Your client is not allowed to access the requested object. "
The download is surprisingly slow. Probably a lot of Linux users trying to get their hands on a JDK that works. Anyone got an activation key from Borland through their download page?
I really thought that the 'Cookies are Evil' was dying down as people realized that while they aren't the best solution, they are as good as we're gonna get any time soon. Then to see someone who ought to know better get out and throw fire ants into the mix to plug his software, well thats just really rubs me the wrong way.
Well, it may rub you the wrong way, but I wonder whether you are missing the most important point: there IS a technology out there that solves the problem of identifying yourself on hte 'net in a secure way, giving out only the information you want and only to those you want. It's based on NDS and it's working. Novell has baeen developing NDS for about 10 years now, it's a proven directory solution and there are many applications already that use, plug into, distribute data through or collect data through NDS. One of them is DigitalMe, and it solves the ancient mechanism of cookies. It's a flawed mechanism for many applications, and guess what? Novell has a solution that works today (Microsoft AD anyone?) and solves the problem. Is there anything wrong with that?
I thought it was "Rule #1: NEVER talk about Fight Club"?
Anyway, "Fight club" was wonderful. When I woke up today, I was still thinking about some topics brought up by the movie. And there are many! Like: the value of life, the psychological assesment of people always trying to control everything, consumism, split personality, the guillability of people and their need for a leader, lack of self-confidence.....
Sorry for being nit-picking, but I imagine a movie review should be written by someone who is educated in his or her native tongue.
BTW. yesterday wife and I went to see "Fight club", with Brad Pitt. It was great, one of the best movies I have seen in the last 5 years. Put in the list "Hilary and Jackie" and "Matrix". So, if you fancy an intellectual, hilarious black comedy, go see "Fight club"!
The guy is right, actually. Staroffice for Linux seems to work just fine with 96 MB of RAM. I have noticed problems with 32 or even 64 MB, but 96 seems to be the right measure.
don't you think the Novell folks are actually reading these already? I know the NetWare specialist very well (I am a MCNE myself) and they are all Linux enthusiasts, too, and some of them read Slashdot. I don't know for Novell employees, but I guess some might be lurking right now.
And maybe some of those who worked on the NCL are interested in the feedback on Slashdot. It's quite interesting how Novell showed respect for the OSS community. Maybe it's only for the money, but it's nice to know a company believes it is possible to make money with OSS!
It's obvious that Intel is scared shitless of Athlon. They are trying to nail down as many companies as possible. I see these investments happening together with the lawsuits Intel has started against VIA, Everex, Asus and others. Intel has a *!*LOT*!* of cash, so they are using it to prevent the market from adopting AMD chips. Looks like they have read a page from Microsoft's strategy. Only my 0.02, don't sue me if you disagree.
So, NT has not been banned from the US army, hence USS Yorktown had to pause for a few days in the middle of the ocean. USS Yorktown is considered one of the most advanced warships in the world. The army CIOs decided to replace the trusty Unix network installation with NT, and the consequence... I hope the Chinese army will deploy NT servers on a large scale, or else, in case of war, the US army has no chance!:o)))))))
Sorry this is offtopic, but is on-topic with the thread. Anyone has a link to an article about the USS Dorktown debacle?
Brave and admirable, to admit one's mistakes and to apologize. I must say, there is no level of technical proficiency that could ever impress me more than what Justin has done. Ultrakudos, man!
You are so correct. NDS interoperates ONLY with NT domains (NDS for NT), Solaris workstations and servers (NDS for Solaris) S/390 mainframes (NDS for S/390), Digital tru64 (NDS for tru64), Cabletron routers and switches, Lucent Cayun series routing swithches, Peoplesoft applications, Oracle databases, LDAP 3 directories, Kerberos databases, DNS and DHCP databases, SQL Integrator (with which NDS integrates with multiple databases from multiple vendors on multiple networks)... No, the list is not over but I have a visit so I can't continue.
NDS is THE most interoperable solution in the solar system AFAIK.
Quickly to answer: I have not worked with the S/390 series, but I have still seen a lot of old IBM iron. Never seen CMS running without VM. I have seen, however, VSE running without VM. And it seems to be quite a common setup, even though VSE on VM seems more common. Not a scientific answer, but that's what I can give right now. Hey, would you believe, I have a friend who had a 360 in the yard! I got some of those discrete (non-integrated) technology flip-flop boards as a souvenir! I really appreciated this thread, made me remember the good-ol days...
