Typically I have found Intels to be more reliable in the server market than AMD's. This was especially true with the capicators blowing up and the nvidia/AMD chipset bug.
I have seen winXP blue screen multiple times on my new core2duo system and I assumed it was microsoft code doing the crash or bad hardware. It happens when I change video modes quickly like open Itunes or Wow. I read the errata and its related to the CPU.
I read Theo's comments about AMDs list getting very big as well.
Are generic x86 cpus' safe any server that requires uptime? Is it time to move on to something more modern and I do not mean Itanium.
Maybe switching back to Risc might be ideal with less instructions which means less things go wrong or Intel's new chip that is VLIW that can do 1 trillion operations per second is the future. Simple multiple cores running in parallel with large loads of cache to share might be more stable and simpler.
I used flame anyone down who said they are the same. The difference between Clinton and Bush are as night and day. We would of not had this war with Iraq, no deficit, corporations would pay their taxes, and we would have agreed to reduce global green house gas by the Kyoto treaty if Gore were president. Bush is one of the worst presidents in history right up there with Grant, Hoover, and Wilson. I even rate him worse than Carter.
But considering how ineffective and now corrupt the democrats have been when they finally took back both houses makes me think your right.
I am no friend of Bush and still think your opinion would change under a democratic president as alot of fud was brought about in 2004 to say Kerry and Bush are the same so just for Bush.
I think a third party might be needed. If Bloomberg and Ron Paul(who has had several lunches with him) run I may vote for them. It would suck corrupt campaign money away from both parties to restore their balance. Bloomberg and Paul support campaign finance reform. Many moderates including McCain might leave the republican party and join their new party. I just hope they are not too libertarian as I strongly oppose fairtax and no federal government at all.
I remember a story here a few months ago where in the UK the labor party supporters(liberal) ran macosx in public forums. The tories and their supporters(conservative) ran ubuntu and suse linux more often while windows ran equally for the rest of the users on both sides.
Conservatives in the US like corporate things that cost more money and do not care about about gnu/free software. Republicans love corporations as they are the answer to big government and are a driving force to eliminating unemployment by creating jobs.
As a note the moderate republicans and independent minded ron paul run linux. THe far right run windows.
Liberals on the other hand feel corporate entities are only after the $$$ and government needs to step in to make things fair. I suppose they would be less attracted to run Windows and would look more into cost rather than shiny brochures.
For the background I am a democrat but have been shifting to the right alot recently since Ford's death and admiring Reagan who I once hated. I have also become more pro MS over the years as well as I just care for the right tool of the job and do not care about ideological battles like I once did. I wonder if its related to my views shifting to a more conservative background?
But more than likely campaign donors give away platforms to both supporters as a thank you. They use what they get but I am sure there are geeks for every candidate who go over the fine details.
I have no idea how this was modded up and didn't bother to read the last half.
For those who read my comments and I am not a gnu zealot nor am I 100% pro linux but it has its uses as a server and IT professionals swear by unix. I like MS environments where its right for the job and nice as a clients.
But to say Linux is immature and years behind windows is flamebait to say the least. Still and I mean still Windows/IIS has not overtaken Unix! Now switching the tables how many years has the www been out? Apache or Jakarta is hear to stay for the vast majority of websites out of rackspace.
Sure linux does not have this wonderful ASP.net that can be learned in a "learn vb.net in 24 hours" book, though Mono is making progress. But Linux/Unix has:
Java Servlets can scale many times over asp.net if you ask any expert who has tried both. Also IIS before the latest version was very bad and was filled with security holes and was unstable.
Serves need to run with low maintance. Explain to me how to restore part of a Windows server installation without restoring the whole thing? You can't due to the windows registry. With unix you can just get some of your/etc files from the tape backup. Issues like this makes administrators prefer unix.
So if you have money to burn and all your programmers are ms fanboys then go with iis/.net but its going to cost more in extra redundancy.
.. and meanwhile your new potential employer and landlord see during your background check and deny you both housing and a job.
Now what?
My fiance got into a bad deal with her exhusbands friend on an investment to help a friend out. The friend left and they were on their own to pay for his business.
