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michael
on from the tastes-great-less-filling dept.
Logic writes "The Oggbitstream format (used by OggVorbis) has been enshrined in RFC 3533, "The Ogg Encapsulation Format Version 0", for all you folks who won't look at something unless it has an RFC attached to it."
Linux: the hype is over
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Anonymous Coward
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Linux: the hype is over
According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is very unstable * Linux has a very unreliable filesystem * Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of pinguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, the management has grown wise and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass and it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation * Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require * Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperable with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Web applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow, unreliable and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts re actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam. 'The screaming fast linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production net since every linux (l)user seems to need nmap to perform normal work-related computer operations. All the 'cool' apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. ) And, for the rare instance where a free unix is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
Troll 121 of 210 from the annals of the Troll Library.
Considering ogg only works in linux, and even then, only in some linux distros, I doubt this will be a very important announcement.
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Grand parent post pulled from the "Troll Library"
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Bold+Marauder
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That was your first hint; how is it you could miss that?
Oh. You were 'fanning the flames', I see. Carry on.
Re:Now that it's an RFC...
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Anonymous Coward
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If you actually knew anything about it you'd know that Ogg is in fact a "half-assed" implementation of the compression that ACC and WMA already use and to a much greater sophistication and fidelity than Ogg uses it. When the three are compared, Ogg virtually always comes in last and WMA first.
So no, I don't think that Microsoft is going to bother to copy that piece of junk any tome soon.
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According to the latest Gartner group research report, the Linux hype is finally over. Research shows that market share of linux-driven production servers on the internet has finally declined to a single-digit number. The reasons for this are clear:
* Linux is very unstable
* Linux has a very unreliable filesystem
* Everybody uses Windows or BSD, nowadays
Research has clearly pointed out, that although there are still hordes of pinguin-dressed geeks running around MIS departments, the management has grown wise and doesn't even allow Linux workstations anymore, since the costs in maintaining these machines turned out to be astronomically high. The reasons for this are clear as well.
* Installation is a pain in the ass and it usually takes a whole support team to install a geeks' workstation
* Installation and maintenance requires 4-5 times the bandwidth a 'normal' OS would require
* Linux was deliberately made completely incompatible and inoperable with turnkey solutions like MS Exchange or MS SQL server. Investments in these products are therefore voided the minute you start rolling out Linux.
* Web applications developed in Perl or C, the languages of the linux community have proven to be slow, unreliable and headaching complicated. Once developed and debugged, nobody is able to understand the code.
Therefore, it has been statistically proven that most companies have already moved away from Linux. All the 'geeks' wearing tux t-shirts re actually MIS support guys who are still studying for their MCSE exam. 'The screaming fast linux machines at work' are actually refurbished workstations at a separated network segment, not allowed on the production net since every linux (l)user seems to need nmap to perform normal work-related computer operations. All the 'cool' apache web servers are actually IIS machines with forged host headers. (yes, you can do that in IIS without recompiling anything. Heck, I lived for years without a C compiler and still do. ) And, for the rare instance where a free unix is actually used in a production environment, management has smartened up and BSD is usually installed.
Troll 121 of 210 from the annals of the Troll Library .
Considering ogg only works in linux, and even then, only in some linux distros, I doubt this will be a very important announcement.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
That was your first hint; how is it you could miss that? Oh. You were 'fanning the flames', I see. Carry on.
If you actually knew anything about it you'd know that Ogg is in fact a "half-assed" implementation of the compression that ACC and WMA already use and to a much greater sophistication and fidelity than Ogg uses it. When the three are compared, Ogg virtually always comes in last and WMA first.
So no, I don't think that Microsoft is going to bother to copy that piece of junk any tome soon.