Looks like the server is down for some forensic analysis following a break-in as well. Too bad. Wonder how they are going to do the analysis on the server without TFA?
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It survived just fine. Most people probably never noticed.
Xen uses Linux kernel code correct? Wouldn't this mean that at least the core of Xen would always need to remain GPL? I would suspect that Red Hat or Novell would step in to make sure that the surrounding tools and such remain up to date and usable under their current licenses.
doc files are the last generation. Nobody cares how many DVDs are being sold when looking towards the future, they're looking at the next generation Blue-ray and HDDVD sales. Likewise, nobody cares about doc files. The important question for our future is OOXML vs ODF.
Terrance: What are you doing? Scott: I am wishing cancer upon you. Phillip: What? Scott: I am giving you cancer with my mind. Phillip: No, don't give me cancer!
We just need to prove that Microsoft doesn't actually own the rights to Windows and that someone else actually does. Then Microsoft will own that party a whole lot of money for all the Windows licenses they sold over the years. Hopefully, MS will then go bankrupt and its evil reign of tyranny will be over!
Of course, this party will become very rich very quickly so it will need to be someone that we can trust... I'd like to offer up myself for the job. Yes, I know it will be hard, but I think I can handle it with all of your support.
Here's what I think should be done to help foster both growth and competition.
As you've stated, running lines are expensive and companies would be unwilling to do so unless they were guaranteed a profit on it. Opening up the lines to the world would kind of kill chances for making a quick buck. Sooo...
Give companies a limited lifetime monopoly on new local lines that they run. After this they can collect (reasonable) royalties from their competition for maintenance plus more profits. Of course having a monopoly on an area for a few years should build the company a strong and at least partially loyal customer base, so they can expect to continue to keep a fair amount of customers.
I remember a really frustrating Windows '03 bug where my unnamed backup software wouldn't backup several files because they had an invalid ctime (somewhere in the early 1900's like 1908 or something). If I copied the file, the new copy had a valid ctime. If I deleted the old file, the new file had a valid ctime still (no surprises there). However if you then renamed the new file back to the name of the old file, it acquired all the old time stamps as the origonal old file! Even if you modified new file, the times would still revert. You could even make a totally different file and rename it to the origonal file name and this would happen.
I eventually found a little app that allowed me to edit the time stamps, but it was very, very strange.
Linux rebuilds stuff all the time. The USB stack was rebuilt three times, firewire was just rebuilt and wireless just rebuilt. This follows the open source philosophy of software evolution versus the commercial 'big release' model.
As for grandparents claim of incompetency, Microsoft is an extremely wealthy company that should and probably does have many bright minds. As the saying goes, however, you can polish a turd as much as you want but...
So do any of these solutions support 3D graphics (nvidia) hardware?
The only reason I currently have a windows partition at all is for gaming.
I recently read an article on the progress of just this. It sounds pretty cool and the initial results are impressive. This combined with the DX->OpenGL Wine code, that I'm sure will be open sourced from the makers of parallels (just had a slashdot story on this), makes for an exciting future for providing hardware acceleration to guest applications.
Access is the right word in some cases. My wife's university had some older papers (all fairly complex) written in Word 97 that would not open on Word 2003. OO.o came to the rescue with only a few minor formating issues.
He left MS for EA!? Wow. Things must be really bad at Microsoft these days. This is the company that got hit with that class action lawsuit by its employees for overworking them without overtime pay.
The ribbon isn't a bad design at all. I myself am a full-time OpenOffice user but I had to quickly draft something up on a computer at work and it was very intuitive. The ribbon doesn't really seem to take up that much more space than the standard stack of toolbars either.
As for OpenOffice, there have been some nasty bugs and lacking features for YEARS. Some of these make it unusable for many situations. Such as showing the formula for a trendline...
Normally, you'd be right. Companies like to make money however they can. However this is Microsoft.
Microsoft makes its money by controlling the market. Linux allows for multiple vendors to compete in the market (aka capitalism), preventing any one vendor from controlling it. Even if Microsoft could make a boatload of money on Linux, they would never risk their precious (and profitable!) monopoly on the OS market.
I truly despise it when Microsoft FUD articles (or the uniformed public, or Microsoft zombies) describe Windows as the 'established, tested, reliable server OS'. Windows was clearly a joke of a server up until Windows 2000, and debatably a joke still today.
ZFS is proprietary as well, hence the issue. Just because its open source doesn't make it open.
As a side note, I hope ZFS+Linux stories hit the front page more often... maybe it'll convince Sun to GPL ZFS, or atleast give the green light on a GPL port.:-)
I almost jumped out of my skin when I read the headline... then they threw in the little tidbit of information that its running through FUSE. I certainly appreciate the work that went into it, but I'm quiet certain FUSE will never catch up to in-kernel filesystems for speed and performance.
What reality are you in? It's far easier to hire admins who know Windows well, even high quality admins. And they come cheaper than Linux admins.
I'll agree that its easier to find a Windows admin... a competent Windows admin on the other hand is just as hard to find as a competent Linux admin. The vast majority of Windows admins I run into are complete idiots, not to say its set in stone.
As far as being cheaper, that is generally correct. However surveys repeatedly show that Linux admins can cover a much larger amount of systems than Windows admins, greatly reducing or eliminating the total cost difference between them.
Slashdot: (Question by EvilRyry (1025309) ) Do you have any plans, at all, for a Linux or Mac OS X client in the game?
Mr. Anderson: At the moment, no. You never know, though. The door's not closed, but at the moment we have no plans along those lines. Another year of WoW it is!
Either that or maybe I'll brush up on my java and build that killer IT management app I've been thinking about...
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Looks like the server is down for some forensic analysis following a break-in as well. Too bad. Wonder how they are going to do the analysis on the server without TFA?
