Between machines you trust. All competent admins have known that for decades. AFS is your best bet, it's very stable and easily available on most platforms but is a bitch to configure initially which is why nobody uses it on small installations. You gotta have site wide buy in the beginning before it's worth it.
How many windows desktops end up as Linux servers?
Certainly we have dozens of the things. Old, but maxed out desktops acting as essentially disposable servers running some critical network services (redundantly). I think we *might* have purchased one real Linux server, from Dell, or did it come with Windows automatically? I forget. So our ratio is more than 20:1. Makes a nonsense of the sales figures.
So we have hardware -> os -> browser -> web site -> office suite
Why not cut out the web site bollocks? Honestly, not everything has to be on the web. If I *really* wanted a centralised office suite I'd add a VNC server and connect over ssh.
It's a *gimmick*. Wipe billions off the mobile companies... Honestly, talk about hyperbole...
You can already buy DECT compatible mobile phones, they haven't taken off because people just use the phone on their desk when near it, simple. And wifi has a 150 foot range... get real...
At your house? You let her watch porn at her friends?
Children should be supervised. Period. and if they're not then you should take whatever steps are necessary, including preventing access to friends who are a poor influence, you're the responsible adult after all.
WTF do you think the Americans and Russians were playing at for the last 20 years? In ancient history, they were professionals too, the amateur thing was a modern class inspired blip.
Train it for a particular stock automatically using the actual direction of the stock. Set the filter as one of the inputs among many others (yahoo data) to a genetic algorithm system and then give the lot away free. Bankrupt the big financial advice firms.:)
Hmm, might be worth using it as an excuse to play with Ruby.
Look at the female's reproductive resource requirements and then look at the male's requirements. The semi-monogamous results are predictable and we can see them everywhere in our society.
It's how the jews were identified for extermination. The nice thing about a computer system though is they can mark the identity on the computer and the person doesn't need to know they've been singled out. Very handy.
You missed out the word "percieved". I'm not saying that all of the items you mentioned aren't actually higher quality, but that's not what people pay for, they pay for the perception or belief that it's higher quality, whether it is or not in reality is entirely up for debate.
Um those are the people who use public transport to commute. Look at the stats for *journeys* though. I use the bus for example for nights out on a regular basis and because of that I probably fall into the "uses public transport category" but it's a wildly misleading way of determining the usefulness of public transport because all the rest of my journeys are by car, the bus/train is completely useless for the overwhelming majority of the journeys I make, useful for maybe 1 in 10.
Your own stats pretty much make my point. Transit is useless for 2/3 of the population and useful for at the absolute most, 20% of the remaining 1/3 of the population. i.e. about 6% and there are real physical reasons this can't reasonably be increased. I'm talking about conventional public transit systems which make use of vehicles which attempt to transport groups of people rather than individuals.
There is a particular reason the bus/train suck for such a large percentage of journeys, it's pointed out in my original link.
hehe, you couldn't make this stuff up. And people are going to choose the MS option because it's "the standard" and feel grateful that for only $50/year they're "protected". Damn they're good business people.
His complaints can be fixed with a shell script and a cron job, or a logout script. It's not a problem inherent to Linux or Unix but to specific distributions and installations.
The user says "This is vital". IT staff start adding zeros to the price tag of the application. Seriously nobody in the IT dept is ever going to suggest something like mysql or postgresql for something like the corporate accounts or other financial transaction backends because people like IBM and Oracle guarantee that when the power goes out, the transaction completed, or it didn't happen at all.
And if you've paid for Oracle/DB2 and you're training your staff on and using Oracle/DB2 anyway then it doesn't make a load of sense to introduce different RDBMS systems that your DBAs and administrators are completely unfamiliar with, especially when you've got that Oracle box sitting there underutilised.
Ultimately you're right, 95% of apps could be served perfectly well by mysql, postgresql, msaccess, filemaker etc. Corporate IT depts should really create two categories of RDBMS systems, vital and casual. The vital ones being the core business operations and casual being everything else.
The first person to use a system might load 128Mb worth of libraries and applications. The second and all subsequent users may only use 15-30Mb worth of RAM for each additional user. e.g. A 1Gb RAM system could handle 30 concurrent users rather than 8.
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An image takes a second to download, I can make a judgement on it in a second and be on to the next one. Movies take a stupidly long amount of time.
Sports are too energetic for the current generation to anything but stare at a TV, now even computer games are too energetic. hehe.
Between machines you trust. All competent admins have known that for decades. AFS is your best bet, it's very stable and easily available on most platforms but is a bitch to configure initially which is why nobody uses it on small installations. You gotta have site wide buy in the beginning before it's worth it.
How many windows desktops end up as Linux servers?
