There is also a product by 2X Software called Application Server which handles the Published Applications side of things as well as the Load Balancing of Terminal Servers.
However they are still working on integrating the two, this should be added in the near future. The products target directly Citrix customer's base and are slowly implementing almost all if not totally all Citrix features and more at 1/10th of the cost.
I just came back from a tech show in Europe where Intel were selling their new concept of viiv. I was new to the "tech" so I asked a representative to help me out. Basically it boiled down to a certification process by Intel were they can dictact that BOTH the software and their hardware are interoperable. However, the software comes by default with DRM^H^H^H CRAP installed on it. The rationale is that by allowing a copy of your shows (even a legal DVD) to be played back from a different server is grey ground which the manufacturers do not want to enter because of the DMCA. Luckily for us Europeans this is not the case.
To put insult to injury, the device is just a rebranded PC which is PERMANTLY on. As the rep explained: part of the viiv experience is that you forget you are dealing with a PC. Thus, so as to allow instant on and off of the device, it is actually just blanking and powering down some of the circuitry. However the device is effectively on. Considering the device will be on 24/7 that will foot us quite of an energy bill.
I personally prefer buying an iMac mini or reusing my PS2 as a Mythfrontend and have my MythServer somewhere else which switches on demand. Wakeonlan + swsusp2 - SWEET
I knew google was quite powerful. Recently there was a post regarding how it was possible to retreive passwords hosted on websites due to negligence or simple Frontpage Extensions.
This one is outright dangerous. At least my number wasn't listed!!
China's population estimate for Jul '04: 1,298,847,624
USA's population estimate for Jul '04: 293,027,571
That is quoted from the CIA factbook.
Even taking all the other English speaking nations (I am from one of them) it doesn't get close to China, let alone all the other languages in the world put together. Having said that, English is the language used in western commerce. This still does not imply that for social reasons people use English when communicating to foreigners. People use the language that is most appropriate for a conversation and to their culture.
This thread is not about the relevance of English in commerce nowadays but on a lanuages used for social interaction which is what orkut is all about afterall.
Those are native speakers. But even so, the fact that you can speak both native and english just makes the orkut experiment more relevant. I am a Maltese http://www.visitmalta.com/ native and we speak both English and Maltese in day to day conversations. A language is chosen dependent on what you feel comfortable with or depending on your social background.
Its very rude to exclude people based upon not understanding a language, but there again its also very rude to impose a language restriction on a conversation which is between a close group of people. If you don't understand... just ask; or else even better: learn a new language:-)
1st: Mandarin with 885 million spoken in China, Malaysia, Taiwan 2nd: Spanish with 332 million spoken in South America, Central America, Spain 3rd: English with 322 million spoken in USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand 4th: Arabic with 235 million spoken in Middle East, Arabia, North Africa 5th: Bengali with 189 million spoken in Bangladesh, Eastern India
It would be interesting to observe on behalf of the orkut engineers the relations between the English speaking and the Portuguese communites to see the people who act as bridges between the communities because they are bi-lingual. Such people have an important role in society and the website just shows one of the current realities in life - communication
The dictionaries you are mentioning use T9 technology, which is not all that new. I always keep my T9 on because yes it speeds up your typing.
Yet the issue at hand here is to totally scrap the need of a dictionary. SMS Texting is mostly popular in Japan and in Europe although its already picking up in the States. Now the problem here is language. I am Maltese, and we usually tend to use Maltese and English interchangably. Yet you can't do this for texting, because the lack of a Maltese dictionary. Also, you tend to use bad gramemr because typing out certain words STILL requires a look up in the dictionary because there would be more common words with the same combination of letters. People who send loads of SMSes would understand me.
I am totally in favour of encouraging this button layout, so that you don't get to teach your phone your common jargon words. You notice this most when you send messages from someone elses phone. Apart from having to re-learn his/her interface for using T9, you end up discovering that he/she doesn't have the same words. Grrrrrrrr
I totally agree with you. Sometimes governments just HAVE to pay all that money for software to make them seem good. You can do sooooo much more by using free alternatives. If you really HAVE to spend money, then pay developers to work on the software. Like this you are also training your own community instead of paying the Microsoft tax to corporate America.
Microsoft have always used the tactic of making it a point to be the first thing the user experiences when computing. Thus, they get people hooked with the Microsoft way of doing things. Once you get people used to the system, it is highly unlikely that you move out.. for two reasons.
1) It just works (TM) factor 2) I already paid. Why switch ?
This is probably one the few chances of experiencing an "alternative" product to a fresh group of people. Would be interesting to see how "easy" people would find it to use these systems, since, Microsoft technology would then be the alien product which you have to re-learn.
I suppose you are referring to something like this link
Just a quick rant...
