Red
Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)
Kernel 2.4.20-6
bind 9.2.1-16
cups 1.1.17-13
dhcp 3.0pl1-23
ethereal 0.9.8-6
fetchmail 6.2.0-3
gcc 3.2.2-5
httpd 2.0.40-21
iptables 1.2.7a-2
nfs-utils 1.0.1-2.9
ntp 4.1.2-0.rcl.2
portmap 4.0-54
rpm 4.2-0.69
Samba 2.2.7a-6
sendmail 8.12.8-4
shapecfg 2.2.12-13
vsftpd 1.1.3-7
xf ree86-4.3.0-2
Zimian Evolution 1.2.2-4
Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Kernel 2.4.21
bind
cups
dhcp 3.0pl2-6.14
gcc 3.2
httpd 2.0.46-25.ent
Samba 3
Squid 2.5.STABLE3-3E
vsftpd
xf ree86 4.3.0
LINUX
The Statue
of Liberty / Ellis Island Foundation, and the searchable Immigration Records
available at
http://www.EllisIsland.org/
(70 million monthly visitors) runs on Red Hat Linux and an Oracle database.
The Orbitz travel site www.orbitz.com runs on hundreds of Red Hat Linux servers.
as of March 2004:
IBM Corp., with more than 300,000 desktops, is converting them all to Linux by the end of 2005.
FedEx Corp. runs their entire infrastructure on Linux.
GOOGLE runs their entire infrastructure on Linux.
Amazon.com, Computer Associates, Disney, DreamWorks,
L.L. Bean, Pixar, Merrill Lynch,
Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney rely on Linux for day-to-day operations.
Shaw's Supermarkets and Supervalu are 100% Linux.
The NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmosphere Administration) tracks hurricanes using Linux systems.
The Israeli
government has stopped buying Microsoft Office and
is working with IBM and Sun Microsystems to use OpenOffice.
Audi (a
unit of Volkswagen AG) uses a Linux-on-Intel cluster to simulate parts,
design factory tooling, and crash simulation.
3 year TCO
(total cost of ownership) to deploy a server running:
Linux = $74,475.
Windows = $190,662.
Solaris = $534,020.
-Robert Frances
Group
While the TCO is often debated, it is a fact that the COA (cost of acquisition) is always lower with Linux.
Average
systems administrator salary:
Unix = $96,163.
Windows = 67,355.
Sony HDTV,
Linksys wireless routers, and TiVO all run on embedded Linux.
Embedded Linux is the #2 embedded OS, after Wind River's VxWorks.
Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and several other states have launched a software repository designed
to let government agencies download and use open-source software. It consists
of Debian Linux,
MySQL database, Z Object Publishing Environment application server, Apache Web
server, and
OpenLDAP authentication.
NASA's Ames
Research Center deploys a 512-processor Silicon Graphics Linux
system for ocean-modeling research. It has a peak performance of 3 teraflops.
*****
These Linux
programs are used for burning CD-Rs and such....
For CD mastering from large wave files (from dat), you can't beat cdrdao/gcdmaster:
http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/gcdmaster/
For extraction, I use cdparanoia if I want individual tracks (like for shn), or cdrdao for bin/toc ripping.
Cdparanoia:
For
a soundforge/cooledit type editing package, there's cinelerra.
It's geared more for mpeg movie editing/mastering, but the audio tools and filters
are second to none:
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
As an added bonus, all these packages are FREE!
--Wayne D. Hoxsie Jr., DAT-heads contributor
*****
Linux vs. Microsoft
cheap
or free vs. several hundred dollars,
minimum
(If you buy a new PC, pre-loaded with Windows, you are paying
$$$ for it.)
updates do not require rebooting vs. any update or bug patch requires a reboot
based on decades-old UNIX vs. based on DOS
runs fine on older, weak PCs vs. each new version usually requires a hardware upgrade
Oracle 10G runs on Linux vs. Not on Windows
immune to nearly every virus and worm vs. they are written specifically to attack Microsoft products
Apache
Web Server runs on Linux vs. Not on Windows
(Apache
serves more web pages than all the others combined)
What
is your definition of a criminal organization?
One that constantly breaks the law, is constantly taken to court, is
constantly found guilty, and repeatedly forced to pay huge fines?
