You can buy ONE rack and it has 64 processors in it. Each of those 64 processors can be sheared down to 1/10th of a CPU partition. That would be 640 servers in one rack. Granted, you'd never want to run that many LPARS on a system, but you could come close. You can also share all 64 of these processors and each of the LPARS can look like a SMP system by setting a VP of 2 or higher. Granted alot of this will need proper tuning, but you can do a lot with a pSeries and shove alot of hardware into one rack. Also, with Partition Load manager, it can very how much CPU each partition gets by the load it's getting. Say one of the LPARS gets nailed all of a sudden. If the partition is uncapped or not reached it's cap, it can automatically grab as much CPU as needed.
Some good points, however the term big iron should not be applied here. Big iron would be a mainframe. Pseries machines are very powerful, however, they are very different in technology then a mainframe. They are a hybridization of technology that IBM built with POWER and of Mainframe like techn0ologies.
This is a great idea. With micro partitioning on the pSeries and automatic load balancing, us pSeries admins don't need to learn VMware to run a farm of x86 based servers. Also, while most things are running on POWER already, sometimes it's not convenient to find binaries that will run on it plus how many of us have a spare pSeries machine just for compiles?? Also, there's a metric tone of commercial apps that run on x86 Linux and not many of them that run on PPC based distros.
Have the transportation system run ONE extra run. That's it. Period. Better yet....why isn't public transportation 24/7 like the rest of the world?? Sure, those 3am runs would not have high ridership, but it would be there. DST changes are just more inane bullshit we have to put up with.
I worked in the room for many years. Right near the end, I had a hearing test. It turns out, over 10 years in the room did ZERO damage to my ears. My iPod probably has done more then the server room noise. If your room is that noisy, I would start checking the fans.
I think the part...."no longer pays him to do PR." kind of makes this a non story. I mean YE FLIPPIN GODS.....he's NOT biting the had that feeds (that fed....FED him). He no longer works for Microsoft. So who gives a rats ass that he says something bad about Microsoft. It's also not the first time! He's been making comments about Vista since it came out (which he still wasn't working for Microsoft then) and the comments have not all been good. So what I want to kno eis why the hell did this story get posted? Because it's going to generate page views on Slashdot. That's it. Hell it got me to post and all of you too.
You know, I like Linux as much as this next guy but I call the parent flamebait. A well managed Windows install is just as secure as a well managed Linux install. Yes there's the Zero Day bugs, but overall, since DOS got kicked on it's butt years ago with the switch to the NT Kernel, stability has gone up. What is the problem then? Well, managing a Windows install is harder because of some of the architecture and the developers. Case in point, some programs STILL in this day and age insist you be a administrator to run them and that's stupid.
Linux installs by default make it harder to install programs. Ubuntu as well as Apple has some of the best ideas for this. Root should be disabled and only allowed to be su'd or sudo'd.
Anyways, blasting Windows for stability reasons is fun, but things are the way they are because of who they are. Microsoft always thinks of adding features and not just making it better. Just look at Windows Vista which is mostly glitzy eye candy changes that you don't really need to have, but it would be nice to have.
This is a great point. I have yet to have any open solution give the flexibility of even Groupwise let alone exchange. If you have Exchange and the rest of the stuff setup, you can even sync your calendar over a cellular connection and more.
I think the real issue here is there's tons of great projects like Beryl, compiz and GNOME, but the non exciting work does not get done. It's as if Linux geeks never had to share a calendar or use a Tablet PC (state of Linux on Tablet PC's is horrible) or want to have the cool things that Yahoo Internet Messenger has (I could live with out that stuff....the stupid actions are annoying).
They can't. Before any device with a transmitter....enabled or disabled....is released, it must receive a FCC Type Acceptance. The reason this exists is so that the FCC can make sure that the iPhone does not mess with your HDTV and vice versa.
Bwahahaaa! Don't make me laugh! Windows security superior to Mac OS X or UNIX? Ok....all of those exploits are NOT on Windows they are on UNIX....ok...sure....
Yes it's trivial to elevate a local user to root, but it's not as easy as it seems. First, on the Mac, you'd have to be flagged as a Administrative user. EVEN THEN it prompts you to type your password in when you you have to install software. Sure, you an sudo su to get a real root prompt, but, again, you'd have to type in a password.
Password's are not always secure that's one thing that we should all know by now, but if you pick a good password, unless there's a exploit or unless it's easy to guess, it would take a long time to figure out the password via brute force.
