I think (the 1 paragraph answer), Linux is popular because of the "Tech Boom Era", where companies could get millions in funding for having a business plan written on a napkin. Linux embodied the "One Smart Guy Takes On The World", and "Everything Is Changing" ideals that drove the economy a few years back. To think that Linus, a single guy, with a rag-tag group of developers, with their sandals and freakishly stylish hair, could make an OS that would compete with the biggest and best offerings from Sun and IBM. Its a cultural thing. Linux had timing. BSD has been around much longer, and its much more mature than Linux. Linux has GREAT marketing, BSD has (basically) none.
Its not about the technology, but about the marketing, the timing, and the media's embrace.
It's amazing, we're nearly at 3GHz (there, if we consider OC'd chips).
Personally, I am running an Intel P3-1GHz/512mb/IDE. I am a power user. I play games, I edit video, I play all kinds of multimedia files, I run visual and development apps, compile normally, all with a bunch of "background apps". I work the hell out of my machines, and I DONT NEED anything faster! Sure, I'll upgrade in the near future, simply to keep up on the trends -- but I really dont need to. It's not the CPU power that I need. I need more RAM. I need more storage space -- and I need FASTER STORAGE.
What do I want? Serial ATA! DDR400 (if they can make it fast and reliable)! Disks that can sustain 133MB/s (150MB/s SerialATA). I want Gigabit ethernet! Thankfully, all of these are becoming standard on new systems -- which is excellent. Of course, Intel and AMD have nothing better todo, and want to win the marketing war, so let them keep making the fastest chips. Just dont expect them to sell like hotcakes as more users realize that the CPU doesent really matter much once you hit 1GHz, except for specialized apps.
But why is it when its an IE bug, its a "Severe Security Exploit", and when its a Mozilla bug, its a "Privacy Leak"...
George Carlin said it best, that we think in language. Changing the rhetoric that is used to describe the problem doesent change the problem. You can be Anti-Microsoft all you want, but that is worth NOTHING if the software that you choose to use exhibits the same problems, and you are not honest about them.
Again, I'm not taking Microsoft's side -- there aren't sides to take. Open Source software needs to be just as accountable as commercial software if it's to be taken seriously.
Simply for the reason that the top exec's at Napster want to keep their names "clean". If they sell out to a porn company, regardless of their (lack of) future involvement, it will limit their opportunities in the future. It's really sad that this is how it works, but true nonetheless.
Selling WOULD be the best business decision, Napster is a dead name otherwise -- and this is a way to bring in some cash (to pay creditors, employees, whatever). Too bad the CEO's wont soil their names to prevent bankrupcy...
AOL serves users not familiar with Internet Etiquette, thats a side-effect of marketing to the masses. If AOL does not serve them, others will. Should an Internet connection come with a free class on how to conduct yourself on the Internet?
AOL subscribers are AOL subscribers for a reason, they want to be. If they didnt want AOL, they would use something else.
We use WFQ across multiple T's and can easily saturate 6mbit (800KB/s) (4xT1 using Cisco Multilink) with a single download. The line just needs to be empty.
Check out DataHive, who makes network servers that assist in many areas of HIPAA compliance. Their products are built upon OpenBSD, and have all the goodiest most companies need, out of the box.
Without knowing more details about how your operation handles medical records, let me tell you that a small medical office can have its IT department almost fully HIPAA compliant simply by installing a DataHive and following the install guide. Even down to the nitty gritty things like locking drives and offsite backup, DataHive has it covered.
Remember, a computer cannot make you HIPAA compliant, but it can ASSIST in achieving HIPAA compliance.
I would have to think that the marketing guys at Sony will be able to properly market this to the consumer, especially if it hits a good price note.
Think about it, if you are looking at buying a DVD writer, with all these confusing formats, now sony can just say "one burner that supports all dvd writing standards". If someone is looking for a dvd writer, this really is their only option to make sure that its compatible with everything.
To clarify, this is talking about using MySQL as a part of your program. If I make an executable, which links against MySQL's libraries (using MySQL4's new ability to become an "embedded" component in another executable), my program now must be GPL, that is unless I pay MySQL (company) to give me a different license.
How can people mock things, without knowing what they are mocking? Usually this never stands, but because its Microsoft it's ok? C'mon, if you dont know what.NET does, you should take 2 minutes and figure it out.
