Speaking as someone with both a RCHE and an AIX cert, I have to disagree.
First, HACMP is an outdated technology.
HACMP setup/configuration is definitely not for the faint of heart nor untrained, but version 5.3 (I haven't used 5.4 yet) is a very polished and stable product. The only issues I have ever have with a HACMP cluster event were directly related to the application or admin error.
Second, the ODM is a piece of crud...Give me a proprietary db that I can't see, and I'll throw my hands up.
odmget, odmput? Not elegant, but the point is that you rarely should have to directly interact with the ODM.
Lack of a 'true' single user level.
In 10 years I have yet to see a need to do this on an AIX server.
LVM is less than adequate. Yep, I paid $1M (US) for a big honking machine, but can't figure out how to convert PP to Mb. ouch.
lsvg vgname, get PP size in MB, multiply or divide as needed
system tuning/kernel is a bit archaic.
Can't argue too much with this one (as far as ease of tuning), but with the assistance of SarCheck you can wring every bit of performance out of AIX.
"People in public offices can be convicted if they bread the law"
But it's so tasty with a little mustard and lettuce!
That was not a typo, it's a reference to increasingly popular theorem referencing the directly inverted relationship of bread vs law, in that the more you have of the former, the less you have to worry about the latter.
I believe they fully realize that it is over as far as DVD protection goes. Next step is to slowly and increasingly "break" DVD's like this, causing a lot of shee^H^H^H^Hconsumers to think that their dvd player is broken. Maybe, just maybe, they'll go ahead and buy that BluRay player since they need another one anyway.
Every flamebait post that I found in this thread was AC. If you want to flame, use your name and take your lumps like a man. I flame MS/Windows/Gates every fscking chance I get, which is why I'll probably never get to a +2 good karma modifier.
Now that I read it again, I guess your post was comparing G4 (in general) to Core (in general), where my example is more G4 on a laptop vs G4 on a desktop. So, um, nevermind then.
but the G4 which was the only suitable PPC chip for laptops was SLOW!
My experience definitely confirms this. My first Mac was a 17" PowerBook with a 1.5GHz G4 that I've had for a couple of years now. Someone recently gave me a PowerMac G3 B&W running at 350MHz. I figured it would be fun to play with a bit, but that's about it. After popping in 512MB of memory I had lying around and a clean load of Tiger, I was really surprised at how fast it was. Since then I've built a PowerMac G4 733 DA using SATA HDs, and it smokes my PowerBook.
Microsoft delays Vista: "Typical crappy Microsoft! They can't even release their OS on time! Ha ha!"
Apple delays OS X: "This is an excellent idea, it will ensure quality and I didn't want it now anyway. Apple is awesome!"
And apple zealots wonder why no one takes them seriously.
Second comment I've read like this, again posted as AC. Now either you're intelligent enough to know how ridiculous the statement is and are just being antagonistic, or you actually believe it. Either way, man up and attach your name to it. There's a reason they call it "Anonymous Coward" as opposed to just "Anonymous".
The operating system named after pussies that runs on computers used prodominately by men who love cock.
After our discussion a few months ago when you were using this as your sig, I checked out your website. You seem to be quite an intelligent and insightful guy, so I can't quite figure out your extreme disdain for arguably the best desktop OS ever.
Call me when Apple puts out a major OS release that isn't faster/better/more feature packed than the last one and doesn't continue to add value for owners of older Apple hardware going all the way back to the first iMac with a Firewire port (1999, that's eight years of Mac models that are officially supported by Apple's most current OS right now).
I have a PowerMac G3 B&W (01/1999) and a PowerMac G4 DA (02/2001), both upgraded to SATA but otherwise stock, that are running Tiger just great. Could you imagine trying to install Vista on a circa 1999 pc?
What we call soccer in the USA is called football in most if not all other countries...so I suspect hes talking about soccer...in which case he is not confused at all.
Instead of drawing that cute little picture often seen here on slashdot, I'm just going to say "Whoosh!"
