Vote with your feet. Where I work, they have Win2k on every desktop. The only app I have to use it for is outlook. Hopefully the company will realize one of these days, that running IMAP and ldap from a linux box will save lotsa bux, now that they're finally looking at the bottom line.
If MIS boss sez MS is the company standard, write a message to MIS boss's boss, and outline the ROI for an alternative solution.
It's not 1999 anymore - the bottom line matters. Beat the pinstripes with their own methods.
Microsoft found it all but impossible to develop a useful multitasking operating system for the 286. This was not Microsoft's fault -- the design of the chip simply wouldn't allow much useful to be done with it.
What exactly in the in the 286 architecture prevents the use of a multitasking operating system? I seem to remember MS once touted Xenix, and there were also other Unixen out there. There were multitasking versions of CPM before the 286. Is the article writer missing something, or am I missing something. You don't need to have built in multiple instruction pipelines in the proceessor to multitask. It is almost trivial to write that into an operating system. Remember Andrew Tannenbaum's Minix that came on floppies included in his book "Operating Systems"?.
It appears to me that the article writer is trying to excuse Microsoft's lack of skill by pretending that the task was impossible.
Haven't used groff in a long time, but did use it for a commercial product in the mid 90's. With the help of troff, there was no need to write a printer driver or anything, just pass on the correct options. The application could produce nicely laid out postscript reports, for print or preview, or simple ascii screens.
If I were to write the same function today, I probably would have used xml and xslt in some form.
For many purposes IDE drives are just as fast as SCSI, at a fraction of the cost. For hard disks, SCSI is faster for frequent small IOS, while IDE is faster for fewer larger IOS. So, unless you're running an OLTP database or similar, drooling for a SCSI based system is not in your interest, moneywise or otherwise. No matter what the boys who think they're l33t tell you.
Especially the praise of the MCSE cert,as hard to get and valuable sounds fishy. Based on the MCSE curricilum, it appears to me that any computer savvy person could pass after a weekends worth of work, if it was any other operating system.
I don't see why anyone would want to waste months of their valuable time to learn how to point and click their way through Microsoft's latest 'catching up to the rest of the world and renaming it'. While completely avoiding the learning of important concepts and international standards.
MS can lower their consumer prices, however, they're still happy to charge up the wazoo for business licenses ans server stuff.
For once, I think the megacorps may do something good for linux. CFO says to CEO "We spent 150 million in MS licenses last year, can you believe that?"
CTO then says: Give me 10 % of that money, and I can put together a large team of linux developers and testers. There are plenty of projects we can put them on to oust MS from the desktop.
In 3 years, MS license cost will be less than $10 mill. And I can also save you 50% of your PC hardware budget by running more frugal software.
Conservatively, your investment will pay back in less than 1 year, and over the next 5 years, your ROI will be 4500%. How about it, boss?
Putting linux on a E10K is just as dumb as putting it on a mainframe.
Big irone are priced at a premium. For one thing, resources are shared among CPUS, so you can't scale linearly, giving you less bang for the bux, the bigger the box.
What is worse, is that the price tends to cale almost exponentially.
For example a beefed upentry level server with the same performance as a half full mid-range/enterprise server typically costs only the third of the bigger box.
Why would anyone want to buy such expensive boxes to run linux? The only reason I see is that they think they can save money by having fewer linux admins. Me, I think you can buy a lot of linux admin payroll for the 5-10$ million premium you pay for a big iron. I also think that an operation with some big iron tends to require a higher head count than the same computing power on commodity servers.
The only places I see a market for the big iron, is where they're just ading software and capabilities in an operation where they already have big iron. I.E IBMS's and suns goal with this, is to stop existing customers from throwing out their existing machines.
Such contract language is not legally binding, at least not oin Russia, where it is a consumer Right to make backup copies.
I say: If it's your stuff, and you care about it, it is your right, and duty to protect your stuff. Such as painting your house, putting irreplaceble documents in a fireprood safe, making backups of your data, (and your software, without which your data would be useless).
In the Great U.S of A, where individual freedom and civil rights, in particular right to protect one's property and carry guns, such language in a contract would normally be laughed out of court.
