BOSS "Do you have that module done yet?"
EMPLOYEE "Almost there boss, give me another two days"
Employee then goes and downloads some existing code, find/replaces some variables, moves a few things, and BLAM... now he has something that looks like a weeks worth of work.
Imagine the porn collection this particular code thief acquired while he was SUPPOSED to be writing the code.
I don't want a doctor who can't tell the difference between a gall bladder and a tumor operating on me!
At any rate, this is very interesting news. I hope they use pretty strong crypto to protect the communications. This would give new meaning to Denial Of Service if the stream were interecepted and modified.
How is Word non-standard? 95% of people out there that use word processors either use Microsoft Word, or some word processor capable of saving files in Word format.
If I can write my software in Windows (90+% of the market) and know it will eventually be able to work through emulation on other platforms (EVER write a native app for a platform other than windows?
No flames / "Trolls!" / etc. This is a SERIOUS question from a professional (I get paid to do it!) Windows developer.
I'd much rather be transitioned to MSN than to AOL/Compuserv/Prodigy(!)/etc.
I'm not really a big fan of any of the national ISPs.... the ones that are local or operated by the local telco seem to be the best for more people. I wonder how many people will dump qwest as a result of all of this.
Now I don't have to reboot to linux to play games!.... oh wait a minute. ____________________ Remember, not all/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
Well, at least they aren't price gouging on Geforce 3 cards. I mean, they're ONLY 300 some dollars. So what if it's more expensive than the motherboard and the CPU? Just buy the ATI card AND the Nvidia card and then swap them out in between games. I mean, if you have to reboot to go into windows to play a game anyhow, you might as well do a hardware swap while you're at it!
Now if the motherboard manufacturers would just get up to speed on that hot swap AGP slot technology that I've been looking forward to!
Don't/. readers ALWAYS condemn Microsoft? Perhaps it's because they usually only post NEGATIVE Microsoft stories. I'm used to the anti-Microsoft theme, but it's still sad.
Proof that/. itself is anti-MS? EVERY other news section icon is the actual product / group logo... what does MS have? Bill Gates as a Borg. Sad that proponents of "Alternative OS's" are against people have a choice to use a NON ALTERNATIVE OS.
That would be like people founding a country on religious freedom and then saying you could pick anything you wanted as your religion... except Christianity.:) ____________________ Remember, not all/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
22 may 12:33 PM EST, clicking on the link gives this-
"Unable to connect to the database. Please email"
Another website falls victim to a SDDDOS (SlashDot Distributed Denial Of Service) attack.
Says their admin-
"Lets check our logs... 5,000 hits sunday... 4,800 on monday... not bad... WTF!! 2,841,182 hits in THREE HOURS on Tuesday?!" ____________________ Remember, not all/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
Aimbots such as nopbot127 for Quake 3 don't take advantage of what's actually DRAWN on the screen. They effectively see through walls anyway. That + the railgun and they could probably play w/o the monitor on and still beat people using these "cheat" drivers. ____________________ Remember, not all/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
Since it's just about impossible to make money selling open source software (don't reply to this with half a dozen links to companys who do, I realize it's possible), these developers are probably already doing their open source development in their free time.
I would agree with the article in that, as long as there aren't any evil clauses in the non-compete agreement that prevent them from engaging in their hobby, I'm sure they'd jump at the chance.
Keep in mind that most open source programmers write code for open source operating systems, however. Perhaps you would be best suited to pick someone who has more or more recent experience in programming for whatever platform and language you need rather than just to choosing them because they have been working in open source.
There is no real need to "give back" to the open source community. People don't give away their code, and then expect something in return. That's the whole idea of giving it away. It would be similar to someone who authors novels, manuals, or other books and then gives them away for nothing. Obviously, if they cared about making money for themselves, they wouldn't give it away.
____________________ Remember, not all/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
"Wooo hoo!! Look at how fast our Mac cluster is!! Now we can run... Oh wait... what the hell are we going to do with this thing?" ____________________ Remember, not all/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
The linux entry also used twice as many processors as the second-place SQL Server 2000 running on Windows 2000. It was also not competitive on a price/performance basis.
