SunOS is the kernel, Solaris is the distribution. Solaris version numbers changed with the relase of SunOS 5.7.
Solaris 9 is sometimes refered to as Solaris 2.9.
SunOS 5.0 = Solaris 2.0 SunOS 5.1 = Solaris 2.1 SunOS 5.2 = Solaris 2.2 SunOS 5.3 = Solaris 2.3 SunOS 5.4 = Solaris 2.4 SunOS 5.5 = Solaris 2.5 SunOS 5.5.1 = Solaris 2.5.1 SunOS 5.6 = Solaris 2.6 SunOS 5.7 = Solaris 7 SunOS 5.8 = Solaris 8 SunOS 5.9 = Solaris 9
Here's generally what I expect (in Canada mind you). $250 Canadian a month should get me a single server on a 10Mbps switched port, on my own VLAN, generally connected directly to at very least a T1, but as times are changing often an OC3 in my area.
I like to know that whomever I'm collocating with is on a peered network (connected directly to uunet, sprint, or whomever), and that I'm getting high ping times and good traceroutes.
Redundancy. C'mon, this is 2000. Make sure they have some good old UPS's in place, and that you're guaranteed 99.9% reliability if at all possible.
You're never asking too much when you want your business to have minimal downtime.
Security? It might be worth the extra few bucks for a secured room on their premises. Who has access to your box?
In Canada (or perhaps just where I live in BC) things get kinda ugly with DSL. Here goes.....
1. Installation via the local phone company costs a direct $50 Canadian. Installation via an ISP costs $150, $50 of which goes to the local phone carrier, $65 of which goes to the people kind enough to set this up, and $35 goes to the ISP. Supreme rip off right here on the ISP end due to CRTC regulations.
2. Local phone carriers offer a cap on how much bandwidth I may use in total per month (though don't appear to actually cap you, they only state this in their policy). ISP's however allow users only 2GB of bandwidth per month, charge $20 per GB after this ($7 of which goes to the phone company, $13 of which goes to the ISP). Another reason to go directly through the phone company.
3. Here's an plus for the ISP... Local phone companies do not offer Reverse DNS or Static IP's. ISP's in my area will generally do this for me without hassle or question, and will often even handle Forward DNS no problem. It may often be cheaper to recieve more IP Addresses as well at an ISP level.
4. If my service goes down at an ISP level, the ISP will have to open a ticket with the phone company, often leaving the customer high and dry, thinking the problem is at the ISP level. This has left many customers in my area very dissatisfied with ADSL ISP's around here, when in fact it is just bad service on the phone carrier level.
5. It appears the DSLAM's in my area do not support all brands of ADSL routers... This appears to have been a way to get only certain brands of ASDL routers (e.g. USR HomeConnect) monopolized in my area, while we cannot use Cisco 67x routers due to their chipset. I personally like controlling SNMP and syslogd on my router without having to break into a router that has been leased to me by the ISP or phone company.
6. Local ISP's get first dibs on all available circuits in your area. ISP's get whatever remains on a 3 month cycle, all due to CRTC regulations. This means that the phone company never tells us there are ports available immediately, and instead puts us on a 'waiting list'. I have heard of people complaining about this to get activated immediately.
My overall impression? Go with the phone company for ADSL access, though small businesses and power users will like ISP's simply for Reverse DNS and Static IP's (which is the only thing making me scratch my head).
Whatever you do don't have them tape any metallica videos!
Don't worry, they've had some Metallica bootleg videos in rotation for a few weeks now. Apparently Metallica doesn't go after those of us who own such non-copyrighted material...:)
Seriously though, I wouldn't see any problem with this if they kept fully uncut television on there, with full commercials and all (we wouldn't want another lawsuit involving cutting out banner adds now would we?). But they would probably still need the station's permission to re-broadcast. How this deffers from regular taping of shows on my VCR and passing them to a friend (with all commercials cut before hand, as I rock) I honestly do not know.
