Within a week, Darl will be equating Linux developers with virus writers - "both are called hackers and both hate me" he'll say and some 'respectable' journalists will report it as true.
I've a 10 and 8 year old who play Warcraft and Age of Mythology. My fix it to let them do what they want and accept the consequences it the system broke. Sure enough it wouldn't boot after a few months.
Rather than rush to fix it, I spent a week doing nothing but said I "was doing research into how to fix the problem." The 1 week without games was sufficiently traumatic that there's been no problem since.
If I understand this Cringely article correctly,.Net will make Microsoft hardware independent - I, Cringely
All of the MS products are being rewritten to be based on.Net. ISVs are being pushed towards.Net. In the case of VB developers, they simply don;t have a choice. For C++ developers, MS is constantly selling us the manageed C++ mantra. Even game developers are getting the.NEt pitch.
If Mono works, then Microsofts own products, those of independent system developers and popular games will all be just as good on Linux, OSX, etc. as they will be on Windows.
That should make MS very nervous. Go Miguel!
If you tell them the truth, they will fire you. You work for buttheads. If you work really, really hard, they will not be sued for their stupidity. Of course that assumes they don't fire you.
Why do you care? Shut up! Take your wages. If that bothers you, find a new job.
PS - if you do talk to your boss and you do get fired, how many years will you be out of work while he's still being paid his salary. think about it - who hires a sysadmin fired for security concerns.
Very unfair point. The girl at OSNews produces 3 to 4 stories about operating systems a day. Of course a lot of them are trivial - lets face facts - big news in the OS world happens once every year or so. Are we really saying she shoudl only update the site twice yearly?
Apple's biggest mistake was hiring a guy who cared nothing about computers and making him CEO. Its impossible for a techie company to be led and motivated by someone who doesn't care about techie issues. Sculley was great at marketing - but marketing only works if you have a good product.
Joel Spolksy has some articles on why Microsoft succeeded. In most cases, MS simply did nothing stupid while its competitors committed corporate suicide. Hiring someone like Scully who even now doesn't "get it" was Apple throwing away its soul and it did come close to being the death of the company.
Tony Blair may be pro-Microsoft but each department has its own budget and makes its own IT decisions. I've seen invitations to tender that specifically require programs to be COM based which makes it a MS easy win. Others require that the supplier have reference sites in the Government already (easy for EDS and Accenture) while others look for a fit with existing Linux/Apache skills. Tony Blair loves Microsoft but open source is alive and well in the UK public services.
All corporations are worth nothing without paying customers. Without Joe Sixpack and his credit cards, the US economy would grind to a halt.
But Joe won't spend a penny if he knows a robot will replace him at work. Once corporate income falls, the concentration of wealth become a concentration of people with excessive mortgages. All those super-rich 10% living off dividends will end up poor and broke.
Bring it on! Now if only we could find robots to replace lawyers we could be on the wat to Nirvana...
The logic in the link is that since we can prove lice that live on clothes evolved 100,000 ago, then clothing must have emerged about 100,000 ago.
Wrong - evolution is _slow_. It could as easily have taken a million years for the lice to make the jump from hair to cloth. In the intervening period, man would have had clothing without clothing-specific lice. So the 100,000 guessat at in the article cannot be right.
I dual-booted Debian and Gentoo thinking I would migrate completely to Gentoo for desktop use and Debian for servers. Galeon on Debian was way faster. In the end, I got fed up of compiling and re-compiling X and stuff trying various gcc switches. Debian is fast enough to make sitting about wiating for stuff to comlile a waste of time. And apt-get is every bit as good as emerge.
Al Quaida have carried another attack. 3000 dead. FBI agents plan to carry out a full investigation shortly after they jail 14 year old Tommy who is suspected of piracy and crimes against public decency. "Sicko baby" said Officer Pat "He was redistibuting filth, including a full Madonna CD. Makes me want to vomit." Asked to comment on the new Al Quaida atrocity, Pat said "Its just another couple of planes. Been there and seen that before. First, we gotta take down Suzy in Queens first - word on the street is that she's sharing hard-core Justin Timberlake! We gotta protect the kids from that threat."
Welome to the land of the free and home of the brave.
I worked for a wireless Interent start-up. The problem was not the technology itself. Its that there are no real uses. I mean, who cares that you can stream video on your mobile phone? Who is dumb enough to pay for it?
IMO, Wi-fi has removed all the need for umts. The mobile phone operators should concentrate on making voice work better, especially in the US where coverage and incompatible networks are a joke.
There is a strong first mover advantage to Internet applications. For example, if you want to create a online shop, there are loads of free apps, tutorials and useful mailing lists for php/mysql. There are a lot less for php/postgresql. Almost none for php/sap-db.
Unless you are a software genius, the sensible choice is the one with most support in the community. Think perl, mysql.
This creates a network effect that your expertise gets added to the pool of knowledge and thus that pool becomes even more inviting.
