Got root?
Posted on 07/19/2002 2:56:33 AM PDT by JameRetief
By : Friday 19 July 2002, 09:05
Of course this won't be your local university math department's typical Beowulf Cluster of older boxes interconnected with 100-baseT or Gigabit Ethernet or Myrinet links. This will be state-of-the-art hardware power (1,920 Intel Xeon 2.4 Ghz CPUs) interconnected with NetworX interlinks, 3.8 TB of memory, over 115 TB of disk storage, and specialized systems management software. Government scientists get all the coolest toys.
LinuxDevices reported this here but the full splash with artist's conceptions and a few more technical details is here.µ
Got root?
I... I... I think I love you.
MAMA! I want one!
Yeah--I ordered a couple of these last month. Windows XP almost runs smoothly under VMware when they are networked together.
And it's only crashed once or twice.
Naaa, that's clustering. I can do it, but fuhgedaboud it.
I want one of these! ;-)
Yeah, like I could afford it, but at least I can dream.
;-)
Make me pingable, dood.
Done deal.
For a long time, they ignored it, said it was a hobbyist's toy.
When it started penetrating the server market, they scoffed. Now it's being installed in server farms faster than Windows XP.
Now they say that it will never penetrate the desktop. Lycoris and Mandrake are magnificent desktop operating systems. Redhat is more for servers but does well on desktops. But they scoff.
They say that it's too hard to install. But most Windows users don't install Windows so that's hardly an accurate comparison.
They say that it's too hard to use. But Windows is only easy to use if you've used Windows before. I refer them to the dozens of books targeted at Windows newbies as a testament as to how easy Windows is to use.
They say that Linux is only free (gratis) if your time is worthless. Yet Windows is not only not free (gratis), but it locks up your data in broken formats preventing your own data from being free (libre).
And one need only remember that today is the first anniversery of the Code Red Microsoft worm to determine that Microsoft, through it's continuing lack of concern about writing good, secure software, seems to think that Windows sysadmins time must be worthless too.
They say that if you use Linux, you have no one to hold responsible if something goes wrong. But then, they don't ever mention the Windows EULA, stating that Microsoft won't be responsible if anything goes wrong under Windows either.
Here's my offer to the Linux naysayers. I have a stock of the world famous John-boy and Billy Grillin' Sauce. When installed Linux desktops surpasses installed Microsoft desktops, say in five to ten years, I will happily provide sauce to flavor the words they will be eating.
Free (libre), of course.
I have a rare day of downtime and I'm spending it cleaning up Code Red and Nimbda requests out of my Apache, firewall and Snort logs.
Yuck.
As much as I hate government involvment, I think the FTC should make Microsoft recall all unpatched Win2K CDs. People, especially home users, don't realize that Win2K installs the Code Red vulnerable version of IIS by default. People on cable modems and DSL connections get hacked in minutes. I've seen a fresh Win2K install get hacked in the time it took to download the patch from Microsoft.
A year later and I still get calls to help clean up Code Red. *sigh*
Well, it's a living.
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