But, I too will miss popping in a couple of AAA batteries and not worrying about batteries for a month.
The ARM isn't some kind of 15W monstrosity! It is an order of magnitude faster than the DragonBall, and fully 32bit, with a lovely ISA, but it probably uses up the same amount of power, maybe you will have to sacrifice 5 hours out of that month! Anyway, other technology will more than make up for that - lower power screens, memory, better batteries and more.
The ARM is much lower power than the Crusoe. The Crusoe also starts at 400MHz and 2-5W, the ARM goes up to 200MHz and probably uses max 0.4W. The ARM is a licensable CPU core - very important in a Palm device because the CPU, Graphics, Sound, IO and everything else can be sqidged into one small chip - the Crusoe requires a large CPU and then more - not viable for a small device, and not Crusoes market.
Anyway, Transmeta said that they wouldn't be writing a 68k emulation for the Crusoe, so it is all irrelevant anyway. I wish that people would research what they talk about before blabbing it all out here...
The ARM will be 0.4W, not 4W. The ARM is a lot better design for a lot mess money - a Crusoe processor is going to cost $30, even in bulk. A 200MHz StrongARM can be had to $10.
Anyway, ARM is fabless - want a 0.18micron 200MHz ARM processor doing 0.1W? Easy. Intel will release their StrongARM upgrade soon anyway - 400MHz StrongARMs!
Anyway, the fact that the StrongARM is so low power and is still at 0.35micron is a testament to is great design.
They want a 0.4W processor, not a 4W processor. The Crusoe is too power hungry for this type of application - on e of the Palms biggest selling points was that it could run for weeks without recharging, and they don't want to get rid of that.
Anyway, a 200MHz StrongARM/ARM10 would be able to emulate a 16MHz Dragonball in its sleep. Couple this with a 240x240 or 320x240 screen and things get interesting. I don't care about colour, but more contrast in the greyscale screen would be great. Personally, I just think that everyone will recompile their programs for the "ARM Palm", and losing programs that use 68k assembler isn't that much of a chore when you suddenly get programs written in ARM assembler! No more SimCity, more like SimCity2000 on your PDA.
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No, the memory runs at 200MHz, it doesn't mention that the chip itself will run at 200MHz. Given that the chip is 0.18micron and has 30million transistors this chip could be running at 300-400MHz. The memory is DDR as well, which means excellent performance.
But 1500MTexels/3 = 500M Pixels per second. If the chip can effectively commit 1 pixel per clock cycle that would be 500MHz, I suspect it can commit 2 pixels per clock cycle, or even more! Some detailed overview of how the internals of the chip work would be great - you see this for CPUs, but not for graphics chips...
Exactly - QT is good, GTK is good. It is the apps on top that defines a killer application though. QT is semi-open source, GTK is GPL.
Actually, I hadn't proof-read my submission, I pressed return when I wanted to edit my comment, and IE decided that I meant to submit it. Cheers.
My point was: GNUs killer apps are all those apps that are good for server based applications. Except Apache (BSD). erm, great:-) THere is a place for both open source and closed source - the user has to pay somewhere.
No I am not trying to troll, just point out something that is not obvious to a lot of the die-hard Linux zealots, or to be more fair, the I-wanna-have-all-this-cool-stuff-for-nothing zealots.
I was a student last year, and I didn't have much money to buy software. I stupidly bought a nice PC though, I should have bought a naff PC in retrospect. It ran Windows, and I hated it. $100 is around £70max - I paid that amount for Amiga software prior to buying the PC because the software was useful. I had to writeup reports, and Linux couldn't do that then unless I resorted to TeX (not worth it for quick homework, I used it the year after), the Gimp was prototypical, and Java was just as crap.
So for the student and those not interested in graphic creation, The Gimp is pretty good. I use it all the time, but it does have a lot of problems, such as the GUI which is clumbersome. I doubt you have done courses on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) otherwise you would know that the Gimps GUI was not very optimal when it comes down to using it. Amiga software such as DPaint, PPaint etc on the other hand, was ideal. Single key shortcuts to all the major functions. Rubber-banding (still not employed in The Gimp, drawing a decent straight line using the dumb click shift-click method is not trivial), proper tools for drawing curves, ovals, etc, not just freehand.
