Digital's x86 machines were always very solid... Is yours one of the "Personal Workstation" series, coming in a mini tower with a door on the front... They made these machine in Alpha and Pentium2 forms, with only the motherboard really being different... even the pci busboard is shared between the two architecture types.
Wether there were ways to manually man the controls or not, if a failure occurred that disrupted the crew and required them to change the way they control the ship, the ship would be less effective for a time... It doesn't take long for a missile to hit your ship and sink it, if a disruption like this occurred at a critical time the only thing that could save you, is the chance the enemy might be too busy laughing at you to shoot.
If you get something for free, fair enough it comes with no guarantees... If you pay for something, then you should definitely get a guarantee that it will *at least* live up to the marketing claims, and offer you a full refund or compensation if it fails to.
You'd also think businesses would prefer getting both hardware and software from a single source so it can be supported fully, instead of the constant blame-passing you get if you run third party software on a given piece of hardware.
The default iChat program that ships with OSX is capable of connecting to Google Talk. I think it's good that google are spending more time making their service standards compliant rather than wasting their time creating their own client, when there are loads of existing ones out there.
I can't imagine doing serious professional writing using word or openoffice either... Both applications have far too many bugs and quirks, having to use them day in day out would drive you insane. Latex is the best tool i've found for writing large volumes of text.
It would cut down on the type of programmers who only ever think of the money. People who learn a language as quickly and hap-hazardly as they can, just because of the money, and then go on to do as little work as possible while maximising income. You'd still have the kind of programmers who enjoy programming, and write software for personal achievement. You'd also still have service or hardware driven companies employing programmers to write support software for their hardware (drivers etc, which are usually given away for free) and support customers of outsourced services. companies like Sun, Intel and IBM. The business model of selling software will be rendered invalid, as it should be, any industry where you can produce infinite product for little or no cost is utterly ridiculous.
In fact, any industry where production costs are disproportionately small relative to the sale cost is ridiculous... And requires anti-capitalist enforcement to maintain, otherwise the natural progression of capitalism will result in third parties providing the goods at a far more reasonable cost (such behaviour is unnaturally branded as "piracy" or "counterfeiting" by those anti-capitalists)
Their first conversion attempt failed miserably, windows simply couldn't cut it even when they multiplied the number of servers by 4 compared to the original (FreeBSD) servers they had... After that they tweaked the front end servers to *look* like windows, when in reality they were still BSD... Things like changing the Apache banner, but it was still clearly apache (some error messages, the ordering of some of the headers etc)... When they tried again, they managed to migrate the frontend servers over, but they had to use far more machines and they even documented the process and all the difficulties they had in a report meant for management, which later got leaked.. It did a good job of pointing the deficiencies of windows, and pointed out that it wasn't a financially viable migration, and was only done for political motivations, even taking into consideration the fact they didnt have to pay for any of the software and had the highest possible level of vendor support.
Why would this concern the EU anyway? Most of these large software companies are foreign, so money paid to them is being exported from the EU. Isn't it advantageous for EU companies to be paying less money to foreign corporations, and hiring more local staff instead? Local european companies can support open source just as well as any american company, and this is something the EU should be promoting in the interest of it's citizens.
Most of which is simply tools to enable the selling of more hardware... Giving this away usually increases adoption of the hardware, just look at intel's video drivers.
But is it running? X11 needs to be running, and you need to have access to it... X won't start or initialize properly unless there's a display device attached, and a normal user can't start X11 unless theyre logged in on the local console. If you have your sun server connected to a monitor running an X server that any user can interact with, you have bigger problems anyway.
Not just Hayes: A few years ago, virtually all hardware of a given type would be compatible with an established standard in that area....
SCSI scanners Postscript printers SCSI/IDE drives (ok, we still have these for now) IDE interfaces PIO mode (slow, to do DMA requires card specific drivers) VGA/VESA video (these are still around, but too slow to be usefull, and no 3d) Soundblaster compatible soundcards (more of a defacto standard tho) NE2000 compatible ethernet (another defacto standard)
Video card manufacturers already do this, the relevant standards are called VGA and VESA... Without these, your BIOS wouldn't be able to initialize the card, nor would any OS without drivers for it... So you'd be stuck trying to blind-install an OS and drivers, or have to install using an older card and then switch the cards over.
But in the current generation, AMD have lost their performance advantage at least in the low end... AMD is still better for multi processor servers, but would you really want a 3d video card in a server?
They could at least release the code they can, and leave open source developers to fill in the missing pieces... Netscape did it with Mozilla.. Sun did it with OpenOffice And both ended up much better than the original packages.
