Just be sure you have the right Linux, with the right C libraries and the right version of the GUI toolkit and possibly the right Java version and the right GCC.
Oh, and next time Linux upgrades, just cross your fingers and hope it won't break your proprietary application. You might also want to know that you might have to tweak scripts and possibly do a little reverse engineering to know what's being called when all hell breaks loose. Because that it won't work within, say, 6 months, while the WIndows guys at the next door won't be having this problem for years, literally.
If you think I'm joking, I'm describing what happened to me between Debian upgrades and Maple. I just said, the fuck with it, and since I wanna use Unix, I use a Mac nowadays.
Of course, Linux fanboys have no clue why we would want to use these proprietary tools in the first place, as they are all Evil (and they don't seem to get a clue even form the fact that the engineering community prefers these proprietary tools than their free software alternatives).
Free markets are about choice. You can sign a contract with Red Hat or you can sign a contract with Microsoft.
BTW, I am not pro-Linux. I think BSD-licensed systems achieve a nicer balance between open-source and marketing your product. But I do think it's healthier to have, e.g., IBM pushing Linux than having a Microsoft-only world.
Just the effect that a million or more kids will grow up realizing that computers are something that can have different operating systems, that is, that they're not inherently connected to that monopoly product such as Windows, is very beneficial.
There's a whole generation out there that grew up thinking computers equal Microsoft, which suits them fine, but is just horrible for a free market economy.
It's strange how Linux gets easily picked up by leftists, who end up upholding free market principles as a side effect, while dyed-in-the-wool capitalist types will staunchly support Microsoft.
Bullshit. It's not the license. It's the huge PR machine behind it. IBM and all big boys supporting Linux are really selling hardware and are using Linux to commoditize enteprise software. If anything, the GPL scares people away as it is hostile to small software houses. Now, look at the Windows software ecosystem with its myriad software houses. Are you enlightened now?
Plan 9 is experimental and you know it. Inferno might be a viable alternative for a grid OS, commercially uppported with Plan 9 design, even though you intended it as joke.
Anyway, you sort of prove my point. Too many people make uniformed choice. There might be better solutions out there, if you are willing to think a liittle outside the box. But managers can't really do that, can they? They just look at the $number$ on their spreadsheet, and are mentally unable to factor in other things - like quality.
I guess the bottom line is: can I hire a cheap sysadmin, and a group of cheap web monkeys?
So, if people want to make a career underspecializing, be my guest. But just keep in mind that all this Linux PR you read is not set by the "community", but by big boys who are commoditizing enterprise software.
With all the GCC bugs Linux has? With the poor track record on security?
Linux might be fine and dandy for web monkeys, or huge data crunching. It's cheap. It's fast. But that's not all there is to it, at least for some stuff.
For apps, on Unix, thanks, but no thanks. Not with that sloppy "release early, release often" process. Even the LHC project had security problems due to Linux. Wake up!
Let me add some more: I can't, for the life of me, imagine Linux running on Computed Tomography scanners. That would be horrible, that would be criminal...You often see Sun - and I suspect Solaris - on medical hardware. There must be a reason for that...
Tech shouldn't be about "gee, everybody's using it." How about some hard, technical facts? So many things in Solaris are more advanced than Linux...Sounds like a Linux PR piece... For instance, you can count on general ABI breakage on Linux. They even take pride in it. That's not a system you can trust for the long haul. You can't trust your applications will remain compatible. Linux is a mess, IMHO.
"I'm Linux and I can't load a time series of 20 years worth of inflation rates index in OpenOffice without you having to go out and make yourself a cup of coffee because, apparently, my algorithms suck."
My point was about the percentage of Windows OS installed that are pirated copies and what percentage of an average Indian household income a Windows license represents. My point was also about how Micro$oft want to portray their user base as one (i.e. we-are-one) giant family of Windows users when in fact it's bullshit. I wasn't talking about the minority of Indians that work in high-tech or TI that have bought Windows a license (with, say, 25% of their monthly income?). So fuck you for distorting my comments.
Ok, let's think. The Mac guy violently pushes the PC guy into a box. Nope, that isn't like him...
Or maybe the Mac dude tries to make fun or stereotype the PC guy? No, no. He's a nice guy. He's just cool and doing his thing. It's the PC guy that gets in trouble all by his own doing.
This argument that the PC guy was "singled out" has nothing to do with the Mac character. It's all in your head, sorry to say.
The Apple ads are just comedy. The Microsoft-camp advertising "wizards"tried comedy but it was awkward (as awkward as Gates wiggling his butt).
My bet is these series of Microsoft ads will degenerate into "we're all one big happy family" kinda advertising. Which is pretty much as standard as it gets. Not really original or inspiring. Much like the difference between a PC box and a Mac design. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy: try as you may, you can't break into the "cool zone" with Windows.
Well, that was their intent. But in the end, I find John's carrecter more likeable. All mis-adventure that happens to him are funny, but in the end he tends to generate empathy.
