I know for a fact that at least one large system vendor would cause the LEDs on the drives in their arrays to blink somewhat in unison when there were demos or customer benchmarks.
We had a set of scripts which we'd kick off at the start of the benchmark to make sure that the wall of disks looked busy. The salesmen would say stuff like "Look, you can see the parity writes being generated". When in fact the entire benchmark would complete in RAM. Hell, they could make the lights blink from left to right, right to left, top to bottom and various patterns. My favourite was the diagonal wave, but we couldn't credibly use it during a benchmark, though one engineer did try to claim once that it might be caused by the fibre channel layout.
The customers lapped it up. THAT's why there are LEDs all over the place.
As of 1707, the United Kingdom is the country and what were previously separate nations became simply provinces.
Legally, England, Scotland and Wales don't exist as nations. All of the citizens of those territories are simply citizens of the United Kingdom, which is the legal entity. It says so on all of the legal documents; passport etc. Crucially they are not citizens of Scotland or England or Wales... They can't be because Scotland, England and Wales are not countries or nations.
Who think England is a country. It isn't. The same is true of Scotland.
There's some irony in the Scotland or England football/rugby/athletic teams competing in international tournaments given that neither is a true nation. Course in rugby there's the British Lions so that at least is correct.
Nope. Sorry. Scotland, England and Wales are not nations either. Each citizen the territory or province of Scotland, England and Wales is a national of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". It's on their birth certificates, their passports etc.
Scotland, England and Wales don't exist as nations or countries. At best, they are territories or provinces.
hat would be news to the countries called England, Wales and Scotland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom Nevertheless, they don't exist as countries. There is only the United Kingdom. Scotland an England were subsumed as part of the act of union in 1707.
I think if you read Wikipedia more carefully you'll see that the term "constituent country" has no legal basis. Scotland, England and Wales no longer exist as countries and haven't for several hundred years.
Now imagine that you're trying all of that online. All of a sudden your multi-tasking box becomes a single-task box as each of those apps tries to share your limited bandwidth. WTF? Oh come on. There's only so much screen real estate.
For most of us, it's easier to buy a faster CPU or hard drive than it is to get a faster Internet connection. You reckon? They keep upgrading me for free. 8Mbit now.
Americans are getting poorer and cheaper. They're 25% cheaper than just a couple of years ago. The urgency to outsource to cost effective workforces is reducing.
For those of you at universities, you will recall that sometime in the beginning of September every year, after a long summer of relatively speedy service, the network suddenly comes to a screeching slowdown as all the students return. The network similarly picks up in May when most of the students go away. That's called "poor capacity planning".
It's no biggie, even X doesn't use anything like mb for a window paint or update. The database? Well you'd need a proper global filesystem, but that's no biggie either.
It's entirely doable. The one issue is network *latency*, not bandwidth, server power or disk space.
With Web 2.0 and software as a service, you're not just moving the application from the client to the server, or from the server to the client you're doing something far more bizarre. You're chopping the application in half and moving half to the client and half to the server. I have to be honest, I can't really see a benefit from it over more standard thin client architectures other than "it's what everyone's doing".
In terms of bandwidth, you'd typically charge. Say $10/month per seat.
Software as a service is irrelevant to the distribution of Linux. If you're running apps over the Internet, you're not distributing them. It's just another Application Service Provider who btw, mostly use Linux anyway.
1: We all know how quickly the law works... Talk about a bottleneck. 2: Most spammers operate outwith the control of any single government. 3: Many spammers operate through compromised proxy systems.
Still, at least they're being seen to be doing something and this is the important bit for the politicians.
What I want though is a personal search engine. Where I can perform an initial search, have some likely candidates returned to me and then I can say yea like this, or nay not like that and the search engine will go off and find me more candidates which were like the ones I do want and less like the ones I don't want. Then I want it to keep my searches recorded and update them every so often as it indexes more sites.
ut if these products/projects don't have the features to handle a generic 5-person job shop, WTF can they handle? Y'know, "It has to be perfect, do everything". Which is a contradiction, the more generalised a tool, the less good it is at any one task.
For an all in one, compiere or opentaps. Mantis for issue/request tracking.
Config files are trivial to manage in CVS, it doesn't really need anything more sophisticated. You could probably get away with RCS but it'd be more hassle.
