Re: WHAT!!? Cyberspace will never be secure...EVER
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Hacking Web Services
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Pardon my French, but that is foolish! You would rather hand your credit card to some checkout clerk who turns around and runs it through a machine and "accidentaly" does something like press it on carbon copy paper, as opposed to sending it over 128-bit encryption?
Re:Looks like KDE won the desktop war.
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KDE 3.0 is Out
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The beauty of Linux is that we will always have a choice. KDE 3.0 will help me get my wife to use Linux, but I prefer something more hardcore, like scwm .
It seems Universities are surprisingly good at waiting to see if a new technology is more than just hype and actually establishes itself in the IT world before they add it to their courses. If.NET falls on it's face, they don't want to have students who paid thousands of dollars to learn about it.
Are there any major PC retailers that make it obvious and easy to purchase a PC without windows on it? Dell seems to claim they do, but on their web catalog it's impossible to find.
I've helped people buy computers from the Dell website, and have fun choosing different options using their select boxes and trying to get the price down as far as I can. Just think if you could select "No OS" or "Linux" and see the price go down from $800 to $650. I think that would turn some intelligent heads.
It's very painful to buy a PC and pay good money for Windows/Bloat/Fragmaster, only to install Linux or FreeBSD over it.
Thank you for the interesting link. However, it could be looked at many different ways. If you look at the non-clustered benchmarks, it is, quite certainly dominated by applications based on the Java platform, running under IBM Websphere and BEA application servers.
One could generalize that the COM+ applications require many more CPU's than the Java applications to maintain good performance. For a per CPU comparison, Java based applictions seem to actually come out on top.
People don't seem to understand that once a Java application is first loaded into memory, it is converted to binary code. This may cause a small delay in stand alone application, but works very well for server side apps that are going to be up and running for a long time.
tpc.org seems like an interesting site, however, it doesn't seem to cover things like uptime and memory management. It's focus appears to compare the top transaction performance of a system's entire infrastructure not just the language platform.
Well, wait no longer: I will only give examples of those which I have seen first hand.
Ford Motor company has standardized on Java and runs many high profile applications for it's business.
Medtronic runs almost it's entire IT infrastructure using Java technology along with Weblogic application server. Several internal applications serve an average of 23,000 users per day.
Dell computer has written many of it's business applications using the Java, not to mention after trying very hard to write enterprise applications using Microsoft technologies and finally opting for a more stable and more robust Java platform.
So much speculation and nothing has been proven yet. The best way to cut through this hype is to wait and let the.NET platform (along with all the #'s) prove itself...if it can. When I see a full scale application running on Unix, I'll take it seriously. I'm still waiting to see an enterprise scaled (stable!) application using COM, MTS, or COM+.
For the time being, I can't see J# making much of an impact. If someone is going to write an application using Java syntax, why would they not gear it for the proven JVM rather than something that has done nothing and could fall to the same fate as J++?
I agree MS can make quality IDEs. I personally find Vi to be the most efficient place to write code, but can see how a good IDE would go far.
For those of you that seem to think Java is on it's way out the door; have you tried to perform a job search lately? When I seached on monster.com, techies.com and several other local (MN) sites, the positions for Java developers outnumbered any other language at least 3 to 1 (VB being the closest).
People seem to be limiting their thinking to shrink wrapped products where Java is rather scarce. However, Java is most definitely the standard for Enterprise applications, and that is where the money is. I have been involved in many deals where fortune 500 companies are willing to pay upwards of 1.5 million dollars for Java applications and almost always run them on Unix. Such companies have invested so much money in Java, that I don't see them adopting.NET anytime soon.
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Pardon my French, but that is foolish! You would rather hand your credit card to some checkout clerk who turns around and runs it through a machine and "accidentaly" does something like press it on carbon copy paper, as opposed to sending it over 128-bit encryption?
The beauty of Linux is that we will always have a choice. KDE 3.0 will help me get my wife to use Linux, but I prefer something more hardcore, like scwm .
It seems Universities are surprisingly good at waiting to see if a new technology is more than just hype and actually establishes itself in the IT world before they add it to their courses. If .NET falls on it's face, they don't want to have students who paid thousands of dollars to learn about it.
Sweet! That is exactly what I was looking for. Who would have thought...WalMart of all places. Thanks!
Are there any major PC retailers that make it obvious and easy to purchase a PC without windows on it? Dell seems to claim they do, but on their web catalog it's impossible to find. I've helped people buy computers from the Dell website, and have fun choosing different options using their select boxes and trying to get the price down as far as I can. Just think if you could select "No OS" or "Linux" and see the price go down from $800 to $650. I think that would turn some intelligent heads. It's very painful to buy a PC and pay good money for Windows/Bloat/Fragmaster, only to install Linux or FreeBSD over it.
Here is a suggestion; If your management sucks, find a different job. Then maybe the management will get the picture.
The fact that someone would kick a box BECAUSE it says FRAGILE on it sickens me. Why would we let people like that in our society? Shoot them.
It is foolish to rule out all possibilities. It is also foolish to completely ignore all of the blaring coincidences.
Thank you for the interesting link. However, it could be looked at many different ways. If you look at the non-clustered benchmarks, it is, quite certainly dominated by applications based on the Java platform, running under IBM Websphere and BEA application servers. One could generalize that the COM+ applications require many more CPU's than the Java applications to maintain good performance. For a per CPU comparison, Java based applictions seem to actually come out on top. People don't seem to understand that once a Java application is first loaded into memory, it is converted to binary code. This may cause a small delay in stand alone application, but works very well for server side apps that are going to be up and running for a long time. tpc.org seems like an interesting site, however, it doesn't seem to cover things like uptime and memory management. It's focus appears to compare the top transaction performance of a system's entire infrastructure not just the language platform.
Well, wait no longer: I will only give examples of those which I have seen first hand.
Ford Motor company has standardized on Java and runs many high profile applications for it's business.
Medtronic runs almost it's entire IT infrastructure using Java technology along with Weblogic application server. Several internal applications serve an average of 23,000 users per day.
Dell computer has written many of it's business applications using the Java, not to mention after trying very hard to write enterprise applications using Microsoft technologies and finally opting for a more stable and more robust Java platform.
So much speculation and nothing has been proven yet. The best way to cut through this hype is to wait and let the .NET platform (along with all the #'s) prove itself...if it can. When I see a full scale application running on Unix, I'll take it seriously. I'm still waiting to see an enterprise scaled (stable!) application using COM, MTS, or COM+.
For the time being, I can't see J# making much of an impact. If someone is going to write an application using Java syntax, why would they not gear it for the proven JVM rather than something that has done nothing and could fall to the same fate as J++?
I agree MS can make quality IDEs. I personally find Vi to be the most efficient place to write code, but can see how a good IDE would go far.
For those of you that seem to think Java is on it's way out the door; have you tried to perform a job search lately? When I seached on monster.com, techies.com and several other local (MN) sites, the positions for Java developers outnumbered any other language at least 3 to 1 (VB being the closest). People seem to be limiting their thinking to shrink wrapped products where Java is rather scarce. However, Java is most definitely the standard for Enterprise applications, and that is where the money is. I have been involved in many deals where fortune 500 companies are willing to pay upwards of 1.5 million dollars for Java applications and almost always run them on Unix. Such companies have invested so much money in Java, that I don't see them adopting .NET anytime soon.