1 - Ever hear of support? Product for free, support for $. Lots of companies solely thrive on this concept of support ( of others products ). They often call it 'professional services'. I suggest you look it up sometime. There is no reason it cant work if you support your own products that you give away.
And Canonical offers that, if fact IIRC it was the first commercial offering Canonical did. But they are not a 'professional services' company, they are a software company with more than a handful of (320+ according to wikipedia I just checked) employees which means they need to, just like every other company, try many avenues to make money to keep those people employed. And quite frankly as a linux admin myself I have (like many of us) a superiority complex that tells me I would never need to purchase support and since I bet we are a no insignificant portion of their user base I'll bet they don't get much money from it. However their music store that is coming, I could spend a few dollars there; or this sync tool so I don't have to screw around with my personal server all the time to make sure my phone sync is working, I could spend a few dollars on that; mainly since I work 8 hours a day on servers and I hate having to come home and waste time fixing servers that could be spent with my children.
2 - Promises from companies have been broken before. Quite often actually. You might want to trust some corporate entity who's directors can change and thus the direction of the company, but i dont.
And who really cares from a Linux vendor? If Shuttleworth comes out tomorrow and says "hey, Ubuntu super pro business edition is now $299.95", the project just forks and carries on with those who disagree.
With any luck these people will off themselves prior to 2012 because they are flat out nuts. The ones that totally buying into hysteria but not nuts enough to kill themselves for fear of an event will hopefully fall into a deep depression and kill themselves when they realize they are dip-shits when the Gregorian new year rolls around.
Seems to me like the real reason for him being angry is that the iPhone application he's complaining about looks to be basically an iPhone version of his desktop application. Someone beat him to it on the iPhone and he's mad..
We use zebra printers all in our WH with linux workstations. I just write ZPL (similar to postscript) by hand for all our labels and our ERP application spits it out to/dev/lp0. Benefits that it requires no printer subsystem and you can send labels out to the printer at the absolute maximum possible speed.
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I'll throw in the typical FOSS response. Do it yourself;-)
They released the spec (http://www.waveprotocol.org/draft-protocol-spec) so anyone can, and in fact other have started making their own wave servers http://code.google.com/p/pygowave-server/.
Think for a moment about the other end of the spectrum of butts, the ones that you don't really want to look at but this person will invariably have to examine. One is too many for me.
While Jaunty may reboot in a short time, my servers hardware may take several min to reboot while they scan SCSI chains, attach iSCSI devices, wait for timeouts for various LOM cards to click by, etc... long before linux comes into play.
Are you talking USD? I've never heard anyone offering 40k/year for an actual sysadmin, I was making that when I was 18 doing front line help desk. Heck, a quick google says the median is ~70k and I'm willing to bet the t-mobile sysadmins make a bit more than that (well, if this story is true - they are pulling in unemployment now).
Also if you have your UPS's in the server room you have one (or more) less heat generating step-down transformer.
When given the opportunity to design my current server room from scratch I got 208VAC into the room. But yes your correct, I do get some strange stares from people when they ask why all my PDU's have IEC-14 sockets (both to denote that this is not 'normal' 120VAC, and also so there is no live metal prongs exposed when plugging and unplugging devices).
Actually reading the linked thread (I know, I know..) the problem seems more linked to D-Link routers + iPod Touch, not iPod Touch can't do WPA. "Apple has yet to respond"? I don't see that anyone on that thread filled a bug report, how the hell do you expect them to respond unless you tell them???
Why the hell did this get promoted to the front page?
You mention a list of sources as not providing you the "hands-on approach", that's because non of them are hands-on. Really the only way to become a good sysadmin is with time on the boxes, and mistakes - never discount the mistakes as they can be the best lessons you get.
Also, don't even get your head into optimization yet. Premature optimization is the root of all evil, and unless you really (and I mean really) know some tip on optimization you found on some forum is going to help you in the way you need, and not affect any other systems - then don't touch it. You will be surprised to learn the people that designed these OS's and protocols are actually pretty smart and the solutions that are delivered should cover 97% of all cases.
I got my experience the 'traditional' way, coming up the ranks from help desk to Sr. Admin, although I had the benefit of doing this over many years and was able to learn a lot by watching others. Your in a pretty tough spot.
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The problem: vertical space is limited.
Quick hack: put toolbars on the sides.
True fix: get a rotatable monitor!
When I tried that with my laptop, it only worked once.
In NC we have the highest taxes in the southeast.
Florida is no longer part of the southeast?
1 - Ever hear of support? Product for free, support for $. Lots of companies solely thrive on this concept of support ( of others products ). They often call it 'professional services'. I suggest you look it up sometime. There is no reason it cant work if you support your own products that you give away.
