Having endured 3 major releases of Campus Edition of WebCT, this poor sysadmin just about barfed when I saw this news today. Just when were migrating from CE 4 to CE 6, THIS happens.
The old WebCT was cobbled together at UBC on some rainy FRiday afternoons. Their old architecture doesnt scale anymore, an indexed flat-file system causes all kinds of performance problems, backup and restore problems, and more often than not leaves you running out of inodes on your file systems. Campus Edition 6 was rewritten from the ground up as a J2EE application using an Oracle backend. Now we have a 505Mb download instead of 90Mb.
I sure hope whatever happens to BB/WebCT results in a slimmer easier to administer product. Good luck to them both.
No, you dont have to 'change every little thing'
It took a grand total of 3 CD mounts last time I installed Solaris. Root's homedir is '/' yes... same as many other UNIX OSes.
I have no idea what ur talking about regarding telling the installer 'not to reboot' - wait until the installer finishes then log on as root and do a 'passmgmt -a ' ???
You have to be aware of how the automounter works - that is the reason you can't modify/export/home. 'man autofs'
http://sunfreeware.com is a goldmine for Sun software all in nice package or.tgz format, many of these come with source including gcc. All of it free.
I know you are probably more versed in Linux, but I seriously think you ought to take a rudimentary course in system administration before making 'usability' pronouncements like these.
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>>Surely if your system runs out of RAM it shouldn't die? The runaway process, sure, but the OS should be able to reclaim some RAM from that and manage to carry on, no?
Not Windows XP for sure.. I edited an ISO image using 2 different editors and instead of the editors barfing, XP froze solid each time.
I think the point about a la carte is that the current bundling of channels forces you to accept crap channels just in order to get ones that interest you.
Up here in Canada, our beloved CRTC forces all cable or satellite TV providers to require subscribers to purchase a base set of channels, presumably to pump their silly "Canadian content" requirements. Most of them are eminently forgettable. Over and above this, you usually get to choose various themed packages, most of which contain about 1 or 2 out of 7 or so channels you'd actually want. Not good, and expensive.
The closest we ever had to a la carte was now defunct Look TV which offered the basic required channels plus "pick any 10 for $12 per month, and 12 for $14 etc.... They sadly didn't get rolling because they relied on line-of-sight microwave transmission - not a good idea.
Unless they removed it after Solaris 9, I think Volume Manager (ex Disksuite) does this. Yes, it does soft partitions too, in case you're about to ask:)
I think if you take the time to check the install log, you'll see that on average only about 20% of the patches are actually installed. The remainder are either already applied or don't have a base component installed.
Thats the nice thing about doing it this way - you don't have to figure out exactly what patches you need. Ever read the patch documentation?:)
>> They are clearly out to get people to switch from Windows to LindowsOS by imitating MicroSoft's product.
So what are your feelings on Ximian Evolution?
About as good a OE clone as I've seen. Better than the original actually.
Micro$oft really ought to look in the mirror.
>>Personaly I've never seen Win2K crash without >> flaky hardware.
Try to edit an ISO file or some other large file. It'll freeze your system in about 20 secs.
The fact she's 79 years old doesn't excuse stupidity. Did you expect McDonalds to send a staff member in the car to help her open the lid or something?
Putting scalding hot coffee between your legs is a very dangerous proposition at the best of times - mucking around with it in a moving vehicle is indescribably stupid.
I'm pissed off she got even got 1 cent out of this.
What did they innovate today?
Bugger all, really. I enjoy Usenet because it usually gets me an answer within a couple of hours of posting. It's the prototypical text-based communication medium - just the facts, Jack. If Micro$loth got their greasy little paws on it, you'd need to spend 90% of your time slicing out non-compliant mime boundary records, HTML with a healthy dose of "" cruft and this just to get at the information. Sound familiar?
We used to theorize how books would go over in our University Bookstore if they had titles like:
"VM/CMS control blocks for Drama majors"
"Cobol compiler internals - a minor elective for Agriculture students"
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Having endured 3 major releases of Campus Edition of WebCT, this poor sysadmin just about barfed when I saw this news today. Just when were migrating from CE 4 to CE 6, THIS happens.
