But an attempt to get some applications ported to Linux for the power series.
I've been evaluating Linux at my present employment, and what was lacking most in the IBM solution was available software for the POWER series Linux OS.
At the moment, many large enterprise, infrastructer applications have been ported to linux for Intel (most even come with RedHat and SuSE packages), but of the 5 applications we require, only TSM backup was offered for Linux on power arch. This list includes BMC, EMC, and BindView.
IBM is in a pretty good position to market Linux, because they support both RedHat and SuSE on the very same hardware that AIX runs on, and you can use some of the advanced features like dynamic LPAR and virtulization.
But I think in the long run, its just too much trouble for companies to port to yet another linux distribution.
It doesnt matter what number you put in the test parameter it will always return true, because the expression "0" is evaluated true. Just as the expressions "1", "2", "3"... are all evaluated true.
Now look, you've gone and made me type even more characters... This website is NOT a keystroke efficiant means of making a point!
while [ "true" ] ; do uptime | tee -a ~/minimac_uptime.log sync sleep 20 done
good greif!!! where do I start, if he's got better things to do with his time then watch a computer (ha! yeah right) he should learn to code faster. ex:
while [ 0 ];do uptime >> ~/minimac_uptime.log;sync;sleep 20;done
Ok, the bottom line, they should have upgraded. Fine, we can all agree on that.
Now, first the article states:
[The application] was the only system left that ran on the airline's old IBM AIX platform (all other applications ran on HP Unix).
First off, IBM AIX platform can be very new. Just because the application is old and possibly has bugs in it, doesnt mean the OS and hardware inst updated, or that HP Unix is any better.
Secondly, the following scenario makes perfect business sense:
SBS came in to make a pitch for its new Maestro crew management software [...] The existing crew management system wasn't exactly elegant, but all the business users had grown adept at operating it, and a great number of Comair's existing business processes had sprung from it.
The article sets this up as the root of all thier problems. Good grief!!! dont waste resources on an inferior product for goodness sakes! If the product doesnt perform any better, and there are no known issues with the current product, forget it, its a waste of money.
Then a series of unfortunate events lead to 4 more years of no funding for a replacement product. So what, the business is under a financial crunch, why go back and fix something that isnt broken (that they know of)? The business still needs to survive dont they? I'm guessing they maintained the hardware and OS, otherwise we'd be here talking about how stupid they were for not updating maintenance contracts.
We hope that someday this institution will eclipse Google itself in overall world impact by ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world's problems.
Blaming the boss for not knowing about technical stuff is plain unprofessional.
It sure is. My argument blames the boss for not trusting his own employees. Execs get in talented staff at discount prices but because they dont fit some preconceived mold they dont put proper faith in them. Regardless of performance, experience, and/or knowlege.
As a result you end up with these situations, overpriced consultants who are interested in the money and not what is best for the company.
Of course, read my first post, i dont think this is always the case, but I tell you i've experienced this over and over. Its a breed of executive that thrives in todays business market.
This honestly isn't rocket science. The consultick isn't out to destroy you. He's just doing his job. And yes, it's amusing that the consulticks charge huge amounts of money to run nmap and Nessus, but they were only brought in because you obviously don't have the time to do it yourself.
While not always the case, consultants ARE out to make money, and sometimes that means drumming up business where there is none.
If there is money to be made by making mountains out of mole hills, that froobnabbit vulnerability will probably be made into a BIG molehill. Many times these guys come in and at first only talk to the people making the decisions. if they can get two or three more "assessment" meetings out of it, why the hell not?
And as far as why they were brought in... They were most likely brought in because these decision making people have no freaking clue. They almost always assume you get what you pay for, and that one guy who juggles all the hats inside the company is probably getting paid squat. A consonsultant with buzzwords comes in and flashes some fancy tech jargen and charges huge amounts of money looks really appealing to those types.
The jist of it is, is that I smoke too much weed which is bad for my vocal chords.
Let me first say my thoughts are with you. I never realized what a problem smoking weed could be to musicians. And with weed being so intertwined into your music, what choice do you have but to continue with this lifestyle.
Now let me suggest a few things. First, try smoking more water bongs. Using water bongs (with or without ice in the water) cools the smoke down before you inhale it. Inflamed lungs are a serious problem for all weed smokers, not just musicians.
