By that same test I wouldn't use her informed opinion lead you to a conclusion about just who is the most technically advanced. Her idea of technology would be limited to game consoles and cell phones.
From Section 8 of article 1 of the US constitution.
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
This is the mandate that gives them right to publish laws to ensure fair competition. It has been quite well tested in reference to monopolies and allows them to pass any kind of laws to this affect.
No you have it backwards. Linux is growing commericially because of the hobbyists are in charge of the data-center. We say "we want linux!" and the higher ups need to see commercial support, so we pay for that. Meanwhile the hobbyist still code for free with the occasional boost from corporations.
Meanwhile microsoft is a joke in every IT orginization that has competent engineers in staff. They can't shed the "shoddy" image they have built around themselves. Everyone giggles when windows and secure or stable are used in the same sentence. They have to fight a PR battle against the same people there trying to sell this on. It just _can't_ work.
Linux can't do that because it in no way is competing with microsoft. Sun,IBM and Novell are competing with them, not the kernel, os or design methodology. We don't estimate them at all because they are irrelavent to linux as an entity.
That is why microsoft is throwing sh*t fits is it has absolutely no way of competing with something that isn't interested in the competition.
While Joseph Smith may have been at best questionable , the important thing to remember hear is how the collective of Mormons are today. I have had quite a bit of interaction with mormons in my life and they have largly been well meaning honest individuals who seemed no more delusioned then you or I (assuming you are not delusional.)
OTOH, without any personal interaction, Scientologists operate with misguided as a whole intentions. Psychology, whatever it may be, is a science. Scientology is a scam invented by it's creator to reduce a person to a indetured servent benifitting only scientology. This is how they still act today.
NDS has been deprecated for years. E-Directory is the Novell directory now. E-directory uses a DB made by (I think) Brigham young uni for Genealogy research. You are right about MS was _way_ after novells entrance into the market. The real problem with AD is it is a horrible crossbread between a directory and their old domain system and that it isn't particularly standards conforment (surprise!)
I can understand the desire to use whatever you know best for programming to the exclusion of others. Whenever you have a hammer everything starts looking like nails. But you need to know what your goal is. Perl is great at being the glue between anything, but sucks for maintainability(god knows I love regex but try explaining it to a coworker) PHP is great at web apps but blows on a command line. Python seems to fit the bill for being understandable but the performance is up there with quickbasic. Java, well I hate it, but feel free to tell me why it's the next best thing to sliced bread(I still have to learn it anyway, and it still sucks compared to c/c++)
You need to figure out who is going to keep this and what are you targeting when you pick the language. Otherwise your likely to pick wrong.
Having seen oracle support on RHEL 2.1 and 3.0, I would hardly think I would be in any different boat then I would have been on Debian Woody. But for a test instance I hardly see anything wrong with the overclocked opteron running a 2.6 kernel. the only problem with that configuration is that oracle isn't compiled for x86-64 yet.
The only reason that people buy oodles of redhat ignores the fact that Debian is not for sale. You cannot own it but you can give it away. You can give them money, but if you don't it won't stop it's operation.
You were close to the truth when you said linux is not a product. Linux is a process, no more no less. It removes the vendor/consumer barrier that allowed marketing types to make products out of it in the first place. The reason he couldn't talk any other way is because there is no language for it in marketing speak.
Look at fedora core. They are opening up what has been a corporate function to interested outside parties who will devote time for _free_. How do you compete with that. How do you make a better product than one with no cost and the same functionality? And what do you do when it does things better?
Microsoft may have fifty some odd billions in the bank, but they have to spend that to keep up. Worse still is they have to compete with standards or the bastards just reverse engineer your product. What is a crumbling monopoly to do?
So I should put a box in public that will _not_ be supported by its vendor and has known vulnerabilities to boot. wow, what big brass balls you must have.
There is no difference between RHEL, Debian Woody or SUSE Enterprise server other than installation/upgrade management. The sad fact is the free product is the best in that regard to boot.
IBM and HP both are getting into x86-64. In fact I don't recall IBM salesman pushing itanium at all recently, but they did talk about opteron quite a bit. The fact remains that AMD never had a product that people wanted in their datacenter before, and now they do. Intel could not get the mind share with itanium, so they still have the x86 honeypot to dip from.
