Hence the 2 days on hold to Micro$haft "support" line.
Using the word "engineer" in the title of MCSE is like describing what they put in cheap hamburgers as prime steak. In fact, I'd be surprised if it didn't contravene most civilised countries advertising regulations.
Bluetooth is a short range, low bandwidth replacement for USB, earphone cables, parallel cables, serial cables etc etc. 802.11b is a replacement for Ethernet.
During the 18th century, thousands of weavers were put out of business when machines came along that could do their jobs faster, cheaper, more reliably and with better quality.
The weavers were obviously distraught and there were riots with the Luddites as they were known attempting to destroy the machines that put them out of business.
Over the last 200 years, technology has made many people redundant, from riveters to bank clerks. It's the media businesses turn now. It's just progress.
Anybody can replicate information, large media corporations with top heavy management structures and CD/DVD pressing factories are no longer required. They are doomed, redundant, as were the Luddites. All the legislation in the world won't change that.
The survivors will be small fast media companies who can take advantage of the digital media such as MPEGs and MP3s.
Unfortunately patenting things costs money.
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It also takes time. Large corporations have lots of money to burn and they have people who's sole job it is to burn money by buying patents.
Individuals and small companies don't have those luxuries.
MS seem to be pissed off that they can't just take Linux wholesale, modify it so that it doesn't work with any standards and then sell it back to us keeping the changes secret.
Actually, I see this as a good sign. If they are pissed that they can't just take the code then that means that they do *want* to take the code. That means that the code must be better than what they have. That means that they are losing.
25 miles down the road with trail of oil and engine debris:
Man standing beside Harley at the side of the road: "Damn, better strip the engine."
Suzuki/Honda/Kawasaki/Triumph bike owner: "Cool beer by the seaside, what a life".
Harleys are an overweight under powered pile of crap, useless for anything but posing. Constantly rusting, pathetic tank range, senile electrics. God help you if it should rain.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." - Gandhi
I think Linux is just about to get to "Then you win".
Bye bye Microsoft. I'd like to say it's been nice but I'd be lying.
Apple will be dead within 3 years of OSX on Intel.
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Apple makes most of it's money on the hardware, if they switch to Intel then they don't control the hardware so they'll only have OS sales. How much can you charge for an OS these days when Linux is free?
Look what happened when clone makers started making MACs.
Open source doesn't work well with a 'what should I do/How should I contribute?' type situation.
It works much better if *you* have a need for something. You need an IDE for development? Grab an OS one and add the features that *you* need, fix the bugs that it contains. You need a share dealing system? Grab one, add the features you need, fix the bugs.
If you just try to 'contribute' random features to a random project, your contribution will not be as good as if you *need* those features.
That if this guy wanted to save 3,500 children each day then he simply would.
If he really gave a flying fuck about the poor third world children then he would simply ignore the laws and the protesters and the patent lawyers and mail some seeds over to them.
Well, at an extremely large US electronics/phone company the corporate mail system which runs on Exchange was recently down (unusable) for five days - worldwide.
You may also want to consider the cost of installing Exchange servers at each site and the administrators to look after them (because that's the way Exchange works (and I use the term 'works' in it's widest possible interpretation)).
A centralised hotmail like service is pretty much the way to go. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are a fuckwit. Especially if they insist on Exchange.
Unfortunately most of us live in capitalist societies where the price of something is based on the market demand for that something and has very little to do with the actual cost of that something.
Don't be utterly stupid. Running a few name lookups and zone transfers on a couple of DNS servers which have been loaded with a couple of million top level domains does not remotely simulate the real Internet.
I don't give a flying fsck if not one member of the board dispute that 'fact', how many of them run DNS servers? It's a bloody stupid idea.
If your web server is down then it ain't going to be handling any traffic now, is it?
Do you *really* believe the numbers and statistics handed to you on the glossies? Wouldn't it make you a rather credulous person if you did? These are *salespeople* that make these things up yyou know.
Simons: she's my favorite. She understands the civil liberty issues like/. said, and I think
this is the most important part. Technical information she will be able to get from people
like Auerbach, and she showed that she at least has the capacity to know whom to
believe (she believed Auerbach without question that we could have millions of TLDs,
for example.) She'd defend slashdot-like values by far the most in my opinion.
We bloody well shouldn't have 'millions of TLDs'. Can you imagine the fscking chaos? Can you imagine the time systems spend performing what are essentially full table scans through the (now flat) list of names? Doh! FFS, the DNS system is heirachical for a reason and you want to turn it in to a big/etc/hosts file?
ICANN needs technical people. Not lawyers or politicians or business people who have no fscking idea of the implications of what they are doing.
At the moment, Sun costs about 500% more for a Sparc based system functionally equivalent to an Intel box. Cobalt allows them into the low end.
Thing I heard is that they want to put Solaris and Sparc CPUs into the boxes. This'll push the cost up until they are no longer competative with Intel systems again. Doh.
Anyway, If you want a cool small cheap non intel desktop or rackmount you can always go for an ARM based NetWinder: http://www.rebel.com/
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Hence the 2 days on hold to Micro$haft "support" line.
Using the word "engineer" in the title of MCSE is like describing what they put in cheap hamburgers as prime steak. In fact, I'd be surprised if it didn't contravene most civilised countries advertising regulations.
[1] Yes, I meant that.
Bluetooth is a short range, low bandwidth replacement for USB, earphone cables, parallel cables, serial cables etc etc. 802.11b is a replacement for Ethernet.
What is it about this concept that is difficult?