And Canonical offers that, if fact IIRC it was the first commercial offering Canonical did. But they are not a 'professional services' company, they are a software company with more than a handful of (320+ according to wikipedia I just checked) employees which means they need to, just like every other company, try many avenues to make money to keep those people employed. And quite frankly as a linux admin myself I have (like many of us) a superiority complex that tells me I would never need to purchase support and since I bet we are a no insignificant portion of their user base I'll bet they don't get much money from it. However their music store that is coming, I could spend a few dollars there; or this sync tool so I don't have to screw around with my personal server all the time to make sure my phone sync is working, I could spend a few dollars on that; mainly since I work 8 hours a day on servers and I hate having to come home and waste time fixing servers that could be spent with my children.
2 - Promises from companies have been broken before. Quite often actually. You might want to trust some corporate entity who's directors can change and thus the direction of the company, but i dont.
And who really cares from a Linux vendor? If Shuttleworth comes out tomorrow and says "hey, Ubuntu super pro business edition is now $299.95", the project just forks and carries on with those who disagree.
Or they will just use google docs in offline mode, like people have been doing for quite some time now...
The internet was basically built on the GPL, and most of the code that makes it go was built using the GPL.
eh?
With any luck these people will off themselves prior to 2012 because they are flat out nuts. The ones that totally buying into hysteria but not nuts enough to kill themselves for fear of an event will hopefully fall into a deep depression and kill themselves when they realize they are dip-shits when the Gregorian new year rolls around.
Seems to me like the real reason for him being angry is that the iPhone application he's complaining about looks to be basically an iPhone version of his desktop application. Someone beat him to it on the iPhone and he's mad..
Actually, he did have an iPhone version of his app but Amazon.com forced him to pull it http://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/2517428863
We use zebra printers all in our WH with linux workstations. I just write ZPL (similar to postscript) by hand for all our labels and our ERP application spits it out to /dev/lp0. Benefits that it requires no printer subsystem and you can send labels out to the printer at the absolute maximum possible speed.
I'll throw in the typical FOSS response. Do it yourself ;-)
They released the spec (http://www.waveprotocol.org/draft-protocol-spec) so anyone can, and in fact other have started making their own wave servers http://code.google.com/p/pygowave-server/.
How many butts are too many?
Think for a moment about the other end of the spectrum of butts, the ones that you don't really want to look at but this person will invariably have to examine. One is too many for me.
While Jaunty may reboot in a short time, my servers hardware may take several min to reboot while they scan SCSI chains, attach iSCSI devices, wait for timeouts for various LOM cards to click by, etc... long before linux comes into play.
Are you talking USD?
I've never heard anyone offering 40k/year for an actual sysadmin, I was making that when I was 18 doing front line help desk. Heck, a quick google says the median is ~70k and I'm willing to bet the t-mobile sysadmins make a bit more than that (well, if this story is true - they are pulling in unemployment now).
http://www.linux.com/feature/46616
BSD systems of course include OS X http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20060214081244545
Also if you have your UPS's in the server room you have one (or more) less heat generating step-down transformer.
When given the opportunity to design my current server room from scratch I got 208VAC into the room. But yes your correct, I do get some strange stares from people when they ask why all my PDU's have IEC-14 sockets (both to denote that this is not 'normal' 120VAC, and also so there is no live metal prongs exposed when plugging and unplugging devices).
Damn it. Tried to be a smart ass with my reply, only to mess it up by forgetting the ctrl key.
Oh well, I guess that's what I get :)
Disclosure is the correct word, look it up. :-P
I did but hitting Apple-D on my Mac keyboard
I think so. 4.1 still has a strong foot-hold with deployments, and is pretty stable.
Okay, there is a bug report there, missed that post. I will concede my remark about not filing a bug report.
Actually reading the linked thread (I know, I know..) the problem seems more linked to D-Link routers + iPod Touch, not iPod Touch can't do WPA. "Apple has yet to respond"? I don't see that anyone on that thread filled a bug report, how the hell do you expect them to respond unless you tell them???
Why the hell did this get promoted to the front page?
You mention a list of sources as not providing you the "hands-on approach", that's because non of them are hands-on. Really the only way to become a good sysadmin is with time on the boxes, and mistakes - never discount the mistakes as they can be the best lessons you get.
Also, don't even get your head into optimization yet.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil, and unless you really (and I mean really) know some tip on optimization you found on some forum is going to help you in the way you need, and not affect any other systems - then don't touch it. You will be surprised to learn the people that designed these OS's and protocols are actually pretty smart and the solutions that are delivered should cover 97% of all cases.
I got my experience the 'traditional' way, coming up the ranks from help desk to Sr. Admin, although I had the benefit of doing this over many years and was able to learn a lot by watching others. Your in a pretty tough spot.
Nothing would happen. It's not ethernet, its just a real long KVM cable back to the blade that happens to use CAT5 cable and RJ45 connectors.
Both PM and the officer have no idea how the technology works - maybe its for the better that they shut down, this is not our sharpest group.
FYI,
Install the apt-file [1] package and you can search contents of packages.
$apt-file search sftp
[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/apt-file
It's song lyrics. 'Pretty fly (for a white guy)' to be exact, and it doesn't need to have prefect structure while it's being sung.
You obviously *don't* know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_(film)
Oh, and let us not forget http://code.google.com/android/