Dan Castellaneta who? I understand your point, but Dan Castellaneta is not a house hold name. Homer Simpson is a house hold name. If he did genie in the homer voice it would be recognized. It would also be funny as sh*t.
I agree. Being a father, I am exposed to a lot of cartoon/CG movies. I love pixar movies becuase of the writing and the stars that say the lines. I am looking forward to seeing cars. Come'on can anybody replace "Larry the Cable guy" in a role like that?
However, I have also seen some real crap. The Barbie movies are CG and they suck. I can't stand to watch any of them. Along with the care bears (not cg but cartoon). Its not the medium, it's the story and the actors. Even if it's only their voices. Robin Williams as the genie? Have you seen the after-market dvds with another actor. It really makes a difference.
I read this on the web so it has to be true.
http://www.mslinux.org/
I am so glad that there is a version of Linux that most IT managers will embrace without question. Happy Days!
I understand and agree with your "teach them to fish rather than give them a fish" approach. However, in your statement it screems the problem that is addressed.
"handle a Linux n00b"
You were once a Linux n00b, in fact to some I am sure you still are. Everything is relative. To some you may be a guru, but there is always someone more skilled or smarter than you. Labeling them as n00bs is part of the problem. I am very skilled in certain areas of Linux, however, some areas I never work with I am ignorant. It always suprises me when I can converse with IBM kernel developers with the upmost respect and civility, and then bounce over to an IRC on a media player app and get treated like a child because I am not 100% familiar with the application. When is a user to longer a n00b? You cannot be an expert on everything. So in some ways, we are all n00bs. How do you like being called a n00b?
Sounds like my story. I got my Ti99/4a and used to love typing in the programs in the back of magazines. I totally forgot about Compute! Unfortunatly, my parents bought me mine when they were becoming obsolete (because that is when they could afford it). In my little town, I could not find the cables for attaching a tape drive. So I would have to leave my computer on all the time. I would turn off the tv and leave on the computer. My parents never knew. I so remember typing in all that code, only to find out there was a syntax error and I would have to wait until next months issue to get the code fix. (This was before I learned to really read the code).
Ahh happy days.
Opening yourself up for that one. Anyway, I have Apple stickers on my guitar and amplifier. I have a GNU snowboard with penguin stickers, php, perl, and Linux. I think the best place however was not a sticker but fake tattoos. My 4-year old daughter and I sported RedHat tattoos for a week.
Humm.... AIX on x86? I'm not too sure about that. You choices are AIX and Linux on Power, or Linux and Solaris on x86. I just wanted to clarify that you would not be able to replace AIX with Solaris.
If one goes down, just restart it from your clean backup IN SECONDS.
Why would a system just "go down" without hardware issues that virtualization would not correct? I understand there is the likelyhood that somone removes or corrupts a system file ( rm -rf/* ) but for production systems that is less likely than hardware failure. If you have a test environment where you are contantly blowing away a partition or system files by accident, it would be awesome. I just would not rely on this as a backup solution.
This has been around for while. Did anonymous coward just now find out about it? Or is anonymous coward IBM marketing just trying to get the word out. Anyway, I have been using it for about two years. It's pretty impressive technology. The recent addition to sub-processor partitioning is really cool.
However, the one item that seems out of place is the fact that you need a separate system (a Hardware Maintenance Console HMC) to manage it. This is a separate linux x86 box ($4,000 beige box) that you have to dedicate to manage the LPARS. If the LPAR management could be included in standalone system, it would make more sense. Other than that, it's impressive technology.
I think the misconception is that linux is not ready for joe sixpack. Actually, I think most people in the business sector are not looking at that. They are discussing when it will be a viable and stable replacement for SUN, HP-UX, AIX, and other carrier-grade UNIX systems that run the infrastructure of the banking, healthcare, utilities industries. The fact that it may not be ready for my [ insert usb gaming/mp3 device ] is not at issue.
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Dan Castellaneta who? I understand your point, but Dan Castellaneta is not a house hold name. Homer Simpson is a house hold name. If he did genie in the homer voice it would be recognized. It would also be funny as sh*t.
I agree. Being a father, I am exposed to a lot of cartoon/CG movies. I love pixar movies becuase of the writing and the stars that say the lines. I am looking forward to seeing cars. Come'on can anybody replace "Larry the Cable guy" in a role like that?
