In the case of Gates ranking second, and Linus third, you've got to think -- Would Linux matter as much if Windows weren't around?
And someone else made a good point that RMS was neglected, he definetly should be on there. However, this is a list for the past decade, and RMS started his stuff in the 80s didn't he?
I've got central heating in my home, and have used it for running cable. I don't know what this plenum stuff is, I just ran standard cat-5 through the venting. I live in the north too, and I bet it gets colder here (therefore warmer air through vents), but I never noticed anything (ie: a smell) from the cable and warm air.
BTW, running cable through vents isn't all that easy. It's impossible to run the cable around any bend in the venting without using some kind of plummer's snake. I don't know if it would be at all possible to run a snake around a 90 degree bend either. Maybe a thinner one, I dunno.. I had a really thick one I borrowed from a friend who works at an industrial rental shop, but I didn't have any 90 degree bends for the run I made either.
Two good shows to come out of North America, more specifically, Canada, are Reboot, Beast Wars, and Shadow Raiders.
Although people prefer different styles of animation, Mainframe has given these three shows some of the best animation ever (ala computer animation.)
And people go on about character development, plot, etc. in anime? Try several seasons of 30 minute shows, where the show actually progresses (not like some shows where each show has a new plot) and has a single plot which is worked towards over several seasons of episodes.
Has anyone here had the opportunity to follow these shows since day 1? I've been following them since they've been around, and they are by far the best shows I've seen in the industry (and that includes movies.)
These shows require an attention span of several years, let alone hours or half hours. You've got to be able to remember development of many characters over a *very* long periiod of time, and also the development of the series' plot.
Having a single plot span several seasons leads to the most suspenseful episodes. You always want to know what's gonna happen next week, or even where the characters and plot will be in a month. Whereas these hour/half hour plots only make you wonder what's going to happen after the commercial break.
People have been posting about the Simpson's, Furturama, South Park, and other real/non-animated shows. Some of those are great - for your half hour or hour of entertainment, but they're all based on a *new* plot *per* episode. For something truly meaningful I stick with Reboot, Beast Wars, and Shadow Raiders. They provide the kind of depth that appeals to my imagination, fantasy, desire, and (not to sound egotistical, but..) intelligence. They do give you a lot to think about.
These shows aren't for kids, afaic. There's a lot of stuff a younger kid wouldn't understand, I've found. Not to mention the depth and detail involved. I'm 19, so make of that what you will.
This is all, of course, based largely on my personal opinion, however I do believe Mainframe deserves a lot of credit not only for their beautiful art work, but also their skills in writing. I don't think these shows get a quarter of the credit and attention they're due.
Is the server still up and accepting connections? I'm getting denied on ssh and on the ftp. The ftp says something like "531 Can't set guest privledges" and denies access if I try user: geekflav, pass: dnzvmsii, which I got from another user's post in this forum. I get denied on ssh with that user/pass too.
What I'd like to know is if it's POSIX compliant. I'm a little uneducated as far as some of this stuff goes, but it would be nice if it adhered to some kind of standard. It would therefore be easy to port apps to, and be easier to port to other architectures. See, my theory is that if all software adhered to some kind of standard, we'd be much less platform dependant as any application could easily be ported to another architecture. Then maybe there'd be demand for better architectures like Alpha, and prices would fall and there'd be competition! And therefore better architectures and such. Maybe then Intel might stop farting around and giving the same shit a different name.
Many people have replied stating several different operating systems who have been using a similar package management system for over a decade (I saw a reply about NeXT using a system since 1989.) As well, there is FreeBSD, and as stated in the excerpt, Debian. Isn't prior use a defence in patent infrigement? Couldn't Debian take Microsoft to court over this? I'm sure if Microsoft even raised an eyebrow they'd get blown out of court faster than you can say "Monopoly".
Yeah, MS has millions (riiight) of hackers/crackers attacking their software, finding and publishing bugs whenever they find them.
