I'm sitting here at work, watching the hits go by, and I'm realizing, Cold Fusion isn't bad.
I see a lot of people trying to do their best to give linux solutions, but linux isn't always the solution (though maybe when CF gets its linux port...we can hope)
We push millions (20+) of hits through a day, using IIS powered with Cold Fusion. I've seen the guys here do their programming (but not me, I'm a C programmer...blah) and they're able to push things out VERY quickly...so then why switch from it if it's stable (relatively to the system), fast, and usable?
Ok, I'll most likely be flaimed for this, or atleast rebutted strongly, but I have to say it.
Why do we care if Corel releases something to only a select few. It's an internal beta for chrissakes. Do you expect to have access to everything's source at every level? They would do more harm than good by releasing everything before it was ready...I mean do you really want linux distros to be like Windows?
I say, if they want to keep it internal until it's ready, let them. It does nobody any good to have a broken distro.
Ok, I read the article and the first thing I thought was "wow, this guy is full of whatever that stuff is that they make hotdogs out of"...
But then I read it a second time, and realized he's half right.
First, the instant retaliation of pointing out NT's faults when someone mentions a fault of linux must be stopped. Linux isn't always the best, as he said...but it's often better than most.
I personally don't think Linux makes a great desktop, because it wasn't made to be one (though it could be with work). For a desktop I prefer BeOS, but for a server, I've yet to have linux go down on me. But then neither have any of the FreeBSD servers I've worked on, nor any BSDi servers. The NT machines I work with at work, well, lets not mention those.
I do however agree that where linux shines is medium-strain servers...'why?' you ask, well, it's simple, because there are more medium-strain servers out there than huge servers, so there are more medium-strained-system-admins to use linux, and fix what needs to be.
Linux will be able to handle a highly-strained server when it needs to be, because when it needs to be someone will make it work.
Hopefully I didn't just TOTALLY repeat what everyone else commented on...I haven't read them all yet...
The world does not revolve around the GPL and neither does Corel.
Every standard utility in there that is GPL'd has its source available (from the author). Any in-house software doesn't have to be GPL just to be included with linux.
My friend refuses to update his kernel because of his...of course, if I had a 160+day uptime I'd hate to reboot too... (Just outta curiosity, is it even possible for that other os to stay up for 5+ months?)
Anyways, back on topic. I think I'd rather kill my uptime than come back to find the server dead (physically)
It's not quite Half-Life, but, I recommend you check out the screenshots of Halo by Bungie (remember the happy people that brought the mac peoples Marathon [2], as well as other fun toys...)
It's not running on Amiga hardware It's not running AmigaOS
So how is it an Amiga? Just carrying a logo and a name doesn't make it cool. It will have none of the technology of the original Amiga (which has been improved on in other markets anyways).
Social graces are VERY relevant. Have you ever known the joy of making somebody smile just from doing something so stupid and saying thank you? Most of you will laugh, but it builds you up - hardly leading to inefficiency. If you're happy with yourself, you will produce, without stopping to worry if it's good enough. Social Graces build up esteem and esteem is important in trying to get things done without constant second guessing...
Sure they sucker poor old ladies out of their well-deserved retirement funds, but a guys gotta eat, right?
Seriously though, even the criminals fulfill a purpose. Someones outlook on life could be totally changed after being robbed or attacked, and something great could come out of it.
Maybe I just see it this way because I think there is a reason behind every action, even if it's unknown...
I for one resent this, partially because I am one of "those happy little bouncy basically \"useless\" people." Being a geek doesn't mean you have to be unhappy. And I'll let you know that if wasn't for the lawyers, journalists, and managers being "useless" you'd live in fear of death, without any way of keeping up on the world, without food, clothing, etc. Yes, they are useless aren't they?
Attempting not to be overly judgemental, but to me it sounds like you have the "I'm 13 years old without a girlfriend, everybody at school laughs at me because my clothes don't match and my hair is messed up; everybody hates me but it's really the worlds fault" mentality.
Just a thought:)
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While I agree on the sickness of the dumbing down movement, and that it should be an installer option, not a seperate distro, it must be realized that the 'average' users as you called them, WANT dumbed down.
