From a system administrator's point of view, you're absolutely correct. I have, on the other hand, written POSIX-compliant C code and seen it compile and run on z/OS with no problem.
I bought my last complete PC in 1995. (Built my own ever since.) I remember spending hours on the phone with the Midwest Micro (still around?) sales rep to verify exactly what sound card, video card, etc. would be in the machine -- all so I could be sure it would OS/2-compatible.
What I remember most clearly, however, was spending almost $2,000 to upgrade the system to 32 MB of memory. OS/2 Warp on a 120 MHz Pentium with 32 MB of memory absolutely screamed!
Thomas Jefferson opined in the Federalist Papers...
FYI, Thomas Jefferson wasn't involved in writing the Federalist Papers. (He was in Paris at the time.) They were written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, with some help from John Jay.
MTU is already down to 1300. (Required for our broken intranet.)
I did just try pinging cnnfn.com from home (where I have no problem connecting to it with a browser) -- no dice, so it does look like they've got ICMP blocked. I hate it when people do that!
I should have mentioned that I can connect to cnnfn.com by routing the traffic through a socks server on the company intranet. I'm pretty sure that something is just borked between Verizon and cnnfn's ISP. With ICMP turned off, though, it's pretty much impossible to know more.
I work at a customer office, where they provide absolutely no network access, so some type of cellular data service is a must. I chose the Verizon service, because it was the only one that offered EV-DO at the time I signed up.
In my experience, the service does generally live up to its advertising. I get anywhere from 400-700 kbps download speeds in the Dallas metropolitan area.
I did have to turn off the web caching stuff. It appears to route all HTTP traffic to its compressing proxies, which makes all web servers that the proxies can't access (the ones on my employer's intranet) inaccessible.
I am also unable to access cnnfn.com (CNN's financial news site). Can't ping it; connections just time out. I can get to the rest of the CNN site just fine, and I don't have any problem getting to cnnfn.com when I connected through any other network -- weird.
The AirPrime PC 5220 card that Verizon uses appears to the OS as a OHCI-compatible USB controller with a single composite device attached. The two interfaces are simply USB serial devices; interface 0 acts like a modem (accepts standard AT commands), and interface 1 is apparently used for "diagnostic" information (signal strength, etc.).
It's possible to force the Linux generic USB serial driver to recognize the card by specifying the vendor and product ID's as module parameters. Even better, Greg Kroah-Hartman whipped out an "airprime" driver that automatically recognizes the card as soon as its inserted. I'm not sure what trees the driver has made it into yet, but it was in Fedora Core 4 test 3.
The big problem with this service, and apparently other cellular data services as well, is latency. Expect 300-700 ms ping times. It makes using SSH painful, X is completely unusable, and even web sites with lots of different elements can be slow to load. Anyone know why the latency is so bad with this service?
Their position on the GPL is completely consistant. i.e. The GPL is invalid, therefore they can take and redistribute all the software they want without any reprocussions from copyright law.
It doesn't work that way. In the absence of a license, distributing material whose copyright is owned by another party is copyright infringement. So if the GPL is invalid, SCO is committing copyright violation by distributing any software that is licensed under the GPL.
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Jefferson, and to a lesser extent Madison, are my mentors.
So you're a hypocrite then?
So his prayers have been answered, but not in the way he wants.
Thus proving that God is a strict constructionist.
When has MySQL ever done that?
Support costs are quantifiable now. The cost of vendor lock in is harder to measure.
Well, the problem must be Linux.
Oh, for mod points!
I suspect in another 40 years, DIA won't be in the middle of nowhere anymore.
I'm sure that's what they thought when they built the Kansas City airport.
That depends on your definition of "unix like."
From a system administrator's point of view, you're absolutely correct. I have, on the other hand, written POSIX-compliant C code and seen it compile and run on z/OS with no problem.
Give the data set to a few good guys with an oracle/etc setup and 6 months. I've done stuff like that for some major corporations so its impossible.
Right. I'm sure you've converted a lot of IMS/TM and VSAM applications written in S/370 assembler to UNIX and Oracle in "a few months."
