I doubt that does enough - if they charged a greater fee for the scarce resource, and released IPv6 for free (and allowed re-assignment to end users, though I'm not sure that matters so much for home users) then we'd start to see ISPs thinking of supporting IPv6.
Businesses follow the money, 'tax' IPv4 and you'll see reduced usage.
I thought we already had all IPv4 addresses mapped in the IPv6 space, however the second part - getting ISPs to automatically transition the packets - is the one that needs to be done. Maybe Jupiter or Cisco can add some pre-configured routing to their firmwares and then, magically the internet problem would be solved (once the edge routers were upgraded), or am I just dreaming?
Apache is catching up - SNI support was committed to 2.2 in May. I just guess it'll take a while for this to filter out to all distros and then to server operators.
erm.. on the one hand you say "its not because the hospital is dirty", then complain that its prevalent because the visitors are dirty.
If only we didn't have to put dirty (and ill!) patients in there too, things would be so much better. Or we could just get the soap and mops out and clean the place up, it isn't exactly going to make things worse. They used to do this, but then someone decided that making nurses "care practitioners" instead of general care staff, and outsourcing the cleaning function to the cheapest bidder would help. I imagine that administrative manager got a big bonus though.
FYI, they have put alcoholic handwash dispensers in UK hospitals now, but the tramps come in and drink it.
I suppose English/Classics students argue, but they know its all futile in the larger scheme of things, as Cicero said "we're all dead, get over it losers".
Maths students argue, but only over dividing the bill.
Humanities/Politics students argue over everything, but that's all - they have no ability to do anything practical.
Engineering students, they're different. From arguing over Emacs or Vi, its no wonder they're seen as the most promising ones for a career in terrorism.
yup, my favourite bit was right at the end of the first video: "its rubbish, it doesn't work and its full of viruses". Seems they saved a bit of truth after all the funny stuff:)
Come to think of it, there was a fair bit of other things I think 'softies should consider to be truths: "keep your good ideas to yourself, make them work for you and maybe set up a rival company". That's what made the Office such good comedy, it was based so much on a solid foundation of things everyone knows.
To make this all work, they further scam the system by putting out reqs for American programmers who must have every skill in every language and usually require more experience longer than the given technology exists
To be fair, employers have been doing this for years - unless you're the guy who actually does have experience in 'GUI'. This bit is not conspiracy, just incompetence.
Not necessarily. Someone with the gumption to search the world for jobs lives in a country where the exchange rate, quality of life and governmental concept of human rights is poor. Those Indian programmers who want to come to the west to work aren't doing so because they want to work hard, generally they want the mega salaries (compared to local rates) that they'll get. If you paid them the same as they had at home they wouldn't bother.
Fortunately, paying them half the rate for local workers is still a mega rate for them so the owners of the local companies will happily get them over and put you on to the unemployment queue.
I don't know, if the drive fails, the support contract will supply a new HDD, they're all the same right?... not.
Also, you'd be surprised at the number of large customers who have just upgraded *to* XP. 2 of our customers have a choice of the OS to run, keep NT4 (which is not such an option anymore) or upgrade to Vista (no, didn't think so), 7 (possubly, but they're risk-averse and Win7 might turn out to be as bad as Vista really), so that leave XP. So XP gets installed on thousands of PCs and will stay there for years.
I'll bite... but I know where you're coming from, and its not from the PoV of a linux user. Most of the things you mention are not issues in Linux world.
Linux's love of the command line Well, firstly Microsoft is getting big into command lines now, with Powershell and WMI scripting backends for everything. Most ordinary users won't see this, but then, neither do most Ubuntu users. Naturally, there is more that can be done to improve the GUI for Linux, but this progresses forward daily.
Kernel compiling Nobody compiles a kernel anymore. You get it from your distro, and compile it only if you're really nerdy or need something very very specialist. At least you have that option, in Microsoft's case you'd be stuck.
Tons of distros Possibly true, but generally there are 3: RedHat, Ubuntu and Suse. There are others, but they are almost niche players no-one heard of. I don't think having the 3 main distros is a bad thing, you tend to use Redhat in business environments, Ubuntu for 'ordinary' users and Suse in Europe. I'm happy with that, I'm also happy that Oracle Linux is Redhat - they can rebrand it for their specialist area and no-one's going to lose sleep over that.
