I already tweaked my startup scripts to get a much faster boot, but one thing is really strange.
I've installed SuSE 8.2 on a lot of different desktops and laptops, but only with an IBM A31p loading the kernel takes about 19 seconds (the part where it says Loading linux.............). On all other systems this takes just a few seconds at most.
Does anyone have an explanation for this?
I'm using the stock 2.4.20 kernel from SuSE with the following append line: acpi=off hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 showopts
At my company we are currently setting up a new hosting solution that does exactly that. We are using 'low quality' HP blade servers with Intel processors that are replacing the Sun's on which our customers were running Oracle EBS. If a blade fails we activate another one, deploy an almost ready-to-run image of Red Hat AS , configure the network and in a few minutes we are up and running again for that server.
Due to this model we are able to offer a much lower price than when we were using expensive Sun servers. Intel hardware is much cheaper and we have a solution for the 'reduced reliability'.
What I meant of course were data-related apps, not graphical ones.
As for web-apps to be slow to use, I've seen numerous windows apps that were a lot slower to use than your average web app, besides that, web apps are usually a lot more stable.
Inefficient from an end-user stand point??? As in???
Cumbersome for large-scale data entry??? You take a tool like PHPMyAdmin, and in no time you can enter 1000's of queries per second from a SQL-dump file. As for manual data-entry, that just depends on the design, it doesn't have to be cumbersome at all.
I've been a Windows programmer for several years, but since 2 years or so I've switched to PHP programming. Nowadays, I almost can't imagine why anyone would still want to build platform-specific applications. Almost any business-related applications can be reworked to a web app, and you are immediately multi-platform.
I'm reworking most of the applications I've build, because I find it annoying to have to use a certain computer for some program, while I just started working on another, or having to switch to Windows while working with Linux. With my web-apps and well-thought security, I can do my work anywhere in the world!
Slashdot Mirror
Probably the sucker who's name the internet abo is registered on.
Darn, so that's why Beagle didn't answer, the green virii writers on Mars infected it!
I already tweaked my startup scripts to get a much faster boot, but one thing is really strange. I've installed SuSE 8.2 on a lot of different desktops and laptops, but only with an IBM A31p loading the kernel takes about 19 seconds (the part where it says Loading linux.............). On all other systems this takes just a few seconds at most. Does anyone have an explanation for this? I'm using the stock 2.4.20 kernel from SuSE with the following append line: acpi=off hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 showopts
Yeah, but we Linux pinguins do...
At my company we are currently setting up a new hosting solution that does exactly that. We are using 'low quality' HP blade servers with Intel processors that are replacing the Sun's on which our customers were running Oracle EBS. If a blade fails we activate another one, deploy an almost ready-to-run image of Red Hat AS , configure the network and in a few minutes we are up and running again for that server. Due to this model we are able to offer a much lower price than when we were using expensive Sun servers. Intel hardware is much cheaper and we have a solution for the 'reduced reliability'.
I have one of those....it's called a laptop ;)
Nope, you don't even have to specify anything, just 'type' is enough (Windows XP with default IE 6)
And I recently bought an old 560Z, with a really perfect battery. With normal use, I can work at least 2 hours on it.
Ok, you're right on that one, but I usually try to avoid these situations as much as possible.
What I meant of course were data-related apps, not graphical ones. As for web-apps to be slow to use, I've seen numerous windows apps that were a lot slower to use than your average web app, besides that, web apps are usually a lot more stable. Inefficient from an end-user stand point??? As in??? Cumbersome for large-scale data entry??? You take a tool like PHPMyAdmin, and in no time you can enter 1000's of queries per second from a SQL-dump file. As for manual data-entry, that just depends on the design, it doesn't have to be cumbersome at all.
Web applications anyone??
I've been a Windows programmer for several years, but since 2 years or so I've switched to PHP programming. Nowadays, I almost can't imagine why anyone would still want to build platform-specific applications. Almost any business-related applications can be reworked to a web app, and you are immediately multi-platform.
I'm reworking most of the applications I've build, because I find it annoying to have to use a certain computer for some program, while I just started working on another, or having to switch to Windows while working with Linux. With my web-apps and well-thought security, I can do my work anywhere in the world!