Do this some time when you get a chance. Go download the source for Mozilla and untar/gzip it on a Linux box. Make sure you time it. Then do the same thing on AIX. Takes so much longer on AIX that it doesn't even make sense. We've seen the same thing with Oracle imports/exports and even straight file writes. Sure, AIO helps some if you're running an Oracle box or something (which we do - to the tune of 80 database instances), but it's still much slower than it should be.
And yes, you can get more colors for AIX (xserverrc), but it wasn't AIX I was referring to. I was referring to the fact that the video card is an old piece of junk. Oddly enough, the card costs an ungodly amount of money. Maybe that has something to do with the way AIX is going server only. Maybe not enough people are up for paying $10k for a slow workstation anymore.
Sure, the POWER CPUs in general (and most notably POWER5 and POWER6) are very powerful. Even AIX is a pretty decent UNIX. As mentioned, smit[ty] is a very good tool to perform admin tasks. I just never thought AIX was particularly great on the desktop. I mean, I love CDE and I've always enjoyed using it for the simplicity and clean look (side note: what ever happened to being able to buy CDE for Linux?), but I/O (and namely filesystem I/O) on AIX is for the birds. JFS and JFS2 are very robust filesystems, but for anything approaching real speed, they just don't get it done.
I have several of the 285 workstations here, and I replaced mine with a Linux desktop months ago. The rest of the guys in my group followed suit shortly after I showed them they could accomplish pretty much the same tasks. If IBM used a half decent video card in the workstations, loading Linux on them would be the ideal solution. However, they are like 4MB PCI cards or something silly, and the amount of colors you can get is laughable.
I dunno. I can kind of see the point of lamenting that IBM has decided to nix AIX as a workstation, but honestly, it's been in decline for a long time.
Generally I think your point is valid. However, I don't think so in thise case.
To me, the old saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" applies here. If you really want to break this down, she wasn't scammed once. She was scammed several times... in the same way... by the same person. Honestly, I don't see how you can look at it and say she was completely blameless in the matter.
To use your anology: If you leave that stack of 20 dollar bills, yes, it's my decision to steal them. However, if you do so every day for the next month, and every day I take them in the same way, are you not a little more than stupid at that point? Would you not be somewhat to blame for your own misfortune? Surely you don't think you can claim it was 100% my doing after it had happened over and over and over again.
Have you looked at GovDeals at all? I work for a state agency in Missouri, and all of our equipment ends up being sold to the public through that site. I also notice that Illinois has a good deal of equipment there also.
Was I the only one that got a headache trying to read Suw Charman's blog? I like to think I can deal with a fairly wide variety of styles when it comes to people just posting their thoughts, but good lord. I could read essays from third graders and see less sentence fragments. It seemed scatterbrained to me, and I just didn't walk away with anything other than a migraine after reading it.
Call me harsh or unreasonable, but it seems to me that if somebody is going to take the time to write about an issue - any issue - they should at least try to do so coherently.
My guess is it's probably to improve the performance. Yeah, you can do it now, but that doesn't mean it's to be done. Could also be implimenting the core of PHP into Windows or it's products without having to go "outside the box" to get the software and install it.
I've got kind of mixed feelings on this myself, but it certainly isn't a bad thing right now. We'll just have to see what road they go down.
I even remember back when they were Caldera. We'd see them at tradeshows all the time and wonder how on earth they planned to make it as a RedHat clone. I never thought they'd go this route. It's pretty sad really.
This is all pretty indicative of the times. A company need not actually make a product people need to use. They just have to either scare people away from competitors, or convince them that a bigger name is actually more important. Of course, bigger name for SCO just means that more people have heard of them due to unfounded lawsuits. Free publicity is good publicity I suppose.
I'm not sure I see a valid basis for the staffing issue. Almost anyone who has used Open Source software can tell you that, yes, it's not always a snap to install. They will also tell you that in most cases there are at least a few places to get support, and that these are not completely untested programs. If you have a problem with getting it installed, a Google search and a forum search will oft times get you the answer you're looking for. Yes, it takes a person to take the time to do it, and said person must know where to look, but I don't see that as a show stopper inherently.
As far as anyone having to be a developer to deploy OSS software; This seems like a farse to me. Lord knows the majority of those who use these types of programs might be a bit on the computer literate side, but to call them developers seems like a stretch to me. I know and have known plenty of people capable of installing, troubleshooting, and maintaining an installed app without knowing a thing about programming. After all, people don't have to be MCSE's to run Windows. It seems unreasonable to lump those capable of maintaining an installed app under the title of "developers".
