Vista's market share has been monotonically increasing since release, and now stands at 20.45%
Wow, that's pathetic. That means it accounts for about 22% of Windows computers, or 1 in 4.4. Since Vista has been out for over two years now (November 30, 2006 for corporate customers), it would take Vista about 9 years at this rate to cover 100% of the Windows market alone. Given that computers are typically replaced much more often than once every 9 years, it's actually far behind the adoption curve you'd expect from just hardware upgrades.
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However, without a good virtualization solution there is no way.
This doesn't directly address your problem with VMWare, but FreeBSD's self-virtualization (aka "jails") is outstanding. Our standard deployment now is to build a beefy server with a minimal install, then use jails (via "ezjail") to carve it into multiple production servers. When the system starts to slow, we shuffle the jails around to different hardware as appropriate.
The only thing I dislike about jails today, in practice, is that each can only be assigned one IPv4 address. The new virtualized network stack should allow multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses per jail but it's not available on -STABLE yet. Once that's in place, FreeBSD jails will be the perfect virtual server arrangement for our workload.
Again, that doesn't help you if you're needing to run Windows or Linux VMs (although you can make a jail based on, say, Debian running on the native FreeBSD kernel's emulation layer), but it's extremely useful for consolidating multiple servers onto a machine.
At least in this one area, it was obvious that while you'd save a few hundred initially on open source solutions, these solutions were much less polished and supported than their commercial competitors.
I got certified to admin a certain expensive trouble-ticketing system. Frankly, outside of some SLA stuff that I'm certain I could reimplement as nicely, it didn't do anything that Trac or Bugzilla couldn't.
When you say "a few hundred", you left out the trailing "thousand". Trac and Bugzilla don't require big iron or Oracle, they don't need you to fly employees to week-long certification programs, and they don't give you $400/hr consultants who constantly call the main office to handle situations you'd think they could manage on their own.
I know a lot of kids, and the all work hard at their studies, help out on community programmes and generally behave very well. I don't suppose your view of kids might be based on the kids you notice rather than on the actual majority?
I was amazed by the speed with which my students (operating systems course) went from looking slightly confused to completely switched off once I mentioned something wouldn't be in an exam.
The best teacher I ever had gave exams that bore little resemblance to the book. If you had learned the concepts from class (say, "recursion"), then the tests were easy ("implement a recursive version of 'factorial'"). If you just memorized the sample problems without learning the underlying ideas, you'd almost certainly fail. Honestly, I always came away from his exams feeling smarter, as though I'd worked my way through a puzzle and learned something in the process.
A recent report by the Washington Post reports that over $49 Million in farm subsidies has gone to people who make more than cut off $2.5 Million per year.
$49,000,000, huh. That's almost.2% of what GM, Ford, et al are asking for this month. It's not that I don't find stuff like that incredibly annoying, but that there are some bigger fish to fry at the moment.
The design's fundamentally flawed, the rocket's so slender it "wants" to fly backwards... the control system has to fight its natural flight mechanics the entire way up to keep it straight.
Isn't that the case with pretty much every new fighter and bomber these days?
And those people obviously don't know anything because Rotten Ronnie's doesn't USE boiling water to make coffee.
They used 185F water according to court evidence. I'm gonna take a giant leap here and say that if 150F water can cause 3rd degree burns in 2 seconds, then 185F water can do it even faster (and 212F water faster yet, which is what the GGP post claimed was impossible).
That's wholly dependent upon a given data set. For instance, if you're working with a linked list of chars, then the overhead will be substantial. If you're mainly dealing with pointers to decoded bitmaps, then the extra 4 address bytes won't really matter.
Beyond that, how hard do these tests push SMP systems? For example, the Gzip results could be explained away by compiler version differences. What would happen if it were run twice in parallel? 100 times? This test suite compares that for all I know, but I didn't see that mentioned anywhere.
While one could argue that the compiler is part of the OS it's indeed replaceable so I would had prefered if they had used the same version of GCC and not different for each OS.
I'm a huge FreeBSD fan. However, I don't have a problem with them testing the compiler as it was shipped with the OS because it's the one officially supported. Since that's the compiler that 99.9% of FreeBSD users will have, that seems like a reasonably fair baseline comparison.
Similarly, they explicitly state that "[a]side from changes made by the Phoronix Test Suite (and adding the GNOME packages to FreeBSD), all operating systems were left in their default configuration." I'm sure all of them could be tuned for higher performance on this benchmark, but I think out-of-the-box numbers are valuable.
