On systems that can actually have 32 CPUs, there is generally a provision to make CPUs hot-swappable. Having 32 boxes takes up a lot more realestate and will use more electricity, plus it is 32 potential problems...business have more to consider than just idealistic benefits.
I realize that, and my company owns several GS160s, but there are times when having multiple smaller boxes clusters is better than one huge box. Not everything can be done with the box up and rebooting and stopping access for even a minute can be unacceptable in some situations.
Sometimes rewriting code is the only way to progress
I realize that too, the IDE code in Linux is a good example because it's been tossed out in 2.5 in favor of a rewrite becaue it was so hard to maintain. But that doesn't mean all old code needs thrown out every few years.
Take a look at PHP, for example...how often are functions deprecated. PHP code need to be rewrittent for optimal performance. Same with OS code. Yes, I do code in PHP.
I've never used PHP so I wouldn't know, but that sounds like bad design decisions to me. If you're replacing functions regularly you've got issues.
I would say so. They specialize in SMP computing. This place is more of a general interest area with no major expertise in any one segment of computing.
If I told you I was on the 2CPU forums also under a different name would that change your opinion?
Have you checked netcraft lately? I guess Ebay is in a heap of trouble now...what with running their main site on IIS4 and all...but I do feel IIS is not a very secure server. That is why I run apache 2.0 on my box.
Just the fact that you're running IIS doesnt' mean you're in trouble, but it's a lot more hassle to secure and keep up to date.
Highly doubt that one, buddy. It's called VNC. Versions that run on any computer, all fit on a floppy disk. GUI goodness in your shirt pocket
VNC is very bandwidth hungry, I hope you're running an alternate tree like TightVNC.
I can click "connect" and my desktop becomes my remote server desktop. No need to fuss around with command prompt.
And I can type ~10 lines and be done probably before you've got the IIS admin tool up, so?
Hmm...my old webhost had a problem where for some reason I would not be able to delete certain files or folders, even though I was their owner. Oh, this was on a linux box. Never had a problem on windows where i could "never" delete a file.
You have to be the owner of the parent directory to be able to delete files in it, your webhost was probably just ignorant.
The author did not conclude with "Of all these OS, I recommend _____." IT was open ended, such as pick what works best for you.
I know, he tried real hard to be objective. But the fact remains he doesn't know much about unix so his Pros/Cons were basically wrong.
The author's experience level is irrelevant
Hardly. Writing an article about something you don't know anything about is stupid.
.just as you demonstrate a general ignorance to any other OS other than Linux...it really doesn't matter.
I'm not ignorant of Windows, I'm just tired of fighting with it. It's a PITA to work with. I've setup IIS boxes at work and it's not nearly as simple as it is with Apache on Linux.
Let me guess, more hands on experience backing up these statements? Naw...I think you just wanted to contradict me so as not to be outdone.
If you'd talk to my boss, you'd see what I was talking about. He's a huge NetWare zealot, he's pretty much the only reason we still have NetWare servers in our company. Luckily they are technically better than Windows for file/print sharing but that stupid client needed for IP connectivity can cause problems sometimes. Thankfully Novell is on their way to becoming a Linux company =)
Yeah, you'd need to be a bit more dynamic to be able to use more than one type of OS without running into these kinda problems. :\
No, it wasn't even me that ran into the problems it was our Citrix admins. The tool would get confused if the GUI it was supposed to be automating didn't perform exactly as it expected, which makes sense considering it's just simulating keyboard and mouse activity. Nothing beats CLI tools for automation.
If you find linux logical, I could understand how something that actually is logical would seem illogical.
Well documented text files are a lot easier to deal with, again with ssh over a slow connection it's much simpler to make a change and restart a service than it is being forced to use a GUI.
Aw, now you are just denying everything even when it is a blatant fact. You know damn well that Redhat got on the map only because it was so similar to windows, read GUI. Don't even try to say it was for some other reason unless you wanna deem yourself full of crap. Mandrake may be more "windows like", but it was second to redhat. Why does pricewatch still exist when there are other better sites around? BEcause pricewatch was one of the first.
RedHat got on the map because they went public at the right time and got enough business partners to stay alive after things went in the crapper for everyone. I'm not denying that Windows people didn't try it because they saw pretty screenshots, but having IBM and Oracle as business partners was a bigger part of them getting such a major name IMO.
My machine is a P4 2400 with 1GB of ram and a GF4.
My machine is a dual 1.2Ghz Athlon with 1.2G memory and GF3. I have never had any performance issues with Linux or Windows and Linux boots a noticable bit faster.
Linux crashes its fair share of times. Don't be trying to blow that "linux never goes down" BS my way.
The only Linux crashes I experience were from my own mucking around, either messing with kernel patches or running 2.5.x development kernels. Once in a while an application will crash, but they never affect the whole box.
If GDI crashes, you can restart explorer without rebooting.
GDI and Explorer are not the same.
NT was built to be an SMP kernel from the beginning...it is better at SMP than pretty much all open source OSes
NT was also designed on non-Intel hardware, does that mean it runs worse on Intel hardware?
The fact alone that you can't see the NT source to see where all the locks are held in the kernel means you can't say it's better at SMP becaue it's all just user feeling. I know what subsystems hold locks that affect other systems in Linux and if I'm not sure I can open up the source and look.
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