Open Source is worthless for the average user - the non-geek. They don't know that the program crashed because of a bad pointer somewhere in a rarely used bit of code. They don't mind reporting the bug _for free_ to an author who will do his best to fix it. They mind reporting the bug to a company that charges them for the benefit, and then doesn't fix it. See the difference, please.
The killer apps of the Gnu system do not include anything to do with GUI's. GTK is good in my opinion. So is QT. The apps that use these powerful GUI toolkits do not use them in a sane manner, and the Gimp is one of those tools. I use The Gimp a lot, but I hate traversing 6 submenus after right clicking on the image to get to the tool or function I want. What is wrong with a common-tool palette (your most used tools in a palette, identified by a textual description or an icon), why isn't there an easily accessible menu system, but instead there is a menu system that breaks most rules of GUI design?
Maybe you might want to send these complaints to the Gimp people, but they have heard them already and done nothing about it.
In this case, the user does not need to see the source, the user does not want to have to install the software to only find out that it requires glib2.55.2 and gtk+++3.55.2.3.2000 to run. The user is paying for software that they don't need to know anything about.
This software is not for you, Anon, but it is for me and many other people out there who don't want persistently broken open source software that won't work on their systems because they installed Linux over 3 months ago.
And I don't think that Red Hat posted the kind of results that Microsoft will post. Not even 1%. For this $99.99 software, you are paying partly for support (a decent manual, tutorials, support from the author should there be any problems). The only thing that irks you is that you can't see the source code and rip it off, and you are so set in your ways that you are not even willing to try out the software to see if it suits your working methods or to see if it is any good.
Of course, the Open Source method works great - clued up people get money from dumb people not being able to work their systems. But this methodology does not promote the creation of simple, easy to use software because that would affect the chances of you getting money for support.
It is not how Linux works either, you should know that. Many Linux users want good quality software, it is preferable if it is free, and open source, but if you cannot get the quality software that you need, but you want to run Linux (e.g., you are creating graphics for a website, and you are testing it out on your machine running Apache etc) then this is the software for you.
Maybe someone should release some decent music creation software for Linux. Don't see much of that around at all.
Commercial Closed Source Software written by corporations is worse than Open Source Software, but Commercial Closed Source Software written by someone by himself, who has to feed himself from the proceeds of his work, and who isn't a large faceless corporate entity - that can quite often be better than Open Source Software.
It depends on the developer - but if you had just spent the last 3 years of your life writing the best software since VisiCalc would you suddenly give up any potential revenues you could get from it and give it to the scavenging hordes of the Open Source Movement? I doubt it.
This is version 4.5 dimwit. It has moved on as well - you saw version 1.0, probably the coverdisk version as well.
$99.99 is peanuts for most skilled computer people. But you are not willing to open up your closed mind. Open Source for Closed Minds indeed!
Well, I hope you are happy when Linux fails due to lack of corporate investment and commercial software. Think of Photogenics this way: you are paying $100 for a box, manual, support and feel good factor, and the software is free. Okay, I know that you don't get the source code, but why do you want it? To steal it and put it in the Gimp? When the scripting language is powerful enough to express any possible action you might want to automate, you don't need the source.
The Gimp has the most goddammed awful GUI in the world, very illogical and poorly laid out. I haven't got the time to go and delve in the guts of the program to change this, and neither do most people, so the Gimp will never evolve to be a truly usable program for the end user. This program has a natural intuitive GUI, and for graphics professionals and semi-professionals this is more important, and worth the measly asking price of $99.99.
Photogenics is a kick-ass graphics program, it was great when it came out in 1992/3 and it was revolutionary. The problem with programs like the Gimp et al is that to perform an effect or run a script on a specific part of an image you have to do some complex selection procedure to get that area. Photogenics allows to to paint effects as well as normal painting facilities. Coupled with layers, normal mask editing and operation, and a demo for you to try you should get a feel for what good quality cheap software is like.
And remember Paul Nolan did once comment that he was looking into open-sourcing the underlying GUI system.
This will go great with the Gimp - both great software, but to get the best out of graphics you need as much software as possible, as each bit of software excels at certain things.
I hope that Photogenics can open Layered Gimp, Photoshop and Painshop Pro files.
