How is this going to make my life as a Java developer any better?
Maybe not your life as a Java developer, but it will make mine easier. I will be able to use the *BSD ports without jumping through massive hoops to get them installed and working. That will make me happy.
Did you miss the part where the IPTV network is separate from the public network? Everything from the distribution point to the customer is owned by the same company, all on its own fibre backbone, part of the longest in the world. It does not leave the company's IP network. Nobody else is involved, and therefore IPTV won't get throttled, it's one of the few areas that makes the company money.
Part of the infrastructure upgrade is getting a DSLAM within 900m of every customer in the major centres of the province. This is a holdover until we start doing fibre to the premises.
It depends on how it's implemented. The way we have it implemented, there are two pipes going into the DSLAM, one for regular public internet, and another for IPTV. The IPTV is streamed multicast on its own private LAN and never hits the public network.
Where I work, which is a Canadian telco and ISP, we're doing a major infrastructure upgrade to transmit HD media over our backbone to our DSL subscribers to get IPTV. In October the system is supposed to go live, with 40 meg streams to the house, with a future of 120 meg, and then on to fibre. Quit bitching and develop the infrastructure. It's going to happen sometime anyway.
Hell, I'm just an average guy and I have my website set up so that OpenBSD on my P2 233 handles static content, but all my dynamic stuff is handled by Tomcat on my a64 3000+.
It doesn't really matter if you leave work earlier or later, as long as you leave slightly different from the rest of the pack, the road will most likely be empty.
Well, I get around this problem by going for beers with a co-worker after work every day. That way I can be social and stagger my driving time.
And before you remind me that most employees probably drive to work, I know of several companies in Sweden that have bikes available for internal transports for the employees.
Well, to me it was pretty obvious that Microsoft runs Linux machines. How can they test their competition if they don't? I expect that they also have HP machines with HP-UX, Sun, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Apple machines. It's just good business sense to know what the competition is doing. I'd be disappointed if they didn't.
Oh, OpenBSD also forms the base of Services for UNIX, so that'd be a shock if they didn't have at least some OpenBSD servers.
Now, Microsoft writing about it, that's kinda neat.
You might do well to take a look at NetBSD, it seems that its scheduler activations imnplementation is more complete, and it apparently scales better than FreeBSD 5.x. The problem is that X doesnt' seem to work as well, but that might just be my odd hardware.
Well, this is (theoretically) why the monarchy still exists, unfortunatly, too many people have no respect for what power the sovereign has. She can refuse to sign this bill into law, even if Parliament passes it. Too bad she probably won't as that will trigger a constitutional crisis and put the Queen into a political position which they tend to try to avoid.
Dude, it's not even non-Canucks. It's also non-Eastern Canucks. Pretty much everywhere west of Thunder Bay has Shaw as their cable provider. Rogers in my city only exists as a movie rental place and mobile phone provider.
Windows NT was built from the beginning to run on multiple processors, it had a very advanced hardware abstraction layer built in. The other versions never sold very well and there were problems with application support (e.g. people targetting multiple processor arch's). Apple has clevery overcome this obstacle by including "Rosetta" from the start, something similar existed for NT Alpha called FX!32 but I suspect by the time it was released it was too little too late to save the OS.
I expect that at least part of the reason that MS is pushing.Net so hard is so that people can develop one application for Windows, and have it run on Windows/i386, Windows/x86_64, Windows/PPC, Windows/SPARC, Windows/*.
Even though those don't exist, I think MS is planning for when x86 is no longer king, and then they can switch with relative ease.
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And where, pray tell, do you live?
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Yes, because SaskTel is a US company, and so is Alcatel.
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How is this going to make my life as a Java developer any better?
Maybe not your life as a Java developer, but it will make mine easier. I will be able to use the *BSD ports without jumping through massive hoops to get them installed and working. That will make me happy.
Did you miss the part where the IPTV network is separate from the public network? Everything from the distribution point to the customer is owned by the same company, all on its own fibre backbone, part of the longest in the world. It does not leave the company's IP network. Nobody else is involved, and therefore IPTV won't get throttled, it's one of the few areas that makes the company money.
