Maybe the standardization of remote mount points, remote administration, etc which are native to lin/unix that everyone else is seeing are also benifiting Disney? I know that just about every survey I have seen puts the number of machines per unix admin at several times that of the average windows admin. This bears out in my own experience, I'm an MCSE and a RHCE and the amount of time spent per machine to support linux has been much lower overall. I still don't see why their costs are that high though, for instance I supported ~500 pc's at my last gig, about half servers and half workstations, the only machines that would have aproached those costs were CAD stations running ultra expensive specialized stuff like PCB autorouters and chip design software, support cost would be my salary+benifits/number of pc's + a little bit of the time of the remote admin team that helped me with the servers.
In general WINE is no slower than native Win32, and in many cases is actually faster! Remember WINE is Not an emulator, it is a reimplementation of the Win32 API native to Linux. The Linux guys often do a better job on the reimplementation then the origional coders =) Not sure where the slowness is for mirc, but I know that the mirc code uses almost none of the standard API calls so it's possibly something that is broken in WINE. Btw why run mirc under WINE when there are so many native IRC apps?
I just wish Lotus would fix up and release their internal Linux native client. Right now to use Sametime on Linux you have to use the buggy and slow Java client =(
I wish we were doing a manned mission right now. Mars is the closest it will be for 60,000 years, what better time to try then when the launch cost is lowest?
Nothing but the fact that the transparant proxy uses the MAC from the DHCP pool. In fact it is only port 80 traffic which needs a code to work, my friend found this out when one day he decided to RDP into one of his servers, he got in then realized he had never authenticated the session that day!
Why do you care, the software is free, heck there are even Free alternatives. You can publish pdf's with Free and free software too since Adobe made the standard open. I don't know why anyone would have a problem with pdf. It's a perfect way to do device independant publishing.
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FCC Goes WiFi
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Cisco has full GPL drivers for their.11b cards. In fact there are two drivers, the Cisco official driver and an independant driver written by a college student who was given some tech data by Aironet before they were bought by Cisco. I believe they are working towards one for their.11a cards as well.
It doesn't have to be free. McDonalds for instance has a WiFi system where you can order 15 minutes of access for a small fee with your meal. The register just prints a unique number that you put into the web frontend for the NAT system and it gives you a new DHCP lease which is good for 15 minutes. Works well for simply grabbing email from the office or checking out slashdot on your meal break. My friend used it for a couple weeks when he moved into his new place and the DSL transfer took forever.
X? On a palmtop? Talk about missing the mark. Even with a framebuffer driver X is way too heavy for use on a palmtop (then again I guess palmtops are getting pretty powerfull these days, with 200+ Mhz StrongARM processors not being out of the ordinary). I guess I will forever be waxing nostalgicly for the days of my Palm IIIxe with it's 4-6 week battery life =)
Very wrong, at least for Canon cameras, Canon's raw format captures the data as it is coming off the image censor. By saving this information post processing can be done on the raw data rather than the interpretation of the processing chip and the JPEG engine. For instance I have seen images had contrast improved without upsetting the shadow details which just isn't possible with normal post processing on a regular image, if you've ever see it you will know how superior to dumb Photoshop filters it is.
1GB CF cards are already cheaper than or as cheap as Microsdrives. They also suck WAY less power and will transfer the data faster if the device supports it (or if you use an external USB2 or Firewire reader). The Microdrive is also considerably less shock resistant (I saw pictures from 9/11 that were pulled off of a camera that had been under one of the collapsed office buildings around the two towers, the camera looked decimated but all but one pic came off the card, don't think a microdrive would have fared as well)
Actually at least on the D30 there IS a step like zip to compress the RAW image (in fact it even puts a little 2/3rds size low quality JPEG in as a thumbnail =) Of course zip can't compare to JPEG, but JPEG's don't have the information necessary to do post processing like the RAW images do.
That is what the submitter was talking about with Hitachi, Hitachi bought IBM's HDD assets including the Microdrive line. Hitachi is supposed to unveil a 4GB Microdrive this fall. The Microdrive is less shock resistant, eats up to 4X the battery life, and has slower transfer rates than the high speed flash products out there, initially the 4GB Microdrive may be cheaper, but within probably 9-18 months the flash will almost certainly be cheaper, that's the way it happened with the origional Microdrive (actually there wasn't any 1GB CF card at the time that I could find, but there was soon after).
You are never going to be able to take that many pic's without changing batteries so why not have a couple of cheaper 1GB cards and swap em out with the batteries? 1GB CF cards are as cheap as $228 you are paying a more than 50% premium for the denser storage.
Don't forget that in some cases it's the very act of making it that kills a singers voice. I saw Jewel before her album came out and she had a simply amazing voice, then I saw her again after it came out and she had been touring for a while, her voice was still better than most, but not nearly as dynamic or amazing as before. Then I heard her on a live recording slightly before she took her long hiatus, her voice was all ripped up. The simple act of touring and singing so much to promote herself was killing her wonderfull voice. It takes a LOT to be able to sing well every other night, most voices don't hold out, especially more delicate female ones.
