I wish they had published this one, because it is just too easy to bite in...
"Gordon Benett, Aberdeen Group analyst, in his October 2001 article,"... " What's wrong with an analyst asserting his opinion and a vendor leveraging it to gain competitive advantage? First, the analyst opinion is unfounded and, as it happens, flat out wrong."
Well, to begin with that explains why they took that passage out, because it would otherwise have been a passage of an analyst asserting his opinion and a leveraging it to gain competitive advantage: The exact point he's trying to convey as being wrong (the pot/kettle effect). As if the Aberdeen Group doesn't have very big vested pro-MS interests, ok sure, yeah.
And huh? Since when can a opinion be right or wrong. I'm not a linguist, and english is not my first language either, but as far as I know an opinion is not a fact, but is it a subjective assertion, which is incapable of possessing the property of being either right or wrong.
But it gets better:
"But even if it had a modicum of merit, steering the market away from Microsoft in the wake of cyber-terrorist actions would be grossly wrong-headed."
Besides the more than modicum of merit represented by the overall and detailed security track record of Apache versus IIS... Tell me again, who had the unfounded opinions?
You're one of the early adopters I guess. Obviously, the extension is a result of great planning, because now they are in perfect shape for the next official name change, when they find a reason not to like firefox anymore...
It's TCP and port 6881 through 6889 for optimum performance (even though I must say that I usually only see port 6881 connections, but maybe the other ports are in case you have multiple torrent clients running in parallel). If you don't have the ports open & forwarded, you bittorrent may still work but be a lot slower. When I run bittorrent on the wrong machine (the one that doesn't get the forwarded ports) I usually get only 10KB/s, but on the machine that gets the forwarded ports it takes a minute of two and then fully saturates my incoming bandwidth.
About the 'can't seem to bind' message you would want: The bittorrent client doesn't know if your router doesn't forward the ports, because the binding to it is successful. It just never gets any incoming connections on those sockets...
On another note, I think bittorrent is a really nice idea, and I would like to see if somebody can modify it so that it can work with smaller files, and then integrate it in "apt-get" so that the 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and friends can download from each other's.deb repositories (with md5sum verification from the main repository of course)
How does this compare to OpenSSI? OPenSSI is nice because of the single system image approach, that makes administration very simple. AFAIK, an OpenSSI cluster also supports PVM and MPI in addition to exec and run-time load balancing (a'la mosix).
OpenSSI has a lot of "HA-" support, including support for various clustered filesystems, failover of network interfaces across nodes, and failover of the first node (hopefully soon without needing shared SCSI storage but using something like drbd).
Or CNN/HNN, NBC/CNBC, FoxNews, and ABCNews TV blurp compatible: "New Open Source DVD format released! More after these messages" and ten minutes later "Open Source DVD ready to strike down Microsoft! More after these messages", then minutes later "Open Source DVDs in shops soon? More after these messages", and later "Would you buy Open Source DVDs? Go to our website to participate in our on-line poll. We have the results after these messages", and "Motion picture industry unsure about open source DVDs. We have an interview with a representative of the MPAA after these messages", and "Will open source DVDs reduce the amount of junk email on your computer? More after these message", etc., etc., never actually getting to the details and facts...
(btw, MPAA, is that like the AAA but then for movie breakdowns, or is it the motion picture division of AA?)
Yes naffer, this guy is not kidding. Many people are even impressing absolute non-technical people with that fantastic livecd. Get the ISO image, burn it to a CDROM, reboot from it, and voila! Linux.
Transatlantic flights are pretty long, and if your wait before takeoff is long (connecting flight, delays, etc), then it can be very handy to have the laptop fully charged when you enter the plane, hence find an outlet in the airport and plug in while you do your last bit of documentation/email/wireless internet/watch dvds/games/whatever at the gate. So unless you don't mind not using that laptop much (?) I suggest bringing outlet adapters for all airports you travel through.
Which takes me to the point where I can't really see many travelling people buying those laptops with 17" screens. They must be impossibly heavy to travel with and wil _never_ fit in a coach seat (together with a person that is). Maybe they'll make you buy an extra ticket for the laptop if you lug a beast like that.
