Instead, go download Sybase 11.0.3.3 for Linux or FreeBSD. It works just the same, and it is free for almost all commercial use.
MS SQL server and Sybase were once the same product. MS ODBC drivers work with Sybase, and the SQL syntax is pretty much identical.
If you need support, just upgrade. No, you aren't buying a product with the spectacular benchmarks of SQL Server 2000, but then again, you aren't buying anything at all, so why complain?
In the EE curriculum which I pursued, there was a course called "EE Materials and Devices." All this class addressed were diodes, BJTs, and FETs from an extremely theoretical standpoint. When someone says "and devices" to me, I am thinking of more than 3 devices in total. Ditto goes for "Principles of Electronic Instrumentation" which basically covered the same material in an introductory capacity. Man, was I sick of transistors by the time that was over. It was a waste of time.
Or how about "Linear systems and signals" which was a continuation of continuous Laplace and Fourier analysis from differential equations, or "Signals and Systems" which opened the discussion of discrete applications of Laplace and Fourier? Did the course catalog rightly discuss how these studies grew out of differential equations? Of course not.
Sorry, but a freshman will have absolutely NO idea what these courses address by looking at the title or a one-paragraph discussion in a course catalog. Were they to know, they would be somewhat disappointed.
If you take the engineering track, you will spend a year learning the physics of transistors, another year studying communications and signal processing mathematics, and much more time studying material which you will never use. Along the way, you will have a few interesting courses, especially if your department if flexible with the electives.
If you go comp sci, you will spend loads of time programming in Pascal, lots of time writing compilers (without even the slightest introduction to yacc), and learning lots of stuff you will never use. Along the way, you will have a few interesting courses.
You can tell the date that a professor receives tenure, as that is the date that they stop keeping up with general changes in IT. A truly useful degree in either field should ideally involve a professional certification, but I've never heard of any large institution doing it (which can be attributed mostly to hubris).
If you want a narrow focus in comp sci, then go comp sci. If you want a broader exposure to the physical sciences in general, go with engineering. You will not use up to 90% of what you learn in the field. Such is a degree.
How do you disable the floating tips that appear when your mouse strays over the back button too long? Under Netscape 6 for Solaris, I've seen these floating windows remain on the desktop even when Netscape is iconified.
I found a setting for "browser.chrome.toolbar_tips - false" on developer.netscape.com, but this doesn't seem to work.
I'd use Mozilla, but I like to use Solaris x86 at work, and I don't see binaries for this platform. Yes, I know I could build it...
OpenSSH team - require a command-line argument to activate "commercial ssh compatibility mode." Place this argument in both the client and the server. Do not enable it by default.
OpenSSH has a much greater market penetration than commercial ssh, and it is our community that controls him, not the other way around. He will require a demonstration.
p.s. I suggest a new name of "esh" or "ensh" for Encrypted Network SHell...
That does sound pretty awesome. Do you think we could plan on an endorsed Red Hat distribution with a journaling file system integrated into the install by June, at the latest?
What I don't understand is why Red Hat would pour effort into Gnome, but they are so reluctant to assist with the first journaling file system (especially when SUSE has done so much with it).
But then again, if ext3 is in the distribution within 3 months and it includes large file support, I won't be too upset.
It would just be nice to know what you guys are planning. It's not that much of the plan has ever been bad, but I need to plan too.
On my Solaris x86 system, here are the sizes for some of the ksh-type shells:
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 215304 Jan 5 2000/sbin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 167168 Jan 11 00:04/usr/bin/ksh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 651888 Dec 2 1999/usr/dt/bin/dtksh
But wait, ksh93 (which is sort of dtksh) supports libraries loaded at run time, so the size can be deceptive.
I've heard that sash is much more appropriate for a linux-floppy environment.
Since the code to Motif is now free and open, is there any possiblity that dtksh, the ksh93-compliant CDE shell with Motif extensions will be open-sourced? Novel wrote it; will they give it away?
Any possibility that you could leverage Zend from php? Or what would it take to implement a dbi-like SQL layer for ksh?
Under Solaris and HP-UX, ksh88 is installed in/usr/bin/ksh, ksh93 is installed in/usr/dt/bin/dtksh, but the default shell is the "Posix" shell, a superset of ksh. Is there any hope of getting this mess straigtened out?
Will I ever expect Red Hat to include an RPM for ksh93? Or would you consider merging with Bash?