The system of code development under Linux and FreeBSD promote peer review and updating, resulting in more secure, optimised and relevant software. Security through Obscurity does not work (the Microsoft model) as seen today when the big security hold was found in Frontpage for Windows. Security through peer review works, and even if holes are found, they are patched up quicker (sometimes 10's of orders of magnitude faster than the closed system).
Also think about the following scenario: You have your servers distributed nationwide, and some of them need updating. With Microsoft you have to physically go to each server and update it manually, often at huge cost to just be attending those servers. Or you can go the costly Terminal Server method to do things from a remote location. Better hope that there is a lot of bandwidth available though, as it will send all of the GUI through to you - a hassle if you want to add a new user account to the system.
With Linux/FreeBSD you automatically get this for free, and secure as well, using SSH. This allows a remote shell into any of your servers where you can change settings. WIth SSH you are not restricted to a text interface either - you can tunnel X over it, thus you can have the ease of use of Microsoft systems for free, and from a remote location in an efficient manner.
Now this is quite obviously a troll, but I am hungry...
1) Linux is a better Server for dynamic content. Linux will soon become a better server for static content when the 2.4 kernel comes out within the next couple of months. Win2k costs a lot lot more, Linux is free. You might also want to consider FreeBSD, which is also free, and runs Yahoo and Hotmail (the Microsoft email service).
2) Linux is harder to pick up than Windows, but that is because it is more configurable and powerful in the end. A clever person should be able to pick it up within a week though, and you shouldn't be hiring dumb people, MCSE or not.
3) It isn't important - Java programs run fine under Linux.
4) Linux people spend more time getting the job done and working, while MS people spend all their time tidying up and trying to look neat and tidy to hide the fact that they only do 90% of the job. They can't actually do 100% though, because the OS won't let them.
5) Offer a good wage and a nice working environment. Let them show you the benefits of Linux or FreeBSD. They probably don't need Windows skills - it is all obvious anyway. Don't you know that MCSEs are worthless yet?
6) They are available on Linux/FreeBSD - but they are not standards, they are proprietary Microsoft languages and protocols designed to tie the developer into the Microsoft environment from the desktop to the server. Linux supports more powerful scripting languages such as Perl and Python and Scheme and PHP. ActiveX is a security hole, don't use it.
7) Linux/FreeBSD are specialised (moreso than the Windows click-and-nearly-do system). Twice the wage would be fair, because of the amount of time and effort they have put in to become experts at the system. A true Unix expert in invaluable to a company, as they an work true wonders.
8) FreeBSD.
9) No. unless eating Pizza and curry is left wing.
10) No, this is more prolific amongst the Microsoft crowd actually - Napster was originally a Windows program. Unux administrators (well paid) pride themselves on their security measures, and you will get the best security for you money.
11) No it is not. Only if you take existing GPL software and modify it is this true. You would be more interesting in FreeBSD, and you can take the BSD code and use it without contributing back. If you are writing your own software it does not matter.
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1) Okay, a few weeks of effort, and then an ongoing optimisation effort: or: PSX2 will run TaoOS Elate OS for apps, and that already has gcc ported to its own Virtual Processor code. Compiling your own programs will be easy.
2) Go into EasyDVD creator and burn a DVD. Sure, some special boot stuff will be needed, but it won't be that much effort!
3) THey are using DVD, idiot. That is why there has been so much furore over DVD in Sony PSX2 recently. 4) A keyboard driver will take 5 minutes to port because it will be USB. Same goes for the mouse, gamepads, ADSL modems etc. All USB. Firewire HDs and ethernet. PCMCIA CD-RWs, HDs, Ethernet.
5) Ethernet an easy add-on: USB/PCMCIA/Firewire.
It will be done, just whether it is really worth it is the question! The code for gcc for Elate is obtainable obviously, being under the GPL! Sony have their own gcc for PSX2 as well...
I was correct in my assumption - once I got the sidebar preferences program to work correctly and not crash I found that there was indeed 3 dummy entries in the sidebar, one of which was a link to the entire browser itself. This was an abuse of XML - this recursive activity has to be checked for otherwise we will soon start to see our first Netscape 6 Viruses (they will occur anyway) that simply use XML to define something that shows itself inside itself, or shows a Netscape inside itself. Having removed the 3 offending entries, everything works fine and is stable as a table with 50 equispaced legs (of equal length). No wonder Netscape was thrashing though - it must have been loading itself hundreds of times on startup. Nasty.
