The remote console license also gives you features like remote floppy drive and remote CD-ROM. These are invaluable if you need to be able to access these devices outside of your OS for troubleshooting.
All rack mount HP servers (The Density Line, DL) now have the remote insight board integrated as a standard feature, believe me, if you have 42 servers in a rack you do not want to be dealing with a KVM.
Compaq/HP Remote Insight is the best out of band Remote management in the market.
I helped plan a Windows Terminal Server rollout for a Library with a number of WAN connected branches. We found WTS gave us great flexability, we use it for public access to the online catalog and public internet access as well as for the Library Management Systems.
A thin client environment gave everything a speed boost as it reduced the amount of network traffic, we had a dedicated gigabit link between the terminal server and the LMS.
Regardless of whether you decide to use Linux or Windows for your servers I would recommend a thin client setup for an environment like a Library which has so many different specialised needs.
Firstly, the pavilion was a consumer PC and priced accordingly. As long as your mainboard was covered under warranty why do you care?
Secondly, the new business PCs and laptops from HP are coming from the Comapq design team - these are the evolution of Armadas and Evos, not Pavilions and omnibooks.
I have no idea why you think the cost of ink cartridges has anything to do with the quality of a laptop.
VMS Help is without a doubt the best help and documentation system on any operating system. It was easy for newbies, but allowed advanced users to get exactly the information they wanted.
put a bunch of Win, Mac, and Linux machines together on a LAN and the only really common way of communication they have is SMB
You seem to be forgeting NFS and Appletalk. OS X has native NFS support and Linux talks AFP happily thanks to netatalk. In fact, the only thing limiting you to SMB is the fact that Windows doesn't communicate well. How about you try laying the blame with Windows, where it belongs, rather than making misinformed statements about OS X?
The best help system I have ever used is in VMS. You simply type 'help' at the command prompt (how novel) and you are presented with a list of options. You continue to drill down through the list until you get the information you want, examples, subcommands, everything you could want.
It's worth trying to find a VMS box to log on to just so you can see how documentation should be done, it makes man pages look like the confusing mess that they are.
I think the major reason "PDAs" are dying is because virtually every cellphone on sale these days has most of the functionality PDAs are generally used for
So please tell me, how do you enter the phone number/ address/ important piece of information you've just been told into your cell phone while you are talking on it?
I'll take a small bluetooth enabled phone and a good PDA over a constrained convergant device any day.
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The Airport is a router too. There is a java management app for windows as well as the Mac utility to manage it. It has 128bit WEP and MAC address filtering
I've now had the Airport for over two years and the only firmware updates it's needed have bought new features with them.
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Well I bought a Netgear DSL router/switch/wireless combo a while back and found I could only connect to the wireless for about 30 seconds at a time. After a loooong wait on the phone to Netgear tech support their response was 'Oh yeah, the wireless doesn't work on that product, but there will be new firmware out in two weeks that will solve that.'
I was astounded. I took the POS back that day and replaced it with an Apple Airport which has been flawless ever since.
Here in Australia frozen meals really had a late start, they certainly don't have the cultural identity they seem to in the States.
Because eating out has traditionally been an expensive way to eat in Australia everyone knew how to cook. The growth of fast food chains through the 80s and 90s into smaller and smaller towns has eroded this a little, but not to the point that the microwave is the cooking appliance of choice.
Having cheap access to good quality ingredients also helps to encourage decent cooking. An uncle of mine who is a chef spent 12 months in the UK, he was amazed how difficult it was to source quality fruit, vegetables and meat.
In Australia the culinary joke is 'meat and three veg' which a lot of us grew up on. Thinking about it though, steak and veges most nights of the week really isn't a bad way to eat.
I use Debian on Alpha and I often do the install over a serial console. While I agree that the installer could be better (see FreeBSD) there's nothing that requires a GUI in an installer.
That said, why do people assume that everyone can install Windows? There is an entire industry based on people being charged too much money so some lazy geek can press next 20 times as he "configures" their computer.
