It's ok to showcase the technology of microsoft, apple, ibm, hp, etc.
But if it is a small company, then discussing it on slashdot is bad?
I for one would like to see more stories on small companies using open-source to try be make a profit. In a small way this should help promote open source adoption, as well as encourage more of people to support or start open source companies.
I made it a point to use DirecTV's DSL service ( it's still regular DSL ) instead of Bellsouth's DSL service so can in some way support the underdog.
The competitors to the telcos do lobby and the more customers they have the better. Please think about switching from the 'baby bells' to one of the upstarts eg. DirecTV or Speakeasy.
Some competitors offer great deals as well. For instance, bellsouth would charge me $120/month for a static IP, while a static IP is free with my DirecTV DSL service, and they don't mind me running any servers.
If you look at this with a technical eye, however, you recognize a few things that Microsoft probably picked up on:
The only thing microsoft picked up on is that not being a monopoly would suck.
Microsoft owns.doc, however XML is still a wildcard;
So why are they using it in most of their newer file formats? Why is it an integral part of.NET? Why are is it an the basis of they web services ( SOAP, etc.) protocols?
Anything tougher than bold, italics, and tables has been proven to be an O(n^2) representation in HTML
Maple on the other hand is the most amazing piece of software I have ever used because of its ability to deal with variables etc exactly like a human can.
There are several opensource symbolic math packages. Checkout Scilab for instance.
I agree with most of what you said, I almost bought a sony ( actually I did but cancelled the order and got a zaurus 5500 instead ). Partly because...
Sony needs a expensive sony memory sticks, whilts zaurus uses the more widely used SD cards.
zaurus is *way* cheaper.
Being linux, much more of the apps *I* am familiar with is available for zaurus. That does not go for everyone, I know.
I agree that both PDAs missed when they decided to leave out builtin bluetooth. With more and more cell phones coming out with data and bluetooth, PDAs would be one of the first things to benefit I'd think.
Now go ahead, mod me down because I stood up for MS.
I wish I had mod points, I would mod you down. Not because you stood up for MS, but because I don't think you know what you're talking about.
Most of the work on mozilla is done by netscape employees. I would guess much more that 3/4's of the mozilla code is written by aol/netscape'rs
And as such, most of the kudos for mozilla's design and engineering accomplishments goes to the netscape engineer staff. There are a lot of very smart people in that group. I encourage anyone to try following mozilla's development for a while. Track a bug, follow discussions on #mozilla, etc. I don't agree on a lot of what the moz dev team does ( sometimes my opinion is they back-burner linux bugs for windows ), but I have a lot of respect for them. And you should too.
People say "netscape sucks", "mozilla rules" not realizing that mozilla today would be a much smaller project ( read not as many platforms, not as many standards ) if it weren't for the hardwork and dedication to open-source of AOL/Netscape
that is, create the NT user whenever you add a new LDAP user.
Have a OpenLDAP replica running on your Win2k box. Include a Perl trigger, that parses ldapadds and creates a local Win2k user whenever a new LDAP user gets added.
Perl can be used to synchronize the passwords as well, so you don't need Winbind.
There are other such products, like PSych and NDS, which may be easier to work with.
Using this ensures that you don't have to rely on a Win2k LDAP network for authentication services ( read Win2k license for every AD replica, additional CALs )
But you can alternatively deploy an OpenLDAP set of replicas and have all your services/computers authenticate against them ( read free, their don't care how many you deploy or what you put into them ).
Microsoft not having Win2k play nice with others is having the beneficial side-effect of increasing their Win2k sales.
Hmmm... Hey! You think that was their plan to begin with?
FIrst no mention of single instance storage. The money you save in licensing you'll spend in increased storage costs.
Please tell me you're joking. How much space do you think the average email server saves using this? At any rate Cyrus supports this, see
http://winnie.acsu.buffalo.edu/doc/overview.html#s ingleinstance . Now I really wish people would stop bringing up that stupid buzzword.
Second where is the server based mail storage? Again the money you save on licensing you'll spend backing up mail downloaded on users' computers or home folders.
Thats a basic function of IMAP . You really should research this stuff.
Third, I didn't read anything about a web interface to read your mail like Outlook Web Access.
Backups are the same scenario. Actually with Cyrus, you can simpley change the ACL on the mailbox to admin only if you want to prevent access and not delete it. Cyrus has it's entire admin functionality exposed as a PERL module so that you can script the server directly to do what the hell you want when a employee is terminated.
OpenLDAP is just as easy to back up. A simple LDIF dump, or copy the db files.
