Forget the tie, and offer *really nice* but mandatory lanyards with honkin' USB drives.
Engrave those USB drives with some quantitative representation of commitment; resolved tickets, highest number of hours clocked in one pay period, or some company-relevant measure of success.
Turn that frown upside down, cowboy - that's a conversation starter and respect-earner around that neck, not to mention the effective "keys to the kingdom"..
*IF* you can manage a shirt with more than 3 buttons, and a decent pair of trousers.
Hmm, forget 'Dickies' Brand, what we need is 'Dilbert' Brand workwear. Buy 3, get 2 FREE! Line your closet with freedom from decision!
There are cases where VMWare may be preferable, but unless you're running 16 systems, I don't see how it's "BETTER" for general use.
VirtualBox is at least $189 less than any other product. That makes it 189 times "BETTER" than anything else, especially when you start in with the feature comparisons.
- Virtual CPU count - OpenGL - Manageability/portability - Live migration/teleportation - Scriptable backend - Dead Simple Interface
BTW, what could you possibly be struggling with?
I was just going to read and mod.. Oh well. It's worth it.
- reuse of existing structure (one with nice, thick walls) - vertical scale-out (think cup stacking) - leverages magic of physics (hot ring, cold ring - inherent strength of tubular structure) - shorter-than-typical cable runs (~10m) - tubes use less concrete and steel than cubes - free-air cooling
The only impressive re-use of a concrete silo structure I have seen is a retrofit into a rock-climbing gym (http://stoneworksrockgym.com/photogallery.htm).
All recent and new Dell servers are designed to run headless.
They actually have (gasp!) working management interfaces! You can have your head, with some keyboard and feature availability in a browser window, yes, even Firefox.
Leverage the intelligent platform management interface with 'ipmitool' for even greater control!
Things are actually progressing, though it has taken the better part of ten years..
However, grub does not understand USB *anyway*, so unless you are lucky enough to have a BIOS which supports USB serial ports as native devices (like it does for keyboards and mice), your USB dongle will not allow you to control your bootloader. Period. This is because making a USB serial port work requires a functional USB subsystem, which is more than a bootloader is supposed to handle. As of now, it's not clear if or when grub will support USB. So laptops are screwed.
But a desktop machine can us a PCI card, right? You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? Unfortunately, grub only knows the standard IO ports (memory addresses and IRQs) for COM 1-4 (units 0-3 in grub parlance) -- which means if your PCI serial card appears at a different address, grub will not be able to use it. There is code in the pipe for PCI expansion serial ports in grub, but I'm not sure of its status. It doesn't work in my Hardy Heron Ubuntu, although I'm hopeful that this will work reliably in the future. (If so, then PCI cards could be a good solution for "desktop" PCs.)
Define the serial port and configure GRUB to use the serial port, as shown in Figure 4-6.
Figure 4-6. GRUB configuration for serial console
serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal serial
--unit is the number of the serial port, counting from zero, unit 0 being COM1.
Note that the values of --parity are spelt out in full: no, even and odd. The common abbreviations n, e and o are not accepted.
If there is mysteriously no output on the serial port then suspect a syntax error in the serial or terminal commands.
If you also want to use and attached monitor and keyboard as well as the serial port to control the GRUB boot loader then use the alternative configuration in Figure 4-7.
Kernel:
The Linux kernel is configured to select the console by passing it the console parameter. The console parameter can be given repeatedly, but the parameter can only be given once for each console technology. So console=tty0 console=lp0 console=ttyS0 is acceptable but console=ttyS0 console=ttyS1 will not work.
When multiple consoles are listed output is sent to all consoles and input is taken from the last listed console. The last console is the one Linux uses as the/dev/console device.
The syntax of the console parameter is given in Figure 5-1.
Figure 5-1. Kernel console syntax, in EBNF
* They are trying to focus more on their services business, having recently spent $14 Billion acquiring EDS
See the dog food argument, above
* The SPARC line and the Solaris operating system would go head-to-head with HP's high-end servers (Itanium-based) and HP-UX operating system. While it would take a strong competitor off the table, it would also create uncertainty with the large SPARC installed base, especially in the financial community.
There is no longer a need for 4 distinct architectures in non-specialized high-end computing. HP could be in a comfortable position to weigh the options for cost/profit, per platform, and for a relatively minimal investment, weigh what had been a primary opponent against their own assets. In light of their services business, the systems with the most attractive service projections would be the cards to keep.
H-P's acquisition of COMPAQ...
Compaq isn't a solid comparison, and neither is the reign of Fiorina.