Do you know how long it took Slackware to get to glibc?
Do you realize that without Red Hat, there probably wouldn't be Gnome?
Do you realize that Debian's current release is always ancient?
There is too much stuff out there that runs on Red Hat, especially in the commercial realm, to seriously consider the alternatives, excepting their nitches. Turbolinux has more advanced clustering and Asian language support, and Suse and Mandrake have Reiser. Unless you need one of these components, there is no reason to make trouble for yourself.
Is the ability to mount with journaling introduced when you install Solstice Disksuite, or do you get that ability when loading the plain vanilla Solaris 8?
If you had to load Disksuite, did you have to load a new kernel, or did it just throw on some modules?
Pardon the questions of a Solaris neophyte. I guess I should check the man pages.
My HP-UX systems at work have Oracle datafiles in the 10gig range.
I want to set Linux up as a standby server with identical data files, just to compare performance, but this can't be done on stock ext2, which enforces a 2gig limit on file size.
Would it be possible to replace the BSD kernel in OS X with Linux, and have there been any serious discussions regarding this? I imagine you would be the point man in such an investigation.
Linux does seem to be a better choice, as it is more scalable, is about to get a journaled file system, and has a dazzling array of hardware support.
I would almost rather see Apple throw itself behind HURD than cause more fragmentation amongst the BSDs. It seems the deciding factor was the BSD liscense, and not any technical advantage (although I am probably wrong, and I don't have access to POWER equipment of any sort [not even an AS/400], so I am hardly authoritative).
I did follow the progress of your injury, and I hope your recovery is proceeding well and some good has come out of the experience.
I understand and sympathize with the view towards old hardware of "don't fix what's not broken." We all get more than a little sentimental for the hardware we used in the "old days," however long ago that may be.
However, the author was contacted because the equipment was malfunctioning. Since Intel hardware is so inexpensive, running this application on a P90 with Linux makes much more sense than using such an "exotic" piece of hardware.
The Free Software/Open Source community should step up to the plate and port this application - it would be hard to conceive of a more valliant effort for our talents. I'd certainly be willing to do it.
I don't know anything about soft updates. I will go and do some research on it. Still, I've got 40Gig filesystems full of Oracle tablespaces and archivelogs, and they are on Veritas because I can't afford to wait for an fsck. BSD can't play in this space currently - I hope Apple changes this situation soon.
However, for the name server, an administrator wants uniformity. I recently had a situation where one group had name servers on Bind 4 OpenBSD, and everyone else was on Bind 8 - and each wanted to be a secondary for the other (each group had hundreds of domains). This is an extreme inconvenience. I wish the BSD team would audit and approve Bind 8, although I don't know anything about what's involved. You will also note that Red Hat installs Bind 8 as a caching server only, and I've seen networks with hundreds of UNIX workstations, all running such caching servers - named can be considered client software, although I understand that nscd can now serve a similar purpose.
As far as mature memory management goes (if I understand your point correctly), I think an administrator will try to avoid swap/paging on a mission-critical system. And how many high-capacity, heavy-load system run with a single processor?
Things have got to scale. Right now, both Linux and BSD fall short on this point. I look forward to the day when this is no longer the case.
Some of these problems are easily surmountable, some are non-issues, and some are show-stoppers in certain situations. I hope Apple takes an active interest in migrating one of the JFS implementations into Darwin.
Does BSD have a multi-threaded IP stack? How does BSD perform on Mindcraft? Linux has been playing catch-up in this space for some time, and may have a big lead.
This is also not to say that other UNIXen do not suffer their own curious limitations. Solaris 8 now includes a JFS, but it cannot be used on the root file system and performance is rumored to be very bad. HP-UX includes Veritas, but it cannot be used on the/stand file system (where the kernel lives) and Veritas doesn't support ACLs where HFS does (if I remember correctly).
It's good that Apple is going to BSD UNIX. This was the best choice for an operating system migration. But their work, and the work for the BSD team as a whole, is far from over - POSIX certification was by no means the end of the line.
Those 8 core developers better not plan to sleep anytime soon.
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Instead, go download Sybase 11.0.3.3 for Linux or FreeBSD. It works just the same, and it is free for almost all commercial use.
MS SQL server and Sybase were once the same product. MS ODBC drivers work with Sybase, and the SQL syntax is pretty much identical.
If you need support, just upgrade. No, you aren't buying a product with the spectacular benchmarks of SQL Server 2000, but then again, you aren't buying anything at all, so why complain?