The old WebCT was cobbled together at UBC on some rainy FRiday afternoons. Their old architecture doesnt scale anymore, an indexed flat-file system causes all kinds of performance problems, backup and restore problems, and more often than not leaves you running out of inodes on your file systems. Campus Edition 6 was rewritten from the ground up as a J2EE application using an Oracle backend. Now we have a 505Mb download instead of 90Mb.
I sure hope whatever happens to BB/WebCT results in a slimmer easier to administer product. Good luck to them both.
No, you dont have to 'change every little thing' It took a grand total of 3 CD mounts last time I installed Solaris. Root's homedir is '/' yes ... same as many other UNIX OSes.
I have no idea what ur talking about regarding telling the installer 'not to reboot' - wait until the installer finishes then log on as root and do a 'passmgmt -a ' ???
You have to be aware of how the automounter works - that is the reason you can't modify /export/home. 'man autofs'
http://sunfreeware.com is a goldmine for Sun software all in nice package or .tgz format, many of these come with source including gcc. All of it free.
I know you are probably more versed in Linux, but I seriously think you ought to take a rudimentary course in system administration before making 'usability' pronouncements like these.
>>Surely if your system runs out of RAM it shouldn't die? The runaway process, sure, but the OS should be able to reclaim some RAM from that and manage to carry on, no?
.. I edited an ISO image using 2 different editors and instead of the editors barfing, XP froze solid each time.
Not Windows XP for sure
Scotty
I think the point about a la carte is that the current bundling of channels forces you to accept crap channels just in order to get ones that interest you. Up here in Canada, our beloved CRTC forces all cable or satellite TV providers to require subscribers to purchase a base set of channels, presumably to pump their silly "Canadian content" requirements. Most of them are eminently forgettable. Over and above this, you usually get to choose various themed packages, most of which contain about 1 or 2 out of 7 or so channels you'd actually want. Not good, and expensive. The closest we ever had to a la carte was now defunct Look TV which offered the basic required channels plus "pick any 10 for $12 per month, and 12 for $14 etc.... They sadly didn't get rolling because they relied on line-of-sight microwave transmission - not a good idea.
Unless they removed it after Solaris 9, I think Volume Manager (ex Disksuite) does this. Yes, it does soft partitions too, in case you're about to ask :)
I think if you take the time to check the install log, you'll see that on average only about 20% of the patches are actually installed. The remainder are either already applied or don't have a base component installed. Thats the nice thing about doing it this way - you don't have to figure out exactly what patches you need. Ever read the patch documentation? :)
>> They are clearly out to get people to switch from Windows to LindowsOS by imitating MicroSoft's product. So what are your feelings on Ximian Evolution? About as good a OE clone as I've seen. Better than the original actually. Micro$oft really ought to look in the mirror.
Yes he is, and in addition James Doohan (Scotty) is from Vancouver B.C. so watch it !
>>Personaly I've never seen Win2K crash without >> flaky hardware. Try to edit an ISO file or some other large file. It'll freeze your system in about 20 secs.
The fact she's 79 years old doesn't excuse stupidity. Did you expect McDonalds to send a staff member in the car to help her open the lid or something?
Putting scalding hot coffee between your legs is a very dangerous proposition at the best of times - mucking around with it in a moving vehicle is indescribably stupid.
I'm pissed off she got even got 1 cent out of this.
Look for SCO to claim IP rights over the fart generation technology. It *is* a derivative technology of Unix after all.
What did they innovate today? Bugger all, really. I enjoy Usenet because it usually gets me an answer within a couple of hours of posting. It's the prototypical text-based communication medium - just the facts, Jack. If Micro$loth got their greasy little paws on it, you'd need to spend 90% of your time slicing out non-compliant mime boundary records, HTML with a healthy dose of "" cruft and this just to get at the information. Sound familiar?
We used to theorize how books would go over in our University Bookstore if they had titles like: "VM/CMS control blocks for Drama majors" "Cobol compiler internals - a minor elective for Agriculture students"
'rpm -i ' is easier than 'pkgadd -d ' ?? don't follow you :)
Wonder what SCO would do if Micro$loth tapped them on the shoulder and said "We will buy you out - submit now" ??