I have had no problems with verizon. I signed up for DSL, 3 days later got the kit with modem and line filters, and 2 weeks later when promised i turned everything on and it worked.
No missed work. (Verizon tech's do know where your box is.. Covad is a moron if they make you stay home).
Fast service. I always get what i paid for.. havn't had any network downtime. After all i live in the amish capital of the world in a rural new development, so the fact dsl works and is available at all is nice.
Not only did Verizon get my DSL working but they have setup voicemail, call fowarding and been helpfull on any request i have had. They havn't dropped the ball on anything.
Now the cable company.. the rip me off at every corner and can screw up an address change royally.
Like i said, i havn't had any problem. Been using dsl for 4 years now and to tell you the truth i havn't had issues since the days of ISDN with Southwestern bell. (talk about a horrible company).
Your mileage may vary, but what would you expect from any.com company? Covad is going down just like all the others.. they promised rates and services that couldn't be delivered on time and on budget yet they blame Verizon/Bell Atlantic for there screwups.
If you really got to know your telco people you would know even though they're union most are very friendly and intelligent people who love there job and been doing it ten years.
If you live in manhatten or LA you should simply know nobody likes you, so expect the worse:)
The nice thing about the Dreamcast, Keyboard, Mouse, Ethernet combination is the ability to use the small DC to work as a pc device with all your AV equipment. Being able to SMB or NFS mount your MP3 server and play mp3's in your living room without a power hungry pc eating up shelf space is nice.
You can also load up a bunch of your programs you run and hack some of your filesystem to saves over NFS or SMB so you can write you own games, run what is ported or just tinker around. I'm i'm in my computer room i can set my xdisplay to my pc and change the music playing in my living room.
You can also hack up your own infared receiver to the controller port so you can use a remote to watch VCD's, play MP3's or navigate a simple gui.
I'm currently working on Gamex (gamex.sourceforge.com) to boot X86, PS2, PPC, DC games via linux only utilizing the CDROM and floppy (or memory card on consoles) to load games. Making one consistent OS for all platforms based on linus.
For the DC i'm setting up a channel guide as well that snarfs your my.yahoo.com and will update what is coming on tv as well as a small description.
If java could be ported over, maybe one of the open source versions this would be a killer java platform as well.
Another interesting project i'm working on is porting the PalmOS emulator to the dc and enabling the DC to NFS mount my drive with a bunch of palm apps that could be ran and viewed from the tv.
The DC is one of the most impressive 99.00 pieces of hardware you or anyone can get there hands on! Buy one today!
More interesting DC hacks are people yanking the dc out of the shell and installing it in minivans to play games, mp3's and stuff like that. I'll be setting up a website shortly with links to cash for the most intriguing DC hacks around. Info will be posted on gamex.sourceforge.com as i get time to do so. (working out of town currently)
Verizon works with the LinkSys routers. Simply use your username/passwword in the PPOE Connection box, and click the Connect button. (on the status page).
You can also check the box to keep the connection alive. Thats what i do.
Annoying, yeah the first day but no one notices now. PPOE works under every windows version i have tried (NT SP6a, Win2k, WinME and Win98). Works on my linue box because of the Linksys:)
It has been years since HP, Compaq, IBM or Sun profited from there unix operating systems.
You can order most for the cost of the media. Funny enough SGI oddly has the most expensive unix system around (Irix), but nobody would run that with half a brain
Even AIX is only 300 or so. Your 10k a year for Software support, maintenance and problem resolution. hell, redhat charges more then that. Letsee which one *really* is cheaper now!
I can gurantee you, along with Mr Ellison that 9iAS on this much horse power, will blow away this benchmark.
But what is the point, 9iAS is available for Linux. Kind of like saying your going to prove Linux is better then Oracle when the Oracle solution on the same platform will outdo DB2 by a longshot.
I can gurantee that one. Give me Oracle 9iAS on the same SGI hardware and it will smoke the DB2 machine on a true dynamic benchmark as well as static benchmark.
Or you can also wait a few weeks for Oracle 9i for a real suprise:)
I question this simply because of the fact that *EVERY* "Appliance" that has hit the market has died a horrible death.