In the end these types of questions are about money. How much, if any, are you saving or losing to make said business/organization move? If you go with an OSS app over a commercial one, yes, you have to have the support infastructure, but this is a cost you incrue regardless of which type of software you choose. You either save enough money on the licensing/support to justify the move, or you do not. In the end, people are cheaper than licenses.
Why not have everyone take 2 pieces of paper and write down the dish they make the best on one, and the ingredients on another. Have each person hand in the dish name, but not the recipe. Then, read off all the names of the [some no doubt very exotic] dishes. Then, after you're done, take a poll and find out how many people would like the recipe to them. Tell them they can't have it. Then, equate that to closed source software. Pick one or two and give the ingredient list out. Tell them that's what OSS is like.
Just something that came to mind off the top of my head, and something most people can participate in.:) If people don't have a dish they make, or a recipe, just have them pick their favorite and have them imagine if anyone could make it just the way they like it!
My $0.02 might be worth slightly less, but at least I tried!
Ok, so, a company bought up an open source project and put the lead developer on the payroll... How is this an inherently bad thing? Yes, I'm fundamentally pro-OSS, but one of the basic ideas is that it makes for better code. It just seems like the purchasing company in this case is taking a step in that direction by buying up a good project and paying a good developer.
Having said all that; I really hope it's not a continuing trend.
The stance of ISPs is that they need the extra step (suing for the logs, etc) in order to protect the privacy of customers. They contend that if the RIAA, MPAA, or whoever can just call up and get records, that it'll become frivilous. Obviously, that's going to incrue cost for the ISPs as well as make basically everyone's net habits available on a whim.
I'm glad at least some companies still have some sense.
I thought that was the motto on these units? I can't recall a new one that's ever come out with alot of games available right off the bat. Seems like they all sort of trickle in after the release.
Having beta tested several games in the last year or so, I know that personally, I'm willing to overlook quite a few bugs during beta if the game shows true promise to me. Even if it crashes, I try to take into account what the game would be like after it's fixed and working as intended.
Granted, I only allow so much latitude, and if I don't see improvement before release, which, sadly, happens all too often, I'll completely disregard the game after a time.
Overall, I think avid gamers, and even not so avid gamers with a technical thought process, are willing to overlook a certain amount of bugs in a demo/beta if the game shows true potential. It's the casual gamers that don't put up with those types of things, or at least don't keep an open mind, and I suppose that's the larger market share.
My company has been in close contact with both AMD and motherboard manufacturers on this issue. We've seen a prototype of the dual Athlon/Duron motherboard and it sounds very good. We've also been hearing talk from AMD saying that the Duron will support SMP, but they don't expect to sell many like that. I remember when the Duron came out, they didn't think it would hurt Athlon sales, but look what happened (clock locking on the Duron). I'm glad I bought my Durons back when the multipliers weren't locked, because now I also have a better chance of them running SMP.
Just my input, hope it helps.
I'd like to say that I'd run from the company if it came to that. I don't know that I would. Legally, I'd say you have to either sign it, or accept the consequences of not signing it. Seems like it may be time to look at your company and make a decision.
Either way, I'd speak with an attorney and see what the Law has to say about it. Maybe there is another option.
Weren't minimum wage laws put into effect to protect workers who were recieving unfair pay? It seems to me that this is none of the government's business. The volunteers are getting paid, in their own way, and they don't have a problem with it. Why is this even an issue?
If you think about all the shareware/freeware/open source applications that run on, or can run on windows, it's really not that hard to believe that there are 70,000, but I wouldn't count every little tic-tac-toe game as an actual application. If you really want to get technical, every UNIX[like] box has anywhere from several hundred to several thousand on it too, the only difference is, most of them are useful.
From where I sit, it looks like IBM is into Open Source for a couple of reasons. First of all, it brings their applications to Linux, which we all know doesn't hurt anything at all. It also makes their products much more stable, and in general, better. Secondly, IBM has lost alot of ground on Notes. Microsoft Exchange has taken alot of market share away from them. I'd say IBM has done it to regain some market share, and at the same time, take away from MS. I don't think IBM is after revenge, but they'd be dumb to just give in to competition.
Personally, I don't care what their motivation is. I think the opening of it's applications (and other technologies as well, i.e. JFS, AFS, et. al.) is a good thing. While it helps them to possibly keeps what footing it has left, it also gives a great deal of credibility to the Linux and Open Source movements. I don't see how this could be bad, even if it is LGPL.