After all, ISPs have always been protected as carriers
That's one huge stick that can be used against American ISPs who get too aggressive in their traffic monitoring: the "safe harbor" clause of the DMCA.:
(a) Transitory Digital Network Communications.â" A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the providerâ(TM)s transmitting, routing, or providing connections for, material through a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider, or by reason of the intermediate and transient storage of that material in the course of such transmitting, routing, or providing connections, ifâ"
(1) the transmission of the material was initiated by or at the direction of a person other than the service provider;
(2) the transmission, routing, provision of connections, or storage is carried out through an automatic technical process without selection of the material by the service provider;
(3) the service provider does not select the recipients of the material except as an automatic response to the request of another person;
(4) no copy of the material made by the service provider in the course of such intermediate or transient storage is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to anyone other than anticipated recipients, and no such copy is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to such anticipated recipients for a longer period than is reasonably necessary for the transmission, routing, or provision of connections; and
(5) the material is transmitted through the system or network without modification of its content.
If an ISP attempts to block specific content, then they violate clause #2. If they pull copies of content out of the pipes for further investigation, then they violate clause #3. If they modify the content in any way, then they violate clause #5. In any of those cases, they are no longer indemnified against claims of contributory copyright violation. In a nutshell, if they mess with it, they're responsible for it.
I'm not a lawyer. However, I noticed that a large local non-profit organization had a very intrusive clickthrough agreement for their free WAP service (I was bored and read it). I pointed the above out to the organization's lawyer who read it and said my interpretation was substantially correct, and who then recommended that they remove all pretense of monitoring and filtering from their service.
So do I, but it's built-in and my system refers to it as "cache". Why not let the OS decide what to store in RAM? It's really good at that kind of stuff.
Free-range means the animals aren't confined in cages and are free to roam around the farm etc.
That's not what it means:
And probably the most confusing label of them all--"free range." Chicken labeled as "free range" is supposed to be leaner, but again, experts warn the claim can be deceiving. "Free range does not always mean that the animal has been in an open area its whole life. It may only mean they were in a restricted area and let out into that open area one time during their life," says Wallace.
You do know that it is impossible to get third degree burns from boiling coffee. Once the coffee leaves the dispenser it is now in a state of cooling off from ~212F. The worst you could burn yourself is second degree. A third degree burn tends to require an active flame or strong acid, neither of which are available in a cup of McDonalds coffee.
It takes 2 seconds for a child to receive third degree burns from water at 150 degrees. It takes 5 seconds if the water is at 140 degrees, and 30 seconds at 130 degrees.
Apparently, people who know more about this than you do think it's possible to get a 3rd degree burn from boiling water.
I'll stipulate hard drive sizes for the sake of argument, but how does that relate to RAM drives? Why do SSDs and other RAM-based devices always seem to come in powers-of-two GB sizes even though they don't really mean it? I could understand, say, a 60GB SSD being 60*10^9 bytes instead of 60*2^30. I can't understand any reason for a 64GB RAM device being anything other than 64*2^30 except deceptiveness. That's what the grandparent meant.
Patents in themselves and Intellectual Property are good at times but when it comes to software patents, all they do is cause abuse.
The problem with "intellectual property" is that no one knows what you're talking about when you say it. Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and software patents are wholly different animals and people have wildly varying ideas about the relative worth of each. In short, don't use "intellectual property" because it just confuses the issue.
Direct from manufacturer you're looking at $348.65 for the 20 piece and $610.80 for the 34 piece.
I was going to make a joke about a them having a lifetime warranty (as though that would explain the ridiculous margin), but they don't tell you what the warranty actually is.
I've seen clients bring in Vista machines that are barely functional. They complain about how slow the machine is, how hard it is to do any work. These machines have the bare minimum hardware necessary to boot the OS. They've got 1 GB or less of RAM, a crappy on-board GPU, and some kind of underpowered budget CPU. And these people are miserable with Vista.
Really? I have a laptop with a dual-core 2.3GHz Turion and 2GB of RAM. I've verified that it isn't launching 100 unnecessary startup programs and Decrapifier is happy with it. And yet, launching programs is like watching paint dry. It is subjectively much less responsive than my old Athlon 1400 machine with 1GB of PC133 RAM running XP.
I have yet to see a vista commercial that talks about the technical merits of the operating system, because your average user doesn't understand or care about indexed search or file systems etc.