I know of nobody who has a xeon in a home pc meant for games. This chip is not being marketed in that segment nor will it be priced to compete there. It _will_ affect their Itanium sales.
Intel is placing the extensions in it's xeon chipsets. That means that they _are_ canablizing their "pure" 64bit processor with their 32/64bit hybrid.
Besides, the fact that itanium was 64bit was largely irrelavent. It was a trying to use an risc like instruction set to circumvent performance issues they knew were going to bite them later.
Honestly, I use debian as much as possible. I don't worry to much that unstable lags behind gentoo because gentoo caused me many headaches. I have no problem with stable being old because if you compare it to any enterprise version of linux you will see similarly aged applications.
Testing on the other hand is a mess. I am using it on one out of all the systems I have debian on (~6) and have seen 0 benefit in using it over unstable. I am trying to be a good community citizen and at least use testing to see that it gets moved to stable, but it mostly sucks in the mean time.
As I see it there is no other distro that is as easy to use (not grandma easy, but admin easy), and as ambitious in scope. So stick that in your portage and smoke it.
Mainly for transcoding video streams on the fly. a 1 ghz celeron should buy you the ability to transcode one stream to disk while watching the other. The graphics chipset will not do this. I suspect that video transcoders will come out to accelerate this at some point but I know of none at the moment.
Advocating alternative browser usage is all part of my linux/standards advocate MO. If I expect things to change at a grassroots level I have to be willing to get in there and do some dirty work. If not me, who? If not now, when?
So a do as I preach, meaning I explain to as many people who ever touch the subject of computers with me that most likely they are depending on something to be what it's not, but there is a _free_ alternative that works just as well. Once people understand that it is their identity at stake they won't put up with it.
Most people do not care about security until it directly affects them. In this case, it does. They just don't know it because they are not looking for it. Explaining the situation _without_ being preachy (don't flame the, as far as their concerned, only operating system.) will go a long way.
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Every time you say linux libraries you make baby stallman cry.
Conversely, should women who don't have implants get points deducted for lack of dedication to their sport.
By that same test I wouldn't use her informed opinion lead you to a conclusion about just who is the most technically advanced. Her idea of technology would be limited to game consoles and cell phones.
From Section 8 of article 1 of the US constitution.
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
This is the mandate that gives them right to publish laws to ensure fair competition. It has been quite well tested in reference to monopolies and allows them to pass any kind of laws to this affect.
No you have it backwards. Linux is growing commericially because of the hobbyists are in charge of the data-center. We say "we want linux!" and the higher ups need to see commercial support, so we pay for that. Meanwhile the hobbyist still code for free with the occasional boost from corporations.
Meanwhile microsoft is a joke in every IT orginization that has competent engineers in staff. They can't shed the "shoddy" image they have built around themselves. Everyone giggles when windows and secure or stable are used in the same sentence. They have to fight a PR battle against the same people there trying to sell this on. It just _can't_ work.
Linux can't do that because it in no way is competing with microsoft. Sun,IBM and Novell are competing with them, not the kernel, os or design methodology. We don't estimate them at all because they are irrelavent to linux as an entity.
That is why microsoft is throwing sh*t fits is it has absolutely no way of competing with something that isn't interested in the competition.
While Joseph Smith may have been at best questionable , the important thing to remember hear is how the collective of Mormons are today. I have had quite a bit of interaction with mormons in my life and they have largly been well meaning honest individuals who seemed no more delusioned then you or I (assuming you are not delusional.)
OTOH, without any personal interaction, Scientologists operate with misguided as a whole intentions. Psychology, whatever it may be, is a science. Scientology is a scam invented by it's creator to reduce a person to a indetured servent benifitting only scientology. This is how they still act today.
NDS has been deprecated for years. E-Directory is the Novell directory now. E-directory uses a DB made by (I think) Brigham young uni for Genealogy research. You are right about MS was _way_ after novells entrance into the market. The real problem with AD is it is a horrible crossbread between a directory and their old domain system and that it isn't particularly standards conforment (surprise!)
