VMS has this thing called a versioning file system
Having file versions does not mean "versioning file system".
keep a history of all the "deltas", or "increments"
That's what revision control systems do. DEC has a nice one: Code Management System.
That's not what VMS natively does. Every time you save a document, a whole copy of the document is (usually (*)) written out, and the "version field" of the filename is incremented.
Yes, that can eat up disk space quickly. To counteract that, there is the PURGE command, and SysAdmins can set a "number of versions per file" limit on directory trees. If it's 5, then the 6th old copy of the file gets deleted.
I looked and looked but could not find whether or not a 64 bit x86 version of open vms is available.
VMS presumes CPU functionality that does not exist in x86. Mainly, this has to do memoy management and "ring" protection.
A VMS engineer told us (at an Oracle Rdb conference in Nashua) that Intel purposfully made certain parts of the Itanium look like the VAX. That made it possible to port VMS to Itaniac.
Nah... Not yet. We're just now getting some stuff that the Korean and Japaneese school kiddies have had for the past 5 years.
Wait 1-3 more years for us to get them fully integrated into our lives. [snip] I mean, I actidenditly forgot my pda somewhere and lasted like 3 days without it. And that was just after a new year res to use the thing more.
I keep wanting to get an iPod, a PDA and fancy cell phone, but then I add up the cost, and think about how much I'd really use them, and the answer is: not much.
I have to say that more than ever, I see people sticking to their old computers and toys that just do what they need... (or upgrading to faster but used computers, or cheap electronics)
This has been true for a while now, I think.
Sure, it would be cool to have an AMD64 3800+ and an nvidia 6800, but, given enough RAM, an AthlonXP 2200+ and TNT32 M64 do everything that the wife, kids and I need it to do.
For us, for the past 2ish years, the question is: what kinds of peripherals do we need? Better speakers, USB thumb drives, multi-card flash reader, ink jet printer to replace our durable Laser-Jet, external disk drive, bigger internal drive, DVD+-R/RW, etc, etc.
Don't pull shit out your ass. I'm a DBA, with a BSci in Comp. Sci.
We have a Hitatchi SAN, and one day, guess what? The SAN crashed!! All systems using it were down for a day: AS/400s, HP PA-RISC boxen, large Alpha VMS servers, and mainframes.
With the power/price of modern x86-based systems, and the rise of Linux, the line is definitely blurred, but still, a desktop-sized box running AIX is a workstation, not a PC.
Imagine having an nnn-Terabyte set of storage, from which ALL your servers boot EVERYTHING. Not a single magnetic disk is required in the servers themselves.
That's called, "having all your eggs in 1 basket", and we all know what a bad idea that is...
* People throwing around each other's true names (witness the girl talking to Ged).
And, of course, his True Name is Sparrowhawk. ROTFLMAO.
* A hot-looking Kossil sleeping with some guy.
In the books, you *NEVER* spoke someone's true name out loud. And Kossil was a fat, dumpy, ugly woman who was high priestess of an order that shunned men.
What about the girls in the School? Women weren't allowed in the School, except as visitors, by special permission.
And, by tradition, Wizards were celebate.
And the Order of priestesses at the Tombs was dying. None of this "our faith and prayer has kept peace in Earthsea" crap.
I have never before had need for such a viewer so, I didn't know that it didn't exist yet. But, I am shocked that it doesn't exist! How hard would it be for a competent programmer to rip out the rendering component from Open Office and create a standalone viewer? I can't imaging that it would be difficult, relatively speaking. Open Office is open source after all, and the rendering code is freely available for copying.
Funny, I've tried this in Internet Explorer 6.0 and Mozilla 1.7, but I could only get it to "work" in Mozilla. I'm confident the Mozilla team will have a patch out in no time.
Either Secunia is wrong, or it's a Windows-only bug.
Citibank didn't get hijacked on my Debian Sid box running Mozilla 1.7.3.
The price/performance ratio of new machines increases so much, that it just doesn't make sense to upgrade older hardware in terms of the performance or cost.
Junk a $2M machine after 3 years? Hah!
- add more processor boards - swap the old CPUs for faster ones - get more and higher density memory boards - swap SCSI controllers for HBA adaptors
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Keep them, and then when your kids get old enough, show them what things were like A Long Time Ago.
administrator of NASA will announce his retirement
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Don't you read Slashdot?
http://science.slashdot.org/science/04/12/12/2328
end up with a system with ONLY what I need on it. It's easy to maintain
Sounds like Debian to me...
Tapes aren't that expensive. One set a month/year isn't extreme.
They're really cheap when you consider a $40 tape vs spending a week re-creating a document from a hard copy (if you have it)
Yeah, but it's the drives that jack up the price.
VMS has this thing called a versioning file system
Having file versions does not mean "versioning file system".
keep a history of all the "deltas", or "increments"
That's what revision control systems do. DEC has a nice one: Code Management System.
That's not what VMS natively does. Every time you save a document, a whole copy of the document is (usually (*)) written out, and the "version field" of the filename is incremented.
Yes, that can eat up disk space quickly. To counteract that, there is the PURGE command, and SysAdmins can set a "number of versions per file" limit on directory trees. If it's 5, then the 6th old copy of the file gets deleted.