If that sounds about right, then Microsoft is a criminal organization....
1997:
Microsoft pays Apple $150 million
2001: Microsoft pays Sun $20 million for illegally using Sun's
Java Technology
2004: Microsoft pays Sun $700 million to resolve pending anti-trust
issues
2004: Microsoft pays Sun $900 million to resolve patent issues
2004:
Microsoft pays InterTrust Technologies $440 million to resolve 11 patent violations.
Links
I am a member
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers:
http://www.ieee.org/
Vendor Links
scsi adapter cards:
http://www.adaptec.com/
cables and adapters
http://www.belkin.com/
PCs and Printers
http://www.dell.com/
CD and DVD
drives
http://www.plextor.com/
http://www.plextorshop.com/
Linux
http://www.redhat.com/
http://www.novell.com/
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/
Salary Surveys
http://www.informationweek.com/advisor/
http://www.RobertHalfTechnology.com/FreeResources/
Telecom Links
General
Telecom Information:
http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~blight/telecom.html
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/comp_hd.html
http://www.atis.org/
CLEC
Industry Sites:
http://www.clec.com/
http://www.clecresource.com/
http://www.clec-planet.com/
http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-clec/
http://users.erols.com/min1/articles/clecc.htm
http://www.alts.org/
http://www.comptel.org/
http://www.informationfactory.com/ifc8.htm
ATM
Related:
http://www.ba-stuttgart.de/~schulte/htme/55755.htm
– Tutorial
http://www.atmforum.com
– ATM Forum
Fiber
Optics:
http://www.att.com/technology/forstudents/brainspin/fiberoptics/
http://www.eio.com/fbophist.htm
http://www.seikofiber.com/html/intro2fo/
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~sl302186/fiber.html
Product Evaluations and Ratings:
http://www.ITpapers.com/
http://www.NeoSeeker.com/
http://www.nwc.com/
http://www.TechnologyEvaluation.com/
http://www.AnandTech.com/
IT EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK
According
to the U.S. Department of Labor, if you do not know how
to use a computer, you are unqualified for over 50% of all
available jobs.
Of the 204 million people living in the United
States,
80% ages 35-54, 77% of children, and 63% of elders have Internet access.
- Nielsen NetRatings, March 2004
Percentage
of U.S. adults who use the internet:
Gen Y (18-27) 78%
Gen X (28-39) 78%
Trailing Boomers (40-49) 72%
Leading Boomers (50-58) 62%
Matures (59-68) 47%
After Work (69+) 18%
*
Whites 64%
Blacks 45%
Hispanics 63%
*
<$30,000/yr. 41%
$30-$49,000/yr. 69%
$50-$74,000/yr. 85%
$75,000+/yr. 89%
source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, February 2004
The top 10 fastest growing occupations through 2010:
1. Computer
software engineers, applications (100% growth, 2000 thru 2010)
2. Computer support specialists (97% growth)
3. Computer software engineers, systems software (90%)
4. Network and computer systems administrators (82% growth)
5. Network systems and data communications analysts (77% growth)
6. Desktop publishers (67% growth)
7. Database administrators (66% growth)
8. Personal and home care aides
9. Computer systems analysts
10. Medical assistants
Software
Programmer:
US $66,100. India $10,000.
Mechanical
Engineer:
US $55,600. India $5,900.
IT Manager:
US $55,000. India $8,500.
Accountant:
US $41,000. India $5,000.
Financial
Operations:
US $37,625. India $5,500.
(2003 data)
The
State of Indiana's Department of Workforce Development, whose mission is to
"create 200,000 new
high-wage, high-skill jobs in Indiana" had outsourced their IT work to
Tata Consultancy Services in Bangalore, India.
The Top
500 Supercomputer list, as complied by the University of Mannheim, Germany (June
2003):
1.
NEC Earth Simulator, 5120 processors 35,860
gigaflops
Earth Simulator Center,
Yokohama, Japan
2. Hewlet-Packard ASCI Q - AlphaServer
SC ES45, 8192 processors 13,880 gigaflops
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
USA
3. A cluster of 2,304 Xeon 2.4 GHz
Quadrics Linux NetworX MCR 7,634
gigaflops
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, USA; running Red Hat Linux
4. IBM ASCI White
7,304 gigaflops
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, USA
5. IBM SP Power3 375MHz 16-way,
6,656 processors 7,304 gigaflops
NERSC / LBNL (National
Energy Research Scientific Computing / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory),
USA
.