What I was trying to say that I havent seen one of those 'truly reusable spacecraft' yet, and maybe the shuttle taught us that it is not possible to make such a thing that actually saves money. Technical details such as limits on materials and temperatures and other stresses may make it impossible to make the '747 equivalent' reusable space vehicle.
"they didn't just smash into bits -- they basically atomized each other."
Atomized means it became a plasmacloud that by the time it cools down it may recombine to a gas. Harmless particles much smaller than paint chips. So what's the problem?
"If and when private companies build reusable spacecraft that can carry a GPS satellite, the cost of GPS will go down a lot."
Given the cost of a shuttle launch in comparison with Atlas and Delta launches, I haven't seen the proof yet of a cost savings by using a reusable launch vehicle.
By the way, it's the space elevator and space tethers that bets are being taken on for cheap launches these days.
Maybe they should rename it MS-GPS, because then suddenly most people won't mind the single provider issue, and better yet they wouldn't mind any reliability problems... They could even make it much more expensive and require all GPS receivers to regularly 'call home' to check for "software updates", and people still won't mind.
So they were too lazy to write a different 'enter amount' subroutine for withdrawing and as a result _everybody_ has to enter the two zeroes _every time_ they use an ATM to get money? That is nuts.
Ah, so the Unisys machines run Openserver. I guess Darl was not sucking that one out of his thumb then. But now that NASDAQ wants to migrate that to Linux, should they brace for a lawsuit too?
Darl: "several dozen requests a month just to come in and see AIX or HP-UX code base."
Didn't they ask IBM to show them the AIX source in their case against IBM? Then what is this about?
Maybe this was the interview where he had to prove to the rest of the 'gang' that he was capable of lying through his teeth without blinking?
Actually, googling around this article a little, extrapolating the trend: Will he sue the US Courts for migrating to Linux next? (btw wouldn't that be some sort of chicken-and-egg problem (ergo very likely for SCO to do)?)
Darl: "NASDAQ, for example, runs all of the trading machines in their brokerages on OpenServer."
Oh, and the trade 'floor' that lists their stock, NASDAQ too? Actually in that article NASDAQ "wants to eliminate the company's Unisys Corp. mainframes and migrate the trading-floor functions that run on those machines" and "Nasdaq currently uses about 300 Unix servers running a mix of HP's Tru64 and HP-UX operating systems as well as Sun's Solaris". I see mentions of Unisys, HP Tru64, HP-UX, and Solaris: Where is the SCO OpenServer that Darl was speaking about? Not mentioned, so not even close to OpenServer on 'all of the trading machines', likely even none at all, given the specific mention of Unisys for trading functions...
" profiting off the work of the Mozilla collective, without contributing anything back. That goes against the spirit and the letter of the project. Please correct me if I'm wrong."
Spirit, probably, but agains the letter of the project? If that were true, then the license would have to have a part that specifically states that the license is only valid if you either not profit from using the product, or give stuff back...
If the artwork of the firebird browser is not covered by the same open source license as the source code, then the browser as a is not free (libre) software. If they restrict the artwork to 'only be used in the mozilla browser', then that artwork is not libre. It's the same as that the last versions of the netscape browser were not libre, even though they contained a lot of the same code as mozilla. simple and clear.
If we're lucky, they will actually be able to hire a lot of good engineers to review all those patent applications. So that in the end, after all the outsourcing, and more and more lawyers applying for patents for business politics reasons (baystar?), all us engineers will be employed by the USPTO reviewing the deluge of patent applications of the local lawyers plus the outsourced engineers...
Of course, 'lucky' in this context is only true for those who can manage reading the patent application texts without falling asleep or going crazy...
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Well, he says "you can almost think of it as being free", which, for him as a multibillionair is not really that strange of a thing to say...
But for the rest of us non-multibillionaires hardware will still cost hard-earned money.
I wish they had published this one, because it is just too easy to bite in...
... " What's wrong with an analyst asserting his opinion and a vendor leveraging it to gain competitive advantage? First, the analyst opinion is unfounded and, as it happens, flat out wrong."
"Gordon Benett, Aberdeen Group analyst, in his October 2001 article,"
Well, to begin with that explains why they took that passage out, because it would otherwise have been a passage of an analyst asserting his opinion and a leveraging it to gain competitive advantage: The exact point he's trying to convey as being wrong (the pot/kettle effect). As if the Aberdeen Group doesn't have very big vested pro-MS interests, ok sure, yeah.
