Linux is quite popular with older macs. G3's are quite sluggish running OSX. Linux flies on them.
Of course NetBSD is becoming quite fast and stable now as well. NetBSD is popular with really old macs (pre powerpc) as well.
Also Linux still has the best smp performance around for dual processor macs.
Some hackers who want to learn assembler swear by the risc architecture of the chips. X86 is really really screwed and old. For example the 640k limit we like to make fun of Bill Gates qouting is hard coding in the chip. Modern cpu's use hacks to move behind this limit and even trick parts of the cpu that use 640k?? That is what one assembler programer told me once.
Risc is a great an easy way to learn this and is a better architecture from a design standpoint.
IT was this crap in the first place of Microsoft crippling VisualC++ and WindowsNT that drove me to Linux in 1998. I was on a shoe string budget and wanted to learn gaming and graphics programing without a crippled compiler.
Instead of having MS tell me what to do on my own computer and decide for me how much I should pay if I could afford X, I gave him the finger and decided for myself what I needed. I do not agree with RMS and some of his radical views of free software but I do agree it gives the user and community freedom that is not available with commercial software.
I suggest these users who are dirt poor in the third world to do the same. If they can afford such nice rigs on such a low budget then MS should not come in and demand more. They should use Free operating systems instead and not deal with this crap.
Apple once had at least 5% marketshare in the early 90's. 1% is a drop in the bucket.
Today we have.net and other proprietary development models that make porting to the mac difficult if not all impossible. 1% is not worth the cost to port according to the development firms and in return consumers wont buy macs because it wont run windows based software.
Windowspowered devices have been argued inferior over palm. Reason being is terrible memory, resolution, and batter life. Yet they have taken over that market as well. They did so because they were Microsoft. Nothing else.
Apple is still recovering from their 20 year high. They are no longer on the death bed with profits but they are a niche in desperate need to find another market. This is why the Ipod is their #1 product. Without it they would be hurt.
I am not an expert either. But php by default is run as a mode but it also can be run as a cgi. Perl and python now run as mods as well but I believe php started putting everything the apache engine just like Microsoft did with ASP and IIS.
From link "..The whole new language was released under a new name, that removed the implication of limited personal use that the PHP/FI 2.0 name held. It was named plain 'PHP', with the meaning being a recursive acronym - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor."
Php/FI is not PHP in its current form. But I did assume it was. The scripts were read in on apache but I do nto know if it were originally a set of cgi scripts or were they actual apache mods like modern incarnations are.
It stands for "Pre Hypertext Pages". It was supposed to be similiar to C/C++.h header files in which the compiler loads the headers files known as step1 or prelinking and loading in a compiler. Then the rest of the code is loaded and linked to the precompilied files and executed.
Basically the creater wanted to make specific tags and code in his homepage that apache would read first and run before teh html is processed and sent, in order to see how many employers accessed his resume.
Yep. Strictly typed languages help
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Ask any VB developer about the 'Option explicit declaration' (I think thats the name? Its been years since I touched it)?
It forces the compiler to treat code without explicit declarations of types to be treated as errors. It also prevents undeclared variables from being used due to spelling errors.
For example in C++ you have to do int test1 =0 or int test1
before you can use it in code. Earlier versions of C did not do this and created alot of hassles.
Also many gnu C++ programs were not that well written before the even of gcc 3.x which treated some warnings as errors. It was a pain but it improved alot of programs as a result.
Many developers are jr level guys and sometimes system administrators writing scripts. Not everyone can write good code and no one can do it wihtout practice. Strictly typed languages help because it forces everyone to follow a standard.
As you can tell I am not a big fan of perl and prefer python or tcsh for scripting.:-)
THere is a stable cvs tree but it does not include security fixes. At least thats what i saw. Also in the FBSD 4.x series I saw several ports downgraded for some bizaare reasons. Why I dont know
If I was interviewing anyone who said "supervisor resentment" he would be filtered out right away and sent to the door.
