NX and FreeNX are cross-platform and very efficient remote desktops... Citrix has always been a slug. FreeNX also is not tied to a specific operating system and can be used as the frontend of virtualized Linux and Windows now!
Combine a light Linux base, OpenVZ, Ubuntu, Windows, Virtualbox and NX and you have a complete virtual platform that runs in the cloud with all of Ubuntu and Windows. And the only thing you need to pay for is hardware and Windows.
This works on any modern processor with virtualization extensions.
It has almost all the qualities that a broadcaster could want.... except DRM.
It is open source. It runs on Windows, *nix and Macs It uses Bitorrent to distribute content It use RSS feeds to provide episodes. It supports multiple codecs.
Seems like that would be a pretty simple way to provide content for ALL platforms. It meets almost all needs except instant streaming and DRM.
And if you must have DRM figure out a way to layer it on top of a working system, rather than re-inventing yet another DRM scheme with yet another proprietary codec, player, etc. etc. etc.
Back in August 1998 the MGM Grand's huge outdoor screen on the Las Vegas strip was mostly down for an entire week. They would reboot Windows only for it crash minutes later in a BSOD. This went on for months.
On Linux you figure out how to do it once and then deploy it throughout the organization free of any more license fees. Xserve is only economical for small installations where only one server is needed. Once you get to 2 servers or mixed use cases of Macs, Linux and Windows clients then a Linux server you can replicate freely makes a lot more sense than any Windows or Apple server.
Apple is looking for more territory within their control on Windows. Providing their closed binary only Web Browser allows them to have features and extensions that won't be affected by changes made in MSIE or Firefox. This makes creating new closed linkages to Apple products much, much easier.
We can expect to soon see "Safari only" web extensions that work with Apple products. iPhone is only the first.
Apple is trying to create a platform that only they control across Windows and Mac.
Except that ads are worse than just being highly placed. Users generally ONLY click ads when they can't find what they want in the search listings. So it is ALWAYS better to be highly ranked than to pay for ads.
VERY. You can virtualize any Windows OS now and run it inside of Linux or MacOS X.
Linux can even act as a Windows Virtual Machine server. Serving multiple Windows VMs to desktops or a single VM to multiple users that rolls back to a known state when each user separately turns it off while preserving all the files they've worked on. See open source products like InnoTek VirtualBox to see how this can be done: http://www.virtualbox.org/
That path will cost you significantly less than upgrading to Vista and buying new Vista applications.
In the case of businesses that have developed in-house Windows apps this path makes even more sense. They won't have to re-write their apps for Vista. They can run a more secure and/or open operating system and preserve their existing software investment until *THEY* decide to migrate to something new.
Virtualization also makes significant sense for any existing applications that run on older Windows platforms that Microsoft refuses to support, like Windows NT4 and soon Windows 2000.
Microsoft should pay customers to lock themselves to Vista. After all the operating system is the lock that allows them to sell you all the more expensive software that runs ontop.
The real question is: "How much should you pay to put on a collar and leash to be led around by Microsoft?"
The beauty of the current system is that Microsoft has customers paying for their own handcuffs.
KDE 3.X onward has the built-in ability to read and convert the contents of audio CDs into MP3s and/or Ogg Vorbis files when you open the CD. It can be set up to be completely transparent.
Yup. And "consumer" basically means cattle. And how much respect does the cattle owner have for his cattle? Just enough so that they all get slaughtered. You are a resource. Not a person and certainly not a customer who has anything close to equality with the all powerful owner of those sounds/visuals and data bits. You are their cattle.
If the local workforce revolts. Management just moves those jobs offshore. Where there are no benefits to pay, no unemployment insurance, less government intervention and the workers cost 10 cents on the dollar.
The good news is that eventually the mangers that make these decisions will also eventually find that their jobs are also moved offshore. But they are usually not bright enough to figure that out up front.
Capital will flow toward the lowest cost of production for a given commodity.
WiFi: The CB Radio of the oughts
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The FCC does not have to screw us. The design of WiFi as currently implemented will.
As a indoor wireless LAN of limited range, WiFi works fine, but its use outdoors while economical for the early adaptors will eventually destroy its utility.
