You see this is the thing. BSD people WANT PEOPLE to take their code and use it for commercial development. So long as the code is out there and making the world a better place. If microsoft/apple/juniper/netapp/whoever get better products on shelves due to their use of BSD code, we win. If the code was GPLed, no one would be able to add their own work to develop a product and have some sort of competive advantage (their own additions) to make money with.
BSD is not a niche OS. It is used by Netapp, Juniper, Apple and many others. Apple have contributed HEAPS back to the open source community and it is stuff that is pretty valuable/useful. Apple do not contribute Aqua back to the community, that was entirely their own work. however various technologies such as GCD, Webkit, OpenCL, etc are. Plenty of open source originates within apple and is then released for that matter, but don't let that get in the way of your GPL zealotry.
Um. If the original TCP/IP stack was GPLed (rather than a reference implementation being available under a BSD license), TCP/IP would not have taken off and we would not have the internet we have today. BECAUSE people could take the BSD tcp/ip stack and port it quite simply to their OS, it became a standard.
You see thats the thing. The OS X that people interact with is not darwin. Its running ON TOP of darwin. You could run OS X / Aqua quite happily on top of a number of other platforms, the underlying kernel isn't really what makes OS X great.
If you're going to slap X11 on top of it, you may as well run Linux or FreeBSD and get better hardware support.
here here. and i suspect that plus integrated search results will only pollute what i am looking for.
I've been using bing more often simply due to mistrust of google and its honestly not THAT bad. I think its necessary to give the competition a chance, if only to keep google on their toes. Not that I like to support microsoft, but they're currently the only competitor in a position to keep Google honest.
Now, i don't dispute that the rating system is broken and doesn't reflect the real world... however.... if someone has bought a hybrid based on an ROI calculated with the advertised mileage - perhaps it made sense and would pay itself off. If they're getting 15% worse economy then it probably/posssibly doesn't make financial sense. Hence the lawsuit. The entire selling point of these cars is economy (for everything else, they pretty much suck compared to traditional cars, including price, interior fit/finish, performance, etc). I think this reflects a need for more realistic ratings for economy on new cars.
Sure, if you're informed then you take economy figures with a handful of salt, but many people are not.
You could have had a VW Golf diesel and got 45mpg plus without having to deal with batteries, etc. They go faster and handle better, too. Also nicer inside.
Thing is, those outside of europe probably don't realise (because you treat diesel as being for trucks), but a VW Golf diesel will get the same or better economy as a hybrid in the real world, without dealing with the manufacture (environmentally very unfriendly)/disposal of expensive batteries, being gutless to drive or dealing with the maintenance of 2 powertrains.
They pull pretty hard, too.
Sure, regenerative braking in a hybrid is a good idea, and theory perhaps they are superior. In the real world, the execution of them currently sucks, and a decent diesel is just as economical without any of the drawbacks.
text editors and archiving programs are vastly different (as far as requirement for settings deployment goes) from internet facing applications such as web browsers and you know it. Hardware firewalls, packet inspection, etc only works when the machine is on the corporate LAN, and when laptops leave and go home with users, all bets are OFF. Laptops account for 90% of our machinese these days, and I suspect we're not alone.
This is where policy comes into play, and mozilla currently has no elegant way of enforcing this.
What is wrong with a PAC file? Well, if your users take their PCs home, then the intranet based PAC file is not accessible. So they need to fuck around with configuration. Oh, just use WPAD you say? Well, firefox's implementation of WPAD is BROKEN, and the DHCP configuration method does not work. Just use DNS based WPAD? No, there are good reasons not to do that. Safari works with DHCP based WPAD. As does IE. As does new versions of chromium (maybe chrome now, haven't checked). Firefox has a bug report for this that had a patch submitted back in 2006. It still doesn't work, last I checked (mid 2011).
Exactly. Most companies SOE is based on a 3-5 year support lifetime (which is when hardware will be refreshed). Providing support for a critical component of that for only 6-12 months is taking the piss.
They've never bothered fixing enterprise affecting bugs. DHCP WPAD (because DNS based WPAD is more open to hijack), for example, simply DOES NOT WORK, and the bug has been open since at least 2006. I filed the same bug with chromium and it was fixed in dev within 3 months.
Seriously, a patch was even submitted for this in 2006, and it still doesn't work.
OK. How about I want to roll out changes to the security settings? Sure, i can go hunt down the registry settings and hack together a login script or something to do it, or i could just use IE9 (which is good enough) and the same tools (GPOs) as the rest of the software on the network and not spend my time fucking about writing and documenting custom solutions and wasting company time.
If firefox want market share, they need to make life easy for people. Sure, you COULD deploy and manage firefox by screwing around with custom one-off solutions, or you could just follow the path of least resistance and run IE. And contrary to popular/. groupthink, plenty of enterprises do this in the real world without major security problems. If you make appropriate use of security zones then you can make recent version os IE relatively secure.
If you don't think opensolaris has a future fair enough. FreeBSD does. FreeBSD currently supports ZFS v28, which has dedup. Be aware you need plenty of RAM.
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You see this is the thing. BSD people WANT PEOPLE to take their code and use it for commercial development. So long as the code is out there and making the world a better place. If microsoft/apple/juniper/netapp/whoever get better products on shelves due to their use of BSD code, we win. If the code was GPLed, no one would be able to add their own work to develop a product and have some sort of competive advantage (their own additions) to make money with.
