Just upgrade your box every 12 months. People use clusters and switch now days so you can do this without downtime. If you have an app that is so mission critical you can;'t risk beta quality software or any downtime whatsoever then paying $2,000 is pocket change. RHEL is certainly overkill for a department server due to the costs unless you have a special license. Fedora would be fine in such a case and easy to switch during a weekend or night.
Use debian stable. Many admins seem to prefer it.... that is unless your employer has a NO GNU policy thanks to the SCO lawsuit. There is SuSE Enterprise but I would not recommend them for obvious reasons.
Peter Schiff is not an Austrian liberaltarian economists but is awesome! Check out his prediction of the recession? He is the only one who predicted it right!
He had an analogy(too lazy to find video) where he compared Free Trade as the following: Imagine an island with 4 people. One American and three Chinese. Everyone on the island has a job. It is the first Chinese man's job to create fishing nets, rods, and poles, it is the second Chinese man's job to create a canoe and cook dinner and gather firewood, the third Chinese man's job was to catch the fish to eat for dinner. The American's job was to consume the fish and leave the the crumbs and guts for the other three to eat."
See anything wrong with this picture? For those who say LOOK AT 3 billion CUSTOMERS GO OUTSOURCE fail to realize is that it is only a matter of time before the Chinese realize that they do not need this American. They can keep the fish to their selves. As Americans we need to produce or die. We just consume and that is very scary.
Ok companies can search the globe for the cheapest possible labor and tax benefits.
Can I do the same?
Can I pay $1500 a month rent, pay $1,200 for student loans + other expenses for $6/hr? Indians get free eduction, health care, and much lower rents. I can't move to India because the Indian government actually cares about protecting jobs for its citizens unlike my own. Now tell me how that is fair? It is not.
Walmart only makes 2.5% or something silly for each purchase. That money goes to Walmart yes... where does the rest of the 96.5% go?
That is the problem. Some transporation and oil companies and maybe a few wharehouses but the vast majority stay in China and it is stolen out of the US economy. Picture the economy like a baloon? Your dollar moves all around it helping everyone else including industries out. Now picture it with a small hole with the air going into another baloon called China? That is what is happening now. Eventually there will be no more pressure to keep it inflated which is what the recession is all about.
FYI does Walmart even pay dividends? Most companies do not and the brokers are trading fictional monopoly money in the form of stocks to many Grandmas' IRA and savings accounts. That is dangerous. This is all a bunch of cards.
Sure free trade can help the world economy but it has to cost the American economy to create it. Many economsts agree if you are willing to research. Peter Schiff in that video stated the problem. The Chinese produce and we just sit around and consume. It is not sustainable.
Excuse me but I thought he was the president of the United States and not the prime minister of India. His and his predecessor,... and hell all the way to Clinton sides with everyone but the American citizen to make a some banks and corporate CEOs happy to enslave the world and have us starve.
When can we have a leader who represents our interests. Isn't that the point of democracy?
Mr. President, after watching your elitist attidue of knowing better than the average citizen we sent you a message by electing republicans.
If you want we can continue this trend with your job being outsourced in 2012 when we elect another republican. I do not care if he is pro outsourcing as much as you are. The fact that you wont listen and thumb your nose at us infuriates me.
I have a junk el-cheapo toshiba laptop with funny hardware and a standard asus desktop that has a 6-way phenomII with 6 gigs of ram. I ran both Ubuntu and Fedora on these machines. Fedora has been much easier for me than Ubuntu with automatically finding my wifi card and configuring it. Under Virtualbox I notice my lag in World of Warcraft goes through the roof when Ubuntu is downloading something on the VM. With Fedora there is not issue at all.
On my cheap laptop Ubuntu is a very bad nightmare. Nothing works the wifi contantly disconnects, the machine can suspend sometimes but apt-get update breaks this function A LOT. Fonts are butt ugly with java apps like netbeans under Ubuntu. With Fedora things work better on both systems.
