Microsoft has gotten complacent in their 98% of all end user pcs. That 98% has fallen, fairly quickly. They rely on the upgrade path for their end users. Their market dominance is not a secret, but has been shown to be a crime. If they made a decent piece of software that was relatively bug free, then in 10 years you would still have PCs running that operating system, and not upgrading. Look at how many end users still run Win98. If that operating system was less stable (is that possible??:) the end users would upgrade faster.
It's all about maintaining the userbase without having to work too hard at it. The more userbase they keep with the least amount of work will maximize profits, and that's what keeps the shareholders happy. Windows really has nothing to do with trying to create a perfect product.
Microsoft is a business. If they wanted to go out of business, they'd just program a perfect piece of software. If it was really perfect, there'd be no one buying support, additional licensing, and upgrades.
All you need to do is plug in a X10 module that is controlled with your linux machine using bottlerocket, and then write a plug in for snort or your favorite network sniffer. 3 bad packets in a row and just have the X10 module go off.
Depending on how paranoid you are, that X10 module can turn off your dsl/cable modem, switch, router, or even your linux machine or turn on a light or siren.
as for physical security, it's only a myth. a guy with a crow bar can get just about anywhere that's not military controlled.
Oh and if you use the X10 example above, please remember people drive around tripping those all the time with their wireless remotes.
Hey, at least they tried. How many news articles have you read that compares linux kernel compiles on a 64 processor machine? probably only one.
it took 19 minutes to compile with a single cpu, and 26x faster for the 64 processor machine. Does that equate to about 43 seconds for a kernel compile? It'd probably take longer than that just to untar/unbzip2 the source, since that would be running on only 2 cpus (one process for tar, one for bzip2).
If they are using the network, they already have a security model in place. There shouldn't be any additional security risk offloading cpu/storage to client workstations. Even if you offload only to other servers, the advantage of being able to add an additional server to increase cpu horsepower or storage space is invaluable. Most large sites already have this in place, they just had to build it in-house (like google, amazon, ebay).
I'm sure Microsoft will build something like that, and it will totally suck. Then someone else will come to market and their application will totally dominate. Then Microsoft will buy them, and the application will end up being like Virtual PC or something.
i always wondered why there's not an easy way to utilize all of the computers in a network to perform a task. Most of the computers on corporate networks are windows machines, and most of those are sitting idle 99% of the time. If there was a way to harness that power for something useful, like an oracle database, web hosting, mail hosting, etc, the whole network would not be bottlenecked by one overloaded server. Mosix kinda solves that problem, but on the linux-side only.
If someone wanted to make millions of dollars, build something like that for windows and charge minimally for it. Better do it before Microsoft does.
Nope, not too short. Using a laptop on my lap for more than 10 minutes gives me back and wrist pain because I'm hunched over it so much.
I think most laptops can be replaced with a decent vpn client and something like vnc. If your job thinks you should have a $1800 laptop, they could probably spring to give you a home workstation with internet and vpn access. That would probably save a few bucks everytime someone drops a laptop. It doesn't even have to be a good workstation. It could even be an old win98 decommissioned workstation. The licenses and hardware are probably just sitting around in a warehouse somewhere collecting dust (depreciating).
The wget statement is pretty much the same as HEAD. Mine requires perl and some perl modules though. I just like the name of the command line utility. huh..huh....heh...he said....head...
While that MAY be true in the US, there's nothing stopping most other countries from developing the technology. That would just put the US behind the game.
Could you imagine what would happen if China developed the technology and decided not to share it with the rest of the world?
I find it uncomfortable to hold a laptop in my lap and try to type. The angle is all wrong. Is this really an issue since most laptops are used as stationary workstations?
I think it's probably just some graduate student trying to get a PHD. I didn't read the article, of course.
Hey, here's some news, taking long, hot baths also kills the "little guys," as does sitting in a hot tub. There's a reason they are on the outside of the body, and it has nothing to do with being able to rub them.:)
The lemonade scenario doesn't work in this case. The heat exchange is reversed. In the lemonade example, warm, humid air meets with the cold air. Since cold air can't hold as much liquid as warm air, it condenses. In the computer, the cold air, humid or not, will not condense on a warmer object.
The biggest problem is probably something like fire from a fan stopping working or something. The extra dust in a garage will clog fans and heat sinks much faster than normal. Clogged and/or stopped fans can cause an overheat or a fire. Depending on how cold it is, that might not be an issue.
