Have I lost my mind? Or are these bozos just spening a heap of cash on lawyers and displaying how utterly incompetent they are at their business.
Obvious and simple solutions that would occur to even those with 6 months in the biz:
1. Nasty javascript stuffed into a JSP or ASP include to ensure that the person is coming from the previous page.
2. Tag the user with a session object that does effectively the same check and redirect.
Maybe if these guys spent a little less on litigation they would have enough money to hire better people than the brain-dead 12 year old who is the technical genious behind their, no-doubt copyrighted, lame ass site.
I think we all wish NVIDIA would open source their drivers. Not because of a desire for all software to be free, but because it could then be included with pre-compiled kernels.
Every time I update my kernel I have to do the extra step of messing about with the NVIDIA driver. If it was open, then RedHat would put it in the kernel and life would be that much easier.
I can understand why they might want to keep the driver closed, but I think next time I buy a card, I might opt for an ATI since it will remove the added step.
Either way, thanks to NVIDIA for making a Linux driver that works well and comes with a well documented installation procedure. I can't ask any more than that from a hardware supplier.
Sun enterprise servers, in fact, do support dynamic system domains which allow a system to be partitioned into several machines, but that's not why I am replying.
I agree with most of what was said in the article, however, I would disagree with their statement about Linux, re: "This is Linux. It's designed for Intel.". Linux is highly adaptable, while I would agree that it doesn't scale up too well, to say that it is "designed for Intel" is a bit much. After all, Linux runs on a wider range of hardware than Solaris does.
Solaris has a very good kernel, in my opinion, superior to Linux. I'm no kernel hacker, but from a user's point of view, I have yet to run into a root exploit bug in the Solaris kernel, it has never corrupted my filesystem, and it is configurable without recompilation. The OS also contains a lot of useful stuff that you don't get in Linux, auditd for instance (Linux versions don't work on SMP systems) and disksuite is really useful. But it also lacks a lot of stuff, I usually install massive amounts of GNU software onto a Solaris install, including tcpwrappers, gnu tar, make, and openssl/ssh.
For a mid to high end server, Linux is really not a substitute for Solaris, any more than MySQL is a substitute for Oracle. At the low end Linux rocks, and any other choice is money down the drain.
I don't think that corporate involvement will add that much to a Wine like product.
Corps that use Wine won't really care, any more than they care about Apache being GPL.
Everybody wants Wine but the nature of this sort of products requires that the development be done in the OS community. Several major corps tried to take on MS-DOS with various compatibility prodcts, all failed, because this sort of product is too expensive to develop. Users will not pay the same or more for a compatible windows, they will just buy windows.
That being said, GPL would probably be a mistake for Wine since it might cause problems for companies, like Corel, who want to port a windows product to Linux using wine lib. Its my understanding that direct linking is not allowed under the GPL.
The LGPL would probably be a better solution. It allows linking, but still requires extentions, and fixes to be published.
I see no reason to use the BSD license, companies that use the compatibility library should be required to publish all extensions and fixes.
I also think that the votes of the community at-large should not be considered. Only the contributors to this product should have a vote on how the code THEY created is licensed. Input from the larger community is nice, but should they really have a vote?
First net war between cyber-communities 2007
Ever heard of IRC? This kind of thing has been happening for years.
Cassini reaches Saturn & releases Huygens lander into Titan's atmosphere 2004
Considering that this thing is already enroute to Saturn, this seems likely to transpire on time, unless the Klingons nab it.
Neighbourhood intranets 2005
Most people don't even talk to their neighbors, do they really want them behind their firewall?
Hydrogen fuelled executive jets (cryoplanes) 2005
The aviation industry is pretty slow to incorporate new technologies, look how long it took to get GPS authorized for instrument approaches. I'd be surprised if a hyrogen powered aircraft we to be for sale in 2005. Even if such a thing could be made and licensed, no body would buy it because there would be nowhere to fuel it. I would concede a prototye engine is flown by 2005.
Faster than light travel 2100
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Never have I heard such hype. As a VB programmer, I would expect the author to be pro-.NET, but this is unbelieveable. He did forget to equate Bill with Einstein and Ghandi an obvious oversight.
According to the author, developers will be able to develop.NET services in any language, except, for some reason, Java. He fails to mention that Java has had XML/SOAP/UDDI support for some time now, longer even than VB.
