the subtlty is in the "distribute" part of it. Just because you put linux in a device doesn't mean you HAVE to publish your new stuff on the web for everybody on sourceforge. In these guys case, just toss the source code for the drivers on the OEM driver CD [that typical customers never actually open], then your complying with the GPL! In these guys case, very few of their business customers will ever venture much beyond the setup routine anyway. Sure some developers might, but most of them aren't going to put it on line "just because". Eventually somebody will post it, but it would be pretty low key/low risk.
Really, you're right this screams for a Knoppix or Mepis type treatment! Start with a Live CD with all your common apps pre configured [apache, php, perl, samba, etc] as well as several options for hardware configuration and then boot and go.
Obviously, you'd have to limit your hardware configurations somewhat due to constraints, but that would be a good learning experience for why you needed the hardware and what each redundancy was buying you.
Adaptec and Escalade[?] both make IDE/SATA Raid cards. They're not the cheap $100 ones like Promise makes, but they're much cheaper than the SCSI options and use standard IDE drives. For a matter of fact most of the midrange "Enterprise" data tank solutions Utilize a big box of 8-10 disks set up this way with some extra "sauce" in the mix.
That's a myth that's perpetuated far to much in our society....after all sex is a great remedy for stress!! And having kids, work, social life WILL cause stress.
Like so many things in life you have to MAKE time for it...it doesn't "just happen" anymore!
There was a study posted on slashdot last year 2001 vs 2002 numbers that showed the labels released 25% FEWER new titles across the board, but only had a 9% "drop" in sales...and that "drop" wasn't a real-unit-numbers drop, but mearly they didn't sell as many as they forcasted using the growth numbers from 1999. That wasn't adjusted for the dot-bust, or 9/11 drop in the economy.
Re:How long is the iPod thing going to last?
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Actually the iPod is pretty original... You have to see one side-by-side with any of the other players...they're a work of art. They also are more "hackable" than any of the others. They have their own OS, with a "community" of people writing PDA like apps for them... for most people it can replace getting a Palm too! Unlike all the other players trying desperately to lock you into THEIR service, Apple's lets you do lots of other non-music related stuff too...
But mostly it's a work of art... note that the original doesn't have "moving" buttons...they're all touch sensitive/capacitive so they work with fingers but won't trigger bouncing around in your pocket! and that dial is SO cool...no moving parts!!! all of the other players use tiny cheap plastic 'snappy' buttons, not so easy to use.
MS recent plans for.net domination put them squarely in Apple-land. It's better at this point to let MS do it's own thing 100% then to try to "compete" with them.
It would be better to keep applications like Mozilla and Opera on the table running on windows AND anything else exactly the same way. Right now in terms of number of options, the "pure" MS environment is a lame duck. It will take time for businesses to see that, but that's where the OSS alternatives can offer to "fix" those deficencies while pointing to cheaper places to run them on.
mostly though this is a good step in the right direction of defining Open Standards as it's own thing without "begging" to MS to support us. The problem with that plan is that MS will always have more $$ to spend on programmers to break the Open standards than all the other stanard members have together... It's better to do their own thing and "happen" to run on windows.
I like the idea of a computer based crossword where the 4th dimension was time. then the "scafolding" would change shape at each "keyframe". Trying to describe it is actually harder than just making a picture! Actually it would be really intuative for crossword gurus... If it's 3D modeled, then you can rotate it for traditional 2-d views...it'd be a cool novelty
make the puzzle 3d with "steps" that the puzzle transforms as you step thru time!!! You'd have to have some sort of alpha-blending to "streak" the time direction, but it could be really cool!!
Who'd get more respect? The guy [Kerry] sent into front line battle and [basically] had to shoot women and children & watch them & his fellow soldiers die, or the other guy [bush] who ducked out then and now sits in his armchair "bravely" fighting his "war" on terror?
The whole problem all along is that Bush is to "executive"... more interested in what he wants and not considering the implications...or that real people are dying.
What about Lin4win? could you run the Linux-on-windows and let That access the file shares...then have that show up as some kind of virtual network share/samba device?
If you were to run the "windows" [Culinux?] version of Linux with a virtual network driver sort of another loopback to a mini-samba, you could use it to read/write to other linux partitions. It could even be added as a module in Cygwin. Windows simply won't see "non-windows" partitions so it shouldn't be a problem.
You might have just hit it.
The issue with wanting everthing OSS on windows is that it makes migration easier. Almost every company has 1 or 2 apps that have to be on windows...so the key is replacing one-at-a-time...mozilla here, openoffice.org there... It's a page right out of the MS playbook...cooperate with everything and quietly switch user bases. But with OSS you won't ever be FORCED to switch and pay more money!!!
