when I am asked a question that is directed to my field of expertise I write, and write. I will give the partitioner a full explanation of what ever technology s/he is looking to get information on. For instance I was approached by a woman that wanted to pick my brain about e-commerce, I told her I would be glad to write my thoughts about her project down. I did this for free like a moron. As I have done a hundred times, now I can build a library of whitepapers that can be downloaded by people that ask flak for help. I charge 10-15 bucks and boom The reader/buyer is rewarded with knowledge and I am rewarded with a contribution to the buy Flak a Cray fund. Great idea Fatbrain.
Cerent's first product, for example, can handle 240 gigabits of data a second, the equivalent of 3.8 million phone calls or 160,000 high-speed T-1 lines.
I think this whole move says one thing very clear Broadband is right around the corner to every computer. Think about what Cisco just did. They put 6.9 billion into R&D err, bought a company and now have technology that will put them above their competitors again. Cisco was the first to market with many technologies. All came from the same type of R&D projects.
So what does this mean for you and me? Simple we all will have a chance in the near future to have our fiber in our house plugged into a switch that can handle that kind of bandwidth. Humm, and who was it that said xDSL had a short shelflife...
Geezz If HP can pull this off and this is not vaporware Microsoft best watch it's butt. Exchange is a literal stronghold in the Corporate environment. Granted there is CC:Mail and a few others. But Exchange rules. With the architecture designed as it is, third party tools for information management on the OpenMail platform will be a real boon for developers. I know I have written a few solutions for Exchange and it is a very complex system. The whole M$ implementation of mapi is scary. If I read the spec right OpenMail would leverage LDAP. This could open great doors in development arena. My big question is, will corporate America pay two sets of admins to watch over the different os'es that supply the mission critical data to the network?
Ok, I grew up in the Information age. I hack. I can get into a Windows machine in under an hour. I tried this one. No luck. They fixed all the old problems. I say one of use out here will find a neato hole in the redmond armor fast. But I bet it will still be more sucure than SCO, or HP-UX.
"...and Slashdot (which, ironically, chose to post this ragtag editorial but turned down the opportunity to get the word about 3DNow.Org, the 3DNow! coding workshop or Linux3D.Net out - go figure how much that makes them a gossippy place over one that cares for Linux and coders)."
Did this guy ever think that we (slashdotters) care about computing, not just alternative computing? Hey I resent being called gossippy! Did you all here what this guy said about us, he called us gossippy. We need to tell everyone quickly to no pay attention to his mindless garble
I find that the undertones of the article scream out one large fact. The author is in denial of his geek-hood. I mean come on every geek on the planet knows its much better to read an article on a screen of some sort rather than a smashed together ex-tree (paper).
Who would bet that their brand spanking new Class C corp is legal if they did everything themselves. The whole idea is give yourself some protection not open yourself to even more chances to stand in court for zero reason but you thought it would be cool to have your company named SUN Software just like the Unix company...Or Irix Software or gee I am going to name it MacDonalds
Damn you are lucky After the hours spent filling out the papers, and then having my lawyer make sure ($500)I did not screw up and the fees (around $500) to file with the state and fed for the corp it self and the biz name. it comes out to around $1000 plus my time. Ohh I'm in Washington state so...
I have often wondered if I would see a dime from adding my 5000 lines of code to this or that project. Now if I can work real hard, I can quit my day job and work from my home office. Wait, what happens if I miss a bug and I deliver M$ quality software? Does this mean I have to form a class C corp., so I can be protected by the law of the land if I screw up? I sure does. If anyone out there signs up. Do it after you spend the $1000 to form a corporation. Your code could get you in trouble with some BIG money organization if you fail to perform to what they consider the standard. I know that good code in my eyes (and everyone else's) could be crap to a big company desk jockey that does not know the difference between stack and heap memory.