It survived just fine. Most people probably never noticed.
Xen uses Linux kernel code correct? Wouldn't this mean that at least the core of Xen would always need to remain GPL? I would suspect that Red Hat or Novell would step in to make sure that the surrounding tools and such remain up to date and usable under their current licenses.
doc files are the last generation. Nobody cares how many DVDs are being sold when looking towards the future, they're looking at the next generation Blue-ray and HDDVD sales. Likewise, nobody cares about doc files. The important question for our future is OOXML vs ODF.
Terrance: What are you doing?
Scott: I am wishing cancer upon you.
Phillip: What?
Scott: I am giving you cancer with my mind.
Phillip: No, don't give me cancer!
We just need to prove that Microsoft doesn't actually own the rights to Windows and that someone else actually does. Then Microsoft will own that party a whole lot of money for all the Windows licenses they sold over the years. Hopefully, MS will then go bankrupt and its evil reign of tyranny will be over!
Of course, this party will become very rich very quickly so it will need to be someone that we can trust... I'd like to offer up myself for the job. Yes, I know it will be hard, but I think I can handle it with all of your support.
Here's what I think should be done to help foster both growth and competition.
As you've stated, running lines are expensive and companies would be unwilling to do so unless they were guaranteed a profit on it. Opening up the lines to the world would kind of kill chances for making a quick buck. Sooo...
Give companies a limited lifetime monopoly on new local lines that they run. After this they can collect (reasonable) royalties from their competition for maintenance plus more profits. Of course having a monopoly on an area for a few years should build the company a strong and at least partially loyal customer base, so they can expect to continue to keep a fair amount of customers.
I remember a really frustrating Windows '03 bug where my unnamed backup software wouldn't backup several files because they had an invalid ctime (somewhere in the early 1900's like 1908 or something). If I copied the file, the new copy had a valid ctime. If I deleted the old file, the new file had a valid ctime still (no surprises there). However if you then renamed the new file back to the name of the old file, it acquired all the old time stamps as the origonal old file! Even if you modified new file, the times would still revert. You could even make a totally different file and rename it to the origonal file name and this would happen.
I eventually found a little app that allowed me to edit the time stamps, but it was very, very strange.
Today was a living hell for me. I really wish someone could have posted this before my morning slashdot run so I could rub it in my lUsers faces.
Linux rebuilds stuff all the time. The USB stack was rebuilt three times, firewire was just rebuilt and wireless just rebuilt. This follows the open source philosophy of software evolution versus the commercial 'big release' model.
As for grandparents claim of incompetency, Microsoft is an extremely wealthy company that should and probably does have many bright minds. As the saying goes, however, you can polish a turd as much as you want but...
The only reason I currently have a windows partition at all is for gaming.
I recently read an article on the progress of just this. It sounds pretty cool and the initial results are impressive. This combined with the DX->OpenGL Wine code, that I'm sure will be open sourced from the makers of parallels (just had a slashdot story on this), makes for an exciting future for providing hardware acceleration to guest applications.
More information: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/vmgl/Access is the right word in some cases. My wife's university had some older papers (all fairly complex) written in Word 97 that would not open on Word 2003. OO.o came to the rescue with only a few minor formating issues.
He left MS for EA!? Wow. Things must be really bad at Microsoft these days. This is the company that got hit with that class action lawsuit by its employees for overworking them without overtime pay.
The ribbon isn't a bad design at all. I myself am a full-time OpenOffice user but I had to quickly draft something up on a computer at work and it was very intuitive. The ribbon doesn't really seem to take up that much more space than the standard stack of toolbars either. As for OpenOffice, there have been some nasty bugs and lacking features for YEARS. Some of these make it unusable for many situations. Such as showing the formula for a trendline...
Make all your employees run as limited users, and do automated installs of everything.
Normally, you'd be right. Companies like to make money however they can. However this is Microsoft.
Microsoft makes its money by controlling the market. Linux allows for multiple vendors to compete in the market (aka capitalism), preventing any one vendor from controlling it. Even if Microsoft could make a boatload of money on Linux, they would never risk their precious (and profitable!) monopoly on the OS market.
I truly despise it when Microsoft FUD articles (or the uniformed public, or Microsoft zombies) describe Windows as the 'established, tested, reliable server OS'. Windows was clearly a joke of a server up until Windows 2000, and debatably a joke still today.
Manufacturers make their own DVD-ROM drivers?!
Gentoo has no commercial offerings, and therefore wouldn't be a good target for MS.
ZFS is proprietary as well, hence the issue. Just because its open source doesn't make it open.
As a side note, I hope ZFS+Linux stories hit the front page more often... maybe it'll convince Sun to GPL ZFS, or atleast give the green light on a GPL port. :-)
I almost jumped out of my skin when I read the headline... then they threw in the little tidbit of information that its running through FUSE. I certainly appreciate the work that went into it, but I'm quiet certain FUSE will never catch up to in-kernel filesystems for speed and performance.
I'm pretty sure this has been well covered on Slashdot before, but I'll say it again: GPLv2 and v3 will play nicely together.
That's open source at work! Everyone contributes, everyone wins.
I'll agree that its easier to find a Windows admin... a competent Windows admin on the other hand is just as hard to find as a competent Linux admin. The vast majority of Windows admins I run into are complete idiots, not to say its set in stone.
As far as being cheaper, that is generally correct. However surveys repeatedly show that Linux admins can cover a much larger amount of systems than Windows admins, greatly reducing or eliminating the total cost difference between them.
Mr. Anderson: At the moment, no. You never know, though. The door's not closed, but at the moment we have no plans along those lines. Another year of WoW it is!
Either that or maybe I'll brush up on my java and build that killer IT management app I've been thinking about...