BSD is not a niche OS. It is used by Netapp, Juniper, Apple and many others. Apple have contributed HEAPS back to the open source community and it is stuff that is pretty valuable/useful. Apple do not contribute Aqua back to the community, that was entirely their own work. however various technologies such as GCD, Webkit, OpenCL, etc are. Plenty of open source originates within apple and is then released for that matter, but don't let that get in the way of your GPL zealotry.
Um. If the original TCP/IP stack was GPLed (rather than a reference implementation being available under a BSD license), TCP/IP would not have taken off and we would not have the internet we have today. BECAUSE people could take the BSD tcp/ip stack and port it quite simply to their OS, it became a standard.
You see thats the thing. The OS X that people interact with is not darwin. Its running ON TOP of darwin. You could run OS X / Aqua quite happily on top of a number of other platforms, the underlying kernel isn't really what makes OS X great.
If you're going to slap X11 on top of it, you may as well run Linux or FreeBSD and get better hardware support.
here here. and i suspect that plus integrated search results will only pollute what i am looking for.
I've been using bing more often simply due to mistrust of google and its honestly not THAT bad. I think its necessary to give the competition a chance, if only to keep google on their toes. Not that I like to support microsoft, but they're currently the only competitor in a position to keep Google honest.
... my iphone encodes video at 1080p and has been out for months.
It makes it easy to spot those who have administered a multinational corporate WAN, and those who haven't....
Turbine? Maybe. Rotary? No, the combustion chamber shape is horrible. They make good power for displacement, but the economy is shocking.
I think what you really want is fuel cell tech.
Now, i don't dispute that the rating system is broken and doesn't reflect the real world... however.... if someone has bought a hybrid based on an ROI calculated with the advertised mileage - perhaps it made sense and would pay itself off. If they're getting 15% worse economy then it probably/posssibly doesn't make financial sense. Hence the lawsuit. The entire selling point of these cars is economy (for everything else, they pretty much suck compared to traditional cars, including price, interior fit/finish, performance, etc). I think this reflects a need for more realistic ratings for economy on new cars.
Sure, if you're informed then you take economy figures with a handful of salt, but many people are not.
You could have had a VW Golf diesel and got 45mpg plus without having to deal with batteries, etc. They go faster and handle better, too. Also nicer inside.
Thing is, those outside of europe probably don't realise (because you treat diesel as being for trucks), but a VW Golf diesel will get the same or better economy as a hybrid in the real world, without dealing with the manufacture (environmentally very unfriendly)/disposal of expensive batteries, being gutless to drive or dealing with the maintenance of 2 powertrains.
They pull pretty hard, too.
Sure, regenerative braking in a hybrid is a good idea, and theory perhaps they are superior. In the real world, the execution of them currently sucks, and a decent diesel is just as economical without any of the drawbacks.
This is why you use Zfs, which can detect and correct corruption.
text editors and archiving programs are vastly different (as far as requirement for settings deployment goes) from internet facing applications such as web browsers and you know it. Hardware firewalls, packet inspection, etc only works when the machine is on the corporate LAN, and when laptops leave and go home with users, all bets are OFF. Laptops account for 90% of our machinese these days, and I suspect we're not alone.
This is where policy comes into play, and mozilla currently has no elegant way of enforcing this.
What is wrong with a PAC file? Well, if your users take their PCs home, then the intranet based PAC file is not accessible. So they need to fuck around with configuration. Oh, just use WPAD you say? Well, firefox's implementation of WPAD is BROKEN, and the DHCP configuration method does not work. Just use DNS based WPAD? No, there are good reasons not to do that. Safari works with DHCP based WPAD. As does IE. As does new versions of chromium (maybe chrome now, haven't checked). Firefox has a bug report for this that had a patch submitted back in 2006. It still doesn't work, last I checked (mid 2011).
Exactly. Most companies SOE is based on a 3-5 year support lifetime (which is when hardware will be refreshed). Providing support for a critical component of that for only 6-12 months is taking the piss.
They've never bothered fixing enterprise affecting bugs. DHCP WPAD (because DNS based WPAD is more open to hijack), for example, simply DOES NOT WORK, and the bug has been open since at least 2006. I filed the same bug with chromium and it was fixed in dev within 3 months.
Seriously, a patch was even submitted for this in 2006, and it still doesn't work.
Here here. I ran firefox since it was called Phoenix and in recent years they've simply lost the plot.
OK. How about I want to roll out changes to the security settings? Sure, i can go hunt down the registry settings and hack together a login script or something to do it, or i could just use IE9 (which is good enough) and the same tools (GPOs) as the rest of the software on the network and not spend my time fucking about writing and documenting custom solutions and wasting company time.
If firefox want market share, they need to make life easy for people. Sure, you COULD deploy and manage firefox by screwing around with custom one-off solutions, or you could just follow the path of least resistance and run IE. And contrary to popular /. groupthink, plenty of enterprises do this in the real world without major security problems. If you make appropriate use of security zones then you can make recent version os IE relatively secure.
Because that is easy to roll out to my existing 500 PCs /sarcasm. No group policy support = no way it is getting deployed on most corporate networks.
It looks like Firefox 3.6 is going to become the IE6 of the 201Xs.
A proper storage array gives you far more features than a box of sata drives.
You running NFS or CIFS or other?
If you don't think opensolaris has a future fair enough. FreeBSD does. FreeBSD currently supports ZFS v28, which has dedup. Be aware you need plenty of RAM.
7 Isn't made for 9 year old hardware.
win7 UI = start + type. way better than XP.