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I know for a fact that at least one large system vendor would cause the LEDs on the drives in their arrays to blink somewhat in unison when there were demos or customer benchmarks.
We had a set of scripts which we'd kick off at the start of the benchmark to make sure that the wall of disks looked busy. The salesmen would say stuff like "Look, you can see the parity writes being generated". When in fact the entire benchmark would complete in RAM. Hell, they could make the lights blink from left to right, right to left, top to bottom and various patterns. My favourite was the diagonal wave, but we couldn't credibly use it during a benchmark, though one engineer did try to claim once that it might be caused by the fibre channel layout.
The customers lapped it up. THAT's why there are LEDs all over the place.
As of 1707, the United Kingdom is the country and what were previously separate nations became simply provinces.
Legally, England, Scotland and Wales don't exist as nations. All of the citizens of those territories are simply citizens of the United Kingdom, which is the legal entity. It says so on all of the legal documents; passport etc. Crucially they are not citizens of Scotland or England or Wales... They can't be because Scotland, England and Wales are not countries or nations.
Who think England is a country. It isn't. The same is true of Scotland.
There's some irony in the Scotland or England football/rugby/athletic teams competing in international tournaments given that neither is a true nation. Course in rugby there's the British Lions so that at least is correct.
Nope. Sorry. Scotland, England and Wales are not nations either. Each citizen the territory or province of Scotland, England and Wales is a national of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". It's on their birth certificates, their passports etc.
Scotland, England and Wales don't exist as nations or countries. At best, they are territories or provinces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom Nevertheless, they don't exist as countries. There is only the United Kingdom. Scotland an England were subsumed as part of the act of union in 1707.
I think if you read Wikipedia more carefully you'll see that the term "constituent country" has no legal basis. Scotland, England and Wales no longer exist as countries and haven't for several hundred years.
Neither Scotland, England nor Wales are countries. They don't exist.
The country is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
Datacenter costs?
IT support team costs?
Software licensing costs?
What's your cost per seat if you DIY? What if someone will do it for $40/month per seat.
In that case it's called "being cheap".
Americans are getting poorer and cheaper. They're 25% cheaper than just a couple of years ago. The urgency to outsource to cost effective workforces is reducing.
Primarily. The cost of developers and system administrators. You can do away with the overwhelming majority of both.
It's no biggie, even X doesn't use anything like mb for a window paint or update. The database? Well you'd need a proper global filesystem, but that's no biggie either.
It's entirely doable. The one issue is network *latency*, not bandwidth, server power or disk space.
With Web 2.0 and software as a service, you're not just moving the application from the client to the server, or from the server to the client you're doing something far more bizarre. You're chopping the application in half and moving half to the client and half to the server. I have to be honest, I can't really see a benefit from it over more standard thin client architectures other than "it's what everyone's doing".
In terms of bandwidth, you'd typically charge. Say $10/month per seat.
Software as a service is irrelevant to the distribution of Linux. If you're running apps over the Internet, you're not distributing them. It's just another Application Service Provider who btw, mostly use Linux anyway.
Because.
1: We all know how quickly the law works... Talk about a bottleneck.
2: Most spammers operate outwith the control of any single government.
3: Many spammers operate through compromised proxy systems.
Still, at least they're being seen to be doing something and this is the important bit for the politicians.
Otherwise it'd have been done by now.
What I want though is a personal search engine. Where I can perform an initial search, have some likely candidates returned to me and then I can say yea like this, or nay not like that and the search engine will go off and find me more candidates which were like the ones I do want and less like the ones I don't want. Then I want it to keep my searches recorded and update them every so often as it indexes more sites.
Build me a better search engine...
It's easy to fake a smile. It's more difficult to fake happiness or amusement shown through the eyes. Some cultures recognise this.
Took 500 million years. So we should be able to work out how long God's days are!!!!
For an all in one, compiere or opentaps. Mantis for issue/request tracking.
Config files are trivial to manage in CVS, it doesn't really need anything more sophisticated. You could probably get away with RCS but it'd be more hassle.
I have one here...
Or rather. Once you're into the ERP/CRM space you're talking customisation and consultants... How much are you making just now?
Take a look at opentaps. Sounds the closest free system to your description, but yeah. Much customisation and consultation required.