The very first applications will be metadata of various mime file formats (not that everyone will follow it. Someone capturing a video to file will not have time to fill in all those blanks author title etc). The second application will be network access but that will be tricky. New permission fields including of course ACLs that include hosts as well as users and possibly md5 hashes etc will also be included.
Now with all the additional information.. ~10% of the file for smaller files, that adds to the space. The database engine adds to the overhead too. Does this mean we can no longer install RedHat on a Pentium 90MHz and use it as a firewall, mail server, file server, web server and other things in between? I know I wont be in a rush to use such a filesystem in a production server. The conceptual overhead is in itself too much. I'm used to the hier(1) streucture and sharing files using UNIX permissions through NFS and SMB. Took me 8 years to get really used to it all.
As a direct descendent, I second that claim about Genghis Khan's rule. It is really 0 seconds here. My grandmother (born in the 1920s) and other elders in the tribal areas never advise eating anything that has been dropped on the ground. An exception is where you can slice off the section of the food that has touched the ground or peel it off.
In Hazarajat part of Afghanistan, Mongols have remained rather unchanged over the centuries (having descended from Genghis's army), including culture, race and a large part of the language. It is still quite possible this 'rule' changed over time.
You would just open the door, stick in a glass and get milk. I wonder if they can make miniature supercows as pets. A portable milk container where the milk doesnt go bad.
I was just about to post the same thing.. Yeah Dont!!
Web design is deader than MS Word skills. It is deader than putting MSDOS 4.2 on your resume. HTML is so easy, there are too many high school kids who can code in W3-standard HTML + PHP + CSS + Javascript, which is getting out of web design already.
Now if you're considering learning all about RDBMS, J2EE and building fancy business-oriented web-faced solutions, get right into it, but that is not called web design. At beast, 'Web Design' includes a simple database that usually runs on the same server and contains guestbook entries, articles and the likes.
Now if you have a small bunch of clients like me, its because they know you or know someone who knows you. You wont find someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows you... unlike PC hardware repair, building PCs or cleaning spyware, which is more marketable and reliable as business.
If you plan to start a hosting service as well, throw in colocation servers, shell accounts, use really high speed ISPs and have many online frontends to get clients, now thats a plan. Making a living coding HTML? Learn COBOL instead.
Does anyone have experience with the MPlayer on the Solaris, AIX or IRIX? I'm curious on how the MPlayer performs on Solaris 9 on an Ultrasparc 64-bit CPU. Can it play DiVX or XViD schmoodly as in a Duron system?
localtalk network <br>What in the world... I missed one networking technology. <br><i>Macs, apple2s, a Newton, linux/x86, NeXTstation, and possibly an SGI.</i><br> Ive got ultrasparc and sparcs, planning to get an iMac, otherwise have not been exposed to macs much. Got an RS6000 with AIX, Pentium1 with Unixware, and will get the Octane with IRIX, something with HP-UX and Tru64 too. I wanted to get a complete UNIX-clone set but the OS390 is a little out of reach. <br><br>I am using the IBM 8250 switch with certain extensions I dont know about. I suspect it has two 155 fibre connectors but the seller's details were hazy. Got it on eBay for $50. I'm studying for a CCIE, so have a pile of routers 2500s, and am getting 4000s with ATM cards. For some reason I'm obsessed with ATM over everything else.<br><br>Right now I'm on Solaris on sparc, but after by SCSA certs, I'll get back to trying to use Plan9 as a desktop... with lots of command line tools, it works!
I know where you're coming from. Ive got a 2-hub Tokenring, arcnet (remember that?) FDDI and framerelay setup at home (and of course ethernet and 802.11). I tried the hardest and had the least luck with the 25-speed ATM cards (I still have 5 of em).Yeah I got the driver to work well in the kernel with lights on, but atmsigd always crashes. I tried various kernels, atm tools versions, and various library versions that the atm tools depend on.
I'm waiting on some sparcstations with sun-atm 155 sbus cards ordered from eBay. I'm determined to have ATM at home, but would be cool to be able to use FreeBSD and Linux rather than Solaris. Even the 25-speed cards will be an improvement over my 10mbps ethernet (and arcnet) and 16-mbps TR, and 4mbps FR.