And what about the PC character on this Microsoft ad? He tends to generate revulsion. There's nothing in him, he's a sorry character. Why put him in the add at all? How dumb are these people in the advertising business?
I bet in the next ads, it will be about all the common people that buy PCs. You know, the "I'm a PC and I have a beard" types.
So the you realize it's a joke - or another load of royal M$ BS - when they portray Indians and Africans in that commercial.
Of course, the ad is targeted at US Americans. But they are basically treating the target audience as a stupid bunch of uninformed people, telling them: "See? We're all are one big happy family of consumers of M$ products." Which is a lie. A statistical, numerical, monetary lie.
So any which way I look at this commercial, it keeps saying: "Gee. I buy Microsoft Windows. I am an uniformed consumer that makes stupid buying decisions regarding technology."
These Windows add are saying: *everybody* uses Microsoft Windows. Except that it mentions Macs. Because everybody knows the PC guy. So it's kind of stupid. Kinda like the analytic approach the Microsoft users take when they keep up with Microsoft year after year, release after release of just bad products.
I'm sure, though, they don't perceive themselves in that light.
Yeah! Me too! I went out and donated my Mac to the Salvation Army and my Unix boxen got sent to Africa, and I got me THREE BRAND NEW COMPUTERS WITH VISTA INSTALLED!
Oh, boy! Talk about eye candy!
Couldn't get the wireless at the hotel lobby to work, though...
So you're a pissy person... and you have a beard... you don't like tweed... you wear a headband... you wear a suit... you wear three rings on your fingers...
but you're just a pissy person.
So what, PC?
You're still a sucker. (*)
(*) For spending way too much cash on a tech firm that creates problems and then sells you the solution. Vista is the ultimate proof Microsoft sucks. For real.
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Just be sure you have the right Linux, with the right C libraries and the right version of the GUI toolkit and possibly the right Java version and the right GCC.
Oh, and next time Linux upgrades, just cross your fingers and hope it won't break your proprietary application. You might also want to know that you might have to tweak scripts and possibly do a little reverse engineering to know what's being called when all hell breaks loose. Because that it won't work within, say, 6 months, while the WIndows guys at the next door won't be having this problem for years, literally.
If you think I'm joking, I'm describing what happened to me between Debian upgrades and Maple. I just said, the fuck with it, and since I wanna use Unix, I use a Mac nowadays.
Of course, Linux fanboys have no clue why we would want to use these proprietary tools in the first place, as they are all Evil (and they don't seem to get a clue even form the fact that the engineering community prefers these proprietary tools than their free software alternatives).
So, I was obviously mentioning Chavez and you mention IBM. Are you thick, or what?
Free markets are about choice. You can sign a contract with Red Hat or you can sign a contract with Microsoft.
BTW, I am not pro-Linux. I think BSD-licensed systems achieve a nicer balance between open-source and marketing your product. But I do think it's healthier to have, e.g., IBM pushing Linux than having a Microsoft-only world.
Just the effect that a million or more kids will grow up realizing that computers are something that can have different operating systems, that is, that they're not inherently connected to that monopoly product such as Windows, is very beneficial.
There's a whole generation out there that grew up thinking computers equal Microsoft, which suits them fine, but is just horrible for a free market economy.
It's strange how Linux gets easily picked up by leftists, who end up upholding free market principles as a side effect, while dyed-in-the-wool capitalist types will staunchly support Microsoft.
Bullshit. It's not the license. It's the huge PR machine behind it. IBM and all big boys supporting Linux are really selling hardware and are using Linux to commoditize enteprise software. If anything, the GPL scares people away as it is hostile to small software houses. Now, look at the Windows software ecosystem with its myriad software houses. Are you enlightened now?
Plan 9 is experimental and you know it. Inferno might be a viable alternative for a grid OS, commercially uppported with Plan 9 design, even though you intended it as joke.
http://www.vitanuova.com/solutions/grid/
Anyway, you sort of prove my point. Too many people make uniformed choice. There might be better solutions out there, if you are willing to think a liittle outside the box. But managers can't really do that, can they? They just look at the $number$ on their spreadsheet, and are mentally unable to factor in other things - like quality.
I guess the bottom line is: can I hire a cheap sysadmin, and a group of cheap web monkeys?
So, if people want to make a career underspecializing, be my guest. But just keep in mind that all this Linux PR you read is not set by the "community", but by big boys who are commoditizing enterprise software.
With all the GCC bugs Linux has? With the poor track record on security?
Linux might be fine and dandy for web monkeys, or huge data crunching. It's cheap. It's fast. But that's not all there is to it, at least for some stuff.
For apps, on Unix, thanks, but no thanks. Not with that sloppy "release early, release often" process. Even the LHC project had security problems due to Linux. Wake up!
Let me add some more: I can't, for the life of me, imagine Linux running on Computed Tomography scanners.
That would be horrible, that would be criminal...You often see Sun - and I suspect Solaris - on medical hardware. There must be a reason for that...
