None of these points have anything to do with Solaris's package format. I really don't understand why packages has been singled out as something that represents how badly Solaris is lacking. I've been using Solaris packages for ages and so far I was able to do anything and everything that is needed to maintain software packages.
Btw, bringing the system down into single user for kernel patches is just a recommendation by Sun. I haven't put any system into single user for years. The current Solaris kernel is so modular and dynamic that you can replace files as you wish. Just don't forget to reboot when you are done.
Probably my favorite feature of Linux is the/proc filesystem.
While I agree that Solaris's/proc file system is very cryptic and not legible to the human eye (you have to use the proc tools instead) I think that Linux's/proc fs is overloaded with things that don't belong there. Solaris, for example, has tools like prtconf, prtdiag, psrinfo, etc. etc. to get the information you are looking for. It's a matter of preference and what you are used to using.
it's just a pain in the ass after using almost any Linux distro.
Actually, using a Linux distro after using/administering Solaris for 10+ years is a pain in the ass. It is just a matter of what you are used to.
Sun's problem is that not only is everything surrounding that kernel stagnant, but that it really hasn't done the basic things needed to build a real community.
See, and there is where you and I differ in our opinions. I am more concerned about technical support. There is a user community out there (Open Solaris, comp.unix.solaris in Usenet, Sun Managers mailing list, Big Admin, etc.) but those are not central for the seasoned Solaris sys admin. They sure are useful but having kick-ass technical support and a stable and reliable user and sys admin experience is much more important for a Solaris admins.
The motivation for that was that Sun's compiler suite used to cost money. That's why they unbundled it early on in the Solaris 2.x line.
Sun has been shipping gcc on the companion CD for quite a few versions now (I am guessing now: since Solaris 8?), though, and Solaris 10 comes with gcc 3 right out of the box (/usr/sfw/bin). I heard that in some future release of Solaris 10 (or whatever is going to be next) Sun Studio (Sun's current name of its compiler suite) is going to be part of the distribution.
I'm long past caring what Sun does or does not do with Solaris for the same reason that I don't care what E-com does with OS/2. Both OS's may or may not be configured with fancy new features in the future, but it doesn't matter because they've already lost.
So you happen to work at a place that moved away from Sun Solaris and does something else. Fine. I've worked for universities that did the exact opposite. My current employer (another university) is a Sun only shop. Nothing will get into our data centers for mission critial purposes that does not run Solaris. Not everybody subscribes to the Linux philosophy.
Anyway, I guess my point is that your experience does not represent the entire IT industry or at least in academic institutions.
Then it uses a binary file to figure out what to run at shutdown, and it keeps changing the file when servers start and stop and you can't get an accurate picture of the data its going to use when it shuts down the system. Since the file is a binary file, you can't checksum it and you can't dump it so you've got no clue if someone has put a Trojan in it.
Are you talking about the repository database in/etc/svc? It's just a SQLite database. Use your favorite tools to dump the content if you want to verify its contents. Check out/lib/svc/bin for some tools you could use.
If you really want to work for an employer that gives great benefits you should look into education or the public sector. I work for a private university in NYC and the benefits I get are unbeatable. Sure, I don't get paid a bonus (and we don't get free food with the exception of certain kinds of meetings) but free education for the entire family, a retirement plan that requires me to put in 5% of my gross while they match 10% of my gross, up to six weeks of paid maternity/paternity leave, ability to get whatever gadget I'd like to "get my job done", and job security make it well worth it. The salary is not that bad either (a little over average for a Sr UNIX system admin in the metro area).
Anyway, the random e-mails that Google's recruiters send out are a little off-putting. Also, isn't it a little weird that when you are about to reach your fifth year of your employment with Google just when your stock options are abot to vest HR will be bothering you about how happy you are etc. etc. If you really have to try so much something is not quite right. Happiness test? Please!
These are the US states that have a 0% state sales tax:
Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
That said, individual cities are allowed to charge sales tax, though. While the state sales tax in New York is somewhere around 4% you will pay more than 8% in New York City. If you shop in Bethel, Alaska, you will pay 5% in sales tax even though Alaska itself has 0%.
Other states make distinctions between the products that are being sold. Groceries, for example, are very often not taxed. Clothing up to $110 per item is exempt from city sales tax in NYC but you still have to pay the 4% state sales tax (or was that the other way around?)
I think what he meant was the DTrace is a tool that most system admins would have no clue how to use.
Any good sysadmin loves to be able to look under the hood. Yes, most will not go ahead and fix any code but at least they have a handle on what's wrong and have a lot more info they can hand over to tech support if needed. I sure hope that any decent Solaris admin is able to use DTrace. It is a wonderful tool.
DTrace does more than just tracing system calls. You can trace any function entry and exit if you desire. Many so-called providers offer hooks you can trigger on. Whatever you like to instrument in your live system, name it, script it, get results. You can query the function parameters of any function call (not just system calls, btw) and act on it.
DTrace is *the* tool for admins. Never before were you able to have such a detailed look into a live system. Once you have an idea where the problem might be you write a D-script that installs specific probes and monitors them (and processes the returned values in any way you want). For some admins (including me) DTrace beats calling tech support.
