I had a problem with HP-UX apparently not wanting to transfer via NFS (when the NFS server is on HP-UX 11.0) files larger than 2GB. I had to backup a Solaris computer's hard disk using DD across NFS. This usually worked when the NFS server is Solaris. However, last friday it failed, when the server was setup on HP-UX. I had to resort to my little Blade 100 as the NFS server, and I had no problems with it.
I have noticed that on the SAME DAY some folks have asked question about the 2 GB filesize limit in HP-UX on comp.sys.hp.hpux !! Apparently, HP-UX default tar and cpio don't support files over 2 GB, either. Not even in HP-UX 11i. I never thought HP-UX stinked this bad...
How does Linux on x86 stack up? I decided not to use it for this backup, since I had my Blade 100, but would it have worked? Oh, btw, is there finally implemented on Linux a command like "share" (exsts in Solaris) to share directories via NFS, or do I still need to edit/etc/exports and then restart NFS daemon (or send SIGHUP)?
Do you think I could swap the CD ROM drive with any standard IDE CD ROM? If yes, do you think if it matters whether it has region-blocked firmware or not?
OK, if it runs Linux (I am not doubting it), where is the CPU? Looking at that motherboard, it doesn't seem to have any CPU capable of running Linux... unless it's on the opposite side. Do you know anything about this?
Another thing: do you know if I can swap the CD ROM device that is in the KiSS, with another (standard) IDE CD ROM?
Klaus, I am in Finland, but my wife goes to Germany often: where can you find a Macrovision-removing device in Germany, for 60 Euro? I would need one, possibly with NTSC support (but PAL is more important).
I totally disagree with your remark regarding Emacs: I use vi on Linux, Solaris, HP-UX all day long for my work. I think I know vi rather well.
Yet, when I go home, when I want to relax, I DON*T want to fiddle with the command line to play a movie, and most decidedly don't want to find/grep through config files to enavble sound output through the soundcard's line out instead of the CD ROM's sound out. I just want it to work. Am I able to make it work? I guess so, infact, I did that on a couple of Linux installs, but I don't like to do it. I hope you understand.
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OK, good. But if that's the case, why doesn't someone enforce the GPL upon them? Why doesn't anyone sue them? Or even send some lawyer-letter? I am sure Bruce Perens would be involved in the issue somehow, and would have already informed Slashdot on the proceedings.
Instead, we have nisba, zippo, nada. I think that's strange.
Maybe so, but I like to think that these companies will still be sensitive to those employees that have vision problems, and can't stand LCDs. I am such a person, I avoid using my laptop's LCD screen at all costs. The fact that the colors are distorted or completely lost at the edges, and that I just can't seem to find a confortable viewing angle, is causing me headaches and degradation of productivity.
Just, case in point, Slobodan Milosevich and German soldiers did things that were completely legal in their countries.
I actually lived in Serbia during the Balkan wars, and can tell you that waht Milosevic did was ILLEGAL in Serbia. It's just that people didn't know what he exactly did, and when they would get some info from western media, the government-controlled TV and newspapers dismissed it into oblivion.
But no, gang-raping and murdering little girls and gouging people's eyes out is definitely not legal in Serbia.
Maybe it's irrelevant for the OSS, but it's very relevant for the software industry in general: it's the "bug's life" story, if you forgive me this simplification: someone stood up against the all-engulfing MS-integrator/assimilator. I already read posts saying "but how will they communicate with the outside world that uses MS Office?". Sure, there is this risk. And sure, the ants in "Bug's life" would face the risk of opposing the big locusts, even though they outnumbered them. But see, once one of the ants did stand up against a locust, suddenly everything changed, suddenly companies saw the possibility of change!
As for OSS usage, I have to say that sometimes it's more eluding than you people think: I know of companies that are totally against OSS, and if you dreamed of using any OSS component in their products you would be fired immediately. However, these same companies use Linux in the servers on which their products run - RedHat, to be more exact. They use Linux because it's cheap, but they don't see it as free software!!! For them, it's a copy of RedHat Linux for which they pay a tot per copy and a tot for support. I am saddened to see these OSS folks getting excited about companies like these, when (for example) I can't incorporate a fucking Expect in our products.
Actually, I got it for free. The guy thought it had only about 100 MB, while in fact it was a 1 GB+ SCSI drive. The fact was that it had NetWare (3.11 I think) installed, which is installed mostly on a separate, NetWare partition, which this guy didn't apparently notice.