.
.
25. A cluster of 600 DELL PowerEdge 2650
P4 Xeon 2.4GHz PCs 2,004 gigaflops
University at Buffalo,
SUNY, Center for Computational Resources
.
.
44. CRAY T3E1200 1,900 processors
1,166 gigaflops
The fastest CRAY on
the current list, the T3E1200 is 1000 times faster than the Cray Y-MP circa
1988.
US Government, unknown
but probably defense-related modeling
.
.
49. A cluster of 384 Dell PowerEdge 2650 P4
Xeon 2.4 GHz PCs running MS Windows w/Gig E 1,068
gigaflops
Cornell
Theory Center, Ithaca, NY, USA
.
.
500. Hewlett-Packard SuperDome 750 245.10
gigaflops
Click here for the current Top 500 list
I recommend a DELL server to anyone purchasing a PC.
The PowerEdge servers are the best values around - built for commercial,
rather than consumer use, with metal instead of plastic cases, better fans
and heavier power supplies, plus more room for expansion.
Best of all - you can order them without Microsoft Windows pre-installed.
When you buy a PC with MS Windows installed, you are wasting a couple hundred
$.
(DELL PowerEdge PCs are used to build supercomputers....)
good
names for servers include:
Elvis (pings return "Elvis is Alive")
Watergate or Tapeworm for tape backup units
JohnnyCache for a web caching server
VWBUG for a Virus Wall server
Area51 for a remote server
My
Software Library:
Operating
Systems:
Mandrake Linux 9.0
Red Hat Linux 7
Red Hat Linux 8
Red Hat Linux 9
Solaris 8 (for Intel)
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Windows NT 4.0 Server
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 SP2 (service pack)
Windows 2000 SP3 (service pack)
Application
Software:
Microsoft Office 2000 [2 CDRs]
Oracle 8i Installation Kit for Windows
Books
and Training Materials:
SUN Certified Solaris 9.0 System and Network Administrator
"All-In-One" Exam Guide (on line book) and practice test. McGraw Hill
p/n: 0.07.222532.7 [2003]
The Little SAS Book - a primer, 2nd Edition Delwiche /
Slaughter SAS Institute
Prior experience using:
computers:
Intel based PCs
CAC (Carrier Access Corporation) M13
CopperCom Gateway
ASC (Advanced Switching Communications) ASC
Bo
telecomm
equipment:
Nortel UE9000, IMAS, DMS500
CAC (Carrier Access Corporation) M13
CopperCom Gateway
ASC (Advanced Switching Communications) ASC
Box
Cisco 2600 series, BPX, MGX
Tellabs Titan 5500
networking
equipment:
Nortel UE9000, IMAS, DMS500
CAC (Carrier Access Corporation) M13
CopperCom Gateway
ASC (Advanced Switching Communications) ASC
Box
SPAM
In a corporate environment, the costs of SPAM (per month) are:
Lost Productivity $4.51
IT Resources $4.13
Help Desk Cost $1.25
Total = $9.89
For a company of 500 employees, the costs come to $60,000 per year.
SPAM costs a typical ISP about $0.14 per subscriber per month.
-CQ Weekly, 5/14/2003
to
avoid SPAM:
1. never click
on a SPAM message where it says "click here to be removed"
doing so will authenticate your address as a valid one, and SPAMMERS
love to sell their lists of valid e-mail addresses to other SPAMMERS
2.
don't read SPAM messages "On Line"
set your Outlook Express (or other mail client) to "Work Offline"
before reading SPAM.
when SPAM e-mail with pictures are downloaded from a web site, there are often
little
hidden programs which inform the SPAMMER'S web site of your e-mail address,
which
confirms to the SPAMMER that your address is valid. see #1 above.
VIRUSES / WORMS
24-year old Dan Dumitru
Ciobanu of Romania has been charged with cybercrime offenses
for unleashing the Blaster.F Internet worm, a low-grade variant
of the Blaster worm.