I just read through your thread on osol-discuss (read it here). I think Casper's and Bryan's replies to you explain everything. I am not quite sure what your beef is. Just because OpenSolaris does not compile on sun4m anymore? Most of the Solaris 10/OpenSolaris features do not support sun4m.
Of course, if you want to, you can always contribute code to the project to enable sun4m support. Good luck with that.
Being a native German speaker, I would intuitively say "das Taco." Foreign words are most of the time neutral unless they are very similar to an existing German word. But I would guess that if you ask 100 Germans what gender "Taco" is you will get some that will claim it's masculine and some will say it's neutral. I don't think anybody would say "die Taco", though.
Bingo! Just another way to get your loved ones a last minute gift from your business trip. It would make even more sense if you could purchase your iPod duty-free from one of those vending machines if you travel internationally.
We must not forget that the EU and UK prices include VAT (17.5% in the UK currently). The US price does not. Also, we have to add trade tariffs to the US price (which could be another 15% or so). I really doubt that anybody but the governments are milking the end customer.
I must disagree with the "everything just suddenly clicked" statement. My experience with my now 3yo toddler is that language acquisition as well as learning how to walk etc. are gradual processes. Speaking starts with blowing raspberries, making nonsense sounds, and slowly forming vowels and consonants. I remember that my daughter's first word was "ball" (or "tree"; it's been a while). It didn't come suddenly out of nowhere; it was "grown" out of playful sounds and mimicking the surroundings.
The same with crawling, walking, etc. Walking usually starts with the ability to pull yourself up (on furniture, for example). Then they start "cruising" around, holding onto the bookshelf. Then the kid wants to hold your hands and walk while holding you (back-breaking times, I say!), and eventually when she gathered enough courage she will let go and make her own few steps. And practices and practices.
Anyway, congratulations to your seven week old. You are in for a long ride;-) I hope you and your wife are getting enough sleep.
Did you actually look at the search results of that Google link you gave us? None of it shows that ZFS (as the filesystem developed by Sun) has been ported to Linux.
An example comes from a plague I was researching that devastated ancient Athens just as they were gearing up against the Spartans. Britannica is suitably vague about this, but the Wikipedia article on the subject has a great section about how, in 2005, genetic testing proved that it was typhoid fever which devastated Athens at that period. As this was the 2006 Britannica, why didn't it have that information?
Dude, an encyclopedia is a starting point for research. It should give you some ideas on how to proceed next. Nothing else. At that, Britannica is as good as Wikipedia, maybe not as "convenient" because it makes you look for further sources (which, btw, is not a bad thing).
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None of these points have anything to do with Solaris's package format. I really don't understand why packages has been singled out as something that represents how badly Solaris is lacking. I've been using Solaris packages for ages and so far I was able to do anything and everything that is needed to maintain software packages. Btw, bringing the system down into single user for kernel patches is just a recommendation by Sun. I haven't put any system into single user for years. The current Solaris kernel is so modular and dynamic that you can replace files as you wish. Just don't forget to reboot when you are done.
Solaris has Zones for that exact purpose. Lguest, I believe, offers something similar for Linux.
I don't think they actually sync'ed with an iPhone in that video. It's probably an external hard drive or an emulator or what not.
Probably my favorite feature of Linux is the /proc filesystem.
While I agree that Solaris's /proc file system is very cryptic and not legible to the human eye (you have to use the proc tools instead) I think that Linux's /proc fs is overloaded with things that don't belong there. Solaris, for example, has tools like prtconf, prtdiag, psrinfo, etc. etc. to get the information you are looking for. It's a matter of preference and what you are used to using.
it's just a pain in the ass after using almost any Linux distro.
Actually, using a Linux distro after using/administering Solaris for 10+ years is a pain in the ass. It is just a matter of what you are used to.
Sun's problem is that not only is everything surrounding that kernel stagnant, but that it really hasn't done the basic things needed to build a real community.
See, and there is where you and I differ in our opinions. I am more concerned about technical support. There is a user community out there (Open Solaris, comp.unix.solaris in Usenet, Sun Managers mailing list, Big Admin, etc.) but those are not central for the seasoned Solaris sys admin. They sure are useful but having kick-ass technical support and a stable and reliable user and sys admin experience is much more important for a Solaris admins.
An OS without a compiler?
The motivation for that was that Sun's compiler suite used to cost money. That's why they unbundled it early on in the Solaris 2.x line.
Sun has been shipping gcc on the companion CD for quite a few versions now (I am guessing now: since Solaris 8?), though, and Solaris 10 comes with gcc 3 right out of the box (/usr/sfw/bin). I heard that in some future release of Solaris 10 (or whatever is going to be next) Sun Studio (Sun's current name of its compiler suite) is going to be part of the distribution.
I'm long past caring what Sun does or does not do with Solaris for the same reason that I don't care what E-com does with OS/2. Both OS's may or may not be configured with fancy new features in the future, but it doesn't matter because they've already lost.