You hope nvidia patches it soon... Everyone else hopes nvidia patches it soon... Your relying on nvidia to produce a patch... What if they don't want to? If a bug like this was found in one of the open source drivers, it would have been fixed already If your using an old nvidia card which is no longer supported by the current drivers then you'l never get a patch
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A significant amount of the development effort towards openoffice has been wasted reverse engineering microsoft's proprietary formats...\ Had a complete open spec for these formats been available, implementing of them would have been a lot quicker and all that development effort could have gone towards improving the suite as a whole. KOffice tries to be the best it can, and therefore they're not wasting development time trying to reverse engineer a soon to be obsoleted file format. In the mean time, you can use openoffice to convert to/from proprietary microsoft formats, and it does a much better job of reading/writing word files than ms publisher does (go figure)
What exactly does XPS offer that PDF doesn't? Is this just a case of microsoft not wanting to use something they have no control over? PDF is not ideal, because it is still controlled by a single company, and they get to dictate future versions of the format... But XPS appears to be exactly the same, what we really need is an openly maintained format where multiple interested parties can decide on the features present in future versions.
In the cases of physical hardware failures, i`ve lost data with ext2, ext3 and xfs... Sometimes the disk locks up, and you can let it cool down, then bring it back up and you might get enough time out of it to copy the data off, when this has happened i've never had worse luck with ext2/3 than xfs... And sometimes the disk dies completely, and will never power up again, when this happens it doesn't matter what filesystem you have, your data is GONE short of specialist recovery hardware.
Well, you can now run OSX on generic x86 boxes with minimal hassle. Microsoft also restrict what hardware you can use, through hardware requirements and lack of available drivers for older hardware.
But your being a bit hypocritical, you complain about being tied to a particular hardware platform, but your perfectly fine being tied to a particular software platform?
I have been using XFS for years on both linux and IRIX... It has proven itself very stable, and has caused me no problems (the only problems i've ever had were due to physical hardware failure).. The biggest issue i've had with EXT2 is that when it does an fsck at boot, if theres a problem it sits there waiting for input, which is useless on a server with no console attached... EXT3 still does this too, it still demands to be fsck'd every few months.
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Digital's x86 machines were always very solid...
Is yours one of the "Personal Workstation" series, coming in a mini tower with a door on the front...
They made these machine in Alpha and Pentium2 forms, with only the motherboard really being different... even the pci busboard is shared between the two architecture types.
Wether there were ways to manually man the controls or not, if a failure occurred that disrupted the crew and required them to change the way they control the ship, the ship would be less effective for a time...
It doesn't take long for a missile to hit your ship and sink it, if a disruption like this occurred at a critical time the only thing that could save you, is the chance the enemy might be too busy laughing at you to shoot.
If you get something for free, fair enough it comes with no guarantees...
If you pay for something, then you should definitely get a guarantee that it will *at least* live up to the marketing claims, and offer you a full refund or compensation if it fails to.
You'd also think businesses would prefer getting both hardware and software from a single source so it can be supported fully, instead of the constant blame-passing you get if you run third party software on a given piece of hardware.
Which is a huge nuisance, why should adobe be able to hold people back from moving to 64bit architectures?
I wonder why linux would need a toll free licensing hotline....
The default iChat program that ships with OSX is capable of connecting to Google Talk.
I think it's good that google are spending more time making their service standards compliant rather than wasting their time creating their own client, when there are loads of existing ones out there.
I can't imagine doing serious professional writing using word or openoffice either...
Both applications have far too many bugs and quirks, having to use them day in day out would drive you insane. Latex is the best tool i've found for writing large volumes of text.
It would cut down on the type of programmers who only ever think of the money. People who learn a language as quickly and hap-hazardly as they can, just because of the money, and then go on to do as little work as possible while maximising income.
You'd still have the kind of programmers who enjoy programming, and write software for personal achievement.
You'd also still have service or hardware driven companies employing programmers to write support software for their hardware (drivers etc, which are usually given away for free) and support customers of outsourced services. companies like Sun, Intel and IBM.
The business model of selling software will be rendered invalid, as it should be, any industry where you can produce infinite product for little or no cost is utterly ridiculous.
In fact, any industry where production costs are disproportionately small relative to the sale cost is ridiculous... And requires anti-capitalist enforcement to maintain, otherwise the natural progression of capitalism will result in third parties providing the goods at a far more reasonable cost (such behaviour is unnaturally branded as "piracy" or "counterfeiting" by those anti-capitalists)
Their first conversion attempt failed miserably, windows simply couldn't cut it even when they multiplied the number of servers by 4 compared to the original (FreeBSD) servers they had...