Fedora is quite easy to use and Yum takes care of RPM hell much like apt-get does. The only thing you will miss with Fedora is all the shiny itunish Ubuntu One stuff. Autoten can install all the codecs you need easily. My only gripe with Fedora 13 (downloading 14 now) is that you need to be root to cut and paste files between an NTFS and an ext 4 partition. No gui support which is annoying if-you-have-folders-with-spaces from the command line. UGH. You can change this but its a pain. Fedora 14 might have fixed this.
For users reading this who are tired of the bleeding edge of Ubuntu or have had bugs will love Fedora and I encourage you to try it. It feels less edgy and more professional. That is my take.
I run Aptna, Eclipse, Netbeans, and (well did) azuerus. Yes a very big app like netbeans does take a good 8 or 9 seconds but everything else which doesn't use the Swing API looks native and feels fast. SWT is much better and gives java apps a native win32 or GTK+ feel and integration.
Do you have any idea how much faster computers are today? Modern CPU's have virtualization and other registers that the JVM uses. Java and.NET are as fast as C++ and beat the hell out of any interpretive language like perl or python. This is why they are not appropriate for serving intranet sites unless they are small.
As an American I apologize for my country demonstrating how to screw tax payers and consumers over by influencing votes with unlimited money.
The monopolies and being raped by the telecoms are not the problem, but rather the symptom of a much larger and bigger problem.
In accounting 101 in the first day of class one of the most important questions of business was asked. What is the goal of a company. If you answered to make money it was wrong. The answer was to raise its stock price. Canadians, both the liberals and conservatives will vote the same way for this. They both get huge campaign funds from Canadian and American mega telecom monopolies who only care about their stock price.
We have the same problems here in the states and 10 years ago I remember more choices for ISP's. Today we have 1 or 2. They lobbied to deregulate and won. Expect American style health care where your national system will be privitatized to third party insurers funded by your taxes next. Think I am crazy? Just wait 5 years. The US was very close to having free health care and these drug and insurance companies went crazy to poison it for their own personal gains and money can buy anything.
Europeans reading this comment should take note. First the US, then Canada, and you will be next.
Do something about it and demand your politicians stop unregulated money and influence before its too late!
Now open it and find any without screenshots of Visual Studio or using Windows.x in the examples? I mean any at this point..NET, VS, and C# are one. When someone tells me there are a c# user I envision them a Windows programmer by default. It is like saying using Word does not make you a Windows or MacOSX user. I have to ask what does that make you? Ok you got Word 95 to run on crossover once...
I might as well be a c user who just writes assemblies because there is no where that says I must use an api instead.
I would jump to do to it so I could capture more of my market and gain a competitive advantage over you. Not to sound like a jerk but it is just business and as a businessman it is better to go with the flow. Consumers are stupid and do not care about freedom. They want it pretty. I have been flamed here before and I will be flamed again by stating that Linux and Opensource needs an alternative to remain competitive. Consumers only see Apple and Microsoft here so developers will simply continue to use what everyone else is using.
Do we have an open standard way to stream music and audio to different platforms and devices... no. How about to have an Active Directory or Novel eDirectory platform without Windows or Netware? No... How about a standard way to stream applications... no. How about setting up a Linux device or appliance or anything as a G4/G3 to wifi router?... no
I can do these with windows 7 so this is what I bought. Apple has similar technology to streaming. Until we as hackers get off our asses and stop remaking 25 year old technology and start leading the way will we ever gain our space. Opensource is falling behind as we just copy what others have done. We have no standards so proprietary ones tied to expensive drm platforms are doing that for us.
The good news is that I decided it was too late to enter the Iphone market because I could not afford a mac before it was too late.... shrugs shoulders.
There is always Android and Blackberry and I would develop there now anyway.
Is Ubuntu eye candy and all hip with tens of thousands of apps that do everything from exercise programs to scanning their airline tickets upc code via their Linux based phones? I do not think so.
It is a strange world indeed when I turned down getting a mac for a pc running Windows and.NET over macOSX and Java for web development work. Oracle and Apple are just plain scary and it turns out Microsoft is the one who is the least evil when they were in power.
If I had Adobe Dreamweaver, Office, and Free Java or.NET on Linux I would switch to it.
