I tried to install it on my laptop, but it hung part way through. I am still arguing with my hardware vendor about getting an update to allow this install to work.
When I read that 'Linux Myths' page I had to laugh. I've been able to install just about every operating system including a variety of BSD's and Linuxes on my hardware EXCEPT W2k. Better hardware compatability? Yeah, right - I can't even get it to install.
Whether or not people realize it, metering already exists in the sense that if you need a certain level of access you have to pay for a bigger pipe. The home user who is occasionally picking up email and doing a little shopping doesn't need DSL or a Cable Modem. The heavy gamer or downloader will pay for the higher throughput. Those with business level demands pay for the T-1 or OC-3.
RedHat comes out with an OS with over 2,000 documented bugs by the public
The actual number on bugzilla is more like 200 (sloppy slashdot journalism again) and most of those are classified as duplicates or nota (Not a Bug). In addition you have to realize that RedHat is FAR more than a Windows release - it includes hundreds of packages utilities applications and so on tha would cost you many thousands of dollars to duplicate (if you could) on a Windows box. This additional functionality on will of course increase the complexity of delivering a bug pree integrartion.
The more credit thats given to Amazon's lame patent, the harder it'll be to overturn.
I'd like to know where people get these ideas. The FACT of the matter is that the validity of a patent has NOTHING to do with whether or not someone takes a license and pays the fees. Lots of companies make the decison to license a patent for the simple reason that it is far cheaper to take a license than to contest it in court.
I think you might want to take a look at the kernal mailing list, or the digests provided by linuxcare describing the problems with truncate() before affering idiocy on your betters.
Personally, I'd like to know why these two huge companies (with greater resources than a lot of smaller countries) can't make an OS that solves these "problems" without requiring a hardware platform that costs more than any car I've ever owned!
This article is the stupidest thing I have seen posted on Slashodot. The fact of the matter is that as long as Moore's law is in operation people buying new computers are going to get faster machines than what was available a year ago. Software vendors are in a very competitive marketplace, so they HAVE to take advantage of the power of these machines to compete - otherwise their rivals are going to run them out of business by offering more features. This is ESPECIALLY critical in the gaming industry. The software industry is FULL of stories of bankrupt companies driven out of the market because they fell behind. If the new software doesn't run so well on old hardware, well the fact of the matter is that there is no magic out there.
Most consumers buy the software they need when they buy thier computer, and DON'T EVER upgrade their OS. The real market for Apple and Microsoft for the new OS's is with people buying new systems. And the crap in this article about two year old machines not being able to run Mac OS X is utter bullshit. Mac OS X runs just fine on an iMac or a beige G3. It MAY even run on any PCI Mac with an CPU upgrade, however I haven't investigated this yet - that would make it available to anyone with a machine bought in the past 6 years.
All this yapping is B.S. - if you have an old computer USE THE SOFTWARE THAT WAS WRITTEN FOR IT! THat old software will run fine on the hardware it was designed for.
Even Linux as it is today has a hard time running on older hardware - someone running Gnome on 486 with 32 MB of RAM is going to have severe problems. And that old story about running a Linux on a 486 in a closet for your gateway DOESN'T work if you are using Fast Ethernet.
The fact of the matter is this guy is an idiot - he has had his business hurt because he has a business model that is very vulnerable to the rapid changes that occur in the computer market, and is trying to create the impression that it's not his fault, but rather someone else's fault. But it just ain't so.
The concept that RedHat is a large corporate anything is absurd. They are a small company with less than 500 employees. They are 1% or less than the size of companies like IBM, Intel and Microsoft.
By default, weird inetd daemons like fingerd and telnet are open to security threats
Well - the default workstation config doesn't install inetd. On top of that, RedHat 7.0 uses xinetd instead of inetd for improved security.
If the newbie is clueless enough to put up a server with everything loaded on it despite the numerous FAQs and warnings, I don't have a lot of sympathy and DON'T blame RedHat.
This release DOES include XFree4, and is fully compatable with the 2.4 kernel (correct glibc, compiler, etc.). The only reason that it isn't being shipped with 2.4 is that 2.4 is not released yet. If you want to (I wouldn't recommend it) you can download a prerelease 2.4 from the RedHat Rawhide directories and run it.