There's thousands of people developing applications for.NET at this moment.
... What makes you think that the computer holding this "detailed, 3d, interactive map" would survive too? If NY blows up, I'd say we're a bit too fucked to care about some map data:/
Oops, just realized i used I.D. in the caption (how the hell did I get that?). I really should learn to stop posting slashdot before I've fully woken up:)
Id makes games, and for each game they make typically licenses the 3D engine for a secondary revenue stream. Id is NOT a publisher, they have Activision for that.
Id is a small company, and they are very focused on large, time consuming tasks. They make 1 game at a time. Why would they want to publish a bunch of smaller games from people that have no way to pay them outside of royalties? This is a job for their publisher possibly (Activision), but Id doing it themselves probably wouldent make any sense. It would spread their resources too thin and stray from doing the things that makes them 1) Happy 2) Rich. Sounds like a no-win to me.
The Quake3 engine is still very good technology, used in a lot of up-and-coming games. I dont think they can easily just drop the cost like that. I mean, how would you feel if you paid $250,000 for the Q3 engine last week, and now you can get it for $100? A bit angry?
This is something Activision may consider doing (if they can work it out with Id). For minimal investment on their part, it makes a lot of sense so long as they have the capabilities to manage it.
Personally I feel this is the one geek phrase to rule them all.
NOOOO!:)
Actually, you're right in one respect, the phrase in itself is a good one and I have no problem with that. My issue is that it has become increasingly prevalent since the movie was released.
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I think (the 1 paragraph answer), Linux is popular because of the "Tech Boom Era", where companies could get millions in funding for having a business plan written on a napkin. Linux embodied the "One Smart Guy Takes On The World", and "Everything Is Changing" ideals that drove the economy a few years back. To think that Linus, a single guy, with a rag-tag group of developers, with their sandals and freakishly stylish hair, could make an OS that would compete with the biggest and best offerings from Sun and IBM. Its a cultural thing. Linux had timing. BSD has been around much longer, and its much more mature than Linux. Linux has GREAT marketing, BSD has (basically) none.
Its not about the technology, but about the marketing, the timing, and the media's embrace.
Last I knew, netscape has WYSIWYG HTML editing capabilities... Maybe its time for them to share? :)
OpenSSH is native only on OpenBSD. If its on another OS, its a port.
If you want todo that, just burn a DIVX of Glitter... Some think its a movie, most think its just some music with video attached ;)
A bit off topic of the actual news, but related to many comments....
If you are looking to compile your PHP (to not make source viewable, make it faster, etc etc) check out Zend's SafeGuard Suite...
It's amazing, we're nearly at 3GHz (there, if we consider OC'd chips).
Personally, I am running an Intel P3-1GHz/512mb/IDE. I am a power user. I play games, I edit video, I play all kinds of multimedia files, I run visual and development apps, compile normally, all with a bunch of "background apps". I work the hell out of my machines, and I DONT NEED anything faster! Sure, I'll upgrade in the near future, simply to keep up on the trends -- but I really dont need to. It's not the CPU power that I need. I need more RAM. I need more storage space -- and I need FASTER STORAGE.
What do I want? Serial ATA! DDR400 (if they can make it fast and reliable)! Disks that can sustain 133MB/s (150MB/s SerialATA). I want Gigabit ethernet! Thankfully, all of these are becoming standard on new systems -- which is excellent. Of course, Intel and AMD have nothing better todo, and want to win the marketing war, so let them keep making the fastest chips. Just dont expect them to sell like hotcakes as more users realize that the CPU doesent really matter much once you hit 1GHz, except for specialized apps.
Run OpenBSD, maybe ittl push for these type of things to come our way.
But why is it when its an IE bug, its a "Severe Security Exploit", and when its a Mozilla bug, its a "Privacy Leak"...
George Carlin said it best, that we think in language. Changing the rhetoric that is used to describe the problem doesent change the problem. You can be Anti-Microsoft all you want, but that is worth NOTHING if the software that you choose to use exhibits the same problems, and you are not honest about them.
Again, I'm not taking Microsoft's side -- there aren't sides to take. Open Source software needs to be just as accountable as commercial software if it's to be taken seriously.
