Much smarter!! I'm going to put up a link to your site! BTW I don't know whether you thought of this, but this can potentially also squeeze some minutes out of a laptop battery: reading a bunch of files on one fell swoop will potentially avoid costly harddisk spinning up later.
Again, smart. Amazing what one can do with some simple shellscripting.
Let's say what Linus says about QA
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Let me be the first to quote Linus Torvalds:
"Testing? What's that? If it compiles,
it is good, if it boots up it is perfect."
Say if you have 3 GB RAM, then why not load everything into a portion of it at boot and run programs off memory
All other replies suggest copying/usr to a RAM disk, but there's a much easier solution if it's just about loading apps quicker after starting up. First, look into the swappiness kernel parameter. Then, create a mechanism to read these files into memory.
Short story: add two lines to/etc/rc.d/rc.local:
echo 100 >/proc/sys/vm/swappiness for i in `find/opt/OpenOffice`; do cat $i >/dev/null;done &
The first line tells your kernel to swap away as much as possible, leaving lots of space for disk buffering. The second line reads the files of your choice in the cache.
Note that this is all very primitive and there are lots of enhancements, but the basic idea should be clear now.
Big databases, for instance. Oracle often runs on a couple of Suns in RAC mode (Real Application Cluster or something). Then the Suns are connected to a Veritas SAN. The database binaries (the software itself) are intalled on the Suns and they all write the data to the SAN.
It works on Linux as well, but it's nowhere near as common as the above scenario.
All your points are a bit moot when looking at this from the [insert big Corp]'s UNIX administrator point-of-view. Solaris comes installed on their own hardware and the unobvious paths are really the result of a long history.
Obvious solution: cover door with wire mesh which has a current running through it. It won't prevent anyone from knocking, it'll just be the last thing they do.:)
limited to 2 Gigs, so the log stopped growing when it hit that limit
Umm, that's where logrotate is for. Yeah I know, there are some stupid vendors who don't support this out of the box, but it's not difficult to make it work with a random application.
As a sidenote, this should be modded 'clueless', not 'informative'.
Or just allow me to set up a list of comanies/websites that are permitted to transfer funds out of my account
Although your bank doesn't seem to support this firewalling through their software, you can always use hardware firewalling of your bank account. It involves the acquisition of a rather large axe and visiting the party involved in the transaction.
You're right sorry. I thought so, but for one reason or another, the 'parent' link didn't show up when I viewed your message the other day. Or I must be getting old.
If you're an Oracle shop, then you should have a look at the Workflow product that comes with the database. It comes with a visual Visio-like tool where you can drag and drop the workflow steps and then upload them into the database.
We have done a project where database-intensive tasks were hung in the workflow as PL/SQL workflow steps and where the Java workflow steps were put on a queue. A servlet ran in the application server and checked whether there were Java workflow steps on the queue. If so, it dequeued them, called the appropriate class and ran it.
If you want more details, write me an e-mail and I'll fill you in.
Oracle its E-Business suite has a couple of modules (timesheet application, expenses declaration) which heavily relies on JavaScript. Last time I checked, it didn't work reliably with Netscape/Mozilla/FireFox.
Also, Oracle its webmail client (it's part of the Collaboration Suite) doesn't work reliably on any Mozilla version.
But you're right, there's not a whole lot that still only works in IE.
It's not just hackers. I use Firefox on Linux, but I set the user agent to IE6 on Windows XP. I reason that this buys me a little more anonimity. I'm not doing anything "wrong", but it's always possible that I click on a non-office-safe link while browsing at a client site.
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Again, smart. Amazing what one can do with some simple shellscripting.
Let me be the first to quote Linus Torvalds: "Testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect."
All other replies suggest copying /usr to a RAM disk, but there's a much easier solution if it's just about loading apps quicker after starting up. First, look into the swappiness kernel parameter. Then, create a mechanism to read these files into memory.
Short story: add two lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
The first line tells your kernel to swap away as much as possible, leaving lots of space for disk buffering. The second line reads the files of your choice in the cache.
Note that this is all very primitive and there are lots of enhancements, but the basic idea should be clear now.
It works on Linux as well, but it's nowhere near as common as the above scenario.
All your points are a bit moot when looking at this from the [insert big Corp]'s UNIX administrator point-of-view. Solaris comes installed on their own hardware and the unobvious paths are really the result of a long history.
Obvious solution: cover door with wire mesh which has a current running through it. It won't prevent anyone from knocking, it'll just be the last thing they do. :)
Are you kidding?? They're in there for the meat! The whole place is crawling with hot chicks, waiting to be harassed!!
Shouldn't it be "KDE 3.4 RK1 Released" ?? :)
Are you KIDDING?? It was hard to write, it should be hard to read!!
Dit wordt een Nederlandse OT thread...
And then you had an exit interview where they acted surprised about your resignation? Happens all the time...
Umm, that's where logrotate is for. Yeah I know, there are some stupid vendors who don't support this out of the box, but it's not difficult to make it work with a random application.
As a sidenote, this should be modded 'clueless', not 'informative'.
This is patented under M3.1S.7337 and you are in direct voilation of the NDA.
So?
KDE.org has a nice interview with the president of TrollTech, Eirik Chambe Eng. Definitely worth a read!
Although your bank doesn't seem to support this firewalling through their software, you can always use hardware firewalling of your bank account. It involves the acquisition of a rather large axe and visiting the party involved in the transaction.
You're right sorry. I thought so, but for one reason or another, the 'parent' link didn't show up when I viewed your message the other day. Or I must be getting old.
Who said it was proprietary? And thank god it's not proprietary, by the way.
Liar :)
We have done a project where database-intensive tasks were hung in the workflow as PL/SQL workflow steps and where the Java workflow steps were put on a queue. A servlet ran in the application server and checked whether there were Java workflow steps on the queue. If so, it dequeued them, called the appropriate class and ran it.
If you want more details, write me an e-mail and I'll fill you in.
Also, Oracle its webmail client (it's part of the Collaboration Suite) doesn't work reliably on any Mozilla version.
But you're right, there's not a whole lot that still only works in IE.
Also, I'm a fulltime Linux user but whenever I encounter an IE-only site, I just fire up IE using Crossover Office, the Wine that works :D
There's probably support included. It'd be fun to call them en masse and log lots of bugs.
It's not just hackers. I use Firefox on Linux, but I set the user agent to IE6 on Windows XP. I reason that this buys me a little more anonimity. I'm not doing anything "wrong", but it's always possible that I click on a non-office-safe link while browsing at a client site.