Right now, in terms of usability AND performance, security and reliability, Windows is far ahead in the race with Unix starting to slog quickly behind in the last three (from an end-user perspective, it never had the first).
Ok, I'm being punk'd, right? All those zero-day exploits, known vulnerabilities that go unpatched for months, ActiveX - you're are just messing with me, right? When you say security (as I concede usability, and you will never convince me on performance or reliability), you must be talking about several layers of third-party apps to buttress the built-in "protection" of Windows.
Maybe I just fall into your category of 'older folks... still mired in "this is the way we've always done things"', but I've never heard or read of someone seriously making this argument for Windows as a server OS.
I can't comment on the competency of our Win Admins as I am definitely not one myself. But I do read several trade publications and websites, and it seems the problems they constantly deal with are not uncommon.
...we're walking Unix servers out the door every day and replacing them with Windows boxes. I think it has something to do with management liking the 24/7 availability on the Tier 1 apps that Unix can no longer provide....
I have no reason to doubt what you say, and maybe it's just that my 20 years in IT have been atypical, but I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around that concept.
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any decent Apple user should get weary as soon as something requests their password
I think 'wary' is what you meant. Weary is what Vista users are of password requests.
Speaking as someone with both a RCHE and an AIX cert, I have to disagree.
First, HACMP is an outdated technology.
HACMP setup/configuration is definitely not for the faint of heart nor untrained, but version 5.3 (I haven't used 5.4 yet) is a very polished and stable product. The only issues I have ever have with a HACMP cluster event were directly related to the application or admin error.
Second, the ODM is a piece of crud...Give me a proprietary db that I can't see, and I'll throw my hands up.
odmget, odmput? Not elegant, but the point is that you rarely should have to directly interact with the ODM.
Lack of a 'true' single user level.
In 10 years I have yet to see a need to do this on an AIX server.
LVM is less than adequate. Yep, I paid $1M (US) for a big honking machine, but can't figure out how to convert PP to Mb. ouch.
lsvg vgname, get PP size in MB, multiply or divide as needed
system tuning/kernel is a bit archaic.
Can't argue too much with this one (as far as ease of tuning), but with the assistance of SarCheck you can wring every bit of performance out of AIX.
Damn, good point. Although some may say my humor occasionally roams into the tasteless, that was certainly not my intent here.
I don't know about you, but I'm dying to read this essay. I couldn't even find a summary or excerpts. Anyone else have anything?
LOL WINDOWS
Sorry, had to do it...
Why? They had their chance and fucked up big time. When someone has proven he is unfit to do a task, I certainly won't hand him the same one twice.
Too bad there weren't more voters like you in the 2004 US presidential election.
Waitasec, GWB actually got less votes in BOTH elections. Um, nevermind...
"People in public offices can be convicted if they bread the law"
But it's so tasty with a little mustard and lettuce!
That was not a typo, it's a reference to increasingly popular theorem referencing the directly inverted relationship of bread vs law, in that the more you have of the former, the less you have to worry about the latter.
PERL:
All of the power of Voodoo with most of the innate understandibility!
OT, I know, but I had to tell you that's one of the best sig's ever! How true!
I believe they fully realize that it is over as far as DVD protection goes. Next step is to slowly and increasingly "break" DVD's like this, causing a lot of shee^H^H^H^Hconsumers to think that their dvd player is broken. Maybe, just maybe, they'll go ahead and buy that BluRay player since they need another one anyway.
Good God, can I find ONE MS fanboy with a pair?!?
Every flamebait post that I found in this thread was AC. If you want to flame, use your name and take your lumps like a man. I flame MS/Windows/Gates every fscking chance I get, which is why I'll probably never get to a +2 good karma modifier.
Now that I read it again, I guess your post was comparing G4 (in general) to Core (in general), where my example is more G4 on a laptop vs G4 on a desktop. So, um, nevermind then.
Shutting up now...
but the G4 which was the only suitable PPC chip for laptops was SLOW!
