You are spot on. I would find it more convincing that Dell management actually had a clue about the value of heterogeneous environments and were not simply "Peter Principled" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle to their positions if they provided two (or more!) selections. Not an impossible task. Somebody out there has already made available a single DVD with a bunch of distros. A previous post suggested a naked box and a DVD with distros. Probably better would be have something similar on the hard drive. On the first boot the customer makes a distro selection and clicks a check box to indicate a standalone install (flushing unwanted flavors) or leaving it intact for the option of alternate installs later. Much more likely they will make a safe "business" decision market the "sizzle" of the Linux buzzword with a pre-selected flavor rather than the meat of user choice.
Apostle in space? If only a postle, which postle should be used and should being a lert be a selection criteria? Once in orbit would he get a round tuit?
I made a fairly determined effer to see if we could bring up a manageable lab with IPv6.
1) Our local provide (XO) doesn't even offer public IPv6 address space.
2) ARIN wants thousands of dollars PER YEAR for portable address space.
3) Identifying what/how-to use a substitute for the deprecated "site-local" addressing. Tracking this down took days of searching and piecing things together. All the docs agreed that site-local was deprected but rarely mentioned what was going to take its place. Here is some links to what was found, MS has surprising helpful documentation: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/ technol/tcpipfund/tcpipfund_ch03.mspx#EDAAE http://book.itzero.com/read/cisco/0602/Cisco.Press .Deploying.IPv6.Networks.Feb.2006_html/1587052105/ ch02lev1sec1.html Generate a global ID with either of the tools below:
http://www.kame.net/~suz/gen-ula.html http://www.hznet.de/tools/generate-rfc4193-addr
Additionally it is nearly impossible to control the allocation of hosts to specific suffixes. We often organize customers address space so that global catalog for each site are at, say,.5, exchange at.7, proxy server at.13, etc using DHCP static leases, it make life easier on our field techs, they know exactly where key pieces of infrastructure are for troubleshooting. We can send them to different customers and they have an ingrained familiarity of how things are configured. Currently MS IPV6 does not have a usable IPv6 DHCP server, and the IPv6 clients do not allow such an address assignment even if the server could do reservations. In a nutshell, IPv6 tools and implementation on hosts fall far short of the enterprise tools used define and organize a LAN for IPv4 and until ease of use is at least on par with MS IPv4 DHCP point/click environment it is going to continue to languish. It absolutely must have integrated DHCP server redundancy with automatic failover/failback/sync so sorely lacking, LO these many years in MS offerings.
Hmmm. I wonder if there will be sufficient slashdot effect on creamer purchases after that post to justify purchasing stock options in however owns Carnation (General Mills?).
I seriously doubt that you have to worry about port 22 being blocked
Then the site administrator is insufficiently paranoid. Everything not explicitly allowed is denied. Generically opening a port to an inside resource is pretty stupi^Wrisky. Ther needs to be some additional factor in the authentication process. A work from home developer could probably get by with a Static IP, VPN certificates, port knocking, etc. Supporting a randomly mobile developer is a royal security PITA. As other posters have noted, I would recommend HTTPS/SSL/443 VPN connection with a certificate for the remote end and then SSH/RDP/VNC through the tunnel. HTTPS is rarely locked down so tight as to prevent a random outbound connection and, if so, the procedure for getting that site allowed is probably a well worn path thru the helpdesk and authorized by the same PHB that let you in the door. As opposed to opening a firewall port which would probably require an IT person authorized to modify the firewall and a sign-off by a high muckety-muck.
Hmmm, "dribble" or possibly "drybble" (precedent of nibble/nybble) seems a far more accurate desrciption and inspires a far more amusing (though still disturbing) mental picture of the actual performance level of a chair throwing monkey boy. If you insist on a single syllable, "dryp" might fit the byll (or ballmer, as the case my be).
