If you saw the show on 60 Minutes, you'd know that Vinod Khosla was talking about IIT grads (the whole segment was about IIT) since it is such a demanding program and has produced some great leaders at american companies. Not Indians in general.
Really, well why is it that we can't go a day without every developer at my company cursing Microsoft? Microsoft has successfully marketed to everybody who makes purchasing decisions, not people who actually deal with these decisions. An in turn, software companies support them because that's where the most potential customers are.
In response to the original question, Linux is not hard to use - Unix-like systems are unfamiliar to most people, and granted, were not designed with an end user in mind. But, Linux provides a stable platform to build applications on. It's up to Sharp to provide a good UI - the user shouldn't have to care if it runs Linux or PocketPC underneath. (kind of like what apple did with OS X, if you don't care to look, you'll never know it's Unix-based).
I'm sure I wouldn't want to work alongside you. Socializing during/after work is a very important part of the day - it develops better teamwork skills and increases your trust in your coworkers. Plus how can you stand going to work every day if that's your attitude?
hire some unskilled labor, preferably in a 3rd world country.
give them your mail password.
instruct them check your inbox every half hour, and delete any spam.
pray they don't sell your password for money/use your email for some sort of fraud.
ok fine, I guess you'd have to get them a computer and internet connection too... this is a great way to offload that old Pentium 90 gathering dust in the corner!
Compaq is a hardware vendor. NetBSD is an operating system. Yahoo will soon run FreeBSD on Compaq hardware. They use Linux only because of their relationship with Google. It's really not that complicated.
Why don't you take a minute to look at who actually wrote this article (Reuters) before blaming Yahoo for seemingly minor technical details.
You know, there are people out there who don't know the difference between (gasp!) the WWW and the Internet, or even what an operating system is. That is why mainstream news sites shouldn't need to worry about minor technical details such as the ones you point out.
I know they use FreeBSD for their production servers. Unless they have some sort of Windows intermediary which does the scanning (which I kind of doubt) they're doing it on a Unix box.
there are of course, many more similar sites. If anyone has done anything cool post it here! Also a great resource if you live in the SF bay area is Weird Stuff, they have tons of old macs for sale and the salespeople are quite knowledgable.
I think the point of the Crusoe is that you don't want to compile programs natively. Instead, let the code morphing engine dynamically optimize the x86 (or whatever processor) code that it executes which results in a better speedup. I don't think the Crusoe is all that fast running native code, but the optimizations with x86 code make it run nearly as fast as a comparable x86 chip.
Coverage in the bay area is very bad. I have had dropped calls driving down a couple of city blocks in downtown Berkeley, and San Jose. Sound quality is poor, and much of the time I'd be out of range, even in a major metropolitan area. I strongly urge you to reconsider choosing Sprint if you live around here. Also, if you're going up to Tahoe/Reno then don't count on any service past Sacramento, cuz you won't get any.
Sprint's rates are great, and it's cool that you can check how many minutes you've used over the web, but actual phone service sucks! To their credit, I know people who live on the East Coast and have no problems with Sprint, except when they come out here that is.
I've also had experience in this area with GTE (super expensive, but great sound quality and coverage) and Pac Bell (great price, lots of features, great quality and coverage but doesn't work in buildings) and can recommend them both.
Slashdot Mirror
Easy solution - move to India, you'll get a kickass job paying a fat salary (in Indian terms).
Good luck affording the plane fare to come back.
I got a refurbished Thinkpad T22 (900Mhz P3) for $995 in January. Try getting an equivalent powerbook for that much.
I have friends who have had refurbished T20s for the past 2 years, used for about 10 hours a day, every day, with no problems.
Check IBM's ebay store or http://www.tigerdirect.com
two words: Oregon Trail.
If you saw the show on 60 Minutes, you'd know that Vinod Khosla was talking about IIT grads (the whole segment was about IIT) since it is such a demanding program and has produced some great leaders at american companies. Not Indians in general.
I guess the most interesting part of this article, was that it was linked from Excite! They still exist?!
Or thereabouts, maybe '95.
It was hooked up to my Mac IIsi.
Worked quite well for 5 minutes, until my arm got tired of waving that damn thing around and i switched back to my trackball.
