Approaches like that pulled me over to Linux on the desktop. KDE will always be associated with Linux. If you get Windows users hooked, next time they need to reload their OS because it goes completely berserk and dies for no obvious reason for the 2nd time in two years they might reconsider which CD to stick in the drive. That's basically my story ( not with KDE obviously , same laptop still runs Linux btw ).
I'll second that. I've also had to do complete rebuilds a few times. 2003R2 seems to have improved the situation a bit but overall the reliability of DFS is still rather flaky. (This is running over a very reliable fractional T3s and T1s btw). Since then we've started to move to Citrix wanscalers (previously Orbital, I believe). Haven't had a bit of trouble with them yet and they really speed things up. They're basically Dells with CentOS plus their magic software.
Right. And it's also rather annoying when you do a quick look around to find a vacant channel. "Oh look, no one is on channel 1, lets use that!" Only to find out a short while later that 5 networks are using that channel, but all of them have SSID broadcast disabled.
Anyone who can break into your wifi can probably find your SSID if broadcast is disabled, all you need to do is wait and listen.
As siblings have mentioned, Moonlight will likely always be a few steps behind silverlight. Also, there's no guarantee the spec will remain open in the future (see SMB, IE for Mac/UNIX for more info).
More importantly, Moonlight will never be truly Free. Take a look at the audio/video formats it supports. VC-1... sure great for video, also have the option of WMV which I have a feeling will be quite popular. Audio - WMA or MP3. From Miguel de Icaza's web log
Microsoft will make the codecs for video and audio available to users of Moonlight from their web site. The codecs will be binary codecs, and they will only be licensed for use with Moonlight on a web browser
Sure these formats have been/will be reverse engineered, but with DRM out there in the world it will make decoding DRMed media with open source codecs illegal! So much for free!
This doesn't make Flash any better, I'm just saying that people who proclaim that Silverlight is great because it will have a real open source implementation aren't telling or don't know the whole story.
Although there may be Moonlight for Linux in the short term, don't count on it for the future.
My concern is them pulling a Samba/IE trick.
In the case of Samba, back in the days when SMB was being rename CIFS, Microsoft was pretty open about the specifications. They really wanted NT to replace Netware as the market leader, to do this they realized that they would need a protocol that supported platforms other than Windows and get other companies involved in the mix.
In the case of IE, we're all aware of IE for Mac and Unix.
Now they just need to wait long enough for the product to take over the market space. At this point, they've done their job and can now stop supporting those other pesky platforms that no one really uses anyways. IE for other platforms was left to rot, and all of the Windows network protocols suddenly became trade secrets.
If you can't see a strong possibility for this story repeating for Moonlight, there's something wrong with you.
At first glace, HLVM seems a bit dead. Personally, I've been watching Pypy + LLVM backend. It promises not only to JIT python code, but other languages at well. I predict that pypy will start attracting commercial attention in the next year as well.
In my original post I did write how I was quite surprised to see an article like this in any science related magazine, even one that is more aimed at the masses. I myself love open source both in its theory, and in the real world programs that I use every day.
My initial thought was to write an email to the author, but I figured that would likely get tossed away and forgotten... or I could post to slashdot. I figured posting to slashdot would make a bigger splash and hopefully get some attention. I think I was right!
Or windows users for that matter. There are plenty of X servers out there for Windows including Xming. Putty even has an option for X11 forwarding, so no one can really argue that its remotely difficult to set up.
It's not so much a price as its worth to Microsoft as much as it is a fee to keep the protocol out of the hands of the average Joe. It's a move mostly aimed at open source I'd imagine.
Mine still works as of last month when my brother and I developed an urge to play, but its developed a dot in the middle of the screen. My personal favorite growing up was clean sweep followed by mine sweeper.
Note to all: Take a look parajve. Sound is a little screwy under Linux but works well otherwise.
Last I checked, abusing a monopoly is still illegal. Lets not forget the obviously illegal tactics they attempted to use in Nigeria either. Sure it wasn't on US soil, but as a company that operates in the US they still fall under certain US business laws.
I'd like to see you easily swap out Active Directory, SQL Server, Exchange, SMS, and a handful of custom and commercial.NET web apps in a company with alternatives. Microsoft's server lock-in is at least as bad as it is in their desktop market.
Releasing products like Office, etc for other OSes may help loosen up their OS monopoly a bit, but could also potentially help them gain more territory in other already jeopardized fields.
Not quite. The patent was for splitting a single query into multiple chunks. In the case of a DNS server, a single DNS server gives you a reply. For round robin; same thing, one request from one client, one reply from one server.
