In order to be a really useful extension of functionality, the iPod that shows photos needs to be able to read CF-cards as well, so that I can transfers images to it on the go. Otherwise why bother carrying around a tiny 2-inch screen photo album?
So what you're saying is that if we have Sandra Bullock hacking nekkid, then we can show her doing the real stuff, text screens and all!?;] Herbert von Kammerstein
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The Heise Newsticker (Heise being the publishers of the very excellent german c't computer magazine) reports today:
"The german office will be in Stuttgart. As a matter of fact, they are going to take over the entire Delix Linux branch. Delix's DLD distribution should continue to be maintained for at least a further 2 versions, with DLD 6.2 being planned for late summer. In the long-term the more desktop-oriented DLD distribution should be integrated into Red Hat; their domain has so far been most Linux server systems." Herbert von Kammerstein
Overall, the results actually reflect not the OS count, but the server OS count on the net.
Agreed, the count does reflect servers, but I thought that was the whole point... You want to know what the OS of choice is in terms of commercial UN*X vs. NT vs. Linux vs. X, etc. And all of those are server systems.
I don't think the problem of machines "hiding" behind NAT firewalls, etc., is what's skewing the results, it's the exclusion of the other domains that's making the results not entirely trustworthy ATM. Herbert von Kammerstein
Sorry to be a stickler for detail, but NetBEUI cannot be used on anything bigger than a LAN since it's not suitable for routing. Thank the Ghods above and below!;]
I would have to agree - the likelyhood that this sort of despicable behaviour (although I'd have loved to own altavista.com...;] ) is going to continue or even get worse is entirely too high. The problem really comes in with checking and making sure that a "real" site is running on the domain name - how are you ever going to keep up with that kind of volume?
As was already mentioned, probably the only thing you could do is set up an independant quality control organization, with outside requests from Internet users for specific checks to be done on certain sites to be made possible. That way when you want to use a domain that a squatter is occupying, you could sent the org. an email, they'd check and throw the squatter out.
Again though, the problem you run into is sometimes deciding when someone is a squatter or not. They might legitimately be working on their site, in which case you have to give them some kind of ultimatum until they need to have something finished up. Probably generally a good thing, but the possibility for mischief is great here, too. Ultimately I don't think we have a real good solution just yet.
All very well having space-based systems that collect solar power, but I believe we still have the problem of actually getting the energy where we need it most - i.e. back here on earth.
I think we could use hydrogen - use the energy collected to break up water molecules (from a captured asteroid) and ship the produced hydrogen back to earth to be used in fuel cells. All very fine and well, but with all that effort I wonder whether it's still economical...
Other possibility: microwave transmission? Dunno just how feasible this is, but maybe it could work. I'd just hate to fly through THAT beam!;]
Ultimately until we have a good way of getting the produced energy back to earth, I don't think that's a really good solution.
Wouldn't it be much better to concentrate on getting mechanical nano-computers to work on this kind of scale rather than building smaller electric ones? (Please read K. Eric Drexler's "Engines Of Creation".) Strikes me that's the more worthwhile avenue of research, especially since we'll be hitting more and more problems with electron tunnelling and at those scales nano-mechanic movement actually could be fast enough (I think) to overtake electrical impulses (unless they'd be travelling in a perfect superconductor).
Never mind all the other goodies we could get with nano-machines!;]
So with GGI they'd support 3D graphics under Linux as well? Anyone have any idea when that would be? (The web page doesn't say, AFAIK.) Herbert von Kammerstein
The thing that makes me gladdest to hear about this is that now people will have a chance to run SAP on an imminently scalable platform (various clustering solutions) that is easily remote-administerable. I have watched people trying to deal with huge NT server farms and it was a nightmare! I think they're going to be extremely glad to do that under an OS that is designed to be used remotely.
I'd like to know myself why they're so damn short - when I do have to wear ties (which thankfully is rarely enough on those occasions when I have to make a customer visit) I'm always running around with a tie that ends over my bellybutton. I guess that means I just have to start wearing my pants right up in my armpits to make it look good. But, what do you expect at 6'4"...;]
Better yet, let's just forget this whole tie business and make jeans, T-shirts and sneakers the new corporate uniform!
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That's probably true, and they ARE providing it as a free service... ;]
FYI: use Firefox, get Greasemonkey and get the Secure Gmail user script. Problem solved!
Of course you realize that exactly that was tried with the DARPA Grand Challenge [DARPA], right?
In order to be a really useful extension of functionality, the iPod that shows photos needs to be able to read CF-cards as well, so that I can transfers images to it on the go. Otherwise why bother carrying around a tiny 2-inch screen photo album?
So what you're saying is that if we have Sandra Bullock hacking nekkid, then we can show her doing the real stuff, text screens and all!? ;]
Herbert von Kammerstein
"The german office will be in Stuttgart. As a matter of fact, they are going to take over the entire Delix Linux branch. Delix's DLD distribution should continue to be maintained for at least a further 2 versions, with DLD 6.2 being planned for late summer. In the long-term the more desktop-oriented DLD distribution should be integrated into Red Hat; their domain has so far been most Linux server systems."
Herbert von Kammerstein
Agreed, the count does reflect servers, but I thought that was the whole point... You want to know what the OS of choice is in terms of commercial UN*X vs. NT vs. Linux vs. X, etc. And all of those are server systems.
I don't think the problem of machines "hiding" behind NAT firewalls, etc., is what's skewing the results, it's the exclusion of the other domains that's making the results not entirely trustworthy ATM.
Herbert von Kammerstein
Herbert von Kammerstein
As was already mentioned, probably the only thing you could do is set up an independant quality control organization, with outside requests from Internet users for specific checks to be done on certain sites to be made possible. That way when you want to use a domain that a squatter is occupying, you could sent the org. an email, they'd check and throw the squatter out.
Again though, the problem you run into is sometimes deciding when someone is a squatter or not. They might legitimately be working on their site, in which case you have to give them some kind of ultimatum until they need to have something finished up. Probably generally a good thing, but the possibility for mischief is great here, too. Ultimately I don't think we have a real good solution just yet.
Herbert von Kammerstein
Herbert von Kammerstein
I think we could use hydrogen - use the energy collected to break up water molecules (from a captured asteroid) and ship the produced hydrogen back to earth to be used in fuel cells. All very fine and well, but with all that effort I wonder whether it's still economical...
Other possibility: microwave transmission? Dunno just how feasible this is, but maybe it could work. I'd just hate to fly through THAT beam! ;]
Ultimately until we have a good way of getting the produced energy back to earth, I don't think that's a really good solution.
Herbert von Kammerstein
Never mind all the other goodies we could get with nano-machines! ;]
Herbert von Kammerstein
So with GGI they'd support 3D graphics under Linux as well? Anyone have any idea when that would be? (The web page doesn't say, AFAIK.)
Herbert von Kammerstein
Herbert von Kammerstein
Better yet, let's just forget this whole tie business and make jeans, T-shirts and sneakers the new corporate uniform!