EXCELLENT
That's going to be how I respond to the next vendor that pops in here
them: We have an excellent HR managment system and discounts on volume licensing of PrintPal
me: Yes but will it help virtualise my Web2.0 Beowolf
or: Great - will it turn my virtualised Beowolf cluster into a Web 2.0 service?
i can see their lips quivering already [evil grin]
Bindery?? Wow that's a blast from the past. You haven't worked on a Novell system for a while have you!
They've got this new (circa mid 1990's) thing called a Directory. Microsoft have a bad copy which they say is active. I don't even think you can install bindery even for legacy apps in the current netware.
Your view of the outdated file server is outdated.
really? I haven't seen that recommendation but I take your word for it. We use it for all our students but we're a small college - well we think we're big but we are small by USA standards.
I hear rumors we're going down the MS track because new senior management likes the fluff they had in other places. Our email admin is NOT happy.
Yeah sure the MS deal is too fresh to be coincidence.
But I'm wondering why Novell was going for it at all. Their proprietary system GroupWise is extremely stable and scalable (unless your admin's are monkeys) and makes exchange look sick unless you are talking about things like umm - you know - FEATURES and other fluff. But honestly - it ain't bad.
Why would they champion an OOS alternative to their own product?
But then - I can't say I really understand why they would champion Linux over Netware, unless they are acknowledging they've lost the OS battle and want to concentrate on selling the service and application layer/ring.
I guess they were really buying into the whole OOS thing. Well - up until some manager started to wonder what exactly is left to sell.
yeah - he was the first, and I think ONLY, person I ever filtered out.
It wasn't just that he talked crap about stuff he doesn't know about (hell this IS slashdot after all). It was the volume of crap which seemed to get a high profile that drove me to figure out what my profile was for.
for one more time...
you can infringe on a patent even if the code is entirely dissimilar.
A patent has nothing, NOT ONE THING, to do with patent infringement
If I patent a method which allows me to do some cunning thing with a web site, if it's accepted then you can't implement the same method - EVEN IF YOU WRITE ORIGINAL CODE. the patent has nothing to do with code. Nothing at all.
People are confusing patent infringement with copyright infringement.
You haven't used a virtual machine have you? go download VMWare of virtual-pc (slower but invades your system less than vmware - and the full thing is free from microsoft).
You will find that there's a option to delete changes on exit. It's not hard - just a tad over the top
actually - yes I knew it existed but I don't go there. Never remember. but I religiously go to windowsupdate. NO person around here new it existed. So on several levels (and yes I know this is said elsewhere) WHO CARES???????????/
if it becomes to much overhead then go to OpenOffice. What's the problem?
Oh come on. There's a huge amount of moaning and gnashing of teeth about high tax in NZ. And for a while I believed it. But as another poster has pointed out NZ is about 27th in the 2005 OECD tax database. We are waaayyy down the list - which contrasts with the FUD being put around about us being way higher than the US, Aussie and (if you believe the critics) every nation that has ever existed. Do we get value for it, could/should it be lowered - I dunno. But saying we have a high tax rate is simply FUD and ignorance
BTW spell checking in Firefox 2.0 is fantastic - first time I've used it. First time I've noticed it really, I was wondering what the red dots were for a few mins.
I recently d/l the audio of a lecture that Bruce Schneier (of the book Applied Cryptography) gave at the Uni of Southern California. It is excellent and gives a very good explanation of why there is NO tradeoff between national security and personal privacy... indeed, the best national security will respect personal privacy. It's located here
So MS is being forced to write an API which will turn off system security.
Will the MAIN users of the API be virus writers, or will they only be a minor percentage of the coders who use it?
Make no mistake - this API is a security vulnerability which virus developers WILL use. I really hope that the API requires a DLL which I can remove, unregiser and exorcise from my systems. Or some other way, which cannot be bypassed, which will ensure that NOTHING (not even symantec... or sony) can write to my kernel.
A statement from ICANN just now claims that even if ordered they canNOT do anything
To quote TFA:
Even if ICANN were properly brought before the court in this matter, which ICANN has not been, ICANN cannot comply with any order requiring it to suspend or place a client hold on Spamhaus.org or any specific domain name because ICANN does not have either the ability or the authority to do so. Only the Internet registrar with whom the registrant has a contractual relationship - and in certain instances the Internet registry - can suspend an individual domain name.
When an OSS maintainer gives up, you can still maintain the software precisely because you have the source so that there are ways of maintaining the software.
Actually no.
I can not maintain the code.
Even if I had the skills, I don't have the time. And I can't afford to pay someone who can. So no - I can NOT maintain the code if it is intimately tied to a single developer. To suggest that I can is as farcical as suggesting that OSS is more secure because many eyes are critiquing the code - when in actual practice very few eyes are involved in most of the code on sourceforge etc.