It took these "armies" 4 years to find this backdoor.
The fact is, there are less bugs in most OSS software to be found, therefore less will be reported in OSS software than in Microsoft's.
You also seem to ignore the fact that MS declares many bugs and miscillaneous problems as "features". They ignore many problems in their software, and those that they don't often take months before a patch is released.
This as opposed to OSS where you can find a patch within hours of the discovery of a bug, epxloit, or what have you.
Do you honestly think that Microsoft software has gotten better because of people "pounding away and screaming about weach[sic] exploit you find"? Look at Windows 2000; I seem to recall articles claiming there were at least 64000 known bugs in that software. You think this is an improvement?
And do you honestly believe Microsoft is building their software to "withstand the combined hatred of most of the h@kerz and script kiddiez out there"? Newsflash: THEY AREN'T. Has it not become obvious to you by now that M$ doesn't care about product integrity? If they did, we wouldn't be dealing with such issues as this, because these issues wouldn't exist. The fact is, these issues are in-our-face problems, problems, as it has been said, that can end up costing the industry millions of dollars to fix.
Apached is not just some software "that the Linux/Hacker community plays softball with". This is proven software, run by well over half the web sites in the world.
So... what system will I trust? Not that which is tested only from the outside, or binary side. I'll put my confidence in a system which can be, and is, scrutanized inside and out. Source code and binary.
Not that they have a monopoly on web servers, as apache provides ample competition, but doing what they did in their position is just unreal. Why do people still buy Microsoft products? Who knows how much more of these kind of backdoors lie in other M$ products.
This isn't just an issue of an employee who should be fired. The fact that this made it all the way through Microsoft Quality Control (or whatever else they do to ensure product integrity, if there is such a thing over there), means that they did not make reasonable efforts to ensure the safety of those using their product.
They should be told where they can put those end user license agreements. I don't care what anyone says, they won't hold up in court for a second under these circumstances.
It seems to me like this would be an opening for massive legal liability attacks on Microsoft. They should be taken to court just for punitive damages. This would be something for the DOJ to think about.
First of all, everything should be moved over to optical. AFAIK it's far faster than anything and can go the distance, so why argue over 100bT and ieee 1394. Sure, it's expensive, so are firewire devices. But here's the deal - the big networking businesses should just drop ethernet and firewire and everything else and concentrate on optical. High demand and mass production will bring Optical prices down around those of ethernet. b00ya, fastest networking available at an affordable price.
Big deal. I think gnutella is bunk anyway. Until they can control the flooding I'm not gonna like it much. I'd also be interested in knowing how much bandwidth will be consumed on a 33.6 or 56k connection when the gnutella network becomes gigantic; like napster in the 3-4 terabyte range and beyond. Wouldn't all the search packets bog down a small connection like crazy? And when the gnutella network does become that large we can only expect more flooding, making it almost impossible to use on a slower connection.
Every time I see something here about Napster, I like to plug OFSI, mostly because I'm partly in charge of the project now;)
OFSI is an open source, open protocol project that will function like Napster, but do all types of files/media. Unlike Napster of course, it is open source and will eventually be far superior;)
We're thinking of a system like Gnutella's, but it occurred to me that when the network becomes popular and gigantic, how fast will the searches be, and how much bandwidth are all those search packets going to consume on a 33.6 or 56k connection?
I don't know about non-blockable, and I can't really call it a clone, because it goes beyond napster, but it will do mp3 if that's what you're looking for. Check out the Open File Sharing Initiative, an Open Source, Open Protocol project that will allow sharing of all types of files, not just mp3.