Dependency hell Oh now you're joking. See the security updates for visual studio. In conjunction with 'WinSxS hell' suddenly DLL Hell (that was an urban myth as far as I was concerned, I don't think I ever saw it) has been replaced with a new version dependency on the side-by-side packages installed where if you don't have the right version, your app simply doesn't start. We've been hit by this for months now and it refuses to go away. You can't even put the right dlls in the app's path as the compiler references them in the assembly paths explicitly. Its a chuffing nightmare only solved by everyone running with all latest updates (and the VC redistributables are only installed by Microsoft Update, not Windows Update).
Lastly, we have in Windows 7 a lot of apps that don't run, and quite a few of them don't run in XP mode (which itself breaks VMware by not playing nicely).
You are so insightful there, so have an imaginary +1.
However, there point remains that things could be improved. We could define the directories to use for installation better (and we have: the LSB), and we could use the same package manager (2 isn't so bad I guess), and the same desktop technology... but then perhaps we'd just end up with 1 'distro'.
Still, some things need to change: the driver ABI for example, there are big issues for less supported hardware that used to be built for older kernels that not just don't work. And for no reason really. Surely Linux is stable enough that we can fix the ABI? The same applies to closed-source drivers. I know the reasons for not liking them, but drivers are special as they need hardware, no-one complains about closed-spec hardware, the driver could be considered part of that. Once done, we'd have a lot more manufacturer support and Linux would suddenly become more popular amongst them, putting little Penguins on the boxes and more importantly, getting experience with developing Linux software.
Some little things would go a long way to making the Linux 'marketplace' much more widespread.
Surprisingly one of the things Windows 7 touted was the ability to shutdown even if an app was not playing nicely. Well done Microsoft for another excellent implementation.
As it is, I've stuck Win7x64 on to see how it goes and it has difficulty shutting down, I find it spins away thrashing the hard disc forever (well, until I get really fed up and press the off button), so I'm not sure it is so good. And this is one a pretty much plain install, not filled with years of crud.
I may reinstall it as 64-bit Win7 doesn't seem to like a fair few apps, and XP mode (which is a pain to setup and apparently conflicts with VMware) doesn't run many either - especially games.
Quite true about Linux machines, you don't notice it on a desktop, but for a server an outage for reboot is not what you want, especially if you have to do it once a fortnight for security updates.
Ha. Next you'll be telling us that fighting a land war in Afghanistan always ends in an ignominious withdrawal by the invading forces of whichever superpower happens to be dominant at the time.
football hooligans used to fight with their keys held in their fists so the key stuck out like a blade. Some car keys can be quite long and pointy too.
The notion of using airplanes, and civilian airliners at that, as flying bombs was also not a possibility that was in the popular consciousness, not even as a plot element in an action movie.
Steven King did it first in The Running Man, popularised by Arnold "I'll be back" Schwarzenegger in the film that predictably changed the ending to a happy one, and not the original that had an airliner fly into the TV network's HQ.
and in the case of Guy Fawkes, we're less stoical and more celebratory. Just goes to show its all down to who the target is.
American civilians in 9/11 - massive outcry and the needed excuse to send troops in. Afghan/Iraqi/Pakistani civilians - serves the scum right for hanging round terrorists, send the troops in to shoot some more. British politicians - annual parties for 400 years. American politicians - just imagine, we'd probably have a day's holiday every year as well as the parties. Investment Bankers - Jesus would return to Earth for a new era of peace and happiness.:) (for those taking the above too seriously)
That's true in the short term, but as long as you do the feeding in a responsible, adult, non-attention-seeking, non-empire-building, humanitarian way, then the long term results will differ considerably.
The reasons America is targeted by the terrorists is solely because of some, less than ideal policies regarding regime change. No-one cares what the Canadians (for example) do, they're not targeted for destruction by Al Quaeda, but then they never went charging in places shouting loudly that the locals had to change their political ways, and buy more coca cola.
If you fed the world's poor, there would be far fewer young men so ready to accept the brainwashing propaganda from the terrorist leaders (you know, the ones who don't do the suicide bombings themselves). If America could free itself from the self-made shackles of oil consumption and global corporate profiteering, the world would be a far better place.