Depends on the hardware. Support for commodity hardware, serial, parallel, sound, is built-in, parallel dongles usually work. VMware has trial versions of most its offerings, you should be able to do a lab install and see how happy it is in a virtual environment. Heck, for a single conventional server you could probably use the free vmware server or at worst Workstation v6 if you need USB support (probably not, if this is creaky legacy stuff). ESX is pricey but great if you are going to commit a moderate number of host servers (4+) to virtualized control of multiple guests. If you are talking proprietary hardware its more difficult and more expensive. Depending how odd and how well documented a particular piece of hardware is, you might be able to get a VM aware device driver written (~$20K depending on complexity). Post some more details on what you have and you can probably get a more solid direction.
Ah, but is it unreasonable to assume you can perform meiosis (or is it mitosis?) Hmmm, Moses supposes my toeses are roses, Moses supposes erroneously. Nope thats no help.
I don't remember Rico wearing any special suit in Starship Troopers
The whole fscking novel is in reference to the MI suits (that's Mobile Infantry and no Mechanics Illustrated form those slashdotters insufficiently heinleined).
Indeed, as I responded to an earlier post, it is mostly a cautionary tale to those purchasing 512M "bargains". Not hard to "fix" the issue. Upgrade, strip and install a leaner *nix distro. If I feel particularly ambitious I might install our MSDN ultimate as a virtual machine for reference purposes.
I come from a similar background. My Fortran class at ControlData in Honolulu included a demonstration of "Kill-A-Bit" on an IMSAI 8080 front panel (try to flip the switch under an LED when it lights up). I also have more recent fond memories of running OS/2 workplace shell (rename the underling program to a shortcut, wow the shortcut follows it!) on a 16M 386/20 machine faster than can on a 1+GHz MEsta laptop. Ahhh, good times, good times.
DDR and DDR2 on conventional motherboards are usually differentiated by pin count making the part descriptions significantly and redundantly different. The SODIMM appear to have just shift the key slot without fanfare. I matched the specs as reported by HP (since they don't bother providing valid part numbers online), possibly I screwed up walking down the selection criteria at Newegg. Kingston, GoldenRAM and Crucial all fail to list this particular HP model, so I was left to my own devices (no pun intended) to locate the appropriate upgrade part. After opening the laptop, I am still having difficulty cross-referencing the existing part, only memory4less gets a hit from froogle and they are not sufficiently consistent in the site map to allow one to chase back up the tree for the model that IS listed and find a 1GB part to substitute for the existing 512 on the supported model. A normal approach of manufacturer->kingston->generic to locate an appropriate is stymied here, might be different in a couple weeks as the databases (hopefully) get updated. Meanwhile I anticipate a lengthy call to M4L to nail down the upgrade.
Dont blame microsoft. You were the one who bought a vista notebook with only 512 ram.
Shirley you jest. At what point did I have a choice on the OS? Why does HP sell a laptop unable to to run the unchoosable OS at adequate response levels? Does Ford sell an F150 with a 22CC weed whacker engine?/car analogy Do you pay list price + tax for commodity accessories I scratch build all my other machines. Unfortunately scratch building a notebook, while not impossible, is fraught with more perils than I am willing to endure. The post was meant as primarily as a cautionary tale more than whinging. I will be upgrading to 2 GB as soon as I get the correct parts. Evidently there is more than one physical format for SODIMM, the ones I bought wont fit in the slot, who knew? There is certainly nothing in the HP specs to indicate a specific form factor is needed. Replacing the (SATA 1) drive with a larger one (SATA II, if the notebook will run it at rated speed, again nothing helpful in the specs) and I WONT be using MEsta as a primary OS. I need it around for supporting clients, but, unsurprisingly, it turns out to be unsuitable for real work or even pseudo-play.
In reality it is a GIANT step backward, without even askin "Mother May I". Just bought an HP dv6205us (MEsta Home version) notebook 512M Core Duo. Added 2 (Two!) 1GB "fast" USB drives for caching (sorry, I wont promulgate their asinine market terms). This machine, with all these "advanced" assists takes far longer to boot and login than a slower single core AMD with XP pro without these crutches. It takes the UAC more than 10 seconds to flag an sudo escalation. Earlier on/. it was proposed that one needs 4GB to hit the "sweet spot" the fsking hardware will only do 2GB! Oh, let us not forget the lovely artificial constraints about joining a home network and the ability to establish a local policy. The primary purpose if this OS (and the company attempting to shove it down our collective throats) is about restricting what you can do with the hardware and software for which you paid money and try extort more from you for capabilities that should be there from the get-go. There is NO "genuine advantage" in using this steaming pile. Stay with XP if you must, better yet, re-install with the *nix distro of your choice. It is going to be YEARS before the current mess is patched to usability on a current average machine and you'll still be laboring under the yoke of what THEY decide you may or may not do.