2.I doubt that "most mainframe programs" are written for it - the programs that run atop VM are largely OSes, and the applications are presumably written for those OSes (OS/390, ESA/VM or whatever DOS/360 turned into, etc.).
Actually, VM is a complete OS, with tools, editor, compilers and applications deisgned specifically for it. I have done some little developement on VM. It's true that the company where I worked used VSE/ESA over VM for their production mainframes, but that doesn't have to be necessarily so. And actually, I personally hated VSE/ESA. It has a lot of features, but it's so friggin unintuitive. I have never seen anything so incompatible with human brain as VSE. VM, on the other hand, is was much clearer and simpler for me. I would accept a job of VM software developement anytime (if it payed better than the current one).
Actually, what do you think, would it be possible to port VM to anything non-mainframe? (a PC, for example?)
---- (I have 5 or 6 VSE/ESA student manuals. Anyone interested? I would gladly trade them for an old AHA 1540 or other ISA SCSI adapter) ----
Well, Mike, I suppose you'll never read my reply ever, but I will write it anyway. The digitalMe open-sourcing news is actually old news. At that time (a bit more than 1 month ago) they intended to open-source digitalMe ans some admonistrative tools for ICS (Internet Caching Syst.), ZENworks and similar.
Now, however, they seem to be willing to open-source NDS, their crown jewel. NDS is really a great directory management system. It's much more even, it's a directory replication/partitioning/synchronization, metadirectory sinchronization, multiple-system access, PKI, desktop and personalized software management,... It's a whole universe of new capabilities of the network. If Novell will opensource NDS, it's going to be way better for all!
Proided, of course, if it's really open source. I decided to trust Bruce Perens' judgement. Few people are qualified like him in these matters.
So, after reading the article, I discovered that this vertical transistor is a FET (field effect trans.). At my uni by "transistor" we implicitly meant bipolar trasistors (which don't use electric field). And, I remember this technology been discussed at my Microelectronics classes. It's not new idea, they just perfected the planar technology to reduce the size of the layers.
Actually, the Timpanogas group was founded by an ex-Novell employee who was working on a sophysticated clustering system for NetWare servers. Timpanogas continued that work. Novell sued them and WON. Novell won bigtime, they had news reports all over the place about it, so I am a bit surprised you are stating the opposite.
Reading the post on the linux-kernel list, I still don't get how is NDS related to Timpanogs? Even in the leaked (whether true or forged) e-mail is stated that Timpanogas works on clustering, NDS has little or nothing to do with them.
I don't believe MS can be trusted to play by the rules, old or new. If the new rules are vertical split, horizontal split or reveal APIs, MS can still cheat. And MS will cheat if given a chance to do so. Therefore, the govt. should accurately audit the activities of MS or Baby Bills, if splitting will be the solution.
The only way MS could be unable to cheat is if the source code of Windows* is revealed. But that solution, I learn now, seems unlikely. Too bad.
The reason is, as someone has noted, that I can FORGE the packets so that they will look like normaly processed data, whle they will be bogus. And I know already some people (by their nicknames) that have tried to do this, and get a high rank. I have seen people processing thousands of packets in an hour, while, with the official client, you can process a packet in 9 - 10 hours on a P III 400 MHz (running NT or Linux, no big difference).
No, I believe the post comes rather from a pro-Microsoft voice. The guy tries to imply (in a silly way, since he/she thinks now SUN is making a port of Java for *BSD, which is not!) that there is such a big competition in this industry, that even *BSD are viable platforms, competitive to Windows. I might be wrong, but I see it that way. No need to blame the *BSD people.
There doesn't seem to be much overlap in knowledge between people who do a good job with NetWare and people who work with TCP/IP. I guess it's like finding someone who knows a lot about algorithms and does GUI programming.
Nice comparison, I like it!
