But it is nice to know that the end of cobol is iminent.
As Aaaaaaanold said in the movie Conan: The Destroyer... "Lot on your knife!"
COBOL isn't going anywhere, especially with the advent of e-commerce. Did you know that there was more NEW lines of COBOL written than any other language except C++ and the difference between those two was something like 2%? Did you know that the COBOL language has been continually updated and modernized such that it is as modern a language as nearly any other? Did you know COBOL can do OOP?
Ok, it's been years since I've done any COBOL coding and I do most of my current stuff with perl but I still have to defend a very good language from the uninformed assaults against it. COBOL really gets a bad rap.
As most responces have said, your best bet is to have a dedicated system for this. If you're going to be doing any seriuos sound work that is really the only viable option. As for using VMware a CPU and memory upgrade will help and the next version (v1.1) that's currentlly in beta has fixed a LOT of the sound choppyness problems but I don't know if they've got midi support (yet).
Since the press releases all came from SGI what's that have to do with Red Hat's "quiet period"? Try reading before you start flaming next time. --- "Who pill da cubby custar?"
Since this "filter" is 100% on e*trade's shoulders only a total idiot would even THINK about blaming RH. This RH bashing is starting to get sickening. Are they God? Hell no, they are just a company making a quality product. They do what they need to do yet still give back to the Linux community as much as anyone.
Now, I'm not personally happy with everything RH is doing but that falls under the realm of personal, phylosophical differences. They aren't doing anything anyone could remotely concider as "bad".
I know this is blasphemy but there's a fantastic commercial firewall system called GNAT Box that does all the NTA and statefull packet inspection you'de ever want and it works transperantly with all the fun stuff you mentioned. It's the only high-grade firewall system under $1000 and is completely self-contained (i.e. runs off of one floppy; no need for a HD or OS).
Now, I know that this post might engender some "warm replies" about the touting of non-open source solutions but I am pregmatic about this. I prefer open source solutions but am not against a propriatary/commercial solution to get the job done. If it's a good product it's a good product.
I'm afraid that your logic (or total lack thereof) is indicative of many in the Linux world today. This is very unfortunate. All it does is drag the whole Linux movement down. You might as well say you plan to choose a distribution based on the phases of the moon.
There's nothing wrong with selecting Debian (or Caldera or S.U.s.E. or Red Hat or TurboLinux or...) but do so based on at least a little intellectual reasoning.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "People who think and act like this should go back to the dark side where they belong."
Subject says it all. I can tell you right now that if, say, Debian was in the position of having the dominent mindshare of the Linux world the same people who are bitchin' about RH now would be trashing Deb to install RH.
It's to bad these fools won't go back to the MS world where they belong.
10 to 1 this someone has the initials CG. This whole thing brings up a point that many people seem to miss quite a bit. Not everyone speaks English as their native tongue.
Many people who have to translate between their native tongue and English either make many spelling/grammatical mistakes or come off sounding very mean and "flamish" in their messages.
If you, or anyone, are a person who makes such snap decisions without any understanding or wisdom you shouldn't be running Red Hat or any Linux distribution. Go back to the dark side where you belong.
Red Hat is a big (well, in the context of Linux) company now. The developers are just a cog in the wheel. The management people, who are the ones who sick lawyesr and make big announcements, do not listen to the developers for this kind of stuff. Your post was quite the load of useless bits.
God, you must be so new to Linux that your still wet behind the ears. If you go back and trace the development of 1.0.9, 1.2.13 and 2.0.36 (or is it 37 now) you'd see that the stable version usually is always in a state of upkeep even during the deepist kernal hacking on the beta.
Geeze, all this crap about GNOME/E and KDE... GNOME is a Good Thing but as for wm's; KDE, Window Maker. E, fwvm, icewm, mwm... they all suck compaired to XFce.
Why bother with these over bloated, over rated, highly annoying and hardly usefull wm's? It's something I'll never understand.
The real reason people rag on RH is because it's the "leader" in mindshare and usage. If Debian or Caldera or S.u.S.E. or any other distro were in the same position as RH you'd be seeing everyone ragging on them instead.
Right now when anyone asks me what Linux Distro to use I recomend they try RH or Caldera or Debian as they are all equaly good. I haven't tried S.u.S.E. or Turbo-Linux so I can't comment on them.
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Back in the old ol' days a hacker was someone who wrote super tight, highly effecient code. People who did "bad things" were definitely NOT hackers. However, they liked to believe they were so they called themselves hackers.
Now that's where you're ol' days start, you young kid you.
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As Aaaaaaanold said in the movie Conan: The Destroyer... "Lot on your knife!"
COBOL isn't going anywhere, especially with the advent of e-commerce. Did you know that there was more NEW lines of COBOL written than any other language except C++ and the difference between those two was something like 2%? Did you know that the COBOL language has been continually updated and modernized such that it is as modern a language as nearly any other? Did you know COBOL can do OOP?
Ok, it's been years since I've done any COBOL coding and I do most of my current stuff with perl but I still have to defend a very good language from the uninformed assaults against it. COBOL really gets a bad rap.
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"Who pill da cubby custar?"
As most responces have said, your best bet is to have a dedicated system for this. If you're going to be doing any seriuos sound work that is really the only viable option. As for using VMware a CPU and memory upgrade will help and the next version (v1.1) that's currentlly in beta has fixed a LOT of the sound choppyness problems but I don't know if they've got midi support (yet).
Since the press releases all came from SGI what's that have to do with Red Hat's "quiet period"? Try reading before you start flaming next time.
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"Who pill da cubby custar?"
Now, I'm not personally happy with everything RH is doing but that falls under the realm of personal, phylosophical differences. They aren't doing anything anyone could remotely concider as "bad".
Bottom line: Shut the #&%$ up!
Now, I know that this post might engender some "warm replies" about the touting of non-open source solutions but I am pregmatic about this. I prefer open source solutions but am not against a propriatary/commercial solution to get the job done. If it's a good product it's a good product.
Man! I'm 36 and I won't see $50K in the next 5 years. I wish that people who are this rich would throw some of that money my way.
Life sucks!
At least Linux is there to keep me going. :-)
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There's nothing wrong with selecting Debian (or Caldera or S.U.s.E. or Red Hat or TurboLinux or...) but do so based on at least a little intellectual reasoning.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "People who think and act like this should go back to the dark side where they belong."
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It's to bad these fools won't go back to the MS world where they belong.
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Many people who have to translate between their native tongue and English either make many spelling/grammatical mistakes or come off sounding very mean and "flamish" in their messages.
If you, or anyone, are a person who makes such snap decisions without any understanding or wisdom you shouldn't be running Red Hat or any Linux distribution. Go back to the dark side where you belong.
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'Nuff said!
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Got to agree with that, fellow old-old-timer. ;-)
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Why bother with these over bloated, over rated, highly annoying and hardly usefull wm's? It's something I'll never understand.
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Right now when anyone asks me what Linux Distro to use I recomend they try RH or Caldera or Debian as they are all equaly good. I haven't tried S.u.S.E. or Turbo-Linux so I can't comment on them.
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Now that's where you're ol' days start, you young kid you.
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