corrupted. Given the time and searching involved to do so, it's easier to wipe the disk and start over.
They're close to about 20M listeners between them.
For those of you complaining about why pay for a service you get for free, I'd ask the same thing about free air TV vs. cable. In general, I don't like broadcast TV, and I don't like free-air radio. Cable has a large number of options, and so does satellite. I like being able to jump from a channel of strictly 80s music to a channel with traffic and weather for the area I'm in to music my 5 year old will want to listen to and then switch over to some electronica after she falls asleep.
No static, no channels fading in and out, and unless I'm listening to something like talk radio or rebroadcast of a TV channel like CNN, there are no commercials.
Don't like satellite? Fine, don't buy it. For people that do either a lot of commuting or lots of road travel, it's worth the money.
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Wait, what?
If the CPU were running at 100%, then it would be CPU bound. Perhaps you meant to say it's GPU bound?
Patches are installed by default? Sweet!
Unless you mean things like getting the 6/08 media and install that which includes all patched up until then. Then you still have to install patches since 8/08 via descriptive names as 1-1854298.zip
Well that's why I admin Linux boxes instead of trying to pass myself off as a Sun admin, your snark notwithstanding.
Stay away?
What if you need real uptime with a load of 80 on a 32 cpu system? Can Linux handle the load and have years of uptime?
Yea, stay away. If you have a load of 80 on a 32 CPU system, you didn't design the hardware or software correctly.
Solaris just works and its made for servers. Linux seems always beta quality with its cutting edgness and is desktop oriented. I would not trust my job to it unless its Debian or RHES which costs $$$ as cutting edge features are not needed on a mission critical server. Solaris scales far better than any BSD or Linux distro out there.
Debian doesn't cost anything, and there's always CentOS if you want the RHEL reliability without the cost.
Ask any *real* Unix admin who uses both and more than likely they will say Linux is great for small jobs but Solaris is king for anything else.
Yea, these were the same Unix admins who used to ask me if I installed the latest kernel patch while they were still using sendmail (and patching it about as frequently). I didn't put a lot of faith in their opinion.
Oh and the article discussed a scarcity of third party apps. I found the opposite as most server ERP and database apps are on Solaris than Linux.
For the big big things, probably. Oracle? Works perfectly fine. I'm building a RAC now using commodity hardware that will probably be 1/3 the price of what it would cost to get something from Sun.
To be fair, I haven't used much Sun equipment (hardware or OS) in the past 6 years or so. There's a number of things they get right, like the Open Firmware. But from an OS and maintenance perspective, does Sun still have patch clusters? Do I have to head over to SunFreeware.com to get useful applications installed? I can provision a Linux server literally in a few minutes, but it would take the better part of a day to get Solaris set up (have to remember to disable telnet, find the latest patch cluster, reboot, install gcc and other apps). Bleah.
Last I heard, it was a dongle you plug into the USB port on the back of the Tivo. Engadget reported it was supposed to be available 2Q2008.
Switched video's been a problem for over a year (I remember worrying about it before buying my Tivo HD). The 'solution' from Tivo has been 'coming' for months - I want to say this was announced in January.
There's at least one good reason this shouldn't be allowed. Once you enter private property, a warrant would be needed to follow a suspect. So long as the GPS recognizes what is public and private property and stops recording when on private property, I guess I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Even for experienced Linux admins, Centrify is really nice. We use it to provide authentication for our cluster.
Of course, Sirius XM should be able to sink or swim on its own merits. I mean, aside from the restrictions that the FCC put on them (and the NAB demanded), oh, and the onerous fees that the RIAA put on their music but not on traditional broadcast radio.
But then again, where is the government actually helping Sirius XM aside from giving them the ability to pool resources (so they won't need to put up as many satellites)?
The gp stated, 'Satellite Radio is not a monopoly; it is competing against FREE terrestrial radio, mp3 players, ipods, FREE internet radio, etc.'
This part is true.
I argue that satellite radio is a far different way of using our airwaves than terrestrial radio. Terrestrial radio is bound by ground-wave propagation -- I can't listen to Philadelphia's radio stations when I'm in my car driving in Seattle. I can listen to XM/Sirius wherever I am, though. The FCC limited terrestrial radio in this way by design. So satellite radio is not competing against free terrestrial radio.
Incorrect. Sorta. Take the example of any talk radio host, Dr. Demento, or NPR/PRI. They're providing the same show across the country. Aside from a few minutes of local news, All Things Considered is the same in Boston as it is in Miami. The FCC doesn't crack down on that. From a broadcasting standpoint, no one FM or AM station can transmit across the country, but there's no limiting propagating the content.
mp3 players and the like are also no comparison to the service that satellite radio offers, because they aren't broadcast (I can't get breaking news on my ipod). So satellite radio is not competing against mp3 player and ipods.
The iPhone can get breaking news and your e-mail. But the intent is really content since you can get breaking news via FM radio, which your car most likely already has. The iPod/mp3 player makes for full control over your content and many people are happy with that level of control.
And internet 'radio' doesn't exactly use radio waves, unless you count wifi.
Or if you get it over your cell phone (think iPhone again)
The easiest and cheapest way of making this best-interest assurance is to require a competitor. If I don't think that XM/Sirius is working in my best interest, I could at least change carriers. I know, I know, it sounds horribly European. Sorry about that. Really, the other option to make sure that a satellite radio company provides unbiased public information services is to have constant and intense oversight of Sirius/XM by the FCC. In a sense, I'm really making the 'smaller' government argument here ;-).
