I don't know what issues you had, but I spent 4 months doing contract sys admin work at Sun/Netscape Alliance's (later iPlanet) training center in Mountain View and Ghost was essential to my work. We had maybe 10 classrooms in the building, with 30 or more machines in each. After the classes were completed I would reset all of the computers in the classrooms for the next class, using either Solaris JumpStart for the Sun boxes, or Ghost for the PCs. Ghost was a bit more of a pain than JumpStart since I had to stick a floppy in each PC and reboot it to get it going, and then choose the image to install, etc. whereas I could reboot all of the Sun boxes from a server and set them automatically installing via JumpStart with a single command. But still, Ghost performed flawlessly. Like most of the others who have replied to you so far, I'd say give Ghost a shot.
I have a first generation PS2 that I bought a month after they were released. It stopped reading some games and most DVDs a few months back. I looked for instructions online, popped the sucker open, used a q-tip and rubbing alcohol, swabbed the lense a bit, closed it back up and voila - works perfectly now.
The bit from the trailer with the head honcho machine. WTF was that? So it's a machine - does it mean it can't hold a conversation?
They did have a conversation. About Neo being able to save their asses. From the machine's perspective, it just wanted to squash Neo and be done with it, but they knew he'd be able to help them, even if they didn't want to admit it.
Agent Smith explodes at the end WTWTWTF? If Neo was corrupting him, then why all the crap with the fight scene before hand?
Neo was doing what he thought he was supposed to: fight Smith to the death. And Neo got his pants beat a little. I think he realized he wasn't going to win. Only, that particular Smith was not just Smith and the Oracle revealed herself inside of it when he said what he thought he was supposed to say from his vision. Smith thought he'd assimilate the Oracle's powers when he consumed her, but she was still alive inside and he didn't know it. Smith was too focused on the destruction of Neo, the Matrix and everything else.
Neo saw that the Oracle was still inside Smith. He knew that he'd be alive inside Smith as well. Maybe he knew he would be used like a bomb. The machines implant him inside Smith, light the fuse and run.
No key scene to define the film (think Burly Brawl/Freeway).
Why should a single scene define a movie?
Oh, and the plot seemed extremely shallow compared to the last one - I was looking forward to some more in depth (or at least pop:) philosophy.
Yeah, I want some answers too. Like WTF happens afterwards... but, whatever. Maybe they'll just leave that up to our imaginations. Or maybe they'll make some more anime.
Why was Smith such a threat? The machines didn't look that bothered. Why was it left to Neo to fix?
Because he was Neo's opposite, but also his equal in power. Smith was gradually consuming everyone in the Matrix, as is evidenced by the crowd in the last Neo/Smith fight. Smith wanted to destroy everything because he believed the only purpose for life was to end. He found a way out of the Matrix once, he could find more. Inside the Matrix he could consume and destroy all of the humans, thus killing the machines' primary power source. Had he been able to take over other machines outside the Matrix...
(Linux - GPL) + (Innovative Open Source GPL Products - GPL) + (Microsoft - Innovation) = Longhorn of course!
Why else would it be taking one of the largest software companies in the world two and a half years to pretty up Windows XP, bolt in IE and slap the file system in a database? They have to wait until Linux, GNOME, etc. is all declared public domain before they ravage it!
To make things a bit clearer, no features were "dropped" when Mac OS X. They simply didn't exist because it's an entirely different OS than Mac OS 9. Apple has come a long way since the public beta, in terms of reimplementing the features we used to have (simple file searching, labels, app switcher, etc.)
Products like Unsanity's Labels X, Windowshade X, and Xounds and ASM also bring back missing functionality. I gladly paid for those enhancements. Labels were reimplemented in Jaguar though, and I don't recall ever seeing an open memo from the Unsanity folks bitching about it.
As a tax payer and resident of Massachusetts, I have absolutely no problem with this, just so long as the system they pick is secure. Windows has many flaws, Linux has almost as many, and even BSDs and Mac OS X have some security issues occasionally. After all, my information is going to be stored in these systems and I don't want it to be accessible to any unauthorized persons.
Well, you can't do an internal RAID, even Software RAID on the G5 since it only has room for two drives. You can, however, boot an external firewire drive and then software RAID the two internal SATA drives.
The internal drive is pretty fast though. I used 'dd' to do some light benchmarking:
Isn't one of the benefits of the horizontal architecture the fact that, since a server can go down and others can take its place, you can update each server one at a time without taking the service they provide offline? Don't most server systems provide a system where you can manage this also? I know Solaris and Mac OS X do (JumpStart, etc. netbooting, Workgroup Manager, Network Install, etc.).