It has found my IE bookmarks, god bless the little thing. I am very impressed now, but Netscape had better fix the one thing that cacked it up for me, because other people might not be so tolerant.
That sidebar is damned handy, and usable. This might be it - bye bye IE5.
Gah, it crashed when I tried to load the Mail program. Just as I was going to praise its Flash support, speedy Java support and SSL support. The preferences dialog almost worked as well, but the fonts aren't changed.
Oh well. It was going well, and it is a beta. I really do hope that it gets it act together in a week though, as I am sure it will.
It is faster than IE on Slashdot though, significantly, so that might be the deciding factor. This is my last update - I am sure someone will do a more detailed review later on some site.
Yay! It now works. It tries to go to a page on Netscapes site for Netscape 6 or summat, and the sidebar is fucked up beyond all belief (someone has configured it to show the browser itself, recursively! Turn it off and all is fine and fast)
So this post is powered by Netscape 6. But it is refusing advertising for some reason, and popping up windows saying "Connection refused: blah"... at least it isn't IE5, which blanks the display and brings up that damned awful error page.
THe resize works perfectly, even with complex tables - no more reload, real time update of the window internals.
Renders Slashdot fine. Looks like Mozilla. GUI is a bit dull - can someone do an Aqua theme for it? Oh, this is build 2000032306 so it is 6 days out of date from the latest Mozilla build - what has been gained in those 6 days?
I like the new icon for Netscape as well - the border looks quite classy. No to play with the preferences and see what I can do.
Wow! how many GPFs did that generate! All to do with WinOldApp.DLL or summat as well. Powercycle machine (only way - it died truly - PII 400 w/ 128Meg)
Reboot. Run it. Thrash thrash thrash, window pops up as before, GUI etc, thrash thrash. Nothing works though, so this comment is not powered by Netscape 6 as I would have hoped. That NetPhone thing is annoying as well.
Well I am currently downloading it (nice of Netscape to just move the file to another directory on their servers) and the download is currently at 5.9Mb with no sign of stopping.
So whoever said it was 5.5Mb was lying - but this is a beta and it might include debug symbols and the like. Now at 6.6Mb
Oh, the URL can be found on Betanews, the one with lvftp.netscape.com in it. 7.1Mb now.
I will post a usability report soon.
Has anyone used that Slashdot headline thing yet? Is it worth having, so you can be on the train, with a two hour journey to the nearest computer you have access to, just to know that you have missed out on a great informative first post?
5.5Mb is a much nicer download than the 16-20Mb downloads that were common with the old version. I wonder if this is just because of the cruft free code or if they have left out other components, such as the crap and useless Netscape Composer package?
Why do I care if someone sees me on CCTV - I am doing no wrong. If that CCTV finds thieves and murderers then it is good. If the CCTV footage is used against me in some other way (e.g., my other half hires a private detective to find out what I am doing getting home late, and he is allowed to view CCTV footage and use that as proof) then I would object. Of course, I have no idea what this CCTV footage is, and a lot of CCTV cameras are dummys anyway.
Of course, CCTV in one area drives bad people to other areas. Hence the rise in rural crime in the UK. It has its good and bad points, and it all depends on whether the system is abused in a manner it shouldn't have been. I don't care that a computer somewhere will hold data about my whereabouts on certain days, as long as it can only be accessed in a way such to prove I wasn't somewhere else (e.g., if the police try to use the fact that I was in location X when I said I was in location Y at the time then that is fair, but I should equally be able to use the footage to prove I was in location X when the police say I was in location Y) or given to marketting people (you were in Moo on this day, the day of the Dixons Sale - here is some targetted advertising literature).
I just don't trust the police enough to let them run it on their own. They might decide that when face recognition systems are installed that the data gleaned could be of so much more use to advertising agencies and would get money back into the underfunded police force that they can talk any authority into allowing it.
So Britain has no Bill of Rights, but is that any worse from having one in words only, like America is becoming? I see no reason for an American to proudly state "I am an American" than I do to say "I am English" or "I am European". I don't care about where people come from, I care about what they are, if they are intelligent, if they will bring something into my life overall. The fact that they are Spanish or Nigerian means nothing.
