You know, in large IT company you usually do not decide over what you have installed on your workstations. Said that, I'm actually using Gnome on Solaris (looked best for me) and I don't really criticise the window interface. CDE would be fine for me, since all I do is open several shell windows anyway and mozilla in one screen.
The problems are more in the utilities that are missing some of the more useful switches, man pages that lack behind the linux ones usually, problems with handling symlinks and hardlinks until 2.8 and other minor things that just get on your nerves with time.
Of course, I can use the GNU utilities, but I cannot write a script using them, because I cannot rely on customer having them installed so I just have to deal with the solaris's crappy ones anyway... do you get the point?
I'm software engineer, I have both solaris and linux workstations on my desk and to be honest, I prefer to work on my linux and run my database and hard computations on my Ultra-1. Why? Well, Solaris sucks compared to Linux in the ease of use and ability to script your work easy, man pages, utilities,... and many more aspects. It might be superior OS in matter of stability or effectiveness to use the SPARC platform, but...
So they did the logical step. Looked in what is Linux better and try to incorporate these things in Solaris. I say, way to go. But its not to increase Linux's acceptance, really:)
I'm just next to you in San Carlos and didn't seem any special to me. Maybe its just that I am not used to earthquakes, but if I'd be asleep I would not know there was any. Not even a picture moved...
On the peninsula, between SF and SJ it was barely felt. The house shook a bit, but just two fast shakes and nothing more. Definitely not making any damage and hardly waking up anyone who was already asleep.
Basicly they said, we have an expert who can do it, but we won't show him. Now they got in CKK's mind that its possible, but never gave M$ a chance to rebute it by withdrawing for pretty sane reasons. I think they scored big time with this trick. Especially since the blend of Embeded WinXP and WinXP , which is what it most likely is, would not work all that well and they can expect it.
You need to think a little bit more like lawyer to see how they can score points in the trial.
... and I've never felt so relaxed as when I am
on the run for frags in one on one deathmatch in Doom II. There is something incredibly soothing
in flowing through the passages, holding your BFG 9000, shooting it in the corner to instantly clean up the hiding fellow in the blue room with armor
and shotgun, take the shotgun as it pops, flow
out of the room into the passages again where you
shoot the other guy as he poped and took plasma gun and immediatelly follow by shooting him at
the chaingun corner.
It makes you feel so relaxed and concentrated at the same time, you've never felt better. You feed on the negative emotions as your opponent dies in quick succession and the whole world (errr.. wad) is yours!
Of course it's outrageous and egregious! But then, taking legal advice about software licensing issues from Microsoft is like taking airline safety advice from Osama bin Laden.
Actually, if Osama would tell me, don't go on the United flight 93, I would rather take it:)
.... this is the technology, but well, where is the service provider? And how much they are going to charge? Honestly, if this really gives you satelite+cable TV, 3 phone lines and 10BaseT, I'm willing to pay up to $300 a month for it.
Of course, if I get the 10BaseT dedicated up to some reasonable backbone *inno*
You mean like when I am waving my cell phone and the mouse pointer moves on the screen? These things happen already. This might be a serious concern. I think that the processor might actually generate som e noise on this frequency. The problem though is, that P4 don't work on such a high frequency anyway unless utilized on 100%. So most of the time, no problems and if you want to test it, start kernel compiles. (At this speed, rather quite a few of them:))
Maybe, if you'd read what prof. Knuth said, you'd know he mentioned the 1000 algorithm as a START. About the number of algorithms the CS should have to START to be recognized as a relevant science.
... that the testimony clearly says that although M$ OEM contracts were draconian before the settlement, they used the settlement to make them EVEN WORSE, if thats possible.
GOD, if nothing else, then this should clearly say to the judge that the settlement is not effective. On the contrary. It gives Microsoft easy way out of too benevolent contracts.
Well, I've got this idea quite a few years ago, but honestly, did you ever try to login with someone watching? And its much easier to watch the monitor than your keyboard. And at least I can type my twenty something passwords reallllly fast and have some intentional typos in them, but - man - how can you click on pictures without someone seeing the pointer moving over the right pictures....
When we could boycott Adobe, we can boycott these morons as well. Right? There are many posts that say how to prevent it or how the company is short-sighted, but what about some direct impact. Who is the employer? And why don't we - programmers - organize a little more. Where is the black list of employers that don't treat us well?
Although the sum that this case costs is large on both sides, you should not be intimidated by its size. The damage done to economy by Microsoft's monopolistic pracitices is many times higher and I would bet its even higher than all the profits Microsoft has ever made and definitely more than all the taxes it ever paid.
