There is no reference to the increased floorspace, and increased cooling requirements of their new setup. Raised floor space and the cooling requirements of many indivdual servers would increase much more than the reduced hardware costs...do the reduced hardware costs include the additional air conditioners? lol
I used to admin 500 linux servers on a single mainframe LPAR. There were two other people involved in VM and Network configuration. There was ONE refrigerator sized piece of hardware. Kind of curious what the 43% of IT group they trimmed out were doing...
Sounds like the real problem was the initial environment was designed poorly....but its hard to tell because its so short on info. How many CP's did their mainframe have? Was the mainframe 20 years old? What model? This just stinks of FUD...
Granted Mainframes aren't cheap...but they are as reliable as hell...you get what you pay for...the reduced footprint and cooling costs are a bonus
Nigel: "You see, most blokes will be playing at 10. You're on 10, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff...Eleven. One louder."
And how do you address the previous poster who made a great argument that many copyrighted works aren't even for sale. Would you be a 'low-life' for getting a copy from a friend? Should you be forced to break the law in order to enjoy some music that was produced 50 years ago but is no longer for sale? Think if it was a book instead of music. Should companies be allowed to buy the rights to something just to censor (err...I mean shelve) it? There are legitamate gripes that can be discerned if you are willing to read some of these other posts, you know, when you decide to begin "visiting/contributing to/.;" again...lol
You can personally insult all slashdotters with your broad brush strokes because they dare question the status quo, but thats not going to solve the DRM issues. Also, beieve it or not, people can be unhappy with the current status of copyright without being lawbreakers or 'weazels'. That is unless someone copyrighted my thoughts while I wasn't looking... =P
"It seems to me" you don't care to read any real arguments against DRM....there are lots...
Besides the 'theives', there are actually legitamate users who have issues with DRM...
Libraries for instance....
It is sheep like you that allow consumers to get shafted by continual restrictive legislation....I guess if I want to play my music on my cars tape deck I SHOULD have to violate the DMCA eh? They have made criminal activities out of fair use...but thats ok...because it doesn't affect you...and that is what is most important.
p.s. Don't respond with "Why would you want to play your music on your cars tape deck?" That is my concern, not yours...
Let me put it in perspective for you...I have a new baby....her schedule is her own...I can only squeeze in time to play when she's sleeping (generally on Friday or Saturday nite). Well, its been a little better as of late, but for months I would get on during the only time I could play and it would be unplayable. Now it may be convienent for you to log in at a different times to play, but some of us have predetermined play times. Needless to say, I cancelled my account. I had paid up three months already, so I'm waiting for it to expire still...(hence how I know its gotten a little better)
I am a sysadmin, so of course I understand that things happen you don't expect, especially during a new rollout....but a Friday or Saturday nite is NOT a special condition. If I told one of my paying customers that during weekends and high traffic times they would just have to accept downtime I would have no customers. It sucks having to plan for peak times and have lots of extra equipment that may sit idle most of the day...but welcome to the real world...(why do you think companies are trying to go to the 30 year old idea of virtual servers...IBM figured this out years ago....virtualizing is the only way to cut down on some of the idle hardware)
too bad more of you don't use your money power....they would have fixed this months ago...
Prominent computer employers usually require basic scrubbing, like deleting and formatting harddrives, but generally encourage any technique that renders the previous data inaccessible such as zeroing and random writing programs when returning a workstation. Even if the machine isn't sold to the general public at that point, it can be given to another employee who has no business looking at data you might have been privy to. You would think that given the recent data exposures from companies who sold old equipment without properly 'scrubbing' the machines that something like this would be encouraged. FTFA, Sounds like the guy is no saint, but the employer should store any data they deem critical on central servers where they control retention and backup regiments. What do they want his browser bookmarks? history? Really sounds like the employer is misuing law because they were duped. Without any data, proving his breach of contract is more difficult regardless of how nefarious his activities appear. Gotta love the great cases that get to establish precedent...yeehaw...
I thought of a simpiler way to explain my point...