I nslooked up the IP for OpenSSH.org, 192.87.30.19, then nslookedup the IP, and it points to tux.securetux.com. I went to that site in my browser, and it went to http://www.dejoode.com/, DeJoode Associates, LLP. It had a logo image and email link, but that's it. FTP is open for anonymous connections on that same IP too; a zedz.nl mirror. There's some interesting stuff there, like/pub/crypto/crypto/ (which actually has all kinds of crypto stuff like SSL, OpenSSH, and others) and/pub/crypto/cracking/ (and then the "warez" dir in there). A lot of interesting stuff on that ftp,/pub/incoming/ (and its VXe subdir) too. 18446744073707919700 Kb left for uploads as well. Tons of security stuff, but there's "cracking" stuff too. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but it all seems odd to me. Go ahead, snoop around.
What would be interesting would be if people and/or communities could get their own TLDs and be the one who sets the rules for that TLD. For example, the Open Source community could have its own TLD ".open", and the rules for owning a domain name under this TLD could be based around some kind of Open Rules, which could be designed and evolved by the community. Of course, this would need the big DN servers, and that costs some cash. But for something as big as the Open Community you'd think someone would like to make a donation of DNS resources. THEN: OpenSSH can have "SSH.open", or something -- I guess it depends on what the TLD is, maybe "OpenSSH.opn".
That's right. Open source, Open protocol, the way something with this kind of potential should be. Check out OFSI, the Open File Sharing Initiative. This idea is to provide a similar service as Napster but with ALL file types. Plus to be better, faster, etc...;) Because it's an open project we feel it has better potential, because as many open projects have shown, open projects evolove much quicker and much better. Sorry for the plug, I just felt this was an opportune time to bring OFSI into some light. Check it out, help is wanted!
It's not something new, it's not different, it's not an innovation. It's a small, almost isignificant *feature* to something that's been around longer than me - links. I say insignificant beacuse as so many people have pointed out, this can be done quickly and easily with a perl script.
Ok, so maybe when you change your link to the copy it's no longer a link, but your file. Big, fat, hairy deal. It'll save you some space when you initially setup a system with a gazillion users needing a gazillion copies of.login or.logout or what have you. But when people start making changes to these, which they inevitably will, the saved space is lost anyway. I suppose it may be argued that some may not change the files, and that having the space before anyone does is still nice. However, may I remind you, applications by default should find these files in/etc if the user doesn't have them in their home directory, and not require a link or extra file of any kind.
The space saved is negligable, at most, when dealing with files as small as default home directory configuration files like ".logout". If there are duplicate files larger than this, like dll, or executable, there shouldn't be any extras lying around. That's bloat and OS inconsistency and Microsoft is trying to make up for that with this.
On my Win98 box, I found several copies of various versions of the "OLE" dll files. If Windows had a decent hierachal file system, for example, and got its libraries organized in specific directories, then the problem of duplication, triplication, etc. would not be as much of a problem. Look at Linux. There are several different directories in which library files are expected to be found, and several different names each file may have, so they're all symlinked to one file.
I'm an inexperienced home network admin, and I can't think of any files other than those small home directory configuration files that a system might have duplicates of. If someone would care to balance my examples by posting some more, please do so.
My argument here is to simply contradict those who say "read the article, it really is new" because it's not. It's an old idea with a new feature. The whole idea or technology is based around a link, which is an old idea; this article gives the impression that it's the most new and innovative thing since sliced bread.
Did you people read the article? It took 3 guys to think of it, and I imagine the initial idea was a symbolic link after which the new feature followed, then it took 3 reasearch guys and Bolosky one and a half years to design, working full time. The article doesn't have much information on "Single Instance Store" (why not just use "link", it's much more concise.) but I don't imagine the technology is that complicated.
It seems to me that most of that is to hype it up, and maybe because they wanted to wait for W2K and say this is one of the brilliant new features making the purchase worthwhile. Case in point: "A key administrative improvement in Windows 2000, the Single Instance Store is among the many innovations built from the ground up by Microsoft's research arm 'Microsoft Research.'" First of all, most people here agree that the idea is based around links, as such, the "innovation" was not built from the ground up, since the idea has already been implemented elsewhere. Secondly, it's a "key" improvement to W2K; please tell me the new version of Windows packs a better punch than an old dog with a new trick. The other half of the hype in that excerpt comes from the mention of their "research arm"; it makes the new feature look that much more incredible.