Be a roach camper, hang out while your friends smoke the majority of the jay then when they are done, eat the roach. yes, as discousting as that sounds, eat that charred mofo. It has plenty of resin in it from being smoked, and there is most likely still some weed left.
Hash brownies. Two parts brownie, one part hash. This is important because most hash brownies have so little weed that they do NOTHING for your buz.
High potency weed!!! 7th gen Kime bud or something along that line. You smoke just a little and get a LOT off your hits. Also angle dust is a nice way to take a pinner and make it go a long way.
So keep up the good work, love the music, and stay strong my brutha!!!
No they wouldn't. Linux people don't want to pay US$400 to use MS Office.
But businesses would, which is probably why they never released this. Just think, all those orginizations who moved from microsoft to linux, would probably never have went back, because Linux+MS Office is way cheeper to license then Windows+MS Office.
And for those companies who didnt, well, a Linux MS Office suite would have given a few of those companies reasons to make the switch.
PS: I, a Slackware user, have never had any trouble with PAM not being there. I don't even know what the thing does.:D
Yeah, hence the "slightly annoying" comment. There are just a few things i've had to have PAM for, namely ACE authentication (SecureID).
I've been running my home servers on slack for some time and havnt encoutered any show stopers yet due to lack of PAM.
However, public influences are not totally free from Slackware (think v4.x -> v7.x). So I'm just curious to see if something like an ISO certified LSB would persuade Patrick into conforming in order to stay a primary linux distribution.
Personally, i've had only one or two passwords I ever used for online accounts.
But it seems like almost all sites have some easy method for resetting your account or sending your password over e-mail. I'm beginning to think the best way would be to make up something each time you log on, and if you cant remember it the next time, reset the account and pick a new one.
I suppose this all depends on how secure your e-mail account is, not to mention there is a timing factor if someone is snooping your internet traffic. But as long as you can log in and reset the password to something differnt, this may even be a very secure method.
Essentially you establish a one time session password that is very difficult to remember/guess. And you dont have to store it anywhere because you start over the next time.
Lets say I create two contracts with the same md5 sum, we agree on one of the contracts, and I send you the md5 sum for future proof of its authenticity. Afterwards, I maintain the contract and allow you to check it at any time with your md5 sum for verification.
Later down the line, lets say I replace the original contract with the second one. You can still validate its authenticity via the same means, however in it would be new terms we did not agree to originally.
Unless you can produce a copy of the doppleganger, your out of luck in court because you cant prove that i've created an alternative.
Now, this sounds mathematically improbable that I could come up with two contracts that make sense and have the same md5sum, but none the less possible. And when dealing with exact mathematics, we prefer exact results.
That is a horrible idea, and awefully scary as well. The only good thing about a two party system is both party's keep each other in check.
When the republicans want to exercise too many tax breaks, the democrats step in and fix the budget. Vice versa when the democrats want to censor everything in the world, the republicans step in and modorate things a bit.
What is really frustrating is that america wont embrase an non-patisan president, when in fact its the presidents job to approve the crap the house and senate come up with. That way when issues come up that are extremly partisan, the president would see it from an independant view.
This is why its hard for me to vote on the president, especially here in ohio. My independant vote goes nowhere in this staunchly republican state (never mind the close race this year, republicans will always be loved in ohio).
Most porn merchants *want* to be clearly labelled as porn
What are you talking about? Why would porn sites want to establish an easy means of blocking themselves.
the more hits they get the more they get payed in adds, and also there are those ppl not looking for porn that may decide differently when they see girl on guy on sheep on grandma action.
Whether that argument is valid is more of a personal opinion
I disagree, this should be purely a legal issue.
The killing example is a little extreme, but I do know that if I have a dog to ward off intruders out of my back yard I better post a "Beware of Dog" sign. Meaning that even tresspessers have some rights on MY property (i.e. I cant set traps for them).
In america, if this were going on, well, namely the original scammer would be caught, but then i would expect the counter suites to start flying, or else both parties would just be hauled off for commiting the same crime.
The only thing keeping these vigilante's out of legal trouble is the atlantic ocean (and herds of beurocrats i'm sure). So i really doubt this will ever be a real issue until some international law comes about governing this type of activity.