Well, I don't make my own OS either (even though I was pondering the idea, just for the heck of it), but I am really happy that someone except for the big fat corporations out there is doing it. Really. You know why? Because this way people tweak with things, play with new features that these big corporations would be afraid to even try. And maybe they will burn themselves. And maybe this guy will win Darwin's award after all, but maybe, just maybe, he might by chance make some invention and change the way how roller coasters work. And maybe by doing the roller coaster he might find out how to make his work easier. The only thing I know is that this is the way how most of inventions ever came up. Some geek out there was playing and tweaking with something. And usually because he was lazy. If just lazy to drive to nearest roller coaster or too busy to be bothered to waste his time in line:)
With your attitude there was no reason to climb down from trees. Really.
So after a federal judge and court of appeals said that they violated a law and after half a year of haggling someone in Microsoft finally admits it. Well, what a headline.:)
... and the story said around goes like this: "@Home had some problems with their network and AT&T offered help. Since AT&T had lots of interest (investments) in the company, they accepted the offer. 12 AT&T technicians went to @Home and mapped the whole network and made a complete analyse of it and plans for themselves to find out the problem. But they didn't really find much. But plans were made and the same group of techies set up very soon to make their own copy of the @Home setup."
... there will be always someone to offer the goods, even if its illegal. Look at drugs. No way to fight spam the way to go after the people who deal it. Change the system, and as with campaign on drugs, try to destroy the market. Punish the beneficiaries. Well, its more than harsh in case of drugs, so why not in case of advertisement?
Very good solution would be IAIA (Illegal advertising inhibition act - known as donkey law). Lets punish with severe penalties every company that is proven to knowingly order advertisement through illegal means (such as spam, tattooing childern and pop-under windows).
These comments I could see in this article are the most stupid uninformed balast I've seen in a long time. Maybe its this way for all articles, but I know my ground here and can judge this.
Oracle is not replacing any Sun machines, but three HP machines.
Oracle development is done mostly on Sun/Solaris boxes, little time ago even the development environment was not even ready and ported for Linux. But whatever are the machines developers work on, there is a strong porting group to cover all the operating systems.
What moves to Intel-based machines is by no way the database (RDBMS), but the application server and maybe the business suite. Elisson himself said that he does not see RDBMS moving to Intel-based hardware in near future, though it might be possible one day.
Support should be done for Oracle Application Server on RedHat, which is quite feasible especially after contracts with RedHat, Inc.
When Ellison says that Oracle will run the whole business on Linux, it does not mean that every machine in the company will be replaced with something running Linux, but just that these few servers running the Business suite with Oracle business information will most likely move to Linux. I would bet it would be some IBM high end servers running Linux, though.
There are whores out there who do it to feed their childern. You might have reasons for what you do, you might feel forced to your decision, but its still your decision. And you have to decide based on your morals.
I don't understand these who are bitter and say that "in no case we can allow money to flow in some linux distro". I think there are also some morale decisions every time you accepts someone's money. Its like not buying wares produced in sweatshops or trading with countries supporting terrorism. If you cannot identify with the ideas your employer stands for, then taking just the money really makes you into a whore.
The merger is her 'child' she will not let anything happen to it. She would go under with its failure anyway. So I think that these comments are made deliberately so it will seem as 'lesser evil' to do the merger and silence some opposing voices.
Well, the most widely used is HPUX, the system is developed on SOLARIS as primary OS and there is NT branch. Other are just ports. Usually the first ports are: HPUX, AIX, Linux. Of course you have to count in different version of these OSes. I am not sure there is port for MacOS or QNX. There, but basicly any UNIX out there has most likely a port of the RDBMS.
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The problems are more in the utilities that are missing some of the more useful switches, man pages that lack behind the linux ones usually, problems with handling symlinks and hardlinks until 2.8 and other minor things that just get on your nerves with time.
Of course, I can use the GNU utilities, but I cannot write a script using them, because I cannot rely on customer having them installed so I just have to deal with the solaris's crappy ones anyway... do you get the point?
So they did the logical step. Looked in what is Linux better and try to incorporate these things in Solaris. I say, way to go. But its not to increase Linux's acceptance, really :)
I'm just next to you in San Carlos and didn't seem any special to me. Maybe its just that I am not used to earthquakes, but if I'd be asleep I would not know there was any. Not even a picture moved...
On the peninsula, between SF and SJ it was barely felt. The house shook a bit, but just two fast shakes and nothing more. Definitely not making any damage and hardly waking up anyone who was already asleep.
You need to think a little bit more like lawyer to see how they can score points in the trial.
... and I've never felt so relaxed as when I am on the run for frags in one on one deathmatch in Doom II. There is something incredibly soothing in flowing through the passages, holding your BFG 9000, shooting it in the corner to instantly clean up the hiding fellow in the blue room with armor and shotgun, take the shotgun as it pops, flow out of the room into the passages again where you shoot the other guy as he poped and took plasma gun and immediatelly follow by shooting him at the chaingun corner.
It makes you feel so relaxed and concentrated at the same time, you've never felt better. You feed on the negative emotions as your opponent dies in quick succession and the whole world (errr.. wad) is yours!