I bought two ATM cards, Madge Collage Horizon cards to use back to back to start up using ATM. All kernels I tried simply crashed and this was maybe a month ago. Yes I tried different computers, removing all options from the kernels, different compilers etc. I tried 2.4.0, 2.4.5, 2.4.20, 2.4.21, 2.5.75 and a pre version of 2.6. I joined the mailing list where they said not much could go wrong there.
I suggest you buy and try the cards and networks before deciding to implement it. I've ordered more (Efficient) cards from eBay and an old IBM switch. For a reliable ethernet to ATM connection, I would use a cisco 4000 series router, or 3600 or 3700 series if I had the money. Theres also a sub-$100 1000 series cisco router with one ATM and one eth ports but I would imagine its crap.
Well you could use wireless for THAT, but the cost for most cases is not justified there. I'm just saying that application would be more 'cool' than this application, where many would prefer static cables and savings in the difference of the cost.
The whole idea of Wireless networking relies on moving around place to place, not too viable with a static console. If the Gameboy Advance incorporated a low-power version of the 802.11, we could have game packs which could constantly scan around for a player with a certain skill level, then beep. There could be spontaneous lanparties everywhere much like the Flash Mobs.
People in North America are really losing jobs to the same people to whom they sold all those products from the 60s onwards. All the computers that students in India and China own have Intel chips, are mostly made in western countries by western-owned companies and designed by insanely paid fat and happy engineers. Natural law dictates that you cannot expect them all to send you a steady stream of income buying American copies of Windows(r), processors, washing machines, cars, airplanes, routers and telecommunication equipment, Levi Jeans and a connection to the Internet Backbone (and IP address space). After a while of selling North Americans raw products in exchange of these goods, they will start manufacturing and designing it themselves.
During the tech boom and export years, noone complained. Funny how everyone refers to 2000-2003 as the 'economic downturn' years while the 1990-1999 years were 'normal'. How about 1998 being a 'boom' year while 2001 is 'normal'? Add the IT market of Asian, Europe, Africa etc to average it out and you'll see 1998 was no normal year for the industry at all. Just as water tends to flow to the lowest potential level, so will the economy of the well-to-do countries.
IT is far from over in North America and not every position can be outsourced. Can an average-sized manufacturing company have its Network Admin located in Indonesia? Software development will be hit hard, but newer markets and applications of software will also open up all over the globe, and specialized software developers here will get the boost.
To be an optimist about the issue, just imagine the number of Linux and BSD developers multiplied by 20.
Someone from Dell asked you to lie about agreeing with the license. You have NO IDEA about the potential of that. All you had to do was record the conversation, 'agree' to the license, and get to Windows screen. Then go back to Linux, package ALL windows files and start distributing them on Kazaa, Morpheus and put them on your webpage. Make sure you redistribute everything under the BSD license.
You are now authorizing everyone on the planet to use Windows in that package. You have real and good proof that you were allowed to GET and USE windows anyway you want without agreeing that you will not copy the software. Heck you could even resell legally downloadable copies of Windows for $5 a copy.
Now say you're screwed and taken to court. To begin with the court knows you never signed anything, never agreed to anything and you're a free man. Now they will have trouble with all the people who obtained Windows under the BSD license. They obtained it quite legally and are redistributing it. How do you void that license?
I'm sure with Windows you also get Norton Antivirus, MS Office and other cool stuff like Winzip, Winamp Real Player and many other things. It would be trivial to repackage the whole thing to be reinstallable on any computer since you had all the CAB files.
Any lawyers on Slashdot care to correct me on this great idea the OP missed?
Now the PostgreSQL team doesnt consider MySQL competiton, but their supporters either DO consider it competition at least in the newbie market or just enjoy bashing MySQL.
I suggest MySQL to new users because it is simple to setup the first time. You dont have to go create a seperate database directory structure, fewer commands to initialize the database and the command lines need fewer arguments for the very first database for the joe user. I remember learning MySQL and PostgreSQL so I can claim that from my experience as well as many friends and foes online and in school.
Now you cannot ask a newbie who basically wants to learn SQL commands by practice, to install Oracle on a Solaris partition on an enterprise server, load balanced with other servers, to start learning SELECT, INSERT and CREATE TABLE constructs. Yes I know PostgreSQL is wonderful which is why I learned it and switched my demanding applications to it, but when I was starting out, I snooped around for the SIMPLEST and not the BEST, which included mSQL and MySQL.
