Indeed, if it is indeed true that the Chinese government was so desperate as to going such pains as hacking Google servers to get this info, I am sure it will say a lot about them.
Yea, I read about most of this on The Consumerist, which wrote a lot of the articles on this in year 2007.
Partly thanks to this, eventually Robert Stephens, founder of the Geek Squad who sold it to Best Buy and was able to stay as a VP, admit the problems in an interview:
"FSB: If you could go back to before becoming part of Best Buy and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?
RS: Compromise less. Speak up louder. Put my foot down more. Best Buy rolled out Geek Squad really rapidly, probably a bit too fast. Initially it sacrificed a bit of quality, but lately we've improved.
I forgave myself for when I let Best Buy skin our knees a bit - I don't think that I could have persuaded them without letting them take us out for a test drive and scraping us up a bit. At least now we're getting better at avoiding the scrapes."
The problem with the Geek Squad is that Best Buy managers are often so far removed from what the Geek Squad is and how it should work that it becomes a poorly managed mess in many stores. This is the crux of the issues many people have with the Geek Squad.
Even as an iTunes user I'll admit that my purchases there are about the convenience of having everything easily searchable and of a known quality...
Yep, you are paying not for the file itself, which is easily copyable, but for the convenience you just mentioned. Similar to how when you buy CDs from CD vendors like InfoMagic and so on back in the heyday, you were paying for the convenience of having the files on a CD instead of having to download it over a modem which was slow.
Did you read this comment:
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/02/time-to-move-on.html?showComment=1233908220000#c6913688673838779641
I think the biggest problem was the business model of MySQL, which was based on support.
And companies like Red Hat was supporting MySQL in it's RHEL, and they as a result did not use MySQL's support services.
Thus MySQL had to make some features non-free.
What is even worse, it looks like it was funded with VC, which means that either it had to IPO or sold to another company, according to this article:
http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/01/sun-buys-mysql-ab.html
I wonder what if Monty had chosen an IPO instead of selling it to another company?
Seems that Monty was the CTO of MySQL AB, BTW.
Also, during the transition to the PowerPC, a nanokernel was tacked at the bottom. It later got extended to handle preemptive multitasking in 8.6, but only specificity-written apps can take advantage of it since it was tacked at the bottom,
"Stockholders always lean towards the likes of Carly Florina, for the reasons already described - short-term profits."
Yea, I remember reading about the HP proxy fight back around 2001, and it is old news by now. The problem is how to finally fix it properly.
Yep, that was another mess altogether. I once did a lot of research, particularly on the Consumerist on that mess.
From http://consumerist.com/2007/03/geek-squad-city-insider-rebutts-founders-retort.html:
"our tipster contends that Robert is too far away from the action inside Geek Squad City to really know what's going on there...."
Ouch, sounds like a common problem.
From an interview:
"FSB: If you could go back to before becoming part of Best Buy and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?..."
Especially when the 32-bit time_t overflows. The good news is that most 64-bit OSes already uses a 64-bit time_t, but there still is the issue of truncation to 32-bit.
Yea, that is important, because the MBR partition scheme is limited to 32-bit LBA, meaning it is limited to 2 TB with 512-byte sectors. To fix this you can either go to GPT or as above increase the logical sector size to 4 KB, which one do you think is better?
The funny thing is IBM themselves inadvertently helped MS gain a monopoly by choosing it for the IBM PC. Though, they did consider an alternative (DR) before considering MS for the OS. But talks with DR failed, partly because IBM was asking DR to sign an NDA that had many problems, and also that Kildall was more of an idealist, and Gates was an ruthless businessman, part of which led MS to become evil.
It is Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA), and it is available in Windows Server 2003 R2 and later, and Vista Enterprise and higher editions.
The server components of SUA is I think only available in the server versions of Windows.
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Indeed, if it is indeed true that the Chinese government was so desperate as to going such pains as hacking Google servers to get this info, I am sure it will say a lot about them.
I always thought that it was overblown. Is presenting non-working links in search results to Chinese users THAT better than no such links at all?
Yea, I read about most of this on The Consumerist, which wrote a lot of the articles on this in year 2007.
Partly thanks to this, eventually Robert Stephens, founder of the Geek Squad who sold it to Best Buy and was able to stay as a VP, admit the problems in an interview:
"FSB: If you could go back to before becoming part of Best Buy and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?
RS: Compromise less. Speak up louder. Put my foot down more. Best Buy rolled out Geek Squad really rapidly, probably a bit too fast. Initially it sacrificed a bit of quality, but lately we've improved.
I forgave myself for when I let Best Buy skin our knees a bit - I don't think that I could have persuaded them without letting them take us out for a test drive and scraping us up a bit. At least now we're getting better at avoiding the scrapes."
The problem with the Geek Squad is that Best Buy managers are often so far removed from what the Geek Squad is and how it should work that it becomes a poorly managed mess in many stores. This is the crux of the issues many people have with the Geek Squad.
