Sun has an x86 rackmount business, SGI does not. Though I often wonder how serious Sun is about this business. I've noticed that people who were customers when it was a separate company called Cobalt are not happy with the new management. And you'll notice that Sun has two or three Sparc rackmount models for every one x86 model.
While I know you are talking about the Raq's, a lot of the earlier models from Cobalt are still around - Raq2, Qube2 & 2700. And you were right, I got so sick of waiting on patches after Sun bought Cobalt, I did the only thing I could. I put debian on my Qube2 and quit caring about what Sun did.:) Of course, this guy went with NetBSD, but hey, either way, whatever Sun does or doesn't do is what Sun does or doesn't do. I don't care anymore.:) And if you are interested in what I did with my qube, poke around in the forums on my website.
It isn't time to spam your Congressmonkey yet. They haven't DONE anything, or even proposed to do anything yet. When they actually start doing something, then it will be time to act.
I disagree - if you happen to be a constituent of said Congressmonkeys, you are paying their salaries, and you therefore should complain often & loudly when they do anything that you don't feel represents your interests.
with the Mass. Attorney General, along with the one in your own state. Let them do what your taxpayer dollars are supposed to do - protect your interests instead of pandering to the lowest common contribu^w denominator.
Does Canada have something along the lines of a AG for each province?
If you want to run a real mail server, perhaps you should get a real internet conenction, like Colocation or T1.
I have a real internet connection. AT&T blocked me because the company I get it from sucks, and has no reverse map for my IP. I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but if I don't own the block, I can't set up reverse zones for the block. The techs aren't clued. Instead, I get to go to my boss and say "HEY! We need to spend even more money so our secretaries can fuck around more[1]".
Personally, I'd prefer to block AOL since about 1% of my legit traffic comes from there.
[1] Yes, I know, busting the secretaries is my job. But I'm willing to trade sex for access. Call me immoral.
I am an experienced PC user (from 95% windows / dos background), and a sysadmin if a fairly large company. I am mostly self-learned, and the main difficulty I have with open source - linux is that most instructions assume a level of knowledge that I dont have, so I end up getting frusterated and dropping the project.
I don't mean this in a bad way really, but you are the person that's touted by microsoft as always being cheaper to hire in those TCO studies we are innundated with. Rather than someone with a firm grasp of *computer* fundamentals, you are the guy that has an MCSE with little practical experience outside of a gui environment. I'd highly advise you to run to your bookstore, pick up a Linux administration book, and throw the cd that usually comes with into a spare box and *test* as you *read*. Plenty of newsgroups exist.
I too, am mostly self-learned, but I'm not above asking questions, nor am I convinced that OSS is the end-all, be-all.
Like, I am trying to get sendmail configured to act as an intermediary between our exchange server and the web, and filter out content. Well I have found some helpful guides, they all say something like 'compile sendmail' and I'm stuck not knowing HOW! I do phone support, and 90 percent of the time I just rattle off..
'click start' then click settings' and click on the control panel... well, start is the button in the lower left that says 'start'... no, its not a button on your PC, its on the screen... yes, I am sure its not a button on the front of your computer...
I'm not sure if you are trolling or not here, but when a 500+ page book is available on a subject like sendmail, your 'click here' examples show that unless you get into management fast, you might be screwed this time around the karma wheel.
Anyways, you get the idea. Make it simple, or at least someone out there make a basic guide on things that most instructions take for granted!:)
No, try this for an idea: Complex software *has* basic guides that come with installation and pretty explicit instructions. Any problems after you install without referring to the stuff that comes with says one of two things:
1)You'd prefer to wait on a solution to your problem without paying for it.
2)You have no idea what you are doing, and can't describe the problem you are having.
Either is not out of the realm of impossiblity, both are likely, IME.
The one that paid several million dollars for their spokesman, and it was Jamie Lee Curtis?
Michael Douglas will no doubt be upset to find that he actually married Jamie Lee Curtis instead of Catherine Zeta-Jones. I'm sure Christopher Guest will be a little surprised too.:)
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I seem to recall some years ago reading that Dream Park had been optioned for the big screen.
a) Was this true, and if so, what is the status of this project?
b) Do you feel that the current level of technology in todays world would allow an accurate portrayal of the computers/holographs in the book on the big screen?
R (thanks for introducing me to Kuru!)
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While I'm sure I'm about to be modded into oblivion for this, Courtney Love also is a nut.
"Let's have some perspective," he [Berman] said. "This issue is not as bad as 45 million people living without health insurance."
If this is true, why is he not as busy working on legislation to get coverage for the 45 million uninsured as he is trying to suck up Hollywood's money?