If you bought OSX and it didn't run on your machine would you be surprised? Probably not right? That's because OSX isn't designed for any ole hardware. You know that, and you accept that. Well either is Linux. (or Windows for that matter.) All three operating systems are setup to run on a clearly defined set of hardware. Heck, Windows 2000 + doesn't support many items of old hardware that were clearly supported in earlier versions like Windows 95 and Windows 98. Why? Because they haven't release new drivers for the old hardware. In otherwords, Windows won't support hardware it was not designed to support. Well, either will Linux. If you buy hardware that stated definatively that it runs on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0/x86 and then it doesn't, then you have a legit beef. Linux may be versitile, even magical, but its not the amazing Kreskin.
If your point is that your ADSL company only supplies this hardware, I would complain to them. Or if possible, use the network port instead of usb. I've been using Linux with broadband at home for almost 10 years now. Sure I can't run Qwests fancy software, or Comcasts registry clogging bloatware, but is that really a bad thing? =-]
My guess is that modem would give you grief on a mac as well. A quick google search showed a driver for OS 9.2 or something....anyway, does that mean macs or osx sucks? that it doesn't 'just work'? Not at all. I love my mac and it does 'just work'. When you choose to buy certain hardware and certain vendors that only support windows, you have simply restricted yourself. I also love Linux and as a consequence before I purchase hardware I make sure vendors or the open source community support the hardware with drivers before making my purchase. If you decide not to take the time to do this, then you have 'chosen' to lock yourself into windows. This doesn't mean Linux sucks. It just means your lack of choices do, and that's your own damn fault. =P
So are you saying that we shouldn't develop a system that is auditable and verifyable? that it isn't possible?
Diebold said the logistics and cost of having a paper trail kept it out of the design. Funny thing is, as long as I can remember, I've gotten a reciept from the grocery store even when I buy a stick of gum. In fact, I believe reciepts for purchases have been around for a while now. So we can provide a verifyable paper trail and auditable sales record for my stick of gum, but not for my vote? Maybe we should have the IRS run the election. The fact they would make an outrageous claim that a paper trail was unfeasable should pretty much point to some type of malfeasance or at least incompetence. Either way, we don't want them running our vote then. To make matters worse, the largest vote counter, ES&S, has Diebold presidents brother as their vice president. (Bob Urosevich was the president of Diebold. Todd, vice president of ES&S.) These two companies count roughly 80 percent of the votes in the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Even if you don't want to believe fraud of this magnitude could exist in the United States, wouldn't it still be prudent to not put all our eggs in one basket? Especially when the basket is easily broken and constructed so shoddily. Ahhh...what am I thinking....we can trust our government and big business...they haven't lied to us ever. They never make decisions based on whats in their or their friends best interest. Bah ha ha ha ha ha. Enjoy the apathy.
The first computer I used and learned on was a TRS-80 with the ram expansion for 64k!
MY first computer was a C-64. Only the best computer of all time! =P
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tis good news then...
Now I just need to see a few benchmarks from some independent people and go from there. I'm one of those windows hold outs because of games and because of x86 linux. Now that I should be able to run linux x86 on a Mac, and considering that the only two games I play now, World of Warcraft and Enemy Territory both play on OSX, I am officially done with Windows. Gosh, I hope that they release a intel compiled Enemy Territory soon as one running through Rosetta might be a little sluggish. (but I guess with x86 linux I can play Enemy Territory there...=P) I used to be so anti-mac. Lost so many hours of work at school to system lockups and the restart 13. My how they've come a long way....woot! Go MacTel.. =P
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Yes...I'm glad I'm not alone. I searched all over the new MacBook site too. The fact I couldn't find anything was also scaring me. If your first responder was correct, 3 hours isn't too bad, but it does make you wonder about the performance per watt business. I've also been curious about the clockspeed. Intel performance at 1.83 ghz is like 3 years old. Have the improvements in memory and bus speed as well as this new architecture really made 1.83 ghz 'fast' again? Makes me think they are just providing lots of legroom for short step ghz improvements over the next few years to help make up for the wall they are hitting with Moore's law...hehe
Yes...it must just be a coincedence that all mammals have the same body plan... or perhaps God was just feeling lazy that day and started with the same blueprints....
