Re:Kudos to Slashdot and the Slashteam
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Handling the Loads
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Actually to be completely fair -- yahoo and it's news sites (and custom sites like my.yahoo.com) did not take a significant hit -- i.e.: they just worked -- apparently without the intervention that was required at Slashdot and to a tune of many more hits/users.
Waive their fee? Are you the guy that goes in and pays list for a new car? Software is negotiable. Always has been. The more users you represent, the more bargaining power you have and the deeper your discount.
Might I suggest that your licensing for Exchange would be considerably less than list at the 50,000 user level? Perhpas not as much as the rumored discounts given by Oracle (90% or more!) to huge customers but a definite published sliding scale does exist. The more you buy, the less it costs and the pricing model needs to use the volume pricing, not the relative list cost.
Umm... before you accuse check your facts. The numbers above are the result of some scalabilty tests actually done by MS/Compaq. And yes, you could come close to them in a properly engineered environment. Much the same as a 390 has to be properly engineered.
One down side to Notes comparison -- the interface stinks big time as an e-mail client. Although configurable it does not compare with Outlook out of the box. It stinks to the rate of impacting user use of e-mail -- i.e.: Notes users on average use e-mail less than 1/2 as much as Exchange users do...
Um... usually we pay for 7x24 2 hour on-site vendor support... I didn't see that number there. Or 4 hour support... in either system it's required, isn't it?
Which traditionally are high for IBM systems and when you count up servers on the Intel side also count higher?
Did we count the difference in functionality? Exchange vs. what on Linux?
The mainframe may be back -- but make no mistake it is still the domain of the priesthood. The priesthood that the server architecture was to break up. Do Linux users really want that? A handful of techs who are well paid (the business people are cheering) but no need for the thousands of SA's and small shops can just buy time on a 390.
Back to the simple economic model...
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and the jihad member doesn't understand economics -- that they will pay the highest price possible. Their host country may.
and perhaps the answer is upstream of those doing the killing.
Anyone who hosts a terrorist is and should be counted as guilty as they are.
Step carefully, measure twice, strike once.
Deeply flawed logic alert...
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We will be attacked because we are big.
We will be attacked because we are tolerant.
Get used to it. We have meddled in the past and been attacked. We have tried not to meddle (isolationism) and saw the world blow up in our faces, we were attacked there as well.
We need not start any war. We will committ to finishing that which has been started.
This is not a case of right, wrong or moral high ground. This is a case of simple economics. The cost to attack the institution we call the US, to kill US citizens should and will be dear. What we do next may not be right. It needs to be final.
Even as a youth he recognized how to deal with a bully -- there are many of them and you need to make an example.
When he grew up there is a lesson as well -- i.e.: genocide is not the solution...
We need a swift, accurate and well thought out sludge-hammer/nuclear level response (not neccessarily nukes, but same effect). We then can rebuild the remains into a new country (ala Japan) in whatever image we want.
Translation: Mozilla does not exist because it was qualitied away. The company, the managers and the programmers are working on a charity case at best. No product means no success.
IE is the dominant player, has few security bugs, has regular alerts because it is widely used, has enough funding to go on because it is a "successful" product.
who rightfully lost... would have answered to whomever paid the most.
Maybe I'm jaded but I think this is a result of MS learning the game from Novell, Sun, etc.... the game that you MUST "contribute" to the political system -- both parties. You must lobby. You must grease the wheels (totally legal -- not bribery but politics in the US).
MS was almost a non-participant just a few years ago. Since the attack came from the political side (yes, the Justice department under Bill "get me a pretty intern" Clinton was politically motivated and driven by paying constituents) MS had to learn the political game.
MS and Bill Gates are not dumb. They learn fast. They hire smart people. They fight on more than one front at once. They make mistakes but recover and are in it for the long haul.
We have Sun, Novell, Apple, IBM, etc. to blame for this -- and this is scary -- deep pockets are in the political scene now and learned the game from the best.
The EU is made up of many different countries -- and if MS can influence the members then the EU will give them a pass or else disolve itself (not that it is too solid now).
Played dirty with Netscape? Let's be honest -- Netscape committed suicide... Just like Novell did.
Find a real competitor who is not going to roll. Produce a better mouse-trap. Market it with real marketing. Then you will win and their is nothing MS can do about it.
Slashdot should consider a more mature and functional system -- I hear Windows NT has much less down time.
