I think Samba 4 (even though it is not released yet) is closer to kicking Windows ADS out of the door than this, even though this is good to have for other reasons. The problem is that Windows ADS is more than a LDAP-server and even if we have all the parts, LDAP, Kerberos, CIFS, DNS, etc. getting them to work together to be completely compatible with Active Directory Server seems to be very hard.
If you want to see and hear him talk about many of the things he mentions in the FAQ, you should watch his Ubuntu talk at Debconf this year. Theora 132MB, MPEG 257MB
That single point of failure is the tracker, which actually uses HTTP. So, if you are convinced you can setup a farm to handle large # of requests for HTTP, then it will be possible with a bittorrent tracker as well.
Also, a tracker can be down for quite some time, before the clients notice. An HTTP download would go down immediately when the server dies.
XHTML is not fucking stupid, but it can be quite annoying, when you have to deal with
The mime type hell. text/html vs application/xhtml+xml
The difference between the HTML DOM and XML DOM in javascript
The much praised XML feature, fail hard if the syntax is wrong. It's great when developing software, but could be irritating when you have to deal with crappy markup (the one normal humans write).
On the other hand, it's neat to edit XHTML in nxml-mode in emacs.
And as we all know the hardworking Scottish engineers, they will be able to enhance it and squeeze out some extra power by each episode, just when you thought it had maxed out. After about 5 years this will be awesome.
Or maybe they are just lying? Maybe it's already that good. They just want to be able to brag about how good they are at improving it.
This just sounds like "propietary/custom" written software rather than "situation" software...
Not at all. Many free software products start out small, just for yourself (scratching an itch) or a small group of people near you. I have seen so many failed attempts at solving all problems at the same time. A few years back, lots of companies died because they spent so much time in the initial development cycle that all their money and support suddenly were gone. Many big programs today wouldn't have been written at all, if they hadn't started out small.
What this article seems to emphasize though, is not really that small programs win, but that you should take advantage of having a small and tight userbase. A system isn't useless because it can't scale, it might even be better. You should consider if your program really has to scale. It's more of a question of what your ultimate goal is. If you are a power and money hungry person, then you are probably better off building something that can scale, because it's easier to get filthy rich that way.
Floppy disks are my favorite. When High Density disks came, they went from 720K to 1440K in size. For some reason they divided this number by 1000 to get the well known 1.44 MB which has 1.44*1000*1024 bytes:)
Actually I am on the HD manufacturers side on this. We use prefix because we want to make it easy for us. 4700000000 is hard to say, let's call it 4.7GB instead. It's much easier to move "the dot" a few times than to do 4700000000/(1024^3) in the head. It's easy to see that you can fit 20 230MB sized files on a 4.7GB sized media. It isn't obvious to see that you can fit 20 220MiB sized files on a 4.3GiB sized media.
I have the forefather, one of those old VisorPhones that you put in springboard of a Visor. It's about 2 years old now I think, and quite big in my pocket, if you compare with these new models. Still, I wouldn't trade for any of those other "smart phones" out there, except for this new Treo 600 of course. Why buy a phone that also tries to act as a pda, when you can get a really good pda, that can also act as a phone? I mean, the gadgets of a cellphone are more important than the phone itself, right.:)
I agree that support can be a big source of income, but my idea of a good computer program is that it should be so easy to use it doesn't require any support. What do you do then?
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I think Samba 4 (even though it is not released yet) is closer to kicking Windows ADS out of the door than this, even though this is good to have for other reasons. The problem is that Windows ADS is more than a LDAP-server and even if we have all the parts, LDAP, Kerberos, CIFS, DNS, etc. getting them to work together to be completely compatible with Active Directory Server seems to be very hard.
If you want to see and hear him talk about many of the things he mentions in the FAQ, you should watch his Ubuntu talk at Debconf this year. Theora 132MB, MPEG 257MB
Why am I not surprised?
That single point of failure is the tracker, which actually uses HTTP. So, if you are convinced you can setup a farm to handle large # of requests for HTTP, then it will be possible with a bittorrent tracker as well.
Also, a tracker can be down for quite some time, before the clients notice. An HTTP download would go down immediately when the server dies.
Half-stupid. The sad part is, someone is going to buy into this heap.
And some suckers already have:
Investors
/Jon Aslund
One of the harder things to do within 24 hours seems to actually get a dot com address.
Not if you are searching for porn.
XHTML is not fucking stupid, but it can be quite annoying, when you have to deal with
On the other hand, it's neat to edit XHTML in nxml-mode in emacs.
I'm waiting for the Scottish version.
And as we all know the hardworking Scottish engineers, they will be able to enhance it and squeeze out some extra power by each episode, just when you thought it had maxed out. After about 5 years this will be awesome.
Or maybe they are just lying? Maybe it's already that good. They just want to be able to brag about how good they are at improving it.
Hell yeah superglue is just like perl.
Yeah, and it tastes funny.
Not at all. Many free software products start out small, just for yourself (scratching an itch) or a small group of people near you. I have seen so many failed attempts at solving all problems at the same time. A few years back, lots of companies died because they spent so much time in the initial development cycle that all their money and support suddenly were gone. Many big programs today wouldn't have been written at all, if they hadn't started out small.
What this article seems to emphasize though, is not really that small programs win, but that you should take advantage of having a small and tight userbase. A system isn't useless because it can't scale, it might even be better. You should consider if your program really has to scale. It's more of a question of what your ultimate goal is. If you are a power and money hungry person, then you are probably better off building something that can scale, because it's easier to get filthy rich that way.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/0 8/06/2153238
Yeah, the quote should continue like something like this "and if you so much as sneezes, the house will shatter... catastrophically".
for($i=0;$i<4;$i++){print"hooray!\n"}
Nah, petitions don't work. Just take a look at this petition against petition online.
Other studies have shown that men earn more money than women. They are also a bit taller. hmmmm
Take the Knoppix DVD and just fill up the rest of the debian archive. I am not sure, but I think 8GB will just be enough for all i386 binaries.
Floppy disks are my favorite. When High Density disks came, they went from 720K to 1440K in size. For some reason they divided this number by 1000 to get the well known 1.44 MB which has 1.44*1000*1024 bytes :)
Actually I am on the HD manufacturers side on this. We use prefix because we want to make it easy for us. 4700000000 is hard to say, let's call it 4.7GB instead. It's much easier to move "the dot" a few times than to do 4700000000/(1024^3) in the head. It's easy to see that you can fit 20 230MB sized files on a 4.7GB sized media. It isn't obvious to see that you can fit 20 220MiB sized files on a 4.3GiB sized media.
I have the forefather, one of those old VisorPhones that you put in springboard of a Visor. It's about 2 years old now I think, and quite big in my pocket, if you compare with these new models. Still, I wouldn't trade for any of those other "smart phones" out there, except for this new Treo 600 of course. Why buy a phone that also tries to act as a pda, when you can get a really good pda, that can also act as a phone? I mean, the gadgets of a cellphone are more important than the phone itself, right. :)
Thousands of gamers will run to the stores to get a life.
I agree that support can be a big source of income, but my idea of a good computer program is that it should be so easy to use it doesn't require any support. What do you do then?
three girls, and a guy wearing a skirt. That's a Kilt. I guess you see the pattern. :)
I blame them mostly for making motif look so ugly. :)
Those were the days. In the chapter "Who Owns UNIX?" they never once mention SCO.