Well said. If I had 5 mod points, I'd spend them all on you. Unfortunately, since you made a comment counter to the mindless Slashbot groupthink, you'll be modded down as a troll. But keep fighting the power, and don't let the Man keep you down.
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
While at first glance, your theory would hold true. But taking a second glance we see that the only way this could work would be with nuclear power. I for one cannot stand idly by while my country walks further down the road towards nuclear holocaust. While proponents of nuclear power claim its safe, we all know that one jammed cog and a nuclear powerplant, even the supposedly safer "pebble"-based plants, will explode in a gigantic mushroom cloud of death. Please do not support this technology, as it is just one more nail in the atomic coffin.
Apparently this TrollScript seems to work about as well as any other Open Source project: Not at all. I bet if Microsoft had made this it would work flawlessly, much like the amazing new Windows XP. I wiped off the shitty Mandrake 8.1 from my two 486s and put XP on them. Not only do they run faster than they did when Linux clogged them up, they're also much more stable. Its a shame that Linux can't work with only 8 megs of RAM, as XP can. Perhaps some day.
I want to commend you on doing an excellent job of keeping the coveted "Second Post" away from the gay clutches of the Anonymous Coward. There's nothing more an AC likes than to get his semen-stained hands onto the 2nd post. He can then use it to further his villanous homosexual agenda, and coax young, confused Slashbots into his leather-bound den, and engage them in the unspeakable vice of the Greeks. Makes me sick.
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
How exactly does one go about "opening ones mount" anyways? Sounds vaguely goatse.cx-ish to me. I shall have to have My Bitch (aka Taco and Hemos) ban you now.
Actually the least funniest show in history was a bukakke film your mom was in. After watching 65 guys jizz on her, I was quite sick and not at all in a mood to laugh.
I love IRC! I often masquerade as a woman into bondage, S&M and the love of a good old fashioned dirty sanchez. Its amazing how many of you lonely clowns fall for it. Someday I'm going to post your IPs to this very site!! In the words of Jack Chick, "Haw! Haw! Haw!"
Unfortunately your mom shared with me the results of your paternity test. Turns out the man who you thought was your father, really wasn't. Instead it was a Puerto Rican lounge singer in Kansas City. Kinda suprising isn't it?
Here, here! Everyone knows that Dave Kendell was the best host of that show, even if he did get beaten up by Al Jourgenson (who claims Dave "fell".) And can we see some videos by Motorhead, too? Or at least Lemmy's mole?
True, that is a very disgusting thing. Why did you read it all the way thru, though? And wouldn't you agree that the only thing more digusting than reading it, is knowing that Taco actually does this? Honest to God, he does.
As a prelude before arriving at the crux of my post, I'd like to take a moment to point out that any Off Topic post with the letters "OT" at the beginning will never be modded as Off Topic. Indeed, the posters candor may cause it to be modded up. Is that not curious, oh gentle reader.
Now, good man, can you tell me whatever happened to Geekizoid?
If this is what it takes to put an end to that cock gnome Jon Katz, then I fully support it. Whenever Jon Katz speaks, hate follows so this would surely apply to that turd burglar.
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Well said. If I had 5 mod points, I'd spend them all on you. Unfortunately, since you made a comment counter to the mindless Slashbot groupthink, you'll be modded down as a troll. But keep fighting the power, and don't let the Man keep you down.
See this sweater, there's no better than authentic Irish setter!
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
thank you.
I don't ever want to hear the word "CmdrTaco" and "it's coming" in the same sentance. My wang just squirmed back inside my body.
While at first glance, your theory would hold true. But taking a second glance we see that the only way this could work would be with nuclear power. I for one cannot stand idly by while my country walks further down the road towards nuclear holocaust. While proponents of nuclear power claim its safe, we all know that one jammed cog and a nuclear powerplant, even the supposedly safer "pebble"-based plants, will explode in a gigantic mushroom cloud of death. Please do not support this technology, as it is just one more nail in the atomic coffin.
Thank you.
Apparently this TrollScript seems to work about as well as any other Open Source project: Not at all. I bet if Microsoft had made this it would work flawlessly, much like the amazing new Windows XP. I wiped off the shitty Mandrake 8.1 from my two 486s and put XP on them. Not only do they run faster than they did when Linux clogged them up, they're also much more stable. Its a shame that Linux can't work with only 8 megs of RAM, as XP can. Perhaps some day.
I want to commend you on doing an excellent job of keeping the coveted "Second Post" away from the gay clutches of the Anonymous Coward. There's nothing more an AC likes than to get his semen-stained hands onto the 2nd post. He can then use it to further his villanous homosexual agenda, and coax young, confused Slashbots into his leather-bound den, and engage them in the unspeakable vice of the Greeks. Makes me sick.
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
thank you.
How exactly does one go about "opening ones mount" anyways? Sounds vaguely goatse.cx-ish to me. I shall have to have My Bitch (aka Taco and Hemos) ban you now.
Actually the least funniest show in history was a bukakke film your mom was in. After watching 65 guys jizz on her, I was quite sick and not at all in a mood to laugh.
And DalNet is the mincing homo of IRC networks.
I love IRC! I often masquerade as a woman into bondage, S&M and the love of a good old fashioned dirty sanchez. Its amazing how many of you lonely clowns fall for it. Someday I'm going to post your IPs to this very site!! In the words of Jack Chick, "Haw! Haw! Haw!"
Because the French are almost as bad as the Canadians, whom we will start charging rent to continue to stay in North America.
+5, Brutally Fucking Honest
Unfortunately your mom shared with me the results of your paternity test. Turns out the man who you thought was your father, really wasn't. Instead it was a Puerto Rican lounge singer in Kansas City. Kinda suprising isn't it?
Here, here! Everyone knows that Dave Kendell was the best host of that show, even if he did get beaten up by Al Jourgenson (who claims Dave "fell".) And can we see some videos by Motorhead, too? Or at least Lemmy's mole?
True, that is a very disgusting thing. Why did you read it all the way thru, though? And wouldn't you agree that the only thing more digusting than reading it, is knowing that Taco actually does this? Honest to God, he does.
+5, Arousing
You have learned well, grasshopper. You are ready to leave the temple!
Now, good man, can you tell me whatever happened to Geekizoid?
If this is what it takes to put an end to that cock gnome Jon Katz, then I fully support it. Whenever Jon Katz speaks, hate follows so this would surely apply to that turd burglar.