Actually, Linux is doing pretty good - read the changelog.
Now, I agree that some linux-based companies aren't doing too well, but this really has almost nothing to do with Linux. Take a look at the non-linux-based companies.
My parents have a 50-year-old blight-resistant American Chestnut in the front yard in NH. Beautiful tree, great chestnut yield, and about a week's worth of work to pick up all the "flowers" and "porcupine eggs" every year. The town wanted to cut it down to widen a road, but when they realized what it was, they left it alone.
Almost every car has a water pump. Any schmuck can design a $400 water pump that does it's job. A real engineer can design one that does it's job for 20 bucks.
As a network engineer, coder, or architect, your job is to make your client's project a success and deliver the most value possible. Your job is not to cover your ass, or to to get the project done with as little of your sweat as possible.
That's the unstated contract that drives tech jobs to get the salaries they do, and the "Let's just throw Solaris at it," or "Microsoft is easier - they say so!" attitude is undermining the tech inustry.
For web hosting, networking and network servers, Linux or a BSD on X86/AMD gives more bang for the buck than any other offering right now. Even though they have less froofy tools and don't have as much in the clicky GUI department. Yes, you have to be careful with hardware choices - You don't with NT? Yes, you need to know what you're doing - why do you have this job if you don't know what you're doing?
MySQL does a great job, no matter how much it may suck "theoretically", or how it may fail the ACID test. Compare the number of MySQL horror stories to the number of MySQL positive anecdotes you hear. It works, it's fast, it does the job.
Building solid, cheap boxen and deploying them in a stable configuration at low cost is an art. Call them 'frankenstien boxes' if you want, but they get the job done, and they let me come in with quotes at half of what my competiton does, and the stability and value get me return business.
Buying Solaris and having them do all the heavy lifting for you generally means you haven't done the value calculation for your clients. Solaris is good, and Sun hardware is good - but neither is *that* good.
Buying Microsoft - I hate to bash MS for the sake of bashing MS. Win2k *is* thier best offering yet. But it still bluescreens, DLL Hell still exists, it still needs to be reformatted every few months, it costs too much, it eats RAM, and not being able to remotely maintain it or to see the source so I can figure out what's causing strange behavior, coupled with MS' predatory business practices just makes it a non-option for me. YMMV.
The days of the Mercedes dot-bombs is over, and tossing cash at problems isn't the way things are being done today. Look around you and start gearing up for the Toyota world of working fast, smart and as cheaply as possible to get the job done.
Is is possible that Microsoft just doesn't understand the definition of the word "innovation"? It seems that MS thinks that 'innovation' is a financial term.
Now, I'm not a fan at all of the marketing machine that was Episode I, but let's be fair.
Immediately following the
"At times, you have to face the truth of what you didn't get and what you hoped for" line is a second quote:
"The second stage is that you're amazed by all the things you did get that you didn't even think you got. And then the third stage is that you see certain things are infinitely better than you could have even imagined."
Let's all hope that GL and crew can get it together and make episode II not stink.
This isn't an attempt to get orbit running faster by moving it into kernel space. This is a functionality hack - orbit won't run in kernel space, the kernel API will be made available to corba clients.
I'm not sure if I like it or not - the functionality is cool, but the possibility of destabilization is pretty high, and there are lots of security issues.
With all the bitching about standards compliance flying around... are there any published compliance reports? It'd be nice to see how the different browsers really do stack up.
I just downloaded the miz nightly - My first one in a few months, and I'm really impressed with how far they've come since then, but I'm not really competent to decide if it's 'standards compliant' or not. It brings up all my favorite sites just fine.
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Actually, Linux is doing pretty good - read the changelog.
Now, I agree that some linux-based companies aren't doing too well, but this really has almost nothing to do with Linux. Take a look at the non-linux-based companies.