For instance,
http://www.sun.com/solutions/documents/success-stories/HC_Philips_BB.xml
Tech shouldn't be about "gee, everybody's using it."
How about some hard, technical facts?
So many things in Solaris are more advanced than Linux...Sounds like a Linux PR piece...
For instance, you can count on general ABI breakage on Linux. They even take pride in it. That's not a system you can trust for the long haul. You can't trust your applications will remain compatible.
Linux is a mess, IMHO.
Ok, not a real Linux problem. Unfair.
"I'm Linux and I can't load a time series of 20 years worth of inflation rates index in OpenOffice without you having to go out and make yourself a cup of coffee because, apparently, my algorithms suck."
^^^^ Right up there ^^^^^
Best comment of all!
Oh, the irony of it all! LOL.
My point was about the percentage of Windows OS installed that are pirated copies and what percentage of an average Indian household income a Windows license represents. My point was also about how Micro$oft want to portray their user base as one (i.e. we-are-one) giant family of Windows users when in fact it's bullshit. I wasn't talking about the minority of Indians that work in high-tech or TI that have bought Windows a license (with, say, 25% of their monthly income?).
So fuck you for distorting my comments.
...and you should also hope an army of strawmen don't show up.
"Life without walls" ?! You thought that was great. LOL
To me, the image I get from that stupid little irritating motto is:
a bunch of advertising a-holes sitting around big tables in high-rises looking out their windows, trying to come up with something clever.
You're getting all fuddy-duddy and hissy.
You're a beige box.
Ok, let's think. The Mac guy violently pushes the PC guy into a box. Nope, that isn't like him...
Or maybe the Mac dude tries to make fun or stereotype the PC guy? No, no. He's a nice guy. He's just cool and doing his thing. It's the PC guy that gets in trouble all by his own doing.
This argument that the PC guy was "singled out" has nothing to do with the Mac character. It's all in your head, sorry to say.
The Apple ads are just comedy. The Microsoft-camp advertising "wizards"tried comedy but it was awkward (as awkward as Gates wiggling his butt).
My bet is these series of Microsoft ads will degenerate into "we're all one big happy family" kinda advertising. Which is pretty much as standard as it gets. Not really original or inspiring. Much like the difference between a PC box and a Mac design. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy: try as you may, you can't break into the "cool zone" with Windows.
Well, that was their intent. But in the end, I find John's carrecter more likeable. All mis-adventure that happens to him are funny, but in the end he tends to generate empathy.
And what about the PC character on this Microsoft ad? He tends to generate revulsion. There's nothing in him, he's a sorry character. Why put him in the add at all? How dumb are these people in the advertising business?
I bet in the next ads, it will be about all the common people that buy PCs. You know, the "I'm a PC and I have a beard" types.
Yes. Pirated Windows is definitely non-elite.
However, the cost of Microsoft Home Licenses can be as high as % 7.8 of GNI (Gross National Income) per capita in some countries (in this case, Brazil, it being a middle-income country - it is much higher for, say, Bangladesh).
So the you realize it's a joke - or another load of royal M$ BS - when they portray Indians and Africans in that commercial.
Of course, the ad is targeted at US Americans. But they are basically treating the target audience as a stupid bunch of uninformed people, telling them: "See? We're all are one big happy family of consumers of M$ products." Which is a lie. A statistical, numerical, monetary lie.
So any which way I look at this commercial, it keeps saying: "Gee. I buy Microsoft Windows. I am an uniformed consumer that makes stupid buying decisions regarding technology."
These Windows add are saying: *everybody* uses Microsoft Windows. Except that it mentions Macs. Because everybody knows the PC guy. So it's kind of stupid. Kinda like the analytic approach the Microsoft users take when they keep up with Microsoft year after year, release after release of just bad products.
I'm sure, though, they don't perceive themselves in that light.
Nevermind. Just follow the crowd...
I would have been a pissed off customer, had I not learned beforehand that the thing was crippled (like, there's no Solver in its Excel).
So now I am pissed off that Microsoft is such a pisser that they would cripple their own product.
Oh, well... Saved myself a few bucks in the end...
It's not about religion. More, like, about quality.
Yeah! Me too! I went out and donated my Mac to the Salvation Army and my Unix boxen got sent to Africa, and I got me THREE BRAND NEW COMPUTERS WITH VISTA INSTALLED!
Oh, boy! Talk about eye candy!
Couldn't get the wireless at the hotel lobby to work, though...
So you're a pissy person...
and you have a beard...
you don't like tweed...
you wear a headband...
you wear a suit...
you wear three rings on your fingers...
but you're just a pissy person.
So what, PC?
You're still a sucker. (*)
(*) For spending way too much cash on a tech firm that creates problems and then sells you the solution. Vista is the ultimate proof Microsoft sucks. For real.
Hahaha, you bet!
BTW, it seems I was mistaken on the Solaris thing. Not sure. Anyhow, it wasn't (and isn't) Microsoft for NYSE.