I'd have to disagree also. I think your numbers are a bit high unless you're talking about a giant chain store, but I know regular mom-n-pops that routinely pay $1000/mos for half a dozen of your average "home size" friges....remember, businesses pay for electricity at nearly double the price of YOUR electric bill!!
The nuclear energy problem in the US is directly because almost all of the reactors were built to support cold war "weapons grade" research...not to put saftey first. Add to that the fact that they're not actively working on making better, cleaner, safer reactors due to the politics and we're a "third world" in terms of effective use of Nuclear energy.
I'd be nice to "play fair" with the muggers, but THEY aren't exactly playing fair by targeting bypassers in the shadows are they? It tells what a "criminal victim" society we've become that we have to ask permission of the law to defend ourselves. After all, the Law in general misses the point! Stealing is wrong because according to the "law of jungle" I've got every right to kill you for theatening me & takimg my stuff!!! The police exist not to "prevent crime" but to catch the criminals before the victim gets to them....we've become so "civilized" & "neutered" that we forget that.
But does that apply to professor's course notes as well? Let's ask a REAL question!!!! I'm paying for orignial information from the professor, not simply his rehashed notes from 5 semesters ago. If reusing one's own coursework is not allowed then how can the profs get away with pawning "reused" tests, finals, and class notes off on the students....seems like a double standard!!
and generally, McDs customers ask for the hottest coffee they can get!!! I worked there for almost 7 years and the #1 drive thru complaint was coffee too "cold"...heck they'd often sit there and wait for a fresh "boiling" pot to brew.
Frankly, the bigger probem wasn't the coffee being too hot, but the cup being to "convienent" to use while driving and automobile. Generally, these cases are because the driver wasn't paying attention to their driving, or should have stopped the car to have their meal.
Personally, I always thought that McDs should have served stone cold coffee for a week with a printed copy of the judge's comment & phone number on the cup!
They're IN Taiwan...and so are the bosses! They don't take home multi-million dollar salaries, and they don't make the 60%+ profit AMD and Intel do on their parts. They make decent parts at a fair price and make a nice [but not obscene] profit doing it...like a proper business should!
Remember that Mac shops are more likely to be power users rather than gearheads. Mac training is all about the apps rather than running the OS. By the time you have a working knowlage and experince in all the usual mac programs you have a good enough handle on the OS...but you're still not a tech. Meaning that They are more likely to need to call somebody in once every other month for a "checkup" at field service rates because they just can't fix it. Graphic design firms are also more likely to be more "highly" paid too and computers "are" their business [if the computer's not up, they're not designing!!!] so it's more efficent business wise to call the pros in right away than suffer thru it like in Windoze land.
Another way to look at it is that Macs don't have ENOUGH problems to warrant a full time tech! meaning that mac support is a highly paid "niche" service like copy machine repair rather than being everywhere like MCSEs.
Not magic bullet anymore
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Why I.T. Matters
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The real issue is that IT is not the magic bullet anymore. The "Ivy League" schools really have caused much trouble with business trends in the last 40 years. They always are searching for "magic bullets" when they should be looking at the over all picture. IT is useful just like accounting, engineering, plumbing, electrical, and landscaping...it's jsut not flashy anymore!
The days of purchasing $1 million dollars of Cisco routers is over for all but the very largest businesses. I really like the plumbing analogy to IT. After all, anybody can go to the local Home inprovement store and get a whole house full of plumbing for a reasonable price...but making a WORKING plumbing system is an entirely different story!!!! Plumbing is unique to your home, terrain, and personal needs. While there are standards for pipe sizes and fittings each person's home is different, so the job will always need to be "personally" done. Plumbers make good middle-class money...there's nothing wrong with that, those are the type of jobs we need in the gobal ecomomy.
IT is also like accounting though. The REAL issues with IT are not fighting the latest virus or configuring expensive routers, the REAL VALUE in IT is properly matching hardware and software to the goals and needs of the company!!! IT has to start demonstrating real value to the company!!! The "boys with toys" stage is over and it's time for IT people to start understanding HOW a business works and Why they need IT, not just installing cool toys.
Of course the real issue is that these "harvard business school" guys teach everything in knee-jerk reactions, not moderation...look how they missed the focus on quality performance in the 70s and 80s. The same half-assed, it's-not-makeing-us-rich-now group think is back in action all over again! The problem is that YOUR boss is going to read this trash with the same "focus" that we'all have for slashdot! Those "brilliant" executives are really no more intelligent or independant thinking than most slashdoters..it's just a "richer" club.