Actually there is no enormous delay using pencil and paper. Polling stations expect an approximate number of votes based on location and previous polls and therefore has enough poll workers to manage the task.
I've been a scruteneer at a few elections and we usually see results within 3-4 hours of the poll closing. Each electorate is broken down so that there is an acceptable number of votes to count at each booth and the result is easy to check.
The only way I would be happy with electronic voting is if it was used as a fancy pencil and paper solution, ie. I choose my prefered candidate, get a printout which I then have to place in a sealed box. The figures from the machine give an instant result which is then hand checked over the next day.
Personally, I'd hate to leave behind pencil and paper as I relish the ability to write vitriolic statements about candidates on the ballot paper for their campaign workers to read at the count.
I had an Ericsson T38 which I completely submerged in salt water. When I got home I sprayed WD-40 all over it and into every creavace and then left it for 24 hours to dry out.
The phone worked for 2 years until the flip broke, but it was still usable with a handsfree kit.
Sad but true. The last thing HP needs to do right now is buy yet another company.
If HP wants an OS to invest in they should take a look at OpenVMS. DEC and Compaq almost criminally neglected their VMS customers and yet they STILL sold new licenses.
OpenVMS has unlimited potential, if only its new owner would get past a little bit of "Not Invented Here" mentality and get over their Redmond worship.
In Australia there is a system on all of the Federal Highways called "Safety Cam" which monitors truck movements. If the time it takes for a truck to pass between a number of the camera stations is to short the driver is fined. Also, if the truck is on the road for too long without a break the driver is fined.
The system works by optically identifying the license plate on every truck that passes beneath the gantry, while the trucks are moving at between 90 and 110 km/h.
This could easily be implimented for cars, but no government that did would get another term.
"Apple has come a long way in supporting common interfaces (USB, PCI, etc)"
Right... now who was it that really pioneered the use of USB? Oh, that's right.... It was Apple.
"it's time they make the final leap and get out of the hardware business"
Hello!!!! How many times does it have to be said? Apple is a Hardware company if you don't want to invest in an Apple that's fine, but they are never going to try to be a software company only.
At the time that the Mac moved to PPC there is no way that Intel could have offered such a seamless transition. The ability of the PPC to emulate the 68k at good speed was what made the transition work. If Apple had tried to move to the x86 platform they would have lost a lot of customers with a big investment in software as the x86 could not emulate the 68k at usable speed.
Using an alternative archetecture has also allowed Apple to hold on to its uniqueness, which has in turn guarded it somewhat from fierce comparison to the x86 crowd.
No-one in the PC business saw Dell coming, if Apple had been just another x86 vendor with a nice OS they would be facing the same problems as HP, Compaq etc did when confronted by Dell's better supply chain model.
I think that Sculley is being remarkably revisionist in his views. The article points out a lot of the folly in his musings.
The G5 and the relationship with IBM is more than enough to now justify the choie of the PPC architecture.
Internally we use Sonork. It's pretty good, keeps logs and integrates with other windows apps. It allows you to conference as well as normal 1 to 1 chat. It's also nice and secure.
This isn't a surprise is it? What's worse is that so many MS patches are uninstalled from peoples' systems because they break something important.
I'm so over these types of problems, put all of these crappy windows boxes behind great big firewalls, switch whatever you can to other platforms and let the other suckers bear the consequenses of the disaster. Hopefully if a large proportion of the worlds IT infrastructure grinds to a halt often enough peoples' eyes will be opened.
Yeah, I just love being able to run Office on my VAXstation. VMS is arguably the most robust general purpose operating system ever created. Unfortunately it was the property of DEC, followed by Compaq and HP who have all succumbed to worshipping at the alter of Redmond.
Mac OS X, however, has all of the benefits of a BSD but with a kick ass GUI.
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The remote console license also gives you features like remote floppy drive and remote CD-ROM. These are invaluable if you need to be able to access these devices outside of your OS for troubleshooting.
All rack mount HP servers (The Density Line, DL) now have the remote insight board integrated as a standard feature, believe me, if you have 42 servers in a rack you do not want to be dealing with a KVM.
