That's nuts. I got Co-Pilot for free when I got my Nokia E61 through T-Mobile in the UK. It really does seem like big business is crippling the use of technology in the US.
When I read about this yesterday, as well as expecting a port to Power6, which isn't unlikely, I was wondering if Sun would be offering Solaris as a zOS virtual machine. zSolaris - now, that *is* weird.
It would be a nice gesture although it wouldn't mean a lot. How many Unices are closed source now? Probably more than we might think - AIX, HP-UX and Tru-64 for three in major use. Placing Unix in the public domain, rather than binding it to a licence, would be a strong acknowledgement of its position in the IT world of the early 21st century.
The Debian servers were down for what seemed like ages though, which was frustrating for me as I was trying to build a few machines on it at the time. When providing a public service, there has to be a balance between fixing the problems and making sure that the service isn't down for too long. I would assume that the Ubuntu source is safely stored offline somewhere and can be recovered but one of the lessons that has to be learned is the value of a standardised production environment that's been designed in a secure way. Horse and stable door for sure but these are the requirements that are paramount in a production system that is delivering what is becoming high profile software.
There is a backend, it's called the discussion tab on each article. There should be a loose method of peer checking for validity (if there are peers available) but a lot of the 'whitewash' is things that aren't factually incorrect, just inconvenient. It's time for yet another tag: 'This article has been modified by someone who may have a professional interest in the subject' or something.
Which has little to do with those who work in IT and much to do with those who pay for IT. It may have made some US CEOs think twice but it wouldn't have affected the workers on the ground. Next week Forbes will tell its readers that mauve has the most RAM.
I was contracted to build a SCO UnixWare box in about 1998 as a mail server. It was so frustrating to configure with virtual hosts (impossible, as it later turned out), and support was non-existent on the web and only available on the presentation of a credit card on the phone that I advised the client to bin it and use Red Hat. It looks like I wasn't alone either.
Seconded, it's the best phone I've had, and I've been through assorted smartphones and PDA/phone combinations in the last few years. The built in browser is fine, Opera is better. There's a strong developer community around Symbian S60 and within Nokia with such apps as streaming radio and podcasts. On a good data tariff it makes a pretty good 3G modem too.
What the article talks about is the aggregation of social networks, which certainly won't work because Facebook, MySpace, etc etc need eyeballs to pages to generate revenue. I'm probably in the wrong demographic to appreciate the true value of social networks as I'm old and I hate everyone but the only value that I can see of any of these sites is the interconnectedness of small groups of people - Facebook has reunited me with a couple of old friends, which has been nice, and it is the one site that may serve as an aggregator of sorts, but all ready there's an air of 2. ? 3. Profit! about it. The case of FriendsReunited, the UK schoolfriends and social network site (which started before the term was coined) is a good one: it was bought by ITV, the UK commercial broadcaster, for a hefty sum three or four years ago with the obvious belief that it could generate content for ITV as well as advertising: it took until last year and a blatant copy of a BBC series about celebrities tracking their family history to actually do something with it, which probably isn't a good return on £130 million. So to be viable, there has got to be something more: the Web 2.0 of social networking has got to meet the Web 2.0 of content, or we will all just end up chatting about what we did at the weekend.
The future of social networking isn't about telling everyone what you had for dinner, well, not in the Twitter way anyway, it's about deriving content from the experience, in other words, writing a review of the restaurant you visited and making it available for syndication, more like Technorati but with attribution and maybe even reward, or indeed what the original idea of the world wide web was, at a deeper level - where the link was the basic principle of Sir Tim's version of the Web, it becomes the article, or indeed the video, the song or the slideshow. Hmm, I sense another website coming on...
And his restaurant. He has become notorious for his creations such as smoked bacon flavoured ice cream and snail porridge (which is actually supposed to be a snail risotto made with oats). He also says that Molecular gastronomy is dead, so who do we believe?
That's as good as a plan as I can think of. An additional channel would be coupons delivered to the phone for use in the area, like a portable version of those magazines that are found at rest stops that are full of coupons for hotels. The phone could have a Google-only browser, probably based on Google Maps, which would locate hotels, restaurants and places of entertainment for you, either based on tower location or GPS.
Probably a mixture of AIX, Solaris and Linux with a sprinkling of HP-UX thrown in. IBM are nothing if not eclectic and indeed pragmatic about the services they provide.
I was involved in a migration to the zOS architecture three years ago. I am currently involved in a similar exercise for a British telecoms company whose name escapes me. In both cases the principle was perfectly sound, but the reality rapidly starts to come down to what can be migrated, when, and why. At IBM application compatibility was a major consideration, and ultimately prevented key parts of the system from being migrated. At the current site, surprise surprise, the problems are the same, plus reluctance to do the work (upgrades, work required on the client's part, age of applications and Plain Old Politics). I wish IBM good luck, and perhaps because there is a better integration of operations and systems they might succeed, but I would be willing to bet that by the end of the process, they will have reached about 80% of their target.
In most of the rest of the world, gasoline is more like $7 a gallon (currently about £0.94-0.99 a litre in the UK) and the cost of gas in the US has doubled since I was there four years ago, so if that's not a problem, I don't know what is.