Yep, once including Geek Squad's founder Robert Stephens who sold it to Best Buy and was able to stay:
http://consumerist.com/2007/03/geek-squad-city-insider-rebutts-founders-retort.html
("Proficient in C, C+, and C++" is a gem that springs to mind)
Note here that while indeed C+ do not exist, there is an actual programming language named C--
Yep, if that is true it would be sad that it still carries that stigma from the past.
Even as an iTunes user I'll admit that my purchases there are about the convenience of having everything easily searchable and of a known quality...
Yep, you are paying not for the file itself, which is easily copyable, but for the convenience you just mentioned. Similar to how when you buy CDs from CD vendors like InfoMagic and so on back in the heyday, you were paying for the convenience of having the files on a CD instead of having to download it over a modem which was slow.
Did you read this comment: http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/02/time-to-move-on.html?showComment=1233908220000#c6913688673838779641 I think the biggest problem was the business model of MySQL, which was based on support. And companies like Red Hat was supporting MySQL in it's RHEL, and they as a result did not use MySQL's support services. Thus MySQL had to make some features non-free. What is even worse, it looks like it was funded with VC, which means that either it had to IPO or sold to another company, according to this article: http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/01/sun-buys-mysql-ab.html I wonder what if Monty had chosen an IPO instead of selling it to another company? Seems that Monty was the CTO of MySQL AB, BTW.
But note that AMD will do the same with Fusion, just much later.
Anyone confused by this should read Intel's Product Change Notifications on the transition that has the exact dates, as well as the exact CPU models affected:
http://content.intel.pcnalert.com/dm/d.aspx/8A3733FB-4EEA-43E5-8493-89C7DB7B80EF/PCN109359-00.pdf
http://content.intel.pcnalert.com/dm/d.aspx/A3E94F65-56CE-4E4D-B272-2C59B2F90B0B/PCN109337-00.pdf
(Yes, Intel PCNs are public, you can search for them at http://intel.pcnalert.com/)
Also, during the transition to the PowerPC, a nanokernel was tacked at the bottom. It later got extended to handle preemptive multitasking in 8.6, but only specificity-written apps can take advantage of it since it was tacked at the bottom,
Ah, the problems of shareholder value and agency theory... I once had a slashdot submission on this that was rejected.
"Stockholders always lean towards the likes of Carly Florina, for the reasons already described - short-term profits." Yea, I remember reading about the HP proxy fight back around 2001, and it is old news by now. The problem is how to finally fix it properly.
Yep, that was another mess altogether. I once did a lot of research, particularly on the Consumerist on that mess. : ..."
From http://consumerist.com/2007/03/geek-squad-city-insider-rebutts-founders-retort.html
"our tipster contends that Robert is too far away from the action inside Geek Squad City to really know what's going on there.
Ouch, sounds like a common problem.
From an interview:
"FSB: If you could go back to before becoming part of Best Buy and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?..."
Especially when the 32-bit time_t overflows. The good news is that most 64-bit OSes already uses a 64-bit time_t, but there still is the issue of truncation to 32-bit.
Nope, this patch is supposed to be applied by OEMs to OEM preinstalls of Office 2007 so that new computers sold will comply with the injunction.
And the fact that Linus's computer initially had no coprocessor probably made it harder.
Yea, that is important, because the MBR partition scheme is limited to 32-bit LBA, meaning it is limited to 2 TB with 512-byte sectors. To fix this you can either go to GPT or as above increase the logical sector size to 4 KB, which one do you think is better?
plain OS installation disk
With what Service Pack integrated?
On the matter of the coprocessor, here is a newsgroup post by Linus asking about the coprocessor before the release of Linux 0.01:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.intel/browse_frm/thread/c0b4d0b80527cfba/a6d2cc19bfb3ba1f
Anyone on slashdot old enough to answer this one?
Pretty interesting twist on the word "abusive monopolist".
Yea, that helped, but CP/M was non-exclusive too.
The funny thing is IBM themselves inadvertently helped MS gain a monopoly by choosing it for the IBM PC. Though, they did consider an alternative (DR) before considering MS for the OS. But talks with DR failed, partly because IBM was asking DR to sign an NDA that had many problems, and also that Kildall was more of an idealist, and Gates was an ruthless businessman, part of which led MS to become evil.
Yea, the Google-DoubleClick acquisition:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070915143243/http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/04/in_role_reversa.html
http://digg.com/business_finance/The_Irony_of_Google_s_acquistion_of_DoubleClick
http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/04/15/google-says-we-gots-money-lets-buy-everybody/
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-theres-no-doubleclick-ad-on.html
http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/google-buys-doubleclick---is-banner-advertising-making-a-comeback/
It is Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA), and it is available in Windows Server 2003 R2 and later, and Vista Enterprise and higher editions. The server components of SUA is I think only available in the server versions of Windows.