In a tech world where "Open Source" is the latest catch phrase, I know that I for one am glad to see IBM actually treating open source as it was meant to be treated. IBM has given Linux and Open Source much more credibility in the eyes of coporate IT than us geeks ever could. Kudos to IBM for a job well done. I think many other companies should take a lesson from this.
Way to go guys! I'm a proud user of Debian, and I wouldn't change for anything. A good friend of mine is a developer for Debian, and I'd like to take this time to thank him, and all the others for their time, and excellent work. This is what the Linux/Open Source community is all about. It doesn't always take dollar signs to make something worth doing, or even to make it good, it just takes heart. Keep up the good work!!
I say way to go. If more human beings showed the conviction that he possesses for this situation, we'd all be better off. It's rare anymore that you see anyone stand up for what they believe in, let alone a lowly journalist. Looks like we could all learn a lesson from this.
The question of a office environment becomes a little sticky in this situation. I've used both office suites extensively for my own testing purposes. I can tell you that WordPerfect is much better than Applix, but on the system configurations you've given, Applix will run much better. There are also a couple more factors which make this decision easier. I've found Applix to be very stable. WP, on the other hand, is exactly the opposite. It's completely written for windows, and WINE is what they used to make it work under Linux. Kind of a shoddy way for a commercial product to operate, in my humble opinion. Also, Applix doesn't interchange with other office suites very well. If you're just going to be using one suite across the entire company, you should be OK going with Applix. If interfacing with some windows machines is an issue, WordPerfect, or (god forbid) StarOffice would be a better choice. Although, StarOffice blows your current system config to bits. It would run kind of like Q3 on a 486 if you're going to just put 32 (or even 64)megabytes of RAM in the machine. I use Linux on the desktop every single day, but my machine is not in the least bit modest. If there ever was an argument that Linux isn't ready for the desktop, this would probably be the best example I've seen yet.
It seems to me that the bandwidth capicity of the atmosphere could be almost endless. Technological advances happen every day that allow us to carry more data over less and less medium. Why shouldn't this apply to the atmosphere as well? It is one of the oldest researched parts of the earth. I'm somewhat surprised that scientists haven't been researching a way to transmit on more and more frequencies, not to mention pushing larger amounts of data.
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Do this some time when you get a chance. Go download the source for Mozilla and untar/gzip it on a Linux box. Make sure you time it. Then do the same thing on AIX. Takes so much longer on AIX that it doesn't even make sense. We've seen the same thing with Oracle imports/exports and even straight file writes. Sure, AIO helps some if you're running an Oracle box or something (which we do - to the tune of 80 database instances), but it's still much slower than it should be.
And yes, you can get more colors for AIX (xserverrc), but it wasn't AIX I was referring to. I was referring to the fact that the video card is an old piece of junk. Oddly enough, the card costs an ungodly amount of money. Maybe that has something to do with the way AIX is going server only. Maybe not enough people are up for paying $10k for a slow workstation anymore.
Sure, the POWER CPUs in general (and most notably POWER5 and POWER6) are very powerful. Even AIX is a pretty decent UNIX. As mentioned, smit[ty] is a very good tool to perform admin tasks. I just never thought AIX was particularly great on the desktop. I mean, I love CDE and I've always enjoyed using it for the simplicity and clean look (side note: what ever happened to being able to buy CDE for Linux?), but I/O (and namely filesystem I/O) on AIX is for the birds. JFS and JFS2 are very robust filesystems, but for anything approaching real speed, they just don't get it done.
I have several of the 285 workstations here, and I replaced mine with a Linux desktop months ago. The rest of the guys in my group followed suit shortly after I showed them they could accomplish pretty much the same tasks. If IBM used a half decent video card in the workstations, loading Linux on them would be the ideal solution. However, they are like 4MB PCI cards or something silly, and the amount of colors you can get is laughable.
I dunno. I can kind of see the point of lamenting that IBM has decided to nix AIX as a workstation, but honestly, it's been in decline for a long time.
Generally I think your point is valid. However, I don't think so in thise case.
To me, the old saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" applies here. If you really want to break this down, she wasn't scammed once. She was scammed several times... in the same way... by the same person. Honestly, I don't see how you can look at it and say she was completely blameless in the matter.
To use your anology:
If you leave that stack of 20 dollar bills, yes, it's my decision to steal them. However, if you do so every day for the next month, and every day I take them in the same way, are you not a little more than stupid at that point? Would you not be somewhat to blame for your own misfortune? Surely you don't think you can claim it was 100% my doing after it had happened over and over and over again.