Of course, the French are another matter:-) (Joke, for you humour impaired moderators)
Witness as America starts on the long slide down to anarchy, fascism and ultimately nazism. Encouraging a culture of spying and squealing on fellow people for a reward is not the way forward in any civilised country - this is conformism.
All after 3 - "I am an individual".
I am glad I live in Europe, which is fast being overtaken by America in terms of stupid rules and stuff. Europe is much more free, but more expensive. Its your choice.
Kids are going to hit on the idea as using this system for revenge - lying to get a reward and getting a rival/hated person in trouble and having data stored against them for the rest of their life.
Do you Americans wish for something like the UKs Data Protection Act? We have had that for 16 years now, and it has been updated to reflect the new Internet economy. You are allowed to find out about anything stored against you in databases, and to ask for that information to be changed or removed if it is incorrect.
I can imagine a lot of lawsuits in America over the next few years as a result of this software. As soon as some kid who has a rich father is dissed against by this system... hello $$$ for lawyers and years of litigation. But America is built upon a base of lawyers...
And what is to stop MS from shipping their new libraries with Office 2000 for Win 3.11 with their own new API calls? Except that would mean that WINE would get the API upgrades for no effort anyway...
Who modded this down as a Troll? Strange - I find it ironic and not a troll, but anyway...
From news.com:
Judge Jackson was expected to rule today, but reports late yesterday indicated he might postpone action for at least a day and possibly for as many as 10 days. "There will be no ruling today," said press liaison Joe Alexander at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
10 Days! Talk about giving them time, or is JJ stretching out for the pay?
I would hope that all file formats would get released 100% into the public domain, so that all software instantly becomes Office compatable (okay, given them a few weeks). That will be a major problem for M$, as long as they are forced to keep their file formats open.
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The ARM isn't some kind of 15W monstrosity! It is an order of magnitude faster than the DragonBall, and fully 32bit, with a lovely ISA, but it probably uses up the same amount of power, maybe you will have to sacrifice 5 hours out of that month! Anyway, other technology will more than make up for that - lower power screens, memory, better batteries and more.
Anyway, Transmeta said that they wouldn't be writing a 68k emulation for the Crusoe, so it is all irrelevant anyway. I wish that people would research what they talk about before blabbing it all out here...
Anyway, ARM is fabless - want a 0.18micron 200MHz ARM processor doing 0.1W? Easy. Intel will release their StrongARM upgrade soon anyway - 400MHz StrongARMs!
Anyway, the fact that the StrongARM is so low power and is still at 0.35micron is a testament to is great design.
Anyway, a 200MHz StrongARM/ARM10 would be able to emulate a 16MHz Dragonball in its sleep. Couple this with a 240x240 or 320x240 screen and things get interesting. I don't care about colour, but more contrast in the greyscale screen would be great. Personally, I just think that everyone will recompile their programs for the "ARM Palm", and losing programs that use 68k assembler isn't that much of a chore when you suddenly get programs written in ARM assembler! No more SimCity, more like SimCity2000 on your PDA.
But 1500MTexels/3 = 500M Pixels per second. If the chip can effectively commit 1 pixel per clock cycle that would be 500MHz, I suspect it can commit 2 pixels per clock cycle, or even more! Some detailed overview of how the internals of the chip work would be great - you see this for CPUs, but not for graphics chips...
Actually, I hadn't proof-read my submission, I pressed return when I wanted to edit my comment, and IE decided that I meant to submit it. Cheers.
My point was: GNUs killer apps are all those apps that are good for server based applications. Except Apache (BSD). erm, great :-) THere is a place for both open source and closed source - the user has to pay somewhere.
I was a student last year, and I didn't have much money to buy software. I stupidly bought a nice PC though, I should have bought a naff PC in retrospect. It ran Windows, and I hated it. $100 is around £70max - I paid that amount for Amiga software prior to buying the PC because the software was useful. I had to writeup reports, and Linux couldn't do that then unless I resorted to TeX (not worth it for quick homework, I used it the year after), the Gimp was prototypical, and Java was just as crap.
So for the student and those not interested in graphic creation, The Gimp is pretty good. I use it all the time, but it does have a lot of problems, such as the GUI which is clumbersome. I doubt you have done courses on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) otherwise you would know that the Gimps GUI was not very optimal when it comes down to using it. Amiga software such as DPaint, PPaint etc on the other hand, was ideal. Single key shortcuts to all the major functions. Rubber-banding (still not employed in The Gimp, drawing a decent straight line using the dumb click shift-click method is not trivial), proper tools for drawing curves, ovals, etc, not just freehand.
