(now all we need is someone to come about how lucky we were... them and their audio cassette based file system had it much harder)
As soon as you do that you'd get meesages like:
You had audiotapes! I had to make my programs on a stack of punchcards that I had to walk to the datacenter, and 3 days later I MIGHT get my answer. Immediately followed by: you had punchcards! I had to edit core memory by hand with a magnet!
You have me, it is the preprocessor's job to handle that.
But I still keep a copy of K&R's C book on my desk to make sure my stuff compiles with everything. I remember a time before Boreland's copiler understood//. Of course, I was a teenager then...
// is a C++/javaism that crept into most C compilers.
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I run a computer network. Perhaps I can shed some light on the situtation.
Microsoft treats business customers differently than consumers. (Their educational licenses are even battier, but that's another story...).The agreement is thus: you pay for an office-xp license, and you can then downgrade the license to Office 97. We have a pile of specially keyed CD's for Office and windows of various versions, and we keep track of how many we install. When we need more, we call our local microsoft reseller.
No, I don't let anyone take these keys home. I hand our users a copy of OpenOffice on CD. Nobody wants to be the guy who invites a visit from the BSA.
Longhorn will come when we think itâ(TM)s really ready.
We will sell no WINE before its time either. Hell at the rate they are going, Linux will be running windows programs better than the present release of windows.
I think it is no small exaggeration that the folks at Samba understand CIFS better than the folks in Redmond do. It's only a matter of time before the executables are the same way.
About the only way Longhorn is going to sell big is by doing something completely different. About the only way it can be completely different is by ceasing to support what already exists. If it breaks everything that exists, you cease to have any advangtage over Linux. Indeed, since most Unix apps can be simply recompiled for Linux, you are at a disadvantage.
I think they are going to stretch Longhorn out as far as they can. Let the folks who bought Win2k and XP get a few useful years out of their systems, and then introduce this radically different and wholly incompadible new way of processing. And pray you can keep the customers locked in through licensing inertia.
If I was Bill and Steve, I'd be selling my shares of Microsoft and planning a quiet retirement in the Islands. This plan has NEVER worked. Anyone remember Atari? How about Commadore? Apple is about the only company I can think of that has pulled not one, but two major technological upheavals off successfully. (Depending on your definition of success I suppose.)
I'm waiting for the day Microsoft jumps on the BSD bandwagon. They'll have an avatar for each of the Daemons in the system. The first dark one you see will be Charon the boatman, who takes your credit card info in exchange for passage to the underworld.
During operation, you will interface with Cthulu the resource manager. (Hell the task manager seems to consume averything available already.)
By saying it literally kept them afloat, then they would actually have to be in some sort of sinking water vessel, and some how throwing these CDs out would help keep their craft afloft
I'm thinking they could have a hovercraft that works by firing out Old Claris products and obsolete Quadras at high velocity. The whole think would be powered by an extra-long extension cord from Redmond. (A few hundred million dollars in settlements and "marketing agreements" also helped Apple out in those lean times.)
Popularity is relative. My popularity is measured by the fact that network never fails. When something is slow, I find the answerable party and correct the situation. I am popular because I am doing my job, and that in doing it well I allow everyone else to do theirs.
We do that for our exhibits. (No fair having the kiddies find porn.) Staff members, especially in an "educational" setting, need to be given at least the rope to hang themselves.... er, I mean we have to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Every time I try to turn off roaming profiles, every desktop defaults to deleting the user's home directory and putting a new profiles there. I'm not sure if it's windows being braindead or Samba. Wait, we all know the answer to that. Samba's just delivering the files.
An automated solution for resource management would remove most of the power to be an arrogant network admin.
Damn straight.
But you all have certainly planted the seeds of doubt. I'm starting to realize the mindgames that could be played with QOS and unsuspecting users. Muhahahahahah
BTW, as for traffic controllers, I thought that the 8008 and 8080 were used for those. (There is some folklore that Billy Gates built one around a 4004 or 8008 once upon a time.)
