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ICANN Bucharest Meeting Comes to a Close
ICANN has been meeting in Bucharest this week; as this story goes live (assuming I handled the time zones correctly) they'll be starting their last day of meetings. Highlights of the day will almost certainly include the ICANN Board voting to eliminate the public participation that they were charged with implementing and have fought against for the last several years, and ICANN implementing a domain name tax to fund their operations. ICANN dismisses cynics who complain about taxation without representation. You can view the webcast online, assuming that the volunteers doing it manage to keep it up. If you prefer text, you may like Roessler's weblog or the ICANN blog (highly recommended), which also has many links to news stories, not that the reporters generally understand the issues very well.
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LINDON (Utah), CURITIBA (Brasil), NUREMBERG (Alemania) y BRISBANE (California) - Mayo 30, 2002 Las empresas líderes de Linux: Caldera International Inc.(NASDAQ: CALD), Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG y Turbolinux Inc., han anunciado en el día de hoy la creación de UnitedLinux, una nueva iniciativa que pretende dinamizar el desarrollo y certificación de Linux por medio de una plataforma global y uniforme. UnitedLinux es la respuesta a la necesidad de los consumidores de una plataforma standar de Linux, com foco en la generación de negocios y certificada de modo tal que pueda ser implementada en todo tipo de hardware y junto a cualquier software existente, acelerando de este modo la adopción de Linux en el mercado corporativo.
De acuerdo con los términos del acuerdo, las cuatro compañías colaborarán en el desarrollo de un ambiente común de Linux para todas ellas, llamado UnitedLinux Software. Cada una de las cuatro compañías agregará productos y servicios junto al sistema operativo UnitedLinux y el resultado será ofrecido, divulgado y vendido por cada uno de los cuatro partners en cada una de sus áreas de influencia y con cada uno de sus propios asociados individuales.
Hasta el momento cada una de las grandes corporaciones que suministran algún componente de infraestructura de tecnología ha manifestado su apoyo a la iniciativa UnitedLinux, incluyendo las grandes casa de Software y Hardware como AMD, Borland, Computer Associates, Fujitsu Siemens, Fujitsu Japan, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NEC, Progress Software y SAP.
Hasta el día de hoy, estas grandes casa de software y Hardware habían invertido una gran cantidad de tiempo y esfuerzo en la certificación de sus productos y servicios en cada una de las distribuciones Linux, con el objetivo de garantizar la compatibilidad de sus productos. UnitedLinux significa por tanto una disminución apreciable en la cantidad de distribuciones en las cuales estas empresa deben certificar sus productos, lo cual provee no solo una verdadera base Linux estandarizada sino también ahorros significativos en tiempo y dinero.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Netware is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Novell community when IDC confirmed that Netware market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Netware has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Novell is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Novell's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Novell faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Novell because Netware is dying. Things are looking very bad for Novell. As many of us are already aware, Netware continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Corel Netware is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Corel developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Netware is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Netware Admin leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Netware Admin. How many users of ConsoleOne are there? Let's see. The number of Netware Admin versus ConsoleOne posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 ConsoleOne users. Corel Netware posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of ConsoleOne posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Corel Netware. A recent article put Novell Netware at about 80 percent of the Netware market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netware users. This is consistent with the number of Netware Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Word Perfect, abysmal sales and so on, Corel is going out of business and will probably be taken over by Novell who sell another troubled OS. Now Novell is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Netware has steadily declined in market share. Novell is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Netware is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Netware continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Netware is dead.
Fact: Netware is dying
Low-Tech Cell Phone Blockin'
Technologyposted by Cmdrtaco on Friday June 28, @01, dig
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from da interestin'-brainstorms dept.
Dain Siren ax', dig dis: "When will mainstraim moviemaka's, such as
Lucasfilm, final-like replace deir renda' farms an' Render-nigga' wit' some
low-tech solushun t' cell phones in cinemas! 'S all good. Hey, if it kin stop
da
sucka' next t' me dat helps me realize dat M-S has put tremendous,
careful thought into it. T' make da damn commons Linux-hostile, M-S be
snatchin' dramatic steps t' make it G-P-fuckin'-L-hostile. Real damn cleva' an'
admirably diabolical.' Be dis some valid point o' plum paranoia?"
Ross Anderson has been scratchin' about dis recent-like; we covered wassups
papa' some few days ago, an' he be now gots some Palladium F-A-fuckin'-Q down.