This is why blacklisting former coworkers are illegal. Its nearly impossible to get rehired again.
I think this guy should document everything and go to HR. That way he can be fired and HR could do a recommendation. They wont say employeeX was fired or was disloyal during his interview.
Whatever you do DO NOT MENTION TO THE INTERVIEWER WHAT HAPPENED.
Actually I remember this 2003 benchmark. I read here and the editors forgot about it.
Anyway here is the trick. First off IIS used ASP which does not use a mod interface like cgi scripts which means the engine can run in IIS itself. This makes IIS very fast.
We have the same thing as ASP in the FOSS world called PHP. Zend is fast because the engine also runs in the same space as apache.
Or I have seen in older 1999 benchmarks that MS will just use a static html to show how fast there platform is and ignore dynamic content. Also MS used a patch that was not made public which bound the I/O of 4 nic card to 4 cpu's in order to make I/O overhead very low. I think it may be standard in Windows2003 but its dumb tricks like these no one uses in a production environment anyway
But I do not trust any benchmark that has a "Migrate from Unix to Windows" link on the right side of the report. Nooo its not biased
However someone can point to a benchmark by the Linux kernel team and taking it as a grain of truth that its faster then net or freebsd. Its a dual standard.
Companies are still hiring. You just have to market yourself if you have business experience.
My brother works as a director of FedEX in IT.
If you are willing to work for 60-70k a year and have experience and a good CS degree they will probably hire you.
Yes they outsource but they only outsource parts that do not deal with specing like phone support and QA testing.
Just lower your salary and market yourself with a professional resume. Everyone can learn to code. But does anyone know how to deal with problems X that arise? What is your speciality and what do you enjoy doing? Do you know distributed databases or software integration well? How well are you at planning and meeting deadlines for projects? How good are your communication skills? Could you cite examples of this above during an interview?
That is what any business wants and your objective and experience should show that on any resume. If you can do projects under pressure with stuff that can not be fully outsourced you can do it but its more difficult to get that job after the.com crunch.
Coding and nothing else can be done with the Indian guys.
because they are stupid and come from a different environment from hobbiest and hackers.
Banks love security by obscurity and hate any paranoid threat that may come as a result of opening.
Infact many banks are now discovering things called servers. They ran IBM mainframes for simple servers at bank branches all the way throught the 90's since they obsess over security and reliability.
What this guy said is %100 true and Microsoft even paid SCO additional money to keep the lights on at SCO after they paid an outrageous sum of money for unix rights that they dont need.
Sun too reacted sharply and even critizied linux and mentioned solaris as an excellant alternative. its a fact!
Back on subject....
Microsoft was a core partner with IBM and I even think Microsoft released its own OS/2 version to developers back in the early 90's but never commercially distributed. You can google it if anyone is interested in.
Microsoft more than likely contributed alot of code to IBM and probably owns some percentage of the product.
Remember OS2/NT became WindowsNT after Bill Gates decided to go with their own product.
Microsoft would love to prevent OS/2 from ever going opensource and unlike the SCO case, Microsoft would have a good argument and would probably win.
Doesn't Microsoft also own some unix code from Xenix? I believe some of it ended up in SysV or unixware which is why Novell can not opensource it. MS would probably sue them.
You need to have major experience to compete. You can do it if you are specialized, know your business well so you can plan/spec, and you need to sell yourself.
In other words this guy here is lucky because he has that. A new grad out of school is no different from an Indian. You can not compete.
I do agree that those who would not work for under 100k a year and are now whining DESERVE IT! I only wanted to work for 30k a year as a jr. Not a problem.
H1B1 Visa's gladly took those jobs. Now its over.
But sadly its the MBA's who are now overvalued and the marketing folks.
Rumor has it from Intel founders that both the computer chip and fiber optics both came from the UFO crash in Rosewell. At least one of the founders wanted to start a company to investigate this.
Not to mention if you search for "slashdot Ritchie releases ancient C compiler" you will see a 4 year old post about the first C compiler from 1973 by Dennis Ritchie.
