Given that Sun has publically stated they are going to move to using Gnome as their desktop (not that i believe it given their last support of the OpenStep UI) -- I believe they would have some serious issues with this as well
Its no secret the position Sun takes as it relates to Microsoft
First up, I'm not a purist -- not by any stretch of the imagination -- i tend to migrate to a "best fit solution"
I develop FreeBSD based embedded server apps for clients -- but until recently I had to use Linux in order to get support for my commercialware programmers editor (slickedit) -- took over two years of sending "nastygrams" or rather good natured pokes to get them to make an honest port instead of trying to get it work under the emulator.
Oracle would be great on freebsd, but that seems unlikely for awhile.
Coldfusion would be awesome on freebsd -- but considering Macromedias arcane licensing policy even when it comes to the Solaris version (jeezus I spent less money on my SparcEngine ATX motherboard then I did on my last Intel supermonster -- do they care? no they think their server is worth $5000 for the privilege to run on sparc -vs- the reasonable windows/linux server pricing they have)
The fact is, unless you can live with all the portable "free" stuff, get used to either being a cheerleader or a jeerleader when dealing with commercialware vendors.
Yeah, like its that friggn difficult for them to recompile on freebsd;)
Is this a project for which your company is hoping to generate revenue from ? Or is this "we have too much free time and money in our budget and should spend it here";)
Either way I'd suggest you you look at the 'competition' -- surely you would glean a lot of very useful information from the whitepapers of people like Packeteer Corp
Or if you don't have the bazillion dollars to buy their products, try a really nifty software only solution from the folks at Emerging Technologies -- their bandwidth manager is really pretty cool -- we use it to control our co-location client traffic.
Ultimately, any kind of traffic shaping you do is really about Quality of Service (QoS) issues.
what you get by using the linux kit on consoles
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First off you get access to a set of tools that doesn't cost you huge licensing fee's in terms of upfront tool costs and ongoing royalties -- which means that its more accessible to a lot more people
Second off you still get the ability to have your games run on other linux distro's with relative ease
Company death does NOT mean the people disappear!
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A company is a legal structure, its nothing without its employees.
The people that made this company great are going to still be around, and more than likely we're going to see some tangible benefits.
A lot times a "company" is actually a limiting factor to creativity and certainly productivity -- the market-pressures to produce X instead of Y
There is no doubt that the work done in the last couple of years by folks like Indrema and Loki have had an impact -- have they changed the gaming world? NO, but I don't know that should be a goal.
With the advent of Linux on the Playstation I believe we are going to see a next essential stage in the evolution of games
For anyone that has ever spent the time writing a game you come to a love hate relationship with device drivers
The beautiful thing about the consoles is that when I write and distribute my UberPong game, I know that I can count on the bounce to be consistent for every consumer of my tasty e-ware.
Tech support == overhead. the more overhead you have the less profit margin you have.
So the company might be dead, but the technology and the people that can drive it are still viable
I think this is probably a very reasonable move, which allows not only the hardware division to experiment with possible altnerate OS's -- including linux, beos, and probably qnx
But it makes more sense from a sub-licensor standpoint, in that the money you pay isn't necessary going to your direct competitor.
Its a small start by my fellow ISP owners, and I would encourage all QWEST territory ISP users to contact their ISP's and have them join in the battle.
On this page is information for Minnesota, but we could expand it for EVERY QWEST territory
Considering the number of relays in orbz and ordb that are out of the 210 and 211 sub-class A blocks i would think that perhaps this might be a good thing, in so far as the mail relays getting closed up
Since a majority of that "subversive" text being bounced off of them are for "american get rich way of life" propaganda;)
A friend of mine used to brag about how anonymous she was until we found she had been ratted out by classmates.com and picked up by Google
I know there are a lot of state and local government agencies that are going web-based -- and yes, certainly there are lots of bits of information that are classified as public domain, but the ability for joe-schmoe to assimilate that information in essentially a meta-data source way is kind of freaky
Especially is joe-schmoe is an ID thief -- and is about to put what little credit rating you have in the toilet by applying and getting credit cards, auto loans, etc
all from the information we're leaking;)
NOTE: I'm not saying that the information shouldn't be available as a matter of public disclosure -- i just think we need to re-evaluate what should be considered private and not.
