I really do not understand how the VMWare option could be called stupid. Not only does VMWare make software testing easier, you only need to have one machine to power on and maintain. With VMWare you don't need to re image your whole computer when you want to start things over again. I have been using VMWare GSX since version 1.0.1, and have found that testing software on VMWare has saved me a lot of time and effort. With the ability to take snapshots, have non-persistent hard drives, and being able to start everything over just by copying a few files makes me thing VMWare is perfect for this kind of thing. The only stupid thing here is to not be aware of your options.
I think there is a very dangerous trend being set here. It seems that the big corporations are continually going after the tool and not the person that uses it. You can claim that software to disable a smoke detector is life threating, that is a true statment, but what no one seems to understand is that's not the software or the link to the software that kills people. It's someone taking the software and using that kills people, but you don't see anyone going after the people grabbing the software. Look at gun makers for example, you don't see the government attacking them? Don't gun's kill people just like this software can? Sure, gun's can kill people, but we don't go after the gun makers, we go after the person that pulled the trigger.
Now I guess the only thing left to do it point this out to the powers that be and see if they can see they the wrong people are being attacked here. And lets not forget that stealing dcss isn't going to kill anyone, altho it might hurt someone's bank account that already has to many billions of dollars in it..
People should start looking at the REAL issues.
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I think there is a major overlaying issue here that people seem to be missing. The issue here is not about which OS has more features or not, or about which one is more stable, the issue is totaly about money.
If you read what Miller has to say it's all about money, and trying to convince people that paying for software is a good thing for quality control and R & D.
Take a major look at the difference's between the two operating systems. One is put together to be marketed. The other is ment to actually <b>DO</B. something.
What Microsoft is worried about here is people starting to relise that they do not need all these wizbang features. Lets take Millers example for instance. According to Miller Linux does not support "hot swappable cpus and memory". Ok, that's a fair point, but I'd like someone to so me some intel hardware that can do this, and lets not forget that you can only do this in win2k (if it works at all).
I think one of the reason's that Microsoft is so successful is because they have convinced parts of the IT business that the Windows way is better because of all these featres. I will be one of the first people to admit that Microsoft has done a really excellent job of getting it's product out into the market place onto desktop's and servers. I think it would be very hard to pull off a better job than what Microsoft has done.
Enter Linux. Linux should have Microsoft worried for the simple reason that it's not really being marketed and yet people are still picking it up and installing it on server world wide. What more and more people are starting to relise is that wizbang is fun, and you can do some realy neat things, but it's not always the best solution for the dataroom. Sure, I think hotswaping a CPU is REALLY cool but I know the chances of a CPU packing it in are rather slim, much more slim than say windows 2000 doing a bluescreen. What I want in my dataroom is rock solid uptime. Sure, I may not be able to see my menus fade in, but I do see my uptime climbing all the time.
I think what Microsoft is getting worried about is that people are starting to relise that they actually want uptime rather then fancy features, and this makes Microsoft worried because that means a cut in sales for them.
I think everyone should remeber, Windows was built to be marketed, Unix (and in extention linux) was ment to actually <b>DO</b> things.
I have been living in Canada my whole life, and I'm willing to admit that I might infact be baised towards Canada, but I think it's a great place to live.
I think that the US has long ago stopping being the place to live for safety, freedom, and quality of life. Look at those three points and you will see that the US is quickly falling behind...
Safety: Lets just compaire this to Canada for a quick moment. In the US it is relativly simple to own a gun. A majority of households in the US have at least one gun in them. If you compare that to Canada where it's quite hard to own a firearm, and very few households in Canada have guns in them. It's been proven over and over again that having a gun in your home will make the chance of a accident happening MUCH higher, and that accident has more chance of happening then you needing that weapon incase of a B & E into your home.
Freedom: Kasreyn mentions that the corporations are getting more and more power within the US economy, I's like to point out that is exactly how a market economy works. If I remember correctly not too many years ago the US was in a cold war with Russia about which economy was better... I personaly like how Canada's economy works. It's a mixed economy and it seems to work rather well, as both the people (government) & Corporations have a say in how things are run. (most of the time).
Quality of life: I'm not going to get into this in much detail, but the UN has picked Canada as the best place to live for a couple of years, I think this is all that really needs to be said.
I personally think Canada is a great place to live, and plan on sticking around here for quite some time.
It's not RedHat that's leading the linux industry/community, it's the people using linux that actually define what linux is. That's the key factor in linux that everyone seems to be missing. Companies like RedHat and Calder would be up the creek without a padle if what they started doing is against the popular will of the linux community. It's the million's of linux users that actually shape linux into what it is, because it's not just one company or one person that's dictating to the rest of the world how linux should be mantained. It's the end users, not the companies that dictate what happens with linux.
