For now.
With DirecTV rolling out MPEG4 compression over the next year+, the DirecTiVo HD boxes have a limited lifespan... and at an extremely high cost. It is hard justifying a $900-$1000 commitment to something that isn't going to be as functional for such a short time period. Who knows what kind of deal D* will give those customers who bought one...
[I was going to buy one, but being in the SF Bay Area means that we are likely to see HD locals over satellite before most of the other markets. I'd rather have a PVR that works with those. I've decided I'm going to wait for a while longer. The thought of switching back to cable is tempting as well.. ]
This should actually be a good thing. EMC bought Legato a while back. Legato is the big competitor to Veritas in the enterprise backup market. Merging the two opens up many possibilities... not the least of which would be better support for Mac OS X in Networker.
Hopefully we'll see a 'consumer' version of Networker, which is way overpriced for at home. [I was priced almost $2k for the OS X support pak. For three machines? No thanks.]
It is interesting to note that everyone here assumes that NHS has licensed the current version of JDS vs. getting a license for a later version that likely has better hardware support... and that's assuming they are going with Linux. It is already public knowledge that JDS is being ported to Solaris.
[Yes, I know. It wouldn't be/. without rampant assumptions being made.]
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... and Raster would probably agree.:)
Getting the code to run on Sun's C compilier back in the DR13 days was painful but possible and totally worth it due to the speed improvements. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the speed junkies gave up on E at/near the time of DR14 due to the extensive use of gcc-isms in the hacked up configure script and the code... and that doesn't even take into account some of the... err.. interesting methods that Carsten chose to implement some of his ideas.
[Ironically, the page has "last week's name" for Sun's product, Access Manager. Even groups that Sun founds can't keep up with the continual name changes!]
My big beef with it is the lack of perl and PHP defined APIs. Given the amount of LAMP (along with perl) being used on the web these days, it seems extremely short-sighted not have them defined. Just think,/. and the rest of the OSDN sites could be using Liberty to cross-authenticate rather than requiring each site to do their own auth systems.
If the final release of Looking Glass turns out to be as impressive as the demo shows, I don't think anyone will ever doubt Java as a 3D application language.
At one point, we were told that we should all go and get Sun certified. I refused. I said that the only purpose a Sun certification would really do is give me a piece of paper to give some future employer. If that employer wouldn't hire me unless I had certification, then I didn't really want to go work there. The upper managers said ok, but were curious as to my reasoning.
I replied quite simply that if said future employer didn't want to hire someone that was working as a lead SA at Sun when that person got the certification, I'd highly question the talent that they hire...
BTW you forgot to mention Solaris, which has it's roots in BSD too.
SunOS 1-4 were primarily BSD. SunOS 5 is primarily System V, with some 'leftovers' from earlier releases. [My guess would be that the BSD bits were left in primarily for backwards compatibility or because SysV didn't have equivalents.]
In any case, modern Solaris is much more SysV than BSD.
I haven't seen a good game "demo" released since the shareware version of quake 1. if you run across a demo that actually show you enough of the gameworld or the atmosphere that it sucks you into buying the damn thing, i'd like to hear about it.
The last demo that sucked me in was for Majesty. I suppose the amount of demo time is a bit different for FPSes and strategy games though.
Any reason you don't use Solars::PerlGcc to enable gcc-suppport?
SunFreeware is not funded/created by Sun.
There also isn't much of a need as there used to be to use SunFreeware when Solaris ships with a companion CD full of stuff already compiled.... never mind the/usr/sfw stuff that's built into the main OS already.
"About 13000 of Sun Microsystems' 35000 employees working in Santa Clara (CA) currently lack offices."
There are around 13000 employees worldwide that lack a permanent office. The Santa Clara campus doesn't hold that many people.:) [That line of the article was poorly written, IMHO.]
One of the other problems of the article is that it fails to mention that there is a sizable number of people (who may or may not be iWorking) that report to someone who isn't in their geographic area any. What's the point in going into an office if you're the only one from your team there? [Of my current team, only three are physicially located in the Bay Area... and that does not include my manager.]
I've been working from home for quite a while now. [I was one of the early adopters.] I love it. It is one of the reasons why I like working at Sun. I can run errands, play some video games, whatever during my work day. As long as I get my work done, no one particularly cares.
I guess he doesn't know that Sun generally releases a T-Patch relatively quickly so that admins can get immediately relief while testing out the real patch.
The biggest issue that Apple has about gaining a foothold in the enterprise is the lack of documentation and support surrounding their directory services. While basic RFC2307 support is there for the easy stuff, that is, for the most part, pretty useless.
Try hooking an OS X machine into a network where network directory mounts are defined in LDAP. It won't work unless you first do a lot of research to find just what OS X wants. Then you get to do some MASSIVE modifications to the schema and repopulate MASSIVE portions of the db. Unless your enterprise has a lot of OS X machines, this simply isn't going to happen.
Then there are the other proprietary bits. For example, there is this nice checkbox that says "Use DHCP-supplied LDAP server". I'd love to know how that actually works if you don't have Mac OS X Server.
Apple is headed into pre-OS X territory again. No usable documentation makes IT folks very, very unhappy.
I'm sure there are a lot of "younger" people writing SF. But are they getting published? If I was a gambling man, I'd bet that most of them are eschewing the Random Houses of the world (assuming publishers even gave them the time of day) and choosing the Internet instead. [How Sci-Fi is that?]
