Honestly, this is one of the most touted changes to OpenBSD 3.2 - it was absolutely everywhere on the misc@ list, it is in the FAQ, it is the #3 bullet point under the "What's New" page for the 3.2 release. There is really no excuse for not knowing it was coming, and thus knowing it would be a likely reason for old configs to not work
You are wrong. There is at least one Indian IT consultancy/body shop that has outsource their devel work to China because China is cheaper than India. So Indians are reaping their expertise in outsourcing by doing it again.
The Apple screen is much much lower resolution -1440x900, so it is less complex, and probably weighs less. Still, you say that the apple is only a tenth of a pound lighter. So whats the problem?
Don't be a twat. Intel has screwed people on ram for years- the 430TX pentium chipset could only cache 64MB ram. Even some of their current chipsets only handle 512MB. They are always trying to push business users towards "workstations" - I don't need opengl, or integrated scsi - I must just want > 512 MB some day.
Cuz scsi users don't need space. Most scsi drives are used in servers in raid configurations. More spindles is more important that raw per disk capacity.
People have been saying that MSFT was working on this stuff for the next gen windows server already (not 2003 - if win2k=nt5, then windows server 2003 = 5.1, think nt6 = 2 years minimum for release).
That said, VMWare has a server oriented product for server consolidations, and IBM has been pushing it at windows types for probably a year now (they probably are partners). VMWare has probably at least a 12-18 month head start on this, this minute. Given that the next major windows server rev won't be out for a couple years, this shouldn't be the end of the world for VMWare.
The Unisys ES7000 can run 1 32 way or as many as 8 4 way win2k machines. hardware partitioning, don't know how dynamic it is for software instances.
Don't understand your citrix comment comes from. MS didn't buy them. Citrix is thin client stuff anyhow, nothing to do with virtualization.
MS does run on non x86 - there have been Itanium revs for devel use for over a year. IBM nor Dec were stellar partners, back when their chips could run NT.
Does linux support hot swap PCI? NT has since 4.0. If linux doesn't, I can't see how it would make sense as the underlying os. I would have the utmost confidence in MS stuff as the core OS - I would think about not assigning an IP to it, and managing the box via KVM over IP, or something else, so security hotfixes are a non issue.
The japanese had pilots willing to pilot their planes into anything deemed a target. I don't think that the era 1945 to present holds a monopoly on the world being a scary and dangerous place.
PCs: Don't have a standardized way of flashing bios's from within the OS Don't have a standardized way of netbooting - MS's PXE is closed, but people have tried to hack it into use.
Without floppies, it will be a pain to do sysadmin stuff unless these issues are addressed. Ideally, a smarter pc bios that could net boot a boot image would be ideal - a lot of 1st tier intel based servers have such functionality.
Please don't comment if you don't know what you are talking about. For years now, as soon as MS announces the release date for the next version, if you buy the current version, they give you the next version for free.
In fact, if anything, people in MS shops often complain about the difficulty of acquiring older versions of their software. Usually this is simple about the media though, as buying an Office XP license allows you to run Office 2k instead until you are ready to upgrade.
You are correct. This week I was building out a couple compaq^H^H^H^H^H^H hp proliants - 1 64 bit 133mhz pci-x slot, and 2 64 bit 100mhz hotswappable slots. This was on a mere 2 xeon cpu box. The enormous size of the x86 market will push its IO capabilities more quickly than sun can do on its own. With integrated firewire and usb 2.0, soho motherboards need to have great north/south bridge and cpu interconnects.
1. There are probably 15 to 25 IIS or SQL boxes for every one Exchange box. Remember, IIS can mean professional os revs, and SQL can mean MSDE, which is part of certain visio installs, etc. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this figure was more like 50 to 1.
2. Many companies hide exchange from the net - while they don't patch exchange, they don't allow direct smtp connectivity to it - they outsource that, or have appliances or *nix boxes in front of it for antivirus, spam, and/or security purposes.
If he is using NTFS, he can have the local admin take ownership of the dir, and set the perms read only for everyone. Even if he logs on as a user who is the the local admin group, he still can't change that.