In may be comfortable up in your rectum, but its clearly affecting your ability to see clearly. Watch your step, you wouldn't want to fall off the earth by stepping to close to the edge...
Have you ever tried to use an older windows binary driver with a newer version of windows? It doesn't work so well. Do the hardware manufacturer ever go back and pump out a new driver for newer windows? Rarely. Only in the case of very popular products, and often its Microsoft who necessitates this. Now contrast that with linux. Linux runs fantastic on older hardware...rarely will a piece of hardware be supported in an older version of Linux and not work on a newer rendition. Granted, new hardware in Linux often lags behind driver support in Windows, however, this is not because of any inheirit problem with Linux, its an inheirit problem with IP and how companies protect said IP. If you want good open source driver support, then only buy from companies that embrace the concept. A company makes NO commitment to your long term support if they weld the hood shut on you. Also, is hardware obsolete because the company that made it disappears or no longer provides a driver for the device? Of course not. But, in actuality, it does, often through planned obsolesence.
(Am I the only one with a 8-bit soundblaster? JK =P)
When he said airports, I believe he was talking about AIRPORTS. NOT AIRPLANES or AIRLINES. The government bailed out the AIRLINES, not the AIRPORTS. Just like anony coward pointed out, this whole analogy is off track. In the air example, the sky and airports would be the fiber and the airlines the provider. To be honest, I'm not sure that I want the people in charge of safety having to deal with cost cuts for greater profit. I can just see it now, T1s to India outsourcing all our air traffic control needs. =P
If you do a search for Linux on MSNBC you only get 148 hits, the majority of which are not really about Linux. The same search at CNN gives you 780, the majority of which were actually articles about Linux. This guy may have been off base about MSN's search engine, but he was right about MSNBC's. My guess is that since MSNBC's reporters are encouraged to not cover the competition and so it shows in what is in their news archive.
Just because it doesn't say on the box that is supports linux doesn't mean it won't work. My new HP digital camera worked with RH 7.3 out of box. On the other hand, I had a Siemens speedstream that said linux supported on the box. But when you got to their website it said that 'they' didn't support it, but that someone does. It took me a little bit, but I got it going too. Typically hardware devices that follow stardards will work fine with linux as soon as that standard is supported.
The music industry makes me sick! I hope they lose their asses with the internet revolution. I already have to pay some fucking tax when I buy CD burning equipment, even if I'm storing my own data on the disks I make. When the people who make the music start to distribute it themselves, we can kiss the RIAA goodbye. I want to see the artist, the person who is actually entertaining me, get my money, not some fat corporate slime ball who has his gruby little fingers in the cookie jar. My resentment grows with my ability to sidestep your sorry institution.
Ride Free-Freedom Surfer
p.s. I really think they are trying to put MP3.com out of business because they have the marketshare on free music distribution. God forbid that someone put out a song FOR FREE and get famous without some record exec getting their cut.
Some much of what I have read here talks as if Corel is dead. As far as I know they are far from dead. The release of CorelLinux 2 and Draw are prime examples. I think this is a media stunt to get investors more interested in them. They are cash strapped and perhaps investors will be more eager to throw some money their way if they had a new CEO. Maybe they have someone REALLY respected to take his place in the near future. Just a thought...
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To the anonymous above... As was stated above, tax is only applied when purchasing within the same state. I really surprised that has lasted this long. With all the internet purchasing I've done, and countless others, states must be losing lots of tax revenue. Funny thing though, most states have had a budget surplus lately. I guess it's tough for them to scream they aren't getting thier fair share when they have more money than they can budget. Freedom Surfer p.s. It is only a matter of time though...
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There is no reference to the increased floorspace, and increased cooling requirements of their new setup. Raised floor space and the cooling requirements of many indivdual servers would increase much more than the reduced hardware costs...do the reduced hardware costs include the additional air conditioners? lol
I used to admin 500 linux servers on a single mainframe LPAR. There were two other people involved in VM and Network configuration. There was ONE refrigerator sized piece of hardware. Kind of curious what the 43% of IT group they trimmed out were doing...
