That is my issue #1, my issue #2 is that Solaris has a single company with a tight grip on it.
I use Linux in the server room. If one vendor really gets me peeved, there's nothing stopping me from going elsewhere. With Solaris there is really only Sun. In that respect, its as bad as Windows.
That only supports the crusty, insecure NFSv3. NFSv4 was released in 2000 (aka 8 freakin years ago) and has far better security and performance than v3. Microsoft has announced that they will not be updating SFU and will discontinue downloads in 2009.
So the correct answer would be "no", Microsoft hates NFS because they don't control it.
XAML support is bundled with Vista ( through.NET). People typically aren't very apt to download it until they need it, and web developers aren't very apt to use it until people have it. Even Windows updates only goes so far, see IE7 for more info. By preinstalling on Vista, they force one half to happen so that the other can happen.
XAML is aimed to compete with HTML. Flash, Shockwave, and Air are kind of in their own niche in the minds of most. The kinds of technology that I was speaking of was what the parent had mentioned; namely HTML5, JavaScript 2, and CSS3 which are in different stages of their life cycle. These three have the potential to make web development easier, but only if they're supported by a majority of users computers. By Microsoft not supporting these (properly), they vote for themselves.
If you've been screwed by Microsoft repeatedly in the past, being afraid of it happening again isn't paranoia. Ignoring the past however is well... ignorant.
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Have you noticed how Microsoft still has the majority share of web browsers and that they drag their feet on every standard that isn't theirs?
As long as Microsoft doesn't fully implement those technologies, they don't exist. There's not too many people out there who will make a website that doesn't work with 70% of internet users no matter how much better it may make web development.
Now, Microsoft comes out with XAML, rolls it out with Vista, waits a few years and suddenly 90% of the internet has XAML support. Thats good enough for many people to start using it to replace the portion of "normal" technologies people are stuck with because its all IE supports.
This is the danger of a monopoly. They already showed a very similar story with ODF vs OOXML. ODF doesn't exist in the minds of many because Microsoft doesn't support it. It doesn't matter how many entities are in OASIS and worked very hard to create a document format that was vendor neutral. Microsoft has a monopoly and abused its power yet again to disadvantage its competitors and screw consumers.
With the current direction things are headed, OOXML will be what most people use. OOXML will continue to evolve and non-MS products will always be two steps behind. Microsoft is trying very hard to repeat this "success" with XAML. Fortunately there's still time to change how this one ends...
Sounds like calc is in for a big performance boost. Its quite frustrating to take a simple operation which is nearly instant on Excel and then turn it into a 30 second operation on OOCalc. I'm downloading the beta now so we'll see where it goes.
Even the cancel/allow is perfectly fine for most cases. If you are in the admin group it will ask you for the cancel allow which supposedly runs isolated from other apps so that they can't push the allow button for you. If you're not in the admin group, then it prompts you for admin credentials. Its really not that bad of a system except theres no "yes, and leave me alone for the next few minutes while I actually try to get some stuff done with out this freaking thing harassing me every time I try to change a system setting" option.
You might not have heard this, but Linux does have support for these things called kernel modules. Also BSD and OpenSolaris don't use the GNU userland for the most part.
The kernel already supports hinting like this. Indexing programs should throw the kernel the hint that the files it reads should not be cached. Whether the programs actually do this or not is another matter.
There's plenty of Exchange alternatives out there. You got a good chunk of the open source ones, but there's plenty of commercial competitors out there too. Domino, Byarni Insight, Novell Groupwise to name a few of them.
The main reasons people use Exchange is because it ties in with Active Directory well which ties in with their Windows Desktops well. It also ties in nicely with Outlook (which most businesses have due to the Office monopoly), the functionality in Exchange mirrors that for Outlook; they are a perfect match by design. It always comes back to the Windows/Office monopoly.
With the openchange project working on libmapi, I could certainly see this as a possibility. The SOAP calls that were previously relied by Evolution and Apple Mail on are far too slow and unstable.
It takes my laptop about 25 seconds to start it up cold, 5-10 seconds on subsequent start ups. This is in the same ballpark as visual studio. So either you:
-Are exaggerating and expect vim like start times out of a huge IDE -Hate eclipse... because its cool to hate (everyone know Java and everything produced with it sucks) -Have really old hardware ( this was done on a 2 year old laptop ) -Haven't tried eclipse in a long time... or ever
Scratched CDs (it has 9 cd drives) and slow network connections still seems to cause big hang ups for everything ( especially explorer) every time on the one Vista machine I need to deal with on a semi regular basis. Not like 5, 10 seconds either. If you get a really chewed disk or one thats just low quality, the machine will basically freeze for a minute or until you kill explorer or eject the disk. Network drives are just as bad if the pipe is really overloaded. This is a pretty decent machine too.
I will give it that the UI seems equally responsive when under heavy i/o load and when idle. Now if only that level of responsiveness was up to par with a pentium 3 running windows XP...
Some other people have mentioned it, but I'd just like to make it clear. MSDFS sucks at life. First, I believe only windows server can participate as a server, so there goes the desktop idea. Even with windows servers its quite inflexible, quirky, and unstable.
Well, you see, the story already answers the question. Maybe all of those "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" taggers actually read the summary before tagging this time.
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That is my issue #1, my issue #2 is that Solaris has a single company with a tight grip on it.
I use Linux in the server room. If one vendor really gets me peeved, there's nothing stopping me from going elsewhere. With Solaris there is really only Sun. In that respect, its as bad as Windows.
Maybe the first one you've heard about, but IBM has been doing multicore CPUs for years. From their website...
POWER4 - released in 2001, POWER4 is the first commercial multicore system with 2 cores per chip, and 8 cores per socket.
