> Because, if you haven't noticed, about 90%+ of the
There are some things in which it doesn't matter how many people want it. If even one person differs in certain things, it is not right for the majority to put their will onto the minority. This is what certain amendments to the US Constitution were trying to emphisize. You might have heard of them? There were 10 of them?
The first of these amendments stands out pretty clearly, in this particular instance.
Requests and problem tickets are really the same thing... issues that prevent or hinder the employee from doing their job, or from doing it as well as it should or could be done.
Wanting something written/rewritten/upgraded/etc. should go to the same system that you have for broken computers. It might go to different people or groups, but the tool that you use can easily be the same.
Yeah, Solaris userland sucks./etc is a _mess_ (ever try to figure out which file a certain config is in? grep something/etc/*... hangs forever, due to/etc/initpipe & utmppipe.. ever install raidmanager? binaries are in/etc/raid/bin). I just see it getting worse and worse. Sun's solution is to slap a new coat of paint on it (gnome) and forget about the rest.
They haven't removed the worst offender of the old legacy PC, however. The BIOS is still there. PCs need to ditch BIOS and go with something decent like openboot. Also, console on an out of band management line needs to be stardand, so you can administer things remotely or when the network is down.
It doesn't need to be legacy serial, though that's what everything else uses. Put it on USB for all I care. Just make sure I can get to the system outside the network, and boot/reset/configure it from there.
The Solaris OS can handle more than 128, in theory. They just haven't made Sun hardware with more CPUs than 128 yet, though. I think it was a 1k theoretical current limit to the CPUs. Any Sun kernel devs out there that can say for sure?
Corporations are communist states, on a small scale. Stalin and Ford had a lot in common. People are just cogs.
Trickle down? That voodoo economics theory that does not work and greatly widens the gap between the rich and the poor? Yeah, I remember it.
It's not anti-capitalist to want these corporate machines taken down, in itself. I want that. I want them replaced by other capitolist structures that actually benefit all the people in a company, not just the 'top dogs' there.
He's the section of the book where you skip and rather than lose something of the story, it adds to it. Just like the songs and poems in there. Tolkien's books really need a 'good parts version'.;)
Yeah... except that OS X doesn't behave like other UNIX. Want to set up NFS? You're looking at editing some funky database to do it. Want to know which options to use in netinfo for more than a really basic setup? Good luck finding a manpage on that in OS X. The man pages in that OS seriously lack. Just one example of many. Passwords, groups, hosts? Yeah... intuitive.
I read once where copyright was extended forever. Eventually artists barely came out with anything. It was too much like stuff that was done 100 years ago, or more, so couldn't get copyright. I don't remember the name of the story, but it was kind of interesting.
How much true originality is there out there? Is building on the shoulders of others a bad thing? Is being derivitive a bad thing? Perhaps not always, or even at all.
Not really. The Sunray is your IO.. your graphics card, sound, keyboard, mouse, monitor.. that kind of stuff. Those things connect to the computer over a bus (PCI, AGP, etc). The Sunray uses ethernet equipment for the bus, and connects many different systems to one computer.
The network is the bus, the bus in the network. Understand that and you have the basic idea of Sunrays.
I say that! I'd much rather see all sports reduced to a local level, and the money spent on other activities. This would not only eliminate annoying pro sports, but it would encourage community togetherness, promote health as more people are playing sports than watching it, and give people something to feel positive and worthwhile about themselves.
But that'll never happen. People want to be fatasses watching a game on the couch or stadium and somehow feeling that they're important because a bunch of people from their area (or who moved to their general area) are somehow a reflection on them.
I'm a better person 'cause a bunch of people in my state, most of them weren't even raised here, are better <sport> players than other a bunch of other similar groups! Yeah! Blegh.
As for which is more important, folding@home or seti@home, I think folding@home is. Once we have even a basic nanotech, finding and processing signals from space will be _so_ much cheaper and faster. We'll also have the benefit of having the potential to cure cancer, AIDS, and other horrible modern plagues.
