MSFT 'attacks' other pieces of the market because of its near monopoly on the desktop and in Office apps. Linux can do the same.
Why shouldn't the Linux Foundation focus on Linux's strengths and continue to shore up that area, particularly if the people with the money have those priorities? If Linux is the major player in several segments then it can leverage that strength to gain others.
Linux on the desktop isn't going to become a winner because a technical committee somewhere listed its strengths or weaknesses. It'll take a nimble, energetic core of developers to drive and make decisions that are innovative and exciting to users. Always playing catchup is probably not the way to go.
Meanwhile, if Linux dominates at the Big Iron/Appliance/Server areas, then it will become easier for the desktop driven folks to achieve their goals. This is particularly so in a world where the buzz words are virtualisation, "in-the-cloud" etc, that remove many applications from directly being on the desktop, as application adoption and readiness for the desktop is one of the high barriers to Linux becoming a force on the desktop.
AMD's Chuck Moore presumably has a lot of self interest in pushing heterogeneous cores. They are combining ATI+AMD cores on a single die and selling the benefits in a range of environments including scientific computing etc.
Almost all Uni's in Australia are government funded, and an attitude to free speech that is at least not as bad as that. I've taught at one of the Top-8 Uni's for quite a while (and was a student for more years than I care to remember), and find your story very hard to believe. You're way past the HECS census date (not that that should count for much over something so trivial), and they kick you out for criticising the toilets? Talk to your student union (what's left of them these days) and/or a lawyer.
Anyone shed any light on what "improper" copies are?
Are these the legitimate after-market sales that we hear them going after? All power to 'em if they're going after illegal sellers, but you gotta worry when a corporate like MSFT starts going after "improper" things..
Sell me something, and sod off would be my preference.
In other news, 54% of companies that are about to IPO put out an excessive number of press releases with dubious studies that might get them attention.
Is there much point in posting a/. article, trying to inform your fellow geeks, that there is something they've never heard of, and it looks like it isn't worth paying any attention to?
I already know there is lots of useless crap in the world that I'm not interested in. Tell me about things that ARE interesting.
Apparantly they got complaints when people would egosurf and find their names from former court cases... (or their employer would etc etc) So they've "fixed" it.
Ok, ok, so its coverage of lots of local courts leaves a lot of holes, but its getting there. I think that the system, rather than any conspiracy, is more likely however. The idea that our government gets copyright in things it produces isn't inherently evil.
Projects like google's here though sound great. If they're sharing the data then all should be above board. It will most likely have the effect of forcing governments to collect LESS about us, as we'll all be so much more aware of what is out there.
In the IPS & firewall testing world, they're what everyone uses, but even in lots of load balancing applications etc they're what people use.
There are a few software solutions around that do an ok job, but very few that can do much at decent speed (ie > 400Mbit). I have a pretty crack team of devs, and using hand tuned open source, and home-spun apps, we got by for a few years, but should have given in years earlier and just got a set of Spirent gear. You'll save time.
Their Smartbits line are basically hardware based packet generators, able to blast away for a variety of scenarios.
Their Avalanche line are hardware based full session generators, so you can re-create a web server being hammered by thousands of clients. I just signed a cheque for > $100k for a single pair of avalanche boxes however, so bring your cash box...
You'll probably find Spirent's hw based solutions frustrating, but if you work with others doing similar work they're very widely used, and you can exchange scripts etc..
There is an Irish company that was moving in to this space, and had an ok product, but it was a bit immature when I last tried it. Sorry, but their name escapes me- google should know.
As a few people have said, the main difference is service.
Some folks do offer good DSL, with good service contracts, and charge a premium to do so.
As the parent points out however, often one of the ways they improve the service is by allocating the bandwidth explicitly up to a peering point. This is slightly misleading however, as lots of people have pointed out before. ALL internet service is essentially shared up to some peering point. What changes is where this is- at your modem, at your local exchange, at your ISPs outbound link etc. The kind of use you make of your link will help determine where you'd prefer this peering point to be.
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I don't really see this as a major problem.
MSFT 'attacks' other pieces of the market because of its near monopoly on the desktop and in Office apps. Linux can do the same.
Why shouldn't the Linux Foundation focus on Linux's strengths and continue to shore up that area, particularly if the people with the money have those priorities? If Linux is the major player in several segments then it can leverage that strength to gain others.
Linux on the desktop isn't going to become a winner because a technical committee somewhere listed its strengths or weaknesses. It'll take a nimble, energetic core of developers to drive and make decisions that are innovative and exciting to users. Always playing catchup is probably not the way to go.
Meanwhile, if Linux dominates at the Big Iron/Appliance/Server areas, then it will become easier for the desktop driven folks to achieve their goals. This is particularly so in a world where the buzz words are virtualisation, "in-the-cloud" etc, that remove many applications from directly being on the desktop, as application adoption and readiness for the desktop is one of the high barriers to Linux becoming a force on the desktop.
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you ask for advice on how to fill 10 hours at the Large Hadron Collider!
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.. they DID send the good bits to the Smithsonian ..