Oh, i live in Texas, so I don't really know what i'm talking about. I do have a computer in my attached, unheated garage though, and it's had some of the problems described above with the overheating.
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you're placing the blame on linux. Windows doesn't create drivers for that fancy new camera you bought, the camera company does. Is the problem really linux, or is is the companies that don't release the drivers?
I think linux gets the blame, but you wouldn't expect microsoft to write drivers for your camera.
Case in point, I bought a HP scanner/copier/printer about a week ago, and it took about 2 hours of constant reboots, driver conflict errors, and other problems to get it to work correctly. The end result had me download almost 400MB worth of drivers from hp.com, uninstall the printer, and reinstall it with the new drivers. The drivers on the cd were bad. That's not an "everything works" scenario. Yeah, and that's with WindowsXPhome on a HP workstation connected to the printer with usb. A problem like that is NEVER a windows problem, it's always a problem with the device. If I were using linux, it would be linux's problem, and not the device.
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you should try out knoppix. Let's you run from a cd, and will detect almost all normal hardware.
internet website search for poptarts... looking up geography of ip address....go it...... purchase of poptarts within 20 minutes at walmart 5.3 miles from website search. ip address also searched for toaster ovens but there was no purchase...better send an order for more ovens to that store.... contacting ip provider...go it assimilating customer data...go it sending snail mail to address about new toaster ovens at local walmart with 10% off ad...
why would you think a PDA wouldn't need to multitask? I want a PDA that I can leave my mp3s playing in the background while i compose a document or spreadsheet. I don't want the whole device to freeze while it checks my mail.
Storage also is not an issue anymore, since flash memory prices have dropped so much it's like a $5 difference between including 64MB and 256MB.
If you're just looking for something to store contacts and text files, you can get a brand new Sharp YO-P20 Handheld Organizer for about $20. If you want a small, portable computer that will allow you to do most of your desktop functions quickly and relatively cheaply, buy an IPaQ or Dell Axim.
Getting a PDA only for storing contacts is WAY overkill.
Note: I'm a Dell Axim owner. There's just something cool about being able to be outside mowing the lawn while streaming mp3s over 802.11 to a small device in my pocket.
Yeah, and paying $15 for the dvd (audio and full motion video) of the movie, complete with english, french, and spanish subtitles, widescreen and normal formats, and usually 2 hours of director commentary as opposed to paying $15 for one hour of audio makes any kind of sense.
You can't compare live media with recorded media. Compare apples with apples and you have yourself a valid comparasion.
I run XP home version on my home workstation, and it's been pretty stable. I have had a few crashes, but it's better than win2kpro.
I think it's all how much you use it and how you use it. I run windows 2k servers and linux servers at work, and the win2k servers are fine as long as you don't have to touch them. That conflicts with MS's bug releases though. Everytime I update, I have to reboot. 9 time out of 10, the servers don't have a problem rebooting, but every now and then there's some failure that prevents it from operating correctly. I have had the same problem with linux also, but those are usually much easier to fix, since you can just pop out the drive and plug it into another machine (and not have to go through hardware detection again).
win2k3server is much more stable than win2k, but you still have the same problem with the updates. Rebooting a server to apply a security patch might not be a problem if you have one or two servers, but if you have a room full of servers, windows patching is your full time job.
At least linux will allow you to stop a single service, reconfigure or upgrade it, then restart the service. There should not be a reason to reboot a server to apply an Internet Explorer patch.
...except that the originals poster's mom's car was broken into, so not only would you have given the criminals a gun registered in your name, you break the law by having a concealed (and probably loaded) weapon.
guns are only good if there's someone there to shoot it.
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"...capital B assumed to b byte..."
assume = ass + u + me
You wouldn't believe how hard it is for some people to realize that the capitalization changes it by a factor of 8.
What would happen if they advertised it to have 128Mb of ram, and it actually had 128Mbits. They wouldn't be lying, but they'd be in trouble.
I applaud your hard work and effort.
:) the end users would upgrade faster.
Microsoft has gotten complacent in their 98% of all end user pcs. That 98% has fallen, fairly quickly. They rely on the upgrade path for their end users. Their market dominance is not a secret, but has been shown to be a crime. If they made a decent piece of software that was relatively bug free, then in 10 years you would still have PCs running that operating system, and not upgrading. Look at how many end users still run Win98. If that operating system was less stable (is that possible??