Actually, you're making a big government argument if you want the FCC to have such control over Sirius/XM. But anyway, portions of the spectrum will be set aside for minority programming, there are a variety of news stations (CNN, CNNHN, MSNBC, FNC, NPR, etc.) and a variety of talk radio stations. I think the spectrum is already being well represented on at least Sirius, and probably XM as well (I've been a Sirius subscriber for a number of years). If Sirius doesn't provide what I want, then I'll cancel the subs I have and go back to my iPod, internet radio, or plain 'ol FM.
My dad hates Stern with a passion (I like him, but that's just me). After listening to Sirius in my car for a while, he decided he wants it. He's had it and has enjoyed it for two years. I don't think he's ever once come across Stern by accident.
I don't like some of the channel selections that is on Sirius (I don't want my money going towards Fox News), but that's the choice I'm given. The benefits of Sirius outweighs the few pennies I send to Roger Ailes every months.
And yes, I can't stand O&A, but I won't cancel my subscription if they were on Sirius. Get over yourself.
Have you ever listened to satellite radio? I'm not sure who modded you up, but they (and you) have no clue.
There's a few top-40 stations, but I never hear them. I have my favorite songs and groups programmed in and it'll alert me when any of them appear on any channel (try doing that, HD Radio).
There's a monthly fee. There's a monthly fee for your Internet service too I bet. So what?
I'm not sure where you get commercials from. A few stations have them, and I don't think any of the music ones on Sirius do (Clear Channel programs some on XM and thus do).
What genres are unrepresented? There seems to be a great mix.
For crap's sake, their competition has hardly changed since they came out with their product - radio and TV aren't getting any "more free" after all and my internet bill has yet to go down.
Aside from the arrival of HD Radio, the explosion of ipods and MP3 players, and Internet Radio, you're right.
Last, from TFA: "The companies said they would introduce radios that receive both XM and Sirius channels." If memory serves, they said the same 10+ years ago. Can someone tell me why companies are allowed (seemingly encouraged) so often to act like petulant 5 year olds?
Given neither Sirus nor XM were broadcasting until 7-8 years ago, I'm not sure how you could have heard that, or thought they would make compatible radios.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but translated that means in at most another 10 years, SeriousExcem is already going to have to start replacing these satellites. Of course, none of the existing satellites will have a problem in the mean time.
That's why at least XM and I think Sirius have launched new satellites recently, and yea, the life expectancy is about 20 years. So what?
I certainly can't listen to terrestrial radio, mp3 players, ipods, nor internet radio under the same conditions that I can listen to satellite radio.
Sorry, I can't parse that. Do you mind explaining what you mean?
I think the reference was to the USB dongle that would pick up XM signals directly and play them on your computer.
This. I've been using mice since 1986(ish). It's not going away anytime soon as touchscreens aren't standard on desktops. and I rarely use my touchscreen on my laptop - I'll use the mouse instead. There will have to be a big UI shift before mice become obsolete and disappear. The speed that Linux and Windows move at means this will take a long long time to do.
An HPC cluster can easily consume 20+KW per rack. Across 5-10 racks (or more) per cluster. And that's not counting the AC that's required to keep the air cool.
While setting monitors to sleep mode and powering things off do help, data centers have a lot of power use in a small space. It's clearly in everyone's interest to reduce that power since it results in a lot of savings across the board.
Users can put in more systems per square foot, data center managers can rely on fewer UPS systems and fewer tons of AC, and the resulting lower utility bills is just icing on the cake.
I hope you're joking
Data centers have to know how much they're using as they have to have sufficient UPS backup to keep their systems running in the event of street power outage.
Groups that maintain these data centers also wind up paying the electric bills, so even if they don't know how much is actually in use at ant single point in time, it's pretty easy to look at a few bills and see what the usage over the past 30 days were.
So I guess goths go for vampire taps?
I'm actually going through this process now and can answer your question.
I went to install XP SP3 in VMWare and I hosed the image while it was updating, rendering the underlying OS completely useless. The only way I could coax it back to life was to reinstall the OS over the old one, and even that didn't work. I'm now spending way too much of this morning creating a new image and reinstalling everything from scratch. I don't use XP for much, so I didn't really lose anything in the process.
But compare this to most Linux distributions. If there was a failure of one part (e-mail, SSH, even the kernel), you only need to repair or fix that one piece and you're back and running again and that repair can be done independently of other parts of the system. I'd wager the only time you'd need to wipe a Linux disk and start from scratch is if you've been pwn3d and the binaries have been replaced with trojans. In the case of Windows, it's hard to track down the actual cause of a problem, and even then replace whatever configuration or binaries were corrupted. Given the time and searching involved to do so, it's easier to wipe the disk and start over.
It wasn't Marooned Off Vesta that had the Anopticon, it was Anniversary written in 1959.
By then the speeds will be fast enough that you can use toes as a measuring stick.
They're close to about 20M listeners between them.
For those of you complaining about why pay for a service you get for free, I'd ask the same thing about free air TV vs. cable. In general, I don't like broadcast TV, and I don't like free-air radio. Cable has a large number of options, and so does satellite. I like being able to jump from a channel of strictly 80s music to a channel with traffic and weather for the area I'm in to music my 5 year old will want to listen to and then switch over to some electronica after she falls asleep.
No static, no channels fading in and out, and unless I'm listening to something like talk radio or rebroadcast of a TV channel like CNN, there are no commercials.
Don't like satellite? Fine, don't buy it. For people that do either a lot of commuting or lots of road travel, it's worth the money.