Thanks NSI! I can't tell you how much fun I had dealing with your ongoing garbage for the past 3 years! And to think my company has registered over 1000 domains with you guys for our customers over the past 5 years!
In using Tucows OpenSRS we have had extreme reliability, durability, speed, and low prices. Any ISP who hasn't implemented this service yet doesn't know what they are missing... Only $10/year per domain.
And for all you end users out there, don't miss out Domain Monger, who implement OpenSRS, and only charge $17/year.
Although Napster is the largest distribution method, it certainly isn't the only one. It would be impossible for any artist to control their commercialized music on Usenet, IRC, FTP, HTTP, and others. Hell, someone had to buy their CD if the music is being distributed in the first place (I'm sure that if an artist only sold a single CD their label wouldn't be terribly impressed mind you).
I'm personally willing to support artists by purchasing individual songs online, but the question still remains of why I would buy water when I can get it free from my tap. Less than 10% of the price of a CD goes to the artists anyhow, and I'm just not willing to support the industry anymore (though I really do like quality music and would like the artists to continue making good music, unlike the garbage at mp3.com).
It's a catch 22. There's no winning for anyone here, including the consumer.
EraseMe
Re:#! /usr/local/bin/perl -Tw
on
Perl 5.6.0 Out
·
· Score: 2
#!/usr/bin/perl
BEGIN { unless(eval "require 5.6") { print "Watcha waiting for? Upgrade to 5.6!\n" } }
END { print "Another useless program by EraseMe\n"; }
Just in case anyone was wondering, they went from Perl 5.005 to Perl 5.6 because they didn't want to release this as 5.006 as they figured many people may not understand the large significance of this release...
SAS Institute already delivers solutions that run on all the major operating-system platforms, including the leading versions of UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and Tru64, with support for Project Monterey planned), as well as Windows 2000, Windows NT and mainframe operating systems.
This company obviously has a thorough commitment to providing Unix solutions, and aren't stepping into the market with no grasp on the Unix ideals and concepts. Kudos for porting their product over to Linux!
I was an avid Slackware user in the mid-nineties, but after a few years I moved over to other distributions due to the lack of easy upgradability and package management. How upgradable will future versions of Slackware be? Are there any plans for Slack to move to FreeBSD style packagement management (which rocks imho)?
According to the DNS record for sevenval.com, how exactly are the dynamic A records held? I'm fairly sure there is an implementation of DDNS in the latest version of BIND (ala Windows dynamic WINS updates in DNS), but how is this stored?
I don't see anything even remotely dynamic below, but their hostname is extremely dynamic when viewing their webpage. I would assume its the * record, but what sort of application generates the hostname?
1D IN NS ns.buy-world.de. 1D IN NS ns.r-tec.net. 1D IN MX 1 wilson.office.sevenval.de. 1D IN A 195.122.187.3 * 1D IN HINFO "IBM-PC" "UNIX" 1D IN A 195.122.187.3 cvsserver 1D IN A 62.96.224.212 1D IN HINFO "IBM-PC" "UNIX" *.cologne 1D IN A 62.96.224.211 1D IN HINFO "IBM-PC" "UNIX" wilson.office 1D IN A 62.96.224.210 1D IN HINFO "IBM-PC" "UNIX" tim.office 1D IN A 62.96.224.222 1D IN HINFO "IBM-PC" "UNIX"
Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4. Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special permission from their copyright holders, but you may include translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a translation of this License provided that you also include the original English version of this License. In case of a disagreement between the translation and the original English version of this License, the original English version will prevail.
Does anyone see any true sense to this clause? We still have to refer back to the original document in order to stick to the license, so I would imagine this would just make things more complicated for such projects as the LDP when they start moving towards more sophisticated language support.
Copyright (c) YEAR YOUR NAME. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.0 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
What a novel license.. Kudos to RMS and the rest of the GNU crew!
Ahh yes.. didn't the Australian Yellow Pages try to copyright their shade of yellow, used as simple rgb on web pages?
