Actually, according to ZDNET, noted Microsoft apologist, their WebBench tests show Apache running under the three most popular commercial Linux distributions to significantly outperform IIS 4.0 running under NT 4.0 with SP 4. In fact they "ate NT's lunch", performing between 16 and 50 percent faster. So the original article is just plain wrong about Apache losing the performance battle.
We can't, for example, put turboshaft engines in our cars and drive them on the freeway,
Depends on where you live. If you live in a place like California, this may be true. Where I live, the defacto rule is pretty much that if it has a place to screw a license plate onto it, it is street legal. We have no inspections, ever. No emissions checks, ever. Registration and licensing can be (and normally are) done entirely by mail. Licensing for kit cars, replicas, home built hot-rods, and highly modified production cars is not handled much differently, all you have to do is fill out a request for a title and pay a fee -- no inspection or appearance in person necessary. If you can build a car with a turboshaft engine that even comes close to sane sound levels, you would have no trouble licensing it or driving it on the freeway around here.
or modify aircraft flight characteristics, etc.
You haven't ever heard about experimental aircraft or ultralights then. I know several people who are into those hobbies, and they don't have to follow the same rules as for regular commercial aircraft. Ultralights in particular, hardly have to follow any rules at all.
Which is really a shame -- Your years of unix, vax, netware, mainframe or whatever experience aren't actually considered because you don't have those magic letters. And meanwhile some totally green bozo with $10,000 worth of training will be considered.
I look at it this way -- Who would want to work for a company with such Dilbertean PHB's in charge? Chances are if they are so stupid as to cull resumes in such an arbitrary manner that they will do a lot of other things that would make life hell.
Yikes. XENIX was a buggy port of Version 7 UNIX saddled with the crappy Lattice compiler. Not even really a Microsoft product.
Yeah, yeah. But XENIX (on a crappy 286) and SCO XENIX (on a less-crappy 386) were my first Unixen; I have a soft spot for it. Plus I was trying (hard) to say something nice about MS; it's "Be Kind to Ruthless Monopolies" Day - didn't you get the memo?
My first UN*X was 4.2 BSD on a VAX-11/780. When I saw XENIX on a 286 a little later than that, I was less than impressed, particularly when I was trying to port code written for BSD to the crappy Lattice supplied compiler on XENIX.
I suppose if it was the first thing you ever saw it might not seem so bad, but compared to BSD, it was pretty wretched.
Yes, Microsoft is guilty of buying companies and rights to products.
But many of the people who built the products joined Microsoft. They did not drop their "innovator" title when they joined Microsoft.
The question is did they keep innovating after they joined Microsoft, if not, then their title changed to former innovator.
And let's look at the innovative aspects of IE like DHTML. Does Spyglass of DHTML? I don't think so. I think Microsoft invented that one.
Except that most of the concept of CSS is taken from prior art such as SGML and the other main aspect of DHTML is JavaScript, which was innovated by Netscape and cloned (JScript) by Microsoft. Cloning is another non-innovative Microsoft technique.
These sort of fake rumors are exactly the reason we need to keep the government from interfering with innovation in the computer industry.
The government interfering with Microsoft will do nothing to interfere with innovation in the computer industry. Microsoft has done almost no innovation. They copies and takes credit for other companies innovations. They don't even steal from the original innovators in a lot of cases, they clone clones. Even if this instance is fake, it is widely known that Microsoft has used, and likely will continue to use the practice of Astroturf.
Only when computer products are allowed to compete on the basis of merit -- not judicial intervention -- will real advancements in information technology be made.
Microsoft's products compete based on advertising, name recognition, exclusionary contracts and bundling practices more than technical merits.
While I don't exactly approve of the way that the kitten was extracted from the E10000, I have to say it was also very irresponsible of the guy who brought the kitten in to work (who would do such a thing), then left it there unattended, let alone that it was left in a room full of potentially dangerous equipment. Not very bright.
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 if you don't have ethernet set up.
or
ifconfig
if you do.
I think it is even easier than that. I see what I believe to be the MAC address of the installed Ethernet card displayed in the boot messages (use 'dmesg' to view them after booting) when my Ethernet cards are initialized. This is true on all of the machines I have, and I have three different types of Ethernet cards, Bay Networks Netgear FA310TX, 3Com 3C509/3C509B and Western Digital/SMC 8013, and I have various revisions each of the latter two (I've got at least one each of 10Base2/AUI, TPO and Combo versions of these cards -- yes, I have somewhere around a dozen Linux boxes). The MAC address is the set of hex digits like "00 40 05 a5 90 a3" (not one of my real MAC addresses, FYI).