For this reason I never bought an iPhone. My phone is mine and not Sprint or Apple's. Why is this even legal? What is next? Getting a call by Ford on which streets to drive on the car you purchased. Oh, thats right I didn't actually buy my car. I only purchased a right to drive it. Silly me I agreed to it by turning the key.... nauseates.
I think a fresh lawsuit is needed by the EFF or some liberal group to challenge these rights. We are so far behind Europe and Asia it is not even funny due to stupid greed like this.
In the early 80s 2 groups existed. One was to only use prepackaged software and the other is to use your programmers to create your own solution. His rant backs the former group but unfortunately it is viewed as an expense commodity that does not add value to a ROI. The battle to use prepackaged software has won. Until investment is viewed as a profit center and not a cost center no business will bother to hire programmers to create software to do what it is they need to do rather than buy a prepackaged bloatware that may or may not work.
Well if the pickings were slimmer but filled the client's needs at only 50% of the cost then the rest of the money could go to other I.T. things. It is not wasted at all
Can someone please explain to me how a news story is copyright circumvention device? This is censorship and most courts would view this action as illegal. Posting Decss a decade ago I can see is an actual device because it can be compiled (still pushing it since its code) but this is just going to far. Sigh
When I was a business student I had to read a book called from "Good to Great" by Collins.
It talks about these concepts of good management and CEOs. The best CEO's are always unknown and get paid less.
The publicly held companies get the media attention because people own stocks in these companies and many people tune to Fox Business or CNN Financial news and want to hear about them.
It is true that the best CEO's focus on their companies and not themselves and most are in private companies. All are promoted within and a rockstar outsider celebrity CEO is often a disaster when appointed to a company. *Statistics show this. Jobs loved his company and Scully was the rockstar CEO who brought it down.
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Just upgrade your box every 12 months. People use clusters and switch now days so you can do this without downtime. If you have an app that is so mission critical you can;'t risk beta quality software or any downtime whatsoever then paying $2,000 is pocket change. RHEL is certainly overkill for a department server due to the costs unless you have a special license. Fedora would be fine in such a case and easy to switch during a weekend or night.
Use debian stable. Many admins seem to prefer it. ... that is unless your employer has a NO GNU policy thanks to the SCO lawsuit. There is SuSE Enterprise but I would not recommend them for obvious reasons.
Want to make $3 an hour and work 100 hours a week? We did this in the 19th century and it was horrible and millions died.
Peter Schiff is not an Austrian liberaltarian economists but is awesome! Check out his prediction of the recession? He is the only one who predicted it right!
He had an analogy(too lazy to find video) where he compared Free Trade as the following: Imagine an island with 4 people. One American and three Chinese. Everyone on the island has a job. It is the first Chinese man's job to create fishing nets, rods, and poles, it is the second Chinese man's job to create a canoe and cook dinner and gather firewood, the third Chinese man's job was to catch the fish to eat for dinner. The American's job was to consume the fish and leave the the crumbs and guts for the other three to eat."
See anything wrong with this picture? For those who say LOOK AT 3 billion CUSTOMERS GO OUTSOURCE fail to realize is that it is only a matter of time before the Chinese realize that they do not need this American. They can keep the fish to their selves. As Americans we need to produce or die. We just consume and that is very scary.
From a purely economic standpoint it is true that outsourcing jobs is better for the US economy as a whole"
It is not. You need to produce and every dollar needs to stay in the US economy to prevent a deflation.
Ok companies can search the globe for the cheapest possible labor and tax benefits.
Can I do the same?
Can I pay $1500 a month rent, pay $1,200 for student loans + other expenses for $6/hr? Indians get free eduction, health care, and much lower rents. I can't move to India because the Indian government actually cares about protecting jobs for its citizens unlike my own. Now tell me how that is fair? It is not.
Walmart only makes 2.5% or something silly for each purchase. That money goes to Walmart yes ... where does the rest of the 96.5% go?
That is the problem. Some transporation and oil companies and maybe a few wharehouses but the vast majority stay in China and it is stolen out of the US economy. Picture the economy like a baloon? Your dollar moves all around it helping everyone else including industries out. Now picture it with a small hole with the air going into another baloon called China? That is what is happening now. Eventually there will be no more pressure to keep it inflated which is what the recession is all about.
