Like others have stated, this would be a twist of fate pushing for the end of SCO. If they have to lie that the community or linux community as they put it is DDoS'ing there network then this could very well be the most damning story against SCO yet. It would be amazing to prove the lack and misunderstanding of IT, Linux and Intellectual property SCO has by getting a headline on national news "SCO lies about networking attacks".
A Simple title like that would take the competency out of any IP lawsuite around simply on the grounds you couldn't tell what the company was telling the truth on or not. (Well, to geeks its easy to say they're lying, but this brings it to the forefront that any CTO/CIO or CEO would understand for that matter).
Has anyone been able to get any further comments from upstream providers or ISP's around them?
I wonder if i will ever see the code to smurf.c as "a special F**K you to SCO".. I always laughed when i saw the code and recognized old Fnet admins being the brunt, would be funny to see sco action (although, i'm with RMS - don't do anything illegal.. just keep on emailing them and expressing your opinions!)
Time Warner owns a pretty major backbone and has some cloute with telecoms. You can bet your sweet peas that they're not paying the same rate for T1/PRI's that you and i would pay or any small non fortune 500 player.
But yeat, equipment is so cheap, it isn't it costs or component infrastructure. But they do have inroads into there own backbone, network and telecom infrastructure in several major metropolitin areas.
For real.. Show you "buy american" spirit and protest or cancel your accounts or get your family switched off aol.
Doesn't is PISS YOU OFF that not only are these workers being layed off and jobs being transfered out of america, but they continue to jack up prices, restrict service and push cheasy upgrades as major features. On top of that, how can any company keep the word AMERICA in its title and start transfering jobs overseas.
The ISP land is already a joke. You can pickup AS5200's, Ascend Maxen and other terminal servers with high port densities for pennies on the dollar.. i know it certainly isn't IT expenses infringing on profits..
Why don't they quit spending out millions of wastefull cd's and pushing stupid commercials..
Is america litterly going to shop itself out of existance with a blind eye towards supporting our own economy and local jobs?
There is a little "burn" icon that lets you download and burn the trackf or a discount rate if your really want to keep it.
Otherwise, Rhapsody like any other subscriber service, if it expires your done.
I like the amount of music they have and like others have said, i'm connected at home & at work and even over Sprints 3g network i can play rhapsody on my phone!
Nothing like having something like XM radio but complete control! (and less startup costs.. pc's are getting cheaper then satelite receivers and antennas)
DX9 is backwards compatible with even my lowly NV25 and MX cards.
The issue is my card doesn't have the vertex shaders and other registers that DX9 takes advantage of so i won't be fully accelerating new DX9 features. I can run DX9 games just fine even though my card was designed with 8 in mind.
Its not that it isn't backwards compatible, it is that your hardware doesn't suport technology of the future since it didn't exist
Only way around this would be if your GPU core was software driven and they could update it. Otherwise to get new DX10 support, you need a DX10 card that was built with the new functionality in mind.
Backwards compatibility has nothing to do with it. Its just like in the days of MMX vs NON MMX. IF you had MMX it ran faster, if you didn't it never wouldn't work for you.. just would be slower.
Be careful! ATM/MAC/Debit is *NOT* Insured!
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If you loose money through the ATM/Debit network you will never see it! These networks are *NOT* insured.
Only visit your local branch to get cash with your debit/ATM card and use a Visa/Mastercard "CheckCard" for other purchases.
1. You will be insured. 2. Visa/Mastercard provier fraud protection 3. MAC/ATM/DEBIT is a bank fraud in itself. What is up with those FEES, especially since they don't guarantee or insure the transaction!
First of all, no one is going to replace and update the entire infrastructure to support "trusted computing" Your talking about replace millions of terminal servers, million of dslams, millions of routers and millions of switches on the BACKOFFICE side before you even see the consumer side take off.
Were talking that we don't even have any devices yet that support this. THere is NO way it will be illegal or constituted illegal to use a PC that ISN'T "trusted computing" aware because it is up to the consumer to buy what he/she wants to buy or the government to mandate it. Corporations can't and shouldn't mandate this and i would be first in line to sue microsoft to seperate trusted computing from a consumer os because it grants rights over and beyond common law and our constituional rights to corporations who don't have civil authority.