Both these packages are rock solid. I mean months and months with absolutely *zero* downtime, except for upgrades, and even then with failover the users never notices a thing. I've managed several. Including Cyrus in an ISP environment.
Sony may have a stake. But ClearChannel, Directv and some others have the largest share I believe.
That is exactly why I think people who love radio should stay away from XM and use Sirius. Don't help ClearChannel extend their reach into satellite radio.
It's already showing. XM has under 5mins of commercials, but still they do have commercials. Sirius doesn't have commercials on their music channels.
Seriously, though, it really used to be kinda fun hearing radio from other parts of the universe when driving at night on vacation -- especially sportstalk and talk radio. But that was before the dark times.... before the ClearChannel...
And let us not forget XM is owned by ClearChannel.
Call me cynical, but I feel it is just a matter of time before they start screwing that up as well.
XM... (i) has commercials. Not much, 5mins/hr, but still. Who'd notice if it went up to 5.5, then 6? (ii) Own by Clear Channel. The same people who killed radio. Ok they didn't do it all by themselves:)
Sirius... (i) more expensive. $13 as opposed to $10/month for XM. (ii) All commercial-free channels.
I love radio. My favorite thing when I can't sleep ( which is very often ), is to go for a long drive and listen to the radio. Some of my best memories as a child is going out for sunday drives with my dad, talking and listening to the radio. But as so many have pointed out, radio is slowly losing its soul.
It seems satellite is the only way to go. But I'd bet that if ClearChannel's XM wins the greater market share, then satellite will suffer the same fate as AM/FM.
As usual, I'm betting on the underdog. XM is own by ClearChannel/DirecTv and a much of others, but sirius seems to make up by delivering a more appealing product.
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It's a geek thing, you wouldn't understand.
It's ok to showcase the technology of microsoft, apple, ibm, hp, etc.
But if it is a small company, then discussing it on slashdot is bad?
I for one would like to see more stories on small companies using open-source to try be make a profit. In a small way this should help promote open source adoption, as well as encourage more of people to support or start open source companies.
I don't know what the 'other stuff' is. but Java, Matlab, and Maple are all available for Linux.
but it's still good to see it on the palm as well.
I made it a point to use DirecTV's DSL service ( it's still regular DSL ) instead of Bellsouth's DSL service so can in some way support the underdog.
The competitors to the telcos do lobby and the more customers they have the better. Please think about switching from the 'baby bells' to one of the upstarts eg. DirecTV or Speakeasy.
Some competitors offer great deals as well. For instance, bellsouth would charge me $120/month for a static IP, while a static IP is free with my DirecTV DSL service, and they don't mind me running any servers.
I don't do backups, so i avoid this problem all entirely.
You know, sometimes you slashdot geeks make things way to complicated.
The only thing microsoft picked up on is that not being a monopoly would suck.
Microsoft owns .doc, however XML is still a wildcard;
So why are they using it in most of their newer file formats? Why is it an integral part of .NET? Why are is it an the basis of they web services ( SOAP, etc.) protocols?
Anything tougher than bold, italics, and tables has been proven to be an O(n^2) representation in HTML
I'm speechless...
There are several opensource symbolic math packages. Checkout Scilab for instance.
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/
There are probably others ( search google.com, freshmeat.net, sourceforge.net )
No, but you can go to walmart.com and dell.com.
You do have a choice. But you have to choose to research and compare products before buying.
...so using WiFi encryption would have your session doubley encrypted I guess.
If you haven't played around with RDP, checkout rdesktop ( http://www.rdesktop.org/ )
since this is most likely just an embedded windows+RDP client...
how long till someone can get this new display hardware, install linux+X+rdesktop ( http://www.rdesktop.org ) and undercut microsoft in the market?
http://www.compiere.org/
And has for ages now. Since the original 1.x series.
Try a search on the cyrus mailing list for more info.
I agree with most of what you said, I almost bought a sony ( actually I did but cancelled the order and got a zaurus 5500 instead ). Partly because...
Sony needs a expensive sony memory sticks, whilts zaurus uses the more widely used SD cards.
zaurus is *way* cheaper.
Being linux, much more of the apps *I* am familiar with is available for zaurus. That does not go for everyone, I know.
I agree that both PDAs missed when they decided to leave out builtin bluetooth. With more and more cell phones coming out with data and bluetooth, PDAs would be one of the first things to benefit I'd think.
Now go ahead, mod me down because I stood up for MS.
I wish I had mod points, I would mod you down. Not because you stood up for MS, but because I don't think you know what you're talking about.
