RUB creates a proper boot sector, which on rare occasions, windows XP cant understand (like i said, its XP apparently thats a fault)
I understand that completely. That doesn't solve the problem, though. Mandrake apparently, can resize the NTFS partitions (very cool). If it can resize the NTFS partitions, it's definately designed to squeeze onto a hard drive with Win NT/2K/XP. How could they miss something so huge? Ultimately, it doesn't matter whose fault it is. Fact is I can't risk losing a machine, and it quite honestly, makes Mandrake look *very* unprofessional.
Oh, the porn site is nothing. Maybe 100,000 hits a day. That's peanuts. It runs on W2K, and even though it's all database driven, the server doesn't bat an eye. I really have no reason to change that. And you're right... the *big* sites (porn included) DO use FreeBSD.
I do, however have a retail business with half a dozen boxes right now that I was thinking about switching, but I honestly can't find a distribution that's worth the possible damage to install. Every distro that I research is good, but has comes with its own set of problems and/or difficulties. Mandrake sounded like a good place to start, but then I happened across that info just before I put somebody on to try it, and I stopped it. It's frustrating as hell.
Well, I was getting ready to try out Mandrake 10 for my business, but then I realized that it often makes Windows XP unbootable on a dual boot machine. If that isn't scary, then I don't know what is. It'll be less scary to try once there's a distribution that fucking works.
I did my homework and research, and decided on Mandrake 10 because what I read was that it was easy to use, easy to install, least buggy, then I find out about this massive bug that isn't fixed. Until Linux gets its act together, it's gonna keep being scary.
As is, I'm gonna have my business wait for another year before even beginning to evaluate Linux again. It's still too immature.
Does anybody have a copy of this "article" in a useable format? We don't use Open Office or Acrobat on any of our business machines. Shit, what ever happened to plain ol' HTML, which had the benefit of being open and was designed for presentations?
Opensource needs experianced admins and engineers, windows only needs moderately trained monkeys. if california goes OS, they will need more IT people with a higher skillset.
You just made an excellent case for OSS being shittier software than proprietary. Congratulations. You just disproved yourself.
who says that the use of open source software goes hand in hand with undercutting jobs ?
Very simple. Oracle. Second largest software company on the planet. Employs more than 40,000 people, most of those Californians. Pays California income taxes, along with most of its employees. Switch to PostgreSQL? Employs 0 people. Pays $0 taxes. That's just one off the top of my head.
This will go over like a lead balloon. California is arguably, the IT center of the universe right now. A massive number of constituents, and a massive number of consituents with money are going to scream bloody murder if their own government decides to undercut their jobs, and instead decide to use "free" software, which generates few, if any jobs, depending on the product. This is a truly stupid move on his part.
I think of it differently. I think of it as a possible augmentation. People are augmented in all sorts of ways now... glasses/contacts, prosthetics, artificial joints, etc. I have been diagnosed as severely ADD informally by many doctors. I agree with you that that is "just the way I am". Unfortunately, that, along with my shortsightedness and lactose intolerance interfere with my lifestyle. The other two minor thinks I've mentioned are fixed. I add bacteria to my gut daily, and I wear glasses when I need to see distances. I think of a drug or gene therapy to help with procrastination/slackness/ADD/whatever as yet another augmentation to help me live my life. I run my own business, and there aren't enough hours in the day without me spending time on Slashdot or even get side tracked with work related stuff that doesn't need doing at the time. For me, something like this, or a drug, would help *tremendously*. Unfortunately, I haven't seen a doctor since I either don't (think that I) have the time, or I always forget, or I put it off [yes, I know... very ironic]. I happen to *want* to be able to work more. As hard as I try, most days I look back and ask myself, "what in the hell did you spend all day doing?" So I see it as just another fix to help us live better, fuller lives, more the way that we want to live them.
Security = extra work, confusing settings, and ways to mess things up
Insecurity = identity theft, loss of property or information, and probably cancer
Well, you also have to consider that for all of the screaming privacy/security insanity on Slashdot, that security isn't important to most home users. Of course people get fucked over, but not everybody running unpatched Windows 98 is fucked. Even if a large % of users have backdoors, etc. installed, what % of those users have something worth stealing? It comes down to if the extra time, money and effort in securing a computer is really worth it to them.
Be careful of my site. There are some shitty galleries in there that could cause problems if you're not using Firefox/Mozilla and/or a virus checker. I've been meaning to re-write my scripts to clear out the trash for a while now, but the goddamned spammers/scammers never stop.
