Or standards for the hardware, eg OHCI/UHCI for usb, EHCI for usb2, AHCI for sata...
If all hardware conforms to a standard according to it's device type, then it becomes necessary to write only one usb driver, one sata driver, one ide driver etc..
Well, cross integration of command line tools is very good (pipes etc), but they missed the boat a bit with gui based apps...
Microsoft's approach is to stick everything together, but not publish how, such that you have programs that work well together but not with anything else...
AmigaOS has a good idea with Arexx ports...
What we really need, is some kind of standardization, like the cli has stdin/stdout, so that independently developed programs can work together well... We already have this to a small degree, with standard file formats, but that requires a save/open process.
OpenOffice actually stems from what was originally proprietary code, and it has been improving steadily since being opened up...
Mozilla is another example, when the netscape source was originally opened up it was a steaming pile of feces for quite some time.
KDE aims to compete with vista, it's aimed at users who actually like the bloat. The advantage of open source is that it gives you a choice, there are a myriad of less bloated projects out there.
HURD has largely become redundant, and thus doesn't attract much development...
Xorg has just undergone major work to make it far more modular.
Interesting you pick IIS, as version 6 is considerably simpler than 5 was... And as a consequence has had a massively better security/stability track record.
How amusing, multiple emails to paypal support were completely useless and wouldn't tell me how to do this... Instead, i get the answer i need from an AC on slashdot.
The difference is, while microsoft's entire business depends on selling software, and making people buy as much of it as possible by fair means or foul... Sun's business is far more diverse, and i doubt they make too much of their income from selling software. They make most of their income from support contracts and sales of hardware... They *need* to provide software too, but it's a costly component for sun rather than the end product. It's in their interest to outsource some of the development for free.
But if you get a server hosted somewhere, you can tunnel the multi ppp over all your upstreams to your hosted server. That way you have good peak bandwidth (combined rate of all the lines), proper redundancy - ie you still have the same ip and wont need to drop active tcp connections, the potential point of failure (your colo) is likely to be a lot more stable than your home power grid, and just incase its not you could have multiple hosted boxes using bgp to present the same ip addresses, so even if one goes down you can connect to another.
Well, switching from one to the other in a round robin fashion is a really crude way of doing load sharing... Especially if the lines are of different speeds/latency... You really want proper load balancing, based on you know, load?
Well, they favour the buyer over legitimate sellers... But there are plenty of ways that an unscrupulous seller can use the system to his advantage.
Did you realise you can register your paypal account in one country, while selling goods in another? When a buyer wants to return something, they have to pay the cost of international shipping plus tracking service to wherever your paypal account is registered, regardless of where you are located or where the items were shipped from.
Assuming you live in the UK, get yourself a mailbox somewhere far away like australia and register a paypal account there, then start selling items worth under about 50GBP on ebay... When someone wins an item, ship him a brick or something of similar weight... Ofcourse he will complain, and file a claim with paypal... Paypal will agree to refund him, but only after he has shipped the item back to your paypal registered address and used a shipping service with online tracking. The trick is to make the cost of shipping the item back more than what they paid in the first place, that way it becomes pointless for them to do it and paypal will just close their dispute.
Then there's their "subscription" service, where a company can automatically bill you on a recurring system, there seems to be absolutely no way to see which subscriptions are active or how to cancel them. A corrupt seller can lie to you about cancelling the subscription and you have no idea if they lied or not until paypal charges you, and when you dispute it they simply ignore you.
ebay also cancel your listing if you try to recover the cost of paypal charges in your listing, because the idea of an extra 5% or so to cover costs would encourage buyers to pay by other means.
This just requires that the backbone passes ipv6, which any backbone routing device made in the past 10 years will be easily capable of doing.
What they really should do, is require that any service offered to the outside world be available with both ipv6 and ipv4 connectivity, starting with any new deployments/upgrades and gradually rolling out to existing sites.
Legitimate established TCP connections perhaps, where the remote end backs off like it should when congested... What about traffic that is not part of an established connection (ie all the SYN packets from other bittorrent peers trying to connect to you), some misconfigured torrent clients and bad tcp stacks can be incredibly aggressive, and congestion/shaping makes the problem worse because the packets get dropped causing the aggressive client to retransmit when it doesn't receive a response.
Most home user oriented routers use a large output buffer to improve throughput... Trouble is, the output buffer will be good for 2-3 seconds of line saturation, meaning that even if your packets are prioritised they will still take a couple of seconds to get out if the buffer already contains something else.
Funny, Ubuntu picked up my printer (hp deskjet attached via usb) automatically, and it's built in scanner... If you run CUPS, other network shared cups printers get picked up automatically too, don't even need to install drivers on the client so long as the server is set up correctly.
So "Joe Sixpack" can simply select k3b from the graphical package manager, which includes a description of what it does. The system takes care of the rest, downloads, installs...
How is this harder than going to google, searching for what you want, reading a bit about it, finding the download link, downloading, finding where it downloaded to, unzip the downloaded file, run the installer, click next a few times without reading...
