Yeah, as a Luxembourgish citizen we make jokes ourselves about it. It is said that during the military parade on our national holiday, the same soldiers have to go around the block several times. (Note: they "extendend" that parade now to firefighters, and all kinds of not-really-military stuff.
Comfortably, sure... (But my car is comfortable too!) Safely... Let's say, that I'm safer in my roadster than you are in your SUV. Educate yourself
At over 4€/gallon, you'd be talking differently.... that's what I pay and I live in one of the "cheaper" countries of the EU. You are wasting resources, just like I am. We both use much more gas that we need to. You're just a worse offender than I am. My wifes Mini is both comfortable, safe and does 50mpg. Apart from that your SUV took much more energy to produce than my mine....
The only reason that I didn't sell my car and bought a more energy efficient one is simple: it's paid off, and the only thing I need to pay now is insurance, tax, gas and maintenance. I would have to pay all those on a brand-new energy-efficient car too and add in money to get a new one. You may have the same reasons, and I will not be criticising you for it. I just wanted to point out that 19mpg most certainly is a bad mileage. Just as my 25mpg is a very bad mileage. Especially for new cars. Heck, I used to have a 14 year old Audi 80, that did 33.5mpg (gasoline, not diesel in case you wonder) and that was 7 years ago! These days a new car should at least do 35mpg: anything lower is unacceptable.
Easy: as I said, integrate it into the router. So, you set your SSID (fore example) to "bear", and the router automatically sets your domain to "bear". Beyond that it's guessing anyway, because you have no way of knowing if there is a "brown.bear" and a "polar.bear" or even a "teddy.bear". This behaviour would *at best* be acceptable in a home-router, because frankly, I've seen routers that don't even allow me to set DHCP ranges, which frankly, sucks!
What you are suggesting will not work because you need to know what is on the network. I used "bear" in the former, just to be able to give another example like my existing ones. Even if http://bear/ would give you a list, somebody needs to maintain this list. Or you'll end up with a list like this:
aeg-4577.bear
electrolux-AC127.bear
nb-zwingo
Any idea, what is what? And those are pretty easy. Then I didn't even mentioned probable conflicts... Oh, wait, I will:
What if there are two airconditioners? airconditioner01.here and airconditioner02.here? You have to understand that naming is completely arbitrary. You'd be guessing anyway, because you don't know that there are two airconditioners, so you try airconditioner.here and it times out. Normal, because it's airconditioner01.here you should have accessed, but you coudln't know that. Besides, I could call my coffee machine "airconditioner01.here", if I wanted to.
As said: this changes nothing. You are free to do as you wish, and ICANN has no authority over *private* networks. It's that simple, no addition needed. You can setup your local hotspot exactly as you describe without any additional RFCs, rules or software. You all have it at your fingertips now.
It's a matter of helping people create defacto standards.
DNS is a de-facto standard.... You already have it.... Forcing names like "here" on me restricts me, because I actually like naming my own networks. Starbucks isn't going to like the fact that its network needs to be called "here", either... They would most certainly prefer, wait for it,.... "starbucks"! Oh, and what when two hotspots are next to each other? Both named "here"? That's going to be fun...
If you travel visit various spots around the world how would you find out whose network you are using?
You don't need to know... You only want to get on the Internet.... If you want to provide additional service, redirect to your http://here/ thingy (which requires maintenace in the first place!) and list the provided services. Over your local nameserver, they can reach those if they want.
You have all you need.... Nothing you propose is undoable with todays technological state.
Huh? You can do this today, and nobody stops you. The domain at my parents is called "jungle" and the devices active on the network are called after characters in Kiplings jungle book. So, yes, bagheera.jungle is an absolutely valid hostname (and translates to 192.168.0.54) on their network.
In a similar fashion, my own domain is called "sharks" and the devices are called after sharks species. So, again, wobbegong.sharks is a valid hostname (and translates to 192.168.0.205) on my network.
You could easily imagine routers being sold with their own nameserver (just like they have DHCP servers today) to do exactly what you want... No need for ICANN to gets its dirty fingers in there.
I'm trying to figure out if you are trying to brag with the efficiency of your SUV or if you are proud that you are wasting resources. It simply is not clear to me.
To give you an idea: I drive a 7 year old roadster that gets 25MPG and that is considered a wasteful vehicle where I live....
