You may know this, and I may know this, but the vast majority of people in management that do the actual hiring are easily impressed by certificates.
By having another well known entity like O'Reilly step into Linux and Open Source certification, they are helping foster their growth in small to medium businesses.
As long as they keep making new proprietary protocols, formats, etc and people keep accepting them, Microsoft will continue to dominate the market. Sadly people on the whole are no more against them today, then they were ten years ago. Just look at how quickly.NET has become a popular.
ALAC is closed-source and non-standardized AFAIK. Its compression is not as good as most other lossless codecs, including the open source FLAC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
Having just installed a new vista business edition preloaded computer I can say my experience is quite the opposite. It is slow as nuts. I frequently had to wait for long periods of time for simple tasks to complete (installing printer drivers, SCSI driver, and extracting small zip files). Multitasking was also very slow, programs frequently stopped responding for several seconds while doing fairly non-intensive background tasks.
Now all this was for a CD ripping station. Normalizing tracks now takes just as long as it does to rip it off our CDROM! CPU usage is never above 10% during this process, memory usage is well below the amount of physical RAM, but this process takes a full 3 times longer than on an XP machine with half the memory and half the processor. We've noticed this behavior on multiple normalizing programs so don't blame it on the program.
Now a frame or two per second in Warcraft, fine. Wasting an extra 4 minutes per disc when we process 500 CDs in an average month, completely unacceptable. Vista has been a complete waste of time and money for us.
In the EULA it basically says this is a contract between you, the OEM and Microsoft. If you don't agree with the terms of this license, call Dell to receive a refund.
I don't really see where there's any room for negotiation. The EULA, which I'm sure they would hold you to, applies to them as well.
If the applications were correctly designed there is no issue when using Linux. Having the system clock on GMT works around a lot of the problems that Windows has with DST.
Sound did not work out of the box on the one machine that I tested Vista on. It was an intel 845 something or another with integrated sound. Video (also intel) and the SATA controller also did not have drivers out of the box.
Agreed. Grandparent really should be insightful. This certainly isn't the first time that Microsoft has been 'punished' by being forced to give away free products. In reality this just tightens their grip on the market. Especially when schools are involved.
I get the sudden feeling of being Obi-wan after his big battle with Darth.
You were the Chosen One! You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them. You were supposed to bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.
Not to disagree with the Windows managing Windows case, but Linux can be used to manage extreme numbers of Linux desktops quite well. Unfortunately the problem comes that Linux managing Windows machines works about as well as Windows managing Linux machines, with a slight edge to Linux IMO.
Thats a good reason to switch though. OpenOffice has better interoperability between versions than Microsoft Office in my experience. I've had some old Word '97 documents (fairly complex) that won't open at all in 2003 but open just fine in OpenOffice. On the flip side, I've never had trouble with older openoffice formats.
You beat me to it.
"You should use OSS because it adhears to established standards and its cheaper in the longrun AND it has the functionality you need. We're still gonna use Windows and Adobe, but you should really try this Open Document and open source thing!" --Some Guy
I really don't think it assumes too much. This entire site is geared toward a demographic that has been following VT for some time.
Thank you! It's new for nerds, stuff that matters. If you have no idea what VT is, you're obviously on the wrong website.
You'd think they'd make the game free since theres no single player action. Even if they lose $50 because they let you download it, they'll make up for it with your lifetime addiction.
My thoughts exactly. I do the Netflix thing now. I'm not sure if I'd use the downloading thing or not, but it'd be nice to have the option available on my Linux livingroom machine.
You don't need a UNIX admin to set a home Linux server up. The market already has TONS of Home linux servers that are ready to roll out of the box. Seagate Mirra? Buffalo Terrastation? Monolith Media Center (or any other prebuilt MythTV box)? Generic SAN? Need I go on?
OK, only vaguely related to the article (the whole developement transparency thing) but why doesn't Opera open source?
They're not making any money on the desktop version of the browser anymore AFAIK. They seem to be making all their money on developing ports to embedded devices (PDAs, Cell Phones, etc). They could still continue to do that and continue making money doing so.
I'm sure Opera would quickly become much more popular as a Free product. It is fast, stable, and standards compliant.
(And I'm not saying SharePoint is the answer, but a lot of CIO's seem to think so. For whatever that's worth.)
Amen!
Anyway, I think there was a slashdot article on this one a while ago but I can't find it for the life of me. Take a look at http://o3spaces.org/. It is a commercial product, so it will cost you. But it looks impressive and lets not forget that SharePoint isn't free either.
So if we need 141 billion gallons of this stuff to replace all the oil we currently use in the US, and we can make 10,000 gallons/acre (which sounds impressive) we would need about 22,000 square miles of algea farms. Thats about the size of West Virginia!
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Man, you must have some serious lag times.
Seriously... I wonder how he managed to get first post?
You may know this, and I may know this, but the vast majority of people in management that do the actual hiring are easily impressed by certificates.
