Most of the comments you gave are ok if you use your editor (be it Emacs or Eclipse) for editing Java files. But for other "modes", you are again at the mercy of the existance of the right plugin (or module, or whatever).
For Java edition, Eclipse is really-really nice, I love the refactoring possibilities, for example. But for other languages... CDT is not up to par with JDT and I prefer using Emacs for everything C/C++.
> I can fully administrate any of my FreeBSD/OpenBSD > servers from anywhere in the workd using my Iridium > Phone and a Psion Revo with an SSH client.
Wait, wait, wait, you do have a working ssh client for a Psion Revo ? Could you tell me which one exactly you are using ? Thx!
I didn't look at the code produced by gcc 3.2 but the compiler itself is awfully slow on MIPS systems, even on nice and shiny new Origin300... So using this release of gcc to compile is a real pain.
> If you have no need for non-Windows clients, check out Microsoft Terminal Server. > Same thing, but only Windows clients.
No, this is not limited to windows clients. There is also a project for an OpenSource client, called rdesktop which works pretty well on many platforms (i have at least seen it running on Linux, FreeBSD and Irix workstations).
And Microsoft Terminal Server is now an optionnal service on Windows 2000 Server (and probably the same for Windows XP -- I guess you can even use rdesktop with the remote control options of the workstation version of Windows XP).
> Matrox has been traditionally very friendly to linux.
Uh, not really. At the beginning of the "Matrox Millenium" era, there were no drivers for Matrox products (that would lead us to mid-1997). But apparently, they didn't want to see what a boycott by linux users would have given. > They produce Their own set of drivers (with source!)
With source ? Only with the same kind of sources than nVidia... some wrapper code, and a big chunk of pre-compiled library (binary only!)...
seb.
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Another framework that you could consider is AxKit which is a mod_perl based solution. I don't know how it has evolved recently, but you can do XML rendering using different technologies (XSL, XSP...) and you can integrate SQL (either natively or through some perl code).
I'm not exactly using PPPoE but PPTP, but I could switch to it it I wanted to, this would bethe same thing.
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> Because when using PPPoE, they can force all sorts of nonsense on you:
> 1) Changing IPs.
I have a static IP, thankyouverymuch, so what ? Hell, I even have a full subnet routed to my home network, so this isn't really a issue.
As far as Konqueror, is anyone working on a win32 port?
Well, Konqueror uses Qt, so the graphical part shouldn't give much problems. On the other hand, behind the scene they use a few X-only tricks (Remember, for KParts, they left CORBA for ICE, which is a X-specific protocol). For the "unixisms" (like fork()), there are libraries that should be able to compensate.
We just need to find somebody who has a developer license for Qt/Windows to do the work (any volunteer in the audience ?)
Personally I'd like to see IOS running on x86 hardware more than Linux on Cisco hardware.
Well, I worked 2 years ago with Cisco routers (760 family, i guess), and the doc said they were running with 486 processors, so we can almost say that IOS is already running on x86 hardware (well, sort of, at least).
Well, actual (free) BSDs do handle the need for multitasks, but the support for multi-procs is close to nothing. Free/BSD begins to support it (but with big bad locks) and there may be some code to run on _one_ multi-proc motherboard, somewhere, for the other BSDs. And i don't think even Mach did something interesting in that area. So, I doubt SMP support come from there.
Well, if you look on the other side, there are a few softwares that will run fine on SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 and not on version 5.0.2 or below. So, what's the point, exactly ? On my SCO systems, i have seen ELF and Coff executables. That's the same problem. --
But what happens when your DNS server is out, and all the data have expired ? You are unreachable, even by email, because SMTP servers out there are unable to find the MX records for your domain. This is why having a secondary DNS server hosted somewhere else is useful.
And for the problem of your server down (not talking about a DNS server), firstly, most SMTP servers will keep trying to send you the messages for a few days and secondly, having more than one MX entry can be helpful.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but Windows NT 4.0 SP6 is certified as C2 with a network connection, and it was even on/. not so long ago (a month, maybe ?). In fact, it may not be exactly the same classification used with ol' 3.51, but anyway it is.
