I have XP on my machine here, and it runs fine. But then, this is a 1533MHz Athlon and 768MB RAM, so it had damn well better run fine! I will also say that this is the first version of windows which has allowed me to install graphics drivers without requiring a reboot (or, in the case of Win3.1, restarting windows).
That was a major shock to me and a sign of how things have improved.
Course, it screwed up on me (in my case, failing to read system files; I can't remember which) within a week requiring a reinstall. It's been fine since, however.
Sure, MS bundles IIS with Windows and so doesn't make any money off it and so ditching it and telling users to use Apache would save money. However, they do sell a lot of other software which ties into IIS, such as Visual Studio (for writing ASP pages etc) which is a money stream. Chances are, MS makes enough money from 'add-on' sales to justify keeping IIS around. In any case, it would look bad from a marketing perspective if they did stop IIS; aren't they good enough to keep up with some spotty geeks coding for free?
NB: I think Apache is a great web server, and I've used it at my old work and on my home PCs. The "spotty geeks" line is just what some might say; there are some very good programmers working on Apache.
Yup, seen that, except this was the only drive in the system...
Basically, on a cold boot, the system wouldn't start; you had to either disable the fast boot options in the BIOS or power up, wait 5 seconds and hit reset.
Urgh; amen. We just upgraded our backup server and I had the dubious pleasure of setting it up.
90% of the problems were in the way it handled indexes for multihomed hosts; it would look for the index under the hostname of what you told it to backup and then dump the index under whatever 'hostname' returned. I did eventually find a workaround (by specifying the backup command to include the system name), but it was a PITA.
Their "The network is the computer" slogan would be a little hollow if they didn't include a NIC...:)
As for availability, try finding a reseller in your area. I'm sure there must be one in Dublin somewhere, seeing as how it's a capital city. A google on "sun reseller dublin" shows a few hopefuls.
We used Solaris x86 extensively at my old work (a university) as we couldn't afford Sun stations and an Intel solution gave us the flexibility of NT/Unix. Keeping with Solaris kept some continuity and the experience of Solaris on SPARC.
Dunno what they'll do now, although I guess linux is certainly one option for them.
Could just be the usual lawyer stuff; you know, "if we don't put in this disclaimer and some investor loses more than $5 we might get sued for inflating share prices"...
I don't think it necessarily signals anything more than the usual lawyer butt-covering, but I'd still like to see the technology in action before I'll view it as a revolution in compression.
That's a peak value sustained data rates are likely to be much less, probably around the 20MB/s area; in practice, you could probably get by with Gigabit to the switch and 100Mbit (~8MB/sec) to the desktop. It's still slower than local disk, but you might be able to get by that with agressive caching on the client side.
It is actually possible as it stands to get Samba to at least authenticate to an AD server (I'm guessing due to backward-compatible features making the AD DC act more like an NT4.0 DC); we're doing it here. However, there's probably a load of other AD features that aren't supported in 2.2, so best of luck on improving what is already a very good product!
Current technologies that enable the compression of data for transmission and storage are generally limited to compression ratios of ten-to-one. ZeoSync's Zero Space Tuner(TM) and BinaryAccelerator(TM) solutions, once fully developed, will offer compression ratios that are anticipated to approach the hundreds-to-one range
What I read this to mean is that for some data sets, they anticipate 100:1 (or more) compression. For 'random' data, they will get some compression. Also note the 'once fully developed' phrase and the word 'anticipated'; they haven't actually achieved these results as yet; until they do, this is vapourware.
You can buy seperate print server solutions; search for "network print servers". These are small devices with an ethernet port and one or more serial/parallel ports to connect to printer(s) (often you can drive more than one printer from the same box).
Cost is around 50 quid or so ($75-ish) for a basic one.
Now...if they'd made it a *bit* more expandable (for example, being able to replace the 15" LCD with a special iMac-ized version of the Cinema display)...
Of course, it was soooo easy to change the display on the original iMac....:)
My guess is the kind of audience that would be bothered about the cinema display aren't the ones Steve Jobs is trying to sell to.
