I agree a SunBlade 100 is blindingly fast, but on the other hand, I have had a Sunblade 100 on my desk now for 8 months it has 512MB, withdual frame buffer (Expert3D Lite, plus default 24bit card), an A1000 (Ultra SCSI hardware based raid array), a SunPCI card (750Mhz celeron), and it acts as a workgroup server and development box for me, supporting half a dozen G4 Macs (netatalk), some NT boxes (samba), I have following software running at the same time as part of our development tools, Oracle 8i, OpenLDAP, 4 different instances of Zope, Apples Webobjects, Thoughtweb (Java based knowledge engine), Apache, iPlanet Web Server, plus I use quite a few other bit's and pieces on the desktop like gimp, OpenOffice, idle, etc.... I am running CDE and KDE at the same time (each on their own monitor, I often switch to Gnome from KDE) and run 5 different web browsers (for testing). The box has only been rebooted once or twice in that entire time (new hardware added, patches and powerfailures, it has never crashed or been rebooted to fix a problem). Conversely the WIn2K and the OS9/OSX boxes in the office are typically rebooted at least once a day, to fix a problem.
Yep it's not fast but it does a hell a lot more than anything else in the office, more reliably and keeps working under load.
Hmm but what about things like Openwindows which have been around for an awful long time. In fact how is X Windows and Openwindows any different in terms of infringement as Lindows.
In the original article a number
of OpenSource OODBMS where listed
how do these compare with their commercial
brethran, I use ZOPE and therefore ZODB
a lot, one of the problems I see with it is
it is so tightly bound to python (which in itself
isn't a problem) but other than tools such as
XML-RPC I can't get to and work with ZODB
objects from, say Java. This seems to pidgeon
hole this type of tool, to a very specific platform. (maybe one could to ZOPE RPC calls from Jython to a ZODB)
How about Zope instead of either.
on
ASP or JSP?
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Zope is platform independant, fast and MS people working for me now think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and definately superior to ASP
I Can't believe they could possibly think they could achieve such a goal. Look at the US war on drug's, now that was really an effective program by a government to crack down on something they didn't like.
Will they ban courses on cryptographic theory, will they burn the books?.
How will they ever stop some new piece of crypto software being written and being desseminated.
It seems like a pointless excercise in futility.
And if they ever did pass a law, outlawing it's use, and some PC weeney thinking he is cool using crypto to send a completely innocous email to a friend and get's picked up and incarcerated, assaulted in jail, and so on etc...... What will have been the point.
It would seem that such actions by any government will only affect the innocent. The real crim's will not only use the crypto and write it themselves, but they will also hide it's use.
I am sure if I where a crim I certainly wouldn't send my email around with PGP headers alerting the fed's to the fact I was using crypto. I would use covert channels and hide the fact I was using crypto at all. Stick my encrypted data inside images, audio tracks (MP3's), there is more than enough data out there to hide the stuff that is encrypted.
So now the fed's not only have to have the CPU power to decrypt the stuff, they have to find it first.
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I agree a SunBlade 100 is blindingly fast, but on the other hand, I have had a Sunblade 100 on my desk now for 8 months it has 512MB, withdual frame buffer (Expert3D Lite, plus default 24bit card), an A1000 (Ultra SCSI hardware based raid array), a SunPCI card (750Mhz celeron), and it acts as a workgroup server and development box for me, supporting half a dozen G4 Macs (netatalk), some NT boxes (samba),
I have following software running at the same time as part of our development tools, Oracle 8i, OpenLDAP, 4 different instances of Zope, Apples Webobjects, Thoughtweb (Java based knowledge engine), Apache, iPlanet Web Server, plus I use quite a few other bit's and pieces on the desktop like gimp, OpenOffice, idle, etc.... I am running CDE and KDE at the same time (each on their own monitor, I often switch to Gnome from KDE) and run 5 different web browsers (for testing). The box has only been rebooted once or twice in that entire time (new hardware added, patches and powerfailures, it has never crashed or been rebooted to fix a problem). Conversely the WIn2K and the OS9/OSX boxes in the office are typically rebooted at least once a day, to fix a problem.
Yep it's not fast but it does a hell a lot more than anything else in the office, more reliably and keeps working under load.
Hmm but what about things like Openwindows which have been around for an awful long time. In fact how is X Windows and Openwindows any different in terms of infringement as Lindows.
In the original article a number of OpenSource OODBMS where listed how do these compare with their commercial brethran, I use ZOPE and therefore ZODB a lot, one of the problems I see with it is it is so tightly bound to python (which in itself isn't a problem) but other than tools such as XML-RPC I can't get to and work with ZODB objects from, say Java. This seems to pidgeon hole this type of tool, to a very specific platform. (maybe one could to ZOPE RPC calls from Jython to a ZODB)
Zope is platform independant, fast
and MS people working for me now think
it is the greatest thing since sliced bread,
and definately superior to ASP
I Can't believe they could possibly think they could achieve such a goal. Look at the US war on drug's, now that was really an effective program by a government to crack down on something they didn't like.
...... What will have been the point.
Will they ban courses on cryptographic theory, will they burn the books?.
How will they ever stop some new piece of crypto software being written and being desseminated.
It seems like a pointless excercise in futility.
And if they ever did pass a law, outlawing it's use, and some PC weeney thinking he is cool using crypto to send a completely innocous email to a friend and get's picked up and incarcerated, assaulted in jail, and so on etc
It would seem that such actions by any government will only affect the innocent. The real crim's will not only use the crypto and write it themselves, but they will also hide it's use.
I am sure if I where a crim I certainly wouldn't send my email around with PGP headers alerting the fed's to the fact I was using crypto. I would use covert channels and hide the fact I was using crypto at all. Stick my encrypted data inside images, audio tracks (MP3's), there is more than enough data out there to hide the stuff that is encrypted.
So now the fed's not only have to have the CPU power to decrypt the stuff, they have to find it first.