I personally wouldn't buy a PS2 to surf the net because it would suck. For the same reason the I-Openers sucked, for the same reason the Virgin WebPlayers sucked and for the same reason all of 3coms webpads have sucked.
Most importantly, why in gods name are "slashdotters" supporting one evil over another?? Isn't the PS2 one of the most proprietary consoles around? Isn't AOL one of the biggest monopolies around?
I don't get it. I remember buying all my Sega consoles because Sega kicks ass as a gaming company. Sony, well they kick ass at sucking up your money, much like Microsoft, Much like AOL or any media titan for that matter
Now that i have said all that, i hope they do applianc'ize the PS2 and i hope it days a quick death for that matter.
For those that say they want wireless accessories, fast gaming, and hdtv or analog tv support why not spend 500.00 on a PC that will do all of that and much more instead of sicking 500+ dollars into a device that will have an old version of java, not support new media formats, be limited to a single vendor and most important of all be 100% proprietary
713-251-XXXX
HOUSTON SUBURBAN, TX
Houston OS/2, North Shore(1992-1993)
Byron Miller
Not only was that an OS/2 BBS but the very same BBS listed in the first Linux big linux book every geek should remember "The Linux Bible". Go ahead, crack that open and my BBS is listed in there. I had all 12 1.44 megs of the GNU Operating system available to download at the amazing speed of 2400 bps. aww yeah.
The years are wrong though, i ran it for four years from Opus up to Wildcat under DESQview and then PCBoard 15.1 under OS/2 using a linux box as my irc, email, lynx and usenet gateway. (Back when usenet meant something as well!. Hell, back when Yggdrasil was the only distro! I bought a CDROM just to load Yggdrasil.
PS, you can find my BBS in the big arse "OS/2 Unleashed" Book as well as "Linux Unleashed".
I did my community service when i was 13:) 11-12 years later its paying off. Now own my own house, got a great family and still work in the technology sector. To top it off, it all started with the BBS's my parents bitched i spent so much time on. Muahahahaha
Hey, you have to make ends meet. Life is life, its what you make of it. You ignore your family and friends and that is your loss. You achieve your dreams and that is everyones gain.
Sorry about your father, that is a difficult loss. There is nothing you could have done to change that and simply sacrificing your life for the good of his isn't the best answer, only a sympton of guilt and sandness brought upon by the unfortunate circumstances.
You are you. Keep it that way! Don't change for your boss, your friends or your family. But always remember who is there for you!
Sunday night, drive to Philadelphia Airport.
Fly to San Francisco (5 1/2 hours)
Catch flight to Portland Oregon (1 1/2 hours)
Take shuttle to hotel, Sleeeeeeeepppppp
Day 2
Wake up 6:00 a.m. Do the three SSS's.
Walk to client site by 7:30 a.m
Work till 8:30 pm
Check out town for a while
Sleep
Day 3
Repeat Day 2
Day 4
Start off like Day two, leave work about 5pm
Catch taxi to airport
Fly to San Fran
Fly to Philadelphia
Sleep on those flights
Arrive in philadelphia at 6:45 in the morning
FRIDAY!!
Have friday, saturday and sunday to be home
Its a tough life, but someone has to do it! I get to learn, see the world and meet the most interesting and talented people in the world.
Do i regret it? NO.
Is it hard? YES
I wouldn't do it the rest of my life, but since i'm only 24 i have nothing to loose and frankly sitting still is too boring, you just watch the world go by!
I get paid great, i get bonuses, and i get billions of miles from Frequent Flyer programs and i have more free hotel stays then i know what to do with.
But i get to take my friends to exotic places, i send family tickets to meet me at places, i give my parents hotel coupons for there vacations, and i keep in touch.
Keeping in touch is what counts.. not how much you work for somebody, but how much you make your life YOURS no matter what situation you are in.
Why not use 9iAS with Forms/Reports 6i. Not only can you do full reporting but you can also use the Discover Viewr for adhoc querying, data mining and reporting as well. Reports 6i gives output in just about any format you wish, and ofcourse you could always use the XML features as well.
