"We're seeing crazy uptime numbers now, like three months, six months. I fully expect we'll see a year of uptime when Windows Server 2003 is finished," said Jeff Stucky, senior systems engineer on the Microsoft.com operations team.
Shit - I have workstations up for over a year, and these people are impressed with a server staying up for 3 months. My fucking Sharp Zaurus PDA aparently has more "crazy uptime." than this peice of crap.
No wonder Microsoft can't get any traction in the server room - if 3 months is considered "crazy uptime."
(quote swiped from theregister.co.uk)
(please excuse my swearing, but this is silly - Windows belongs on the XBOX, not in the server room)
Uh. Let's see, let me get this straight. I'm telling you you're fucking stupid, so you conclude that I must be "some greasy faced, sweatshirt wearing, pasty Mircosoft intern."
We'll perhaps you work for a fast-food joint, but you get the idea.
That's one hell of an imagination you've got there, sparky.
Uh. What the fuck? What the hell are you talking about, junior?
You're probably some greasy faced, sweatshirt wearing, pasty Mircosoft intern who though it would be fun to post to Slashdot - pertending to be a foul mouthed, stupid Mac user.
We'll - you got the stupid part down right - Natural ability.
But you swearing leaves much to be desired - It's not even witty.
If you want built-in Bluetooth, buy the PowerBook. If you want an inexpensive laptop, buy the iBook and the $50 Bluetooth adapter. If you think built-in Bluetooth is, by itself, worth a THOUSAND BUCKS, then you've got a different set of priorities from mine.
In other words: quitcher bitchin.
I'm not going to spend $1000 extra to get buitin Bluetooth. Apple just lost a sale. IBM, with their X31, just gaind a sale.
I won't buy a laptop without Bluetooth, just like I won't buy a laptop wihout Etherenet. It's just a feature that I must have.
And the $50 - easuy to loose, easy to break, USB dongle doesen't cut it.
I understand that Apple intentionaly crippled the iBook inorder to gain PowerBooks sales - it's just that the PowerBooks is so much more expensive that they lost a sale in my case.
No way - It want it built in so I don't break it off accidently. A dongle would be ok if the laptop say on a desk most of the time - but I'd like to use it as a laptop.
I'd have my credit-card in hand if the little bugger had bluetooth. I'd love to be able to ssh into all my severs over a cell-phone internet connection.
(Apple is proably hopeing that people like me will buy the PowerBook - probably smart on their part)
For a lot of the FreeBSD / Samba server that I use, I simply remove most of the memory. Less memory - less risk that the the system will run in to a bad batch. Don't remove so much that you end up trashing (trashing could expose errors in the bus or potentially over-strss your hard-drive) - but for normal (not high performance) file serving, nothing is gained by having huge quantities of memory.
If you want to call anyone an asshole, it's the previous owners, not Paul Allen. They could have just said no, and Paul could have then gone on to find other property.
No Paul wanted *this* property. The one with the summer camp. The one with 50 years of history. He just kept upping the price unitll the owners finally got greedy.
He then burned the indian log house down.
He then burned the old cabins down.
He then dumed the rest, and built a 2,000,000.0 doller 'cabin'.
He may be rich, but he (and the origional owners) have no class.
He's done a bunch of other crappy things 'round here, this is just one of many.
(like buying elections untill he got what he wanted) (like building a helicopter pad in a residential area) (like rapeing a woman) (alledgedly)
Hell even the other rich people won't put up with him - he's been banned from most of the country clubs around here.
He doesne't show his face in public, knowing that he'll get spit on. Seriouly.
Wow. Someone with money bought property. Why oh why didn't I hear this on the news?!!?
Not quite as simple as that. The land was not on the market - the owners were happy to have the summer camp lease their land (they'd been doing it for 50 years). Paul waved $BIG_MONEY at the owners, and poof! No more summer camp for the kids.
He's free to do what he did, and I'm free to think he an asshole. If I see him in person, I will say so.