However these are strange times. In the year 2002, the only thing the constitution is good for is protecting our right to view porn and carry a gun. The rest of the constitution only purpose is to keep a bunch of senile superior court judges gainfully employed.
Dude II, here's a law of nature you must take into account:
The annual change in price per MB of storage (unit = $/MB) multiplied by the number of emails multipled by the average size per email will always be > 0.
However, with an electric ink screen instead of a backlit LCD display, and some frugal software requiring less CPU and memory, 5 minutes of pumping could probably get you 2 hours worth of play.
Those sheets of paper where you connect the arrow for the candidate of your choice.
Sounds awkward. In the kingdom of Norway, you enter a booth, and pick one out of 7-8 voting cards. One card for each party. The card has the names of all the party's candidates listed. The only mods you can do is to mark candidates for a double vote or scratch a candidate, or write in your own candidate. You can also bring your own voting card, since most parties send voting cards and programs in the mail to the voters.
You put your card in an envelope, and drop the envelope into the ballot box.
It's kind of hard to get it wrong with such a simple system.
The only drawback with the system, is that you need to print up a lot more voting cards than what will be used. The count is done by hand.
The results are in fast enough, and I have never heard about a case of cheating.
You're absolutely right. That's the way energy is deregulated in countries where it works. And that's how telecommunications should be deregulated.
And it would have prevented the incumbents from squeezing the DSL innovators out of business. If Verizlow wanted to compete in that space, it would have to be through a separate company, operating under the same market conditions as everbody else.
Many of the free market advocates use competition as their main argument for letting everything slide, but they are unwilling to to take the necessary steps to create a market where true competition can exist. A bunch of hypocrites, that's what they are.
You are absolutely correct. Propbably the first comment do far that deserves +1 Insightful.
People were wrong about thinking that half-assed competition in California would be a good idea. The were wrong again when they thought that competition caused the crisis.
In true developed countries, there has been deregulated full-competition energy supply for a meny years now. And before they got that far, there was public debate about the pros and cons,
and care was taken to avoid pitfalls.
US politics is different. Powerful lobbyists can butter up legislators to stall the process or get it their way. In other countries we have the occasional kickback or bribe scandal. In US politics you rarely have a curruption scandal, because it's all legalized. One may bribe openly by contributing to campaigns. I laugh everytime an american is shocked about corrupt politicians in African countries.
In an advanced, modern nation, suppliers, brokers and delivery companies are free to trade contracts on different markets. The spot market which takes care of short term supply, to balance the grid, the short term market, which has a horizon of a couple of weeks, and the long term market with a horizon of a couple of years. On the spot market you can get energy almost for free when there is a surplus, but prices can easily jump to 10x regular prices in a crunch. End consumers get to chose their provider, and can bind their contracts to the long term market, or chose to pay a variable market rate.
The only thing the california crisis proved, was that legislators are incompetent and currupt, consumers are stupid, and that energy companies are greedy. We surely did not learn anything new.
But we all digress. On Verizon, it is no coincidence that they put forward these proposals now. They have all their ducks lined up. The current FCC board is very friendly with the baby bells, and so is Bush's government. If you want to get to the bottom of this, follow the money.
Same thing here, but they're not going to get my business. Who is lame enough to pay $35 per year?
I bough my domain at domainstore.com, for around $15 per year. So when it was time to renew, I went back to the site, and now they were going to charge me $35 per year, or $30 for a transfer. No way Jose.
Turns out they've been bought up by one of the big ones (registrars.com I think).
Luckily, my name is so unusual that I can let the domain expire, and get a.com or.net instead of the.org I have. And this time around I'll register for 10 years, at one of the cheapo registrars that charge $8 a year.
They either assume that people don't read subtitles (which is probably true, lazy fucks
that we all are), or need some Americanization (e.g. dumbing down to joe six-pack) of
every fucking show or product that is imported to this country.
Maybe we should just get direct feeds from other countries and hope that they have closed captioning.
Your best bet then would be to learn a minor language, such as swedish. In Europe, the really big countries like France, Germany and Italy use dubbing extensively. While the smaller countries hardly ever dub. So dubbing is not a typically american phenomenon. It's size that matters. There are millions of Joe Sixpack's just because there are 200 mill americans, and millions of Hermann EinBisschenUnterMittel just because there are some 80 million Germans.