Unless you have been sleeping under a rock for the last 12 months, you would certainly know that there are DVD players of comparable quality to the Xbox, at half the price. Also, they don't require a mod-chip to play Divx, MP3, SVCD and VCD in addition to DVD.They also have less moving parts (the Xbox has two fans and a hard disk, in addition to the DVD mechanics) and is therefore more reliable and dissipates less.
Also, the DVD players available today are all multi-region enable-able through the remote. Some will even remove Macrovision with a remote hack. For the Xbox, you will need a modchip to achieve the same.
Oh, and the DVD player comes with a remote, unlike the Xbox.
Of course, you are right. But until we develop something like in "2001: A space odissey", our main concern will be to get there as fast as possible.
Really funny that this topic came up, though: just yestarday I watched one of my DVDs "Mission to mars". I find it better than Red Planet,but this is just my taste. Didn't yet see Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars", though, but I guess it'll be typical Carpenter (which isn't bad, just not so much sci-fi as thriller/horror).
Simple: to get to Mars you need a lot of propellent, expecially for a manned spacecraft. To get that propellent outside the Earth's orbit you need some huge engines, and a rocket that hasn't been designed yet, and probably won't, in the conceivable future. We're talking about kilometres in size, here.
But, what makes the propellent push the spacecraft forward? It's the product of mass times velocity. Since we can't have a lot of mass, we must use a propellent that will achieve a great velocity. Enter nuclear propulsion.
I gotta rush home, I'll definitely get back to you though: I have read a rebuttal from SCO where they say unequivocably that they are not going to seek anything from Linux distro's.
The whole point in these two "articles" of sorts is that it would have been much better to just wait and see what exactly is SCO's intention. The first article was jumping the gun (as this one proves), and the reaction of Slashdot is to.. again jump the gun? I almost think some people are using any and all opportunity to spread FUD.
It's quite simple, really: just wait what the decision will be, and if it turns out that Caldera would want to collect royalties from Linux distro makers, then let all hell break out, badmouth SCO and collect karma points all you like.
If it turns out, however, that SCO only wants to target Microsoft (which is, if you think about it for a second, the only sound and sane choice, as MS are the only ones that possess cash in aboundance), then I really wonder if all these zealous posters will take their words back and say "sorry, I suck". And remember, SCO (Caldera) has a history of getting money out of MS, so this should be one hint that MS will be the target. And the prosecutor that was mentioned in that first, atroucious writeup, was Boise, who clobbered MS rather badly (or well, depending on your POV) and earned his reputation as MS's nightmare. That should be another hint.
What a knee-jerk, pricky, reactionary post this is. Sure, do not bother checking the facts, try your best to forget that this is slashdot, which means FUD all over Caldera (and therefore SCO), and try to be as mindless as you can. After all, you got modded up, I guess this made your day.
I am not completely sure what you meant. Would you care to clarify a little bit? English not being my mother tongue, I might be missunderstanding the finer details of irony (if you were, in fact, ironic?).
Your wish is partially fulfilled: Rick Beluzzo worked for HP, and havily pushed for NT and against HP-UX ("UNIX is dead"-mantra by Beluzzo).
That got them into a lot of trouble, and the scars the feel still today. Their giving in to Intel (with Itanium (yeah, yeah, they developed most of it, so what, they're still hanging up on PA-RISC) is an echo of that past, painful blow.
Rick moved on to SGI and had the same mantra... and we know how good that did to SGI. SGI never really recovered from their attempt to produce intel-based NT workstations. They hemorraged shitloads of money and royally messed up their focus. SGI will never recover from that blow, and it had to sell Cray research to Tera in order to fish for some cash.
And Rick Beluzzo moved on, to Microsoft! Many thought he was on MS's payroll all along. I won't say anything one way or the other, I leave it to the reader to come to his/her own conclusions. Point in case, Mr. Beluzzo is not at all that dangerous to MS as it was to HP and SGI, even though it's not clear what the heck he's doing.
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Heh.. I wokr in the mobile phone industry and my first thought was "shit, this market is -harsh-!"
But hey, it's really a toug spot: Sony/Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung are slugging it out pretty badly (good for the consumers!!).
I had a problem with HP-UX apparently not wanting to transfer via NFS (when the NFS server is on HP-UX 11.0) files larger than 2GB. I had to backup a Solaris computer's hard disk using DD across NFS. This usually worked when the NFS server is Solaris. However, last friday it failed, when the server was setup on HP-UX. I had to resort to my little Blade 100 as the NFS server, and I had no problems with it.