Even old PDP-11 tapes were reliable and all the date was still there after almost 30 years when he reposted the fill 3 files that made up the source code.:-)
I saw on CNN that all majors(except 2) were gaining starting wage increases this year for the first time in years.
Now take a wild guess which majors had major starting wage cuts? Computer engineering and computer science.
MBA's are idiots and do not understand that software needs specing before any code can be written. This is why failure rates are near 90% in IT!
With a dismall record like that would you trust any IT project that is supposed to save the company money? Of course not.
My point?
As businesses no longer value and expect failure they outsource to India for the grunt work. Its not valuable anymore so they pick the cheapest possible prices not realizing that Indians can not understand their problems.
My guess is if IT picks up again and if companies have high success rate in It projects that produce results we can expect to see more american jobs. But until then its not going to happen.
Many driver makers for example wont port to Linux due to FCC regulations (wifi) but can legally support Solaris for that reason.
I want a quality OS written by an engineer and not a college student. Some code in Linux is good but how do you know your device driver for your nic is that good? Who wrote it?
Also Linux is not compatibile with itself which makes many closed source shops refusing to support it. I can not run quakeIII anymore for that reason.
I want to install an OS and walk away.
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This is why I prefer BSD flavors. They are more unix like in stability and are designed, not grown. Solaris is even more like this.
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Linux is quite popular with older macs. G3's are quite sluggish running OSX. Linux flies on them.
Of course NetBSD is becoming quite fast and stable now as well. NetBSD is popular with really old macs (pre powerpc) as well.
Also Linux still has the best smp performance around for dual processor macs.
Some hackers who want to learn assembler swear by the risc architecture of the chips. X86 is really really screwed and old. For example the 640k limit we like to make fun of Bill Gates qouting is hard coding in the chip. Modern cpu's use hacks to move behind this limit and even trick parts of the cpu that use 640k?? That is what one assembler programer told me once.
Risc is a great an easy way to learn this and is a better architecture from a design standpoint.
IT was this crap in the first place of Microsoft crippling VisualC++ and WindowsNT that drove me to Linux in 1998. I was on a shoe string budget and wanted to learn gaming and graphics programing without a crippled compiler.
Instead of having MS tell me what to do on my own computer and decide for me how much I should pay if I could afford X, I gave him the finger and decided for myself what I needed. I do not agree with RMS and some of his radical views of free software but I do agree it gives the user and community freedom that is not available with commercial software.
I suggest these users who are dirt poor in the third world to do the same. If they can afford such nice rigs on such a low budget then MS should not come in and demand more. They should use Free operating systems instead and not deal with this crap.
Apple once had at least 5% marketshare in the early 90's. 1% is a drop in the bucket.
.net and other proprietary development models that make porting to the mac difficult if not all impossible. 1% is not worth the cost to port according to the development firms and in return consumers wont buy macs because it wont run windows based software.
Today we have
Windowspowered devices have been argued inferior over palm. Reason being is terrible memory, resolution, and batter life. Yet they have taken over that market as well. They did so because they were Microsoft. Nothing else.
Apple is still recovering from their 20 year high. They are no longer on the death bed with profits but they are a niche in desperate need to find another market. This is why the Ipod is their #1 product. Without it they would be hurt.
I am not an expert either. But php by default is run as a mode but it also can be run as a cgi. Perl and python now run as mods as well but I believe php started putting everything the apache engine just like Microsoft did with ASP and IIS.
From link "..The whole new language was released under a new name, that removed the implication of limited personal use that the PHP/FI 2.0 name held. It was named plain 'PHP', with the meaning being a recursive acronym - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor."
Php/FI is not PHP in its current form. But I did assume it was. The scripts were read in on apache but I do nto know if it were originally a set of cgi scripts or were they actual apache mods like modern incarnations are.
Actually it started out as an apache module.
.h header files in which the compiler loads the headers files known as step1 or prelinking and loading in a compiler. Then the rest of the code is loaded and linked to the precompilied files and executed.
