you should just buy the router, ofcourse you can do it, on any linux distro in an easy way. but, save yourself the trouble, you don't seem like the person who likes to explore new things.
indeed windows is not to blame, but the question should be - why did they pick windows for this project? aparently all products were screaming unix, but still for some reason they go with windows. now, this is not the first time this has happened. i've seen it so many times at work where projects use windows with apache, perl/php and mysql. the reason i keep hearing for doing this is that it is 'easier'. ha!
Right, because we all know ESR is on the same level with those two guys because he's responsible for uh... What exactly did he do?
if you want to walk around in OSS-land at least try to remember who the important people are! A good introduction might be to read a book about it...
According to wikipedias description of mainstream, we are there already. the 3 criteria for mainstream are:
something that is not out of the ordinary or unusual;
something that is familiar to the masses;
something that belongs to an identifiable genre
linux is not unusual anymore, it can be found anywhere you look and what is more, everybody knows the 'linux' word, ofcourse that doesn't mean they want to use it.
with Linux or OSS TCO is not the main driving factor, instead the focus is shifted at lock-in and interoperability (open formats/standards). For those things it is hard to put a price on them, and the costs mostly only come years and years after the product is in place. Still those @#$!@$%& managers are only interested in the price-picture, and don't care about _anything_ else, or the fact that you will be the one dealing with all the misery/hell afterwards.
If City of Heroes ran on Linux, I would probably go ahead to switch to a Linux-only system, if for no other reason than it's free and I don't have to buy a new version every few years.
then switch now! and it works too, i played CoH for months with cedega (right now i'm playing Guild Wars, also running in cedega).
the whole license scheme is plain silly. and each vendor has his own license model, it just drives people crazy and hard to predict total costs sometimes. but there are some things that make me even more mad. the cost of the software _increases_ because of factor X, but it is the same freaking software, there is nothing special about agent Y running on machine A or B except the price! Imagin gas stations calculating the price of fuel depending on your average speed on the highway, while giving you the same fuel anyway. ok, for some reason you manage to live with this, the next thing makes things even worse. a _lot_ of these products have bugs in their license code, so you'll walk into the office one day and all hell broke lose during the night because for some @#!$ reason the program/agent/etc. though you didn't have a certain license anymore. ARGHLK! The license model is braindead, and so the OSS companies are mostly a little bit more sensible about it and try to make a living by charging for support. But wait! those horrible licensing bastards are charging for support to, and a lot (you know, in case the license code bugs out again and you have to request a new license whatever). Double ripoff, and still companies are putting up with this crap, what is the deal here? you stab me in the back, i'll stab you, we're all stabbing together...
Synaptic. Synaptic does its job, I can say that. But the user interface leaves a lot to be desired. I upgraded to Hoary yesterday. Why did that have to involve editing sources.list by hand?
like other already said, you can do they from the synatic gui, which involves changing the words 'warty' to 'hoary'.
Applications. Why the hell do newly installed applications need to be added to the menus manually? This is Ubuntu's biggest flaw. When you install a new program, you'd better know how to invoke it from the command line -- and good luck finding that out from Synaptic's description, which disappears after install anyway.
disappears? i don't know what you mean here, it does not disappear. perhaps you are in the wrong view or something (synaptic in ubuntu presents you with 4 different views on packages, they can be selected from the 4 buttons bottom left of the window). anyway, as you might guess all the info about the packages is still there, you do know that you can remove software with synaptic as well, don't you? how could you do that if had disappeared. if you don't know where to look for your software (because the reps are pretty large) do a 'search' for it (last button in the toolbar).
Folder Navigation. I don't like the fact that there is no back or up arrow when exploring file folders. This is massively stupid UI design.
open nautilus, edit - preferences - behaviour - always open in browser window. this will give you an interface that looks and acts like something you are more used to.
I mean, it seems to fit the game, why not? What do they have to lose, the game is already infamous for it's violence and sexual references. People buying the game now will not be turned away by it. We're having this whole discussion because they didn't put it in in the first place. It seems to fit the life of a mobster perfectly anyway...
No wonder, have you ever looked at JDS? It is useless, at least when selling it as a windows replacement. If you would just look at what the guys at Ximian were doing at the same time as Sun released JDS, you would see the difference in end quality and integration from miles away. Perhaps after a few years JDS could have grown into something good. I did not RTFA so it could be they are continuing it on Solaris, it wouldn't even matter, AFAIK nobody in the community was promoting it anyway.
i use evolution, it also contains an exchange plugin which avoids the need of outlook at work. you can have multiple calendars, task lists, export them, it works pretty good.
