Gates is getting a knighthood for contributions to international business while at the same time the EU (therefore by extension the UK) is fining microsoft for anti-competitive practices. Don't you just love irony?
Now it looks more like a knighthood for the contribution to the EU's bankaccount.
Its good to see at least one PC Retailer distancing itself from Microsoft.
I'm not sure this qualifies as distancing itself. However, another big PC retailer (at least here in the Netherlands) that does this is NEC. We order PC there without Windows quite often, and they are delivered with freedos. Probably for the same reason.
Before you reply in this insulting manner, read a little better. Nowhere did I imply that anyone runs Windows on mainframes. What I was talking abount is that IBM doesn't like it that in the low end market they can hardly get around windows.
I know enough about mainframes and in fact AIX (I have worked with AIX as a matter of fact, not on a Mainframe though but on an RS6000).
What I was talking about was the reason IBM likes Linux. Nowhere did I mention mainframes. IBM doesn't like the dominance of windows. IBM is a lot bigger than a mainframe company
IBM likes Linux because they don't like the fact that they have to depend on Microsoft. The reason is not a childish one, but the fact that they are unable to control a large part of what they offer. The control is at a third party (MS). I don't think this has much to do with IBM anxious to dump AIX
Linux is the only viable option to break that dependance. And as a bonus, their powerpc architecture is now more appealing. There are nowadays many people that can make good use of a server running Linux. If I only look at my own company. We would never have considered a IBM AIX server. But an affordable IBM server running Linux is appealing, powerfull, robust and as it runs Linux, it runs what we use.
1) In the future, we're going to have a lot of thumbless (and eyeless) people running around the country side. Simple way for terrorists to get into a building: cut of the thumb of an employee. They don't even have to torture for passwords or other information.
The newer fingerprint equipment can test if a thumb is actually alive
2) Sometimes you share passwords - sometimes for valid reasons. Are you willing to share your thumb?
No, and that is exactly the point. Usually sharing passwords is considered a bad thing
Where does it say that he has the money etc. Reverse proxy can be installed on the same machine as the webserver itself and still be benificial. Not everybody is serving static html files.
First to all to all that responded that 10-30 isn't much, the asker mentioned 10-30 _current_. I assume he (or she) meant concurrent. And that can, depending on what you mean by concurrent and by the type of website served be a resource eater for which reverse proxy be an excellent tool. For those that don't understand this I suggest to read http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/strategy.htm l Note that the advantage often is not caching but buffering.
Furthermore, we use apache and mod_proxy for reverseproxy. It is a little more resource eating that squid, but it keeps server configuration nice and central since our sites are served by apache as well. I assume this will work nicely on Windows as well. Our company however uses only Linux (even on the desktops) so I cannot tell from experience how well this works using Windows.
I use WebGUI for exactly this purpose. I've got my wishlist on my personal site, blog a little and use the photo gallery. Once installed, it's really easy to use. The wyswyg editor allows anyone that can use word to even do quite a bit of layout.
Well, the passive cooled Via mini-ITX and nano-ITX mother boards are there but the power supplies for them aren't there yet.
http://www.lex.com.tw/index1.htm They make nice powersupplies. No fan, just 12v -> atx adapters. They require a 12 volt AC/DC adapter. No Fans, no noise.
The mini-itx boards can be passively cooled. The 533 mhz version is. Some special cases use heatpipes. Then the only noise is the harddisk (if you need one, booting via the ethernet adapter is also an option!)
If this lonely guy chooses to start driving his car and crushing people... should we blame the car's manufacturer??
If the car company would have sold cars without (working) locks, and cars that could be started without a key.... Yes, to some degree. The lonely guy is still the one to blame, but the car manufacturer is to blame for making it so easy.
If you place a loaded gun in a postoffice, nobobdy ought to pick it up. But you shouldn't have put it there.
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and they could save millions by not buying you-know-who's licences
God help the guy that keeps all the spare parts, then goes out and buys a case, power supply and mobo to install them all into because... hey, free second machine.
It is also not allowed to sell copies of the downloaded iso as 'Red Hat'. You are now only allowed to sell these cd's if they are named different (not Red Hat) and delete several pictures from the CD.
(see http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/gu idelines/page6.html)
We were told to stop selling the cd's as well. I thought that was a ploy to sell more boxed versions. I guess I was wrong.
If Ram cost are going down so quickly, I think it might be a good idea to get special harddrives: half Ram, half old fashioned platters. Let the harddisk use the RAM for all the read and write actions, and implement that all write actions are replicated to the old fashion platters.
For someone using these, it works just like harddisk (no changes, settings etc. in software neccesary). But you do get the extra speed.
For very reliable disks, it might be interesting to add some build in some kind of battery to make sure that at a powerfailure the last write actions can be sent to disk as well.
