actually, if windows is 'done right' all it would take is a recompile. I don't think there is a lot of assembler code in the windows source that needs to be rewritten, most code will be in C or C++.
windows for sure cannot, osx, as the guy above indicated, can, using a cool hack.
shiny candy colored UIs are all fine and dandy, but for fucks sake, why the hell would one have that on a SERVER? microsoft advertises that shit as a SERVER OS, and, sadly, some clueless people go for it. I have seen farms of NT 3.51 and 4.0 servers, creepy, creepy stuff.
Does apple make 'servers' too? I don't think so, but I am usually wrong about this type of stuff.
and who the hell cares whose overbloated load of crap came up first?
wake me up when windos or macos can boot into a command line and be administered from that, otherwise I could not care less. I'd guess macosX, being BSD-based, can be administered from command line, but not sure.
As for windos... heh... what a piece of shit... add all the features you want, it may shine like a pearl, but at its very core it is pure shit.
it works for laptops and home lusers, sure, but who cares? not me.
"Gates' sales come about two months after Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sold shares worth $1.45 billion in a series of transactions over two weeks."
Holy shit, now THAT's a sellout, not the puny $25million Bill sold. WTF is this Ballmer guy doing? Is there something rotten in the reign of Microsoft?
Yeah, record companies are sooo good to musicians that always a band gets enough recognition, and is able to break out of the contract, they do, and create their own record label. Led Zeppelin did that. Metallica too. Im sure you dudes know a lot of other cases. Those dudes (recording industry) are fscking vampires.
Well, for a start, you don't pay $20 per album anymore. If I recall correctly. the model is $20 for a share (which will always cost $20) and $.50 per album downloaded. Pretty good pricing, IMHO, and you sure as hell can burn how many copies you want, just dont start reselling them to outsiders...
But to be fair, there is a lot of fuck-ups in Cringely's model too. First, how the hell you make this company international? Laws are pretty different from country to country, ya know. CDs happen to exist everywhere, not only in the US. It is not easy for people like me (i live in brazil) to buy shares of american companies, so Im basically screwed in his model, unless there is a local snapster, with rights to things I like to listen.
The thing is, we NEED to find another model of music distribution ASAP, the current one is crap. This dude is just speaking out his mind, and his idea is interesting, albeit far from perfect. Of course you, me and everyone are welcome to contribute with a better idea.
3. Stop selling albums. Completely. If you are not a member of the big, evil labels' version of Snapster, you can't hear the new Avril CD. Instead of being a record sales company, or a music marketing company, they will be in the business of owning content which is not for sale, but is streamed exclusively to their shareholders for a fee.
BINGO! you got it dude. Cringely's motivation is not to destroy the record companies, but to destroy their current fucked-up business model. Everyone is free to start its own snapster, and every artist is also free to do so (note, if you are distributing your own stuff, you do not need $2M like he says, just a puny server and some kind of authenticated BitTorrent;-)
amem, brother... as a non-dumb-english-only-speaking-american that can speak/understand both english and german (and french, and spanish...) I get VERY annoyed by the germans in RTCW, talking in english with that cheesy german accent. pretty annoying.
For a decent WW2 feel, try DOD (day of defeat) for half-life. The germans speak german, but the subtitles are in english, so it is all good.
well, if a company is going to be THAT anal about "you can only install this in ONE computer", they can use a "hard-lock", those little devices that you put in the parallell port that contain some magic key the software need to run, and self-destruct in case of tampering. Unfortunately, most of these schemes seem to be cracked, either in software or by cloning the locks. Hella expensive, too. Too bad for everybody that it is almost impossible to find a technical solution to software piracy, so the software companies must pursue legal solutions, and everybody loses, except the fucking parasite lawyers.
heh, I usually do it (rewrite fstab) despites supermount working fine on all hardware I used till today. 2 reasons, one, I dont like automounters, two, I usually change the mandrake-provided kernel to a kernel.org "official linus" kernel right after the install, so supermount is gone anyway.
indeed. I just went to ATI's website searching for some binary driver for my radeon 7500 mobility, and found none. They only provide XFREE86 optimized binary drivers for the 8500 and up. What the fuck is that? Nvidia provides their binary drivers for linux/xfree from the TNTs up to the FXs. Why the hell ATI only does it for their latest and greatest chips?