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But an attempt to get some applications ported to Linux for the power series.
I've been evaluating Linux at my present employment, and what was lacking most in the IBM solution was available software for the POWER series Linux OS.
At the moment, many large enterprise, infrastructer applications have been ported to linux for Intel (most even come with RedHat and SuSE packages), but of the 5 applications we require, only TSM backup was offered for Linux on power arch. This list includes BMC, EMC, and BindView.
IBM is in a pretty good position to market Linux, because they support both RedHat and SuSE on the very same hardware that AIX runs on, and you can use some of the advanced features like dynamic LPAR and virtulization.
But I think in the long run, its just too much trouble for companies to port to yet another linux distribution.
I want pictures!!!
All these new-fan-dangled devices are poping up on the radar, but how can I get excited over them if they dont LOOK cooler then what I already have.
Geesh people, put some money into those PR machines and photo-gimp me something cool!!!
It doesnt matter what number you put in the test parameter it will always return true, because the expression "0" is evaluated true. Just as the expressions "1", "2", "3"... are all evaluated true.
Now look, you've gone and made me type even more characters... This website is NOT a keystroke efficiant means of making a point!
"Congratulations Mr. Horton!!!"
Now, first the article states: First off, IBM AIX platform can be very new. Just because the application is old and possibly has bugs in it, doesnt mean the OS and hardware inst updated, or that HP Unix is any better.
Secondly, the following scenario makes perfect business sense: The article sets this up as the root of all thier problems. Good grief!!! dont waste resources on an inferior product for goodness sakes! If the product doesnt perform any better, and there are no known issues with the current product, forget it, its a waste of money.
Then a series of unfortunate events lead to 4 more years of no funding for a replacement product. So what, the business is under a financial crunch, why go back and fix something that isnt broken (that they know of)? The business still needs to survive dont they? I'm guessing they maintained the hardware and OS, otherwise we'd be here talking about how stupid they were for not updating maintenance contracts.
As a result you end up with these situations, overpriced consultants who are interested in the money and not what is best for the company.
Of course, read my first post, i dont think this is always the case, but I tell you i've experienced this over and over. Its a breed of executive that thrives in todays business market.
This honestly isn't rocket science. The consultick isn't out to destroy you. He's just doing his job. And yes, it's amusing that the consulticks charge huge amounts of money to run nmap and Nessus, but they were only brought in because you obviously don't have the time to do it yourself.
While not always the case, consultants ARE out to make money, and sometimes that means drumming up business where there is none.
If there is money to be made by making mountains out of mole hills, that froobnabbit vulnerability will probably be made into a BIG molehill. Many times these guys come in and at first only talk to the people making the decisions. if they can get two or three more "assessment" meetings out of it, why the hell not?
And as far as why they were brought in... They were most likely brought in because these decision making people have no freaking clue. They almost always assume you get what you pay for, and that one guy who juggles all the hats inside the company is probably getting paid squat. A consonsultant with buzzwords comes in and flashes some fancy tech jargen and charges huge amounts of money looks really appealing to those types.
The jist of it is, is that I smoke too much weed which is bad for my vocal chords.
Let me first say my thoughts are with you. I never realized what a problem smoking weed could be to musicians. And with weed being so intertwined into your music, what choice do you have but to continue with this lifestyle.
Now let me suggest a few things. First, try smoking more water bongs. Using water bongs (with or without ice in the water) cools the smoke down before you inhale it. Inflamed lungs are a serious problem for all weed smokers, not just musicians.
Be a roach camper, hang out while your friends smoke the majority of the jay then when they are done, eat the roach. yes, as discousting as that sounds, eat that charred mofo. It has plenty of resin in it from being smoked, and there is most likely still some weed left.
Hash brownies. Two parts brownie, one part hash. This is important because most hash brownies have so little weed that they do NOTHING for your buz.
High potency weed!!! 7th gen Kime bud or something along that line. You smoke just a little and get a LOT off your hits. Also angle dust is a nice way to take a pinner and make it go a long way.
So keep up the good work, love the music, and stay strong my brutha!!!
Nono, thats ok, they got the memo. The thing is they just forgot. But they DID get the memo.
No they wouldn't. Linux people don't want to pay US$400 to use MS Office.
