I've had some fairly good experiences with the Profiling portion of DevPartner (used to be TrueTime from NuMega.) The call graphs are very easy to navigate, and the data is quite digestable (the coverage analysis is quite nice too.)
I don't think it's cheap, but I've never seen a more elegant solution.
I would be curious to see how many licenses of Windows Server (any version) they flushed when they went to BSD. Surely they had a number of licenses of Windows around there. If not, what did the previous admin spend so much money on?
I'd also be curious to see what kinds of changes got pushed down to the users. MS infrastructure has a way of snaking itself into many different areas (Exchange/Outlook integration being chief among them.) What kind of client consessions had to be made during this switch to OpenBSD?
Who else would it be? the users of the systems? They just use what was handed to them. The CTO? He just signs the cheques. It's the IT staff that architect the systems (as it clearly evicenced by the guy in the story, he's just an IT peon, and implementing the whole infrastructure.) If the deployment, which was based on windows, was bad, it's likely the implementor that did it wrong. Like I said, there are 200,000+ user deployments of Windows/AD I've seen out there working perfectly, and in a much more geographically/topographically diverse setting than PWC, I would imagine.
Ok, I don't as a general rule respond to these Windows vs Linux in the back end stories, but I have to on this one. The line in the first page says it all: 'The whole office was relying on one domain controller which was dying.'
This has *nothing* to do with Windows being teh suq. Rather, this has everything to do with the previous admin not knowing what he was doing. You don't run an enterprise shop with one DC (be that either NT4 or AD.) You have numerous DCs, and leverage this new fangled concept called redundancy. AD in a large scale corperate environment works just fine, I've seen 200k+ user networks using AD, and it scales fine. Many of these shops also use Exchange for their mail, and with a proper (and not disproportionately high, I might add) number of servers, everything runs smooth as silk.
This sounds like far less a case of the Apps being responsible, and more like a case of some "admin" who didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground being put in charge of a system far larger than he could handle. If I ever see anyone pull out this site as a case study in FOSS/Windows, I'm going to laugh in the presenters face, as they clearly don't understand the software.
Mien Got I'm getting tired of these tactical FPS games coming out like there's no tomorrow. It seems that the XBox is supported exclusively by those and a few choice sports games. I can't wait for the next big thing to come down the pipe. Cooperative story driven RPG's anyone (and yes, I know that Baldurs Gate was one, but I'm thinking more along the lines of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles.)
If it is as wonderful as it is played up to be in the article, I am shocked I've not heard more about this before. Why would anyone buy a GBA when you could get this thing (an obviously superior piece of equipment) for not that much more cash?
Isn't that the instruction set of the Itanium processor that isn't selling worth crap? I was under the impression that intel was going to eventually drop (or push to a back burner) support for this and go with x86-64 (the AMD 64 bit architecture being rolled out with the Opteron.)
Template error reporting is, at least in MSVC, almost totally incomprehensible. It takes quite a long time to figure out what each error means (and it's not usually that easy to figure them out.) And, remember to put spaces between your >'s. If you don't, the compiler will mistake them for shift left and right, and the errors don't help.
Then if you don't get it treated and don't improve your conditions, you'll end up being unable to use your hands properly, losing all grip strength.
Your above statement leads one to believe that if you get it treated and actually take some initiative to change your situation, the whole thing can be avoided altogether. If it's a disability that can be avoided by someone, why the hell should taxpayers foot the bill for shear apathy?
If they set it up such that a web-site author had to proactively adda meta tag to turn on this feature and let the benevolent Microsoft edit their web page, I think it would be acceptable. That way only the true sell-outs would use it.
Their browser is much the same though, albiet they did bundle it into the OS, which does make it a bit different. I think a lot of people just dropped the other browsers (Netscape) because they plain sucked. Netscape crashes *way* more than IE, and is slower. Office is the same. I used Wordperfect for a very long time, but it just wasn't as stable (I never though I'd hear myself saying that about an MS product either.)
Ok, I'm not that big of a Microsoft fan, but some of the things Katz says aren't really that strong, especially without backing up. I'm going to be inviting the flames with this, but ah well, here goes...
Katz calls Microsoft the first company that exists above the law. Where does he get this. They were taken to court in an antitrust suit because they bundled their *free* web browser in their OS. I admit that this is a bit of an underhanded move, given that it pushed Netscape out, but what market did they push them out of? Browsers had been free for quite a while prior to the bundling, so Netscape wasn't making any money there (I know netscape made cash from selling ads on their homepage, but people could reassign homepages quite easily, so that one doesn't stand up that well.) The point I'm making in this is that the antitrust case for the browser is pretty weak. More powerful than the government?! What exactly makes him say this, the fact that they lost one antitrust suit? "Undisputed King of the Net"? What about the big-wigs at AOL-Time Warner? They're pretty high up on the food chain themselves, not to mention they're also monopolistic whores who have their sights set on MS. While I agree that Micro$oft is too big for its breeches, and probably should be broken apart, the efforts put forward thus far to make it happen have been pathetic at best. Why not go after Office for it's monopoly instead? It's not free, and MS sure did drive the competition out of that space.