If the government gives authority to coporations like this above and beyond what it has today i will be first in line to join a revolution as it isn't worth living in a country where control is passed to those who not only control our payroll, salary, health insurance and our living needs as well as our consumer needs (which is almost where we are heading)
If you lose the CMOS/Bios password you usually have to RMA the laptop back for a new bios (unless you can find it and solder or replace it yourself). Thus requiring receipt or tracking of serial numbers of which any big company can cross reference against service contracts.
I even have photos of him shaking hands with Sadamm whenever he was with the Reagan administration secretly supplying Iraq with "materials" to try and destry Iran in ther iran/iraq conflict much the same way Reagan/Bush SR. supplied afghanistan with training/missles/weapons to defeat those dreaded russians!
IT is information technology. IT isn't technology by itself, its how you use technology to produce or consume information better than your competitors can.
This will NEVER end, and if people believe this then they dont' understand what IT is to begin with. People who don't believe in INFORMATION don't have a right to say access to this information quickly, easily and efficiently is not a competitive edge as it was 20 years ago and still is today.
PC's aren't the end. Mobile apps, Mobile sales force, remote office support and seemless information, integration and 100% availability of this information IS WHAT IT IS ABOUT. IT is building the infrastructure to support your sales, your receivables, your company. IT is no longer about supporting your infrastructure which is basically a commodity, it is about supporting the information that keeps your business ahead of your competitors.
The ways of accessing information will come and go. It was pigeons at one point, airplanes at another, pc's, mobile devices.. it will go on. The next boon will not only be information access (as it was in the internet explosion) but now information security, information relationships (datawarehousing) and seemlessly providing access to the information by whoever needs it.
For real. I finally broke down and bought Suse 9.0 and will never look back. After MANY years of linux distributions Suse is the first one to offer a complete desktop solution that is manageable, easy to install and loaded in a somewhat "high end" environment with ReiserFS, Modern KDE setup, recent kernel and a well tuned system.
Give it a shot. I had Fedora after Redhat 9.0 and have used everything from Yggdrasil, Suse, Mandrake, Redhat 4.3 through 9.0, Gentoo and others. Nothing compares. I've even used Debian and well, for a workstation, laptop and useability factor (especially on the wife) Suse takes the cake.
Oracle allows you to specify extents because matching your data from block size, extent size and buffer sizes all the way up allows you to tune for your data, your throughput, your filesystem io and your information's typical size.
There is alot to them. The bulbs are fairly advanced and expensive to make, the entire color wheel/motor/lcd panel needs to be calibrated to exact measurements and it takes a refigned/exact process to build an lcd panel or DLP system effeciently and with 0 errors.
You have to remember a dead pixel can look HUGE on a large screen.
On the other hand, this stuff costed 2,500 to 5,000 just 2 years ago. Now you can get it for 900 or less.
That seems like a fairly decent price drop!
Speeed, Performance, Durability, Bulb Lifetime, Resolutions and such have been increasing faster then they can mass produce antyhing hence the higher costs. With HDTV standardization and DLP technologies catching up the prices will fall since there are industry standards to meet and build upon
1 Year, a nearly 100+ movies watched (thank the lord for netflix) and a few hundred hours on the XBOX and no problems.
I have a 105" 4:3 screen that gives me a large 16:9 real-estate for the dvd movies and HDTV content.
I have converted all my "tubbies" to projectors since they're light, affordable, easy to hide and give you a move experience over and beyond what any tv can do.
Plus they support, like others have said, Computers, VGA/Component/DVI and many other interfaces. These uses go over and beyond a tv and the cost of bulbs is easily justified once you see what your getting.
As others have stated it comes down to a few cents per hour. My bulb is a 1500 hour buld and costs nearly 300 to replace. I figure i'll buy a new bulb, ebay this projector and upgrade sometime next christmas to get DVI support as well as SXGA or higher graphics.
Otherwise i'm very happy and its nice to see this market taking off!
Anything anti-capitalistic is potentially terroristic in the eyes of the Bush Administration.
Better watch out since you will be a terrorist if you don't support the concepts of our politicians! After all there only there to protect our corporations.. why would they do anything for civil rights since it wouldn't make them any money???
SSO should be independant of your data sources. SSO doesn't rely on your billing address/information for authentication.
SSO is a token/cookie/uri that is passwd between websties that accept the "token" as proof that you have been authenticated.