I think the JVM only runs on a Linux partition on the mainframe.
You're wrong. There have been JVMs for OS/390 and z/OS since before Linux even ran on the platform. But thanks for playing.
Doesn't anyone recognize the truth when they see it? z/OS is UNIX95 conformant. (I'm not sure about UNIX98.)
Personally I'd keep mine in a RAID-0 config because laptop drives are low RPM.
Personally, I'd use RAID-1, and get the same increased responsiveness during reads (which are the ones you generally notice).
Can they reach low Earth orbit?
Bullshit.
Distributing said software may be illegal, but mere possession is not.
A broke and broken U.S. isn't going to dicatate terms as much as it used to.
How about a broke and broken U.S. with tens of thousands of nuclear warheads?
That's what makes this so technically interesting.
I once had a coworker who drank caffeine-free Mountain Dew all the time. How bizarre is that?
Is it reasonable for an ISP to censor webpages they don't agree with during contract negotiations?
Is this a trick question?
I bought my last complete PC in 1995. (Built my own ever since.) I remember spending hours on the phone with the Midwest Micro (still around?) sales rep to verify exactly what sound card, video card, etc. would be in the machine -- all so I could be sure it would OS/2-compatible.
What I remember most clearly, however, was spending almost $2,000 to upgrade the system to 32 MB of memory. OS/2 Warp on a 120 MHz Pentium with 32 MB of memory absolutely screamed!
Thomas Jefferson opined in the Federalist Papers...
FYI, Thomas Jefferson wasn't involved in writing the Federalist Papers. (He was in Paris at the time.) They were written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, with some help from John Jay.
MTU is already down to 1300. (Required for our broken intranet.)
I did just try pinging cnnfn.com from home (where I have no problem connecting to it with a browser) -- no dice, so it does look like they've got ICMP blocked. I hate it when people do that!
I should have mentioned that I can connect to cnnfn.com by routing the traffic through a socks server on the company intranet. I'm pretty sure that something is just borked between Verizon and cnnfn's ISP. With ICMP turned off, though, it's pretty much impossible to know more.
No.
Any other questions?
I work at a customer office, where they provide absolutely no network access, so some type of cellular data service is a must. I chose the Verizon service, because it was the only one that offered EV-DO at the time I signed up.
In my experience, the service does generally live up to its advertising. I get anywhere from 400-700 kbps download speeds in the Dallas metropolitan area.
I did have to turn off the web caching stuff. It appears to route all HTTP traffic to its compressing proxies, which makes all web servers that the proxies can't access (the ones on my employer's intranet) inaccessible.
I am also unable to access cnnfn.com (CNN's financial news site). Can't ping it; connections just time out. I can get to the rest of the CNN site just fine, and I don't have any problem getting to cnnfn.com when I connected through any other network -- weird.
The AirPrime PC 5220 card that Verizon uses appears to the OS as a OHCI-compatible USB controller with a single composite device attached. The two interfaces are simply USB serial devices; interface 0 acts like a modem (accepts standard AT commands), and interface 1 is apparently used for "diagnostic" information (signal strength, etc.).
It's possible to force the Linux generic USB serial driver to recognize the card by specifying the vendor and product ID's as module parameters. Even better, Greg Kroah-Hartman whipped out an "airprime" driver that automatically recognizes the card as soon as its inserted. I'm not sure what trees the driver has made it into yet, but it was in Fedora Core 4 test 3.
The big problem with this service, and apparently other cellular data services as well, is latency. Expect 300-700 ms ping times. It makes using SSH painful, X is completely unusable, and even web sites with lots of different elements can be slow to load. Anyone know why the latency is so bad with this service?
How does #3 follow from #2?
Their position on the GPL is completely consistant. i.e. The GPL is invalid, therefore they can take and redistribute all the software they want without any reprocussions from copyright law.
It doesn't work that way. In the absence of a license, distributing material whose copyright is owned by another party is copyright infringement. So if the GPL is invalid, SCO is committing copyright violation by distributing any software that is licensed under the GPL.