Even *if* i worked with linux for a long time, when testing opensolaris ten years after working with solaris, i still found it easy to *reliably* figure out how to accomplish a specific task by reading the manual - and *not* hitting in the core of the management functions on undocumented programs (hello, linux networkmanager on Ubuntu).
From someone who has a been a Linux Admin for over 11 years, Linux not well documented? I have found Linux to be as well documented as Solaris any day. If you want to use non-standard and or bleeding edge programs, well you have to give up a little, and personally I would never use bleeding edge programs in an Enterprise environment that is just asking for problems. Start off with the man page and or help function, then go to the project website, if nothing there check some forums for the bleeding edge software, for mature software the man page, or a quick Google search will get you the answer you need (Ubuntu networkmanager is not a mature software yet IMHO). You will find that standard, well developed, stable applications that form the cores of all Linux distros are well documented and you do not have to pay for support to access the documentation.
You want to run an unsupported, experimental port of Linux on an E6900, or an E10000, or an E20000?
Debian Sparc I would not consider experimental, unsupported by a big company you pay lots of money to to tell you the same things you could find out with some hunting, yes, experimental, no.
The average home user is not going to readily know about it unless Firefox itself pops up a window to tell them. Since what I would guess, and from my personal experience working on peoples computers, would be a large portion set their home pages to something other than the "Version Check" page they will never know there is a new version. If they could do it as a auto-downloaded incremental upgrade that would be the best.
In the US at least ripping a CD is at this point still legal as long as the CD does not have copy protection (it itself has not been tested, however most of the concept has been based off of fair use and the betamax decision). Even MGM has said on their website that they believe it is perfectly lawful to rip a CD to your personal computer or mp3 player.
Meaningful??? Thank you for messing up my health care, raising my premiums, increasing my deductible, and overall severely lowering the value of my health care, also, causing my taxes to go up as I have to claim health insurance as income now, and my taxes to go up even farther to pay for fiascoes like this.
I wish I lived in the world that some people do. Evidently money for things like health care grows on trees.
Well Looks like I will be working more on rolling out more Linux servers to replace the functionality of the XServes. What is next, no more Mac OS X Server? And the replacement options kinda suck. Mac Mini, great that will not work very well for remote home directories, redundant arrays, etc..., or the big honkin Pro, 1U vs 12U, can I have my rack space back please? Luckily there are some very good Linux packages out there that support Mac very nicely for a lot of this, Netatalk, OpenLDAP (Gee where did Mac get theirs), NFS, etc... I really did like Time Machine for ease of use, but I will find something for Linux, or create my own based around rsync.
My boss has been an Apple fan for years, decades really, but at this rate Apple is attempting to disillusion all of the small companies like us whose computer infrastructure is majorly Mac, with some as in our case Linux servers.
Between this, the Mac App Store and where it looks like that might be going, Java, and Flash/Adobe argument, it looks like Steve is getting a little, OK, a lot more arrogant, and driving quite a few of us away with it.
Well this is a great idea (replete with sarcasm), well at least for Microsoft to regain control over the whole PC market. They would get to decide whose PC is worthy of Internet access. WOW, Wonderful, Robotic Overlords, who needs them when Microsoft gets to say who can access what. Hm why am I seeing a requirement for access being Windows running on the machine?
You are rich because you make $200,000 or more per year, not because you budgeted, managed your finances or because you got a home loan. I could budget and manage my finances all day long but my $35K a year salary will never make it to $200K per year just by that. As far as a home loan, thank you I already have one, and even own rental property. But with all that I am still lower middle-class.
