Yet another
crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently
IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1
percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft
survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share,
this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD
is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by
failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin
comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin
to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD
faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for
*BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for
*BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market
share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most
endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader
Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users
of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD
posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are
about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about
half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700
users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent
of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400
FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet
posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and
so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by
BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead,
its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major
surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is
very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD
is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD
continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at
this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
In New York, all retailers who sell oil must collect it and send it to a proper facility.
This has dramatically reduced the amount of motor oil in the sewer system and ground.
Re:Saw something similar about EULAs in general
on
GPL's Strength
·
· Score: 2
When I was in college, I worked at CompUSA -- and managers do have the authority to accept any item for return.
However, MSFT will not credit returns of opened software from a retailer unless the media is damaged. Most vendors operate the same way.
Re:Saw something similar about EULAs in general
on
GPL's Strength
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
If I purchase a copy of MS Office at CompUSA or Best Buy, then decide the license agreement is unacceptable, these stores will not accept your opened MS Office box for return.
But, optical networks remove alot of the overhead of frame-relay or atm links from big telecom companies.
Once you install a short-haul optical networking or other wireless technology, it is just another link in your LAN or MAN. We've been running a pilot to link government agencies in the state capitol with good results (and low ongoing expenses)
In a medium to large organization, the existing IT staff combined with a maintainence contract can handle most issues as they come up.
The telecoms, in case you haven't noticed, are all in the process of going out of business. Industry giants like AT&T and Global Crossing are beginning the slow slide into bankruptcy and decline.
Metro optical gear is selling like hotcakes because the equipment allows companies to maintain their network without paying a huge premium to an upstream provider. Why should a firm pay $6000/mo for a connection when you can buy a $50,000 laser that has no monthly cost?
Get off your high horse. Every ounce of corruption that exists in the United States exists or has existed in Europe.
I'm sure the Turks feel very well represented in Germany and the wealthy elite who rule England didn't use wealth & influence to achieve political power. I'm sure the powerful labor unions in Europe never engage in ballot-stuffing or other election gimmicks either.
Europe has been a cesspool of conflict and savagery for 1,000 years. Your hands are as dirty as any US citizen.
Certain facets of a work computer should be considered personal property. Your home directory should be considered the electronic equivilant of a locker.
So I guess if an employee discussed a sensitive subject in a company-owned office, the police should be allowed to record the conversation?
How about conversations held while walking down a public road? Should the police install listening devices on telephone poles? Should you expect privacy on a government highway?
Professional employees should have rights in regard to personal and confidential coorespondence in the office.
If you are happy with ISDN, good for you. Unless you live in the country I guess you like being ripped off.
I know for a fact that my cable ISP has an OC-48 link to a larger peer in Boston, and a bigger OC to NYC. From the other posts here, I gather that other cable ISP's run everything from T-1 to smaller sonet connections for much larger metro areas. I guess that's why they complain so much about the quality of service.
I have zero complaints about my Time Warner Cable franchise; they are fast and fix things quickly when problems strike. But they are not going broke. I have to pay $40 a month for a crappy basic cable package so that I can pay $45 for cable internet. I read in the local paper last week that the average cable bill in our area is $100/month.
The simple fact is that AOLTimeWarner is pushing up the price of "standard" road runner to make other because other options like AOL Highspeed and Earthlink are more profitable at the customer's expense.
Wrong. Please get a clue about how busineses work.
Have you ever heard of something called "accounting"???
As a business, if you buy $2 million worth of equipment that has a life of 5 years, you charge $400,000 per year against your bottom line as a depreciation expense. Cable companies invested heavily in equipment for broadband service 1-5 years ago, so they are still feeling the pinch of depreciation expenses for capital equipment purchases.
If a line costs $12/month and you charge $40/month, you have a gross margin of 70%. That is incredibly high -- ripoff things like extended warranties and car undercoating usually run in the 50-80% margin range. Supermarkets run 2-5% margins, department stores run 8-15%, manufacturing companies run 5-20%. If you cannot make money with those margins, you are incompetent.
Your call center numbers are crazy too. At my last gig we had a call center with anywhere from 20-120 people working at any one time. These folks handled upwards of 2500 calls per hour peak and 75% of them made $8.50/hour or less.
The figure was from a textbook whose name I cannot remember.
By metro area I do not mean media market. So for example New York City would include some Jersey suburbs as well as Long Island and Westchester & Orange Counties.
