There are also prima donna Managers, Executive assistants, Bankers, Stock Brokers, Doctors, Professors, Hair Stylists, etc... In short, there are prima donna PEOPLE who happen to make a living at a specific profession.
It is easy for a craftsperson to be a prima donna because they can easily come to the false conclusion they are unique.
You know what... If I write a program in a week that saves my company 700,000/year over the next 5 years... i'm going to have a little personal pride. It's human... It's fun...
Can they charge for the Kernel and all the GNU stuff...? Can I take the Linux Kernel, put it on a cd and charge per seat...?
If not, does that mean all you have to do to avoid paying is install Caldera Linux on one workstation, delete all the Caldera crap, and then clone the workstation over the network?
well... It will take a while before this appears in products. IBM probabaly had the building blocks for a 1Ghz processor back in 1989. It takes a while before Science and the Marketplace converge to make a product. Sometimes the technology is there, but it's too expensive. Sometimes the technology is there, but there is no product or market. More often than not, the market exists and the technology does not...:-)
Software routers suck... stick with Cisco...
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Don't switch to a Linux box as a load balancer. You will not get any sleep, weekend time, or vacation... You will be constantly chasing after mysterious "problems".
you imply that since PDF has been "used for three independant windowing systems... [that it]...provides a pretty powerful argument for further consideration..."
I hope the fact that none of these windowing systems have been wildly popular does not indicate the contrary. I personally worship NeXT... but it was kind of a flop. Even though it was beautiful and superior technology.
I hope there were other reasons NeXT flopped; and those factors will not cause the same end for OSX. Because, so far, I like what I see in OSX. I have never owned a Mac in my life. After playing with OSX at CompUSA, I'm seriously considering purchasing one of those new ibooks...
My understanding is, all modern graphical OS environments have a rendering scheme which comprises vectors, splines, fonts, and 3d rendering techniques... they are all somewhat alike... and all a lot like postscript.
Just because it's based on Postscript(PDF), does not mean that everything is expressed in vectors or splines... there are "pixel" based postscript images with proper rendering requiring the proper device resolution...
Insert a TIFF in an adobe illustrator document and you are there...
took your advice... downloaded NS6. Walked away while it was downloading/installing. Came back to a netscape6 spash screen... it was frozen. It had downloaded, installed, attempted to launch and froze. Rebooted system, attempted to launch NS6... it crashed, DR. Watson message. Attempted to uninstall NS6 from control panel, got error message "an error occured while attempting to uninstall Netscape"... Went to directory where the downloaded installation files reside, ran uninstall program... no feedback on progress or completion. After a few minutes, rebooted system. Came back up, NS6 was gone, but all the crud that installed along with it remained.
Reinstalled for the purpose of Re-uninstalling... same thing happened...
I didn't want to start an "os debate" really... Just always interested in peak news events and how they effect web servers... it's part my biz and such...
I tried several times to get through to MSNBC and couldn't... when I finally did, and the page finally fully loaded, the information didn't reflect the current results...
CNN seems to be holding up under the stress OK so far... and seems to have the latest results.
I currently work for a large blue computer company. I went to an interview at a large fibrous telecom company and was asked what distribution I am most familiar with and prefer to use. They were shocked that it was Slackware and not Redhat. This just proves what I have always suspected... the folks at Redhat are just irresponsible... and don't have pride in tier work.
I wish I could convince more people at the big blue computer company that Redhat is not the pony they should be betting on.
I develop helpdesk automation solutions for IBM. IBM has big, strategic, solutions to automate network administration tasks and customer contact (HelpNOW). They also have VRU and Switch software (DirectTalk and CallPath). But small helpdesks could have a hard time cost-justifying such things. As just about everyone who attempts to automate a large number of helpdesks can tell you... Every Helpdesk or account is unique. All one can do is establish an automation infrastructure throughout the network... develop the building blocks to talk to that infrastructure... put hooks in everything so that a scripting language like PERL can script the whole thing... and make sure the developers are in constant communication with the helpdesk staff process people and Managers.
Helpdesk automation is not down to a science yet...
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There are also prima donna Managers, Executive assistants, Bankers, Stock Brokers, Doctors, Professors, Hair Stylists, etc... In short, there are prima donna PEOPLE who happen to make a living at a specific profession.
It is easy for a craftsperson to be a prima donna because they can easily come to the false conclusion they are unique.