Can you go to a school and go up to any windows/mac user, and expect them to even know what a daemon is, never mind what a port is, or even what an ip is? No, sadly, you can't.
The 'average' user will have no idea what these little programs are that are running that magically give others the power to '0wn' their box.
The fact is, people will install linux, get screwed over by script kiddies, and blame linux.
The dreamcast itself does not run CE. CE was ported to the dreamcast so that developers which choose to use it (none do that I know of, but I may be wrong) can.
Since he was booting with the the web browser disc (I'd assume) it most likely is running CE however...
A friend of mine wrote a paper partially touching on the "communism" of the net:
http://demiforce.parodius.com/zen/demizen.html (note, I recommend going to demiforce.parodius.com/ and following the links to get the full effect of the site...)
Anyways, it speaks of how since things can be copied indefinately the net is the one place where communism could work... Read if you're interested, else, umm, don't
In all honesty I didn't think Phrack was still producing. Nice to see a longtime tradition (well, kinda) of phrack continue. I still remember the article on programming the serial port for linux that forced me to produce all kinds of useless hardware and waste money - god bless 'em.
In regards to those asking questions, Phrack is an electronic magazine convering various technical topics from vulnerabilities to tutorials (such as how to make your own shell, etc.)
Ok, I may be wrong as it's been a while since I've used a mac, but here's my outlook:
First, on a mac, you can't get remote access. Sure you can hit a buffer overflow, attempt to execute the risc code to change things, but as someone else stated, with the "name" of the harddrive, you can't kill things.
On a [linux *bsd macosX] box, it'd be possible to start other daemons through a buffer overflow. They could be deleted totally, but that's still one more step for them to botch up.
On a side note: The admins for the military aren't ALWAYS the best trained (ok, possibly flame bait, but my brother is an admin for the marines, so I have a good idea of what he was and wasn't taught...incidently they're still using NT)
1st) I didn't mean to say the average/.'er but was too lazy to type out a full word. In a rephrase, are they that much more advanced than freelance computer scientists? I think not.
2nd) I was under the impression that they simply "overtook" the thinking machine from a seperate corp. claiming it was illegal...not sure where I read that, but oh well, wouldn't be the first time something I've read was inaccurate.
I'm just curious as to why everybody seems to think that the NSA is so far advanced over the typical/.'er. Granted they have a large budget, they don't develop the technology, they simply pay others to.
So sure they may have thousands of cray super computers, but I doubt they have something so powerful as to blow us away with.
Ok, somewhat on topic (it does deal w/ SW though not the article really)
People speak of the first 3 as being epic, and wondrous. How many people remember when they were originally released? The first (or rather, 4th) was loved. It was a complete story. Then came trust numba 5, which was criticized because it left off. This was because at this point Lucas new there would be a sequel. Then, good ole number 6 came and was praised again, because it was a complete story.
Now, he started something with TPM, but it's being criticized and with reason - it's in the same rank as episode 5, it's not a complete story. Lucas knows he will do more so he didn't finish ep1.
What you say holds true for NOA (Nintendo of America). They've always been anal about their information.
Nintendo of Japan on the other hand is much less anal retentive. They still value their proprietory info, but they've never threatened (to my knowledge) freelance developers like NOA has.
Ya, and added HDMA (allowing the changes of display properties individually on each scanline), doubled the cpu speed, added new features such as better background tile flipping, and more.
Trust me, the GBC has a lot more improvements over the normal GB than is hyped.
BTW, I'm a GBC developer, and believe me when I tell you GBC lets us do stuff we couldn't on normal GB.
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I'm sitting here at work, watching the hits go by, and I'm realizing, Cold Fusion isn't bad.
I see a lot of people trying to do their best to give linux solutions, but linux isn't always the solution (though maybe when CF gets its linux port...we can hope)
We push millions (20+) of hits through a day, using IIS powered with Cold Fusion. I've seen the guys here do their programming (but not me, I'm a C programmer...blah) and they're able to push things out VERY quickly...so then why switch from it if it's stable (relatively to the system), fast, and usable?
Ok, I'll most likely be flaimed for this, or atleast rebutted strongly, but I have to say it.