6 of the 12 channels that were on my FM presets were bought by Clearchannel and turned into mindless corporate drivel. Don't tell me I have alternatives, there are 3 companies that own all but 2 commercial stations I can tune clearly where I live, the other 2 are just jealous that they aren't as big as Clearchannel. The two independants are the local classic station that sold their high power liscense to CC and which I can now only sometimes recieve (it was a nice move by the owner actually, he switched frequencies and liscenses with CC and gave the profits to the Cleveland Orchestra which needed some money to renovate their winter home) and a country station, and I don't like country music all that much. The only college radio station in the area plays mostly inner city music which I enjoy on occassion but it is not my primary choice in music, besides they censor more content then the megacorps for some reason.
Clearchannel. Most people have historically been introduced to new acts through radio. For the 80's MTV also fell under this. Now we have Clearchannel having the same rotation of bought timeslots coast to coast 24*7, it becomes so predictable that I actually knew how many minutes after the hour it was one night because of the back to back songs that came on, they were the same ones that had been played at those same minutes 6 hours previously when I had entered the clients site! Also MTV is the same way (not that they ever had a super broad list of artist) anymore, the manager of MTV even talked recently about super heavy rotation where some of the few videos would be played even MORE times a day, it's not like MTV even plays that many videos anymore.
MS is legitimizing.Net all on their lonesome thank you very much..Net is so much better than the previous VS motif's, and especially than ASP that the sites that are already going to run MS web servers were already destined to run.Net, if some of those shops can now migrate to a competing platform where does that hurt anyone else?
hmm, $small fee for Ximian connector vs $200+ for VMWare+$$for OS+$$$$ for Office. Plus the extra cash for the better cpu, extra ram, etc. Oh yeah and the inconvenience of switching modes of operation just to check email. Trust me I've done both and Evolution+Connector is worlds better then even crossover office.
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Novell Buys Ximian
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Personally I think it has more to do with Mono and Novell's attempted transformation into an ecomerce/ebusiness platform. If you can run your.Net middleware on something as stable as a Novell server (yes Novell server beat even Linux for uptime, hell they aproach mainframes, would probably be there too if the hardware was better) then why would you run it on windows =)
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It did in the 3.0 days, not sure if there was ever a port of a more recent version (by the looks of my google search the answer would be no)
Maybe the standardization of remote mount points, remote administration, etc which are native to lin/unix that everyone else is seeing are also benifiting Disney? I know that just about every survey I have seen puts the number of machines per unix admin at several times that of the average windows admin. This bears out in my own experience, I'm an MCSE and a RHCE and the amount of time spent per machine to support linux has been much lower overall. I still don't see why their costs are that high though, for instance I supported ~500 pc's at my last gig, about half servers and half workstations, the only machines that would have aproached those costs were CAD stations running ultra expensive specialized stuff like PCB autorouters and chip design software, support cost would be my salary+benifits/number of pc's + a little bit of the time of the remote admin team that helped me with the servers.
In general WINE is no slower than native Win32, and in many cases is actually faster! Remember WINE is Not an emulator, it is a reimplementation of the Win32 API native to Linux. The Linux guys often do a better job on the reimplementation then the origional coders =) Not sure where the slowness is for mirc, but I know that the mirc code uses almost none of the standard API calls so it's possibly something that is broken in WINE. Btw why run mirc under WINE when there are so many native IRC apps?
Only that exact config of Suse on that hardware if it is like the C2 security certifications.
I just wish Lotus would fix up and release their internal Linux native client. Right now to use Sametime on Linux you have to use the buggy and slow Java client =(
I wish we were doing a manned mission right now. Mars is the closest it will be for 60,000 years, what better time to try then when the launch cost is lowest?
Nothing but the fact that the transparant proxy uses the MAC from the DHCP pool. In fact it is only port 80 traffic which needs a code to work, my friend found this out when one day he decided to RDP into one of his servers, he got in then realized he had never authenticated the session that day!
Why do you care, the software is free, heck there are even Free alternatives. You can publish pdf's with Free and free software too since Adobe made the standard open. I don't know why anyone would have a problem with pdf. It's a perfect way to do device independant publishing.
Cisco has full GPL drivers for their .11b cards. In fact there are two drivers, the Cisco official driver and an independant driver written by a college student who was given some tech data by Aironet before they were bought by Cisco. I believe they are working towards one for their .11a cards as well.
It doesn't have to be free. McDonalds for instance has a WiFi system where you can order 15 minutes of access for a small fee with your meal. The register just prints a unique number that you put into the web frontend for the NAT system and it gives you a new DHCP lease which is good for 15 minutes. Works well for simply grabbing email from the office or checking out slashdot on your meal break. My friend used it for a couple weeks when he moved into his new place and the DSL transfer took forever.
