Well, Microsoft made IE6 not compatible with standards so that people would make sites compatible with IE (because the majority use IE, since it came with Windows) so that the sites would be less compatible with standard browsers that work on other operating systems, so that people would use Windows and IE, since a lot of sites only worked with IE.
Corporate software also requires IE6, since it comes with Windows XP, why make a program that's compatible with other browsers, except IE and then require that browser when all your users have IE6 by default? Now it is inconvenient, but redoing the app to support standards would be expensive.
So, now IE6 is so entrenched in the corporate environment that not only it prevents the company from migrating to Linux or some other OS, but it also prevents the company from migrating to a newer OS made by Microsoft.
Whoever was in charge of the decision to make IE6 non compatible did a wonderful job - XP and IE6 will live for a long time. It will probably even outlive newer versions of Windows.
High speed means a powerful engine. And powerful engine is usually big and heavy. If the car is electric, then the batteries for it are also big and heavy.
i hope that the hard drive manufacturers start making bigger form factor drives that would be slower, but cheaper and have higher capacity than small drives. Like the Quantum Bigfoot 10-15 years ago. I already have a fast hard drive (15kRPM) for my OS and I don't care if I have to wait additional 50ms for the movie file.
Make a 5.25" Full Height drive with 16 platters that spin at 3600-5400RPM and total capacity of 30TB. I don't care if the average access is 50ms.
But the horse would not then hit another horse killing the rider.
I have no problem with people driving drunk and hitting a tree or whatever. They chose to do this and they paid for it. However, I have a problem with people driving drunk, hitting and injuring or killing other people.
Well, a low power car might take a few minutes to get to 100 (especially if the 100 is (almost) the maximum speed of the car):) But yea, if it's under a minute then it's OK.
If (like me) you only leave town twice a year, it makes more sense to rent on those occasions.
For me it's very variable. However, I usually like to buy things (pay money, the item is now my property) than rent (pay (less) money, but have to give the item back).
Just because there's a tradition of high speed heavy vehicles doesn't mean it makes sense or is the optimum form of transportation.
However, high speed vehicles overtook horses as a method of transport mainly because of convenience, speed and range. You can travel 300km on a horse, but that would take you more than a day (because your horse will need to rest), but in a car, you can get there in less than 3 hours.
If you get hit by another car, which driver will be more injured? Also, how fast does it achieve 100km/h? You don't need that in a city, but going to another city that's 300km away I sure like being able to drive near the speed limit (in my country it's 90-130 km/h depending on the road).
The music of my favorite artists might be available for download, but I could not find more than a few songs. Even on eMule. The probable reason is that the music was popular in my small country and not in the entire world. Anyone who still has the records and tapes is most likely much older than me and even if they use computers and the internet, they probably don't want to bother with copying the records to the PC and making them available for download ("why me? Everybody else can do it too"). And most of the young people (who would copy it and make a torrent) do not like the music.
But, to be perfectly honest, I lately find myself playing internet radio streams.
Radio - internet or FM is nice, but sometimes I just want to listen to music and know what the next song will be and have the same order of songs every time. I do not really understand the attractiveness of the "shuffle" function.
Well, if the music of your favorite artists is available for download - great. In my case, it's usually not.
Also, I don't care about having to turn the tape over. After all, I have to turn a record over almost twice as frequently. With MP3 I usually have to select each and every song or spend time making a playlist. And TDK SA90 that costs ~1.5EUR when used with Dolby B has great quality.
Music sound quality on youtube varies from video to video, but you can find a video with good enough sound quality. However, a lot of the music I like can be only found on records and tapes, so I either have to buy the record or borrow it and copy it to tape (depending on which option I find). And the audio quality of a tape is quite good too - Imation TDK SA tapes might not be what they once were, but they are still quite good. There are also higher quality cassettes, but they are more expensive.
I use regular VHS though. SVHS tapes are a bit too expensive, but since I mainly record music TV shows the video quality is good enough for me and HiFi audio quality on VHS and SVHS is the same.