FYI does Walmart even pay dividends? Most companies do not and the brokers are trading fictional monopoly money in the form of stocks to many Grandmas' IRA and savings accounts. That is dangerous. This is all a bunch of cards.
Sure free trade can help the world economy but it has to cost the American economy to create it. Many economsts agree if you are willing to research. Peter Schiff in that video stated the problem. The Chinese produce and we just sit around and consume. It is not sustainable.
Excuse me but I thought he was the president of the United States and not the prime minister of India. His and his predecessor, ... and hell all the way to Clinton sides with everyone but the American citizen to make a some banks and corporate CEOs happy to enslave the world and have us starve.
When can we have a leader who represents our interests. Isn't that the point of democracy?
Mr. President, after watching your elitist attidue of knowing better than the average citizen we sent you a message by electing republicans.
If you want we can continue this trend with your job being outsourced in 2012 when we elect another republican. I do not care if he is pro outsourcing as much as you are. The fact that you wont listen and thumb your nose at us infuriates me.
Here is my perspective.
I have a junk el-cheapo toshiba laptop with funny hardware and a standard asus desktop that has a 6-way phenomII with 6 gigs of ram. I ran both Ubuntu and Fedora on these machines. Fedora has been much easier for me than Ubuntu with automatically finding my wifi card and configuring it. Under Virtualbox I notice my lag in World of Warcraft goes through the roof when Ubuntu is downloading something on the VM. With Fedora there is not issue at all.
On my cheap laptop Ubuntu is a very bad nightmare. Nothing works the wifi contantly disconnects, the machine can suspend sometimes but apt-get update breaks this function A LOT. Fonts are butt ugly with java apps like netbeans under Ubuntu. With Fedora things work better on both systems.
Fedora is quite easy to use and Yum takes care of RPM hell much like apt-get does. The only thing you will miss with Fedora is all the shiny itunish Ubuntu One stuff. Autoten can install all the codecs you need easily. My only gripe with Fedora 13 (downloading 14 now) is that you need to be root to cut and paste files between an NTFS and an ext 4 partition. No gui support which is annoying if-you-have-folders-with-spaces from the command line. UGH. You can change this but its a pain. Fedora 14 might have fixed this.
For users reading this who are tired of the bleeding edge of Ubuntu or have had bugs will love Fedora and I encourage you to try it. It feels less edgy and more professional. That is my take.
I run Aptna, Eclipse, Netbeans, and (well did) azuerus. Yes a very big app like netbeans does take a good 8 or 9 seconds but everything else which doesn't use the Swing API looks native and feels fast. SWT is much better and gives java apps a native win32 or GTK+ feel and integration.
5 minutes?
1995 called and wants your quote back.
Do you have any idea how much faster computers are today? Modern CPU's have virtualization and other registers that the JVM uses. Java and .NET are as fast as C++ and beat the hell out of any interpretive language like perl or python. This is why they are not appropriate for serving intranet sites unless they are small.
Every book and every tutorial include Visual Studio and .NET so they are one.
Mono is a lie and a distraction.
As an American I apologize for my country demonstrating how to screw tax payers and consumers over by influencing votes with unlimited money.
The monopolies and being raped by the telecoms are not the problem, but rather the symptom of a much larger and bigger problem.
In accounting 101 in the first day of class one of the most important questions of business was asked. What is the goal of a company. If you answered to make money it was wrong. The answer was to raise its stock price. Canadians, both the liberals and conservatives will vote the same way for this. They both get huge campaign funds from Canadian and American mega telecom monopolies who only care about their stock price.
We have the same problems here in the states and 10 years ago I remember more choices for ISP's. Today we have 1 or 2. They lobbied to deregulate and won. Expect American style health care where your national system will be privitatized to third party insurers funded by your taxes next. Think I am crazy? Just wait 5 years. The US was very close to having free health care and these drug and insurance companies went crazy to poison it for their own personal gains and money can buy anything.
Europeans reading this comment should take note. First the US, then Canada, and you will be next.
Do something about it and demand your politicians stop unregulated money and influence before its too late!
Go to any bookstore and pick a random c# book?
Now tell me how many do not have screenshots of Visual Studio and things like using Windows.forms.x or Windows.x? ... that is what I thought.