Heh, funny. Sun is trying to distance themself from Veritas since serious bugs in 2.7. Veritas refused to do much to fix it taking the stance of 'heh, what'll people use instead, Disksuite!?'. Sun's been working hard on improving disksuite since. They've pretty much got it down as of Solaris 9. Once Sol10 is shipped, expect to see it kick much behind on Solaris, vs Veritas on Solaris.;)
Yeah, but how does that help get humanity off this mudball? It would only give us more resources to build ships to go mining the moon.:)
We need to spread beyond one fragile planet in order to insure long term survival of our species and whatever species we become/create. We need the moon or similar space based resources, sooner or later, unless you want our kind to end up like the dinos.
-Earth first be damned! Humanity first! The earth's a nice place and shouldn't be spoiled, but let's not get stuck here.
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Heh. If I recall correctly, Niven's first published story was a technical anacronism. It was technically accurate when he wrote it, but new discoveries blew it away between when it was accepted to be published and before it hit paper. It hit paper anyway because it was a good story and accurate so far as anyone knew when it was written.
I don't remember where I saw the side story to this, but the story was 'The Coldest Place'.
Some people can like both. Maybe she calls herself a lesbian because she's monogamous and the current person she's with is female, taking males out of the equation for her? As for her being straight for 3 1/2 seasons, this isn't exactly correct either. This was clearly a direction they were going since the middle of season 3. You could see it from the second ep. with the alternate universe Willow vamp (whatever that ep. was called).
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> Because, if you haven't noticed, about 90%+ of the
There are some things in which it doesn't matter how many people want it. If even one person differs in certain things, it is not right for the majority to put their will onto the minority. This is what certain amendments to the US Constitution were trying to emphisize. You might have heard of them? There were 10 of them?
The first of these amendments stands out pretty clearly, in this particular instance.
When are they going to realize that a lot of techs don't like PHB types because they're so fake, plastic and backstabbing.
Requests and problem tickets are really the same thing... issues that prevent or hinder the employee from doing their job, or from doing it as well as it should or could be done.
Wanting something written/rewritten/upgraded/etc. should go to the same system that you have for broken computers. It might go to different people or groups, but the tool that you use can easily be the same.
Yeah, Solaris userland sucks. /etc is a _mess_ (ever try to figure out which file a certain config is in? grep something /etc/*... hangs forever, due to /etc/initpipe & utmppipe.. ever install raidmanager? binaries are in /etc/raid/bin). I just see it getting worse and worse. Sun's solution is to slap a new coat of paint on it (gnome) and forget about the rest.
Like IT. They're nothing but a profit sink. Spend all this money on email servers, NFS servers, etc. and they don't earn a dime! ;)
They haven't removed the worst offender of the old legacy PC, however. The BIOS is still there. PCs need to ditch BIOS and go with something decent like openboot. Also, console on an out of band management line needs to be stardand, so you can administer things remotely or when the network is down.
It doesn't need to be legacy serial, though that's what everything else uses. Put it on USB for all I care. Just make sure I can get to the system outside the network, and boot/reset/configure it from there.
The Solaris OS can handle more than 128, in theory. They just haven't made Sun hardware with more CPUs than 128 yet, though. I think it was a 1k theoretical current limit to the CPUs. Any Sun kernel devs out there that can say for sure?
The 'sun will fire 1000 employees' thing is bunk. That's yearly turnover, and they've been doing that for years, even during the dot boom years.
Gupta: Please do the needful!
Corporations are communist states, on a small scale. Stalin and Ford had a lot in common. People are just cogs.
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Trickle down? That voodoo economics theory that does not work and greatly widens the gap between the rich and the poor? Yeah, I remember it.
It's not anti-capitalist to want these corporate machines taken down, in itself. I want that. I want them replaced by other capitolist structures that actually benefit all the people in a company, not just the 'top dogs' there.
http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/2002/coop-bus/m
You may have moved to them, but will they be around much longer now that netflix has this patent? Let's hope it's struck down.
Blegh. Smoke is nasty for your lungs. Don't understand why anyone would do that. Eat it.
He's the section of the book where you skip and rather than lose something of the story, it adds to it. Just like the songs and poems in there. Tolkien's books really need a 'good parts version'. ;)
I did RTFM.