> But what if your xserver locks up your keyboard?
Different solutions are available. First, you can log from another system/machine/terminal and reboot it. But with the 2.2 kernels you can also use the Magic SysRq keys; Go to Raw mode, flush the buffers, remount the partitions read-only, and reboot. All of those operations are available even if X crashed and took the keyboard away from the apps. For more informations, read/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt.
- an interactive startup option (disable-able) ala choose what you want to start during startup for Windows 9x and DOS; so for when you screw up your sendmail config, you can still start without taking ages:)
If you really screwedup your whatever config, then you should probably fix it, not ignore it. Giving this kind of options is, imho, probably a bad idea. Booting in single user mode would let you fix it without taking ages to start, and without letting your system half-running at the end.
Just to let you know, panoramix is the name of a character in a french comic (Asterix). AFAIK, It doesn't have anything to do with most *nix names we know. But in the books, it's a druid...
Common configuration doesn't limit the use of resources by simple users. But any Bofh admin would put limits on the number of processes the users can launch, and the RAM they can waste. --
They claim to use specific patches for the TCP/IP stack and for NFS. What is the status of those patches from the point of view of the kernel guys ? Is it something that will be/has already been included in the stock kernel (either 2.2 or 2.3)
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When i say proprietary, i mean a extension of the common protocol for all ORBs (IIOP) that is implemented only by ORBit, and which isn't part of any RFC or standard. I'm sorry, i didn't want to mean "proprietary" as a "closed" protocol. --
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Most of the comments you gave are ok if you use your editor (be it Emacs or Eclipse) for editing Java files. But for other "modes", you are again at the mercy of the existance of the right plugin (or module, or whatever).
For Java edition, Eclipse is really-really nice, I love the refactoring possibilities, for example. But for other languages... CDT is not up to par with JDT and I prefer using Emacs for everything C/C++.
seb.
> I can fully administrate any of my FreeBSD/OpenBSD
> servers from anywhere in the workd using my Iridium
> Phone and a Psion Revo with an SSH client.
Wait, wait, wait, you do have a working ssh client for a Psion Revo ? Could you tell me which one exactly you are using ? Thx!
seb.
> Have you tried gcc 3.2?
... So using this release of gcc to compile is a real pain.
I didn't look at the code produced by gcc 3.2 but the compiler itself is awfully slow on MIPS systems, even on nice and shiny new Origin300
seb.
> If you have no need for non-Windows clients, check out Microsoft Terminal Server.
> Same thing, but only Windows clients.
No, this is not limited to windows clients. There is also a project for an OpenSource client, called rdesktop which works pretty well on many platforms (i have at least seen it running on Linux, FreeBSD and Irix workstations).
And Microsoft Terminal Server is now an optionnal service on Windows 2000 Server (and probably the same for Windows XP -- I guess you can even use rdesktop with the remote control options of the workstation version of Windows XP).
seb.
> Matrox has been traditionally very friendly to linux.
Uh, not really. At the beginning of the "Matrox Millenium" era, there were no drivers for Matrox products (that would lead us to mid-1997). But apparently, they didn't want to see what a boycott by linux users would have given.
> They produce Their own set of drivers (with source!)
With source ? Only with the same kind of sources than nVidia
seb.
Another framework that you could consider is AxKit which is a mod_perl based solution.
I don't know how it has evolved recently, but you can do XML rendering using different technologies (XSL, XSP...) and you can integrate SQL (either natively or through some perl code).
seb.
Well, just tell me where I can get the sources for thoses drivers ... AFAIK, NVidia provides binary-only drivers.
seb.
I'm not exactly using PPPoE but PPTP, but I could switch to it it I wanted to, this would bethe same thing.
</Disclaimer>
> Because when using PPPoE, they can force all sorts of nonsense on you:
> 1) Changing IPs.