In the EE curriculum which I pursued, there was a course called "EE Materials and Devices." All this class addressed were diodes, BJTs, and FETs from an extremely theoretical standpoint. When someone says "and devices" to me, I am thinking of more than 3 devices in total. Ditto goes for "Principles of Electronic Instrumentation" which basically covered the same material in an introductory capacity. Man, was I sick of transistors by the time that was over. It was a waste of time.
Or how about "Linear systems and signals" which was a continuation of continuous Laplace and Fourier analysis from differential equations, or "Signals and Systems" which opened the discussion of discrete applications of Laplace and Fourier? Did the course catalog rightly discuss how these studies grew out of differential equations? Of course not.
Sorry, but a freshman will have absolutely NO idea what these courses address by looking at the title or a one-paragraph discussion in a course catalog. Were they to know, they would be somewhat disappointed.
If you take the engineering track, you will spend a year learning the physics of transistors, another year studying communications and signal processing mathematics, and much more time studying material which you will never use. Along the way, you will have a few interesting courses, especially if your department if flexible with the electives.
If you go comp sci, you will spend loads of time programming in Pascal, lots of time writing compilers (without even the slightest introduction to yacc), and learning lots of stuff you will never use. Along the way, you will have a few interesting courses.
You can tell the date that a professor receives tenure, as that is the date that they stop keeping up with general changes in IT. A truly useful degree in either field should ideally involve a professional certification, but I've never heard of any large institution doing it (which can be attributed mostly to hubris).
If you want a narrow focus in comp sci, then go comp sci. If you want a broader exposure to the physical sciences in general, go with engineering. You will not use up to 90% of what you learn in the field. Such is a degree.
How do you disable the floating tips that appear when your mouse strays over the back button too long? Under Netscape 6 for Solaris, I've seen these floating windows remain on the desktop even when Netscape is iconified.
I found a setting for "browser.chrome.toolbar_tips - false" on developer.netscape.com, but this doesn't seem to work.
I'd use Mozilla, but I like to use Solaris x86 at work, and I don't see binaries for this platform. Yes, I know I could build it...
There are a lot of RH7 cds out there. OpenSSH is finding its way into many places where commercial ssh will never go.
OpenSSH team - require a command-line argument to activate "commercial ssh compatibility mode." Place this argument in both the client and the server. Do not enable it by default.
OpenSSH has a much greater market penetration than commercial ssh, and it is our community that controls him, not the other way around. He will require a demonstration.
p.s. I suggest a new name of "esh" or "ensh" for Encrypted Network SHell...
I hate having to know the full path to everything, or the inability for the remote server to process wildcards. These are inherent limitations of scp.
One fine day, you will be able to apt-get or rpm -Fvh an HP-UX system...
Until then, there is always Solaris (what is their thing with pkzip anyway?).
Did UnixWare have CDE?
Most of the commercial UNIX people charge big bucks for anything better than 8bit graphics.
In IBM's case, they just ship you a Matrox PCI card for which they overcharge you by about a billion percent.
I do hope that CDE gets open-sourced soon. I kinda like dtksh.
That does sound pretty awesome. Do you think we could plan on an endorsed Red Hat distribution with a journaling file system integrated into the install by June, at the latest?
I promise to buy the boxed set if so...
What I don't understand is why Red Hat would pour effort into Gnome, but they are so reluctant to assist with the first journaling file system (especially when SUSE has done so much with it).
But then again, if ext3 is in the distribution within 3 months and it includes large file support, I won't be too upset.
It would just be nice to know what you guys are planning. It's not that much of the plan has ever been bad, but I need to plan too.
On my Solaris x86 system, here are the sizes for some of the ksh-type shells:
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 215304 Jan 5 2000 /sbin/sh /usr/bin/ksh /usr/dt/bin/dtksh
-r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 167168 Jan 11 00:04
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 651888 Dec 2 1999
But wait, ksh93 (which is sort of dtksh) supports libraries loaded at run time, so the size can be deceptive.
I've heard that sash is much more appropriate for a linux-floppy environment.
Do you know how long it took Slackware to get to glibc?
Do you realize that without Red Hat, there probably wouldn't be Gnome?
Do you realize that Debian's current release is always ancient?