Alternatively -- perhaps any sufficiently complex system may experience down-time -- especially after a major upgrade. Life is good if it is infrequent and non-repeated. This is when the SA's earn their pay.
..do you think every cut is perfect in a house? Do you think that every board is the exact right length? I have worked with builders for long enough to know -- good enough is when the ugly is hidden.
Bridges are rated for a certain weight -- technically they could carry much more if built to the n'th degree -- should builders be ashamed that they did not maximize their material and design specs?
Netscape needs to learn the lesson that bridge builders and carpenters did long ago -- it's not perfection, that's what trim is for, it's delivery on time and on-budget that counts. MS is learning that/has learned it (latest version 2 months ahead of schedule...).
If a builder is a perfectionist they go out of business... they do good enough with trim, on time and under budget and lo and behold are considered true craftsmen.
The sort of craftmanship most GNULinux people seem to think is required for software is limited to a very small set of craftsmen in todays world -- mostly in the furniture business for custom, expensive and trendy furniture. Not general purpose -- marginal players.
Re:Hate to say, sounds like a dot-bomb strategy...
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I'd agree -- just like what killed Compaq -- buying a second rate liability like Digital where they needed to gut the technology to make any money throwing out much of what they paid for.
Compaq was a great company. HP was a great second choice if Compaq was constrained. Now my choice is HP vs. IBM with a third of Dell? Ugh.
was excellant -- but the next few books in the series killed it for me. He lost readability.
In the Potter series book 4 was an excellant and logical 4 -- following 3, 2 and 1. It was more complex, more compelling, darker and longer. It sucked you in. It manipulated the reader.
I'd give speaker for the dead a 3 out of 4. HP 4 I'd give a 3.75 out of 4 -- on the same level as a Tolkein especially when viewed in the series.
And Oracle costs more than SQL2000 -- and managers make the smart decision and roll out Oracle or SQL every day. Smart because it works. Smart because it is the appropriate tool. Cost is secondary -- first is will it do the job and will my software vendor support it.
Windows, when configured correctly, is a relatively secure operating system. Not perfect but quite good. If a company is unable to secure windows I would question their ability to secure Linux.
Cost is relative -- and a few k in software costs is an investment that pays back greatly. Wasting thousands of k in rolling out a system that doesn't work is a much, much larger issue -- i.e.: cost of MS Software is an issue but is secondary.
Good point -- usually price of software is secondary.
First question: will it run my software? Answer: in health care buy windows.
Second question: is it cost justified? Answer: will it run my software?
Answer: buy windows. Linux is not an option for most of the systems we are considering. Articles like this one don't help it either -- real, verifiable, usable data would.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually to be completely fair -- yahoo and it's news sites (and custom sites like my.yahoo.com) did not take a significant hit -- i.e.: they just worked -- apparently without the intervention that was required at Slashdot and to a tune of many more hits/users.
Waive their fee? Are you the guy that goes in and pays list for a new car? Software is negotiable. Always has been. The more users you represent, the more bargaining power you have and the deeper your discount.
The point is the cost specified is not the standard published discounts. It tends to be closer to retail.
Might I suggest that your licensing for Exchange would be considerably less than list at the 50,000 user level? Perhpas not as much as the rumored discounts given by Oracle (90% or more!) to huge customers but a definite published sliding scale does exist. The more you buy, the less it costs and the pricing model needs to use the volume pricing, not the relative list cost.
Umm... before you accuse check your facts. The numbers above are the result of some scalabilty tests actually done by MS/Compaq. And yes, you could come close to them in a properly engineered environment. Much the same as a 390 has to be properly engineered.
One down side to Notes comparison -- the interface stinks big time as an e-mail client. Although configurable it does not compare with Outlook out of the box. It stinks to the rate of impacting user use of e-mail -- i.e.: Notes users on average use e-mail less than 1/2 as much as Exchange users do...
Um... usually we pay for 7x24 2 hour on-site vendor support... I didn't see that number there. Or 4 hour support... in either system it's required, isn't it?
Did we count the difference in functionality? Exchange vs. what on Linux?
The mainframe may be back -- but make no mistake it is still the domain of the priesthood. The priesthood that the server architecture was to break up. Do Linux users really want that? A handful of techs who are well paid (the business people are cheering) but no need for the thousands of SA's and small shops can just buy time on a 390.
and the jihad member doesn't understand economics -- that they will pay the highest price possible. Their host country may.
