When people ask if I am ever going to cut my hair short (My hair is currently below my shoulders, and growing), I respond by saying 'I'll cut my hair when Microsoft goes open source!'.
Good points, I was unaware of the Netscape vs LDAPv3 differences (Damnit, I hate it when FUD is distributed by a company I like). I have only one response to your comments above:
"GUIs are more impressive and boss friendly"
I never have underestimated this, and have had to fight many a battle (it isnt easy battling non-IT skilled ppl who are holding the pursestrings) In the past, I have fought tooth and nail for Netware (since I despise downtime and the screaming users it creates), and lost because they 'didnt get it', and went with NT. After 1 year, and with the IT budget spiralling out of control and horrible reliability due to 'undocumented features' in NT, the boss 'finally got it'.
All too often I have seen (or been involved in) IT projects where they think that the TCO will be less if there is a common platform for both workstation and server. All I can do is put my 2cents worth in, sit back, and enjoy the overtime *smile*.
I'm not biased. I only fight for what works (Like a Netware app server? naaaaaaah)
Virtually every aspect of Netware can be tweaked and configured depending on your configuration. WindowsNT doesnt give you that level of modification. For example, you can set the Maximum Number of File Locks on a Netware server. On a WindowsNT server, you cannot set this (It is theoretically set to be infinite. If I'm wrong, tell me).
The reason why NT was not tweaked nearly as much as Novell is because that the things that were configured under Novell are simply not accessible under NT.
This underlies the fundamental difference btw NT and Novell (or NT and Linux for that matter). While Netware (or Linux) is more difficult to set up and optimize, it is far faster and far more stable because the server can be optimized far more than NT, with a lot less garbage code (Who needs a GUI on a server anyways?).
Wait a minute here, so if this is true, and even playing a DVD is illegal, then that means the MPAA has a MONOPOLY on DVD playback. Is the DOJ listening? I think we have their next target!
I'm in Canada, so hopefully I'm exempt from this sillyness. Unfortunately, cancer has a tendancy of spreading...
BSD not Open Source? All the source code is there, and you are free to look at it, modify it, heck, even make love to it. If you notice a flaw, feel free to submit it to the core developers, and they will deal with it. If you fixed it, then they may even incorporate your fix into the next release.
The BSD license does not make it closed source. It only makes it more friendly to larger corporations.
As I am also in Beautiful British Columbia, we can only do one thing. Promote the open source moevement, especially non US projects like OpenBSD (based in Calgary). Even if the US implements draconian laws, The canadian sites can still be used by the oppressed geeks in the US as a safe haven for stable software.
That law does not apply to us. They can prohibit us all they want from reverse engineering. Lets see them try to prosecute us up here.
"BSD has forked. There is no single, one true BSD."
Wrong. *BSD is based on BSD4.4, with 4 distributions, each one targeting a particular niche market.
NetBSD is designed to run on everything and anything. BSDi is a commercial variant designed more for Corporations looking for 'accountability', OpenBSD focuses on Security, and FreeBSD focuses on Commercial Intel/Sparc servers. Using the description 'forked' is a little too severe a word to use. Their direction is 'closed' and focused (hence the cathedral description)
Linux, on the other hand, may only have one kernel, but the number of distributions is increasing exponentially, with each on potentially competing with one another. It is the distributions (and supporting drivers/software) which gives Linux the description 'bazaar'
Simply collect all the facts about yourself, present it in a readable form with a time/date stamp on it, and if you somehow get placed on a mailing list, then inform the originator that they are using database information that is patented (Your collection of personal information).
Will it fly? I'm no lawyer, so dont quote me on it...
I am confident that Arcserve will turn a Robust Linux box running Tar into a cranky, unstable server much like what Arcserve did to Netware and NT. Dont bother flaming me, I speak from direct experience on both Netware and NT platforms (and have the ulcer to prove it)
That being said, I openly wonder how they will be doing the cataloguing on Arcserve for Linux. On the NT Server version, you had a choice of either using their own proprietary (buggy) database, or SQL Server 6.x. Will we have the option to use MySQL or Postgres as the database for the catalogue? If so, I might actually have good things to say about them!
JB.
... If there are no flames shooting out of it, then it is a software problem...
The alluring scent of burning flesh during a rather heated Q3 match, or how about the smell of sweat during a round of Half-Life? Optionally, you can have the smell of an armpit at the P&G web site
If you dont want to smell like This! then use StinkBeGone Underarm deodorant.
Is that a mushroom tucked btw your toes? Try our new AntiFungalFornicator to rid your feet of unsitely fungii!
JB
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When people ask if I am ever going to cut my hair short (My hair is currently below my shoulders, and growing), I respond by saying 'I'll cut my hair when Microsoft goes open source!'.
This is not good. Nope. Not good at all.
JB
Do I ever cease to be stupid? Nope. Never. Not me.
The comment was targeted at a clueless AC, not thinking people. Chill and take yer finger away from the 'flame' key. Save it for someone who needs it.
JB.
The guy would have to be bald. overweight, and rather thick... hmmmmm.....
William Shatner?