They are also using four machines rather than a single machine -- which means four times as much to manage -- as well as twice as many processors. MS SQL Server is also 25 percent more efficient than them for CPU.
So can linux actually claim this a win? There are 4 machines compared to 1, and it costs over twice as much for less than twice as much performance. I can't IMAGINE how you kids would react if MS put a cluster against a single linux machine in a benchmark.
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I wonder if they have to use AOL for ALL of their email or just their unsolicited get rich/skinny/sex quick scheme email.
I hate to see where this is going, Road Runner (owned by time warner) is already slower than hell in answering their email. ____________________ Remember, not all/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
I wonder if California is going to have to put energy usage controls into place similar to their car emission controls. Or maybe just a "Power guzzler" tax? ____________________ Remember, not all/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
4 out of 4 of these are better than Mozilla right now. Notice I didn't put old netscape in that list... mozilla has finally surpassed the 4.x netscapes (in my opinion), but has a LONG way to go to beat the other browser.
Don't forget, however, that if someone out there makes a webpage and they choose to only support one browser, they'll pick IE. Complain about non-standard, closed source, etc... but 80%+ of the desktop machines on earth have IE on them... food for thought? Just because most you hate Microsoft and don't support peoples' choice to use their products doesn't mean that everyone that uses the internet hates them too.
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Why can't Linux users just let Windows users use Windows, and Windows users just let Linux users use Linux? People have the right to choose their OS! All of this hatred and "I'm not wrong, you're wrong" type stuff does nothing for either side. ____________________ Remember, not all/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
I called them dailySpamdar as when you went to their site, you would get a page with 3 banner ads and TWO popups! It was pretty outrageous and it made me quit going there, but I still hate to see them go under. ____________________ Remember, not all/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
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Now if they would just make Nsync CDs that you can't play on computers, CD Players, stereos, walkmen, toasters, etc.
Did I have a powerglove with my Nintendo like 6 years ago? How is this new?
BOSS "Do you have that module done yet?" EMPLOYEE "Almost there boss, give me another two days" Employee then goes and downloads some existing code, find/replaces some variables, moves a few things, and BLAM... now he has something that looks like a weeks worth of work. Imagine the porn collection this particular code thief acquired while he was SUPPOSED to be writing the code.
What good is making a website if you can't promote pornography?? Isn't that what the web is for??
I don't want a doctor who can't tell the difference between a gall bladder and a tumor operating on me!
At any rate, this is very interesting news. I hope they use pretty strong crypto to protect the communications. This would give new meaning to Denial Of Service if the stream were interecepted and modified.
Look at the numbers at the very bottom:
Exchange got $135K for a UPS while the other server was "existing" so it got $0.
Exchange got $990K for support while the other got $0.
Even you Microsoft haters out there can't POSSIBLY call this a fair comparison.
and they have been for nearly a year now.
http://www.eb1.com
Staroffice is nowhere near the quality of Office XP.
Corporate users care more about usability, standards, and TRAINING than license costs.
How is Word non-standard? 95% of people out there that use word processors either use Microsoft Word, or some word processor capable of saving files in Word format.
If I can write my software in Windows (90+% of the market) and know it will eventually be able to work through emulation on other platforms (EVER write a native app for a platform other than windows?
No flames / "Trolls!" / etc. This is a SERIOUS question from a professional (I get paid to do it!) Windows developer.
I don't have time to patch my servers against code red!
I'm too damned busy reply to all of my email. You'd never believe how many people have been sending me files asking for my advise!
I'd much rather be transitioned to MSN than to AOL/Compuserv/Prodigy(!)/etc. I'm not really a big fan of any of the national ISPs.... the ones that are local or operated by the local telco seem to be the best for more people. I wonder how many people will dump qwest as a result of all of this.
Now I don't have to reboot to linux to play games! .... oh wait a minute. /. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
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Well, at least they aren't price gouging on Geforce 3 cards. I mean, they're ONLY 300 some dollars. So what if it's more expensive than the motherboard and the CPU? Just buy the ATI card AND the Nvidia card and then swap them out in between games. I mean, if you have to reboot to go into windows to play a game anyhow, you might as well do a hardware swap while you're at it! Now if the motherboard manufacturers would just get up to speed on that hot swap AGP slot technology that I've been looking forward to!
