I successfully implemented req a few years ago on a job. It's entirely e-mail based, i.e. it's easy for your customers to interface with.
Another option (a little more modern) would be RT. Our security group is using it with success. They get at least a hundred new tickets every day and RT made it possible for them to deal with all of them in a timely manner.
I just verified the location data in those two jpegs. I dragged the picture on my desktop (using Mac OS X) and clicked on 'Get Info'. E voila: Roland, OK. The info is still there.
Are you serious? The almost exact combo of hardware can be had from Sun for much less (well, less than $10k). The W2100z uses the exact same motherboard as the IntelliStation and I assume they use the same graphics card (NVIDIA Quadro FX3000 or 4000?)
You can sign up your phone number for the nationwide don't-call list and politicians are still allowed to call you. Just the other night some dude from the democratic party disturbed my dinner. Are you surprised that e-mail is not treated any different?
Guys, get yourself a little more current. OpenSolaris is actively being ported to PowerPC. Thanks to opening the source so many things that were promised in the past finally become true.
I use it for a Cisco Aeronet wireless network card. We have a Cisco infrastructure here and I need the Aeronet card to use the Cisco specific security features. It works like a charm.
Why should Apple do that? What purpose does it have for them? It's always been a more or less closed architecture. Why should that change? Apple never aimed at the poweruser/hacker comunity. It's about grandma and grandpa and people who use the computer as a tool/appliance. No need to lug some old baggage in form of BIOS compatibilty around.
Apple are now recalling these machines from developers, and replacing them with proper machines.
Technically, Apple is not recalling the Developer Kits. They offer to replace them with iMac Intel boxes. It's entirely up to you if you want to do that, or not.
It would be stupid not to do that because while the Developer Kits were leased (i.e. they have to be sent back to Apple by the end of this year) the exchange iMacs are for you to keep (i.e. for the original $999 you paid for the Kit you get a $1100 iMac Intel; that's cheaper than what you would pay when using your developer discount).
I already put in my request to exchange my DTK for a brand spanking new iMac Intel.
Now, technically it is not their fault that they will take your fees to "service" machines you no longer use, but it seems to me that an honorable vendor ought to point out to you, once in a while, what machines are not under contract that should be, as well as which machines that are under contract that maybe should be dropped.
How should a vendor know what machine you still have in use or not? The most they can do is to tell you that a model is going to be EOLed in the near future. Do you expect them to come onsite and take inventory for you?
... why I stick with Sun equipment. Sun Microsystems have probably one of the best technical support you can buy with money (a lot of money but every cent is worth it).
Home users, maybe. Corporate/higher-ed/etc. customers will not run cracked software. Once invested in Mac OS X on the desktop they will keep buying Macs.
Right now I am using TWC's DVR box and it sucks donkey arse. The user experience is horrible. The only good thing about the Explorer 8x00s is the dual tuner and the price ($8.95/month). Now with those babies coming out from Tivo I will ditch the DVR in a heart beat.
My dream setup: two CableCARDs into a Series 3 Tivo, and one simple non-DVR box from Time Warner. That way I can keep my OnDemand stuff and I can record two channels at the same time on Tivo. I wonder, though, how much I will pay TWC for triplicating the service for me. The CableCARDs are $1.75/piece/month (here in NYC).
Whenever we humans tap into our environment to harness energy we usually ruin it quite a bit. I wonder what kind of long-term consequences such energy retrieval might have.
Apple has never catered for the gaming market. Why should they do so now? Whatever 3D accelerator is going to be shipped with the upcoming Macs will be sufficient for the market Apple is targeting.
When was the last time you tried Sun Cluster? I assume it's been a while and you are a VCS shop now. Sun Cluster 3.x is a very decent product and we phased out VCS for it (also quite a while ago).
[...] By allowing Solaris and Linux binaries to co-exist on the same system, cross-platform application testing and deployment is simplified. In addition, it is now possible to use the award-winning dynamic tracing (DTrace) capabilities of Solaris 10 to monitor and help debug Linux applications, [...]
As you can see you can use Solaris's native tools (including DTrace) to debug a Linux application. This is huge!
You might want to check out the support matrix. Solaris 7 is still being supported for more than two years and no dates have been announced for Solaris 8 and up.
I am not saying that I am going to run Solaris 8 forever. I am just saying that I am speeding up the transition to Solaris 10 only because of the features it offers. They make my life as sysadmin much easier.
You are right. Most Solaris admins don't jump to the next best release when it comes out. It usually takes a long time to go from one version to the next. Many even skip one. I, for example, am running Solaris 8 on all my production boxes. We just started planning for a migration to Solaris 10 while skipping 9. The move from 2.6 to 8 took a couple of years and my guess is that the move from 8 to 10 will take that long again.
If it wasn't for DTrace, Zones, and ZFS I would stick with Solaris 8 for even longer.
They don't really predict anything but they can give a good guess when a CPU or memory starts failing and should be replaced before it fails completely. S.M.A.R.T. in disk drives, for example, is an example for predicitive abilities. The self-healing part (and that's what's already in Solaris 10; the predictive part is not quite here, yet) just makes sure that failing parts are isolated (e.g. take a processor board off-line so it can be swapped out) or services are restarted automatically.