I am currently distance-training 3 friends for web applications using PHP and MySQL on Linux. I cant wait to tell them about Websphere using DB2 on AIX on my RS6000, and running PostgreSQL under FreeBSD on my Sun Ultrasparc, but I need them to learn in a month and not be demotivated because they cannot start up the database the first day.
Find a network card that is ill-supported in Linux and start working on it. See if you can find the card in used computer places and start tweaking the code.
A while ago when I was trying out a new kernel version I saw that one of the cards I had did not compile well. I dug into the code and saw a function name change was all that was required. I had to tweak another kernel a little to get it to compile under a new gcc version. No it didnt run well but it did compile and boot.
Just exploring like this and reading the kernel hackers guide driver guide and other things will give you a good handle on the internals, at least from the drivers perspective. Several month of kernel tweaking later, the vm, scheduler and the other stuff will become clear as you gain interest. However the market will be biggest for kernel ports to new architectures and drivers for newer network adapters. Keep your skills sharp there, build a portfolio and surf dice.com regularly.
Even though the article is about an improvement in the PostgreSQL community, the comments are mostly pgsql vs mysql. People in the bazaar need to have personal motivations to work on opensource projects, mostly to have something against Microsoft, but increasingly, it is becoming a series of team wars. Linux vs BSD, then we had KDE vs GNOME and now qmail vs postfix and mysql vs pgsql. More than a decade ago we had vi vs emacs and BSD vs SYSV.
What the posters here need to realize is that it is exactly this competition that is driving the projects. If MySQL was not given the press and did not have its cult following, we would not see this pace of development for pgsql. The developments for FreeBSD really improved to compete with Linux although their developers claim they are not competing... they do have the fear Linux will supplant them.
What is interesting to note is that in most of these project wars, both projects really survive and get two different niches of their own. This was true of bash vs csh, BSD vs SYSV, BSD vs Linux, KDE vs GNOME, and now MySQL will become the standard entry level database and pgsql the higher level.
I use pgsql because my databases have complicated requirements that MySQL cannot meet. Yet MySQL is the quick and dirty solution when I have to set things up fast. For all new learners I always suggest MySQL. For people thinking of replacing or duplicating their ERP systems, I always suggest pgsql. I even know how to program in sleepycat's db and know where it should replace mysql in smaller embedded systems and where the mysql license cannot be used.
I believe this competition is coming to a close since pgsql has taken a big lead over MySQL in features, and therefore made itself more difficult to deal with especially for newbies. All I can say about the postgresql replication is bravo, and hope MySQL doesnt follow suit so it remains the simple fast and easy database in its own niche.
Youre an MCSE calling yourself a 'pro' and feeling threatened by a high school PC repair kid who calls MCSEs 'pros'. And you're I presume trying to feed mouths with your MCSE. I admire that.
I'm an MCSE + MCSD + CCNA + LCA getting an RHCE soon, and still looking for work. And I'm barely a 'pro'. So if you're threatened by a high-schooler, take that as a message.
I have been doing this for the past 2 years as a part time job, assembling PCs for people, repairing, antivirus use, spyware removal, windows reinstall, Internet software install and the likes.
Tip # 1: On slashdot NEVER call MCSEs pros. I know many people who got their MCSEs during the Windows NT4 days and dont know how to use MS excel. Maybe you meant A+
Tip # 2: Never provide a warranty, and make sure they understand that. They cannot come back 6 months later with a bad driver and ask for free service because you didnt fix it right.
Tip # 3: Do not service Pentium1 and lower computers.
Tip # 4: Do not hand out drivers and ghost images of the users data. Let them come back to you with future problems. Learn something from microsoft.
Tip # 5: Build a reputation. When you have to install firewalls and servers in office locations, use Linux or BSD. You can put that on your resume.
Tip # 6: Dont rely on it as a major source of income. Get a degree, get the real certifications and years of experience, then tell all your clients you no longer work for them.
Forget the DLTs. Look for a college friend who is working at another company in the same city and is also assigned the task of backups. Give her a user account on your firewall get a user account on hers. Now setup perl scripts to encrypt the backup data on your site, bzip2 it and then transfer it to her site... and she should do the same for her site... swapping offsite space and gaining even a few GBs of space is quite enough for good backups. Just be sure your Internet connection does not come with download or upload caps.