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. Nice country, but the market is so small that it really has a lot of downsides. You'd say: "Buy in Germany", but alas most online shops restrict shipping electronics to Germany and Austria. Amazon.de is such a wrongdoer: no way to buy a digital camera and let it ship here, even thought their official HQ is here for tax reasons. So much for "the free circulation of capital, goods and services" *sigh*.
It's hard to get more exotic stuff here (for a home user): years ago, I bought an SMP setup and there was no way in hell to get one here. I ordered it in Belgium (and shipping costs were horrendous) I you want anything beyond a classic OEM setup, you're out of luck (or you pay through the nose)
As for eBay: I use it, but anything more expensive than 100€ is out...
Yes, sorry, I thought that the XBox 360 was also using cell. Still, using "Core" wasn't right in either case, except if it was a bad capitalization as your sibling post said. The sentence doesn't make much sense in that case though.
Well, I was wrong. It's a FX5500, but nevertheless.... I assume the FX5500 is still shitty. The Ti4200 was better, except that it even couldn't run Halflife 2. No, I don't understand it either.... The FX5500 can, and it doesn't have a fan which makes this (already very loud computer) at least a bit more quiet.
I can't upgrade the graphics card anymore anyway, since all systems I have are AGP.... Getting new AGP card is pretty pointless these days;-)
I've used Vista, and it is faster than my 1 year old installation of XP. XP has a nasty habit of getting fucked over time.
You are doing something wrong. None of my XP installs have become stale. Of course, none of them is directly connected to the internet, they all run an antivirus and all users (including me) run as "Limited User". No increased memory usage, no increased CPU usage and I do not use top of the line machines
Only the home edition doesn't allow virtualization. 99% of people using virtualization use it for development or business purposes, so this does sort of make sense. By the business or ultimate edition.
Not that I am in this case, but consider the following: I'm a developer for mainstream applications. Sure, I use the business version, but for testing I need to make absolutely sure that the Home edition works flawlessly to minimize support calls. Virtualization was the answer to this, Vista Home disallows this...
No, he is not... That was me, but the AC is right. I worked in banks that ran NT4.0 SP4 on the desktop. Protected by a big-ass firewall from the internet. Even external email was only allowed to a select amount of people.
NT 4.0 was very stable, and still is. It's mainly being phased out because it's insanely difficult to find drivers for it these days.
Well, it was pretty much the most stupid thing I read in the whole article. I did a search on the comments before posting it because I though someone was bound to comment on it. Seems I was lucky;-)
then buying a new computer with a more stable OS is a very cheap way to increase the efficiency of your business.
Well, it depends. I used 95 back in the day, and it was really unstable when developing. Just like DOS was. If you just ran Word/Excel and the like, it wouldn't crash for hours. Win95s stability was in the order of days with mundane computer usage. Win98 was even better. ME was a step back, but even then I know a girl that used it for years and was happy with it.
So, for these users that turn on their machines for, say, one hour a day and the OS nor the applications crash... For them the OS is stable. So, sure... a 500€ PC from the local superstore will give them guaranteed stability, but their current system that is paid for does the job with the *same stability in their eyes*! I'm sure those kind of people prefer to spend those 500€ on something more interesting to them than a new computer.
That's quite surprising. Those machines are at least 5 years old.... Keep in mind though, that they have a fairly recent graphics card and that most corporate desktops have integrated graphics. Integrated graphics are usually not capable enough to run Aero.
I have a AMD 2400+ MP/4Gig RAM and said FX5200 and I didn't think that Vista would run. My wife has a P-IV 2.4GHz HT with 2Gigs of RAM and a Ti4200 (my old graphics card) and I frankly don't expect Vista to run on it either. My work laptop claims to be Vista Ready, but with a Intel Core 2 Duo and only 2Gig RAM and integrated Intel Graphics I expect it to run just barely. Heck, right now, I'm using over 1.2Gig on a WinXP Pro config in "Classic" mode. Tried to run some games on it and frankly it wasn't all that convincing. Might work, but performance will suffer.
Thing is: I want my machines to perform as well as they did before the upgrade. Unless I turn off all goodies in Vista, that will not happen... thus, what is the point of upgrading the OS?
