Already at use over at Wired.com. Which is why I stopped reading Wired.com. I'm all for adverts but that was a bit too much, especially because the first few times I saw the ad clicking on the 'Skip' button would simply hang the connection and never bring up the main page.
Talk about killing the goose and all that. Piss your readers off. Maybe Wired should go with the Salon model (view an ad, get a few pages).
another lemming helping to further the apple myths
Oh, look. Another Apple zealot helping to further spread FUD.
Let's see. Last year after a lot of shopping around I put together my current desktop box. It's a dual (yes, dual) PIII 1.0GHz with 1GB (yes, GB) of RAM, an nVidia GFx something card with 64MB or RAM, and two 40GB disks. All under $1,300.
Perhaps you would be so kind as to explain how I can get that type of rig from Apple within the same price range, hmmm?
If people are willing to pay premium for a Mac because it looks kewl, fine. If you don't need the kind of firepower I need, fine. There is a certain value added component to Macs which some people go for, and that's OK. I mean, it's your money so you should be able to spend it any way you want. But please spare us the "Macs are not expensive" tirade. You folks sound like Baghdad Bob yelping about the infidels being butchered at the airport. Give it up.
* In my experience, Linux is not as stable as FreeBSD. I run a couple of Linux systems in my home network, and though they don't have much work to do, they tend to have software problems which require rebooting much more often than the FreeBSD systems. One machine regularly has hangs in the IP stack due to what look like memory leaks. From my last job I know a number of high-profile Linux hackers, but none have been able to help diagnose the problem.
Would someone care to tell this guy he's an idiot? No? Oh, because that's what Linux zealots tell me. But I'm not a kernel hacker. Apparently, any bug that causes instability in Linux is, um, my fault, and I'm probably doing something stupid. Because Linux is perfect. It has no bugs and it's much more stable than my W2K boxes (server and pro) which get rebooted on principle every month or so. Unlike the Debian one, which eventually gets unusable after a few days and has to be rebooted. So it must be me.
So go ahead, tell him the problem is between the keyboard and the chair.
Probably not - the "common wisdom" is that Linux can do whatever Windows does and better, yet Ritchie uses it. Surely he could figure out how to make Linux do all these things you mention he needs Windows for.
There is a lot of software like this out there for Windows. It's all propietary and closed, because the companies that write them are into it for the money. Shocking, I know.
So you can either buy a Windows 2000 server and the software to go alog with it, or get a consulting firm to write one for you that does what you want and runs in your platform of choice. I doubt you'll be getting a free lunch, here.
Let's even assume there's something like this that's open source and runs on Linux (or BSD). Do you really think you're going to get everything you want, assuming the guy writing it hasn't decided to give it up to take care of his cats or something? And you've said you don't have the skills to modify it to begin with. So I fail to see what the 'open source would be great' point is about.
I was going to take the time to point out how to read the message sequence and history in a Slashdot article, but I'm pretty sure even that simple a concept will escape you anyway, so I won't go there.
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Talk about killing the goose and all that. Piss your readers off. Maybe Wired should go with the Salon model (view an ad, get a few pages).
Oh, look. Another Apple zealot helping to further spread FUD.
Let's see. Last year after a lot of shopping around I put together my current desktop box. It's a dual (yes, dual) PIII 1.0GHz with 1GB (yes, GB) of RAM, an nVidia GFx something card with 64MB or RAM, and two 40GB disks. All under $1,300.
Perhaps you would be so kind as to explain how I can get that type of rig from Apple within the same price range, hmmm?
If people are willing to pay premium for a Mac because it looks kewl, fine. If you don't need the kind of firepower I need, fine. There is a certain value added component to Macs which some people go for, and that's OK. I mean, it's your money so you should be able to spend it any way you want. But please spare us the "Macs are not expensive" tirade. You folks sound like Baghdad Bob yelping about the infidels being butchered at the airport. Give it up.
You forgot Pine, you heartless heathen!!
Reality's a bitch, eh?
I used to say the same thing about my security blanket. But then again, I got rid of it when I hit three.
Don't cheat!
Thank you so much for making my point. I appreciate it.
I'm all for pragmatism - if only it was excercised a bit more in some quarters.
Would someone care to tell this guy he's an idiot? No? Oh, because that's what Linux zealots tell me. But I'm not a kernel hacker. Apparently, any bug that causes instability in Linux is, um, my fault, and I'm probably doing something stupid. Because Linux is perfect. It has no bugs and it's much more stable than my W2K boxes (server and pro) which get rebooted on principle every month or so. Unlike the Debian one, which eventually gets unusable after a few days and has to be rebooted. So it must be me.
So go ahead, tell him the problem is between the keyboard and the chair.
Any takers?
You need to find someone who gives a flying fuck.
Precisely.
I've always thought it interesting that they won't release their server logs. "Open" is open only when they deem it so, apparently.
Don't worry - they can afford it. They sell software. You know? For money.
Very impressive.
Probably not - the "common wisdom" is that Linux can do whatever Windows does and better, yet Ritchie uses it. Surely he could figure out how to make Linux do all these things you mention he needs Windows for.
Or then again, maybe not.
Um, yes, as soon as you explain how open source will.
So you can either buy a Windows 2000 server and the software to go alog with it, or get a consulting firm to write one for you that does what you want and runs in your platform of choice. I doubt you'll be getting a free lunch, here.
Let's even assume there's something like this that's open source and runs on Linux (or BSD). Do you really think you're going to get everything you want, assuming the guy writing it hasn't decided to give it up to take care of his cats or something? And you've said you don't have the skills to modify it to begin with. So I fail to see what the 'open source would be great' point is about.
Well, of course =)
It's pronounced 'Smith'.
You might find this fantastically weird, but I completely agree with you.
Please mod story as (-1, Flamebait).
Other than that, do me a favor and FOAD. Thanks.
Oh well.
Yay objectiveness!