After MS Office 2007 SP1 was never compatible to CrossOver I hope SP2 will get that soon. The shop I am working for only uses Microsoft Office 2007. They are trained to use it. OpenOffice will not work, because they would need retraining. But I need to maintain their computers. And it would so much easier to do if I could just switch them over to Linux. I also need the Service Pack, because without it the mailboxes in Outlook 2007 are limited to 2GB. Those people send and receive large Powerpoint presentations on a daily bases. They also keep those mails for reference. Some of their mailboxes are about 4GB and growing.
in mid 2010. So Windows XP will be 2 versions of Windows behind the current one. Windows 2000 a ten year old that is 3 versions behind. Is Mozilla still supporting Firefox for Debian Etch?
And why would people using XP, that don't even update their os with SP3 be interested in the most current Firefox. They can then still use 3.1.
on computing. They work very hard to have the least cost per computing operation as well as bandwidth. They are also one huge mofo. So they also benefit from economics of scale. Now if those calculations are based on SUN hardware purchases and usual/normal datacenter costs they might be off by a bit.
I always thought that nation states would be much more careful than to leave anything behind and would also limit their activities very much in order not to be detected and possibly embarrass their government (diplomacy and all). Also this kind of actitvity could be considered as an act of war. But since this kind of activity could very well be conducted by other entities than nation states. And they are. All the time. They are also very hard to trace. Given those facts maybe nation states use this excuse and acutally conduct this kind of activity.
The real story is about the fact that nuclear prolifiration and nuclear disarmament should have gotten a lot more attention from previous presidents (both Clinton and Bush completely failed on this one) and Obama's pledge came much too late. Now trying to go as far as possible (nuke free world) is the least he can do.
I don't care if it boots in 20 or 30 seconds, kernel based mode setting (so it flickers a bit, XP also does this), ext4 (more testing plz) or any of that.
For my server Samba 4 would be interesting with Active Directory and some other goodies for Windows clients, but I guess this will take a while. Maybe some better management tools for virtual machines.
But on the desktop I would love to finally be able so sync my phone without jumping through hoops. Same with using a webcam. And I would love to run Office 2007 SP1 on it, since I could try converting some machines at work to Linux. This would make my live a LOT easier.
I guess I don't care all that much about Linux (the kernel) anymore. I care about apps. And good integration of them and polish. But wasn't that what distros were for?
Thx for the explanation. I was trying to play a high def mkv on an underpowered machine a short while ago and failed. The machine has an Nvidia 7600gs video board. I was trying to get high def hardware accel, but couldnt get it. While CoreAVC played it best all players lost sync between audio and video really fast. The only player that didn't loose sync was VLC. But VLC skipped really bad. So I couldn't watch it.
I needed to get a new Microsoft Natural Keyboard (I like their hardware much better than their software), because I want to use it with my notebook that does not have PS/2. So I could directly compare the first and original Microsoft Natural Keyboard with the current 4000.
The 4000 has much softer keys and I liked the harder ones better. But I suppose they are more ergonomic. Or is their any other reason? I am already getting used to the softer keys.
I couldn't care less if any of those machines got compromised. Ok, the onsite nfs backup servers would be kind of weird, since they are behind my firewall. So if they compromise my backup servers they could as well compromise any other machine on that lan. Offsite backups are stored via ftp using Duplicity. Even if they compromise the backup servers they would still have to break my n-digit random passprase in order to look into it. And even if they took a look inside my backups it still wouldn't compromise my network, since none of the passwords are stored in clear text.
I don't know about VMWare, but in VirtualBox you need allocate a certain amount of RAM to each and very virtual machine. So if you have Windows Vista you run out of RAM very quickly if you want to run several at once. Most of the posters here also seem to forget that Windows likes to access the hard drive quite frequently. Hard drive bandwidth will be a huge bottleneck if you have several virtual machines with Windows running at the same time, because they will all want to access the hard drive to index files, defrag a little bit and so on. You should really get a processor with VT (all new Athlons and most new Intel processors have support for virtual machines, you should still check). I don't think speed will matter too much, because current processors, especially those with VT are fast as heck. Then you would get lots of RAM. Maybe go with a DDR2 setup. You can get 2 GB of RAM for under 20 bucks. So if you put 4 of them on your board it comes down to 8 Gigs for 80 bucks. To ease the hard drive bottleneck I would simply spend my money on several hds. The cheap (small as in 160GB) start at 60 or 70 bucks. Get four of them and spread you virtual machines across those.