"The Single Instance Store...consists of two pieces. Searches for duplicate files...stores these signatures in a database. Merges duplicate files. The other piece implements the links..." There you have it, a database integrated with an old idea.
This article is so full of rediculous content that it's, well.. rediculous. I'd like to trash the whole thing, but I feel I've done my share for now. I'm not a Linux or OSS extremist, nor do I hate Microsoft, I just don't like them and am getting tired of this kind of BS.
I say the entire market should drop copper based products and go 100% fibre optic. Start massively mass producing it to jack prices down and make it cheap enough to have in the home. And while they're at it, replace all phone and cable networks (to our homes) with fibre too. It'll be necessary if we're ever to have the massive multi-media "global village" corporations like so much to advertise about. Some of us are still on dial-up, dammit. Phone and Cable corps. could get together (it'll be a cold day in hell) and split the cost for this, then compete for our business over shared lines.
Do I know what I'm talking about? No. But it sure as hell would be nice.
If linmodmes.org or Carmack produce a good winmodem driver, we'd then have to call them Software Modmes, wouldn't we? If the "win" implies Windows, but the modem can run on other operating systems, that'd warrant a change in name, "softmodems" or something similar.
And if either party produced a driver that could run the software modem just as well as a legacy modem, I'd prefer to buy the software modem, because they're about half the price.
Check out http://www.x-stream.com, what they have is a special browser which takes up a portion of the top of the screen to constantly display advertising. You must use this browser to use their service. I imagine with all the ads displayed per user, they make quite a bit. They offer 24/7 service, email, and some kind of gaming service.
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In the case of Gates ranking second, and Linus third, you've got to think -- Would Linux matter as much if Windows weren't around?
And someone else made a good point that RMS was neglected, he definetly should be on there. However, this is a list for the past decade, and RMS started his stuff in the 80s didn't he?
I've got central heating in my home, and have used it for running cable. I don't know what this plenum stuff is, I just ran standard cat-5 through the venting. I live in the north too, and I bet it gets colder here (therefore warmer air through vents), but I never noticed anything (ie: a smell) from the cable and warm air.
BTW, running cable through vents isn't all that easy. It's impossible to run the cable around any bend in the venting without using some kind of plummer's snake. I don't know if it would be at all possible to run a snake around a 90 degree bend either. Maybe a thinner one, I dunno.. I had a really thick one I borrowed from a friend who works at an industrial rental shop, but I didn't have any 90 degree bends for the run I made either.
Two good shows to come out of North America, more specifically, Canada, are Reboot, Beast Wars, and Shadow Raiders.
Although people prefer different styles of animation, Mainframe has given these three shows some of the best animation ever (ala computer animation.)
And people go on about character development, plot, etc. in anime? Try several seasons of 30 minute shows, where the show actually progresses (not like some shows where each show has a new plot) and has a single plot which is worked towards over several seasons of episodes.
Has anyone here had the opportunity to follow these shows since day 1? I've been following them since they've been around, and they are by far the best shows I've seen in the industry (and that includes movies.)
These shows require an attention span of several years, let alone hours or half hours. You've got to be able to remember development of many characters over a *very* long periiod of time, and also the development of the series' plot.
Having a single plot span several seasons leads to the most suspenseful episodes. You always want to know what's gonna happen next week, or even where the characters and plot will be in a month. Whereas these hour/half hour plots only make you wonder what's going to happen after the commercial break.
People have been posting about the Simpson's, Furturama, South Park, and other real/non-animated shows. Some of those are great - for your half hour or hour of entertainment, but they're all based on a *new* plot *per* episode. For something truly meaningful I stick with Reboot, Beast Wars, and Shadow Raiders. They provide the kind of depth that appeals to my imagination, fantasy, desire, and (not to sound egotistical, but..) intelligence. They do give you a lot to think about.