Mark Hurd is extremely cost-conscious and very focused on quarter-to-quarter results for Wall Street. A big acquisition like this would be very disruptive and require some significant writeoffs and future earnings impairments.
See the dog food argument above, and the results deliverable from owning Sun's hardware business compounded with EBS results. This economic phase provides an excellent, stable ebb for acquisition and staging.
Announcer:The robustness and performance you have come to expect from Sun and Oracle is now backed with names with robustness and longevity to match. Run Oracle on SPARC, now from Hewlett Packard.
Sun and Solaris provide a "preferred" environment for Oracle.
"Oracle has based entire our middleware strategy on Java and J2EE integration," Ellison said. "Our approach is all built around Java." He said the move was sparked by requests from customers.
That Oracle would tout the performance of an ally is no surprise, regardless of whether an acquisition was in the works.
Since we have clarified that there is indeed an FM transmitter, and that OGG format is available, does this mean that I can now broadcast a Truly Free (TM) radio station of my own design to any listeners within 4 meters?
Can we now, thanks to Nokia, create a new HAM radio scene, operating on Free (TM) Codecs over public wavelengths?
The return of Slow-Scan, via 5MP Carl Zeiss (TM) optics and WLAN?
I want to use OGG format for my audio, because I identify OGG and its apparent lack of mainstream support with all things underdog. The struggle is a significant component of my mission statement.
Will the n900 support OGG Theora for encoding and streaming video directly from the device? Does this require specialized hardware?
...for more unusably shit Nokia components. They have A-GPS, because the things takes 10 minutes to get a fix. I can locate a map, find my position, chart a course to destination, and re-fold the map (properly) in less time than it takes to get a GPS fix.
Then, it's just a flat map, with your current position displayed. Granted, it will show my path from the Coffee Shop counter to the toilet, and back, but what the world needs now is Nav, sweet Nav..
The diplay appears to be the same, which is great, unless you're viewing through polarized lenses. The biggest complaint I have with the n810 display is the PDA-class GPU. The PowerVR chip should turn things around. Is it the same core as in iPhone?
Good to see the stand present on the rear.
Alert me when the price & demand drop so I can pick one up for $250.
* 3.5mm AV connector
* TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable
* Micro-USB connector, High-Speed USB 2.0
* Bluetooth v2.1 including support for stereo headsets
* Integrated FM transmitter
* Integrated GPS with A-GPS
I'm sure they mean receiver, from the other pieces I've read, but I still wonder if they have low-wattage TX capability for hands-free calls, a'la iPod transmitter for use in the car, the john, or other places where an FM receiver and speakers are available.
A use for all this cash people will save by not buying fuel will be usurped via some other method.
All the money collected for text messages, cellular data, and airtime minutes are my example. Somewhere, someone is plotting how to better monetize electric car charge delivery, and if you think the gas pump is bad, just wait.
Your rotary dial and copper pair were supplanted by an insidious money eating gizmo. The service station is poised to be reinvented, with coffee bar (serving a slew of $5 "conveniences")
^ 6 page article on the effect of plastic on nature, including a turtle deformed by a plastic band, numerous birds who died, leaving a skeleton encircling a pile of indigestible plastic 'critters', and some statistics and figures.
What choice do we make? What decision is made for those who choose not to decide?
Nearly every plasticine particle ever crafted still exists in a less than useful form. How many are in your pocket?
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Bravo..
Forget the tie, and offer *really nice* but mandatory lanyards with honkin' USB drives.
Engrave those USB drives with some quantitative representation of commitment; resolved tickets, highest number of hours clocked in one pay period, or some company-relevant measure of success.
Turn that frown upside down, cowboy - that's a conversation starter and respect-earner around that neck, not to mention the effective "keys to the kingdom"..
*IF* you can manage a shirt with more than 3 buttons, and a decent pair of trousers.
Hmm, forget 'Dickies' Brand, what we need is 'Dilbert' Brand workwear. Buy 3, get 2 FREE! Line your closet with freedom from decision!
They had support from the mainboard manufacturer.
Read the fucking article.
And better, how?
Just BETTER?
There are cases where VMWare may be preferable, but unless you're running 16 systems, I don't see how it's "BETTER" for general use.
VirtualBox is at least $189 less than any other product. That makes it 189 times "BETTER" than anything else, especially when you start in with the feature comparisons.
- Virtual CPU count
- OpenGL
- Manageability/portability
- Live migration/teleportation
- Scriptable backend
- Dead Simple Interface
BTW, what could you possibly be struggling with?
I was just going to read and mod.. Oh well. It's worth it.