SSO doesn't take the users data store and pass that along, each vendor maintains its own store and uses the token to authenticate from via an agent that handles this.
For example you can implement RSA clear trust on all of your sites/services but each user store remains to the application. An Agent simply parses the token, passes to the auth server and verifies the information. Your credit card number isn't passed and would be kept independant of your SSO.
SSO does not mean "Cyber Wallet" if that is what you fear.
Microsoft's Single Signon is a combination of LDAP/Active Directory, SSO and Wallet. It usually takes the combindation thereof to complete that cycle. Hopefully this is not the direction of the stated sso implementation.
Linux won't make ANY inroads in Corporate desktop america until there is an undeniably stable and certified foundation by which to support from.
Corporate america isn't based around the concept of "Free Software" it is based around Revenue Generation, using the right tools to get the job done and providing an IT infrastructure support revenue generation, sales force and back-office.
Linux doesn't have any sales force automation tools. Sure you can install Oracle 11i on Linux, but even then your talking servers. Oracle 11i doesn't even support linux as a workstation.
Until ACT is ported, until the average sales person can do everything he/she needs to do and very easily, linux will make "0" inroads into corporate america.
It is all about supporting your sales force, your R*D departments or whatever your business's revenue generation is from. Linux just doesn't do that right now and surely won't do that within the next 3 years.
RedHat has bailed the desktop market and gone for the workstation, but even then that is a UNIX workstation level NOT an "end user" level. Suse is making inroads, but not enough to do 20-30% market share.
I'll repeat myself again. Corporate America is about supporting your revenue stream. Linux simply can't do that at this point. Tools are built around simplicity, ease of training and what is common knowledge. Your average sales person only uses a PC when needed and does everything with a Cell phone, note pad and over a few beers at the local bar. Linux can't replace this. Especially Debian.
A first gen card that beats out many of the competing boards and offers a competitive price?
Looks damn good for coming out of the blue. I think some driver tweaking will catch it up and ofcourse optimizations of the board/gpu by next year should give it a good leap.
That way you can bundle in songs with an order to save on visa charges..
i'd hat to be pay 35 cents a song for processing fees if someone just bought one song at a time.
On the other hand, how could apple NOT be making money when in alot of cases it is still cheaper to go to best buy and BUY the cd instead of all of the tracks? Obvoiusly the packaging, distribution, warehousing, sales and staff to support a retailer is a tad more then the overhead of network/infrastructure to do it electronically. (as retailes have a similar network/system to manage sales anyhow)
hhmmm.. can't imagine that anyone could sell music as a loss leader when the industry is gearing up to sue (or currently is sueing) hundreds of users!
When will lotus notes CLIENT be 100% ported to linux/unix!!!!!!!!
If IBM can spend 50 million to support a 3rd party, why can't they spend 1/25th of that to port there "core" business notes/messaging application to a unix/linux system!
Novell won't do that, unless IBM makes Novell the Unix gods for all of there unix applications..
That there was a standard. UnitedLinux was a good effort, especially for me. I need something that commercial vendors will test and certify against yet something i can build, customize and rollout on my own and deploy it to my needs.
Fedora seems alright, but the support/turn-a-round timelines are useless for corporate deployment. We usually need something that will last from 3-5 years before we see ROI off the cost and exposure of making the upgrade(s).
I think Suse is about the only player out there that still supports a desktop to server solution as well as certifies its software with many commercial packages.
I need a linux solution that is like my solaris solution but with all the bells/whistles/featrues of linux. I need to be able to run Jdeveloper, i need to be able to use Lotus notes and integrate with exchange. I need a current version of KDE, i need a current release of OpenOffice. I also need to be able to run Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Application Server, Websphere application server, IBM DB2 and other applications from a desktop to midrange environment.
If linux can't get this straight and if vendors can't build a common foundation it will NEVER succeed as a corporate desktop os. The cost is very prohibitive with RHEL, especially if you want to use AMD-64 and if your rolling out new visualization/CAD and processing workstations why would you want anything less?
So is UnitedLinux dead? Is the effort for common foundation screwed by SCO's sudden aboutface? Is Linux limited to Enterprise systems in both costs and maintenance now? What benefit is there in choosing RHEL over the abundant Windows, Solaris or OSX lines? Heck with OSX i know i get vendor support, i get commercial tools and the cost of OSX on a 64bit processor is the base price not some insane number. For the price of RHEL 64bit workstation or server i can have nearly a decade of OSX support at its current price ranges and upgrade costs.