It stands for "Pre Hypertext Pages". It was supposed to be similiar to C/C++
Basically the creater wanted to make specific tags and code in his homepage that apache would read first and run before teh html is processed and sent, in order to see how many employers accessed his resume.
Yahoo happens to disagree.
Ask any VB developer about the 'Option explicit declaration' (I think thats the name? Its been years since I touched it)?
:-)
It forces the compiler to treat code without explicit declarations of types to be treated as errors. It also prevents undeclared variables from being used due to spelling errors.
For example in C++ you have to do
int test1 =0 or
int test1
before you can use it in code. Earlier versions of C did not do this and created alot of hassles.
Also many gnu C++ programs were not that well written before the even of gcc 3.x which treated some warnings as errors. It was a pain but it improved alot of programs as a result.
Many developers are jr level guys and sometimes system administrators writing scripts. Not everyone can write good code and no one can do it wihtout practice. Strictly typed languages help because it forces everyone to follow a standard.
As you can tell I am not a big fan of perl and prefer python or tcsh for scripting.
Otherwise you are syncing FreeBSD to -current.
THere is a stable cvs tree but it does not include security fixes. At least thats what i saw. Also in the FBSD 4.x series I saw several ports downgraded for some bizaare reasons. Why I dont know
I broke my system several times from cvsing up
Hmm
If I was interviewing anyone who said "supervisor resentment" he would be filtered out right away and sent to the door.
This is why blacklisting former coworkers are illegal. Its nearly impossible to get rehired again.
I think this guy should document everything and go to HR. That way he can be fired and HR could do a recommendation. They wont say employeeX was fired or was disloyal during his interview.
Whatever you do DO NOT MENTION TO THE INTERVIEWER WHAT HAPPENED.
Better yet tell HR and document all these things.
Let them know you left because of this asshole boss.
It sounds perhaps him and not you should be looking for a job.
You are confusing Dell Unix with WebObjects made by Next which ran on Dells ecommerce site until recently when it was switched to .net.
But nextOS was ported to x86 when it was dieng a year before Apple bought it in order to convert it to MacOSX.
Actually I remember this 2003 benchmark. I read here and the editors forgot about it.
Anyway here is the trick. First off IIS used ASP which does not use a mod interface like cgi scripts which means the engine can run in IIS itself. This makes IIS very fast.
We have the same thing as ASP in the FOSS world called PHP. Zend is fast because the engine also runs in the same space as apache.
Or I have seen in older 1999 benchmarks that MS will just use a static html to show how fast there platform is and ignore dynamic content. Also MS used a patch that was not made public which bound the I/O of 4 nic card to 4 cpu's in order to make I/O overhead very low. I think it may be standard in Windows2003 but its dumb tricks like these no one uses in a production environment anyway
But I do not trust any benchmark that has a "Migrate from Unix to Windows" link on the right side of the report. Nooo its not biased
However someone can point to a benchmark by the Linux kernel team and taking it as a grain of truth that its faster then net or freebsd. Its a dual standard.
Hell I interned back in 2000 for a company with several NT 3.5.1 servers still running.
During a reinstallation an error message popped up in a blue screen and guess what the background said "OS/2"! lol
Companies are still hiring. You just have to market yourself if you have business experience.
.com crunch.
My brother works as a director of FedEX in IT.
If you are willing to work for 60-70k a year and have experience and a good CS degree they will probably hire you.
Yes they outsource but they only outsource parts that do not deal with specing like phone support and QA testing.
Just lower your salary and market yourself with a professional resume. Everyone can learn to code. But does anyone know how to deal with problems X that arise? What is your speciality and what do you enjoy doing? Do you know distributed databases or software integration well? How well are you at planning and meeting deadlines for projects? How good are your communication skills? Could you cite examples of this above during an interview?