The Unix world will oneday sue Microsoft for their inappropriate use of ANSI on MS-DOS, not to mention the simple black and white console colors.
Perhaps if I were to make a computer that looks like an oven, smells like an oven (hell, even bakes like an oven) the kind people at General Electric will sue me for recreating their 50 year old patentented look and feel?
When I tested Tru64 on their Alpha 21264 6 months ago they sent me a free model car (ala Test Drive) in the mail (Canada). I also managed to get a licence plate that says:
SECURITY: The safe file checks now back track through symbolic links to make sure the files can't be compromised due to poor permissions on the parent directories of the symbolic link target. SECURITY: Only root, TrustedUser, and users in class t can rebuild the alias map. Problem noted by Michal Zalewski of the "Internet for Schools" project (IdS). SECURITY: There is a potential for a denial of service attack if the AutoRebuildAliases option is set as a user can kill the sendmail process while it is rebuilding the aliases file (leaving it in an inconsistent state). This option and its use is deprecated and will be removed from a future version of sendmail.
Support multiple queue directories. To use multiple queues, supply a QueueDirectory option value ending with an asterisk. For example,/var/spool/mqueue/q* will use all of the directories or symbolic links to directories beginning with 'q' in/var/spool/mqueue as queue directories. Keep in mind, the queue directory structure should not be changed while sendmail is running. Queue runs create a separate process for running each queue unless the verbose flag is given on a non-daemon queue run. New items are randomly assigned to a queue. Contributed by Exactis.com, Inc.
This could be great for my Solaris box with 50,000+ active SMTP connections, as we may be able to segregate the mail queue onto seperate partitions!:)
I believe Walnut Creek has moved all Linux related distros and software to ftp.freesoftware.com. They are indeed the official site for Slackware Linux, and for FreeBSD. I think this is a great merger, but I wonder what effects it will have for Mac OSX, which runs off of a mini BSDI 4.4 me thinks..
A few ideas come straight to mind.. Persistant CGI (such as Apple WebObjects) is a great idea. mod_perl on Apache can severely speed things up. Perhaps move to Oracle, as you may benefit from some large performance increses, Linux 2.3.x has khttpd for kernel caching of static web pages (ala AIX).
Making Napster illegal would be like making Usenet or IRC, or eve a search engine illegal simply because there is illegal activity by their users. It would be like making a bandwidth provider or ISP mother their clients, which is just blatantly ignorant. There is no way the RIAA can stop Napster, and relatively impossible to track down the users trading mp3's on Napster.:)
Perhaps Napster should go the way of IRC, and run as multiple servers, e.g. eu.napster.com, us.napster.com, etc. He could then link reliable servers into a small network, allowing for more balanced bandwidth.
It would also mean that individuals could run their own segregated napster networks, for internal usage.
Napster is an incredible innovation! I just wish there was a Stop button when doing a search. The Unix clients still need quite a bit of work as well. Is there a rfc like document for Napster protocols available (so that I could write a perl module or the likes)?
Support your local Freedows maintainers! I have never used the product, but I certainly understand and respect the motive behind the idea, as it falls into the same category as FreeDOS and DR-DOS as being (viable?) alternatives to commercial OS's such as Windows.
Also, some backing for open source word programs would be extremely useful. =)
If anyone deserves extreme credit it would be the wonderful guys at debian.org that have single handedly created the most powerful Linux dist with no real commercial backing.
I would certainly send some money their way (if they would even accept it?)..
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SunOS is the kernel, Solaris is the distribution. Solaris version numbers changed with the relase of SunOS 5.7.
Solaris 9 is sometimes refered to as Solaris 2.9.