I still use cassettes and also record new ones (from vinyl records). My reason is that
1. I have a lot of cassettes already, copying them to CDs or MDs or whatever would take a long time and cost a lot of money (because I would need the CD or MD recorder and a lot of blank media) and would get me no result (a CD is bigger than a cassette anyway). 2. I have enough tape decks - one in my car, two portables (one bigger, one smaller) and one stationary tape deck at home. I also have two lower quality tape decks that I can use if the quality requirements are not that high and I don't want to wear out my better ones. 3. Recording to a cassette is easier than with a CR recorder (if you mess up you have to throw the CD-R out, but with a cassette you can try again) and more reliable than using a computer.
Because of 1. I'll keep a few tape decks working, so 2. will be true. Because of 2. and 3. I'll keep recording music to cassettes.
The version I am using (1.x.x) has a separate Console program. You can use it locally or over the network. Version 2 also has a separate Console program but you need to launch it from the browser (but it's a separate.exe).
At least on Windows, the console program is installed with the server, but also I downloaded it separately, so I could control the virtual machines from another computer.
With ESXi, your VM server is basically a specialized appliance which runs VMs
For enterprises, dedicating one or more physical machines to being VM servers isn't a problem, but for home use, not being able to use the VM server like a normal computer in addition to it being a VM server can be a deal-breaker.
Option 2: Server
it isn't as fast or efficient as ESXi which is a "bare metal" hypervisor.
So, you either dedicate a physical machine to running VMs and get better performance or you sacrifice some performance but are able to "use the VM server like a normal computer in addition to it being a VM server".
Now, AFAIK, VMware Workstation works on top of another OS, so it's like Server, but you need to pay money for it.
Well, I use VMware Server and it's quite OK for GUI use (I needed a couple of Linux VMs for some testing and I like being able to open multiple terminal windows, so I used GUI (KDE) on Linux, also, I have a Win7 VM). The speed is quite good, considering that the whole thing runs on a server with 3x700MHz CPUs and the host OS isn't idle either.
On the other hand, last time I checked, ESX was free, also, VMware Server was free too.
Why would server virtualization not work for home? I use WMware Server, but for, well, virtual servers and it works OK. I don't see why desktop use would be a problem.
A) RAID helps in case of drive failure. If not then RAID1 is useless. B) While it seems easy, some episodes of some TV shows may no longer be available when the drive breaks. If it took me a few days to find the torrent then I should back up/archive the TV show.
If the company is running a legacy application that is no longer updated and does not work on x64 systems, then most likely they will keep a 32bit system even if it is no longer supported (the app probably isn't). And if the server is only for internal use and has a good firewall (which it should have) then the fact that the OS is no longer updated should not be a big problem. How many companies are still using NT4 and 2000?
In my country (Lithuania), cell phone providers do this nonsense where "unlimited" plan actually means "10GB/month on-peak, actually unlimited off-peak" or something like that. However, the limit is written on the same page as the plan, so you do not need to go trough the contract to see it. If you go over the limit, you pay 1EUR for every ~343MB (in 1MB precision), regular price is 16.8EUR/month. Another provider lets you download 15GB/month and then limits the bandwidth to 512kbps.
But only cell phone providers can get away with it. Home (wired) internet connections are long since really unlimited (limited by the bandwidth), because of competition between ISPs, especially in larger cities.
My connection is 200mbps up/down to Lithuania and 80mbps up/down elsewhere. In September I downloaded 222GB and uploaded 7493GB. I pay 99Lt (28.82EUR) per month. As far as the ISP is concerned, I can saturate the connection 24/7.
That would be great, but it probably won't happen because while "Windows" and "Mac" refers to multiple versions of one OS (Windows now usually means XP/Vista/7 and Mac means whatever few latest MacOS versions there are), "Free software" refers to a lot of different operating systems.
Even "Linux" is not a single OS. The device might work with Ubuntu, but not with RedHat or Slackware or Mandriva and I don't think that the manufacturer will test all of the more popular distributions. Testing for multiple versions of multiple distributions would be too much, especially since only a few percent of end users use Linux.
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Well, Microsoft made IE6 not compatible with standards so that people would make sites compatible with IE (because the majority use IE, since it came with Windows) so that the sites would be less compatible with standard browsers that work on other operating systems, so that people would use Windows and IE, since a lot of sites only worked with IE.
Corporate software also requires IE6, since it comes with Windows XP, why make a program that's compatible with other browsers, except IE and then require that browser when all your users have IE6 by default? Now it is inconvenient, but redoing the app to support standards would be expensive.
