How about the Solaris kernel being interchangeable with the Linux kernel? Keep all the other "outer layers" the same, but make the stable/scalable Solaris kernel plug into the operating system when it's needed, and use the Linux kernel for the lower-end servers, desktops, etc.
With their rumblings about Solaris becoming LSB compliant, this just might be a good tactic. Keep the best of both...
Actually, Solaris for x86 is a 2nd fully-supported OS for the LX50. It does not come pre-installed on any LX50 though; buy the Solaris SKU and you get the CDs in the box, which you then have to install yourself.
We had an -8 and an -11 at my high school back in 1981-1985. We used to sing the Batman theme music whenever the service guy showed up to do PM on those washing-machine sized disk drives (RK07? gawd it's been a long time...):
Na-na na-na na-na na-na, DEC-Man!
Guess if it's the PDQ now, it'll have to be DEQ-man...
Thanks a lot - just when I thought I'd completely put that system out of my head for good...:)
I used to work for a clothing mfr/retailer that used the DOS version of RetailPro. The reporting was somewhat flexible from what I remember, but man - that cheesy modem-based polling system was a complete nightmare to keep up and running smoothly. We only had 10 stores, and almost every night at least one of them would have problems, which meant calling back to the store the next day, walking them through the process (which meant they had to completely shut down what they were doing while the polling happened)...
I remember the Windows version was coming Real Soon Now(tm), right up until Feb 2000 when I left... but it still looked like a disaster all the way around. I'm surprised they have survived until now... just goes to show you can sell anyone crap if you try.
You can see San Clemente Island on a clear day from the beaches in North San Diego County. If they put the receivers at the highest points, or even near them, there should be no problem at all.
Having been a gas turbine mechanic in the US Navy (gas turbines are used to power the Aegis-class cruisers, Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, and Perry-class frigates), I can say that there are silencers that can be used in the exhaust which will keep the noise down quite a bit... jet airplances are "extra noisy" because the hot gas flows out the back pretty much unabated (small loss to continue turning the gas generator portion, but most energy is "lost" out the back in pure thrust), whereas in a turbine "prime mover" application, much of the exhaust energy is used up turning the power turbine / reduction gear / generator.
Plus the size of the turbines in these locomotives is probably similar to those in Huey/Blackhawk- sized helicopter... you can get a lot more HP out of a physically smaller gas turbine than you can from a diesel (the Navy gets 2500kW from a single Huey-sized turbine/ generator setup). And, to me anyway, the lower frequencies from a diesel are more "penetrating" than the higher turbine freqs...
Another turbine advantage is they can run on almost anything flammable, given the right nozzles etc. Some power plants actually burn pulverized coal in their turbines. They can also run on methane, LNG, etc... so if/when it becomes unfashionable enough/too expensive/whatever to power the trains with dead dinosaurs, they can switch over to something else... (methanol anyone?)
I've always thought a turbine-powered locomotive made a lot more sense from a size/weight/fuel economy point of view than a diesel engine... guess I shoulda patented the idea when I had it back in the mid-90s!
> It does real throttling, letting you limit the total bandwidth for all of a user's sites to a bytes/sec value. No Apache modules do this. Even thttpd [acme.com] doesn't seem to get this right.
FYI, the Sun Cobalt RaQ appliances allow you to set througput limits in kilobits/second (low=10, high=??) per IP address (that's for all IP traffice - FTP, HTTP, mail, etc), known as "Sun Cobalt Bandwidth management"... (It's done via a kernel module...) No auto-cutoff after x GB/time period though, just setting the pipe size...
Another Ginger vs. MaryAnn debate? I say - what's wrong with Mrs. Howell? Sure, the other two are cute. But Mrs. Howell has experience, and she's rich!:)
Not true. My wife has identical twin brothers; one is about 50-60 pounds heavier than the other. Granted, the thinner one exercises more, etc., but a blanket statement like "are always" needs some qualifiers to be correct...:)
I ran "zip codes" "congressional districts" through Google and got back a bunch of links.
This place seems to have zip code info sliced several ways, including congressional districts, for a fee.
This place seems to specialize in providing info like this as well...
</karma whoring>
With the yearly redistricting that some/all states do, it's probably easiest to purchase the info. Perhaps even from the Post Office themselves... congressional district info seems to be a component field that they track anyway... call the National Customer Support Center at 1-800-238-3150. Hours of operation are 7:00 AM through 5:30 PM CT.
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Yes, the mobo in the LX50 supports LOM, and there are tools for BIOS access, etc.
Check the prices for the HP box you're talking about... the LX50 product mgmt team was being very price-conscious when building the SKUs, and are cheaper than IBM and HP for similar configs, and very close to Dell as well (with better support and more goodies on the box than Dell's offerings)...
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How about the Solaris kernel being interchangeable with the Linux kernel? Keep all the other "outer layers" the same, but make the stable/scalable Solaris kernel plug into the operating system when it's needed, and use the Linux kernel for the lower-end servers, desktops, etc.
With their rumblings about Solaris becoming LSB compliant, this just might be a good tactic. Keep the best of both...
Actually, Solaris for x86 is a 2nd fully-supported OS for the LX50. It does not come pre-installed on any LX50 though; buy the Solaris SKU and you get the CDs in the box, which you then have to install yourself.
That story is here... she raised her money and is now looking to "hand off" to someone else in need.