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You are spot on. I would find it more convincing that Dell management actually had a clue about the value of heterogeneous environments and were not simply "Peter Principled" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle to their positions if they provided two (or more!) selections. Not an impossible task. Somebody out there has already made available a single DVD with a bunch of distros. A previous post suggested a naked box and a DVD with distros. Probably better would be have something similar on the hard drive. On the first boot the customer makes a distro selection and clicks a check box to indicate a standalone install (flushing unwanted flavors) or leaving it intact for the option of alternate installs later.
Much more likely they will make a safe "business" decision market the "sizzle" of the Linux buzzword with a pre-selected flavor rather than the meat of user choice.
WOW! Artificial erections can result in weight loss!?! What Canadian pharmracy has the best pricing?
I made a fairly determined effer to see if we could bring up a manageable lab with IPv6./ technol/tcpipfund/tcpipfund_ch03.mspx#EDAAE
s .Deploying.IPv6.Networks.Feb.2006_html/1587052105/ ch02lev1sec1.html
.5, exchange at .7, proxy server at .13, etc using DHCP static leases, it make life easier on our field techs, they know exactly where key pieces of infrastructure are for troubleshooting. We can send them to different customers and they have an ingrained familiarity of how things are configured. Currently MS IPV6 does not have a usable IPv6 DHCP server, and the IPv6 clients do not allow such an address assignment even if the server could do reservations.
1) Our local provide (XO) doesn't even offer public IPv6 address space.
2) ARIN wants thousands of dollars PER YEAR for portable address space.
3) Identifying what/how-to use a substitute for the deprecated "site-local" addressing. Tracking this down took days of searching and piecing things together. All the docs agreed that site-local was deprected but rarely mentioned what was going to take its place. Here is some links to what was found, MS has surprising helpful documentation:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate
http://book.itzero.com/read/cisco/0602/Cisco.Pres
Generate a global ID with either of the tools below:
http://www.kame.net/~suz/gen-ula.html
http://www.hznet.de/tools/generate-rfc4193-addr
Additionally it is nearly impossible to control the allocation of hosts to specific suffixes. We often organize customers address space so that global catalog for each site are at, say,
In a nutshell, IPv6 tools and implementation on hosts fall far short of the enterprise tools used define and organize a LAN for IPv4 and until ease of use is at least on par with MS IPv4 DHCP point/click environment it is going to continue to languish. It absolutely must have integrated DHCP server redundancy with automatic failover/failback/sync so sorely lacking, LO these many years in MS offerings.
I initially read that as 'to prevent humans amusing robots' and wondering if laughter might damage the positrons or something.
Hmmm. I wonder if there will be sufficient slashdot effect on creamer purchases after that post to justify purchasing stock options in however owns Carnation (General Mills?).
I coulda sworn I was the only one in the theater.
The difference is merely the number of dollars or the extent of the "favors" reciprocated, required to sell out. The fact that they are a politician sucking the public tit sets the bar of their morals and ethics at a femtometer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtometer#SI_prefixe d_forms_of_metre. Whichever it really was, Shaw/Twain/Churchhill was spot on: "now we are just haggling over the price". http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:George_Bernard_S haw
Ah yes, the infamous MS "innovation" of follow the leader (badly).
Hey, you must have been that other guy in the theater.
Depends on the hardware. Support for commodity hardware, serial, parallel, sound, is built-in, parallel dongles usually work. VMware has trial versions of most its offerings, you should be able to do a lab install and see how happy it is in a virtual environment. Heck, for a single conventional server you could probably use the free vmware server or at worst Workstation v6 if you need USB support (probably not, if this is creaky legacy stuff). ESX is pricey but great if you are going to commit a moderate number of host servers (4+) to virtualized control of multiple guests. If you are talking proprietary hardware its more difficult and more expensive. Depending how odd and how well documented a particular piece of hardware is, you might be able to get a VM aware device driver written (~$20K depending on complexity). Post some more details on what you have and you can probably get a more solid direction.
