Word: unix
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...Harvard Arts and Sciences Computing Services (HASCS) Unix servers will be shut down Friday for more than six hours as technicians improve the storage infrastructure of the main network file system (NFS), system administrators announced last week...
Access to the Instructional Computing Environment will be shut down beginning at 5 p.m., according to HASCS. Access to general login servers, e-mail, web and other Unix services will be shut down at 6 p.m. All the network should be back up by around midnight...
...staff decided to complete the work in the evening—and not overnight as it typically does for smaller projects—since the entire staff assigned to the Unix server will have to be present for the upgrade. Davis explained that if the work were done overnight, nobody would be available the next day to troubleshoot the server...
...billion worldwide market for hardware alone. That market includes the servers themselves, which can be as bulky as an IBM mainframe or as slender as a cigarette carton, as well as storage devices. All this iron runs on a variety of software: operating systems and protocols from Unix to Linux and, increasingly, Windows. There are battles over whose protocols are open to adaptation (guess where Windows stands?) and whether there ought to be more standardization. But those conflicts are being resolved by a vast new parallel business called Web services, which encompasses the software and technical expertise that enable companies...
...hedging its bets with an all-out push into what it calls global services, under which it will come to your company, any company, with the hardware and software you need to do business. Want a system that runs on Linux? Windows? Unix? No problem. "IBM comes to the table with a palette of colors and says, 'Paint any picture you want,'" says Dan Kusnetzky, a vice president of IDC. IBM has been slashing prices on its hardware lately. Sun's McNealy claims that IBM's strategy is "to get the hardware in there for free and bury you with...