I am sort of in the same boat as the original poster, and all I can say is what we did to make it work:
We went with Aloha for the POS systems, and then I slapped in a box we were going to throw away and use it to grab all the figures and dump them to the home office via some trivial bash scripts.
I begged and pleaded with the management team of the restaurant to find something linux based, but nothing was mature enough that fit the bill.
I use Evolution when possible (ie, home) and I'd probably get more people in the office interested in switching to a different OS if it had all the functionality of the product they currently use.
Lack of shared calendars is a *big* showstopper for them.
I'm awaiting the day when meat is banned in California. At that point, perhaps it's citizens will tire of dining on fruit & veggies, and demand that every restaurant serve big chunks of raw animal.
In a smoking section.
Until that day, I'll avoid California religiously, and continue praying for the day that Los Angeles slides into the deep, making Vegas that much closer to the beach.
Re:Why _do_ people buy Ximian?
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Sure, it has a pretty autoupdate feature, but then so does debian and mandrake, and it can be added to redhat,.... And if you install it then your installation seems to be not quite compatible with a standard gnome install.
The easiest way I've seen to keep Ximian from screwing up things that up2date should do (thanks/. poster who originally wrote this!) is to get a list of ximianized packages, tell up2date to ignore them in/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date in the pkgSkipList section.
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Sun has an x86 rackmount business, SGI does not. Though I often wonder how serious Sun is about this business. I've noticed that people who were customers when it was a separate company called Cobalt are not happy with the new management. And you'll notice that Sun has two or three Sparc rackmount models for every one x86 model.
:) Of course, this guy went with NetBSD, but hey, either way, whatever Sun does or doesn't do is what Sun does or doesn't do. I don't care anymore. :) And if you are interested in what I did with my qube, poke around in the forums on my website.
While I know you are talking about the Raq's, a lot of the earlier models from Cobalt are still around - Raq2, Qube2 & 2700. And you were right, I got so sick of waiting on patches after Sun bought Cobalt, I did the only thing I could. I put debian on my Qube2 and quit caring about what Sun did.
It isn't time to spam your Congressmonkey yet. They haven't DONE anything, or even proposed to do anything yet. When they actually start doing something, then it will be time to act.
:)
I disagree - if you happen to be a constituent of said Congressmonkeys, you are paying their salaries, and you therefore should complain often & loudly when they do anything that you don't feel represents your interests.
American way and all.
Let's see. I've enjoyed Cutthroats
Going back to ancient games, my favorite sea faring game was Dreadnaughts (can't find a link for it.)
Yes, but Dark City had a wheezy dude.
Matrix just has a guy imitating a block of wood.
No comparison!
with the Mass. Attorney General, along with the one in your own state. Let them do what your taxpayer dollars are supposed to do - protect your interests instead of pandering to the lowest common contribu^w denominator.
Does Canada have something along the lines of a AG for each province?
It was announced that the world will be ending
shortly, as a judge has shown cluefulness in regards
to technology.
Little Heroes by Norman Spinrad.
And to a lesser extent, Cyberbooks by Ben Bova.
The Spinrad book was *way* before it's time.
Mod this up please. If ISPs created generic reverse DNS lookups for the blocks they sell (rent) us, we'd all be better off.
If you want to run a real mail server, perhaps you should get a real internet conenction, like Colocation or T1.
I have a real internet connection. AT&T blocked me because the company I get it from sucks, and has no reverse map for my IP. I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but if I don't own the block, I can't set up reverse zones for the block. The techs aren't clued. Instead, I get to go to my boss and say "HEY! We need to spend even more money so our secretaries can fuck around more[1]".
Personally, I'd prefer to block AOL since about 1% of my legit traffic comes from there.
[1] Yes, I know, busting the secretaries is my job. But I'm willing to trade sex for access. Call me immoral.
The conference call is a veritable who's who and
their comments quickly become a what's what.
The transcript leads me to believe is that RedHat is about to become *bigger* than they already are in the community.
X.org got some problems, as now there is money to be made, and they aren't getting the job done.
Secret lists, non community responsive BOD. Arbitrary CVS access, etc. Hrm.
Go Keith P.
X is good, XFree is better, Xwin might just kick ass.
I am an experienced PC user (from 95% windows / dos background), and a sysadmin if a fairly large company. I am mostly self-learned, and the main difficulty I have with open source - linux is that most instructions assume a level of knowledge that I dont have, so I end up getting frusterated and dropping the project.