Small countries can't afford to dub just to accomodate Svenn MuchLessThanAverageMedelSvennson, because there's only a few thousand of them.
Sounds like good advice. They probably reacted so fast because there were no records to subpoena.
When they say "We'll conduct our own evaluations and keep you informed" they probably mean: "Your claim has been filed - in the cabinet that looks like a shredder. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. Now go away, or we shall taunt you a second time."
A lot of the juice for a laptop i spent on the display, so even if you power the machine with a Z80, your week in Japan is just a dream.
For a display, you might need to go with something like e-ink. But I'm sure you'll have to wait another couple of years before they have something you can use in a laptop, and by that time, you won't need to roll your own. Unless of course the manufactureres continue to commit to MS bloatware. Jeez, people, you DON'T need an 18-wheel truck going at supersonic speeds to go to the grocery store.
would ask me roughly what the project should do,
send out agents to gather domain knowledge and business rules, come up with the correct design patterns, and complete a working prototype.
Or just imagine - 99% of CPU hogged by an application you cannot kill. Or is there some form of 'master' context that can influence all others?
Well, for those kinds of scenarios we could use a method frequently used by a renowned professional commercial platform. Just hunt down an MCSE, and tell them to fix the problem. I assure you, it will take only a few seconds.
Whole heartedly agree. It would also perforctly cover the market between colocation and virtual web hosting.
Currently, the only choices we have are colocation and virtual web server hosting. colocation is way too expensive, and virtual hosting does not offer enough flexibility. It's hard to get any services that are not offered as part of the hosting company's smorgasboard.
Virtual hosts like this would be perfect for tinkerers who can build all the stuff by themselves, without having to fork out for a rackmount server, precious rack space, and expensive colo fees.
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Xactly.
Vote with your feet. Where I work, they have Win2k on every desktop. The only app I have to use it for is outlook. Hopefully the company will realize one of these days, that running IMAP and ldap from a linux box will save lotsa bux, now that they're finally looking at the bottom line.
If MIS boss sez MS is the company standard, write a message to MIS boss's boss, and outline the ROI for an alternative solution.
It's not 1999 anymore - the bottom line matters. Beat the pinstripes with their own methods.
From the article:
Microsoft found it all but impossible to develop a useful multitasking operating system for the 286. This was not Microsoft's fault -- the design of the chip simply wouldn't allow much useful to be done with it.
What exactly in the in the 286 architecture prevents the use of a multitasking operating system? I seem to remember MS once touted Xenix, and there were also other Unixen out there. There were multitasking versions of CPM before the 286. Is the article writer missing something, or am I missing something. You don't need to have built in multiple instruction pipelines in the proceessor to multitask. It is almost trivial to write that into an operating system. Remember Andrew Tannenbaum's Minix that came on floppies included in his book "Operating Systems"?.
It appears to me that the article writer is trying to excuse Microsoft's lack of skill by pretending that the task was impossible.
Haven't used groff in a long time, but did use it for a commercial product in the mid 90's. With the help of troff, there was no need to write a printer driver or anything, just pass on the correct options. The application could produce nicely laid out postscript reports, for print or preview, or simple ascii screens.
If I were to write the same function today, I probably would have used xml and xslt in some form.
Don't worry about being vulgar.
For many purposes IDE drives are just as fast as SCSI, at a fraction of the cost. For hard disks, SCSI is faster for frequent small IOS, while IDE is faster for fewer larger IOS. So, unless you're running an OLTP database or similar, drooling for a SCSI based system is not in your interest, moneywise or otherwise. No matter what the boys who think they're l33t tell you.
Especially the praise of the MCSE cert,as hard to get and valuable sounds fishy. Based on the MCSE curricilum, it appears to me that any computer savvy person could pass after a weekends worth of work, if it was any other operating system.
I don't see why anyone would want to waste months of their valuable time to learn how to point and click their way through Microsoft's latest 'catching up to the rest of the world and renaming it'. While completely avoiding the learning of important concepts and international standards.
MS can lower their consumer prices, however, they're still happy to charge up the wazoo for business licenses ans server stuff.
For once, I think the megacorps may do something good for linux. CFO says to CEO "We spent 150 million in MS licenses last year, can you believe that?"