Mac OS X stores all of it's security information in the Netinfo database. Netinfo started out on the old NextOS as did most of OS X. While traditional UNIX files like/etc/passwd exist, you still need a entry into the NetInfo database in order to log in to the desktop in multiuser mode. The only time the standard UNIX security is used is when in single user mode. Check out: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/mac forunix.html
Root logins being disabled IS safer, but no where did I say it made you perfectly safe. Not only do you have to be flagged as a Admin user (as on Windows), you also get prompted for your password every time (not a default behavior on Windows XP) you need to do a Administrative feature like installing software.
I have seen many climatologists and meteorologists state that a one year anomaly is NOT a indication of Global warming. Good example....on the weather this morning, the records for today (record low, record high) happened in consecutive years....one year it was 68 F in the middle of January and the next year it was -17 F! One year does not make a trend.
That would be correct, however root exploits are a little harder to achieve on a Mac. Harder, not impossible. The Mac, BY DEFAULT has you type your password every time you want to install software. The Mac, BY DEFAULT has the root login disabled. The Mac, by default has a better infrastructure then Windows....period...and I am not a fan boy. I'll put up Linux, the Mac or any UNIX based system against the swiss cheese that is Windows XP any day. Yes, even Mac OS X and Linux are vulnerable, but the time to patch at least on Linux is very fast compared to Windows XP and the architecture is different and more secure....BY DEFAULT. They are all what Windows should have been.
Joe six pack doesn't know how to lock that door! My brother would not be as safe as it is today if I did not give him some pointers on how to setup his network. My Dad definitely would need me to be there when the high speed guy comes (if ever). The issue should be steered back to Microsoft for perpetuating a bad OS....Call me crazy, but Microsoft was the one who got everyone into clicking that big fat OK button. That and the holes big enough for a Mac Truck to go through.
I think noone can dispute that the globe is warming....however what we can't determine is that it's humans who are causing it. There's not enough data on that. The warming trend started at the end of the last ice age.
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Mobile web pages aren't important on cell sanymore because the providers try to keep you in their fence. I have a Verizon handset and the mobile web browser USED to be able to go to ANY mobile site on the web but now I am stuck in their walled garden. Examples are the FREE traffic web stuff on Google pluse just google searching at all. Verizon has both of them blocked. There's a software product called Metro which does subway time tables and would be damn useful in DC and Chicago when I go there and they just recently webified it for cell phones. Well, Verizon blocks this too. I have called Verizon supprt and bitched but got nothing. Verizion wants you to pay for all of the stupid java apps to get weather and more. Get it now should be called ROB me now.
One thing I would like to see friggin FIXED this year is a EVDO handset with bluetooth that Verizon will let me use my PDA with or failing this a fair price plan. I don' tlike the idea of paying them 80 bucks for EVDO which see's LESS use then my Cable modem yet my cable modem bill itself is HALF the cost of the EVDO plan. The first EVDO or HDSPA provider to have a 20 a month plan for unlimited bandwidth will see masses of users go to them.
SO, essentially they are giving you no Linux distros that are totally known for their freedom. Only Red Hat and SuSE for Linux flavors and Solaris, AIX and Windows for the others. Really dumb guys, but not really that much of a concern. Someone else can step up and support MySQL. No big deal in the long run I guess except it gives people less choice initially if their job requires them to have a support contract and believe me alot of companies require this as silly as it sounds. What I see happening is some other Linux company will step up and support MySQL as well as their OS.
Do you believe them?? I don't. Yes there's the death index but this only counts IF the family accepts the death benefit from the SSA. Plus most credit agencies do NOT and probably cannot do a back check with the SSA to make sure that your name is attached with your number. Therefore, anyone can use your number with a different name and be able to establish an identity. Also, as the populous grows, they will run out of numbers at some point. The running out of number thing happened in most areas with phone numbers. This is why I now have to dial an area code even for local calls and why some areas have more then one area code. And this is with 7 digits...10 counting area codes.
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Ever heard of EVDO? You don't need a cable for that to work.
You can buy ONE rack and it has 64 processors in it. Each of those 64 processors can be sheared down to 1/10th of a CPU partition. That would be 640 servers in one rack. Granted, you'd never want to run that many LPARS on a system, but you could come close. You can also share all 64 of these processors and each of the LPARS can look like a SMP system by setting a VP of 2 or higher. Granted alot of this will need proper tuning, but you can do a lot with a pSeries and shove alot of hardware into one rack. Also, with Partition Load manager, it can very how much CPU each partition gets by the load it's getting. Say one of the LPARS gets nailed all of a sudden. If the partition is uncapped or not reached it's cap, it can automatically grab as much CPU as needed.