Then none of the developers on the team are worth their weight in crap. Out of the box Site Server is just samples. It is schema independent and if you feel that you where locked into the schema you must really need some relational database design help. Now don't call me a M$ supporter but I feel that the Site Server product is a good product if your client tells you to use NT as the web server. You just have to learn that the out of the box crap is all you can do with the server software. Look at Costco's website, or Gap's or even Starbucks. These sites are using Site Server and every single one of them works, and the code behind them is nothing like a sample store shipping with the Site Server Commerce Edition box. In any venture it comes down to the developers skill. Not what product is used. Some are just better and easier to use. I am not a M$ Salesmen I just use tools that work in the enviroments I am forced to work in.
If you use MTS with SiteServer Commerce Edition you got to have a hole in your head. The pipelines(READ BUSINESS OBJECTS) do the same thing without the overhead of the dedicated transaction server. I have built a very good, (quick, secure, makes six figures a day) commerce site with SSCE. I have built on Stronghold. WHat was is the best product? SSCE. It supplies the owners of the site just what they need. It makes there legacy data accessable and I go stright to EDI for the fullilment. Six months to build from site background image to C++ business objects to connect EDI systems. With any other product, you could add another 8 to 12 weeks development to the project. And finding people to maintain the site would of been very hard. Use a product for what it was designed for then tell me it is shit
I can't think of a good way to use this product. Don't forget that cybercash has had their e-cash available for web users for years. There is a few online banks that offer the same thing. Credits to be used on the Internet instead of money. This removes the fear of shooting your credit card across the net. (What fear anyways? like giving the number to a HUMAN over the phone is secure at all..)The product will be big for all of two minutes (it was slashdotted after all) and fade away just like the other technology that preceded it.
Good idea, RedHat should market this package as toys for the wantabe developer. Still for free you can get BSD and stronghold if you want to learn the tricks of the trade do it with real e-commerce software.
Lst's look at what really makes sense in the e-commerce world. Complete interactivity with the corporate data == 95% of the time you need M$ SiteServer 3.0. Best platform for secure reasons == NetBSD & Stonghold. In the real world these solutions work. RedHat is just adding fodder to the E-Commerce fray. No self respecting web store (of good size) will use this technology with products out there from IBM, and M$ that offer management tools for the store and native database connectivity built in that is secure by default.
Funny I work with da'shoe and he is one of the top performers on our team. In fact the brass gives Shoe public praise often. Will shoe get fired and a collage grad keep his job in a slump? Nope. In his field Shoe is one of the top guys I know. The college guys on the team will get there butts canned quick, they don't perform to the level of shoeboy. As for me I went to a PAC10 private university. Does Shoe teach me things? Daily. You must be bitter due to the fact your hard earned degree has done nothing for you.
Heh, I am a 25 year old college drop out and I want you to find one 35 year old college grad that can fill my shoes. I got my job by my resume. I code for the big boys, I build networks that are secure, I build systems that can handle millions of users. I have the design flair of a fine artist. put these things together and I get a hourly wage over $75. I work 16 hours a day. My little girl calls me by my first name because she does not know her 'Dad' A big piece of parchment has done nothing for my rate. Pure drive and knowledge is what gets me paid. If you think a 35 year old with a college degree is the key to anything you must smoke lots of crack.
I have worked for companies like Microsoft and I was abused did the college grad get abuse? Damn straight. This industry does not care about your pre-career life. Hell they don't care about your life, and they work to make your outside life non-existent.
First off, this is Japan the land of the software pirates. I read the other day (think on zdnet) that in Asia China pirates 99.8% of the installs. Japans install rates of pirate software was above 60%. So right there it smashes a huge hole in the idea of Linux as the leader in the market. The second fact is that you really need to add the total sales numbers for Win98 together to get a good estimate.
This number does NOT include the installed OS that comes on a NEW PC. THIS IS THE DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL THAT IS IMPORTANT. Who cares about retail sales in a nation of pirates.
The only fear I have is that SUN would try to re-write the app with 100% Pure Java. This has been tried by very talented development houses, and it did not work well, hell the versions I have tried of the 'Java Office Suite' (manufacture to remain nameless) ran like my PII 400 was a 386 with a meg of ram. Java is great to make light switches talk to light blubs but for an office suite? Keep it in C SUN!!!