Have you looked at GovDeals at all? I work for a state agency in Missouri, and all of our equipment ends up being sold to the public through that site. I also notice that Illinois has a good deal of equipment there also.
I guess this is one way to get Vista's adoption rate to go up. Just let it be pirated!
Was I the only one that got a headache trying to read Suw Charman's blog? I like to think I can deal with a fairly wide variety of styles when it comes to people just posting their thoughts, but good lord. I could read essays from third graders and see less sentence fragments. It seemed scatterbrained to me, and I just didn't walk away with anything other than a migraine after reading it.
Call me harsh or unreasonable, but it seems to me that if somebody is going to take the time to write about an issue - any issue - they should at least try to do so coherently.
My guess is it's probably to improve the performance. Yeah, you can do it now, but that doesn't mean it's to be done. Could also be implimenting the core of PHP into Windows or it's products without having to go "outside the box" to get the software and install it.
I've got kind of mixed feelings on this myself, but it certainly isn't a bad thing right now. We'll just have to see what road they go down.
"For the Agenda hardcore among us, it's as though Atlantis is rising..." :)
Both of you?
I even remember back when they were Caldera. We'd see them at tradeshows all the time and wonder how on earth they planned to make it as a RedHat clone. I never thought they'd go this route. It's pretty sad really.
This is all pretty indicative of the times. A company need not actually make a product people need to use. They just have to either scare people away from competitors, or convince them that a bigger name is actually more important. Of course, bigger name for SCO just means that more people have heard of them due to unfounded lawsuits. Free publicity is good publicity I suppose.
I'm not sure I see a valid basis for the staffing issue. Almost anyone who has used Open Source software can tell you that, yes, it's not always a snap to install. They will also tell you that in most cases there are at least a few places to get support, and that these are not completely untested programs. If you have a problem with getting it installed, a Google search and a forum search will oft times get you the answer you're looking for. Yes, it takes a person to take the time to do it, and said person must know where to look, but I don't see that as a show stopper inherently.
As far as anyone having to be a developer to deploy OSS software; This seems like a farse to me. Lord knows the majority of those who use these types of programs might be a bit on the computer literate side, but to call them developers seems like a stretch to me. I know and have known plenty of people capable of installing, troubleshooting, and maintaining an installed app without knowing a thing about programming. After all, people don't have to be MCSE's to run Windows. It seems unreasonable to lump those capable of maintaining an installed app under the title of "developers".
In the end these types of questions are about money. How much, if any, are you saving or losing to make said business/organization move? If you go with an OSS app over a commercial one, yes, you have to have the support infastructure, but this is a cost you incrue regardless of which type of software you choose. You either save enough money on the licensing/support to justify the move, or you do not. In the end, people are cheaper than licenses.
Why not have everyone take 2 pieces of paper and write down the dish they make the best on one, and the ingredients on another. Have each person hand in the dish name, but not the recipe. Then, read off all the names of the [some no doubt very exotic] dishes. Then, after you're done, take a poll and find out how many people would like the recipe to them. Tell them they can't have it. Then, equate that to closed source software. Pick one or two and give the ingredient list out. Tell them that's what OSS is like.
:) If people don't have a dish they make, or a recipe, just have them pick their favorite and have them imagine if anyone could make it just the way they like it!
Just something that came to mind off the top of my head, and something most people can participate in.
My $0.02 might be worth slightly less, but at least I tried!
Ok, so, a company bought up an open source project and put the lead developer on the payroll... How is this an inherently bad thing? Yes, I'm fundamentally pro-OSS, but one of the basic ideas is that it makes for better code. It just seems like the purchasing company in this case is taking a step in that direction by buying up a good project and paying a good developer.
Having said all that; I really hope it's not a continuing trend.
The stance of ISPs is that they need the extra step (suing for the logs, etc) in order to protect the privacy of customers. They contend that if the RIAA, MPAA, or whoever can just call up and get records, that it'll become frivilous. Obviously, that's going to incrue cost for the ISPs as well as make basically everyone's net habits available on a whim.
I'm glad at least some companies still have some sense.
I thought that was the motto on these units? I can't recall a new one that's ever come out with alot of games available right off the bat. Seems like they all sort of trickle in after the release.
Or, my memory could be flawed.
Having beta tested several games in the last year or so, I know that personally, I'm willing to overlook quite a few bugs during beta if the game shows true promise to me. Even if it crashes, I try to take into account what the game would be like after it's fixed and working as intended.
Granted, I only allow so much latitude, and if I don't see improvement before release, which, sadly, happens all too often, I'll completely disregard the game after a time.
