Well, will wonders never bloody well cease. Of course it does make sense that we would only come up with such a system after we find out our privacy has been completely obliterated.
Come on open-source alternative!!!
-Pete
www.petey.org
I have one 15M/boot partition, one 128M swap partition and the rest of the drive (/) is reiserfs at it's max capacity. There's no resizing, no muss, no fuss. I can't believe that more people don't do this. I've never had a problem at all!!! Why the need for 20 different partitions just for one OS? Why would you want to have to screw around with links and stuff when/var/log is full. What a hassle.
-Pete
The game is fine once it get's all it's pre-caching outta the way, but it is a bear to load. You're looking at like at leaset 2-5 minutes before your in a fragging mode. That's on a faast loaded system too! I'm still waiting for another FPS revolution like half-life! I can't wait to see whatever those developers are up to right now. Pete
I'm going to copyright my children's names and the names of any books that they might potentially write so that they can't be used without my permission or I'll SUE DAMNIT!!!:) [Yeah yeah I know you can't copyright names - why don't you suck an egg anyway.] -Pete
The main question here is do you need to do a lot of data processing on this computer? I doubt it if it's a samba server. All samba does is provide the SMB network transport for data to flow across. Dual CPUs won't make a dent in the speed of the traffic. Spend your money more wisely on quality fast NICs and switches. That's where you'll notice the speed difference! -Pete McDonnell
I have actually seen flames erupt from a computer. The PC had some suspect power problems. I hooked it up on the bench, walked some feet away and turned on the power. Things seemed OK until I heard a loud POP sound and yes, the flames. And the boss thought I was a hot technician:). -Pete
IBM just seems to do shit right. I ask myself how can a company be that huge and still be able to provide a replacement part for an old PS/2 computer ??? Mind you they might want a million dollars for it, but in general, they seem to be a very well run company. I'm impressed at this type of a solution at IBM. Obviously the two tracks won't peer up to the CEO level, but I think this is a very cool move for a company. I guess a company of IBMs size can afford to do nifty things with it's large workforce as well. -Pete
Wow, they have to archive 4 years of managements' e-mail correspondence. Now, will this amount to many terabytes of jokes and raw comics, or just a few Kbytes since they're so bad at english and can hardly spell? teeheehee -Pete
I've tried getting information on the RHCE from redhat directly, and was quite dismayed when my e-mail was not returned. It seemed like the education section of redhat is shoved off to one side. Oh well, thanks for the detailed in-depth review. I think I'd still like to take the course and exam. -Pete
Mickeysoft can't e-mail the original authors of the comments because they can't decode the anti-SPAMed e-mail addresses:) moc.mocten.xi@rab.oof is just way too complicated. And don't even think of p.u.t.t.i.n.g. p.e.r.i.o.d.s. i.n. y.o.u.r. e.m.a.i.l @.d.r.e.s.s. It just makes things unreadable. -Pete
Yeah, I don't think that we're actually broadcasting radio waves at 1000 Mhz, are we? It's deep in a chip beside a heatsink, inside a case. It there really that much to worry about? -Pete
Whenever I recommend a tape drive, it's SCSI DAT all the way. I will let the client know of the cheaper models and then I explain the reliability factor. The whole subject really boils down to this: If you attempt a restore using a cheap drive and it fails, what is the additional price you've just paid? Now that said, let's look at the usage. If this is for business, buy the most reliable tape drive you can afford, if it's for home and you don't care if you lose your 8GB mp3 collection by all means purchase a cheap drive. But then if you don't care about lost data, why are you backing it up? -Pete
IglooFTP is a pretty snazzy program which does queue transfers resumes etc. gftp is pretty cool as well and is GNU I believe. lftp is good, apparently does background transfers, but is a console-based program. Check http://www.freshmeat.net for the above programs.