Also keep in mind that you will need a 64bit operating system to support 8 Gigs of RAM. And a processor that supports a 64bit os. Again, all Athlons support 64bit, not all Intel ones do.
This is fully within Blizzards rights to do. They can do with their product as they wish. Why do people (even/. editors) always confuse that with Microsoft? The only reason why Microsoft may not do that with Windows is because they have a monopoly. Microsoft may keep that monopoly as long as they don't abuse it (and I could go on about Microsoft here, but this is not about Windows).
Now Blizzard can do as they wish. They could also just shut stop selling time on their servers today and as soon as people used up all their remaining month of playing just shut down all of WoW. But they won't, because they make money and many people are very happy because they like WoW.
Maybe if you put up a messagebox upon install and a readme into your prog informing all users that you won't be able to keep developing under Blizzard's current TOS maybe your users will inform Blizzard that they would like them to change the TOS. I am sure you have thought of that.
This is an old standard. All pc producers put Windows on their machines pre-installed. That makes Microsoft the market leader. Microsoft wins. But the hardware industry also wants to make money. So each new version of Windows requires new hardware, because it is so slow on old hardware. Also the new peripherals only come with drivers for the new operating system and the old peripherals don't get drivers for the new operating system. Same with software. Bottom line is that if you buy one new piece of software or hardware you have to upgrade your whole system and the whole industry makes a lot of money.
If Vista would have actually been faster than XP then nobody would have needed to upgrade. The hardware industry would have been pretty pissed at Microsoft. But since this is not some big old conspiracy written down with all the big company heads meeting in dark dungeons, but rather a loose agreement everyone understands it went wrong. Vista was too slow compared to XP and XP still worked.
Part of the mess was probabely some greedy kid at Intel who wanted to get Vista ready stickers for some cheap old mainboard chipsets. This is because Intel had build up such a huge share of the chipset and video chip market that they did not want to loose. If the Vista ready stickers would have only gone to high end machines Vista adoption would have started slower. Maybe in the end they would have sold more machines, because people wouldn't have been so frustrated with it from the beginning.
As for myself I tried Vista on some new and some older machines and in the end just went back up to Windows. Since I run Debian at home for myself I maybe should have just gone with Linux for all the machines at work. The only app they really need and run is MS Office 2007. And I checked it and they say it runs good on Crossover Office. But there are always hardware issues. They have GSM broadband adapters I have a heard time finding decent Windows drivers for, let alone Linux. And all the so called Linux desktop distros are still not there IMHO. I have had Ubuntu on my dad's machine since 2006 and I still don't like it (currently a fresh install of 0810). In 1999 Debian was the os that sucked the least (it still sucks in many ways, but waaay less than the others) and this is still true in 2009. Damn you computers.
Wouldn't that be the perfect os for the next version of the XO? They already have lots of apps for the arm platform. And Nokia could be a big sponsor for the XO.
I would be in favour of free software instead of OSX. It was offered for free for marketing reasons. They couldn't sell it anyways and market share also presents value to a company.
In Germany the mobile phone carriers charge a lot for normal phone services, but are starting to have cheap data plans. So their TOS don't allow for VOIP. There are 4 carriers. All of them do it.
If we assume an average of 1TB per drive, which is a high average, since 1.5 TB just came out last month and I don't suppose he bought all his drives last month, that is 65 drives on one server. Using IDE or SATA it is not possible in a "normal" setting, because there are 4 to 6 drives to the standard el cheapo IDE or SATA controller. With up to 7 or 8 slots on an E-ATX mainboard this is nowhere near 65 drives.
So he must have been using some kind of NAS or iSCSI solution. For filesharing? Why? All the crazy filesharers/movie collectors I know burn tons of CDs or DVDs for storage.
And what kind of a pipe must this guy have had to utilize sharing 65 TB?