During the 18th century, thousands of weavers were put out of business when machines came along that could do their jobs faster, cheaper, more reliably and with better quality.
The weavers were obviously distraught and there were riots with the Luddites as they were known attempting to destroy the machines that put them out of business.
Over the last 200 years, technology has made many people redundant, from riveters to bank clerks. It's the media businesses turn now. It's just progress.
Anybody can replicate information, large media corporations with top heavy management structures and CD/DVD pressing factories are no longer required. They are doomed, redundant, as were the Luddites. All the legislation in the world won't change that.
The survivors will be small fast media companies who can take advantage of the digital media such as MPEGs and MP3s.
It also takes time. Large corporations have lots of money to burn and they have people who's sole job it is to burn money by buying patents.
Individuals and small companies don't have those luxuries.
That's about it as far as I can see.
MS seem to be pissed off that they can't just take Linux wholesale, modify it so that it doesn't work with any standards and then sell it back to us keeping the changes secret.
Actually, I see this as a good sign. If they are pissed that they can't just take the code then that means that they do *want* to take the code. That means that the code must be better than what they have. That means that they are losing.
25 miles down the road with trail of oil and engine debris:
Man standing beside Harley at the side of the road: "Damn, better strip the engine."
Suzuki/Honda/Kawasaki/Triumph bike owner: "Cool beer by the seaside, what a life".
Harleys are an overweight under powered pile of crap, useless for anything but posing. Constantly rusting, pathetic tank range, senile electrics. God help you if it should rain.
Give me a Bandit, Speed Triple or CBR any day.
If it can't get me past 60mph in under 4 seconds I'm not interested.
You're better of with a real motorcycle from Suzuki, Honda or Kawasaki. Triumph make some nice bikes too.
Note to Harley owners, you are not riding a real motorcycle but a mobile over-chromed junk yard.
HAND.
Their share price isn't going through the floor.
http://www.cargolifter.com/
Only 160 tonnes, nowhere near 10,000 tonnes but it will be the 1st of its kind.
Have done a bunch of hot swap stuff on Linux.
f m? PageID=682&PageTypeID=10&SoftwareID=6&ProductID=17 2
A trivial search on google finds loads of stuff.
Here's the URl to the motorola site: It's a crap URl so I'll let you sort it out.
http://www.mcg.mot.com/cfm/templates/swdetail.c
Hmm?
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." - Gandhi
I think Linux is just about to get to "Then you win".
Bye bye Microsoft. I'd like to say it's been nice but I'd be lying.
Apple makes most of it's money on the hardware, if they switch to Intel then they don't control the hardware so they'll only have OS sales. How much can you charge for an OS these days when Linux is free?
Look what happened when clone makers started making MACs.
You don't even get that for *murder* in America these days.
You wanna stop being spammed? Use Spamido techniques:
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/spamido/
For the International Space Station.
Open source doesn't work well with a 'what should I do/How should I contribute?' type situation.
It works much better if *you* have a need for something. You need an IDE for development? Grab an OS one and add the features that *you* need, fix the bugs that it contains. You need a share dealing system? Grab one, add the features you need, fix the bugs.
If you just try to 'contribute' random features to a random project, your contribution will not be as good as if you *need* those features.
Yup. ICANN.
That if this guy wanted to save 3,500 children each day then he simply would.
If he really gave a flying fuck about the poor third world children then he would simply ignore the laws and the protesters and the patent lawyers and mail some seeds over to them.
Am I the only person that sees this?
Well, at an extremely large US electronics/phone company the corporate mail system which runs on Exchange was recently down (unusable) for five days - worldwide.
You may also want to consider the cost of installing Exchange servers at each site and the administrators to look after them (because that's the way Exchange works (and I use the term 'works' in it's widest possible interpretation)).
A centralised hotmail like service is pretty much the way to go. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are a fuckwit. Especially if they insist on Exchange.
Unfortunately most of us live in capitalist societies where the price of something is based on the market demand for that something and has very little to do with the actual cost of that something.
In most of the world, Internet access *IS* metered.
Just because you are in in America doesn't mean that I am. This is the Internet you know.
Bull...Shit!
Don't be utterly stupid. Running a few name lookups and zone transfers on a couple of DNS servers which have been loaded with a couple of million top level domains does not remotely simulate the real Internet.
I don't give a flying fsck if not one member of the board dispute that 'fact', how many of them run DNS servers? It's a bloody stupid idea.
Yes he fscking does. He wants thousands registered per year.
If your web server is down then it ain't going to be handling any traffic now, is it?
Do you *really* believe the numbers and statistics handed to you on the glossies? Wouldn't it make you a rather credulous person if you did? These are *salespeople* that make these things up yyou know.
We bloody well shouldn't have 'millions of TLDs'. Can you imagine the fscking chaos? Can you imagine the time systems spend performing what are essentially full table scans through the (now flat) list of names? Doh! FFS, the DNS system is heirachical for a reason and you want to turn it in to a big /etc/hosts file?
ICANN needs technical people. Not lawyers or politicians or business people who have no fscking idea of the implications of what they are doing.
At the moment, Sun costs about 500% more for a Sparc based system functionally equivalent to an Intel box. Cobalt allows them into the low end.
Thing I heard is that they want to put Solaris and Sparc CPUs into the boxes. This'll push the cost up until they are no longer competative with Intel systems again. Doh.
Anyway, If you want a cool small cheap non intel desktop or rackmount you can always go for an ARM based NetWinder: http://www.rebel.com/