What I would like to see from AMD is more in the way of compiler support for x86-64. The demo in the link above showed how it was already possible to run 32bit and 64 bit compiled applications already simultaneously. We need huge support from the chip makers to pull this off as an important evolutionary step in computing. At least if talking about enterprise computing.
This also applies to their printers. They are the most supported... much more than HP does. Epson printers simply ROCK regarding linux support. My Stylus never gave me problems and I know alot of people who can say the same. They guys who import them in my country support our LUG too.
An interesting benchmark would be to compare how much latency it would undertake to "wake up" these shut down parts. Sounds like a good benchmark against the translation Transmeta are famous for.
Joking aside, there is an even greater concern about this when the payment of bandwidth will totally shift to the user with the advent of GPRS/UMTS mobile technologies. That is when users will become SERIOUSLY concerned about wasted bandwidth/money.
.... to let any single company benefit from the tendering process of the hardware, the same should have been done with the software. Linux is not owned buy anyone and has only costs based on client support. Like this the government is not dependent on the survival of a foreign country, which is being sueued by the EU for bussiness bad practices.
The Belgian Linux users are a great asset to make the system the most usable for the rest of the Belgian population. The Open Source philosophy relies on the concept of sharing and collaboration thus getting the Belgian developers spontaneously develop better applications to support the system. The software will be owned by everyone and the development of such software can be even incentivated by the government. A clear example of this is the involvement of the German government in sponsoring the secutiry libraries of Kmail. This has even more grounds when it is now public that Microsoft wants to move to a services type of bussiness model as opposed to selling the whole software product.
Instead of going the AOL/ICQ way, i would prefer if they go the Jabber way, and concentrate on doing ONE good client and let Jabber do all the underlying gateway translations. This will open the gates against IE which is trying to push MSN down our troats in IE.
Like this, people will choose Mozilla because it has both MSN as well as... well all other IMs.
Slashdot Mirror
They didn't take it out. Some things needed fixing. I am using this version http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=199019 which works well for me and wasn't too much trouble to setup
There is also a product by 2X Software called Application Server which handles the Published Applications side of things as well as the Load Balancing of Terminal Servers.
However they are still working on integrating the two, this should be added in the near future. The products target directly Citrix customer's base and are slowly implementing almost all if not totally all Citrix features and more at 1/10th of the cost.
I just came back from a tech show in Europe where Intel were selling their new concept of viiv. I was new to the "tech" so I asked a representative to help me out. Basically it boiled down to a certification process by Intel were they can dictact that BOTH the software and their hardware are interoperable. However, the software comes by default with DRM^H^H^H CRAP installed on it. The rationale is that by allowing a copy of your shows (even a legal DVD) to be played back from a different server is grey ground which the manufacturers do not want to enter because of the DMCA. Luckily for us Europeans this is not the case.
To put insult to injury, the device is just a rebranded PC which is PERMANTLY on. As the rep explained: part of the viiv experience is that you forget you are dealing with a PC. Thus, so as to allow instant on and off of the device, it is actually just blanking and powering down some of the circuitry. However the device is effectively on. Considering the device will be on 24/7 that will foot us quite of an energy bill.
I personally prefer buying an iMac mini or reusing my PS2 as a Mythfrontend and have my MythServer somewhere else which switches on demand. Wakeonlan + swsusp2 - SWEET
Ok...
... seriously
I knew google was quite powerful. Recently there was a post regarding how it was possible to retreive passwords hosted on websites due to negligence or simple Frontpage Extensions.
This one is outright dangerous. At least my number wasn't listed!!
Call the police
Ok... another quick fact:
China's population estimate for Jul '04: 1,298,847,624
USA's population estimate for Jul '04:
293,027,571
That is quoted from the CIA factbook.
Even taking all the other English speaking nations (I am from one of them) it doesn't get close to China, let alone all the other languages in the world put together. Having said that, English is the language used in western commerce. This still does not imply that for social reasons people use English when communicating to foreigners. People use the language that is most appropriate for a conversation and to their culture.
This thread is not about the relevance of English in commerce nowadays but on a lanuages used for social interaction which is what orkut is all about afterall.
Those are native speakers. But even so, the fact that you can speak both native and english just makes the orkut experiment more relevant. I am a Maltese http://www.visitmalta.com/ native and we speak both English and Maltese in day to day conversations. A language is chosen dependent on what you feel comfortable with or depending on your social background.
:-)
Its very rude to exclude people based upon not understanding a language, but there again its also very rude to impose a language restriction on a conversation which is between a close group of people. If you don't understand... just ask; or else even better: learn a new language
Some facts for you:
1st: Mandarin with 885 million spoken in China, Malaysia, Taiwan
2nd: Spanish with 332 million spoken in South America, Central America, Spain
3rd: English with 322 million spoken in USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
4th: Arabic with 235 million spoken in Middle East, Arabia, North Africa
5th: Bengali with 189 million spoken in Bangladesh, Eastern India
For a whole list a quick google gives http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html. You will find Portuguese at 7th very close to 5th position.