This sounds like someone may have converted 650 GB to 65 TB or something like that.
It is the shareholders decision. If they are so dumb as to give bonuses on a "one year model". They deserve to get screwed. A bank in Sweden puts all bonuses in a big "401k" for all employees. Bankers don't get paid before they retire. And if the fund goes belly up a few years after they retire they are still screwed, because they won't get any more benefits.
There was a similar story before. Here is my comment from that story:
I do believe Apple and Microsoft are not direct competitors, because Apple is selling computers and Microsoft is selling software. And many people even run Microsoft Windows on Apple computers. The only thing Apple does not do is sell computers preinstalled with Microsoft Windows like the other companies that build PCs.
Since Apple is not planning on licensing their os to other computer manufacturers (they did this and the company almost went bancrupt, but was saved by Microsoft) the only os that does compete with Microsoft for coming preinstalled is Linux. If you think of all the companies that sell PCs.
I purchased an X300 Thinkpad for the company this week and took a close look at it. I thought expensive business notebooks come without crapware. And I was sure the X300 would be optimized. But they had defrags scheduled! I always thought defrag is a no no for ssds. Now I am not sure anymore. I deinstalled it first. But who knows?
I had to do some research recently which backup software to use for my Debian server. And the most flexible and at the same time easy to use solution seemed to be Backup-Manager. One other program I also took a close look at was Backup2l. There were other progams, but those either seemed VERY big and complex (like Bacula) or did not even some of the features I needed and those features were very important ones.
And luckily it is not as bad as the IPhone. Imagine Windows 7 only allowing you to install things signed by Microsoft. People love their IPhones. Microsoft saw this. That is the result. It could have been worse.
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After MS Office 2007 SP1 was never compatible to CrossOver I hope SP2 will get that soon. The shop I am working for only uses Microsoft Office 2007. They are trained to use it. OpenOffice will not work, because they would need retraining. But I need to maintain their computers. And it would so much easier to do if I could just switch them over to Linux. I also need the Service Pack, because without it the mailboxes in Outlook 2007 are limited to 2GB. Those people send and receive large Powerpoint presentations on a daily bases. They also keep those mails for reference. Some of their mailboxes are about 4GB and growing.
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/group/?app_id=5133
It was a very short comment. The idea is, that before anyone would like to use it the crypto-community should have a long and hard look at it.
"Here, have my lock and key. Nobody will be able to get into your home. Except, maybe, me :-)"
I don't think there are any servers for those requirements:
portable, rugged, low power (incl. UPS)
But those are the exact specs of the rugged laptop. Laptops have built-in UPS units (called batteries) and are low in power consumption.
Panasonic Toughbooks, or Toshiba Tecra ruggedized come to mind. Dell also has some new offerings in that segment:
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_xfr_d630?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
in mid 2010. So Windows XP will be 2 versions of Windows behind the current one. Windows 2000 a ten year old that is 3 versions behind. Is Mozilla still supporting Firefox for Debian Etch?
And why would people using XP, that don't even update their os with SP3 be interested in the most current Firefox. They can then still use 3.1.
on computing. They work very hard to have the least cost per computing operation as well as bandwidth. They are also one huge mofo. So they also benefit from economics of scale.
Now if those calculations are based on SUN hardware purchases and usual/normal datacenter costs they might be off by a bit.
I always thought that nation states would be much more careful than to leave anything behind and would also limit their activities very much in order not to be detected and possibly embarrass their government (diplomacy and all). Also this kind of actitvity could be considered as an act of war.
But since this kind of activity could very well be conducted by other entities than nation states. And they are. All the time. They are also very hard to trace.
Given those facts maybe nation states use this excuse and acutally conduct this kind of activity.
Anyone got a clue?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/183673
by Henry Kissinger
The real story is about the fact that nuclear prolifiration and nuclear disarmament should have gotten a lot more attention from previous presidents (both Clinton and Bush completely failed on this one) and Obama's pledge came much too late. Now trying to go as far as possible (nuke free world) is the least he can do.
>No one will give up their trump card.
South Africa and Ukraine did so in the past.
I don't care if it boots in 20 or 30 seconds, kernel based mode setting (so it flickers a bit, XP also does this), ext4 (more testing plz) or any of that.