After that they tweaked the front end servers to *look* like windows, when in reality they were still BSD... Things like changing the Apache banner, but it was still clearly apache (some error messages, the ordering of some of the headers etc)...
When they tried again, they managed to migrate the frontend servers over, but they had to use far more machines and they even documented the process and all the difficulties they had in a report meant for management, which later got leaked.. It did a good job of pointing the deficiencies of windows, and pointed out that it wasn't a financially viable migration, and was only done for political motivations, even taking into consideration the fact they didnt have to pay for any of the software and had the highest possible level of vendor support.
Why would this concern the EU anyway?
Most of these large software companies are foreign, so money paid to them is being exported from the EU.
Isn't it advantageous for EU companies to be paying less money to foreign corporations, and hiring more local staff instead? Local european companies can support open source just as well as any american company, and this is something the EU should be promoting in the interest of it's citizens.
Most of which is simply tools to enable the selling of more hardware...
Giving this away usually increases adoption of the hardware, just look at intel's video drivers.
Ad supported games, fair enough
Paid for games, fair enough
Games that you pay for and THEN get inundated with ads? absoloutely ridiculous.
But is it running?
X11 needs to be running, and you need to have access to it... X won't start or initialize properly unless there's a display device attached, and a normal user can't start X11 unless theyre logged in on the local console.
If you have your sun server connected to a monitor running an X server that any user can interact with, you have bigger problems anyway.
Not just Hayes:
A few years ago, virtually all hardware of a given type would be compatible with an established standard in that area....
SCSI scanners
Postscript printers
SCSI/IDE drives (ok, we still have these for now)
IDE interfaces PIO mode (slow, to do DMA requires card specific drivers)
VGA/VESA video (these are still around, but too slow to be usefull, and no 3d)
Soundblaster compatible soundcards (more of a defacto standard tho)
NE2000 compatible ethernet (another defacto standard)
Video card manufacturers already do this, the relevant standards are called VGA and VESA...
Without these, your BIOS wouldn't be able to initialize the card, nor would any OS without drivers for it... So you'd be stuck trying to blind-install an OS and drivers, or have to install using an older card and then switch the cards over.
But in the current generation, AMD have lost their performance advantage at least in the low end...
AMD is still better for multi processor servers, but would you really want a 3d video card in a server?
They could at least release the code they can, and leave open source developers to fill in the missing pieces...
Netscape did it with Mozilla..
Sun did it with OpenOffice
And both ended up much better than the original packages.
You hope nvidia patches it soon...
Everyone else hopes nvidia patches it soon...
Your relying on nvidia to produce a patch... What if they don't want to?
If a bug like this was found in one of the open source drivers, it would have been fixed already
If your using an old nvidia card which is no longer supported by the current drivers then you'l never get a patch
A significant amount of the development effort towards openoffice has been wasted reverse engineering microsoft's proprietary formats...\
Had a complete open spec for these formats been available, implementing of them would have been a lot quicker and all that development effort could have gone towards improving the suite as a whole.
KOffice tries to be the best it can, and therefore they're not wasting development time trying to reverse engineer a soon to be obsoleted file format.
In the mean time, you can use openoffice to convert to/from proprietary microsoft formats, and it does a much better job of reading/writing word files than ms publisher does (go figure)
What exactly does XPS offer that PDF doesn't?
Is this just a case of microsoft not wanting to use something they have no control over?
PDF is not ideal, because it is still controlled by a single company, and they get to dictate future versions of the format... But XPS appears to be exactly the same, what we really need is an openly maintained format where multiple interested parties can decide on the features present in future versions.
And where is this list?
Last i heard, CentOS is a straight recompile of redhat enterprise with all the same features, and no price tag.
In the cases of physical hardware failures, i`ve lost data with ext2, ext3 and xfs...
Sometimes the disk locks up, and you can let it cool down, then bring it back up and you might get enough time out of it to copy the data off, when this has happened i've never had worse luck with ext2/3 than xfs...
And sometimes the disk dies completely, and will never power up again, when this happens it doesn't matter what filesystem you have, your data is GONE short of specialist recovery hardware.
Well, you can now run OSX on generic x86 boxes with minimal hassle.
Microsoft also restrict what hardware you can use, through hardware requirements and lack of available drivers for older hardware.
But your being a bit hypocritical, you complain about being tied to a particular hardware platform, but your perfectly fine being tied to a particular software platform?
I have been using XFS for years on both linux and IRIX...
It has proven itself very stable, and has caused me no problems (the only problems i've ever had were due to physical hardware failure)..
The biggest issue i've had with EXT2 is that when it does an fsck at boot, if theres a problem it sits there waiting for input, which is useless on a server with no console attached... EXT3 still does this too, it still demands to be fsck'd every few months.