In terms of security, don't you have a firewall? Please don't tell me that all 10-12 of your servers are readily accessible on the internet...
A cluster with 16 2GHz Opteron processors, running SuSE Enterprise Linux and DB2 beat a Hpaq system with 64 900MHz PIII Xeon processors running Win2k Advanced Server and DB2. I'd say that's cause for celebration at least.
Maybe they don't mention their alternative, MSN Search, because their alternative has all the same problems as Google. Damn near every other search engine does also. It's not due to fault algorithms, or poor programming at all, it's due to the content they all index and that fact that most of that content is written by technical folks. So, yes, there are some flaws in search engines, but there are flaws in the content as well.
Goddamnit, they don't need to be defacing websites now, they need to be hacking into the alien ships with all of their l33t virii so Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum can deliver a nuke to the mother ship and save all of humanity.
Having been using this for a fw days now (on my Pismo PowerBook G3 no less) I have to say that it's a highly useful feature. F9 tiles all of the windows, F10 tiles all of the windows in the current app, and F11 (the most useful so far) pulls all of the windows off screen so you can see the desktop. The tiling effects aren't bad on a G3, but I'll bet they're a lot faster on a machine with Quartz Extreme and a G4/G5. (You also lose the nifty cube transform for fast user switching if you don't have Quartz Extreme, the screen turns blue instead)
The other bonus to Panther seems to be that EVERYTHING feels faster. Everything except for the new finder. iCal feels like it's actually usable now.
newegg.com is a great source of customer reviews. they generally tend to include photos (often more than one) of the products they sell also, so you get a very good idea of what you're about to buy...
How long until some ingenius little tyke figures out how to hack or modify the device anyways? If they can't get enough access to do what they want to do, they'll go to the library, school or a friend's house and use a computer there to figure out how to break the restrictions on the box. Then all mom and dad have is a $70 hunk of metal and plastic, and they're back to square one.
hmm... well, aside from work, and messing around on my computers at home, and exercising (roller blading, tennis, walking), i suppose i'd have to say stained glass. although i don't get to do it all that often.
Not that arguing, debating, or even discussing this will matter or change anything but...
I've known about UNIX for about 10 years now. I've been using it in some form for about that long. (NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.) I know of The Open Group, I've heard/read a few mentions of them before, in relation to the UNIX trademark, but I haven't a damn clue what they do or why they own that trademark.
Do they make a version of UNIX? Shit, I don't know.
Do they market UNIX? Again, dunno. I never see any "UNIX: Brought to you by The Open Group" posters, or ads or anything of the sort. To me, they don't have any public presence.
Does this make me ignorant? Maybe. I've gotten along just fine being ignorant of this group.
What does that say about their trademark? I bet if you took a poll of the slashdot community (and since slashdot has that capability, why not?) most of them would probably not know which OS is REAL UNIX, or who The Open Group is, or what they do. Furthermore, I'd guess that most of them think about UNIX the same way I do: FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, whatever; it's all just UNIX, they basically all do the same thing. To me that's the equivalent of everyone calling bandages Band-Aids, or tissues Kleenex, etc., etc. I am not everyone else though, so perhaps I'm wrong.
Has apple misused the UNIX trademark? Perhaps. I do recall seeing some Apple ads touting that it is UNIX based, though I do not recall any stating outright that it is indeed UNIX (R). Does this mean that Apple is misusing The Open Group's trademark? Could be. But that's now up to our legal system to decide evidently, and given the actions of our legal system over the past 3 years or so, I'd say there's probably not a great outcome to this.
I agree very much with Randolpho's post. Ditch PHP if you really want an elegent architecture. If you really need to stick with PHP, try out Midgard. Otherwise, you really ought to at least look at the alternatives. Zope and OpenACS are probably the best open source web application systems/environments/architectures, whatever you want to call it. I prefer OpenACS (there's just something about using a system that was built primarily by highly intelligent MIT and CalTech alumni...).
OpenACS is based on AOLServer (probably the best, and first application-oriented web server out there, which was GPL'd by AOL thanks to Phil Greenspun's nagging. it's multi-threaded, it has database pooling, a healthy set of modules/plugins, and a wonderful community.), Tcl (you'll get used to it, really;), and either Oracle or PostgreSQL. Thought it was designed for use with Oracle, and was ported to PostgreSQL, the architecture in OpenACS permits you to easily swap in support for other databases. Though, you'd have an extremely tough time getting it to work in MySQL as it relies on numerous high-end and complex relational databases features, most of which MySQL does not support.