Compaq/HP Remote Insight is the best out of band Remote management in the market.
In what part of the world is September mid winter?
I helped plan a Windows Terminal Server rollout for a Library with a number of WAN connected branches. We found WTS gave us great flexability, we use it for public access to the online catalog and public internet access as well as for the Library Management Systems.
A thin client environment gave everything a speed boost as it reduced the amount of network traffic, we had a dedicated gigabit link between the terminal server and the LMS.
Regardless of whether you decide to use Linux or Windows for your servers I would recommend a thin client setup for an environment like a Library which has so many different specialised needs.
Firstly, the pavilion was a consumer PC and priced accordingly. As long as your mainboard was covered under warranty why do you care?
Secondly, the new business PCs and laptops from HP are coming from the Comapq design team - these are the evolution of Armadas and Evos, not Pavilions and omnibooks.
I have no idea why you think the cost of ink cartridges has anything to do with the quality of a laptop.
No, HP sell the Alpha which runs VMS and the Itanium has a native port of VMS also.
VMS 8.2 is sceduled for public release within 12 months and it will have a VAX, Alpha and Itanium port.
VAX is a hardware architecture, VMS is the operating system that refuses to die.
VMS Help is without a doubt the best help and documentation system on any operating system. It was easy for newbies, but allowed advanced users to get exactly the information they wanted.
Man I love using VMS......
put a bunch of Win, Mac, and Linux machines together on a LAN and the only really common way of communication they have is SMB
You seem to be forgeting NFS and Appletalk. OS X has native NFS support and Linux talks AFP happily thanks to netatalk. In fact, the only thing limiting you to SMB is the fact that Windows doesn't communicate well. How about you try laying the blame with Windows, where it belongs, rather than making misinformed statements about OS X?
The best help system I have ever used is in VMS. You simply type 'help' at the command prompt (how novel) and you are presented with a list of options. You continue to drill down through the list until you get the information you want, examples, subcommands, everything you could want.
It's worth trying to find a VMS box to log on to just so you can see how documentation should be done, it makes man pages look like the confusing mess that they are.
I'd like to see you try your solution in a server room or in the middle of a crowd.
I think the major reason "PDAs" are dying is because virtually every cellphone on sale these days has most of the functionality PDAs are generally used for
So please tell me, how do you enter the phone number/ address/ important piece of information you've just been told into your cell phone while you are talking on it?
I'll take a small bluetooth enabled phone and a good PDA over a constrained convergant device any day.
The Airport is a router too. There is a java management app for windows as well as the Mac utility to manage it. It has 128bit WEP and MAC address filtering
I've now had the Airport for over two years and the only firmware updates it's needed have bought new features with them.
Well I bought a Netgear DSL router/switch/wireless combo a while back and found I could only connect to the wireless for about 30 seconds at a time. After a loooong wait on the phone to Netgear tech support their response was 'Oh yeah, the wireless doesn't work on that product, but there will be new firmware out in two weeks that will solve that.'
I was astounded. I took the POS back that day and replaced it with an Apple Airport which has been flawless ever since.
Here in Australia frozen meals really had a late start, they certainly don't have the cultural identity they seem to in the States.
Because eating out has traditionally been an expensive way to eat in Australia everyone knew how to cook. The growth of fast food chains through the 80s and 90s into smaller and smaller towns has eroded this a little, but not to the point that the microwave is the cooking appliance of choice.
Having cheap access to good quality ingredients also helps to encourage decent cooking. An uncle of mine who is a chef spent 12 months in the UK, he was amazed how difficult it was to source quality fruit, vegetables and meat.
In Australia the culinary joke is 'meat and three veg' which a lot of us grew up on. Thinking about it though, steak and veges most nights of the week really isn't a bad way to eat.
I use Debian on Alpha and I often do the install over a serial console. While I agree that the installer could be better (see FreeBSD) there's nothing that requires a GUI in an installer.
That said, why do people assume that everyone can install Windows? There is an entire industry based on people being charged too much money so some lazy geek can press next 20 times as he "configures" their computer.