Remember Citizens Band Radio in the 1970s? CBs are limited power transceivers (4 watts) that operate over a limited number of channels. As more users used CB the utility and value of the system plummeted as the distances you could talk got shorter and the noise level on all the channels became unbearable.
WiFi as implemented in current hardware availab e is headed down the same path particularly if neighborhood mesh networks are constructed in large numbers.
All systems that have limited resources and very low barriers of participation entry eventually self-destruct.
The only wireless not corporately controlled is
on unlicensed spectrum. If 802.11 takes off it will quickly swamp its available spectrum and become as reliable as CB Radio was in the late 70s. And then the volunteers maintaining these mesh nets will become disillusioned. The nets will then fall into disrepair and collapse.
1) The plugins required do *not* work with every
platform and browser.
2) Bandwidth is still constrained. Thus the
user will not be happy with the added
file size required for a Shockwave
enhanced ad.
3) It's easy to eliminate. Just make it so
the Shockwave file type is blocked unless the
user clicks on the spot on the page it would
appear. Programs like AdSubtract and Webwasher
could easily do this.
Current trends dictate the end of the banner ad networks that cost X$ per CPM. They produce little or no benefit to the advertiser and just annoy most users.
And now that most Web browsers (except Microsoft's)
allow the automatic refusal of 3rd party cookies,
tracking networks like DoubleClick are also endangered. Because without Cookie tracking they are just like the dwindling banner ad networks.
BTW, this doesn't mean that Macromedia won't get
some companies to buy into their alliance. Those
companies just won't gain much. Flash and Shockwave cause more people to leave a site than
stay. See:
Slashdot Mirror
NX and FreeNX are cross-platform and very efficient remote desktops... Citrix has always been a slug. FreeNX also is not tied to a specific operating system and can be used as the frontend of virtualized Linux and Windows now!
Combine a light Linux base, OpenVZ, Ubuntu, Windows, Virtualbox and NX and you have a complete virtual platform that runs in the cloud with all of Ubuntu and Windows. And the only thing you need to pay for is hardware and Windows.
This works on any modern processor with virtualization extensions.
http://www.getmiro.com/
It has almost all the qualities that a broadcaster could want.... except DRM.
It is open source.
It runs on Windows, *nix and Macs
It uses Bitorrent to distribute content
It use RSS feeds to provide episodes.
It supports multiple codecs.
Seems like that would be a pretty simple way to provide content for ALL platforms. It meets almost all needs except instant streaming and DRM.
And if you must have DRM figure out a way to layer it on top of a working system, rather than re-inventing yet another DRM scheme with yet another proprietary codec, player, etc. etc. etc.
for programs that the AV vendor has determined need to die.
Why is that any better or worse than what Google is doing?
Instant two way video conferencing with multiple parties *if* needed.
Just create the accounts and bookmark the user unique URLs for each end of the conservation.
Tokbox also works with any web browser that utilize Flash 9, so it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
http://www.tokbox.com/
Self Employed contractors are NOT included as employed, either by the company, the statistics or the IRS per US law.
So they do not count.
www.untangle.com
Untangle is essentially a GPL'd open source Linux distribution that acts as a perimeter firewall/spam filter.
Download the CD image and boot it an older system. This will give you a system at least as good as Baracuda (actually its a lot better) for FREE!
Gmail and Postini are not good solutions. Been there done that.
Back in August 1998 the MGM Grand's huge outdoor screen on the Las Vegas strip was mostly down for an entire week. They would reboot Windows only for it crash minutes later in a BSOD. This went on for months.
On Linux you figure out how to do it once and then deploy it throughout the organization free of any more license fees. Xserve is only economical for small installations where only one server is needed. Once you get to 2 servers or mixed use cases of Macs, Linux and Windows clients then a Linux server you can replicate freely makes a lot more sense than any Windows or Apple server.
Try using FreeNX instead of just X11 forwarding. You get the GUI and the appearance of almost all the speed of text only mutt.
Apple is looking for more territory within their control on Windows. Providing their closed binary only Web Browser allows them to have features and extensions that won't be affected by changes made in MSIE or Firefox. This makes creating new closed linkages to Apple products much, much easier.
We can expect to soon see "Safari only" web extensions that work with Apple products. iPhone is only the first.