Gigabit ethernet, and 10 gigabit ethernet both have it in their specs to accomodate 100 ethernet and 10 ethernet. Therefore 10 Tb ethernet will be called 10000000/1000000/100000/10000/1000/100/10Base T for the OTHER technologies included. The chip will be bigger unless its fancy FPGAing with the FPGA code downloaded from the driver.
So to sell it as Ethernet they have to make it compatible as such. Or to make things cheaper, they will have to settle on a different name to sell cheaper 10Tb cards only. Cheaper 10Tb cards will sell more than compatible ones.
I think they have it wrong. Playing mind games is not a subset of playing video games. This planet would be a great place to be if women in those numbers played games. The HIP culture would move from racy two-door booming modded cars to the best counterstrike and warcraft players.
Even including games like Sim Online and cell phone games doesnt give you stats like those. Remember EVERY kid under 16 in the western hemisphere plays video games.
But then, if you consider playing mind games in relationships, that about includes all women in the western hemisphere above 16. Hmm.
Think of the benefits of sleepycat DB versions as their architectures changed, it improved across incompatible version.
QT is nice and sweet as it is, we dont need too many changes too fast. Programmers are now getting really used to QT3, dont EXACTLY need a version 4 with a different interface to start learning.
Of course if they're slimming it up more and making it faster (like FLTK) without adding too much other stuff, adding more database drivers and porting to more architecures, well its worth it.
Want a GUI based UNIX? Get BeOS. For everything else, theres BSD and Linux. Have this unbearable itch to pay cash? Got AIX and Solaris.
Plan 9 is and will always be too immature. The directory system is a departure from the tried and tested (and gotten used to) UNIX hier, and quite honestly, I dont see anything else new there. The niches have already been filled.
Now if people talked about freeing BeOS from the clutches of Palm (like paying for blender), I would be heck of a lot more interested. BeOS is exactly the OS everyone needs right now, a kind of Linux with a really good GUI strapped on top. Beautiful FS and networking and a SINGLE package system.
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The very first applications will be metadata of various mime file formats (not that everyone will follow it. Someone capturing a video to file will not have time to fill in all those blanks author title etc). The second application will be network access but that will be tricky. New permission fields including of course ACLs that include hosts as well as users and possibly md5 hashes etc will also be included.
Now with all the additional information.. ~10% of the file for smaller files, that adds to the space. The database engine adds to the overhead too. Does this mean we can no longer install RedHat on a Pentium 90MHz and use it as a firewall, mail server, file server, web server and other things in between? I know I wont be in a rush to use such a filesystem in a production server. The conceptual overhead is in itself too much. I'm used to the hier(1) streucture and sharing files using UNIX permissions through NFS and SMB. Took me 8 years to get really used to it all.
As a direct descendent, I second that claim about Genghis Khan's rule. It is really 0 seconds here. My grandmother (born in the 1920s) and other elders in the tribal areas never advise eating anything that has been dropped on the ground. An exception is where you can slice off the section of the food that has touched the ground or peel it off.
In Hazarajat part of Afghanistan, Mongols have remained rather unchanged over the centuries (having descended from Genghis's army), including culture, race and a large part of the language. It is still quite possible this 'rule' changed over time.
You would just open the door, stick in a glass and get milk. I wonder if they can make miniature supercows as pets. A portable milk container where the milk doesnt go bad.
I was just about to post the same thing.. Yeah Dont!!
Web design is deader than MS Word skills. It is deader than putting MSDOS 4.2 on your resume. HTML is so easy, there are too many high school kids who can code in W3-standard HTML + PHP + CSS + Javascript, which is getting out of web design already.
Now if you're considering learning all about RDBMS, J2EE and building fancy business-oriented web-faced solutions, get right into it, but that is not called web design. At beast, 'Web Design' includes a simple database that usually runs on the same server and contains guestbook entries, articles and the likes.
Now if you have a small bunch of clients like me, its because they know you or know someone who knows you. You wont find someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows you... unlike PC hardware repair, building PCs or cleaning spyware, which is more marketable and reliable as business.
If you plan to start a hosting service as well, throw in colocation servers, shell accounts, use really high speed ISPs and have many online frontends to get clients, now thats a plan. Making a living coding HTML? Learn COBOL instead.
Does anyone have experience with the MPlayer on the Solaris, AIX or IRIX? I'm curious on how the MPlayer performs on Solaris 9 on an Ultrasparc 64-bit CPU. Can it play DiVX or XViD schmoodly as in a Duron system?
