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ScottC Oct 21, 2003 12:38 am
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by stimpy:
Cool web site!

They were talking about the Treo on CNN today. What U.S. providers offer it? And does it come with tri-band GSM. http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/wink.gif</font>
It's out on Sprint at the moment and should be on T-mobile as a tri-band device within 4 weeks. Initial reviews are positive though some find the display quality pretty low.

alanw Oct 21, 2003 12:56 am
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ScottC:
It's out on Sprint at the moment and should be on T-mobile as a tri-band device within 4 weeks. Initial reviews are positive though some find the display quality pretty low.</font>
"Pretty low" is how I would characterize the display quality of my original Treo 180. What a pile of ****. But this thing looks much better. If they can get the UI to the point where I can make a call or send an SMS without prying a pen off the side of the thing (a la P800) I'd sign up.


PS - This is my very first post from my new, GPRS-free ADSL line!

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hfly Oct 21, 2003 5:29 am
Scott,

When are you going to get your hands on a p900??

ScottC Oct 21, 2003 7:58 am
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ClueByFour:
Hey, you wrote about a citrix session to a colo box once. Assumption on my part. Mea culpa. Next time, just admit to only VNC and have us wonder http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...um/biggrin.gif.

Seriously though, I like the FreeBSD/Apache combination. I've got a box under a desk at a Major IP Backbone (tm), but it's running OpenBSD. Largely for wanting to make a 170mhz Sparc 5 run like anything but molasses, but that's another story....

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I have an ISDN-30 trunk end in my co-lo and a Win2003 box running an voice response machine... Sadly there didn't seem to be any decent IVR's for Unix except for a $100k IBM solution... That box runs Citrix and is the only machine on a remote power bar so we can kick it from a distance http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...um/biggrin.gif

richard Oct 21, 2003 8:35 am
Why BSD and not Linux?

ScottC Oct 21, 2003 8:37 am
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by richard:
Why BSD and not Linux?</font>
Because IMHO Linux is developed more towards the desktop, it has a lot of stuff to make it friendly for the common user, BSD is extremely suitable for an ISP right off the CD. No overhead, no bloat.

MagMile Oct 21, 2003 8:44 am
I don't understand anything that's being discussed in this thread, but nice site.

ClueByFour Oct 21, 2003 11:36 am
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by richard:
Why BSD and not Linux?</font>
It comes with more stuff turned off. You don't have to worry about what FreeBSD (and especially OpenBSD) might start on you during an upgrade, or what service might be running that you don't know about.

From a performance standpoint, particularly on x86 harware (which I'm going to assume is what Scott is using), the FreeBSD virtual memory handling still performs much better than linux (although the VM changes in 2.4 and 2.6 might even the gap a bit) under heavy loads, and makes a remarkably stable platform for things like apache and msql/mysql right out of the box. If you want to do nothing but we a http/https/ftp/smtp/pop/imap/dns box, FreeBSD is very, very hard to beat from a performance standpoint.



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ScottC Oct 21, 2003 11:42 am
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ClueByFour:
It comes with more stuff turned off. You don't have to worry about what FreeBSD (and especially OpenBSD) might start on you during an upgrade, or what service might be running that you don't know about.

From a performance standpoint, particularly on x86 harware (which I'm going to assume is what Scott is using), the FreeBSD virtual memory handling still performs much better than linux (although the VM changes in 2.4 and 2.6 might even the gap a bit) under heavy loads, and makes a remarkably stable platform for things like apache and msql/mysql right out of the box. If you want to do nothing but we a http/https/ftp/smtp/pop/imap/dns box, FreeBSD is very, very hard to beat from a performance standpoint.

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Yes, we use dual Xeon HP boxes with 4Gb of memory, each machine easilly serves up to 25000 concurrent web users, there is no way a Linux box could pull that off.

winkydink Oct 21, 2003 4:57 pm
Linux is something for Windows haters, BSD is something for Unix lovers

ScottC Oct 21, 2003 5:00 pm
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by winkydink:
Linux is something for Windows haters, BSD is something for Unix lovers</font>
I love Windows and love BSD. What does this make me?

korea71 Oct 21, 2003 5:15 pm
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ScottC:
I love Windows and love BSD. What does this make me?</font>
My friend.

winkydink Oct 21, 2003 5:20 pm
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ScottC:
I love Windows and love BSD. What does this make me?</font>
Somebody about whom the quote is applicable? http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...orum/smile.gif

Personally, I love Windows as a user. But I love *nix as a programmer.


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