4 years later she has been denied several jobs and can not buy a house unless its cash. Her credit rating is back up and it was her exhusbands fault but there are still records on defaulting that will scar her for years to come.
Also with services like Nexus your record could stay permanent because they are not a financial institution legally but will keep your record on file if its reported.
20 years for now your bankruptacy could still bite you in the ass.
I never used desktop search as I have no need for it and many corporate desktops ban it. If its spyware and piggybacked with malware installations of gator errr claria software then my opinion of google will be alot lower.
Its possible ms is just trying to one up google. I believe macos had something similiar to this for many years where you can search actual documents in search results if I am not mistaken.
But I generally love google search and google earth and I find maps.google.com very compatible on my phone is why I became a fan of their products.
If it runs better than flash and is cross platform then I see no problem. Flash is very limited. I like JavaFX myself and it looks sweet!
More competition than better. Both flash and JavaFX are already cross platform. THings like a real programming environment with sql support and network support might just blow ajax out of the water. Flash is just flash and can not do anything like that.
A competitor will come about. I laughed at google at first because Yahoo search was the defacto standard and why use anything else? They won and the game was over.
But Google took over by a supperior product.
Now MS on the hand winds by bundling software with every computer into existence. Sadly it works as everyone and their brother use IE, Office, and Media player because its what comes with their computer.
If you are not satified with google then use something else. I did and switched to google as with most everyone else.
BTW I do not agree with google but they have a right to be worried as MS is violating anti trust laws which could hurt their revenue.
I am a little biased towards google because they won by making a supperior product and new non boolean search engine that read context of pages rather than parse keywords.
MS won by Bill Gates mom knowing IBMs CEO. Nothing else. They have used an illegal monopoly to crush competition by controlling the desktop. As a result we are stuck with IE, MS Office, and now Windows Server since unix/linux is losing ground still and owns only %50 of the market.
So if consumers use whatever MS tells them to then Google looses out.
Sure mapquest is an example that got hurt by google but at least Google makes great products and innovation. MS is just evil with no good products at all besides perhaps excel.
Well Microsoft is the crybaby in this situation since they have been lobbying the Bush administration quite heavily. Infact the DOJ even want as far as to file a friend of the court petition on behalf of MS on this case??
Isn't it the DOJ's job to monitor MS?
Whatever. Google is just trying to survive and has a right to be worried. How can you compete with every desktop on earth? People use whats on their computers and whether its good or not it becomes standard. No one can unseat Microsoft as a result and its illegal under the sherman anti trust laws.
As it is state courts are taking up sides agaisnt MS since the federal government is very pro ms due to bribes.
Its not about having it a bad thing but 1.) People making ends meet do not have enough money to end up investing. Especially where I live in southern California that has an astronomical high cost of living.
2.) A high sales tax hurts the economy and that trickles back to your employer cutting costs by eliminating your job or slashing your wages.
So if you make 45k a year and take home 30k then you should get 45k home right? Wrong. Your employer then will just pay you 30k so they can lower their costs to make up for the insane sales tax.
Or if not then consumption will fall.
Also if you own a home the value will plummet very low with an additional 30% tax! Ouch.
Last the fairtax advocates mention a refund at the end of the year so they wont lose so much money when they are making minimum wage. Well my landlord does not give a damn and wont wait for the rebate to come in. More than likely I will be out in the street within 48 hours. This is why myself and others are opposed to it and consider it very dangerous.
In college macroeconomics the rich have a savings rate and the poor have a dissavings or commonly called debt rate.
For every dollar a rich man has he spends about $.15 and for every dollar a person under minimum wage spends $1 and more under credit because he/she is always broke.
So a sales tax hurts the poor because a %30 tax on cigarettes is an hours wage for one man yet about 15 seconds of wage for another.
The middle class and poor outnumber the rich so in essence the rich lose customers to their business. Basically everyone losses.
All I am saying is FairTax is very unbalanced and worse what we have now and virtual goods or not it doesn't matter.
For a desktop your on your own with no fancy gui tools with Solaris. As a server it kicks ass and I agree.