Sounds like a simple solution then -- they just need to gift wrap him and leave him on their border and we'll take it from their.
Anyone who hosts a terrorist is and should be counted as guilty as they are.
Step carefully, measure twice, strike once.
We will be attacked because we are big.
We will be attacked because we are tolerant.
Get used to it. We have meddled in the past and been attacked. We have tried not to meddle (isolationism) and saw the world blow up in our faces, we were attacked there as well.
We need not start any war. We will committ to finishing that which has been started.
This is not a case of right, wrong or moral high ground. This is a case of simple economics. The cost to attack the institution we call the US, to kill US citizens should and will be dear. What we do next may not be right. It needs to be final.
When he grew up there is a lesson as well -- i.e.: genocide is not the solution...
We need a swift, accurate and well thought out sludge-hammer/nuclear level response (not neccessarily nukes, but same effect). We then can rebuild the remains into a new country (ala Japan) in whatever image we want.
IE is the dominant player, has few security bugs, has regular alerts because it is widely used, has enough funding to go on because it is a "successful" product.
Maybe I'm jaded but I think this is a result of MS learning the game from Novell, Sun, etc.... the game that you MUST "contribute" to the political system -- both parties. You must lobby. You must grease the wheels (totally legal -- not bribery but politics in the US).
MS was almost a non-participant just a few years ago. Since the attack came from the political side (yes, the Justice department under Bill "get me a pretty intern" Clinton was politically motivated and driven by paying constituents) MS had to learn the political game.
MS and Bill Gates are not dumb. They learn fast. They hire smart people. They fight on more than one front at once. They make mistakes but recover and are in it for the long haul.
We have Sun, Novell, Apple, IBM, etc. to blame for this -- and this is scary -- deep pockets are in the political scene now and learned the game from the best.
The EU is made up of many different countries -- and if MS can influence the members then the EU will give them a pass or else disolve itself (not that it is too solid now).
Find a real competitor who is not going to roll. Produce a better mouse-trap. Market it with real marketing. Then you will win and their is nothing MS can do about it.
Alternatively -- perhaps any sufficiently complex system may experience down-time -- especially after a major upgrade. Life is good if it is infrequent and non-repeated. This is when the SA's earn their pay.
Bridges are rated for a certain weight -- technically they could carry much more if built to the n'th degree -- should builders be ashamed that they did not maximize their material and design specs?
Netscape needs to learn the lesson that bridge builders and carpenters did long ago -- it's not perfection, that's what trim is for, it's delivery on time and on-budget that counts. MS is learning that/has learned it (latest version 2 months ahead of schedule...).
If a builder is a perfectionist they go out of business... they do good enough with trim, on time and under budget and lo and behold are considered true craftsmen.
The sort of craftmanship most GNULinux people seem to think is required for software is limited to a very small set of craftsmen in todays world -- mostly in the furniture business for custom, expensive and trendy furniture. Not general purpose -- marginal players.
Compaq was a great company. HP was a great second choice if Compaq was constrained. Now my choice is HP vs. IBM with a third of Dell? Ugh.
In the Potter series book 4 was an excellant and logical 4 -- following 3, 2 and 1. It was more complex, more compelling, darker and longer. It sucked you in. It manipulated the reader.
I'd give speaker for the dead a 3 out of 4. HP 4 I'd give a 3.75 out of 4 -- on the same level as a Tolkein especially when viewed in the series.
Are they as deep as some other also rans? No. They are hundreds of times more successful than almost any other book today -- fantasy, sci fi or other.
They inspired me to go back to the classics -- Tolkein. They are in a class all their own.
34 year's old and loving HP.
as good as Windows 95. Given a few years it may be as good as 98... and shortly after that (2005 or so) we expect it to surpass the gui in W2K.
Windows, when configured correctly, is a relatively secure operating system. Not perfect but quite good. If a company is unable to secure windows I would question their ability to secure Linux.
Cost is relative -- and a few k in software costs is an investment that pays back greatly. Wasting thousands of k in rolling out a system that doesn't work is a much, much larger issue -- i.e.: cost of MS Software is an issue but is secondary.
First question: will it run my software? Answer: in health care buy windows.
Second question: is it cost justified? Answer: will it run my software?
Answer: buy windows. Linux is not an option for most of the systems we are considering. Articles like this one don't help it either -- real, verifiable, usable data would.