/etc/exports and then restart NFS daemon (or send SIGHUP)?
I have noticed that on the SAME DAY some folks have asked question about the 2 GB filesize limit in HP-UX on comp.sys.hp.hpux !! Apparently, HP-UX default tar and cpio don't support files over 2 GB, either. Not even in HP-UX 11i. I never thought HP-UX stinked this bad...
How does Linux on x86 stack up? I decided not to use it for this backup, since I had my Blade 100, but would it have worked? Oh, btw, is there finally implemented on Linux a command like "share" (exsts in Solaris) to share directories via NFS, or do I still need to edit
Yes, I noticed that shortly after I posted that..
Do you think I could swap the CD ROM drive with any standard IDE CD ROM? If yes, do you think if it matters whether it has region-blocked firmware or not?
OK, if it runs Linux (I am not doubting it), where is the CPU? Looking at that motherboard, it doesn't seem to have any CPU capable of running Linux... unless it's on the opposite side. Do you know anything about this?
Another thing: do you know if I can swap the CD ROM device that is in the KiSS, with another (standard) IDE CD ROM?
Klaus, I am in Finland, but my wife goes to Germany often: where can you find a Macrovision-removing device in Germany, for 60 Euro? I would need one, possibly with NTSC support (but PAL is more important).
Thank you in advance.
Bob the Angry Flower in "Up"
..that will even pay for the privilege!?
This is the mother of all cunning ideas!
I totally disagree with your remark regarding Emacs: I use vi on Linux, Solaris, HP-UX all day long for my work. I think I know vi rather well.
Yet, when I go home, when I want to relax, I DON*T want to fiddle with the command line to play a movie, and most decidedly don't want to find/grep through config files to enavble sound output through the soundcard's line out instead of the CD ROM's sound out. I just want it to work. Am I able to make it work? I guess so, infact, I did that on a couple of Linux installs, but I don't like to do it. I hope you understand.
And what the hell is with the double-space?
Doubtful, the game's being developed by Silicoids
.. humans!
Even worse! It's being developed by
OK, good. But if that's the case, why doesn't someone enforce the GPL upon them? Why doesn't anyone sue them? Or even send some lawyer-letter? I am sure Bruce Perens would be involved in the issue somehow, and would have already informed Slashdot on the proceedings.
Instead, we have nisba, zippo, nada. I think that's strange.
Maybe so, but I like to think that these companies will still be sensitive to those employees that have vision problems, and can't stand LCDs. I am such a person, I avoid using my laptop's LCD screen at all costs. The fact that the colors are distorted or completely lost at the edges, and that I just can't seem to find a confortable viewing angle, is causing me headaches and degradation of productivity.
Just, case in point, Slobodan Milosevich and German soldiers did things that were completely legal in their countries.
I actually lived in Serbia during the Balkan wars, and can tell you that waht Milosevic did was ILLEGAL in Serbia. It's just that people didn't know what he exactly did, and when they would get some info from western media, the government-controlled TV and newspapers dismissed it into oblivion.
But no, gang-raping and murdering little girls and gouging people's eyes out is definitely not legal in Serbia.
Maybe it's irrelevant for the OSS, but it's very relevant for the software industry in general: it's the "bug's life" story, if you forgive me this simplification: someone stood up against the all-engulfing MS-integrator/assimilator. I already read posts saying "but how will they communicate with the outside world that uses MS Office?". Sure, there is this risk. And sure, the ants in "Bug's life" would face the risk of opposing the big locusts, even though they outnumbered them. But see, once one of the ants did stand up against a locust, suddenly everything changed, suddenly companies saw the possibility of change!
As for OSS usage, I have to say that sometimes it's more eluding than you people think: I know of companies that are totally against OSS, and if you dreamed of using any OSS component in their products you would be fired immediately. However, these same companies use Linux in the servers on which their products run - RedHat, to be more exact. They use Linux because it's cheap, but they don't see it as free software!!! For them, it's a copy of RedHat Linux for which they pay a tot per copy and a tot for support. I am saddened to see these OSS folks getting excited about companies like these, when (for example) I can't incorporate a fucking Expect in our products.
Truth is, he's been doing it always. I guess I have developed a dilike for the guy, because I noticed his dupes since a couple of years ago.