The patent was for taking a single request, breaking it up into subrequests, then distributing the subrequests amongst multiple servers and then gluing the results back together.
So to make the required car analogy, its like taking a shopping list, breaking it up by area of town that the store is in, then deploying a separate car to each area and meeting back at home.
There are quite a few games that are targeted to SDL and usually have Linux ports, such as the Quake series, Doom series, and Unreal series.
I don't think the instability of WINE is really hurting, if a company was really concerned about it they could ship the game with its own packaging of WINE to ensure compatibility.
What we really need though is more manufactures using tools like SDL. They'll find out with a little planning, they can make a single code base portable between multiple platforms which will eliminate the costs of porting a platform specific code base.
Was that with Direct3d or OpenGL in Windows? There could be differences in the engine that could account for the difference instead of just the platform. The OpenGL engine could for instance be written better, or maybe have less detail that the Direct3D version.
Typically speaking, I thought Windows typically had better framerates because the graphics drivers are in the kernel, and probably better tunned for most vendors.
Or wine/Linux could just be faster...
It must have been Microsoft. Nearly everyone else in the economy benefits from having an open OS.
An open OS allows multiple competitors to play in the same market place which drives innovation and fair prices, I'd like to coin this concept as capitalism. Having Linux around would allow for a Nigerian Linux start-up to emerge and take hold of a decent chunk of the local population rather easily; since the government already uses Linux in the schools the kids would how to use it and the governments information infrastructure will grow with Linux in mind. Linux in general would be a very viable OS in this type of environment. These local compan(y|ies) would provide jobs to the economy, reduce imports and dependence on Microsoft, and possibly even provide an exportable service. It would also be a nice gateway into the technology industry (not sure what they have currently in Nigeria).
So in short with Linux, customers benefit, government benefits, economy benefits, everyone but Microsoft walks home happy. This deal was definitely rigged by M$. (Yes, the $ is appropriate in this context.)
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Approaches like that pulled me over to Linux on the desktop. KDE will always be associated with Linux. If you get Windows users hooked, next time they need to reload their OS because it goes completely berserk and dies for no obvious reason for the 2nd time in two years they might reconsider which CD to stick in the drive. That's basically my story ( not with KDE obviously , same laptop still runs Linux btw ).
I'll second that. I've also had to do complete rebuilds a few times. 2003R2 seems to have improved the situation a bit but overall the reliability of DFS is still rather flaky. (This is running over a very reliable fractional T3s and T1s btw). Since then we've started to move to Citrix wanscalers (previously Orbital, I believe). Haven't had a bit of trouble with them yet and they really speed things up. They're basically Dells with CentOS plus their magic software.
Right. And it's also rather annoying when you do a quick look around to find a vacant channel. "Oh look, no one is on channel 1, lets use that!" Only to find out a short while later that 5 networks are using that channel, but all of them have SSID broadcast disabled.
Anyone who can break into your wifi can probably find your SSID if broadcast is disabled, all you need to do is wait and listen.
As siblings have mentioned, Moonlight will likely always be a few steps behind silverlight. Also, there's no guarantee the spec will remain open in the future (see SMB, IE for Mac/UNIX for more info).
More importantly, Moonlight will never be truly Free. Take a look at the audio/video formats it supports. VC-1... sure great for video, also have the option of WMV which I have a feeling will be quite popular. Audio - WMA or MP3. From Miguel de Icaza's web log
Microsoft will make the codecs for video and audio available to users of Moonlight from their web site. The codecs will be binary codecs, and they will only be licensed for use with Moonlight on a web browser
Sure these formats have been/will be reverse engineered, but with DRM out there in the world it will make decoding DRMed media with open source codecs illegal! So much for free!
This doesn't make Flash any better, I'm just saying that people who proclaim that Silverlight is great because it will have a real open source implementation aren't telling or don't know the whole story.
Although there may be Moonlight for Linux in the short term, don't count on it for the future.
My concern is them pulling a Samba/IE trick.
In the case of Samba, back in the days when SMB was being rename CIFS, Microsoft was pretty open about the specifications. They really wanted NT to replace Netware as the market leader, to do this they realized that they would need a protocol that supported platforms other than Windows and get other companies involved in the mix.
In the case of IE, we're all aware of IE for Mac and Unix.
Now they just need to wait long enough for the product to take over the market space. At this point, they've done their job and can now stop supporting those other pesky platforms that no one really uses anyways. IE for other platforms was left to rot, and all of the Windows network protocols suddenly became trade secrets.
If you can't see a strong possibility for this story repeating for Moonlight, there's something wrong with you.