I guess there really is no great point to the above, except that Katz should learn that using adjectives doesn't make his point any more solid...he should use facts instead, they work much better.
Even if a thousand people (scientists) say something is so, does not make it so. False ideas have been taken as gospel many times in the past (the 4 humors, for example.) We work with theory, which in many cases cannot be concretely proven (like how acids and bases work) and, although 1000's of scientists say it is so, it may not, and often is not the case.
Or should the US legal system be overhauled to not let the stupid sue at the drop of a hat. The US needs a loser pays clause for civil suits...that would stop the morons from blaming their moronicism on anyone with money to pay.
It's just a bit torturous to transplant the brain of a creature and start giving it inputs that don't really resemble how it's supposed to work. What do you think the chances are that the impulses that are being sent to the brain are causing it pain, and it's reacting to that. I don't think I like the prospect of my sight and smell being replaced with raw electrical inputs...sounds like we'd be immersing these little creatures in one unending acid trip.
I found it bootleg back when Scour was up, and if you haven't seen it, your missing one hell of a ride. Episodes 25 and 26 (the originals), while good, are no compare.
When they're finally seen by the masses, if anyone can give me a good explanation of the ending, I'd *love* to hear it.
Those music clubs (Columbia house in particular) only deal with old top 40 stuff. I lisetn to metal, and if I join a music club, I get to choose from Brian Adams and Pantera, which are not in any way things I want to hear.
and they manage to raise 50k a year, which makes up a goodly portion of their operating budget. It's a great idea, but I don't know how well it will fly on the internet...there are way too many sites out there. It would work if people only had one or two sites they were funding, but I myself look at 20-30 sites a day, it would be nuts to pledge to all of them.
Slashdot Mirror
I've had some fairly good experiences with the Profiling portion of DevPartner (used to be TrueTime from NuMega.) The call graphs are very easy to navigate, and the data is quite digestable (the coverage analysis is quite nice too.)
I don't think it's cheap, but I've never seen a more elegant solution.
I would be curious to see how many licenses of Windows Server (any version) they flushed when they went to BSD. Surely they had a number of licenses of Windows around there. If not, what did the previous admin spend so much money on?
I'd also be curious to see what kinds of changes got pushed down to the users. MS infrastructure has a way of snaking itself into many different areas (Exchange/Outlook integration being chief among them.) What kind of client consessions had to be made during this switch to OpenBSD?
Who else would it be? the users of the systems? They just use what was handed to them. The CTO? He just signs the cheques. It's the IT staff that architect the systems (as it clearly evicenced by the guy in the story, he's just an IT peon, and implementing the whole infrastructure.) If the deployment, which was based on windows, was bad, it's likely the implementor that did it wrong. Like I said, there are 200,000+ user deployments of Windows/AD I've seen out there working perfectly, and in a much more geographically/topographically diverse setting than PWC, I would imagine.
Ok, I don't as a general rule respond to these Windows vs Linux in the back end stories, but I have to on this one. The line in the first page says it all: 'The whole office was relying on one domain controller which was dying.'
This has *nothing* to do with Windows being teh suq. Rather, this has everything to do with the previous admin not knowing what he was doing. You don't run an enterprise shop with one DC (be that either NT4 or AD.) You have numerous DCs, and leverage this new fangled concept called redundancy. AD in a large scale corperate environment works just fine, I've seen 200k+ user networks using AD, and it scales fine. Many of these shops also use Exchange for their mail, and with a proper (and not disproportionately high, I might add) number of servers, everything runs smooth as silk.
This sounds like far less a case of the Apps being responsible, and more like a case of some "admin" who didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground being put in charge of a system far larger than he could handle. If I ever see anyone pull out this site as a case study in FOSS/Windows, I'm going to laugh in the presenters face, as they clearly don't understand the software.
Mien Got I'm getting tired of these tactical FPS games coming out like there's no tomorrow. It seems that the XBox is supported exclusively by those and a few choice sports games. I can't wait for the next big thing to come down the pipe. Cooperative story driven RPG's anyone (and yes, I know that Baldurs Gate was one, but I'm thinking more along the lines of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles.)
If it is as wonderful as it is played up to be in the article, I am shocked I've not heard more about this before. Why would anyone buy a GBA when you could get this thing (an obviously superior piece of equipment) for not that much more cash?
before Nintendo's lawyers are beating down the distributors doors demanding they halt immediately importing this thing.