The original Beetle was very simple: when at university we roamed the north of England in an orange 1970 model called Reuben. Its owner changed the engine twice in the five years that he had it, and it was pretty much a case of removing three or four bolts, lifting out the old engine, dropping in a 'new' one and aligning the push-rods. Then again I also have less than fond memories of working the windscreen wipers by hand when they were defeated by a savage rainstorm in Cumbria. The mechanical assembly practically had handles to do this. You can see why it is regarded as a design classic.
I was just thinking about this coming back from lunch. OS X has become the pragmatic choice of many sysadmins simply because it is the best of both worlds: you get a GUI OS on (generally) reliable hardware that will run Microsoft Office (if you must) but also has a full command line interface that will run most Unix tools without any fiddling. Part of OS X's success is wholly due to this, and the Linux/FOSS community has responded by making the Linux front end more Mac-like with Compiz, Beryl and Etoile. In short, you aren't going to gain anything by running Linux, except some nebulous feeling of self-satisfaction about something or other, and you are going to lose an awful lot. Running Windows on a Mac makes the Baby Jesus cry; running Linux exclusively gives him slight heartburn.
The linear TV recording device is dying. As TV companies are slowly twigging to the idea of TV on demand either over the Internet or over the wire/dish, the EPG driven recorder will become redundant. However, the technology will live on. TiVo should be (and hopefully are) looking at ways of managing video on demand. In the UK Sky have recently added AnytimeTV to their Sky+ service. This uses spare bandwidth on the dish to download and store content asynchronously. Its initial offerings aren't particularly compelling and the process is noisy on the current models so I have turned it off, but it looks to be an inevitability of the future development of TV. BT are rolling out BT Fusion, which combines recordable Freeview digital TV with an on demand service delivered over IP. Virgin Media also have an offering with a disk recorder over cable. The boxes are made by Thomson, Philips and Grundig - TiVo appear to have missed a trick here, although Europe never seems to have been successful for them. I would suggest that the TiVo has make the sidestep to becoming a more universal player as methods of delivering TV change and has to incorporate those hardware hacks such as IP connectivity and ways of introducing other methods of input. Allowing it to play YouTube would be predictable but would be step in the direction that the company is going to have to go to survive.
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That's nuts. I got Co-Pilot for free when I got my Nokia E61 through T-Mobile in the UK. It really does seem like big business is crippling the use of technology in the US.
When I read about this yesterday, as well as expecting a port to Power6, which isn't unlikely, I was wondering if Sun would be offering Solaris as a zOS virtual machine. zSolaris - now, that *is* weird.
When I read that a single contractor was responsible for 60 hospital websites, I thought 'he must have been a busy chap.'
I think I'll go and lie down.
It would be a nice gesture although it wouldn't mean a lot. How many Unices are closed source now? Probably more than we might think - AIX, HP-UX and Tru-64 for three in major use. Placing Unix in the public domain, rather than binding it to a licence, would be a strong acknowledgement of its position in the IT world of the early 21st century.
The Debian servers were down for what seemed like ages though, which was frustrating for me as I was trying to build a few machines on it at the time. When providing a public service, there has to be a balance between fixing the problems and making sure that the service isn't down for too long.
I would assume that the Ubuntu source is safely stored offline somewhere and can be recovered but one of the lessons that has to be learned is the value of a standardised production environment that's been designed in a secure way. Horse and stable door for sure but these are the requirements that are paramount in a production system that is delivering what is becoming high profile software.
There is a backend, it's called the discussion tab on each article. There should be a loose method of peer checking for validity (if there are peers available) but a lot of the 'whitewash' is things that aren't factually incorrect, just inconvenient. It's time for yet another tag: 'This article has been modified by someone who may have a professional interest in the subject' or something.
Which has little to do with those who work in IT and much to do with those who pay for IT. It may have made some US CEOs think twice but it wouldn't have affected the workers on the ground. Next week Forbes will tell its readers that mauve has the most RAM.
I was contracted to build a SCO UnixWare box in about 1998 as a mail server. It was so frustrating to configure with virtual hosts (impossible, as it later turned out), and support was non-existent on the web and only available on the presentation of a credit card on the phone that I advised the client to bin it and use Red Hat. It looks like I wasn't alone either.
Change to the Red Crescent world wide. Allah ackbar.
Seconded, it's the best phone I've had, and I've been through assorted smartphones and PDA/phone combinations in the last few years. The built in browser is fine, Opera is better. There's a strong developer community around Symbian S60 and within Nokia with such apps as streaming radio and podcasts. On a good data tariff it makes a pretty good 3G modem too.
What the article talks about is the aggregation of social networks, which certainly won't work because Facebook, MySpace, etc etc need eyeballs to pages to generate revenue. I'm probably in the wrong demographic to appreciate the true value of social networks as I'm old and I hate everyone but the only value that I can see of any of these sites is the interconnectedness of small groups of people - Facebook has reunited me with a couple of old friends, which has been nice, and it is the one site that may serve as an aggregator of sorts, but all ready there's an air of 2. ? 3. Profit! about it.