SunOS 5.0 = Solaris 2.0
SunOS 5.1 = Solaris 2.1
SunOS 5.2 = Solaris 2.2
SunOS 5.3 = Solaris 2.3
SunOS 5.4 = Solaris 2.4
SunOS 5.5 = Solaris 2.5
SunOS 5.5.1 = Solaris 2.5.1
SunOS 5.6 = Solaris 2.6
SunOS 5.7 = Solaris 7
SunOS 5.8 = Solaris 8
SunOS 5.9 = Solaris 9
Here's generally what I expect (in Canada mind you). $250 Canadian a month should get me a single server on a 10Mbps switched port, on my own VLAN, generally connected directly to at very least a T1, but as times are changing often an OC3 in my area.
I like to know that whomever I'm collocating with is on a peered network (connected directly to uunet, sprint, or whomever), and that I'm getting high ping times and good traceroutes.
Redundancy. C'mon, this is 2000. Make sure they have some good old UPS's in place, and that you're guaranteed 99.9% reliability if at all possible.
You're never asking too much when you want your business to have minimal downtime.
Security? It might be worth the extra few bucks for a secured room on their premises. Who has access to your box?
My $0.02...
EraseMe
In Canada (or perhaps just where I live in BC) things get kinda ugly with DSL. Here goes.....
1. Installation via the local phone company costs a direct $50 Canadian. Installation via an ISP costs $150, $50 of which goes to the local phone carrier, $65 of which goes to the people kind enough to set this up, and $35 goes to the ISP. Supreme rip off right here on the ISP end due to CRTC regulations.
2. Local phone carriers offer a cap on how much bandwidth I may use in total per month (though don't appear to actually cap you, they only state this in their policy). ISP's however allow users only 2GB of bandwidth per month, charge $20 per GB after this ($7 of which goes to the phone company, $13 of which goes to the ISP). Another reason to go directly through the phone company.
3. Here's an plus for the ISP... Local phone companies do not offer Reverse DNS or Static IP's. ISP's in my area will generally do this for me without hassle or question, and will often even handle Forward DNS no problem. It may often be cheaper to recieve more IP Addresses as well at an ISP level.
4. If my service goes down at an ISP level, the ISP will have to open a ticket with the phone company, often leaving the customer high and dry, thinking the problem is at the ISP level. This has left many customers in my area very dissatisfied with ADSL ISP's around here, when in fact it is just bad service on the phone carrier level.
5. It appears the DSLAM's in my area do not support all brands of ADSL routers... This appears to have been a way to get only certain brands of ASDL routers (e.g. USR HomeConnect) monopolized in my area, while we cannot use Cisco 67x routers due to their chipset. I personally like controlling SNMP and syslogd on my router without having to break into a router that has been leased to me by the ISP or phone company.
6. Local ISP's get first dibs on all available circuits in your area. ISP's get whatever remains on a 3 month cycle, all due to CRTC regulations. This means that the phone company never tells us there are ports available immediately, and instead puts us on a 'waiting list'. I have heard of people complaining about this to get activated immediately.
My overall impression? Go with the phone company for ADSL access, though small businesses and power users will like ISP's simply for Reverse DNS and Static IP's (which is the only thing making me scratch my head).
eraseme
The only major distributor that is missing here is Redhat.
;)
Does Debian have a proposed port? I'd love to load up Linux on my S/390 here at home... *dreaming*
eraseme
Whatever you do don't have them tape any metallica videos!
:)
Don't worry, they've had some Metallica bootleg videos in rotation for a few weeks now. Apparently Metallica doesn't go after those of us who own such non-copyrighted material...
Seriously though, I wouldn't see any problem with this if they kept fully uncut television on there, with full commercials and all (we wouldn't want another lawsuit involving cutting out banner adds now would we?). But they would probably still need the station's permission to re-broadcast. How this deffers from regular taping of shows on my VCR and passing them to a friend (with all commercials cut before hand, as I rock) I honestly do not know.
eraseme
Thanks NSI! I can't tell you how much fun I had dealing with your ongoing garbage for the past 3 years! And to think my company has registered over 1000 domains with you guys for our customers over the past 5 years!
In using Tucows OpenSRS we have had extreme reliability, durability, speed, and low prices. Any ISP who hasn't implemented this service yet doesn't know what they are missing... Only $10/year per domain.