Actually, I had stopped caring at 400 mhz. My laptop does (did) everything I want nicely at 400 Mhz. (did go to 192 mb memory right after buying it)
But recently I started creating DVDs on my desktop (Duron 800). And if you want quality mpeg2 files, that's very time consuming on that machine. In the Pentium II 400 days, creating those at home was hardly an option. If I now get an Pentium IV, I can do this stuff a lot faster. That would be nice if start to backup my collection of VHS tapes.
So it's just a matter of what you do with your machine. We now can do more stuff at home, that we couldn't before.
Someone in Holland started something called: startpagina.nl. This was a collection of links meant if I'm not mistaken for his father. So many started using this collection of links that the site was sold for a lot of money to ilse.nl (a search engine) It now has many daughterpages (like: subject.pagina.nl) which are maintained by volunteers (the can sell some of the ad space). These pages are quite often a better start if you're looking for something than google
Production costs do not determine selling price - demand does. If someone is willing to pay $20 for a Cd, and there's more profit in selling x copies at that price than X+Y at $15, then companies will (and should) sell at $20.
Or more simply:
revenue - cost = profit so a company needs to minimize costs and maximize revenue - and to mximize revenue you balance the sales volume and price. If you can't charge enough to cover your costs, you lose money.
That's exactly my point:-) Demand is low because of the prices. And there not compensating by reducing cost or balancing price and volume. They blame someone else.
But replication is probably the cheapest step of the CD-making process. Next on the list is the actual studio time spent recording the CD. But the real money-burner is promotion and distribution. Thousands, hundreds of thousands are spent on replication and distribution and marketing just so regular people (including the non net-savvy) can hear about new music. So I think $12.99 is more than fair. Even $14.99.
So if I start selling french fries for 15 US$ per portion you consider this fair because I ran ads during prime time TV, making each my french fries so expensive. And furthermore it's fair to send have some agency claim that my competitor that didn't run the ads is pirating as he sells them for less?
Of course he can't sell my fries, but charging more than what consumers think is a fair price is bad business and there being punished by lower sales. If you're prices are to high because of the costs: reduce costs!
CD's are to expensive. Why? Because I don't want to pay 20 Euro (prices in Europe are a lot higher) for a CD. I just don't buy them. But I don't download them either! I listen to older CD's (cheaper) radio etc.
At Fosdem someone asked the PostgreSQL guy: 'why should I choose PostgreSQL' over Firebird. (The person who gave the Firebird presentation was in the room). His answer was basically that Firebird is actualy more full-featured, but that the advantage of PostgreSQL is that so many very talented developers are working on PostgreSQL making it better and better.
What I should have asked is, 'then why don't all the developers start working on Firebird in stead of PostgreSQL, since it is already better?'
But you're right, Firebird is even more forgotten as an option than PostgreSQL. And if even the Postgres people say it's better....
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Now it looks more like a knighthood for the contribution to the EU's bankaccount.
Its good to see at least one PC Retailer distancing itself from Microsoft.
I'm not sure this qualifies as distancing itself. However, another big PC retailer (at least here in the Netherlands) that does this is NEC. We order PC there without Windows quite often, and they are delivered with freedos. Probably for the same reason.
Before you reply in this insulting manner, read a little better. Nowhere did I imply that anyone runs Windows on mainframes.
What I was talking abount is that IBM doesn't like it that in the low end market they can hardly get around windows.
I know enough about mainframes and in fact AIX (I have worked with AIX as a matter of fact, not on a Mainframe though but on an RS6000).
What I was talking about was the reason IBM likes Linux. Nowhere did I mention mainframes. IBM doesn't like the dominance of windows. IBM is a lot bigger than a mainframe company
IBM likes Linux because they don't like the fact that they have to depend on Microsoft. The reason is not a childish one, but the fact that they are unable to control a large part of what they offer. The control is at a third party (MS). I don't think this has much to do with IBM anxious to dump AIX
Linux is the only viable option to break that dependance. And as a bonus, their powerpc architecture is now more appealing. There are nowadays many people that can make good use of a server running Linux. If I only look at my own company. We would never have considered a IBM AIX server. But an affordable IBM server running Linux is appealing, powerfull, robust and as it runs Linux, it runs what we use.
The newer fingerprint equipment can test if a thumb is actually alive
No, and that is exactly the point. Usually sharing passwords is considered a bad thing
Where does it say that he has the money etc. Reverse proxy can be installed on the same machine as the webserver itself and still be benificial. Not everybody is serving static html files.
First to all to all that responded that 10-30 isn't much, the asker mentioned 10-30 _current_. I assume he (or she) meant concurrent. And that can, depending on what you mean by concurrent and by the type of website served be a resource eater for which reverse proxy be an excellent tool.m l Note that the advantage often is not caching but buffering.