I was going to say Ubuntu works well with almost any piece of hardware compared to most distros. I know OpenSuSE does not even have proprietary drivers which maybe causing issues on your desktops. With Ubuntu it supports proprietary drivers so more hardware works correctly.
But as the article says the CIO is convinced its the hardware and not the software which made his experience with SuSE.
Clerks do not enforce it so Target and Walmart will just refuse to stock your item instead. Now its just EB Games and the internet. At this point you would lose money as the marketing and cost to cut hte cds require mass production to not be cost prohibitive for the consumer. Why pay $70 for a game?
So its cheaper to take a loss now like poker and not cut it until Target and Walmart get into shape and allow it.
Happens alot. The big three produce alot of concept cars all the time that never make it to the market as internal politics from those who sell Trucks/SUVs do not like fuel efficient cars as they would cannobolize SUV sales.
Fair tax is anything but fair and is very regressive giving hte rich big breaks at the expense of the poor and our economy. A 30% tax would cause a second great depression as income would drop for the rich who own businesses who need revenue for sales.
But I would check your transcripts and see all your Ds' and Fs' if I were interviewing you.
In this day and age I would not care if you took longer if you had a real job or changed majors. It happens all the time but grades represent intelligence and dedication which mean higher productivity.
Not going into work the next morning and sleeping in rocks for about a week or so.
Then bills start coming in and taxes are due and you see things you want to buy but can't afford. Then the only job for you is blue collar as your degree is in cs or liberal arts but you are not experienced doing anything else but computers. Ouch.
I am all for progress though as society seems to self adjust. How its going to react to outsourcing is another question though.
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Typically I have found Intels to be more reliable in the server market than AMD's. This was especially true with the capicators blowing up and the nvidia/AMD chipset bug.
I have seen winXP blue screen multiple times on my new core2duo system and I assumed it was microsoft code doing the crash or bad hardware. It happens when I change video modes quickly like open Itunes or Wow. I read the errata and its related to the CPU.
I read Theo's comments about AMDs list getting very big as well.
Are generic x86 cpus' safe any server that requires uptime? Is it time to move on to something more modern and I do not mean Itanium.
Maybe switching back to Risc might be ideal with less instructions which means less things go wrong or Intel's new chip that is VLIW that can do 1 trillion operations per second is the future. Simple multiple cores running in parallel with large loads of cache to share might be more stable and simpler.
I used flame anyone down who said they are the same. The difference between Clinton and Bush are as night and day. We would of not had this war with Iraq, no deficit, corporations would pay their taxes, and we would have agreed to reduce global green house gas by the Kyoto treaty if Gore were president. Bush is one of the worst presidents in history right up there with Grant, Hoover, and Wilson. I even rate him worse than Carter.
But considering how ineffective and now corrupt the democrats have been when they finally took back both houses makes me think your right.
I am no friend of Bush and still think your opinion would change under a democratic president as alot of fud was brought about in 2004 to say Kerry and Bush are the same so just for Bush.
I think a third party might be needed. If Bloomberg and Ron Paul(who has had several lunches with him) run I may vote for them. It would suck corrupt campaign money away from both parties to restore their balance. Bloomberg and Paul support campaign finance reform. Many moderates including McCain might leave the republican party and join their new party. I just hope they are not too libertarian as I strongly oppose fairtax and no federal government at all.
I remember a story here a few months ago where in the UK the labor party supporters(liberal) ran macosx in public forums. The tories and their supporters(conservative) ran ubuntu and suse linux more often while windows ran equally for the rest of the users on both sides.
Conservatives in the US like corporate things that cost more money and do not care about about gnu/free software. Republicans love corporations as they are the answer to big government and are a driving force to eliminating unemployment by creating jobs.
As a note the moderate republicans and independent minded ron paul run linux. THe far right run windows.
Liberals on the other hand feel corporate entities are only after the $$$ and government needs to step in to make things fair. I suppose they would be less attracted to run Windows and would look more into cost rather than shiny brochures.
For the background I am a democrat but have been shifting to the right alot recently since Ford's death and admiring Reagan who I once hated. I have also become more pro MS over the years as well as I just care for the right tool of the job and do not care about ideological battles like I once did. I wonder if its related to my views shifting to a more conservative background?