He also bought the property out from under a kid's summer-camp and kicked the kids out. Then built a million dollar cabin on the land. Paul also raped a girl at his home - He setteled out of court and the girl refused to testify - it never went to trial.
Six months ago - I would have agreed, but after playing with the new version of Mandrake Linux, I'd say that out of the box, Mandrake has more support for hardware than Windows.
I have an old SoundBlaster/Ensonic sound card, a N2000 compatible network card, Martox 400 (Dual head) that all require driver donloads for Windows XP but in Mandrak - they all worked right away.
So yes, manufacurers do suport Windows more, but out of the box, a good Linux distribution just works better.
(This is ingnoring the fact that it's impossible to get Windows XP to work on Alpha, VAX, PowerPC, ARM, etc... Linux has got MS beat to a pulp in hardware support in this respect.)
Screw arounf with the PostgreSQL buffers in your config file - PostgreSQL won't allocate enough memory to do decent caching, so out of the box, it's performance sucks.
Get those buffers set right, and PostgreSQL will come very close to Access' speed.
Several things:
Unless your users at accesing the.MDB files over slow links, you should have no trouble with at all. Be *SURE* that you've split your Access database in two.MDB parts - the front (graphical, reports) and the back end (data). Link the tables in the frot-end to the data--end.
Also - have the front end copied over to the users hard drive - this limit network usage and will cause their local copy of the.MDB to be modified if you have code that doese things like this_form.width = 400. Access tries to get write access on the scewiest of things, so you don't want the data part of the database to suffer just because Access it rtying to get write access on a form.
Turn on oplocks on your Samba config for the data.MDB files.
Get a real database: Access (with its.MDB files) has to read large chunks of data over the network in order to run it's queries. If you do a select * from customers where customer_city = "redmond" Access will read the entire customer table over the network. Yuk.
If you give the same query to PostgreSQL, MySQl, or DB2 - only the query is sent to the server, and only the relevet rows are returned. A much lower bandwidth requirement - you can reasonable expect to run a properly designed database over a 56K modem conection with good results.
(I've been disconnected when running nothing but Windows)?
Windows wasen't desinged for the Internet and it's TCP/IP protocoll - instead use the Microsoft NetBEUI! You'll have non of those pesky routing problems of TCP/IP, and security isen't a problem at all - there isent' any!
2^32 times the addressing space of 32 bit, so goodbye 4 gig limit. And greater speed / precision ratio. Those are the two biggest points.
Alright! I can finally start using 64 bit floats for curency data types and not have to worry 'bout droping pennies until the numbers get *REALLY* huge.
Sure the all in one WinCE devices do a bunch of things - but they don't do any of them well. There too big to be a good phone, too fragile to be on a construction site, too small (memory) to be a good MP3 player and too poorly programed to be a good web-browser.
There is no diversity in the WinCE crowd - and because of that thery won't capture most of the market only the small porion of the market that's happy with a "All in one, doesent do any anything well, but limps along, big, bulky and sucky battery life decive"
Sure there a few commodity hardware vendors that ship pretty much the same WinCE devices as eachother: HP, Dell, Toshiba, Samsung.
But the market is much larger that that: Palm, Sony, Handspring, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp, IBM, Apple,Sendo, etc that ship innovative produces based on the best OS for their needs: Symbian, Linux, Palm, Homegrown.
Thes vendors innovative devices keeps filling in the crack in the maeketplace - while the WinCE market is limited to Palm IIIC wanabees and friken-huce 'cell phones' that bing you back to the Motorola 'Brick' days.
Want a ruged computing device: Telelogix Want a server in your pocket: Sharp/IBM Want tunes: iPod Want the web on you cellphone: Ericsoon 800
Choic, Choice Choice!
Where's the WinCE version of these deviced: don't exit.
Here's Hoping the Modierators don't actually read this closely. See, there's this dude named Jeremy Allison, one of the nice people who writes code for Samba.