Sounds like the real problem was the initial environment was designed poorly....but its hard to tell because its so short on info. How many CP's did their mainframe have? Was the mainframe 20 years old? What model? This just stinks of FUD...
Granted Mainframes aren't cheap...but they are as reliable as hell...you get what you pay for...the reduced footprint and cooling costs are a bonus
Nigel: "You see, most blokes will be playing at 10. You're on 10, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff...Eleven. One louder."
Its really simple.
How much nuclear material in North Korea was produced under Clinton's watch and how much was produced under Bush's?
I think you'll be unpleasantly surprised...
Are republicans ever responsible for anything? Talk about 'finger pointing'...
And how do you address the previous poster who made a great argument that many copyrighted works aren't even for sale. Would you be a 'low-life' for getting a copy from a friend? Should you be forced to break the law in order to enjoy some music that was produced 50 years ago but is no longer for sale? Think if it was a book instead of music. Should companies be allowed to buy the rights to something just to censor (err...I mean shelve) it? There are legitamate gripes that can be discerned if you are willing to read some of these other posts, you know, when you decide to begin "visiting/contributing to /.;" again...lol
You can personally insult all slashdotters with your broad brush strokes because they dare question the status quo, but thats not going to solve the DRM issues. Also, beieve it or not, people can be unhappy with the current status of copyright without being lawbreakers or 'weazels'. That is unless someone copyrighted my thoughts while I wasn't looking... =P
So this crying foul before the election is who crying?
There is no justifyable excuse to not have a paper trail, period. (except to steal votes.)
Regardless of any political affiliation this should concern you. The blind support for a political party over your nation is quite disheartening.
"It seems to me" you don't care to read any real arguments against DRM....there are lots...
Besides the 'theives', there are actually legitamate users who have issues with DRM...
Libraries for instance....
It is sheep like you that allow consumers to get shafted by continual restrictive legislation....I guess if I want to play my music on my cars tape deck I SHOULD have to violate the DMCA eh? They have made criminal activities out of fair use...but thats ok...because it doesn't affect you...and that is what is most important.
p.s. Don't respond with "Why would you want to play your music on your cars tape deck?" That is my concern, not yours...
Let me put it in perspective for you...I have a new baby....her schedule is her own...I can only squeeze in time to play when she's sleeping (generally on Friday or Saturday nite). Well, its been a little better as of late, but for months I would get on during the only time I could play and it would be unplayable. Now it may be convienent for you to log in at a different times to play, but some of us have predetermined play times. Needless to say, I cancelled my account. I had paid up three months already, so I'm waiting for it to expire still...(hence how I know its gotten a little better)
I am a sysadmin, so of course I understand that things happen you don't expect, especially during a new rollout....but a Friday or Saturday nite is NOT a special condition. If I told one of my paying customers that during weekends and high traffic times they would just have to accept downtime I would have no customers. It sucks having to plan for peak times and have lots of extra equipment that may sit idle most of the day...but welcome to the real world...(why do you think companies are trying to go to the 30 year old idea of virtual servers...IBM figured this out years ago....virtualizing is the only way to cut down on some of the idle hardware)
too bad more of you don't use your money power....they would have fixed this months ago...
Prominent computer employers usually require basic scrubbing, like deleting and formatting harddrives, but generally encourage any technique that renders the previous data inaccessible such as zeroing and random writing programs when returning a workstation. Even if the machine isn't sold to the general public at that point, it can be given to another employee who has no business looking at data you might have been privy to. You would think that given the recent data exposures from companies who sold old equipment without properly 'scrubbing' the machines that something like this would be encouraged. FTFA, Sounds like the guy is no saint, but the employer should store any data they deem critical on central servers where they control retention and backup regiments. What do they want his browser bookmarks? history? Really sounds like the employer is misuing law because they were duped. Without any data, proving his breach of contract is more difficult regardless of how nefarious his activities appear. Gotta love the great cases that get to establish precedent...yeehaw...