He also fails to mention that people have been deploying web services for years now, using other language neutral protocols, like CORBA. Protocols that will never be available to a.NET programmer. Presumably they aren't "Open" enough for Mr. Gates.
This was a very superficial comparison of two operating systems. The disk IO issue is interesting, and the info on wizards is, well, pretty much how I have always viewed them. But, there are a lot more differences between these two OS's that should have been mentioned.
Linux is considerably easier to upgrade. With services like Ximian, one can upgrade not only bug fixes but also software functionality for 95% of their installed software. This is way easier than going from site to site, and way cheaper too.
With Linux, the entire user setup can me migrated to a new computer, easily by moving the home directory contents. Windows keeps everything in the registry making an easy migration impossible.
Linux can be fixed when it is not operating properly. I am not talking about getting into the code here. But simple things like making a scanner work are trivial with tools like deja.com.
etc. etc. etc.
Gotta get back to work, but I could go on and on. Windows users have no idea what they are missing. When I hear them complaining about their macro viruses and MS help desk and driver updates and registry detonations and reboot festivals and reinstall the OS time and the unbearable cost of everything, I am so happy that I don't have to deal with that crap any more.
If he decides to "fork".NET and stick with the standards he wins because.NET will become fragmented.
I think it unlikely that Mono will ever be a big player in the.NET (say MS technology) world. Few people will ever deploy.NET stuff on Linux, so if, when MS "extends" the standard, and Miguel forks, nobody will care.
I am as anti-MS as the next/.'er but after reading de Icaza's comments about.Net I was of the opinion that if he sees something useful there then he should use it. Its his company, and he's done so much for OS, that I am willing to hold my tongue and see what he comes up with.
If only 1% of those people come to our site, WomenWithoutBras.com, then, at a $10cpm, we will make 42 billion dollars a month, wow!
Want to buy some stock?
Eventually, when we stop sending astronauts into orbit to monitor mice having sex, and put up some decent astonomical instruments, we will be able to image some Earth sized worlds, and then we will forget all about the statistics.
Slashdot Mirror
Will there be a LINUX version?
Id has always been a supporter of lunix but my impression is that they were not impressed by Q3 sales.
I have heard of a return to wolenstein Linux version, but what about Doom 3?
That fact that their new site doesn't seem to work with Mozilla makes me worry.
Have I lost my mind? Or are these bozos just spening a heap of cash on lawyers and displaying how utterly incompetent they are at their business.
Obvious and simple solutions that would occur to even those with 6 months in the biz:
1. Nasty javascript stuffed into a JSP or ASP include to ensure that the person is coming from the previous page.
2. Tag the user with a session object that does effectively the same check and redirect.
Maybe if these guys spent a little less on litigation they would have enough money to hire better people than the brain-dead 12 year old who is the technical genious behind their, no-doubt copyrighted, lame ass site.
whew... That feels so much better
I think we all wish NVIDIA would open source their drivers. Not because of a desire for all software to be free, but because it could then be included with pre-compiled kernels.
Every time I update my kernel I have to do the extra step of messing about with the NVIDIA driver. If it was open, then RedHat would put it in the kernel and life would be that much easier.
I can understand why they might want to keep the driver closed, but I think next time I buy a card, I might opt for an ATI since it will remove the added step.
Either way, thanks to NVIDIA for making a Linux driver that works well and comes with a well documented installation procedure. I can't ask any more than that from a hardware supplier.
Lunix - check
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Problem thought through - check
Time line - short
VIM - ready
Sure except I refused to give into the Evil Netscape hedgemony and use Mosaic instead.
Sun enterprise servers, in fact, do support dynamic system domains which allow a system to be partitioned into several machines, but that's not why I am replying.
I agree with most of what was said in the article, however, I would disagree with their statement about Linux, re: "This is Linux. It's designed for Intel.". Linux is highly adaptable, while I would agree that it doesn't scale up too well, to say that it is "designed for Intel" is a bit much. After all, Linux runs on a wider range of hardware than Solaris does.
Solaris has a very good kernel, in my opinion, superior to Linux. I'm no kernel hacker, but from a user's point of view, I have yet to run into a root exploit bug in the Solaris kernel, it has never corrupted my filesystem, and it is configurable without recompilation. The OS also contains a lot of useful stuff that you don't get in Linux, auditd for instance (Linux versions don't work on SMP systems) and disksuite is really useful. But it also lacks a lot of stuff, I usually install massive amounts of GNU software onto a Solaris install, including tcpwrappers, gnu tar, make, and openssl/ssh.