I've used Samba for years - I've used to replace or prevent about 20 Microsft Windows Instalations over the last few years.
But by mimicking Jeremy's layout style and putting his.sig at the bottom of this post - I just might get some undeserved Karma.
You are on to something very important here, almost nobody know how their elected officials voted on past bills, and fewer still know how they intend to vote on upcomming bills.
The League of Women Voters has list like this, but the problem is that thay are all worthless: (read on)
All bills in our congress are titled with nice names, but unfortunatly the devil is in the details - the substance of the proposed law differs drastically with the impresion you get with just reading the titles of the bills.
Example - the 'Patriot Act' is such a complex peice of legislation that it's almost impossible to figgure out it's merits and draback without reading the entire bill itself. But by just getting the impression by it's title: it sounds quite nice! Who'd could possible be against Patriotism? (Well except for you Chomkyites out there)
Anyways - most of us have passing familiarity with the 'Patriot Act', so we can make informed decisions about our congress-critter's voting record. Buy will you be dilligent when you see that your representitives voted against the 'Soft Furry Puppy and Cute Kitten Act Protection Act' , and not jump to conclusions?
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"We're seeing crazy uptime numbers now, like three months, six months. I fully expect we'll see a year of uptime when Windows Server 2003 is finished," said Jeff Stucky, senior systems engineer on the Microsoft.com operations team.
Shit - I have workstations up for over a year, and these people are impressed with a server staying up for 3 months. My fucking Sharp Zaurus PDA aparently has more "crazy uptime." than this peice of crap.
No wonder Microsoft can't get any traction in the server room - if 3 months is considered "crazy uptime."
(quote swiped from theregister.co.uk)
(please excuse my swearing, but this is silly - Windows belongs on the XBOX, not in the server room)
still being on the shallow end of the desktop growth curve
Not only that, but the quality of the desktop seems to be increasing exponentially.
6 months ago - I would have placed Linux on the desktop at the Win95 level. Mostly functional and ugly.
The latest Mandrake is simply kick-ass. It's beautifull, integrated, feature filled and stable. It's well past Windows XP on almost every level.
Ive had the joy of placing it on two friend desktops and they *love* it. I thought that they would grudgingly tolerate it, but they *love* it.
The're starting to act like Mac users: ther're rabid, I tell you!
Uh. Let's see, let me get this straight. I'm telling you you're fucking stupid, so you conclude that I must be "some greasy faced, sweatshirt wearing, pasty Mircosoft intern."
We'll perhaps you work for a fast-food joint, but you get the idea.
That's one hell of an imagination you've got there, sparky.
Thank you.
Now get back to work.
Uh. What the fuck? What the hell are you talking about, junior?
You're probably some greasy faced, sweatshirt wearing, pasty Mircosoft intern who though it would be fun to post to Slashdot - pertending to be a foul mouthed, stupid Mac user.
We'll - you got the stupid part down right - Natural ability.
But you swearing leaves much to be desired - It's not even witty.
"Intentionally crippled??" Jesus Christ. What a twit.
Hope you're happy with your IBM piece-of-shit Wintel laptop, dickhead.
Great, another Microsoft troll - trying to make Apple look bad.
Ta ta little boy.
If you want built-in Bluetooth, buy the PowerBook. If you want an inexpensive laptop, buy the iBook and the $50 Bluetooth adapter. If you think built-in Bluetooth is, by itself, worth a THOUSAND BUCKS, then you've got a different set of priorities from mine.
In other words: quitcher bitchin.
I'm not going to spend $1000 extra to get buitin Bluetooth. Apple just lost a sale. IBM, with their X31, just gaind a sale.
I won't buy a laptop without Bluetooth, just like I won't buy a laptop wihout Etherenet. It's just a feature that I must have.
And the $50 - easuy to loose, easy to break, USB dongle doesen't cut it.
I understand that Apple intentionaly crippled the iBook inorder to gain PowerBooks sales - it's just that the PowerBooks is so much more expensive that they lost a sale in my case.
