Interesting. I suppose the whole WWII thing causes us to believe we are morally superior.
But you're right on one point. The US tries not to use foreign products in our own government.
There may be truth to the rumors. Xerox was reported to have rigged a copy machine in the Russian Embassy to make extra copies on film. The machine would break down periodically, and a Xerox repair guy would go out fix it and put in a new film.
Besides, it's not at all common for countries to throw up barricades to trade in order to boost their own industries.
Good for them, maybe Germany will actually build some software that competes on the market as a result.
Out of curiousity, were you trying to write monolithic applications using thousands of line of VBScript within ASP?
Or were you doing the intelligent thing, writing all your logic into compiled VB/VC components configured within MTS and then called by a few dozen lines of ASP code?
"When you've only got five black people in the entire country, yes, racism is low."
You've obviously not been to London.
I spent a week there last year, and was amazed at the diversity of the population. The best places to eat are Indian and Chinese restaurants for instance.
One saw all races walking down the streets at all times of the day. It was just no big deal.
After spending some time in the UK and seeing how the different populations interact, I have to agree that America is a very racist country. That has nothing to do with diversity, it has to do with the fact that nobody is doing anything about it here.
Who says the internal machine has to be a database connection?
For example...
Use a message queue service like MSMQ or MQSeries to setup a one way communication gateway between the web host and the internal order processing server.
I don't know, just seems dumb to have customer data available on the web host or on a machine directly accessible from the web host.
To all those claiming MS sucks, Linux rules... Keep in mind that the reason why you don't see people stealing credit card information off Linux hosts is because few use Linux for this purpose. Specifically I'm referring to the data from the Netcraft SSL server report which shows over 50% of commerce websites run Microsoft, and only a very small percentage run Linux.
If they were all running Linux, the attackers would be grabbing root instead and sifting to MySQL databases.
Actually the thing that bugs me the most about all of this is why do these websites even store the credit card numbers anyway? Seems like these should be offloaded to an internal machine for processing, not sitting on the public web server.
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Not quite sure how you could justify that comment.
Interesting. I suppose the whole WWII thing causes us to believe we are morally superior. But you're right on one point. The US tries not to use foreign products in our own government.
There may be truth to the rumors. Xerox was reported to have rigged a copy machine in the Russian Embassy to make extra copies on film. The machine would break down periodically, and a Xerox repair guy would go out fix it and put in a new film.
Besides, it's not at all common for countries to throw up barricades to trade in order to boost their own industries.
Good for them, maybe Germany will actually build some software that competes on the market as a result.
Out of curiousity, were you trying to write monolithic applications using thousands of line of VBScript within ASP?
Or were you doing the intelligent thing, writing all your logic into compiled VB/VC components configured within MTS and then called by a few dozen lines of ASP code?
There's more to it than that, but...
Can you say DUH?
"but there's the underside that I really hate which has made me want to get out ASAP"
The really bad air pollution?
I could hardly breath when I was visiting London. *cough* *cough* *hack* *wheeze*
"When you've only got five black people in the entire country, yes, racism is low."
You've obviously not been to London.
I spent a week there last year, and was amazed at the diversity of the population. The best places to eat are Indian and Chinese restaurants for instance.
One saw all races walking down the streets at all times of the day. It was just no big deal.
After spending some time in the UK and seeing how the different populations interact, I have to agree that America is a very racist country. That has nothing to do with diversity, it has to do with the fact that nobody is doing anything about it here.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious.
There's also a question as to whether 256kb/s is enough bandwidth, or if the server will be overwhelmed.
Cheapbytes doesn't create anything, they simply take stuff other people have created and redistribute it cheaply.
The same can be said of linuxiso.org.
"FUD-meister flamebots in the Linux community (and before that, OS/2?), "
I believe you have Brett Glass confused with Nicholas Petreley.
Brett promotes BSD, not Linux.
Who says the internal machine has to be a database connection?
For example...
Use a message queue service like MSMQ or MQSeries to setup a one way communication gateway between the web host and the internal order processing server.
I don't know, just seems dumb to have customer data available on the web host or on a machine directly accessible from the web host.
The thread is kind of funny.
To all those claiming MS sucks, Linux rules... Keep in mind that the reason why you don't see people stealing credit card information off Linux hosts is because few use Linux for this purpose. Specifically I'm referring to the data from the Netcraft SSL server report which shows over 50% of commerce websites run Microsoft, and only a very small percentage run Linux.
If they were all running Linux, the attackers would be grabbing root instead and sifting to MySQL databases.
Actually the thing that bugs me the most about all of this is why do these websites even store the credit card numbers anyway? Seems like these should be offloaded to an internal machine for processing, not sitting on the public web server.
In case you hadn't seen it, you can now download Solaris 8 10/00 edition for free off the Sun website.
Compaq offered an upgrade path for the Aero. $99 bought me a ROM upgrade and 8Megs of extra RAM.
Most of the other makers did not, they would let you trade your old one in for a rebate towards a new one, but usually it was only like $100 off.
I have a Compaq Aero 2130 which I upgraded to PocketPC(v3.0).
:(
It's much improved, the device is nearly twice as fast and the user interface is much improved.
Unfortunately I believe Compaq was the only company to produce a device with swappable ROMs, so the older HP and Casio owners are screwed.
Oracle also makes Oracle Lite for WinCE/Palm.
I've looked into it somewhat, but decided just to play with the built in Access/ADO functionality.
I have a Compaq Aero 2130 I upgraded to PocketPC. If I want contacts, I push the 'contacts' button and my contacts pop up.
It's the little button on the bottom that looks like a rolodex.
If you have trouble finding it, go ask your mother.
Of course now the question is... Is anybody but benchmarkers actually using Tux?
What most recent round?
As far as I have seen the only web server which has shown higher numbers than IIS has been tux. Not apache.
Apache just has too much overhead to compete in that realm.
That does make sense.
The whole notion of EULA and shrinkwrap licenses doesn't appear to have been fully tested in a court of law.
I do think it's about time for this to happen.
Then again with UCITA will it really matter?
The past couple of weeks have not been good for Cringely.
First the claim that Adobe Framemaker was going away, then Java won't run on Pentium IV, then this?
But then it is just a rumor column, and you can't believe everything you read.
It'd be nice if the actual NetworkWorld article was available somewhere to understand the specific issues.
I could care less. It was the work of creating the SOAP spec 1.1 that Software Janitor was whining about.
But that's what I'm saying. You create a new interface, leave the old one behind unchanged so you don't break existing clients.
Like I said, I don't understand why you wish to start an argument with me by agreeing with me.
Then you won't have to worry about this at all. The clients will be able to use it, you'll be able to get credit for it.
Of course you won't make any money off it, but then how dare you be so greedy!
Oh MY GOD!
Proof of a conspiracy.
They may have charged $4 more! I don't recall, I seem to remember Win95 having a retail price of $99, or it might have been $95.
This is a riduculous argument.
You can already invoke COM objects over HTTP. It's been there since MDAC 2.0 as I recall.
It was originally called DCOM tunneling, but was recently renamed to COM Internet Services.