what is to stop you from bringing your input devices with you? the sunray supports usb.
i believe many of the people had an assigned office in one building, but they could use a desk in another some days to avoid some commuting or something, so maybe you wouldn't be able to use that feature of employment.
With appropriate complaint logging in place for hardware issues (such as dirty ass mouse and stuck backspace, etc), and some fun with statistics, management can have some idea of who needs a reminder about taking care of the equipment.
On the other hand, since all the equipment is sun's, they can probably get it replaced on the cheap.
with j3 it makes sure the box is (nearly) always has a compiler session for each cpu, it would probably be reasonable to run j2 for a single processor box as well...
Well at least in the US a lot of the problem with cell phones is people who have them and don't know how to turn them off.
Also, its kind of nice to know that while you're out doing whatever, your boss/significant other/parent/annoying friend can't get in touch with you. With a cell phone, the common behavior is to brinig it with you all the time and have it on as much as possible.
Not to rain on your parade, but if you want to use that to debug kernels (and not to play with bios settings and/or the bootloader), adding that to the bios doesn't help you. You need to add serial console support to your kernel, and turn it on via an appropriate kernel command line. Also, adding stuff to your/etc/inittab would probably be good too (so you can login over serial when the kernel you're debugging makes it that far)
I believe, but am not certain that the microcode reverts to factory values at power off (or power on depending on how you look at it), and that it would be typically stored in the bios to be updated as soon as practical.
I know linux has drivers to do stuff with (at least) intel microcode though, so i'd guess its possible to adjust the microcode while running your OS (probably a good time would be after it detected the processor, but it might be important to mount the root partition first:)
(hopefully this is kind of helpful, I'm taking most of my information from the parent of your post)
As far as I understand, the per-seat licensing is for the system as a whole, not for each individual pieces of software.
I believe one of the main goals of the system is having a lot of priopriatary software that is considered useful, that due to licensing needs would be otherwise unable to include in a distribution.
Its like the RedHat Secure Server package back when the RSA patent was still enforce. If you wanted to legitimately run an SSL server, you needed a license per computer for the patent. To get this you bought redhat's secure server (because its an inexpensive solution if you're running redhat...). You were not permitted to copy and use the secure server software on another machine at the same time. However the cd came with several pieces of gpl'ed software as well, and the GPL terms applied to those.
This is the same thing. The distro has a lot of per-seat licensed software. Additionally there is some gpl'ed software. Thus to use the distro you need to agree to the per-seat license, but for the gpl'ed portions you can give or sell those to your friends, buddies.
For Caldera et all to claim otherwise is absurd. And for us to get in a huff about them mixing and matching licenses of software in their distribution is silly.
no calc 2 for you? (infinite series in particular, wherever that fell in your calc series)
i remember learning (and quickly forgetting) how to manually calculate sines and cosines, and i know theres a relation between the exponential function and sines and cosines (thats why e^isomething translates into cos (theta) + i sin(theta) (or something))
Well... if the floppy drive controller is borked too... rescuing from a floppy doesn't work (been there, but came across an identical board later, and screwed it up differently(water+mboard while on != good), and then swapped the socketed chips.
I can't say I've seen any motherboards at all that had an upgradable bios and didn't have it socketed, that is odd.
actually amd's latest processor work is to do more in a clockcycle, whereas intel's latest processor work is to deepen the pipelines, and avoid pipeline stalls, so they can boost the clock way up, but the end up doing less per clock.
so in the end, the amd and intel chips are about as different on performance as an amd and a motorolla
don't think the plus sign is a valid character for an email address. In actuality, an email address can contain almost anything except '@', a '%' or a '!'. Yes, email addresses can even contain spaces if you quote them: "FirstName LastName"@domain.com is a perfectly valid email address. For some reason, these web programmers write their regular expressions to only include certain characters, rather than to exclude the illegal characters. To these web programmers, I say: read rfc793, especially section 2.10.
Well... I for one need to read rfc793 (and any related rfcs), but its is far better ot include only certain characters than to exclude illegal characters for the simple reason that in the event of not including a necessary character, it is easy to fix, when users start bitching. But if you forget to exclude an illegal character, the usual way of finding that out is when your server gets hax0red.