Doh!
Jailbrekr
Good points, I was unaware of the Netscape vs LDAPv3 differences (Damnit, I hate it when FUD is distributed by a company I like). I have only one response to your comments above:
"GUIs are more impressive and boss friendly"
I never have underestimated this, and have had to fight many a battle (it isnt easy battling non-IT skilled ppl who are holding the pursestrings) In the past, I have fought tooth and nail for Netware (since I despise downtime and the screaming users it creates), and lost because they 'didnt get it', and went with NT. After 1 year, and with the IT budget spiralling out of control and horrible reliability due to 'undocumented features' in NT, the boss 'finally got it'.
All too often I have seen (or been involved in) IT projects where they think that the TCO will be less if there is a common platform for both workstation and server. All I can do is put my 2cents worth in, sit back, and enjoy the overtime *smile*.
I'm not biased. I only fight for what works (Like a Netware app server? naaaaaaah)
Virtually every aspect of Netware can be tweaked and configured depending on your configuration. WindowsNT doesnt give you that level of modification. For example, you can set the Maximum Number of File Locks on a Netware server. On a WindowsNT server, you cannot set this (It is theoretically set to be infinite. If I'm wrong, tell me).
The reason why NT was not tweaked nearly as much as Novell is because that the things that were configured under Novell are simply not accessible under NT.
This underlies the fundamental difference btw NT and Novell (or NT and Linux for that matter). While Netware (or Linux) is more difficult to set up and optimize, it is far faster and far more stable because the server can be optimized far more than NT, with a lot less garbage code (Who needs a GUI on a server anyways?).
Jailbrekr.
Kinda makes sense thou. 65536, for all those base 2 newbies, is the largest possible 16bit number.
That 16bit legacy is hard to shake, eh?
It may look cool, but its just vaporware until the IA-64 chips hit the streets, and you can run the demos for yourself.
:)
Wow. A coherent first post
Wait a minute here, so if this is true, and even playing a DVD is illegal, then that means the MPAA has a MONOPOLY on DVD playback. Is the DOJ listening? I think we have their next target!
I'm in Canada, so hopefully I'm exempt from this sillyness. Unfortunately, cancer has a tendancy of spreading...
JB
BSD not Open Source? All the source code is there, and you are free to look at it, modify it, heck, even make love to it. If you notice a flaw, feel free to submit it to the core developers, and they will deal with it. If you fixed it, then they may even incorporate your fix into the next release.
The BSD license does not make it closed source. It only makes it more friendly to larger corporations.
JB
As I am also in Beautiful British Columbia, we can only do one thing. Promote the open source moevement, especially non US projects like OpenBSD (based in Calgary). Even if the US implements draconian laws, The canadian sites can still be used by the oppressed geeks in the US as a safe haven for stable software.
That law does not apply to us. They can prohibit us all they want from reverse engineering. Lets see them try to prosecute us up here.
JB
"BSD has forked. There is no single, one true BSD."
Wrong. *BSD is based on BSD4.4, with 4 distributions, each one targeting a particular niche market.
NetBSD is designed to run on everything and anything. BSDi is a commercial variant designed more for Corporations looking for 'accountability', OpenBSD focuses on Security, and FreeBSD focuses on Commercial Intel/Sparc servers. Using the description 'forked' is a little too severe a word to use. Their direction is 'closed' and focused (hence the cathedral description)
Linux, on the other hand, may only have one kernel, but the number of distributions is increasing exponentially, with each on potentially competing with one another. It is the distributions (and supporting drivers/software) which gives Linux the description 'bazaar'
Just my 1 cents worth (2 cents canadian).
JB
Simply collect all the facts about yourself, present it in a readable form with a time/date stamp on it, and if you somehow get placed on a mailing list, then inform the originator that they are using database information that is patented (Your collection of personal information).
Will it fly? I'm no lawyer, so dont quote me on it...
Hmmm. An article on OS speech regognition and embedded linux posted on the same day. Sounds like a yummy combo.
JB
Is this a newly created document, or a document recently released from the Microsoft vs DOJ court case?
I am confident that Arcserve will turn a Robust Linux box running Tar into a cranky, unstable server much like what Arcserve did to Netware and NT. Dont bother flaming me, I speak from direct experience on both Netware and NT platforms (and have the ulcer to prove it)
...
That being said, I openly wonder how they will be doing the cataloguing on Arcserve for Linux. On the NT Server version, you had a choice of either using their own proprietary (buggy) database, or SQL Server 6.x. Will we have the option to use MySQL or Postgres as the database for the catalogue? If so, I might actually have good things to say about them!
JB.
... If there are no flames shooting out of it, then it is a software problem
The alluring scent of burning flesh during a rather heated Q3 match, or how about the smell of sweat during a round of Half-Life? Optionally, you can have the smell of an armpit at the P&G web site
...
If you dont want to smell like This! then use StinkBeGone Underarm deodorant.
Is that a mushroom tucked btw your toes? Try our new AntiFungalFornicator to rid your feet of unsitely fungii!
JB
... RFC1925: With sufficient thrust, Pigs fly just fine