For my server Samba 4 would be interesting with Active Directory and some other goodies for Windows clients, but I guess this will take a while. Maybe some better management tools for virtual machines.
But on the desktop I would love to finally be able so sync my phone without jumping through hoops. Same with using a webcam. And I would love to run Office 2007 SP1 on it, since I could try converting some machines at work to Linux. This would make my live a LOT easier.
I guess I don't care all that much about Linux (the kernel) anymore. I care about apps. And good integration of them and polish. But wasn't that what distros were for?
Thx for the explanation. I was trying to play a high def mkv on an underpowered machine a short while ago and failed. The machine has an Nvidia 7600gs video board. I was trying to get high def hardware accel, but couldnt get it. While CoreAVC played it best all players lost sync between audio and video really fast. The only player that didn't loose sync was VLC. But VLC skipped really bad. So I couldn't watch it.
I needed to get a new Microsoft Natural Keyboard (I like their hardware much better than their software), because I want to use it with my notebook that does not have PS/2. So I could directly compare the first and original Microsoft Natural Keyboard with the current 4000.
The 4000 has much softer keys and I liked the harder ones better. But I suppose they are more ergonomic. Or is their any other reason? I am already getting used to the softer keys.
I couldn't care less if any of those machines got compromised. Ok, the onsite nfs backup servers would be kind of weird, since they are behind my firewall. So if they compromise my backup servers they could as well compromise any other machine on that lan. Offsite backups are stored via ftp using Duplicity. Even if they compromise the backup servers they would still have to break my n-digit random passprase in order to look into it. And even if they took a look inside my backups it still wouldn't compromise my network, since none of the passwords are stored in clear text.
I don't know about VMWare, but in VirtualBox you need allocate a certain amount of RAM to each and very virtual machine. So if you have Windows Vista you run out of RAM very quickly if you want to run several at once.
Most of the posters here also seem to forget that Windows likes to access the hard drive quite frequently. Hard drive bandwidth will be a huge bottleneck if you have several virtual machines with Windows running at the same time, because they will all want to access the hard drive to index files, defrag a little bit and so on. You should really get a processor with VT (all new Athlons and most new Intel processors have support for virtual machines, you should still check). I don't think speed will matter too much, because current processors, especially those with VT are fast as heck.
Then you would get lots of RAM. Maybe go with a DDR2 setup. You can get 2 GB of RAM for under 20 bucks. So if you put 4 of them on your board it comes down to 8 Gigs for 80 bucks.
To ease the hard drive bottleneck I would simply spend my money on several hds. The cheap (small as in 160GB) start at 60 or 70 bucks. Get four of them and spread you virtual machines across those.
Also keep in mind that you will need a 64bit operating system to support 8 Gigs of RAM. And a processor that supports a 64bit os. Again, all Athlons support 64bit, not all Intel ones do.
This is fully within Blizzards rights to do. They can do with their product as they wish. Why do people (even /. editors) always confuse that with Microsoft? The only reason why Microsoft may not do that with Windows is because they have a monopoly. Microsoft may keep that monopoly as long as they don't abuse it (and I could go on about Microsoft here, but this is not about Windows).
Now Blizzard can do as they wish. They could also just shut stop selling time on their servers today and as soon as people used up all their remaining month of playing just shut down all of WoW. But they won't, because they make money and many people are very happy because they like WoW.
Maybe if you put up a messagebox upon install and a readme into your prog informing all users that you won't be able to keep developing under Blizzard's current TOS maybe your users will inform Blizzard that they would like them to change the TOS. I am sure you have thought of that.
This is an old standard. All pc producers put Windows on their machines pre-installed. That makes Microsoft the market leader. Microsoft wins. But the hardware industry also wants to make money. So each new version of Windows requires new hardware, because it is so slow on old hardware. Also the new peripherals only come with drivers for the new operating system and the old peripherals don't get drivers for the new operating system. Same with software.
Bottom line is that if you buy one new piece of software or hardware you have to upgrade your whole system and the whole industry makes a lot of money.