Right, I find it quite ironic that duct tape is against building code to use on ducts in most places.
That only supports the crusty, insecure NFSv3. NFSv4 was released in 2000 (aka 8 freakin years ago) and has far better security and performance than v3. Microsoft has announced that they will not be updating SFU and will discontinue downloads in 2009.
So the correct answer would be "no", Microsoft hates NFS because they don't control it.
XAML support is bundled with Vista ( through .NET). People typically aren't very apt to download it until they need it, and web developers aren't very apt to use it until people have it. Even Windows updates only goes so far, see IE7 for more info. By preinstalling on Vista, they force one half to happen so that the other can happen.
XAML is aimed to compete with HTML. Flash, Shockwave, and Air are kind of in their own niche in the minds of most. The kinds of technology that I was speaking of was what the parent had mentioned; namely HTML5, JavaScript 2, and CSS3 which are in different stages of their life cycle. These three have the potential to make web development easier, but only if they're supported by a majority of users computers. By Microsoft not supporting these (properly), they vote for themselves.
If you've been screwed by Microsoft repeatedly in the past, being afraid of it happening again isn't paranoia. Ignoring the past however is well... ignorant.
Have you noticed how Microsoft still has the majority share of web browsers and that they drag their feet on every standard that isn't theirs?
As long as Microsoft doesn't fully implement those technologies, they don't exist. There's not too many people out there who will make a website that doesn't work with 70% of internet users no matter how much better it may make web development.
Now, Microsoft comes out with XAML, rolls it out with Vista, waits a few years and suddenly 90% of the internet has XAML support. Thats good enough for many people to start using it to replace the portion of "normal" technologies people are stuck with because its all IE supports.
This is the danger of a monopoly. They already showed a very similar story with ODF vs OOXML. ODF doesn't exist in the minds of many because Microsoft doesn't support it. It doesn't matter how many entities are in OASIS and worked very hard to create a document format that was vendor neutral. Microsoft has a monopoly and abused its power yet again to disadvantage its competitors and screw consumers.
With the current direction things are headed, OOXML will be what most people use. OOXML will continue to evolve and non-MS products will always be two steps behind. Microsoft is trying very hard to repeat this "success" with XAML. Fortunately there's still time to change how this one ends...
Microsoft doesn't want your money. They want your market share.
Maybe he's a news anchor.
Sounds like calc is in for a big performance boost. Its quite frustrating to take a simple operation which is nearly instant on Excel and then turn it into a 30 second operation on OOCalc. I'm downloading the beta now so we'll see where it goes.
I think that's illegal in most parts of the civilized world.
Non-commercial, academic license. Nothing to see here.
Any word if Linux and/or OS X have a fix for this issue. Yes, I've read TFA and it doesn't mention it.
Even the cancel/allow is perfectly fine for most cases. If you are in the admin group it will ask you for the cancel allow which supposedly runs isolated from other apps so that they can't push the allow button for you. If you're not in the admin group, then it prompts you for admin credentials. Its really not that bad of a system except theres no "yes, and leave me alone for the next few minutes while I actually try to get some stuff done with out this freaking thing harassing me every time I try to change a system setting" option.
You might not have heard this, but Linux does have support for these things called kernel modules. Also BSD and OpenSolaris don't use the GNU userland for the most part.
The kernel already supports hinting like this. Indexing programs should throw the kernel the hint that the files it reads should not be cached. Whether the programs actually do this or not is another matter.
I'm not quite sure whether your trying to be funny or not. You do realize that WinCE and NT don't share a whole lot in common, right?
There's plenty of Exchange alternatives out there. You got a good chunk of the open source ones, but there's plenty of commercial competitors out there too. Domino, Byarni Insight, Novell Groupwise to name a few of them.
The main reasons people use Exchange is because it ties in with Active Directory well which ties in with their Windows Desktops well. It also ties in nicely with Outlook (which most businesses have due to the Office monopoly), the functionality in Exchange mirrors that for Outlook; they are a perfect match by design. It always comes back to the Windows/Office monopoly.
To heck with the power button. Just rip out the memory and run!
With the openchange project working on libmapi, I could certainly see this as a possibility. The SOAP calls that were previously relied by Evolution and Apple Mail on are far too slow and unstable.
It takes my laptop about 25 seconds to start it up cold, 5-10 seconds on subsequent start ups. This is in the same ballpark as visual studio. So either you:
-Are exaggerating and expect vim like start times out of a huge IDE
-Hate eclipse... because its cool to hate (everyone know Java and everything produced with it sucks)
-Have really old hardware ( this was done on a 2 year old laptop )
-Haven't tried eclipse in a long time... or ever
There's women on usenet?! ( Naked pictures in alt.binaries.pictures.pr0n don't count! )
Scratched CDs (it has 9 cd drives) and slow network connections still seems to cause big hang ups for everything ( especially explorer) every time on the one Vista machine I need to deal with on a semi regular basis. Not like 5, 10 seconds either. If you get a really chewed disk or one thats just low quality, the machine will basically freeze for a minute or until you kill explorer or eject the disk. Network drives are just as bad if the pipe is really overloaded. This is a pretty decent machine too.
I will give it that the UI seems equally responsive when under heavy i/o load and when idle. Now if only that level of responsiveness was up to par with a pentium 3 running windows XP...
Some other people have mentioned it, but I'd just like to make it clear. MSDFS sucks at life. First, I believe only windows server can participate as a server, so there goes the desktop idea. Even with windows servers its quite inflexible, quirky, and unstable.
Seconded. F-spot also works very nice for Gallery2 websites.
Well, you see, the story already answers the question. Maybe all of those "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" taggers actually read the summary before tagging this time.