Don't /. readers ALWAYS condemn Microsoft? Perhaps it's because they usually only post NEGATIVE Microsoft stories. I'm used to the anti-Microsoft theme, but it's still sad.
Proof that /. itself is anti-MS? EVERY other news section icon is the actual product / group logo... what does MS have? Bill Gates as a Borg. Sad that proponents of "Alternative OS's" are against people have a choice to use a NON ALTERNATIVE OS.
That would be like people founding a country on religious freedom and then saying you could pick anything you wanted as your religion... except Christianity. :) /. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
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22 may 12:33 PM EST, clicking on the link gives this-
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"Unable to connect to the database. Please email"
Another website falls victim to a SDDDOS (SlashDot Distributed Denial Of Service) attack.
Says their admin-
"Lets check our logs... 5,000 hits sunday... 4,800 on monday... not bad... WTF!! 2,841,182 hits in THREE HOURS on Tuesday?!"
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Aimbots such as nopbot127 for Quake 3 don't take advantage of what's actually DRAWN on the screen. They effectively see through walls anyway. That + the railgun and they could probably play w/o the monitor on and still beat people using these "cheat" drivers. /. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
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Since it's just about impossible to make money selling open source software (don't reply to this with half a dozen links to companys who do, I realize it's possible), these developers are probably already doing their open source development in their free time.
/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
I would agree with the article in that, as long as there aren't any evil clauses in the non-compete agreement that prevent them from engaging in their hobby, I'm sure they'd jump at the chance.
Keep in mind that most open source programmers write code for open source operating systems, however. Perhaps you would be best suited to pick someone who has more or more recent experience in programming for whatever platform and language you need rather than just to choosing them because they have been working in open source.
There is no real need to "give back" to the open source community. People don't give away their code, and then expect something in return. That's the whole idea of giving it away. It would be similar to someone who authors novels, manuals, or other books and then gives them away for nothing. Obviously, if they cared about making money for themselves, they wouldn't give it away.
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"Wooo hoo!! Look at how fast our Mac cluster is!! Now we can run... Oh wait... what the hell are we going to do with this thing?" /. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
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The linux entry also used twice as many processors as the second-place SQL Server 2000 running on Windows 2000. It was also not competitive on a price/performance basis.
/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
They are also using four machines rather than a single machine -- which means four times as much to manage -- as well as twice as many processors. MS SQL Server is also 25 percent more efficient than them for CPU.
So can linux actually claim this a win? There are 4 machines compared to 1, and it costs over twice as much for less than twice as much performance. I can't IMAGINE how you kids would react if MS put a cluster against a single linux machine in a benchmark.
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I wonder if they have to use AOL for ALL of their email or just their unsolicited get rich/skinny/sex quick scheme email.
/. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
I hate to see where this is going, Road Runner (owned by time warner) is already slower than hell in answering their email.
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I wonder if California is going to have to put energy usage controls into place similar to their car emission controls. Or maybe just a "Power guzzler" tax? /. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
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lternatives to mozilla:
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IE (via WINE) - Microsoft's browser Konqueror - KDE's browser Nautilus - Gnome's browser Opera - Standalone browser
4 out of 4 of these are better than Mozilla right now. Notice I didn't put old netscape in that list... mozilla has finally surpassed the 4.x netscapes (in my opinion), but has a LONG way to go to beat the other browser.
Don't forget, however, that if someone out there makes a webpage and they choose to only support one browser, they'll pick IE. Complain about non-standard, closed source, etc... but 80%+ of the desktop machines on earth have IE on them... food for thought? Just because most you hate Microsoft and don't support peoples' choice to use their products doesn't mean that everyone that uses the internet hates them too.
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Why can't Linux users just let Windows users use Windows, and Windows users just let Linux users use Linux? /. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
People have the right to choose their OS!
All of this hatred and "I'm not wrong, you're wrong" type stuff does nothing for either side.
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I called them dailySpamdar as when you went to their site, you would get a page with 3 banner ads and TWO popups! It was pretty outrageous and it made me quit going there, but I still hate to see them go under. /. users hate Windows or think Microsoft is out to get them!
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