We just got some new desktops for the office. None had OS as we were replacing old gear.
I installed, redhat 9, on mine, networked it with my old box, set up an scp to transfer by home dir, went for coffee. Applied all os patches from rhn, installed the nvidia drivers, so I can play quake. Done, total time ~3 hours.
The competition?
Day 1: Installed win2k, had some issue with license key, hunted around for key, gave up, went to warez. Finished install. Unable to connect to network, checked dhcp server, no issue, read news groups.
Second day - Found alternate network driver, got network running, spent rest of day looking for install disks and more keycodes.
And so on... nobody else has been able to switch their computers yet, its been a week, and their new machines are just sitting there.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - A. Einstein
Should physics be capitalized? I guess not, I should pay more attention to my capitalization.
All fields of endevour strive for "slickness" its a human trait to appreciate cunning and certainly not limited to mathematicians. The most brilliant displays of ingenuity I have seen are those by Astronomers. The story of how to measure the size and age of the universe is a marvel of human ingenuity that started in ancient Greece and continues to this day.
I come from a Physics background and I find that computer programming has very little math, in the great scheme of things.
Programming is very much like painting. Some programmers work for employers that let them paint the Mona Lisa, and others work for employers that use them to cover a wall with latex. That's life, ditto for chefs in McDonalds vs. the Ritz.
To say that programming is like painting, is not to say that it doesn't require a great deal of planning. Painting, when done properly, requires a great deal of thought and planning. A great painter rarely produces masterpiece after masterpiece without thought or design. to say that they just throw paint on canvas until it looks good is to belittle their accomplishment. Programming is the same way, without a plan, either mental or written, software never turns out well.
From the above articles, I would guess you drive to the nearest compUSA and purchase the box entitled, RedHat 8.0. Same place you would go for Windows XP.
He says there are too many distros out there with only minor changes and then he spec's out his "ideal" distro, that is basically RedHat with a lot of stuff missing and the directory tree mangled to ensure POSIX non-compliance.
But that's what's great about Linux, if that's what he wants to do, nobody is stopping him. So I say, go for it, and maybe your distro will take off and become the Great American Distro.
Personally, I am not interested in turning my unix OS into a Mac OS or a win32 OS. If I wanted that, then I would use that. I LIKE POSIX, I LIKE up2date -u. Happily, Linux also means that I will never be forced to accept his ideas of what a good OS should be, I get to make my own too.
Maybe you guys are trying to stuff a square peg in a round hole. Maybe OSS and FS have NOTHING to do with either capitalism OR communism.
Maybe Balmer is just out to slander Linux by equating it with something that most people feel is a failed thing (communism). The MS dude also went on about how Linux is a clone of a 20 year old OS, to make it sound like Linux is a PDP-11 kind of thing. Sounds like more crap to get people to continue to shell out for his company's overpriced, EULA encrusted, somewhat functional, largely undocumented, client lock-in mechanism.
Some, facts, as I see them:
People write OSS because of altruism. People write OSS because of idealism. People write OSS because they are paid to. People write OSS because they want better OSS software.
Unix has thrived for 20 years because of its ablilty to adopt and include new ideas while bringing along the old. When this is coupled with Gnu type licensing, to ensure that the competitive nature of the code additions are maintained this can only lead to good software. In the current state of affairs, I see Microsoft as holding up a rennaisance in computer software, but that's what monopolies do. They try like mad to control the market instead of competing with better products. Balmer will keep spouting blech until no one is interested in interviewing him.
The reality of Sun's "closed" Java is more open than Microsoft's "open standards" CLR. I can get a fully functional enterprise Java enviroment from IBM, Sun, Oracle, or even GNU. With.Net I can get it from Microsoft and that's it, so who cares if its stamped by ISO?
Here's how MS will beat Google in the search game:
MSIE version 8.0:
google.com? You must mean search.msn.com, redirecting to msn.com... ... ... ...
Welcome to msn.com, please look at some ads before you search... ... ... ...
Looks like your version of Office is a bit old, click here to buy a new version. ... ... ...
Enter search terms: google.com ... ... ...
Sorry, nothing found for "google.com"...
Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil", Libya, China and Syria today announced that they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil", which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address.
Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new Axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. Right. They are just as evil...in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils . . best at being evil ..we're the best."
Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil. "They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "An axis can't have more than three countries", explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussien.
"This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany,Italy and Japan in the evil Axis. So, you can only have three, and a secret hand shake. Ours is wickedly cool."
International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered. Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what has become a game of geopolitical chairs.
Cuba, Sudan and Serbia announced that they had formed the "Axis of Somewhat Evil", forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the "Axis of Occasionally Evil", while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the "Axis of Not So Much Evil Really as Just Generally Disagreeable".
With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics".
Canada, Mexico and Australia formed the "Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Some Nasty Thoughts About America", while Scotland, New Zealand and Spain established the "Axis of Countries That Want Sheep to Wear Lipstick". "That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do", said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell.
While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axes, although he rejected the establishment of the "Axis of Countries Whose Names End in 'Guay", accusing one of its members of filing a false application. Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges.
Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn't want to join any Axis, but privately world leaders said that's only because no one asked them.
I think the best measure of Linux desktop usages has got to be Google Zeitgeist, which shows Linux stagnant at 1%. Linux has been 1% for so long that I suspect that Google might be being kind to even separate Linux into its own category, instead of lumping it in with the bots in the "Other" category.
A doubling of this would mean 2% still half of Mac at 4% (was 5% in Sept 2002) and no where near the beast (91%).
Browser stats are also interesting, but difficult to interpret the share due to the unlabeled y-axis.
Maybe the DMCA should be extended to forbid introduction of stupid computer security legislation that denies people the basic rights of property ownership.
1. Use ECC ram and the attck is ineffective. Guess there should be more thought to the server selection than the $/TPC-C stat.
2. If someone has the ability to upload and run code in my server VM, then its game over anyway, so I don't see the need to "heat the ram" to circumvent the type checking. Kind of makes you think about the use of distributed objects, soap, etc. though.
It is up, it is down. It is left, it is right. It is clear, yet confsing. It is both light and dark, both mortal and eternal. It is filled with meaning, yet is meaningless.
Oh I get it, Tao is all about putting two contradictory phrases in the same sentance. Cool, I thought it was deeper than that, but this is way easier to understand.
Solaris, you must mean "Slow-laris", get it? 'Cause its SLOW. Hahaha, get it? You should use XYZ OS instead'cause its faster, the next greatest thing, an XYZ killer, better, safer, costs less, costs more, better editor, larger fibblebix. Oh, and I almost forgot, everyone else is using it.:-)
I used CDE once and then figured, if that's the best they have, I'll stick with openwin.
What I really want is GNU/Solaris too bad they don't make that, gotta build it myself.
Just because SETI uses radio telescopes to listen doesn't mean that the little green men used radio to transmit. Couldn't the signals have been red shifted to radio by the expansion of the universe?
Slashdot Mirror
hardware setup is usually pretty smooth
Case in point:
We just got some new desktops for the office. None had OS as we were replacing old gear.
I installed, redhat 9, on mine, networked it with my old box, set up an scp to transfer by home dir, went for coffee. Applied all os patches from rhn, installed the nvidia drivers, so I can play quake. Done, total time ~3 hours.
The competition?
Day 1: Installed win2k, had some issue with license key, hunted around for key, gave up, went to warez. Finished install. Unable to connect to network, checked dhcp server, no issue, read news groups.
Second day - Found alternate network driver, got network running, spent rest of day looking for install disks and more keycodes.
And so on... nobody else has been able to switch their computers yet, its been a week, and their new machines are just sitting there.
Yeah, windows is easier to install, sure...
"Our computers are probably 10,000 times faster than they were twenty years ago. But operating them is much more complex."
Spoken like someone that has never had to choose an interupt for their new sound card.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - A. Einstein
Should physics be capitalized? I guess not, I should pay more attention to my capitalization.
All fields of endevour strive for "slickness" its a human trait to appreciate cunning and certainly not limited to mathematicians. The most brilliant displays of ingenuity I have seen are those by Astronomers. The story of how to measure the size and age of the universe is a marvel of human ingenuity that started in ancient Greece and continues to this day.