If this is true, i'm thinking Intel went to Apple first. The reason is, that Intel wants to be the top 64bit CPU supplier which now is AMD and they can't stand that. Also, MS is lagging with their 64bit OS, and although they have something available _now_, they advise everybody to _wait_ until longhorn. If Intel and Apple get together, and they use the 64bit cpu this could mean a serious boost for Intel. And it would put pressure on MS, possibly making them very-much-way-to-late into the 64bit game. We all know that linux does the 64 dance for some time already, but presumably not as good as Apple does with OSX and Apple has better marketing. If Intel could make Apple cheaper it would even be a greater recipy for success.
When i was much younger, and still in school, i switched from windows and all the crap that came with it, because i could not believe they expected me to pay for that system and each little tool basicly asked for some form of payment for full use. if that wasn't enough, the products were not stable at all. hence the switch to linux, a free system, that perhaps was not perfect but at least worked better and didn't cost me anything and allowed me to learn, improve, etc. so, i get out of school, find myself a job in IT and discover that these enterprise software vendors are even _worse_ then microsoft and the rest of the gang. HORRIBLE! and the PRICES! i couldn't believe companies actually paid money for such crap. and it doesn't stop there, the license model is a complete rip-off. the pricing, in most cases, goes up depending on the capacity of the server. but, it is the exact _same_ fsck software, you even use the same package to install it, there is no difference in the software what so ever. basicly those bastards are charging you more because you bought a bigger machine and they don't even have to do anything to earn that money. oh, and besides all the misery, some of the software is so buggy, but because it is closed i can not even solve it myself (and a lot of those bugs are trivial to the point i'm wondering if they do any QC?). or, spawn error messages that are made up out of just numbers and you have no choice but to call their support number and hope it can be solved (because, yes it is true, in a lot of cases the answer turns out to be - we recommend a reinstall) jeez, and they wonder why IT people are fed up by this? if they can't possibly figure out what is wrong, it boggles my mind.
a local shop here, has official Ubuntu cd's up for grabs. both live and install versions, ranging from x86-32 to x86-64. almost couldn't believe it when i first saw it, so cool:)
when i was asked earlier this year to create a simple website for somebody, he made some requests that were typical things supported by IE. i told him not to do it, because not everybody is using IE (like myself). His reply was - well, allmost everybody is using it, why should i bother with those few people? upon which i replied - yes, but over 10% of the people on the net use something else. to my surprise his reply was - really? 10% that many, if that is the case we have to take that into account. so, as you can see, for companies wanting a site on the net, 10% of the internet not able to view their site correctly is already enough.
I'm the OSS promoter at work, and it has always been my nr.1 argument. OSS gives power to the customer, instead of to the (software) companies. At this time we are using RedHat, but they better keep pleasing us, or we'll take our money somewhere else while staying on the _same_ platform. Ofcourse, cost is important as well, and i never leave it out of the picture because that is a factor some types are most interested in in seeing.
disks can be taken out by vibration, electric shock, or just by exceeding their shelf life.
your tape drive might not survive an electric shock as well, and tapes also have a limited shelf life depending on the usage, the storage procedure and environment used in.
Failures can be from the drive electronics, the drive motor, a head crash, or simply getting unfiltered air in the drive.
electronics in tape drives never fail, we all know that. my drives tend to break more then my disks, at least the DLT ones do, the LTO drives are pretty decent. heads from tape drives can go bad as well, and you will be crying the day it happens, read error tape after tape, until you figure it out, my heads are bad and oh no! you ruined all those tapes as well, how to restore now? tapes are even more sensitive to dust because they are not shieled at all.
Life expectancy is 5 years if you get high-quality drives. They are typically kept online, which means they spend 100% of their lifetime vulnerable to threats from intruders, mistakes, and power surges.
true, those disks are online, but we are talking ATA Raid devices most of the time here (we use EMC CLARiiON). if some disks fail nobody is going to care, just get them replaced. strangers are allowed inside your data center? i think you have bigger worries then keeping your backup disks safe in that case.
in reality, we use the disks for backups up to one week. data older then that goes to tape, in most cases nobody ever wants a restore from files older then a week, but ofcourse you never know, and there is also archiving. if your operations are small fish, maybe disks are not that interesting, but as your backup volume grows, disk become more and more interesting.
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I mean, they are just taking all the things we can joke/laugh about away piece by piece. Soon there will be nothing left to make fun of.
