Looking @ their home page, it looks like this is a FreeBSD geared @ multiprocessing sytems, not your usual made for home users desktops or laptops.
It's a funny thing though, isn't it? When Matt Dillon began the fork, multi-core technology was only just getting started. If you had multiple cores or multiple CPUs, it was in a server. These days, just about every laptop or home desktop has more than one core. An OS written to scale across multiple CPUs certainly has an advantage on those platforms.
Your DHCP server doesn't care if its on a three ghz six core or a one ghz single core, but your users will care if there is none working at all because you couldn't keep spare hardware in a closet. If people are not accusing you of being a techno-hoarder, you're doing it wrong.
I appreciate all you've written. In fact, I agree with it. However, I'd like to point out that places like the one described by the submitter... well, they don't use DHCP. They use a spreadsheet of IP addresses... in Excel format.
$ man ssh-copy-id
This doesn't appear to exist on FreeBSD systems. I did check out a linux system though and found that I had it. It's a shell script that basically performs exactly what Ecks and I do to install our keys.
AT&T maintains 99.999999999% (yes, that's nine nines!) uptime
Looks like 11 nines but I do agree that ATT doesn't have uptime problems.
Right. Ever worked in that environment? Nope? Thought not.. I have.. You're faced with:
[snip incredibly accurate account of working in healthcare IT
Almost creepy to hear you describe the situation. Your experiences so exactly match what I face each day that I had to check the userid to make sure it wasn't me who wrote that comment. I suppose I can take some solace knowing that I'm not alone.
Fuck those missiles.
I believe the expression is "Damn the torpedoes!"
Why would you want a dedicated chip for this when cloud computing is in fashion? Offload your burdensome encryption work.
Yeah, this is *exactly* the sort of hardware that the "cloud" providers run.
No, the laboratory equipment should be air-gapped.
Sure, and the referring physician can drive across town to the lab and sit right in front of the blood gas analyzer to see his patient's results.
I'm sure water quality varies by state, though.
In many regions, it varies by municipality. My tap water is "blegh" as you say. Tap water in the town five miles down the road is fairly palatable. Both test within health limits but mine fails the taste test.
On a related note, most folks agree that coffee from that other town's coffee shops tastes better than from our shops.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.