Unfortunately, you believe that all these different Distros will cause a problem with things like games, or distributing software for Linux. Perhaps if you took a while to understand what is going on you would realize this is an assumption that is incorrect. First off, there are 3 base Distros that 99.9% of the other Distros are based off of. Slackware, Debian, and Red Hat. Now these off-shoot Distros do sometimes like to use odd library versions, most the times newer libraries than their base Distro, this is easily remedy by either bringing your own, or building for the most stable base Distro (Ex. Debian Lenny, then distributing for Ubuntu, Mint, etc...). Also, it is easier to bring your own executable and all than relying on repositories or package managers. There has been and is some very successful software distributed that works on the vast majority of Distros, ex. Crossover Office (All in one binary with libraries and configs), VMWare (Again these are all in one binaries), ID Software (Again brought there own libraries and a Linux version is included on most CDs).
As far as the "Pushy" philosophy you stated, the companies I mentioned are all "For Profit", which pretty much blows a hole in that theory, and shows that you do not truly understand the inner workings of Linux. And before you say it, yes Valve or whoever could bring their own registration codes, and would not have to put them out in the public, or even their source code.
And yes I love to play Unreal Tournament on my Linux box. It rocks, along with RTCW, and some of the open source games.
the governments of the world would wait until 2181 to even think about doing anything even if the probability was 100% guaranteed. So, planning this far out will do nothing, as our governments always wait till the last second.
You have already showed what kind of a BOFH you can be. I was attempting this week to find drivers for some of our Ultra 20s, I can't even download drivers without a stinkin Maint Agreement. This is why I went with MySQL years ago, and not Oracle, hmmm time to change to PostGRES and dump all the Sun equipment.
That is how I learned to program. I started out at 13 with basic and have moved up. That is also how I learned about computers. 22 years later I am a full-time programmer and a Network Admin. Self taught all the way.
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Even *if* i worked with linux for a long time, when testing opensolaris ten years after working with solaris, i still found it easy to *reliably* figure out how to accomplish a specific task by reading the manual - and *not* hitting in the core of the management functions on undocumented programs (hello, linux networkmanager on Ubuntu).
From someone who has a been a Linux Admin for over 11 years, Linux not well documented? I have found Linux to be as well documented as Solaris any day. If you want to use non-standard and or bleeding edge programs, well you have to give up a little, and personally I would never use bleeding edge programs in an Enterprise environment that is just asking for problems. Start off with the man page and or help function, then go to the project website, if nothing there check some forums for the bleeding edge software, for mature software the man page, or a quick Google search will get you the answer you need (Ubuntu networkmanager is not a mature software yet IMHO). You will find that standard, well developed, stable applications that form the cores of all Linux distros are well documented and you do not have to pay for support to access the documentation.
You want to run an unsupported, experimental port of Linux on an E6900, or an E10000, or an E20000?
Debian Sparc I would not consider experimental, unsupported by a big company you pay lots of money to to tell you the same things you could find out with some hunting, yes, experimental, no.
Although we have never gotten that pop-up here. Hmmmm.
The average home user is not going to readily know about it unless Firefox itself pops up a window to tell them. Since what I would guess, and from my personal experience working on peoples computers, would be a large portion set their home pages to something other than the "Version Check" page they will never know there is a new version. If they could do it as a auto-downloaded incremental upgrade that would be the best.
In the US at least ripping a CD is at this point still legal as long as the CD does not have copy protection (it itself has not been tested, however most of the concept has been based off of fair use and the betamax decision). Even MGM has said on their website that they believe it is perfectly lawful to rip a CD to your personal computer or mp3 player.
Apple Preview, and Document Viewed 2.32.0 for Gnome have no problem with copy and paste from the PDF document.
ROFLMAO That was damn good. :-)
LOL While reading this my cursor was on the story 2 above this one, does that mean I was reading it? :-)
Meaningful??? Thank you for messing up my health care, raising my premiums, increasing my deductible, and overall severely lowering the value of my health care, also, causing my taxes to go up as I have to claim health insurance as income now, and my taxes to go up even farther to pay for fiascoes like this. I wish I lived in the world that some people do. Evidently money for things like health care grows on trees.
