I believe you 100%, only Microsoft would come up with a solution that artificially induces inefficiency. If they could get everyone to buy in to this is would mean they could sell more exchange servers.So am I flaming MS? NO, I am not suprised it seems normal that they would suggest something stupid that increases sales.
I know, I think microsoft should charge the customer for each and every message that is routed through a exchange server. Just think of the money they could make and help curb spam.
Now isn't this funny, Novell can sue SCO former Caldera for copyright and contract breach. Caldera placed the old SYS V code under a open source license and made it available for download. So what gave Caldera the right's to do this if the code is Novell's?
I think Gnome is a hideous ugly desktop compared to KDE but for architectual reasons I think it is best to stick with GNOME. The best thing about GNOME is that the libs are based on C vs C++. Not all languages can deal very well with a C++ based library, which hurts integration capabilities with KDE. I think someone needs to go back and get corba out of GNOME. Corba was cool buzzword technology but is a bitch to program against and a pain in the arse dealing with compiled interface crap. Base the integration capabilities on something that can be hit easily from any language on any platform like XMLRPC. As much as I like KDE it pains me to say sticking with GNOME is a good idea for the long haul.
My definition of profit is very different then yours. My definition of profit is the ability to allow you to change, modify the source code that "I" have written. A condition of this is that "I" insist that you allow others to do the same.
I was messing around with a cd burner by HP that used directcd over USB just last night. It works so darn well I threw it in the trash after fighthing with it for hours. Not a big loss...
What he really means is that VB does not run on Linux. Of course anyone that has really, really programmed on Linux would not even consider a using Windows machine ever again.
I fsking hate binary modules, if you like them that is fine but they are extremely dangerous. They are dangerous to the GPL status of the kernel and they are a huge security risk in some cases. I will only run hardware that supports GPL source drivers that is fine. As long as it does not ship with the system I have no problem with it.
Wow perhaps Ballmer should get up on a stage and say that Linux is a better choice in the data center. I would care to guess that hell would freeze over first. I just got done, tonight as a matter of fact converting a private school to all Linux desktops. I am a RHCE, now ask me what system I installed for them. Thats right I installed Mandrake!. After the desktop comments they can kiss my goatse, I will not ever load one of their systems again, period. The last thing I need is someone helping Microsoft by bashing the Linux desktop.
Most office workers we have do not know how to use cut and paste so that really is a moot point now isn't it. As for the image comment have you ever used OWA Outlook Web Access and seen something like this
"ole object"
right where you should see this cool picture someone sent you. I guess that blows your image remark all to shit as well. Stick with your windoze boxen.
Right but the use of the GPL license has absolutely nothing to do with business. The choice of the GPL license is that of the developer. That is right not any business but the individual developer. It is a way to release code into the wild without it being either sold back to you and or exploited. What most people tend to forget is that I, Joe Developer, don't give a damn if you cannot put my code in your closed program.
The only reason is the short notice and most places do not have time to migrate to something else. We will likely renew as well but will move to another distro during this period. It is going to look good on the books for a year but after that watch the crash.
NO I am not saying that LTSP is bad what I am saying is that experience shows that it is harder to deploy LTSP vs just remote X with linux loaded locally. The school I am currently doing involves pentium 133 machines and every thing runs just peachy. When I need to run on hardware that old I grab a vector linux disk and have at it. I use ghost to duplicate client disks and I can do many machines in a hour. I also have a hacked slackware live distro that lets me deploy up to a hundred clients in a hour or two. Dont get me wrong I use the same concepts as LTPS but it is not as messy. The only change I make to the client is the inittab entry./usr/X11R6/bin/X -query theremoteserver.com . I run hundreds of clients like this and I would do it no other way. 10 to 40 workstations is nothing I run minimum 150 worstations per server in this fashion and to top that I use failover clustering as well. LTSP is cool but dealing with nic drivers, video drivers, remote nfs home, dhcp, the LTSP config stuff etc is a pain in the arse and is a bunch of work and complexity just so you can run without a disk. My prefered platform for new thin clients is a mini-itx with a 32 meg compact flash. This setup boots in under 15 seconds, is read only, runs on 17 watts, and costs only 185 bucks per system.
Lesson one, public schools get state money and are constantly pimped by vendors. Don't even bother with those guys, go after the scools that pay out of pocket. It is suprisingly easy to convince a private school to switch to a LTSP setup. Most of these places run on donated gear which cannot even run 98 decent. As for LTSP good luck, I have done many linux terminal based installs but I do not use LTSP as it is to complex and hard to maintain. Most of these places already have computers I load linux local and modify the inittab to start up a remote X session to the terminal. This works like a champ and is one hell of a lot simpler and more reliable thay LTSP. I am on the third school in the last three months and another one waiting. Of course it also helps that I do schools for free, business's have to pay...
To bad the router is going to need a million processors to scan the packets in near real time. Hell sounds like a good deal for cisco they can sell more expensive routers.
Talk of this is extremely risky at the moment. The EU is looking at this very problem right now. Word of this only hurts their defensive position and assures harsh punishment by the EU.
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I believe you 100%, only Microsoft would come up with a solution that artificially induces inefficiency. If they could get everyone to buy in to this is would mean they could sell more exchange servers.So am I flaming MS? NO, I am not suprised it seems normal that they would suggest something stupid that increases sales.
I know, I think microsoft should charge the customer for each and every message that is routed through a exchange server. Just think of the money they could make and help curb spam.