They are taught as one. Visual Studio and C# is .NET. Just different aspects and tools of the ecosystem.
Go to any bookstore and pick up a c# book?
Now open it and find any without screenshots of Visual Studio or using Windows.x in the examples? I mean any at this point. .NET, VS, and C# are one. When someone tells me there are a c# user I envision them a Windows programmer by default. It is like saying using Word does not make you a Windows or MacOSX user. I have to ask what does that make you? Ok you got Word 95 to run on crossover once ...
I might as well be a c user who just writes assemblies because there is no where that says I must use an api instead.
I also wonder what platform as well. Java vs Php and the database software could make it or break it regardless of OS.
Go right ahead.
I would jump to do to it so I could capture more of my market and gain a competitive advantage over you. Not to sound like a jerk but it is just business and as a businessman it is better to go with the flow. Consumers are stupid and do not care about freedom. They want it pretty. I have been flamed here before and I will be flamed again by stating that Linux and Opensource needs an alternative to remain competitive. Consumers only see Apple and Microsoft here so developers will simply continue to use what everyone else is using.
Do we have an open standard way to stream music and audio to different platforms and devices ... no. How about to have an Active Directory or Novel eDirectory platform without Windows or Netware? No ... How about a standard way to stream applications ... no. How about setting up a Linux device or appliance or anything as a G4/G3 to wifi router? ... no
I can do these with windows 7 so this is what I bought. Apple has similar technology to streaming. Until we as hackers get off our asses and stop remaking 25 year old technology and start leading the way will we ever gain our space. Opensource is falling behind as we just copy what others have done. We have no standards so proprietary ones tied to expensive drm platforms are doing that for us.
The good news is that I decided it was too late to enter the Iphone market because I could not afford a mac before it was too late. ... shrugs shoulders.
There is always Android and Blackberry and I would develop there now anyway.
Is Ubuntu eye candy and all hip with tens of thousands of apps that do everything from exercise programs to scanning their airline tickets upc code via their Linux based phones? I do not think so.
It is a strange world indeed when I turned down getting a mac for a pc running Windows and .NET over macOSX and Java for web development work. Oracle and Apple are just plain scary and it turns out Microsoft is the one who is the least evil when they were in power.
If I had Adobe Dreamweaver, Office, and Free Java or .NET on Linux I would switch to it.
For this reason I never bought an iPhone. My phone is mine and not Sprint or Apple's. Why is this even legal? What is next? Getting a call by Ford on which streets to drive on the car you purchased. Oh, thats right I didn't actually buy my car. I only purchased a right to drive it. Silly me I agreed to it by turning the key .... nauseates.
I think a fresh lawsuit is needed by the EFF or some liberal group to challenge these rights. We are so far behind Europe and Asia it is not even funny due to stupid greed like this.
In the early 80s 2 groups existed. One was to only use prepackaged software and the other is to use your programmers to create your own solution. His rant backs the former group but unfortunately it is viewed as an expense commodity that does not add value to a ROI. The battle to use prepackaged software has won. Until investment is viewed as a profit center and not a cost center no business will bother to hire programmers to create software to do what it is they need to do rather than buy a prepackaged bloatware that may or may not work.
Well if the pickings were slimmer but filled the client's needs at only 50% of the cost then the rest of the money could go to other I.T. things. It is not wasted at all
Can someone please explain to me how a news story is copyright circumvention device? This is censorship and most courts would view this action as illegal. Posting Decss a decade ago I can see is an actual device because it can be compiled (still pushing it since its code) but this is just going to far. Sigh
When I was a business student I had to read a book called from "Good to Great" by Collins.
It talks about these concepts of good management and CEOs. The best CEO's are always unknown and get paid less.
The publicly held companies get the media attention because people own stocks in these companies and many people tune to Fox Business or CNN Financial news and want to hear about them.
It is true that the best CEO's focus on their companies and not themselves and most are in private companies. All are promoted within and a rockstar outsider celebrity CEO is often a disaster when appointed to a company. *Statistics show this. Jobs loved his company and Scully was the rockstar CEO who brought it down.
Vi or Emacs?