I agree full heartedly. It is does not have a 'finished' look and feel. RedHat needs to drop the 100k to get a real designer on staff that understands the principles of design. I re-visited the site after my first post and instead of looking at it with my eyes, I switched to 'Johnny no-knowledge' thinking like an everyday user makes the site even more complex to comprehend. Linux is a geek power toy yes, but there is enough press on the OS some average users are looking into the technology.
Hey REDHAT, MICROSOFT'S SITE KICKS ASS ON YOURS!!
They (M$) hire talent that not only knows the tricks of the Web trade but understand things like color theory and the psychology of design. Guess what when I need something from the M$ site I find it easy, and the site gets me to look at other information because it is engaging.
If Redhat really thinks it can steal market share from M$ then they will have to learn a trick M$ has perfected. Copy the competitions strong points and expand the functionality of the product to become superior. I don't want to start the anti-M$ rants thread here, but everyone must admit that marketing is a key to the Redmond success.
Redhat better understand this right now and quit letting the mailboy do the graphic and UI design for there biggest asset in today's marketing toolkit.
Ok, I am a bias fool, (I am a designer) but the design is not engaging. You get lost very fast as there is no central navigation design. Granted you have the top bar that takes you to the top of the specific section, but it is not effective It really looks to me that Redhat is trying to do a portal of sorts.
Think about what a portal does. You go to once place and you find links to deep level pages on other sites or with the same network(think go.com or msn.com or Netcenter). My big gripe is that if Redhat wants to be the leader in the whole Linux/open source movement, well the should look the part. Blazing fast the site maybe, but will anyone stick around to find the info they want without a little eye candy? I doubt it.
Return visitors will be hard pressed to see a change in the content within the golden 5 second window. after complete load) My two cents to Redhat buy the services of a company that can take there corporate image and turn it into something that is engaging and meets the basic rules of (web)design.
"...Every person who lives in a country, whether they are 'registered' or not, contributes to the economy. Do illegal immigrants not eat? Do they not buy clothing? Presumably if they are here long enough they buy more material items such as cars and houses. How can this possibly be bad?"
How does an illegal immigrant spending money have any thing to do with an increase in the American economy? I at one time employed many immigrants from Mexico, they where are all hard workers and I new I could relay on their work. I also saw that they illegally brought with them their families. No problem there. My problem was that one fellow brought his sister with him, it was not my business to find out if she was legal so I never asked. I was told by a INS agent that she was illegal and that she had brought five kids with her. She went on welfare, got paid to sit on her butt and have her friends watch her kids as she spent her time looking for a man to help her make kid six to increase her weekly state check. She never paid one cent into the system, why should she get the RIGHT to get welfare? She used her body as the factory and the state was the consumer. She was making money from having children!
This made me very mad. Me, a contributor to the gross national product at a time of need was told by the same state that there was no reason I should get any state support as I was not in need. (I had not paid rent in three months, and I was living off of Raman and water). I remembered those days when I was out of work and I could not feed or house myself. BUT someone that has never contributed to the system was taking home over 2k a month?
My family was a family of immigrants yes, they came over on the mayflower. We (my family) helped mold this great county for 400 years. I was given nothing when I asked. But any illegal immigrant can just waltz into a state office and demand assistance. The system is wrong. The county has lost it's own being. This is a melting pot yes. But is it right that a state would turn its back on a tax paying citizen so they could dish the cash out to people that will never be productive members of the community? where is the justice in that?
Let's think about this, AOL used to be a great friend to the Redmond monolith... Now AOL has been named enemy of the MSN group. Big surprise there, but what was Redmond's big problem over the last few years?
Think just maybe M$ has there fingers in AOL still? With the big plan to ruin Sun and Netscape? Makes me think.
What are you thinking? Spend the extra cash and get a good video card. It's what makes Linux powerful the ability to do everything Windows can do and be free. I think the first person to say this was Roosevelt, 'Innovate or die'. How about just keeping up. Retro has no place in computing. If it did we would all be using Xerox green screens.