If Vista would have actually been faster than XP then nobody would have needed to upgrade. The hardware industry would have been pretty pissed at Microsoft. But since this is not some big old conspiracy written down with all the big company heads meeting in dark dungeons, but rather a loose agreement everyone understands it went wrong. Vista was too slow compared to XP and XP still worked.
Part of the mess was probabely some greedy kid at Intel who wanted to get Vista ready stickers for some cheap old mainboard chipsets. This is because Intel had build up such a huge share of the chipset and video chip market that they did not want to loose. If the Vista ready stickers would have only gone to high end machines Vista adoption would have started slower. Maybe in the end they would have sold more machines, because people wouldn't have been so frustrated with it from the beginning.
As for myself I tried Vista on some new and some older machines and in the end just went back up to Windows. Since I run Debian at home for myself I maybe should have just gone with Linux for all the machines at work. The only app they really need and run is MS Office 2007. And I checked it and they say it runs good on Crossover Office. But there are always hardware issues. They have GSM broadband adapters I have a heard time finding decent Windows drivers for, let alone Linux. And all the so called Linux desktop distros are still not there IMHO. I have had Ubuntu on my dad's machine since 2006 and I still don't like it (currently a fresh install of 0810).
In 1999 Debian was the os that sucked the least (it still sucks in many ways, but waaay less than the others) and this is still true in 2009. Damn you computers.
Wouldn't that be the perfect os for the next version of the XO? They already have lots of apps for the arm platform. And Nokia could be a big sponsor for the XO.
I would be in favour of free software instead of OSX. It was offered for free for marketing reasons. They couldn't sell it anyways and market share also presents value to a company.
Btw. Apple is the new evil now.
In Germany the mobile phone carriers charge a lot for normal phone services, but are starting to have cheap data plans. So their TOS don't allow for VOIP. There are 4 carriers. All of them do it.
If we assume an average of 1TB per drive, which is a high average, since 1.5 TB just came out last month and I don't suppose he bought all his drives last month, that is 65 drives on one server.
Using IDE or SATA it is not possible in a "normal" setting, because there are 4 to 6 drives to the standard el cheapo IDE or SATA controller. With up to 7 or 8 slots on an E-ATX mainboard this is nowhere near 65 drives.
So he must have been using some kind of NAS or iSCSI solution. For filesharing? Why? All the crazy filesharers/movie collectors I know burn tons of CDs or DVDs for storage.
And what kind of a pipe must this guy have had to utilize sharing 65 TB?
This sounds like someone may have converted 650 GB to 65 TB or something like that.
It is the shareholders decision. If they are so dumb as to give bonuses on a "one year model". They deserve to get screwed. A bank in Sweden puts all bonuses in a big "401k" for all employees. Bankers don't get paid before they retire. And if the fund goes belly up a few years after they retire they are still screwed, because they won't get any more benefits.
There was a similar story before. Here is my comment from that story:
I do believe Apple and Microsoft are not direct competitors, because Apple is selling computers and Microsoft is selling software. And many people even run Microsoft Windows on Apple computers. The only thing Apple does not do is sell computers preinstalled with Microsoft Windows like the other companies that build PCs.
Since Apple is not planning on licensing their os to other computer manufacturers (they did this and the company almost went bancrupt, but was saved by Microsoft) the only os that does compete with Microsoft for coming preinstalled is Linux. If you think of all the companies that sell PCs.
I purchased an X300 Thinkpad for the company this week and took a close look at it. I thought expensive business notebooks come without crapware. And I was sure the X300 would be optimized. But they had defrags scheduled! I always thought defrag is a no no for ssds. Now I am not sure anymore. I deinstalled it first. But who knows?
I had to do some research recently which backup software to use for my Debian server. And the most flexible and at the same time easy to use solution seemed to be Backup-Manager. One other program I also took a close look at was Backup2l. There were other progams, but those either seemed VERY big and complex (like Bacula) or did not even some of the features I needed and those features were very important ones.
http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/
http://www2.backup-manager.org/
And luckily it is not as bad as the IPhone. Imagine Windows 7 only allowing you to install things signed by Microsoft. People love their IPhones. Microsoft saw this. That is the result. It could have been worse.
I for one welcome our new corporate overlords. Hail to the Steves!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4