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Wow, long overdue, but here's our very own computers forum.
If you guys need anything answered about Unix and Linux I can do my best to answer. I work with Unix/Linux for a living but despite that I'm pretty good at it... :lol:
kr4uq
08-20-2007, 07:49 PM
Wow, long overdue, but here's our very own computers forum.
If you guys need anything answered about Unix and Linux I can do my best to answer. I work with Unix/Linux for a living but despite that I'm pretty good at it... :lol:
Luke has LOTS of questions on Lunux!!!!
He is convinced it was developed to aggravate him.
He likes Unix - go figure :twisted:
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Well I hate all operating systems because they're annoying. Sad but true.
However, at least with Unix in my experience, once you fix the problems they don't re-occur.
And we deal with a great deal of crap in my environment at work - replicated SAN (EMC symmetrix) and stuff like that. Nearly three quarters of our issues are SAN related. But once you fix a problem it doesnt come back.
Can't say that about Windows.
Furthermore most of the configuration data in a Unix system is in plain English in a text file, not that archaic nonsensical "registry" that Microsoft shoves down your throat.
n6hcm
08-21-2007, 12:09 AM
Wow, long overdue, but here's our very own computers forum.
If you guys need anything answered about Unix and Linux I can do my best to answer. I work with Unix/Linux for a living but despite that I'm pretty good at it... :lol:
you're not supposed to advertise that! people will ask you to do stuff for them :)
i've done linux (and, before it, UNIX) since the early 1980's. still not tired of it.
n6hcm
08-21-2007, 12:11 AM
Furthermore most of the configuration data in a Unix system is in plain English in a text file, not that archaic nonsensical "registry" that Microsoft shoves down your throat.
job interview question:
"What do you hate most about Windows?"
"The registry."
why you'd want to put all your most important eggs in one fairly fragile basket like this is beyond me.
Furthermore most of the configuration data in a Unix system is in plain English in a text file, not that archaic nonsensical "registry" that Microsoft shoves down your throat.
job interview question:
"What do you hate most about Windows?"
"The registry."
why you'd want to put all your most important eggs in one fairly fragile basket like this is beyond me.
While sitting in one of the MCSE classes, the instructor told us "if you ever need to call Microsoft about a problem, and they ask you if you looked in the registry, it is best to answer them with 'what is the registry?'"
No, I am not an MCSE, took the core 4 classes, never tested.
kr4uq
08-21-2007, 08:06 AM
Furthermore most of the configuration data in a Unix system is in plain English in a text file, not that archaic nonsensical "registry" that Microsoft shoves down your throat.
job interview question:
"What do you hate most about Windows?"
"The registry."
why you'd want to put all your most important eggs in one fairly fragile basket like this is beyond me.
What I would like to see is a way to be able to transfer the Windows OS to another system without any problems. Luke has done it for me on boxes with the same Chipset, but I always have to pay the troll another fee to get a new keycode. And, its like I killed someone and the F&BI is questioning me as to how I did it. Not to speak of the fact that it takes 2 hours to go through the process of Q&A.
And there was the time that one of my boxes came back as not being authentic after previously working for a year with Windows True Advantage updates. Its like some evil monster got into the box overnight and took away my legit code and it was no longer legit, after a MS update. Redmond said I had to buy another license.
How could it be OK for a year and one night - bada-bing - not?
Sometimes you want to throw these things right out the window! :evil:
I remember when you could just format /s, xcopy your C: drive then boot the new disk in another system and it would work.
KF5ER
08-21-2007, 09:07 AM
Question from a computer novice.
I want to install FreeBSD on my Windows XP box.
Is there any good cheap/free program to make a linux partition without
wiping out the NTFS dos/windows part of the disk?
The hard drive is 40g and I'm only using about 14g for XP.
Download the System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org), burn it, boot from it and use gparted to shrink your windows NTFS partition.
KF5ER
08-21-2007, 11:08 AM
Download the System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org), burn it, boot from it and use gparted to shrink your windows NTFS partition.
Thanks for the reply. System Rescue CD is 130mb. I'm on a 28k dialup. Take a week to download it.
Looking for something just a bit smaller. :-?
If you want it I can mail one for you.
KF5ER
08-21-2007, 12:46 PM
If you want it I can mail one for you.
Yes I do want it and I appreciate you offering.
Mailing address is ok on QRZ.COM
Thanks Ryan. :D
kr4uq
08-21-2007, 02:13 PM
If you want it I can mail one for you.
Yes I do want it and I appreciate you offering.
Mailing address is ok on QRZ.COM
Thanks Ryan. :D
Hamislanders' Smoke The Competition! :D :D
Hey I have to use up the stockpile of FREE after rebate CD's I've amassed over the years somehow...
Every time office max or Circuit city offered them, I pounced on it, and I always made sure I got my rebates.
Just got a new dual layer DVD burner as well - $32 on clearance at staples.
Got 200 blank DVD's from Costco for $16 last week too.
W4KLB
08-21-2007, 03:55 PM
:D got my pics uploaded to imageshack the fuzzy place is pic id line if that is the tag line that inageshack puts on each pic crap it's three lines long would feel like running kermit let me know
thanks
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I use flickr. It's a Yahoo! service and works very well.
I refrain from linking images from my webspace because I pay for bandwidth there.
While I have a flickr pro account, it's much cheaper than web hosting.
kf0rt
08-21-2007, 04:55 PM
I just wanna know how to clean the cup holder on my PC. :twisted:
M0GLO
08-21-2007, 08:33 PM
Wow, long overdue, but here's our very own computers forum.
If you guys need anything answered about Unix and Linux I can do my best to answer. I work with Unix/Linux for a living but despite that I'm pretty good at it... :lol:
You too?!