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<br>What in the world... I missed one networking technology.
<br><i>Macs, apple2s, a Newton, linux/x86, NeXTstation, and possibly an SGI.</i><br>
Ive got ultrasparc and sparcs, planning to get an iMac, otherwise have not been exposed to macs much. Got an RS6000 with AIX, Pentium1 with Unixware, and will get the Octane with IRIX, something with HP-UX and Tru64 too. I wanted to get a complete UNIX-clone set but the OS390 is a little out of reach.
<br><br>I am using the IBM 8250 switch with certain extensions I dont know about. I suspect it has two 155 fibre connectors but the seller's details were hazy. Got it on eBay for $50. I'm studying for a CCIE, so have a pile of routers 2500s, and am getting 4000s with ATM cards. For some reason I'm obsessed with ATM over everything else.<br><br>Right now I'm on Solaris on sparc, but after by SCSA certs, I'll get back to trying to use Plan9 as a desktop... with lots of command line tools, it works!
I like to play with weird networking stuff
I know where you're coming from. Ive got a 2-hub Tokenring, arcnet (remember that?) FDDI and framerelay setup at home (and of course ethernet and 802.11). I tried the hardest and had the least luck with the 25-speed ATM cards (I still have 5 of em).Yeah I got the driver to work well in the kernel with lights on, but atmsigd always crashes. I tried various kernels, atm tools versions, and various library versions that the atm tools depend on.
I'm waiting on some sparcstations with sun-atm 155 sbus cards ordered from eBay. I'm determined to have ATM at home, but would be cool to be able to use FreeBSD and Linux rather than Solaris. Even the 25-speed cards will be an improvement over my 10mbps ethernet (and arcnet) and 16-mbps TR, and 4mbps FR.
I bought two ATM cards, Madge Collage Horizon cards to use back to back to start up using ATM. All kernels I tried simply crashed and this was maybe a month ago. Yes I tried different computers, removing all options from the kernels, different compilers etc. I tried 2.4.0, 2.4.5, 2.4.20, 2.4.21, 2.5.75 and a pre version of 2.6. I joined the mailing list where they said not much could go wrong there.
I suggest you buy and try the cards and networks before deciding to implement it. I've ordered more (Efficient) cards from eBay and an old IBM switch. For a reliable ethernet to ATM connection, I would use a cisco 4000 series router, or 3600 or 3700 series if I had the money. Theres also a sub-$100 1000 series cisco router with one ATM and one eth ports but I would imagine its crap.
Well you could use wireless for THAT, but the cost for most cases is not justified there. I'm just saying that application would be more 'cool' than this application, where many would prefer static cables and savings in the difference of the cost.
The whole idea of Wireless networking relies on moving around place to place, not too viable with a static console. If the Gameboy Advance incorporated a low-power version of the 802.11, we could have game packs which could constantly scan around for a player with a certain skill level, then beep. There could be spontaneous lanparties everywhere much like the Flash Mobs.
People in North America are really losing jobs to the same people to whom they sold all those products from the 60s onwards. All the computers that students in India and China own have Intel chips, are mostly made in western countries by western-owned companies and designed by insanely paid fat and happy engineers. Natural law dictates that you cannot expect them all to send you a steady stream of income buying American copies of Windows(r), processors, washing machines, cars, airplanes, routers and telecommunication equipment, Levi Jeans and a connection to the Internet Backbone (and IP address space). After a while of selling North Americans raw products in exchange of these goods, they will start manufacturing and designing it themselves.
During the tech boom and export years, noone complained. Funny how everyone refers to 2000-2003 as the 'economic downturn' years while the 1990-1999 years were 'normal'. How about 1998 being a 'boom' year while 2001 is 'normal'? Add the IT market of Asian, Europe, Africa etc to average it out and you'll see 1998 was no normal year for the industry at all. Just as water tends to flow to the lowest potential level, so will the economy of the well-to-do countries.
IT is far from over in North America and not every position can be outsourced. Can an average-sized manufacturing company have its Network Admin located in Indonesia? Software development will be hit hard, but newer markets and applications of software will also open up all over the globe, and specialized software developers here will get the boost.
To be an optimist about the issue, just imagine the number of Linux and BSD developers multiplied by 20.
Someone from Dell asked you to lie about agreeing with the license. You have NO IDEA about the potential of that. All you had to do was record the conversation, 'agree' to the license, and get to Windows screen. Then go back to Linux, package ALL windows files and start distributing them on Kazaa, Morpheus and put them on your webpage. Make sure you redistribute everything under the BSD license.