However, I have also seen some real crap. The Barbie movies are CG and they suck. I can't stand to watch any of them. Along with the care bears (not cg but cartoon). Its not the medium, it's the story and the actors. Even if it's only their voices. Robin Williams as the genie? Have you seen the after-market dvds with another actor. It really makes a difference.
Take care.I read this on the web so it has to be true. http://www.mslinux.org/ I am so glad that there is a version of Linux that most IT managers will embrace without question. Happy Days!
I understand and agree with your "teach them to fish rather than give them a fish" approach. However, in your statement it screems the problem that is addressed.
"handle a Linux n00b"
You were once a Linux n00b, in fact to some I am sure you still are. Everything is relative. To some you may be a guru, but there is always someone more skilled or smarter than you. Labeling them as n00bs is part of the problem. I am very skilled in certain areas of Linux, however, some areas I never work with I am ignorant. It always suprises me when I can converse with IBM kernel developers with the upmost respect and civility, and then bounce over to an IRC on a media player app and get treated like a child because I am not 100% familiar with the application. When is a user to longer a n00b? You cannot be an expert on everything. So in some ways, we are all n00bs. How do you like being called a n00b?
I can't wait until it comes out. As soon as I get mine, I'm wiping out the harddisk and installing Debian!
If you know a lot, but you are unpresentable, unbathed, unshaven and slovenly
Doesn't that describe most of the open source community?
;-)Imagine all of the sweeeeet jumps you can do. Even on Pedro's bike.
Just thought it was funny. There are so many uses for SMB these days. Have a nice day.
Mod this one up. Laughed my ass off.
Was that Sleepy Cat or Smelly Cat?
Sounds like my story. I got my Ti99/4a and used to love typing in the programs in the back of magazines. I totally forgot about Compute! Unfortunatly, my parents bought me mine when they were becoming obsolete (because that is when they could afford it). In my little town, I could not find the cables for attaching a tape drive. So I would have to leave my computer on all the time. I would turn off the tv and leave on the computer. My parents never knew. I so remember typing in all that code, only to find out there was a syntax error and I would have to wait until next months issue to get the code fix. (This was before I learned to really read the code). Ahh happy days.
EFI uses the elilo bootloader. EFI has to this point been associated with IA64 Itanium II.
Opening yourself up for that one. Anyway, I have Apple stickers on my guitar and amplifier. I have a GNU snowboard with penguin stickers, php, perl, and Linux. I think the best place however was not a sticker but fake tattoos. My 4-year old daughter and I sported RedHat tattoos for a week.
I can't wait to get this for my kids. I'm sure I am not alone. This guy will be rich.
I can just throw an AIX or Debian cd in
Humm.... AIX on x86? I'm not too sure about that. You choices are AIX and Linux on Power, or Linux and Solaris on x86. I just wanted to clarify that you would not be able to replace AIX with Solaris.
If one goes down, just restart it from your clean backup IN SECONDS.
Why would a system just "go down" without hardware issues that virtualization would not correct? I understand there is the likelyhood that somone removes or corrupts a system file ( rm -rfI wondered when someone was going to mention LVM. This is the way to go.
I agree. This should be modded up to 5-funny (since it doesn't go to 11)
This has been around for while. Did anonymous coward just now find out about it? Or is anonymous coward IBM marketing just trying to get the word out. Anyway, I have been using it for about two years. It's pretty impressive technology. The recent addition to sub-processor partitioning is really cool. However, the one item that seems out of place is the fact that you need a separate system (a Hardware Maintenance Console HMC) to manage it. This is a separate linux x86 box ($4,000 beige box) that you have to dedicate to manage the LPARS. If the LPAR management could be included in standalone system, it would make more sense. Other than that, it's impressive technology.
Someone has to say it.
I think the misconception is that linux is not ready for joe sixpack. Actually, I think most people in the business sector are not looking at that. They are discussing when it will be a viable and stable replacement for SUN, HP-UX, AIX, and other carrier-grade UNIX systems that run the infrastructure of the banking, healthcare, utilities industries. The fact that it may not be ready for my [ insert usb gaming/mp3 device ] is not at issue.
There is a special place in hell for scammers taking advantage of this disaster. It's too bad.
I am really bummed that supergreg #1 did not get on the list.
I know, how about Red Hat hackers! oh wait...