The only thing GoDaddy offers is price. They are dishonest, and jerk you around when you try to transfer a domain from them to someone with good service. What it comes down to is wether good service is worth an extra $5-10 a year to you.
No, hotmail is not running on sun boxes using solaris or sendmail. It was running freebsd and qmail, until it was (mostly) upgraded to windows.
I dunno how stupid the banks are in the states, but up here they are very stupid. They use mainly windows, but yet all the major national banks use linux to some extent, and several have actively moved away from all commercial unixes, some to linux, many to windows.
I never said solaris was obsolete, I said its rarely used nowadays, and that's reality. Nostalgic bullshit about netscape in the 90's doesn't change that.
And the right tool for the job is exactly why solaris is being replaced. The only reason to use solaris is when you have a 96 CPU machine with 512GB of RAM from Sun. Solaris is the right tool for the job then. I'm sure both people with such machines are enjoying solaris, but that huge massive majority of people that don't need such machines, also don't need solaris.
Dude, infiniband is still an order of magnitude slower than RAM, its not a substitute in any way, shape or form. The point is you are acting like many machines == a single machine with lots of RAM, and that is not the case. If the original poster doesn't actually need a single machine with lots of RAM in the first place, then of course many machines will work, and of course that would mean his question was completely retarded too.
I hate seeing code with no comments, especially when its not immediately obvious what a piece of code is doing. But I hate it just as much to see code full of useless comments explaining what the code is doing, when the code should be explaining it just fine. Stuff like:
i++;/* increment i */
makes me want to kill someone. Worse yet, when its:
i++;/* increment i - Bob Nov 2002 */
as if comments are an acceptable form of version control.
It takes a bit of practice to find the right middle ground, where you make sure your code is easy to understand and doesn't need comments, but the tricky spots that just can't be made easy to understand are commented well.
Solaris got eaten alive by linux and BSD. Sun chose to be obsolete, and lots of people recognize this. Compare solaris usage in lets say, 1998-2000, with solaris usage now. I don't quite get why you think working at netscape several years ago demonstrates that solaris isn't common now.
ISA is relatively new, every windows admin that's been around for more than a couple years uses checkpoint. Solaris people using checkpoint are fairly rare, most shops that buy sun also buy cisco, and that's who they get their firewalls from. Running solaris nowadays is rare enough, much less using it for a firewall.
Having a linux version was retarded to begin with, linux comes with a firewall (I will admit that it sucks nuts to actually try to use, but if you are bright enough to be using linux, you can use openbsd for your firewall).
Of course the majority of questions on a checkpoint list are going to be windows related, checkpoint exists so windows shops can have a firewall.
And as for people asking questions about PHP/mysql apps running on windows, that's very much about competancy. Most people who use unix systems are capable of setting up a simple app, and also capable of searching newsgroups/mailing lists, etc to find answer to problems. Windows users are on average much less familiar with software, and much less familiar with solving problems for themselves.
Windows being the only OS for games has nothing at all to do with drivers. It is entirely, 100% because of game companies not feeling the need to make their games portable. When game companies realize that its cheaper, faster and better to license someone else's engine than write their own for every game, then windows will not matter for games.
How is a shell the most primitive way to admin a machine? I know lots of admins with real jobs that use solaris and linux, all three bsds, and they all use a shell on all these systems. They're all so advanced that you can even pick your shell!
ESR has been labelled a retard for a long time, because he constantly acts like a retard. It has nothing to do with criticism, and everything to do with being a loud mouthed blowhard who is constantly working his hardest to make the entire open source community look like idiots by claiming himself to be some sort of self appointed representative.
The debate at hand is wether to have them always being root for everything all the time without even logging in, or being a normal user and have apps that need root privileges run sudo in the background. Of course sudo lets you be root, for single commands as needed. Beats the fuck out of leaving these inexperienced users just running as root all the time doesn't it? You aren't just wildly off track, you are completely and hopelessly lost.
You do realize the user isn't actually running apt themselves right? The graphical application that they use currently does "install command", it just needs changed to do "sudo install command". Users will never see or notice the difference, the lindows knobs just have to do their job instead of the current cop-out of making linux into a single user system.