I have a static IP, thankyouverymuch, so what ? Hell, I even have a full subnet routed to my home network, so this isn't really a issue.
As far as Konqueror, is anyone working on a win32 port?
Well, Konqueror uses Qt, so the graphical part shouldn't give much problems. On the other hand, behind the scene they use a few X-only tricks (Remember, for KParts, they left CORBA for ICE, which is a X-specific protocol). For the "unixisms" (like fork()), there are libraries that should be able to compensate.
We just need to find somebody who has a developer license for Qt/Windows to do the work (any volunteer in the audience ?)
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Personally I'd like to see IOS running on x86 hardware more than Linux on Cisco hardware.
Well, I worked 2 years ago with Cisco routers (760 family, i guess), and the doc said they were running with 486 processors, so we can almost say that IOS is already running on x86 hardware (well, sort of, at least).
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Oh yeah, really ? Where can i download Windows Media player (tm) for PowerPC ?
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> Um, do you think BSD multitasks well?
Well, actual (free) BSDs do handle the need for multitasks, but the support for multi-procs is close to nothing. Free/BSD begins to support it (but with big bad locks) and there may be some code to run on _one_ multi-proc motherboard, somewhere, for the other BSDs. And i don't think even Mach did something interesting in that area. So, I doubt SMP support come from there.
seb.
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Well, if you look on the other side, there are a few softwares that will run fine on SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 and not on version 5.0.2 or below. So, what's the point, exactly ? On my SCO systems, i have seen ELF and Coff executables. That's the same problem.
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http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
http://qa.debian.org/
'nuff said.
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But what happens when your DNS server is out, and all the data have expired ? You are unreachable, even by email, because SMTP servers out there are unable to find the MX records for your domain. This is why having a secondary DNS server hosted somewhere else is useful.
And for the problem of your server down (not talking about a DNS server), firstly, most SMTP servers will keep trying to send you the messages for a few days and secondly, having more than one MX entry can be helpful.
seb.
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Even if they sell it, they don't have to release the sources to the entire world, but just to their customers.
(see other threads for examples).
seb.
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I'm sorry to tell you this, but Windows NT 4.0 SP6 is certified as C2 with a network connection, and it was even on /. not so long ago (a month, maybe ?). In fact, it may not be exactly the same classification used with ol' 3.51, but anyway it is.
seb.
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I guess Adaptec advertized themselves a few months ago for having a driver for their Ultra160 chipsets included in the RedHat 6.
seb.
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> But what if your xserver locks up your keyboard?
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt.
Different solutions are available. First, you can log from another system/machine/terminal and reboot it. But with the 2.2 kernels you can also use the Magic SysRq keys; Go to Raw mode, flush the buffers, remount the partitions read-only, and reboot. All of those operations are available even if X crashed and took the keyboard away from the apps. For more informations, read
seb.
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If you really screwedup your whatever config, then you should probably fix it, not ignore it. Giving this kind of options is, imho, probably a bad idea. Booting in single user mode would let you fix it without taking ages to start, and without letting your system half-running at the end.
seb.
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Does-it run on anything else than Windows NT ? Apache has really no relation with RH because it doesn't rely upon it. It even works on Windows.
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Just to let you know, panoramix is the name of a character in a french comic (Asterix). AFAIK, It doesn't have anything to do with most *nix names we know. But in the books, it's a druid...
seb.
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Common configuration doesn't limit the use of resources by simple users. But any Bofh admin would put limits on the number of processes the users can launch, and the RAM they can waste.
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They claim to use specific patches for the TCP/IP stack and for NFS. What is the status of those patches from the point of view of the kernel guys ? Is it something that will be/has already been included in the stock kernel (either 2.2 or 2.3)
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When i say proprietary, i mean a extension of the common protocol for all ORBs (IIOP) that is implemented only by ORBit, and which isn't part of any RFC or standard. I'm sorry, i didn't want to mean "proprietary" as a "closed" protocol.
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