And for all you end users out there, don't miss out Domain Monger, who implement OpenSRS, and only charge $17/year.
NSI... How are you still a company?
EraseMe
Although Napster is the largest distribution method, it certainly isn't the only one. It would be impossible for any artist to control their commercialized music on Usenet, IRC, FTP, HTTP, and others. Hell, someone had to buy their CD if the music is being distributed in the first place (I'm sure that if an artist only sold a single CD their label wouldn't be terribly impressed mind you).
I'm personally willing to support artists by purchasing individual songs online, but the question still remains of why I would buy water when I can get it free from my tap. Less than 10% of the price of a CD goes to the artists anyhow, and I'm just not willing to support the industry anymore (though I really do like quality music and would like the artists to continue making good music, unlike the garbage at mp3.com).
It's a catch 22. There's no winning for anyone here, including the consumer.
EraseMe
#!/usr/bin/perl
BEGIN {
unless(eval "require 5.6") {
print "Watcha waiting for? Upgrade to 5.6!\n"
}
}
END {
print "Another useless program by EraseMe\n";
}
Just in case anyone was wondering, they went from Perl 5.005 to Perl 5.6 because they didn't want to release this as 5.006 as they figured many people may not understand the large significance of this release...
:)
/me waits eagerly for a woody deb.
EraseMe
SAS Institute already delivers solutions that run on all the major operating-system platforms, including the leading versions of UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and Tru64, with support for Project Monterey planned), as well as Windows 2000, Windows NT and mainframe operating systems.
This company obviously has a thorough commitment to providing Unix solutions, and aren't stepping into the market with no grasp on the Unix ideals and concepts. Kudos for porting their product over to Linux!
EraseMe
Hi Patrick!
I was an avid Slackware user in the mid-nineties, but after a few years I moved over to other distributions due to the lack of easy upgradability and package management. How upgradable will future versions of Slackware be? Are there any plans for Slack to move to FreeBSD style packagement management (which rocks imho)?
EraseMe
According to the DNS record for sevenval.com, how exactly are the dynamic A records held? I'm fairly sure there is an implementation of DDNS in the latest version of BIND (ala Windows dynamic WINS updates in DNS), but how is this stored?
I don't see anything even remotely dynamic below, but their hostname is extremely dynamic when viewing their webpage. I would assume its the * record, but what sort of application generates the hostname?
2000011802 ; serial
8H ; refresh
2H ; retry
1W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum
1D IN NS ns.buy-world.de.
1D IN NS ns.r-tec.net.
1D IN MX 1 wilson.office.sevenval.de.
1D IN A 195.122.187.3
* 1D IN HINFO "IBM-PC" "UNIX"
1D IN A 195.122.187.3
cvsserver 1D IN A 62.96.224.212
1D IN HINFO "IBM-PC" "UNIX"
*.cologne 1D IN A 62.96.224.211
1D IN HINFO "IBM-PC" "UNIX"
wilson.office 1D IN A 62.96.224.210
1D IN HINFO "IBM-PC" "UNIX"
tim.office 1D IN A 62.96.224.222
1D IN HINFO "IBM-PC" "UNIX"
EraseMe
This is interesting:
Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4. Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special permission from their copyright holders, but you may include translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a translation of this License provided that you also include the original English version of this License. In case of a disagreement between the translation and the original English version of this License, the original English version will prevail.
Does anyone see any true sense to this clause? We still have to refer back to the original document in order to stick to the license, so I would imagine this would just make things more complicated for such projects as the LDP when they start moving towards more sophisticated language support.
EraseMe
Copyright (c) YEAR YOUR NAME.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.0 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
What a novel license.. Kudos to RMS and the rest of the GNU crew!
EraseMe
Ahh yes.. didn't the Australian Yellow Pages try to copyright their shade of yellow, used as simple rgb on web pages?