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when I am asked a question that is directed to my field of expertise I write, and write. I will give the partitioner a full explanation of what ever technology s/he is looking to get information on. For instance I was approached by a woman that wanted to pick my brain about e-commerce, I told her I would be glad to write my thoughts about her project down. I did this for free like a moron. As I have done a hundred times, now I can build a library of whitepapers that can be downloaded by people that ask flak for help. I charge 10-15 bucks and boom The reader/buyer is rewarded with knowledge and I am rewarded with a contribution to the buy Flak a Cray fund. Great idea Fatbrain.
Cerent's first product, for example, can handle 240 gigabits of data a second, the equivalent of 3.8 million phone calls or 160,000 high-speed T-1 lines.
I think this whole move says one thing very clear Broadband is right around the corner to every computer. Think about what Cisco just did. They put 6.9 billion into R&D err, bought a company and now have technology that will put them above their competitors again. Cisco was the first to market with many technologies. All came from the same type of R&D projects.
So what does this mean for you and me? Simple we all will have a chance in the near future to have our fiber in our house plugged into a switch that can handle that kind of bandwidth. Humm, and who was it that said xDSL had a short shelflife...
Geezz If HP can pull this off and this is not vaporware Microsoft best watch it's butt. Exchange is a literal stronghold in the Corporate environment. Granted there is CC:Mail and a few others. But Exchange rules. With the architecture designed as it is, third party tools for information management on the OpenMail platform will be a real boon for developers. I know I have written a few solutions for Exchange and it is a very complex system. The whole M$ implementation of mapi is scary. If I read the spec right OpenMail would leverage LDAP. This could open great doors in development arena. My big question is, will corporate America pay two sets of admins to watch over the different os'es that supply the mission critical data to the network?
Ok, I grew up in the Information age. I hack. I can get into a Windows machine in under an hour. I tried this one. No luck. They fixed all the old problems. I say one of use out here will find a neato hole in the redmond armor fast. But I bet it will still be more sucure than SCO, or HP-UX.
Umm I just looked, at the paper, Case2 has your phone number attached to it Shoeboy, what gives?
"...and Slashdot (which, ironically, chose to post this ragtag editorial but turned down the opportunity to get the word about 3DNow.Org, the 3DNow! coding workshop or Linux3D.Net out - go figure how much that makes them a gossippy place over one that cares for Linux and coders)."
Did this guy ever think that we (slashdotters) care about computing, not just alternative computing? Hey I resent being called gossippy! Did you all here what this guy said about us, he called us gossippy. We need to tell everyone quickly to no pay attention to his mindless garble
You so see the sarcasm there right?
I find that the undertones of the article scream out one large fact. The author is in denial of his geek-hood. I mean come on every geek on the planet knows its much better to read an article on a screen of some sort rather than a smashed together ex-tree (paper).
Who would bet that their brand spanking new Class C corp is legal if they did everything themselves. The whole idea is give yourself some protection not open yourself to even more chances to stand in court for zero reason but you thought it would be cool to have your company named SUN Software just like the Unix company...Or Irix Software or gee I am going to name it MacDonalds
Damn you are lucky After the hours spent filling out the papers, and then having my lawyer make sure ($500)I did not screw up and the fees (around $500) to file with the state and fed for the corp it self and the biz name. it comes out to around $1000 plus my time. Ohh I'm in Washington state so...
I have often wondered if I would see a dime from adding my 5000 lines of code to this or that project. Now if I can work real hard, I can quit my day job and work from my home office. Wait, what happens if I miss a bug and I deliver M$ quality software? Does this mean I have to form a class C corp., so I can be protected by the law of the land if I screw up? I sure does. If anyone out there signs up. Do it after you spend the $1000 to form a corporation. Your code could get you in trouble with some BIG money organization if you fail to perform to what they consider the standard. I know that good code in my eyes (and everyone else's) could be crap to a big company desk jockey that does not know the difference between stack and heap memory.