Thats like saying my grandma should benchmark Linux compared against Windows 2000. Windows 2000 will win hands down because out of the box it does better, but a tweaked linux box can kill anything.
It all depends on your angle. Obviously people are biased based on marketing and ideas rather then actuall technical specs and merrits if they feel its "supposed to work out of the box".
Thats kind of like saying because you have a 2.2 litter honda it is supposed to be as fast as a 2.2. litter porsche. Like anything else the porsche is proffessionally tuned, installed, designed and maintained much like the porsche of databases is proffessionally tuned, installed and maintained.
I think the article stated "One graphical environment" and clearly stated "one graphical environment" so ISV's can develop for one GRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT.
That environment is full of many widgets and hooks and features so you can customize and build from it, but it is the same environment.
He's not talking about conforming to button bars, he is talking about coding. He is talking about choosing between KDE or GNOME simply because they're TWO DISTINCT ENVIRONMENTS FROM AN APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE. Hell you can make KDE look like GNOME and make GNOME look like KDE but you can't code for both unless you want to add gobbs of code and headache or have to distinctly different applications on a coding/support level.
I must agree, the beauty with Windows is everyone tries to emulate it. The true power of it is the simplicity to develop for it while having a standard application framework available but also being able to veer from it with your own widgets.
So read again, its not one look vs another look or the conformity of all applications. It is simply the problem that you can spend millions developing a KDE app only to have GNOME come out ahead and have to port the app or fear not both of them dissapear and something new comes about. Atleast with windows you code for one and you code for all. Ofcourse through inovation, new features and technological advancements things will always change. But atleast it is ONE environment with many interfaces and THAT LINUX DOESN'T OR WILL NOT HAVE.
Licensing and software costs *ARE* the lowest cost of running any business. The value in the PC is THE LOW TCO or "Total Cost of Ownership".
The value in any product that solves a specific need is the value it adds to your business, the value it adds to your products and the effect of the ownership of that software.
By far a 2,000,000 purchase of software and licensing is alot cheaper then the billion dollar payroll, HR, administration, training and consulting fees.
Free software isn't free when it comes to businesses either. You aren't going to rollout linux on 10,000 pc's without a hefty support contract and trained UNIX admins.
You can consider a Microsoft license a license for support and a license to use the software
With "Open Source" specificly "GNU" you have the right to USE the software, but you are guranteed NO SUPPORT. Your guranteed NOTHING really.
Atleast with Microsoft and Windows NT advanced server on specific hardware your guranteed 99.99 percent availability. Isn't that worth paying for? Or is the open source solution that is free as in media cheaper simply because your costs are not the software but the support and gurantees that a commercial program offers right out of the box?
Wasn't this already debated with RedHats intentions to offer a service to provide freely available updates in a proffessional manor?
I don't get you Timothy. Please don't write anymore slashdot headlines. You don't make sense when you express your opinions on something as simple as a service.
My lord, should i quit paying for my ISP? Should i not pay for Palm.net? Do i need to cancel my cell phone WAP services?
Wholy crap, i don't even run linux. What am i doing here?
Dunno. Just thought i'd rant about how i'm happy someone is providing a real service that people will utilize for a change. I know tons of people who would kill to throw on some headphones, fireup realplayer and listen to the games while working a latenighter.
Its not like you as a CEO had anything to do with X employee learing something new at X company.
Of all the education, training and learning i have done at every job i have had, NO CEO or NO COMPANY was responsible for it. Zilch.
I was the one who bought the books, paid for classes, did the testing and put the time in. Just because i used my abilities to excell in any business doesn't mean i can't take them elsewhere.
Trade secrets on the other hand should be protected. If i know secrets and took them to a competitor then that in itself is just wrong. On the other hand, if company X fears your going to scew them then they have problems to begin with.
But simply learning, or even being trained by a company doesn't mean they own you. Employment is a right NOT a law.
no, like how people just make things work as a community. not like a slashdot community, but just the help of the community. There are plenty of cheap hosting sites that someone could take over the websites.
it doesn't bother me they're going to say the least. I just find it ironic to see all the work just go befcause of a failed commercial effort that could very well work in someone else or the general publics hands.