The fear of leaking SSN's before is really hardly relevant given the amount of information that can be found based on your phone number
consider making a CDROM based boot image instead of HD -- not as fast boot (well, relatively) but ultimately secure and the machine will always come up in case of HD crash/corruption
otherwise, if you don't have SCSI, dump them all! also, chop out any additional ethernet drivers, etc.
not only will you get a smaller kernel with "less moving parts" that boots faster, you'll have less of a finger print to hit
ipfilter is a must as well, and definitely shutdown all extra services in/etc/inetd.conf
and finally, regarding SSH -- set it up to accept root connections from specific hosts, and then add in tcpwrappers and/or ipfilters to help enforce that -- it helps to cut down on any future buffer-overrun attacks that may surface
Device Drive Hell/Hardware Costs/Performance
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And the performance of it was TERRIBLE !
The price of Sparc hardware, especially the AX engine stuff is soooo cheap now!! For under $1000 you can get ATX formfactor sparc processor computers.
Whenever I have conversations with my associates and I hear them bragging/bitching about "lets write a new OS" -- my first argument against is "device driver hell"
NO ONE has that much freetime in their lives to write driver dujour for hardware X
Look at the limited set BEOS supported and ask yourself the same question
I would venture to guess that the amount of money lost to the resources used and stolen by spammers is probably close to or soon will top revenue lost to pirated software
Its not just pipe, cpu, and diskspace, but think about all the productivity lost
especially when people spend an extra five minutes around the water cooler bitching about the spam they get;)
When we started our ISP seven years ago we almost died in the first few months because we couldn't get the bills out -- off the shelf software was not setup to handle recurring billing models.
What we ended up doing was writting a custom web-based billing system that is now in its third iteration all in PERL and Postgresql
Its like George Clason extolled through his protagonist "Arkad" in the Richest Man in Babylon -- pay yourself
If you cannot bill your clients accurately and timely, you cannot make payroll
Look at how McLeodUSA is dying a horrible (and well deserved) nasty death -- ever since they took over Ovation here locally in the Twin Cities, they have yet to get a single invoice correct -- its so bad we had to switch to another provider in order to get their attention.
The Last impression is often a lasting impression -- your billing is an almost free marketing channel to your clients
And what did you have to pay to get Outlook in the first place?
This is a small price to pay to reach ESCAPE velocity from Outlook.
If you're really concerned about the price, why not submit your timesheet to Ximian with the hours you spent helping develop the connector -- i'm sure they will cut you deal;)
Seems to me that it should be relatively trivial even under something as archaic as windows to run md5 fingerprints against the files, as well as get a list of "new files" added since last sweep.
The other really easy thing to do would be to write some software that follows the IRQ chain on the keyboard controller and see what software is wedged in there.
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part of the problem is that the IDEA algorithm is licensed technology from the Swiss company that owns the patent.
What PGP needs is a pluggable-encryption component, so that it could leverage something like AES
Prodigy?
Why aren't they taking on someone like Adobe ? Or AOL?
This seems like a bully on a playground move
Given that Sun has publically stated they are going to move to using Gnome as their desktop (not that i believe it given their last support of the OpenStep UI) -- I believe they would have some serious issues with this as well
Its no secret the position Sun takes as it relates to Microsoft
I gotta agree with this -- as much as I adored my Palm III, i'm saving my pennies for the new Sharp Zaurus ;)
Java on the palmtop is a very happy thing
this is the exact sort of thing that was the argument against linux early on
and the sort of thing that you could either "download without support" at a reduced price etc
but seriously, for most application level issues, the fundamental differences between the two is almost non-existent.
if anything it gets their developers to write autoconf scripts, and helps to reduce the number of things that are "taken for granted"
First up, I'm not a purist -- not by any stretch of the imagination -- i tend to migrate to a "best fit solution"
;)
I develop FreeBSD based embedded server apps for clients -- but until recently I had to use Linux in order to get support for my commercialware programmers editor (slickedit) -- took over two years of sending "nastygrams" or rather good natured pokes to get them to make an honest port instead of trying to get it work under the emulator.