I come from a Physics background and I find that computer programming has very little math, in the great scheme of things.
Programming is very much like painting. Some programmers work for employers that let them paint the Mona Lisa, and others work for employers that use them to cover a wall with latex. That's life, ditto for chefs in McDonalds vs. the Ritz.
To say that programming is like painting, is not to say that it doesn't require a great deal of planning. Painting, when done properly, requires a great deal of thought and planning. A great painter rarely produces masterpiece after masterpiece without thought or design. to say that they just throw paint on canvas until it looks good is to belittle their accomplishment. Programming is the same way, without a plan, either mental or written, software never turns out well.
we can't disclose the actual DRM specification to allow interoperability, since that would be a "security" leak.
Could it be that people simply make up stats to put in their articles? You be the judge.
Through the magic of Google, here is a definitive list of what ~65% of IT managers thought, through the ages (of the net that is):
65% of IT managers report that their websites were unavailable to customers over a 6-month period
65% of IT managers surveyed by InformationWeek Research say Windows 2000 won't reduce their number of system administrators or related costs a year from now.
65% of IT managers said it's very important for vendors to offer consistent PC configurations over the course of a multiphase PC rollout.
Over 65% of IT Managers and CIOs in Southern California expected their level of hiring to remain the same or even increase in the post-Y2K age
67% of IT managers have been contacted by headhunters in the last year
67% of IT managers would rather pretend to understand an acronym than admit they didn't know what it meant. [tlu - here's one that sounds low to me]
66% of IT Managers have experienced "complete project failure" [tlu - hopefully not in bed]
(66%) of IT managers said the best solution for preventing monopolies in IT is a combination of moderate government regulation and market forces
From the above articles, I would guess you drive to the nearest compUSA and purchase the box entitled, RedHat 8.0. Same place you would go for Windows XP.
He says there are too many distros out there with only minor changes and then he spec's out his "ideal" distro, that is basically RedHat with a lot of stuff missing and the directory tree mangled to ensure POSIX non-compliance.
But that's what's great about Linux, if that's what he wants to do, nobody is stopping him. So I say, go for it, and maybe your distro will take off and become the Great American Distro.
Personally, I am not interested in turning my unix OS into a Mac OS or a win32 OS. If I wanted that, then I would use that. I LIKE POSIX, I LIKE up2date -u. Happily, Linux also means that I will never be forced to accept his ideas of what a good OS should be, I get to make my own too.
Maybe you guys are trying to stuff a square peg in a round hole. Maybe OSS and FS have NOTHING to do with either capitalism OR communism.
Maybe Balmer is just out to slander Linux by equating it with something that most people feel is a failed thing (communism). The MS dude also went on about how Linux is a clone of a 20 year old OS, to make it sound like Linux is a PDP-11 kind of thing. Sounds like more crap to get people to continue to shell out for his company's overpriced, EULA encrusted, somewhat functional, largely undocumented, client lock-in mechanism.
Some, facts, as I see them:
People write OSS because of altruism.
People write OSS because of idealism.
People write OSS because they are paid to.
People write OSS because they want better OSS software.
Unix has thrived for 20 years because of its ablilty to adopt and include new ideas while bringing along the old. When this is coupled with Gnu type licensing, to ensure that the competitive nature of the code additions are maintained this can only lead to good software. In the current state of affairs, I see Microsoft as holding up a rennaisance in computer software, but that's what monopolies do. They try like mad to control the market instead of competing with better products. Balmer will keep spouting blech until no one is interested in interviewing him.
Well, there is no reason why anyone can't make their own .NET CLR.. much like mono is doing.
.NET despite its lack of a stamp by ECMA or ISO.
There no reason that anyone can't wash my car for me either, but until it happens you'll forgive if I don't get too excited.
Java is effectively less vendor-centric than
Yeah, like Sun.
.Net I can get it from Microsoft and that's it, so who cares if its stamped by ISO?
The reality of Sun's "closed" Java is more open than Microsoft's "open standards" CLR. I can get a fully functional enterprise Java enviroment from IBM, Sun, Oracle, or even GNU. With
Here's how MS will beat Google in the search game:
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MSIE version 8.0:
google.com? You must mean search.msn.com, redirecting to msn.com...
