Presumably you're doing the streaming? In that case, you stream in the format you want. You haven't been forced to use any media player, you haven't forced your customers to use any media player, unless you choose to use the WMP format to stream with. Microsoft supplying support for the Windows Media format in their media player in no way forces you to use that format, that's just such a bogus argument.
The bundled microsoft software tried to force you to use their codecs and their 'standards' which are not interoperable
What a crock of shit. How can an extra codec added to your media player be "forcing" you to use it? It's there to use, it doesn't prevent you from using MP3 or WAV or whatever. If it said "You must use WMV to use this application" I'd say you had a point, but it still works with other media formats.
Perhaps I'm misunderstading you, but isn't that something NIS and NIS+ have been doing for ages?
I know nothing about NIS, but the way it works in AD is that you can make changes to the same user on two different domain controllers, and provided the changes don't conflict, both changes will replicate round. Or you can make changes on any domain controller and it doens't rely on there being a master arbiter of change. Not sure if NIS does this or not
The holy grail of systems administration is host and terminals, and there X Windows exceeds by enabling X terminals
They tried that once - it wasn't always the best solution for the users. Then they went too far the other way and put everything on the client. That wasn't the best solution either. It's starting to return to a more balanced situation, where people realise that some tasks are suited for host & terminals, others are suited for "fat" clients. The holy grail of system administration it might be, but it's not always the holy grail of users getting stuff done.
How about to support the developers that work to make your 'free software' in their spare time.
How about they get something called a job? A lot of people have one, they work for someone who pays them to do so. Of course, the person that pays them to work must have a business model that doesn't involve giving away what their employees produce. If they're stupid enough to give their work away for free, I'm greedy enough to take it.
The vast majority (maybe 95% or more) do implementation and custom development for in-house projects.
Two points
I've yet to see an authoratative source for this claim - ESR & RMS have both made it, but I've never seen it backed up.
Have you ever noticed how many of the custom in house projects are built on top of commercial proprietary products? There's usually a database backend, some business logic middle tier, maybe a web front end. The customisations are wrapping the business process around those components.
Legacy support. It's for downlevel compatability with older DOS versions, but for around 99.99999% of the world, longer extensions would be possible. Windows will generate 8.3 filenames by default - although you can turn this off under Windows 2k/XP for a (very) slight performance increase.
You can either rely on heaps of shoddy documentation for an expensive price, or you can rely on just a bit of well thought out documentation from the author for nothing.
Like the well thought out documentation for Linux? Don't make me laugh. They're both as shoddy as each other. Linux just gives you more of it, that's all.
Typical attitude though, head for the periphery of the matter, rather than the heart.
Where have you been, while I criss-cross the country fixing fucked-up Exchange installations?
I don't know about the OP, but I've been sitting here watching my Exchange servers not crash. I haven't had to do an Exchange repair since 5.5 SP4 got released.
Technically I'm not, Microsoft is. As I noted in my original post that's from the Microsoft help. If you've got a problem with it, take it up with them.
I don't even see "grep" for winshit, much less the pipes required to make it useful
Well you can't have looked very hard then. Try findstr. As for pipes, you also can't have looked very hard. cmd.exe supports pipes, redirection etc (see below from the Windows 2000 Help):
Combining commands with redirection characters
You can combine filter commands, other commands, and file names to make custom commands. For example, you could use the following command to store the names of files that contain the string "LOG":
dir/b | find "LOG" > loglist.txt
Windows 2000 sends the output of the dir command through the find filter command and stores the file names that contain the string "Log" in the Loglist.txt file. The results are stored as a list of file names (for example, A.log, Logdat.svd, and Mylog.bat).
To use more than one filter in the same command, separate the filters with a pipe (|). For example, the following command searches every directory on drive C, finds the file names that include the string "Log", and displays them one screen at a time:
dir c:\/s/b | find "LOG" | more
Because you use a pipe (|), Windows 2000 sends the output of the dir command through the find command. The find command selects only file names that contain the string "Log." The more command displays the file names that are selected by the find command, one screen at a time.