Apart from the issue you're having - and I think its unreasonable for them to access your box at all without your permission (however, they're quite within their rights to tell you they can do nothing if you refuse to let them access the box). In these cases, where you rent hardware from a reseller, you need to move. There have been cases where hw is rented from a reseller who stops paying their colo facility bills, and so that hardware is then locked down by the colo until the payment is received. In such cases, you always lose - the colo facility cannot let you have access to 'your' server to get your data off as they do not know who you from a.n. hacker, and the reseller usually is unresponsive and cannot get your server back online until they pay the bills - which they surely would have if they could.
So, get yourself with a reputable service. You may pay a little more, but it is definitely worth it for when the bad times happen.
Yes, I am surprised at how many corporations are going with Sharepoint, yet its such a pile of w*** almost *everyone* at our corp thinks its pants (there are a few corporate yes-men lackeys who 'think' its good). Nobody can find anything on it, even adding search simply means we get thousands of hits for simple terms.
I can't understand why its spreading like an unfortunate rash at a sex party. Maybe the bosses will realise how bad it is and can it after it stops being used for a few months, but its always hanging in there, someone will post a document to it and suddenly its back to being a essential tool in everyday use.
Yuo may jest about Javascript, but I really think its the future. Everyone wants easily-deployable, thin-client apps (well, everyone, I mean line-of-business people) that perform as well as thick-client apps. Now we're just about, almost, getting there with HTML5, WebGL and the like, and so a good javascript implementation could provide a nice GUI to a back-end processing cloud..NET and similar will become obsolete if the above could be shown to be workable in practical terms.
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I doubt that does enough - if they charged a greater fee for the scarce resource, and released IPv6 for free (and allowed re-assignment to end users, though I'm not sure that matters so much for home users) then we'd start to see ISPs thinking of supporting IPv6.
Businesses follow the money, 'tax' IPv4 and you'll see reduced usage.
I thought we already had all IPv4 addresses mapped in the IPv6 space, however the second part - getting ISPs to automatically transition the packets - is the one that needs to be done. Maybe Jupiter or Cisco can add some pre-configured routing to their firmwares and then, magically the internet problem would be solved (once the edge routers were upgraded), or am I just dreaming?
Apache is catching up - SNI support was committed to 2.2 in May. I just guess it'll take a while for this to filter out to all distros and then to server operators.
There's a good update on this blog
They might, I think sherry is too good even for that.
One story
and this shows how out of touch you are: Two homeless people have died in London from drinking the gel
erm.. on the one hand you say "its not because the hospital is dirty", then complain that its prevalent because the visitors are dirty.
If only we didn't have to put dirty (and ill!) patients in there too, things would be so much better. Or we could just get the soap and mops out and clean the place up, it isn't exactly going to make things worse. They used to do this, but then someone decided that making nurses "care practitioners" instead of general care staff, and outsourcing the cleaning function to the cheapest bidder would help. I imagine that administrative manager got a big bonus though.
FYI, they have put alcoholic handwash dispensers in UK hospitals now, but the tramps come in and drink it.
yes, like sloping roofs get snow on them, not on the thing they're covering..
Of course, if the snow is piled so high that the entire sign is covered, then drivers have other problems.
Of course, they could always put a sloping cover above the signs so it doesn't get, well, covered in snow.
It's not always that they are in a hurry. It's often just a plain old sense of entitlement.
It's not always that they are in a hurry. It's often just a plain old sense of selfish, anti-social arrogance.
I suppose English/Classics students argue, but they know its all futile in the larger scheme of things, as Cicero said "we're all dead, get over it losers".
Maths students argue, but only over dividing the bill.
Humanities/Politics students argue over everything, but that's all - they have no ability to do anything practical.
Engineering students, they're different. From arguing over Emacs or Vi, its no wonder they're seen as the most promising ones for a career in terrorism.
yup, my favourite bit was right at the end of the first video: "its rubbish, it doesn't work and its full of viruses". Seems they saved a bit of truth after all the funny stuff :)
Come to think of it, there was a fair bit of other things I think 'softies should consider to be truths: "keep your good ideas to yourself, make them work for you and maybe set up a rival company". That's what made the Office such good comedy, it was based so much on a solid foundation of things everyone knows.