I teach networking in various courses in a Polytechnic - think of a College including degree level. I tried this a few years ago - and have continued recently. I had students bringing recorders to class & I thought why not do it myself - they seem to want a recording.
I was concerned about students missing classes. I monitored attendance carefully and found that the non-attendance didn't change. I also found that very very few people who downloaded the material actually remembered listening to it when I did a survey at the end of the course (obsessive compulsive downloading disorder?). It really seemed like a complete waste of time.
I've recently started providing them online again as an extra resource for the on-site students. But the podcast (and webcast with ppt & video) is made primarily for some distance students. Again - attendance isn't suffering (on-site) but I'm not sure that it is really used that much by students - yeah I can see they are downloading but I'm not convinced they use them. I'll try another survey later and check but casual conversation gives me the impression they're just collecting stuff.
Once they hear me babble in real life they get the gist and don't need to re-hear every word again.
I'm not knocking the idea - hey I'm doing it! I am just not convinced it's worth much effort. The only reason I'm providing it really is because I have to produce it for the off-site students.
In no article I've seen has any writer actually suggested or "alleged" that SUSE Enterprise 10 is going to be a "Vista killer," as the story submitter (and transitively,/. editor) purported. Gotta love the FUD.
Take a look at this article. Yes it's crap - but this article DOES say that desktop 10 is taking on VISTA and aims to beat it.
From TFA: " Novell, is angling to seize the day with the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, a desktop OS geared to beat Vista in cost, manageability and features."
Sure - it doesn't use the word "killer". But that quote has the same meaning that I understand from the term "Vista Killer".
It won't be tho - VISTA will probably end up kicking its ass when it's released (bundled with Duke Nukem Forever)
i think that there's a world of difference between freedom of expression and prevention of search. i don't kow anything about US law - and stuff all about even NZ law - but I do think that schools in both countries have a loco-parentis role which basicly means they have the same rights as parents. I would expect a parent to have the right to inspect cell phone data, so it doesn't surprise me a school can.
the new jersy case I think was mentioned elsewhere (grandparent?) had nothing to do with the fact that the locker was the property of the school and everything to do with loco-parentis
>The excuse of training individuals on a platform said to be an industry standard is weak.
Tell that to the employer that says in their job ad's that candidates must be familiar with MS Office (for admin jobs). Tell that to the high-school leaver who is applying for those jobs. *MOST* people do not graduate from uni with CS degrees.
If the monopoly has no incentive to conform to standards there's no reason to wait for them to catch up. The rest of the world can move on and smart users can choose to switch.
I *think* his point was that the rest of the world doesn't bother - so there's problems getting too far ahead
It baffles me why IE is still dominant when it wasn't THAT long ago people were happily changing browsers based on what worked best. I can understand how MS got to the dominant positioning - bundling + decent product (and for its day it was). But I really don't understand why it is still dominant. I don't think bundling+lazyness fully explain that.
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EXCELLENT That's going to be how I respond to the next vendor that pops in here them: We have an excellent HR managment system and discounts on volume licensing of PrintPal me: Yes but will it help virtualise my Web2.0 Beowolf or: Great - will it turn my virtualised Beowolf cluster into a Web 2.0 service? i can see their lips quivering already [evil grin]
Bindery?? Wow that's a blast from the past. You haven't worked on a Novell system for a while have you!
They've got this new (circa mid 1990's) thing called a Directory. Microsoft have a bad copy which they say is active. I don't even think you can install bindery even for legacy apps in the current netware.
Your view of the outdated file server is outdated.
really? I haven't seen that recommendation but I take your word for it. We use it for all our students but we're a small college - well we think we're big but we are small by USA standards.
I hear rumors we're going down the MS track because new senior management likes the fluff they had in other places. Our email admin is NOT happy.
Yeah sure the MS deal is too fresh to be coincidence.
But I'm wondering why Novell was going for it at all. Their proprietary system GroupWise is extremely stable and scalable (unless your admin's are monkeys) and makes exchange look sick unless you are talking about things like umm - you know - FEATURES and other fluff. But honestly - it ain't bad.
Why would they champion an OOS alternative to their own product?
But then - I can't say I really understand why they would champion Linux over Netware, unless they are acknowledging they've lost the OS battle and want to concentrate on selling the service and application layer/ring.
I guess they were really buying into the whole OOS thing. Well - up until some manager started to wonder what exactly is left to sell.
yeah - he was the first, and I think ONLY, person I ever filtered out.
It wasn't just that he talked crap about stuff he doesn't know about (hell this IS slashdot after all). It was the volume of crap which seemed to get a high profile that drove me to figure out what my profile was for.
He was an idiot. I doubt much has changed.
of course what I meant was "CODE has nothing not one thing to do with patent infringment"
sorry guys & gals
for one more time ...
you can infringe on a patent even if the code is entirely dissimilar.
