I'm afraid I could never understand the big noise concerning Red Hat's protection of their TradeMark. If you remember, the whole point of the GPL vs BSD licence was that people *know* who did it, i.e. you put your mark on it! Red Hat only gets money if people are willing to pay more for their distro 'cause they know what they're getting.
If RedHat doesn't protect that, then what do they get from Open Source? They're a company, not a cool individual who does neat stuff fro fun. They must have a bottom line or they're out of the game.
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
One thing most fans seem to miss is that Star Wars was never supposed to be a deep, filosofical, artistic film with a social/intelectual/whatever message. It's quite simply entertainement (no, I can't spell). It was a simple story aimed at the younger section of the population, by which I mean about 10-16 years. It couldn't be very complicated, mistical or obtuse or those people wouldn't be interested... What no-one remembered is that sci-fi appeals to people of all ages, and many (more mature) people who saw the films thought : "not bad but if the plot was such and such it would be so much cooler". Well, yes, of course, but it was never supposed to make you think, it was supposed to make kids say "Mom! I wanna play with luke/r2d2/". Lucas marketed Star Wars toys from the outset, I remember seeing those toys appear right after the second movie.
No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
It's already up on Sun's home page and gues what: you *NEED* a Sparc Solaris server to run these things . They're cute but I doubt anyone is going to tie themselfs to Sun for five years (unless they already were a Sun client) for pure aesthetic reasons...
I think the damn things won't even suport standard, run-of-the-mill X, since they demand authentication from a new authentication manager running on solaris.... No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
For the price of a 500Mhz G4 you can get a bi-proc 600 mhz PIII.... with a (much) faster card like a tnt2.... No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
As well as just about anything in electronics from RAM to mainframes (including, i think, IBM clones), trains (yes, choo-choos), heavy industrial machinery, etc. They're one the biggest industries in europe No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
It's simply a question of the principle of the thing: If we want to push the open-source way of doing things, we shouldn't define exceptions. Simply put, MS is still the area where most developers work at. If we want to turn them to our point of view then we have to show open source working under the conditions which they're used to. Besides, saying that open source is cool for everything except M$-Windows reminds me of "everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others"... No, I can't spell! -"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop" (tagadum,tagadum,tagadum.... *CRUNCH*) -"stop...."
33.6 ? Hell, I know windows is evil but Citrix's ICA protocol is usable down to 14.4 (with a litle patience) and FAST at 19.2. I use it frquently over the Internet and it's brilliant. X doesn't have this kind of performance, it gets sacrified in the name of Platform Independence (tm)....
Productivity? I work at a small industrial-maintenance consulting company. Our job is basically to keep track of *every* time anyone does anything to a machine, every machine which needs to be lubricated, every expendable part which regularly needs replacing. We also have extrapolate from previous data so as to guesstimate future maintenance expenditure. Now, we've got over dozens of clients, in 12 different industries, with different setups in each one. We only have about 15 engineers.... Try to use pen and paper on THAT job, go on. I want to see you try... Anyone who still insists computers don't help is either fooling himself or hasn't thought about this for 5 minutes!
But security in Linux is a one-box-show. If you admin 8 boxes you need to configure your accounts separatly on the 8 boxes (!as far as I know! : I asked about this a couple times and no-one has been able to tell me how to centralize this Novell-NDS style)
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I'm afraid I could never understand the big noise concerning Red Hat's protection of their TradeMark.
.... *CRUNCH*)
If you remember, the whole point of the GPL vs BSD licence was that people *know* who did it, i.e. you put your mark on it!
Red Hat only gets money if people are willing to pay more for their distro 'cause they know what they're getting.
If RedHat doesn't protect that, then what do they get from Open Source? They're a company, not a cool individual who does neat stuff fro fun. They must have a bottom line or they're out of the game.
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
One thing most fans seem to miss is that Star Wars was never supposed to be a deep, filosofical, artistic film with a social/intelectual/whatever message. It's quite simply entertainement (no, I can't spell). It was a simple story aimed at the younger section of the population, by which I mean about 10-16 years. It couldn't be very complicated, mistical or obtuse or those people wouldn't be interested...
.... *CRUNCH*)
What no-one remembered is that sci-fi appeals to people of all ages, and many (more mature) people who saw the films thought : "not bad but if the plot was such and such it would be so much cooler".
Well, yes, of course, but it was never supposed to make you think, it was supposed to make kids say "Mom! I wanna play with luke/r2d2/". Lucas marketed Star Wars toys from the outset, I remember seeing those toys appear right after the second movie.
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
It's already up on Sun's home page and gues what: you *NEED* a Sparc Solaris server to run these things . They're cute but I doubt anyone is going to tie themselfs to Sun for five years (unless they already were a Sun client) for pure aesthetic reasons ...
.... *CRUNCH*)
I think the damn things won't even suport standard, run-of-the-mill X, since they demand authentication from a new authentication manager running on solaris....
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
For the price of a 500Mhz G4 you can get a bi-proc 600 mhz PIII.... with a (much) faster card like a tnt2 .... .... *CRUNCH*)
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
As well as just about anything in electronics from RAM to mainframes (including, i think, IBM clones), trains (yes, choo-choos), heavy industrial machinery, etc. They're one the biggest industries in europe .... *CRUNCH*)
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
It's simply a question of the principle of the thing: If we want to push the open-source way of doing things, we shouldn't define exceptions. Simply put, MS is still the area where most developers work at. If we want to turn them to our point of view then we have to show open source working under the conditions which they're used to. .... *CRUNCH*)
Besides, saying that open source is cool for everything except M$-Windows reminds me of "everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others"...
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
33.6 ? ....
Hell, I know windows is evil but Citrix's ICA protocol is usable down to 14.4 (with a litle patience) and FAST at 19.2. I use it frquently over the Internet and it's brilliant. X doesn't have this kind of performance, it gets sacrified in the name of Platform Independence (tm)
Productivity?
I work at a small industrial-maintenance consulting company. Our job is basically to keep track of *every* time anyone does anything to a machine, every machine which needs to be lubricated, every expendable part which regularly needs replacing.
We also have extrapolate from previous data so as to guesstimate future maintenance expenditure.
Now, we've got over dozens of clients, in 12 different industries, with different setups in each one.
We only have about 15 engineers....
Try to use pen and paper on THAT job, go on. I want to see you try...
Anyone who still insists computers don't help is either fooling himself or hasn't thought about this for 5 minutes!
Gus.
No, NT is *not* more secure than Linux.
But security in Linux is a one-box-show. If you admin 8 boxes you need to configure your accounts separatly on the 8 boxes (!as far as I know! : I asked about this a couple times and no-one has been able to tell me how to centralize this Novell-NDS style)