X? On a palmtop? Talk about missing the mark. Even with a framebuffer driver X is way too heavy for use on a palmtop (then again I guess palmtops are getting pretty powerfull these days, with 200+ Mhz StrongARM processors not being out of the ordinary). I guess I will forever be waxing nostalgicly for the days of my Palm IIIxe with it's 4-6 week battery life =)
This is actually REALLY funny =)
I can't stand bad moderators.
For the ultimate story of CF rugidness you have to see This link.
Very wrong, at least for Canon cameras, Canon's raw format captures the data as it is coming off the image censor. By saving this information post processing can be done on the raw data rather than the interpretation of the processing chip and the JPEG engine. For instance I have seen images had contrast improved without upsetting the shadow details which just isn't possible with normal post processing on a regular image, if you've ever see it you will know how superior to dumb Photoshop filters it is.
1GB CF cards are already cheaper than or as cheap as Microsdrives. They also suck WAY less power and will transfer the data faster if the device supports it (or if you use an external USB2 or Firewire reader). The Microdrive is also considerably less shock resistant (I saw pictures from 9/11 that were pulled off of a camera that had been under one of the collapsed office buildings around the two towers, the camera looked decimated but all but one pic came off the card, don't think a microdrive would have fared as well)
Actually at least on the D30 there IS a step like zip to compress the RAW image (in fact it even puts a little 2/3rds size low quality JPEG in as a thumbnail =) Of course zip can't compare to JPEG, but JPEG's don't have the information necessary to do post processing like the RAW images do.
That is what the submitter was talking about with Hitachi, Hitachi bought IBM's HDD assets including the Microdrive line. Hitachi is supposed to unveil a 4GB Microdrive this fall. The Microdrive is less shock resistant, eats up to 4X the battery life, and has slower transfer rates than the high speed flash products out there, initially the 4GB Microdrive may be cheaper, but within probably 9-18 months the flash will almost certainly be cheaper, that's the way it happened with the origional Microdrive (actually there wasn't any 1GB CF card at the time that I could find, but there was soon after).
You are never going to be able to take that many pic's without changing batteries so why not have a couple of cheaper 1GB cards and swap em out with the batteries? 1GB CF cards are as cheap as $228 you are paying a more than 50% premium for the denser storage.
depends on the country, some countries tax all blank media. In the US there have been several attempts to tax data media in support of the RIAA/MPAA
Don't forget that in some cases it's the very act of making it that kills a singers voice. I saw Jewel before her album came out and she had a simply amazing voice, then I saw her again after it came out and she had been touring for a while, her voice was still better than most, but not nearly as dynamic or amazing as before. Then I heard her on a live recording slightly before she took her long hiatus, her voice was all ripped up. The simple act of touring and singing so much to promote herself was killing her wonderfull voice. It takes a LOT to be able to sing well every other night, most voices don't hold out, especially more delicate female ones.
6 of the 12 channels that were on my FM presets were bought by Clearchannel and turned into mindless corporate drivel. Don't tell me I have alternatives, there are 3 companies that own all but 2 commercial stations I can tune clearly where I live, the other 2 are just jealous that they aren't as big as Clearchannel. The two independants are the local classic station that sold their high power liscense to CC and which I can now only sometimes recieve (it was a nice move by the owner actually, he switched frequencies and liscenses with CC and gave the profits to the Cleveland Orchestra which needed some money to renovate their winter home) and a country station, and I don't like country music all that much. The only college radio station in the area plays mostly inner city music which I enjoy on occassion but it is not my primary choice in music, besides they censor more content then the megacorps for some reason.
Clearchannel. Most people have historically been introduced to new acts through radio. For the 80's MTV also fell under this. Now we have Clearchannel having the same rotation of bought timeslots coast to coast 24*7, it becomes so predictable that I actually knew how many minutes after the hour it was one night because of the back to back songs that came on, they were the same ones that had been played at those same minutes 6 hours previously when I had entered the clients site! Also MTV is the same way (not that they ever had a super broad list of artist) anymore, the manager of MTV even talked recently about super heavy rotation where some of the few videos would be played even MORE times a day, it's not like MTV even plays that many videos anymore.
MS is legitimizing .Net all on their lonesome thank you very much. .Net is so much better than the previous VS motif's, and especially than ASP that the sites that are already going to run MS web servers were already destined to run .Net, if some of those shops can now migrate to a competing platform where does that hurt anyone else?
hmm, $small fee for Ximian connector vs $200+ for VMWare+$$for OS+$$$$ for Office. Plus the extra cash for the better cpu, extra ram, etc. Oh yeah and the inconvenience of switching modes of operation just to check email. Trust me I've done both and Evolution+Connector is worlds better then even crossover office.
Personally I think it has more to do with Mono and Novell's attempted transformation into an ecomerce/ebusiness platform. If you can run your .Net middleware on something as stable as a Novell server (yes Novell server beat even Linux for uptime, hell they aproach mainframes, would probably be there too if the hardware was better) then why would you run it on windows =)