A patent has nothing, NOT ONE THING, to do with patent infringement
If I patent a method which allows me to do some cunning thing with a web site, if it's accepted then you can't implement the same method - EVEN IF YOU WRITE ORIGINAL CODE. the patent has nothing to do with code. Nothing at all.
People are confusing patent infringement with copyright infringement.
I don't use it much - but sandboxie impressed me a few months ago for running IE (or anything) in a semi-virtualised environment
You haven't used a virtual machine have you? go download VMWare of virtual-pc (slower but invades your system less than vmware - and the full thing is free from microsoft). You will find that there's a option to delete changes on exit. It's not hard - just a tad over the top
Many people say that. And put that way it sounds fair doesn't it?
BUT - if it was that simple then why don't firefox and many many other browsers pass the acid2 test?
If standards are so difficult to implement then I am wondering if the standards themselves are flawed.
After experimenting with IE I've gone back to FF (besides - it broke MS-Producer which i need for work). But neither of them are standards compliant
actually - yes I knew it existed but I don't go there. Never remember. but I religiously go to windowsupdate. NO person around here new it existed. So on several levels (and yes I know this is said elsewhere) WHO CARES???????????/
if it becomes to much overhead then go to OpenOffice. What's the problem?
(oh that spell check in FF is so cool)
BTW spell checking in Firefox 2.0 is fantastic - first time I've used it. First time I've noticed it really, I was wondering what the red dots were for a few mins.
But Linux would not prevail - at best Windows and Linux have equal market share
I recently d/l the audio of a lecture that Bruce Schneier (of the book Applied Cryptography) gave at the Uni of Southern California. It is excellent and gives a very good explanation of why there is NO tradeoff between national security and personal privacy ... indeed, the best national security will respect personal privacy. It's located here
So MS is being forced to write an API which will turn off system security.
... or sony) can write to my kernel.
Will the MAIN users of the API be virus writers, or will they only be a minor percentage of the coders who use it?
Make no mistake - this API is a security vulnerability which virus developers WILL use. I really hope that the API requires a DLL which I can remove, unregiser and exorcise from my systems. Or some other way, which cannot be bypassed, which will ensure that NOTHING (not even symantec
To quote TFA:
Actually no.
I can not maintain the code.
Even if I had the skills, I don't have the time. And I can't afford to pay someone who can. So no - I can NOT maintain the code if it is intimately tied to a single developer. To suggest that I can is as farcical as suggesting that OSS is more secure because many eyes are critiquing the code - when in actual practice very few eyes are involved in most of the code on sourceforge etc.
ICANN are announcing it as a move to much more independance and emphasising LESS US-DOC control. Spin or PR? I dunno. the press-release is here
It's a flash vid from a conference but I think he's got a few good points (and some I don't agree - but worth listening too).
I teach networking in various courses in a Polytechnic - think of a College including degree level. I tried this a few years ago - and have continued recently. I had students bringing recorders to class & I thought why not do it myself - they seem to want a recording.
I was concerned about students missing classes. I monitored attendance carefully and found that the non-attendance didn't change. I also found that very very few people who downloaded the material actually remembered listening to it when I did a survey at the end of the course (obsessive compulsive downloading disorder?). It really seemed like a complete waste of time.
I've recently started providing them online again as an extra resource for the on-site students. But the podcast (and webcast with ppt & video) is made primarily for some distance students. Again - attendance isn't suffering (on-site) but I'm not sure that it is really used that much by students - yeah I can see they are downloading but I'm not convinced they use them. I'll try another survey later and check but casual conversation gives me the impression they're just collecting stuff.
Once they hear me babble in real life they get the gist and don't need to re-hear every word again.
I'm not knocking the idea - hey I'm doing it! I am just not convinced it's worth much effort. The only reason I'm providing it really is because I have to produce it for the off-site students.
i never thought of that - what a good reply. I like it!
Take a look at this article. Yes it's crap - but this article DOES say that desktop 10 is taking on VISTA and aims to beat it.
Sure - it doesn't use the word "killer". But that quote has the same meaning that I understand from the term "Vista Killer".It won't be tho - VISTA will probably end up kicking its ass when it's released (bundled with Duke Nukem Forever)
the new jersy case I think was mentioned elsewhere (grandparent?) had nothing to do with the fact that the locker was the property of the school and everything to do with loco-parentis
>The excuse of training individuals on a platform said to be an industry standard is weak. Tell that to the employer that says in their job ad's that candidates must be familiar with MS Office (for admin jobs). Tell that to the high-school leaver who is applying for those jobs. *MOST* people do not graduate from uni with CS degrees.
I *think* his point was that the rest of the world doesn't bother - so there's problems getting too far ahead
It baffles me why IE is still dominant when it wasn't THAT long ago people were happily changing browsers based on what worked best. I can understand how MS got to the dominant positioning - bundling + decent product (and for its day it was). But I really don't understand why it is still dominant. I don't think bundling+lazyness fully explain that.