Yeah, but on a multi-user OS like Linux, it's tougher for a stupid user (on a properly configured system) to hose the OS or other users' stuff. Windows makes it really tough for the lame among us to protect ourselves from... us.
which began as a unit of the Southern Pacific Rail Corp. (thus the 'Spr'). The telegraph and telephone lines that ran along the tracks became the backbone of their long-distance network.
I'm sure Disney would gladly claim the Great Mothersbaugh(s), but Disney (and Buena Vista Television, their subsidiary) don't have anything to do with Viacom's 'Rugrats'.
This is cool for upping capacity on small storage devices, but don't think it'll be a Good Thing for mondo hard drives. I don't care what any bonehead says about 'Real Men Don't Back Up' or 'Just RAID It!' - the bigger the HD, the bigger the hassle. The fatter the drives get, the slower they are to recover from a failure, backup and restore. And you *must* back up - RAID doesn't buy you squat when a 6.7 earthquake drops a block wall on your array.
Too, as the drives get bigger, they get more inefficient. You're better off with a bunch of small drives anyway - the more spindles turning and heads moving, the better. Talk about data mining! Try gathering data quickly from these babies.
On the server side, with regard to backup and things like streaming DLT, you're also better off with arrays of small disks. To maintain streaming to tape properly, you've got to have a bunch of spindles cranking.
Apple and its licensing policies are responsible for the lack of FireWire adoption industry-wide. Not only do they make it expensive to incorporate, their recent push toward USB seems to undermine confidence in FireWire as a standard. Real, enterprise-class storage systems are built on FibreChannel anyway.
Text input with Graffiti (the Palm's built-in text capture method) is a snap - it takes about.5 hour to become proficient - and much more reliable than traditional (Newton-style) handwriting recognition. You learn its style, not the other way around. Consequently, it's less processor and memory-intensive
For heavy-duty input, use a desktop tool and import the text at HotSync.
Personally, I'd like to see it shaped up for the next millenium. It seems that 100Mbit Token Ring is on its way (see 'http://www.madge.com/News/NewsHome.asp?Article=18 93&SubArea=1 '). Compared to Ethernet, it truly is a superior technology, especially when it comes to things like multimedia over networks.
To those who don't like Token Ring - we fear what we don't understand.;)
Interesting, especially in light of comments like:
"I'd much rather see the most reliable and usable operating system than the most whizzy-bang operating system," Cutler says. "To increase reliability we have to make choices. For every 10 bugs we fix, we may introduce three more.
But do you want to ship with 10 bugs, or do you want to ship with three?"
This is *not* an 'open source/open standards' issue. This is an 'open market' issue. AOL created and nurtured a huge IM userbase - with their own products and customers, and with those acquired in the purchase of Mirabilis/ICQ. Now, Microsoft wants a piece of that action. Rather than develop their own system on the floundering MSN, they're trying to co-opt an existing market. Sound familiar?
I'm not a big AOL fan, but let's give them a little credit here. This is their bread and butter, and they won the eyeballs fair and square. Microsoft is essentially demanding access to AOL's user community through a back door and camouflaging the attempt with a media-savvy 'open standards' plea. Don't believe the hype!
Exchange DEVOURS hardware. Many mailbox servers PLUS PDCs, BDCs, WINS boxes, mail connectors, SMS to manage the whole thing (if you buy Microsoft's recommendations), and IIS servers (for Web-based e-mail). And there's building a domain structure (if you don't already have one) that you'll at least in large part tear down when MS makes you go Active Directory. It's a hardware and network nightmare if you're geographically distributed because the RPC/COM model they implemented really works best if the machines are close to each other, which means that you may have to duplicate a bunch of the aforementioned devices and underutilize them.
Oh, and the whole thing's a Service Pack/HotFix nightmare. Oh, and did I mention the Service Pack/HotFix thing? SNMP memory leaks alone will eat your RAM in no time. Service Pack. HotFix. Now. Tomorrow. Forever.
P.S. Yes, we are stuck with Exchange. And yes, these are Microsoft recommendations. MS Consulting Services just finished bleeding us dry, thank you very much.
P.P.S. And don't get me started on the Outlook client. My God!
I saw this in a booth at the last JPL open house - pretty cool stuff. A little telemetry probe, about the size of a large coffee can, sidles up and lands on the comet. It then fires a metal spike down through its center and into the comet's crust, anchoring it. Pretty simple from the way they explained it - just hope it works the first time.
Yeah, it's called "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires". It's a pretty cool three-part documentary by Robert X. Cringely, based on his book "Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date". Check it out at the PBS Web site.
Scott Evil (the funniest and most under-valued character in the films) is a rebellious teen, right? We find that he is the love child of Dr. Evil and Frau Farbissina, conceived during a mojo-fueled session of passionate sex in 1969. Wouldn't that make Scott close to 30 years old in 1999? Time travel's a bitch, I suppose.
TheZork (who can proudly assert that he has never - not even in front of a mirror at home - done an Austin Powers impression)
The author makes some good points, but (at least in Be's case) he needs forget about the journalists and address his concerns to the Marketing Flacks. See the Be, Inc. site at http://beos.com - it's littered with stuff like "The Software Platform for Broadband Digital Media", "High intensity platform for digital media" and "BeOS® The Media OS".
Just putting a bit of the blame at the feet of those who deserve it...