Of course it's outrageous and egregious! But then, taking legal advice about software licensing issues from Microsoft is like taking airline safety advice from Osama bin Laden.
:)
Actually, if Osama would tell me, don't go on the United flight 93, I would rather take it
.... this is the technology, but well, where is the service provider? And how much they are going to charge? Honestly, if this really gives you satelite+cable TV, 3 phone lines and 10BaseT, I'm willing to pay up to $300 a month for it.
Of course, if I get the 10BaseT dedicated up to some reasonable backbone *inno*
Well, way to go...
You mean like when I am waving my cell phone and the mouse pointer moves on the screen? These things happen already. This might be a serious concern. I think that the processor might actually generate som e noise on this frequency. The problem though is, that P4 don't work on such a high frequency anyway unless utilized on 100%. So most of the time, no problems and if you want to test it, start kernel compiles. (At this speed, rather quite a few of them :))
Maybe, if you'd read what prof. Knuth said, you'd know he mentioned the 1000 algorithm as a START. About the number of algorithms the CS should have to START to be recognized as a relevant science.
Gotta be inventing the Internet! How could you top that?
You are in wrong section here. This is 'AlGoreism'
... that the testimony clearly says that although M$ OEM contracts were draconian before the settlement, they used the settlement to make them EVEN WORSE, if thats possible.
GOD, if nothing else, then this should clearly say to the judge that the settlement is not effective. On the contrary. It gives Microsoft easy way out of too benevolent contracts.
Well, I've got this idea quite a few years ago, but honestly, did you ever try to login with someone watching? And its much easier to watch the monitor than your keyboard. And at least I can type my twenty something passwords reallllly fast and have some intentional typos in them, but - man - how can you click on pictures without someone seeing the pointer moving over the right pictures....
When we could boycott Adobe, we can boycott these morons as well. Right? There are many posts that say how to prevent it or how the company is short-sighted, but what about some direct impact. Who is the employer? And why don't we - programmers - organize a little more. Where is the black list of employers that don't treat us well?
Although the sum that this case costs is large on both sides, you should not be intimidated by its size. The damage done to economy by Microsoft's monopolistic pracitices is many times higher and I would bet its even higher than all the profits Microsoft has ever made and definitely more than all the taxes it ever paid.
Well, I don't make my own OS either (even though I was pondering the idea, just for the heck of it), but I am really happy that someone except for the big fat corporations out there is doing it. Really. You know why? Because this way people tweak with things, play with new features that these big corporations would be afraid to even try. And maybe they will burn themselves. And maybe this guy will win Darwin's award after all, but maybe, just maybe, he might by chance make some invention and change the way how roller coasters work. And maybe by doing the roller coaster he might find out how to make his work easier. The only thing I know is that this is the way how most of inventions ever came up. Some geek out there was playing and tweaking with something. And usually because he was lazy. If just lazy to drive to nearest roller coaster or too busy to be bothered to waste his time in line :)
With your attitude there was no reason to climb down from trees. Really.
... I would still be using Linux.
'nuff said.
So after a federal judge and court of appeals said that they violated a law and after half a year of haggling someone in Microsoft finally admits it. Well, what a headline. :)
... and the story said around goes like this: "@Home had some problems with their network and AT&T offered help. Since AT&T had lots of interest (investments) in the company, they accepted the offer. 12 AT&T technicians went to @Home and mapped the whole network and made a complete analyse of it and plans for themselves to find out the problem. But they didn't really find much. But plans were made and the same group of techies set up very soon to make their own copy of the @Home setup."
Very good solution would be IAIA (Illegal advertising inhibition act - known as donkey law). Lets punish with severe penalties every company that is proven to knowingly order advertisement through illegal means (such as spam, tattooing childern and pop-under windows).
These comments I could see in this article are the most stupid uninformed balast I've seen in a long time. Maybe its this way for all articles, but I know my ground here and can judge this.
There are whores out there who do it to feed their childern. You might have reasons for what you do, you might feel forced to your decision, but its still your decision. And you have to decide based on your morals.
I don't understand these who are bitter and say that "in no case we can allow money to flow in some linux distro". I think there are also some morale decisions every time you accepts someone's money. Its like not buying wares produced in sweatshops or trading with countries supporting terrorism. If you cannot identify with the ideas your employer stands for, then taking just the money really makes you into a whore.
The merger is her 'child' she will not let anything happen to it. She would go under with its failure anyway. So I think that these comments are made deliberately so it will seem as 'lesser evil' to do the merger and silence some opposing voices.
Well, the most widely used is HPUX, the system is developed on SOLARIS as primary OS and there is NT branch. Other are just ports. Usually the first ports are: HPUX, AIX, Linux. Of course you have to count in different version of these OSes. I am not sure there is port for MacOS or QNX. There, but basicly any UNIX out there has most likely a port of the RDBMS.