I figure the user interface in a year or two will be equal on Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac and Windows.
I don't think so. Microsoft has been trying since 1984 to come up with something as good as a Mac, and the best they have got is still ten years behind the Mac. There are huge, perhaps insurmountable problems with the heterogenaeity of the application base in both Windows and Linux that make it very unlikely that anyone will ever match the Mac look and feel.
Seeing this comment about $10 keyboards makes me want to cry. These things are the worst kinds of shit imaginable. A good keyboard will last a decade or more. The really great keyboards just feel right, too, not like the $10 crapola that makes you feel like you are typing in oatmeal.
Places where you can get good keyboards are from Cherry Switch Inc. ; they sell the only 'clicky' USB model I have seen, and from PCKeyboards.com. Or if you are more adventurous you can scrounge a bit. The Apple Extended (original) was really excellent, as were almost any of the old IBMs. I recently hit the mother load with these - the insurance company that we share our building with threw out over 100 the PS/2 style AT keyboard - genuine IBM click and feel. I grabbed 7 or 8 of them, and now regret not backing the car up and grabbing them all. What a waste - the new equivalents to these cost $100 each.
People WORKING in North America.... That mostly did not study there......
The United States attracts the best talent, both in faculty and in it's graduate schools. Those Nodel Laureates also provide a powerful incentive for the best to come here to study.
Right now my job consists of maintenance and adding functional extensions to a PHP based e-commerce site. It is a fscking nightmare because every page is full of creaping crud from the last 6 revisions. PHP IS fast to bring up, but it is hell to maintain after the first couple of rounds of revisions. And of course there is NEVER time or money to do that rewrite to Java. My life as a web developer is living hell because of the inadaquacies of PHP - and it's going to get worse because the only other fellow who understands the site quit last week out of disgust.
PHP is fine for a small e-brochure site with minimal dynamic content. For anything more it is the path to HELL.
Increasing salaries industry-wide isn't going to increase the pool of talent
Not this year or next, but in 5 years you will see a big increase in the number of graduates in the high paying field. It's all their in the graduation rate statistics.
This is why the H1-B program is fundamentally bad for the US. It weakens the educational institutions that are needed to support a modern economy. By importing large numbers of foreign workers we are hurting our society as a whole because of the effects on our educational system.
I mean, face it, nothing in America compares to Grenoble or Cambridge in mathemathics, physics and such scientific stuff that has no potential revenue at all.
Total baloney. Over the last 30 years 80% of Nobel Prizes have been awarded to people working in North America.
One thing you might ask yourself (and I may just get flamed here) is why are you older and not yet in a senior management role?
Consider yourself completely flamed.
I have never seen worse than what you have written here. The truth is that technical aptitude and interests determine who is suited for a senior management role, and who is not. A programmer may be one of the best in the world, yet be totally unsuited for a supervisory or management role. Look at Albert Einstein, for example - acknowledged as one of the greatest men of the century, but totally unsuited for any sort of management position. Forcing such people into management roles is one of the greatest sins that a company can commit. You, as an employer are serving your company poorly indeed if you really have these attitudes.
Fortunately there are more mature companies that recognize the value of true technical excellence, and the fact that it doesn't come at age 22. The IBM's and Xeroxes of the world have dual ladders where individuals can advance their career either through gaining technical or management skills. I am sure that once the technical field of computing matures they will see the advantage of what REAL companies do to keep their best and brightest working in the way that benefits both the comapany and the indvidual most.
Look at the recent interview with Brian Kernighan on/. - do you REALLY think he is a floater because he hasn't advanced to senior management? Or is the answer that he has continued to contribute because he has found a job where he can do what he wants.
You (an I think a lot of the high-tech industry as well) have a LOT to learn when it comes to evaluating people.
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Have you even USED Win2k?
I tried to install it on my laptop, but it hung part way through. I am still arguing with my hardware vendor about getting an update to allow this install to work.
When I read that 'Linux Myths' page I had to laugh. I've been able to install just about every operating system including a variety of BSD's and Linuxes on my hardware EXCEPT W2k. Better hardware compatability? Yeah, right - I can't even get it to install.
Whether or not people realize it, metering already exists in the sense that if you need a certain level of access you have to pay for a bigger pipe. The home user who is occasionally picking up email and doing a little shopping doesn't need DSL or a Cable Modem. The heavy gamer or downloader will pay for the higher throughput. Those with business level demands pay for the T-1 or OC-3.