Apple is trying to create a platform that only they control across Windows and Mac.
Watch and learn....
Yup, as I mentioned a while ago.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3703
WiFi is becoming the CB radio of our era. Too many transceivers in any area reduces the value of the medium due to the basic properties of radio.
Except that ads are worse than just being highly placed. Users generally ONLY click ads when they can't find what they want in the search listings. So it is ALWAYS better to be highly ranked than to pay for ads.
VERY. You can virtualize any Windows OS now and run it inside of Linux or MacOS X.
Linux can even act as a Windows Virtual Machine server. Serving multiple Windows VMs to desktops or a single VM to multiple users that rolls back to a known state when each user separately turns it off while preserving all the files they've worked on. See open source products like InnoTek VirtualBox to see how this can be done: http://www.virtualbox.org/
That path will cost you significantly less than upgrading to Vista and buying new Vista applications.
In the case of businesses that have developed in-house Windows apps this path makes even more sense. They won't have to re-write their apps for Vista. They can run a more secure and/or open operating system and preserve their existing software investment until *THEY* decide to migrate to something new.
Virtualization also makes significant sense for any existing applications that run on older Windows platforms that Microsoft refuses to support, like Windows NT4 and soon Windows 2000.
Microsoft should pay customers to lock themselves to Vista. After all the operating system is the lock that allows them to sell you all the more expensive software that runs ontop.
The real question is: "How much should you pay to put on a collar and leash to be led around by Microsoft?"
The beauty of the current system is that Microsoft has customers paying for their own handcuffs.
The phrase you are looking for is:
"On the Internet Microsoft Windows is unsafe for any need."
KDE 3.X onward has the built-in ability to read and convert the contents of audio CDs into MP3s and/or Ogg Vorbis files when you open the CD. It can be set up to be completely transparent.
KDE is included with most Linux distribtions.
Yup. And "consumer" basically means cattle. And how much respect does the cattle owner have for his cattle? Just enough so that they all get slaughtered. You are a resource. Not a person and certainly not a customer who has anything close to equality with the all powerful owner of those sounds/visuals and data bits. You are their cattle.
Enjoy.
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php
This is an OpenOffice port to OS X that uses the Mac UI and reads and writes MS Office file formats.
And the long term result will be the same.... the 2nd company mentioned will disappear.
Mouse tracking is dodgy at best and useless much of the time.
Proprietary Windows or Java client software required.
The Windows Client does not work through firewalls. At least the Java client does. There is no documentation for workarounds.
Software is tied to the hardware by serial number.
Screen updates are slow even over a T1. TightVNC runs rings around this.
The vendor also does not respond to support requests via email and the support portion of their website is mostly empty.
However, given all that if you need secure access to a KVM over the internet it works.
The good news is that eventually the mangers that make these decisions will also eventually find that their jobs are also moved offshore. But they are usually not bright enough to figure that out up front.
Capital will flow toward the lowest cost of production for a given commodity.
Sounds a lot like current WiFi implementations.
As a indoor wireless LAN of limited range, WiFi works fine, but its use outdoors while economical for the early adaptors will eventually destroy its utility.
Remember Citizens Band Radio in the 1970s? CBs are limited power transceivers (4 watts) that operate over a limited number of channels. As more users used CB the utility and value of the system plummeted as the distances you could talk got shorter and the noise level on all the channels became unbearable.
WiFi as implemented in current hardware availab e is headed down the same path particularly if neighborhood mesh networks are constructed in large numbers.
All systems that have limited resources and very low barriers of participation entry eventually self-destruct.
Basic economics still apply. 802.11 is a "Tragedy of the Commons" waiting to happen.
Current trends dictate the end of the banner ad networks that cost X$ per CPM. They produce little or no benefit to the advertiser and just annoy most users.
And now that most Web browsers (except Microsoft's) allow the automatic refusal of 3rd party cookies, tracking networks like DoubleClick are also endangered. Because without Cookie tracking they are just like the dwindling banner ad networks.
BTW, this doesn't mean that Macromedia won't get some companies to buy into their alliance. Those companies just won't gain much. Flash and Shockwave cause more people to leave a site than stay. See:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html
for more info.