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Actually, according to ZDNET, noted Microsoft apologist, their WebBench tests show Apache running under the three most popular commercial Linux distributions to significantly outperform IIS 4.0 running under NT 4.0 with SP 4. In fact they "ate NT's lunch", performing between 16 and 50 percent faster. So the original article is just plain wrong about Apache losing the performance battle.
We can't, for example, put turboshaft engines in our cars and drive them on the freeway,
Depends on where you live. If you live in a place like California, this may be true. Where I live, the defacto rule is pretty much that if it has a place to screw a license plate onto it, it is street legal. We have no inspections, ever. No emissions checks, ever. Registration and licensing can be (and normally are) done entirely by mail. Licensing for kit cars, replicas, home built hot-rods, and highly modified production cars is not handled much differently, all you have to do is fill out a request for a title and pay a fee -- no inspection or appearance in person necessary.
If you can build a car with a turboshaft engine that even comes close to sane sound levels, you would have no trouble licensing it or driving it on the freeway around here.
or modify aircraft flight characteristics, etc.
You haven't ever heard about experimental aircraft or ultralights then. I know several people who are into those hobbies, and they don't have to follow the same rules as for regular commercial aircraft. Ultralights in particular, hardly have to follow any rules at all.
Which is really a shame -- Your years of unix, vax, netware, mainframe or whatever experience aren't actually considered because you don't have those magic letters. And meanwhile some totally green bozo with $10,000 worth of training will be considered.
I look at it this way -- Who would want to work for a company with such Dilbertean PHB's in charge? Chances are if they are so stupid as to cull resumes in such an arbitrary manner that they will do a lot of other things that would make life hell.
Yikes. XENIX was a buggy port of Version 7 UNIX saddled with the crappy Lattice compiler. Not even really a Microsoft product.
Yeah, yeah. But XENIX (on a crappy 286) and SCO XENIX (on a less-crappy 386) were my first Unixen; I have a soft spot for it. Plus I was trying (hard) to say something nice about MS; it's "Be Kind to Ruthless Monopolies" Day - didn't you get the memo?
My first UN*X was 4.2 BSD on a VAX-11/780. When I saw XENIX on a 286 a little later than that, I was less than impressed, particularly when I was trying to port code written for BSD to the crappy Lattice supplied compiler on XENIX.
I suppose if it was the first thing you ever saw it might not seem so bad, but compared to BSD, it was pretty wretched.
Few have ever accused me of being nice.
The last MS product that I actually liked was XENIX,
Yikes. XENIX was a buggy port of Version 7 UNIX saddled with the crappy Lattice compiler. Not even really a Microsoft product.
Yes, Microsoft is guilty of buying companies and rights to products.
But many of the people who built the products joined Microsoft. They did not drop their "innovator" title when they joined Microsoft.
The question is did they keep innovating after they joined Microsoft, if not, then their title changed to former innovator.
And let's look at the innovative aspects of IE like DHTML. Does Spyglass of DHTML? I don't think so. I think Microsoft invented that one.
Except that most of the concept of CSS is taken from prior art such as SGML and the other main aspect of DHTML is JavaScript, which was innovated by Netscape and cloned (JScript) by Microsoft. Cloning is another non-innovative Microsoft technique.
These sort of fake rumors are exactly the reason we need to keep the government from interfering with innovation in the computer industry.
The government interfering with Microsoft will do nothing to interfere with innovation in the computer industry. Microsoft has done almost no innovation. They copies and takes credit for other companies innovations. They don't even steal from the original innovators in a lot of cases, they clone clones. Even if this instance is fake, it is widely known that Microsoft has used, and likely will continue to use the practice of Astroturf.
Only when computer products are allowed to compete on the basis of merit -- not judicial intervention -- will real advancements in information technology be made.
Microsoft's products compete based on advertising, name recognition, exclusionary contracts and bundling practices more than technical merits.
While I don't exactly approve of the way that the kitten was extracted from the E10000, I have to say it was also very irresponsible of the guy who brought the kitten in to work (who would do such a thing), then left it there unattended, let alone that it was left in a room full of potentially dangerous equipment. Not very bright.
To get your MAC address, as root:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 if you don't have ethernet set up.
or
ifconfig
if you do.
I think it is even easier than that. I see what I believe to be the MAC address of the installed Ethernet card displayed in the boot messages (use 'dmesg' to view them after booting) when my Ethernet cards are initialized. This is true on all of the machines I have, and I have three different types of Ethernet cards, Bay Networks Netgear FA310TX, 3Com 3C509/3C509B and Western Digital/SMC 8013, and I have various revisions each of the latter two (I've got at least one each of 10Base2/AUI, TPO and Combo versions of these cards -- yes, I have somewhere around a dozen Linux boxes).
The MAC address is the set of hex digits like "00 40 05 a5 90 a3" (not one of my real MAC addresses, FYI).