Oracle would be great on freebsd, but that seems unlikely for awhile.
Coldfusion would be awesome on freebsd -- but considering Macromedias arcane licensing policy even when it comes to the Solaris version (jeezus I spent less money on my SparcEngine ATX motherboard then I did on my last Intel supermonster -- do they care? no they think their server is worth $5000 for the privilege to run on sparc -vs- the reasonable windows/linux server pricing they have)
The fact is, unless you can live with all the portable "free" stuff, get used to either being a cheerleader or a jeerleader when dealing with commercialware vendors.
Yeah, like its that friggn difficult for them to recompile on freebsd
it is after more versatile than a MiG ;)
Then the question is, can one be built from COTS parts instead of buying into the EMC or Xiotech architecture
Anyone using a SANS system with diskless workstations and booting from the SANS?
I saw a demo of a Xiotech Magnitude that looked pretty interesting from an architecture standpoint.
Any machine could become any other machine, and backup was truly centralized
Anyone know how one could make on like this on the cheap ?
Is this a project for which your company is hoping to generate revenue from ? Or is this "we have too much free time and money in our budget and should spend it here" ;)
Either way I'd suggest you you look at the 'competition' -- surely you would glean a lot of very useful information from the whitepapers of people like Packeteer Corp
Or if you don't have the bazillion dollars to buy their products, try a really nifty software only solution from the folks at Emerging Technologies -- their bandwidth manager is really pretty cool -- we use it to control our co-location client traffic.
Ultimately, any kind of traffic shaping you do is really about Quality of Service (QoS) issues.
First off you get access to a set of tools that doesn't cost you huge licensing fee's in terms of upfront tool costs and ongoing royalties -- which means that its more accessible to a lot more people
Second off you still get the ability to have your games run on other linux distro's with relative ease
A company is a legal structure, its nothing without its employees.
The people that made this company great are going to still be around, and more than likely we're going to see some tangible benefits.
A lot times a "company" is actually a limiting factor to creativity and certainly productivity -- the market-pressures to produce X instead of Y
There is no doubt that the work done in the last couple of years by folks like Indrema and Loki have had an impact -- have they changed the gaming world? NO, but I don't know that should be a goal.
With the advent of Linux on the Playstation I believe we are going to see a next essential stage in the evolution of games
For anyone that has ever spent the time writing a game you come to a love hate relationship with device drivers
The beautiful thing about the consoles is that when I write and distribute my UberPong game, I know that I can count on the bounce to be consistent for every consumer of my tasty e-ware.
Tech support == overhead. the more overhead you have the less profit margin you have.
So the company might be dead, but the technology and the people that can drive it are still viable
Trust me on this one, you can make a lot more money by playing on the Player-VS-Player servers where "player-kill" or PK is allowed.
;)
Interesting socio-economic questions arise when you talk about the society based not on trade, or agriculture, or technology, but one based on theft!
Oh wait...isn't that called a patent
I think this is probably a very reasonable move, which allows not only the hardware division to experiment with possible altnerate OS's -- including linux, beos, and probably qnx
But it makes more sense from a sub-licensor standpoint, in that the money you pay isn't necessary going to your direct competitor.
It sort of levels the playing field
Its a small start by my fellow ISP owners, and I would encourage all QWEST territory ISP users to contact their ISP's and have them join in the battle.