What about the hundreds of small one or two person companies? You, know, plumbers, carpenters (oh, heck, doctors and lawyers!) and the like that buy a computer for writing letters and never go online with them? The machines that have been bought 5 years ago, still work fine and do the job? For many of those people a computer was a huge investment (especially that their lives don't revolve around it, like it does for us).
You really think those people should go out of business? Look, I may be a Corporate Drone (uhm Troll, according to my nick), but there is a world beyond "finely managed IT infrastructure".
The school I used to work at will surely do exactly as the OP said, and start rolling out Vista on as many of thier 400+ machines as they can as soon as they can. Leadership in the Tech department is very into bells and whistles.
Yup, on their P-III 1GHz, 256Meg RAM systems that barely runs WinXP right now. Wouldn't surprise me a bit... *sigh* (Worked for a school for a while, glad I'm not there anymore!)
I remember XP didn't take off for a while, but then was adopted by businesses more and more as execs started having it at home and liking the pretty colors and the bells and whistles.
Yeah, and the funny thing is: once the IT department started deploying XP, they virtually removed all the fancy funny things with group policies.
And honestly, people can argue until they're blue in the face about how XP is fine, but the reality is that it's five years old, technology has changed and a new OS is necessary.
Does this guy even know what an OS is? There is no reason why new technology can't be supported in an "old OS". Especially if the "new OS" is basically an update of the "old OS".
I think that was his whole point. I remember seeing job postings for Java programmers with 10 years experience... in 1998... Java 1.0 came out in 1995, if I recall correctly.
Yup, did that... I ran at 800MHz for over a year. Then I did the mistake of updating the BIOS and.... Well, doesn't want to underclock anymore. Stupid me for not backing up the BIOS.
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Yeah, as a Luxembourgish citizen we make jokes ourselves about it. It is said that during the military parade on our national holiday, the same soldiers have to go around the block several times. (Note: they "extendend" that parade now to firefighters, and all kinds of not-really-military stuff.
Comfortably, sure... (But my car is comfortable too!) Safely... Let's say, that I'm safer in my roadster than you are in your SUV. Educate yourself
At over 4€/gallon, you'd be talking differently.... that's what I pay and I live in one of the "cheaper" countries of the EU. You are wasting resources, just like I am. We both use much more gas that we need to. You're just a worse offender than I am. My wifes Mini is both comfortable, safe and does 50mpg. Apart from that your SUV took much more energy to produce than my mine....
The only reason that I didn't sell my car and bought a more energy efficient one is simple: it's paid off, and the only thing I need to pay now is insurance, tax, gas and maintenance. I would have to pay all those on a brand-new energy-efficient car too and add in money to get a new one. You may have the same reasons, and I will not be criticising you for it. I just wanted to point out that 19mpg most certainly is a bad mileage. Just as my 25mpg is a very bad mileage. Especially for new cars. Heck, I used to have a 14 year old Audi 80, that did 33.5mpg (gasoline, not diesel in case you wonder) and that was 7 years ago! These days a new car should at least do 35mpg: anything lower is unacceptable.
Easy: as I said, integrate it into the router. So, you set your SSID (fore example) to "bear", and the router automatically sets your domain to "bear". Beyond that it's guessing anyway, because you have no way of knowing if there is a "brown.bear" and a "polar.bear" or even a "teddy.bear". This behaviour would *at best* be acceptable in a home-router, because frankly, I've seen routers that don't even allow me to set DHCP ranges, which frankly, sucks!
What you are suggesting will not work because you need to know what is on the network. I used "bear" in the former, just to be able to give another example like my existing ones. Even if http://bear/ would give you a list, somebody needs to maintain this list. Or you'll end up with a list like this:
- aeg-4577.bear
- electrolux-AC127.bear
- nb-zwingo
Any idea, what is what? And those are pretty easy. Then I didn't even mentioned probable conflicts... Oh, wait, I will:What if there are two airconditioners? airconditioner01.here and airconditioner02.here? You have to understand that naming is completely arbitrary. You'd be guessing anyway, because you don't know that there are two airconditioners, so you try airconditioner.here and it times out. Normal, because it's airconditioner01.here you should have accessed, but you coudln't know that. Besides, I could call my coffee machine "airconditioner01.here", if I wanted to.