As you have expirenced, paper lasts 150+ years. 8" floppies from only a few tens of years ago are essentially unreadable now. In 50 years, who knows if we can read CDs. That being said, theres nothing wrong w/ storing on a computer as well as paper.
As for formatting for computer storage... I'd guess any format with readily available documentation would work. Be sure to include that documentation as a plain text file on the media as well. Just because PNG or JPEG is a big standard now, doesn't mean that it'll be in use in 20 years, but plain text never dies, and having the specification for the graphics format could facilitate the writing of a viewer at a later date. If you're using a CD, you might as well make it a bootable cd w/ a small viewer program set to auto run... Judging by recent moves by AMD and Intel, x86 code will never die, but I wouldn't rely on that alone.:)
What you're basically saying is that because banking, cars, and real estate has been a viable business in the past, we should guarantee their viability?
I personally don't like job loss, but its better for unnecessary jobs to be cut, and people find new ways of making money than to have deadweight bringing our economy down
I have to disagree with you, I feel impeding traffic in the RIGHT lane (or the slow lane in regions where slow != right) should in general be acceptable.
This should be the case for a few reasons: for saftey reasons, certain classes of vehicles (big trucks) have lower speed limits than others (passenger vehicles), so they have to impede traffic in order to drive safely (i don't know about you, but i don't want big rigs driving 90 mph); mechanical issues can sometimes limit speed to some maximum, that is within reasonable speeds for a road, but may not be what others are driving at, so the driver should move to the right lane, and depending on their destination, and severity of the mechanical issues may need to stay in the right lane for a while.
I do think that in addition to maximum speed limits, minimum speed limits need to be posted, and enforced, and certainly slower traffic should stay to the right, unless theres a reason (such as an offramp) for them to be on the left.
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ye gods, 'loose one turn' is on the original, how racy... what do you have to be slutty for one turn or something?
or is it more like let loose the hounds? and turns come from everywhere and attack the players?
one of my teachers in high school named his daughter ln (natural log), of course his wife thought her name was ellen :)
what is to stop you from bringing your input devices with you? the sunray supports usb.
i believe many of the people had an assigned office in one building, but they could use a desk in another some days to avoid some commuting or something, so maybe you wouldn't be able to use that feature of employment.
With appropriate complaint logging in place for hardware issues (such as dirty ass mouse and stuck backspace, etc), and some fun with statistics, management can have some idea of who needs a reminder about taking care of the equipment.
On the other hand, since all the equipment is sun's, they can probably get it replaced on the cheap.
ahh, i see
that is a good reason to use tar. I'll have to try to remember that.
thanks
yes, at least on xp, i never used x-mouse until recently, so i don't know if you can turn it off on older versions of windows (sorry)
oops... the redirect was _supposed_ to be there, but i forgot to preview and/or use the html equivilent rather than just typing it in
why not use scp to copy the stuff instead of tar?
pgrep doesn't give the info that ps aux does... although i suppose you could do ps aux `pgrep blah` but that takes the fun out of it
win95 had Xmouse activation via a powertoy from microsoft, and newer versions of windows have it via a registry setting (or tweakui)
actually microsoft's power toys for XP includes a mass resizer (the power toys are usually their most useful software)
your python script may crap out due to the stdin stream disappearing (i know nohup redirects stdout and stderr, but i don't think it redirects stdin)
/dev/null &
you might try nohup python myscript.py
with j3 it makes sure the box is (nearly) always has a compiler session for each cpu, it would probably be reasonable to run j2 for a single processor box as well...
Well at least in the US a lot of the problem with cell phones is people who have them and don't know how to turn them off.
Also, its kind of nice to know that while you're out doing whatever, your boss/significant other/parent/annoying friend can't get in touch with you. With a cell phone, the common behavior is to brinig it with you all the time and have it on as much as possible.
Not to rain on your parade, but if you want to use that to debug kernels (and not to play with bios settings and/or the bootloader), adding that to the bios doesn't help you. You need to add serial console support to your kernel, and turn it on via an appropriate kernel command line. Also, adding stuff to your /etc/inittab would probably be good too (so you can login over serial when the kernel you're debugging makes it that far)
I believe, but am not certain that the microcode reverts to factory values at power off (or power on depending on how you look at it), and that it would be typically stored in the bios to be updated as soon as practical.