See http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q3/ for a refutation of the Dell claims.
Also, you can do full inheritance, etc. AMONG THE DIFFERENT .net languages.
Sounds like a complete maintenance nightmare.
On the other hand, .NET is their big enterprise play, so hopefully they will be using it to fix their security partitioning problems.
Interesting, but I think that Microsoft's track record has been to favor added features over security.
Required: 5 years experience developing with Microsoft .NET
RedHat comes out with an OS with over 2,000 documented bugs by the public
The actual number on bugzilla is more like 200 (sloppy slashdot journalism again) and most of those are classified as duplicates or nota (Not a Bug). In addition you have to realize that RedHat is FAR more than a Windows release - it includes hundreds of packages utilities applications and so on tha would cost you many thousands of dollars to duplicate (if you could) on a Windows box. This additional functionality on will of course increase the complexity of delivering a bug pree integrartion.
I have a patent on posting redundant patent stories on Slashdot!! You will be hearing from my attorney shortly.
The more credit thats given to Amazon's lame patent, the harder it'll be to overturn. I'd like to know where people get these ideas. The FACT of the matter is that the validity of a patent has NOTHING to do with whether or not someone takes a license and pays the fees. Lots of companies make the decison to license a patent for the simple reason that it is far cheaper to take a license than to contest it in court.
I think you might want to take a look at the kernal mailing list, or the digests provided by linuxcare describing the problems with truncate() before affering idiocy on your betters.
2.4 kernal and Apache 2.0 are almost ready..
Like hell they are. Apache 2.0 is still in alpha versions, and the 2.4 kernal still has file system corruption issues.
Yeah, right. Put in Bind 9 and skip any sort of test cycle. Just what RedHat needs to build it's customer support.
Personally, I'd like to know why these two huge companies (with greater resources than a lot of smaller countries) can't make an OS that solves these "problems" without requiring a hardware platform that costs more than any car I've ever owned!
This article is the stupidest thing I have seen posted on Slashodot. The fact of the matter is that as long as Moore's law is in operation people buying new computers are going to get faster machines than what was available a year ago. Software vendors are in a very competitive marketplace, so they HAVE to take advantage of the power of these machines to compete - otherwise their rivals are going to run them out of business by offering more features. This is ESPECIALLY critical in the gaming industry. The software industry is FULL of stories of bankrupt companies driven out of the market because they fell behind. If the new software doesn't run so well on old hardware, well the fact of the matter is that there is no magic out there.
Most consumers buy the software they need when they buy thier computer, and DON'T EVER upgrade their OS. The real market for Apple and Microsoft for the new OS's is with people buying new systems. And the crap in this article about two year old machines not being able to run Mac OS X is utter bullshit. Mac OS X runs just fine on an iMac or a beige G3. It MAY even run on any PCI Mac with an CPU upgrade, however I haven't investigated this yet - that would make it available to anyone with a machine bought in the past 6 years.
All this yapping is B.S. - if you have an old computer USE THE SOFTWARE THAT WAS WRITTEN FOR IT! THat old software will run fine on the hardware it was designed for.
Even Linux as it is today has a hard time running on older hardware - someone running Gnome on 486 with 32 MB of RAM is going to have severe problems. And that old story about running a Linux on a 486 in a closet for your gateway DOESN'T work if you are using Fast Ethernet.
The fact of the matter is this guy is an idiot - he has had his business hurt because he has a business model that is very vulnerable to the rapid changes that occur in the computer market, and is trying to create the impression that it's not his fault, but rather someone else's fault. But it just ain't so.
The concept that RedHat is a large corporate anything is absurd. They are a small company with less than 500 employees. They are 1% or less than the size of companies like IBM, Intel and Microsoft.
By default, weird inetd daemons like fingerd and telnet are open to security threats Well - the default workstation config doesn't install inetd. On top of that, RedHat 7.0 uses xinetd instead of inetd for improved security. If the newbie is clueless enough to put up a server with everything loaded on it despite the numerous FAQs and warnings, I don't have a lot of sympathy and DON'T blame RedHat.