That said, for cross windows usage, I doubt anyone codes these things to be ntfs/acl aware.
Just because it is in print does not mean it is true. Cringely is wrong on a lot of things, and this is one of them. MS maintained the drive lettering construct for backwards compatibility purposes, and with each revision, there are fewer and fewer limitation because of it (in 2k, ms introduced the ability to mount drives as folders in existing file systems, a unixy like feature). In the nt/2k/xp family, dos programs can only run in a dos virtual machine (NTVDM), somewhat similar to the java model.
I would strongly bet against openbsd ever putting java in the base system, as I am 99.9% certain it won't ever come near their open and free requirements.
Disclaimer - I have no coding skills whatsover, but happened to have read the @stake thing two days ago.
You linked to a piece that is almost 1 year old. In your link, the guy proposes 4 solutions. Nearly 1 year later, @stake does some research, and finds > 20 linux drivers that still exhibit the problem. So, it is still a vulnerability / information leakage problem, regardless of past research in the subject - although you pointed out that people thought about it= no one has done anything, and @stake seems to believe that minor driver code tweaks can resolve the issue, as opposed to rejigging kernel mem operations ("could lead to a race though..." is BAD).
You ought to try windows more often, if you want to make comments like this. I slipstream service packs in all of my win2k distribution points, so my minimum is win2k+ sp3. You then can chain together hotfixes, and reboot once.
Ostiguy said he thinks ask jeeves has also seen its day. Although, he isn't sure if they even really actually had one. When you are trailing google, you *cannot* make decisions that will put you further behind. Making your search engine results more suspect is not a winning strategy.
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NT alpha was a 32bit OS on a 64 bit CPU. Strange but true
Honestly, this is one of the most touted changes to OpenBSD 3.2 - it was absolutely everywhere on the misc@ list, it is in the FAQ, it is the #3 bullet point under the "What's New" page for the 3.2 release. There is really no excuse for not knowing it was coming, and thus knowing it would be a likely reason for old configs to not work
ostiguy
Nah,EMC and some others have held off for SATA 2, which will have better hot swap support and transfer rates, IIRC.
ostiguy
You are wrong. There is at least one Indian IT consultancy/body shop that has outsource their devel work to China because China is cheaper than India. So Indians are reaping their expertise in outsourcing by doing it again.
ostiguy
The Apple screen is much much lower resolution -1440x900, so it is less complex, and probably weighs less. Still, you say that the apple is only a tenth of a pound lighter. So whats the problem?
ostiguy
Don't be a twat. Intel has screwed people on ram for years- the 430TX pentium chipset could only cache 64MB ram. Even some of their current chipsets only handle 512MB. They are always trying to push business users towards "workstations" - I don't need opengl, or integrated scsi - I must just want > 512 MB some day.
ostiguy
Cuz scsi users don't need space. Most scsi drives are used in servers in raid configurations. More spindles is more important that raw per disk capacity.
Earthlink might be reselling attbi in your area. They charge non cable tv subscribers what att charges cable subscribers.
ostiguy
People have been saying that MSFT was working on this stuff for the next gen windows server already (not 2003 - if win2k=nt5, then windows server 2003 = 5.1, think nt6 = 2 years minimum for release).
That said, VMWare has a server oriented product for server consolidations, and IBM has been pushing it at windows types for probably a year now (they probably are partners). VMWare has probably at least a 12-18 month head start on this, this minute. Given that the next major windows server rev won't be out for a couple years, this shouldn't be the end of the world for VMWare.
ostiguy
The Unisys ES7000 can run 1 32 way or as many as 8 4 way win2k machines. hardware partitioning, don't know how dynamic it is for software instances.
Don't understand your citrix comment comes from. MS didn't buy them. Citrix is thin client stuff anyhow, nothing to do with virtualization.
MS does run on non x86 - there have been Itanium revs for devel use for over a year. IBM nor Dec were stellar partners, back when their chips could run NT.
Does linux support hot swap PCI? NT has since 4.0. If linux doesn't, I can't see how it would make sense as the underlying os. I would have the utmost confidence in MS stuff as the core OS - I would think about not assigning an IP to it, and managing the box via KVM over IP, or something else, so security hotfixes are a non issue.
ostiguy
Yup. In fact, last article I saw re: this stated that their code is on *nix boxes.