At first glace, HLVM seems a bit dead. Personally, I've been watching Pypy + LLVM backend. It promises not only to JIT python code, but other languages at well. I predict that pypy will start attracting commercial attention in the next year as well.
Nope. Try again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AdobeDwCS3OSX.png
In my original post I did write how I was quite surprised to see an article like this in any science related magazine, even one that is more aimed at the masses. I myself love open source both in its theory, and in the real world programs that I use every day. My initial thought was to write an email to the author, but I figured that would likely get tossed away and forgotten... or I could post to slashdot. I figured posting to slashdot would make a bigger splash and hopefully get some attention. I think I was right!
Or windows users for that matter. There are plenty of X servers out there for Windows including Xming. Putty even has an option for X11 forwarding, so no one can really argue that its remotely difficult to set up.
It's not so much a price as its worth to Microsoft as much as it is a fee to keep the protocol out of the hands of the average Joe. It's a move mostly aimed at open source I'd imagine.
Eeek! Help! Spike!
Oh, no! Molly!
Mine still works as of last month when my brother and I developed an urge to play, but its developed a dot in the middle of the screen. My personal favorite growing up was clean sweep followed by mine sweeper.
Note to all: Take a look parajve. Sound is a little screwy under Linux but works well otherwise.
There is pre-linking. While not quite as fast as statics, it is much faster than without pre-linking.
Last I checked, abusing a monopoly is still illegal. Lets not forget the obviously illegal tactics they attempted to use in Nigeria either. Sure it wasn't on US soil, but as a company that operates in the US they still fall under certain US business laws.
It's an investment in their future. It will hopefully attract new developers, improve their software and get some new ideas in the mix.
KDE4 - Windows, Mac and Linux. Problem solved.
I'd like to see you easily swap out Active Directory, SQL Server, Exchange, SMS, and a handful of custom and commercial .NET web apps in a company with alternatives. Microsoft's server lock-in is at least as bad as it is in their desktop market.
Releasing products like Office, etc for other OSes may help loosen up their OS monopoly a bit, but could also potentially help them gain more territory in other already jeopardized fields.
Is this a limitation of db4o or a limit of the object database concept?
Not quite. The patent was for splitting a single query into multiple chunks. In the case of a DNS server, a single DNS server gives you a reply. For round robin; same thing, one request from one client, one reply from one server.
The patent was for taking a single request, breaking it up into subrequests, then distributing the subrequests amongst multiple servers and then gluing the results back together.
So to make the required car analogy, its like taking a shopping list, breaking it up by area of town that the store is in, then deploying a separate car to each area and meeting back at home.
I heard he was looking on Google for information on how to install Linux on his playstation 3 from his Linux computer.
I believe the big issue is how ZFS guarantees that the FS will be in a consistent state after a crash without using a journal.
It's like my old boss always used to tell me when he was pissed at someone (including myself), "It's hard to prove that someone's dead without a body"
There are quite a few games that are targeted to SDL and usually have Linux ports, such as the Quake series, Doom series, and Unreal series.
I don't think the instability of WINE is really hurting, if a company was really concerned about it they could ship the game with its own packaging of WINE to ensure compatibility.
What we really need though is more manufactures using tools like SDL. They'll find out with a little planning, they can make a single code base portable between multiple platforms which will eliminate the costs of porting a platform specific code base.
Was that with Direct3d or OpenGL in Windows? There could be differences in the engine that could account for the difference instead of just the platform. The OpenGL engine could for instance be written better, or maybe have less detail that the Direct3D version. Typically speaking, I thought Windows typically had better framerates because the graphics drivers are in the kernel, and probably better tunned for most vendors. Or wine/Linux could just be faster...
It must have been Microsoft. Nearly everyone else in the economy benefits from having an open OS. An open OS allows multiple competitors to play in the same market place which drives innovation and fair prices, I'd like to coin this concept as capitalism. Having Linux around would allow for a Nigerian Linux start-up to emerge and take hold of a decent chunk of the local population rather easily; since the government already uses Linux in the schools the kids would how to use it and the governments information infrastructure will grow with Linux in mind. Linux in general would be a very viable OS in this type of environment. These local compan(y|ies) would provide jobs to the economy, reduce imports and dependence on Microsoft, and possibly even provide an exportable service. It would also be a nice gateway into the technology industry (not sure what they have currently in Nigeria). So in short with Linux, customers benefit, government benefits, economy benefits, everyone but Microsoft walks home happy. This deal was definitely rigged by M$. (Yes, the $ is appropriate in this context.)
That's exactly what I was thinking, if I had mod points I'd mod you up. By keeping JavaScript back, they're also pushing Silverlight forward.