Open Source is worthless for the average user - the non-geek. They don't know that the program crashed because of a bad pointer somewhere in a rarely used bit of code. They don't mind reporting the bug _for free_ to an author who will do his best to fix it. They mind reporting the bug to a company that charges them for the benefit, and then doesn't fix it. See the difference, please.
The killer apps of the Gnu system do not include anything to do with GUI's. GTK is good in my opinion. So is QT. The apps that use these powerful GUI toolkits do not use them in a sane manner, and the Gimp is one of those tools. I use The Gimp a lot, but I hate traversing 6 submenus after right clicking on the image to get to the tool or function I want. What is wrong with a common-tool palette (your most used tools in a palette, identified by a textual description or an icon), why isn't there an easily accessible menu system, but instead there is a menu system that breaks most rules of GUI design?
Maybe you might want to send these complaints to the Gimp people, but they have heard them already and done nothing about it.
This software is not for you, Anon, but it is for me and many other people out there who don't want persistently broken open source software that won't work on their systems because they installed Linux over 3 months ago.
And I don't think that Red Hat posted the kind of results that Microsoft will post. Not even 1%. For this $99.99 software, you are paying partly for support (a decent manual, tutorials, support from the author should there be any problems). The only thing that irks you is that you can't see the source code and rip it off, and you are so set in your ways that you are not even willing to try out the software to see if it suits your working methods or to see if it is any good.
Of course, the Open Source method works great - clued up people get money from dumb people not being able to work their systems. But this methodology does not promote the creation of simple, easy to use software because that would affect the chances of you getting money for support.
It is not how Linux works either, you should know that. Many Linux users want good quality software, it is preferable if it is free, and open source, but if you cannot get the quality software that you need, but you want to run Linux (e.g., you are creating graphics for a website, and you are testing it out on your machine running Apache etc) then this is the software for you.
Maybe someone should release some decent music creation software for Linux. Don't see much of that around at all.
Commercial Closed Source Software written by corporations is worse than Open Source Software, but Commercial Closed Source Software written by someone by himself, who has to feed himself from the proceeds of his work, and who isn't a large faceless corporate entity - that can quite often be better than Open Source Software.
It depends on the developer - but if you had just spent the last 3 years of your life writing the best software since VisiCalc would you suddenly give up any potential revenues you could get from it and give it to the scavenging hordes of the Open Source Movement? I doubt it.
$99.99 is peanuts for most skilled computer people. But you are not willing to open up your closed mind. Open Source for Closed Minds indeed!
Well, I hope you are happy when Linux fails due to lack of corporate investment and commercial software. Think of Photogenics this way: you are paying $100 for a box, manual, support and feel good factor, and the software is free. Okay, I know that you don't get the source code, but why do you want it? To steal it and put it in the Gimp? When the scripting language is powerful enough to express any possible action you might want to automate, you don't need the source.
The Gimp has the most goddammed awful GUI in the world, very illogical and poorly laid out. I haven't got the time to go and delve in the guts of the program to change this, and neither do most people, so the Gimp will never evolve to be a truly usable program for the end user. This program has a natural intuitive GUI, and for graphics professionals and semi-professionals this is more important, and worth the measly asking price of $99.99.
And remember Paul Nolan did once comment that he was looking into open-sourcing the underlying GUI system.
This will go great with the Gimp - both great software, but to get the best out of graphics you need as much software as possible, as each bit of software excels at certain things.
I hope that Photogenics can open Layered Gimp, Photoshop and Painshop Pro files.
6) XML is a standard of course.
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The system of code development under Linux and FreeBSD promote peer review and updating, resulting in more secure, optimised and relevant software. Security through Obscurity does not work (the Microsoft model) as seen today when the big security hold was found in Frontpage for Windows. Security through peer review works, and even if holes are found, they are patched up quicker (sometimes 10's of orders of magnitude faster than the closed system).
