ADSM is very powerful; very "enterprise", but it's like repeatedly beating your head against a plasterboard wall. Legato's much nicer tho not as powerful.
1: Plan in advance! 2: Use NIS for user accounts, aliases, group databases etc! 3: Use NFS or CODA for home directories! 4: Use automounters! 5: Use a SINGLE DISTRIBUTION (this is part of No 1.)! 6: Use RDIST or RSYNC to keep configs synchronised! 7: Create some scripts to make distributed cron management easy! 8: Start small until you're happy.
The MS fudmeisters are just about in full swing now. Why? They are absolutely terrified, otherwise why all the FUD? Linux has made MS completely redundant. With KDE and Gnome, you simply don't need a Windows desktop, with Samba and Apache you don't need an NT server, with sendmail and IMAP, you don't need Exchange. With apps like KDE Office, Gnumeric etc even MS Office will be completely excess to requirements. On top of the above you have the promiscuous GPL licensing terms. My god, I'm not surprised they are afraid.
Get a player that uses CF disks rather than hard wired memory. CF disks are getting cheaper and cheaper and bigger and bigger. They're hitting 128Mb at the moment and are rapidly getting larger.
If it's a fairly secure network, use Samba/Netatalk. Have the lemmings map a network drive and edit the files with whatever GUI (nominally)HTML editor they have.
They'll love being able to just save files on to the web server and all but the very dumbest will eventually get how links work.
If it's insecure then use FTP and recommend some GUI ftp client to them, DON'T use frontpage, it's *incredibly* insecure.
The h2g2 site looks quite nice, but unless they have loads of researchers, it's going to end up like the newsgroups. 100dB noise 0.1dB signal.
An interesting project would be an open web based mulitmedia encyclopedia, same idea as Encarta, but accurate information instead. Similar concept to h2g2 but significantly more limited set of contributers.
Look, Open source software arrises from the need to "Get the job done".
It comes from people who need to do something but don't have the tool that they need to do the job, it either doesn't exist on their platform or is ridiculously expensive to license. These people have no desire to sell their software, they just want to do the job at hand.
It's not the be all and end all of software development, it just lets me get my job done.
I don't understand how putting a watermark in with the data stops copying. The watermark will be copied when a bitmap copy is done of the data, and if you want to get rid of it, just twiddle the lsb of the data as it is copied.
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Yer still sposed to pay the license yknow!
ADSM is very powerful; very "enterprise", but it's like repeatedly beating your head against a plasterboard wall. Legato's much nicer tho not as powerful.
Slashdot is doing OK, but what about a Team Linux?
1: Plan in advance!
2: Use NIS for user accounts, aliases, group databases etc!
3: Use NFS or CODA for home directories!
4: Use automounters!
5: Use a SINGLE DISTRIBUTION (this is part of No 1.)!
6: Use RDIST or RSYNC to keep configs synchronised!
7: Create some scripts to make distributed cron management easy!
8: Start small until you're happy.
The MS fudmeisters are just about in full swing now.
Why?
They are absolutely terrified, otherwise why all the FUD? Linux has made MS completely redundant. With KDE and Gnome, you simply don't need a Windows desktop, with Samba and Apache you don't need an NT server, with sendmail and IMAP, you don't need Exchange. With apps like KDE Office, Gnumeric etc even MS Office will be completely excess to requirements.
On top of the above you have the promiscuous GPL licensing terms.
My god, I'm not surprised they are afraid.
You forgot to mention the absolute validity of the Mindcraft benchmarks. :-)
Have a look at Amaya:
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
No MAC port, but it's C and the source is there.
Get a player that uses CF disks rather than hard wired memory. CF disks are getting cheaper and cheaper and bigger and bigger. They're hitting 128Mb at the moment and are rapidly getting larger.
They'reprobably just a small startup company, but check them out first before you buy.
But, more to the point, do they have Linux software?
If it's a fairly secure network, use Samba/Netatalk. Have the lemmings map a network drive and edit the files with whatever GUI (nominally)HTML editor they have.
They'll love being able to just save files on to the web server and all but the very dumbest will eventually get how links work.
If it's insecure then use FTP and recommend some GUI ftp client to them, DON'T use frontpage, it's *incredibly* insecure.
Money for nothing? I want a piece of this! :)
MS is irrelevant. They have no bearing on the future.
The future is Linux, whether MS stays as a monolith or is broken up is completely irrelevant.
MS is a dinosaur.
Ok..... So he's forgetting the point of inflexion and the plateau that Linux must eventually reach.
Has anyone who's measuring the growth seen the point of inflexion yet?
The h2g2 site looks quite nice, but unless they have loads of researchers, it's going to end up like the newsgroups. 100dB noise 0.1dB signal.
An interesting project would be an open web based mulitmedia encyclopedia, same idea as Encarta, but accurate information instead. Similar concept to h2g2 but significantly more limited set of contributers.
Most of us don't have access to non production servers of the spec required in order to run benchmarks.
VA Research and Red Hat or Caldera do. It's in their business interest to run a set of their own test (or sponsor some).
Yup, I'd want to see the published proof in black and white. After all it did specify in the challenge that the benchmark would have to be published.
Life goes on, no need to get too excited about it.
I thought that DejaNews ran Linux.
They must take millions of hits per day.
Maybe the exec just doesnt know which sites run Linux because they dont get shouted about.
I DONT want a GUI forced upon me. Those are Apple/Microsoft tactics.
I want the choice of all of the available GUIs.
So Red Hat, Caldera, Suse, Pacific Hitech, Debian heed these words!
Linux is about freedom. Anything which reduces that freedom is a "Very Bad Thing".
Look, Open source software arrises from the need to "Get the job done".
It comes from people who need to do something but don't have the tool that they need to do the job, it either doesn't exist on their platform or is ridiculously expensive to license. These people have no desire to sell their software, they just want to do the job at hand.
It's not the be all and end all of software development, it just lets me get my job done.
It HAS to be Caldera!!!!!
I don't understand how putting a watermark in with the data stops copying.
The watermark will be copied when a bitmap copy is done of the data, and if you want to get rid of it, just twiddle the lsb of the data as it is copied.
The X prize organization is offering 10 million dollars for the first commercial agency that can get 3 people in to orbit and back again safely.
http://www.xprize.org/
If there's one game I DON'T want ported to Linux, it has to be CIV!!!!
I blew almost a whole year of school because of that bloody game!