CTO then says: Give me 10 % of that money, and I can put together a large team of linux developers and testers. There are plenty of projects we can put them on to oust MS from the desktop.
In 3 years, MS license cost will be less than $10 mill. And I can also save you 50% of your PC hardware budget by running more frugal software.
Conservatively, your investment will pay back in less than 1 year, and over the next 5 years, your ROI will be 4500%. How about it, boss?
Putting linux on a E10K is just as dumb as putting it on a mainframe.
Big irone are priced at a premium.
For one thing, resources are shared among CPUS, so you can't scale linearly, giving you less bang for the bux, the bigger the box.
What is worse, is that the price tends to cale almost exponentially.
For example a beefed upentry level server with the same performance as a half full mid-range/enterprise server typically costs only the third of the bigger box.
Why would anyone want to buy such expensive boxes to run linux? The only reason I see is that they think they can save money by having fewer linux admins. Me, I think you can buy a lot of linux admin payroll for the 5-10$ million premium you pay for a big iron. I also think that an operation with some big iron tends to require a higher head count than the same computing power on commodity servers.
The only places I see a market for the big iron, is where they're just ading software and capabilities in an operation where they already have big iron. I.E IBMS's and suns goal with this, is to stop existing customers from throwing out their existing machines.
It's hardly technical, legal or not.
Such contract language is not legally binding, at least not oin Russia, where it is a consumer Right to make backup copies.
I say: If it's your stuff, and you care about it, it is your right, and duty to protect your stuff. Such as painting your house, putting irreplaceble documents in a fireprood safe, making backups of your data, (and your software, without which your data would be useless).
In the Great U.S of A, where individual freedom and civil rights, in particular right to protect one's property and carry guns, such language in a contract would normally be laughed out of court.
However these are strange times. In the year 2002, the only thing the constitution is good for is protecting our right to view porn and carry a gun. The rest of the constitution only purpose is to keep a bunch of senile superior court judges gainfully employed.
Dude II, here's a law of nature you must take into account:
The annual change in price per MB of storage (unit = $/MB) multiplied by the number of emails multipled by the average size per email will always be > 0.
Moore giveth, Gates takes.
However, with an electric ink screen instead of a backlit LCD display, and some frugal software requiring less CPU and memory, 5 minutes of pumping could probably get you 2 hours worth of play.
Only the newfangled French style rhyming.
Those sheets of paper where you connect the arrow for the candidate of your choice.
Sounds awkward. In the kingdom of Norway, you enter a booth, and pick one out of 7-8 voting cards. One card for each party. The card has the names of all the party's candidates listed. The only mods you can do is to mark candidates for a double vote or scratch a candidate, or write in your own candidate. You can also bring your own voting card, since most parties send voting cards and programs in the mail to the voters.
You put your card in an envelope, and drop the envelope into the ballot box.
It's kind of hard to get it wrong with such a simple system.
The only drawback with the system, is that you need to print up a lot more voting cards than what will be used. The count is done by hand.
The results are in fast enough, and I have never heard about a case of cheating.
You're absolutely right. That's the way energy is deregulated in countries where it works. And that's how telecommunications should be deregulated.
And it would have prevented the incumbents from squeezing the DSL innovators out of business. If Verizlow wanted to compete in that space, it would have to be through a separate company, operating under the same market conditions as everbody else.
Many of the free market advocates use competition as their main argument for letting everything slide, but they are unwilling to to take the necessary steps to create a market where true competition can exist. A bunch of hypocrites, that's what they are.
When's the last time you picked up a newspaper, o great dictionary man.
Go find one, turn to page 2, and read. Then come back, and tell us if the editorial expressed an opinion or not.
Maybe you will find that Websters explanation is not complete.
You are absolutely correct. Propbably the first comment do far that deserves +1 Insightful.
People were wrong about thinking that half-assed competition in California would be a good idea. The were wrong again when they thought that competition caused the crisis.
In true developed countries, there has been deregulated full-competition energy supply for a meny years now. And before they got that far, there was public debate about the pros and cons,
and care was taken to avoid pitfalls.
US politics is different. Powerful lobbyists can butter up legislators to stall the process or get it their way. In other countries we have the occasional kickback or bribe scandal. In US politics you rarely have a curruption scandal, because it's all legalized. One may bribe openly by contributing to campaigns. I laugh everytime an american is shocked about corrupt politicians in African countries.