By having another well known entity like O'Reilly step into Linux and Open Source certification, they are helping foster their growth in small to medium businesses.
As long as they keep making new proprietary protocols, formats, etc and people keep accepting them, Microsoft will continue to dominate the market. Sadly people on the whole are no more against them today, then they were ten years ago. Just look at how quickly .NET has become a popular.
That is correct. ALAC has nothing to do with AAC.
ALAC is closed-source and non-standardized AFAIK. Its compression is not as good as most other lossless codecs, including the open source FLAC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
Having just installed a new vista business edition preloaded computer I can say my experience is quite the opposite. It is slow as nuts. I frequently had to wait for long periods of time for simple tasks to complete (installing printer drivers, SCSI driver, and extracting small zip files). Multitasking was also very slow, programs frequently stopped responding for several seconds while doing fairly non-intensive background tasks.
Now all this was for a CD ripping station. Normalizing tracks now takes just as long as it does to rip it off our CDROM! CPU usage is never above 10% during this process, memory usage is well below the amount of physical RAM, but this process takes a full 3 times longer than on an XP machine with half the memory and half the processor. We've noticed this behavior on multiple normalizing programs so don't blame it on the program.
Now a frame or two per second in Warcraft, fine. Wasting an extra 4 minutes per disc when we process 500 CDs in an average month, completely unacceptable. Vista has been a complete waste of time and money for us.
In the EULA it basically says this is a contract between you, the OEM and Microsoft. If you don't agree with the terms of this license, call Dell to receive a refund.
I don't really see where there's any room for negotiation. The EULA, which I'm sure they would hold you to, applies to them as well.
OK, how about a more recent example then. Such as... OpenXML vs OpenDocument.
I'm sure you can find plenty of articles on slashdot for this one.
Because Vista has such a wide database of drivers on its install CD... (Smell the sarcasm?)
If the applications were correctly designed there is no issue when using Linux. Having the system clock on GMT works around a lot of the problems that Windows has with DST.
This is exactly what would happen. Ever hear of the Open Invention Network? http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/
Sound did not work out of the box on the one machine that I tested Vista on. It was an intel 845 something or another with integrated sound. Video (also intel) and the SATA controller also did not have drivers out of the box.
Agreed. Grandparent really should be insightful. This certainly isn't the first time that Microsoft has been 'punished' by being forced to give away free products. In reality this just tightens their grip on the market. Especially when schools are involved.
You were the Chosen One! You were supposed to destroy the Sith, not
join them. You were supposed to bring balance to the force, not leave
it in darkness.
Not to disagree with the Windows managing Windows case, but Linux can be used to manage extreme numbers of Linux desktops quite well. Unfortunately the problem comes that Linux managing Windows machines works about as well as Windows managing Linux machines, with a slight edge to Linux IMO.
That and they forgot one of the biggest reasons to use Linux (from an ethical/technical standpoint at least). OPEN STANDARDS.
Thats a good reason to switch though. OpenOffice has better interoperability between versions than Microsoft Office in my experience. I've had some old Word '97 documents (fairly complex) that won't open at all in 2003 but open just fine in OpenOffice. On the flip side, I've never had trouble with older openoffice formats.
You beat me to it.
"You should use OSS because it adhears to established standards and its cheaper in the longrun AND it has the functionality you need. We're still gonna use Windows and Adobe, but you should really try this Open Document and open source thing!" --Some Guy
Thank you! It's new for nerds, stuff that matters. If you have no idea what VT is, you're obviously on the wrong website.
You'd think they'd make the game free since theres no single player action. Even if they lose $50 because they let you download it, they'll make up for it with your lifetime addiction.
My thoughts exactly. I do the Netflix thing now. I'm not sure if I'd use the downloading thing or not, but it'd be nice to have the option available on my Linux livingroom machine.
You don't need a UNIX admin to set a home Linux server up. The market already has TONS of Home linux servers that are ready to roll out of the box. Seagate Mirra? Buffalo Terrastation? Monolith Media Center (or any other prebuilt MythTV box)? Generic SAN? Need I go on?
OK, only vaguely related to the article (the whole developement transparency thing) but why doesn't Opera open source?
They're not making any money on the desktop version of the browser anymore AFAIK. They seem to be making all their money on developing ports to embedded devices (PDAs, Cell Phones, etc). They could still continue to do that and continue making money doing so.
I'm sure Opera would quickly become much more popular as a Free product. It is fast, stable, and standards compliant.
Amen!
Anyway, I think there was a slashdot article on this one a while ago but I can't find it for the life of me. Take a look at http://o3spaces.org/. It is a commercial product, so it will cost you. But it looks impressive and lets not forget that SharePoint isn't free either.
So if we need 141 billion gallons of this stuff to replace all the oil we currently use in the US, and we can make 10,000 gallons/acre (which sounds impressive) we would need about 22,000 square miles of algea farms. Thats about the size of West Virginia!
SuSE still is a kickass KDE desktop. I have 10.2 installed and it is very nice in KDE.