Just doesn't make sense to me to loose a complete end to end solution. Sure standardizing on Workstation and Serve is nice, but who the heck made up those numbers??
If i'm going to pay that much i want a fast pdf system, i want integration with Notes & Exchange. I want an office suite to be available that is fast, easy to use and enterprise friendly (document management, workflows..). I also want to be able to buy workstations with this pre-loaded or deploy and manage on my own.
oh well.. i guess i can keep on wishing. Sad part is over the last 5-8 years that is all i have been doing.
I don't know if you have EVER use an enterprise applicaiton before. Even if it IS just select/inserts/deletes for basic GL/AP/AR applications you are talking about people, systems and components requiring gigs to terrabytes of data and hundreds if not THOUSANDS of concurrent users.
MySQL can't handle flash back transactions, doesn't support load balancing, hot site, and paralell or clustered transactions. I need all of these to support an enterprise environment!
Sure compiere may be small, but it needs a powerfull database. It needs the features of an enterprise database oh which there isn't an open source solution to. I wouldn't dare want to recover a mysql or postgress 1.2 terrabyte erp system.
Oracle RDBMS is an amazing product. Overly capable and getting easier to use as the releases pile on. You pay for the mindset that you have a multi billion dollar company supporting you.
That brings me to the question of why use Compiere at all on anything but oracle and is there a demand for an ERP system that doesn't use a commercially supported system as NO vendor in there right mind would want to support a product they didn't develop or that didn't have its own superb support channels to begin with.
oh well. You have to remember that big business is alot different than hosting a small website or cddb database on your average linux pc:)
If you watch this mpeg [http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_10_2 8/c2cme.mpg] CME Snowstorm and watch the comet in the lower right corner zoom in, you see the major eruption.
Pretty nifty! It states a comment should vaporize before impacting, but it is still kind of ironic!
I bet it was an alien spaceship or missile and its doomsday!:P
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Like others have stated, this would be a twist of fate pushing for the end of SCO. If they have to lie that the community or linux community as they put it is DDoS'ing there network then this could very well be the most damning story against SCO yet. It would be amazing to prove the lack and misunderstanding of IT, Linux and Intellectual property SCO has by getting a headline on national news "SCO lies about networking attacks".
A Simple title like that would take the competency out of any IP lawsuite around simply on the grounds you couldn't tell what the company was telling the truth on or not. (Well, to geeks its easy to say they're lying, but this brings it to the forefront that any CTO/CIO or CEO would understand for that matter).
Has anyone been able to get any further comments from upstream providers or ISP's around them?
I wonder if i will ever see the code to smurf.c as "a special F**K you to SCO".. I always laughed when i saw the code and recognized old Fnet admins being the brunt, would be funny to see sco action (although, i'm with RMS - don't do anything illegal.. just keep on emailing them and expressing your opinions!)
Time Warner owns a pretty major backbone and has some cloute with telecoms. You can bet your sweet peas that they're not paying the same rate for T1/PRI's that you and i would pay or any small non fortune 500 player.
But yeat, equipment is so cheap, it isn't it costs or component infrastructure. But they do have inroads into there own backbone, network and telecom infrastructure in several major metropolitin areas.
For real.. Show you "buy american" spirit and protest or cancel your accounts or get your family switched off aol.
Doesn't is PISS YOU OFF that not only are these workers being layed off and jobs being transfered out of america, but they continue to jack up prices, restrict service and push cheasy upgrades as major features. On top of that, how can any company keep the word AMERICA in its title and start transfering jobs overseas.
The ISP land is already a joke. You can pickup AS5200's, Ascend Maxen and other terminal servers with high port densities for pennies on the dollar.. i know it certainly isn't IT expenses infringing on profits..
Why don't they quit spending out millions of wastefull cd's and pushing stupid commercials..
Is america litterly going to shop itself out of existance with a blind eye towards supporting our own economy and local jobs?
There is a little "burn" icon that lets you download and burn the trackf or a discount rate if your really want to keep it.
Otherwise, Rhapsody like any other subscriber service, if it expires your done.
I like the amount of music they have and like others have said, i'm connected at home & at work and even over Sprints 3g network i can play rhapsody on my phone!
