I work for a German Company and have visited a lot of German companys. From what I have seen is that all the companys run Windows NT and a few run Windows 2000. If they run Windows NT it's with SP5. I have also seen a lot of companys experment with Linux, mostly running internal websites.
But the article talks about secure servers, I just see the "front end" not the secure servers, and from those that I have seen, they are running Suns.
How do you plan to take over the world of MS? Are you going to tell new Linux users about VI? and why they have to mount a CD? Face it, you have experanced users and newies. If Linux wants to be the Office OS, then it will need products like this one where everything is nice pretty and easy.
Another general comment. I would not call myself one who know much about UNIX shells. I know what BASH is, and know ls, ps -ef | grep whatever, cd, vi, and some other command. My mother on the other hand complains to me when the printer runs out of paper. Similar to the saying "script Kiddy" what is some guys is 53? is he still a script kiddy?
From what I gather, this is the easy GUI that Linux is missing. Intresting that Sun will ship it with Solaris. If my mother can scan here photos, send emails and create ebay auction with this I might just try it out!
Ever tried running and old 16bit defrag on a Windows Box. Converts all the log names to the shor~1 ones. Makes you thank Bill for making the OS use the 8.3 files
I think the heat would be a problem. Also not all laptops back then had PCMCIA. I don't know, A PC looks for stable, after all would you want a old P75 laptop to dial up for your clients? What happens when the power, or harddrive fails? After all Laptops weren't realy designed to run for 6 months strieght. Hard Dives, motherboards and other componets will fail. As a temp solution it sounds good. But not longer then 2-3 weeks. Also secure it! So the boss does not think that he can take it and use it for some dumb project!
I don't know about England but here in Germany it's bad. The police cameras are every ware. I don't know how many really do work but there are a lot of boxes. I don't know how effective are the photos, I heard that some people wait 2-3 months for the ticket in the mail, But I got one in a week. Also I have been flashed a few times and never heard about them (could be in the mail). I think that we are moving into a point in age where privacy is no longer available. One thing is that the surveillance technology is still a bit primitive, until OCR, speech recognition and photo recognition becomes better then we will worry. The NSA already has entire centers that monitor phone conversations. Say boom 3 times and a human will listen on. Now when computers will be able to take the place of expensive humans it will get ugly. Ever wonder how sometimes the police finds a terrorist far away a few days later?
They bring in all the selected developers into a theater with armed guards. A big sign says "NO PHOTOGRAPHY" in the center of the screen. Then the lights dim, the coders put on the 3D glasses and millions of lines of code frash before their eys. 15 minutes later the little kids from the local kindergarden walk around collecting "donations" When everyone is done they go home happy. Unrelizing that they spend thousands of dollars to see flashing letters in front of there faces, and were forced to donate money to kids.
I think people are relizing that when you click on a ads it just gets you to more ads. When is the last time you hovered over a ad and it sayed "http://www.yahoo.com" not 3 lines of cgi script.
From AP news, Microsoft authentication servers get hacked. When ever you attempt to authenticate your new version of Windows, your computer pulls down a new virus that makes your hard drive spin so fast that all the heads crash.
I worked for the Army as a NT admin, got payed $12 an hour and had to out up with a lot of bull shit. No training. I left after finding a German company that gave me a free BMW. Think that I'm looking back???
Think about it. If this laptop was cheep (less than $7-900) then it could be for kids. Imagin an entire 6 grade class with the new sony's? I bet my brother would think this is cool.
This was my favrote: Linux is a higher risk option than Windows NT. For example how many certified engineers are there for Linux?
Ha. I'm an MCSE and still can't figure out how NT works sometimes.
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Well we all know why they did it.
They didn't want to show images of the new Blue Screen Of Death.
I work for a German Company and have visited a lot of German companys. From what I have seen is that all the companys run Windows NT and a few run Windows 2000. If they run Windows NT it's with SP5. I have also seen a lot of companys experment with Linux, mostly running internal websites.
But the article talks about secure servers, I just see the "front end" not the secure servers, and from those that I have seen, they are running Suns.
I wonder who is winning on this? SuSE?
What next? Are they going to add a blue filter on one and a red filter on the other???
Only a computer geek will get exited over something like this!
Now sep back for a second and imagin yourself a normal person that know nothing about computers, much less ever heard about Linux:
Geek: "NASA is running Linux!!!"