Most of the work on mozilla is done by netscape employees. I would guess much more that 3/4's of the mozilla code is written by aol/netscape'rs
And as such, most of the kudos for mozilla's design and engineering accomplishments goes to the netscape engineer staff. There are a lot of very smart people in that group. I encourage anyone to try following mozilla's development for a while. Track a bug, follow discussions on #mozilla, etc. I don't agree on a lot of what the moz dev team does ( sometimes my opinion is they back-burner linux bugs for windows ), but I have a lot of respect for them. And you should too.
People say "netscape sucks", "mozilla rules" not realizing that mozilla today would be a much smaller project ( read not as many platforms, not as many standards ) if it weren't for the hardwork and dedication to open-source of AOL/Netscape
Will do that. I think in the end, I think the benefits of few less win2k servers to maintain/buy is worth the client install.
that is, create the NT user whenever you add a new LDAP user.
Have a OpenLDAP replica running on your Win2k box. Include a Perl trigger, that parses ldapadds and creates a local Win2k user whenever a new LDAP user gets added.
Perl can be used to synchronize the passwords as well, so you don't need Winbind.
checkout http://acctsync.sf.net/ For more info.
http://acctsync.sf.net - It's difficult to deploy, but it works.
There are other such products, like PSych and NDS, which may be easier to work with.
Using this ensures that you don't have to rely on a Win2k LDAP network for authentication services ( read Win2k license for every AD replica, additional CALs )
But you can alternatively deploy an OpenLDAP set of replicas and have all your services/computers authenticate against them ( read free, their don't care how many you deploy or what you put into them ).
Microsoft not having Win2k play nice with others is having the beneficial side-effect of increasing their Win2k sales.
Hmmm... Hey! You think that was their plan to begin with?
It's a modified OpenLDAP.
How nice of them.
Not to be rude, but this is hilarious.
FIrst no mention of single instance storage. The money you save in licensing you'll spend in increased storage costs.
Please tell me you're joking. How much space do you think the average email server saves using this? At any rate Cyrus supports this, see http://winnie.acsu.buffalo.edu/doc/overview.html#s ingleinstance . Now I really wish people would stop bringing up that stupid buzzword.
Second where is the server based mail storage? Again the money you save on licensing you'll spend backing up mail downloaded on users' computers or home folders.
Thats a basic function of IMAP . You really should research this stuff.
Third, I didn't read anything about a web interface to read your mail like Outlook Web Access.
Ever heard of IMP or squirrellmail? http://www.squirrelmail.org/ How did you get moded +5??
Backups are the same scenario. Actually with Cyrus, you can simpley change the ACL on the mailbox to admin only if you want to prevent access and not delete it. Cyrus has it's entire admin functionality exposed as a PERL module so that you can script the server directly to do what the hell you want when a employee is terminated.
OpenLDAP is just as easy to back up. A simple LDIF dump, or copy the db files.
Both these packages are rock solid. I mean months and months with absolutely *zero* downtime, except for upgrades, and even then with failover the users never notices a thing. I've managed several. Including Cyrus in an ISP environment.
+5 ??!! LOL
Yeah, those useless IETF standards!
Yes that ClearChannel.
http://archive.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/03/27/be ltway/index.html
Sony may have a stake. But ClearChannel, Directv and some others have the largest share I believe.
That is exactly why I think people who love radio should stay away from XM and use Sirius. Don't help ClearChannel extend their reach into satellite radio.
It's already showing. XM has under 5mins of commercials, but still they do have commercials. Sirius doesn't have commercials on their music channels.
And let us not forget XM is owned by ClearChannel.
Call me cynical, but I feel it is just a matter of time before they start screwing that up as well.
XM... :)
(i) has commercials. Not much, 5mins/hr, but still. Who'd notice if it went up to 5.5, then 6?
(ii) Own by Clear Channel. The same people who killed radio. Ok they didn't do it all by themselves
Sirius...
(i) more expensive. $13 as opposed to $10/month for XM.
(ii) All commercial-free channels.
I love radio. My favorite thing when I can't sleep ( which is very often ), is to go for a long drive and listen to the radio. Some of my best memories as a child is going out for sunday drives with my dad, talking and listening to the radio. But as so many have pointed out, radio is slowly losing its soul.
It seems satellite is the only way to go. But I'd bet that if ClearChannel's XM wins the greater market share, then satellite will suffer the same fate as AM/FM.
As usual, I'm betting on the underdog. XM is own by ClearChannel/DirecTv and a much of others, but sirius seems to make up by delivering a more appealing product.