We had an -8 and an -11 at my high school back in 1981-1985. We used to sing the Batman theme music whenever the service guy showed up to do PM on those washing-machine sized disk drives (RK07? gawd it's been a long time...):
Na-na na-na na-na na-na, DEC-Man!
Guess if it's the PDQ now, it'll have to be DEQ-man...
Mmm.... TECO...
I forget - does RSTS/E run on the -8? Or was it only on the -11s?
Yes, it's being done at Sony Online Entertainment in San Diego... We were bidding to have them use our Linux boxes, but no go...
:)
They're putting in several hundred, up to a couple thousand, servers split between east and west coast.
Anyone got the trademark on StarWarsCrack yet?
Thanks a lot - just when I thought I'd completely put that system out of my head for good... :)
I used to work for a clothing mfr/retailer that used the DOS version of RetailPro. The reporting was somewhat flexible from what I remember, but man - that cheesy modem-based polling system was a complete nightmare to keep up and running smoothly. We only had 10 stores, and almost every night at least one of them would have problems, which meant calling back to the store the next day, walking them through the process (which meant they had to completely shut down what they were doing while the polling happened)...
I remember the Windows version was coming Real Soon Now(tm), right up until Feb 2000 when I left... but it still looked like a disaster all the way around. I'm surprised they have survived until now... just goes to show you can sell anyone crap if you try.
Check out eCentra - their ViewPoint POS is a Java-based system that runs on Linux.
Especially digging the cable into the ground under a couple hundred feet of water... :)
You can see San Clemente Island on a clear day from the beaches in North San Diego County. If they put the receivers at the highest points, or even near them, there should be no problem at all.
Having been a gas turbine mechanic in the US Navy (gas turbines are used to power the Aegis-class cruisers, Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, and Perry-class frigates), I can say that there are silencers that can be used in the exhaust which will keep the noise down quite a bit... jet airplances are "extra noisy" because the hot gas flows out the back pretty much unabated (small loss to continue turning the gas generator portion, but most energy is "lost" out the back in pure thrust), whereas in a turbine "prime mover" application, much of the exhaust energy is used up turning the power turbine / reduction gear / generator.
Plus the size of the turbines in these locomotives is probably similar to those in Huey/Blackhawk- sized helicopter... you can get a lot more HP out of a physically smaller gas turbine than you can from a diesel (the Navy gets 2500kW from a single Huey-sized turbine/ generator setup). And, to me anyway, the lower frequencies from a diesel are more "penetrating" than the higher turbine freqs...
Another turbine advantage is they can run on almost anything flammable, given the right nozzles etc. Some power plants actually burn pulverized coal in their turbines. They can also run on methane, LNG, etc... so if/when it becomes unfashionable enough/too expensive/whatever to power the trains with dead dinosaurs, they can switch over to something else... (methanol anyone?)
I've always thought a turbine-powered locomotive made a lot more sense from a size/weight/fuel economy point of view than a diesel engine... guess I shoulda patented the idea when I had it back in the mid-90s!
> It does real throttling, letting you limit the total bandwidth for all of a user's sites to a bytes/sec value. No Apache modules do this. Even thttpd [acme.com] doesn't seem to get this right.
FYI, the Sun Cobalt RaQ appliances allow you to set througput limits in kilobits/second (low=10, high=??) per IP address (that's for all IP traffice - FTP, HTTP, mail, etc), known as "Sun Cobalt Bandwidth management"... (It's done via a kernel module...) No auto-cutoff after x GB/time period though, just setting the pipe size...
Yep, I agree. My bad. :)
And yes, I agree with the major version rev for the core change...
Why not do a Sun job, and call the next version 6.
Actually, it's Sun Linux 5.0. And it's at v5.0 because there were 4 prior releases/versions of Cobalt Linux for the various appliance products.
.NetGNux?
No, no, no. The correct answer to this age-old debate is: Ginger and MaryAnn! :)
Another Ginger vs. MaryAnn debate? I say - what's wrong with Mrs. Howell? Sure, the other two are cute. But Mrs. Howell has experience, and she's rich! :)
Identical twins are always equally fat/thin.
:)
Not true. My wife has identical twin brothers; one is about 50-60 pounds heavier than the other. Granted, the thinner one exercises more, etc., but a blanket statement like "are always" needs some qualifiers to be correct...
I ran "zip codes" "congressional districts" through Google and got back a bunch of links.
This place seems to have zip code info sliced several ways, including congressional districts, for a fee.
This place seems to specialize in providing info like this as well...
</karma whoring>
With the yearly redistricting that some/all states do, it's probably easiest to purchase the info. Perhaps even from the Post Office themselves... congressional district info seems to be a component field that they track anyway... call the National Customer Support Center at 1-800-238-3150. Hours of operation are 7:00 AM through 5:30 PM CT.
Slow-mo capture of hot grits being poured down Natalie Portman's pants...?
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From the SPARC site:
Yes, the mobo in the LX50 supports LOM, and there are tools for BIOS access, etc.
... the LX50 product mgmt team was being very price-conscious when building the SKUs, and are cheaper than IBM and HP for similar configs, and very close to Dell as well (with better support and more goodies on the box than Dell's offerings)...
Check the prices for the HP box you're talking about
The first 4 versions were the various base operating systems in the Cobalt appliances...
Green on grey? Ugh. And two columns? Puh-leeze.
*Nice* sig! :)