They *use* open source software, true. I *use* VNC and Firefox and Thunderbird in my retail business. That doesn't mean that Open Source is successful, or quite frankly, has anything to do with my success. Google's main product, the one that brings in the money, their search engine, is very, very proprietary.
In this article, the sole example as a working business model is Red Hat:
Red Hat, on the other hand, achieved amazingly high brand recognition with its Red Hat Linux distribution and developed a successful business model around high volume and support subscriptions along with professional services and training. In the book, Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, Robert Young, one of the Red Hat founders, chronicles how he and others determined that Red Hat was in the commodity product business where brand recognition is extremely important. As a result, Red Hat developed a business model to exploit the commodity business.
If this is his idea of a "successful business model", then this guy needs to go back to school. The company has just *barely* started to show profits, and has virtually no profitable history to speak of and massive debt. I think it's about 5-10 years early to start calling Red Hat "successful".
That's great that OSS developers can influence technology. If that's enough for you, that's great. But if I write something that influences technology on a global scale, I want something more than a pat on the back and my name buried in the source code. I want to get paid for my effort/time/expertise. I can't afford to be altruistic until I don't have to worry about making mortgage payments any more.
Of course on Windows, just trying to move an Excel or Word document out of that *&$#^$%& cage they lock them in is enough to induce mouse-smashing insanity within an hour...
This should save you some mice... Click on "File", "Save As". Choose a different file type.
I like your conspiracy theory, but I've got one better. People are stupid. People are in fact, getting stupider. The gene pool is worsening since intelligent people tend not to breed, and the stupid breed in droves. Add to the mix that in any modernized country, if you do something stupid and get hurt, there's an emergency room to save you. Thus, the human population is devolving. That's the source of stupidity... not the corporations.
You're exactly right. Programmers are equivalent to plumbers. They're relatively well-paid specialists, but they're always replaceable, and there's always downward pressure on wages.
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RUB creates a proper boot sector, which on rare occasions, windows XP cant understand (like i said, its XP apparently thats a fault)
I understand that completely. That doesn't solve the problem, though. Mandrake apparently, can resize the NTFS partitions (very cool). If it can resize the NTFS partitions, it's definately designed to squeeze onto a hard drive with Win NT/2K/XP. How could they miss something so huge? Ultimately, it doesn't matter whose fault it is. Fact is I can't risk losing a machine, and it quite honestly, makes Mandrake look *very* unprofessional.
Oh, the porn site is nothing. Maybe 100,000 hits a day. That's peanuts. It runs on W2K, and even though it's all database driven, the server doesn't bat an eye. I really have no reason to change that. And you're right... the *big* sites (porn included) DO use FreeBSD.
I do, however have a retail business with half a dozen boxes right now that I was thinking about switching, but I honestly can't find a distribution that's worth the possible damage to install. Every distro that I research is good, but has comes with its own set of problems and/or difficulties. Mandrake sounded like a good place to start, but then I happened across that info just before I put somebody on to try it, and I stopped it. It's frustrating as hell.
Well, I was getting ready to try out Mandrake 10 for my business, but then I realized that it often makes Windows XP unbootable on a dual boot machine. If that isn't scary, then I don't know what is. It'll be less scary to try once there's a distribution that fucking works.
I did my homework and research, and decided on Mandrake 10 because what I read was that it was easy to use, easy to install, least buggy, then I find out about this massive bug that isn't fixed. Until Linux gets its act together, it's gonna keep being scary.
As is, I'm gonna have my business wait for another year before even beginning to evaluate Linux again. It's still too immature.
Does anybody have a copy of this "article" in a useable format? We don't use Open Office or Acrobat on any of our business machines. Shit, what ever happened to plain ol' HTML, which had the benefit of being open and was designed for presentations?
Opensource needs experianced admins and engineers, windows only needs moderately trained monkeys. if california goes OS, they will need more IT people with a higher skillset.
You just made an excellent case for OSS being shittier software than proprietary. Congratulations. You just disproved yourself.
who says that the use of open source software goes hand in hand with undercutting jobs ?
Very simple. Oracle. Second largest software company on the planet. Employs more than 40,000 people, most of those Californians. Pays California income taxes, along with most of its employees. Switch to PostgreSQL? Employs 0 people. Pays $0 taxes. That's just one off the top of my head.
This will go over like a lead balloon. California is arguably, the IT center of the universe right now. A massive number of constituents, and a massive number of consituents with money are going to scream bloody murder if their own government decides to undercut their jobs, and instead decide to use "free" software, which generates few, if any jobs, depending on the product. This is a truly stupid move on his part.