Taken to the next step, you see fine languages like Python and fine databases like PostgreSQL fall behind in terms of support because their pool of expertise comes from a smaller number of users. But they do fine because there are so many developers out there who love them. These tools thrive with a a certain "less popular but more excellent" feel.
Sadly, if a third player comes along some years later, then they will have a very hard time getting a following big enough to generate the pool of expertise that leads to having lots of applications. Think Ruby, SAP-DB.
And its applications that determine popularity.
That is the short answer to the question - waht is holding SAP-DB back. Excellence isn't everything - being first on the scene gives huge advantages. And they were nowhere near first...
Where I work, if someone showed up with a Dreamcast and plugged it into our network, the poor sap would be fired before you can say "choo choo rockets".
Now I had thought that was a reflection of the mean streak in management.
Now I learn that its a security precaution. That's alright then.
You see this swarming at the track all the time. The thing that gets me is the way people at the track get their tips on the mobile phone and you can see the bookies odds simply collapse on the latest 'favorite.' Makes it clear that you are either 'im' or 'out' and if you are not 'in' don't bet!
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I have 2 problems with this article:
1. He keeps talking about how Linux has faster GUIs than Windows. I dual boot and it seems that Win2k is faster and snappier than KDE or GNOME. Even simple things like putting icons on the desktop are faster and easier on the win2k partition. This isn't a criticism - I like Gnome. PC hardware is made to run Windows and PC manufacturers compete by running Windows faster. So its not a big surporise that Windows runs nice and fast. But an inaccuracy about something as basic as this makes most of what he says suspect.
2. He seems to think that existing GUIs don't work. They do - that's why people choose them. That's why the KDE and Gnome teams develop that way. They know what kind of UI they like and are rolling their own. And if they are wrong, where are the unhappy users suggesting some alternative? Where are the developers abandoning KDE/Gnome to work on something that's a whole generation better? Nowhere because the existing GUI works. You see - you point - you click. How are you gonna make that simpler?
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Within a week, Darl will be equating Linux developers with virus writers - "both are called hackers and both hate me" he'll say and some 'respectable' journalists will report it as true.
I've a 10 and 8 year old who play Warcraft and Age of Mythology. My fix it to let them do what they want and accept the consequences it the system broke. Sure enough it wouldn't boot after a few months.
Rather than rush to fix it, I spent a week doing nothing but said I "was doing research into how to fix the problem." The 1 week without games was sufficiently traumatic that there's been no problem since.
All of the MS products are being rewritten to be based on .Net. ISVs are being pushed towards .Net. In the case of VB developers, they simply don;t have a choice. For C++ developers, MS is constantly selling us the manageed C++ mantra. Even game developers are getting the .NEt pitch.
If Mono works, then Microsofts own products, those of independent system developers and popular games will all be just as good on Linux, OSX, etc. as they will be on Windows. That should make MS very nervous. Go Miguel!
If you want a practical service it MUST be port 25. If you can't offer port 25, either you need to use someone else's smtp server or to change ISP.
If you tell them the truth, they will fire you. You work for buttheads. If you work really, really hard, they will not be sued for their stupidity. Of course that assumes they don't fire you.
Why do you care? Shut up! Take your wages. If that bothers you, find a new job.
PS - if you do talk to your boss and you do get fired, how many years will you be out of work while he's still being paid his salary. think about it - who hires a sysadmin fired for security concerns.
What next? Are we going to see up to the minute reports on the mailing list traffic?
Very unfair point. The girl at OSNews produces 3 to 4 stories about operating systems a day. Of course a lot of them are trivial - lets face facts - big news in the OS world happens once every year or so. Are we really saying she shoudl only update the site twice yearly?
This produces a tiny amount of power but it could be ideal for things like TV remotes, wireless mice, garage door controls, etc.
Sure its being hyped a bit there is a lot of potential here.
I thought all this was where reiserfs was going?
GSM starts in Ireland and runs in a smooth band of contnuous service until you reach Korea.
Contrast with Us where phones you buy in Chicago don't work in Michagan. What a joke.
...lets all go down the newsagents and steal copies of Forbes magazine.
Silly article by a silly magazine that is propped up by ads from closed source It vendors.
Sun is an investor in SCO and hasn't said a word in defence in free software either in Java or Linux terms.
Who's calling who a traitor?
Joel Spolksy has some articles on why Microsoft succeeded. In most cases, MS simply did nothing stupid while its competitors committed corporate suicide. Hiring someone like Scully who even now doesn't "get it" was Apple throwing away its soul and it did come close to being the death of the company.
Tony Blair may be pro-Microsoft but each department has its own budget and makes its own IT decisions. I've seen invitations to tender that specifically require programs to be COM based which makes it a MS easy win. Others require that the supplier have reference sites in the Government already (easy for EDS and Accenture) while others look for a fit with existing Linux/Apache skills. Tony Blair loves Microsoft but open source is alive and well in the UK public services.