And huh? Since when can a opinion be right or wrong. I'm not a linguist, and english is not my first language either, but as far as I know an opinion is not a fact, but is it a subjective assertion, which is incapable of possessing the property of being either right or wrong.
But it gets better:
"But even if it had a modicum of merit, steering the market away from Microsoft in the wake of cyber-terrorist actions would be grossly wrong-headed."
Besides the more than modicum of merit represented by the overall and detailed security track record of Apache versus IIS... Tell me again, who had the unfounded opinions?
Wow.
In some densely populated countries, it takes more than 30 years just to plan and build a new road...
So if they can terraform Mars in, say, 300 years I think that will be a pretty amazing achievement.
I wish to nominate this for the funniest /. posting of March 2004 award.
There you go. Isn't that nice?
You're one of the early adopters I guess. Obviously, the extension is a result of great planning, because now they are in perfect shape for the next official name change, when they find a reason not to like firefox anymore...
Nah, remember why the dolfins are smarter than people: They don't worry about things like that, they just have fun and play in the water.
It's TCP and port 6881 through 6889 for optimum performance (even though I must say that I usually only see port 6881 connections, but maybe the other ports are in case you have multiple torrent clients running in parallel). If you don't have the ports open & forwarded, you bittorrent may still work but be a lot slower. When I run bittorrent on the wrong machine (the one that doesn't get the forwarded ports) I usually get only 10KB/s, but on the machine that gets the forwarded ports it takes a minute of two and then fully saturates my incoming bandwidth.
.deb repositories (with md5sum verification from the main repository of course)
About the 'can't seem to bind' message you would want: The bittorrent client doesn't know if your router doesn't forward the ports, because the binding to it is successful. It just never gets any incoming connections on those sockets...
On another note, I think bittorrent is a really nice idea, and I would like to see if somebody can modify it so that it can work with smaller files, and then integrate it in "apt-get" so that the 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and friends can download from each other's
How does this compare to OpenSSI? OPenSSI is nice because of the single system image approach, that makes administration very simple. AFAIK, an OpenSSI cluster also supports PVM and MPI in addition to exec and run-time load balancing (a'la mosix).
OpenSSI has a lot of "HA-" support, including support for various clustered filesystems, failover of network interfaces across nodes, and failover of the first node (hopefully soon without needing shared SCSI storage but using something like drbd).
Or CNN/HNN, NBC/CNBC, FoxNews, and ABCNews TV blurp compatible: "New Open Source DVD format released! More after these messages" and ten minutes later "Open Source DVD ready to strike down Microsoft! More after these messages", then minutes later "Open Source DVDs in shops soon? More after these messages", and later "Would you buy Open Source DVDs? Go to our website to participate in our on-line poll. We have the results after these messages", and "Motion picture industry unsure about open source DVDs. We have an interview with a representative of the MPAA after these messages", and "Will open source DVDs reduce the amount of junk email on your computer? More after these message", etc., etc., never actually getting to the details and facts...
(btw, MPAA, is that like the AAA but then for movie breakdowns, or is it the motion picture division of AA?)
Yes naffer, this guy is not kidding. Many people are even impressing absolute non-technical people with that fantastic livecd. Get the ISO image, burn it to a CDROM, reboot from it, and voila! Linux.
Transatlantic flights are pretty long, and if your wait before takeoff is long (connecting flight, delays, etc), then it can be very handy to have the laptop fully charged when you enter the plane, hence find an outlet in the airport and plug in while you do your last bit of documentation/email/wireless internet/watch dvds/games/whatever at the gate. So unless you don't mind not using that laptop much (?) I suggest bringing outlet adapters for all airports you travel through.
Which takes me to the point where I can't really see many travelling people buying those laptops with 17" screens. They must be impossibly heavy to travel with and wil _never_ fit in a coach seat (together with a person that is). Maybe they'll make you buy an extra ticket for the laptop if you lug a beast like that.
What I was trying to say that I havent seen one of those 'truly reusable spacecraft' yet, and maybe the shuttle taught us that it is not possible to make such a thing that actually saves money. Technical details such as limits on materials and temperatures and other stresses may make it impossible to make the '747 equivalent' reusable space vehicle.