Because MS has done a pretty good job of helping/hurting the PC game market in order to build XBox.
They keep tossing DX specs like candy...it's fun for slashdotters, but it's pushed the PC game market into a bug-ridden, high-priced, over complicated area that will never go mainstream against consoles...with MS selling Xboxes now, you can expect them to "complicate" PC gamming even more....
Let's face it, the DX series is just R&D for Xbox now...when the next crop of "cool" stuff comes up, MS will buy it up "for Xbox only".
I wonder what the Anti-trust implications of a PC-compatible Xbox would be? Michael Dell better wake up and smell the coffee...MS is comming for HIS lunch next!!!
Duh...companies like Intel, compaq, and others are the ones that BUILT that infrastructure!
Via is an anomoly...they were cute when the big boy needed cheap chipsets to stick-it-to each other, but the took the profits and bought up the IP of the big guys loosers...now they are a serious theat in low-cost computing. Intel would love to stop them, but Via has bought enough of Intel's "victims" that intel had cross-licenses with that Via has some free-reign to do what they want!!!
But they also used "group" tactics. Having multiple players & spectators watching the tables for the "hot" ones. Then they would have good players step in at the best time for maximum profit with small wagers. It wasn't "pure" card counting.
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the subtlty is in the "distribute" part of it. Just because you put linux in a device doesn't mean you HAVE to publish your new stuff on the web for everybody on sourceforge. In these guys case, just toss the source code for the drivers on the OEM driver CD [that typical customers never actually open], then your complying with the GPL! In these guys case, very few of their business customers will ever venture much beyond the setup routine anyway. Sure some developers might, but most of them aren't going to put it on line "just because". Eventually somebody will post it, but it would be pretty low key/low risk.
Obviously, you'd have to limit your hardware configurations somewhat due to constraints, but that would be a good learning experience for why you needed the hardware and what each redundancy was buying you.
Adaptec and Escalade[?] both make IDE/SATA Raid cards. They're not the cheap $100 ones like Promise makes, but they're much cheaper than the SCSI options and use standard IDE drives. For a matter of fact most of the midrange "Enterprise" data tank solutions Utilize a big box of 8-10 disks set up this way with some extra "sauce" in the mix.
Like so many things in life you have to MAKE time for it...it doesn't "just happen" anymore!
Because all Dads know what boys their age are thinking...
There was a study posted on slashdot last year 2001 vs 2002 numbers that showed the labels released 25% FEWER new titles across the board, but only had a 9% "drop" in sales...and that "drop" wasn't a real-unit-numbers drop, but mearly they didn't sell as many as they forcasted using the growth numbers from 1999. That wasn't adjusted for the dot-bust, or 9/11 drop in the economy.
But mostly it's a work of art... note that the original doesn't have "moving" buttons...they're all touch sensitive/capacitive so they work with fingers but won't trigger bouncing around in your pocket! and that dial is SO cool...no moving parts!!! all of the other players use tiny cheap plastic 'snappy' buttons, not so easy to use.
as long as they make sure the smaller browsers like firefox keep up to date, then adding another browser is smaller than many windows patches!!!
It would be better to keep applications like Mozilla and Opera on the table running on windows AND anything else exactly the same way. Right now in terms of number of options, the "pure" MS environment is a lame duck. It will take time for businesses to see that, but that's where the OSS alternatives can offer to "fix" those deficencies while pointing to cheaper places to run them on.
mostly though this is a good step in the right direction of defining Open Standards as it's own thing without "begging" to MS to support us. The problem with that plan is that MS will always have more $$ to spend on programmers to break the Open standards than all the other stanard members have together... It's better to do their own thing and "happen" to run on windows.
I like the idea of a computer based crossword where the 4th dimension was time. then the "scafolding" would change shape at each "keyframe". Trying to describe it is actually harder than just making a picture! Actually it would be really intuative for crossword gurus... If it's 3D modeled, then you can rotate it for traditional 2-d views...it'd be a cool novelty
make the puzzle 3d with "steps" that the puzzle transforms as you step thru time!!! You'd have to have some sort of alpha-blending to "streak" the time direction, but it could be really cool!!
Who'd get more respect? The guy [Kerry] sent into front line battle and [basically] had to shoot women and children & watch them & his fellow soldiers die, or the other guy [bush] who ducked out then and now sits in his armchair "bravely" fighting his "war" on terror?
The whole problem all along is that Bush is to "executive"... more interested in what he wants and not considering the implications...or that real people are dying.
What about Lin4win? could you run the Linux-on-windows and let That access the file shares...then have that show up as some kind of virtual network share/samba device?