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AMD's Chuck Moore presumably has a lot of self interest in pushing heterogeneous cores. They are combining ATI+AMD cores on a single die and selling the benefits in a range of environments including scientific computing etc.
So take it all with a grain of salt
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or perhaps
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DNF to be released by February 15 2008
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Which Australian Uni was this?
Almost all Uni's in Australia are government funded, and an attitude to free speech that is at least not as bad as that. I've taught at one of the Top-8 Uni's for quite a while (and was a student for more years than I care to remember), and find your story very hard to believe. You're way past the HECS census date (not that that should count for much over something so trivial), and they kick you out for criticising the toilets? Talk to your student union (what's left of them these days) and/or a lawyer.
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I have a 30" Dell, running at its native 2560 * 1600. Apple makes one, lots of others.
2560 * 1600 = 4,096,000
This Alienware monitor:
2880 * 900 = 2,592,000
So this new monitor is nothing special total pixel wise..
Looks cool though.
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3-4 hours? You should get faster drives. Mine format much quicker.
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Or better yet ... don't download child porn.
Anyone shed any light on what "improper" copies are?
Are these the legitimate after-market sales that we hear them going after? All power to 'em if they're going after illegal sellers, but you gotta worry when a corporate like MSFT starts going after "improper" things..
Sell me something, and sod off would be my preference.
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We knew for the Jot team back in July that it was being added as a Google Domain App.
So we now know it has a name.
Still, I'm looking forward to seeing it deployed. I currently use gmail for my personal domains, and it works well - easy to set up, generous limits.
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In other news, 54% of companies that are about to IPO put out an excessive number of press releases with dubious studies that might get them attention.
Take everything with a grain of salt.
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I now know I've been reading /. for too long..
I read that title as "Home-made Helicopters with Ninjas"
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Is there much point in posting a /. article, trying to inform your fellow geeks, that there is something they've never heard of, and it looks like it isn't worth paying any attention to?
I already know there is lots of useless crap in the world that I'm not interested in. Tell me about things that ARE interesting.
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Gee, or you can grab them off the web for free:
/au/cases/ /au/other/HCATrans /au/other/hca/ /nz/cases/ /cgi-bin/ /do/ /do2/ /form/ /forms/ /fcgi-bin/ /rsjlibrary/rciadic
AustLii
Still isn't complete, but they're adding past cases to it very regularly.
I suspect that this is true in the rest of the western world, but legal systems were hardly ever going to be the first to embrace technology.
Note they're robots.txt (this is just the most important snippet):
# 14 August 2003 - unrestricted access to everything except cases
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Apparantly they got complaints when people would egosurf and find their names from former court cases... (or their employer would etc etc) So they've "fixed" it.
Ok, ok, so its coverage of lots of local courts leaves a lot of holes, but its getting there. I think that the system, rather than any conspiracy, is more likely however. The idea that our government gets copyright in things it produces isn't inherently evil.
Projects like google's here though sound great. If they're sharing the data then all should be above board. It will most likely have the effect of forcing governments to collect LESS about us, as we'll all be so much more aware of what is out there.
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Isn't this a pretty well known business model?
Sicily is full of them.
It's a protection racket right?
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If you're serious about it, you basically need to give in and spend serious $.
The main game in town is Spirent.
In the IPS & firewall testing world, they're what everyone uses, but even in lots of load balancing applications etc they're what people use.
There are a few software solutions around that do an ok job, but very few that can do much at decent speed (ie > 400Mbit). I have a pretty crack team of devs, and using hand tuned open source, and home-spun apps, we got by for a few years, but should have given in years earlier and just got a set of Spirent gear. You'll save time.
Their Smartbits line are basically hardware based packet generators, able to blast away for a variety of scenarios.
Their Avalanche line are hardware based full session generators, so you can re-create a web server being hammered by thousands of clients. I just signed a cheque for > $100k for a single pair of avalanche boxes however, so bring your cash box...
You'll probably find Spirent's hw based solutions frustrating, but if you work with others doing similar work they're very widely used, and you can exchange scripts etc..
There is an Irish company that was moving in to this space, and had an ok product, but it was a bit immature when I last tried it. Sorry, but their name escapes me- google should know.
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As a few people have said, the main difference is service.
Some folks do offer good DSL, with good service contracts, and charge a premium to do so.
As the parent points out however, often one of the ways they improve the service is by allocating the bandwidth explicitly up to a peering point. This is slightly misleading however, as lots of people have pointed out before. ALL internet service is essentially shared up to some peering point. What changes is where this is- at your modem, at your local exchange, at your ISPs outbound link etc. The kind of use you make of your link will help determine where you'd prefer this peering point to be.
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I think there a certain sub-cultures that still recognise peoples 'fists' ... :)
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Oi!
Who are you to call my blood clots cheap?!
Wouldn't it take a hole day? :)
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Just when having 'mormon' was really starting to pay off ..
Not only is it breaking news here, but the link is to another news site with the coverage...
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Yeah, who's that Walmart upstart that "claims" they're big..