The japanese had pilots willing to pilot their planes into anything deemed a target. I don't think that the era 1945 to present holds a monopoly on the world being a scary and dangerous place.
ostiguy
Nah, its still stupid:
PCs:
Don't have a standardized way of flashing bios's from within the OS
Don't have a standardized way of netbooting - MS's PXE is closed, but people have tried to hack it into use.
Without floppies, it will be a pain to do sysadmin stuff unless these issues are addressed. Ideally, a smarter pc bios that could net boot a boot image would be ideal - a lot of 1st tier intel based servers have such functionality.
ostiguy
Please don't comment if you don't know what you are talking about. For years now, as soon as MS announces the release date for the next version, if you buy the current version, they give you the next version for free.
In fact, if anything, people in MS shops often complain about the difficulty of acquiring older versions of their software. Usually this is simple about the media though, as buying an Office XP license allows you to run Office 2k instead until you are ready to upgrade.
ostiguy
You are correct. This week I was building out a couple compaq^H^H^H^H^H^H hp proliants - 1 64 bit 133mhz pci-x slot, and 2 64 bit 100mhz hotswappable slots. This was on a mere 2 xeon cpu box. The enormous size of the x86 market will push its IO capabilities more quickly than sun can do on its own. With integrated firewire and usb 2.0, soho motherboards need to have great north/south bridge and cpu interconnects.
ostiguy
Highly doubtful:
1. There are probably 15 to 25 IIS or SQL boxes for every one Exchange box. Remember, IIS can mean professional os revs, and SQL can mean MSDE, which is part of certain visio installs, etc. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this figure was more like 50 to 1.
2. Many companies hide exchange from the net - while they don't patch exchange, they don't allow direct smtp connectivity to it - they outsource that, or have appliances or *nix boxes in front of it for antivirus, spam, and/or security purposes.
ostiguy
If he is using NTFS, he can have the local admin take ownership of the dir, and set the perms read only for everyone. Even if he logs on as a user who is the the local admin group, he still can't change that.
That said, for cross windows usage, I doubt anyone codes these things to be ntfs/acl aware.
ostiguy
Just because it is in print does not mean it is true. Cringely is wrong on a lot of things, and this is one of them. MS maintained the drive lettering construct for backwards compatibility purposes, and with each revision, there are fewer and fewer limitation because of it (in 2k, ms introduced the ability to mount drives as folders in existing file systems, a unixy like feature). In the nt/2k/xp family, dos programs can only run in a dos virtual machine (NTVDM), somewhat similar to the java model.
ostiguy
Yup, I've heard task manager in win2k also shows 4 meters on a 2 physical cpu box.
ostiguy
I would strongly bet against openbsd ever putting java in the base system, as I am 99.9% certain it won't ever come near their open and free requirements.
So what?
Disclaimer - I have no coding skills whatsover, but happened to have read the @stake thing two days ago.
You linked to a piece that is almost 1 year old. In your link, the guy proposes 4 solutions. Nearly 1 year later, @stake does some research, and finds > 20 linux drivers that still exhibit the problem. So, it is still a vulnerability / information leakage problem, regardless of past research in the subject - although you pointed out that people thought about it= no one has done anything, and @stake seems to believe that minor driver code tweaks can resolve the issue, as opposed to rejigging kernel mem operations ("could lead to a race though..." is BAD).
ostiguy
someone probably once said, "it'll be a sad day when people exploit the openness of core internet protocols for commercial gain"
ostiguy
You ought to try windows more often, if you want to make comments like this. I slipstream service packs in all of my win2k distribution points, so my minimum is win2k+ sp3. You then can chain together hotfixes, and reboot once.
ostiguy
The SEC requires logging near that. All email and im traffic have to be logged for 2+ years, IIRC.
ostiguy
Ostiguy said he thinks ask jeeves has also seen its day. Although, he isn't sure if they even really actually had one. When you are trailing google, you *cannot* make decisions that will put you further behind. Making your search engine results more suspect is not a winning strategy.
ostiguy