You might have just hit it.
The issue with wanting everthing OSS on windows is that it makes migration easier. Almost every company has 1 or 2 apps that have to be on windows...so the key is replacing one-at-a-time...mozilla here, openoffice.org there... It's a page right out of the MS playbook...cooperate with everything and quietly switch user bases. But with OSS you won't ever be FORCED to switch and pay more money!!!
I'd have to disagree also. I think your numbers are a bit high unless you're talking about a giant chain store, but I know regular mom-n-pops that routinely pay $1000/mos for half a dozen of your average "home size" friges....remember, businesses pay for electricity at nearly double the price of YOUR electric bill!!
I'd be nice to "play fair" with the muggers, but THEY aren't exactly playing fair by targeting bypassers in the shadows are they? It tells what a "criminal victim" society we've become that we have to ask permission of the law to defend ourselves. After all, the Law in general misses the point! Stealing is wrong because according to the "law of jungle" I've got every right to kill you for theatening me & takimg my stuff!!! The police exist not to "prevent crime" but to catch the criminals before the victim gets to them....we've become so "civilized" & "neutered" that we forget that.
But does that apply to professor's course notes as well? Let's ask a REAL question!!!! I'm paying for orignial information from the professor, not simply his rehashed notes from 5 semesters ago. If reusing one's own coursework is not allowed then how can the profs get away with pawning "reused" tests, finals, and class notes off on the students....seems like a double standard!!
Frankly, the bigger probem wasn't the coffee being too hot, but the cup being to "convienent" to use while driving and automobile. Generally, these cases are because the driver wasn't paying attention to their driving, or should have stopped the car to have their meal.
Personally, I always thought that McDs should have served stone cold coffee for a week with a printed copy of the judge's comment & phone number on the cup!
They're IN Taiwan...and so are the bosses! They don't take home multi-million dollar salaries, and they don't make the 60%+ profit AMD and Intel do on their parts. They make decent parts at a fair price and make a nice [but not obscene] profit doing it...like a proper business should!
Another way to look at it is that Macs don't have ENOUGH problems to warrant a full time tech! meaning that mac support is a highly paid "niche" service like copy machine repair rather than being everywhere like MCSEs.
The days of purchasing $1 million dollars of Cisco routers is over for all but the very largest businesses. I really like the plumbing analogy to IT. After all, anybody can go to the local Home inprovement store and get a whole house full of plumbing for a reasonable price...but making a WORKING plumbing system is an entirely different story!!!! Plumbing is unique to your home, terrain, and personal needs. While there are standards for pipe sizes and fittings each person's home is different, so the job will always need to be "personally" done. Plumbers make good middle-class money...there's nothing wrong with that, those are the type of jobs we need in the gobal ecomomy.
IT is also like accounting though. The REAL issues with IT are not fighting the latest virus or configuring expensive routers, the REAL VALUE in IT is properly matching hardware and software to the goals and needs of the company!!! IT has to start demonstrating real value to the company!!! The "boys with toys" stage is over and it's time for IT people to start understanding HOW a business works and Why they need IT, not just installing cool toys.
Of course the real issue is that these "harvard business school" guys teach everything in knee-jerk reactions, not moderation...look how they missed the focus on quality performance in the 70s and 80s. The same half-assed, it's-not-makeing-us-rich-now group think is back in action all over again! The problem is that YOUR boss is going to read this trash with the same "focus" that we'all have for slashdot! Those "brilliant" executives are really no more intelligent or independant thinking than most slashdoters..it's just a "richer" club.
They keep tossing DX specs like candy...it's fun for slashdotters, but it's pushed the PC game market into a bug-ridden, high-priced, over complicated area that will never go mainstream against consoles...with MS selling Xboxes now, you can expect them to "complicate" PC gamming even more....
Let's face it, the DX series is just R&D for Xbox now...when the next crop of "cool" stuff comes up, MS will buy it up "for Xbox only".
I wonder what the Anti-trust implications of a PC-compatible Xbox would be? Michael Dell better wake up and smell the coffee...MS is comming for HIS lunch next!!!
Via is an anomoly...they were cute when the big boy needed cheap chipsets to stick-it-to each other, but the took the profits and bought up the IP of the big guys loosers...now they are a serious theat in low-cost computing. Intel would love to stop them, but Via has bought enough of Intel's "victims" that intel had cross-licenses with that Via has some free-reign to do what they want!!!
But they also used "group" tactics. Having multiple players & spectators watching the tables for the "hot" ones. Then they would have good players step in at the best time for maximum profit with small wagers. It wasn't "pure" card counting.