Simply for the reason that the top exec's at Napster want to keep their names "clean". If they sell out to a porn company, regardless of their (lack of) future involvement, it will limit their opportunities in the future. It's really sad that this is how it works, but true nonetheless.
Selling WOULD be the best business decision, Napster is a dead name otherwise -- and this is a way to bring in some cash (to pay creditors, employees, whatever). Too bad the CEO's wont soil their names to prevent bankrupcy...
AOL serves users not familiar with Internet Etiquette, thats a side-effect of marketing to the masses. If AOL does not serve them, others will. Should an Internet connection come with a free class on how to conduct yourself on the Internet?
AOL subscribers are AOL subscribers for a reason, they want to be. If they didnt want AOL, they would use something else.
I dont care for AOL any more than the next guy, but discrediting a company blindly just does'nt make sense.
AOL gives me TV, Internet (cable modem), and software (AOLServer! WinAMP!), and I am happy with all of them.
We use WFQ across multiple T's and can easily saturate 6mbit (800KB/s) (4xT1 using Cisco Multilink) with a single download. The line just needs to be empty.
ftp://ftp.src.uchicago.edu/pub/OpenBSD/3.1/src.tar .gz
:)
The math is simple. 1540 Kbit / 8 = 192.5 KByte.
If the line is empty, and you dont get ~ 190-200K, you dont have a full T1
Check out DataHive, who makes network servers that assist in many areas of HIPAA compliance. Their products are built upon OpenBSD, and have all the goodiest most companies need, out of the box.
Without knowing more details about how your operation handles medical records, let me tell you that a small medical office can have its IT department almost fully HIPAA compliant simply by installing a DataHive and following the install guide. Even down to the nitty gritty things like locking drives and offsite backup, DataHive has it covered.
Remember, a computer cannot make you HIPAA compliant, but it can ASSIST in achieving HIPAA compliance.
You do know that you can get hard drives at about the cost of $1 per GIGABYTE, right? Skip a few pizza's and you're golden :)
Haha, of all the things I will argue against, that isnt one of them :)
I would have to think that the marketing guys at Sony will be able to properly market this to the consumer, especially if it hits a good price note.
Think about it, if you are looking at buying a DVD writer, with all these confusing formats, now sony can just say "one burner that supports all dvd writing standards". If someone is looking for a dvd writer, this really is their only option to make sure that its compatible with everything.
To clarify, this is talking about using MySQL as a part of your program. If I make an executable, which links against MySQL's libraries (using MySQL4's new ability to become an "embedded" component in another executable), my program now must be GPL, that is unless I pay MySQL (company) to give me a different license.
How can people mock things, without knowing what they are mocking? Usually this never stands, but because its Microsoft it's ok? C'mon, if you dont know what .NET does, you should take 2 minutes and figure it out.
.NET at this moment.
There's thousands of people developing applications for
You take a Muscle-To-Jello Pill!
... What makes you think that the computer holding this "detailed, 3d, interactive map" would survive too? If NY blows up, I'd say we're a bit too fucked to care about some map data :/
What America really needs is a pill to turn fat into .. well.. anything else!
Oops, just realized i used I.D. in the caption (how the hell did I get that?). I really should learn to stop posting slashdot before I've fully woken up :)
Id makes games, and for each game they make typically licenses the 3D engine for a secondary revenue stream. Id is NOT a publisher, they have Activision for that.
Id is a small company, and they are very focused on large, time consuming tasks. They make 1 game at a time. Why would they want to publish a bunch of smaller games from people that have no way to pay them outside of royalties? This is a job for their publisher possibly (Activision), but Id doing it themselves probably wouldent make any sense. It would spread their resources too thin and stray from doing the things that makes them 1) Happy 2) Rich. Sounds like a no-win to me.
The Quake3 engine is still very good technology, used in a lot of up-and-coming games. I dont think they can easily just drop the cost like that. I mean, how would you feel if you paid $250,000 for the Q3 engine last week, and now you can get it for $100? A bit angry?
This is something Activision may consider doing (if they can work it out with Id). For minimal investment on their part, it makes a lot of sense so long as they have the capabilities to manage it.
Personally I feel this is the one geek phrase to rule them all.
:)
NOOOO!
Actually, you're right in one respect, the phrase in itself is a good one and I have no problem with that. My issue is that it has become increasingly prevalent since the movie was released.