These shows aren't for kids, afaic. There's a lot of stuff a younger kid wouldn't understand, I've found. Not to mention the depth and detail involved. I'm 19, so make of that what you will.
This is all, of course, based largely on my personal opinion, however I do believe Mainframe deserves a lot of credit not only for their beautiful art work, but also their skills in writing. I don't think these shows get a quarter of the credit and attention they're due.
Is the server still up and accepting connections? I'm getting denied on ssh and on the ftp. The ftp says something like "531 Can't set guest privledges" and denies access if I try user: geekflav, pass: dnzvmsii, which I got from another user's post in this forum. I get denied on ssh with that user/pass too.
What I'd like to know is if it's POSIX compliant. I'm a little uneducated as far as some of this stuff goes, but it would be nice if it adhered to some kind of standard. It would therefore be easy to port apps to, and be easier to port to other architectures.
See, my theory is that if all software adhered to some kind of standard, we'd be much less platform dependant as any application could easily be ported to another architecture. Then maybe there'd be demand for better architectures like Alpha, and prices would fall and there'd be competition! And therefore better architectures and such. Maybe then Intel might stop farting around and giving the same shit a different name.
Many people have replied stating several different operating systems who have been using a similar package management system for over a decade (I saw a reply about NeXT using a system since 1989.) As well, there is FreeBSD, and as stated in the excerpt, Debian.
Isn't prior use a defence in patent infrigement? Couldn't Debian take Microsoft to court over this? I'm sure if Microsoft even raised an eyebrow they'd get blown out of court faster than you can say "Monopoly".
Yeah, MS has millions (riiight) of hackers/crackers attacking their software, finding and publishing bugs whenever they find them.
It took these "armies" 4 years to find this backdoor.
The fact is, there are less bugs in most OSS software to be found, therefore less will be reported in OSS software than in Microsoft's.
You also seem to ignore the fact that MS declares many bugs and miscillaneous problems as "features". They ignore many problems in their software, and those that they don't often take months before a patch is released.
This as opposed to OSS where you can find a patch within hours of the discovery of a bug, epxloit, or what have you.
Do you honestly think that Microsoft software has gotten better because of people "pounding away and screaming about weach[sic] exploit you find"? Look at Windows 2000; I seem to recall articles claiming there were at least 64000 known bugs in that software. You think this is an improvement?
And do you honestly believe Microsoft is building their software to "withstand the combined hatred of most of the h@kerz and script kiddiez out there"? Newsflash: THEY AREN'T. Has it not become obvious to you by now that M$ doesn't care about product integrity? If they did, we wouldn't be dealing with such issues as this, because these issues wouldn't exist. The fact is, these issues are in-our-face problems, problems, as it has been said, that can end up costing the industry millions of dollars to fix.
Apached is not just some software "that the Linux/Hacker community plays softball with". This is proven software, run by well over half the web sites in the world.
So... what system will I trust? Not that which is tested only from the outside, or binary side. I'll put my confidence in a system which can be, and is, scrutanized inside and out. Source code and binary.
Not that they have a monopoly on web servers, as apache provides ample competition, but doing what they did in their position is just unreal. Why do people still buy Microsoft products? Who knows how much more of these kind of backdoors lie in other M$ products.
This isn't just an issue of an employee who should be fired. The fact that this made it all the way through Microsoft Quality Control (or whatever else they do to ensure product integrity, if there is such a thing over there), means that they did not make reasonable efforts to ensure the safety of those using their product.
They should be told where they can put those end user license agreements. I don't care what anyone says, they won't hold up in court for a second under these circumstances.
It seems to me like this would be an opening for massive legal liability attacks on Microsoft. They should be taken to court just for punitive damages. This would be something for the DOJ to think about.
Yeah, 100GB/sec over fibre, wonderful. And when will that fibre be wired into MY house? And who will do it?