But businesses would, which is probably why they never released this. Just think, all those orginizations who moved from microsoft to linux, would probably never have went back, because Linux+MS Office is way cheeper to license then Windows+MS Office.
And for those companies who didnt, well, a Linux MS Office suite would have given a few of those companies reasons to make the switch.
in a pretty good shape?
And what shape would that be?
*pshhhhhhhhh* *kshhhhhhh* *shhhhhh* *boing* *boing* *cashhhhhhhh* *boing* *boing*......
PS: I, a Slackware user, have never had any trouble with PAM not being there. I don't even know what the thing does. :D
Yeah, hence the "slightly annoying" comment. There are just a few things i've had to have PAM for, namely ACE authentication (SecureID).
I've been running my home servers on slack for some time and havnt encoutered any show stopers yet due to lack of PAM.
However, public influences are not totally free from Slackware (think v4.x -> v7.x). So I'm just curious to see if something like an ISO certified LSB would persuade Patrick into conforming in order to stay a primary linux distribution.
So what chance does the LSB have in influencing Patrick to introduce PAM into slackware?
Or does the "Simple" in the Slackware model indicate "we 'Simply' dont bother with ISO standards"?
I love slackware, but find it slightly annoying that PAM is never an option.
Personally, i've had only one or two passwords I ever used for online accounts.
But it seems like almost all sites have some easy method for resetting your account or sending your password over e-mail. I'm beginning to think the best way would be to make up something each time you log on, and if you cant remember it the next time, reset the account and pick a new one.
I suppose this all depends on how secure your e-mail account is, not to mention there is a timing factor if someone is snooping your internet traffic. But as long as you can log in and reset the password to something differnt, this may even be a very secure method.
Essentially you establish a one time session password that is very difficult to remember/guess. And you dont have to store it anywhere because you start over the next time.
Lets say I create two contracts with the same md5 sum, we agree on one of the contracts, and I send you the md5 sum for future proof of its authenticity. Afterwards, I maintain the contract and allow you to check it at any time with your md5 sum for verification.
Later down the line, lets say I replace the original contract with the second one. You can still validate its authenticity via the same means, however in it would be new terms we did not agree to originally.
Unless you can produce a copy of the doppleganger, your out of luck in court because you cant prove that i've created an alternative.
Now, this sounds mathematically improbable that I could come up with two contracts that make sense and have the same md5sum, but none the less possible. And when dealing with exact mathematics, we prefer exact results.
Little symbols like spelling a country's name wrong DO matter.
Yeah... and dont call it a Frat, its a Fraternaty!!! You wouldnt call your Country a Cunt would you?
That is a horrible idea, and awefully scary as well. The only good thing about a two party system is both party's keep each other in check.
When the republicans want to exercise too many tax breaks, the democrats step in and fix the budget. Vice versa when the democrats want to censor everything in the world, the republicans step in and modorate things a bit.
What is really frustrating is that america wont embrase an non-patisan president, when in fact its the presidents job to approve the crap the house and senate come up with. That way when issues come up that are extremly partisan, the president would see it from an independant view.
This is why its hard for me to vote on the president, especially here in ohio. My independant vote goes nowhere in this staunchly republican state (never mind the close race this year, republicans will always be loved in ohio).
its all about keystrokes:
# >/dev/hda
Will get you there the quickest.
Unless noclobber is on, then you'll have to resort to shred for the fewest keystrokes.
Most porn merchants *want* to be clearly labelled as porn What are you talking about? Why would porn sites want to establish an easy means of blocking themselves. the more hits they get the more they get payed in adds, and also there are those ppl not looking for porn that may decide differently when they see girl on guy on sheep on grandma action.
Whether that argument is valid is more of a personal opinion
I disagree, this should be purely a legal issue.
The killing example is a little extreme, but I do know that if I have a dog to ward off intruders out of my back yard I better post a "Beware of Dog" sign. Meaning that even tresspessers have some rights on MY property (i.e. I cant set traps for them).
In america, if this were going on, well, namely the original scammer would be caught, but then i would expect the counter suites to start flying, or else both parties would just be hauled off for commiting the same crime.
The only thing keeping these vigilante's out of legal trouble is the atlantic ocean (and herds of beurocrats i'm sure). So i really doubt this will ever be a real issue until some international law comes about governing this type of activity.