It would be interesting to observe on behalf of the orkut engineers the relations between the English speaking and the Portuguese communites to see the people who act as bridges between the communities because they are bi-lingual. Such people have an important role in society and the website just shows one of the current realities in life - communication
Get your facts right....
its 900 and 1800. 1900 is in the states
If many nerds follow debian then it IS news for nerds. I don't see the problem. Funny to be a minority amond nerds ha ?
Mentioning something like Brigate Rosse is a blow below the belt. What a load of FUD. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Sorry, but I had to say it.
I personaly think that it will generate an economic boom in the region, which was very much needed indeed.
I managed to get past the last page before the site got slashdotted. That was fast. Now I can comfortably see the pics from my cache.
Just copy the URL in your clipboard. Open a seperate browser instance and paste your url there. Hey presto!
:-)
Nothing too difficult
Carbon will be geek's best friend.
The dictionaries you are mentioning use T9 technology, which is not all that new. I always keep my T9 on because yes it speeds up your typing.
Yet the issue at hand here is to totally scrap the need of a dictionary. SMS Texting is mostly popular in Japan and in Europe although its already picking up in the States. Now the problem here is language. I am Maltese, and we usually tend to use Maltese and English interchangably. Yet you can't do this for texting, because the lack of a Maltese dictionary. Also, you tend to use bad gramemr because typing out certain words STILL requires a look up in the dictionary because there would be more common words with the same combination of letters. People who send loads of SMSes would understand me.
I am totally in favour of encouraging this button layout, so that you don't get to teach your phone your common jargon words. You notice this most when you send messages from someone elses phone. Apart from having to re-learn his/her interface for using T9, you end up discovering that he/she doesn't have the same words. Grrrrrrrr
my 2c
I totally agree with you. Sometimes governments just HAVE to pay all that money for software to make them seem good. You can do sooooo much more by using free alternatives. If you really HAVE to spend money, then pay developers to work on the software. Like this you are also training your own community instead of paying the Microsoft tax to corporate America.
Microsoft have always used the tactic of making it a point to be the first thing the user experiences when computing. Thus, they get people hooked with the Microsoft way of doing things. Once you get people used to the system, it is highly unlikely that you move out.. for two reasons.
1) It just works (TM) factor
2) I already paid. Why switch ?
This is probably one the few chances of experiencing an "alternative" product to a fresh group of people. Would be interesting to see how "easy" people would find it to use these systems, since, Microsoft technology would then be the alien product which you have to re-learn.
I am dreading to imagine what the father looks like if he finds out I was messing around with her...
I suppose you are referring to something like this link
Just a quick rant...
What I would like to see from AMD is more in the way of compiler support for x86-64. The demo in the link above showed how it was already possible to run 32bit and 64 bit compiled applications already simultaneously. We need huge support from the chip makers to pull this off as an important evolutionary step in computing. At least if talking about enterprise computing.
This also applies to their printers. They are the most supported... much more than HP does. Epson printers simply ROCK regarding linux support. My Stylus never gave me problems and I know alot of people who can say the same. They guys who import them in my country support our LUG too.
Just my 2c
Rej
I remember the good old days when FP was enough.
An interesting benchmark would be to compare how much latency it would undertake to "wake up" these shut down parts. Sounds like a good benchmark against the translation Transmeta are famous for.
Joking aside, there is an even greater concern about this when the payment of bandwidth will totally shift to the user with the advent of GPRS/UMTS mobile technologies. That is when users will become SERIOUSLY concerned about wasted bandwidth/money.
.... to let any single company benefit from the tendering process of the hardware, the same should have been done with the software. Linux is not owned buy anyone and has only costs based on client support. Like this the government is not dependent on the survival of a foreign country, which is being sueued by the EU for bussiness bad practices.
The Belgian Linux users are a great asset to make the system the most usable for the rest of the Belgian population. The Open Source philosophy relies on the concept of sharing and collaboration thus getting the Belgian developers spontaneously develop better applications to support the system. The software will be owned by everyone and the development of such software can be even incentivated by the government. A clear example of this is the involvement of the German government in sponsoring the secutiry libraries of Kmail. This has even more grounds when it is now public that Microsoft wants to move to a services type of bussiness model as opposed to selling the whole software product.
Unless proven wrong the drill would be something like this:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
All this is done from a shell user account, NOT ROOTmake
make install
Instead of going the AOL/ICQ way, i would prefer if they go the Jabber way, and concentrate on doing ONE good client and let Jabber do all the underlying gateway translations. This will open the gates against IE which is trying to push MSN down our troats in IE.
Like this, people will choose Mozilla because it has both MSN as well as... well all other IMs.