Exactly.. Gates is not stupid, you can be sure he did his homework and looked at other OS's out there like linux, so what he's saying is - why does our product force you to reboot, when none of the competitors have this burden?
The CEO of a car company won't say "why doesn't our car fly?" but he will ask "why don't our cars come with electric windows?". It's perfectly normal to try to keep up with the competition.
Because the system time settings calendar is always there by default in the same place and has been for years, outlook is a separate product that is not installed by default, and is very different from it's previous versions and predecessors.
And why shouldn't a normal user be able to see the system time settings? You can on a mac, you just can't change it obviously...
Also unix lets you set your timezone on a per user basis which windows doesn't, which makes a lot of sense considering unix was designed as a multiuser os that people would log in via the network, potentially from different continents, and windows was designed as a simple desktop workstation frontend.
First, I am not sure that email is really by Gates -- from reading his writing or listening to him in the past, it really does not sound like his style. Also, "I reboot my computer... why should I have to reboot my computer?" I find it hard to realize that he wouldn't know the technical difficulties in replacing a dll while the system is running, and possible ways around this, and the current state of affairs. However, maybe I'm giving too much credit here.
The difficulties of replacing a dll while the system is running are really design flaws in windows... Unix doesn't have those issues, it's quite possible to upgrade libc on the fly. New programs you start will load the new libc, programs that were already running will continue to use the old one. You can restart your programs one by one as and when you want to use the new libc. What he's basically saying is, why should windows users have to reboot their computer when unix users don't? It's clearly not impossible, it's a situation where the competition is better and Bill obviously doesn't like that situation.
Well, the package repository should be searchable and have good descriptions about what each program does... Can you not type "podcast" into the package manager search option and see a list of appropriate programs?
What i want to see, is an OS which is compiled specifically for the Atom CPUs... As i understand it, these processors are in-order processors, and therefore rely on the compiler to schedule execution correctly for their internal resources, as opposed to a full blown core2 which will reorder the instruction stream on the fly and thus compensate for less optimal compilers.
Doing this should yield quite significant performance improvements on the Atom processors...
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Or standards for the hardware, eg OHCI/UHCI for usb, EHCI for usb2, AHCI for sata...
If all hardware conforms to a standard according to it's device type, then it becomes necessary to write only one usb driver, one sata driver, one ide driver etc..
Well, cross integration of command line tools is very good (pipes etc), but they missed the boat a bit with gui based apps...
Microsoft's approach is to stick everything together, but not publish how, such that you have programs that work well together but not with anything else...
AmigaOS has a good idea with Arexx ports...
What we really need, is some kind of standardization, like the cli has stdin/stdout, so that independently developed programs can work together well...
We already have this to a small degree, with standard file formats, but that requires a save/open process.
OpenOffice actually stems from what was originally proprietary code, and it has been improving steadily since being opened up...
Mozilla is another example, when the netscape source was originally opened up it was a steaming pile of feces for quite some time.
KDE aims to compete with vista, it's aimed at users who actually like the bloat. The advantage of open source is that it gives you a choice, there are a myriad of less bloated projects out there.
HURD has largely become redundant, and thus doesn't attract much development...
Xorg has just undergone major work to make it far more modular.
Interesting you pick IIS, as version 6 is considerably simpler than 5 was... And as a consequence has had a massively better security/stability track record.
How amusing, multiple emails to paypal support were completely useless and wouldn't tell me how to do this...
Instead, i get the answer i need from an AC on slashdot.
Apple airport extreme supports IPv6, and has gige built in.
The difference is, while microsoft's entire business depends on selling software, and making people buy as much of it as possible by fair means or foul...
Sun's business is far more diverse, and i doubt they make too much of their income from selling software. They make most of their income from support contracts and sales of hardware... They *need* to provide software too, but it's a costly component for sun rather than the end product. It's in their interest to outsource some of the development for free.
But if you get a server hosted somewhere, you can tunnel the multi ppp over all your upstreams to your hosted server.
That way you have good peak bandwidth (combined rate of all the lines), proper redundancy - ie you still have the same ip and wont need to drop active tcp connections, the potential point of failure (your colo) is likely to be a lot more stable than your home power grid, and just incase its not you could have multiple hosted boxes using bgp to present the same ip addresses, so even if one goes down you can connect to another.
Well, switching from one to the other in a round robin fashion is a really crude way of doing load sharing... Especially if the lines are of different speeds/latency...
You really want proper load balancing, based on you know, load?
Well, they favour the buyer over legitimate sellers...
But there are plenty of ways that an unscrupulous seller can use the system to his advantage.
Did you realise you can register your paypal account in one country, while selling goods in another? When a buyer wants to return something, they have to pay the cost of international shipping plus tracking service to wherever your paypal account is registered, regardless of where you are located or where the items were shipped from.
Assuming you live in the UK, get yourself a mailbox somewhere far away like australia and register a paypal account there, then start selling items worth under about 50GBP on ebay...