/exports
man -k netinfo...
read every single one of them.
nireport, for instace... examples, less than useless. I still can't get it to do more than
spit back '#NoValue' to anything.
niutil -list /
I don't see the full tree there... no options or anything returned.
It never properly defines domain or anything. Man pages for these things rather suck.
Yeah... except that OS X doesn't behave like other UNIX. Want to set up NFS? You're looking at editing some funky database to do it. Want to know which options to use in netinfo for more than a really basic setup? Good luck finding a manpage on that in OS X. The man pages in that OS seriously lack. Just one example of many. Passwords, groups, hosts? Yeah... intuitive.
I read once where copyright was extended forever. Eventually artists barely came out with anything. It was too much like stuff that was done 100 years ago, or more, so couldn't get copyright. I don't remember the name of the story, but it was kind of interesting.
How much true originality is there out there? Is building on the shoulders of others a bad thing? Is being derivitive a bad thing? Perhaps not always, or even at all.
Yeah, let's get rid of standards. We can then create crud such as yenc ;)
;)
http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/yenc.html
I likes it 'cause it works for me an' to hell with all the rest of you!
We're gunna trust an agency that _wants_ to spy on us on advice about how to secure a system so it can't be broken into as easily? Um... ok. :)
Not really. The Sunray is your IO.. your graphics card, sound, keyboard, mouse, monitor.. that kind of stuff. Those things connect to the computer over a bus (PCI, AGP, etc). The Sunray uses ethernet equipment for the bus, and connects many different systems to one computer.
The network is the bus, the bus in the network. Understand that and you have the basic idea of
Sunrays.
I say that! I'd much rather see all sports reduced to a local level, and the money spent on other activities. This would not only eliminate annoying pro sports, but it would encourage community togetherness, promote health as more people are playing sports than watching it, and give people something to feel positive and worthwhile about themselves.
But that'll never happen. People want to be fatasses watching a game on the couch or stadium and somehow feeling that they're important because a bunch of people from their area (or who moved to their general area) are somehow a reflection on them.
I'm a better person 'cause a bunch of people in my state, most of them weren't even raised here, are better <sport> players than other a bunch of other similar groups! Yeah! Blegh.
As for which is more important, folding@home or seti@home, I think folding@home is. Once we have even a basic nanotech, finding and processing signals from space will be _so_ much cheaper and faster. We'll also have the benefit of having the potential to cure cancer, AIDS, and other horrible modern plagues.
Or when patches that affect binaries or data needed for booting are done. Changes in /etc/ data can do the darndest things.
;)
Step 1. Machine fine.
Step 2. Patch, no reboot.
Step 3. 6 months later, reboot.
Step 4. Wonder when stuff broke.
You _are_ putting on patches, right? A patched system is better than a high uptime system, in most cases.
Heh, funny. Sun is trying to distance themself from Veritas since serious bugs in 2.7. Veritas refused to do much to fix it taking the stance of 'heh, what'll people use instead, Disksuite!?'. Sun's been working hard on improving disksuite since. They've pretty much got it down as of Solaris 9. Once Sol10 is shipped, expect to see it kick much behind on Solaris, vs Veritas on Solaris. ;)
Yeah, but how does that help get humanity off this mudball? It would only give us more resources to build ships to go mining the moon. :)
We need to spread beyond one fragile planet in order to insure long term survival of our species and whatever species we become/create. We need the moon or similar space based resources, sooner or later, unless you want our kind to end up like the dinos.
-Earth first be damned! Humanity first! The earth's a nice place and shouldn't be spoiled, but let's not get stuck here.
Heh. If I recall correctly, Niven's first published story was a technical anacronism. It was technically accurate when he wrote it, but new discoveries blew it away between when it was accepted to be published and before it hit paper. It hit paper anyway because it was a good story and accurate so far as anyone knew when it was written.
I don't remember where I saw the side story to this, but the story was 'The Coldest Place'.
Some people can like both. Maybe she calls herself a lesbian because she's monogamous and the current person she's with is female, taking males out of the equation for her? As for her being straight for 3 1/2 seasons, this isn't exactly correct either. This was clearly a direction they were going since the middle of season 3. You could see it from the second ep. with the alternate universe Willow vamp (whatever that ep. was called).