Isn't this device the same form factor (if not the same hardware) as on-line brokerages like Fidelity feature in their ads ("InstantBroker")? Seems best suited to apps like this, rather than full-blown e-mail services.
This is absolutely true. The GUID, as I understand it, is built at install time and written to the registry. It will not be re-written when a network card is changed. Also, as is often true in the corporate I.S. world, a bunch of machines can be 'cloned' via Ghost or a similar utility from a master image. These machines all inherit the GUID present in the master image. This is a problem I've seen first-hand.
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- True invisibility (not that refractive/ablative Predator-camo stuff) is complete transparency to light
- Human vision is transduction of light energy to electrochemical stimuli
- An invisible guy's lenses (light not refracted, focused, flipped) and retina (light not transduced) are transparent to light energy
wouldn't an invisible man be blind? Haven't heard this one discussed - just wondered.Yeah, but on a multi-user OS like Linux, it's tougher for a stupid user (on a properly configured system) to hose the OS or other users' stuff. Windows makes it really tough for the lame among us to protect ourselves from... us.
which began as a unit of the Southern Pacific Rail Corp. (thus the 'Spr'). The telegraph and telephone lines that ran along the tracks became the backbone of their long-distance network.
I'm sure Disney would gladly claim the Great Mothersbaugh(s), but Disney (and Buena Vista Television, their subsidiary) don't have anything to do with Viacom's 'Rugrats'.
Backing up and restoring is even more fun.
Too, as the drives get bigger, they get more inefficient. You're better off with a bunch of small drives anyway - the more spindles turning and heads moving, the better. Talk about data mining! Try gathering data quickly from these babies.
On the server side, with regard to backup and things like streaming DLT, you're also better off with arrays of small disks. To maintain streaming to tape properly, you've got to have a bunch of spindles cranking.
Apple and its licensing policies are responsible for the lack of FireWire adoption industry-wide. Not only do they make it expensive to incorporate, their recent push toward USB seems to undermine confidence in FireWire as a standard. Real, enterprise-class storage systems are built on FibreChannel anyway.
For heavy-duty input, use a desktop tool and import the text at HotSync.
For my money, I still think I want a Visor to replace my aging Palm III. The options just look more promising, and it's the OS I'm backing anyway.
To those who don't like Token Ring - we fear what we don't understand. ;)
'Nuff said.
This is *not* an 'open source/open standards' issue. This is an 'open market' issue. AOL created and nurtured a huge IM userbase - with their own products and customers, and with those acquired in the purchase of Mirabilis/ICQ. Now, Microsoft wants a piece of that action. Rather than develop their own system on the floundering MSN, they're trying to co-opt an existing market. Sound familiar?
I'm not a big AOL fan, but let's give them a little credit here. This is their bread and butter, and they won the eyeballs fair and square. Microsoft is essentially demanding access to AOL's user community through a back door and camouflaging the attempt with a media-savvy 'open standards' plea. Don't believe the hype!
Exchange DEVOURS hardware. Many mailbox servers PLUS PDCs, BDCs, WINS boxes, mail connectors, SMS to manage the whole thing (if you buy Microsoft's recommendations), and IIS servers (for Web-based e-mail). And there's building a domain structure (if you don't already have one) that you'll at least in large part tear down when MS makes you go Active Directory. It's a hardware and network nightmare if you're geographically distributed because the RPC/COM model they implemented really works best if the machines are close to each other, which means that you may have to duplicate a bunch of the aforementioned devices and underutilize them.
Oh, and the whole thing's a Service Pack/HotFix nightmare. Oh, and did I mention the Service Pack/HotFix thing? SNMP memory leaks alone will eat your RAM in no time. Service Pack. HotFix. Now. Tomorrow. Forever.
P.S. Yes, we are stuck with Exchange. And yes, these are Microsoft recommendations. MS Consulting Services just finished bleeding us dry, thank you very much.
P.P.S. And don't get me started on the Outlook client. My God!
P.P.P.S. No, I didn't have any say in the matter.
I saw this in a booth at the last JPL open house - pretty cool stuff. A little telemetry probe, about the size of a large coffee can, sidles up and lands on the comet. It then fires a metal spike down through its center and into the comet's crust, anchoring it. Pretty simple from the way they explained it - just hope it works the first time.
Yeah, it's called "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires". It's a pretty cool three-part documentary by Robert X. Cringely, based on his book "Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date". Check it out at the PBS Web site.
Scott Evil (the funniest and most under-valued character in the films) is a rebellious teen, right? We find that he is the love child of Dr. Evil and Frau Farbissina, conceived during a mojo-fueled session of passionate sex in 1969. Wouldn't that make Scott close to 30 years old in 1999? Time travel's a bitch, I suppose.
TheZork
(who can proudly assert that he has never - not even in front of a mirror at home - done an Austin Powers impression)
Just putting a bit of the blame at the feet of those who deserve it...
Isn't this device the same form factor (if not the same hardware) as on-line brokerages like Fidelity feature in their ads ("InstantBroker")? Seems best suited to apps like this, rather than full-blown e-mail services.
DOS OS base? Where? At the server, or at the client? The server is not DOS-based, and they've had wide client OS (including *nix) support for years.
This is absolutely true. The GUID, as I understand it, is built at install time and written to the registry. It will not be re-written when a network card is changed. Also, as is often true in the corporate I.S. world, a bunch of machines can be 'cloned' via Ghost or a similar utility from a master image. These machines all inherit the GUID present in the master image. This is a problem I've seen first-hand.