Whatever you do - don't entrust "Enterprise Solution"s just because the masses use it - the (human) masses tend to like not to have responsibility, not to have to think. "Yeah, let's outsource, so many are doing ti, and if it doesn't work - never mind! We'll sue them! Harhar!"
Carrying no responsibility and no knowledge might be comfortable, but your business will not go from it.
Get creativ people who really want to create things in the area they are working in, and not just "Oh we will go on the Microsoft-line, because that is what they told us on the MCSE course".
Yay, We are running out of natural, not-renewing energy containers, that we can burn mostly in cars so smooth to pollute/dirt everything in sight! Lets create new ways to keep up the pollution!
Sarcasm aside - the only positive factor at it is to get waste recycled. That should be triggered more widely. Get your rubbish sorted - and it will be time to build up new industries on recycling.
Unfortunately you're right. However marketing - as so many other things - started with good (tm) source and will, for market research, like "What would the market need?", and nowadays in fact it is "How could we push our $whatever_product to the market?"
Micro$oft is just the right example. They deserve their "$" in the name. Dear MS - work with normal standards, document your things, do not like about your products - and you'll get away the "$" - and get respect. Real respect is all you need.
Learn it, HA is not enough, RAID is not enough, do your backups. Do your restoring praxises. Backup you r filesystems, databases.
Be proactive. Use recent application bases (upgrade your php/sql/javacontainer/java). Set the debugging level high, and read your logs, analyze them. Monitor and control your system. Ah yes, and keep the KISS rule.
I think I didn't express myself clear enough. under 'macs' I meaned 'apple products', inclusive OSX, inclusive ipod steering-design, etc. If you use OSX it does add to your style, doesn't it? It gives you a feeling, which is a useful experience, and you can benefit from it later.
reached a weak point at you, did I? The brain? Hurts to think about things, does it? To try to imagine 'what the hell is he trying to say?'. Keep spitting around - see where it leads to. Ever heard the word 'creative'? and how about 'cooperative'?
It isn't just that. But a mac has style. With good design and style they can add to the user's own style - just like with systemadministration you learn to solve problem, search solutions more logically. In a mac it's the interface, it's the logic, the way things are organized. It could be a part of your culture.
Now try it the other way around. Has a win* ever brought you new (positive!) experiences? Could that be part of your culture? I'm trying hard not to exaggerate. Think about that.
Linux comes in the picture, beacuse you see real flexibility, transparency and logic. Macs with their style. The M$ way is to get dumb customers fit their needs. Keep them dumb. Feed them with junk food, let them watch kill-em-all action films, blind them with marketing. In all these mention areas, you have a choice. Consider that. Please.
Thats the way. If someone didnt switch yet from win to a clickety-click-self-everything-autoconfigured-and- managed linux, because 'linux? thats a complicated hax0r-system!', then here's the opportunity. a nice and powerful, and not expensive mac. And of course it does run linux if you want:) Its little, silent, powerful (no I am no apple representative) - and it just workz. Viruses? Ha. Ha. Ha. And you still can use the MS office things, until you get seomething better. OOo for example. Throw out your windows - have fun.
It isn't like the good-old days where substantial new features like that would've gone into the development branch.
It's not so clear separated. 2.6 was the so-called development branch in the 2.5 times. Now it's mainly 'stable' - but still under development. People won't use(and so mass-test) an uneven-versioned kernel. e.g. dev kernels will never be tested thoruoughly. But If you say, "OK, heres 2.6.0, enjoy, we're starting now 2.7" - then the most developers will be working on the new'n'exciting dev branch - leaving just few for the stable branch chich this way will never be really stabilized.
But yes, around version.10 it is time to change. The question is, who's able to maintain a so huge branch? I for myself would suggest feature-freeze for 2-3 releases, let only bugfixes in, and then give it to Alan Cox. The 2.2 series were to trust.
NetBSD runs on 17 CPU architectures. Can you count up 17?
NetBSD will be the OS what you can always use on your old boxes, when you don't get running anything else on them.
well that is reall insightless
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Honda Civic vs cheap? A Suzuki maybe.
And since when are rockets mass-produced? Man you need mass-productive experience, to create cheap and reliable transport.
However I do agree that costs can be surely reduced with an order of magnitude with careful planning, and keeping an eye on cost-effectiveness.
erm... This is just as dumb as saying that windows' biggest disadvantage is, that wihtout MS Office installed you cannot open Excel files.
Have a look at http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html
(oh that article about the disadvantage of OSs you find here
Re:I tried x86 Solaris 9.. didn't like it.
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Solaris is a server-class OS that was never intended to run on the kind of commodity hardware most people have in the box on their desk.
Hm. explain this to my notebook, with Gnome, firefox, gaim, etc (from blastwave.org). Was a bit of a fight to get the rtl8139 card and the sound to work - but worth it.
Nope - if a sysadmin _is_ good enough - let him work. If you don't trust your SA - fire him, investigeate, if still not satisfied, fire him, or force him to get support. In this case if I know that I am right - I would leave that firm. If they don't respect my skills - well, to hell with them.
No perfect distro for productive env. RH is the most annoying and resource-wasting thing - but its CEO suitable. Debian is stabil, secure and straightforward - with a release cycle camparable to a snails pace. Yes, I do use Sarge in prod.env. No, I'm not happy with it.
pro tertio: This whole theater abut RHEL and all is really resource-eating. It's about who can be held liable. An ill-minded, I-am-innocent-our-partner-is-quilty behaviour. Design, test, make it HA, backup it, set up disaster recovery plans. If you don't know how, you'll mess up, and that is a situation non grata.
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Whatever you do - don't entrust "Enterprise Solution"s just because the masses use it - the (human) masses tend to like not to have responsibility, not to have to think.