I admit, i do work for Oracle, so i am a bit biased in my opinions. So with that out of the way i'll give you some input of why I believe people choose Oracle over other freely available or commercially available products.
Scope: Oracle provides business and enterprise solutions from ground zero to the never ending support and uprgade cycle
Support: You can't really have better support then some of the talent working support. Sure the first person you get in touch with may not have any clue what you are talking about, but the support infrastructure is there and works great! Just create your Itars and TAR's according to the guidelines and recommendations of support and they will fix your issues
Solution: This is the biggy. For example, with Oracle 9i AS you have an incredible applications server that cannot be beat! Built on Apache, Oracle 8.1.7, and Portal 3.0 with Forms and Reports 6i. You can build your own portals running Apache, PHP3, MySQL, and Zope and a conglomerate of modperl and such, but with 9i AS you have a foundation already built that you plugin saving hundreds of millions of dollars in development.
API's & Developer Support: Oracle does provide alot of its technology stack, open API's and such to developers. You buy Oracle Applications 11i and you can integrate that and customize to your hearts content. Most companies wouldn't imagine providing tools like that and supporting it at the same time
Proven Technology: You use oracle software, and your database WILL work, simple as that. Need custom software and you don't want to develop it, oracle will, need an application to solve your business needs, oracle has it.
Open source is great, but commercial software that supports and open environment is just as superb in my opinion. You buy Oracle and you can run it on any architecture available today. You can use the skills and technologies already tried and true in your business to leverage oracle software to increase whatever capacity and concepts your trying to achieve.
Oracle Support works in this fashion. If you create a SEV 2 TAR which is critical, system down you will get priority support and a resolution within 2 hours or atleast passed off to development from which they will eitehr provide a patch or whatever is necessary to correct the issue at hand
Not everyone on the other end of the phone is a drone.
I work 33% of the year to support uncle sam, and yet during tax time i still manage to owe more money then the deductions normally witheld from my paycheck
Buying a condo was my tax break, being able to deduct my interest payments on my mortgage brought me to a manageable tax level
Why should i as a person who has never taken disability, never taken unenmployemnt (althought i have been unemployed) and have my own healthcare and medical insurance be the one fitting such a huge tax burden for the people who actually make use of these services? Why should i pay for people to be unemployed whenever i can pay for my own education to keep myself from being unemployed?
I make contributions to several different societies, from environmentalist to inner city foundations. I have my own life insurance, health insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan, savings plan, and cover my liability 100%.
Why again am i working 3 months out of the year to protect someone who doesn't do this for themselves?
Don't tell me they can't! I went to school, i did my work and still do my work and that is why i am here.
I would be more then happy with a 20% tax bracket that allowed 13% more investment in myself and my direct future as well as supporting people who are trying to achieve independance
This is totally off topic, but i'm glad NASA is streamlining rather then spending indefinatly.
Even though i didn't vote for bush, if he can get this tax break through and revive the economy he will get my vote! And if nasa, the military and the general technology aspects of the us increase during his term, i will vote him next time.
Until then, i'm fed up with how much i work to make everyone else life better when there is no one protecting my rights because i'm considered middle/upper middle class.
I'm the one buying shoes, clothes, staying in the hotels, buying the meals, paying for cabs, paying for trains, flying around and spending the cash that supports the economy so why am i being taxed so heavily to let a government dictate who gets my money
okay, offtope but i'm done hehe. some reason the tax part of this topic and postee pissed me off:)
Dude, what planet are you from? My WinNT and Win2k machines don't need rebooting daily, hell my win2k laptop has an uptime of weeks, the advanced power management and the sleep mode mean i just open my laptop hit the keypad and my pc wakes up instantly from where i left off. Linux can't do that.
Microsoft didn't cause any bodily harm, didn't cause me financial harm, didn't cause me headaches. Hell i have more problems with installing linux kernels, filesystems trying to hack things up to work the way i want then i do making windows work the way i want.
Being big isn't a monopoly. The cable and phone companies cause more harm then Microsoft!