this was done by Sun Microsystems in a demo movie in 1992. The movie is called Starfire, here is a link to it on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhe1DFY-SsQ
Sorry someone had to say it. :-)
And some of us still love using Perl for our web backends, or other projects, even today. :-)
Cool, I will have to give that a try, thanks :-)
Well Looks like I will be working more on rolling out more Linux servers to replace the functionality of the XServes. What is next, no more Mac OS X Server? And the replacement options kinda suck. Mac Mini, great that will not work very well for remote home directories, redundant arrays, etc..., or the big honkin Pro, 1U vs 12U, can I have my rack space back please? Luckily there are some very good Linux packages out there that support Mac very nicely for a lot of this, Netatalk, OpenLDAP (Gee where did Mac get theirs), NFS, etc... I really did like Time Machine for ease of use, but I will find something for Linux, or create my own based around rsync. My boss has been an Apple fan for years, decades really, but at this rate Apple is attempting to disillusion all of the small companies like us whose computer infrastructure is majorly Mac, with some as in our case Linux servers. Between this, the Mac App Store and where it looks like that might be going, Java, and Flash/Adobe argument, it looks like Steve is getting a little, OK, a lot more arrogant, and driving quite a few of us away with it.
Well this is a great idea (replete with sarcasm), well at least for Microsoft to regain control over the whole PC market. They would get to decide whose PC is worthy of Internet access. WOW, Wonderful, Robotic Overlords, who needs them when Microsoft gets to say who can access what. Hm why am I seeing a requirement for access being Windows running on the machine?
What did the CIA also think the Toyota "Bug" was a feature. Great car, drives it self. :-)
what a firewall/IDS/IPS Etc... is for to partition your local network from the "ravages" of the internet. Security 101 please.
Then maybe I can start charging these patent trolls so much that they will have to stop, breathing that is.
You are rich because you make $200,000 or more per year, not because you budgeted, managed your finances or because you got a home loan. I could budget and manage my finances all day long but my $35K a year salary will never make it to $200K per year just by that. As far as a home loan, thank you I already have one, and even own rental property. But with all that I am still lower middle-class.
Wow I used an old 8088 and Basic to do my first programming, dreaming of a day at a PDP. WOW I am getting old.
Unfortunately, you believe that all these different Distros will cause a problem with things like games, or distributing software for Linux. Perhaps if you took a while to understand what is going on you would realize this is an assumption that is incorrect. First off, there are 3 base Distros that 99.9% of the other Distros are based off of. Slackware, Debian, and Red Hat. Now these off-shoot Distros do sometimes like to use odd library versions, most the times newer libraries than their base Distro, this is easily remedy by either bringing your own, or building for the most stable base Distro (Ex. Debian Lenny, then distributing for Ubuntu, Mint, etc...). Also, it is easier to bring your own executable and all than relying on repositories or package managers. There has been and is some very successful software distributed that works on the vast majority of Distros, ex. Crossover Office (All in one binary with libraries and configs), VMWare (Again these are all in one binaries), ID Software (Again brought there own libraries and a Linux version is included on most CDs). As far as the "Pushy" philosophy you stated, the companies I mentioned are all "For Profit", which pretty much blows a hole in that theory, and shows that you do not truly understand the inner workings of Linux. And before you say it, yes Valve or whoever could bring their own registration codes, and would not have to put them out in the public, or even their source code. And yes I love to play Unreal Tournament on my Linux box. It rocks, along with RTCW, and some of the open source games.
the governments of the world would wait until 2181 to even think about doing anything even if the probability was 100% guaranteed. So, planning this far out will do nothing, as our governments always wait till the last second.
You have already showed what kind of a BOFH you can be. I was attempting this week to find drivers for some of our Ultra 20s, I can't even download drivers without a stinkin Maint Agreement. This is why I went with MySQL years ago, and not Oracle, hmmm time to change to PostGRES and dump all the Sun equipment.
That is how I learned to program. I started out at 13 with basic and have moved up. That is also how I learned about computers. 22 years later I am a full-time programmer and a Network Admin. Self taught all the way.
Evidently IBM bought up the unused Telestra Flash drives. Or, they have really bad luck.