That's the folklore I heard too. I just couldn't remember the model numbers to save my life.
The system is a Linux box with 2 network cards. It acts as a VPN gateway, and a router to the internet for our internal clients.
The eth0 card faces the internet with a ARIN registered IP. The eth1 card faces the internal network which uses RFC1918 (192.168.0.0) addressing.
For a good step-by-step guide, as well as some background material, consult the IP Masquerade Howto[linux.org]
The script works by blocking the ports used by P2P services for establishing communications, and then also blocking the home networks for the major P2P systems.
They are just saying wget redhat-9.0.iso or equivalent. If the network is unable to understand that other users want to download too and insists on using the whole T1 pipe for this one connection, that's hardly the user's fault.
Frankly, anyone who knows what to do with a RedHat ISO ought to know better. The installer may be click and drool, but that's still Linux under the hood. Handing linux to a dumb user is like giving a loaded gun to a toddler.
So precisely when is it my fault that a user is abusing his or her privilages? Never underestimate te fear of exposure as the person who was causing the clog. If cultivated properly it is a VERY effective network management tool.
And for the record, the system did not "break". No more than a road breaks when it is full. I am not running a day care center, these are all adults. We can expect them to behave as such in the real world, why not on the network as well?
Standards are not a "necissary evil", they are a requirement.
Wireless networking had been out for years before 802.11b. To this day, 802.11a and 802.11g are out, but most people are still using B. Why? It works, it works well, and everybody has it.
Working in networking, my job would be 3 times worse if everyone didn't order the wires in a standard way. Can you picture if every network vendor had a different jack? If you want a confusing an annoying time, try buying a circuit breaker. Every manufacturer uses a different style. Some have 2 or 3 styles.
Standards are the building blocks that allow us to have a predicable environment on which true innovation is based. Innovation is not about re-inventing the wheel. It's about slapping and engine on 4 of them, and driving with it.
For starters, We have a file repository where useful items like RH9 is downloaded. I prefer to download them as a file system and perform network installs.
Secondly, our id10t users have a tendency to store these megalithic file on their desktop. Windows tries to suck the whole thing down when the log off, and copy it back when they log on. In the process, they fill the drive where the roaming profiles are stored.
Finally, there is a certain level of expectation administrators have about the manner in which the network will be used. We explicitly designed the system for email, web research, and not much else.
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As soon as you do that you'd get meesages like: You had audiotapes! I had to make my programs on a stack of punchcards that I had to walk to the datacenter, and 3 days later I MIGHT get my answer. Immediately followed by: you had punchcards! I had to edit core memory by hand with a magnet!
But I still keep a copy of K&R's C book on my desk to make sure my stuff compiles with everything. I remember a time before Boreland's copiler understood //. Of course, I was a teenager then...
Novel transfered all of the juicy copyrights over to the Open Group before this "Admendment" anyway.
Microsoft treats business customers differently than consumers. (Their educational licenses are even battier, but that's another story...).The agreement is thus: you pay for an office-xp license, and you can then downgrade the license to Office 97. We have a pile of specially keyed CD's for Office and windows of various versions, and we keep track of how many we install. When we need more, we call our local microsoft reseller.
No, I don't let anyone take these keys home. I hand our users a copy of OpenOffice on CD. Nobody wants to be the guy who invites a visit from the BSA.
Yes, but that would just make them the brunt of Comical Ali jokes.
Hence the parenthetical: Depending on your definition of success.
We will sell no WINE before its time either. Hell at the rate they are going, Linux will be running windows programs better than the present release of windows.
I think it is no small exaggeration that the folks at Samba understand CIFS better than the folks in Redmond do. It's only a matter of time before the executables are the same way.
About the only way Longhorn is going to sell big is by doing something completely different. About the only way it can be completely different is by ceasing to support what already exists. If it breaks everything that exists, you cease to have any advangtage over Linux. Indeed, since most Unix apps can be simply recompiled for Linux, you are at a disadvantage.