Now i am screwed and cannot play Q3/RTCW on my laptop. Tried the opensource drivers (GATOS/DRI) that they recommend at their site, but the performance is pathetic, to say the least, and that drivers render a shitload of artifacts on RTCW too. And a r7500 is more than enough to run the quake 3 engine (AFAIK, r7500 compares to the geforce 3, and q3 runs fine in the old TNT2...)
So, their cards may be the best shit in town, but im sticking to nvidia until ATI pull its head from its ass and start supporting XFREE properly.
true. I used to find dudes connected to the internet with win2k/nt boxes and blank administrator passwords, so I mounted their c$ share and removed some useless files like ntldr and boot.ini, and left a copy of hello.jpg on their machine, in case they were able to recover it.
never got prosecuted, and it can be classified as hacking (lame hacking, but...) and copyright infringement too;-)
pfft even PGSQL have all the features you cited. The real beef from oracle is the OPS (parallell server) or whatever they call it these days. Ah btw pgsql is usually faster than oracle (for me at least).
Go learn something before you state such utter bullshit. pgsql is no fscking toy. IMO its on par with oracle and way superior to the shitty ms-sql-server.
COMPETENCY is job insurance, dude. you will probably never know that, assuming from your statement, you are one more of the stupid drones that flood the IT market... yuck!
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bah, fuck red hat.
xen rules, and will only get better with time. it's like 'mainframes for the masses'.
glad to see some corporation backing it up.
actually, if windows is 'done right' all it would take is a recompile. I don't think there is a lot of assembler code in the windows source that needs to be rewritten, most code will be in C or C++.
windows for sure cannot, osx, as the guy above indicated, can, using a cool hack.
shiny candy colored UIs are all fine and dandy, but for fucks sake, why the hell would one have that on a SERVER? microsoft advertises that shit as a SERVER OS, and, sadly, some clueless people go for it. I have seen farms of NT 3.51 and 4.0 servers, creepy, creepy stuff.
Does apple make 'servers' too? I don't think so, but I am usually wrong about this type of stuff.
and who the hell cares whose overbloated load of crap came up first?
wake me up when windos or macos can boot into a command line and be administered from that, otherwise I could not care less. I'd guess macosX, being BSD-based, can be administered from command line, but not sure.
As for windos... heh... what a piece of shit... add all the features you want, it may shine like a pearl, but at its very core it is pure shit.
it works for laptops and home lusers, sure, but who cares? not me.
impressive, eh?
you must be new here, sucka.
At the end of the article:
"Gates' sales come about two months after Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sold shares worth $1.45 billion in a series of transactions over two weeks."
Holy shit, now THAT's a sellout, not the puny $25million Bill sold. WTF is this Ballmer guy doing? Is there something rotten in the reign of Microsoft?
cheers.
Yeah, record companies are sooo good to musicians that always a band gets enough recognition, and is able to break out of the contract, they do, and create their own record label. Led Zeppelin did that. Metallica too. Im sure you dudes know a lot of other cases.
Those dudes (recording industry) are fscking vampires.
cheers.
Well, for a start, you don't pay $20 per album anymore. If I recall correctly. the model is $20 for a share (which will always cost $20) and $.50 per album downloaded. Pretty good pricing, IMHO, and you sure as hell can burn how many copies you want, just dont start reselling them to outsiders...
But to be fair, there is a lot of fuck-ups in Cringely's model too. First, how the hell you make this company international? Laws are pretty different from country to country, ya know. CDs happen to exist everywhere, not only in the US. It is not easy for people like me (i live in brazil) to buy shares of american companies, so Im basically screwed in his model, unless there is a local snapster, with rights to things I like to listen.
The thing is, we NEED to find another model of music distribution ASAP, the current one is crap. This dude is just speaking out his mind, and his idea is interesting, albeit far from perfect. Of course you, me and everyone are welcome to contribute with a better idea.
cheers
2. Form their own Snapster.
;-)
3. Stop selling albums. Completely. If you are not a member of the big, evil labels' version of Snapster, you can't hear the new Avril CD. Instead of being a record sales company, or a music marketing company, they will be in the business of owning content which is not for sale, but is streamed exclusively to their shareholders for a fee.