:)
Get 'em while you can!
Isn't that the instruction set of the Itanium processor that isn't selling worth crap? I was under the impression that intel was going to eventually drop (or push to a back burner) support for this and go with x86-64 (the AMD 64 bit architecture being rolled out with the Opteron.)
Template error reporting is, at least in MSVC, almost totally incomprehensible. It takes quite a long time to figure out what each error means (and it's not usually that easy to figure them out.) And, remember to put spaces between your >'s. If you don't, the compiler will mistake them for shift left and right, and the errors don't help.
I need details! How can I make a home-grown nitrogen cooling system and overclock the living daylights out of my system!!!
Bah, who am I kidding, we're all bipolar board trolls.
Get a real opinion you Right wing yokel.
Then if you don't get it treated and don't improve your conditions, you'll end up being unable to use your hands properly, losing all grip strength.
Your above statement leads one to believe that if you get it treated and actually take some initiative to change your situation, the whole thing can be avoided altogether. If it's a disability that can be avoided by someone, why the hell should taxpayers foot the bill for shear apathy?
If they set it up such that a web-site author had to proactively adda meta tag to turn on this feature and let the benevolent Microsoft edit their web page, I think it would be acceptable. That way only the true sell-outs would use it.
Their browser is much the same though, albiet they did bundle it into the OS, which does make it a bit different. I think a lot of people just dropped the other browsers (Netscape) because they plain sucked. Netscape crashes *way* more than IE, and is slower. Office is the same. I used Wordperfect for a very long time, but it just wasn't as stable (I never though I'd hear myself saying that about an MS product either.)
Ok, I'm not that big of a Microsoft fan, but some of the things Katz says aren't really that strong, especially without backing up. I'm going to be inviting the flames with this, but ah well, here goes...
Katz calls Microsoft the first company that exists above the law. Where does he get this. They were taken to court in an antitrust suit because they bundled their *free* web browser in their OS. I admit that this is a bit of an underhanded move, given that it pushed Netscape out, but what market did they push them out of? Browsers had been free for quite a while prior to the bundling, so Netscape wasn't making any money there (I know netscape made cash from selling ads on their homepage, but people could reassign homepages quite easily, so that one doesn't stand up that well.) The point I'm making in this is that the antitrust case for the browser is pretty weak. More powerful than the government?! What exactly makes him say this, the fact that they lost one antitrust suit? "Undisputed King of the Net"? What about the big-wigs at AOL-Time Warner? They're pretty high up on the food chain themselves, not to mention they're also monopolistic whores who have their sights set on MS. While I agree that Micro$oft is too big for its breeches, and probably should be broken apart, the efforts put forward thus far to make it happen have been pathetic at best. Why not go after Office for it's monopoly instead? It's not free, and MS sure did drive the competition out of that space.
I guess there really is no great point to the above, except that Katz should learn that using adjectives doesn't make his point any more solid...he should use facts instead, they work much better.
Aside from that crazy arm?
Even if a thousand people (scientists) say something is so, does not make it so. False ideas have been taken as gospel many times in the past (the 4 humors, for example.) We work with theory, which in many cases cannot be concretely proven (like how acids and bases work) and, although 1000's of scientists say it is so, it may not, and often is not the case.
Or should the US legal system be overhauled to not let the stupid sue at the drop of a hat. The US needs a loser pays clause for civil suits...that would stop the morons from blaming their moronicism on anyone with money to pay.
Why can people not accept that?
It's just a bit torturous to transplant the brain of a creature and start giving it inputs that don't really resemble how it's supposed to work. What do you think the chances are that the impulses that are being sent to the brain are causing it pain, and it's reacting to that. I don't think I like the prospect of my sight and smell being replaced with raw electrical inputs...sounds like we'd be immersing these little creatures in one unending acid trip.
I found it bootleg back when Scour was up, and if you haven't seen it, your missing one hell of a ride. Episodes 25 and 26 (the originals), while good, are no compare. When they're finally seen by the masses, if anyone can give me a good explanation of the ending, I'd *love* to hear it.
Leave it to the uninformed CNN watchers to fill in the blanks with unsubstantiated gobbldegook.
Those music clubs (Columbia house in particular) only deal with old top 40 stuff. I lisetn to metal, and if I join a music club, I get to choose from Brian Adams and Pantera, which are not in any way things I want to hear.
and they manage to raise 50k a year, which makes up a goodly portion of their operating budget. It's a great idea, but I don't know how well it will fly on the internet...there are way too many sites out there. It would work if people only had one or two sites they were funding, but I myself look at 20-30 sites a day, it would be nuts to pledge to all of them.