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I really do not understand how the VMWare option could be called stupid. Not only does VMWare make software testing easier, you only need to have one machine to power on and maintain.
With VMWare you don't need to re image your whole computer when you want to start things over again. I have been using VMWare GSX since version 1.0.1, and have found that testing software on VMWare has saved me a lot of time and effort. With the ability to take snapshots, have non-persistent hard drives, and being able to start everything over just by copying a few files makes me thing VMWare is perfect for this kind of thing.
The only stupid thing here is to not be aware of your options.
I think there is a very dangerous trend being set here. It seems that the big corporations are continually going after the tool and not the person that uses it. You can claim that software to disable a smoke detector is life threating, that is a true statment, but what no one seems to understand is that's not the software or the link to the software that kills people. It's someone taking the software and using that kills people, but you don't see anyone going after the people grabbing the software. Look at gun makers for example, you don't see the government attacking them? Don't gun's kill people just like this software can? Sure, gun's can kill people, but we don't go after the gun makers, we go after the person that pulled the trigger.
Now I guess the only thing left to do it point this out to the powers that be and see if they can see they the wrong people are being attacked here. And lets not forget that stealing dcss isn't going to kill anyone, altho it might hurt someone's bank account that already has to many billions of dollars in it..
I think there is a major overlaying issue here that people seem to be missing. The issue here is not about which OS has more features or not, or about which one is more stable, the issue is totaly about money.
If you read what Miller has to say it's all about money, and trying to convince people that paying for software is a good thing for quality control and R & D.
Take a major look at the difference's between the two operating systems. One is put together to be marketed. The other is ment to actually <b>DO</B. something.
What Microsoft is worried about here is people starting to relise that they do not need all these wizbang features. Lets take Millers example for instance. According to Miller Linux does not support "hot swappable cpus and memory". Ok, that's a fair point, but I'd like someone to so me some intel hardware that can do this, and lets not forget that you can only do this in win2k (if it works at all).
I think one of the reason's that Microsoft is so successful is because they have convinced parts of the IT business that the Windows way is better because of all these featres. I will be one of the first people to admit that Microsoft has done a really excellent job of getting it's product out into the market place onto desktop's and servers. I think it would be very hard to pull off a better job than what Microsoft has done.
Enter Linux. Linux should have Microsoft worried for the simple reason that it's not really being marketed and yet people are still picking it up and installing it on server world wide. What more and more people are starting to relise is that wizbang is fun, and you can do some realy neat things, but it's not always the best solution for the dataroom. Sure, I think hotswaping a CPU is REALLY cool but I know the chances of a CPU packing it in are rather slim, much more slim than say windows 2000 doing a bluescreen. What I want in my dataroom is rock solid uptime. Sure, I may not be able to see my menus fade in, but I do see my uptime climbing all the time.
I think what Microsoft is getting worried about is that people are starting to relise that they actually want uptime rather then fancy features, and this makes Microsoft worried because that means a cut in sales for them.
I think everyone should remeber, Windows was built to be marketed, Unix (and in extention linux) was ment to actually <b>DO</b> things.
I think that the US has long ago stopping being the place to live for safety, freedom, and quality of life. Look at those three points and you will see that the US is quickly falling behind...
Safety: Lets just compaire this to Canada for a quick moment. In the US it is relativly simple to own a gun. A majority of households in the US have at least one gun in them. If you compare that to Canada where it's quite hard to own a firearm, and very few households in Canada have guns in them. It's been proven over and over again that having a gun in your home will make the chance of a accident happening MUCH higher, and that accident has more chance of happening then you needing that weapon incase of a B & E into your home.
Freedom: Kasreyn mentions that the corporations are getting more and more power within the US economy, I's like to point out that is exactly how a market economy works. If I remember correctly not too many years ago the US was in a cold war with Russia about which economy was better... I personaly like how Canada's economy works. It's a mixed economy and it seems to work rather well, as both the people (government) & Corporations have a say in how things are run. (most of the time).
Quality of life: I'm not going to get into this in much detail, but the UN has picked Canada as the best place to live for a couple of years, I think this is all that really needs to be said. I personally think Canada is a great place to live, and plan on sticking around here for quite some time.
Anyway, Comments are gladly accepted. :)
-Eric
It's not RedHat that's leading the linux industry/community, it's the people using linux that actually define what linux is. That's the key factor in linux that everyone seems to be missing. Companies like RedHat and Calder would be up the creek without a padle if what they started doing is against the popular will of the linux community. It's the million's of linux users that actually shape linux into what it is, because it's not just one company or one person that's dictating to the rest of the world how linux should be mantained. It's the end users, not the companies that dictate what happens with linux.