The case of FriendsReunited, the UK schoolfriends and social network site (which started before the term was coined) is a good one: it was bought by ITV, the UK commercial broadcaster, for a hefty sum three or four years ago with the obvious belief that it could generate content for ITV as well as advertising: it took until last year and a blatant copy of a BBC series about celebrities tracking their family history to actually do something with it, which probably isn't a good return on £130 million.
So to be viable, there has got to be something more: the Web 2.0 of social networking has got to meet the Web 2.0 of content, or we will all just end up chatting about what we did at the weekend.
The future of social networking isn't about telling everyone what you had for dinner, well, not in the Twitter way anyway, it's about deriving content from the experience, in other words, writing a review of the restaurant you visited and making it available for syndication, more like Technorati but with attribution and maybe even reward, or indeed what the original idea of the world wide web was, at a deeper level - where the link was the basic principle of Sir Tim's version of the Web, it becomes the article, or indeed the video, the song or the slideshow. Hmm, I sense another website coming on...
Sorry, sorry.
And his restaurant. He has become notorious for his creations such as smoked bacon flavoured ice cream and snail porridge (which is actually supposed to be a snail risotto made with oats). He also says that Molecular gastronomy is dead, so who do we believe?
That's as good as a plan as I can think of. An additional channel would be coupons delivered to the phone for use in the area, like a portable version of those magazines that are found at rest stops that are full of coupons for hotels. The phone could have a Google-only browser, probably based on Google Maps, which would locate hotels, restaurants and places of entertainment for you, either based on tower location or GPS.
It looks like Leopard will be Universal so either Apple or Opengroup have gone for certification on the current, Intel platform.
Probably a mixture of AIX, Solaris and Linux with a sprinkling of HP-UX thrown in. IBM are nothing if not eclectic and indeed pragmatic about the services they provide.
I was involved in a migration to the zOS architecture three years ago. I am currently involved in a similar exercise for a British telecoms company whose name escapes me. In both cases the principle was perfectly sound, but the reality rapidly starts to come down to what can be migrated, when, and why. At IBM application compatibility was a major consideration, and ultimately prevented key parts of the system from being migrated. At the current site, surprise surprise, the problems are the same, plus reluctance to do the work (upgrades, work required on the client's part, age of applications and Plain Old Politics). I wish IBM good luck, and perhaps because there is a better integration of operations and systems they might succeed, but I would be willing to bet that by the end of the process, they will have reached about 80% of their target.
In most of the rest of the world, gasoline is more like $7 a gallon (currently about £0.94-0.99 a litre in the UK) and the cost of gas in the US has doubled since I was there four years ago, so if that's not a problem, I don't know what is.
The original Beetle was very simple: when at university we roamed the north of England in an orange 1970 model called Reuben. Its owner changed the engine twice in the five years that he had it, and it was pretty much a case of removing three or four bolts, lifting out the old engine, dropping in a 'new' one and aligning the push-rods. Then again I also have less than fond memories of working the windscreen wipers by hand when they were defeated by a savage rainstorm in Cumbria. The mechanical assembly practically had handles to do this. You can see why it is regarded as a design classic.
Mostly released by NASA and mostly copyright free. I'd like to see them get that genie back in the bottle.
Analex - they certainly seem to be. I'm willing to bet that it's one idiot jobsworth in a brown uniform.
I was just thinking about this coming back from lunch. OS X has become the pragmatic choice of many sysadmins simply because it is the best of both worlds: you get a GUI OS on (generally) reliable hardware that will run Microsoft Office (if you must) but also has a full command line interface that will run most Unix tools without any fiddling. Part of OS X's success is wholly due to this, and the Linux/FOSS community has responded by making the Linux front end more Mac-like with Compiz, Beryl and Etoile.
In short, you aren't going to gain anything by running Linux, except some nebulous feeling of self-satisfaction about something or other, and you are going to lose an awful lot. Running Windows on a Mac makes the Baby Jesus cry; running Linux exclusively gives him slight heartburn.
Not BT Fusion, BT Vision. Fusion is their combined Mobile/VoIP/POTS phone.
The linear TV recording device is dying. As TV companies are slowly twigging to the idea of TV on demand either over the Internet or over the wire/dish, the EPG driven recorder will become redundant. However, the technology will live on. TiVo should be (and hopefully are) looking at ways of managing video on demand. In the UK Sky have recently added AnytimeTV to their Sky+ service. This uses spare bandwidth on the dish to download and store content asynchronously. Its initial offerings aren't particularly compelling and the process is noisy on the current models so I have turned it off, but it looks to be an inevitability of the future development of TV. BT are rolling out BT Fusion, which combines recordable Freeview digital TV with an on demand service delivered over IP. Virgin Media also have an offering with a disk recorder over cable. The boxes are made by Thomson, Philips and Grundig - TiVo appear to have missed a trick here, although Europe never seems to have been successful for them. I would suggest that the TiVo has make the sidestep to becoming a more universal player as methods of delivering TV change and has to incorporate those hardware hacks such as IP connectivity and ways of introducing other methods of input. Allowing it to play YouTube would be predictable but would be step in the direction that the company is going to have to go to survive.