OpenACS is highly modular, built entirely out of smaller packages, with its own package management system. There is a core package, the ACS Kernel, ACS Tcl (which contains most of the utility code, etc.), and there are various packages built on top of that which provide both specific application functionality, but also services that other packages can use. The documentation is built into the code and is available online in every OpenACS installation. Higher up packages include web page creation, bulletin board systems, blogging, content management, etc. You can "mount" these packages at various locations in the site map for your web site / application. E.g., you could mount an instance of the bulletin board at mysite.com/forum, and add a second one at mysite.com/techsupport. You can create subsites, such as mysite.com/internal/. There is an extensive and incredibly powerful permissions system so you can completely control access to every part of your system. There is also a built-in templating system which provides a simple separation between logic and display code, as well as theming capabilities.
I'm sure there's a lot that I've neglected to mention here. But I think you can get the point. OpenACS is a very mature platform that's be in development and production for many years now (hell, take a look at what Ars Digita was able to accomplish, they were making millions selling this system, and they gave the code away for free under the GPL). Don't take my word for it, go to the website and read about it. The only drawback to it that I see is that it does have a high learning curve. It took me a few months of reading and experimenting with it to really understand how the system works, but it's definitely worth it. There are a few hosting providers out there (Acorn Hosting and Zill.net) that offer affordable hosting packages, but it's also easy to setup your own server. OpenACS also has the ability to run multiple server boxes in a load balanced environment, so if you need to scale out, you can. Oh yeah, this is also a descendant of the same ACS system that RedHat's Enterprise Applications are descended from (RedHat got that technology when they bought the remains of ArsDigita.
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I don't know what issues you had, but I spent 4 months doing contract sys admin work at Sun/Netscape Alliance's (later iPlanet) training center in Mountain View and Ghost was essential to my work. We had maybe 10 classrooms in the building, with 30 or more machines in each. After the classes were completed I would reset all of the computers in the classrooms for the next class, using either Solaris JumpStart for the Sun boxes, or Ghost for the PCs. Ghost was a bit more of a pain than JumpStart since I had to stick a floppy in each PC and reboot it to get it going, and then choose the image to install, etc. whereas I could reboot all of the Sun boxes from a server and set them automatically installing via JumpStart with a single command. But still, Ghost performed flawlessly. Like most of the others who have replied to you so far, I'd say give Ghost a shot.
That's exactly what I was thinking...
I have a first generation PS2 that I bought a month after they were released. It stopped reading some games and most DVDs a few months back. I looked for instructions online, popped the sucker open, used a q-tip and rubbing alcohol, swabbed the lense a bit, closed it back up and voila - works perfectly now.
What's so hard about that?
The bit from the trailer with the head honcho machine. WTF was that? So it's a machine - does it mean it can't hold a conversation?
:) philosophy.
They did have a conversation. About Neo being able to save their asses. From the machine's perspective, it just wanted to squash Neo and be done with it, but they knew he'd be able to help them, even if they didn't want to admit it.
Agent Smith explodes at the end WTWTWTF? If Neo was corrupting him, then why all the crap with the fight scene before hand?
Neo was doing what he thought he was supposed to: fight Smith to the death. And Neo got his pants beat a little. I think he realized he wasn't going to win. Only, that particular Smith was not just Smith and the Oracle revealed herself inside of it when he said what he thought he was supposed to say from his vision. Smith thought he'd assimilate the Oracle's powers when he consumed her, but she was still alive inside and he didn't know it. Smith was too focused on the destruction of Neo, the Matrix and everything else.
Neo saw that the Oracle was still inside Smith. He knew that he'd be alive inside Smith as well. Maybe he knew he would be used like a bomb. The machines implant him inside Smith, light the fuse and run.
No key scene to define the film (think Burly Brawl/Freeway).
Why should a single scene define a movie?
Oh, and the plot seemed extremely shallow compared to the last one - I was looking forward to some more in depth (or at least pop
Yeah, I want some answers too. Like WTF happens afterwards... but, whatever. Maybe they'll just leave that up to our imaginations. Or maybe they'll make some more anime.
Why was Smith such a threat? The machines didn't look that bothered. Why was it left to Neo to fix?