As said: this changes nothing. You are free to do as you wish, and ICANN has no authority over *private* networks. It's that simple, no addition needed. You can setup your local hotspot exactly as you describe without any additional RFCs, rules or software. You all have it at your fingertips now.
It's a matter of helping people create defacto standards.
DNS is a de-facto standard.... You already have it.... Forcing names like "here" on me restricts me, because I actually like naming my own networks. Starbucks isn't going to like the fact that its network needs to be called "here", either... They would most certainly prefer, wait for it,.... "starbucks"! Oh, and what when two hotspots are next to each other? Both named "here"? That's going to be fun...
If you travel visit various spots around the world how would you find out whose network you are using?
You don't need to know... You only want to get on the Internet.... If you want to provide additional service, redirect to your http://here/ thingy (which requires maintenace in the first place!) and list the provided services. Over your local nameserver, they can reach those if they want.
You have all you need.... Nothing you propose is undoable with todays technological state.
Huh? You can do this today, and nobody stops you. The domain at my parents is called "jungle" and the devices active on the network are called after characters in Kiplings jungle book. So, yes, bagheera.jungle is an absolutely valid hostname (and translates to 192.168.0.54) on their network.
In a similar fashion, my own domain is called "sharks" and the devices are called after sharks species. So, again, wobbegong.sharks is a valid hostname (and translates to 192.168.0.205) on my network.
You could easily imagine routers being sold with their own nameserver (just like they have DHCP servers today) to do exactly what you want... No need for ICANN to gets its dirty fingers in there.
For the record, my SUV gets 18 MPG.
I'm trying to figure out if you are trying to brag with the efficiency of your SUV or if you are proud that you are wasting resources. It simply is not clear to me.
To give you an idea: I drive a 7 year old roadster that gets 25MPG and that is considered a wasteful vehicle where I live....
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. Nice country, but the market is so small that it really has a lot of downsides. You'd say: "Buy in Germany", but alas most online shops restrict shipping electronics to Germany and Austria. Amazon.de is such a wrongdoer: no way to buy a digital camera and let it ship here, even thought their official HQ is here for tax reasons. So much for "the free circulation of capital, goods and services" *sigh*.
It's hard to get more exotic stuff here (for a home user): years ago, I bought an SMP setup and there was no way in hell to get one here. I ordered it in Belgium (and shipping costs were horrendous) I you want anything beyond a classic OEM setup, you're out of luck (or you pay through the nose)
As for eBay: I use it, but anything more expensive than 100€ is out...
It's okay... Made a mistake myself :-D
Still PPC is a nice architecture, but for the consumer it's pretty much dead now.... At least for general purpose computing.
Yes, other people already corrected me and I already apologized for my mistake.
Yes, sorry, I thought that the XBox 360 was also using cell. Still, using "Core" wasn't right in either case, except if it was a bad capitalization as your sibling post said. The sentence doesn't make much sense in that case though.
Sorry, I thought it was powered by (one or more) Cells, but that is the PS3. As for the XBox 350, I don't know that thing ;-))
And IBM's future plans for the product line were focusing on the Power series (for high-end servers) and the Core processors (for Xbox 360's)
You're confusing Core with Cell... Core is an Intel product.
This compiler required that we have 654K of the 640k base memory free
How exactly is that possible? Typo, I assume....
Well, I was wrong. It's a FX5500, but nevertheless.... I assume the FX5500 is still shitty. The Ti4200 was better, except that it even couldn't run Halflife 2. No, I don't understand it either.... The FX5500 can, and it doesn't have a fan which makes this (already very loud computer) at least a bit more quiet.
I can't upgrade the graphics card anymore anyway, since all systems I have are AGP.... Getting new AGP card is pretty pointless these days ;-)
I don't think the kind of companies I was talking about use ccmail, I doubt they even have their own servers.
I was clearly talking about "small businesses" and those will think "new PC that does the same thing" = "wasted money".
I've used Vista, and it is faster than my 1 year old installation of XP. XP has a nasty habit of getting fucked over time.
You are doing something wrong. None of my XP installs have become stale. Of course, none of them is directly connected to the internet, they all run an antivirus and all users (including me) run as "Limited User". No increased memory usage, no increased CPU usage and I do not use top of the line machines
Only the home edition doesn't allow virtualization. 99% of people using virtualization use it for development or business purposes, so this does sort of make sense. By the business or ultimate edition.