Get a job with a company where 'real world' achievement is valued.
Make yourself a certificate, or spend a few bucks and have a custom trophy made.
- reuse of existing structure (one with nice, thick walls)
- vertical scale-out (think cup stacking)
- leverages magic of physics (hot ring, cold ring - inherent strength of tubular structure)
- shorter-than-typical cable runs (~10m)
- tubes use less concrete and steel than cubes
- free-air cooling
The only impressive re-use of a concrete silo structure I have seen is a retrofit into a rock-climbing gym (http://stoneworksrockgym.com/photogallery.htm).
All recent and new Dell servers are designed to run headless.
They actually have (gasp!) working management interfaces! You can have your head, with some keyboard and feature availability in a browser window, yes, even Firefox.
Leverage the intelligent platform management interface with 'ipmitool' for even greater control!
Things are actually progressing, though it has taken the better part of ten years..
I quess it depends on your machine and your grub version.
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Serial-terminal
Here's an interesting tidbit on the subject: http://www.advogato.org/person/pedro/diary/64.html
However, grub does not understand USB *anyway*, so unless you are lucky enough to have a BIOS which supports USB serial ports as native devices (like it does for keyboards and mice), your USB dongle will not allow you to control your bootloader. Period. This is because making a USB serial port work requires a functional USB subsystem, which is more than a bootloader is supposed to handle. As of now, it's not clear if or when grub will support USB. So laptops are screwed.
But a desktop machine can us a PCI card, right? You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? Unfortunately, grub only knows the standard IO ports (memory addresses and IRQs) for COM 1-4 (units 0-3 in grub parlance) -- which means if your PCI serial card appears at a different address, grub will not be able to use it. There is code in the pipe for PCI expansion serial ports in grub, but I'm not sure of its status. It doesn't work in my Hardy Heron Ubuntu, although I'm hopeful that this will work reliably in the future. (If so, then PCI cards could be a good solution for "desktop" PCs.)
GRUB:
Define the serial port and configure GRUB to use the serial port, as shown in Figure 4-6. Figure 4-6. GRUB configuration for serial console
--unit is the number of the serial port, counting from zero, unit 0 being COM1. Note that the values of --parity are spelt out in full: no, even and odd. The common abbreviations n, e and o are not accepted. If there is mysteriously no output on the serial port then suspect a syntax error in the serial or terminal commands. If you also want to use and attached monitor and keyboard as well as the serial port to control the GRUB boot loader then use the alternative configuration in Figure 4-7.
Kernel:
The Linux kernel is configured to select the console by passing it the console parameter. The console parameter can be given repeatedly, but the parameter can only be given once for each console technology. So console=tty0 console=lp0 console=ttyS0 is acceptable but console=ttyS0 console=ttyS1 will not work. When multiple consoles are listed output is sent to all consoles and input is taken from the last listed console. The last console is the one Linux uses as the /dev/console device.
The syntax of the console parameter is given in Figure 5-1.
Figure 5-1. Kernel console syntax, in EBNF
Quite a bit more info at tdlp.org..
* They are trying to focus more on their services business, having recently spent $14 Billion acquiring EDS
See the dog food argument, above
* The SPARC line and the Solaris operating system would go head-to-head with HP's high-end servers (Itanium-based) and HP-UX operating system. While it would take a strong competitor off the table, it would also create uncertainty with the large SPARC installed base, especially in the financial community.
There is no longer a need for 4 distinct architectures in non-specialized high-end computing. HP could be in a comfortable position to weigh the options for cost/profit, per platform, and for a relatively minimal investment, weigh what had been a primary opponent against their own assets. In light of their services business, the systems with the most attractive service projections would be the cards to keep.
H-P's acquisition of COMPAQ...
Compaq isn't a solid comparison, and neither is the reign of Fiorina.
Mark Hurd is extremely cost-conscious and very focused on quarter-to-quarter results for Wall Street. A big acquisition like this would be very disruptive and require some significant writeoffs and future earnings impairments.
See the dog food argument above, and the results deliverable from owning Sun's hardware business compounded with EBS results. This economic phase provides an excellent, stable ebb for acquisition and staging.
Announcer: The robustness and performance you have come to expect from Sun and Oracle is now backed with names with robustness and longevity to match. Run Oracle on SPARC, now from Hewlett Packard.
Sun and Solaris provide a "preferred" environment for Oracle.
"Oracle has based entire our middleware strategy on Java and J2EE integration," Ellison said. "Our approach is all built around Java." He said the move was sparked by requests from customers.
That Oracle would tout the performance of an ally is no surprise, regardless of whether an acquisition was in the works.