Did you forget that? I pay 70 bucks a month for digital cable, i paid 120.00 for my copy of win2k. I pay 840.00 bucks a year for tv, and only 120.00 bucks everyone 2-3 years to upgrade my os.
Tell me again what is monopolistic? Is it that i can't chooose another cable company? Is it that the phone companies are so big i can't choose my own local provider? Or is it that my PC came with something that YOU CAN REMOVE that you feel its monopolistic? I can't go switching my cable company, i can't go running my own telephone equipment.
You guys make me sick. If windows is "still" crashing your PC daily then quit overclocking your PC and get some real hardware.
[applvis@home applvis]$ gcc -o test test.c
[applvis@home applvis]$./test
10 = 9
[applvis@home applvis]$ uname -a
Linux home.wseb.com 2.2.17-21mdk #1 Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
[applvis@home applvis]$
Damn, i guess Mandrake 7.2 is broken!
Funny this happens. I run Oracle Applications under several linux boxes. Wouldn't it suck for any business of any size to be running production erp applications to have some critical numbers off becuase of a flawed arithmatic algorythm in the standard libc libraries?
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No missed work. (Verizon tech's do know where your box is.. Covad is a moron if they make you stay home).
Fast service. I always get what i paid for.. havn't had any network downtime. After all i live in the amish capital of the world in a rural new development, so the fact dsl works and is available at all is nice.
Not only did Verizon get my DSL working but they have setup voicemail, call fowarding and been helpfull on any request i have had. They havn't dropped the ball on anything.
Now the cable company.. the rip me off at every corner and can screw up an address change royally.
Like i said, i havn't had any problem. Been using dsl for 4 years now and to tell you the truth i havn't had issues since the days of ISDN with Southwestern bell. (talk about a horrible company).
Your mileage may vary, but what would you expect from any .com company? Covad is going down just like all the others.. they promised rates and services that couldn't be delivered on time and on budget yet they blame Verizon/Bell Atlantic for there screwups.
If you really got to know your telco people you would know even though they're union most are very friendly and intelligent people who love there job and been doing it ten years.
If you live in manhatten or LA you should simply know nobody likes you, so expect the worse :)
You can also load up a bunch of your programs you run and hack some of your filesystem to saves over NFS or SMB so you can write you own games, run what is ported or just tinker around. I'm i'm in my computer room i can set my xdisplay to my pc and change the music playing in my living room.
You can also hack up your own infared receiver to the controller port so you can use a remote to watch VCD's, play MP3's or navigate a simple gui.
I'm currently working on Gamex (gamex.sourceforge.com) to boot X86, PS2, PPC, DC games via linux only utilizing the CDROM and floppy (or memory card on consoles) to load games. Making one consistent OS for all platforms based on linus.
For the DC i'm setting up a channel guide as well that snarfs your my.yahoo.com and will update what is coming on tv as well as a small description.
If java could be ported over, maybe one of the open source versions this would be a killer java platform as well.
Another interesting project i'm working on is porting the PalmOS emulator to the dc and enabling the DC to NFS mount my drive with a bunch of palm apps that could be ran and viewed from the tv.
The DC is one of the most impressive 99.00 pieces of hardware you or anyone can get there hands on! Buy one today!
More interesting DC hacks are people yanking the dc out of the shell and installing it in minivans to play games, mp3's and stuff like that. I'll be setting up a website shortly with links to cash for the most intriguing DC hacks around. Info will be posted on gamex.sourceforge.com as i get time to do so. (working out of town currently)
You can also check the box to keep the connection alive. Thats what i do.
Annoying, yeah the first day but no one notices now. PPOE works under every windows version i have tried (NT SP6a, Win2k, WinME and Win98). Works on my linue box because of the Linksys :)
pahahhahahahahahahahahah
The world is full of suckers!
You can order most for the cost of the media. Funny enough SGI oddly has the most expensive unix system around (Irix), but nobody would run that with half a brain
Even AIX is only 300 or so. Your 10k a year for Software support, maintenance and problem resolution. hell, redhat charges more then that. Letsee which one *really* is cheaper now!