I thought of a simpiler way to explain my point...
If you bought OSX and it didn't run on your machine would you be surprised? Probably not right? That's because OSX isn't designed for any ole hardware. You know that, and you accept that. Well either is Linux. (or Windows for that matter.) All three operating systems are setup to run on a clearly defined set of hardware. Heck, Windows 2000 + doesn't support many items of old hardware that were clearly supported in earlier versions like Windows 95 and Windows 98. Why? Because they haven't release new drivers for the old hardware. In otherwords, Windows won't support hardware it was not designed to support. Well, either will Linux. If you buy hardware that stated definatively that it runs on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0/x86 and then it doesn't, then you have a legit beef. Linux may be versitile, even magical, but its not the amazing Kreskin.
If your point is that your ADSL company only supplies this hardware, I would complain to them. Or if possible, use the network port instead of usb. I've been using Linux with broadband at home for almost 10 years now. Sure I can't run Qwests fancy software, or Comcasts registry clogging bloatware, but is that really a bad thing? =-]
Well that wasn't really my point...sigh
My guess is that modem would give you grief on a mac as well. A quick google search showed a driver for OS 9.2 or something....anyway, does that mean macs or osx sucks? that it doesn't 'just work'? Not at all. I love my mac and it does 'just work'. When you choose to buy certain hardware and certain vendors that only support windows, you have simply restricted yourself. I also love Linux and as a consequence before I purchase hardware I make sure vendors or the open source community support the hardware with drivers before making my purchase. If you decide not to take the time to do this, then you have 'chosen' to lock yourself into windows. This doesn't mean Linux sucks. It just means your lack of choices do, and that's your own damn fault. =P
So are you saying that we shouldn't develop a system that is auditable and verifyable? that it isn't possible? Diebold said the logistics and cost of having a paper trail kept it out of the design. Funny thing is, as long as I can remember, I've gotten a reciept from the grocery store even when I buy a stick of gum. In fact, I believe reciepts for purchases have been around for a while now. So we can provide a verifyable paper trail and auditable sales record for my stick of gum, but not for my vote? Maybe we should have the IRS run the election. The fact they would make an outrageous claim that a paper trail was unfeasable should pretty much point to some type of malfeasance or at least incompetence. Either way, we don't want them running our vote then. To make matters worse, the largest vote counter, ES&S, has Diebold presidents brother as their vice president. (Bob Urosevich was the president of Diebold. Todd, vice president of ES&S.) These two companies count roughly 80 percent of the votes in the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Even if you don't want to believe fraud of this magnitude could exist in the United States, wouldn't it still be prudent to not put all our eggs in one basket? Especially when the basket is easily broken and constructed so shoddily. Ahhh...what am I thinking....we can trust our government and big business...they haven't lied to us ever. They never make decisions based on whats in their or their friends best interest. Bah ha ha ha ha ha. Enjoy the apathy.
The first computer I used and learned on was a TRS-80 with the ram expansion for 64k!
MY first computer was a C-64. Only the best computer of all time! =P
tis good news then...
Now I just need to see a few benchmarks from some independent people and go from there. I'm one of those windows hold outs because of games and because of x86 linux. Now that I should be able to run linux x86 on a Mac, and considering that the only two games I play now, World of Warcraft and Enemy Territory both play on OSX, I am officially done with Windows. Gosh, I hope that they release a intel compiled Enemy Territory soon as one running through Rosetta might be a little sluggish. (but I guess with x86 linux I can play Enemy Territory there...=P) I used to be so anti-mac. Lost so many hours of work at school to system lockups and the restart 13. My how they've come a long way....woot! Go MacTel.. =P
Yes...I'm glad I'm not alone. I searched all over the new MacBook site too. The fact I couldn't find anything was also scaring me. If your first responder was correct, 3 hours isn't too bad, but it does make you wonder about the performance per watt business. I've also been curious about the clockspeed. Intel performance at 1.83 ghz is like 3 years old. Have the improvements in memory and bus speed as well as this new architecture really made 1.83 ghz 'fast' again? Makes me think they are just providing lots of legroom for short step ghz improvements over the next few years to help make up for the wall they are hitting with Moore's law...hehe
Yes...it must just be a coincedence that all mammals have the same body plan... or perhaps God was just feeling lazy that day and started with the same blueprints....