There is too much stuff out there that runs on Red Hat, especially in the commercial realm, to seriously consider the alternatives, excepting their nitches. Turbolinux has more advanced clustering and Asian language support, and Suse and Mandrake have Reiser. Unless you need one of these components, there is no reason to make trouble for yourself.
The big selling point for RH7 was its readiness for 2.4.
We're ready, guys. At least post a RSN on your website.
p.s. Inclusion of the Reiser patch would be peachy.
Each has their strong points. Why not be a little more optimistic about what each can achieve?
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Is the ability to mount with journaling introduced when you install Solstice Disksuite, or do you get that ability when loading the plain vanilla Solaris 8?
If you had to load Disksuite, did you have to load a new kernel, or did it just throw on some modules?
Pardon the questions of a Solaris neophyte. I guess I should check the man pages.
My HP-UX systems at work have Oracle datafiles in the 10gig range.
I want to set Linux up as a standby server with identical data files, just to compare performance, but this can't be done on stock ext2, which enforces a 2gig limit on file size.
I hope ReiserFS fixes this.
No, uuencoding and/or MIME is not the most efficient approach, but it beats 10e25 ftp connections.
Would it be possible to replace the BSD kernel in OS X with Linux, and have there been any serious discussions regarding this? I imagine you would be the point man in such an investigation.
Linux does seem to be a better choice, as it is more scalable, is about to get a journaled file system, and has a dazzling array of hardware support.
I would almost rather see Apple throw itself behind HURD than cause more fragmentation amongst the BSDs. It seems the deciding factor was the BSD liscense, and not any technical advantage (although I am probably wrong, and I don't have access to POWER equipment of any sort [not even an AS/400], so I am hardly authoritative).
I did follow the progress of your injury, and I hope your recovery is proceeding well and some good has come out of the experience.
I understand and sympathize with the view towards old hardware of "don't fix what's not broken." We all get more than a little sentimental for the hardware we used in the "old days," however long ago that may be.
However, the author was contacted because the equipment was malfunctioning. Since Intel hardware is so inexpensive, running this application on a P90 with Linux makes much more sense than using such an "exotic" piece of hardware.
The Free Software/Open Source community should step up to the plate and port this application - it would be hard to conceive of a more valliant effort for our talents. I'd certainly be willing to do it.
I don't know anything about soft updates. I will go and do some research on it. Still, I've got 40Gig filesystems full of Oracle tablespaces and archivelogs, and they are on Veritas because I can't afford to wait for an fsck. BSD can't play in this space currently - I hope Apple changes this situation soon.
However, for the name server, an administrator wants uniformity. I recently had a situation where one group had name servers on Bind 4 OpenBSD, and everyone else was on Bind 8 - and each wanted to be a secondary for the other (each group had hundreds of domains). This is an extreme inconvenience. I wish the BSD team would audit and approve Bind 8, although I don't know anything about what's involved. You will also note that Red Hat installs Bind 8 as a caching server only, and I've seen networks with hundreds of UNIX workstations, all running such caching servers - named can be considered client software, although I understand that nscd can now serve a similar purpose.
As far as mature memory management goes (if I understand your point correctly), I think an administrator will try to avoid swap/paging on a mission-critical system. And how many high-capacity, heavy-load system run with a single processor?
Things have got to scale. Right now, both Linux and BSD fall short on this point. I look forward to the day when this is no longer the case.
I've never seriously used it, but BSD:
Some of these problems are easily surmountable, some are non-issues, and some are show-stoppers in certain situations. I hope Apple takes an active interest in migrating one of the JFS implementations into Darwin.
Does BSD have a multi-threaded IP stack? How does BSD perform on Mindcraft? Linux has been playing catch-up in this space for some time, and may have a big lead.
This is also not to say that other UNIXen do not suffer their own curious limitations. Solaris 8 now includes a JFS, but it cannot be used on the root file system and performance is rumored to be very bad. HP-UX includes Veritas, but it cannot be used on the /stand file system (where the kernel lives) and Veritas doesn't support ACLs where HFS does (if I remember correctly).
It's good that Apple is going to BSD UNIX. This was the best choice for an operating system migration. But their work, and the work for the BSD team as a whole, is far from over - POSIX certification was by no means the end of the line.
Those 8 core developers better not plan to sleep anytime soon.
<p>Because Caldera integrates a 2.4 kernel in their technology preview release.</p>
<p>If Red Hat maintains this silly religious stance and refuses to integrate features introduced by their competetors, they are finished.</p>