I've been using linux in a production corp environment for well over 5 years. Services - cups, nfs, samba, httpd, innd, ftp, imap and pop and probably some more. About eight linux servers alongside five sun sparc servers. I've even done redhat 6 for sparc which was pretty rough at the time, but it worked well. I've been running linux at home since 1993, and no I didn't just put in the floppies and dump windows. It took a long time to poke my way around to get comfortable with it, and the window manager sucked dirtstar when it ran. However that was then. There have been *so many* improvements over the years, it is not the same OS it was back in 1993. Microsoft ought to be thinking about how they will integrate with linux instead of trying to make it sound like the plauge. They are doing their customers a dis-service by selling them a lick and a promise with a sexy desktop.
Despite whatever flavor of the week they are licking.
- ditch the forte crap and vendor lockin scheme - stop shipping your own bastardized Perl - ultrasparc performance is terrible. Address it. - get the X11 libraries and headers fixed - completely. - find a termcap that works with the rest of the world - fully support samba for chrissakes - DROP the java front ends for everything. We get gray waiting for loadtimes. - Get ldap working without so many support applications (clean up all the netscape crap or get rid of it) - better yet, clean up the OS subsystem and make your platform work better with OSS software (eg: gcc)
Cray has been using Opterons for quite some time now. They chose the Opteron because that is what Hypertransport is for - hooking together several processors. Cray has a rack that holds 12 blade servers with each blade housing 6 Opterons (iirc), 2 Opterons per daughterboard. A flavor of Linux runs at the core.
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Whatever devices are between the nics (no crossover cable) leave an opportunity to see whatever traffic is going between them. Even ntop will tell you what types of traffic it's seeing - not to mention if you are inside a bunch of hubs. 'Darknet' sounds spectacular, but it just comes down to another stupid protocol running on a non-standard port. If you're lucky, your best luck is to invent your own protocol, encrypt it, and don't share the source with anyone. Good luck getting anyone to trust you though.
At some layer, the traffic is going to be visible *IF* they are even talking about remote access of some kind. This could also be a tool that is launched from a usb drive or something. Either way, have they coded this application in Java? What do they plan to do about hardware dependancies? OS dependancies? What if Al-Queda is running redhat 6 on a sun sparc? What if they have their own Linux distro? This is a pretty bold claim all the way around with a lot of technical hurdles to overcome. I hope they have considered them all.
Because when your capitalist economy begins devouring itself, you need to be able to use the legal system to trap people/companies into becoming victims to sustain the gluttonous beast you've created.
(fade in, dimly lit alley in back of walmart. 2am. Near dumpster)
Don Casalano: "Vinne, I'm glad you could meet wit' me at dis hour. we need too doo sumtin about dis.. ah, shall we say, dis 'discouragement' - dis..goooooo-gull"
Vinne: "You got it Don Casalano. Any'ting you say - you want meeta' whack um?"
Don Casalano: "Not yet Vinnie. First we send him a message. A short but to-da-point message. A message dat says stop interferin' in our biznizz. We don't need no help rollin' back da prices."
Vinne: "Wit all due respect Don Casalano, we aint had to send nobody dat message since Jimmie da Whip cut dat deal with Microsoft when we was sellin' them plain wrappa linux box--"
Don Casalano: "Vinnie, you're a sma't boy but don't get too sma't. Dis goooo-gul is irritatin' me like a boil in da crack'a my ass. If dey are gonna play, dey are gonna pay - now you go deliva dat message. I gotta call dis Ballma' guy back and see how his meetin' went.. I wonder if he t'rew da cha'ir like I told im to..."
Just cuz you can get it up fast, doesn't mean it's not going to crash in 5 minutes.
I've seen so many of these hitachi deskstar drives bite shit that I'll never buy another one. Even if it's free.
Suse is ok, but it's not the world changing distro everyone told me it was. Doesn't really matter to me anyhow. I can compile KDE if I need to. I bet someone will pick up the package maintenance for KDE and you won't even notice novell ditched it.
In a unanimous uproar of praise, bill 2347-g passed congress today to allow Walmart to build the first ever outer-space SuperCenter on the moon in 2018. Walmart HMFIC had this to say: "It's so exciting!! There will be so many new resources and people to exploit, we are just giddy as school girls!!"
Not exactly. This is the Supreme Court's way of saying:
"Excuse me, Mr. Gates. Our lobbyists and special interest groups for cause X are lacking in funds. If you would like us to review your Eolas case, please consider making a larger contribution.