To make this all work, they further scam the system by putting out reqs for American programmers who must have every skill in every language and usually require more experience longer than the given technology exists
To be fair, employers have been doing this for years - unless you're the guy who actually does have experience in 'GUI'. This bit is not conspiracy, just incompetence.
Not necessarily. Someone with the gumption to search the world for jobs lives in a country where the exchange rate, quality of life and governmental concept of human rights is poor. Those Indian programmers who want to come to the west to work aren't doing so because they want to work hard, generally they want the mega salaries (compared to local rates) that they'll get. If you paid them the same as they had at home they wouldn't bother.
Fortunately, paying them half the rate for local workers is still a mega rate for them so the owners of the local companies will happily get them over and put you on to the unemployment queue.
I don't know, if the drive fails, the support contract will supply a new HDD, they're all the same right?... not.
Also, you'd be surprised at the number of large customers who have just upgraded *to* XP. 2 of our customers have a choice of the OS to run, keep NT4 (which is not such an option anymore) or upgrade to Vista (no, didn't think so), 7 (possubly, but they're risk-averse and Win7 might turn out to be as bad as Vista really), so that leave XP. So XP gets installed on thousands of PCs and will stay there for years.
whoooooo. WinXP is end-of-life? You'd best tell that to all the millions of users (including big businesses) out there.
What that's you say? Upgrade to Windows 7 and use its perfectly infallible XP mode?
Ah, I understand now. Hi Bill, how's Steve getting on, still a bit sweaty and concerned he's not selling enough?
I'll bite... but I know where you're coming from, and its not from the PoV of a linux user. Most of the things you mention are not issues in Linux world.
Linux's love of the command line
Well, firstly Microsoft is getting big into command lines now, with Powershell and WMI scripting backends for everything. Most ordinary users won't see this, but then, neither do most Ubuntu users. Naturally, there is more that can be done to improve the GUI for Linux, but this progresses forward daily.
Kernel compiling
Nobody compiles a kernel anymore. You get it from your distro, and compile it only if you're really nerdy or need something very very specialist. At least you have that option, in Microsoft's case you'd be stuck.
Tons of distros
Possibly true, but generally there are 3: RedHat, Ubuntu and Suse. There are others, but they are almost niche players no-one heard of. I don't think having the 3 main distros is a bad thing, you tend to use Redhat in business environments, Ubuntu for 'ordinary' users and Suse in Europe. I'm happy with that, I'm also happy that Oracle Linux is Redhat - they can rebrand it for their specialist area and no-one's going to lose sleep over that.
Dependency hell
Oh now you're joking. See the security updates for visual studio. In conjunction with 'WinSxS hell' suddenly DLL Hell (that was an urban myth as far as I was concerned, I don't think I ever saw it) has been replaced with a new version dependency on the side-by-side packages installed where if you don't have the right version, your app simply doesn't start. We've been hit by this for months now and it refuses to go away. You can't even put the right dlls in the app's path as the compiler references them in the assembly paths explicitly. Its a chuffing nightmare only solved by everyone running with all latest updates (and the VC redistributables are only installed by Microsoft Update, not Windows Update).
Lastly, we have in Windows 7 a lot of apps that don't run, and quite a few of them don't run in XP mode (which itself breaks VMware by not playing nicely).
I guess we should all go and buy Macs!
You are so insightful there, so have an imaginary +1.
However, there point remains that things could be improved. We could define the directories to use for installation better (and we have: the LSB), and we could use the same package manager (2 isn't so bad I guess), and the same desktop technology ... but then perhaps we'd just end up with 1 'distro'.
Still, some things need to change: the driver ABI for example, there are big issues for less supported hardware that used to be built for older kernels that not just don't work. And for no reason really. Surely Linux is stable enough that we can fix the ABI? The same applies to closed-source drivers. I know the reasons for not liking them, but drivers are special as they need hardware, no-one complains about closed-spec hardware, the driver could be considered part of that. Once done, we'd have a lot more manufacturer support and Linux would suddenly become more popular amongst them, putting little Penguins on the boxes and more importantly, getting experience with developing Linux software.
Some little things would go a long way to making the Linux 'marketplace' much more widespread.