Hooray, I deleted the data in my home dir. Big deal, its backed up. It took a whole 8 minutes to restore. Somehow I think it would have taken me longer to reinstall my OS and all the applications I have installed. And if I hadn't been intentionally doing this just to see how long it takes to restore my data, I would have hit ctrl+c during the long period of "rm: blah: Permission denied" scrolling up the screen.
I manage to use apt as a non-root user all the time, using sudo. Just like I do with every other package manager for every other unix OS I use. There is simply NO excuse to be running as root when sudo is so powerful and simple.
Look at opera. It has all those things, and its still smaller (both in download size and memory usage) and faster that firefox. The problem with firefox's bloat isn't what's included, its that it is a giant mess of some of the worst code ever written. Including a usable tab implimentation and mouse gestures isn't going to make any significant impact on firefox's size, and neither will stripping out useful functionality to make it a less useful program for no reason. Re-writing it from scratch properly is the only way to fix it.
Its incredibly slow compared to commercial games that look ten times better graphically. The game is constantly lagging, and the most basic things like turning your character don't even work right, your character floats around in some bizzare arch instead of turning.
Calling it turn based strategy is pushing it, there's very little strategy involved. The gameplay is incredibly simplistic and boring, and the client is a bloated pile of crap. Freeciv at least involves strategy.
If network speeds were fast enough, he wouldn't be looking for a 64GB system, so memcached isn't terribly helpful. AMD64 is its own arch, just like i386 is, i386 isn't multiple architectures. And you can get 64GB AMD64 machines from both IBM and HP, and Sun goes up to 32GB on their AMD64 machines. And of course Sun goes up to hundreds of GB on their sparc64 machines, you don't "have to" use POWER5.
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Actually, plenty of computer professionals don't really care much for linux. I use it when I need to, and I use other systems when I need to, I have no linux hardon making me use linux for things it doesn't do well. Using several OSs really isn't that hard, and I get the benefits of always getting the best tool for the job.
You buy as many CALs as you have concurrent users, that's the point. See, when you have 1000 people who need to use a particular app, but only use it 15 minutes at a time a couple times a day, 100 concurrent users will be all you'll get, and so all the CALs you need. So if you are audited, they will say "OK, you're all good" and you won't end up paying anything or buying anything.
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The only thing GoDaddy offers is price. They are dishonest, and jerk you around when you try to transfer a domain from them to someone with good service. What it comes down to is wether good service is worth an extra $5-10 a year to you.
No, hotmail is not running on sun boxes using solaris or sendmail. It was running freebsd and qmail, until it was (mostly) upgraded to windows.
I dunno how stupid the banks are in the states, but up here they are very stupid. They use mainly windows, but yet all the major national banks use linux to some extent, and several have actively moved away from all commercial unixes, some to linux, many to windows.
I never said solaris was obsolete, I said its rarely used nowadays, and that's reality. Nostalgic bullshit about netscape in the 90's doesn't change that.
And the right tool for the job is exactly why solaris is being replaced. The only reason to use solaris is when you have a 96 CPU machine with 512GB of RAM from Sun. Solaris is the right tool for the job then. I'm sure both people with such machines are enjoying solaris, but that huge massive majority of people that don't need such machines, also don't need solaris.
Dude, infiniband is still an order of magnitude slower than RAM, its not a substitute in any way, shape or form. The point is you are acting like many machines == a single machine with lots of RAM, and that is not the case. If the original poster doesn't actually need a single machine with lots of RAM in the first place, then of course many machines will work, and of course that would mean his question was completely retarded too.
Solaris got eaten alive by linux and BSD. Sun chose to be obsolete, and lots of people recognize this. Compare solaris usage in lets say, 1998-2000, with solaris usage now. I don't quite get why you think working at netscape several years ago demonstrates that solaris isn't common now.
I know what a google bomb is. That's why I asked what the point of his sig is, since google doesn't see sigs on slashdot.
It seems pretty dumb.
ISA is relatively new, every windows admin that's been around for more than a couple years uses checkpoint. Solaris people using checkpoint are fairly rare, most shops that buy sun also buy cisco, and that's who they get their firewalls from. Running solaris nowadays is rare enough, much less using it for a firewall.
Having a linux version was retarded to begin with, linux comes with a firewall (I will admit that it sucks nuts to actually try to use, but if you are bright enough to be using linux, you can use openbsd for your firewall).