...before we see mini-* sites popping up about other megacorps? hell, a lot of his posts sound very familiar to anybody working in a big company.
you should just buy the router, ofcourse you can do it, on any linux distro in an easy way. but, save yourself the trouble, you don't seem like the person who likes to explore new things.
indeed windows is not to blame, but the question should be - why did they pick windows for this project?
aparently all products were screaming unix, but still for some reason they go with windows. now, this is not the first time this has happened. i've seen it so many times at work where projects use windows with apache, perl/php and mysql. the reason i keep hearing for doing this is that it is 'easier'. ha!
Right, because we all know ESR is on the same level with those two guys because he's responsible for uh... What exactly did he do?
if you want to walk around in OSS-land at least try to remember who the important people are! A good introduction might be to read a book about it...
linux is not unusual anymore, it can be found anywhere you look and what is more, everybody knows the 'linux' word, ofcourse that doesn't mean they want to use it.
with Linux or OSS TCO is not the main driving factor, instead the focus is shifted at lock-in and interoperability (open formats/standards). For those things it is hard to put a price on them, and the costs mostly only come years and years after the product is in place.
Still those @#$!@$%& managers are only interested in the price-picture, and don't care about _anything_ else, or the fact that you will be the one dealing with all the misery/hell afterwards.
MS is watching both Apple _and_ Google (as possible threaths), i thought that was pretty obvious.
If City of Heroes ran on Linux, I would probably go ahead to switch to a Linux-only system, if for no other reason than it's free and I don't have to buy a new version every few years.
then switch now! and it works too, i played CoH for months with cedega (right now i'm playing Guild Wars, also running in cedega).
the whole license scheme is plain silly. and each vendor has his own license model, it just drives people crazy and hard to predict total costs sometimes.
but there are some things that make me even more mad. the cost of the software _increases_ because of factor X, but it is the same freaking software, there is nothing special about agent Y running on machine A or B except the price! Imagin gas stations calculating the price of fuel depending on your average speed on the highway, while giving you the same fuel anyway.
ok, for some reason you manage to live with this, the next thing makes things even worse. a _lot_ of these products have bugs in their license code, so you'll walk into the office one day and all hell broke lose during the night because for some @#!$ reason the program/agent/etc. though you didn't have a certain license anymore. ARGHLK!
The license model is braindead, and so the OSS companies are mostly a little bit more sensible about it and try to make a living by charging for support. But wait! those horrible licensing bastards are charging for support to, and a lot (you know, in case the license code bugs out again and you have to request a new license whatever). Double ripoff, and still companies are putting up with this crap, what is the deal here? you stab me in the back, i'll stab you, we're all stabbing together...
like other already said, you can do they from the synatic gui, which involves changing the words 'warty' to 'hoary'.
Applications. Why the hell do newly installed applications need to be added to the menus manually? This is Ubuntu's biggest flaw. When you install a new program, you'd better know how to invoke it from the command line -- and good luck finding that out from Synaptic's description, which disappears after install anyway.disappears? i don't know what you mean here, it does not disappear. perhaps you are in the wrong view or something (synaptic in ubuntu presents you with 4 different views on packages, they can be selected from the 4 buttons bottom left of the window). anyway, as you might guess all the info about the packages is still there, you do know that you can remove software with synaptic as well, don't you? how could you do that if had disappeared. if you don't know where to look for your software (because the reps are pretty large) do a 'search' for it (last button in the toolbar).
Folder Navigation. I don't like the fact that there is no back or up arrow when exploring file folders. This is massively stupid UI design.open nautilus, edit - preferences - behaviour - always open in browser window. this will give you an interface that looks and acts like something you are more used to.
I mean, it seems to fit the game, why not? What do they have to lose, the game is already infamous for it's violence and sexual references. People buying the game now will not be turned away by it. We're having this whole discussion because they didn't put it in in the first place. It seems to fit the life of a mobster perfectly anyway...
... on my blog before this article was written
No wonder, have you ever looked at JDS? It is useless, at least when selling it as a windows replacement.
If you would just look at what the guys at Ximian were doing at the same time as Sun released JDS, you would see the difference in end quality and integration from miles away.
Perhaps after a few years JDS could have grown into something good. I did not RTFA so it could be they are continuing it on Solaris, it wouldn't even matter, AFAIK nobody in the community was promoting it anyway.
i use evolution, it also contains an exchange plugin which avoids the need of outlook at work.
you can have multiple calendars, task lists, export them, it works pretty good.