You are now authorizing everyone on the planet to use Windows in that package. You have real and good proof that you were allowed to GET and USE windows anyway you want without agreeing that you will not copy the software. Heck you could even resell legally downloadable copies of Windows for $5 a copy.
Now say you're screwed and taken to court. To begin with the court knows you never signed anything, never agreed to anything and you're a free man. Now they will have trouble with all the people who obtained Windows under the BSD license. They obtained it quite legally and are redistributing it. How do you void that license?
I'm sure with Windows you also get Norton Antivirus, MS Office and other cool stuff like Winzip, Winamp Real Player and many other things. It would be trivial to repackage the whole thing to be reinstallable on any computer since you had all the CAB files.
Any lawyers on Slashdot care to correct me on this great idea the OP missed?
I can sense your bias towards PostgreSQL.
Now the PostgreSQL team doesnt consider MySQL competiton, but their supporters either DO consider it competition at least in the newbie market or just enjoy bashing MySQL.
I suggest MySQL to new users because it is simple to setup the first time. You dont have to go create a seperate database directory structure, fewer commands to initialize the database and the command lines need fewer arguments for the very first database for the joe user. I remember learning MySQL and PostgreSQL so I can claim that from my experience as well as many friends and foes online and in school.
Now you cannot ask a newbie who basically wants to learn SQL commands by practice, to install Oracle on a Solaris partition on an enterprise server, load balanced with other servers, to start learning SELECT, INSERT and CREATE TABLE constructs. Yes I know PostgreSQL is wonderful which is why I learned it and switched my demanding applications to it, but when I was starting out, I snooped around for the SIMPLEST and not the BEST, which included mSQL and MySQL.
I am currently distance-training 3 friends for web applications using PHP and MySQL on Linux. I cant wait to tell them about Websphere using DB2 on AIX on my RS6000, and running PostgreSQL under FreeBSD on my Sun Ultrasparc, but I need them to learn in a month and not be demotivated because they cannot start up the database the first day.
Thanks I'll look into it. Did you notice I dont have a degree and at least 5 years Canadian experience? Those I think are the minimum bar in Toronto.
Yeah I visit workopolis, monster and a couple others daily. My resume is all over the place.
Find a network card that is ill-supported in Linux and start working on it. See if you can find the card in used computer places and start tweaking the code.
A while ago when I was trying out a new kernel version I saw that one of the cards I had did not compile well. I dug into the code and saw a function name change was all that was required. I had to tweak another kernel a little to get it to compile under a new gcc version. No it didnt run well but it did compile and boot.
Just exploring like this and reading the kernel hackers guide driver guide and other things will give you a good handle on the internals, at least from the drivers perspective. Several month of kernel tweaking later, the vm, scheduler and the other stuff will become clear as you gain interest. However the market will be biggest for kernel ports to new architectures and drivers for newer network adapters. Keep your skills sharp there, build a portfolio and surf dice.com regularly.
Even though the article is about an improvement in the PostgreSQL community, the comments are mostly pgsql vs mysql. People in the bazaar need to have personal motivations to work on opensource projects, mostly to have something against Microsoft, but increasingly, it is becoming a series of team wars. Linux vs BSD, then we had KDE vs GNOME and now qmail vs postfix and mysql vs pgsql. More than a decade ago we had vi vs emacs and BSD vs SYSV.
What the posters here need to realize is that it is exactly this competition that is driving the projects. If MySQL was not given the press and did not have its cult following, we would not see this pace of development for pgsql. The developments for FreeBSD really improved to compete with Linux although their developers claim they are not competing... they do have the fear Linux will supplant them.
What is interesting to note is that in most of these project wars, both projects really survive and get two different niches of their own. This was true of bash vs csh, BSD vs SYSV, BSD vs Linux, KDE vs GNOME, and now MySQL will become the standard entry level database and pgsql the higher level.
I use pgsql because my databases have complicated requirements that MySQL cannot meet. Yet MySQL is the quick and dirty solution when I have to set things up fast. For all new learners I always suggest MySQL. For people thinking of replacing or duplicating their ERP systems, I always suggest pgsql. I even know how to program in sleepycat's db and know where it should replace mysql in smaller embedded systems and where the mysql license cannot be used.