In may be comfortable up in your rectum, but its clearly affecting your ability to see clearly. Watch your step, you wouldn't want to fall off the earth by stepping to close to the edge...
FS
Have you ever tried to use an older windows binary driver with a newer version of windows? It doesn't work so well. Do the hardware manufacturer ever go back and pump out a new driver for newer windows? Rarely. Only in the case of very popular products, and often its Microsoft who necessitates this. Now contrast that with linux. Linux runs fantastic on older hardware...rarely will a piece of hardware be supported in an older version of Linux and not work on a newer rendition. Granted, new hardware in Linux often lags behind driver support in Windows, however, this is not because of any inheirit problem with Linux, its an inheirit problem with IP and how companies protect said IP. If you want good open source driver support, then only buy from companies that embrace the concept. A company makes NO commitment to your long term support if they weld the hood shut on you. Also, is hardware obsolete because the company that made it disappears or no longer provides a driver for the device? Of course not. But, in actuality, it does, often through planned obsolesence.
(Am I the only one with a 8-bit soundblaster? JK =P)
When he said airports, I believe he was talking about AIRPORTS. NOT AIRPLANES or AIRLINES. The government bailed out the AIRLINES, not the AIRPORTS. Just like anony coward pointed out, this whole analogy is off track. In the air example, the sky and airports would be the fiber and the airlines the provider. To be honest, I'm not sure that I want the people in charge of safety having to deal with cost cuts for greater profit. I can just see it now, T1s to India outsourcing all our air traffic control needs. =P
If you do a search for Linux on MSNBC you only get 148 hits, the majority of which are not really about Linux. The same search at CNN gives you 780, the majority of which were actually articles about Linux. This guy may have been off base about MSN's search engine, but he was right about MSNBC's. My guess is that since MSNBC's reporters are encouraged to not cover the competition and so it shows in what is in their news archive.
Just because it doesn't say on the box that is supports linux doesn't mean it won't work. My new HP digital camera worked with RH 7.3 out of box. On the other hand, I had a Siemens speedstream that said linux supported on the box. But when you got to their website it said that 'they' didn't support it, but that someone does. It took me a little bit, but I got it going too. Typically hardware devices that follow stardards will work fine with linux as soon as that standard is supported.
=)
The music industry makes me sick! I hope they lose their asses with the internet revolution. I already have to pay some fucking tax when I buy CD burning equipment, even if I'm storing my own data on the disks I make. When the people who make the music start to distribute it themselves, we can kiss the RIAA goodbye. I want to see the artist, the person who is actually entertaining me, get my money, not some fat corporate slime ball who has his gruby little fingers in the cookie jar. My resentment grows with my ability to sidestep your sorry institution. Ride Free-Freedom Surfer p.s. I really think they are trying to put MP3.com out of business because they have the marketshare on free music distribution. God forbid that someone put out a song FOR FREE and get famous without some record exec getting their cut.
Some much of what I have read here talks as if Corel is dead. As far as I know they are far from dead. The release of CorelLinux 2 and Draw are prime examples. I think this is a media stunt to get investors more interested in them. They are cash strapped and perhaps investors will be more eager to throw some money their way if they had a new CEO. Maybe they have someone REALLY respected to take his place in the near future. Just a thought... Freedom Surfer
To the anonymous above... As was stated above, tax is only applied when purchasing within the same state. I really surprised that has lasted this long. With all the internet purchasing I've done, and countless others, states must be losing lots of tax revenue. Funny thing though, most states have had a budget surplus lately. I guess it's tough for them to scream they aren't getting thier fair share when they have more money than they can budget. Freedom Surfer p.s. It is only a matter of time though...