That is what any business wants and your objective and experience should show that on any resume. If you can do projects under pressure with stuff that can not be fully outsourced you can do it but its more difficult to get that job after the
Coding and nothing else can be done with the Indian guys.
Only a new marketing name.
If anything David Cutler may want to volunteer to write a VMS clone since HP is killing it for Windows2k3 and tieing it to the dieing ITanium.
I know he hates Unix and Windows and this is his answer.
HP wont release OpenVMS and its proprietary for Itanium and Alpha for the time being.
because they are stupid and come from a different environment from hobbiest and hackers.
Banks love security by obscurity and hate any paranoid threat that may come as a result of opening.
Infact many banks are now discovering things called servers. They ran IBM mainframes for simple servers at bank branches all the way throught the 90's since they obsess over security and reliability.
What this guy said is %100 true and Microsoft even paid SCO additional money to keep the lights on at SCO after they paid an outrageous sum of money for unix rights that they dont need.
Sun too reacted sharply and even critizied linux and mentioned solaris as an excellant alternative. its a fact!
Back on subject....
Microsoft was a core partner with IBM and I even think Microsoft released its own OS/2 version to developers back in the early 90's but never commercially distributed. You can google it if anyone is interested in.
Microsoft more than likely contributed alot of code to IBM and probably owns some percentage of the product.
Remember OS2/NT became WindowsNT after Bill Gates decided to go with their own product.
Microsoft would love to prevent OS/2 from ever going opensource and unlike the SCO case, Microsoft would have a good argument and would probably win.
Doesn't Microsoft also own some unix code from Xenix? I believe some of it ended up in SysV or unixware which is why Novell can not opensource it. MS would probably sue them.
You need to have major experience to compete. You can do it if you are specialized, know your business well so you can plan/spec, and you need to sell yourself.
In other words this guy here is lucky because he has that. A new grad out of school is no different from an Indian. You can not compete.
I do agree that those who would not work for under 100k a year and are now whining DESERVE IT! I only wanted to work for 30k a year as a jr. Not a problem.
H1B1 Visa's gladly took those jobs. Now its over.
But sadly its the MBA's who are now overvalued and the marketing folks.
Rumor has it from Intel founders that both the computer chip and fiber optics both came from the UFO crash in Rosewell. At least one of the founders wanted to start a company to investigate this.
Strange shit.
Not to mention if you search for "slashdot Ritchie releases ancient C compiler" you will see a 4 year old post about the first C compiler from 1973 by Dennis Ritchie.
:-)
Even old PDP-11 tapes were reliable and all the date was still there after almost 30 years when he reposted the fill 3 files that made up the source code.
Tapes were quality components back then.
But here is the flaw.
Supply is still growing. Just not here but India.
I saw on CNN that all majors(except 2) were gaining starting wage increases this year for the first time in years.
Now take a wild guess which majors had major starting wage cuts? Computer engineering and computer science.
MBA's are idiots and do not understand that software needs specing before any code can be written. This is why failure rates are near 90% in IT!
With a dismall record like that would you trust any IT project that is supposed to save the company money? Of course not.
My point?
As businesses no longer value and expect failure they outsource to India for the grunt work. Its not valuable anymore so they pick the cheapest possible prices not realizing that Indians can not understand their problems.
My guess is if IT picks up again and if companies have high success rate in It projects that produce results we can expect to see more american jobs. But until then its not going to happen.
Why should I care if its open or closed?
Many driver makers for example wont port to Linux due to FCC regulations (wifi) but can legally support Solaris for that reason.
I want a quality OS written by an engineer and not a college student. Some code in Linux is good but how do you know your device driver for your nic is that good? Who wrote it?
Also Linux is not compatibile with itself which makes many closed source shops refusing to support it. I can not run quakeIII anymore for that reason.
I want to install an OS and walk away.
PS
This is why I prefer BSD flavors. They are more unix like in stability and are designed, not grown. Solaris is even more like this.
Also did I mention guinine Sun hardware with Solaris can be upgrades while the machine is still running!
Try that under Linux and intel hardware?