Why do we care if Corel releases something to only a select few. It's an internal beta for chrissakes. Do you expect to have access to everything's source at every level? They would do more harm than good by releasing everything before it was ready...I mean do you really want linux distros to be like Windows?
I say, if they want to keep it internal until it's ready, let them. It does nobody any good to have a broken distro.
Ok, I read the article and the first thing I thought was "wow, this guy is full of whatever that stuff is that they make hotdogs out of"...
But then I read it a second time, and realized he's half right.
First, the instant retaliation of pointing out NT's faults when someone mentions a fault of linux must be stopped. Linux isn't always the best, as he said...but it's often better than most.
I personally don't think Linux makes a great desktop, because it wasn't made to be one (though it could be with work). For a desktop I prefer BeOS, but for a server, I've yet to have linux go down on me. But then neither have any of the FreeBSD servers I've worked on, nor any BSDi servers. The NT machines I work with at work, well, lets not mention those.
I do however agree that where linux shines is medium-strain servers...'why?' you ask, well, it's simple, because there are more medium-strain servers out there than huge servers, so there are more medium-strained-system-admins to use linux, and fix what needs to be.
Linux will be able to handle a highly-strained server when it needs to be, because when it needs to be someone will make it work.
Hopefully I didn't just TOTALLY repeat what everyone else commented on...I haven't read them all yet...
They don't hold a monopoly.
There are other places with which to get domainnames...the place I work at is soon going to become a registrar (hopefully).
The world does not revolve around the GPL and neither does Corel.
Every standard utility in there that is GPL'd has its source available (from the author). Any in-house software doesn't have to be GPL just to be included with linux.
Yes, and we all cherish our uptimes :)
My friend refuses to update his kernel because of his...of course, if I had a 160+day uptime I'd hate to reboot too...
(Just outta curiosity, is it even possible for that other os to stay up for 5+ months?)
Anyways, back on topic. I think I'd rather kill my uptime than come back to find the server dead (physically)
It's not quite Half-Life, but, I recommend you check out the screenshots of Halo by Bungie (remember the happy people that brought the mac peoples Marathon [2], as well as other fun toys...)
Check it out here: halo.bungie.com
It looks simply gorgeous.
Almost worth buying a mac for...almost.
Maybe I'm way off here, but the way I see it...
It's not running on Amiga hardware
It's not running AmigaOS
So how is it an Amiga? Just carrying a logo and a name doesn't make it cool. It will have none of the technology of the original Amiga (which has been improved on in other markets anyways).
And people mocked the matrix...see, it's the way of the future...
"Tank, I need a pilot program for an XXXX helicopter" and boom, there it is...analogy with Jini, simply connect to it, request, and receive...
Ok, maybe not, but I'm tired, gimme a break...
Social graces are VERY relevant.
Have you ever known the joy of making somebody smile just from doing something so stupid and saying thank you? Most of you will laugh, but it builds you up - hardly leading to inefficiency. If you're happy with yourself, you will produce, without stopping to worry if it's good enough.
Social Graces build up esteem and esteem is important in trying to get things done without constant second guessing...
Even the con-artists have their place.
Sure they sucker poor old ladies out of their well-deserved retirement funds, but a guys gotta eat, right?
Seriously though, even the criminals fulfill a purpose. Someones outlook on life could be totally changed after being robbed or attacked, and something great could come out of it.
Maybe I just see it this way because I think there is a reason behind every action, even if it's unknown...
I for one resent this, partially because I am one of "those happy little bouncy basically \"useless\" people." Being a geek doesn't mean you have to be unhappy. And I'll let you know that if wasn't for the lawyers, journalists, and managers being "useless" you'd live in fear of death, without any way of keeping up on the world, without food, clothing, etc. Yes, they are useless aren't they?
:)
Attempting not to be overly judgemental, but to me it sounds like you have the "I'm 13 years old without a girlfriend, everybody at school laughs at me because my clothes don't match and my hair is messed up; everybody hates me but it's really the worlds fault" mentality.
Just a thought
While I agree on the sickness of the dumbing down movement, and that it should be an installer option, not a seperate distro, it must be realized that the 'average' users as you called them, WANT dumbed down.