All corporations are worth nothing without paying customers. Without Joe Sixpack and his credit cards, the US economy would grind to a halt.
But Joe won't spend a penny if he knows a robot will replace him at work. Once corporate income falls, the concentration of wealth become a concentration of people with excessive mortgages. All those super-rich 10% living off dividends will end up poor and broke.
Bring it on! Now if only we could find robots to replace lawyers we could be on the wat to Nirvana...
The logic in the link is that since we can prove lice that live on clothes evolved 100,000 ago, then clothing must have emerged about 100,000 ago.
Wrong - evolution is _slow_. It could as easily have taken a million years for the lice to make the jump from hair to cloth. In the intervening period, man would have had clothing without clothing-specific lice. So the 100,000 guessat at in the article cannot be right.
I dual-booted Debian and Gentoo thinking I would migrate completely to Gentoo for desktop use and Debian for servers. Galeon on Debian was way faster. In the end, I got fed up of compiling and re-compiling X and stuff trying various gcc switches. Debian is fast enough to make sitting about wiating for stuff to comlile a waste of time. And apt-get is every bit as good as emerge.
The whole idea of a bill in congress is to change the law. That is the point o fthe story.
Al Quaida have carried another attack. 3000 dead. FBI agents plan to carry out a full investigation shortly after they jail 14 year old Tommy who is suspected of piracy and crimes against public decency. "Sicko baby" said Officer Pat "He was redistibuting filth, including a full Madonna CD. Makes me want to vomit." Asked to comment on the new Al Quaida atrocity, Pat said "Its just another couple of planes. Been there and seen that before. First, we gotta take down Suzy in Queens first - word on the street is that she's sharing hard-core Justin Timberlake! We gotta protect the kids from that threat."
Welome to the land of the free and home of the brave.
I worked for a wireless Interent start-up. The problem was not the technology itself. Its that there are no real uses. I mean, who cares that you can stream video on your mobile phone? Who is dumb enough to pay for it?
IMO, Wi-fi has removed all the need for umts. The mobile phone operators should concentrate on making voice work better, especially in the US where coverage and incompatible networks are a joke.
There is a strong first mover advantage to Internet applications. For example, if you want to create a online shop, there are loads of free apps, tutorials and useful mailing lists for php/mysql. There are a lot less for php/postgresql. Almost none for php/sap-db.
Unless you are a software genius, the sensible choice is the one with most support in the community. Think perl, mysql.
This creates a network effect that your expertise gets added to the pool of knowledge and thus that pool becomes even more inviting.
Taken to the next step, you see fine languages like Python and fine databases like PostgreSQL fall behind in terms of support because their pool of expertise comes from a smaller number of users. But they do fine because there are so many developers out there who love them. These tools thrive with a a certain "less popular but more excellent" feel.
Sadly, if a third player comes along some years later, then they will have a very hard time getting a following big enough to generate the pool of expertise that leads to having lots of applications. Think Ruby, SAP-DB.
And its applications that determine popularity.
That is the short answer to the question - waht is holding SAP-DB back. Excellence isn't everything - being first on the scene gives huge advantages. And they were nowhere near first...
Patrick
Where I work, if someone showed up with a Dreamcast and plugged it into our network, the poor sap would be fired before you can say "choo choo rockets".
Now I had thought that was a reflection of the mean streak in management.
Now I learn that its a security precaution. That's alright then.
Patrick
Bill,
Scott and Larry said you would like to know about this.
Are you tired of churning Hotmail accounts due to spam? Have you ever found yourself wondering if others have inside tips that are holding your back?
Wonder no more. I have the answer. Move Hotmail to Debian Linux, type 'apt-get install spamassassin razor' and your problems will be solved.
Send your credit card details now to pay for my $0.02 worth.
Patrick
You see this swarming at the track all the time. The thing that gets me is the way people at the track get their tips on the mobile phone and you can see the bookies odds simply collapse on the latest 'favorite.' Makes it clear that you are either 'im' or 'out' and if you are not 'in' don't bet!
I have 2 problems with this article:
1. He keeps talking about how Linux has faster GUIs than Windows. I dual boot and it seems that Win2k is faster and snappier than KDE or GNOME. Even simple things like putting icons on the desktop are faster and easier on the win2k partition. This isn't a criticism - I like Gnome. PC hardware is made to run Windows and PC manufacturers compete by running Windows faster. So its not a big surporise that Windows runs nice and fast. But an inaccuracy about something as basic as this makes most of what he says suspect.
2. He seems to think that existing GUIs don't work. They do - that's why people choose them. That's why the KDE and Gnome teams develop that way. They know what kind of UI they like and are rolling their own. And if they are wrong, where are the unhappy users suggesting some alternative? Where are the developers abandoning KDE/Gnome to work on something that's a whole generation better? Nowhere because the existing GUI works. You see - you point - you click. How are you gonna make that simpler?
Pointless article if you ask me.