From the department of wishful thinking: Gartner, please debunk yourself as anything other than a PHB-opinion-bolstering old boys club. I battle the Powers That Be here constantly - any proposal is met with "well what does Gartner say about it?". Take your magic quadrant, and... well, you know. If everyone waits for everyone else's opinion before they can make a decision, no wonder we have organizations with forms to change forms, where Dilbert stories are all true, and employees read Slashdot all day instead of working (because 50% of their projects won't go anywhere, and the other 50% of their projects are pending some approval process or another).
Gartner is just a multiplicity of Dvoraks, all groupthinking what the Next Big Thing is.
Jobs: Our stuff is better than yours. Bill: What? Jobs: Our stuff is better, Bill. Bill: Steve, you just don't get it. (exit)
MS will win. It will be bundled in every version of WinCraP that sells on every shitty $399 PC at Best Buy, and Joe Walmart will suck it up like the sheep that he is. A handful of geeks crying out on Slashdot will do nothing to stem the tide.
Then clearly you've never worked on real hardware, and a real operating system. Try AIX on the IBM p series frames. Dynamically allocating as little as.1 of a hard CPU to a logical partition, partitions dynamically robbing each other of RAM and CPU as load conditions change, the ability to move logical partitions to other physical frames. THAT is real computing, not this VMWare and chroot shit.
SEE the obnoxious scrabbling for page views! WITNESS the lack of any technical knowledge! CURSE yourself for having read their articles! POST on Slashdot about how they're losers!
How is this a troll? The FAA is considering banning cell phone usage on airplanes, since attackers could use it to coordinate hijackings. Uncle Sam is the one with the tinfoil hat.
Rather, how long before the nice Men in Black show up at their door, confiscate the code, throw them all in jail, and get Con-gress to pass a law against this sort of thing, on the grounds that it could be used to ADVANCE bioterrorism?
Ah, the old excluded middle fallacy with a little tu quoque thrown in for good measure. Good ol' Slashdot. When I'm with my friends, and they ask if I want a copy of a CD, I say no. If they ask if I want a copy of Photoshop, I say no.
If I was hosting a computer-related function, and my friends were swapping software, I'd ask them to leave.
What I do or do not do is irrelevant to the OP, and irrelevant to the morality of copying software.
This isn't over by a long shot. The MPAA took a gamble, based on what they thought they had in Congress, and lost. They won't make the same mistake twice. Look for subtle changes in the "new and improved" DMCA, COPA and its children, and other roundabout ways to implement the same thing. Heck, some US banks are even using the DMCA against phishers now - after all, you're abusing their copyright, aren't you? It will happen, its only a matter of time, unless the MPAA and RIAA are rendered toothless by a change in consumer habits.
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Why troll? Why equate the power of the dollar with the power of the gun?
You mean the Google Mini, the latest incarnation of their Intranet search appliance thats been available for a year now? Nice to see InformationWeek being timely.
Not to jump on the LVM bandwagon, but these days, if you're not using LVM, especially for a server you care about, then you're behind the times. Talking about VGs is the proper parlance, rather than discussing simple individual disks, like some basement haxor.
Why the troll about individualism? Where are the moderators? Oh right, this is Slashdot, where I'll be modded down for pointing this out, but 'shanen' gets a +3, In-fucking-sightful.
Having battled fonts in the Linux desktop myself, I have sympathy. I'll even admit that I was defeated. However Slashdot isn't really the best place for this because: You mention a particular distro You mention your favorite font You mention KDE _and_ GNOME
You realize that this will whip all the trolls, flamers, fanboys and shills into a complete frenzy, don't you?
I, for one, expect the S/N ratio of this whole thread to be 0.0001
Why do we care what mail client or webserver you use? Rice is not the solution to everything. You're illustrating my point - more is not always more. Just use decent DNS servers, like the AC above has mentioned.