Nothing like having something like XM radio but complete control! (and less startup costs.. pc's are getting cheaper then satelite receivers and antennas)
DX9 is backwards compatible with even my lowly NV25 and MX cards.
The issue is my card doesn't have the vertex shaders and other registers that DX9 takes advantage of so i won't be fully accelerating new DX9 features. I can run DX9 games just fine even though my card was designed with 8 in mind.
Its not that it isn't backwards compatible, it is that your hardware doesn't suport technology of the future since it didn't exist
Only way around this would be if your GPU core was software driven and they could update it. Otherwise to get new DX10 support, you need a DX10 card that was built with the new functionality in mind.
Backwards compatibility has nothing to do with it. Its just like in the days of MMX vs NON MMX. IF you had MMX it ran faster, if you didn't it never wouldn't work for you.. just would be slower.
If you loose money through the ATM/Debit network you will never see it! These networks are *NOT* insured.
Only visit your local branch to get cash with your debit/ATM card and use a Visa/Mastercard "CheckCard" for other purchases.
1. You will be insured.
2. Visa/Mastercard provier fraud protection
3. MAC/ATM/DEBIT is a bank fraud in itself. What is up with those FEES, especially since they don't guarantee or insure the transaction!
Just wondering if they will still support us lowly 7.3 and 8.0 users anymore with a fix for this.
First of all, no one is going to replace and update the entire infrastructure to support "trusted computing" Your talking about replace millions of terminal servers, million of dslams, millions of routers and millions of switches on the BACKOFFICE side before you even see the consumer side take off.
Were talking that we don't even have any devices yet that support this. THere is NO way it will be illegal or constituted illegal to use a PC that ISN'T "trusted computing" aware because it is up to the consumer to buy what he/she wants to buy or the government to mandate it. Corporations can't and shouldn't mandate this and i would be first in line to sue microsoft to seperate trusted computing from a consumer os because it grants rights over and beyond common law and our constituional rights to corporations who don't have civil authority.
If the government gives authority to coporations like this above and beyond what it has today i will be first in line to join a revolution as it isn't worth living in a country where control is passed to those who not only control our payroll, salary, health insurance and our living needs as well as our consumer needs (which is almost where we are heading)
Is capitalism going to far?
Not so easy as pulling out batteries on laptops.
If you lose the CMOS/Bios password you usually have to RMA the laptop back for a new bios (unless you can find it and solder or replace it yourself). Thus requiring receipt or tracking of serial numbers of which any big company can cross reference against service contracts.
Ashcroft is pure evil.
I even have photos of him shaking hands with Sadamm whenever he was with the Reagan administration secretly supplying Iraq with "materials" to try and destry Iran in ther iran/iraq conflict much the same way Reagan/Bush SR. supplied afghanistan with training/missles/weapons to defeat those dreaded russians!
This guy is the biggest liar i have ever seen
IT is information technology. IT isn't technology by itself, its how you use technology to produce or consume information better than your competitors can.
This will NEVER end, and if people believe this then they dont' understand what IT is to begin with. People who don't believe in INFORMATION don't have a right to say access to this information quickly, easily and efficiently is not a competitive edge as it was 20 years ago and still is today.
PC's aren't the end. Mobile apps, Mobile sales force, remote office support and seemless information, integration and 100% availability of this information IS WHAT IT IS ABOUT. IT is building the infrastructure to support your sales, your receivables, your company. IT is no longer about supporting your infrastructure which is basically a commodity, it is about supporting the information that keeps your business ahead of your competitors.
The ways of accessing information will come and go. It was pigeons at one point, airplanes at another, pc's, mobile devices.. it will go on. The next boon will not only be information access (as it was in the internet explosion) but now information security, information relationships (datawarehousing) and seemlessly providing access to the information by whoever needs it.
For real. I finally broke down and bought Suse 9.0 and will never look back. After MANY years of linux distributions Suse is the first one to offer a complete desktop solution that is manageable, easy to install and loaded in a somewhat "high end" environment with ReiserFS, Modern KDE setup, recent kernel and a well tuned system.
:)
Give it a shot. I had Fedora after Redhat 9.0 and have used everything from Yggdrasil, Suse, Mandrake, Redhat 4.3 through 9.0, Gentoo and others. Nothing compares. I've even used Debian and well, for a workstation, laptop and useability factor (especially on the wife) Suse takes the cake.