YMMV.
D-Link DBT-120 USB Bluetooth Adapter: $49.95
No way - It want it built in so I don't break it off accidently. A dongle would be ok if the laptop say on a desk most of the time - but I'd like to use it as a laptop.
Ugh. Just a speed bump.
I'd have my credit-card in hand if the little bugger had bluetooth. I'd love to be able to ssh into all my severs over a cell-phone internet connection.
(Apple is proably hopeing that people like me will buy the PowerBook - probably smart on their part)
2 whole months!
I wonder what really made him quit?
Buffer overflow - he actually got six years of work done in those two months.
Too bad most of it was jibberish.
For a lot of the FreeBSD / Samba server that I use, I simply remove most of the memory. Less memory - less risk that the the system will run in to a bad batch. Don't remove so much that you end up trashing (trashing could expose errors in the bus or potentially over-strss your hard-drive) - but for normal (not high performance) file serving, nothing is gained by having huge quantities of memory.
I wroote a convincing email, complete with benifits and a link to the BBC
They basically wrote back that Real and Apple were their "partners" and that they diden't have time for
I was cordial, they were cordial.
If you want to call anyone an asshole, it's the previous owners, not Paul Allen. They could have just said no, and Paul could have then gone on to find other property.
No Paul wanted *this* property. The one with the summer camp. The one with 50 years of history. He just kept upping the price unitll the owners finally got greedy.
He then burned the indian log house down.
He then burned the old cabins down.
He then dumed the rest, and built a 2,000,000.0 doller 'cabin'.
He may be rich, but he (and the origional owners) have no class.
He's done a bunch of other crappy things 'round here, this is just one of many.
(like buying elections untill he got what he wanted)
(like building a helicopter pad in a residential area)
(like rapeing a woman) (alledgedly)
Hell even the other rich people won't put up with him - he's been banned from most of the country clubs around here.
He doesne't show his face in public, knowing that he'll get spit on. Seriouly.
I asked them for an .OGG stream and they told me to fuck off.
I don't donate to them any more - I'll keep on leaching. I feel a bit bad about it, but if they won't support open standard then screw them.
Wow. Someone with money bought property. Why oh why didn't I hear this on the news?!!?
Not quite as simple as that. The land was not on the market - the owners were happy to have the summer camp lease their land (they'd been doing it for 50 years). Paul waved $BIG_MONEY at the owners, and poof! No more summer camp for the kids.
He's free to do what he did, and I'm free to think he an asshole. If I see him in person, I will say so.
He also bought the property out from under a kid's summer-camp and kicked the kids out. Then built a million dollar cabin on the land. Paul also raped a girl at his home - He setteled out of court and the girl refused to testify - it never went to trial.
Camp Norwester Ruined By Paul Allen
Six months ago - I would have agreed, but after playing with the new version of Mandrake Linux, I'd say that out of the box, Mandrake has more support for hardware than Windows.
I have an old SoundBlaster/Ensonic sound card, a N2000 compatible network card, Martox 400 (Dual head) that all require driver donloads for Windows XP but in Mandrak - they all worked right away.
So yes, manufacurers do suport Windows more, but out of the box, a good Linux distribution just works better.
(This is ingnoring the fact that it's impossible to get Windows XP to work on Alpha, VAX, PowerPC, ARM, etc... Linux has got MS beat to a pulp in hardware support in this respect.)
Scientific American has slid to where Popular Sciance was fifeen years ago.
Happily, Nature has slid to where Scientific American was, and is now readable by meer mortals.
Screw arounf with the PostgreSQL buffers in your config file - PostgreSQL won't allocate enough memory to do decent caching, so out of the box, it's performance sucks.
Get those buffers set right, and PostgreSQL will come very close to Access' speed.
Several things: .MDB files over slow links, you should have no trouble with at all. Be *SURE* that you've split your Access database in two .MDB parts - the front (graphical, reports) and the back end (data). Link the tables in the frot-end to the data--end.
