I have been very happy with it. I knew it was supposed to be faster, but I was skeptical. It's one thing to make something faster on the cases for which it is particularity slow. It's a much harder problem to make something faster in general. You can call either faster from a marketing standpoint, but the second case is much more useful.
It has been noticeably faster for me, not just on one or two things, but on everything. That makes me very happy.
> The president of one job leadership consultancy argues C and C++ coders will soon be as obsolete as Cobol programmers. "The entire world has gone to Java or.Net. You still find C++ coders in financial companies because their systems are built on that, but they're disappearing."
He says that like COBOL programmers have a hard time finding jobs.
All these predictions are what the author wants to happen, not what is actually going to happen.
I grew up playing in the local woods and creek with minimal tech until our first computer when I was 13. I hear stories from coworkers how some of their kids/grandkids hating going outside because it is boring and they'd rather stay indoors.
One thing you will find as you start parenting is that attitudes about safety have gotten much more conservative than they were when you were a child. People are generally afraid to let their kids play in the woods or the creek. They worry about abduction and toxic waste. It likely is fairly boring to be outside these days.
However, with a little outside the box thinking, there are other ways to get good mileage. I'm getting 70 mpg, and the vehicle cost less than $4000 brand new:
Once when I was visiting San Jose I invited myself to go out to dinner with the mozilla developers. I ended up riding to dinner with Scott. It was a memorable experience. I had never taken a corner at 60 MPH in a parking lot before:-) It made me want to go and buy a Saab.
I had a great time that night. There were some realy nice people working at Netscape.
I can definitly believe better and cheaper. I see that all the time with the OSS software that I use (though not everyone might agree with my definition of better). I hear people talk about faster as well, but I just dont see any evidence of this.
Linux, Wine, gcc, Mozilla. They all took, or are taking, a very long time to develop.
From what I hear, the reason they are doing the port is that they found that mainframes make great web servers, but it is easier to port Linux to the 390 than it is to port all the programs you would want on your web server to MVS or CMS
Diffie-Hellman is a key exchange protocol, not a an encryption alg. You would use it to exchange private keys for blowfish/twofish/etc over an insecure network.
I see what you are saying, however I would much prefer that they base their dist on Red Hat than to create (yet another) dist from scratch. At least they will be mostly compatable this way.
Personally I keep hoping that Redhat and Suse will merge. I know that a lot of people would see this as a really terriable thing, but I think too much duplicated effort goes into producing distributions that for all practicle purposes are identical. I know that competition enhances quality, but it also drains resources. I think the best thing that could happen to Linux competition wise would be for FreeBSD to get about 5X its current number of users. That way we could compare ourselves to something that is both very good and reasonably different. Jim
I think the reason Linux is so much more popular than *BSD is that Linux was free first. If I remember correctly Linux was about 6 months old when the announcement was made that BSD source code was going to be released. Then there were some legal problems between Berkley and AT&T which took a while to resolve. Being first, even by a tiny amount, has tremendous market implications.
I certainly appreciate all the development dollars that Red Hat has put into Linux, and thats one reason I use their distribution. I would like to point out that SuSE has done a lot of work with XFree86 and that the first SMP work done by Alan Cox was funded by Caldera.
Bank of america has this too. When my wife wanted to do online banking, I started looking for a way to do it w/o having to install windows on our computer. Most banks required custom windows software:-) BOA was set up so you could use a browser, but I was worried because they dont have offices in North Carolina. That turned out not to be a problem. They even have 24 hour phone service for homebanking customers which is a lot better than I would get with local banks. My wife loves it and we are still windows free.
Hopefully North Carolina National Bank (oops I mean NationsBank) wont break this now that they have merged with BOA. I have a cousin who works at NationsBank and she says they know that BOA's online banking was better than theirs, so I am hopeful that things will stay good.
If anyone is interested, you can get more info at:
Slashdot Mirror
I have access to all that technology too, and it doesn't keep me from getting bored. I don't see why it would be any better if you were a teenager.