Well, in most places (CA for sure) you get to ride in the carpool lane with electric cars and motorcycles.
The poster asked how to back up 100GB of data (music, photos, etc.).... How much of that is the OS? *Maybe* 1GB tops.
Although you make a good point, it's an insignificant amount of data in relation to the data he wishes to back up.
It's coming, from our favorite company:
MS Tablet PC.
Really, well why is it that we can't go a day without every developer at my company cursing Microsoft? Microsoft has successfully marketed to everybody who makes purchasing decisions, not people who actually deal with these decisions. An in turn, software companies support them because that's where the most potential customers are.
In response to the original question, Linux is not hard to use - Unix-like systems are unfamiliar to most people, and granted, were not designed with an end user in mind. But, Linux provides a stable platform to build applications on. It's up to Sharp to provide a good UI - the user shouldn't have to care if it runs Linux or PocketPC underneath. (kind of like what apple did with OS X, if you don't care to look, you'll never know it's Unix-based).
I'm sure I wouldn't want to work alongside you. Socializing during/after work is a very important part of the day - it develops better teamwork skills and increases your trust in your coworkers. Plus how can you stand going to work every day if that's your attitude?
ok fine, I guess you'd have to get them a computer and internet connection too... this is a great way to offload that old Pentium 90 gathering dust in the corner!
try http://cedet.sourceforge.net/speedbar.shtml it's a great add-on to emacs, definitely increases productivity (especially when you're staring at those 1000+ line files).
You know, cuz they'll have that Power Mac look and feel(tm).
There is research going on at UC Berkeley for UI development for the blind.
Check out the IC2D project.
Compaq is a hardware vendor. NetBSD is an operating system. Yahoo will soon run FreeBSD on Compaq hardware. They use Linux only because of their relationship with Google. It's really not that complicated.
Why don't you take a minute to look at who actually wrote this article (Reuters) before blaming Yahoo for seemingly minor technical details. You know, there are people out there who don't know the difference between (gasp!) the WWW and the Internet, or even what an operating system is. That is why mainstream news sites shouldn't need to worry about minor technical details such as the ones you point out.
I know they use FreeBSD for their production servers. Unless they have some sort of Windows intermediary which does the scanning (which I kind of doubt) they're doing it on a Unix box.
there are of course, many more similar sites. If anyone has done anything cool post it here! Also a great resource if you live in the SF bay area is Weird Stuff, they have tons of old macs for sale and the salespeople are quite knowledgable.
I think the point of the Crusoe is that you don't want to compile programs natively. Instead, let the code morphing engine dynamically optimize the x86 (or whatever processor) code that it executes which results in a better speedup. I don't think the Crusoe is all that fast running native code, but the optimizations with x86 code make it run nearly as fast as a comparable x86 chip.
Couldn't Bugzilla be used for this?
Coverage in the bay area is very bad. I have had dropped calls driving down a couple of city blocks in downtown Berkeley, and San Jose. Sound quality is poor, and much of the time I'd be out of range, even in a major metropolitan area. I strongly urge you to reconsider choosing Sprint if you live around here. Also, if you're going up to Tahoe/Reno then don't count on any service past Sacramento, cuz you won't get any.
Sprint's rates are great, and it's cool that you can check how many minutes you've used over the web, but actual phone service sucks! To their credit, I know people who live on the East Coast and have no problems with Sprint, except when they come out here that is.
I've also had experience in this area with GTE (super expensive, but great sound quality and coverage) and Pac Bell (great price, lots of features, great quality and coverage but doesn't work in buildings) and can recommend them both.
I thought I was the only one with a third of a brain reading that article.
I was just going to post the same thing...
Seems like they're all just ridiculously braindead windows users.
My favorite is the guy who thinks you'll have to download a plugin for (probably IE in his mind) the browser over and over and over.. hahaha
At least on pricetrac... For the same price as a 300MB 3.5" IDE disk from them I could go to Fry's and get a brand new 10GB disk.
This is super cool as well, although way more expensive than the i-opener:
http://adirect.advantech .com/asp/systemsel.asp?Catalog=PPC
Advantech sells a lot of stuff like this that have tons of hack value. =)