Actually, I got it for free. The guy thought it had only about 100 MB, while in fact it was a 1 GB+ SCSI drive. The fact was that it had NetWare (3.11 I think) installed, which is installed mostly on a separate, NetWare partition, which this guy didn't apparently notice.
Unless you have been sleeping under a rock for the last 12 months, you would certainly know that there are DVD players of comparable quality to the Xbox, at half the price. Also, they don't require a mod-chip to play Divx, MP3, SVCD and VCD in addition to DVD.They also have less moving parts (the Xbox has two fans and a hard disk, in addition to the DVD mechanics) and is therefore more reliable and dissipates less.
Also, the DVD players available today are all multi-region enable-able through the remote. Some will even remove Macrovision with a remote hack. For the Xbox, you will need a modchip to achieve the same.
Oh, and the DVD player comes with a remote, unlike the Xbox.
Of course, you are right. But until we develop something like in "2001: A space odissey", our main concern will be to get there as fast as possible.
Really funny that this topic came up, though: just yestarday I watched one of my DVDs "Mission to mars". I find it better than Red Planet,but this is just my taste. Didn't yet see Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars", though, but I guess it'll be typical Carpenter (which isn't bad, just not so much sci-fi as thriller/horror).
Simple: to get to Mars you need a lot of propellent, expecially for a manned spacecraft. To get that propellent outside the Earth's orbit you need some huge engines, and a rocket that hasn't been designed yet, and probably won't, in the conceivable future. We're talking about kilometres in size, here.
But, what makes the propellent push the spacecraft forward? It's the product of mass times velocity. Since we can't have a lot of mass, we must use a propellent that will achieve a great velocity. Enter nuclear propulsion.
Continuing with the O.T.:
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Microsoft bashing
I thought you were reacting to Kiwi bashing.
I gotta rush home, I'll definitely get back to you though: I have read a rebuttal from SCO where they say unequivocably that they are not going to seek anything from Linux distro's.
The whole point in these two "articles" of sorts is that it would have been much better to just wait and see what exactly is SCO's intention. The first article was jumping the gun (as this one proves), and the reaction of Slashdot is to.. again jump the gun? I almost think some people are using any and all opportunity to spread FUD.
It's quite simple, really: just wait what the decision will be, and if it turns out that Caldera would want to collect royalties from Linux distro makers, then let all hell break out, badmouth SCO and collect karma points all you like.
If it turns out, however, that SCO only wants to target Microsoft (which is, if you think about it for a second, the only sound and sane choice, as MS are the only ones that possess cash in aboundance), then I really wonder if all these zealous posters will take their words back and say "sorry, I suck". And remember, SCO (Caldera) has a history of getting money out of MS, so this should be one hint that MS will be the target. And the prosecutor that was mentioned in that first, atroucious writeup, was Boise, who clobbered MS rather badly (or well, depending on your POV) and earned his reputation as MS's nightmare. That should be another hint.
What a knee-jerk, pricky, reactionary post this is. Sure, do not bother checking the facts, try your best to forget that this is slashdot, which means FUD all over Caldera (and therefore SCO), and try to be as mindless as you can. After all, you got modded up, I guess this made your day.
I am not completely sure what you meant. Would you care to clarify a little bit? English not being my mother tongue, I might be missunderstanding the finer details of irony (if you were, in fact, ironic?).
Your wish is partially fulfilled: Rick Beluzzo worked for HP, and havily pushed for NT and against HP-UX ("UNIX is dead"-mantra by Beluzzo).
That got them into a lot of trouble, and the scars the feel still today. Their giving in to Intel (with Itanium (yeah, yeah, they developed most of it, so what, they're still hanging up on PA-RISC) is an echo of that past, painful blow.
Rick moved on to SGI and had the same mantra... and we know how good that did to SGI. SGI never really recovered from their attempt to produce intel-based NT workstations. They hemorraged shitloads of money and royally messed up their focus. SGI will never recover from that blow, and it had to sell Cray research to Tera in order to fish for some cash.
And Rick Beluzzo moved on, to Microsoft! Many thought he was on MS's payroll all along. I won't say anything one way or the other, I leave it to the reader to come to his/her own conclusions. Point in case, Mr. Beluzzo is not at all that dangerous to MS as it was to HP and SGI, even though it's not clear what the heck he's doing.
Remember, this is FUDot. When it comes to SCO or Caldera, Slashdot had always had an agenda.