The Unix world will oneday sue Microsoft for their inappropriate use of ANSI on MS-DOS, not to mention the simple black and white console colors.
Perhaps if I were to make a computer that looks like an oven, smells like an oven (hell, even bakes like an oven) the kind people at General Electric will sue me for recreating their 50 year old patentented look and feel?
EraseMe
When I tested Tru64 on their Alpha 21264 6 months ago they sent me a free model car (ala Test Drive) in the mail (Canada). I also managed to get a licence plate that says:
Compaq 1999
LIVE FREE OR DIE
LINUX
EraseMe
Enjoy..
SECURITY: The safe file checks now back track through symbolic links to make sure the files can't be compromised due to poor permissions on the parent directories of the symbolic link target.
SECURITY: Only root, TrustedUser, and users in class t can rebuild the alias map. Problem noted by Michal Zalewski of the "Internet for Schools" project (IdS).
SECURITY: There is a potential for a denial of service attack if the AutoRebuildAliases option is set as a user can kill the sendmail process while it is rebuilding the aliases file (leaving it in an inconsistent state). This option and its use is deprecated and will be removed from a future version of sendmail.
EraseMe
I found this to be interesting:
/var/spool/mqueue/q* will use all of the directories or symbolic links to directories beginning with 'q' in /var/spool/mqueue as queue directories. Keep in mind, the queue directory structure should not be changed while sendmail is running. Queue runs create a separate process for running each queue unless the verbose flag is given on a non-daemon queue run. New items are randomly assigned to a queue. Contributed by Exactis.com, Inc.
:)
Support multiple queue directories. To use multiple queues, supply a QueueDirectory option value ending with an asterisk. For example,
This could be great for my Solaris box with 50,000+ active SMTP connections, as we may be able to segregate the mail queue onto seperate partitions!
EraseMe
I believe Walnut Creek has moved all Linux related distros and software to ftp.freesoftware.com. They are indeed the official site for Slackware Linux, and for FreeBSD. I think this is a great merger, but I wonder what effects it will have for Mac OSX, which runs off of a mini BSDI 4.4 me thinks..
EraseMe
A few ideas come straight to mind.. Persistant CGI (such as Apple WebObjects) is a great idea. mod_perl on Apache can severely speed things up. Perhaps move to Oracle, as you may benefit from some large performance increses, Linux 2.3.x has khttpd for kernel caching of static web pages (ala AIX).
EraseMe
Gnapster
gnome-napster
GTK Napster
iNapster
jNapster
Knapster
Linux Napster Client
Jnap
OpenNap
;)
Would anyone like to throw some review of the different Napster implementations available for Linux? Or should I just run Napster over VMWare?
EraseMe
Making Napster illegal would be like making Usenet or IRC, or eve a search engine illegal simply because there is illegal activity by their users. It would be like making a bandwidth provider or ISP mother their clients, which is just blatantly ignorant. There is no way the RIAA can stop Napster, and relatively impossible to track down the users trading mp3's on Napster. :)
EraseMe
Perhaps Napster should go the way of IRC, and run as multiple servers, e.g. eu.napster.com, us.napster.com, etc. He could then link reliable servers into a small network, allowing for more balanced bandwidth.
It would also mean that individuals could run their own segregated napster networks, for internal usage.
Napster is an incredible innovation! I just wish there was a Stop button when doing a search. The Unix clients still need quite a bit of work as well. Is there a rfc like document for Napster protocols available (so that I could write a perl module or the likes)?
EraseMe
Support your local Freedows maintainers! I have never used the product, but I certainly understand and respect the motive behind the idea, as it falls into the same category as FreeDOS and DR-DOS as being (viable?) alternatives to commercial OS's such as Windows.
Also, some backing for open source word programs would be extremely useful. =)
EraseMe
One word for you: Debian.
If anyone deserves extreme credit it would be the wonderful guys at debian.org that have single handedly created the most powerful Linux dist with no real commercial backing.
I would certainly send some money their way (if they would even accept it?)..
EraseMe