The pSeries machine CAN do what they describe.
Some good points, however the term big iron should not be applied here. Big iron would be a mainframe. Pseries machines are very powerful, however, they are very different in technology then a mainframe. They are a hybridization of technology that IBM built with POWER and of Mainframe like techn0ologies.
This is a great idea. With micro partitioning on the pSeries and automatic load balancing, us pSeries admins don't need to learn VMware to run a farm of x86 based servers. Also, while most things are running on POWER already, sometimes it's not convenient to find binaries that will run on it plus how many of us have a spare pSeries machine just for compiles?? Also, there's a metric tone of commercial apps that run on x86 Linux and not many of them that run on PPC based distros.
Have the transportation system run ONE extra run. That's it. Period. Better yet....why isn't public transportation 24/7 like the rest of the world?? Sure, those 3am runs would not have high ridership, but it would be there. DST changes are just more inane bullshit we have to put up with.
I worked in the room for many years. Right near the end, I had a hearing test. It turns out, over 10 years in the room did ZERO damage to my ears. My iPod probably has done more then the server room noise. If your room is that noisy, I would start checking the fans.
I think the part...."no longer pays him to do PR." kind of makes this a non story. I mean YE FLIPPIN GODS.....he's NOT biting the had that feeds (that fed....FED him). He no longer works for Microsoft. So who gives a rats ass that he says something bad about Microsoft. It's also not the first time! He's been making comments about Vista since it came out (which he still wasn't working for Microsoft then) and the comments have not all been good. So what I want to kno eis why the hell did this story get posted? Because it's going to generate page views on Slashdot. That's it. Hell it got me to post and all of you too.
You know, I like Linux as much as this next guy but I call the parent flamebait. A well managed Windows install is just as secure as a well managed Linux install. Yes there's the Zero Day bugs, but overall, since DOS got kicked on it's butt years ago with the switch to the NT Kernel, stability has gone up. What is the problem then? Well, managing a Windows install is harder because of some of the architecture and the developers. Case in point, some programs STILL in this day and age insist you be a administrator to run them and that's stupid.
Linux installs by default make it harder to install programs. Ubuntu as well as Apple has some of the best ideas for this. Root should be disabled and only allowed to be su'd or sudo'd.
Anyways, blasting Windows for stability reasons is fun, but things are the way they are because of who they are. Microsoft always thinks of adding features and not just making it better. Just look at Windows Vista which is mostly glitzy eye candy changes that you don't really need to have, but it would be nice to have.
Actually, I think they DID predict it and ATHF got a TON of exposure which is what they wanted. None of this was bad in my opinion.
Woo hoo! It got insightful, but it should be funny too. Take the damn fence post outta yer arse management!
This is a great point. I have yet to have any open solution give the flexibility of even Groupwise let alone exchange. If you have Exchange and the rest of the stuff setup, you can even sync your calendar over a cellular connection and more.
I think the real issue here is there's tons of great projects like Beryl, compiz and GNOME, but the non exciting work does not get done. It's as if Linux geeks never had to share a calendar or use a Tablet PC (state of Linux on Tablet PC's is horrible) or want to have the cool things that Yahoo Internet Messenger has (I could live with out that stuff....the stupid actions are annoying).
25000 is alot of money for anyone but the rich. 25,000 is a car! When was the last time you bought a car with cash??
They can't. Before any device with a transmitter....enabled or disabled....is released, it must receive a FCC Type Acceptance. The reason this exists is so that the FCC can make sure that the iPhone does not mess with your HDTV and vice versa.
Bwahahaaa! Don't make me laugh! Windows security superior to Mac OS X or UNIX? Ok....all of those exploits are NOT on Windows they are on UNIX....ok...sure....
/etc/passwd exist, you still need a entry into the NetInfo database in order to log in to the desktop in multiuser mode. The only time the standard UNIX security is used is when in single user mode. Check out: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/mac forunix.html
Yes it's trivial to elevate a local user to root, but it's not as easy as it seems. First, on the Mac, you'd have to be flagged as a Administrative user. EVEN THEN it prompts you to type your password in when you you have to install software. Sure, you an sudo su to get a real root prompt, but, again, you'd have to type in a password.