But more than likely campaign donors give away platforms to both supporters as a thank you. They use what they get but I am sure there are geeks for every candidate who go over the fine details.
I have no idea how this was modded up and didn't bother to read the last half.
/etc files from the tape backup. Issues like this makes administrators prefer unix.
For those who read my comments and I am not a gnu zealot nor am I 100% pro linux but it has its uses as a server and IT professionals swear by unix. I like MS environments where its right for the job and nice as a clients.
But to say Linux is immature and years behind windows is flamebait to say the least. Still and I mean still Windows/IIS has not overtaken Unix! Now switching the tables how many years has the www been out? Apache or Jakarta is hear to stay for the vast majority of websites out of rackspace.
Sure linux does not have this wonderful ASP.net that can be learned in a "learn vb.net in 24 hours" book, though Mono is making progress. But Linux/Unix has:
1.)Stability
2.) Configurability
3.) Security
4.) Clusterability
5.) Lower TCO
Java Servlets can scale many times over asp.net if you ask any expert who has tried both. Also IIS before the latest version was very bad and was filled with security holes and was unstable.
Serves need to run with low maintance. Explain to me how to restore part of a Windows server installation without restoring the whole thing? You can't due to the windows registry. With unix you can just get some of your
So if you have money to burn and all your programmers are ms fanboys then go with iis/.net but its going to cost more in extra redundancy.
.. and meanwhile your new potential employer and landlord see during your background check and deny you both housing and a job.
Now what?
My fiance got into a bad deal with her exhusbands friend on an investment to help a friend out. The friend left and they were on their own to pay for his business.
4 years later she has been denied several jobs and can not buy a house unless its cash. Her credit rating is back up and it was her exhusbands fault but there are still records on defaulting that will scar her for years to come.
Also with services like Nexus your record could stay permanent because they are not a financial institution legally but will keep your record on file if its reported.
20 years for now your bankruptacy could still bite you in the ass.
" Diming out the students to serve "THE MAN"...and he is Billy Gates and his loyal minions of technocrats and byatches."
GOd damn right
Wow and iTunes occasional blue screen as well when launching. At least I have noticed this but its not often.
I never used desktop search as I have no need for it and many corporate desktops ban it. If its spyware and piggybacked with malware installations of gator errr claria software then my opinion of google will be alot lower.
Its possible ms is just trying to one up google. I believe macos had something similiar to this for many years where you can search actual documents in search results if I am not mistaken.
But I generally love google search and google earth and I find maps.google.com very compatible on my phone is why I became a fan of their products.
If it runs better than flash and is cross platform then I see no problem. Flash is very limited. I like JavaFX myself and it looks sweet!
More competition than better. Both flash and JavaFX are already cross platform. THings like a real programming environment with sql support and network support might just blow ajax out of the water. Flash is just flash and can not do anything like that.
Compared to windows 3.1 I would take macos anyday.
At least it had true 32 bit graphics that ran somewhat decent with multimedia apis and did not crash more than a chevy with 300k miles daily.
It worked for windows95.
A competitor will come about. I laughed at google at first because Yahoo search was the defacto standard and why use anything else? They won and the game was over.
But Google took over by a supperior product.
Now MS on the hand winds by bundling software with every computer into existence. Sadly it works as everyone and their brother use IE, Office, and Media player because its what comes with their computer.
If you are not satified with google then use something else. I did and switched to google as with most everyone else.
BTW I do not agree with google but they have a right to be worried as MS is violating anti trust laws which could hurt their revenue.
I am a little biased towards google because they won by making a supperior product and new non boolean search engine that read context of pages rather than parse keywords.
MS won by Bill Gates mom knowing IBMs CEO. Nothing else. They have used an illegal monopoly to crush competition by controlling the desktop. As a result we are stuck with IE, MS Office, and now Windows Server since unix/linux is losing ground still and owns only %50 of the market.
So if consumers use whatever MS tells them to then Google looses out.
Sure mapquest is an example that got hurt by google but at least Google makes great products and innovation. MS is just evil with no good products at all besides perhaps excel.