So you happen to work at a place that moved away from Sun Solaris and does something else. Fine. I've worked for universities that did the exact opposite. My current employer (another university) is a Sun only shop. Nothing will get into our data centers for mission critial purposes that does not run Solaris. Not everybody subscribes to the Linux philosophy.
Anyway, I guess my point is that your experience does not represent the entire IT industry or at least in academic institutions.Then it uses a binary file to figure out what to run at shutdown, and it keeps changing the file when servers start and stop and you can't get an accurate picture of the data its going to use when it shuts down the system. Since the file is a binary file, you can't checksum it and you can't dump it so you've got no clue if someone has put a Trojan in it.
Are you talking about the repository database in /etc/svc? It's just a SQLite database. Use your favorite tools to dump the content if you want to verify its contents. Check out /lib/svc/bin for some tools you could use.
You can even run Linux binaries in a Linux-branded zone on Solaris 10. No need to recompile from scratch.
If you really want to work for an employer that gives great benefits you should look into education or the public sector. I work for a private university in NYC and the benefits I get are unbeatable. Sure, I don't get paid a bonus (and we don't get free food with the exception of certain kinds of meetings) but free education for the entire family, a retirement plan that requires me to put in 5% of my gross while they match 10% of my gross, up to six weeks of paid maternity/paternity leave, ability to get whatever gadget I'd like to "get my job done", and job security make it well worth it. The salary is not that bad either (a little over average for a Sr UNIX system admin in the metro area). Anyway, the random e-mails that Google's recruiters send out are a little off-putting. Also, isn't it a little weird that when you are about to reach your fifth year of your employment with Google just when your stock options are abot to vest HR will be bothering you about how happy you are etc. etc. If you really have to try so much something is not quite right. Happiness test? Please!
These are the US states that have a 0% state sales tax:
Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
That said, individual cities are allowed to charge sales tax, though. While the state sales tax in New York is somewhere around 4% you will pay more than 8% in New York City. If you shop in Bethel, Alaska, you will pay 5% in sales tax even though Alaska itself has 0%.
Other states make distinctions between the products that are being sold. Groceries, for example, are very often not taxed. Clothing up to $110 per item is exempt from city sales tax in NYC but you still have to pay the 4% state sales tax (or was that the other way around?)
You are not supposed to cite from *any* kind of encyclopedia. Wikipedia, Webster, etc. are a start but in the end you should only cite original work.
feels like an ad... and the riddle is not really challenging.
I think what he meant was the DTrace is a tool that most system admins would have no clue how to use.
Any good sysadmin loves to be able to look under the hood. Yes, most will not go ahead and fix any code but at least they have a handle on what's wrong and have a lot more info they can hand over to tech support if needed. I sure hope that any decent Solaris admin is able to use DTrace. It is a wonderful tool.
DTrace does more than just tracing system calls. You can trace any function entry and exit if you desire. Many so-called providers offer hooks you can trigger on. Whatever you like to instrument in your live system, name it, script it, get results. You can query the function parameters of any function call (not just system calls, btw) and act on it.
DTrace is *the* tool for admins. Never before were you able to have such a detailed look into a live system. Once you have an idea where the problem might be you write a D-script that installs specific probes and monitors them (and processes the returned values in any way you want). For some admins (including me) DTrace beats calling tech support.
I just read through your thread on osol-discuss (read it here). I think Casper's and Bryan's replies to you explain everything. I am not quite sure what your beef is. Just because OpenSolaris does not compile on sun4m anymore? Most of the Solaris 10/OpenSolaris features do not support sun4m. Of course, if you want to, you can always contribute code to the project to enable sun4m support. Good luck with that.
This link is much faster (that is if you are in the USA, of course): Web site that evaluates open-source projects.
Being a native German speaker, I would intuitively say "das Taco." Foreign words are most of the time neutral unless they are very similar to an existing German word. But I would guess that if you ask 100 Germans what gender "Taco" is you will get some that will claim it's masculine and some will say it's neutral. I don't think anybody would say "die Taco", though.
Every Blu-Ray player runs a copy of Java ME.
Bingo! Just another way to get your loved ones a last minute gift from your business trip. It would make even more sense if you could purchase your iPod duty-free from one of those vending machines if you travel internationally.
We must not forget that the EU and UK prices include VAT (17.5% in the UK currently). The US price does not. Also, we have to add trade tariffs to the US price (which could be another 15% or so). I really doubt that anybody but the governments are milking the end customer.
The same with crawling, walking, etc. Walking usually starts with the ability to pull yourself up (on furniture, for example). Then they start "cruising" around, holding onto the bookshelf. Then the kid wants to hold your hands and walk while holding you (back-breaking times, I say!), and eventually when she gathered enough courage she will let go and make her own few steps. And practices and practices.
Anyway, congratulations to your seven week old. You are in for a long ride ;-) I hope you and your wife are getting enough sleep.
Did you actually look at the search results of that Google link you gave us? None of it shows that ZFS (as the filesystem developed by Sun) has been ported to Linux.
Dude, an encyclopedia is a starting point for research. It should give you some ideas on how to proceed next. Nothing else. At that, Britannica is as good as Wikipedia, maybe not as "convenient" because it makes you look for further sources (which, btw, is not a bad thing).