Ahh, so you guys are the ones that BEA talks about that have the "Godzilla Bean". Yes coroner, I did put 300 methods in my Godzilla bean, is this the cause of death?
No sir/madam you are wrong. You are analizing the tail end of the problem, not the beginning. Think about the first couple of companies that decided to move labor oversees. They did it to gain a competitive advantage, but instead of lowing the cost of goods-n-services they found that they could keep the price the same and make a lot more money. Thus a trend was born, in America, that has been going on now for 40+ years.
Just out of curiosity what do you do for a living? I have dealt with many H1s myself and find that only ~ 25% of them could find their ass with both hands and a roadmap (read: competent)
No, but realize one thing, if we keep outsourcing jobs to other countries there will be no more middleclass wealth in the United States. Middleclass Americans buy lots of American goods-n-services, period. (don't reply to me with basic econ principles I already know them). The only reason companies outsource any labor is GREED. Why have a textile industry in America when can use children oversees? (hint: because they can charge the same and a few people in the company get to keep all of the extra profits, think C[EIFCT]0). Globalization works for America if companies aren't greedy, but we all know the answer to that question. Companies, who outsource, lower operating/manufacturing costs, but don't lower the cost of their goods or services. This causes a higher concentration of wealth in just a few individuals instead of hundreds or even thousands of middle class workers. (Yes, the same people who make America tick).
f your Win2K or WinXP machine crashes all the time, perhaps I'm just that much better an admin than you are, but I doubt it. But, rather than be fair about it, you will be quick to bash MS and their "buggy" OS. Bull. Rag on any Win9x you want, I won't argue, but if your going to tell me Win2K or WinXP are crash-prone and buggy, you are wrong, absolutely. (WinNT by the way is somewhere in between in my experience... I have 5 NT servers, database and web servers, with heavy usage, none of them has had ANY unscheduled downtime in about two years, but I also had NT on my desktop for a while and it did blue screen on occassion, once every few months perhaps. Not terrible, but not great either).
To blindly say that someone is wrong if they experience Win2k or WinXP crashes is hilarious. You sound really stupid, think about that statement for a second. It seems you believe what you say is fact based on your extremely limited sample size! Based on my extremly limited sample size(20+ server Win2k web farm, 1 print server, 1 file server, 2 application servers @ work and 4 Win2k clients @ home)I will say that Win2k is *much* more stable then the win95/98/me, BUT is not quite "rock solid" TM. OpenVMS is rock solid, so is Solaris, so is FreeBSD. As an application server using Kana or Epiphany Win2k can fall over under extreme high loads. IIS routinely makes Win2k fall over(once a month a farm animal has to be resurrected). This does not happen with the rock solid OSes mentioned above. At home I do quite a bit of Divx encoding, video and audio editing, etc. which is very resource intensive. On a fairly random basis Win2k has to be recycled(twice in one week sometimes not for a month) due to a Kernel trap BSOD. All my installs have very little software installed and are patched with all the Win2K patches. I do not experience these problems with Solaris which is what most of our backend servers are at work. They can have very high demands placed on them and they rarely falter (maybe once every 12-18 months.).
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Who the fuck is your VAR? I have never received a DOA Sun box or disk array (After something like 25 of them). They should test them and give you the sys printout. It seems your VAR is using the Ace Ventura(sp?) shipping company.
I guess you forgot about the overclocked Intel Northwood 1.6Ghz. This processor will outperform an overclocked AMD 1900XP! They both cost ~ $130US. (www.pricewatch.com) For proof do a search on Google or read toms.
If you would like to see real improvement install Redhat 7.2 (which includes mozilla 0.9.2) and play with mozilla for a day. Then install mozilla 0.9.9 and see what a difference there is! It is really quite amazing.
I thought the same thing until I went to JavaOne last year. There were 2 guys, that worked for some game company, on the pavillion floor that inplemented a pretty cool FPS using the Java 3D APIs (These APIs use OpenGL for hardware accelerated rendering). They were getting 60fps running 1024x768@32. The PCs were pretty beefy and of course they were using Nvidia's latest cards, but pretty cool never the less (They were also using the 1.4 JDK for MMIO). It can be done, just wait for a couple more iterations of Moore's Law.
I work for a fortune 500 company and I can tell you that you are full of shit. We have top tier support from Oracle and one has to prove that he/she has a bug before they will even spend five minutes with you. Sometimes Oracle doesn't even call you back! Other times Oracle will have knowledge of a bug, but never fix it!
I can do everything I need to do with 2000 and it NEVER crashes on me.
This is not meant to be a flame, but you really don't do a lot of heavy lifting with Win2k do you? I will admit Win2k works reasonably well under a light load doing mundane tasks such as email, editing Office documents, browsing the web, etc. As soon as Win2k is put under heavy load for days at a time it falls down. My PC dual boots Win2k SP2 and Redhat 7.2 and I have been backing up a lot of my DVDs using the opendivx codec. If you have ever done this before you know how much CPU it requires, my PC can run at 100 percent utilization for days on end! During the last week I have had 2 BSODs (One was an unexpected kernel trap). The machine is a *very* clean install with very little hardware installed and it works fine for the more mundane tasks mentioned above, but the fact is that Win2k falls over under the heavier load.
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Ahh, so you guys are the ones that BEA talks about that have the "Godzilla Bean". Yes coroner, I did put 300 methods in my Godzilla bean, is this the cause of death?
No sir/madam you are wrong. You are analizing the tail end of the problem, not the beginning. Think about the first couple of companies that decided to move labor oversees. They did it to gain a competitive advantage, but instead of lowing the cost of goods-n-services they found that they could keep the price the same and make a lot more money. Thus a trend was born, in America, that has been going on now for 40+ years.