I guess it's great for the rest of the industry that has access to high speed lines, but here I am, sending this post over a 33.6 connection.
No one will see fibre to their house for decades to come, so what difference does it make.
First of all, everything should be moved over to optical. AFAIK it's far faster than anything and can go the distance, so why argue over 100bT and ieee 1394. Sure, it's expensive, so are firewire devices. But here's the deal - the big networking businesses should just drop ethernet and firewire and everything else and concentrate on optical. High demand and mass production will bring Optical prices down around those of ethernet.
b00ya, fastest networking available at an affordable price.
Big deal. I think gnutella is bunk anyway. Until they can
control the flooding I'm not gonna like it much.
I'd also be interested in knowing how much bandwidth
will be consumed on a 33.6 or 56k connection
when the gnutella network becomes gigantic;
like napster in the 3-4 terabyte range and beyond.
Wouldn't all the search packets bog down
a small connection like crazy?
And when the gnutella network does become that large
we can only expect more flooding, making it
almost impossible to use on a slower connection.
(OFSI)
Every time I see something here about Napster, I like to plug OFSI, mostly because I'm partly in charge of the project now ;)
;)
OFSI is an open source, open protocol project that will function like Napster, but do all types of files/media. Unlike Napster of course, it is open source and will eventually be far superior
We're thinking of a system like Gnutella's, but it occurred to me that when the network becomes popular and gigantic, how fast will the searches be, and how much bandwidth are all those search packets going to consume on a 33.6 or 56k connection?
So have a look at OFSI and maybe even help out!
I don't know about non-blockable, and I can't really call it a clone, because it goes beyond napster, but it will do mp3 if that's what you're looking for.
Check out the Open File Sharing Initiative, an Open Source, Open Protocol project that will allow sharing of all types of files, not just mp3.
I nslooked up the IP for OpenSSH.org, 192.87.30.19, then nslookedup the IP, and it points to tux.securetux.com. I went to that site in my browser, and it went to http://www.dejoode.com/, DeJoode Associates, LLP. It had a logo image and email link, but that's it. /pub/crypto/crypto/ (which actually has all kinds of crypto stuff like SSL, OpenSSH, and others) and /pub/crypto/cracking/ (and then the "warez" dir in there). A lot of interesting stuff on that ftp, /pub/incoming/ (and its VXe subdir) too. 18446744073707919700 Kb left for uploads as well.
FTP is open for anonymous connections on that same IP too; a zedz.nl mirror. There's some interesting stuff there, like
Tons of security stuff, but there's "cracking" stuff too.
Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but it all seems odd to me.
Go ahead, snoop around.
What would be interesting would be if people and/or communities could get their own TLDs and be the one who sets the rules for that TLD.
For example, the Open Source community could have its own TLD ".open", and the rules for owning a domain name under this TLD could be based around some kind of Open Rules, which could be designed and evolved by the community.
Of course, this would need the big DN servers, and that costs some cash. But for something as big as the Open Community you'd think someone would like to make a donation of DNS resources.
THEN: OpenSSH can have "SSH.open", or something -- I guess it depends on what the TLD is, maybe "OpenSSH.opn".
That's right. Open source, Open protocol, the way something with this kind of potential should be. Check out OFSI, the Open File Sharing Initiative. ;)
This idea is to provide a similar service as Napster but with ALL file types. Plus to be better, faster, etc...
Because it's an open project we feel it has better potential, because as many open projects have shown, open projects evolove much quicker and much better.
Sorry for the plug, I just felt this was an opportune time to bring OFSI into some light.
Check it out, help is wanted!
It's not something new, it's not different, it's not an innovation. It's a small, almost isignificant *feature* to something that's been around longer than me - links. I say insignificant beacuse as so many people have pointed out, this can be done quickly and easily with a perl script.