Now, to thefiures you mentioned: I am not sure what exactly do you meant by NetWare 3.x installations. Do you mean numer of servers, or number of licenses? Anyhow, as far as I know, thesituation just before NetWare 5.0 started to ship was 80 million user licenses, of which approximately 50% NetWare 3.1x and 50% netWare 4.x. As of today they have upgraded 5% of their total user base to netWare 5.0. Even if, let's suppose, they upgraded only the NetWare 4.x users, this would mean there is (at least) 1 NetWare 5.0 license every 10 NetWare 3.1x license. You would still be able to argue that, heck, 10 to 1 is a big difference, and I accept the point. I would just have hoped that the Army would keep in touch with the new trends a bit quicker:o)
But talking about the army and NetWare, have a look at this link. Looks like the army is back to Novell. I feel this as good news, after the debuckle of the USS Yorktown.
Sorry, but NetWare supported TCP/IP since before I knew about networks (8 years or so - ok, so I'm young). At the beginning they had (very good) TCP/IP routing. Shortly later you could access file and print services via tcp/ip with the use of NetWare/IP. However, NetWare/IP was complicated to set up, so it was not very popular. And now, with NetWare 5.0 there is native IP support, just as in Unix. NetWare 5.0 is out 2 years now, so I guess your informations are a bit outdated.
However, there are many that will still buy CDs. For example, my motivations are: 1. I prefere the quality of the CDs tothe MP3. I don't know for pop music, but I like classical music (abot 400 CDs) and there I really hear a difference in quality.
2. With a legal copy of the CD I get the nice covers and the booklet.
3. this ought to be at the 1st place: I think it's illegal to have copies of musical CDs, when you don't own the original.
I was hoping (after reading carefully) that it's actually not beowulf, but some ingenious SGI soluiton. Beforeyou flame my head off, let me explain: I find it quite difficult to program for beowulf. It's hairy enough to use kernel threads. Or is it just me? Is my laziness factor above the average?
Slashdot Mirror
..when I tried to get the Activation Key, I get
"Forbidden
Your client is not allowed to access the requested object. "
The download is surprisingly slow. Probably a lot of Linux users trying to get their hands on a JDK that works.
Anyone got an activation key from Borland through their download page?
I really thought that the 'Cookies are Evil' was dying down as people realized that while they aren't the best solution,
they are as good as we're gonna get any time soon. Then to see someone who ought to know better get out and
throw fire ants into the mix to plug his software, well thats just really rubs me the wrong way.
Well, it may rub you the wrong way, but I wonder whether you are missing the most important point: there IS a technology out there that solves the problem of identifying yourself on hte 'net in a secure way, giving out only the information you want and only to those you want. It's based on NDS and it's working. Novell has baeen developing NDS for about 10 years now, it's a proven directory solution and there are many applications already that use, plug into, distribute data through or collect data through NDS. One of them is DigitalMe, and it solves the ancient mechanism of cookies. It's a flawed mechanism for many applications, and guess what? Novell has a solution that works today (Microsoft AD anyone?) and solves the problem. Is there anything wrong with that?
I thought it was "Rule #1: NEVER talk about Fight Club"?
Anyway, "Fight club" was wonderful. When I woke up today, I was still thinking about some topics brought up by the movie. And there are many!
Like: the value of life, the psychological assesment of people always trying to control everything, consumism, split personality, the guillability of people and their need for a leader, lack of self-confidence.....
Sorry for being nit-picking, but I imagine a movie review should be written by someone who is educated in his or her native tongue.
BTW. yesterday wife and I went to see "Fight club", with Brad Pitt. It was great, one of the best movies I have seen in the last 5 years. Put in the list "Hilary and Jackie" and "Matrix".
So, if you fancy an intellectual, hilarious black comedy, go see "Fight club"!
The guy is right, actually. Staroffice for Linux seems to work just fine with 96 MB of RAM. I have noticed problems with 32 or even 64 MB, but 96 seems to be the right measure.
Sorry for the AC post.
Hi, Bruce,
don't you think the Novell folks are actually reading these already? I know the NetWare specialist very well (I am a MCNE myself) and they are all Linux enthusiasts, too, and some of them read Slashdot. I don't know for Novell employees, but I guess some might be lurking right now.
And maybe some of those who worked on the NCL are interested in the feedback on Slashdot. It's quite interesting how Novell showed respect for the OSS community. Maybe it's only for the money, but it's nice to know a company believes it is possible to make money with OSS!