.MDB to be modified if you have code that doese things like this_form.width = 400. Access tries to get write access on the scewiest of things, so you don't want the data part of the database to suffer just because Access it rtying to get write access on a form.
.MDB files.
.MDB files) has to read large chunks of data over the network in order to run it's queries. If you do a select * from customers where customer_city = "redmond" Access will read the entire customer table over the network. Yuk.
Unless your users at accesing the
Also - have the front end copied over to the users hard drive - this limit network usage and will cause their local copy of the
Turn on oplocks on your Samba config for the data
Get a real database: Access (with its
If you give the same query to PostgreSQL, MySQl, or DB2 - only the query is sent to the server, and only the relevet rows are returned. A much lower bandwidth requirement - you can reasonable expect to run a properly designed database over a 56K modem conection with good results.
(I've been disconnected when running nothing but Windows)?
Windows wasen't desinged for the Internet and it's TCP/IP protocoll - instead use the Microsoft NetBEUI! You'll have non of those pesky routing problems of TCP/IP, and security isen't a problem at all - there isent' any!
2^32 times the addressing space of 32 bit, so goodbye 4 gig limit. And greater speed / precision ratio. Those are the two biggest points.
Alright! I can finally start using 64 bit floats for curency data types and not have to worry 'bout droping pennies until the numbers get *REALLY* huge.
Just kidding.
You missed the point i was making.
Sure the all in one WinCE devices do a bunch of things - but they don't do any of them well. There too big to be a good phone, too fragile to be on a construction site, too small (memory) to be a good MP3 player and too poorly programed to be a good web-browser.
There is no diversity in the WinCE crowd - and because of that thery won't capture most of the market only the small porion of the market that's happy with a "All in one, doesent do any anything well, but limps along, big, bulky and sucky battery life decive"
Sure there a few commodity hardware vendors that ship pretty much the same WinCE devices as eachother: HP, Dell, Toshiba, Samsung.
But the market is much larger that that: Palm, Sony, Handspring, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp, IBM, Apple,Sendo, etc that ship innovative produces based on the best OS for their needs: Symbian, Linux, Palm, Homegrown.
Thes vendors innovative devices keeps filling in the crack in the maeketplace - while the WinCE market is limited to Palm IIIC wanabees and friken-huce 'cell phones' that bing you back to the Motorola 'Brick' days.
Want a ruged computing device: Telelogix
Want a server in your pocket: Sharp/IBM
Want tunes: iPod
Want the web on you cellphone: Ericsoon 800
Choic, Choice Choice!
Where's the WinCE version of these deviced: don't exit.
Here's Hoping the Modierators don't
.sig at the bottom of
actually read this closely. See, there's
this dude named Jeremy Allison, one of the
nice people who writes code for Samba.
I've used Samba for years - I've used
to replace or prevent about 20 Microsft
Windows Instalations over the last few years.
But by mimicking Jeremy's layout style
and putting his
this post - I just might get some undeserved
Karma.
Let's see if it works.
Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.
You are on to something very important here, almost nobody know how their elected officials voted on past bills, and fewer still know how they intend to vote on upcomming bills.
The League of Women Voters has list like this, but the problem is that thay are all worthless: (read on)
All bills in our congress are titled with nice names, but unfortunatly the devil is in the details - the substance of the proposed law differs drastically with the impresion you get with just reading the titles of the bills.
Example - the 'Patriot Act' is such a complex peice of legislation that it's almost impossible to figgure out it's merits and draback without reading the entire bill itself. But by just getting the impression by it's title: it sounds quite nice! Who'd could possible be against Patriotism? (Well except for you Chomkyites out there)
Anyways - most of us have passing familiarity with the 'Patriot Act', so we can make informed decisions about our congress-critter's voting record. Buy will you be dilligent when you see that your representitives voted against the 'Soft Furry Puppy and Cute Kitten Act Protection Act' , and not jump to conclusions?