Even more, I haven't seen a Vista/Mojave commercial that mentions anything other than the applications running on it, any of which could also run on XP. "I can edit photos? Cool!"
As the owner of terabyte drives who hasn't had unrecoverable errors (yet), I was expressing my skepticism that such a thing was inevitable after only a few reads. That's not flamebait, but a request for further support of what I considered to be an unlikely statement.
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Vista's market share has been monotonically increasing since release, and now stands at 20.45%
Wow, that's pathetic. That means it accounts for about 22% of Windows computers, or 1 in 4.4. Since Vista has been out for over two years now (November 30, 2006 for corporate customers), it would take Vista about 9 years at this rate to cover 100% of the Windows market alone. Given that computers are typically replaced much more often than once every 9 years, it's actually far behind the adoption curve you'd expect from just hardware upgrades.
However, without a good virtualization solution there is no way.
This doesn't directly address your problem with VMWare, but FreeBSD's self-virtualization (aka "jails") is outstanding. Our standard deployment now is to build a beefy server with a minimal install, then use jails (via "ezjail") to carve it into multiple production servers. When the system starts to slow, we shuffle the jails around to different hardware as appropriate.
The only thing I dislike about jails today, in practice, is that each can only be assigned one IPv4 address. The new virtualized network stack should allow multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses per jail but it's not available on -STABLE yet. Once that's in place, FreeBSD jails will be the perfect virtual server arrangement for our workload.
Again, that doesn't help you if you're needing to run Windows or Linux VMs (although you can make a jail based on, say, Debian running on the native FreeBSD kernel's emulation layer), but it's extremely useful for consolidating multiple servers onto a machine.
It's broken on Konqueror and OS X/Safari and Firefox. We didn't want you to feel left out.
At least in this one area, it was obvious that while you'd save a few hundred initially on open source solutions, these solutions were much less polished and supported than their commercial competitors.
I got certified to admin a certain expensive trouble-ticketing system. Frankly, outside of some SLA stuff that I'm certain I could reimplement as nicely, it didn't do anything that Trac or Bugzilla couldn't.
When you say "a few hundred", you left out the trailing "thousand". Trac and Bugzilla don't require big iron or Oracle, they don't need you to fly employees to week-long certification programs, and they don't give you $400/hr consultants who constantly call the main office to handle situations you'd think they could manage on their own.
I know a lot of kids, and the all work hard at their studies, help out on community programmes and generally behave very well. I don't suppose your view of kids might be based on the kids you notice rather than on the actual majority?
Did they happen to study "irony" at any point?
I was amazed by the speed with which my students (operating systems course) went from looking slightly confused to completely switched off once I mentioned something wouldn't be in an exam.
The best teacher I ever had gave exams that bore little resemblance to the book. If you had learned the concepts from class (say, "recursion"), then the tests were easy ("implement a recursive version of 'factorial'"). If you just memorized the sample problems without learning the underlying ideas, you'd almost certainly fail. Honestly, I always came away from his exams feeling smarter, as though I'd worked my way through a puzzle and learned something in the process.
You misspelled "No Child Gets Ahead".
A recent report by the Washington Post reports that over $49 Million in farm subsidies has gone to people who make more than cut off $2.5 Million per year.
$49,000,000, huh. That's almost .2% of what GM, Ford, et al are asking for this month. It's not that I don't find stuff like that incredibly annoying, but that there are some bigger fish to fry at the moment.
The design's fundamentally flawed, the rocket's so slender it "wants" to fly backwards... the control system has to fight its natural flight mechanics the entire way up to keep it straight.
Isn't that the case with pretty much every new fighter and bomber these days?
And those people obviously don't know anything because Rotten Ronnie's doesn't USE boiling water to make coffee.
They used 185F water according to court evidence. I'm gonna take a giant leap here and say that if 150F water can cause 3rd degree burns in 2 seconds, then 185F water can do it even faster (and 212F water faster yet, which is what the GGP post claimed was impossible).
That's wholly dependent upon a given data set. For instance, if you're working with a linked list of chars, then the overhead will be substantial. If you're mainly dealing with pointers to decoded bitmaps, then the extra 4 address bytes won't really matter.
One loses performance when one goes to 64-bits, not gains it.
That's the first time I've ever heard that claim. Evidence?
One should only use a 64-bit kernel when one has more than 4 GB of RAM, and actually USES it.
On when one wants to do a lot of math. Or use ZFS (on FreeBSD). Or let the compiler use lots of registers.
ULE has been the default in 7-STABLE for quite a few months now.