Well Microsoft is the crybaby in this situation since they have been lobbying the Bush administration quite heavily. Infact the DOJ even want as far as to file a friend of the court petition on behalf of MS on this case??
Isn't it the DOJ's job to monitor MS?
Whatever. Google is just trying to survive and has a right to be worried. How can you compete with every desktop on earth? People use whats on their computers and whether its good or not it becomes standard. No one can unseat Microsoft as a result and its illegal under the sherman anti trust laws.
As it is state courts are taking up sides agaisnt MS since the federal government is very pro ms due to bribes.
MS is ahead.
.NET is not c# that is osi certified. Its proprietary.
How many asp.net running apache/linux do you see on the web? None.
I was wondering how hard it would be to port silverlight to macosx and other unixies?
If we want silverlight to suceed it must be multiplatform.
Its not about having it a bad thing but
1.) People making ends meet do not have enough money to end up investing. Especially where I live in southern California that has an astronomical high cost of living.
2.) A high sales tax hurts the economy and that trickles back to your employer cutting costs by eliminating your job or slashing your wages.
So if you make 45k a year and take home 30k then you should get 45k home right? Wrong. Your employer then will just pay you 30k so they can lower their costs to make up for the insane sales tax.
Or if not then consumption will fall.
Also if you own a home the value will plummet very low with an additional 30% tax! Ouch.
Last the fairtax advocates mention a refund at the end of the year so they wont lose so much money when they are making minimum wage. Well my landlord does not give a damn and wont wait for the rebate to come in. More than likely I will be out in the street within 48 hours. This is why myself and others are opposed to it and consider it very dangerous.
In college macroeconomics the rich have a savings rate and the poor have a dissavings or commonly called debt rate.
For every dollar a rich man has he spends about $.15 and for every dollar a person under minimum wage spends $1 and more under credit because he/she is always broke.
So a sales tax hurts the poor because a %30 tax on cigarettes is an hours wage for one man yet about 15 seconds of wage for another.
The middle class and poor outnumber the rich so in essence the rich lose customers to their business. Basically everyone losses.
All I am saying is FairTax is very unbalanced and worse what we have now and virtual goods or not it doesn't matter.
For a desktop your on your own with no fancy gui tools with Solaris. As a server it kicks ass and I agree.
I was going to say Ubuntu works well with almost any piece of hardware compared to most distros. I know OpenSuSE does not even have proprietary drivers which maybe causing issues on your desktops. With Ubuntu it supports proprietary drivers so more hardware works correctly.
But as the article says the CIO is convinced its the hardware and not the software which made his experience with SuSE.
Well it seems that is the problem.
Clerks do not enforce it so Target and Walmart will just refuse to stock your item instead. Now its just EB Games and the internet. At this point you would lose money as the marketing and cost to cut hte cds require mass production to not be cost prohibitive for the consumer. Why pay $70 for a game?
So its cheaper to take a loss now like poker and not cut it until Target and Walmart get into shape and allow it.
Happens alot. The big three produce alot of concept cars all the time that never make it to the market as internal politics from those who sell Trucks/SUVs do not like fuel efficient cars as they would cannobolize SUV sales.
Fair tax is anything but fair and is very regressive giving hte rich big breaks at the expense of the poor and our economy. A 30% tax would cause a second great depression as income would drop for the rich who own businesses who need revenue for sales.
How does virtual goods and gold from wow translate into real money for the IRS?
Seems silly and a waste of time. People do not use virtual gold on wow for real currencies though the spammers and pharmers seem to make money off it.
Until virtual currencies become worth accepting on the financial market then its a waste of time.
But I would check your transcripts and see all your Ds' and Fs' if I were interviewing you.
In this day and age I would not care if you took longer if you had a real job or changed majors. It happens all the time but grades represent intelligence and dedication which mean higher productivity.
Not going into work the next morning and sleeping in rocks for about a week or so.
Then bills start coming in and taxes are due and you see things you want to buy but can't afford. Then the only job for you is blue collar as your degree is in cs or liberal arts but you are not experienced doing anything else but computers. Ouch.
I am all for progress though as society seems to self adjust. How its going to react to outsourcing is another question though.