Also think about the following scenario: You have your servers distributed nationwide, and some of them need updating. With Microsoft you have to physically go to each server and update it manually, often at huge cost to just be attending those servers. Or you can go the costly Terminal Server method to do things from a remote location. Better hope that there is a lot of bandwidth available though, as it will send all of the GUI through to you - a hassle if you want to add a new user account to the system.
With Linux/FreeBSD you automatically get this for free, and secure as well, using SSH. This allows a remote shell into any of your servers where you can change settings. WIth SSH you are not restricted to a text interface either - you can tunnel X over it, thus you can have the ease of use of Microsoft systems for free, and from a remote location in an efficient manner.
Just value-add for that $500.
1) Linux is a better Server for dynamic content. Linux will soon become a better server for static content when the 2.4 kernel comes out within the next couple of months. Win2k costs a lot lot more, Linux is free. You might also want to consider FreeBSD, which is also free, and runs Yahoo and Hotmail (the Microsoft email service).
2) Linux is harder to pick up than Windows, but that is because it is more configurable and powerful in the end. A clever person should be able to pick it up within a week though, and you shouldn't be hiring dumb people, MCSE or not.
3) It isn't important - Java programs run fine under Linux.
4) Linux people spend more time getting the job done and working, while MS people spend all their time tidying up and trying to look neat and tidy to hide the fact that they only do 90% of the job. They can't actually do 100% though, because the OS won't let them.
5) Offer a good wage and a nice working environment. Let them show you the benefits of Linux or FreeBSD. They probably don't need Windows skills - it is all obvious anyway. Don't you know that MCSEs are worthless yet?
6) They are available on Linux/FreeBSD - but they are not standards, they are proprietary Microsoft languages and protocols designed to tie the developer into the Microsoft environment from the desktop to the server. Linux supports more powerful scripting languages such as Perl and Python and Scheme and PHP. ActiveX is a security hole, don't use it.
7) Linux/FreeBSD are specialised (moreso than the Windows click-and-nearly-do system). Twice the wage would be fair, because of the amount of time and effort they have put in to become experts at the system. A true Unix expert in invaluable to a company, as they an work true wonders.
8) FreeBSD.
9) No. unless eating Pizza and curry is left wing.
10) No, this is more prolific amongst the Microsoft crowd actually - Napster was originally a Windows program. Unux administrators (well paid) pride themselves on their security measures, and you will get the best security for you money.
11) No it is not. Only if you take existing GPL software and modify it is this true. You would be more interesting in FreeBSD, and you can take the BSD code and use it without contributing back. If you are writing your own software it does not matter.
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2) Go into EasyDVD creator and burn a DVD. Sure, some special boot stuff will be needed, but it won't be that much effort!
3) THey are using DVD, idiot. That is why there has been so much furore over DVD in Sony PSX2 recently. 4) A keyboard driver will take 5 minutes to port because it will be USB. Same goes for the mouse, gamepads, ADSL modems etc. All USB. Firewire HDs and ethernet. PCMCIA CD-RWs, HDs, Ethernet.
5) Ethernet an easy add-on: USB/PCMCIA/Firewire.
It will be done, just whether it is really worth it is the question! The code for gcc for Elate is obtainable obviously, being under the GPL! Sony have their own gcc for PSX2 as well...
I was correct in my assumption - once I got the sidebar preferences program to work correctly and not crash I found that there was indeed 3 dummy entries in the sidebar, one of which was a link to the entire browser itself. This was an abuse of XML - this recursive activity has to be checked for otherwise we will soon start to see our first Netscape 6 Viruses (they will occur anyway) that simply use XML to define something that shows itself inside itself, or shows a Netscape inside itself. Having removed the 3 offending entries, everything works fine and is stable as a table with 50 equispaced legs (of equal length). No wonder Netscape was thrashing though - it must have been loading itself hundreds of times on startup. Nasty.
It has found my IE bookmarks, god bless the little thing. I am very impressed now, but Netscape had better fix the one thing that cacked it up for me, because other people might not be so tolerant.
That sidebar is damned handy, and usable. This might be it - bye bye IE5.
Oh well. It was going well, and it is a beta. I really do hope that it gets it act together in a week though, as I am sure it will.
It is faster than IE on Slashdot though, significantly, so that might be the deciding factor. This is my last update - I am sure someone will do a more detailed review later on some site.