So, now IE6 is so entrenched in the corporate environment that not only it prevents the company from migrating to Linux or some other OS, but it also prevents the company from migrating to a newer OS made by Microsoft.
Whoever was in charge of the decision to make IE6 non compatible did a wonderful job - XP and IE6 will live for a long time. It will probably even outlive newer versions of Windows.
High speed means a powerful engine. And powerful engine is usually big and heavy. If the car is electric, then the batteries for it are also big and heavy.
Nice, I thought that nobody made them anymore since it is almost impossible to get a new CRT monitor where I live.
I'll look into it since I would like to have a backup monitor for my Dell P1130.
Do they still make CRT monitors? Which companies?
And then they find out that they could have bought a drive that stores more than 20 x264 720p movies.
i hope that the hard drive manufacturers start making bigger form factor drives that would be slower, but cheaper and have higher capacity than small drives. Like the Quantum Bigfoot 10-15 years ago. I already have a fast hard drive (15kRPM) for my OS and I don't care if I have to wait additional 50ms for the movie file.
Make a 5.25" Full Height drive with 16 platters that spin at 3600-5400RPM and total capacity of 30TB. I don't care if the average access is 50ms.
But the horse would not then hit another horse killing the rider.
I have no problem with people driving drunk and hitting a tree or whatever. They chose to do this and they paid for it. However, I have a problem with people driving drunk, hitting and injuring or killing other people.
Where I live, the speed limit in a city is usually 50km/h.
Well, a low power car might take a few minutes to get to 100 (especially if the 100 is (almost) the maximum speed of the car) :) But yea, if it's under a minute then it's OK.
If (like me) you only leave town twice a year, it makes more sense to rent on those occasions.
For me it's very variable. However, I usually like to buy things (pay money, the item is now my property) than rent (pay (less) money, but have to give the item back).
Just because there's a tradition of high speed heavy vehicles doesn't mean it makes sense or is the optimum form of transportation.
However, high speed vehicles overtook horses as a method of transport mainly because of convenience, speed and range. You can travel 300km on a horse, but that would take you more than a day (because your horse will need to rest), but in a car, you can get there in less than 3 hours.
If you get hit by another car, which driver will be more injured? Also, how fast does it achieve 100km/h? You don't need that in a city, but going to another city that's 300km away I sure like being able to drive near the speed limit (in my country it's 90-130 km/h depending on the road).
The music of my favorite artists might be available for download, but I could not find more than a few songs. Even on eMule. The probable reason is that the music was popular in my small country and not in the entire world. Anyone who still has the records and tapes is most likely much older than me and even if they use computers and the internet, they probably don't want to bother with copying the records to the PC and making them available for download ("why me? Everybody else can do it too"). And most of the young people (who would copy it and make a torrent) do not like the music.
But, to be perfectly honest, I lately find myself playing internet radio streams.
Radio - internet or FM is nice, but sometimes I just want to listen to music and know what the next song will be and have the same order of songs every time. I do not really understand the attractiveness of the "shuffle" function.
Well, if the music of your favorite artists is available for download - great. In my case, it's usually not.
Also, I don't care about having to turn the tape over. After all, I have to turn a record over almost twice as frequently. With MP3 I usually have to select each and every song or spend time making a playlist. And TDK SA90 that costs ~1.5EUR when used with Dolby B has great quality.
Music sound quality on youtube varies from video to video, but you can find a video with good enough sound quality. However, a lot of the music I like can be only found on records and tapes, so I either have to buy the record or borrow it and copy it to tape (depending on which option I find). And the audio quality of a tape is quite good too - Imation TDK SA tapes might not be what they once were, but they are still quite good. There are also higher quality cassettes, but they are more expensive.
I use regular VHS though. SVHS tapes are a bit too expensive, but since I mainly record music TV shows the video quality is good enough for me and HiFi audio quality on VHS and SVHS is the same.
I still use cassettes and also record new ones (from vinyl records). My reason is that
1. I have a lot of cassettes already, copying them to CDs or MDs or whatever would take a long time and cost a lot of money (because I would need the CD or MD recorder and a lot of blank media) and would get me no result (a CD is bigger than a cassette anyway).