BINGO! you got it dude. Cringely's motivation is not to destroy the record companies, but to destroy their current fucked-up business model. Everyone is free to start its own snapster, and every artist is also free to do so (note, if you are distributing your own stuff, you do not need $2M like he says, just a puny server and some kind of authenticated BitTorrent
cheers
yeah but when will they buy the most useful search engine EVER?
http://www.astalavista.com
cheers.
pfft I used 2.4.0 in production servers, as well as some late 2.3.x kernels, ZERO problems.
the "how dare you to run this unstable shit on production" is mostly exageration.
amem, brother... as a non-dumb-english-only-speaking-american that can speak/understand both english and german (and french, and spanish...) I get VERY annoyed by the germans in RTCW, talking in english with that cheesy german accent. pretty annoying.
For a decent WW2 feel, try DOD (day of defeat) for half-life. The germans speak german, but the subtitles are in english, so it is all good.
hlv
well, if a company is going to be THAT anal about "you can only install this in ONE computer", they can use a "hard-lock", those little devices that you put in the parallell port that contain some magic key the software need to run, and self-destruct in case of tampering. Unfortunately, most of these schemes seem to be cracked, either in software or by cloning the locks. Hella expensive, too. Too bad for everybody that it is almost impossible to find a technical solution to software piracy, so the software companies must pursue legal solutions, and everybody loses, except the fucking parasite lawyers.
hlv
heh, I usually do it (rewrite fstab) despites supermount working fine on all hardware I used till today. 2 reasons, one, I dont like automounters, two, I usually change the mandrake-provided kernel to a kernel.org "official linus" kernel right after the install, so supermount is gone anyway.
hlv
indeed. I just went to ATI's website searching for some binary driver for my radeon 7500 mobility, and found none. They only provide XFREE86 optimized binary drivers for the 8500 and up. What the fuck is that? Nvidia provides their binary drivers for linux/xfree from the TNTs up to the FXs. Why the hell ATI only does it for their latest and greatest chips?
Now i am screwed and cannot play Q3/RTCW on my laptop. Tried the opensource drivers (GATOS/DRI) that they recommend at their site, but the performance is pathetic, to say the least, and that drivers render a shitload of artifacts on RTCW too. And a r7500 is more than enough to run the quake 3 engine (AFAIK, r7500 compares to the geforce 3, and q3 runs fine in the old TNT2...)
So, their cards may be the best shit in town, but im sticking to nvidia until ATI pull its head from its ass and start supporting XFREE properly.
true. I used to find dudes connected to the internet with win2k/nt boxes and blank administrator passwords, so I mounted their c$ share and removed some useless files like ntldr and boot.ini, and left a copy of hello.jpg on their machine, in case they were able to recover it.
;-)
never got prosecuted, and it can be classified as hacking (lame hacking, but...) and copyright infringement too
tetris... tetris is much cooler since it wipes your mind clean, all you can think about is that darned falling blocks.
pfft even PGSQL have all the features you cited. The real beef from oracle is the OPS (parallell server) or whatever they call it these days. Ah btw pgsql is usually faster than oracle (for me at least).
Go learn something before you state such utter bullshit. pgsql is no fscking toy. IMO its on par with oracle and way superior to the shitty ms-sql-server.
ciao
COMPETENCY is job insurance, dude.
you will probably never know that, assuming from your statement, you are one more of the stupid drones that flood the IT market... yuck!
Well, seems that everybody is asleep or has blocked michael stories, so heres another FP. Oh well.
cheers
but its so easy... despites the fscking DNS problems I have ATM.
cheers dudes.
who the fuck cares???
and nethack too!!!!!!!
RTFM!
yeah right
posting t is crap thru GPRS
latency is about 1s
not as bad as my skills with grafitti tough...
The government supplies you with electronic-tax-form software FOR FREE.
I think it is pretty nice, altough it only runs in Windoze. You can even upload the stuff to their servers by internet. Zero-hassle.
RTFM!