Ah, but is it unreasonable to assume you can perform meiosis (or is it mitosis?)
Hmmm, Moses supposes my toeses are roses, Moses supposes erroneously. Nope thats no help.
Indeed, as I responded to an earlier post, it is mostly a cautionary tale to those purchasing 512M "bargains". Not hard to "fix" the issue. Upgrade, strip and install a leaner *nix distro. If I feel particularly ambitious I might install our MSDN ultimate as a virtual machine for reference purposes.
But ... but ... but ... it was SUCH A DEAL $580 after rebates.
I am coming to a sad realization, that you get what you pay for.
I come from a similar background. My Fortran class at ControlData in Honolulu included a demonstration of "Kill-A-Bit" on an IMSAI 8080 front panel (try to flip the switch under an LED when it lights up). I also have more recent fond memories of running OS/2 workplace shell (rename the underling program to a shortcut, wow the shortcut follows it!) on a 16M 386/20 machine faster than can on a 1+GHz MEsta laptop. Ahhh, good times, good times.
DDR and DDR2 on conventional motherboards are usually differentiated by pin count making the part descriptions significantly and redundantly different. The SODIMM appear to have just shift the key slot without fanfare. I matched the specs as reported by HP (since they don't bother providing valid part numbers online), possibly I screwed up walking down the selection criteria at Newegg. Kingston, GoldenRAM and Crucial all fail to list this particular HP model, so I was left to my own devices (no pun intended) to locate the appropriate upgrade part. After opening the laptop, I am still having difficulty cross-referencing the existing part, only memory4less gets a hit from froogle and they are not sufficiently consistent in the site map to allow one to chase back up the tree for the model that IS listed and find a 1GB part to substitute for the existing 512 on the supported model. A normal approach of manufacturer->kingston->generic to locate an appropriate is stymied here, might be different in a couple weeks as the databases (hopefully) get updated. Meanwhile I anticipate a lengthy call to M4L to nail down the upgrade.
I scratch build all my other machines. Unfortunately scratch building a notebook, while not impossible, is fraught with more perils than I am willing to endure.
The post was meant as primarily as a cautionary tale more than whinging. I will be upgrading to 2 GB as soon as I get the correct parts. Evidently there is more than one physical format for SODIMM, the ones I bought wont fit in the slot, who knew? There is certainly nothing in the HP specs to indicate a specific form factor is needed. Replacing the (SATA 1) drive with a larger one (SATA II, if the notebook will run it at rated speed, again nothing helpful in the specs) and I WONT be using MEsta as a primary OS. I need it around for supporting clients, but, unsurprisingly, it turns out to be unsuitable for real work or even pseudo-play.
In reality it is a GIANT step backward, without even askin "Mother May I". Just bought an HP dv6205us (MEsta Home version) notebook 512M Core Duo. Added 2 (Two!) 1GB "fast" USB drives for caching (sorry, I wont promulgate their asinine market terms). This machine, with all these "advanced" assists takes far longer to boot and login than a slower single core AMD with XP pro without these crutches. /. it was proposed that one needs 4GB to hit the "sweet spot" the fsking hardware will only do 2GB!
It takes the UAC more than 10 seconds to flag an sudo escalation. Earlier on
Oh, let us not forget the lovely artificial constraints about joining a home network and the ability to establish a local policy. The primary purpose if this OS (and the company attempting to shove it down our collective throats) is about restricting what you can do with the hardware and software for which you paid money and try extort more from you for capabilities that should be there from the get-go. There is NO "genuine advantage" in using this steaming pile. Stay with XP if you must, better yet, re-install with the *nix distro of your choice. It is going to be YEARS before the current mess is patched to usability on a current average machine and you'll still be laboring under the yoke of what THEY decide you may or may not do.
"Why you do this to me Demmy?" -- Pazuzu