> If Microsoft forces (for example) Vista into a subscription only model then I > will stick with XP on the machines I have (I wasn't planning to upgrade anyway),
Don't plan on ever upgrading your hardware then. One of the biggest shams in this area is where hardware vendors do not supply drivers fo 'antiquated' version of windows (eg: XP by the time Vista rolls out). The gaming monopolies *cough*EA*cough* are also adopting this strategy by releasing titles 'only for' version xxxx - Eg: Running Tiga'Woo' 2005 on windows ME. In essence, here is a simple game that forces you into buying windows XP if you want to play.
Microsoft doesn't remove causes of bugs. They only fix symptoms... and make new problems.
If I had diarreah and called Microsoft for a fix, they would tell me to either glue my sphincter shut, or upgrade to SuperSphincterServer 2004 (at substantial cost of course)
Everyone knows java is a friggin resource PIG. Add a bunch of threads and watch the memory fly! I happen to like java very much, and use it wherever I want cross platform portability. That in itself can be enough of an advantage if that is what you need. Not the perfect solution for everything, but it has very good advantages depending on the situation. I'll gladly add another gig of welfare grade ram to a machine if I need the portability. If your're running windows and openoffice, you have simply shot yourself in the foot twice. Microsoft never wanted java, never wanted to play nice with java, and as far as I'm concerned, still doesn't. Buy some crutches and accept your inevitability.
This comparison seems to show things a bit differently. Gee, why is that? Do you suppose Intel is sucking dirt-star and needs some numbers *bad* ? Nah, money just can't buy integrity these days.
Each country has it's own network. Countries can 'subscribe' to each others network using a monetary principle of some sort. For the USA, the monetary principle would be intranet-subscription traded for cheap labor. China and Japan could fuck like crazy and give babies to the U.S. corporations to raise as labour-slaves for SUV factories that would be sold back to China as well as California and Wisconsin. If the US decides to cut-off access to the chinese Intranet, *yoink* no more cheap labour. Similar things could be done with other countries based on what their values are.
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http://www.google.com/search?as_q=lego+brick+hardd rive&num=100
If you guys weren't so busy bitching and whining about the dupe you might actually read a pretty good article.
Windows locked. oi the irony.
I've been using linux in a production corp environment for well over 5 years. Services - cups, nfs, samba, httpd, innd, ftp, imap and pop and probably some more. About eight linux servers alongside five sun sparc servers. I've even done redhat 6 for sparc which was pretty rough at the time, but it worked well. I've been running linux at home since 1993, and no I didn't just put in the floppies and dump windows. It took a long time to poke my way around to get comfortable with it, and the window manager sucked dirtstar when it ran. However that was then. There have been *so many* improvements over the years, it is not the same OS it was back in 1993. Microsoft ought to be thinking about how they will integrate with linux instead of trying to make it sound like the plauge. They are doing their customers a dis-service by selling them a lick and a promise with a sexy desktop.
3 dupes - so fucking what. You're not paying for it. You ought to be bitching about the article registration like usual.
Despite whatever flavor of the week they are licking.
- ditch the forte crap and vendor lockin scheme
- stop shipping your own bastardized Perl
- ultrasparc performance is terrible. Address it.
- get the X11 libraries and headers fixed - completely.
- find a termcap that works with the rest of the world
- fully support samba for chrissakes
- DROP the java front ends for everything. We get gray waiting for loadtimes.
- Get ldap working without so many support applications (clean up all the netscape crap or get rid of it)
- better yet, clean up the OS subsystem and make your platform work better with OSS software (eg: gcc)
Something that doesn't get excersized as much as it should these days.
Cray has been using Opterons for quite some time now. They chose the Opteron because that is what Hypertransport is for - hooking together several processors. Cray has a rack that holds 12 blade servers with each blade housing 6 Opterons (iirc), 2 Opterons per daughterboard. A flavor of Linux runs at the core. blah and blah
Whatever devices are between the nics (no crossover cable) leave an opportunity to see whatever traffic is going between them. Even ntop will tell you what types of traffic it's seeing - not to mention if you are inside a bunch of hubs. 'Darknet' sounds spectacular, but it just comes down to another stupid protocol running on a non-standard port. If you're lucky, your best luck is to invent your own protocol, encrypt it, and don't share the source with anyone. Good luck getting anyone to trust you though.
At some layer, the traffic is going to be visible *IF* they are even talking about remote access of some kind. This could also be a tool that is launched from a usb drive or something. Either way, have they coded this application in Java? What do they plan to do about hardware dependancies? OS dependancies? What if Al-Queda is running redhat 6 on a sun sparc? What if they have their own Linux distro? This is a pretty bold claim all the way around with a lot of technical hurdles to overcome. I hope they have considered them all.