Of course the majority of questions on a checkpoint list are going to be windows related, checkpoint exists so windows shops can have a firewall.
And as for people asking questions about PHP/mysql apps running on windows, that's very much about competancy. Most people who use unix systems are capable of setting up a simple app, and also capable of searching newsgroups/mailing lists, etc to find answer to problems. Windows users are on average much less familiar with software, and much less familiar with solving problems for themselves.
Windows being the only OS for games has nothing at all to do with drivers. It is entirely, 100% because of game companies not feeling the need to make their games portable. When game companies realize that its cheaper, faster and better to license someone else's engine than write their own for every game, then windows will not matter for games.
Some people pay hookers to take cheese graters to their johnsons, so you are in good company.
How is a shell the most primitive way to admin a machine? I know lots of admins with real jobs that use solaris and linux, all three bsds, and they all use a shell on all these systems. They're all so advanced that you can even pick your shell!
ESR has been labelled a retard for a long time, because he constantly acts like a retard. It has nothing to do with criticism, and everything to do with being a loud mouthed blowhard who is constantly working his hardest to make the entire open source community look like idiots by claiming himself to be some sort of self appointed representative.
The debate at hand is wether to have them always being root for everything all the time without even logging in, or being a normal user and have apps that need root privileges run sudo in the background. Of course sudo lets you be root, for single commands as needed. Beats the fuck out of leaving these inexperienced users just running as root all the time doesn't it? You aren't just wildly off track, you are completely and hopelessly lost.
You do realize the user isn't actually running apt themselves right? The graphical application that they use currently does "install command", it just needs changed to do "sudo install command". Users will never see or notice the difference, the lindows knobs just have to do their job instead of the current cop-out of making linux into a single user system.
Hooray, I deleted the data in my home dir. Big deal, its backed up. It took a whole 8 minutes to restore. Somehow I think it would have taken me longer to reinstall my OS and all the applications I have installed. And if I hadn't been intentionally doing this just to see how long it takes to restore my data, I would have hit ctrl+c during the long period of "rm: blah: Permission denied" scrolling up the screen.
I manage to use apt as a non-root user all the time, using sudo. Just like I do with every other package manager for every other unix OS I use. There is simply NO excuse to be running as root when sudo is so powerful and simple.
Look at opera. It has all those things, and its still smaller (both in download size and memory usage) and faster that firefox. The problem with firefox's bloat isn't what's included, its that it is a giant mess of some of the worst code ever written. Including a usable tab implimentation and mouse gestures isn't going to make any significant impact on firefox's size, and neither will stripping out useful functionality to make it a less useful program for no reason. Re-writing it from scratch properly is the only way to fix it.
Its incredibly slow compared to commercial games that look ten times better graphically. The game is constantly lagging, and the most basic things like turning your character don't even work right, your character floats around in some bizzare arch instead of turning.
Calling it turn based strategy is pushing it, there's very little strategy involved. The gameplay is incredibly simplistic and boring, and the client is a bloated pile of crap. Freeciv at least involves strategy.
If network speeds were fast enough, he wouldn't be looking for a 64GB system, so memcached isn't terribly helpful. AMD64 is its own arch, just like i386 is, i386 isn't multiple architectures. And you can get 64GB AMD64 machines from both IBM and HP, and Sun goes up to 32GB on their AMD64 machines. And of course Sun goes up to hundreds of GB on their sparc64 machines, you don't "have to" use POWER5.
Actually, plenty of computer professionals don't really care much for linux. I use it when I need to, and I use other systems when I need to, I have no linux hardon making me use linux for things it doesn't do well. Using several OSs really isn't that hard, and I get the benefits of always getting the best tool for the job.
That's so much easier than firefox just having non-retarded default settings so people don't have to waste time trying to make the damn thing usable.
You buy as many CALs as you have concurrent users, that's the point. See, when you have 1000 people who need to use a particular app, but only use it 15 minutes at a time a couple times a day, 100 concurrent users will be all you'll get, and so all the CALs you need. So if you are audited, they will say "OK, you're all good" and you won't end up paying anything or buying anything.
I'd hate to be stuck living in a free country, where I have to work 6 weeks less per year to have a higher standard of living. That would really suck.