So this post is powered by Netscape 6. But it is refusing advertising for some reason, and popping up windows saying "Connection refused: blah"... at least it isn't IE5, which blanks the display and brings up that damned awful error page.
THe resize works perfectly, even with complex tables - no more reload, real time update of the window internals.
Renders Slashdot fine. Looks like Mozilla. GUI is a bit dull - can someone do an Aqua theme for it? Oh, this is build 2000032306 so it is 6 days out of date from the latest Mozilla build - what has been gained in those 6 days?
I like the new icon for Netscape as well - the border looks quite classy. No to play with the preferences and see what I can do.
Run it.
Wow! how many GPFs did that generate! All to do with WinOldApp.DLL or summat as well. Powercycle machine (only way - it died truly - PII 400 w/ 128Meg)
Reboot. Run it. Thrash thrash thrash, window pops up as before, GUI etc, thrash thrash. Nothing works though, so this comment is not powered by Netscape 6 as I would have hoped. That NetPhone thing is annoying as well.
So whoever said it was 5.5Mb was lying - but this is a beta and it might include debug symbols and the like. Now at 6.6Mb
Oh, the URL can be found on Betanews, the one with lvftp.netscape.com in it. 7.1Mb now.
I will post a usability report soon.
Has anyone used that Slashdot headline thing yet? Is it worth having, so you can be on the train, with a two hour journey to the nearest computer you have access to, just to know that you have missed out on a great informative first post?
5.5Mb is a much nicer download than the 16-20Mb downloads that were common with the old version. I wonder if this is just because of the cruft free code or if they have left out other components, such as the crap and useless Netscape Composer package?
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Why do I care if someone sees me on CCTV - I am doing no wrong. If that CCTV finds thieves and murderers then it is good. If the CCTV footage is used against me in some other way (e.g., my other half hires a private detective to find out what I am doing getting home late, and he is allowed to view CCTV footage and use that as proof) then I would object. Of course, I have no idea what this CCTV footage is, and a lot of CCTV cameras are dummys anyway.
Of course, CCTV in one area drives bad people to other areas. Hence the rise in rural crime in the UK. It has its good and bad points, and it all depends on whether the system is abused in a manner it shouldn't have been. I don't care that a computer somewhere will hold data about my whereabouts on certain days, as long as it can only be accessed in a way such to prove I wasn't somewhere else (e.g., if the police try to use the fact that I was in location X when I said I was in location Y at the time then that is fair, but I should equally be able to use the footage to prove I was in location X when the police say I was in location Y) or given to marketting people (you were in Moo on this day, the day of the Dixons Sale - here is some targetted advertising literature).
I just don't trust the police enough to let them run it on their own. They might decide that when face recognition systems are installed that the data gleaned could be of so much more use to advertising agencies and would get money back into the underfunded police force that they can talk any authority into allowing it.
So Britain has no Bill of Rights, but is that any worse from having one in words only, like America is becoming? I see no reason for an American to proudly state "I am an American" than I do to say "I am English" or "I am European". I don't care about where people come from, I care about what they are, if they are intelligent, if they will bring something into my life overall. The fact that they are Spanish or Nigerian means nothing.
Of course, the French are another matter :-) (Joke, for you humour impaired moderators)
All after 3 - "I am an individual".
I am glad I live in Europe, which is fast being overtaken by America in terms of stupid rules and stuff. Europe is much more free, but more expensive. Its your choice.
Kids are going to hit on the idea as using this system for revenge - lying to get a reward and getting a rival/hated person in trouble and having data stored against them for the rest of their life.
Do you Americans wish for something like the UKs Data Protection Act? We have had that for 16 years now, and it has been updated to reflect the new Internet economy. You are allowed to find out about anything stored against you in databases, and to ask for that information to be changed or removed if it is incorrect.
I can imagine a lot of lawsuits in America over the next few years as a result of this software. As soon as some kid who has a rich father is dissed against by this system... hello $$$ for lawyers and years of litigation. But America is built upon a base of lawyers...
Like M$ would code for the neolithic Win3.1 APIs!
From news.com:
Judge Jackson was expected to rule today, but reports late yesterday indicated he might postpone action for at least a day and possibly for as many as 10 days. "There will be no ruling today," said press liaison Joe Alexander at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
10 Days! Talk about giving them time, or is JJ stretching out for the pay?
Same with their APIs.