Everyone knows that Linux certs (or almost all certs for that matter) are useless, so how is this News? My last job interview:
Interviewer: tell me about your Unix experience Me: well, I've adminned about 50 Solaris boxes all over the country, and I've been running my own domain on 2 Linux machines since 1997, and never been hacked. [insert lengthy discussion of the coolness of nscd here] Interviewer: You're hired.
Certs are an extension of the Microsoft mentality - if you keep repeating something, eventually people believe it (Developers! Developers! Developers!). The more people who buy into the cert racket, the more PHBs are going to (mistakenly) base critical decisions on what certified people say, often to their detriment.
Say you have an old P5 machine with some big HDs in it that you use as a server. Dump it, put the drives into external USB cases, and sneakernet the backups. Do you really need a whole box sucking up space, juice and cooling? You don't need a *nix firewall, so dump that, and free yourself from kernel tweaking, 'emerge all', 'build world' and all that jazz whenever you score a new wireless network adapter for it. Get a $29 wireless CompUSA brand router, and be done with it. You don't really need a local caching DNS server. You don't really need a local SMTP server. Ditto for Squid. Your domain, which you bootleg onto your cable connection, and maintain DNS with a bunch of Perl scripts and DynDNS.org - host it on a virtual server somewhere for $9 a month, and you can unplug even more things. We have 2 PCs - XP and 2000, a wireless router/4port-hub, and a printer hooked to a jetdirect. Even the scanner sits on a shelf until needed.
Do you do so much hacking at home that you really NEED a cluster under your desk? That old Ultra1 you got from the dumpster at work... guess what, its not useful.
Simplify, my son. The path to TRUE wisdom is knowing what you need, and not one piece of cruft more.
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From the department of wishful thinking:
Gartner, please debunk yourself as anything other than a PHB-opinion-bolstering old boys club. I battle the Powers That Be here constantly - any proposal is met with "well what does Gartner say about it?". Take your magic quadrant, and... well, you know.
If everyone waits for everyone else's opinion before they can make a decision, no wonder we have organizations with forms to change forms, where Dilbert stories are all true, and employees read Slashdot all day instead of working (because 50% of their projects won't go anywhere, and the other 50% of their projects are pending some approval process or another).
Gartner is just a multiplicity of Dvoraks, all groupthinking what the Next Big Thing is.
at the end:
Jobs: Our stuff is better than yours.
Bill: What?
Jobs: Our stuff is better, Bill.
Bill: Steve, you just don't get it. (exit)
MS will win. It will be bundled in every version of WinCraP that sells on every shitty $399 PC at Best Buy, and Joe Walmart will suck it up like the sheep that he is. A handful of geeks crying out on Slashdot will do nothing to stem the tide.
Then clearly you've never worked on real hardware, and a real operating system. Try AIX on the IBM p series frames. Dynamically allocating as little as .1 of a hard CPU to a logical partition, partitions dynamically robbing each other of RAM and CPU as load conditions change, the ability to move logical partitions to other physical frames. THAT is real computing, not this VMWare and chroot shit.
Dvork vs. Piquepaille, only on Pay-per-View!
SEE the obnoxious scrabbling for page views!
WITNESS the lack of any technical knowledge!
CURSE yourself for having read their articles!
POST on Slashdot about how they're losers!
Sunday Sunday Sunday!
How is this a troll? The FAA is considering banning cell phone usage on airplanes, since attackers could use it to coordinate hijackings. Uncle Sam is the one with the tinfoil hat.
Rather, how long before the nice Men in Black show up at their door, confiscate the code, throw them all in jail, and get Con-gress to pass a law against this sort of thing, on the grounds that it could be used to ADVANCE bioterrorism?
Ah, the old excluded middle fallacy with a little tu quoque thrown in for good measure. Good ol' Slashdot. When I'm with my friends, and they ask if I want a copy of a CD, I say no. If they ask if I want a copy of Photoshop, I say no.
If I was hosting a computer-related function, and my friends were swapping software, I'd ask them to leave.
What I do or do not do is irrelevant to the OP, and irrelevant to the morality of copying software.