Not that I am in this case, but consider the following: I'm a developer for mainstream applications. Sure, I use the business version, but for testing I need to make absolutely sure that the Home edition works flawlessly to minimize support calls. Virtualization was the answer to this, Vista Home disallows this...
No, he is not... That was me, but the AC is right. I worked in banks that ran NT4.0 SP4 on the desktop. Protected by a big-ass firewall from the internet. Even external email was only allowed to a select amount of people.
NT 4.0 was very stable, and still is. It's mainly being phased out because it's insanely difficult to find drivers for it these days.
Well, it was pretty much the most stupid thing I read in the whole article. I did a search on the comments before posting it because I though someone was bound to comment on it. Seems I was lucky ;-)
then buying a new computer with a more stable OS is a very cheap way to increase the efficiency of your business.
Well, it depends. I used 95 back in the day, and it was really unstable when developing. Just like DOS was. If you just ran Word/Excel and the like, it wouldn't crash for hours. Win95s stability was in the order of days with mundane computer usage. Win98 was even better. ME was a step back, but even then I know a girl that used it for years and was happy with it.
So, for these users that turn on their machines for, say, one hour a day and the OS nor the applications crash... For them the OS is stable. So, sure... a 500€ PC from the local superstore will give them guaranteed stability, but their current system that is paid for does the job with the *same stability in their eyes*! I'm sure those kind of people prefer to spend those 500€ on something more interesting to them than a new computer.
That's quite surprising. Those machines are at least 5 years old.... Keep in mind though, that they have a fairly recent graphics card and that most corporate desktops have integrated graphics. Integrated graphics are usually not capable enough to run Aero.
I have a AMD 2400+ MP/4Gig RAM and said FX5200 and I didn't think that Vista would run. My wife has a P-IV 2.4GHz HT with 2Gigs of RAM and a Ti4200 (my old graphics card) and I frankly don't expect Vista to run on it either. My work laptop claims to be Vista Ready, but with a Intel Core 2 Duo and only 2Gig RAM and integrated Intel Graphics I expect it to run just barely. Heck, right now, I'm using over 1.2Gig on a WinXP Pro config in "Classic" mode. Tried to run some games on it and frankly it wasn't all that convincing. Might work, but performance will suffer.
Thing is: I want my machines to perform as well as they did before the upgrade. Unless I turn off all goodies in Vista, that will not happen... thus, what is the point of upgrading the OS?
What about the hundreds of small one or two person companies? You, know, plumbers, carpenters (oh, heck, doctors and lawyers!) and the like that buy a computer for writing letters and never go online with them? The machines that have been bought 5 years ago, still work fine and do the job? For many of those people a computer was a huge investment (especially that their lives don't revolve around it, like it does for us).
You really think those people should go out of business? Look, I may be a Corporate Drone (uhm Troll, according to my nick), but there is a world beyond "finely managed IT infrastructure".
The school I used to work at will surely do exactly as the OP said, and start rolling out Vista on as many of thier 400+ machines as they can as soon as they can. Leadership in the Tech department is very into bells and whistles.
Yup, on their P-III 1GHz, 256Meg RAM systems that barely runs WinXP right now. Wouldn't surprise me a bit... *sigh* (Worked for a school for a while, glad I'm not there anymore!)
I remember XP didn't take off for a while, but then was adopted by businesses more and more as execs started having it at home and liking the pretty colors and the bells and whistles.
Yeah, and the funny thing is: once the IT department started deploying XP, they virtually removed all the fancy funny things with group policies.
And honestly, people can argue until they're blue in the face about how XP is fine, but the reality is that it's five years old, technology has changed and a new OS is necessary.
Does this guy even know what an OS is? There is no reason why new technology can't be supported in an "old OS". Especially if the "new OS" is basically an update of the "old OS".
I think that was his whole point. I remember seeing job postings for Java programmers with 10 years experience... in 1998... Java 1.0 came out in 1995, if I recall correctly.
Yup, did that... I ran at 800MHz for over a year. Then I did the mistake of updating the BIOS and.... Well, doesn't want to underclock anymore. Stupid me for not backing up the BIOS.
It still was semi-loud at 800MHz though...