I am Sr Unix Admin for Devonshire Investors. Contract ends this December then it's off to UBS.
I work for AIG, also as a Sr. Unix admin.
What flavor do you support? I work primarily with Solaris, but also support a growing SuSE linux environment, HP (UX and Tru64) and also some AIX.
My favorite unix book is Essential System admin by Aeleen Frisch.
M0GLO
08-21-2007, 09:20 PM
I work for AIG, also as a Sr. Unix admin.
What flavor do you support? I work primarily with Solaris, but also support a growing SuSE linux environment, HP (UX and Tru64) and also some AIX.
My favorite unix book is Essential System admin by Aeleen Frisch.
Solaris of course, nothing like having a real console port to get into when all else fails.
We have a Red Hat ES farm sprouting up right now, about 15 and growing.
Some AIX as well, not much just 4 servers.
My last 2 gigs had me implementing and maintaining some E10k's and a couple of F15k's. I miss working on those box's, the closest I have right now is an F6800. DR rocks!
I'm a fan of Linux & Unix Shell Programming by Tansley, that book has saved my @ss more times than I care to admit.
M0GLO
08-21-2007, 09:22 PM
BTW - I really like working on Unix. Everything else is just an end user toy.
KU4MY
08-21-2007, 11:49 PM
Which means it works and you don't have to fiddle fart around with it like you do Unix then, right? :P
We have a few 15k's here and in our DR datacenter. No 10k's, the last set were decommissioned a couple of years ago. We have some 6800s and 6900s.
We are "experimenting" with Fujitsu hardware (Primepower 450s and 650s) running Solaris 9 and 10. I say "experimenting" because honestly they're pieces of crap and they look like they were made by Dell, and no one likes them. I used to work for them, btw. (Fujitsu.)
When I worked at NY City they had 10k's but I was doing security, not heavy unix.
I agree, DR rocks, although in this environment clients still want stuff done after hours, even though it is entirely transparent to them. :roll:
There are a lot of things going on here, especially the SAP rollout that is totally killing us. We even moved to EMC Symmetrix DMX3 frames because of them, and of course every server that gets storage from the DMX3 frames has to have powerpath, driver and firmware (on the lpfc cards) upgraded. That means that my weekends are toast.
M0GLO
08-22-2007, 09:14 AM
Which means it works and you don't have to fiddle fart around with it like you do Unix then, right? :P
Hehe, sort of.
What it really means is that after running a couple dozen cryptic commands and editing about 50 config files I can just use it without incident until the hardware breaks or I have to patch.
Not like my XP box that needs to have a backup made every couple of weeks or risk losing my daughters photos forever...
I don't slam MS or MAC (much) though, not like some Unix admins. They all have their place, I just prefer to have some semblance of real control over my systems as opposed to some guy in a suit telling me what I should and shouldn't be able to configure.
I gotta say though, I really liked (loved actually) the Mac G4 cases, the way they folded out was brilliant! Too bad they performed like a P-100.
MacOS on the other hand was garbage, and OS-X is just a hacked version of BSD Unix. Hope all you OS-X peeps out there realize that you need to keep up on the BugTraq reports just like us Unix guys do or you will be "pawn3d", no more free ride through obscurity.
M0GLO
08-22-2007, 09:19 AM
Yeah, Fujitsu is total junk.
Sorry to hear about your upgrade nightmare, I just finished mine and am enjoying a month or so of quiet times.
I'm using it to redesign this garage land of an infrastructure I inherited. The guy I replaced was more programmer than admin and he was the one who put together my current nightmare. All wrong, I have to start with complete rebuilds of DNS, mail, LDAP, and move everything into a sane configuration on the network for our network team. That all starts next month. After that it's train someone to run it after I'm gone.
job interview question:
"What do you hate most about Windows?"
"The registry."
My response: The need for Windex. :P :P
K7KWH
W4KLB
08-29-2007, 09:43 AM
:) is there a program for xp that will convert bitmap to jpeg and visa versa? :-?
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:) is there a program for xp that will convert bitmap to jpeg and visa versa? :-?
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Yeah, it's called paint.
KU4MY
08-29-2007, 10:45 AM
:) is there a program for xp that will convert bitmap to jpeg and visa versa? :-?
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Yeah, it's called paint.
Smarty pants! :twisted:
W4KLB
08-29-2007, 11:01 AM
:oops: been using paint a long time never noticed the arow/selector next to bit map ,duh thanks :lol:
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kr4uq
08-29-2007, 11:02 AM
:) is there a program for xp that will convert bitmap to jpeg and visa versa? :-?
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Ulead PhotoImpact will also work!
Actually, Picasa does a nice job too, and it's free.
KU4MY
08-29-2007, 11:27 AM
Actually, Picasa does a nice job too, and it's free.
Yes it does, and it's just about the greatest thing since sliced bread.
ad4mg
08-29-2007, 05:24 PM
Actually, Picasa does a nice job too, and it's free.
Yes it does, and it's just about the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Not meaning to be argumentative, but the introduction of sliced bread was pretty significant. :D
W4KLB
08-29-2007, 06:50 PM
:D oh my we will have to lock this topic :lol: :lol: sliced bread could start flame responces
and racial slurs, we must nip this in the bud :twisted: :twisted:
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ad4mg
08-29-2007, 07:05 PM
:D oh my we will have to lock this topic :lol: :lol: sliced bread could start flame responces
and racial slurs, we must nip this in the bud :twisted: :twisted:
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Mike didn't give us any padlocks. We're on our own!
As it should be!!!
KU4MY
08-29-2007, 07:29 PM
Mike is the SHIZ!
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