Just out of curiosity what do you do for a living? I have dealt with many H1s myself and find that only ~ 25% of them could find their ass with both hands and a roadmap (read: competent)
No, but realize one thing, if we keep outsourcing jobs to other countries there will be no more middleclass wealth in the United States. Middleclass Americans buy lots of American goods-n-services, period. (don't reply to me with basic econ principles I already know them). The only reason companies outsource any labor is GREED. Why have a textile industry in America when can use children oversees? (hint: because they can charge the same and a few people in the company get to keep all of the extra profits, think C[EIFCT]0). Globalization works for America if companies aren't greedy, but we all know the answer to that question. Companies, who outsource, lower operating/manufacturing costs, but don't lower the cost of their goods or services. This causes a higher concentration of wealth in just a few individuals instead of hundreds or even thousands of middle class workers. (Yes, the same people who make America tick).
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I think I need to take a break from GNU, I actually read that as "G hosts"!
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What do you mean by this then? Based on my experience I would say that Win2k is crash-prone.
f your Win2K or WinXP machine crashes all the time, perhaps I'm just that much better an admin than you are, but I doubt it. But, rather than be fair about it, you will be quick to bash MS and their "buggy" OS. Bull. Rag on any Win9x you want, I won't argue, but if your going to tell me Win2K or WinXP are crash-prone and buggy, you are wrong, absolutely. (WinNT by the way is somewhere in between in my experience... I have 5 NT servers, database and web servers, with heavy usage, none of them has had ANY unscheduled downtime in about two years, but I also had NT on my desktop for a while and it did blue screen on occassion, once every few months perhaps. Not terrible, but not great either).
To blindly say that someone is wrong if they experience Win2k or WinXP crashes is hilarious. You sound really stupid, think about that statement for a second. It seems you believe what you say is fact based on your extremely limited sample size! Based on my extremly limited sample size(20+ server Win2k web farm, 1 print server, 1 file server, 2 application servers @ work and 4 Win2k clients @ home)I will say that Win2k is *much* more stable then the win95/98/me, BUT is not quite "rock solid" TM. OpenVMS is rock solid, so is Solaris, so is FreeBSD. As an application server using Kana or Epiphany Win2k can fall over under extreme high loads. IIS routinely makes Win2k fall over(once a month a farm animal has to be resurrected). This does not happen with the rock solid OSes mentioned above. At home I do quite a bit of Divx encoding, video and audio editing, etc. which is very resource intensive. On a fairly random basis Win2k has to be recycled(twice in one week sometimes not for a month) due to a Kernel trap BSOD. All my installs have very little software installed and are patched with all the Win2K patches. I do not experience these problems with Solaris which is what most of our backend servers are at work. They can have very high demands placed on them and they rarely falter (maybe once every 12-18 months.).
Not true I just played Collapse right now in a tabbed window with moz 1.0 and it worked fine.
Make sure you have the Java plugin installed!
And I am sure you speak for all of America.
Bookpool has the cheapest/best selection of tech books period. I don't work for them, but have used them on many an occasion. They can really make a training budget go a long way.
Who the fuck is your VAR? I have never received a DOA Sun box or disk array (After something like 25 of them). They should test them and give you the sys printout. It seems your VAR is using the Ace Ventura(sp?) shipping company.
Yes, the default install of Solaris sucks so your post is funny, but after administering Unix for the last 6 years Solaris is the best Unix, period.
I just got one yesterday, how did I configure my box incorrectly? For 30-40% of all of the software I install I have to reboot my Win2k box!
Easily done if you know what you are doing! I setup all shares/printers in 5 minutes just editing the well commented smb.conf!
Gosh, I guess I am lucky living in Columbus, Ohio where my Time Warner service is usually between 200-350k/sec, anytime!
Once you go black you never go back!
I guess you forgot about the overclocked Intel Northwood 1.6Ghz. This processor will outperform an overclocked AMD 1900XP! They both cost ~ $130US. (www.pricewatch.com) For proof do a search on Google or read toms.
If you would like to see real improvement install Redhat 7.2 (which includes mozilla 0.9.2) and play with mozilla for a day. Then install mozilla 0.9.9 and see what a difference there is! It is really quite amazing.
If you have Solaris X back IE for Solaris to your Linux box.
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I thought the same thing until I went to JavaOne last year. There were 2 guys, that worked for some game company, on the pavillion floor that inplemented a pretty cool FPS using the Java 3D APIs (These APIs use OpenGL for hardware accelerated rendering). They were getting 60fps running 1024x768@32. The PCs were pretty beefy and of course they were using Nvidia's latest cards, but pretty cool never the less (They were also using the 1.4 JDK for MMIO). It can be done, just wait for a couple more iterations of Moore's Law.
That would be great if everyone's music was encoded at 80kbps!
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I work for a fortune 500 company and I can tell you that you are full of shit. We have top tier support from Oracle and one has to prove that he/she has a bug before they will even spend five minutes with you. Sometimes Oracle doesn't even call you back! Other times Oracle will have knowledge of a bug, but never fix it!
I can do everything I need to do with 2000 and it NEVER crashes on me.
This is not meant to be a flame, but you really don't do a lot of heavy lifting with Win2k do you? I will admit Win2k works reasonably well under a light load doing mundane tasks such as email, editing Office documents, browsing the web, etc. As soon as Win2k is put under heavy load for days at a time it falls down. My PC dual boots Win2k SP2 and Redhat 7.2 and I have been backing up a lot of my DVDs using the opendivx codec. If you have ever done this before you know how much CPU it requires, my PC can run at 100 percent utilization for days on end! During the last week I have had 2 BSODs (One was an unexpected kernel trap). The machine is a *very* clean install with very little hardware installed and it works fine for the more mundane tasks mentioned above, but the fact is that Win2k falls over under the heavier load.