Part of the infrastructure upgrade is getting a DSLAM within 900m of every customer in the major centres of the province. This is a holdover until we start doing fibre to the premises.
As far as I know, the only crown telco is in the west. I'm in the west. It's SaskTel.
The funny thing is, the telco where I work is a crown corporation!
It depends on how it's implemented. The way we have it implemented, there are two pipes going into the DSLAM, one for regular public internet, and another for IPTV. The IPTV is streamed multicast on its own private LAN and never hits the public network.
Otherwise, there just isn't a way to do IPTV unless broadcasters (think the guys with antennas) figure out an alternate method.
Did you know that there are already companies that offer IPTV services, right? It is a fact that IPTV can be a commercial success.
Where I work, which is a Canadian telco and ISP, we're doing a major infrastructure upgrade to transmit HD media over our backbone to our DSL subscribers to get IPTV. In October the system is supposed to go live, with 40 meg streams to the house, with a future of 120 meg, and then on to fibre. Quit bitching and develop the infrastructure. It's going to happen sometime anyway.
Hell, I'm just an average guy and I have my website set up so that OpenBSD on my P2 233 handles static content, but all my dynamic stuff is handled by Tomcat on my a64 3000+.
Works very nicely.
If I recall correctly, this has been posted before.
It doesn't really matter if you leave work earlier or later, as long as you leave slightly different from the rest of the pack, the road will most likely be empty.
Well, I get around this problem by going for beers with a co-worker after work every day. That way I can be social and stagger my driving time.
Darwin currently doesn't have support for ELF binaries, so there's step one. Maybe I should get on that...
And before you remind me that most employees probably drive to work, I know of several companies in Sweden that have bikes available for internal transports for the employees.
Yes, but that's in Sweden...
How do you upgrade a computer that is turned off?
I think the grandparent is talking about hardware.
Well, to me it was pretty obvious that Microsoft runs Linux machines. How can they test their competition if they don't? I expect that they also have HP machines with HP-UX, Sun, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Apple machines. It's just good business sense to know what the competition is doing. I'd be disappointed if they didn't.
Oh, OpenBSD also forms the base of Services for UNIX, so that'd be a shock if they didn't have at least some OpenBSD servers.
Now, Microsoft writing about it, that's kinda neat.
You might do well to take a look at NetBSD, it seems that its scheduler activations imnplementation is more complete, and it apparently scales better than FreeBSD 5.x. The problem is that X doesnt' seem to work as well, but that might just be my odd hardware.
FYI, zlib is not GPL.
Well, this is (theoretically) why the monarchy still exists, unfortunatly, too many people have no respect for what power the sovereign has. She can refuse to sign this bill into law, even if Parliament passes it. Too bad she probably won't as that will trigger a constitutional crisis and put the Queen into a political position which they tend to try to avoid.
Why is somone who is not democratically elected, in a political office.
Not to state the obvious, but Canada is a monarchy.
why don't the gov't of Canada support it with monies and in return get good software for their computer systems throughout the government network?
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Because it's not based in Quebec.
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Dude, it's not even non-Canucks. It's also non-Eastern Canucks. Pretty much everywhere west of Thunder Bay has Shaw as their cable provider. Rogers in my city only exists as a movie rental place and mobile phone provider.
For every unstoppable wall of protection, some jackass'll find a way around it.
So true. Just ask the French.
Windows NT was built from the beginning to run on multiple processors, it had a very advanced hardware abstraction layer built in. The other versions never sold very well and there were problems with application support (e.g. people targetting multiple processor arch's). Apple has clevery overcome this obstacle by including "Rosetta" from the start, something similar existed for NT Alpha called FX!32 but I suspect by the time it was released it was too little too late to save the OS.
.Net so hard is so that people can develop one application for Windows, and have it run on Windows/i386, Windows/x86_64, Windows/PPC, Windows/SPARC, Windows/*.
I expect that at least part of the reason that MS is pushing
Even though those don't exist, I think MS is planning for when x86 is no longer king, and then they can switch with relative ease.
And where, pray tell, do you live?
Yes, because SaskTel is a US company, and so is Alcatel.
:)
It all seems so clear to me now