.login or .logout or what have you. But when people start making changes to these, which they inevitably will, the saved space is lost anyway. I suppose it may be argued that some may not change the files, and that having the space before anyone does is still nice. However, may I remind you, applications by default should find these files in /etc if the user doesn't have them in their home directory, and not require a link or extra file of any kind.
Ok, so maybe when you change your link to the copy it's no longer a link, but your file. Big, fat, hairy deal. It'll save you some space when you initially setup a system with a gazillion users needing a gazillion copies of
The space saved is negligable, at most, when dealing with files as small as default home directory configuration files like ".logout". If there are duplicate files larger than this, like dll, or executable, there shouldn't be any extras lying around. That's bloat and OS inconsistency and Microsoft is trying to make up for that with this.
On my Win98 box, I found several copies of various versions of the "OLE" dll files. If Windows had a decent hierachal file system, for example, and got its libraries organized in specific directories, then the problem of duplication, triplication, etc. would not be as much of a problem. Look at Linux. There are several different directories in which library files are expected to be found, and several different names each file may have, so they're all symlinked to one file.
I'm an inexperienced home network admin, and I can't think of any files other than those small home directory configuration files that a system might have duplicates of. If someone would care to balance my examples by posting some more, please do so.
My argument here is to simply contradict those who say "read the article, it really is new" because it's not. It's an old idea with a new feature. The whole idea or technology is based around a link, which is an old idea; this article gives the impression that it's the most new and innovative thing since sliced bread.
Did you people read the article? It took 3 guys to think of it, and I imagine the initial idea was a symbolic link after which the new feature followed, then it took 3 reasearch guys and Bolosky one and a half years to design, working full time. The article doesn't have much information on "Single Instance Store" (why not just use "link", it's much more concise.) but I don't imagine the technology is that complicated.
It seems to me that most of that is to hype it up, and maybe because they wanted to wait for W2K and say this is one of the brilliant new features making the purchase worthwhile. Case in point:
"A key administrative improvement in Windows 2000, the Single Instance Store is among the many innovations built from the ground up by Microsoft's research arm 'Microsoft Research.'"
First of all, most people here agree that the idea is based around links, as such, the "innovation" was not built from the ground up, since the idea has already been implemented elsewhere. Secondly, it's a "key" improvement to W2K; please tell me the new version of Windows packs a better punch than an old dog with a new trick. The other half of the hype in that excerpt comes from the mention of their "research arm"; it makes the new feature look that much more incredible.
"The Single Instance Store...consists of two pieces. Searches for duplicate files...stores these signatures in a database. Merges duplicate files. The other piece implements the links..." There you have it, a database integrated with an old idea.
This article is so full of rediculous content that it's, well.. rediculous. I'd like to trash the whole thing, but I feel I've done my share for now. I'm not a Linux or OSS extremist, nor do I hate Microsoft, I just don't like them and am getting tired of this kind of BS.
I say the entire market should drop copper based products and go 100% fibre optic. Start massively mass producing it to jack prices down and make it cheap enough to have in the home.
And while they're at it, replace all phone and cable networks (to our homes) with fibre too. It'll be necessary if we're ever to have the massive multi-media "global village" corporations like so much to advertise about. Some of us are still on dial-up, dammit.
Phone and Cable corps. could get together (it'll be a cold day in hell) and split the cost for this, then compete for our business over shared lines.
Do I know what I'm talking about? No. But it sure as hell would be nice.
If linmodmes.org or Carmack produce a good winmodem driver, we'd then have to call them Software Modmes, wouldn't we?
If the "win" implies Windows, but the modem can run on other operating systems, that'd warrant a change in name, "softmodems" or something similar.
And if either party produced a driver that could run the software modem just as well as a legacy modem, I'd prefer to buy the software modem, because they're about half the price.
Check out http://www.x-stream.com, what they have is a special browser which takes up a portion of the top of the screen to constantly display advertising. You must use this browser to use their service. I imagine with all the ads displayed per user, they make quite a bit. They offer 24/7 service, email, and some kind of gaming service.