My experience definitely confirms this. My first Mac was a 17" PowerBook with a 1.5GHz G4 that I've had for a couple of years now. Someone recently gave me a PowerMac G3 B&W running at 350MHz. I figured it would be fun to play with a bit, but that's about it. After popping in 512MB of memory I had lying around and a clean load of Tiger, I was really surprised at how fast it was. Since then I've built a PowerMac G4 733 DA using SATA HDs, and it smokes my PowerBook.
Or even better, release it in May, on 10.5.!
Huh? How do you get May from 10.5? Everyone knows that 10.5 is October 5th.
(If you read this as something other that a light jab at Americans, myself included, then you read it wrong.)
Microsoft delays Vista: "Typical crappy Microsoft! They can't even release their OS on time! Ha ha!"
Apple delays OS X: "This is an excellent idea, it will ensure quality and I didn't want it now anyway. Apple is awesome!"
And apple zealots wonder why no one takes them seriously.
Second comment I've read like this, again posted as AC. Now either you're intelligent enough to know how ridiculous the statement is and are just being antagonistic, or you actually believe it. Either way, man up and attach your name to it. There's a reason they call it "Anonymous Coward" as opposed to just "Anonymous".
The operating system named after pussies that runs on computers used prodominately by men who love cock.
After our discussion a few months ago when you were using this as your sig, I checked out your website. You seem to be quite an intelligent and insightful guy, so I can't quite figure out your extreme disdain for arguably the best desktop OS ever.
Call me when Apple puts out a major OS release that isn't faster/better/more feature packed than the last one and doesn't continue to add value for owners of older Apple hardware going all the way back to the first iMac with a Firewire port (1999, that's eight years of Mac models that are officially supported by Apple's most current OS right now).
I have a PowerMac G3 B&W (01/1999) and a PowerMac G4 DA (02/2001), both upgraded to SATA but otherwise stock, that are running Tiger just great. Could you imagine trying to install Vista on a circa 1999 pc?
quite recent, quite highprofile movies such as Equilibrium and The Machinist (hey, I'm a fan...)
Dude, don't apologize - Christian Bale is da man!
What we call soccer in the USA is called football in most if not all other countries...so I suspect hes talking about soccer...in which case he is not confused at all.
Instead of drawing that cute little picture often seen here on slashdot, I'm just going to say "Whoosh!"
the success of football teams ... 1) scores a lot of goals
Silly foreigners! I can see how you get confused as it's called a goal line, but the methods of scoring are called "touchdowns" and "field goals".
Mostly because of the select-to-copy/middle-click-to-paste idea hasn't been "innovated" yet on windows.
VanDyke SecureCRT gives you this behavior in telnet/ssh sessions, and the AutoCopy extension gives you the select-to-copy behavior in Firefox.
Right now, in terms of usability AND performance, security and reliability, Windows is far ahead in the race with Unix starting to slog quickly behind in the last three (from an end-user perspective, it never had the first).
... still mired in "this is the way we've always done things"', but I've never heard or read of someone seriously making this argument for Windows as a server OS.
Ok, I'm being punk'd, right? All those zero-day exploits, known vulnerabilities that go unpatched for months, ActiveX - you're are just messing with me, right? When you say security (as I concede usability, and you will never convince me on performance or reliability), you must be talking about several layers of third-party apps to buttress the built-in "protection" of Windows.
Maybe I just fall into your category of 'older folks
I can't comment on the competency of our Win Admins as I am definitely not one myself. But I do read several trade publications and websites, and it seems the problems they constantly deal with are not uncommon.
...we're walking Unix servers out the door every day and replacing them with Windows boxes. I think it has something to do with management liking the 24/7 availability on the Tier 1 apps that Unix can no longer provide....
I have no reason to doubt what you say, and maybe it's just that my 20 years in IT have been atypical, but I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around that concept.
Probably, but spelling it that way definitely makes you an idiot.
Instead of correcting you, I'll just note that flaming as an AC makes you a pussy.
Actually, the burning sensation originates in the wallet area, signaling that it's time to leave the site.
Just out of curiosity, does the fact that just going to the Apple website make me tingle a little make me a fanboi?