When someone wins an item, ship him a brick or something of similar weight... Ofcourse he will complain, and file a claim with paypal... Paypal will agree to refund him, but only after he has shipped the item back to your paypal registered address and used a shipping service with online tracking. The trick is to make the cost of shipping the item back more than what they paid in the first place, that way it becomes pointless for them to do it and paypal will just close their dispute.
Yes, i have had many bad experiences with paypal and corrupt sellers taking advantage of the flaws in their system to rip off purchasers, take a look at:
http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/category/fastmemorymanscam/
Then there's their "subscription" service, where a company can automatically bill you on a recurring system, there seems to be absolutely no way to see which subscriptions are active or how to cancel them. A corrupt seller can lie to you about cancelling the subscription and you have no idea if they lied or not until paypal charges you, and when you dispute it they simply ignore you.
ebay also cancel your listing if you try to recover the cost of paypal charges in your listing, because the idea of an extra 5% or so to cover costs would encourage buyers to pay by other means.
This just requires that the backbone passes ipv6, which any backbone routing device made in the past 10 years will be easily capable of doing.
What they really should do, is require that any service offered to the outside world be available with both ipv6 and ipv4 connectivity, starting with any new deployments/upgrades and gradually rolling out to existing sites.
No, they just get hired by the people that do control the networks. Those people will hire people who are likely to promote the same viewpoint.
Legitimate established TCP connections perhaps, where the remote end backs off like it should when congested...
What about traffic that is not part of an established connection (ie all the SYN packets from other bittorrent peers trying to connect to you), some misconfigured torrent clients and bad tcp stacks can be incredibly aggressive, and congestion/shaping makes the problem worse because the packets get dropped causing the aggressive client to retransmit when it doesn't receive a response.
How many old monitors fit in a handful?
Putting monitors in a server room defeats the purpose... You should run everything from serial console or remotely over the network.
Well...
I have a Cisco 1701, and the ISP already prioritises voip traffic for me... Any pointers on how to configure the router my end appropriately?
Most home user oriented routers use a large output buffer to improve throughput...
Trouble is, the output buffer will be good for 2-3 seconds of line saturation, meaning that even if your packets are prioritised they will still take a couple of seconds to get out if the buffer already contains something else.
Yeah, because tape recorders are really expensive, hard to use, impossible to steal and only owned by rich tech savvy businessmen.
Funny, Ubuntu picked up my printer (hp deskjet attached via usb) automatically, and it's built in scanner...
If you run CUPS, other network shared cups printers get picked up automatically too, don't even need to install drivers on the client so long as the server is set up correctly.
What's to stop criminals employing cutting edge technology like a tape recording of violent sounds to make the camera look the other way?
So "Joe Sixpack" can simply select k3b from the graphical package manager, which includes a description of what it does. The system takes care of the rest, downloads, installs...
How is this harder than going to google, searching for what you want, reading a bit about it, finding the download link, downloading, finding where it downloaded to, unzip the downloaded file, run the installer, click next a few times without reading...
Exactly..
Gates is not stupid, you can be sure he did his homework and looked at other OS's out there like linux, so what he's saying is - why does our product force you to reboot, when none of the competitors have this burden?
The CEO of a car company won't say "why doesn't our car fly?" but he will ask "why don't our cars come with electric windows?". It's perfectly normal to try to keep up with the competition.
Because the system time settings calendar is always there by default in the same place and has been for years, outlook is a separate product that is not installed by default, and is very different from it's previous versions and predecessors.
And why shouldn't a normal user be able to see the system time settings? You can on a mac, you just can't change it obviously...
Also unix lets you set your timezone on a per user basis which windows doesn't, which makes a lot of sense considering unix was designed as a multiuser os that people would log in via the network, potentially from different continents, and windows was designed as a simple desktop workstation frontend.
First, I am not sure that email is really by Gates -- from reading his writing or listening to him in the past, it really does not sound like his style. Also, "I reboot my computer ... why should I have to reboot my computer?" I find it hard to realize that he wouldn't know the technical difficulties in replacing a dll while the system is running, and possible ways around this, and the current state of affairs. However, maybe I'm giving too much credit here.
The difficulties of replacing a dll while the system is running are really design flaws in windows...Unix doesn't have those issues, it's quite possible to upgrade libc on the fly. New programs you start will load the new libc, programs that were already running will continue to use the old one. You can restart your programs one by one as and when you want to use the new libc.
What he's basically saying is, why should windows users have to reboot their computer when unix users don't? It's clearly not impossible, it's a situation where the competition is better and Bill obviously doesn't like that situation.
Well, the package repository should be searchable and have good descriptions about what each program does...
Can you not type "podcast" into the package manager search option and see a list of appropriate programs?
What i want to see, is an OS which is compiled specifically for the Atom CPUs...
As i understand it, these processors are in-order processors, and therefore rely on the compiler to schedule execution correctly for their internal resources, as opposed to a full blown core2 which will reorder the instruction stream on the fly and thus compensate for less optimal compilers.
Doing this should yield quite significant performance improvements on the Atom processors...