But what is the point, 9iAS is available for Linux. Kind of like saying your going to prove Linux is better then Oracle when the Oracle solution on the same platform will outdo DB2 by a longshot.
I can gurantee that one. Give me Oracle 9iAS on the same SGI hardware and it will smoke the DB2 machine on a true dynamic benchmark as well as static benchmark.
Or you can also wait a few weeks for Oracle 9i for a real suprise :)
9iAS is a fantastic product that can't be beat.
I question this simply because of the fact that *EVERY* "Appliance" that has hit the market has died a horrible death.
I personally wouldn't buy a PS2 to surf the net because it would suck. For the same reason the I-Openers sucked, for the same reason the Virgin WebPlayers sucked and for the same reason all of 3coms webpads have sucked.
Most importantly, why in gods name are "slashdotters" supporting one evil over another?? Isn't the PS2 one of the most proprietary consoles around? Isn't AOL one of the biggest monopolies around?
I don't get it. I remember buying all my Sega consoles because Sega kicks ass as a gaming company. Sony, well they kick ass at sucking up your money, much like Microsoft, Much like AOL or any media titan for that matter
Now that i have said all that, i hope they do applianc'ize the PS2 and i hope it days a quick death for that matter.
For those that say they want wireless accessories, fast gaming, and hdtv or analog tv support why not spend 500.00 on a PC that will do all of that and much more instead of sicking 500+ dollars into a device that will have an old version of java, not support new media formats, be limited to a single vendor and most important of all be 100% proprietary
Good ridance PS2
HOUSTON
SUBURBAN, TX
Houston OS/2, North Shore(1992-1993)
Byron Miller
Not only was that an OS/2 BBS but the very same BBS listed in the first Linux big linux book every geek should remember "The Linux Bible". Go ahead, crack that open and my BBS is listed in there. I had all 12 1.44 megs of the GNU Operating system available to download at the amazing speed of 2400 bps. aww yeah.
The years are wrong though, i ran it for four years from Opus up to Wildcat under DESQview and then PCBoard 15.1 under OS/2 using a linux box as my irc, email, lynx and usenet gateway. (Back when usenet meant something as well!. Hell, back when Yggdrasil was the only distro! I bought a CDROM just to load Yggdrasil.
PS, you can find my BBS in the big arse "OS/2 Unleashed" Book as well as "Linux Unleashed".
I did my community service when i was 13 :) 11-12 years later its paying off. Now own my own house, got a great family and still work in the technology sector. To top it off, it all started with the BBS's my parents bitched i spent so much time on. Muahahahaha
Sorry about your father, that is a difficult loss. There is nothing you could have done to change that and simply sacrificing your life for the good of his isn't the best answer, only a sympton of guilt and sandness brought upon by the unfortunate circumstances.
You are you. Keep it that way! Don't change for your boss, your friends or your family. But always remember who is there for you!
Day 1
Sunday night, drive to Philadelphia Airport.
Fly to San Francisco (5 1/2 hours)
Catch flight to Portland Oregon (1 1/2 hours)
Take shuttle to hotel, Sleeeeeeeepppppp
Day 2
Wake up 6:00 a.m. Do the three SSS's.
Walk to client site by 7:30 a.m
Work till 8:30 pm
Check out town for a while
Sleep
Day 3
Repeat Day 2
Day 4
Start off like Day two, leave work about 5pm
Catch taxi to airport
Fly to San Fran
Fly to Philadelphia
Sleep on those flights
Arrive in philadelphia at 6:45 in the morning
FRIDAY!!
Have friday, saturday and sunday to be home
Its a tough life, but someone has to do it! I get to learn, see the world and meet the most interesting and talented people in the world.
Do i regret it? NO.
Is it hard? YES
I wouldn't do it the rest of my life, but since i'm only 24 i have nothing to loose and frankly sitting still is too boring, you just watch the world go by!
I get paid great, i get bonuses, and i get billions of miles from Frequent Flyer programs and i have more free hotel stays then i know what to do with.
But i get to take my friends to exotic places, i send family tickets to meet me at places, i give my parents hotel coupons for there vacations, and i keep in touch.