That sounds great, but you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Cable providers do not purchase bandwidth in T1 size chunks. They buy OC-48's, OC-192's and split it through their own network (most of which was funded and built by the TV side of the business) In a mid sized market, broadband costs the cable company about $12-17 a month, while you are charged $40-70. Plus they are making money on the cable modem lease.
The cable companies biggest expense is depreciation on equipment purchased 3-5 years ago.
Your notion that bandwidth is so expensive is not really that accurate. Monopolistic telephone companies charge inflated rates for T1 service because they can. Broadband will be similar soon as the cable companies flex their monopoly muscles to the end-user's detriment.
Your cable isp was probaly some mom and pop outfit that was on the verge of bankruptcy.
I did work for an organization in the Adirondack mountains of NYS, this area is extremely remote, about 125 miles from the nearest major city (Albany, which isn't exactly a metropolis) They had an OC-48.
Also, 65% of the US population lives in the metropolitan areas of the 15 largest cities.
Here we've wasted about $6 million on Enterprise management software and services. About $2.5MM on hardware and software with the rest going towards services.
The whole idea of enterprise managemnt software was to streamline system administration and provide better service with fewer people.
Guess what?
There are 6 more sysadmins who are busier than ever.
It looked to me like when you go to edit your prefrences, all of the answers default to yes. Yahoo is not dumb enough to unilatterally change everyone's shit.
Slashdot is becoming more and more of a nuisance each and every day. Since the lazy sacks of shit who run this site are too lazy to check the facts on what they report, maybe/. should wait for a legitimate jouralist to do some checking before posting this shit.
Is it that hard to call/email the Yahoo PR dept???
I have an Atari 5200 and would like to pick up some additional cartriges for it. I went to my local supermarket and was shocked to find that they do not carry Atari games!
Does anyone know where I can find Atari 5200 (or 2600) games?
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Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
In New York, all retailers who sell oil must collect it and send it to a proper facility.
This has dramatically reduced the amount of motor oil in the sewer system and ground.
When I was in college, I worked at CompUSA -- and managers do have the authority to accept any item for return.
However, MSFT will not credit returns of opened software from a retailer unless the media is damaged. Most vendors operate the same way.
If I purchase a copy of MS Office at CompUSA or Best Buy, then decide the license agreement is unacceptable, these stores will not accept your opened MS Office box for return.
This is true.
But, optical networks remove alot of the overhead of frame-relay or atm links from big telecom companies.
Once you install a short-haul optical networking or other wireless technology, it is just another link in your LAN or MAN. We've been running a pilot to link government agencies in the state capitol with good results (and low ongoing expenses)
In a medium to large organization, the existing IT staff combined with a maintainence contract can handle most issues as they come up.
Not quite.
The telecoms, in case you haven't noticed, are all in the process of going out of business. Industry giants like AT&T and Global Crossing are beginning the slow slide into bankruptcy and decline.
Metro optical gear is selling like hotcakes because the equipment allows companies to maintain their network without paying a huge premium to an upstream provider. Why should a firm pay $6000/mo for a connection when you can buy a $50,000 laser that has no monthly cost?
I thought that a G4 is incredibly fast, even though it runs at an awfully slow clock speed?
My 450Mhz Pentium 2 running Windows 2000 renders slashdot fine with IE or Mozilla.
Current market conditions do not support your assumptions.
There is such a glut of bandwidth right now, telecom carriers do not anticipate adding additional fiber until 2010.
Just curious.
How exactly do you do when you "rebuild the TCP/IP stack"? Does Gator and it's ilk tip the stack over or something?
Jabber has a desire to stay in business and make money.
This is a departure from the traditional dot-com business model, but it will probaly work out ok.
Get off your high horse. Every ounce of corruption that exists in the United States exists or has existed in Europe.
I'm sure the Turks feel very well represented in Germany and the wealthy elite who rule England didn't use wealth & influence to achieve political power. I'm sure the powerful labor unions in Europe never engage in ballot-stuffing or other election gimmicks either.
Europe has been a cesspool of conflict and savagery for 1,000 years. Your hands are as dirty as any US citizen.
That is outrageous.
Certain facets of a work computer should be considered personal property. Your home directory should be considered the electronic equivilant of a locker.
So I guess if an employee discussed a sensitive subject in a company-owned office, the police should be allowed to record the conversation?