For those that don't understand this I suggest to read http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/strategy.ht
Furthermore, we use apache and mod_proxy for reverseproxy. It is a little more resource eating that squid, but it keeps server configuration nice and central since our sites are served by apache as well. I assume this will work nicely on Windows as well. Our company however uses only Linux (even on the desktops) so I cannot tell from experience how well this works using Windows.
Cannot resist, must build leaf blower from AMD fan...
I use WebGUI for exactly this purpose. I've got my wishlist on my personal site, blog a little and use the photo gallery. Once installed, it's really easy to use. The wyswyg editor allows anyone that can use word to even do quite a bit of layout.
Try the demo at plainblacks site!
http://www.lex.com.tw/index1.htm They make nice powersupplies. No fan, just 12v -> atx adapters. They require a 12 volt AC/DC adapter. No Fans, no noise.
The mini-itx boards can be passively cooled. The 533 mhz version is. Some special cases use heatpipes. Then the only noise is the harddisk (if you need one, booting via the ethernet adapter is also an option!)
http://www.tno.nl/nieuws/archief/documenten/tno_fe l_report_03148mu.pdf
TNO is the Dutch equivalent of the German TUV if I'm not mistaken. A very respected institute in the Netherlands
If the car company would have sold cars without (working) locks, and cars that could be started without a key.... Yes, to some degree. The lonely guy is still the one to blame, but the car manufacturer is to blame for making it so easy.
If you place a loaded gun in a postoffice, nobobdy ought to pick it up. But you shouldn't have put it there.
and they could save millions by not buying you-know-who's licences
Don't be afraid, just use his name: Voldemort
Thanks for thinking of me
It is also not allowed to sell copies of the downloaded iso as 'Red Hat'. You are now only allowed to sell these cd's if they are named different (not Red Hat) and delete several pictures from the CD.
u idelines/page6.html)
(see http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/g
We were told to stop selling the cd's as well. I thought that was a ploy to sell more boxed versions. I guess I was wrong.
If Ram cost are going down so quickly, I think it might be a good idea to get special harddrives: half Ram, half old fashioned platters. Let the harddisk use the RAM for all the read and write actions, and implement that all write actions are replicated to the old fashion platters.
For someone using these, it works just like harddisk (no changes, settings etc. in software neccesary). But you do get the extra speed.
For very reliable disks, it might be interesting to add some build in some kind of battery to make sure that at a powerfailure the last write actions can be sent to disk as well.
Macs do, Ipods don't, Archos does. This thread is about the Archos letting you watch video!
unadulterated.... unusable as well, without the SCREEN!
Actually, I had stopped caring at 400 mhz. My laptop does (did) everything I want nicely at 400 Mhz. (did go to 192 mb memory right after buying it)
But recently I started creating DVDs on my desktop (Duron 800). And if you want quality mpeg2 files, that's very time consuming on that machine.
In the Pentium II 400 days, creating those at home was hardly an option. If I now get an Pentium IV, I can do this stuff a lot faster. That would be nice if start to backup my collection of VHS tapes.
So it's just a matter of what you do with your machine. We now can do more stuff at home, that we couldn't before.
Someone in Holland started something called: startpagina.nl. This was a collection of links meant if I'm not mistaken for his father. So many started using this collection of links that the site was sold for a lot of money to ilse.nl (a search engine) It now has many daughterpages (like: subject.pagina.nl) which are maintained by volunteers (the can sell some of the ad space). These pages are quite often a better start if you're looking for something than google
The new models run at 1 Ghz and have a hardware MPEG2 decoder on board. Unfortenately that decoder seems unsupported in Linux.
Runnig Windows some tests show that it will play DivX etc.
Encoding is probably still a problem!
That's exactly my point
So if I start selling french fries for 15 US$ per portion you consider this fair because I ran ads during prime time TV, making each my french fries so expensive. And furthermore it's fair to send have some agency claim that my competitor that didn't run the ads is pirating as he sells them for less?
Of course he can't sell my fries, but charging more than what consumers think is a fair price is bad business and there being punished by lower sales. If you're prices are to high because of the costs: reduce costs!
CD's are to expensive. Why? Because I don't want to pay 20 Euro (prices in Europe are a lot higher) for a CD. I just don't buy them. But I don't download them either! I listen to older CD's (cheaper) radio etc.
At Fosdem someone asked the PostgreSQL guy: 'why should I choose PostgreSQL' over Firebird. (The person who gave the Firebird presentation was in the room). His answer was basically that Firebird is actualy more full-featured, but that the advantage of PostgreSQL is that so many very talented developers are working on PostgreSQL making it better and better.
....
What I should have asked is, 'then why don't all the developers start working on Firebird in stead of PostgreSQL, since it is already better?'
But you're right, Firebird is even more forgotten as an option than PostgreSQL. And if even the Postgres people say it's better
Do they have beer? That's the question