If this is true, i'm thinking Intel went to Apple first. The reason is, that Intel wants to be the top 64bit CPU supplier which now is AMD and they can't stand that. Also, MS is lagging with their 64bit OS, and although they have something available _now_, they advise everybody to _wait_ until longhorn.
If Intel and Apple get together, and they use the 64bit cpu this could mean a serious boost for Intel. And it would put pressure on MS, possibly making them very-much-way-to-late into the 64bit game. We all know that linux does the 64 dance for some time already, but presumably not as good as Apple does with OSX and Apple has better marketing. If Intel could make Apple cheaper it would even be a greater recipy for success.
after underclocking to 800Mhz, it was still good enough for word processing and surfing. I'm getting me one of those!
When i was much younger, and still in school, i switched from windows and all the crap that came with it, because i could not believe they expected me to pay for that system and each little tool basicly asked for some form of payment for full use. if that wasn't enough, the products were not stable at all. hence the switch to linux, a free system, that perhaps was not perfect but at least worked better and didn't cost me anything and allowed me to learn, improve, etc.
so, i get out of school, find myself a job in IT and discover that these enterprise software vendors are even _worse_ then microsoft and the rest of the gang. HORRIBLE! and the PRICES! i couldn't believe companies actually paid money for such crap.
and it doesn't stop there, the license model is a complete rip-off. the pricing, in most cases, goes up depending on the capacity of the server. but, it is the exact _same_ fsck software, you even use the same package to install it, there is no difference in the software what so ever. basicly those bastards are charging you more because you bought a bigger machine and they don't even have to do anything to earn that money.
oh, and besides all the misery, some of the software is so buggy, but because it is closed i can not even solve it myself (and a lot of those bugs are trivial to the point i'm wondering if they do any QC?). or, spawn error messages that are made up out of just numbers and you have no choice but to call their support number and hope it can be solved (because, yes it is true, in a lot of cases the answer turns out to be - we recommend a reinstall)
jeez, and they wonder why IT people are fed up by this? if they can't possibly figure out what is wrong, it boggles my mind.
a local shop here, has official Ubuntu cd's up for grabs. both live and install versions, ranging from x86-32 to x86-64. :)
almost couldn't believe it when i first saw it, so cool
or perhaps not
when i was asked earlier this year to create a simple website for somebody, he made some requests that were typical things supported by IE. i told him not to do it, because not everybody is using IE (like myself). His reply was - well, allmost everybody is using it, why should i bother with those few people? upon which i replied - yes, but over 10% of the people on the net use something else. to my surprise his reply was - really? 10% that many, if that is the case we have to take that into account.
so, as you can see, for companies wanting a site on the net, 10% of the internet not able to view their site correctly is already enough.
I'm the OSS promoter at work, and it has always been my nr.1 argument. OSS gives power to the customer, instead of to the (software) companies.
At this time we are using RedHat, but they better keep pleasing us, or we'll take our money somewhere else while staying on the _same_ platform.
Ofcourse, cost is important as well, and i never leave it out of the picture because that is a factor some types are most interested in in seeing.
1.you make stupied lists against linux on forums
2.none of your points are true
what about pictures of bill from old magazines?
disks can be taken out by vibration, electric shock, or just by exceeding their shelf life.
your tape drive might not survive an electric shock as well, and tapes also have a limited shelf life depending on the usage, the storage procedure and environment used in.
Failures can be from the drive electronics, the drive motor, a head crash, or simply getting unfiltered air in the drive.
electronics in tape drives never fail, we all know that. my drives tend to break more then my disks, at least the DLT ones do, the LTO drives are pretty decent. heads from tape drives can go bad as well, and you will be crying the day it happens, read error tape after tape, until you figure it out, my heads are bad and oh no! you ruined all those tapes as well, how to restore now? tapes are even more sensitive to dust because they are not shieled at all.
Life expectancy is 5 years if you get high-quality drives. They are typically kept online, which means they spend 100% of their lifetime vulnerable to threats from intruders, mistakes, and power surges.
true, those disks are online, but we are talking ATA Raid devices most of the time here (we use EMC CLARiiON). if some disks fail nobody is going to care, just get them replaced. strangers are allowed inside your data center? i think you have bigger worries then keeping your backup disks safe in that case.
in reality, we use the disks for backups up to one week. data older then that goes to tape, in most cases nobody ever wants a restore from files older then a week, but ofcourse you never know, and there is also archiving. if your operations are small fish, maybe disks are not that interesting, but as your backup volume grows, disk become more and more interesting.