Certainly we have dozens of the things. Old, but maxed out desktops acting as essentially disposable servers running some critical network services (redundantly). I think we *might* have purchased one real Linux server, from Dell, or did it come with Windows automatically? I forget. So our ratio is more than 20:1. Makes a nonsense of the sales figures.
So we have hardware -> os -> browser -> web site -> office suite
Why not cut out the web site bollocks? Honestly, not everything has to be on the web. If I *really* wanted a centralised office suite I'd add a VNC server and connect over ssh.
It's a *gimmick*. Wipe billions off the mobile companies... Honestly, talk about hyperbole...
You can already buy DECT compatible mobile phones, they haven't taken off because people just use the phone on their desk when near it, simple. And wifi has a 150 foot range... get real...
"I think it's a bloody fantastic idea, and so simple and obvious it seems odd to think such an app doesn't yet exist."
It *has* been done before and it *does* exist, in fact there are loads of them... All you have to do is look.
At your house? You let her watch porn at her friends?
Children should be supervised. Period. and if they're not then you should take whatever steps are necessary, including preventing access to friends who are a poor influence, you're the responsible adult after all.
WTF do you think the Americans and Russians were playing at for the last 20 years? In ancient history, they were professionals too, the amateur thing was a modern class inspired blip.
Oh, except boxing... of course.
Train it for a particular stock automatically using the actual direction of the stock. Set the filter as one of the inputs among many others (yahoo data) to a genetic algorithm system and then give the lot away free. Bankrupt the big financial advice firms. :)
Hmm, might be worth using it as an excuse to play with Ruby.
Not turning over the key (for any reason) is an offense punishable by a couple of years in prison anyway.
Look at the female's reproductive resource requirements and then look at the male's requirements. The semi-monogamous results are predictable and we can see them everywhere in our society.
It's how the jews were identified for extermination. The nice thing about a computer system though is they can mark the identity on the computer and the person doesn't need to know they've been singled out. Very handy.
Wireless, GPRS, 3G etc are all pushing us back to the centralised model, it's cheaper, simpler and more efficient than fully distributed.
Mark my words... Google VNC servers... You saw it here first.
Which will be left over which will happily run Linux.
You missed out the word "percieved". I'm not saying that all of the items you mentioned aren't actually higher quality, but that's not what people pay for, they pay for the perception or belief that it's higher quality, whether it is or not in reality is entirely up for debate.
Hence all the advertising, marketing, branding...
Don't buy them...
Um those are the people who use public transport to commute. Look at the stats for *journeys* though. I use the bus for example for nights out on a regular basis and because of that I probably fall into the "uses public transport category" but it's a wildly misleading way of determining the usefulness of public transport because all the rest of my journeys are by car, the bus/train is completely useless for the overwhelming majority of the journeys I make, useful for maybe 1 in 10.
Your own stats pretty much make my point. Transit is useless for 2/3 of the population and useful for at the absolute most, 20% of the remaining 1/3 of the population. i.e. about 6% and there are real physical reasons this can't reasonably be increased. I'm talking about conventional public transit systems which make use of vehicles which attempt to transport groups of people rather than individuals.
There is a particular reason the bus/train suck for such a large percentage of journeys, it's pointed out in my original link.
hehe, you couldn't make this stuff up. And people are going to choose the MS option because it's "the standard" and feel grateful that for only $50/year they're "protected". Damn they're good business people.
Different name, same thing... Happens all the time in all industries.
They're cool but nobody's mass producing them at the moment, that makes them relatively expensive.
No conventional public transport system can serve more than about 10% of the population, the physics just don't add up.
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Advocating conventional public transport as a car replacement is a waste of time.
His complaints can be fixed with a shell script and a cron job, or a logout script. It's not a problem inherent to Linux or Unix but to specific distributions and installations.
The user says "This is vital". IT staff start adding zeros to the price tag of the application. Seriously nobody in the IT dept is ever going to suggest something like mysql or postgresql for something like the corporate accounts or other financial transaction backends because people like IBM and Oracle guarantee that when the power goes out, the transaction completed, or it didn't happen at all.
And if you've paid for Oracle/DB2 and you're training your staff on and using Oracle/DB2 anyway then it doesn't make a load of sense to introduce different RDBMS systems that your DBAs and administrators are completely unfamiliar with, especially when you've got that Oracle box sitting there underutilised.
Ultimately you're right, 95% of apps could be served perfectly well by mysql, postgresql, msaccess, filemaker etc. Corporate IT depts should really create two categories of RDBMS systems, vital and casual. The vital ones being the core business operations and casual being everything else.
The first person to use a system might load 128Mb worth of libraries and applications. The second and all subsequent users may only use 15-30Mb worth of RAM for each additional user. e.g. A 1Gb RAM system could handle 30 concurrent users rather than 8.