"they didn't just smash into bits -- they basically atomized each other."
Atomized means it became a plasmacloud that by the time it cools down it may recombine to a gas. Harmless particles much smaller than paint chips. So what's the problem?
"If and when private companies build reusable spacecraft that can carry a GPS satellite, the cost of GPS will go down a lot."
Given the cost of a shuttle launch in comparison with Atlas and Delta launches, I haven't seen the proof yet of a cost savings by using a reusable launch vehicle.
By the way, it's the space elevator and space tethers that bets are being taken on for cheap launches these days.
Maybe they should rename it MS-GPS, because then suddenly most people won't mind the single provider issue, and better yet they wouldn't mind any reliability problems... They could even make it much more expensive and require all GPS receivers to regularly 'call home' to check for "software updates", and people still won't mind.
So they were too lazy to write a different 'enter amount' subroutine for withdrawing and as a result _everybody_ has to enter the two zeroes _every time_ they use an ATM to get money? That is nuts.
Ah, so the Unisys machines run Openserver. I guess Darl was not sucking that one out of his thumb then. But now that NASDAQ wants to migrate that to Linux, should they brace for a lawsuit too?
"And C++ programming languages, we own those,"
Geesh. parent poster was not kidding.
Darl: "several dozen requests a month just to come in and see AIX or HP-UX code base."
Didn't they ask IBM to show them the AIX source in their case against IBM? Then what is this about?
Maybe this was the interview where he had to prove to the rest of the 'gang' that he was capable of lying through his teeth without blinking?
Actually, googling around this article a little, extrapolating the trend: Will he sue the US Courts for migrating to Linux next? (btw wouldn't that be some sort of chicken-and-egg problem (ergo very likely for SCO to do)?)
Darl: "NASDAQ, for example, runs all of the trading machines in their brokerages on OpenServer."
Oh, and the trade 'floor' that lists their stock, NASDAQ too? Actually in that article NASDAQ "wants to eliminate the company's Unisys Corp. mainframes and migrate the trading-floor functions that run on those machines" and "Nasdaq currently uses about 300 Unix servers running a mix of HP's Tru64 and HP-UX operating systems as well as Sun's Solaris". I see mentions of Unisys, HP Tru64, HP-UX, and Solaris: Where is the SCO OpenServer that Darl was speaking about? Not mentioned, so not even close to OpenServer on 'all of the trading machines', likely even none at all, given the specific mention of Unisys for trading functions...
I do not use pocket PC because it battery drains that fast. My palm works 11 hours on end before it needs a charge.
Too many manufacturers seem to think that a 1 to 3 hour continuous usage is good enough for a pda...
The Bastards!
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Right.
From the article: "In securing the PC, the cME creates a hidden partition which Windows cannot access "
Yeah right, and that will stick. Hidden partitions, yeah, those are _impossible_ to access.
Talk about the textbook example of (in-) security through obscurity.
Geesh.
"Worse, you can't even call a modified version "Firefox" anymore? That's a problem!"
Just keep calling it Firebird then, I'm sure the database people won't mind.
But they are making it more complicated by distributing open source software with restricted-use proprietary pictures in it...
" profiting off the work of the Mozilla collective, without contributing anything back. That goes against the spirit and the letter of the project. Please correct me if I'm wrong."
Spirit, probably, but agains the letter of the project? If that were true, then the license would have to have a part that specifically states that the license is only valid if you either not profit from using the product, or give stuff back...
If the artwork of the firebird browser is not covered by the same open source license as the source code, then the browser as a is not free (libre) software. If they restrict the artwork to 'only be used in the mozilla browser', then that artwork is not libre. It's the same as that the last versions of the netscape browser were not libre, even though they contained a lot of the same code as mozilla. simple and clear.
If we're lucky, they will actually be able to hire a lot of good engineers to review all those patent applications. So that in the end, after all the outsourcing, and more and more lawyers applying for patents for business politics reasons (baystar?), all us engineers will be employed by the USPTO reviewing the deluge of patent applications of the local lawyers plus the outsourced engineers...
Of course, 'lucky' in this context is only true for those who can manage reading the patent application texts without falling asleep or going crazy...