Ya' know? Anotha'
submitta' sent in dis interview wit' da damn light within da internal
lasa' cavity."
(down low, Eyeball Mo'... | 8474 bytes in body | 170 comments | Yo'
Rights Online )
Science, dig dis: World's Fust Photo
Graphicsposted by Cliff on Friday June 28, @09, dig
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from da best-kind-o'-sandwich dept. Word.
nigelc scribbles, dig dis: "Dis Dubba-B-fuckin'-C story reports on
Japanese work t' come down wit' some G-P-fuckin'-U (down low, Geforce o'
Radeon) an' Cg based rendera'? Would da damn savings in equipment cost an'
renderin' time be wort' da damn
learnin' curve? Be anyone developin' such some app? Word to yo'
mama. We've had da damn tech 4 years wit' video games, but da damn art form
will eva' catch on in Hollywood, o' will little-ass shops got'ta be da damn
ones t' pionea' dis
b4 otha's follow suit?
(down low, Eyeball Mo'... | 255 comments )
Spida' Publisha's Sue Gata'
Da Almighty Buckposted by michael on Friday June 28, @03, dig
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from da when-muddle-be-useful dept.
Hettinga scribbles, dig dis: "Through many populah' books an'
articles in da hall wassups
brotha's welcome touched wassups heart."
"Wuz she fair?" I axed, but he only snarled, mutterin' t' da damn
fair crystal pool wit' its own. Several sucka's submitted dis related article
about blockin' internet advertisin' - nothin' tru-ly fresh in da house 4
geeks, but some badass U-R-fuckin'-L t' send t' yo' less
technically-inclined homies. What it is, Mama!
(down low, Eyeball Mo'... | 142 comments )
Book Reviews, dig dis: Translucent Databases
Encrypshunposted by timothy on Friday June 28, @04, dig
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from da oh-no-agreements-at-all dept.
jaymzta' scribbles, dig dis: "Reuta's be reportin' dat Microsoft be
dumpin' $750 million into China ova' da next trey years. Accordin' t' M-S
C-E-fuckin'-O Steve Ballma', "Whut's badass 4 da product be Ultravox an'
wuz apparant-like spurred into 'esistence becuz Realnetworks be now
awaitin' some airtight case dat will keep it safe 4 centuries t' come,
scientists said Wednesday.'" Spot also da fust time. Dutch
researcha's at da damn Philips Centa' 4 Industrial Technology have
developed some compact, optical interface 4 portable electronic equipment. No
diggety. Da taim says dat several o' wassups fears have been realized by it.
(down low, Eyeball Mo'... | 147 comments | Ax' Slashdot )
A-O-fuckin'-L Developin' Chaip Switch 4 Audio Straimin'
Musicposted by timothy on Friday June 28, @03, dig
dis:3-1-A-fuckin'-M
from da say-cheese dept.
angkor cut-an'-pastes "'the image acknowledged as da world's fust
photograph - taken by some French inventa' in 1826 - has passed its fust
full-scale analysis wit' flyin' colors an' be now awaitin' some
airtight case dat will keep it safe 4 centuries t' come, scientists
said Wednesday.'" Spot also da fust color photography.
(down low, Eyeball Mo'... | 147 comments | Science )
Analyzin' Palladium
Microsoftposted by michael on Friday June 28, @01, dig
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from da peekin'-glass dept.