Actually there is no enormous delay using pencil and paper. Polling stations expect an approximate number of votes based on location and previous polls and therefore has enough poll workers to manage the task.
I've been a scruteneer at a few elections and we usually see results within 3-4 hours of the poll closing. Each electorate is broken down so that there is an acceptable number of votes to count at each booth and the result is easy to check.
The only way I would be happy with electronic voting is if it was used as a fancy pencil and paper solution, ie. I choose my prefered candidate, get a printout which I then have to place in a sealed box. The figures from the machine give an instant result which is then hand checked over the next day.
Personally, I'd hate to leave behind pencil and paper as I relish the ability to write vitriolic statements about candidates on the ballot paper for their campaign workers to read at the count.
I had an Ericsson T38 which I completely submerged in salt water. When I got home I sprayed WD-40 all over it and into every creavace and then left it for 24 hours to dry out.
The phone worked for 2 years until the flip broke, but it was still usable with a handsfree kit.
Thanks mate, but we've all seen Star Blazers (or Battleship Yamamoto) and we don't want Hollywood to fuck up our childhood memories any further.
I'll give you 50c for the rights to your "idea"
If HP wants an OS to invest in they should take a look at OpenVMS. DEC and Compaq almost criminally neglected their VMS customers and yet they STILL sold new licenses.
OpenVMS has unlimited potential, if only its new owner would get past a little bit of "Not Invented Here" mentality and get over their Redmond worship.
In Australia there is a system on all of the Federal Highways called "Safety Cam" which monitors truck movements. If the time it takes for a truck to pass between a number of the camera stations is to short the driver is fined. Also, if the truck is on the road for too long without a break the driver is fined.
The system works by optically identifying the license plate on every truck that passes beneath the gantry, while the trucks are moving at between 90 and 110 km/h.
This could easily be implimented for cars, but no government that did would get another term.
Of course it was, and Australians all ride Kangaroos to work as well.
Right... now who was it that really pioneered the use of USB? Oh, that's right.... It was Apple.
"it's time they make the final leap and get out of the hardware business"
Hello!!!! How many times does it have to be said? Apple is a Hardware company if you don't want to invest in an Apple that's fine, but they are never going to try to be a software company only.
At the time that the Mac moved to PPC there is no way that Intel could have offered such a seamless transition. The ability of the PPC to emulate the 68k at good speed was what made the transition work. If Apple had tried to move to the x86 platform they would have lost a lot of customers with a big investment in software as the x86 could not emulate the 68k at usable speed.
Using an alternative archetecture has also allowed Apple to hold on to its uniqueness, which has in turn guarded it somewhat from fierce comparison to the x86 crowd.
No-one in the PC business saw Dell coming, if Apple had been just another x86 vendor with a nice OS they would be facing the same problems as HP, Compaq etc did when confronted by Dell's better supply chain model.
I think that Sculley is being remarkably revisionist in his views. The article points out a lot of the folly in his musings.
The G5 and the relationship with IBM is more than enough to now justify the choie of the PPC architecture.
Internally we use Sonork. It's pretty good, keeps logs and integrates with other windows apps. It allows you to conference as well as normal 1 to 1 chat. It's also nice and secure.
Check it out
www.sonork.com
....if you're a Linux or Mac user.
This isn't a surprise is it? What's worse is that so many MS patches are uninstalled from peoples' systems because they break something important.
I'm so over these types of problems, put all of these crappy windows boxes behind great big firewalls, switch whatever you can to other platforms and let the other suckers bear the consequenses of the disaster. Hopefully if a large proportion of the worlds IT infrastructure grinds to a halt often enough peoples' eyes will be opened.
Yeah, I just love being able to run Office on my VAXstation. VMS is arguably the most robust general purpose operating system ever created. Unfortunately it was the property of DEC, followed by Compaq and HP who have all succumbed to worshipping at the alter of Redmond.
Mac OS X, however, has all of the benefits of a BSD but with a kick ass GUI.