If it will not go to sleep at night it suggests to me that they have a serious hardware / software design flaw. They probably rely on software to initiate a standby vs alive mode. A proper design in this case would be to use standard analog circuits to do this type of job. Think about it you do not have to go out everynight and reboot your street light pole. Now of course this is pure speculation as IANANE but then again maybe I should be.
Daryl let me explain one simple point to you! The following is a description of the word profit from my dictionary
Profit: 1) v:make a profit; gain money or materially
Now let me explain that your use of the word profit relates to the first portion of this descritption to gain money. Myself on the other hand, Mr Open Source Developer could care less about that first portion but I value the second portion "materially". It is by my choice as a copyright owner to release my code under the GPL. Through this agreement I gain materially (your changes) to my copyrighted code.
Just taking a look at the definition and looking at it from both motives one can easily see we both love to profit from our software.
If it where not for X windows the 300 plus desktops I am running now would not exist. It is easy to say that X needs to be replaced but if it does not have the remote facilities it has today it will surely fail.
Obviously you where not here when our fax machines and manufacturing equipment got smoked by blaster and took down our network. If my kid had a heart monitor hooked to him running windows I would have to politely kick someones ass.
Oh yea just like when blaster hit us and our machinery quit working becase CE go smoked by it. Yep sounds like perhaps we should use xp or ce in medical equipment as well....
You should have seen the look on all of our faces when a well known PLC manufacturer recently showed us their new unit that has a linux mini computer in it. Every single person in the room asked when we could lay our hands on one of them as we want and need it immediately. Or wait somebody had better tell linksys that it will not work.
Oh no somebody was going to make you think a little before pulling out our wallets. Well my friend my heart bleeds purple piss for you. You and everyone else that works for the govt should always ask yourself if you can implement your project on Linux. You should ask this because you are spending MY money and YOURS. The very next thing you should be asking yourself is why I should be buying a application and or programming a application that is not cross platform to make future migration at least possible. Now I do agree with using software that provides the best cost to performance ratio, but do not agree with your crying about having to think a little.
We all should know by now that this is just the good ole bait and switch. Unix services for windows is not free until we get the code. Only by owning the code can one ensure that you will not get pimped by MS.
I am a geek but when I go camping the gear stays at home. Instead I drink alot of home brewed beer and play cool games with the ladies like spoons, mexican, naked twister,etc...
You ever notice how anytime someone posts a link to some windoze software the page has a BUY button on it. I cannot understand why someone would buy something like that when cbq for linux is available and usuall installed already.
I do some work for a wireless ISP and we had a customer on the network fire up a copy of bittorrent. Myself and the owner have enacted a fairly liberal usage policy. If you get our attention you are probably doing something bad and will be delt with. This one guy was using over 20 times the bandwidth of any other customers. We immediately started looking closer and found he was running bittorrent. We just gave him a simple choice at that point, if you want to run bittorrent find someone else's network to do it on. If you are running bittorrent you will get someones attention and that is usually not a good thing.
OSX is probably more friendly then linux but it will never be as flexible. OSX only has to deal with a extremely small amount of targeted hardware. Hell anyone can build a good system around a specific hardware specification. If linux only had to deal with a specific drive, a specific processor, a specific cdrom things would be extremely easy now wouldn't it.
You state that given a investment in SCO at the right time you would have made alot of money. That leads us to the point that before the rise in price they where a good investment. It has nothing to do with if they are right or wrong. As a investor you would look at the situation and try to estimate how many people are going to buy and how this is going to effect the price. If I buy and everyone else does after me then guess what, I just made a bunch of money. Hell most investors could care less what the companies name even is as long as the deal results in a gain.
You see the problem with hardware is all about margin. Unless you are moving a huge amount of goods you will loose your ass. Software on the other hand is all margin, big profit ratio's. Why do you think so many restarants go out of business? Small margins, same goes for grocery stores.
The density of the atmosphere of mars is only one percent as dense as our atmosphere on earth. Due to the thin atmosphere a parachute alone is not enough to slow the craft sufficiently for a safe landing. Spirit used a parachute then retro rockets fire just above the surface to practically stop the craft. The airbags inflate and take up the small drop that is left.
Controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory clelebrated Saturday night after receiving confirmation that the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit had landed successfully on Mars. Signals from the spacecraft's UHF antenna indicated the spacecraft had rolled to a stop right side up, simplifying the deployment procedures.
The descent appeared to go as planned. About 90 minutes before landing the spacecraft rotated so that its heat shield was forward in anticipation of the high temperatures Spirit would experience on entry. Tones from the spacecraft later indicated that its cruise stage had separated as planned, and that the heat shield separation and parachute deployment were normal.
The download would be to large, 10000 patches plus the service packs plus windows. After a 6 day download all you would be left with is a useless baseline os that can do nothing but catch worms and virus. So to make this cool new OS do something you pull out the ole checkbook and stroke a large one to ole bill.
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If it will not go to sleep at night it suggests to me that they have a serious hardware / software design flaw. They probably rely on software to initiate a standby vs alive mode. A proper design in this case would be to use standard analog circuits to do this type of job. Think about it you do not have to go out everynight and reboot your street light pole. Now of course this is pure speculation as IANANE
but then again maybe I should be.