2. I have enough tape decks - one in my car, two portables (one bigger, one smaller) and one stationary tape deck at home. I also have two lower quality tape decks that I can use if the quality requirements are not that high and I don't want to wear out my better ones.
3. Recording to a cassette is easier than with a CR recorder (if you mess up you have to throw the CD-R out, but with a cassette you can try again) and more reliable than using a computer.
Because of 1. I'll keep a few tape decks working, so 2. will be true. Because of 2. and 3. I'll keep recording music to cassettes.
In a sense, I'm locked in to cassettes.
I also record TV shows to VHS tapes.
The version I am using (1.x.x) has a separate Console program. You can use it locally or over the network. Version 2 also has a separate Console program but you need to launch it from the browser (but it's a separate .exe).
At least on Windows, the console program is installed with the server, but also I downloaded it separately, so I could control the virtual machines from another computer.
This is what the 1.x.x console looks like: http://4sysops.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/vmware_server_console.gif
When you power on the virtual machine the tab contents are replaced by what is on the "monitor" of your virtual machine.
So, you have to choose:
Option 1: ESXi
With ESXi, your VM server is basically a specialized appliance which runs VMs
For enterprises, dedicating one or more physical machines to being VM servers isn't a problem, but for home use, not being able to use the VM server like a normal computer in addition to it being a VM server can be a deal-breaker.
Option 2: Server
it isn't as fast or efficient as ESXi which is a "bare metal" hypervisor.
So, you either dedicate a physical machine to running VMs and get better performance or you sacrifice some performance but are able to "use the VM server like a normal computer in addition to it being a VM server".
Now, AFAIK, VMware Workstation works on top of another OS, so it's like Server, but you need to pay money for it.
Well, I use VMware Server and it's quite OK for GUI use (I needed a couple of Linux VMs for some testing and I like being able to open multiple terminal windows, so I used GUI (KDE) on Linux, also, I have a Win7 VM). The speed is quite good, considering that the whole thing runs on a server with 3x700MHz CPUs and the host OS isn't idle either.
But VMware Server works on top of another OS (Windows and IIRC Linux).
On the other hand, last time I checked, ESX was free, also, VMware Server was free too.
Why would server virtualization not work for home? I use WMware Server, but for, well, virtual servers and it works OK. I don't see why desktop use would be a problem.
A) RAID helps in case of drive failure. If not then RAID1 is useless.
B) While it seems easy, some episodes of some TV shows may no longer be available when the drive breaks. If it took me a few days to find the torrent then I should back up/archive the TV show.
To the rest - agreed.
If the company is running a legacy application that is no longer updated and does not work on x64 systems, then most likely they will keep a 32bit system even if it is no longer supported (the app probably isn't). And if the server is only for internal use and has a good firewall (which it should have) then the fact that the OS is no longer updated should not be a big problem. How many companies are still using NT4 and 2000?
In my country (Lithuania), cell phone providers do this nonsense where "unlimited" plan actually means "10GB/month on-peak, actually unlimited off-peak" or something like that. However, the limit is written on the same page as the plan, so you do not need to go trough the contract to see it. If you go over the limit, you pay 1EUR for every ~343MB (in 1MB precision), regular price is 16.8EUR/month. Another provider lets you download 15GB/month and then limits the bandwidth to 512kbps.
But only cell phone providers can get away with it. Home (wired) internet connections are long since really unlimited (limited by the bandwidth), because of competition between ISPs, especially in larger cities.
My connection is 200mbps up/down to Lithuania and 80mbps up/down elsewhere. In September I downloaded 222GB and uploaded 7493GB. I pay 99Lt (28.82EUR) per month. As far as the ISP is concerned, I can saturate the connection 24/7.
That would be great, but it probably won't happen because while "Windows" and "Mac" refers to multiple versions of one OS (Windows now usually means XP/Vista/7 and Mac means whatever few latest MacOS versions there are), "Free software" refers to a lot of different operating systems.
Even "Linux" is not a single OS. The device might work with Ubuntu, but not with RedHat or Slackware or Mandriva and I don't think that the manufacturer will test all of the more popular distributions. Testing for multiple versions of multiple distributions would be too much, especially since only a few percent of end users use Linux.