Overall, I think avid gamers, and even not so avid gamers with a technical thought process, are willing to overlook a certain amount of bugs in a demo/beta if the game shows true potential. It's the casual gamers that don't put up with those types of things, or at least don't keep an open mind, and I suppose that's the larger market share.
I guess mileage varies.
My company has been in close contact with both AMD and motherboard manufacturers on this issue. We've seen a prototype of the dual Athlon/Duron motherboard and it sounds very good. We've also been hearing talk from AMD saying that the Duron will support SMP, but they don't expect to sell many like that. I remember when the Duron came out, they didn't think it would hurt Athlon sales, but look what happened (clock locking on the Duron). I'm glad I bought my Durons back when the multipliers weren't locked, because now I also have a better chance of them running SMP. Just my input, hope it helps.
I'd like to say that I'd run from the company if it came to that. I don't know that I would. Legally, I'd say you have to either sign it, or accept the consequences of not signing it. Seems like it may be time to look at your company and make a decision. Either way, I'd speak with an attorney and see what the Law has to say about it. Maybe there is another option.
Weren't minimum wage laws put into effect to protect workers who were recieving unfair pay? It seems to me that this is none of the government's business. The volunteers are getting paid, in their own way, and they don't have a problem with it. Why is this even an issue?
If you think about all the shareware/freeware/open source applications that run on, or can run on windows, it's really not that hard to believe that there are 70,000, but I wouldn't count every little tic-tac-toe game as an actual application. If you really want to get technical, every UNIX[like] box has anywhere from several hundred to several thousand on it too, the only difference is, most of them are useful.
From where I sit, it looks like IBM is into Open Source for a couple of reasons. First of all, it brings their applications to Linux, which we all know doesn't hurt anything at all. It also makes their products much more stable, and in general, better. Secondly, IBM has lost alot of ground on Notes. Microsoft Exchange has taken alot of market share away from them. I'd say IBM has done it to regain some market share, and at the same time, take away from MS. I don't think IBM is after revenge, but they'd be dumb to just give in to competition.
Personally, I don't care what their motivation is. I think the opening of it's applications (and other technologies as well, i.e. JFS, AFS, et. al.) is a good thing. While it helps them to possibly keeps what footing it has left, it also gives a great deal of credibility to the Linux and Open Source movements. I don't see how this could be bad, even if it is LGPL.
In a tech world where "Open Source" is the latest catch phrase, I know that I for one am glad to see IBM actually treating open source as it was meant to be treated. IBM has given Linux and Open Source much more credibility in the eyes of coporate IT than us geeks ever could. Kudos to IBM for a job well done. I think many other companies should take a lesson from this.
Way to go guys! I'm a proud user of Debian, and I wouldn't change for anything. A good friend of mine is a developer for Debian, and I'd like to take this time to thank him, and all the others for their time, and excellent work. This is what the Linux/Open Source community is all about. It doesn't always take dollar signs to make something worth doing, or even to make it good, it just takes heart. Keep up the good work!!
I say way to go. If more human beings showed the conviction that he possesses for this situation, we'd all be better off. It's rare anymore that you see anyone stand up for what they believe in, let alone a lowly journalist. Looks like we could all learn a lesson from this.
The question of a office environment becomes a little sticky in this situation. I've used both office suites extensively for my own testing purposes. I can tell you that WordPerfect is much better than Applix, but on the system configurations you've given, Applix will run much better. There are also a couple more factors which make this decision easier. I've found Applix to be very stable. WP, on the other hand, is exactly the opposite. It's completely written for windows, and WINE is what they used to make it work under Linux. Kind of a shoddy way for a commercial product to operate, in my humble opinion. Also, Applix doesn't interchange with other office suites very well. If you're just going to be using one suite across the entire company, you should be OK going with Applix. If interfacing with some windows machines is an issue, WordPerfect, or (god forbid) StarOffice would be a better choice. Although, StarOffice blows your current system config to bits. It would run kind of like Q3 on a 486 if you're going to just put 32 (or even 64)megabytes of RAM in the machine. I use Linux on the desktop every single day, but my machine is not in the least bit modest. If there ever was an argument that Linux isn't ready for the desktop, this would probably be the best example I've seen yet.
It seems to me that the bandwidth capicity of the atmosphere could be almost endless. Technological advances happen every day that allow us to carry more data over less and less medium. Why shouldn't this apply to the atmosphere as well? It is one of the oldest researched parts of the earth. I'm somewhat surprised that scientists haven't been researching a way to transmit on more and more frequencies, not to mention pushing larger amounts of data.