remember that saying? right now a network administrator is far more likely to choose an established OS with ready lines of support--ie Novell, Unix, etc, than an OS held together with "duct tape and mt. dew". Before you hollar at me, I love linux, just thats the point of view of much of the establishment. If you want to help linux succeed, get out there and offer support to companies, and when the Linux Certification process is further along, get certified so we can give linux numbers of qualified support people. (yes, certification doesnt=knowledge. but if you are a linux guru, what better way to show the unknowledgeable that you know a lot).
I was thinking to myself.. If you were in the music companies shoes, what would you do to stop the MP3 piracy trend? Technology or behavior? Is there anything that can be done from a technological standpoint to stop pirating?
Tech Support-- Done that, been there. What amazed me even more than the ignorance of people was their willingness to be ignorant. All too often cries of "But I don't want to have to learn all this 'winders' stuff, I just want it to work!" I couldn't imagine going through life not wondering and thinking and tinkering with things.
I think that this analysis proves a good point, that bandwidth is the limiting factor. I talk with home users all the time that want internet access and a p3-550 system. Time and time again I tell them that even with a cable modem their computer is tens if not hundreds of times faster than the data coming in, and to save the extra money.
It takes me long enough to compile my kernel on my computer at home... how long would it take to compile 30 or 40million lines of win2k code?
I'm thinkin anything realistic would be a high-end HP or Alpha system, which means the only people gonna mess witht the source code would hafta be a vendor who could modify it, then recompile and sell their own version of windows. maybe i'm wrong, programming guru i am not.
Matt
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remember that saying?
right now a network administrator is far more likely to choose an established OS with ready lines of support--ie Novell, Unix, etc, than an OS held together with "duct tape and mt. dew". Before you hollar at me, I love linux, just thats the point of view of much of the establishment. If you want to help linux succeed, get out there and offer support to companies, and when the Linux Certification process is further along, get certified so we can give linux numbers of qualified support people. (yes, certification doesnt=knowledge. but if you are a linux guru, what better way to show the unknowledgeable that you know a lot).
I was thinking to myself.. If you were in the music companies shoes, what would you do to stop the MP3 piracy trend? Technology or behavior?
Is there anything that can be done from a technological standpoint to stop pirating?
Tech Support--
Done that, been there.
What amazed me even more than the ignorance of people was their willingness to be ignorant. All too often cries of "But I don't want to have to learn all this 'winders' stuff, I just want it to work!" I couldn't imagine going through life not wondering and thinking and tinkering with things.
I think that this analysis proves a good point, that bandwidth is the limiting factor. I talk with home users all the time that want internet access and a p3-550 system. Time and time again I tell them that even with a cable modem their computer is tens if not hundreds of times faster than the data coming in, and to save the extra money.
It takes me long enough to compile my kernel on my computer at home...
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how long would it take to compile 30 or 40million lines of win2k code?
I'm thinkin anything realistic would be a high-end HP or Alpha system, which means the only people gonna mess witht the source code would hafta be a vendor who could modify it, then recompile and sell their own version of windows. maybe i'm wrong, programming guru i am not.
Matt
I'm job hunting if you have anything please email me
it doesnt mention the technology to get on the net? modem or other? for $200 i'm interested enough to pick up one for the kitchen.