I can understand the desire to use whatever you know best for programming to the exclusion of others. Whenever you have a hammer everything starts looking like nails. But you need to know what your goal is. Perl is great at being the glue between anything, but sucks for maintainability(god knows I love regex but try explaining it to a coworker) PHP is great at web apps but blows on a command line. Python seems to fit the bill for being understandable but the performance is up there with quickbasic. Java, well I hate it, but feel free to tell me why it's the next best thing to sliced bread(I still have to learn it anyway, and it still sucks compared to c/c++)
You need to figure out who is going to keep this and what are you targeting when you pick the language. Otherwise your likely to pick wrong.
Having seen oracle support on RHEL 2.1 and 3.0, I would hardly think I would be in any different boat then I would have been on Debian Woody. But for a test instance I hardly see anything wrong with the overclocked opteron running a 2.6 kernel. the only problem with that configuration is that oracle isn't compiled for x86-64 yet.
check out putty before you pay for ssh access.
screw that, prepare for the end with this.
Scenario 2 is provided by the hardware vendor... not the software vendor. I think the same level of support can be provided for linux in a few years.
The only reason that people buy oodles of redhat ignores the fact that Debian is not for sale. You cannot own it but you can give it away. You can give them money, but if you don't it won't stop it's operation.
You were close to the truth when you said linux is not a product. Linux is a process, no more no less. It removes the vendor/consumer barrier that allowed marketing types to make products out of it in the first place. The reason he couldn't talk any other way is because there is no language for it in marketing speak.
Look at fedora core. They are opening up what has been a corporate function to interested outside parties who will devote time for _free_. How do you compete with that. How do you make a better product than one with no cost and the same functionality? And what do you do when it does things better?
Microsoft may have fifty some odd billions in the bank, but they have to spend that to keep up. Worse still is they have to compete with standards or the bastards just reverse engineer your product. What is a crumbling monopoly to do?
So I should put a box in public that will _not_ be supported by its vendor and has known vulnerabilities to boot. wow, what big brass balls you must have.
no it was...
There is no difference between RHEL, Debian Woody or SUSE Enterprise server other than installation/upgrade management. The sad fact is the free product is the best in that regard to boot.
Now if only I could convince everyone in my org that debian has the best support _ever_ I could die a happy man.
IBM and HP both are getting into x86-64. In fact I don't recall IBM salesman pushing itanium at all recently, but they did talk about opteron quite a bit. The fact remains that AMD never had a product that people wanted in their datacenter before, and now they do. Intel could not get the mind share with itanium, so they still have the x86 honeypot to dip from.
I know of nobody who has a xeon in a home pc meant for games. This chip is not being marketed in that segment nor will it be priced to compete there. It _will_ affect their Itanium sales.
this page is probably what you are looking for.
Intel is placing the extensions in it's xeon chipsets. That means that they _are_ canablizing their "pure" 64bit processor with their 32/64bit hybrid.
Besides, the fact that itanium was 64bit was largely irrelavent. It was a trying to use an risc like instruction set to circumvent performance issues they knew were going to bite them later.
Honestly, I use debian as much as possible. I don't worry to much that unstable lags behind gentoo because gentoo caused me many headaches. I have no problem with stable being old because if you compare it to any enterprise version of linux you will see similarly aged applications.
Testing on the other hand is a mess. I am using it on one out of all the systems I have debian on (~6) and have seen 0 benefit in using it over unstable. I am trying to be a good community citizen and at least use testing to see that it gets moved to stable, but it mostly sucks in the mean time.
As I see it there is no other distro that is as easy to use (not grandma easy, but admin easy), and as ambitious in scope. So stick that in your portage and smoke it.
and just how many options does make-kpkg need anyway?
Mainly for transcoding video streams on the fly. a 1 ghz celeron should buy you the ability to transcode one stream to disk while watching the other. The graphics chipset will not do this. I suspect that video transcoders will come out to accelerate this at some point but I know of none at the moment.
Advocating alternative browser usage is all part of my linux/standards advocate MO. If I expect things to change at a grassroots level I have to be willing to get in there and do some dirty work. If not me, who? If not now, when?
So a do as I preach, meaning I explain to as many people who ever touch the subject of computers with me that most likely they are depending on something to be what it's not, but there is a _free_ alternative that works just as well. Once people understand that it is their identity at stake they won't put up with it.
Most people do not care about security until it directly affects them. In this case, it does. They just don't know it because they are not looking for it. Explaining the situation _without_ being preachy (don't flame the, as far as their concerned, only operating system.) will go a long way.