Thats my 2 cents
Just configure your defaults or use the defaults.
:)
Oracle allows you to specify extents because matching your data from block size, extent size and buffer sizes all the way up allows you to tune for your data, your throughput, your filesystem io and your information's typical size.
That is a feature my friend, not a nuesance
There is alot to them. The bulbs are fairly advanced and expensive to make, the entire color wheel/motor/lcd panel needs to be calibrated to exact measurements and it takes a refigned/exact process to build an lcd panel or DLP system effeciently and with 0 errors.
You have to remember a dead pixel can look HUGE on a large screen.
On the other hand, this stuff costed 2,500 to 5,000 just 2 years ago. Now you can get it for 900 or less.
That seems like a fairly decent price drop!
Speeed, Performance, Durability, Bulb Lifetime, Resolutions and such have been increasing faster then they can mass produce antyhing hence the higher costs. With HDTV standardization and DLP technologies catching up the prices will fall since there are industry standards to meet and build upon
1 Year, a nearly 100+ movies watched (thank the lord for netflix) and a few hundred hours on the XBOX and no problems.
I have a 105" 4:3 screen that gives me a large 16:9 real-estate for the dvd movies and HDTV content.
I have converted all my "tubbies" to projectors since they're light, affordable, easy to hide and give you a move experience over and beyond what any tv can do.
Plus they support, like others have said, Computers, VGA/Component/DVI and many other interfaces. These uses go over and beyond a tv and the cost of bulbs is easily justified once you see what your getting.
As others have stated it comes down to a few cents per hour. My bulb is a 1500 hour buld and costs nearly 300 to replace. I figure i'll buy a new bulb, ebay this projector and upgrade sometime next christmas to get DVI support as well as SXGA or higher graphics.
Otherwise i'm very happy and its nice to see this market taking off!
Anything anti-capitalistic is potentially terroristic in the eyes of the Bush Administration.
Better watch out since you will be a terrorist if you don't support the concepts of our politicians! After all there only there to protect our corporations.. why would they do anything for civil rights since it wouldn't make them any money???
SSO should be independant of your data sources. SSO doesn't rely on your billing address/information for authentication.
SSO is a token/cookie/uri that is passwd between websties that accept the "token" as proof that you have been authenticated.
SSO doesn't take the users data store and pass that along, each vendor maintains its own store and uses the token to authenticate from via an agent that handles this.
For example you can implement RSA clear trust on all of your sites/services but each user store remains to the application. An Agent simply parses the token, passes to the auth server and verifies the information. Your credit card number isn't passed and would be kept independant of your SSO.
SSO does not mean "Cyber Wallet" if that is what you fear.
Microsoft's Single Signon is a combination of LDAP/Active Directory, SSO and Wallet. It usually takes the combindation thereof to complete that cycle. Hopefully this is not the direction of the stated sso implementation.
Linux won't make ANY inroads in Corporate desktop america until there is an undeniably stable and certified foundation by which to support from.
Corporate america isn't based around the concept of "Free Software" it is based around Revenue Generation, using the right tools to get the job done and providing an IT infrastructure support revenue generation, sales force and back-office.
Linux doesn't have any sales force automation tools. Sure you can install Oracle 11i on Linux, but even then your talking servers. Oracle 11i doesn't even support linux as a workstation.
Until ACT is ported, until the average sales person can do everything he/she needs to do and very easily, linux will make "0" inroads into corporate america.
It is all about supporting your sales force, your R*D departments or whatever your business's revenue generation is from. Linux just doesn't do that right now and surely won't do that within the next 3 years.
RedHat has bailed the desktop market and gone for the workstation, but even then that is a UNIX workstation level NOT an "end user" level. Suse is making inroads, but not enough to do 20-30% market share.
I'll repeat myself again. Corporate America is about supporting your revenue stream. Linux simply can't do that at this point. Tools are built around simplicity, ease of training and what is common knowledge. Your average sales person only uses a PC when needed and does everything with a Cell phone, note pad and over a few beers at the local bar. Linux can't replace this. Especially Debian.
How do they suck ass?
A first gen card that beats out many of the competing boards and offers a competitive price?
Looks damn good for coming out of the blue. I think some driver tweaking will catch it up and ofcourse optimizations of the board/gpu by next year should give it a good leap.
it will be interesting!