I have been very happy with it. I knew it was supposed to be faster, but I was skeptical. It's one thing to make something faster on the cases for which it is particularity slow. It's a much harder problem to make something faster in general. You can call either faster from a marketing standpoint, but the second case is much more useful.
It has been noticeably faster for me, not just on one or two things, but on everything. That makes me very happy.
> The president of one job leadership consultancy argues C and C++ coders will soon be as obsolete as Cobol programmers. "The entire world has gone to Java or .Net. You still find C++ coders in financial companies because their systems are built on that, but they're disappearing."
He says that like COBOL programmers have a hard time finding jobs.
All these predictions are what the author wants to happen, not what is actually going to happen.
People don't need an excuse not to adopt. They require a reason why continuing with the current approach is not going to work for them.
What page in the NYT does the ad appear on?
The kit looks interesting.
However, with a little outside the box thinking, there are other ways to get good mileage. I'm getting 70 mpg, and the vehicle cost less than $4000 brand new:
http://www.buell.com/en_us/bikes_gear/blast/
Its fun to drive too!
Once when I was visiting San Jose I invited myself to go out to dinner with the mozilla developers. I ended up riding to dinner with Scott. It was a memorable experience. I had never taken a corner at 60 MPH in a parking lot before :-) It made me want to go and buy a Saab.
I had a great time that night. There were some realy nice people working at Netscape.
I can definitly believe better and cheaper. I see that all the time with the OSS software that I use (though not everyone might agree with my definition of better). I hear people talk about faster as well, but I just dont see any evidence of this.
Linux, Wine, gcc, Mozilla. They all took, or are taking, a very long time to develop.
I think you exagerate the differences between Unices. In my experience porting is fairly trivial, particularly after you have ported the fist time.
From what I hear, the reason they are doing the port is that they found that mainframes make great web servers, but it is easier to port Linux to the 390 than it is to port all the programs you would want on your web server to MVS or CMS
Diffie-Hellman is a key exchange protocol, not a an encryption alg. You would use it to exchange private keys for blowfish/twofish/etc over an insecure network.
I see what you are saying, however I would much prefer that they base their dist on Red Hat than to create (yet another) dist from scratch. At least they will be mostly compatable this way.
I think Mad Dog works for VA Linux Systems now. Jim
Personally I keep hoping that Redhat and Suse will merge. I know that a lot of people would see this as a really terriable thing, but I think too much duplicated effort goes into producing distributions that for all practicle purposes are identical. I know that competition enhances quality, but it also drains resources. I think the best thing that could happen to Linux competition wise would be for FreeBSD to get about 5X its current number of users. That way we could compare ourselves to something that is both very good and reasonably different. Jim
I think the reason Linux is so much more popular than *BSD is that Linux was free first. If I remember correctly Linux was about 6 months old when the announcement was made that BSD source code was going to be released. Then there were some legal problems between Berkley and AT&T which took a while to resolve. Being first, even by a tiny amount, has tremendous market implications.
I certainly appreciate all the development dollars that Red Hat has put into Linux, and thats one reason I use their distribution. I would like to point out that SuSE has done a lot of work with XFree86 and that the first SMP work done by Alan Cox was funded by Caldera.
Bank of america has this too. When my wife wanted :-) BOA was set up so you could use
to do online banking, I started looking for a way
to do it w/o having to install windows on our
computer. Most banks required custom windows
software
a browser, but I was worried because they dont
have offices in North Carolina. That turned out
not to be a problem. They even have 24 hour
phone service for homebanking customers which is
a lot better than I would get with local banks.
My wife loves it and we are still windows free.
Hopefully North Carolina National Bank (oops I
mean NationsBank) wont break this now that they
have merged with BOA. I have a cousin who works
at NationsBank and she says they know that BOA's
online banking was better than theirs, so I am
hopeful that things will stay good.
If anyone is interested, you can get more info at:
http://www.bankofamerica.com/online/home.html
Jim
And what exactly has David Mosberger-Tang been
doing since he went to work for HP? Enquiring
minds want to know.