Surprisingly one of the things Windows 7 touted was the ability to shutdown even if an app was not playing nicely. Well done Microsoft for another excellent implementation.
As it is, I've stuck Win7x64 on to see how it goes and it has difficulty shutting down, I find it spins away thrashing the hard disc forever (well, until I get really fed up and press the off button), so I'm not sure it is so good. And this is one a pretty much plain install, not filled with years of crud.
I may reinstall it as 64-bit Win7 doesn't seem to like a fair few apps, and XP mode (which is a pain to setup and apparently conflicts with VMware) doesn't run many either - especially games.
Quite true about Linux machines, you don't notice it on a desktop, but for a server an outage for reboot is not what you want, especially if you have to do it once a fortnight for security updates.
Ha. Next you'll be telling us that fighting a land war in Afghanistan always ends in an ignominious withdrawal by the invading forces of whichever superpower happens to be dominant at the time.
football hooligans used to fight with their keys held in their fists so the key stuck out like a blade. Some car keys can be quite long and pointy too.
Just be glad we don't have ninja terrorists yet.
The notion of using airplanes, and civilian airliners at that, as flying bombs was also not a possibility that was in the popular consciousness, not even as a plot element in an action movie.
Steven King did it first in The Running Man, popularised by Arnold "I'll be back" Schwarzenegger in the film that predictably changed the ending to a happy one, and not the original that had an airliner fly into the TV network's HQ.
Books. Better than movies, since.. well, forever.
and in the case of Guy Fawkes, we're less stoical and more celebratory. Just goes to show its all down to who the target is.
American civilians in 9/11 - massive outcry and the needed excuse to send troops in. :) (for those taking the above too seriously)
Afghan/Iraqi/Pakistani civilians - serves the scum right for hanging round terrorists, send the troops in to shoot some more.
British politicians - annual parties for 400 years.
American politicians - just imagine, we'd probably have a day's holiday every year as well as the parties.
Investment Bankers - Jesus would return to Earth for a new era of peace and happiness.
That's true in the short term, but as long as you do the feeding in a responsible, adult, non-attention-seeking, non-empire-building, humanitarian way, then the long term results will differ considerably.
The reasons America is targeted by the terrorists is solely because of some, less than ideal policies regarding regime change. No-one cares what the Canadians (for example) do, they're not targeted for destruction by Al Quaeda, but then they never went charging in places shouting loudly that the locals had to change their political ways, and buy more coca cola.
If you fed the world's poor, there would be far fewer young men so ready to accept the brainwashing propaganda from the terrorist leaders (you know, the ones who don't do the suicide bombings themselves). If America could free itself from the self-made shackles of oil consumption and global corporate profiteering, the world would be a far better place.
Apart from the issue you're having - and I think its unreasonable for them to access your box at all without your permission (however, they're quite within their rights to tell you they can do nothing if you refuse to let them access the box). In these cases, where you rent hardware from a reseller, you need to move. There have been cases where hw is rented from a reseller who stops paying their colo facility bills, and so that hardware is then locked down by the colo until the payment is received. In such cases, you always lose - the colo facility cannot let you have access to 'your' server to get your data off as they do not know who you from a.n. hacker, and the reseller usually is unresponsive and cannot get your server back online until they pay the bills - which they surely would have if they could.
So, get yourself with a reputable service. You may pay a little more, but it is definitely worth it for when the bad times happen.
Yes, I am surprised at how many corporations are going with Sharepoint, yet its such a pile of w*** almost *everyone* at our corp thinks its pants (there are a few corporate yes-men lackeys who 'think' its good). Nobody can find anything on it, even adding search simply means we get thousands of hits for simple terms.
I can't understand why its spreading like an unfortunate rash at a sex party. Maybe the bosses will realise how bad it is and can it after it stops being used for a few months, but its always hanging in there, someone will post a document to it and suddenly its back to being a essential tool in everyday use.
Yuo may jest about Javascript, but I really think its the future. Everyone wants easily-deployable, thin-client apps (well, everyone, I mean line-of-business people) that perform as well as thick-client apps. Now we're just about, almost, getting there with HTML5, WebGL and the like, and so a good javascript implementation could provide a nice GUI to a back-end processing cloud. .NET and similar will become obsolete if the above could be shown to be workable in practical terms.