How about conversations held while walking down a public road? Should the police install listening devices on telephone poles? Should you expect privacy on a government highway?
Professional employees should have rights in regard to personal and confidential coorespondence in the office.
Are they selling subscriptions?
I couldn't tell -- this site is so cluttered it's hard to find a link.
I also only seen one person with the little yellow bulb next to their name.
If you are happy with ISDN, good for you. Unless you live in the country I guess you like being ripped off.
I know for a fact that my cable ISP has an OC-48 link to a larger peer in Boston, and a bigger OC to NYC. From the other posts here, I gather that other cable ISP's run everything from T-1 to smaller sonet connections for much larger metro areas. I guess that's why they complain so much about the quality of service.
I have zero complaints about my Time Warner Cable franchise; they are fast and fix things quickly when problems strike. But they are not going broke. I have to pay $40 a month for a crappy basic cable package so that I can pay $45 for cable internet. I read in the local paper last week that the average cable bill in our area is $100/month.
The simple fact is that AOLTimeWarner is pushing up the price of "standard" road runner to make other because other options like AOL Highspeed and Earthlink are more profitable at the customer's expense.
Wrong. Please get a clue about how busineses work.
Have you ever heard of something called "accounting"???
As a business, if you buy $2 million worth of equipment that has a life of 5 years, you charge $400,000 per year against your bottom line as a depreciation expense. Cable companies invested heavily in equipment for broadband service 1-5 years ago, so they are still feeling the pinch of depreciation expenses for capital equipment purchases.
If a line costs $12/month and you charge $40/month, you have a gross margin of 70%. That is incredibly high -- ripoff things like extended warranties and car undercoating usually run in the 50-80% margin range. Supermarkets run 2-5% margins, department stores run 8-15%, manufacturing companies run 5-20%. If you cannot make money with those margins, you are incompetent.
Your call center numbers are crazy too. At my last gig we had a call center with anywhere from 20-120 people working at any one time. These folks handled upwards of 2500 calls per hour peak and 75% of them made $8.50/hour or less.
The figure was from a textbook whose name I cannot remember.
By metro area I do not mean media market. So for example New York City would include some Jersey suburbs as well as Long Island and Westchester & Orange Counties.
That sounds great, but you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Cable providers do not purchase bandwidth in T1 size chunks. They buy OC-48's, OC-192's and split it through their own network (most of which was funded and built by the TV side of the business) In a mid sized market, broadband costs the cable company about $12-17 a month, while you are charged $40-70. Plus they are making money on the cable modem lease.
The cable companies biggest expense is depreciation on equipment purchased 3-5 years ago.
Your notion that bandwidth is so expensive is not really that accurate. Monopolistic telephone companies charge inflated rates for T1 service because they can. Broadband will be similar soon as the cable companies flex their monopoly muscles to the end-user's detriment.
Your cable isp was probaly some mom and pop outfit that was on the verge of bankruptcy.
I did work for an organization in the Adirondack mountains of NYS, this area is extremely remote, about 125 miles from the nearest major city (Albany, which isn't exactly a metropolis) They had an OC-48.
Also, 65% of the US population lives in the metropolitan areas of the 15 largest cities.
What quota limits? The article didn't list any.
The only thing worse than an arrogant idiot is one who doesn't know wtf he's talking about.
You've obviously never worked on a large project.
Here we've wasted about $6 million on Enterprise management software and services. About $2.5MM on hardware and software with the rest going towards services.
The whole idea of enterprise managemnt software was to streamline system administration and provide better service with fewer people.
Guess what?
There are 6 more sysadmins who are busier than ever.
Nobody want to use the new tools.
Service isn't any better.
People who like to develop large distributed applications written by multiple people easy to understand.
Slashcode is/was a perfect example of how easy it is to make Perl unreadable.
I'm shocked. I thought slashdot has been doing this for ages.
It looked to me like when you go to edit your prefrences, all of the answers default to yes. Yahoo is not dumb enough to unilatterally change everyone's shit.
/. should wait for a legitimate jouralist to do some checking before posting this shit.
Slashdot is becoming more and more of a nuisance each and every day. Since the lazy sacks of shit who run this site are too lazy to check the facts on what they report, maybe
Is it that hard to call/email the Yahoo PR dept???
I have an Atari 5200 and would like to pick up some additional cartriges for it. I went to my local supermarket and was shocked to find that they do not carry Atari games!
Does anyone know where I can find Atari 5200 (or 2600) games?