It's all about maintaining the userbase without having to work too hard at it. The more userbase they keep with the least amount of work will maximize profits, and that's what keeps the shareholders happy. Windows really has nothing to do with trying to create a perfect product.
...there'd be no reason to upgrade.
Microsoft is a business. If they wanted to go out of business, they'd just program a perfect piece of software. If it was really perfect, there'd be no one buying support, additional licensing, and upgrades.
and no, i didn't read the article.
All you need to do is plug in a X10 module that is controlled with your linux machine using bottlerocket, and then write a plug in for snort or your favorite network sniffer. 3 bad packets in a row and just have the X10 module go off.
Depending on how paranoid you are, that X10 module can turn off your dsl/cable modem, switch, router, or even your linux machine or turn on a light or siren.
as for physical security, it's only a myth. a guy with a crow bar can get just about anywhere that's not military controlled.
Oh and if you use the X10 example above, please remember people drive around tripping those all the time with their wireless remotes.
Cenatek pci ram disks
BitMicro
M-Systems
You could probably find one for normal sdram, but to find a device that goes from 40/80pin ide to laptop SO-DIMMS is going to be a challenge.
Hey, at least they tried. How many news articles have you read that compares linux kernel compiles on a 64 processor machine? probably only one.
it took 19 minutes to compile with a single cpu, and 26x faster for the 64 processor machine. Does that equate to about 43 seconds for a kernel compile? It'd probably take longer than that just to untar/unbzip2 the source, since that would be running on only 2 cpus (one process for tar, one for bzip2).
If they are using the network, they already have a security model in place. There shouldn't be any additional security risk offloading cpu/storage to client workstations. Even if you offload only to other servers, the advantage of being able to add an additional server to increase cpu horsepower or storage space is invaluable. Most large sites already have this in place, they just had to build it in-house (like google, amazon, ebay).
I'm sure Microsoft will build something like that, and it will totally suck. Then someone else will come to market and their application will totally dominate. Then Microsoft will buy them, and the application will end up being like Virtual PC or something.
i always wondered why there's not an easy way to utilize all of the computers in a network to perform a task. Most of the computers on corporate networks are windows machines, and most of those are sitting idle 99% of the time. If there was a way to harness that power for something useful, like an oracle database, web hosting, mail hosting, etc, the whole network would not be bottlenecked by one overloaded server. Mosix kinda solves that problem, but on the linux-side only.
If someone wanted to make millions of dollars, build something like that for windows and charge minimally for it. Better do it before Microsoft does.
you're dead inside.
"OK, so 10000 people died. Big fucking deal."
unbelievable.
i dunno, i left my 486sx33 by the window once and the sun got it. Nothing was damaged, but it wouldn't boot up for hours, until it cooled down.
The original poster should just spend the $12k and get an Apple XServe.
Watch your mouth, son....
darn younguns, with their crazy slashdot comments. Back in my day......blah blah blah...gosh durnit.
Nope, not too short. Using a laptop on my lap for more than 10 minutes gives me back and wrist pain because I'm hunched over it so much.
I think most laptops can be replaced with a decent vpn client and something like vnc. If your job thinks you should have a $1800 laptop, they could probably spring to give you a home workstation with internet and vpn access. That would probably save a few bucks everytime someone drops a laptop. It doesn't even have to be a good workstation. It could even be an old win98 decommissioned workstation. The licenses and hardware are probably just sitting around in a warehouse somewhere collecting dust (depreciating).
The wget statement is pretty much the same as HEAD. Mine requires perl and some perl modules though. I just like the name of the command line utility. huh..huh....heh...he said....head...
While that MAY be true in the US, there's nothing stopping most other countries from developing the technology. That would just put the US behind the game.
Could you imagine what would happen if China developed the technology and decided not to share it with the rest of the world?
I find it uncomfortable to hold a laptop in my lap and try to type. The angle is all wrong. Is this really an issue since most laptops are used as stationary workstations?
:)
I think it's probably just some graduate student trying to get a PHD. I didn't read the article, of course.
Hey, here's some news, taking long, hot baths also kills the "little guys," as does sitting in a hot tub. There's a reason they are on the outside of the body, and it has nothing to do with being able to rub them.
The lemonade scenario doesn't work in this case. The heat exchange is reversed. In the lemonade example, warm, humid air meets with the cold air. Since cold air can't hold as much liquid as warm air, it condenses. In the computer, the cold air, humid or not, will not condense on a warmer object.