Still, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
The point is that it's difficult to determine what "distribution" is. Is it merely including something that runs Linux, or is it some other set of circumstances.
Linksys doesn't appear to be including the kernel sources with their router,
Is this because they aren't actually distributing the kernel? They're distributing a router that happens to use Linux. It's probably a bit of hairsplitting, but the GPL does tend to encourage a bit of that...
Actually if you care to do a little research, the NT kernel WAS based on "UNIX" and was posix compliant when it was initially created way back when. They nerver really kept the posix compliance up as posix evolved though.
Uh - I think you'll find that would be that the NT kernel shared the same architect as VMS. You'll also find that the posix compatability was done by a subsystem - the posix subsystem. It's like the Win32 subsystem - it's a layer on top of the kernel. Take a look at the architecture sometime...
So punctuation spelling? Spelling someones last name is somewhat subjective - if you've only heard it, or heaven forbid made a typo. Not using capitals is just lazy. I'd not trust a man who was too lazy to follow accepted standards of English (or at least attempt to).
Support and consultation, which is where most of the money is anyways. Also keep in mind that most software is written in-house for private use
Which totally ignores the fact that the parent wasn't writing software for in house use...
Support and consultation aren't where most of the money is - support and consultation is hard. Check out this informative post from someone who should know (Larry Augustin). If support and consultation were easy to make money with, we wouldn't see people like Mandrake begging for money
Great. Now we have everyone talking to each other to get their free/busy information, rather than just updating their own on a central repository. It's only really a good idea across organisations, or between individuals, not inside an organisation.
Ya know, I just don't see begging being a viable business model. If you're in business, sell me something. Just make sure that the amount of money you make from selling whatever is greater than the amount it takes to run your business. Don't come begging for money. If you're foolish enough to try and make and exist as a business without thinking these things through, you don't deserve to be in business.
The common argument that Apache is better than IIS isn't built around IIS necessarily having no bugs, but the speed at which Apache bugs are discovered and patched.
What, you mean like the speed this most recent bug in Apache was found? Present in all versions up to 1.3.24 - that's quite some time...Do you mean that many eyeballs doesn't make all bugs shallow?
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Presumably you're doing the streaming? In that case, you stream in the format you want. You haven't been forced to use any media player, you haven't forced your customers to use any media player, unless you choose to use the WMP format to stream with. Microsoft supplying support for the Windows Media format in their media player in no way forces you to use that format, that's just such a bogus argument.
What a crock of shit. How can an extra codec added to your media player be "forcing" you to use it? It's there to use, it doesn't prevent you from using MP3 or WAV or whatever. If it said "You must use WMV to use this application" I'd say you had a point, but it still works with other media formats.
I know nothing about NIS, but the way it works in AD is that you can make changes to the same user on two different domain controllers, and provided the changes don't conflict, both changes will replicate round. Or you can make changes on any domain controller and it doens't rely on there being a master arbiter of change. Not sure if NIS does this or not
The holy grail of systems administration is host and terminals, and there X Windows exceeds by enabling X terminals
They tried that once - it wasn't always the best solution for the users. Then they went too far the other way and put everything on the client. That wasn't the best solution either. It's starting to return to a more balanced situation, where people realise that some tasks are suited for host & terminals, others are suited for "fat" clients. The holy grail of system administration it might be, but it's not always the holy grail of users getting stuff done.
How about they get something called a job? A lot of people have one, they work for someone who pays them to do so. Of course, the person that pays them to work must have a business model that doesn't involve giving away what their employees produce. If they're stupid enough to give their work away for free, I'm greedy enough to take it.
Two points
Legacy support. It's for downlevel compatability with older DOS versions, but for around 99.99999% of the world, longer extensions would be possible. Windows will generate 8.3 filenames by default - although you can turn this off under Windows 2k/XP for a (very) slight performance increase.