And it is not as slow as postgres either. I love postgres, I love the features but the performance under heavy loads plainly sucks.
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Now isn't this funny, Novell can sue SCO former Caldera for copyright and contract breach. Caldera placed the old SYS V code under a open source license and made it available for download. So what gave Caldera the right's to do this if the code is Novell's?
Makes for Interesting Thought!
I think Gnome is a hideous ugly desktop compared to KDE but for architectual reasons I think it is best to stick with GNOME. The best thing about GNOME is that the libs are based on C vs C++. Not all languages can deal very well with a C++ based library, which hurts integration capabilities with KDE. I think someone needs to go back and get corba out of GNOME. Corba was cool buzzword technology but is a bitch to program against and a pain in the arse dealing with compiled interface crap. Base the integration capabilities on something that can be hit easily from any language on any platform like XMLRPC. As much as I like KDE it pains me to say sticking with GNOME is a good idea for the long haul.
My definition of profit is very different then yours. My definition of profit is the ability to allow you to change, modify the source code that "I" have written. A condition of this is that "I" insist that you allow others to do the same.
Rekall, now go look it up and it does what Access does even better.
So what is this one application that requires ms office, "Austin tell us what it is and let us fix it for you"
I was messing around with a cd burner by HP that used directcd over USB just last night. It works so darn well I threw it in the trash after fighthing with it for hours. Not a big loss...
You mean you where trying to do this? This should take care of all of the commands.
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def cmd_execute(cmd):
p = popen2.Popen3(cmd)
p.wait()
return string.strip(p.fromchild.read())
cmd_execute('grep -r looser
What he really means is that VB does not run on Linux. Of course anyone that has really, really programmed on Linux would not even consider a using Windows machine ever again.
I fsking hate binary modules, if you like them that is fine but they are extremely dangerous. They are dangerous to the GPL status of the kernel and they are a huge security risk in some cases. I will only run hardware that supports GPL source drivers that is fine. As long as it does not ship with the system I have no problem with it.
Wow perhaps Ballmer should get up on a stage and say that Linux is a better choice in the data center. I would care to guess that hell would freeze over first. I just got done, tonight as a matter of fact converting a private school to all Linux desktops. I am a RHCE, now ask me what system I installed for them. Thats right I installed Mandrake!. After the desktop comments they can kiss my goatse, I will not ever load one of their systems again, period. The last thing I need is someone helping Microsoft by bashing the Linux desktop.
Most office workers we have do not know how to use cut and paste so that really is a moot point now isn't it. As for the image comment have you ever used OWA Outlook Web Access and seen something like this
"ole object"
right where you should see this cool picture someone sent you. I guess that blows your image remark all to shit as well. Stick with your windoze boxen.
Yea, they do not fued with anyone else..SUN
.NET
Yea, they do not scratch the same itch..
I would say that most of us GPL software developers don't give a damn what you think.
Right but the use of the GPL license has absolutely nothing to do with business. The choice of the GPL license is that of the developer. That is right not any business but the individual developer. It is a way to release code into the wild without it being either sold back to you and or exploited. What most people tend to forget is that I, Joe Developer, don't give a damn if you cannot put my code in your closed program.
The only reason is the short notice and most places do not have time to migrate to something else. We will likely renew as well but will move to another distro during this period. It is going to look good on the books for a year but after that watch the crash.
Alright who is going to rewrite all the BIOS screens to make them politically correct?
See what happens when you dont make a native release for the player for Linux first, you get OWN3D!.
NO I am not saying that LTSP is bad what I am saying is that experience shows that it is harder to deploy LTSP vs just remote X with linux loaded locally. The school I am currently doing involves pentium 133 machines and every thing runs just peachy. When I need to run on hardware that old I grab a vector linux disk and have at it. I use ghost to duplicate client disks and I can do many machines in a hour. I also have a hacked slackware live distro that lets me deploy up to a hundred clients in a hour or two. /usr/X11R6/bin/X -query theremoteserver.com . I run hundreds of clients like this and I would do it no other way. 10 to 40 workstations is nothing I run minimum 150 worstations per server in this fashion and to top that I use failover clustering as well. LTSP is cool but dealing with nic drivers, video drivers, remote nfs home, dhcp, the LTSP config stuff etc is a pain in the arse and is a bunch of work and complexity just so you can run without a disk. My prefered platform for new thin clients is a mini-itx with a 32 meg compact flash. This setup boots in under 15 seconds, is read only, runs on 17 watts, and costs only 185 bucks per system.
Dont get me wrong I use the same concepts as
LTPS but it is not as messy. The only change I make to the client is the inittab entry.
Lesson one, public schools get state money and are constantly pimped by vendors. Don't even bother with those guys, go after the scools that pay out of pocket. It is suprisingly easy to convince a private school to switch to a LTSP setup. Most of these places run on donated gear which cannot even run 98 decent. As for LTSP good luck, I have done many linux terminal based installs but I do not use LTSP as it is to complex and hard to maintain. Most of these places already have computers I load linux local and modify the inittab to start up a remote X session to the terminal. This works like a champ and is one hell of a lot simpler and more reliable thay LTSP. I am on the third school in the last three months and another one waiting. Of course it also helps that I do schools for free, business's have to pay...
To bad the router is going to need a million processors to scan the packets in near real time. Hell sounds like a good deal for cisco they can sell more expensive routers.
Talk of this is extremely risky at the moment. The EU is looking at this very problem right now. Word of this only hurts their defensive position and assures harsh punishment by the EU.