Because he was Neo's opposite, but also his equal in power. Smith was gradually consuming everyone in the Matrix, as is evidenced by the crowd in the last Neo/Smith fight. Smith wanted to destroy everything because he believed the only purpose for life was to end. He found a way out of the Matrix once, he could find more. Inside the Matrix he could consume and destroy all of the humans, thus killing the machines' primary power source. Had he been able to take over other machines outside the Matrix...
Who knows?
(Linux - GPL) + (Innovative Open Source GPL Products - GPL) + (Microsoft - Innovation) = Longhorn of course!
Why else would it be taking one of the largest software companies in the world two and a half years to pretty up Windows XP, bolt in IE and slap the file system in a database? They have to wait until Linux, GNOME, etc. is all declared public domain before they ravage it!
To make things a bit clearer, no features were "dropped" when Mac OS X. They simply didn't exist because it's an entirely different OS than Mac OS 9. Apple has come a long way since the public beta, in terms of reimplementing the features we used to have (simple file searching, labels, app switcher, etc.)
Products like Unsanity's Labels X, Windowshade X, and Xounds and ASM also bring back missing functionality. I gladly paid for those enhancements. Labels were reimplemented in Jaguar though, and I don't recall ever seeing an open memo from the Unsanity folks bitching about it.
As a tax payer and resident of Massachusetts, I have absolutely no problem with this, just so long as the system they pick is secure. Windows has many flaws, Linux has almost as many, and even BSDs and Mac OS X have some security issues occasionally. After all, my information is going to be stored in these systems and I don't want it to be accessible to any unauthorized persons.
Flame on!
Well, you can't do an internal RAID, even Software RAID on the G5 since it only has room for two drives. You can, however, boot an external firewire drive and then software RAID the two internal SATA drives.
The internal drive is pretty fast though. I used 'dd' to do some light benchmarking:
Read: 96.3MB/s
Write: 40.8MB/s
Copy: 33.6MB/s
Isn't one of the benefits of the horizontal architecture the fact that, since a server can go down and others can take its place, you can update each server one at a time without taking the service they provide offline? Don't most server systems provide a system where you can manage this also? I know Solaris and Mac OS X do (JumpStart, etc. netbooting, Workgroup Manager, Network Install, etc.).
In terms of security, don't you have a firewall? Please don't tell me that all 10-12 of your servers are readily accessible on the internet...
here's the ad image as linked from osnews: http://grokthis.net/~raptor/rumba.jpg
chock full of typos and a $499 price. not bad. (the price, not the typos)
USB CD ROM / DVD ROM?
gabe@jupiter:~$ chsh /bin/tcsh /bin/tcsh
/users/myusername shell /bin/tcsh
chsh: unknown user:
Well, even if you do just 'chsh' and edit the Shell line, it still doesn't make any changes to netinfo...
Perhaps you'll want to do this instead:
niutil -createprop .
I'd do that, but no servers ever show up ... *shrug*
Oh wait, that's been done already.
A cluster with 16 2GHz Opteron processors, running SuSE Enterprise Linux and DB2 beat a Hpaq system with 64 900MHz PIII Xeon processors running Win2k Advanced Server and DB2. I'd say that's cause for celebration at least.
Maybe they don't mention their alternative, MSN Search, because their alternative has all the same problems as Google. Damn near every other search engine does also. It's not due to fault algorithms, or poor programming at all, it's due to the content they all index and that fact that most of that content is written by technical folks. So, yes, there are some flaws in search engines, but there are flaws in the content as well.
I'll trust my vote to humans rather than a system that requires the voters to use Windows.
Goddamnit, they don't need to be defacing websites now, they need to be hacking into the alien ships with all of their l33t virii so Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum can deliver a nuke to the mother ship and save all of humanity.
Oh, wait...
Having been using this for a fw days now (on my Pismo PowerBook G3 no less) I have to say that it's a highly useful feature. F9 tiles all of the windows, F10 tiles all of the windows in the current app, and F11 (the most useful so far) pulls all of the windows off screen so you can see the desktop. The tiling effects aren't bad on a G3, but I'll bet they're a lot faster on a machine with Quartz Extreme and a G4/G5. (You also lose the nifty cube transform for fast user switching if you don't have Quartz Extreme, the screen turns blue instead)
The other bonus to Panther seems to be that EVERYTHING feels faster. Everything except for the new finder. iCal feels like it's actually usable now.
Panther will definitely be worth the $129.
newegg.com is a great source of customer reviews. they generally tend to include photos (often more than one) of the products they sell also, so you get a very good idea of what you're about to buy...