Apple is a PITA, agreed; the lack of an official Quicktime player for linux (let's ignore the other kludges at the moment, most of which don't play the Sorensen codec) is one of the main reasons I need to keep Windows around. If I could just get VMWare to play audio without skipping (yes, I know about the tweaks in the cfg file; I've tried a few settings without much luck), I'd have that covered as well, but the playback of a quicktime movie I tried a couple of days ago was very jerky, even on an Athlon XP 1800.
Yup, there are USB and keyboard devices. Where I work, we use smart cards in Win2K and Compaq keyboards with inbuilt card readers. Even the laptops have a card reader builtin. For older hardware being reused, there are external USB or serial readers available, but you really want to use the USB versions as they are apparently much faster than the serial or keyboard devices.
Oh, and we have to have a PIN (it says PIN, but it's really a password) to log in as well, to prevent card theft being an easy back door into the system.
I believe one use that has been found for them is in creating exam timetables; you have a clear set of guidelines (i.e. you want these exams spaced out, these cannot clash etc) and you leave a computer to work them out. IIRC, Edinburgh University uses a program using GAs for this very purpose.
Also, a lot of what is being discussed sounds like Neural Networks as well; gates interlinking and 'learning'. I found it interesting during my MSc, and the field shows some promise if they can get over the factor discussed of "how do you trust something you can't explain?"
Personally, I started with an Accountancy degree, but I did a 1 year MSc in Information Systems which basically gave me a grounding in programming, databases, networks etc. I've now been working for over 4 years and I don't see me having any disadvantage over someone who did a 4 year BSc in Computing, so that may be an option (of course, you need a degree first unless you can blag your way past the admissions office).
As others have said, there comes a point where experience counts more than bits of paper; I don't really see how relevant my degree is now, as my experience has more than surpassed it. Over 90% of what I do is stuff I've learned in the last 4 years, not stuff I did in class.
I can imagine, but 95% of companies are quieter during holidays.
Phone networks are a special case; I know that I have practically zero chance of making a call on my mobile phone between midnight and around 2am on New Year's Day morning, simply due to the network being swamped.
The first I actually knew about it was seeing something on the front page of a paper on the news this morning (you know, the "in the papers" slot; I saw it on the front page even though they didn't mention it specifically). Luckily for me, I've now got a linux box acting as a firewall for my internet connection at home, so it makes me pretty much immune to any security flaws in XP:)
Microsoft keep trotting out the same old argument about GPL code, specifically that because of the "viral" nature of the license, any code incorporating GPL code has to be released, potentially opening up Intellectual Property.
I really hate this argument! At least with GPL code you have a choice; use the code and release as GPL or don't touch it. With Windows code, you have no choice; as you can't get the code without paying MS money or getting some NDA signed, you cannot use it.
Well, we had a question in a pub quiz asking what some monks had made an extra pocket in their outfits for... Turns out they needed an extra pocket for their mobile phones.
Just because they're monks doesn't mean that they are closetted introverts who never speak to anyone; remember that it was monks who invented beer! Mmm, beer good....:)
As far as linux goes, it's free and churches are no longer as rich as they once were, so they may be keen to save some money. Also, any MS license fee saved is more money for the needy/poor/sick/whatever, which should interest any worthy christian.
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Damn, that explains a lot; I've been getting noise since I upgraded to an Asus motherboard using a VIA chipset and couln't figure out why.
Time to try out some of the fixes on the page, although I do have the 4in1 drivers installed and I get the crackling even under linux. I'll have to try the 'disable ACPI' fix...
I think MS actually allow installations of old OSs with an XP license anyways; this was after the furore about their new licensing deal and the fact some poeple still need to use 2000/98/NT for some stuff.
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That was a major shock to me and a sign of how things have improved.
Course, it screwed up on me (in my case, failing to read system files; I can't remember which) within a week requiring a reinstall. It's been fine since, however.
NB: I think Apache is a great web server, and I've used it at my old work and on my home PCs. The "spotty geeks" line is just what some might say; there are some very good programmers working on Apache.