It's obvious that Intel is scared shitless of Athlon. They are trying to nail down as many companies as possible. I see these investments happening together with the lawsuits Intel has started against VIA, Everex, Asus and others. Intel has a *!*LOT*!* of cash, so they are using it to prevent the market from adopting AMD chips. Looks like they have read a page from Microsoft's strategy.
Only my 0.02, don't sue me if you disagree.
So, NT has not been banned from the US army, hence USS Yorktown had to pause for a few days in the middle of the ocean. USS Yorktown is considered one of the most advanced warships in the world. The army CIOs decided to replace the trusty Unix network installation with NT, and the consequence ... :o)))))))
I hope the Chinese army will deploy NT servers on a large scale, or else, in case of war, the US army has no chance!
Sorry this is offtopic, but is on-topic with the thread. Anyone has a link to an article about the USS Dorktown debacle?
Brave and admirable, to admit one's mistakes and to apologize. I must say, there is no level of technical proficiency that could ever impress me more than what Justin has done. Ultrakudos, man!
You are so correct. NDS interoperates ONLY with NT domains (NDS for NT), Solaris workstations and servers (NDS for Solaris) S/390 mainframes (NDS for S/390), Digital tru64 (NDS for tru64), Cabletron routers and switches, Lucent Cayun series routing swithches, Peoplesoft applications, Oracle databases, LDAP 3 directories, Kerberos databases, DNS and DHCP databases, SQL Integrator (with which NDS integrates with multiple databases from multiple vendors on multiple networks) ... No, the list is not over but I have a visit so I can't continue.
NDS is THE most interoperable solution in the solar system AFAIK.
Quickly to answer: I have not worked with the S/390 series, but I have still seen a lot of old IBM iron. Never seen CMS running without VM. I have seen, however, VSE running without VM. And it seems to be quite a common setup, even though VSE on VM seems more common.
Not a scientific answer, but that's what I can give right now.
Hey, would you believe, I have a friend who had a 360 in the yard! I got some of those discrete (non-integrated) technology flip-flop boards as a souvenir!
I really appreciated this thread, made me remember the good-ol days...
2.I doubt that "most mainframe programs" are written for it - the programs that run atop VM are largely OSes, and the applications are
presumably written for those OSes (OS/390, ESA/VM or whatever DOS/360 turned into, etc.).
Actually, VM is a complete OS, with tools, editor, compilers and applications deisgned specifically for it. I have done some little developement on VM. It's true that the company where I worked used VSE/ESA over VM for their production mainframes, but that doesn't have to be necessarily so. And actually, I personally hated VSE/ESA. It has a lot of features, but it's so friggin unintuitive. I have never seen anything so incompatible with human brain as VSE. VM, on the other hand, is was much clearer and simpler for me. I would accept a job of VM software developement anytime (if it payed better than the current one).
Actually, what do you think, would it be possible to port VM to anything non-mainframe? (a PC, for example?)
----
(I have 5 or 6 VSE/ESA student manuals. Anyone interested? I would gladly trade them for an old AHA 1540 or other ISA SCSI adapter)
----
Well, Mike, I suppose you'll never read my reply ever, but I will write it anyway.
... It's a whole universe of new capabilities of the network.
The digitalMe open-sourcing news is actually old news. At that time (a bit more than 1 month ago) they intended to open-source digitalMe ans some admonistrative tools for ICS (Internet Caching Syst.), ZENworks and similar.
Now, however, they seem to be willing to open-source NDS, their crown jewel.
NDS is really a great directory management system. It's much more even, it's a directory replication/partitioning/synchronization, metadirectory sinchronization, multiple-system access, PKI, desktop and personalized software management,
If Novell will opensource NDS, it's going to be way better for all!
Proided, of course, if it's really open source. I decided to trust Bruce Perens' judgement. Few people are qualified like him in these matters.
So, after reading the article, I discovered that this vertical transistor is a FET (field effect trans.). At my uni by "transistor" we implicitly meant bipolar trasistors (which don't use electric field). And, I remember this technology been discussed at my Microelectronics classes. It's not new idea, they just perfected the planar technology to reduce the size of the layers.
