We use Novell's Zenworks to centrally manage all of our workstations. Very effective method and quite cheap too (cheaper than having someone visit that is).
Basically, where there is not an MSI, we take a snapshot of an installtion on a vanilla Windows OS machine thereby capturing the changes (registry and files etc). This can then be packaged, customised and redeployed to as many workstations as you want. Basically, you spend twice as much time as a single installtion, but after that it is jsut a click of a button to assign it to a group of PC's
Yeah well I can't prove that Santa Claus and the tooth fairy don't exist either. Therefore, God has as much chance of existing as either of the aforementioned.
Bloody pointless argument and totally non-scientific. It is the responsibility of the proponent of a theory (ie that God exists in this case) to provide evidence to support it. It is not up to the naturally questioning scientific community to do the work. If you theory is important enough, you might even garner some help. But it is not. It is only important to people like yourself.
But anyway - your beliefs are your own and you are welcome to have them.
SLES != Suse Professional. One is the server version, the other is the desktop version. Same difference as RHEL and (now) Fedora.
The server versions tend to be behind the latest releases by a bit and are qualified (with a certain set of packages) to run on specific hardware configurations. Desktop stuff (although provided) is not core to the distribution. It is like comparing Windows 2003 Enterprise edition against Windows XP. *insert snide swipe at MS here*
In 2000 for the Sydney Olympics. Start of DST was moved forward about a month. No big deal computer wise - just a few registry tweaks (windows) and manual editing on Netware and Unix.
Repeat - no-one reported any major issues - the world still turned.
"Secondly, haven't you ever heard of the Freedom of Speech, as guarenteed to us by the Second Amendement in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America? By your comment, I'll assume not.
Why should we quash out individuality so that one person can get to the content they want better? Why shouldn't we just solve the damned problem, instead of creating more?"
Dude - who are you replying to? I was responding to your commented quoted above and merley saying that Freedom of speach does not gaurantee an audience. If I choose to ignore someone then that is my choice. If I seek out tools or a service that allows me to cut down on the noise then I will. The providers of those tools, nor myself are interfering with your blessed Freedom of speech. Which appears to be exactly what some of your other posts confirm..
Yes and no. Whilst a FEP is indeed intended to reduce the load on "expensive" mainframe CPU's it went far beyond merely a communication protocol accelerator. FEPs had to be programmed for the particular network structure using NCP (Network Control Program) to achieve this offload. They also performed routing and polling of devices (amongst other things).
So a FEP did more than the product being discussed, but it was more complex to configure. Whereas this promises more plug 'n' play type functionality for TCP/IP hosts.
Of course I'm talking from memory here, so I my have missed something critical in the differences.
Have you looked at Sybase Replication Server which allows low-latency, "realtime" replication of data between various DBMS platforms (Sybase, MSSQL, Oracle, DB2 etc). Might be useful in allowing you to spread the load for certain categories of data. It is certainly useful in a hot/warm redundant failover server scenario.
Thank you.
I notice a tendency for people to immediately think about home/workstation class stuff when looking at new software or hardware. The problems are entirely different in the data-centre, which is where this product and TOE are aimed at.
Similar arguments can be had over the cost of storage. They say "Hey I can buy a 400GB hard-drive for $300 - why do you say it is going to cost you $500 per GB?" "Well," I say, "I have to worry about MTBF, Seek times, IO channel bandwidth, backup, redundancy, vendor support etc. You dont."
Well, seeing as I operarate a budget of a couple of million and I use exactly that methodology (What function to perform, what are the supported OS's, is it one that we have skills with and which hardware vendors provide certified drivers), I would think that a few vendors would be interested.
And keep in mind that I work for an SME and this is just one company in a sea of thousands...
I read more than the abstract, and it describes music, images, text and software (eg games) being made available to subscribers' "terminals" using a "high data rate telecomunnications network" (ffs - Basic Rate ISDN is given as an example).
"Novell's own scripting language does suck. But since Netware 6 (at least) they've been shipping Perl. Now I know perl is not flexible or easy to use.. wait.."