That way you can bundle in songs with an order to save on visa charges..
i'd hat to be pay 35 cents a song for processing fees if someone just bought one song at a time.
On the other hand, how could apple NOT be making money when in alot of cases it is still cheaper to go to best buy and BUY the cd instead of all of the tracks? Obvoiusly the packaging, distribution, warehousing, sales and staff to support a retailer is a tad more then the overhead of network/infrastructure to do it electronically. (as retailes have a similar network/system to manage sales anyhow)
hhmmm.. can't imagine that anyone could sell music as a loss leader when the industry is gearing up to sue (or currently is sueing) hundreds of users!
When will lotus notes CLIENT be 100% ported to linux/unix!!!!!!!!
If IBM can spend 50 million to support a 3rd party, why can't they spend 1/25th of that to port there "core" business notes/messaging application to a unix/linux system!
Novell won't do that, unless IBM makes Novell the Unix gods for all of there unix applications..
That there was a standard. UnitedLinux was a good effort, especially for me. I need something that commercial vendors will test and certify against yet something i can build, customize and rollout on my own and deploy it to my needs.
Fedora seems alright, but the support/turn-a-round timelines are useless for corporate deployment. We usually need something that will last from 3-5 years before we see ROI off the cost and exposure of making the upgrade(s).
I think Suse is about the only player out there that still supports a desktop to server solution as well as certifies its software with many commercial packages.
I need a linux solution that is like my solaris solution but with all the bells/whistles/featrues of linux. I need to be able to run Jdeveloper, i need to be able to use Lotus notes and integrate with exchange. I need a current version of KDE, i need a current release of OpenOffice. I also need to be able to run Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Application Server, Websphere application server, IBM DB2 and other applications from a desktop to midrange environment.
If linux can't get this straight and if vendors can't build a common foundation it will NEVER succeed as a corporate desktop os. The cost is very prohibitive with RHEL, especially if you want to use AMD-64 and if your rolling out new visualization/CAD and processing workstations why would you want anything less?
So is UnitedLinux dead? Is the effort for common foundation screwed by SCO's sudden aboutface? Is Linux limited to Enterprise systems in both costs and maintenance now? What benefit is there in choosing RHEL over the abundant Windows, Solaris or OSX lines? Heck with OSX i know i get vendor support, i get commercial tools and the cost of OSX on a 64bit processor is the base price not some insane number. For the price of RHEL 64bit workstation or server i can have nearly a decade of OSX support at its current price ranges and upgrade costs.
Just doesn't make sense to me to loose a complete end to end solution. Sure standardizing on Workstation and Serve is nice, but who the heck made up those numbers??
If i'm going to pay that much i want a fast pdf system, i want integration with Notes & Exchange. I want an office suite to be available that is fast, easy to use and enterprise friendly (document management, workflows..). I also want to be able to buy workstations with this pre-loaded or deploy and manage on my own.
oh well.. i guess i can keep on wishing. Sad part is over the last 5-8 years that is all i have been doing.
I don't know if you have EVER use an enterprise applicaiton before. Even if it IS just select/inserts/deletes for basic GL/AP/AR applications you are talking about people, systems and components requiring gigs to terrabytes of data and hundreds if not THOUSANDS of concurrent users.
:)
MySQL can't handle flash back transactions, doesn't support load balancing, hot site, and paralell or clustered transactions. I need all of these to support an enterprise environment!
Sure compiere may be small, but it needs a powerfull database. It needs the features of an enterprise database oh which there isn't an open source solution to. I wouldn't dare want to recover a mysql or postgress 1.2 terrabyte erp system.
Oracle RDBMS is an amazing product. Overly capable and getting easier to use as the releases pile on. You pay for the mindset that you have a multi billion dollar company supporting you.
That brings me to the question of why use Compiere at all on anything but oracle and is there a demand for an ERP system that doesn't use a commercially supported system as NO vendor in there right mind would want to support a product they didn't develop or that didn't have its own superb support channels to begin with.
oh well. You have to remember that big business is alot different than hosting a small website or cddb database on your average linux pc
Pretty nifty! It states a comment should vaporize before impacting, but it is still kind of ironic!
I bet it was an alien spaceship or missile and its doomsday! :P
Thats what counts.
I thought slashdotters loved engineering & style over simply brute forcing.. doesn't that win brownie points anymore?