Actually, the Timpanogas group was founded by an ex-Novell employee who was working on a sophysticated clustering system for NetWare servers. Timpanogas continued that work. Novell sued them and WON. Novell won bigtime, they had news reports all over the place about it, so I am a bit surprised you are stating the opposite.
Reading the post on the linux-kernel list, I still don't get how is NDS related to Timpanogs? Even in the leaked (whether true or forged) e-mail is stated that Timpanogas works on clustering, NDS has little or nothing to do with them.
I don't believe MS can be trusted to play by the rules, old or new. If the new rules are vertical split, horizontal split or reveal APIs, MS can still cheat. And MS will cheat if given a chance to do so. Therefore, the govt. should accurately audit the activities of MS or Baby Bills, if splitting will be the solution.
The only way MS could be unable to cheat is if the source code of Windows* is revealed. But that solution, I learn now, seems unlikely. Too bad.
but enabled other programmers to write their own Fat
:o)
Fourier Transformation algorithms for special chips.
I believe you meant Fast, of course, but this little typo is really cute
And who knows, maybe the good 'ol frenchman was actually fat and didn't mind it a bit!
To stay on topic, here is a link to clues about Fourier Transforms.
The reason is, as someone has noted, that I can FORGE the packets so that they will look like normaly processed data, whle they will be bogus. And I know already some people (by their nicknames) that have tried to do this, and get a high rank. I have seen people processing thousands of packets in an hour, while, with the official client, you can process a packet in 9 - 10 hours on a P III 400 MHz (running NT or Linux, no big difference).
No, I believe the post comes rather from a pro-Microsoft voice. The guy tries to imply (in a silly way, since he/she thinks now SUN is making a port of Java for *BSD, which is not!) that there is such a big competition in this industry, that even *BSD are viable platforms, competitive to Windows.
I might be wrong, but I see it that way. No need to blame the *BSD people.
There doesn't seem to be much overlap in knowledge
:o)
between people who do a good job with NetWare and people who work with TCP/IP. I guess it's like finding someone who knows a lot
about algorithms and does GUI programming.
Nice comparison, I like it!
Now, to thefiures you mentioned: I am not sure what exactly do you meant by NetWare 3.x installations. Do you mean numer of servers, or number of licenses? Anyhow, as far as I know, thesituation just before NetWare 5.0 started to ship was 80 million user licenses, of which approximately 50% NetWare 3.1x and 50% netWare 4.x. As of today they have upgraded 5% of their total user base to netWare 5.0. Even if, let's suppose, they upgraded only the NetWare 4.x users, this would mean there is (at least) 1 NetWare 5.0 license every 10 NetWare 3.1x license. You would still be able to argue that, heck, 10 to 1 is a big difference, and I accept the point. I would just have hoped that the Army would keep in touch with the new trends a bit quicker
But talking about the army and NetWare, have a look at this link. Looks like the army is back to Novell. I feel this as good news, after the debuckle of the USS Yorktown.
Sorry, but NetWare supported TCP/IP since before I knew about networks (8 years or so - ok, so I'm young). At the beginning they had (very good) TCP/IP routing. Shortly later you could access file and print services via tcp/ip with the use of NetWare/IP. However, NetWare/IP was complicated to set up, so it was not very popular. And now, with NetWare 5.0 there is native IP support, just as in Unix. NetWare 5.0 is out 2 years now, so I guess your informations are a bit outdated.
However, there are many that will still buy CDs. For example, my motivations are:
1. I prefere the quality of the CDs tothe MP3. I don't know for pop music, but I like classical music (abot 400 CDs) and there I really hear a difference in quality.
2. With a legal copy of the CD I get the nice covers and the booklet.
3. this ought to be at the 1st place: I think it's illegal to have copies of musical CDs, when you don't own the original.
Sun, SCO/IBM (Monterey), Mickeysoft (rumors have it that itactually doesn't boot at all), HP ?
I was hoping (after reading carefully) that it's actually not beowulf, but some ingenious SGI soluiton. Beforeyou flame my head off, let me explain: I find it quite difficult to program for beowulf. It's hairy enough to use kernel threads.
Or is it just me? Is my laziness factor above the average?
OK, thanks, that part eluded my attention.
Do you have some bits about the Playstation part?