Sun has been run as a hole by all kinds of people - even people without ponytails!
A hole for people to put money into, as well as a hole for investors to throw money down - 1:4 split, anyone?
Would they sell it out-right, or license it?
It runs on more than SPARC, and Sun makes x86-64 boxen too..
Who gets OpenSolaris?
No.
I am padding my response with extra (crocodile) redundancy, in keeping with the theme of the thread.
http://dvorak.mwbrooks.com/unix.html#xmod
http://austinche.name/maemo/xmodmap.dvorak
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/ukeyboard/
Happy to help.
I would estimate something closer to 65%.
The app catalog alone is embarrassing. Twenty-five categories, some duplicated, some contain one app, and few really deliver.
I have had the best experience installing Debian, and running ARM ports. I wish I could bypass Maemo altogether.
They are part of single, integrated unit. They commonly refer to it as 'jam box'. Must be shorthand for something or another..
Since we have clarified that there is indeed an FM transmitter, and that OGG format is available, does this mean that I can now broadcast a Truly Free (TM) radio station of my own design to any listeners within 4 meters?
Can we now, thanks to Nokia, create a new HAM radio scene, operating on Free (TM) Codecs over public wavelengths?
The return of Slow-Scan, via 5MP Carl Zeiss (TM) optics and WLAN?
I want to use OGG format for my audio, because I identify OGG and its apparent lack of mainstream support with all things underdog. The struggle is a significant component of my mission statement.
Will the n900 support OGG Theora for encoding and streaming video directly from the device? Does this require specialized hardware?
People claim that Nokia nNNN functions as a GPS.
Any owner will testify to the contrary.
...for more unusably shit Nokia components. They have A-GPS, because the things takes 10 minutes to get a fix. I can locate a map, find my position, chart a course to destination, and re-fold the map (properly) in less time than it takes to get a GPS fix.
Then, it's just a flat map, with your current position displayed. Granted, it will show my path from the Coffee Shop counter to the toilet, and back, but what the world needs now is Nav, sweet Nav..
The iPhone is a fashion accessory, and fashion accessories do not require removable/swappable anything.
You dispose of, and replace.
The n810 is great, except when you need to make a (non-skype) phone call.
The new keyboard looks good, although it will take me another 9 months to adjust to the new key layout.
The black plastic finish should take more of a beating (drops, in particular) compared to the metal finish of the current unit, but Man! It looks so thick! http://www.sizeasy.com/page/size_comparison/23639-Nokia-N810-vs-N97-vs-Nokia-N900
The diplay appears to be the same, which is great, unless you're viewing through polarized lenses. The biggest complaint I have with the n810 display is the PDA-class GPU. The PowerVR chip should turn things around. Is it the same core as in iPhone?
Good to see the stand present on the rear.
Alert me when the price & demand drop so I can pick one up for $250.
Connectivity
* 3.5mm AV connector
* TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable
* Micro-USB connector, High-Speed USB 2.0
* Bluetooth v2.1 including support for stereo headsets
* Integrated FM transmitter
* Integrated GPS with A-GPS
I'm sure they mean receiver, from the other pieces I've read, but I still wonder if they have low-wattage TX capability for hands-free calls, a'la iPod transmitter for use in the car, the john, or other places where an FM receiver and speakers are available.
Gutless off the line, compared to an equal gas-powered engine? Maybe.
Gutless up a 15-degree incline? Nope.
Take a look at a VW 1.6 Diesel (turbo or normally aspirated - your choice) in a Mk.II Jetta, and in a Suzuki Samurai.
Take a look at a VW 1.9 Diesel (T or NA) in a VW Vanagon, compared to the anemic NA 1.6L.
The difference is often in the gearing in the transmission and/or differential (if equipped).
A use for all this cash people will save by not buying fuel will be usurped via some other method.
All the money collected for text messages, cellular data, and airtime minutes are my example. Somewhere, someone is plotting how to better monetize electric car charge delivery, and if you think the gas pump is bad, just wait.
Your rotary dial and copper pair were supplanted by an insidious money eating gizmo. The service station is poised to be reinvented, with coffee bar (serving a slew of $5 "conveniences")
http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/health/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we_2.php
^ 6 page article on the effect of plastic on nature, including a turtle deformed by a plastic band, numerous birds who died, leaving a skeleton encircling a pile of indigestible plastic 'critters', and some statistics and figures.
What choice do we make? What decision is made for those who choose not to decide?
Nearly every plasticine particle ever crafted still exists in a less than useful form. How many are in your pocket?