Thats like the story of NASA inventing this hyper-super-duper centrifugally balanced gravity boosting ballpoint pen for their astronauts and the Soviets bringing along a pencil.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want bits of (conductive) graphite floating around if *I* were in a space ship.
Real businesses, with thousands of servers, can not upgrade every year. Besides the actual time to do the work of upgrading, there is testing that must be done when you have real money at stake, downtime caused by the upgrade, etc.
I work for a real company. I can't use an unsupported operating system. I can't upgrade every machine every year. I can't even upgrade to the latest and greatest (e.g. RedHat 8 and Solaris 9 are out of the question), because it is too untested. These are the business realities, not factors that I or any other individual have control over. A single incident (e.g. a server crashes and whatever sort of failover is in place does not work) can cost more money than my yearly salary. A single hiccup (e.g. a 1 second network outage for a single machine) can cost more than my paycheck.
Sun at least makes guarantees that binaries that worked on previous versions of Solaris will work on new versions. (If they pass a test suite). RedHat makes no such guarantee.
I thought I was making real progress to replacing Solaris servers with Linux servers. But with this announcement, I don't know what to do. If I deploy RedHat, I am adding a substantial (and mostly hidden) cost and risk. RedHat seemed like the logical choice, but my next course of action is going to be to investigate alternate supported Linux distros (IBM, Sun).
Here in Geneva, we've been voting from home for a long time.
Do you have no history of people being forced to vote a certain way by employers, gangsters, and the like? In the US, we must vote in secret (there are mail-in absentee ballots but they are the exception) so that there is no way for someone to be forced to vote in a certain way.
Maybe one or two percent of the web sites I ever visit don't work with mozilla. I just skip them,
Exactly, about 1-2%. Now multiply this by hundreds of users and you have multiple times per day that someone hits a site that Mozilla won't work with Mozilla.
Finally, What if a doctor who worked the emergency room wanted to go see a movie, he should have a phone, pager, or something cuz what if there's a major accident downtown and they suddenly need every doctor to come in? What if it was you on the operation table without a doctor because he didn't take his phone to the movies?
Why is a doctor more important than a sysadmin?
What if I don't do my job and my coworkers' children starve to death after our company goes out of business? Are these deaths less important than the ones the doctor maybe could have prevented?
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/ny/070102_recyc ling.htm "In the case of plastic and glass, the fact of the matter was that it was phenomenally expensive and most of it ended up being dumped in a landfill anyway."
This isn't really a question for the author so please don't mod this up.
Does this software scale to monitoring thousands of servers? The only other reasonably mature open monitoring solution I investigated is mon, and it wasn't close to scaling to an environment of any size.
Because these anti-science crackpots are trying to make it look as if NASA spent billions with nothing to show for it. They're trying to undermine the faith that society has in science.
Those who refuse to provide proof are the "anti-science crackpots". Society's faith will in science will be undermined if science as treated as something that must be believed based merely on a statement from a self-proclaimed authority.
You're probably not going to change the mind of someone who is CONVINCED the moon landing was a hoax.
Sure you can. Just prove it is true.
I never believed the stories about the moon landing being a hoax until I realized that no one is willing to prove that it is true. Now I have my doubts.
Note that proof does not consist of a promise from the same people who would be in on it if it were a lie.
And how do you look inside a pizza box to decide whether it has four slices or one? And how do you tell if the Chinees takeout was from yesterday or last thursday?
Xray, MRI, GC/MS. Camera logging when the item was put in the fridge.
Maybe because it's the number of items in the array that's the only other member of the TagList, and defining a constant for this would be pretty senseless?
This sounds like a problem that would never have occurred if this software were written in Java.
(Of course, imagine the pain if Mozilla were 10 time slower)
A screwed package management database. Although I've never experienced that particular problem, I've heard it can be a real pain to fix, and that it might be easier to reinstall from backup/scratch.
It is not just a case of "may" be easier. No matter what your skill level, a corrupt rpm database requires you to reinstall the OS. Otherwise, you will never be able to install an RPM, including random software or patches from Redhat.
I have never seen such a completely unrecoverable situation (despite the system being entirely functional) on ANY Unix as a corrupt RPM database on Redhat Linux.
On the upside, on hundreds of Redhat systems I have maintained, I've only seen this happen a couple of times. But it is unlikely to happen only because the software is generally reliable, not because it has such resiliency in its design.
But it wasn't done by the O/S, it was done by the linker that was shipped with the O/S. You could group modules together and the linker would link in a swapper that would swap them in and out into memory on demand.
You can not possibly be talking about MS-DOS, the subject of this discussion. Perhaps you are talking about some other DOS.
If you write a program for DOS which needs to read from a disk, get swapped out of memory, read from the kbd or print to the screen, you don't write those services yourself.