How long until some ingenius little tyke figures out how to hack or modify the device anyways? If they can't get enough access to do what they want to do, they'll go to the library, school or a friend's house and use a computer there to figure out how to break the restrictions on the box. Then all mom and dad have is a $70 hunk of metal and plastic, and they're back to square one.
hmm... well, aside from work, and messing around on my computers at home, and exercising (roller blading, tennis, walking), i suppose i'd have to say stained glass. although i don't get to do it all that often.
Not that arguing, debating, or even discussing this will matter or change anything but...
I've known about UNIX for about 10 years now. I've been using it in some form for about that long. (NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.) I know of The Open Group, I've heard/read a few mentions of them before, in relation to the UNIX trademark, but I haven't a damn clue what they do or why they own that trademark.
Do they make a version of UNIX? Shit, I don't know.
Do they market UNIX? Again, dunno. I never see any "UNIX: Brought to you by The Open Group" posters, or ads or anything of the sort. To me, they don't have any public presence.
Does this make me ignorant? Maybe. I've gotten along just fine being ignorant of this group.
What does that say about their trademark? I bet if you took a poll of the slashdot community (and since slashdot has that capability, why not?) most of them would probably not know which OS is REAL UNIX, or who The Open Group is, or what they do. Furthermore, I'd guess that most of them think about UNIX the same way I do: FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, whatever; it's all just UNIX, they basically all do the same thing. To me that's the equivalent of everyone calling bandages Band-Aids, or tissues Kleenex, etc., etc. I am not everyone else though, so perhaps I'm wrong.
Has apple misused the UNIX trademark? Perhaps. I do recall seeing some Apple ads touting that it is UNIX based, though I do not recall any stating outright that it is indeed UNIX (R). Does this mean that Apple is misusing The Open Group's trademark? Could be. But that's now up to our legal system to decide evidently, and given the actions of our legal system over the past 3 years or so, I'd say there's probably not a great outcome to this.
I agree very much with Randolpho's post. Ditch PHP if you really want an elegent architecture. If you really need to stick with PHP, try out Midgard. Otherwise, you really ought to at least look at the alternatives. Zope and OpenACS are probably the best open source web application systems/environments/architectures, whatever you want to call it. I prefer OpenACS (there's just something about using a system that was built primarily by highly intelligent MIT and CalTech alumni...).
OpenACS is based on AOLServer (probably the best, and first application-oriented web server out there, which was GPL'd by AOL thanks to Phil Greenspun's nagging. it's multi-threaded, it has database pooling, a healthy set of modules/plugins, and a wonderful community.), Tcl (you'll get used to it, really ;), and either Oracle or PostgreSQL. Thought it was designed for use with Oracle, and was ported to PostgreSQL, the architecture in OpenACS permits you to easily swap in support for other databases. Though, you'd have an extremely tough time getting it to work in MySQL as it relies on numerous high-end and complex relational databases features, most of which MySQL does not support.
OpenACS is highly modular, built entirely out of smaller packages, with its own package management system. There is a core package, the ACS Kernel, ACS Tcl (which contains most of the utility code, etc.), and there are various packages built on top of that which provide both specific application functionality, but also services that other packages can use. The documentation is built into the code and is available online in every OpenACS installation. Higher up packages include web page creation, bulletin board systems, blogging, content management, etc. You can "mount" these packages at various locations in the site map for your web site / application. E.g., you could mount an instance of the bulletin board at mysite.com/forum, and add a second one at mysite.com/techsupport. You can create subsites, such as mysite.com/internal/. There is an extensive and incredibly powerful permissions system so you can completely control access to every part of your system. There is also a built-in templating system which provides a simple separation between logic and display code, as well as theming capabilities.
I'm sure there's a lot that I've neglected to mention here. But I think you can get the point. OpenACS is a very mature platform that's be in development and production for many years now (hell, take a look at what Ars Digita was able to accomplish, they were making millions selling this system, and they gave the code away for free under the GPL). Don't take my word for it, go to the website and read about it. The only drawback to it that I see is that it does have a high learning curve. It took me a few months of reading and experimenting with it to really understand how the system works, but it's definitely worth it. There are a few hosting providers out there (Acorn Hosting and Zill.net) that offer affordable hosting packages, but it's also easy to setup your own server. OpenACS also has the ability to run multiple server boxes in a load balanced environment, so if you need to scale out, you can. Oh yeah, this is also a descendant of the same ACS system that RedHat's Enterprise Applications are descended from (RedHat got that technology when they bought the remains of ArsDigita.