Daryl let me explain one simple point to you! The following is a description of the word profit from my dictionary
:make a profit; gain money or materially
Profit:
1) v
Now let me explain that your use of the word profit relates to the first portion of this descritption to gain money. Myself on the other hand, Mr Open Source Developer could care less about that first portion but I value the second portion "materially". It is by my choice as a copyright owner to release my code under the GPL. Through this agreement I gain materially (your changes) to my copyrighted code.
Just taking a look at the definition and looking at it from both motives one can easily see we both love to profit from our software.
If it where not for X windows the 300 plus desktops I am running now would not exist. It is easy to say that X needs to be replaced but if it does not have the remote facilities it has today it will surely fail.
Obviously you where not here when our fax machines and manufacturing equipment got smoked by blaster and took down our network. If my kid had a heart monitor hooked to him running windows I would have to politely kick someones ass.
For 200 points what operating system would you like
your heart monitor to be running?
1. Linux
2. XP Embedded
3. Windows CE
Survey says.....Linux...
Oh yea just like when blaster hit us and our machinery quit working becase CE go smoked by it. Yep sounds like perhaps we should use xp or ce in medical equipment as well....
You should have seen the look on all of our faces when a well known PLC manufacturer recently showed us their new unit that has a linux mini computer in it. Every single person in the room asked when we could lay our hands on one of them as we want and need it immediately. Or wait somebody had better tell linksys that it will not work.
Oh no somebody was going to make you think a little before pulling out our wallets. Well my friend my heart bleeds purple piss for you. You and everyone else that works for the govt should always ask yourself if you can implement your project on Linux. You should ask this because you are spending MY money and YOURS. The very next thing you should be asking yourself is why I should be buying a application and or programming a application that is not cross platform to make future migration at least possible. Now I do agree with using software that provides the best cost to performance ratio, but do not agree with your crying about having to think a little.
Do you mean Novell's money ?
Yea great idea until the pull the bait and switch on you and your nfs shares no longer work. It is not free until you have the code in your hands...
We all should know by now that this is just the good
ole bait and switch. Unix services for windows is not free until we get the code. Only by owning the code can one ensure that you will not get pimped by MS.
No but what if SCO did not give Novell the money for
the Microsoft and Sun deals, which apparently they did not?
I would assume this would give Novell more than enough grounds to sue SCO out of existance.
He has already quit, coincidence???
except that you would end up with cheese mush....
I am a geek but when I go camping the gear stays at home. Instead I drink alot of home brewed beer and play cool games with the ladies like spoons, mexican, naked twister,etc ...
You ever notice how anytime someone posts a link to some windoze software the page has a BUY button on it. I cannot understand why someone would buy something like that when cbq for linux is available and usuall installed already.
I do some work for a wireless ISP and we had a customer on the network fire up a copy of bittorrent. Myself and the owner have enacted a fairly liberal usage policy. If you get our attention you are probably doing something bad and will be delt with. This one guy was using over 20 times the bandwidth of any other customers. We immediately started looking closer and found he was running bittorrent. We just gave him a simple choice at that point, if you want to run bittorrent find someone else's network to do it on. If you are running bittorrent you will get someones attention and that is usually not a good thing.
Ok if that happens I give it a +10 on the cool scale. If not I still give it a 9.
Does it come with source code? A program is of little use to me unless I can hack on it.
OSX is probably more friendly then linux but it will never be as flexible. OSX only has to deal with a extremely small amount of targeted hardware. Hell anyone can build a good system around a specific hardware specification. If linux only had to deal with a specific drive, a specific processor, a specific cdrom things would be extremely easy now wouldn't it.
You state that given a investment in SCO at the right time you would have made alot of money. That leads us to the point that before the rise in price they where a good investment. It has nothing to do with if they are right or wrong. As a investor you would look at the situation and try to estimate how many people are going to buy and how this is going to effect the price. If I buy and everyone else does after me then guess what, I just made a bunch of money. Hell most investors could care less what the companies name even is as long as the deal results in a gain.
You see the problem with hardware is all about margin. Unless you are moving a huge amount of goods you will loose your ass. Software on the other hand is all margin, big profit ratio's. Why do you think so many restarants go out of business? Small margins, same goes for grocery stores.
The density of the atmosphere of mars is only one percent as dense as our atmosphere on earth. Due to the thin atmosphere a parachute alone is not enough to slow the craft sufficiently for a safe landing. Spirit used a parachute then retro rockets fire just above the surface to practically stop the craft. The airbags inflate and take up the small drop that is left.
Controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory clelebrated Saturday night after receiving confirmation that the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit had landed successfully on Mars. Signals from the spacecraft's UHF antenna indicated the spacecraft had rolled to a stop right side up, simplifying the deployment procedures.
The descent appeared to go as planned. About 90 minutes before landing the spacecraft rotated so that its heat shield was forward in anticipation of the high temperatures Spirit would experience on entry. Tones from the spacecraft later indicated that its cruise stage had separated as planned, and that the heat shield separation and parachute deployment were normal.
The download would be to large, 10000 patches plus the service packs plus windows. After a 6 day download all you would be left with is a useless baseline os that can do nothing but catch worms and virus. So to make this cool new OS do something you pull out the ole checkbook and stroke a large one to ole bill.