Keeping in touch is what counts.. not how much you work for somebody, but how much you make your life YOURS no matter what situation you are in.
It all depends on your angle. Obviously people are biased based on marketing and ideas rather then actuall technical specs and merrits if they feel its "supposed to work out of the box".
Thats kind of like saying because you have a 2.2 litter honda it is supposed to be as fast as a 2.2. litter porsche. Like anything else the porsche is proffessionally tuned, installed, designed and maintained much like the porsche of databases is proffessionally tuned, installed and maintained.
That environment is full of many widgets and hooks and features so you can customize and build from it, but it is the same environment.
He's not talking about conforming to button bars, he is talking about coding. He is talking about choosing between KDE or GNOME simply because they're TWO DISTINCT ENVIRONMENTS FROM AN APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE. Hell you can make KDE look like GNOME and make GNOME look like KDE but you can't code for both unless you want to add gobbs of code and headache or have to distinctly different applications on a coding/support level.
I must agree, the beauty with Windows is everyone tries to emulate it. The true power of it is the simplicity to develop for it while having a standard application framework available but also being able to veer from it with your own widgets.
So read again, its not one look vs another look or the conformity of all applications. It is simply the problem that you can spend millions developing a KDE app only to have GNOME come out ahead and have to port the app or fear not both of them dissapear and something new comes about. Atleast with windows you code for one and you code for all. Ofcourse through inovation, new features and technological advancements things will always change. But atleast it is ONE environment with many interfaces and THAT LINUX DOESN'T OR WILL NOT HAVE.
For the gurantee you do have to choose from Compaq and other vendors hardware solution. Just like any other vendor.
The value in any product that solves a specific need is the value it adds to your business, the value it adds to your products and the effect of the ownership of that software.
By far a 2,000,000 purchase of software and licensing is alot cheaper then the billion dollar payroll, HR, administration, training and consulting fees.
Free software isn't free when it comes to businesses either. You aren't going to rollout linux on 10,000 pc's without a hefty support contract and trained UNIX admins.
You can consider a Microsoft license a license for support and a license to use the software
With "Open Source" specificly "GNU" you have the right to USE the software, but you are guranteed NO SUPPORT. Your guranteed NOTHING really.
Atleast with Microsoft and Windows NT advanced server on specific hardware your guranteed 99.99 percent availability. Isn't that worth paying for? Or is the open source solution that is free as in media cheaper simply because your costs are not the software but the support and gurantees that a commercial program offers right out of the box?
Wasn't this already debated with RedHats intentions to offer a service to provide freely available updates in a proffessional manor?
I don't get you Timothy. Please don't write anymore slashdot headlines. You don't make sense when you express your opinions on something as simple as a service.
My lord, should i quit paying for my ISP? Should i not pay for Palm.net? Do i need to cancel my cell phone WAP services?
Wholy crap, i don't even run linux. What am i doing here?
Dunno. Just thought i'd rant about how i'm happy someone is providing a real service that people will utilize for a change. I know tons of people who would kill to throw on some headphones, fireup realplayer and listen to the games while working a latenighter.
Of all the education, training and learning i have done at every job i have had, NO CEO or NO COMPANY was responsible for it. Zilch.
I was the one who bought the books, paid for classes, did the testing and put the time in. Just because i used my abilities to excell in any business doesn't mean i can't take them elsewhere.
Trade secrets on the other hand should be protected. If i know secrets and took them to a competitor then that in itself is just wrong. On the other hand, if company X fears your going to scew them then they have problems to begin with.
But simply learning, or even being trained by a company doesn't mean they own you. Employment is a right NOT a law.
it doesn't bother me they're going to say the least. I just find it ironic to see all the work just go befcause of a failed commercial effort that could very well work in someone else or the general publics hands.
Scope: Oracle provides business and enterprise solutions from ground zero to the never ending support and uprgade cycle
Support: You can't really have better support then some of the talent working support. Sure the first person you get in touch with may not have any clue what you are talking about, but the support infrastructure is there and works great! Just create your Itars and TAR's according to the guidelines and recommendations of support and they will fix your issues
Solution: This is the biggy. For example, with Oracle 9i AS you have an incredible applications server that cannot be beat! Built on Apache, Oracle 8.1.7, and Portal 3.0 with Forms and Reports 6i. You can build your own portals running Apache, PHP3, MySQL, and Zope and a conglomerate of modperl and such, but with 9i AS you have a foundation already built that you plugin saving hundreds of millions of dollars in development.