The biggest problem is probably something like fire from a fan stopping working or something. The extra dust in a garage will clog fans and heat sinks much faster than normal. Clogged and/or stopped fans can cause an overheat or a fire. Depending on how cold it is, that might not be an issue.
Oh, i live in Texas, so I don't really know what i'm talking about. I do have a computer in my attached, unheated garage though, and it's had some of the problems described above with the overheating.
you're placing the blame on linux. Windows doesn't create drivers for that fancy new camera you bought, the camera company does. Is the problem really linux, or is is the companies that don't release the drivers?
I think linux gets the blame, but you wouldn't expect microsoft to write drivers for your camera.
Case in point, I bought a HP scanner/copier/printer about a week ago, and it took about 2 hours of constant reboots, driver conflict errors, and other problems to get it to work correctly. The end result had me download almost 400MB worth of drivers from hp.com, uninstall the printer, and reinstall it with the new drivers. The drivers on the cd were bad. That's not an "everything works" scenario. Yeah, and that's with WindowsXPhome on a HP workstation connected to the printer with usb. A problem like that is NEVER a windows problem, it's always a problem with the device. If I were using linux, it would be linux's problem, and not the device.
you should try out knoppix. Let's you run from a cd, and will detect almost all normal hardware.
internet website search for poptarts... ... ... ...
looking up geography of ip address....go it
purchase of poptarts within 20 minutes at walmart 5.3 miles from website search.
ip address also searched for toaster ovens but there was no purchase...better send an order for more ovens to that store.
contacting ip provider...go it
assimilating customer data...go it
sending snail mail to address about new toaster ovens at local walmart with 10% off ad...
why would you think a PDA wouldn't need to multitask? I want a PDA that I can leave my mp3s playing in the background while i compose a document or spreadsheet. I don't want the whole device to freeze while it checks my mail.
Storage also is not an issue anymore, since flash memory prices have dropped so much it's like a $5 difference between including 64MB and 256MB.
If you're just looking for something to store contacts and text files, you can get a brand new Sharp YO-P20 Handheld Organizer for about $20. If you want a small, portable computer that will allow you to do most of your desktop functions quickly and relatively cheaply, buy an IPaQ or Dell Axim.
Getting a PDA only for storing contacts is WAY overkill.
Note: I'm a Dell Axim owner. There's just something cool about being able to be outside mowing the lawn while streaming mp3s over 802.11 to a small device in my pocket.
Yeah, and paying $15 for the dvd (audio and full motion video) of the movie, complete with english, french, and spanish subtitles, widescreen and normal formats, and usually 2 hours of director commentary as opposed to paying $15 for one hour of audio makes any kind of sense.
You can't compare live media with recorded media. Compare apples with apples and you have yourself a valid comparasion.
I run XP home version on my home workstation, and it's been pretty stable. I have had a few crashes, but it's better than win2kpro.
I think it's all how much you use it and how you use it. I run windows 2k servers and linux servers at work, and the win2k servers are fine as long as you don't have to touch them. That conflicts with MS's bug releases though. Everytime I update, I have to reboot. 9 time out of 10, the servers don't have a problem rebooting, but every now and then there's some failure that prevents it from operating correctly. I have had the same problem with linux also, but those are usually much easier to fix, since you can just pop out the drive and plug it into another machine (and not have to go through hardware detection again).
win2k3server is much more stable than win2k, but you still have the same problem with the updates. Rebooting a server to apply a security patch might not be a problem if you have one or two servers, but if you have a room full of servers, windows patching is your full time job.
At least linux will allow you to stop a single service, reconfigure or upgrade it, then restart the service. There should not be a reason to reboot a server to apply an Internet Explorer patch.
...except that the originals poster's mom's car was broken into, so not only would you have given the criminals a gun registered in your name, you break the law by having a concealed (and probably loaded) weapon.
guns are only good if there's someone there to shoot it.
While on the moral highroad, your suggestion does not give the probably much anticipated finger to the management.
I would probably put in for a 2 week vacation starting immediately, followed by your 2 week notice.
Encrypted Voice Over Voice Over IP.
This is just another way for the gubment to snoop on their citizens, and then have them subsidize it.
1. build something people want to buy
2. ???
3. profit
In this case, 1. is voip, 2. is tax it to death, and 3. disappears.
The BabyBell's win!!!
...I got a box with soap, hotel-sized shampoo, and clothes detergent. I think it was more from the dorm than the college.
Cheap state school (Cheapskate school)