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Well, will wonders never bloody well cease. Of course it does make sense that we would only come up with such a system after we find out our privacy has been completely obliterated. Come on open-source alternative!!! -Pete www.petey.org
Yeah, that would be a nasy combination when two t's are accidentally mistaken for d's and the u comes out as a v :)
Pete
I have one 15M /boot partition, one 128M swap partition and the rest of the drive (/) is reiserfs at it's max capacity. There's no resizing, no muss, no fuss. I can't believe that more people don't do this. I've never had a problem at all!!! Why the need for 20 different partitions just for one OS? Why would you want to have to screw around with links and stuff when /var/log is full. What a hassle.
-Pete
The game is fine once it get's all it's pre-caching outta the way, but it is a bear to load. You're looking at like at leaset 2-5 minutes before your in a fragging mode. That's on a faast loaded system too! I'm still waiting for another FPS revolution like half-life! I can't wait to see whatever those developers are up to right now. Pete
I'm going to copyright my children's names and the names of any books that they might potentially write so that they can't be used without my permission or I'll SUE DAMNIT!!! :) [Yeah yeah I know you can't copyright names - why don't you suck an egg anyway.] -Pete
The main question here is do you need to do a lot of data processing on this computer? I doubt it if it's a samba server. All samba does is provide the SMB network transport for data to flow across. Dual CPUs won't make a dent in the speed of the traffic. Spend your money more wisely on quality fast NICs and switches. That's where you'll notice the speed difference! -Pete McDonnell
I have actually seen flames erupt from a computer. The PC had some suspect power problems. I hooked it up on the bench, walked some feet away and turned on the power. Things seemed OK until I heard a loud POP sound and yes, the flames. And the boss thought I was a hot technician :). -Pete
IBM just seems to do shit right. I ask myself how can a company be that huge and still be able to provide a replacement part for an old PS/2 computer ??? Mind you they might want a million dollars for it, but in general, they seem to be a very well run company. I'm impressed at this type of a solution at IBM. Obviously the two tracks won't peer up to the CEO level, but I think this is a very cool move for a company. I guess a company of IBMs size can afford to do nifty things with it's large workforce as well. -Pete
Wow, they have to archive 4 years of managements' e-mail correspondence. Now, will this amount to many terabytes of jokes and raw comics, or just a few Kbytes since they're so bad at english and can hardly spell? teeheehee -Pete
I've tried getting information on the RHCE from redhat directly, and was quite dismayed when my e-mail was not returned. It seemed like the education section of redhat is shoved off to one side. Oh well, thanks for the detailed in-depth review. I think I'd still like to take the course and exam. -Pete
Mickeysoft can't e-mail the original authors of the comments because they can't decode the anti-SPAMed e-mail addresses :) moc.mocten.xi@rab.oof is just way too complicated. And don't even think of p.u.t.t.i.n.g. p.e.r.i.o.d.s. i.n. y.o.u.r. e.m.a.i.l @.d.r.e.s.s. It just makes things unreadable. -Pete
Yeah, I don't think that we're actually broadcasting radio waves at 1000 Mhz, are we? It's deep in a chip beside a heatsink, inside a case. It there really that much to worry about? -Pete
Whenever I recommend a tape drive, it's SCSI DAT all the way. I will let the client know of the cheaper models and then I explain the reliability factor. The whole subject really boils down to this: If you attempt a restore using a cheap drive and it fails, what is the additional price you've just paid? Now that said, let's look at the usage. If this is for business, buy the most reliable tape drive you can afford, if it's for home and you don't care if you lose your 8GB mp3 collection by all means purchase a cheap drive. But then if you don't care about lost data, why are you backing it up? -Pete
There's a program for the palm pilot called omniremote I believe, it's awesome and AFAIK can handle any kind of IR signal.
Of course if you want to use GIFs you'll have to pay the lovely Unisys $5000 license fee. Try PNG format for your images. It's just awesome.
IglooFTP is a pretty snazzy program which does queue transfers resumes etc. gftp is pretty cool as well and is GNU I believe. lftp is good, apparently does background transfers, but is a console-based program. Check http://www.freshmeat.net for the above programs.