You: "Uhh What's Linux?"
Geek: "It's a operating system."
You: Huh?
Geek: "You know Windows, well but better!"
You: "Yhm.... ok." (dork)
Not bad deal... I just don't like the look of the router, looks like a Compaq desktop.
How do you plan to take over the world of MS? Are you going to tell new Linux users about VI? and why they have to mount a CD?
Face it, you have experanced users and newies. If Linux wants to be the Office OS, then it will need products like this one where everything is nice pretty and easy.
Another general comment. I would not call myself one who know much about UNIX shells. I know what BASH is, and know ls, ps -ef | grep whatever, cd, vi, and some other command. My mother on the other hand complains to me when the printer runs out of paper. Similar to the saying "script Kiddy" what is some guys is 53? is he still a script kiddy?
It's a general comment. I love my mother but she is not exacly a kernel hacker (nether am I)
How does Palm allow them to exist, does Handspring pay a lot for the licence?
But the device is cool looking. I still perfer the pen and paper.
I don't think it will make it more manageable but more usable
Here is some basic info
http://www.eazel.com/press/release_00_12_18
Intresting to note that Sun will include it with Solaris.
Will you offer your time to explain this to my mother?
From what I gather, this is the easy GUI that Linux is missing. Intresting that Sun will ship it with Solaris. If my mother can scan here photos, send emails and create ebay auction with this I might just try it out!
Ever tried running and old 16bit defrag on a Windows Box. Converts all the log names to the shor~1 ones. Makes you thank Bill for making the OS use the 8.3 files
I think the heat would be a problem. Also not all laptops back then had PCMCIA. I don't know, A PC looks for stable, after all would you want a old P75 laptop to dial up for your clients? What happens when the power, or harddrive fails? After all Laptops weren't realy designed to run for 6 months strieght. Hard Dives, motherboards and other componets will fail. As a temp solution it sounds good. But not longer then 2-3 weeks. Also secure it! So the boss does not think that he can take it and use it for some dumb project!
I don't know about England but here in Germany it's bad. The police cameras are every ware. I don't know how many really do work but there are a lot of boxes. I don't know how effective are the photos, I heard that some people wait 2-3 months for the ticket in the mail, But I got one in a week. Also I have been flashed a few times and never heard about them (could be in the mail).
I think that we are moving into a point in age where privacy is no longer available. One thing is that the surveillance technology is still a bit primitive, until OCR, speech recognition and photo recognition becomes better then we will worry. The NSA already has entire centers that monitor phone conversations. Say boom 3 times and a human will listen on. Now when computers will be able to take the place of expensive humans it will get ugly. Ever wonder how sometimes the police finds a terrorist far away a few days later?
They bring in all the selected developers into a theater with armed guards. A big sign says "NO PHOTOGRAPHY" in the center of the screen. Then the lights dim, the coders put on the 3D glasses and millions of lines of code frash before their eys. 15 minutes later the little kids from the local kindergarden walk around collecting "donations" When everyone is done they go home happy. Unrelizing that they spend thousands of dollars to see flashing letters in front of there faces, and were forced to donate money to kids.
I think people are relizing that when you click on a ads it just gets you to more ads. When is the last time you hovered over a ad and it sayed "http://www.yahoo.com" not 3 lines of cgi script.
The resion I like Yahoo is becouse it loads fast, uses simple HTML and not crazy Java and XML. If I want something, Yahoo will have it.
From AP news, Microsoft authentication servers get hacked. When ever you attempt to authenticate your new version of Windows, your computer pulls down a new virus that makes your hard drive spin so fast that all the heads crash.
Hmmm now that would be funny!
I worked for the Army as a NT admin, got payed $12 an hour and had to out up with a lot of bull shit. No training. I left after finding a German company that gave me a free BMW. Think that I'm looking back???
Remeber the Mircosoft ad that was posted on /. a few days ago.
I thought /. was for "before the press" news, I saw the picture of this in last weeks Newsweek.
Think about it. If this laptop was cheep (less than $7-900) then it could be for kids. Imagin an entire 6 grade class with the new sony's? I bet my brother would think this is cool.
This was my favrote: Linux is a higher risk option than Windows NT. For example how many certified engineers are there for Linux? Ha. I'm an MCSE and still can't figure out how NT works sometimes.