:)
I know linux has drivers to do stuff with (at least) intel microcode though, so i'd guess its possible to adjust the microcode while running your OS (probably a good time would be after it detected the processor, but it might be important to mount the root partition first
(hopefully this is kind of helpful, I'm taking most of my information from the parent of your post)
As far as I understand, the per-seat licensing is for the system as a whole, not for each individual pieces of software.
I believe one of the main goals of the system is having a lot of priopriatary software that is considered useful, that due to licensing needs would be otherwise unable to include in a distribution.
Its like the RedHat Secure Server package back when the RSA patent was still enforce. If you wanted to legitimately run an SSL server, you needed a license per computer for the patent. To get this you bought redhat's secure server (because its an inexpensive solution if you're running redhat...). You were not permitted to copy and use the secure server software on another machine at the same time. However the cd came with several pieces of gpl'ed software as well, and the GPL terms applied to those.
This is the same thing. The distro has a lot of per-seat licensed software. Additionally there is some gpl'ed software. Thus to use the distro you need to agree to the per-seat license, but for the gpl'ed portions you can give or sell those to your friends, buddies.
For Caldera et all to claim otherwise is absurd. And for us to get in a huff about them mixing and matching licenses of software in their distribution is silly.
no calc 2 for you? (infinite series in particular, wherever that fell in your calc series)
i remember learning (and quickly forgetting) how to manually calculate sines and cosines, and i know theres a relation between the exponential function and sines and cosines (thats why e^isomething translates into cos (theta) + i sin(theta) (or something))
Well... if the floppy drive controller is borked too... rescuing from a floppy doesn't work (been there, but came across an identical board later, and screwed it up differently(water+mboard while on != good), and then swapped the socketed chips.
I can't say I've seen any motherboards at all that had an upgradable bios and didn't have it socketed, that is odd.
last i checked its $11 a unit in CA, (down from $12... is kinda nice for education costs to go down :)
actually amd's latest processor work is to do more in a clockcycle, whereas intel's latest processor work is to deepen the pipelines, and avoid pipeline stalls, so they can boost the clock way up, but the end up doing less per clock.
so in the end, the amd and intel chips are about as different on performance as an amd and a motorolla
Well... I for one need to read rfc793 (and any related rfcs), but its is far better ot include only certain characters than to exclude illegal characters for the simple reason that in the event of not including a necessary character, it is easy to fix, when users start bitching. But if you forget to exclude an illegal character, the usual way of finding that out is when your server gets hax0red.
The best format to store it on is paper.
:)
As you have expirenced, paper lasts 150+ years. 8" floppies from only a few tens of years ago are essentially unreadable now. In 50 years, who knows if we can read CDs. That being said, theres nothing wrong w/ storing on a computer as well as paper.
As for formatting for computer storage... I'd guess any format with readily available documentation would work. Be sure to include that documentation as a plain text file on the media as well. Just because PNG or JPEG is a big standard now, doesn't mean that it'll be in use in 20 years, but plain text never dies, and having the specification for the graphics format could facilitate the writing of a viewer at a later date. If you're using a CD, you might as well make it a bootable cd w/ a small viewer program set to auto run... Judging by recent moves by AMD and Intel, x86 code will never die, but I wouldn't rely on that alone.
This sounds pretty trollish, but I'll bite...
What you're basically saying is that because banking, cars, and real estate has been a viable business in the past, we should guarantee their viability?
I personally don't like job loss, but its better for unnecessary jobs to be cut, and people find new ways of making money than to have deadweight bringing our economy down
I have to disagree with you, I feel impeding traffic in the RIGHT lane (or the slow lane in regions where slow != right) should in general be acceptable.
This should be the case for a few reasons: for saftey reasons, certain classes of vehicles (big trucks) have lower speed limits than others (passenger vehicles), so they have to impede traffic in order to drive safely (i don't know about you, but i don't want big rigs driving 90 mph); mechanical issues can sometimes limit speed to some maximum, that is within reasonable speeds for a road, but may not be what others are driving at, so the driver should move to the right lane, and depending on their destination, and severity of the mechanical issues may need to stay in the right lane for a while.
I do think that in addition to maximum speed limits, minimum speed limits need to be posted, and enforced, and certainly slower traffic should stay to the right, unless theres a reason (such as an offramp) for them to be on the left.