> So what's the reason we have them again?
Because when your capitalist economy begins devouring itself, you need to be able to use the legal system to trap people/companies into becoming victims to sustain the gluttonous beast you've created.
Inmarsat: Bringing the worms home to you. Fast.
(fade in, dimly lit alley in back of walmart. 2am. Near dumpster)
Don Casalano: "Vinne, I'm glad you could meet wit' me at dis hour. we need too doo sumtin about dis.. ah, shall we say, dis 'discouragement' - dis..goooooo-gull"
Vinne: "You got it Don Casalano. Any'ting you say - you want meeta' whack um?"
Don Casalano: "Not yet Vinnie. First we send him a message. A short but to-da-point message. A message dat says stop interferin' in our biznizz. We don't need no help rollin' back da prices."
Vinne: "Wit all due respect Don Casalano, we aint had to send nobody dat message since Jimmie da Whip cut dat deal with Microsoft when we was sellin' them plain wrappa linux box--"
Don Casalano: "Vinnie, you're a sma't boy but don't get too sma't. Dis goooo-gul is irritatin' me like a boil in da crack'a my ass. If dey are gonna play, dey are gonna pay - now you go deliva dat message. I gotta call dis Ballma' guy back and see how his meetin' went.. I wonder if he t'rew da cha'ir like I told im to..."
Just cuz you can get it up fast, doesn't mean it's not going to crash in 5 minutes. I've seen so many of these hitachi deskstar drives bite shit that I'll never buy another one. Even if it's free.
Suse is ok, but it's not the world changing distro everyone told me it was. Doesn't really matter to me anyhow. I can compile KDE if I need to. I bet someone will pick up the package maintenance for KDE and you won't even notice novell ditched it.
In a unanimous uproar of praise, bill 2347-g passed congress today to allow Walmart to build the first ever outer-space SuperCenter on the moon in 2018. Walmart HMFIC had this to say: "It's so exciting!! There will be so many new resources and people to exploit, we are just giddy as school girls!!"
Not exactly. This is the Supreme Court's way of saying:
"Excuse me, Mr. Gates. Our lobbyists and special interest groups for cause X are lacking in funds. If you would like us to review your Eolas case, please consider making a larger contribution.
Yours Truly,
Capitalism"
Knoppix.
I can see it already. Are these new symlinks going to be iso9660 compliant? Yeah right.
> If Microsoft forces (for example) Vista into a subscription only model then I
> will stick with XP on the machines I have (I wasn't planning to upgrade anyway),
Don't plan on ever upgrading your hardware then. One of the biggest shams in this area is where hardware vendors do not supply drivers fo 'antiquated' version of windows (eg: XP by the time Vista rolls out). The gaming monopolies *cough*EA*cough* are also adopting this strategy by releasing titles 'only for' version xxxx - Eg: Running Tiga'Woo' 2005 on windows ME. In essence, here is a simple game that forces you into buying windows XP if you want to play.
Microsoft doesn't remove causes of bugs. They only fix symptoms... and make new problems.
If I had diarreah and called Microsoft for a fix, they would tell me to either glue my sphincter shut, or upgrade to SuperSphincterServer 2004 (at substantial cost of course)
choice
Everyone knows java is a friggin resource PIG. Add a bunch of threads and watch the memory fly! I happen to like java very much, and use it wherever I want cross platform portability. That in itself can be enough of an advantage if that is what you need. Not the perfect solution for everything, but it has very good advantages depending on the situation. I'll gladly add another gig of welfare grade ram to a machine if I need the portability. If your're running windows and openoffice, you have simply shot yourself in the foot twice. Microsoft never wanted java, never wanted to play nice with java, and as far as I'm concerned, still doesn't. Buy some crutches and accept your inevitability.
This comparison seems to show things a bit differently. Gee, why is that?
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Do you suppose Intel is sucking dirt-star and needs some numbers *bad* ?
Nah, money just can't buy integrity these days.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx
Each country has it's own network. Countries can 'subscribe' to each others network using a monetary principle of some sort. For the USA, the monetary principle would be intranet-subscription traded for cheap labor. China and Japan could fuck like crazy and give babies to the U.S. corporations to raise as labour-slaves for SUV factories that would be sold back to China as well as California and Wisconsin. If the US decides to cut-off access to the chinese Intranet, *yoink* no more cheap labour. Similar things could be done with other countries based on what their values are.