For a mid to high end server, Linux is really not a substitute for Solaris, any more than MySQL is a substitute for Oracle. At the low end Linux rocks, and any other choice is money down the drain.
I don't think that corporate involvement will add that much to a Wine like product.
Corps that use Wine won't really care, any more than they care about Apache being GPL.
Everybody wants Wine but the nature of this sort of products requires that the development be done in the OS community. Several major corps tried to take on MS-DOS with various compatibility prodcts, all failed, because this sort of product is too expensive to develop. Users will not pay the same or more for a compatible windows, they will just buy windows.
That being said, GPL would probably be a mistake for Wine since it might cause problems for companies, like Corel, who want to port a windows product to Linux using wine lib. Its my understanding that direct linking is not allowed under the GPL.
The LGPL would probably be a better solution. It allows linking, but still requires extentions, and fixes to be published.
I see no reason to use the BSD license, companies that use the compatibility library should be required to publish all extensions and fixes.
I also think that the votes of the community at-large should not be considered. Only the contributors to this product should have a vote on how the code THEY created is licensed. Input from the larger community is nice, but should they really have a vote?
Still fun to think about. Some comments:
First net war between cyber-communities 2007
Ever heard of IRC? This kind of thing has been happening for years.
Cassini reaches Saturn & releases Huygens lander into Titan's atmosphere 2004
Considering that this thing is already enroute to Saturn, this seems likely to transpire on time, unless the Klingons nab it.
Global barter sub-economy 2012
e-gold.com
Neighbourhood intranets 2005
Most people don't even talk to their neighbors, do they really want them behind their firewall?
Hydrogen fuelled executive jets (cryoplanes) 2005
The aviation industry is pretty slow to incorporate new technologies, look how long it took to get GPS authorized for instrument approaches. I'd be surprised if a hyrogen powered aircraft we to be for sale in 2005. Even if such a thing could be made and licensed, no body would buy it because there would be nowhere to fuel it. I would concede a prototye engine is flown by 2005.
Faster than light travel 2100
The best predictions are those that cannot be disproved until after the death of the predictor.
Never have I heard such hype. As a VB programmer, I would expect the author to be pro-.NET, but this is unbelieveable. He did forget to equate Bill with Einstein and Ghandi an obvious oversight.
.NET services in any language, except, for some reason, Java. He fails to mention that Java has had XML/SOAP/UDDI support for some time now, longer even than VB.
.NET programmer. Presumably they aren't "Open" enough for Mr. Gates.
According to the author, developers will be able to develop
He also fails to mention that people have been deploying web services for years now, using other language neutral protocols, like CORBA. Protocols that will never be available to a
etc. etc. etc. Gotta get back to work, but I could go on and on. Windows users have no idea what they are missing. When I hear them complaining about their macro viruses and MS help desk and driver updates and registry detonations and reboot festivals and reinstall the OS time and the unbearable cost of everything, I am so happy that I don't have to deal with that crap any more.
If he decides to "fork" .NET and stick with the standards he wins because .NET will become fragmented.
.NET (say MS technology) world. Few people will ever deploy .NET stuff on Linux, so if, when MS "extends" the standard, and Miguel forks, nobody will care.
/.'er but after reading de Icaza's comments about .Net I was of the opinion that if he sees something useful there then he should use it. Its his company, and he's done so much for OS, that I am willing to hold my tongue and see what he comes up with.
I think it unlikely that Mono will ever be a big player in the
I am as anti-MS as the next
I really like how their hardware always speaks weird proprietory languages that makes use with Linux next to impossible.
I hope this means that HP will start to support their entire hardware line for the Linux kernel.
I'm not likely to ever buy an HP computer, but if they would see their way to writing a few drivers I might start buying their peripherals again.
HEY TACO! - How about hooking this thing up to ispell? Any idea how difficult it is to spell "peripherals"?
This, coupled with widespread adoption of XP, should pretty much finish off the net. I'm getting bored with it anyway...
The reasoning reminds me
How many people surf the web?
If only 1% of those people come to our site, WomenWithoutBras.com, then, at a $10cpm, we will make 42 billion dollars a month, wow!
Want to buy some stock?
Eventually, when we stop sending astronauts into orbit to monitor mice having sex, and put up some decent astonomical instruments, we will be able to image some Earth sized worlds, and then we will forget all about the statistics.