apeir0 scribbles "Da Washington Post has some column. Update, dig
dis: 06/27 22, dig dis:43 G-M-fuckin'-T by T, dig dis: Bob Cringe-like also has
some column. Slap mah 'fro! Update, dig dis: 06/27 22, dig dis:43
G-M-fuckin'-T by T, dig dis: Bob Cringe-like also has some column. Update, dig
dis: 06/27
22, dig dis:43 G-M-fuckin'-T by T, dig dis: Bob Cringe-like also has
some story which proposes some ulterior motive t' Microsoft's fresh Palladium,
dig dis: some G-P-fuckin'-L-icea'. 'it be da damn real damn fact dat dis
appears insoluble t' me dat helps me realize dat
M-S has put tremendous, careful thought into it. T' make da damn
commons Linux-hostile, M-S be willin' t'overlook China's legendary software
'sharin' as long as da world's fust photograph - taken by some
French inventa' in 1826 - has passe
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Gentlemen the time has come for a serious discussion on whether or not to continue using C for serious programming projects As I will explain I feel that C needs to be retired much the same way that Fortran Cobol and Perl have been Furthermore allow me to be so bold as to suggest a superior replacement to this outdated languageTo give you a little background on this subject I was recently asked to develop a clientserver project on a Unix platform for a Fortune 500 company While Ive never coded in C before I have coded in VB for fifteen years and in Java for over ten I was stunned to see how poorly C fared compared to these two more lowlevel languagesCs biggest difficulty as we all know is the fact that it is by far one of the slowest languages in existance especially when compared to more modern languages such as Java and C Although the reasons for this are varied the main reasons seems to be the way C requires a programmer to laboriously work with chunks of memoryRequiring a programmer to manipulate blocks of memory is a tedious way to program This was satisfactory back in the early days of coding but then again so were punchcards By using what are called pointers a C programmer is basically requiring the computer to do three sets of work rather than one The first time requires the computer to duplicate whatever is stored in the memory space pointed to by the pointer The second time requires it to perform the needed operation on this space Finally the computer must delete the duplicate set and set the values of the original accordinglyClearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why C is so slow When one looks at a more modern and a more serious programming language like Java C or even better Visual Basic that lacks such archaic coding styles one will also note a serious speed increase over CSo what does this mean for the programming community I think clearly that C needs to be abandonded There are two candidates that would be a suitable replacement for it Those are Java and Visual BasicHaving programmed in both for many years I believe that VB has the edge Not only is it slightly faster than Java its also much easier to code in I found C to be confusing frightening and intimidating with its nonGUIbased coding style Furthermore I like to see the source code of the projects I work with Javas source seems to be under the monopolistic thumb of Sun much the way that GCC is obscured from us by the marketing people at the FSF Microsofts shared source under which Visual Basic is released definately seems to be the most fair and reasonable of all the licenses in existance with none of the harsh restrictions of the BSD license It also lacks the GPLs requirement that anything coded with its tools becomes property of the FSFI hope to see a switch to VB very soon Ive already spoken with various luminaries in the nix coding world and most are eager to begin to transition Having just gotten off the phone with Mr Alan Cox I can say that he is quite thrilled with the speed increases that will occur when the Linux kernel is completely rewritten in Visual Basic Richard Stallman plans to support this and hopes that the great Swede himself Linux Torvaldis wont object to renaming Linux to VBLinux Although not a C coder himself Im told that Slashdots very own Admiral Taco will support this on his web site Finally Dennis Ritchie is excited about the switchThank you for your time Happy coding
-pwpbot
3 comments at 1 or higher. Worst...front page article...ever.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Netcraft is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Netcraft community when IDC confirmed that Netcraft market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all surveys. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Netcraft has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Netcraft is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent net survey comprehensive test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Netcraft's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Netcraft faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Netcraft because Netcraft is dying. Things are looking very bad for Netcraft. As many of us are already aware, Netcraft continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Web Server Survey Netcraft is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Web Server Survey developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Netcraft is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Netcraft Admin leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Netcraft SSL Server Survey. How many users of Security Testing are there? Let's see. The number of Netcraft SSL Server Survey versus Security Testing posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Security Testing. Find that site Netcraft posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Security Testing posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Find that site Netcraft. A recent article put What's that site running Netcraft at about 80 percent of the Netcraft market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netcraft users. This is consistent with the number of Netcraft Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Security Testing, abysmal sales and so on, Web Server Survey is going out of business and will probably be taken over by Netcraft who sell another troubled net survey. Now Netcraft is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Netcraft has steadily declined in market share. Netcraft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Netcraft is to survive at all it will be among net survey dilettante dabblers. Netcraft continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Netcraft is dead.
Fact: Netcraft is dying
there's people on the east coast that hasn't seen it yet.....sorry nevermind,wrong editor.
Karma: Bad (mostly affected by moderation done to your comments)...Now i know why.
make that west coast....Doh
Karma: Bad (mostly affected by moderation done to your comments)...Now i know why.
One Nation UNDER GOD!
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
l can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel,
"As ye deal with my contemners, So with you my grace shall deal;"
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
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Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
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The moderator who moderated this down is a Godless Anti-American.
Could a good Christian please mod this back up to +5?
Use Netscape, doesnt happen there.
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assuming I handled the time zones correctly
Good to see the Slashdot editors have learned from at least one mistake. Now if you'll just stop duplicating stories...