Then none of the developers on the team are worth their weight in crap. Out of the box Site Server is just samples. It is schema independent and if you feel that you where locked into the schema you must really need some relational database design help. Now don't call me a M$ supporter but I feel that the Site Server product is a good product if your client tells you to use NT as the web server. You just have to learn that the out of the box crap is all you can do with the server software. Look at Costco's website, or Gap's or even Starbucks. These sites are using Site Server and every single one of them works, and the code behind them is nothing like a sample store shipping with the Site Server Commerce Edition box. In any venture it comes down to the developers skill. Not what product is used. Some are just better and easier to use.
I am not a M$ Salesmen I just use tools that work in the enviroments I am forced to work in.
If you use MTS with SiteServer Commerce Edition you got to have a hole in your head. The pipelines(READ BUSINESS OBJECTS) do the same thing without the overhead of the dedicated transaction server. I have built a very good, (quick, secure, makes six figures a day) commerce site with SSCE. I have built on Stronghold. WHat was is the best product? SSCE. It supplies the owners of the site just what they need. It makes there legacy data accessable and I go stright to EDI for the fullilment. Six months to build from site background image to C++ business objects to connect EDI systems. With any other product, you could add another 8 to 12 weeks development to the project. And finding people to maintain the site would of been very hard. Use a product for what it was designed for then tell me it is shit
I can't think of a good way to use this product. Don't forget that cybercash has had their e-cash available for web users for years. There is a few online banks that offer the same thing. Credits to be used on the Internet instead of money. This removes the fear of shooting your credit card across the net. (What fear anyways? like giving the number to a HUMAN over the phone is secure at all..)The product will be big for all of two minutes (it was slashdotted after all) and fade away just like the other technology that preceded it.
Good idea, RedHat should market this package as toys for the wantabe developer. Still for free you can get BSD and stronghold if you want to learn the tricks of the trade do it with real e-commerce software.
Lst's look at what really makes sense in the e-commerce world. Complete interactivity with the corporate data == 95% of the time you need M$ SiteServer 3.0. Best platform for secure reasons == NetBSD & Stonghold. In the real world these solutions work. RedHat is just adding fodder to the E-Commerce fray. No self respecting web store (of good size) will use this technology with products out there from IBM, and M$ that offer management tools for the store and native database connectivity built in that is secure by default.
Funny I work with da'shoe and he is one of the top performers on our team. In fact the brass gives Shoe public praise often. Will shoe get fired and a collage grad keep his job in a slump? Nope. In his field Shoe is one of the top guys I know. The college guys on the team will get there butts canned quick, they don't perform to the level of shoeboy. As for me I went to a PAC10 private university. Does Shoe teach me things? Daily. You must be bitter due to the fact your hard earned degree has done nothing for you.
Heh, I am a 25 year old college drop out and I want you to find one 35 year old college grad that can fill my shoes. I got my job by my resume. I code for the big boys, I build networks that are secure, I build systems that can handle millions of users. I have the design flair of a fine artist. put these things together and I get a hourly wage over $75. I work 16 hours a day. My little girl calls me by my first name because she does not know her 'Dad' A big piece of parchment has done nothing for my rate. Pure drive and knowledge is what gets me paid. If you think a 35 year old with a college degree is the key to anything you must smoke lots of crack.
I have worked for companies like Microsoft and I was abused did the college grad get abuse? Damn straight. This industry does not care about your pre-career life. Hell they don't care about your life, and they work to make your outside life non-existent.
Call me Snot-Nose II
I just took the job you salivated over
First off, this is Japan the land of the software pirates. I read the other day (think on zdnet) that in Asia China pirates 99.8% of the installs. Japans install rates of pirate software was above 60%. So right there it smashes a huge hole in the idea of Linux as the leader in the market. The second fact is that you really need to add the total sales numbers for Win98 together to get a good estimate.
This number does NOT include the installed OS that comes on a NEW PC. THIS IS THE DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL THAT IS IMPORTANT. Who cares about retail sales in a nation of pirates.