Welcome to msn.com, please look at some ads before you search...
Looks like your version of Office is a bit old, click here to buy a new version.
Enter search terms: google.com
Sorry, nothing found for "google.com"...
Too true. Who the heck cares what ISO and that bad skin group, ECMA, think?
What do I care, as long as I don't get locked to a single vendor and the env works for my app.
Well, you just can't trust email chains anymore...
Axis of Evil Wannabees
.we're the
by John Cleese
Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil", Libya,
China and Syria today announced that they had formed the "Axis of Just as
Evil", which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North
Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address.
Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new Axis as
having, for starters, a really dumb name. Right. They are just as
evil...in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
"Everybody knows we're the best evils . . best at being evil .
best."
Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded,
although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil.
"They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "An
axis can't have more than three countries", explained Iraqi President
Saddam Hussien.
"This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had
Germany,Italy and Japan in the evil Axis. So, you can only have three, and
a secret hand shake. Ours is wickedly cool."
International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as
within minutes, France surrendered. Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations
rushed to gain triumvirate status in what has become a game of
geopolitical chairs.
Cuba, Sudan and Serbia announced that they had formed the "Axis of
Somewhat Evil", forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the
"Axis of Occasionally Evil", while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia
established the "Axis of Not So Much Evil Really as Just Generally
Disagreeable".
With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling
up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the Axis of
Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the
Olympics".
Canada, Mexico and Australia formed the "Axis of Nations That Are Actually
Quite Nice But Secretly Have Some Nasty Thoughts About America", while
Scotland, New Zealand and Spain established the "Axis of Countries That
Want Sheep to Wear Lipstick". "That's not a threat, really, just something
we like to do", said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell.
While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making
fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axes, although he
rejected the establishment of the "Axis of Countries Whose Names End in
'Guay", accusing one of its members of filing a false application.
Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges.
Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn't want to join any Axis, but privately
world leaders said that's only because no one asked them.
I think the best measure of Linux desktop usages has got to be Google Zeitgeist, which shows Linux stagnant at 1%. Linux has been 1% for so long that I suspect that Google might be being kind to even separate Linux into its own category, instead of lumping it in with the bots in the "Other" category.
A doubling of this would mean 2% still half of Mac at 4% (was 5% in Sept 2002) and no where near the beast (91%).
Browser stats are also interesting, but difficult to interpret the share due to the unlabeled y-axis.
Hey, we're talking about Java here, nobody cares about the speed argument. :-)
Maybe the DMCA should be extended to forbid introduction of stupid computer security legislation that denies people the basic rights of property ownership.
1. Use ECC ram and the attck is ineffective. Guess there should be more thought to the server selection than the $/TPC-C stat.
2. If someone has the ability to upload and run code in my server VM, then its game over anyway, so I don't see the need to "heat the ram" to circumvent the type checking. Kind of makes you think about the use of distributed objects, soap, etc. though.
XML is no place for presentation markup. That should be done with XSL.
It is up, it is down.
It is left, it is right.
It is clear, yet confsing.
It is both light and dark, both mortal and eternal.
It is filled with meaning, yet is meaningless.
Oh I get it, Tao is all about putting two contradictory phrases in the same sentance. Cool, I thought it was deeper than that, but this is way easier to understand.
Solaris, you must mean "Slow-laris", get it? 'Cause its SLOW. Hahaha, get it? You should use XYZ OS instead'cause its faster, the next greatest thing, an XYZ killer, better, safer, costs less, costs more, better editor, larger fibblebix. Oh, and I almost forgot, everyone else is using it. :-)
I used CDE once and then figured, if that's the best they have, I'll stick with openwin.
What I really want is GNU/Solaris too bad they don't make that, gotta build it myself.
Not the "real world" side of the Matrix but the "simulation".
The place where Neo worked, in a cube farm, everything kind f green yet lifeless. That's basically it.
Just because SETI uses radio telescopes to listen doesn't mean that the little green men used radio to transmit. Couldn't the signals have been red shifted to radio by the expansion of the universe?
I don't know what he means either, from the mplayer site:
# Win32/DMO codec DLL interface support -> Windows Media Audio/Video 9 !!!