Funnily enough, that's quite similar to the claim Microsoft made about the error message that popped up running beta versions of Windows under DR-DOS.
Like the well thought out documentation for Linux? Don't make me laugh. They're both as shoddy as each other. Linux just gives you more of it, that's all.
Typical attitude though, head for the periphery of the matter, rather than the heart.
I don't know about the OP, but I've been sitting here watching my Exchange servers not crash. I haven't had to do an Exchange repair since 5.5 SP4 got released.
Technically I'm not, Microsoft is. As I noted in my original post that's from the Microsoft help. If you've got a problem with it, take it up with them.
Well you can't have looked very hard then. Try findstr. As for pipes, you also can't have looked very hard. cmd.exe supports pipes, redirection etc (see below from the Windows 2000 Help):
Combining commands with redirection characters
You can combine filter commands, other commands, and file names to make custom commands. For example, you could use the following command to store the names of files that contain the string "LOG":
dir /b | find "LOG" > loglist.txt
Windows 2000 sends the output of the dir command through the find filter command and stores the file names that contain the string "Log" in the Loglist.txt file. The results are stored as a list of file names (for example, A.log, Logdat.svd, and Mylog.bat).
To use more than one filter in the same command, separate the filters with a pipe (|). For example, the following command searches every directory on drive C, finds the file names that include the string "Log", and displays them one screen at a time:
dir c:\ /s /b | find "LOG" | more
Because you use a pipe (|), Windows 2000 sends the output of the dir command through the find command. The find command selects only file names that contain the string "Log." The more command displays the file names that are selected by the find command, one screen at a time.
Still, don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
The point is that it's difficult to determine what "distribution" is. Is it merely including something that runs Linux, or is it some other set of circumstances.
Is this because they aren't actually distributing the kernel? They're distributing a router that happens to use Linux. It's probably a bit of hairsplitting, but the GPL does tend to encourage a bit of that...
Uh - I think you'll find that would be that the NT kernel shared the same architect as VMS. You'll also find that the posix compatability was done by a subsystem - the posix subsystem. It's like the Win32 subsystem - it's a layer on top of the kernel. Take a look at the architecture sometime...
only if the cost of actually creating the software has already been recovered, which a lot of people seem to forget on Slashdot.
And who are you to be saying what users shouldn't be wanting?
So punctuation spelling? Spelling someones last name is somewhat subjective - if you've only heard it, or heaven forbid made a typo. Not using capitals is just lazy. I'd not trust a man who was too lazy to follow accepted standards of English (or at least attempt to).
And you can't use capital letters - are we supposed to trust your opinion on anything?
Dude, netsh has been builtin since Windows 2000...
Which totally ignores the fact that the parent wasn't writing software for in house use...
Support and consultation aren't where most of the money is - support and consultation is hard. Check out this informative post from someone who should know (Larry Augustin). If support and consultation were easy to make money with, we wouldn't see people like Mandrake begging for money
Great. Now we have everyone talking to each other to get their free/busy information, rather than just updating their own on a central repository. It's only really a good idea across organisations, or between individuals, not inside an organisation.
Only if you pay for it - I haven't seen Office included in any bundle yet for free. Works is almost always included for free, but not Office...
Ya know, I just don't see begging being a viable business model. If you're in business, sell me something. Just make sure that the amount of money you make from selling whatever is greater than the amount it takes to run your business. Don't come begging for money. If you're foolish enough to try and make and exist as a business without thinking these things through, you don't deserve to be in business.
...use IPSEC based VPN's. Most firewals will do this, just make sure they use a common key exchange method (i.e. don't use anything from Novell)
What, you mean like the speed this most recent bug in Apache was found? Present in all versions up to 1.3.24 - that's quite some time...Do you mean that many eyeballs doesn't make all bugs shallow?