The only fear I have is that SUN would try to re-write the app with 100% Pure Java. This has been tried by very talented development houses, and it did not work well, hell the versions I have tried of the 'Java Office Suite' (manufacture to remain nameless) ran like my PII 400 was a 386 with a meg of ram. Java is great to make light switches talk to light blubs but for an office suite? Keep it in C SUN!!!
Hey REDHAT, MICROSOFT'S SITE KICKS ASS ON YOURS!!
They (M$) hire talent that not only knows the tricks of the Web trade but understand things like color theory and the psychology of design. Guess what when I need something from the M$ site I find it easy, and the site gets me to look at other information because it is engaging.
If Redhat really thinks it can steal market share from M$ then they will have to learn a trick M$ has perfected. Copy the competitions strong points and expand the functionality of the product to become superior. I don't want to start the anti-M$ rants thread here, but everyone must admit that marketing is a key to the Redmond success.
Redhat better understand this right now and quit letting the mailboy do the graphic and UI design for there biggest asset in today's marketing toolkit.
Ok, I am a bias fool, (I am a designer) but the design is not engaging. You get lost very fast as there is no central navigation design. Granted you have the top bar that takes you to the top of the specific section, but it is not effective It really looks to me that Redhat is trying to do a portal of sorts.
Think about what a portal does. You go to once place and you find links to deep level pages on other sites or with the same network(think go.com or msn.com or Netcenter). My big gripe is that if Redhat wants to be the leader in the whole Linux/open source movement, well the should look the part. Blazing fast the site maybe, but will anyone stick around to find the info they want without a little eye candy? I doubt it.
Return visitors will be hard pressed to see a change in the content within the golden 5 second window. after complete load) My two cents to Redhat buy the services of a company that can take there corporate image and turn it into something that is engaging and meets the basic rules of (web)design.
"...Every person who lives in a country, whether they are 'registered' or not, contributes to the economy. Do illegal immigrants not eat? Do they not buy clothing? Presumably if they are here long enough they buy more material items such as cars and houses. How can this possibly be bad?"
How does an illegal immigrant spending money have any thing to do with an increase in the American economy? I at one time employed many immigrants from Mexico, they where are all hard workers and I new I could relay on their work. I also saw that they illegally brought with them their families. No problem there. My problem was that one fellow brought his sister with him, it was not my business to find out if she was legal so I never asked. I was told by a INS agent that she was illegal and that she had brought five kids with her. She went on welfare, got paid to sit on her butt and have her friends watch her kids as she spent her time looking for a man to help her make kid six to increase her weekly state check. She never paid one cent into the system, why should she get the RIGHT to get welfare? She used her body as the factory and the state was the consumer. She was making money from having children!
This made me very mad. Me, a contributor to the gross national product at a time of need was told by the same state that there was no reason I should get any state support as I was not in need. (I had not paid rent in three months, and I was living off of Raman and water). I remembered those days when I was out of work and I could not feed or house myself. BUT someone that has never contributed to the system was taking home over 2k a month?
My family was a family of immigrants yes, they came over on the mayflower. We (my family) helped mold this great county for 400 years. I was given nothing when I asked. But any illegal immigrant can just waltz into a state office and demand assistance. The system is wrong. The county has lost it's own being. This is a melting pot yes. But is it right that a state would turn its back on a tax paying citizen so they could dish the cash out to people that will never be productive members of the community? where is the justice in that?
Let's think about this, AOL used to be a great friend to the Redmond monolith...
Now AOL has been named enemy of the MSN group. Big surprise there, but what was Redmond's big problem over the last few years?
Think just maybe M$ has there fingers in AOL still? With the big plan to ruin Sun and Netscape? Makes me think.
What are you thinking? Spend the extra cash and get a good video card. It's what makes Linux powerful the ability to do everything Windows can do and be free. I think the first person to say this was Roosevelt, 'Innovate or die'. How about just keeping up. Retro has no place in computing. If it did we would all be using Xerox green screens.