You know what... If I write a program in a week that saves my company 700,000/year over the next 5 years... i'm going to have a little personal pride. It's human... It's fun...
hmmm... questions...
Can they charge for the Kernel and all the GNU stuff...? Can I take the Linux Kernel, put it on a cd and charge per seat...?
If not, does that mean all you have to do to avoid paying is install Caldera Linux on one workstation, delete all the Caldera crap, and then clone the workstation over the network?
Or better yet... just use Slackware...
well... It will take a while before this appears in products. IBM probabaly had the building blocks for a 1Ghz processor back in 1989. It takes a while before Science and the Marketplace converge to make a product. Sometimes the technology is there, but it's too expensive. Sometimes the technology is there, but there is no product or market. More often than not, the market exists and the technology does not... :-)
Don't switch to a Linux box as a load balancer. You will not get any sleep, weekend time, or vacation... You will be constantly chasing after mysterious "problems".
you imply that since PDF has been "used for three independant windowing systems... [that it] ...provides a pretty powerful argument for further consideration..."
I hope the fact that none of these windowing systems have been wildly popular does not indicate the contrary. I personally worship NeXT... but it was kind of a flop. Even though it was beautiful and superior technology.
I hope there were other reasons NeXT flopped; and those factors will not cause the same end for OSX. Because, so far, I like what I see in OSX. I have never owned a Mac in my life. After playing with OSX at CompUSA, I'm seriously considering purchasing one of those new ibooks...
although I wish OSX was more "theme-able"...
My understanding is, all modern graphical OS environments have a rendering scheme which comprises vectors, splines, fonts, and 3d rendering techniques... they are all somewhat alike... and all a lot like postscript.
Just because it's based on Postscript(PDF), does not mean that everything is expressed in vectors or splines... there are "pixel" based postscript images with proper rendering requiring the proper device resolution...
Insert a TIFF in an adobe illustrator document and you are there...
I wonder... if everyone walked around with faces painted like kiss... would it break the software...?
:-)
Agree... it is wasting space... I'm for margins around text and all, but that is a little too much.
That area of the page becomes a design anomaly when you scroll down (and you will scroll down). It's just a big blue meaningless void.
took your advice... downloaded NS6. Walked away while it was downloading/installing. Came back to a netscape6 spash screen... it was frozen. It had downloaded, installed, attempted to launch and froze. Rebooted system, attempted to launch NS6... it crashed, DR. Watson message. Attempted to uninstall NS6 from control panel, got error message "an error occured while attempting to uninstall Netscape"... Went to directory where the downloaded installation files reside, ran uninstall program... no feedback on progress or completion. After a few minutes, rebooted system. Came back up, NS6 was gone, but all the crud that installed along with it remained.
Reinstalled for the purpose of Re-uninstalling... same thing happened...
I do not like NS6...
I didn't want to start an "os debate" really... Just always interested in peak news events and how they effect web servers... it's part my biz and such...
I don't think that is an idiotic question. many of Microsoft ventures use BSD and such...
I tried several times to get through to MSNBC and couldn't... when I finally did, and the page finally fully loaded, the information didn't reflect the current results...
CNN seems to be holding up under the stress OK so far... and seems to have the latest results.
Does MSNBC run Windows or UNIX? IIS or Apache...?
they have open source skills greater than 99.9 percent of the people who work at IBM...
I currently work for a large blue computer company. I went to an interview at a large fibrous telecom company and was asked what distribution I am most familiar with and prefer to use. They were shocked that it was Slackware and not Redhat. This just proves what I have always suspected... the folks at Redhat are just irresponsible... and don't have pride in tier work.
I wish I could convince more people at the big blue computer company that Redhat is not the pony they should be betting on.
I develop helpdesk automation solutions for IBM. IBM has big, strategic, solutions to automate network administration tasks and customer contact (HelpNOW). They also have VRU and Switch software (DirectTalk and CallPath). But small helpdesks could have a hard time cost-justifying such things. As just about everyone who attempts to automate a large number of helpdesks can tell you... Every Helpdesk or account is unique. All one can do is establish an automation infrastructure throughout the network... develop the building blocks to talk to that infrastructure... put hooks in everything so that a scripting language like PERL can script the whole thing... and make sure the developers are in constant communication with the helpdesk staff process people and Managers.
Helpdesk automation is not down to a science yet...