6 May
2002
6 May
'02
5:03 p.m.
On Monday 06 May 2002 20:01, you wrote:
I think you invented this out of whole cloth, or else like my example
didnt have any clue of what they was doing.
Normal modis operandi a unix guy is doing things impossible for
winblows, so perhaps you just didnt understand.
What makes you think it dont ? when slack reved one of the largest
mirrors would set new records for bits over the wire in 24 hours
flooding their 3 100mbit pipes for days, it was largest site with
the fattest pipes, and published its stats, cdrom.com did
it all on a single box running bsd.
For every sale, most cdroms does many loads, but the iso
downloaded are far more.
When you buy a redhat cdrom you are not buying the os
you are buying support. if you download it you get the same
thing but no paid support, 99,9999% of installs / upgrades
are downloads.
If it doesn't meet people's needs better, then it isn't better. If it did,
it would outsell the "others."
Heh then we should have left Getty Oil alone then by that reasoning
When vendors are out from under threat of paying 40 more dollars
per copy for winblows if they dare preload anything else, ( again
from court transcript) and the market has time to adjust
to certain boxes being available preloaded without the Mickysoft Tax
then we will see.
Comprehension problems too ?
> you are a bit unclear on the concept it seems
I'm not unclear on the concept at all. All my
machines are visible from
any of them (except the DOS machine, which only interacts with Netware) and
that's how I like it.
Yes it seems your unclear,
unix boxes access the file systems of other boxes, but running
a program on host xxx that displays on screen xxx .. you seem
to mean running it off the remote disk, when its should be clear
it is running on the other CPU.
You are more "winblows limited" in your thinking than i thought
What
isolation are you talking about, when the examaple shows
that the power of several machines seemless on one screen
operating as a whole ?
The goofball I was talking about likes to type tomes of cryptic commands
before being able to access resources physically connected to his
half-dozen machines, all running Linux. Of course, he doesn't have a clue
where things are, so he first has to enable one machine at a time to be
accessible, don't ask me why, and it takes him 10 minutes to find a file on
a system with just a few gigabytes. Then he has to set privileges, or some
other nonsense, and, if he's lucky, he eventually finds the file he wants
and can gain access to it. I see this sort of thing among several Linux
users, and some Unix users as well. I think they're just trying to
convince themselves they can do what the boss won't let them do at work.
http://www.mosix.org
MOSIX is a software that allows any size Linux cluster of
Pentium/AMD workstations and servers to work cooperatively
like a single system.
I am not running mosix, I dispatch my taskloads off buttons like
was shown, run app xxx on host xxx.
But the mosix example is a close familiar to my operating habits.
and its strongly implied with my examples.
So why do you suppose this doesn't sell 100k copies per hour? ON top of that, typing half a screenful of text
just to make some file
on some other machine accessible seems a mite burdensome.
Clicking on a button runs that text, i stated that clearly.
winblows limited thinking again ? Even under DOS it only takes a single half-line of
text.
Some people just like *NIX because it enables them to stroke their own
need for pseudo-sophistry.
Here you dismiss superiority by waving "pseudo-sophistry" at it this from you
is really pathetic, but i think you are just a bit quick
off the gun, something im just as guilty of from time to time.
feeling guilty? I wasn't referring to you, since I don't know you. > Perhaps you could look again and point out where
your confusion
> is.
Actually, I think I'm on solid ground here.
... umm you seem to be "on" something
You make being obtuse into an art form
I don't think I'm confused
You seem utterly confused,
You said :"All my machines are visible from any of them "
networked machines mean more than file and print service
but you have this "winblows limited" view of reality where
anything more than that and you lose your frame of reference
it seems.
Study http://www.mosix.org again, the example i gave as a close
familiar to what im attempting to show you.
a mosix cluster isnt about file serving, unix boxes thosands of miles
apart where mounting each others disk years before john q
public had heard the word internet mentioned
You should know this and should see clearly its about more
than your simplistic view.
Try again
Raymond