I believe this competition is coming to a close since pgsql has taken a big lead over MySQL in features, and therefore made itself more difficult to deal with especially for newbies. All I can say about the postgresql replication is bravo, and hope MySQL doesnt follow suit so it remains the simple fast and easy database in its own niche.
Youre an MCSE calling yourself a 'pro' and feeling threatened by a high school PC repair kid who calls MCSEs 'pros'. And you're I presume trying to feed mouths with your MCSE. I admire that.
I'm an MCSE + MCSD + CCNA + LCA getting an RHCE soon, and still looking for work. And I'm barely a 'pro'. So if you're threatened by a high-schooler, take that as a message.
I have been doing this for the past 2 years as a part time job, assembling PCs for people, repairing, antivirus use, spyware removal, windows reinstall, Internet software install and the likes.
Tip # 1: On slashdot NEVER call MCSEs pros. I know many people who got their MCSEs during the Windows NT4 days and dont know how to use MS excel. Maybe you meant A+
Tip # 2: Never provide a warranty, and make sure they understand that. They cannot come back 6 months later with a bad driver and ask for free service because you didnt fix it right.
Tip # 3: Do not service Pentium1 and lower computers.
Tip # 4: Do not hand out drivers and ghost images of the users data. Let them come back to you with future problems. Learn something from microsoft.
Tip # 5: Build a reputation. When you have to install firewalls and servers in office locations, use Linux or BSD. You can put that on your resume.
Tip # 6: Dont rely on it as a major source of income. Get a degree, get the real certifications and years of experience, then tell all your clients you no longer work for them.
Forget the DLTs. Look for a college friend who is working at another company in the same city and is also assigned the task of backups. Give her a user account on your firewall get a user account on hers. Now setup perl scripts to encrypt the backup data on your site, bzip2 it and then transfer it to her site... and she should do the same for her site... swapping offsite space and gaining even a few GBs of space is quite enough for good backups. Just be sure your Internet connection does not come with download or upload caps.
Gigabit ethernet, and 10 gigabit ethernet both have it in their specs to accomodate 100 ethernet and 10 ethernet. Therefore 10 Tb ethernet will be called 10000000/1000000/100000/10000/1000/100/10Base T for the OTHER technologies included. The chip will be bigger unless its fancy FPGAing with the FPGA code downloaded from the driver.
So to sell it as Ethernet they have to make it compatible as such. Or to make things cheaper, they will have to settle on a different name to sell cheaper 10Tb cards only. Cheaper 10Tb cards will sell more than compatible ones.
A bunch of laptops and cellophane should be cool here for FPS games. Quake2 should be ported I suppose faster than hl+counterstrike.
But I'm curious how GTA1 would look on it, or even warcraft 3 characters.
being masculine and outdoing each other does not appeal to them as much.
Well dominating others is a basic human instict whether that is with a railgun or social skills. Outdoing each other is what women love to do.
I think they have it wrong. Playing mind games is not a subset of playing video games. This planet would be a great place to be if women in those numbers played games. The HIP culture would move from racy two-door booming modded cars to the best counterstrike and warcraft players.
Even including games like Sim Online and cell phone games doesnt give you stats like those. Remember EVERY kid under 16 in the western hemisphere plays video games.
But then, if you consider playing mind games in relationships, that about includes all women in the western hemisphere above 16. Hmm.
No it doesnt have to be compatible.
Think of the benefits of sleepycat DB versions as their architectures changed, it improved across incompatible version.
QT is nice and sweet as it is, we dont need too many changes too fast. Programmers are now getting really used to QT3, dont EXACTLY need a version 4 with a different interface to start learning.
Of course if they're slimming it up more and making it faster (like FLTK) without adding too much other stuff, adding more database drivers and porting to more architecures, well its worth it.
Want a GUI based UNIX? Get BeOS. For everything else, theres BSD and Linux. Have this unbearable itch to pay cash? Got AIX and Solaris.
Plan 9 is and will always be too immature. The directory system is a departure from the tried and tested (and gotten used to) UNIX hier, and quite honestly, I dont see anything else new there. The niches have already been filled.
Now if people talked about freeing BeOS from the clutches of Palm (like paying for blender), I would be heck of a lot more interested. BeOS is exactly the OS everyone needs right now, a kind of Linux with a really good GUI strapped on top. Beautiful FS and networking and a SINGLE package system.