Netware has been bundled with NetBasic and Perl since version 4.11 (8 years ago), all with hooks into the OS.
And yes - the grandparent post is pure FUD
So tell me how this is going to work in a Studio-print environment.
You've got all of these Mac operators, busily using Adobe Indesign and sending print ads out to magazines and newspapers in the required eps or hi-res PDF format (that MUST be generated by original Adobe products for QA purposes). Then along comes Metro and this somehow competes with Adobe.
How? Adobe make no money from Adobe reader and for the creation of PDF's for the non-publishing industry there have been numerous free (gratis) and/or alternative tools for years. Is Microsoft going to create a killer design tool as well? And for the Mac to boot, coz those graphic artists aint going to swap.
No. What will happen is this becomes just another Microsoft feature that no other platform/tool will be able to support and we will have yet another reader that we have to load up...
...and is a far better (read mature) solution than Active Directory is.
But there is a cost for that product (USD2.00 per head), but if you buy an edirectory enabled application you may be entitled to 100000 seats gratis.
http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/sysreq s. html
Linux System Specs:
* One of the following:
o SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (IR3 required)
o SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8
o Red Hat Linux 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, or Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1
Note: Ensure that the latest glibc patches are applied from Red Hat Errata on Red Hat systems.
* 128 MB RAM minimum
* 90 MB of disk space for the eDirectory server
* 25 MB of disk space for the eDirectory administration utilities
* 74 MB of disk space for every 50,000 users
* Ensure that gettext is installed
almost Word for word, this guy has been posting this same text around different sites for 2 years. It has sort of reached goatse status (ie effing annoying).
Just ignore it
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We use Novell's Zenworks to centrally manage all of our workstations. Very effective method and quite cheap too (cheaper than having someone visit that is). Basically, where there is not an MSI, we take a snapshot of an installtion on a vanilla Windows OS machine thereby capturing the changes (registry and files etc). This can then be packaged, customised and redeployed to as many workstations as you want. Basically, you spend twice as much time as a single installtion, but after that it is jsut a click of a button to assign it to a group of PC's
On the other hand, I've probably downloaded it as many times as you (maybe a few less), but I've installed it on 900 PC's as the default browser...
Yeah well I can't prove that Santa Claus and the tooth fairy don't exist either. Therefore, God has as much chance of existing as either of the aforementioned.
Bloody pointless argument and totally non-scientific. It is the responsibility of the proponent of a theory (ie that God exists in this case) to provide evidence to support it. It is not up to the naturally questioning scientific community to do the work. If you theory is important enough, you might even garner some help. But it is not. It is only important to people like yourself. But anyway - your beliefs are your own and you are welcome to have them.
SLES != Suse Professional. One is the server version, the other is the desktop version. Same difference as RHEL and (now) Fedora. The server versions tend to be behind the latest releases by a bit and are qualified (with a certain set of packages) to run on specific hardware configurations. Desktop stuff (although provided) is not core to the distribution. It is like comparing Windows 2003 Enterprise edition against Windows XP. *insert snide swipe at MS here*
In 2000 for the Sydney Olympics. Start of DST was moved forward about a month. No big deal computer wise - just a few registry tweaks (windows) and manual editing on Netware and Unix. Repeat - no-one reported any major issues - the world still turned.
man, my spelling sucks today - apologies to any pedants who I may have offended.
"Secondly, haven't you ever heard of the Freedom of Speech, as guarenteed to us by the Second Amendement in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America? By your comment, I'll assume not.
Why should we quash out individuality so that one person can get to the content they want better? Why shouldn't we just solve the damned problem, instead of creating more?"
Dude - who are you replying to? I was responding to your commented quoted above and merley saying that Freedom of speach does not gaurantee an audience. If I choose to ignore someone then that is my choice. If I seek out tools or a service that allows me to cut down on the noise then I will. The providers of those tools, nor myself are interfering with your blessed Freedom of speech. Which appears to be exactly what some of your other posts confirm..
Freedom of speech is not a guarantee of audience.