In an advanced, modern nation, suppliers, brokers and delivery companies are free to trade contracts on different markets. The spot market which takes care of short term supply, to balance the grid, the short term market, which has a horizon of a couple of weeks, and the long term market with a horizon of a couple of years. On the spot market you can get energy almost for free when there is a surplus, but prices can easily jump to 10x regular prices in a crunch. End consumers get to chose their provider, and can bind their contracts to the long term market, or chose to pay a variable market rate.
The only thing the california crisis proved, was that legislators are incompetent and currupt, consumers are stupid, and that energy companies are greedy. We surely did not learn anything new.
But we all digress. On Verizon, it is no coincidence that they put forward these proposals now. They have all their ducks lined up. The current FCC board is very friendly with the baby bells, and so is Bush's government. If you want to get to the bottom of this, follow the money.
Same thing here, but they're not going to get my business. Who is lame enough to pay $35 per year?
.com or .net instead of the .org I have. And this time around I'll register for 10 years, at one of the cheapo registrars that charge $8 a year.
I bough my domain at domainstore.com, for around $15 per year. So when it was time to renew, I went back to the site, and now they were going to charge me $35 per year, or $30 for a transfer. No way Jose.
Turns out they've been bought up by one of the big ones (registrars.com I think).
Luckily, my name is so unusual that I can let the domain expire, and get a
They either assume that people don't read subtitles (which is probably true, lazy fucks
that we all are), or need some Americanization (e.g. dumbing down to joe six-pack) of
every fucking show or product that is imported to this country.
Maybe we should just get direct feeds from other countries and hope that they have closed captioning.
Your best bet then would be to learn a minor language, such as swedish. In Europe, the really big countries like France, Germany and Italy use dubbing extensively. While the smaller countries hardly ever dub. So dubbing is not a typically american phenomenon. It's size that matters. There are millions of Joe Sixpack's just because there are 200 mill americans, and millions of Hermann EinBisschenUnterMittel just because there are some 80 million Germans.
Small countries can't afford to dub just to accomodate Svenn MuchLessThanAverageMedelSvennson, because there's only a few thousand of them.
Sounds like good advice. They probably reacted so fast because there were no records to subpoena.
When they say "We'll conduct our own evaluations and keep you informed" they probably mean: "Your claim has been filed - in the cabinet that looks like a shredder. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. Now go away, or we shall taunt you a second time."
He wrote fragile in English.
Nope, Pierre, he wrote it in French. It just looks English.
is a better word to put on the box, or dirty old rags, chunks of wood, pots and pans.
One way to guarantee tender treatment would be to mark the box "nitroglycerin", but that may cause you some other problems.
A lot of the juice for a laptop i spent on the display, so even if you power the machine with a Z80, your week in Japan is just a dream.
For a display, you might need to go with something like e-ink. But I'm sure you'll have to wait another couple of years before they have something you can use in a laptop, and by that time, you won't need to roll your own. Unless of course the manufactureres continue to commit to MS bloatware. Jeez, people, you DON'T need an 18-wheel truck going at supersonic speeds to go to the grocery store.
Freedom of Information. For once, the feds have chosen the most efficient way to implement something.
would ask me roughly what the project should do,
send out agents to gather domain knowledge and business rules, come up with the correct design patterns, and complete a working prototype.
While I'm gone fishing,
Or just imagine - 99% of CPU hogged by an application you cannot kill. Or is there some form of 'master' context that can influence all others?
Well, for those kinds of scenarios we could use a method frequently used by a renowned professional commercial platform. Just hunt down an MCSE, and tell them to fix the problem. I assure you, it will take only a few seconds.
Whole heartedly agree. It would also perforctly cover the market between colocation and virtual web hosting.
Currently, the only choices we have are colocation and virtual web server hosting. colocation is way too expensive, and virtual hosting does not offer enough flexibility. It's hard to get any services that are not offered as part of the hosting company's smorgasboard.
Virtual hosts like this would be perfect for tinkerers who can build all the stuff by themselves, without having to fork out for a rackmount server, precious rack space, and expensive colo fees.