This release DOES include XFree4, and is fully compatable with the 2.4 kernel (correct glibc, compiler, etc.). The only reason that it isn't being shipped with 2.4 is that 2.4 is not released yet. If you want to (I wouldn't recommend it) you can download a prerelease 2.4 from the RedHat Rawhide directories and run it.
I figure the user interface in a year or two will be equal on Linux, BSD, BeOS, Mac and Windows.
I don't think so. Microsoft has been trying since 1984 to come up with something as good as a Mac, and the best they have got is still ten years behind the Mac. There are huge, perhaps insurmountable problems with the heterogenaeity of the application base in both Windows and Linux that make it very unlikely that anyone will ever match the Mac look and feel.
Seeing this comment about $10 keyboards makes me want to cry. These things are the worst kinds of shit imaginable. A good keyboard will last a decade or more. The really great keyboards just feel right, too, not like the $10 crapola that makes you feel like you are typing in oatmeal.
Places where you can get good keyboards are from Cherry Switch Inc. ; they sell the only 'clicky' USB model I have seen, and from PCKeyboards.com. Or if you are more adventurous you can scrounge a bit. The Apple Extended (original) was really excellent, as were almost any of the old IBMs. I recently hit the mother load with these - the insurance company that we share our building with threw out over 100 the PS/2 style AT keyboard - genuine IBM click and feel. I grabbed 7 or 8 of them, and now regret not backing the car up and grabbing them all. What a waste - the new equivalents to these cost $100 each.
People WORKING in North America.... That mostly did not study there......
The United States attracts the best talent, both in faculty and in it's graduate schools. Those Nodel Laureates also provide a powerful incentive for the best to come here to study.
but am coding my new software in PHP.
Right now my job consists of maintenance and adding functional extensions to a PHP based e-commerce site. It is a fscking nightmare because every page is full of creaping crud from the last 6 revisions. PHP IS fast to bring up, but it is hell to maintain after the first couple of rounds of revisions. And of course there is NEVER time or money to do that rewrite to Java. My life as a web developer is living hell because of the inadaquacies of PHP - and it's going to get worse because the only other fellow who understands the site quit last week out of disgust.
PHP is fine for a small e-brochure site with minimal dynamic content. For anything more it is the path to HELL.
Increasing salaries industry-wide isn't going to increase the pool of talent
Not this year or next, but in 5 years you will see a big increase in the number of graduates in the high paying field. It's all their in the graduation rate statistics.
This is why the H1-B program is fundamentally bad for the US. It weakens the educational institutions that are needed to support a modern economy. By importing large numbers of foreign workers we are hurting our society as a whole because of the effects on our educational system.
I mean, face it, nothing in America compares to Grenoble or Cambridge in mathemathics, physics and such scientific stuff that has no potential revenue at all.
Total baloney. Over the last 30 years 80% of Nobel Prizes have been awarded to people working in North America.
One thing you might ask yourself (and I may just get flamed here) is why are you older and not yet in a senior management role?
/. - do you REALLY think he is a floater because he hasn't advanced to senior management? Or is the answer that he has continued to contribute because he has found a job where he can do what he wants.
Consider yourself completely flamed.
I have never seen worse than what you have written here. The truth is that technical aptitude and interests determine who is suited for a senior management role, and who is not. A programmer may be one of the best in the world, yet be totally unsuited for a supervisory or management role. Look at Albert Einstein, for example - acknowledged as one of the greatest men of the century, but totally unsuited for any sort of management position. Forcing such people into management roles is one of the greatest sins that a company can commit. You, as an employer are serving your company poorly indeed if you really have these attitudes.
Fortunately there are more mature companies that recognize the value of true technical excellence, and the fact that it doesn't come at age 22. The IBM's and Xeroxes of the world have dual ladders where individuals can advance their career either through gaining technical or management skills. I am sure that once the technical field of computing matures they will see the advantage of what REAL companies do to keep their best and brightest working in the way that benefits both the comapany and the indvidual most.
Look at the recent interview with Brian Kernighan on
You (an I think a lot of the high-tech industry as well) have a LOT to learn when it comes to evaluating people.
Huh? In what way is PHP primative?
Depends what you compare it to. PHP is a worthy competitor to Perl. But compared to JSP it's strictly stone knives.
The lack of flexible quoting in PHP was always a real annoyance to me.