Another game on the 'to buy' list for next year...
Basically, on a cold boot, the system wouldn't start; you had to either disable the fast boot options in the BIOS or power up, wait 5 seconds and hit reset.
90% of the problems were in the way it handled indexes for multihomed hosts; it would look for the index under the hostname of what you told it to backup and then dump the index under whatever 'hostname' returned. I did eventually find a workaround (by specifying the backup command to include the system name), but it was a PITA.
As for availability, try finding a reseller in your area. I'm sure there must be one in Dublin somewhere, seeing as how it's a capital city. A google on "sun reseller dublin" shows a few hopefuls.
Dunno what they'll do now, although I guess linux is certainly one option for them.
I don't think it necessarily signals anything more than the usual lawyer butt-covering, but I'd still like to see the technology in action before I'll view it as a revolution in compression.
That's a peak value sustained data rates are likely to be much less, probably around the 20MB/s area; in practice, you could probably get by with Gigabit to the switch and 100Mbit (~8MB/sec) to the desktop. It's still slower than local disk, but you might be able to get by that with agressive caching on the client side.
It is actually possible as it stands to get Samba to at least authenticate to an AD server (I'm guessing due to backward-compatible features making the AD DC act more like an NT4.0 DC); we're doing it here. However, there's probably a load of other AD features that aren't supported in 2.2, so best of luck on improving what is already a very good product!
BTW, someone shoot them for using so many TMs...
Cost is around 50 quid or so ($75-ish) for a basic one.
My guess is the kind of audience that would be bothered about the cinema display aren't the ones Steve Jobs is trying to sell to.
Apple is a PITA, agreed; the lack of an official Quicktime player for linux (let's ignore the other kludges at the moment, most of which don't play the Sorensen codec) is one of the main reasons I need to keep Windows around. If I could just get VMWare to play audio without skipping (yes, I know about the tweaks in the cfg file; I've tried a few settings without much luck), I'd have that covered as well, but the playback of a quicktime movie I tried a couple of days ago was very jerky, even on an Athlon XP 1800.
Oh, and we have to have a PIN (it says PIN, but it's really a password) to log in as well, to prevent card theft being an easy back door into the system.
Also, a lot of what is being discussed sounds like Neural Networks as well; gates interlinking and 'learning'. I found it interesting during my MSc, and the field shows some promise if they can get over the factor discussed of "how do you trust something you can't explain?"
As others have said, there comes a point where experience counts more than bits of paper; I don't really see how relevant my degree is now, as my experience has more than surpassed it. Over 90% of what I do is stuff I've learned in the last 4 years, not stuff I did in class.
Phone networks are a special case; I know that I have practically zero chance of making a call on my mobile phone between midnight and around 2am on New Year's Day morning, simply due to the network being swamped.
As for missing bits out, the film was still 3 hours long, so it's really a question of what to miss out, not whether to miss stuff out, unfortunately.
The first I actually knew about it was seeing something on the front page of a paper on the news this morning (you know, the "in the papers" slot; I saw it on the front page even though they didn't mention it specifically). Luckily for me, I've now got a linux box acting as a firewall for my internet connection at home, so it makes me pretty much immune to any security flaws in XP :)
I really hate this argument! At least with GPL code you have a choice; use the code and release as GPL or don't touch it. With Windows code, you have no choice; as you can't get the code without paying MS money or getting some NDA signed, you cannot use it.
Just because they're monks doesn't mean that they are closetted introverts who never speak to anyone; remember that it was monks who invented beer! Mmm, beer good....:)
As far as linux goes, it's free and churches are no longer as rich as they once were, so they may be keen to save some money. Also, any MS license fee saved is more money for the needy/poor/sick/whatever, which should interest any worthy christian.
Time to try out some of the fixes on the page, although I do have the 4in1 drivers installed and I get the crackling even under linux. I'll have to try the 'disable ACPI' fix...
I think MS actually allow installations of old OSs with an XP license anyways; this was after the furore about their new licensing deal and the fact some poeple still need to use 2000/98/NT for some stuff.