Wrong. DOS does not support virtual memory. The built-in keyboard input and screen output was so poor that it was not used for all but the most trivial programs (and even trivial programs often did not use it). The only point you are right on is that filesystem access is indeed done using the interface DOS gives you.
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I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want bits of (conductive) graphite floating around if *I* were in a space ship.
Real businesses, with thousands of servers, can not upgrade every year. Besides the actual time to do the work of upgrading, there is testing that must be done when you have real money at stake, downtime caused by the upgrade, etc.
I work for a real company. I can't use an unsupported operating system. I can't upgrade every machine every year. I can't even upgrade to the latest and greatest (e.g. RedHat 8 and Solaris 9 are out of the question), because it is too untested. These are the business realities, not factors that I or any other individual have control over. A single incident (e.g. a server crashes and whatever sort of failover is in place does not work) can cost more money than my yearly salary. A single hiccup (e.g. a 1 second network outage for a single machine) can cost more than my paycheck.
Sun at least makes guarantees that binaries that worked on previous versions of Solaris will work on new versions. (If they pass a test suite). RedHat makes no such guarantee.
I thought I was making real progress to replacing Solaris servers with Linux servers. But with this announcement, I don't know what to do. If I deploy RedHat, I am adding a substantial (and mostly hidden) cost and risk. RedHat seemed like the logical choice, but my next course of action is going to be to investigate alternate supported Linux distros (IBM, Sun).
f only switches into fullscreen mode. It does not switch out.
Two halfs of a 32-bit number, a 16 bit site code and a 16 bit individual identifier.
Do you have no history of people being forced to vote a certain way by employers, gangsters, and the like? In the US, we must vote in secret (there are mail-in absentee ballots but they are the exception) so that there is no way for someone to be forced to vote in a certain way.
Exactly, about 1-2%. Now multiply this by hundreds of users and you have multiple times per day that someone hits a site that Mozilla won't work with Mozilla.
Your UPS caught on fire. You or your cats could have died. Or you could have survived with disfiguring burns to your face and genitals.
No piece of electrical equipment should ever catch on fire. There is simply no excuse.
If someone transmits a signal on the same frequency that is an order of magnitude stronger, how can they possibly prevent this from interfering?
Why is a doctor more important than a sysadmin?
What if I don't do my job and my coworkers' children starve to death after our company goes out of business? Are these deaths less important than the ones the doctor maybe could have prevented?
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/ny/070102_recyc ling.htm
"In the case of plastic and glass, the fact of the matter was that it was phenomenally expensive and most of it ended up being dumped in a landfill anyway."
that is so hot
Nonsense. There are no security features whatsoever on a credit card. They are trivial to forge.
This isn't really a question for the author so please don't mod this up.
Does this software scale to monitoring thousands of servers? The only other reasonably mature open monitoring solution I investigated is mon, and it wasn't close to scaling to an environment of any size.
Those who refuse to provide proof are the "anti-science crackpots". Society's faith will in science will be undermined if science as treated as something that must be believed based merely on a statement from a self-proclaimed authority.
Science requires proof. If there is no proof, it is not science.
Good (proper) engineering is based on science.
Sure you can. Just prove it is true.
I never believed the stories about the moon landing being a hoax until I realized that no one is willing to prove that it is true. Now I have my doubts.
Note that proof does not consist of a promise from the same people who would be in on it if it were a lie.
If you buy a smoke detector in New York, how do you expect to get it home?
Xray, MRI, GC/MS. Camera logging when the item was put in the fridge.
Because everyone now knows that most predictions about the technology of the future will be wrong.
This sounds like a problem that would never have occurred if this software were written in Java.
(Of course, imagine the pain if Mozilla were 10 time slower)
The person who breaks those cat legs for the trial must qualify for most brutal job in the world.
Impossible. A Joule is a measure of energy, not power. So you are making no sense.
It is not just a case of "may" be easier. No matter what your skill level, a corrupt rpm database requires you to reinstall the OS. Otherwise, you will never be able to install an RPM, including random software or patches from Redhat.
I have never seen such a completely unrecoverable situation (despite the system being entirely functional) on ANY Unix as a corrupt RPM database on Redhat Linux.
On the upside, on hundreds of Redhat systems I have maintained, I've only seen this happen a couple of times. But it is unlikely to happen only because the software is generally reliable, not because it has such resiliency in its design.
You can not possibly be talking about MS-DOS, the subject of this discussion. Perhaps you are talking about some other DOS.
Wrong. DOS does not support virtual memory. The built-in keyboard input and screen output was so poor that it was not used for all but the most trivial programs (and even trivial programs often did not use it). The only point you are right on is that filesystem access is indeed done using the interface DOS gives you.