(*) Unless the file is opened in Update mode.
Yes, this can eat up
I looked and looked but could not find whether or not a 64 bit x86 version of open vms is available.
VMS presumes CPU functionality that does not exist in x86. Mainly, this has to do memoy management and "ring" protection.
A VMS engineer told us (at an Oracle Rdb conference in Nashua) that Intel purposfully made certain parts of the Itanium look like the VAX. That made it possible to port VMS to Itaniac.
every few days
10^9/(3*24*60*60)
3858.02469135802469135802
What kind of x86 system does 3,900 TPS?????
Can someone please explain to me why Maxtor drives start developing bad sectors at 6 months
Not me.
I've been using Maxtor since 1992 (a 250MB drive) and haven't seen a failure yet.
The Media is essentially what "educates" the public.
No wonder most people can't find Canada...
Nah... Not yet. We're just now getting some stuff that the Korean and Japaneese school kiddies have had for the past 5 years.
Wait 1-3 more years for us to get them fully integrated into our lives.
[snip]
I mean, I actidenditly forgot my pda somewhere and lasted like 3 days without it. And that was just after a new year res to use the thing more.
I keep wanting to get an iPod, a PDA and fancy cell phone, but then I add up the cost, and think about how much I'd really use them, and the answer is: not much.
A Blackberry would be super useful, though.
I have to say that more than ever, I see people sticking to their old computers and toys that just do what they need... (or upgrading to faster but used computers, or cheap electronics)
This has been true for a while now, I think.
Sure, it would be cool to have an AMD64 3800+ and an nvidia 6800, but, given enough RAM, an AthlonXP 2200+ and TNT32 M64 do everything that the wife, kids and I need it to do.
For us, for the past 2ish years, the question is: what kinds of peripherals do we need? Better speakers, USB thumb drives, multi-card flash reader, ink jet printer to replace our durable Laser-Jet, external disk drive, bigger internal drive, DVD+-R/RW, etc, etc.
you're an MBA
Don't pull shit out your ass. I'm a DBA, with a BSci in Comp. Sci.
We have a Hitatchi SAN, and one day, guess what? The SAN crashed!! All systems using it were down for a day: AS/400s, HP PA-RISC boxen, large Alpha VMS servers, and mainframes.
So fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
We have PC-sized RISC machines.
Then that begs the question: what's a PC?
With the power/price of modern x86-based systems, and the rise of Linux, the line is definitely blurred, but still, a desktop-sized box running AIX is a workstation, not a PC.
the core scientists who basically could have figured it out, refused to work on it on a serious scale.
Oh, puhleeze.
Those scientists were acting just like (most) every other German: "I didn't do it. I didn't know what was going on. It's not my fault! Boo Hoo."
pc's running AIX
How can a PC run AIX?
Imagine having an nnn-Terabyte set of storage, from which ALL your servers boot EVERYTHING. Not a single magnetic disk is required in the servers themselves.
That's called, "having all your eggs in 1 basket", and we all know what a bad idea that is...
Did CIOL mean Gigabyte?
No. RAM density is always measured in bits?
Why? Because you use multiple chips in parallel to make bytes.
become corrupted in seconds when subjected to the harsh environment of space, despite the sheilding that these flash memory cells have.
So, how thick does the Pb shielding have to be to protect nanoscale electronics?
Within the first five minutes we had:
* People throwing around each other's true names (witness the girl talking to Ged).
And, of course, his True Name is Sparrowhawk. ROTFLMAO.
* A hot-looking Kossil sleeping with some guy.
In the books, you *NEVER* spoke someone's true name out loud. And Kossil was a fat, dumpy, ugly woman who was high priestess of an order that shunned men.
What about the girls in the School? Women weren't allowed in the School, except as visitors, by special permission.
And, by tradition, Wizards were celebate.
And the Order of priestesses at the Tombs was dying. None of this "our faith and prayer has kept peace in Earthsea" crap.
The miniseries was horrible.
The LotR movies were different, not necessarily worse. The movies actually improved on the book in some ways.
You're kidding, right? Right? Right?
I have never before had need for such a viewer so, I didn't know that it didn't exist yet. But, I am shocked that it doesn't exist! How hard would it be for a competent programmer to rip out the rendering component from Open Office and create a standalone viewer? I can't imaging that it would be difficult, relatively speaking. Open Office is open source after all, and the rendering code is freely available for copying.
Thanks for volunteering yourself!
When can we see some alpha code?
Funny, I've tried this in Internet Explorer 6.0 and Mozilla 1.7, but I could only get it to "work" in Mozilla.
I'm confident the Mozilla team will have a patch out in no time.
Either Secunia is wrong, or it's a Windows-only bug.
Citibank didn't get hijacked on my Debian Sid box running Mozilla 1.7.3.
The price/performance ratio of new machines increases so much, that it just doesn't make sense to upgrade older hardware in terms of the performance or cost.
Junk a $2M machine after 3 years? Hah!
- add more processor boards
- swap the old CPUs for faster ones
- get more and higher density memory boards
- swap SCSI controllers for HBA adaptors
The military is probably planning to outsource the manufacture of these robots to China.
Most of the parts probably are made in China already.
The "organ removers" are called Doctors.