On this page is information for Minnesota, but we could expand it for EVERY QWEST territory
Considering the number of relays in orbz and ordb that are out of the 210 and 211 sub-class A blocks i would think that perhaps this might be a good thing, in so far as the mail relays getting closed up
;)
Since a majority of that "subversive" text being bounced off of them are for "american get rich way of life" propaganda
Try 'ego suffering' on google sometime
;)
A friend of mine used to brag about how anonymous she was until we found she had been ratted out by classmates.com and picked up by Google
I know there are a lot of state and local government agencies that are going web-based -- and yes, certainly there are lots of bits of information that are classified as public domain, but the ability for joe-schmoe to assimilate that information in essentially a meta-data source way is kind of freaky
Especially is joe-schmoe is an ID thief -- and is about to put what little credit rating you have in the toilet by applying and getting credit cards, auto loans, etc
all from the information we're leaking
NOTE: I'm not saying that the information shouldn't be available as a matter of public disclosure -- i just think we need to re-evaluate what should be considered private and not.
The fear of leaking SSN's before is really hardly relevant given the amount of information that can be found based on your phone number
one of the things I really like about working with FreeBSD is the ability to very easily skinny-down the kernel.
... you can always reactivate it later if you need/want it
/etc/inetd.conf
usually if you've installed the kern-development or full set, go to
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf
copy GENERIC over to a new file and run through commenting out stuff you'll never use
don't need nfs? comment out
#options NFS #Network Filesystem
#options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, NFS required
consider making a CDROM based boot image instead of HD -- not as fast boot (well, relatively) but ultimately secure and the machine will always come up in case of HD crash/corruption
otherwise, if you don't have SCSI, dump them all! also, chop out any additional ethernet drivers, etc.
not only will you get a smaller kernel with "less moving parts" that boots faster, you'll have less of a finger print to hit
ipfilter is a must as well, and definitely shutdown all extra services in
and finally, regarding SSH -- set it up to accept root connections from specific hosts, and then add in tcpwrappers and/or ipfilters to help enforce that -- it helps to cut down on any future buffer-overrun attacks that may surface
And the performance of it was TERRIBLE !
The price of Sparc hardware, especially the AX engine stuff is soooo cheap now!! For under $1000 you can get ATX formfactor sparc processor computers.
Whenever I have conversations with my associates and I hear them bragging/bitching about "lets write a new OS" -- my first argument against is "device driver hell"
NO ONE has that much freetime in their lives to write driver dujour for hardware X
Look at the limited set BEOS supported and ask yourself the same question
Linuxgruven, Sair And Employment Practices
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Maybe more intelligent applicants should read
I would venture to guess that the amount of money lost to the resources used and stolen by spammers is probably close to or soon will top revenue lost to pirated software
;)
Its not just pipe, cpu, and diskspace, but think about all the productivity lost
especially when people spend an extra five minutes around the water cooler bitching about the spam they get
Thier idea is using the pervasive SQL engine for the backend on LINUX, but you still have to use the windows client software
At least that was their "state-of-the-art" as of about six months ago when we went looking
When we started our ISP seven years ago we almost died in the first few months because we couldn't get the bills out -- off the shelf software was not setup to handle recurring billing models.
What we ended up doing was writting a custom web-based billing system that is now in its third iteration all in PERL and Postgresql
Its like George Clason extolled through his protagonist "Arkad" in the Richest Man in Babylon -- pay yourself
If you cannot bill your clients accurately and timely, you cannot make payroll
Look at how McLeodUSA is dying a horrible (and well deserved) nasty death -- ever since they took over Ovation here locally in the Twin Cities, they have yet to get a single invoice correct -- its so bad we had to switch to another provider in order to get their attention.
The Last impression is often a lasting impression -- your billing is an almost free marketing channel to your clients
Make it work for you
And what did you have to pay to get Outlook in the first place?
;)
This is a small price to pay to reach ESCAPE velocity from Outlook.
If you're really concerned about the price, why not submit your timesheet to Ximian with the hours you spent helping develop the connector -- i'm sure they will cut you deal
Seems to me that it should be relatively trivial even under something as archaic as windows to run md5 fingerprints against the files, as well as get a list of "new files" added since last sweep.
The other really easy thing to do would be to write some software that follows the IRQ chain on the keyboard controller and see what software is wedged in there.
Check it periodically (lather, rinse, repeat)