"Yeah, let's outsource, so many are doing ti, and if it doesn't work - never mind! We'll sue them! Harhar!"
Carrying no responsibility and no knowledge might be comfortable, but your business will not go from it.
Get creativ people who really want to create things in the area they are working in, and not just "Oh we will go on the Microsoft-line, because that is what they told us on the MCSE course".
Yay, We are running out of natural, not-renewing energy containers, that we can burn mostly in cars so smooth to pollute/dirt everything in sight! Lets create new ways to keep up the pollution!
Sarcasm aside - the only positive factor at it is to get waste recycled. That should be triggered more widely. Get your rubbish sorted - and it will be time to build up new industries on recycling.
you can be sure about that. Thats what we're really good at. whining. But hey - I'll be really happy if google was my biggest problem ;)
s/the/their own/
Unfortunately you're right.
However marketing - as so many other things - started with good (tm) source and will, for market research, like "What would the market need?", and nowadays in fact it is "How could we push our $whatever_product to the market?"
Micro$oft is just the right example. They deserve their "$" in the name.
Dear MS - work with normal standards, document your things, do not like about your products - and you'll get away the "$" - and get respect. Real respect is all you need.
erm, AFAIK the US produces up to 25% of the total CO2 emissions.
Erm but you did have backup, didn't you?
Learn it, HA is not enough, RAID is not enough, do your backups. Do your restoring praxises. Backup you r filesystems, databases.
Be proactive. Use recent application bases (upgrade your php/sql/javacontainer/java). Set the debugging level high, and read your logs, analyze them. Monitor and control your system. Ah yes, and keep the KISS rule.
I think I didn't express myself clear enough. under 'macs' I meaned 'apple products', inclusive OSX, inclusive ipod steering-design, etc. If you use OSX it does add to your style, doesn't it? It gives you a feeling, which is a useful experience, and you can benefit from it later.
reached a weak point at you, did I? The brain? Hurts to think about things, does it? To try to imagine 'what the hell is he trying to say?'. Keep spitting around - see where it leads to. Ever heard the word 'creative'? and how about 'cooperative'?
maybe, maybe not - but your monitor can surely maintain the weight of your mini :)
#define better
It's opensource.
It's actively developed
It's crossplatform
It fits the requirements of 80% of the office-users alread now.
Tell me, how could things be better?
It isn't just that. But a mac has style. With good design and style they can add to the user's own style - just like with systemadministration you learn to solve problem, search solutions more logically. In a mac it's the interface, it's the logic, the way things are organized. It could be a part of your culture.
Now try it the other way around. Has a win* ever brought you new (positive!) experiences? Could that be part of your culture? I'm trying hard not to exaggerate. Think about that.
Linux comes in the picture, beacuse you see real flexibility, transparency and logic. Macs with their style. The M$ way is to get dumb customers fit their needs. Keep them dumb. Feed them with junk food, let them watch kill-em-all action films, blind them with marketing. In all these mention areas, you have a choice. Consider that. Please.
Thats the way. If someone didnt switch yet from win to a clickety-click-self-everything-autoconfigured-and- managed linux, because 'linux? thats a complicated hax0r-system!', then here's the opportunity. a nice and powerful, and not expensive mac. And of course it does run linux if you want :) Its little, silent, powerful (no I am no apple representative) - and it just workz. Viruses? Ha. Ha. Ha. And you still can use the MS office things, until you get seomething better. OOo for example. Throw out your windows - have fun.
But yes, around version
I counted just like they did:
http://netbsd.org/Ports/#ports-by-cpu
" Machines of the same MACHINE_ARCH share the same userland binaries"
NetBSD runs on 17 CPU architectures. Can you count up 17?
NetBSD will be the OS what you can always use on your old boxes, when you don't get running anything else on them.
Honda Civic vs cheap? A Suzuki maybe.
And since when are rockets mass-produced? Man you need mass-productive experience, to create cheap and reliable transport.
However I do agree that costs can be surely reduced with an order of magnitude with careful planning, and keeping an eye on cost-effectiveness.
erm
Have a look at http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html
(oh that article about the disadvantage of OSs you find here
Hm. explain this to my notebook, with Gnome, firefox, gaim, etc (from blastwave.org). Was a bit of a fight to get the rtl8139 card and the sound to work - but worth it.
F/OSS software precompiled, and apt-like (with dependenices) installable from Blastwave
FYKI
They have released sol10 with really nice features, cool.
They set it not hardcore-GPL, but at least Sun-defined opensource. Alright.
But what the hell is this about giving the 1600 patents only for CDDL projects?
They show supporting Linux, support the opensource-community, but they cannot/dont't want to move? Could someone explain pls?
Nope - if a sysadmin _is_ good enough - let him work. If you don't trust your SA - fire him, investigeate, if still not satisfied, fire him, or force him to get support. In this case if I know that I am right - I would leave that firm. If they don't respect my skills - well, to hell with them.
Right. unfortunately, but still, right.
No perfect distro for productive env. RH is the most annoying and resource-wasting thing - but its CEO suitable. Debian is stabil, secure and straightforward - with a release cycle camparable to a snails pace. Yes, I do use Sarge in prod.env. No, I'm not happy with it.
pro primo: IMNSHO, if a sysadmin need support on his linux-boxes, then he shouldn't run productive, missin-critical things on linux boxes.
pro secundo: If you really need third party support: http://www.findopensourcesupport.com/
pro tertio: This whole theater abut RHEL and all is really resource-eating. It's about who can be held liable. An ill-minded, I-am-innocent-our-partner-is-quilty behaviour. Design, test, make it HA, backup it, set up disaster recovery plans. If you don't know how, you'll mess up, and that is a situation non grata.