There's a fundemental difference between "easy to use" and "easy to learn". In my experience the two are usually opposites -- the easier to use a system is, the harder to learn, and vice versa.
A bike with training wheeels is harder to ride that one without.
Steam power is one of the most significant shaping technologies of the last century. Although the internal combustion engine was invented in the last century, it wasn't until this century that it had much impact.
Steam drove most of the world expansion that was the watchword of the nineteenth century.
Whay are we discussing the technologies of the last century?
Unless Cobalt has changed their policy, you're pretty much limited to using the software they provide. If you add other software, you void the warranty.
We've had customer requests for our software to be built for use on Cobalt machines (yes, on web servers) but because adding software voids the warranty, we've declined to do so. Adding the database libraries we need would void the warranties on our devel machines -- adding these and our software too would void the warranties on our customers machines.
Cobalt hasn't shown a great deal of interest in working out these problems.
Hate to burst anyone's bubble, but the hinges on these things are pretty fragile. In my former life as an IT manager in an oilfield company, we had far more trouble with the hinges on those Panasonics than on either the Compaq or IBM laptops we had.
Where would the Linux client be located? The ADSM page I looked at had about every OS listed except Linux. Something like this that was cross platform sounds like it could be useful to us, but linux is a big part of our mix.
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There's a fundemental difference between "easy to use" and "easy to learn". In my experience the two are usually opposites -- the easier to use a system is, the harder to learn, and vice versa.
A bike with training wheeels is harder to ride that one without.
Steam power is one of the most significant shaping technologies of the last century. Although the internal combustion engine was invented in the last century, it wasn't until this century that it had much impact.
Steam drove most of the world expansion that was the watchword of the nineteenth century.
Whay are we discussing the technologies of the last century?
Unless Cobalt has changed their policy, you're pretty much limited to using the software they provide. If you add other software, you void the warranty.
We've had customer requests for our software to be built for use on Cobalt machines (yes, on web servers) but because adding software voids the warranty, we've declined to do so. Adding the database libraries we need would void the warranties on our devel machines -- adding these and our software too would void the warranties on our customers machines.
Cobalt hasn't shown a great deal of interest in working out these problems.
Hate to burst anyone's bubble, but the hinges on these things are pretty fragile. In my former life as an IT manager in an oilfield company, we had far more trouble with the hinges on those Panasonics than on either the Compaq or IBM laptops we had.
And the PC itself wasn't all that wonderful.
> Clarke's own "200l: A Space Odyssey" took a more
> malevolent view of computing's ultimate
> intentions than his non-fiction writing.
Anyone who would write this sentence obviously has not read 2001. Guilty concience, yes. Psychotic, yes. Malevolent, nope.
And yes, on the outward bound leg it could be coming at us from the general direction of the sun.
Where would the Linux client be located? The ADSM page I looked at had about every OS listed except Linux. Something like this that was cross platform sounds like it could be useful to us, but linux is a big part of our mix.