-IEEE Security, 2003
The estimated
costs of the worst computer viruses:
SoBig ($37.1 billion)
MyDoom ($22.6 billion)
Klez ($19.8 billion)
MiMail ($11.5 billion)
Yaha ($11.5 billion)
Swen ($10.4 billion)
Love Bug ($8.8 billion)
Bugbear ($3.9 billion)
Dumaru ($3.8 billion)
SirCam ($3 billion)
-mi2g Intelligence Unit, January 2004.
INTEL
Intel has
produced two types of Pentium III processors, which are code-named
Katamai and Coppermine. The differences between these
two processors are:
Processor
Code Name Launch
Date
L2 Cache
Katamai February
1999 512KB running at ½
processor speed
Coppermine October
1999 256KB running at full processor
speed (ATC)
Cache Location Micron
Process
Front Side Bus speed
External to processor core
.25 100
and 133 Mhz
Internal to processor core
.18 100
and 133 Mhz
No Coppermine processors were manufactured with a clock speed less than 500 Mhz (so a 450 Mhz processor must be a Katamai processor), and no Katamai processor was ever manufactured with a clock speed greater than 600 Mhz (so a 650 Mhz processor must be a Coppermine processor). When the clock speed is between 500 – 600 Mhz, however, additional information is needed to determine what type of processor is in use, so Intel has defined the letters "E", "B", and "EB" to have specific meanings when appended to the clock speed of an Intel Pentium III processor, like this:
"B"
Katamai processor with 133 Mhz front side bus
"E"
Coppermine processor with 100 Mhz Front Side Bus
"EB"
Coppermine processor with 133 Mhz front side bus
Microsoft
In 2002, Microsoft released 72 patches to fix bugs in its software.
"I
have spent time with companies who have chosen to migrate to a Microsoft solution,
and the long-term results are very consistent. They ultimately need more servers
to provide
the same services, need more staff to administer those servers who spend more
time keeping
them secure, and have dramatically increased downtime."
- Donald Barber, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Nov 2003
In the second half of 2003, there were 250 percent more new Windows viruses discovered than in the same period in 2002.
Price List
Retail software prices, November 2003 - June 2004
Operating Systems
$270 Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition, full version (list $300)
$180 Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition, upgrade (proof of ownership
of 98SE, NT4.0, 2000, or Me required) (list $200)
$ 0 Red Hat Linux
$ 0 Red Hat Linux upgrades and new versions
Office Productivity Suites
$500 Microsoft Office Professional 2003 - Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
Publisher, Contact Manager, Access
$330 Microsoft Office Professional 2003, upgrade - Outlook, Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Contact Manager, Access
$450 Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 - Outlook, Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Contact Manager
$280 Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003, upgrade - Outlook,
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Contact Manager
$400 Microsoft Office Standard 2003 - Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
$240 Microsoft Office Standard 2003, upgrade - Outlook, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint
$150 Microsoft Office Student and Teacher 2003 -
upgrade not available
Web site Design
$400 Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 requires activation
- BOYCOTT this product !
ERATTA
ANACs
(Automatic Number Announcement Circuits) 1-800-555-1140
and 1-800-555-1180
when an ANAC is called, an ARU
(Audio Response Unit) announces
the ANI (Automatic Number Identification)
you are calling from.
Iomega Super DVD Drive - www.iomega.com
also see http://www.btinternet.com/~big.bubbles/personal/ade/dat-dds/index.html
used computer media
- computer tapes wanted
Media Mastr Computer Products, Inc.
http://www.mmcpi.com/
1053 Thos Busch Highway, Pennsauken, NJ 08110
Stay away from corporate ISPs! Use a local, independent
Internet Service Provider.
Also highly recommended:
Nothin But
Net, LLC
Nothin But Net is a Full Service Internet Provider in the Mount Laurel, New
Jersey area.
when the
RIAA issued subpoenas to ISPs, to reveal the identities of
their users who the RIAA suspected of illegally downloading music files,
Comcast gave their customers up.
Verizon Communications and Pacific Bell Internet Services
have challenged
the RIAA subpoena. Charter Communications is the first cable operator
to challenge the subpoena.
Verizon was compelled by the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C.
to
give up its customers names, and has appealed the decision.
[ One of many reasons to go with DSL, rather
than a Comcast cable modem ]
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