API's & Developer Support: Oracle does provide alot of its technology stack, open API's and such to developers. You buy Oracle Applications 11i and you can integrate that and customize to your hearts content. Most companies wouldn't imagine providing tools like that and supporting it at the same time
Proven Technology: You use oracle software, and your database WILL work, simple as that. Need custom software and you don't want to develop it, oracle will, need an application to solve your business needs, oracle has it.
Open source is great, but commercial software that supports and open environment is just as superb in my opinion. You buy Oracle and you can run it on any architecture available today. You can use the skills and technologies already tried and true in your business to leverage oracle software to increase whatever capacity and concepts your trying to achieve.
Not everyone on the other end of the phone is a drone.
I work 33% of the year to support uncle sam, and yet during tax time i still manage to owe more money then the deductions normally witheld from my paycheck
Buying a condo was my tax break, being able to deduct my interest payments on my mortgage brought me to a manageable tax level
Why should i as a person who has never taken disability, never taken unenmployemnt (althought i have been unemployed) and have my own healthcare and medical insurance be the one fitting such a huge tax burden for the people who actually make use of these services? Why should i pay for people to be unemployed whenever i can pay for my own education to keep myself from being unemployed?
I make contributions to several different societies, from environmentalist to inner city foundations. I have my own life insurance, health insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan, savings plan, and cover my liability 100%.
Why again am i working 3 months out of the year to protect someone who doesn't do this for themselves?
Don't tell me they can't! I went to school, i did my work and still do my work and that is why i am here.
I would be more then happy with a 20% tax bracket that allowed 13% more investment in myself and my direct future as well as supporting people who are trying to achieve independance
This is totally off topic, but i'm glad NASA is streamlining rather then spending indefinatly.
Even though i didn't vote for bush, if he can get this tax break through and revive the economy he will get my vote! And if nasa, the military and the general technology aspects of the us increase during his term, i will vote him next time.
Until then, i'm fed up with how much i work to make everyone else life better when there is no one protecting my rights because i'm considered middle/upper middle class.
I'm the one buying shoes, clothes, staying in the hotels, buying the meals, paying for cabs, paying for trains, flying around and spending the cash that supports the economy so why am i being taxed so heavily to let a government dictate who gets my money
okay, offtope but i'm done hehe. some reason the tax part of this topic and postee pissed me off :)
Microsoft didn't cause any bodily harm, didn't cause me financial harm, didn't cause me headaches. Hell i have more problems with installing linux kernels, filesystems trying to hack things up to work the way i want then i do making windows work the way i want.
Being big isn't a monopoly. The cable and phone companies cause more harm then Microsoft!
Did you forget that? I pay 70 bucks a month for digital cable, i paid 120.00 for my copy of win2k. I pay 840.00 bucks a year for tv, and only 120.00 bucks everyone 2-3 years to upgrade my os.
Tell me again what is monopolistic? Is it that i can't chooose another cable company? Is it that the phone companies are so big i can't choose my own local provider? Or is it that my PC came with something that YOU CAN REMOVE that you feel its monopolistic? I can't go switching my cable company, i can't go running my own telephone equipment.
You guys make me sick. If windows is "still" crashing your PC daily then quit overclocking your PC and get some real hardware.
well, after reviewing the correcting posts, does linux do this under all platforms or just x86?
[applvis@home applvis]$
10 = 9
[applvis@home applvis]$ uname -a
Linux home.wseb.com 2.2.17-21mdk #1 Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
[applvis@home applvis]$
Damn, i guess Mandrake 7.2 is broken!
Funny this happens. I run Oracle Applications under several linux boxes. Wouldn't it suck for any business of any size to be running production erp applications to have some critical numbers off becuase of a flawed arithmatic algorythm in the standard libc libraries?
ouch