But also realizing that by taking away patents, you're taking away my freedom to earn money from my product as I see fit.
Tell me about it. Access as a web back end?!?! Only a moron, not fit for building web sites would use *JET* as a back end!
I think of it differently. I think of it as a possible augmentation. People are augmented in all sorts of ways now... glasses/contacts, prosthetics, artificial joints, etc. I have been diagnosed as severely ADD informally by many doctors. I agree with you that that is "just the way I am". Unfortunately, that, along with my shortsightedness and lactose intolerance interfere with my lifestyle. The other two minor thinks I've mentioned are fixed. I add bacteria to my gut daily, and I wear glasses when I need to see distances. I think of a drug or gene therapy to help with procrastination/slackness/ADD/whatever as yet another augmentation to help me live my life. I run my own business, and there aren't enough hours in the day without me spending time on Slashdot or even get side tracked with work related stuff that doesn't need doing at the time. For me, something like this, or a drug, would help *tremendously*. Unfortunately, I haven't seen a doctor since I either don't (think that I) have the time, or I always forget, or I put it off [yes, I know... very ironic]. I happen to *want* to be able to work more. As hard as I try, most days I look back and ask myself, "what in the hell did you spend all day doing?" So I see it as just another fix to help us live better, fuller lives, more the way that we want to live them.
Hey, I'm gonna find you and kick the doors in on your house. It's your fault if they can't keep me out...
Mr. Fuckwit the Weasel?
"The real internet?" The WHOLE THING? Holy shit! That's an amazing phone. Mine only lets me surf the web and check my email. :(
Security = extra work, confusing settings, and ways to mess things up
Insecurity = identity theft, loss of property or information, and probably cancer
Well, you also have to consider that for all of the screaming privacy/security insanity on Slashdot, that security isn't important to most home users. Of course people get fucked over, but not everybody running unpatched Windows 98 is fucked. Even if a large % of users have backdoors, etc. installed, what % of those users have something worth stealing? It comes down to if the extra time, money and effort in securing a computer is really worth it to them.
it isn't that big of a deal and will probably turn into a huge flame war with comments.
You're new here, aren't you?
Be careful of my site. There are some shitty galleries in there that could cause problems if you're not using Firefox/Mozilla and/or a virus checker. I've been meaning to re-write my scripts to clear out the trash for a while now, but the goddamned spammers/scammers never stop.
They *use* open source software, true. I *use* VNC and Firefox and Thunderbird in my retail business. That doesn't mean that Open Source is successful, or quite frankly, has anything to do with my success. Google's main product, the one that brings in the money, their search engine, is very, very proprietary.
In this article, the sole example as a working business model is Red Hat:
Red Hat, on the other hand, achieved amazingly high brand recognition with its Red Hat Linux distribution and developed a successful business model around high volume and support subscriptions along with professional services and training. In the book, Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, Robert Young, one of the Red Hat founders, chronicles how he and others determined that Red Hat was in the commodity product business where brand recognition is extremely important. As a result, Red Hat developed a business model to exploit the commodity business.
If this is his idea of a "successful business model", then this guy needs to go back to school. The company has just *barely* started to show profits, and has virtually no profitable history to speak of and massive debt. I think it's about 5-10 years early to start calling Red Hat "successful".
That's great that OSS developers can influence technology. If that's enough for you, that's great. But if I write something that influences technology on a global scale, I want something more than a pat on the back and my name buried in the source code. I want to get paid for my effort/time/expertise. I can't afford to be altruistic until I don't have to worry about making mortgage payments any more.
Of course on Windows, just trying to move an Excel or Word document out of that *&$#^$%& cage they lock them in is enough to induce mouse-smashing insanity within an hour...
This should save you some mice... Click on "File", "Save As". Choose a different file type.
I like your conspiracy theory, but I've got one better. People are stupid. People are in fact, getting stupider. The gene pool is worsening since intelligent people tend not to breed, and the stupid breed in droves. Add to the mix that in any modernized country, if you do something stupid and get hurt, there's an emergency room to save you. Thus, the human population is devolving. That's the source of stupidity... not the corporations.
You're exactly right. Programmers are equivalent to plumbers. They're relatively well-paid specialists, but they're always replaceable, and there's always downward pressure on wages.
It isn't. I don't apt-get or download RPM's from non-official mirrors, either. Good luck if you do.
well when it becomes Release 10.1 you just update sources and wait for urpmi to end rpming...
What in the hell does that mean?
Why does it say "XPSP2", then?