The problem with mod_perl is that it treats apxs mode as some sort of oddball, expert-only install. If it did apxs mode all the time or as default, the chances of success would be much, much higher. [Plus, it would work with vendor-supplied apache installations more often than not.]
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[I was going to buy one, but being in the SF Bay Area means that we are likely to see HD locals over satellite before most of the other markets. I'd rather have a PVR that works with those. I've decided I'm going to wait for a while longer. The thought of switching back to cable is tempting as well.. ]
They are obviously trying to steal "back" the viewership from Spike TV. That whole Video Game Awards thing means war!
Given that this was on SpikeTV, this editorial isn't really necessary, is it? [Does anyone actually watch that channel on a regular basis?]
Hopefully we'll see a 'consumer' version of Networker, which is way overpriced for at home. [I was priced almost $2k for the OS X support pak. For three machines? No thanks.]
[Yes, I know. It wouldn't be /. without rampant assumptions being made.]
Getting the code to run on Sun's C compilier back in the DR13 days was painful but possible and totally worth it due to the speed improvements. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the speed junkies gave up on E at/near the time of DR14 due to the extensive use of gcc-isms in the hacked up configure script and the code... and that doesn't even take into account some of the... err.. interesting methods that Carsten chose to implement some of his ideas.
I don't think there is an equivalent with Java... but there should be.
[Ironically, the page has "last week's name" for Sun's product, Access Manager. Even groups that Sun founds can't keep up with the continual name changes!]
My big beef with it is the lack of perl and PHP defined APIs. Given the amount of LAMP (along with perl) being used on the web these days, it seems extremely short-sighted not have them defined. Just think, /. and the rest of the OSDN sites could be using Liberty to cross-authenticate rather than requiring each site to do their own auth systems.
Hopefully it is running BeOS as its is_computer_on_fire() call will provide at least some protection.
If the final release of Looking Glass turns out to be as impressive as the demo shows, I don't think anyone will ever doubt Java as a 3D application language.
I replied quite simply that if said future employer didn't want to hire someone that was working as a lead SA at Sun when that person got the certification, I'd highly question the talent that they hire...
The article is titled 'The Unded Zone'. Off to the side where it says 'Also in Slate' are several pictures. Including one of Ronald Reagan. Freaky.
/bin/sh on Solaris is -real- Bourne shell, not symlinked to bash.
SunOS 1-4 were primarily BSD. SunOS 5 is primarily System V, with some 'leftovers' from earlier releases. [My guess would be that the BSD bits were left in primarily for backwards compatibility or because SysV didn't have equivalents.]
In any case, modern Solaris is much more SysV than BSD.
I haven't seen a good game "demo" released since the shareware version of quake 1. if you run across a demo that actually show you enough of the gameworld or the atmosphere that it sucks you into buying the damn thing, i'd like to hear about it.
The last demo that sucked me in was for Majesty. I suppose the amount of demo time is a bit different for FPSes and strategy games though.
SunFreeware is not funded/created by Sun.
There also isn't much of a need as there used to be to use SunFreeware when Solaris ships with a companion CD full of stuff already compiled.... never mind the /usr/sfw stuff that's built into the main OS already.
There are around 13000 employees worldwide that lack a permanent office. The Santa Clara campus doesn't hold that many people. :) [That line of the article was poorly written, IMHO.]
One of the other problems of the article is that it fails to mention that there is a sizable number of people (who may or may not be iWorking) that report to someone who isn't in their geographic area any. What's the point in going into an office if you're the only one from your team there? [Of my current team, only three are physicially located in the Bay Area... and that does not include my manager.]
I've been working from home for quite a while now. [I was one of the early adopters.] I love it. It is one of the reasons why I like working at Sun. I can run errands, play some video games, whatever during my work day. As long as I get my work done, no one particularly cares.
From every demo I've seen, you can specify whether your information gets shared or not. But, I'll be honest, I don't remember to what granularity.
I guess he doesn't know that Sun generally releases a T-Patch relatively quickly so that admins can get immediately relief while testing out the real patch.
Try hooking an OS X machine into a network where network directory mounts are defined in LDAP. It won't work unless you first do a lot of research to find just what OS X wants. Then you get to do some MASSIVE modifications to the schema and repopulate MASSIVE portions of the db. Unless your enterprise has a lot of OS X machines, this simply isn't going to happen.
Then there are the other proprietary bits. For example, there is this nice checkbox that says "Use DHCP-supplied LDAP server". I'd love to know how that actually works if you don't have Mac OS X Server.
Apple is headed into pre-OS X territory again. No usable documentation makes IT folks very, very unhappy.
I'm sure there are a lot of "younger" people writing SF. But are they getting published? If I was a gambling man, I'd bet that most of them are eschewing the Random Houses of the world (assuming publishers even gave them the time of day) and choosing the Internet instead. [How Sci-Fi is that?]
The problem with mod_perl is that it treats apxs mode as some sort of oddball, expert-only install. If it did apxs mode all the time or as default, the chances of success would be much, much higher. [Plus, it would work with vendor-supplied apache installations more often than not.]
One and a half sentence about NWN.
Four and a half sentences about BT.
I think the heading should have read "OS X NWN Demo Available via BitTorrent".