Password's are not always secure that's one thing that we should all know by now, but if you pick a good password, unless there's a exploit or unless it's easy to guess, it would take a long time to figure out the password via brute force.
Mac OS X stores all of it's security information in the Netinfo database. Netinfo started out on the old NextOS as did most of OS X. While traditional UNIX files like
Root logins being disabled IS safer, but no where did I say it made you perfectly safe. Not only do you have to be flagged as a Admin user (as on Windows), you also get prompted for your password every time (not a default behavior on Windows XP) you need to do a Administrative feature like installing software.
I have seen many climatologists and meteorologists state that a one year anomaly is NOT a indication of Global warming. Good example....on the weather this morning, the records for today (record low, record high) happened in consecutive years....one year it was 68 F in the middle of January and the next year it was -17 F! One year does not make a trend.
That would be correct, however root exploits are a little harder to achieve on a Mac. Harder, not impossible. The Mac, BY DEFAULT has you type your password every time you want to install software. The Mac, BY DEFAULT has the root login disabled. The Mac, by default has a better infrastructure then Windows....period...and I am not a fan boy. I'll put up Linux, the Mac or any UNIX based system against the swiss cheese that is Windows XP any day. Yes, even Mac OS X and Linux are vulnerable, but the time to patch at least on Linux is very fast compared to Windows XP and the architecture is different and more secure....BY DEFAULT. They are all what Windows should have been.
Joe six pack doesn't know how to lock that door! My brother would not be as safe as it is today if I did not give him some pointers on how to setup his network. My Dad definitely would need me to be there when the high speed guy comes (if ever). The issue should be steered back to Microsoft for perpetuating a bad OS....Call me crazy, but Microsoft was the one who got everyone into clicking that big fat OK button. That and the holes big enough for a Mac Truck to go through.
Paypal is offering it or will be soon: http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6149722.html
I use the Energizer NiMH witha 15 Minute charger.....all sizes. They charge up quickly and last a long time if you get the higher amp hour ones.
I think noone can dispute that the globe is warming....however what we can't determine is that it's humans who are causing it. There's not enough data on that. The warming trend started at the end of the last ice age.
Mobile web pages aren't important on cell sanymore because the providers try to keep you in their fence. I have a Verizon handset and the mobile web browser USED to be able to go to ANY mobile site on the web but now I am stuck in their walled garden. Examples are the FREE traffic web stuff on Google pluse just google searching at all. Verizon has both of them blocked. There's a software product called Metro which does subway time tables and would be damn useful in DC and Chicago when I go there and they just recently webified it for cell phones. Well, Verizon blocks this too. I have called Verizon supprt and bitched but got nothing. Verizion wants you to pay for all of the stupid java apps to get weather and more. Get it now should be called ROB me now.
One thing I would like to see friggin FIXED this year is a EVDO handset with bluetooth that Verizon will let me use my PDA with or failing this a fair price plan. I don' tlike the idea of paying them 80 bucks for EVDO which see's LESS use then my Cable modem yet my cable modem bill itself is HALF the cost of the EVDO plan. The first EVDO or HDSPA provider to have a 20 a month plan for unlimited bandwidth will see masses of users go to them.
Ever heard of Tivo??
In reality, this is what they should do. I myself do not have a HDTV yet and I have to watch on regular TV.
Ha ha.....BSG is on hiatus until Jan 21 and even then it's moving....to SUNDAY! Ick.
SO, essentially they are giving you no Linux distros that are totally known for their freedom. Only Red Hat and SuSE for Linux flavors and Solaris, AIX and Windows for the others. Really dumb guys, but not really that much of a concern. Someone else can step up and support MySQL. No big deal in the long run I guess except it gives people less choice initially if their job requires them to have a support contract and believe me alot of companies require this as silly as it sounds. What I see happening is some other Linux company will step up and support MySQL as well as their OS.
Do you believe them?? I don't. Yes there's the death index but this only counts IF the family accepts the death benefit from the SSA. Plus most credit agencies do NOT and probably cannot do a back check with the SSA to make sure that your name is attached with your number. Therefore, anyone can use your number with a different name and be able to establish an identity. Also, as the populous grows, they will run out of numbers at some point. The running out of number thing happened in most areas with phone numbers. This is why I now have to dial an area code even for local calls and why some areas have more then one area code. And this is with 7 digits...10 counting area codes.