Would you care to elaborate on this? The only reason why Solaris comes with Perl bundled is because many tools (like kstat, projtools, etc.) are written in Perl. It's a fully fledged distribution of Perl (5.6.1 on Solaris 8, 5.8.4 on Solaris 10) and works just fine.
Nothing stops you from installing your own perl in/usr/local or/opt, though. That's what I and many others do.
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Pretty much everything around the UltraSPARC processors is out and in the open.
Another option (a little more modern) would be RT. Our security group is using it with success. They get at least a hundred new tickets every day and RT made it possible for them to deal with all of them in a timely manner.
I just verified the location data in those two jpegs. I dragged the picture on my desktop (using Mac OS X) and clicked on 'Get Info'. E voila: Roland, OK. The info is still there.
Are you serious? The almost exact combo of hardware can be had from Sun for much less (well, less than $10k). The W2100z uses the exact same motherboard as the IntelliStation and I assume they use the same graphics card (NVIDIA Quadro FX3000 or 4000?)
I agree with this 100%. When even the "reviewer" admits that this book is not targeted at him at all why would he "review" it?
One of the steps of those so-called instructions requires the MacBook to boot the Vista DVD. We all know how this doesn't work at all.
You can sign up your phone number for the nationwide don't-call list and politicians are still allowed to call you. Just the other night some dude from the democratic party disturbed my dinner. Are you surprised that e-mail is not treated any different?
CUPS works perfectly fine under Solaris 10. The usbprn driver allows you to use USB connected printers on your Ultra 20 box.
Guys, get yourself a little more current. OpenSolaris is actively being ported to PowerPC. Thanks to opening the source so many things that were promised in the past finally become true.
I use it for a Cisco Aeronet wireless network card. We have a Cisco infrastructure here and I need the Aeronet card to use the Cisco specific security features. It works like a charm.
Why should Apple do that? What purpose does it have for them? It's always been a more or less closed architecture. Why should that change? Apple never aimed at the poweruser/hacker comunity. It's about grandma and grandpa and people who use the computer as a tool/appliance. No need to lug some old baggage in form of BIOS compatibilty around.
Technically, Apple is not recalling the Developer Kits. They offer to replace them with iMac Intel boxes. It's entirely up to you if you want to do that, or not.
It would be stupid not to do that because while the Developer Kits were leased (i.e. they have to be sent back to Apple by the end of this year) the exchange iMacs are for you to keep (i.e. for the original $999 you paid for the Kit you get a $1100 iMac Intel; that's cheaper than what you would pay when using your developer discount).
I already put in my request to exchange my DTK for a brand spanking new iMac Intel.
How should a vendor know what machine you still have in use or not? The most they can do is to tell you that a model is going to be EOLed in the near future. Do you expect them to come onsite and take inventory for you?
... why I stick with Sun equipment. Sun Microsystems have probably one of the best technical support you can buy with money (a lot of money but every cent is worth it).
Home users, maybe. Corporate/higher-ed/etc. customers will not run cracked software. Once invested in Mac OS X on the desktop they will keep buying Macs.
My dream setup: two CableCARDs into a Series 3 Tivo, and one simple non-DVR box from Time Warner. That way I can keep my OnDemand stuff and I can record two channels at the same time on Tivo. I wonder, though, how much I will pay TWC for triplicating the service for me. The CableCARDs are $1.75/piece/month (here in NYC).
Whenever we humans tap into our environment to harness energy we usually ruin it quite a bit. I wonder what kind of long-term consequences such energy retrieval might have.
Apple has never catered for the gaming market. Why should they do so now? Whatever 3D accelerator is going to be shipped with the upcoming Macs will be sufficient for the market Apple is targeting.
I hope some day Sun Cluster and Sun Management Center will be included (you pay through the nose for those two products).
When was the last time you tried Sun Cluster? I assume it's been a while and you are a VCS shop now. Sun Cluster 3.x is a very decent product and we phased out VCS for it (also quite a while ago).
[...] By allowing Solaris and Linux binaries to co-exist on the same system, cross-platform application testing and deployment is simplified. In addition, it is now possible to use the award-winning dynamic tracing (DTrace) capabilities of Solaris 10 to monitor and help debug Linux applications, [...]
As you can see you can use Solaris's native tools (including DTrace) to debug a Linux application. This is huge!
I am not saying that I am going to run Solaris 8 forever. I am just saying that I am speeding up the transition to Solaris 10 only because of the features it offers. They make my life as sysadmin much easier.
If it wasn't for DTrace, Zones, and ZFS I would stick with Solaris 8 for even longer.
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Would you care to elaborate on this? The only reason why Solaris comes with Perl bundled is because many tools (like kstat, projtools, etc.) are written in Perl. It's a fully fledged distribution of Perl (5.6.1 on Solaris 8, 5.8.4 on Solaris 10) and works just fine.
Nothing stops you from installing your own perl in /usr/local or /opt, though. That's what I and many others do.