My parents have a 50-year-old blight-resistant American Chestnut in the front yard in NH. Beautiful tree, great chestnut yield, and about a week's worth of work to pick up all the "flowers" and "porcupine eggs" every year. The town wanted to cut it down to widen a road, but when they realized what it was, they left it alone.
If it's been in Don's office since DL was created, how did he get it?
I wish I had mod points today. :)
The peltier will get the heat off the chip, but you still need a fan to get it out of the case.
Interpret it as "proudly wear" - like "sporting a new pair of shoes".
Almost every car has a water pump. Any schmuck can design a $400 water pump that does it's job. A real engineer can design one that does it's job for 20 bucks.
As a network engineer, coder, or architect, your job is to make your client's project a success and deliver the most value possible. Your job is not to cover your ass, or to to get the project done with as little of your sweat as possible.
That's the unstated contract that drives tech jobs to get the salaries they do, and the "Let's just throw Solaris at it," or "Microsoft is easier - they say so!" attitude is undermining the tech inustry.
For web hosting, networking and network servers, Linux or a BSD on X86/AMD gives more bang for the buck than any other offering right now. Even though they have less froofy tools and don't have as much in the clicky GUI department. Yes, you have to be careful with hardware choices - You don't with NT? Yes, you need to know what you're doing - why do you have this job if you don't know what you're doing?
MySQL does a great job, no matter how much it may suck "theoretically", or how it may fail the ACID test. Compare the number of MySQL horror stories to the number of MySQL positive anecdotes you hear. It works, it's fast, it does the job.
Building solid, cheap boxen and deploying them in a stable configuration at low cost is an art. Call them 'frankenstien boxes' if you want, but they get the job done, and they let me come in with quotes at half of what my competiton does, and the stability and value get me return business.
Buying Solaris and having them do all the heavy lifting for you generally means you haven't done the value calculation for your clients. Solaris is good, and Sun hardware is good - but neither is *that* good.
Buying Microsoft - I hate to bash MS for the sake of bashing MS. Win2k *is* thier best offering yet. But it still bluescreens, DLL Hell still exists, it still needs to be reformatted every few months, it costs too much, it eats RAM, and not being able to remotely maintain it or to see the source so I can figure out what's causing strange behavior, coupled with MS' predatory business practices just makes it a non-option for me. YMMV.
The days of the Mercedes dot-bombs is over, and tossing cash at problems isn't the way things are being done today. Look around you and start gearing up for the Toyota world of working fast, smart and as cheaply as possible to get the job done.
Microsoft has a non-marketing department?
Is is possible that Microsoft just doesn't understand the definition of the word "innovation"? It seems that MS thinks that 'innovation' is a financial term.
Uhm... You realize that... No, never mind. Forget I said anything.
Now, I'm not a fan at all of the marketing machine that was Episode I, but let's be fair.
Immediately following the
"At times, you have to face the truth of what you didn't get and what you hoped for" line is a second quote:
"The second stage is that you're amazed by all the things you did get that you didn't even think you got. And then the third stage is that you see certain things are infinitely better than you could have even imagined."
Let's all hope that GL and crew can get it together and make episode II not stink.
This isn't an attempt to get orbit running faster by moving it into kernel space. This is a functionality hack - orbit won't run in kernel space, the kernel API will be made available to corba clients.
I'm not sure if I like it or not - the functionality is cool, but the possibility of destabilization is pretty high, and there are lots of security issues.
Dragonmagic is the homepage associated with his account. Most people have them - you don't.
With all the bitching about standards compliance flying around... are there any published compliance reports? It'd be nice to see how the different browsers really do stack up.
I just downloaded the miz nightly - My first one in a few months, and I'm really impressed with how far they've come since then, but I'm not really competent to decide if it's 'standards compliant' or not. It brings up all my favorite sites just fine.
Why would I care if my console had a fan in it? Because of the noise? My DC makes a racket just spinning the cd, and it doesn't bother me any...
There is no spoon.