Beyond that, how hard do these tests push SMP systems? For example, the Gzip results could be explained away by compiler version differences. What would happen if it were run twice in parallel? 100 times? This test suite compares that for all I know, but I didn't see that mentioned anywhere.
While one could argue that the compiler is part of the OS it's indeed replaceable so I would had prefered if they had used the same version of GCC and not different for each OS.
I'm a huge FreeBSD fan. However, I don't have a problem with them testing the compiler as it was shipped with the OS because it's the one officially supported. Since that's the compiler that 99.9% of FreeBSD users will have, that seems like a reasonably fair baseline comparison.
Similarly, they explicitly state that "[a]side from changes made by the Phoronix Test Suite (and adding the GNOME packages to FreeBSD), all operating systems were left in their default configuration." I'm sure all of them could be tuned for higher performance on this benchmark, but I think out-of-the-box numbers are valuable.
After all, ISPs have always been protected as carriers
That's one huge stick that can be used against American ISPs who get too aggressive in their traffic monitoring: the "safe harbor" clause of the DMCA.:
If an ISP attempts to block specific content, then they violate clause #2. If they pull copies of content out of the pipes for further investigation, then they violate clause #3. If they modify the content in any way, then they violate clause #5. In any of those cases, they are no longer indemnified against claims of contributory copyright violation. In a nutshell, if they mess with it, they're responsible for it.
I'm not a lawyer. However, I noticed that a large local non-profit organization had a very intrusive clickthrough agreement for their free WAP service (I was bored and read it). I pointed the above out to the organization's lawyer who read it and said my interpretation was substantially correct, and who then recommended that they remove all pretense of monitoring and filtering from their service.
I often do compiles (Gentoo) on a ram disk.
So do I, but it's built-in and my system refers to it as "cache". Why not let the OS decide what to store in RAM? It's really good at that kind of stuff.
Free-range means the animals aren't confined in cages and are free to roam around the farm etc.
That's not what it means:
You do know that it is impossible to get third degree burns from boiling coffee. Once the coffee leaves the dispenser it is now in a state of cooling off from ~212F. The worst you could burn yourself is second degree. A third degree burn tends to require an active flame or strong acid, neither of which are available in a cup of McDonalds coffee.
The government says you're full of crap:
Apparently, people who know more about this than you do think it's possible to get a 3rd degree burn from boiling water.
Really, the harddrive makers are right.
I'll stipulate hard drive sizes for the sake of argument, but how does that relate to RAM drives? Why do SSDs and other RAM-based devices always seem to come in powers-of-two GB sizes even though they don't really mean it? I could understand, say, a 60GB SSD being 60*10^9 bytes instead of 60*2^30. I can't understand any reason for a 64GB RAM device being anything other than 64*2^30 except deceptiveness. That's what the grandparent meant.
Patents in themselves and Intellectual Property are good at times but when it comes to software patents, all they do is cause abuse.
The problem with "intellectual property" is that no one knows what you're talking about when you say it. Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and software patents are wholly different animals and people have wildly varying ideas about the relative worth of each. In short, don't use "intellectual property" because it just confuses the issue.
Direct from manufacturer you're looking at $348.65 for the 20 piece and $610.80 for the 34 piece.
I was going to make a joke about a them having a lifetime warranty (as though that would explain the ridiculous margin), but they don't tell you what the warranty actually is.
I've seen clients bring in Vista machines that are barely functional. They complain about how slow the machine is, how hard it is to do any work. These machines have the bare minimum hardware necessary to boot the OS. They've got 1 GB or less of RAM, a crappy on-board GPU, and some kind of underpowered budget CPU. And these people are miserable with Vista.
Really? I have a laptop with a dual-core 2.3GHz Turion and 2GB of RAM. I've verified that it isn't launching 100 unnecessary startup programs and Decrapifier is happy with it. And yet, launching programs is like watching paint dry. It is subjectively much less responsive than my old Athlon 1400 machine with 1GB of PC133 RAM running XP.
I have yet to see a vista commercial that talks about the technical merits of the operating system, because your average user doesn't understand or care about indexed search or file systems etc.
Even more, I haven't seen a Vista/Mojave commercial that mentions anything other than the applications running on it, any of which could also run on XP. "I can edit photos? Cool!"
As the owner of terabyte drives who hasn't had unrecoverable errors (yet), I was expressing my skepticism that such a thing was inevitable after only a few reads. That's not flamebait, but a request for further support of what I considered to be an unlikely statement.