Can you go to a school and go up to any windows/mac user, and expect them to even know what a daemon is, never mind what a port is, or even what an ip is? No, sadly, you can't.
The 'average' user will have no idea what these little programs are that are running that magically give others the power to '0wn' their box.
The fact is, people will install linux, get screwed over by script kiddies, and blame linux.
Just out of curiosity, how do you propose the Dreamcast to have a DVD player out soon considering it doesn't use a normal DVD drive?
Just a thought...
Yes folks, it's official, next month they are going to be even more adventurous, and bring back the ever dreaded Mac Clone.
After consulting with many MANY scientists, they decided it would be the ultimate test of science to Clone the Mac.
However, Apple seems to disagree...
(Note: this is a joke, all names and faces were left in tact because nobody is truly innocent.)
The dreamcast itself does not run CE. CE was ported to the dreamcast so that developers which choose to use it (none do that I know of, but I may be wrong) can.
Since he was booting with the the web browser disc (I'd assume) it most likely is running CE however...
A friend of mine wrote a paper partially touching on the "communism" of the net:
http://demiforce.parodius.com/zen/demizen.html
(note, I recommend going to demiforce.parodius.com/ and following the links to get the full effect of the site...)
Anyways, it speaks of how since things can be copied indefinately the net is the one place where communism could work...
Read if you're interested, else, umm, don't
In all honesty I didn't think Phrack was still producing. Nice to see a longtime tradition (well, kinda) of phrack continue. I still remember the article on programming the serial port for linux that forced me to produce all kinds of useless hardware and waste money - god bless 'em.
In regards to those asking questions, Phrack is an electronic magazine convering various technical topics from vulnerabilities to tutorials (such as how to make your own shell, etc.)
Ok, I may be wrong as it's been a while since I've used a mac, but here's my outlook:
First, on a mac, you can't get remote access. Sure you can hit a buffer overflow, attempt to execute the risc code to change things, but as someone else stated, with the "name" of the harddrive, you can't kill things.
On a [linux *bsd macosX] box, it'd be possible to start other daemons through a buffer overflow. They could be deleted totally, but that's still one more step for them to botch up.
On a side note:
The admins for the military aren't ALWAYS the best trained (ok, possibly flame bait, but my brother is an admin for the marines, so I have a good idea of what he was and wasn't taught...incidently they're still using NT)
1st) I didn't mean to say the average /.'er but was too lazy to type out a full word. In a rephrase, are they that much more advanced than freelance computer scientists? I think not.
2nd) I was under the impression that they simply "overtook" the thinking machine from a seperate corp. claiming it was illegal...not sure where I read that, but oh well, wouldn't be the first time something I've read was inaccurate.
I'm just curious as to why everybody seems to think that the NSA is so far advanced over the typical /.'er. Granted they have a large budget, they don't develop the technology, they simply pay others to.
So sure they may have thousands of cray super computers, but I doubt they have something so powerful as to blow us away with.
They are, after all, people to.
Ok, somewhat on topic (it does deal w/ SW though not the article really)
People speak of the first 3 as being epic, and wondrous. How many people remember when they were originally released? The first (or rather, 4th) was loved. It was a complete story. Then came trust numba 5, which was criticized because it left off. This was because at this point Lucas new there would be a sequel. Then, good ole number 6 came and was praised again, because it was a complete story.
Now, he started something with TPM, but it's being criticized and with reason - it's in the same rank as episode 5, it's not a complete story. Lucas knows he will do more so he didn't finish ep1.
Just my spare change.
You make a point but I must append something.
What you say holds true for NOA (Nintendo of America). They've always been anal about their information.
Nintendo of Japan on the other hand is much less anal retentive. They still value their proprietory info, but they've never threatened (to my knowledge) freelance developers like NOA has.
Ya, and added HDMA (allowing the changes of display properties individually on each scanline), doubled the cpu speed, added new features such as better background tile flipping, and more.
Trust me, the GBC has a lot more improvements over the normal GB than is hyped.
BTW, I'm a GBC developer, and believe me when I tell you GBC lets us do stuff we couldn't on normal GB.
Yes, that's right, it's for executable code.
But verifying and executing are two very different things. If you don't install it it won't run.