Yes and no. Whilst a FEP is indeed intended to reduce the load on "expensive" mainframe CPU's it went far beyond merely a communication protocol accelerator. FEPs had to be programmed for the particular network structure using NCP (Network Control Program) to achieve this offload. They also performed routing and polling of devices (amongst other things).
So a FEP did more than the product being discussed, but it was more complex to configure. Whereas this promises more plug 'n' play type functionality for TCP/IP hosts.
Of course I'm talking from memory here, so I my have missed something critical in the differences.
Have you looked at Sybase Replication Server which allows low-latency, "realtime" replication of data between various DBMS platforms (Sybase, MSSQL, Oracle, DB2 etc). Might be useful in allowing you to spread the load for certain categories of data. It is certainly useful in a hot/warm redundant failover server scenario.
Sybase replication Server Home
Thank you. I notice a tendency for people to immediately think about home/workstation class stuff when looking at new software or hardware. The problems are entirely different in the data-centre, which is where this product and TOE are aimed at.
Similar arguments can be had over the cost of storage. They say "Hey I can buy a 400GB hard-drive for $300 - why do you say it is going to cost you $500 per GB?"
"Well," I say, "I have to worry about MTBF, Seek times, IO channel bandwidth, backup, redundancy, vendor support etc. You dont."
FEP or Front End Processors are what you are thinking about I suspect...
Well, seeing as I operarate a budget of a couple of million and I use exactly that methodology (What function to perform, what are the supported OS's, is it one that we have skills with and which hardware vendors provide certified drivers), I would think that a few vendors would be interested. And keep in mind that I work for an SME and this is just one company in a sea of thousands...
I read more than the abstract, and it describes music, images, text and software (eg games) being made available to subscribers' "terminals" using a "high data rate telecomunnications network" (ffs - Basic Rate ISDN is given as an example).
"Novell's own scripting language does suck. But since Netware 6 (at least) they've been shipping Perl. Now I know perl is not flexible or easy to use.. wait.." Netware has been bundled with NetBasic and Perl since version 4.11 (8 years ago), all with hooks into the OS. And yes - the grandparent post is pure FUD
for one that works *now*
HP's widely supported Printer Control Language?
If it is encrypted then it is protected under certain provisions of the DMCA.
So tell me how this is going to work in a Studio-print environment.
You've got all of these Mac operators, busily using Adobe Indesign and sending print ads out to magazines and newspapers in the required eps or hi-res PDF format (that MUST be generated by original Adobe products for QA purposes). Then along comes Metro and this somehow competes with Adobe.
How? Adobe make no money from Adobe reader and for the creation of PDF's for the non-publishing industry there have been numerous free (gratis) and/or alternative tools for years. Is Microsoft going to create a killer design tool as well? And for the Mac to boot, coz those graphic artists aint going to swap.
No. What will happen is this becomes just another Microsoft feature that no other platform/tool will be able to support and we will have yet another reader that we have to load up...
Soy Sauce.
Oh I take that back. Two words then. Soy Sauce or Teriyaki...
damnit I give up
...and is a far better (read mature) solution than Active Directory is.
q s. html
But there is a cost for that product (USD2.00 per head), but if you buy an edirectory enabled application you may be entitled to 100000 seats gratis.
http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/sysre
Linux System Specs:
* One of the following:
o SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (IR3 required)
o SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8
o Red Hat Linux 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, or Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1
Note: Ensure that the latest glibc patches are applied from Red Hat Errata on Red Hat systems.
* 128 MB RAM minimum
* 90 MB of disk space for the eDirectory server
* 25 MB of disk space for the eDirectory administration utilities
* 74 MB of disk space for every 50,000 users
* Ensure that gettext is installed
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/144/commen t/18387#MSG
http://business.newsforge.com/comments.pl?sid=2415 9&op=&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&tid=11 1&tid=2&tid=3&tid=31&pid=15234#15239
almost Word for word, this guy has been posting this same text around different sites for 2 years. It has sort of reached goatse status (ie effing annoying). Just ignore it
Does it run under Windows?
1. Does anyine find it amusing that the General Counsel for the spammer is called John J Lawless?
2. Does anyone find this post to be a repeat or redundant? If so mod me down.