:)
I don't mean this in a bad way really, but you are the person that's touted by microsoft as always being cheaper to hire in those TCO studies we are innundated with. Rather than someone with a firm grasp of *computer* fundamentals, you are the guy that has an MCSE with little practical experience outside of a gui environment. I'd highly advise you to run to your bookstore, pick up a Linux administration book, and throw the cd that usually comes with into a spare box and *test* as you *read*. Plenty of newsgroups exist. I too, am mostly self-learned, but I'm not above asking questions, nor am I convinced that OSS is the end-all, be-all.
Like, I am trying to get sendmail configured to act as an intermediary between our exchange server and the web, and filter out content. Well I have found some helpful guides, they all say something like 'compile sendmail' and I'm stuck not knowing HOW! I do phone support, and 90 percent of the time I just rattle off.. 'click start' then click settings' and click on the control panel... well, start is the button in the lower left that says 'start'... no, its not a button on your PC, its on the screen... yes, I am sure its not a button on the front of your computer...
I'm not sure if you are trolling or not here, but when a 500+ page book is available on a subject like sendmail, your 'click here' examples show that unless you get into management fast, you might be screwed this time around the karma wheel.
Anyways, you get the idea. Make it simple, or at least someone out there make a basic guide on things that most instructions take for granted!
No, try this for an idea: Complex software *has* basic guides that come with installation and pretty explicit instructions. Any problems after you install without referring to the stuff that comes with says one of two things:
1)You'd prefer to wait on a solution to your problem without paying for it.
2)You have no idea what you are doing, and can't describe the problem you are having.
Either is not out of the realm of impossiblity, both are likely, IME.
I do wish you luck.
Are the Dixie Chicks also banned from these streaming music channels from Texas?
For fans of music everywhere, we can only hope so.
With an open source tool instead.
Etherape
Can't believe the author left that one out.
The one that paid several million dollars for their spokesman, and it was Jamie Lee Curtis?
:)
Michael Douglas will no doubt be upset to find that he actually married Jamie Lee Curtis instead of Catherine Zeta-Jones. I'm sure Christopher Guest will be a little surprised too.
I seem to recall some years ago reading that Dream Park had been optioned for the big screen.
a) Was this true, and if so, what is the status of this project?
b) Do you feel that the current level of technology in todays world would allow an accurate portrayal of the computers/holographs in the book on the big screen?
R
(thanks for introducing me to Kuru!)
While I'm sure I'm about to be modded into oblivion for this, Courtney Love also is a nut.
Courtney
She's smart *and* has a hairless asshole. But she's still a nut.
"Let's have some perspective," he [Berman] said. "This issue is not as bad as 45 million people living without health insurance."
If this is true, why is he not as busy working on legislation to get coverage for the 45 million uninsured as he is trying to suck up Hollywood's money?
Fry's usually has some linux games. I just picked up Myth2:Soulblighter and Heretic 2 this weekend for 5 bucks a piece! :)
I am sort of in the same boat as the original poster, and all I can say is what we did to make it work:
We went with Aloha for the POS systems, and then I slapped in a box we were going to throw away and use it to grab all the figures and dump them to the home office via some trivial bash scripts.
I begged and pleaded with the management team of the restaurant to find something linux based, but
nothing was mature enough that fit the bill.
Good luck.
There was an article in the local fishwrap yesterday that said the database would be for new firearms only.
If that's the case, it's pointless because of the 200 million or so guns already privately owned that won't be included in the database.
It's just a big waste of money.
I use Evolution when possible (ie, home) and I'd probably get more people in the office interested in switching to a different OS if it had all the functionality of the product they currently use.
Lack of shared calendars is a *big* showstopper for them.
You mean Texas?
Nah. California.
"We just started trying it on rheumatoid arthritis and, so far, the results we've had as far as pain ... it's helped," Smith said. "
:)
As I've recently noticed the beginnings of arthritis, I'm hoping this works. Now I have no excuse to stop staying up late playing games!
First cigarettes, now spam.
Sheesh.
I'm awaiting the day when meat is banned in California. At that point, perhaps it's citizens will tire of dining on fruit & veggies, and demand that every restaurant serve big chunks of raw animal.
In a smoking section.
Until that day, I'll avoid California religiously, and continue praying for the day that Los Angeles slides into the deep, making Vegas that much closer to the beach.
Sure, it has a pretty autoupdate feature, but then so does debian and mandrake, and it can be added to redhat, .... And if you install it then your installation seems to be not quite compatible with a standard gnome install.
The easiest way I've seen to keep Ximian from screwing up things that up2date should do (thanks /. poster who originally wrote this!) is to get a list of ximianized packages, tell up2date to ignore them in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date in the pkgSkipList section.
/Ximian/ {print $1}' |sort | perl -pe 's/\n/;/' > ximian.list
Something like:
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\t%{VENDOR}\n" | awk '$2 ~
works well for me.