I think they are going to stretch Longhorn out as far as they can. Let the folks who bought Win2k and XP get a few useful years out of their systems, and then introduce this radically different and wholly incompadible new way of processing. And pray you can keep the customers locked in through licensing inertia.
If I was Bill and Steve, I'd be selling my shares of Microsoft and planning a quiet retirement in the Islands. This plan has NEVER worked. Anyone remember Atari? How about Commadore? Apple is about the only company I can think of that has pulled not one, but two major technological upheavals off successfully. (Depending on your definition of success I suppose.)
I'm waiting for the day Microsoft jumps on the BSD bandwagon. They'll have an avatar for each of the Daemons in the system. The first dark one you see will be Charon the boatman, who takes your credit card info in exchange for passage to the underworld.
During operation, you will interface with Cthulu the resource manager. (Hell the task manager seems to consume averything available already.)
The messenger system will be the Roman god Rumor.
The advertising and marketing budget is where Microsoft draws from to offer insanely low prices to anyone they are about to lose to competitors.
Of course, doing that sort of thing as a monopoly is actually illegal. But I don't want to say that too loudly.
Nope. Nicotene in it's pure form is an insecticide. Killing bugs would wipe out half of their upgrade path!
I'm thinking they could have a hovercraft that works by firing out Old Claris products and obsolete Quadras at high velocity. The whole think would be powered by an extra-long extension cord from Redmond. (A few hundred million dollars in settlements and "marketing agreements" also helped Apple out in those lean times.)
I still get invited to parties to boot.
We do that for our exhibits. (No fair having the kiddies find porn.) Staff members, especially in an "educational" setting, need to be given at least the rope to hang themselves.... er, I mean we have to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Every time I try to turn off roaming profiles, every desktop defaults to deleting the user's home directory and putting a new profiles there. I'm not sure if it's windows being braindead or Samba. Wait, we all know the answer to that. Samba's just delivering the files.
Damn straight.
But you all have certainly planted the seeds of doubt. I'm starting to realize the mindgames that could be played with QOS and unsuspecting users. Muhahahahahah
That's the folklore I heard too. I just couldn't remember the model numbers to save my life.
The eth0 card faces the internet with a ARIN registered IP. The eth1 card faces the internal network which uses RFC1918 (192.168.0.0) addressing.
For a good step-by-step guide, as well as some background material, consult the IP Masquerade Howto[linux.org]
The script works by blocking the ports used by P2P services for establishing communications, and then also blocking the home networks for the major P2P systems.
Frankly, anyone who knows what to do with a RedHat ISO ought to know better. The installer may be click and drool, but that's still Linux under the hood. Handing linux to a dumb user is like giving a loaded gun to a toddler.
And for the record, the system did not "break". No more than a road breaks when it is full. I am not running a day care center, these are all adults. We can expect them to behave as such in the real world, why not on the network as well?
Wireless networking had been out for years before 802.11b. To this day, 802.11a and 802.11g are out, but most people are still using B. Why? It works, it works well, and everybody has it.
Working in networking, my job would be 3 times worse if everyone didn't order the wires in a standard way. Can you picture if every network vendor had a different jack? If you want a confusing an annoying time, try buying a circuit breaker. Every manufacturer uses a different style. Some have 2 or 3 styles.
Standards are the building blocks that allow us to have a predicable environment on which true innovation is based. Innovation is not about re-inventing the wheel. It's about slapping and engine on 4 of them, and driving with it.
Secondly, our id10t users have a tendency to store these megalithic file on their desktop. Windows tries to suck the whole thing down when the log off, and copy it back when they log on. In the process, they fill the drive where the roaming profiles are stored.
Finally, there is a certain level of expectation administrators have about the manner in which the network will be used. We explicitly designed the system for email, web research, and not much else.
That's not a design flaw. It's discipline.
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