You call it piracy, you call it reprehensible, yet you turn to others' sanction for guidance? You are going to establish morality by plebiscite?
It's piracy, its illegal, its going on during your watch. Stop it.
This isn't over by a long shot. The MPAA took a gamble, based on what they thought they had in Congress, and lost. They won't make the same mistake twice. Look for subtle changes in the "new and improved" DMCA, COPA and its children, and other roundabout ways to implement the same thing. Heck, some US banks are even using the DMCA against phishers now - after all, you're abusing their copyright, aren't you?
It will happen, its only a matter of time, unless the MPAA and RIAA are rendered toothless by a change in consumer habits.
Why troll? Why equate the power of the dollar with the power of the gun?
You mean the Google Mini, the latest incarnation of their Intranet search appliance thats been available for a year now? Nice to see InformationWeek being timely.
He's clearly got his finger on the pulse of technology, why don't you click here to read more!
Not to jump on the LVM bandwagon, but these days, if you're not using LVM, especially for a server you care about, then you're behind the times. Talking about VGs is the proper parlance, rather than discussing simple individual disks, like some basement haxor.
This is my chance to finally get to meet The Man. Perhaps he will make me kiss his ring. But, I'll have my loaded sock ready...
Maybe they meant "Scrotumento"
Correction, it should be:
"Dupe, or dupe not. There is no try."
Did anyone else read the submission, and detect a faint whiff of Roland Piquipalle?
Dude, that was such a blatant troll, and you got reeled in, hook, line and sinker.
Why the troll about individualism? Where are the moderators? Oh right, this is Slashdot, where I'll be modded down for pointing this out, but 'shanen' gets a +3, In-fucking-sightful.
Having battled fonts in the Linux desktop myself, I have sympathy. I'll even admit that I was defeated. However Slashdot isn't really the best place for this because:
You mention a particular distro
You mention your favorite font
You mention KDE _and_ GNOME
You realize that this will whip all the trolls, flamers, fanboys and shills into a complete frenzy, don't you?
I, for one, expect the S/N ratio of this whole thread to be 0.0001
Why do we care what mail client or webserver you use?
Rice is not the solution to everything. You're illustrating my point - more is not always more.
Just use decent DNS servers, like the AC above has mentioned.
Everyone knows that Linux certs (or almost all certs for that matter) are useless, so how is this News? My last job interview:
Interviewer: tell me about your Unix experience
Me: well, I've adminned about 50 Solaris boxes all over the country, and I've been running my own domain on 2 Linux machines since 1997, and never been hacked. [insert lengthy discussion of the coolness of nscd here]
Interviewer: You're hired.
Certs are an extension of the Microsoft mentality - if you keep repeating something, eventually people believe it (Developers! Developers! Developers!). The more people who buy into the cert racket, the more PHBs are going to (mistakenly) base critical decisions on what certified people say, often to their detriment.
Say you have an old P5 machine with some big HDs in it that you use as a server. Dump it, put the drives into external USB cases, and sneakernet the backups. Do you really need a whole box sucking up space, juice and cooling?
You don't need a *nix firewall, so dump that, and free yourself from kernel tweaking, 'emerge all', 'build world' and all that jazz whenever you score a new wireless network adapter for it. Get a $29 wireless CompUSA brand router, and be done with it.
You don't really need a local caching DNS server.
You don't really need a local SMTP server.
Ditto for Squid.
Your domain, which you bootleg onto your cable connection, and maintain DNS with a bunch of Perl scripts and DynDNS.org - host it on a virtual server somewhere for $9 a month, and you can unplug even more things.
We have 2 PCs - XP and 2000, a wireless router/4port-hub, and a printer hooked to a jetdirect. Even the scanner sits on a shelf until needed.
Do you do so much hacking at home that you really NEED a cluster under your desk? That old Ultra1 you got from the dumpster at work... guess what, its not useful.
Simplify, my son. The path to TRUE wisdom is knowing what you need, and not one piece of cruft more.