Again, I must ask, what magic switch was thrown that is keeping NT from working? It's not like there is a magic switch that only an MS guy knows about which needs to be toggled every other day to keep the system running.
MS was willing to extend support for OfficeXP an additional year beyond EOL. If Munich chooses to keep using Office XP after that point, it WILL continue to work.
Now, I must also ask, if SuSE will be supporting their distro for 6 years, what is Munich left with after that? No support for their distro...same boat. A call to Redhat isn't going to do them any good (I don't think anyone is deluded enough to think that Redhat will support a 6 year old version of a competitor's distro).
So perhaps in your circle I'm missing 'the point', but I think you are missing my point. Stuff that works doesn't magically stop working because your support contract runs out. And the tooth fairy doesn't fix your systems when they stop working unless you give them a wad of cash.
What the hell is this myth that some magic switch gets thrown that makes all of your computers stop working, forcing you to put a new version on? Don't want the new version? Keep using the old one!
The progression from OLE->COM/DCOM->.Net wasn't done to turn everyone's world upside down. Rather, OLE compared to COM sucks. And COM compared to.Net sucks. If I had to go back to writing OLE code today I rather shoot myself. Though at the time, OLE was lightyears better than doing it all by hand.
Yet, scary thing is, OLE apps still work, COM apps still work. Gee, what a shock. What EVER were they thinking. If you don't like the new stuff (or there isn't any benefit to using the new stuff), don't use it. If you think you can do your old stuff better using the new stuff, use it.
Also, as a side note, COM was not a replacement for ActiveX, and DCOM is not a replacement for COM. ActiveX is based on COM, and is a way to write reusable GUI controls. COM is a technology to allow one component to talk to talk to another component (invoke methods with parameters, get results) in a completely different process space. DCOM is a way to allow one component to talk to another component on a different MACHINE (DCOM is basically an COM->RPC wrapper).
There were also a few really neat ones for the Atari. My dad used to have an application called PageStream (I think that's what it was called) that I used to write all of my school papers on as a kid... it was an awesome little program.
The thing was running on a TT030 with one of those big ass monitors running at what at the time was an ungodly resolution (and even today is way more than most people use), printing to a reasonably affordable laser printer (that was a wierd bugger too... no onboard memory, sucked it directly off of the onboard ram using some odd technique).
Ahh...simpler times, where you could poke at the hardware without the OS throwing a fit.:)
How do you define "more"? They actually got less software... one of the biggest points in the article was that they didn't want anything more than a word processor on most of the machines.
On top of that, the duration for both contracts was the same, so they're paying more for linux support costs & training than they were for MS costs & training.
When you mention that they can switch to a different company for their distro & support contracts, you assume that there is another company out there willing & able to take that sort of thing on -- if IBM was not in the picture SuSE wouldn't have been a contender.
It told me to go the wrong way down one way streets. It instructed me to turn left onto a road that I was crossing UNDER. It told you to exit the highway after access to the exit ramp went away.
Because we all know that the reason the systems were out of order was because it was running windows, and not because the people writting the software to run on the systems screwed up...
No it's not. The "free" pieces you speak of have clauses in the liscense that prohibit redistribution. You've got to be kidding if you think Sun or Apple will let MS include their products in the OS for "free". The mere thought of it would cause their eyes to turn into dollar signs comic style...
People already complain that windows costs too much. Do you really think that if MS has to liscense all of this 3rd party code that it's going to get cheaper?!
The problem isn't that a bad network admin doesn't configure the system correctly, it's that a single employee plugs in a linksys router into a hub. You can say all you want about making policy to require that people don't, but it won't solve the problem.
So now institutions will be spending money on "insurance", which is an added cost that every place will have to put up with, because it's not possible to completely tie down a network. So now we're making everyone suffer and pay more for an education because you think that fines will solve the problem.
Except the only thing that will do is either make the school more expensive to go to (tuitions rise) or cause the quality of the education its current students receive to decrease.
Instead of making your name "bob@hotmail.com" try "123512341619192351291969212@hotmail.com" and try again. Most hotmail spam is brute forced (ie: every possible comination of usernames consisting of 8 characters) or based on a dictionary attack (words combined in various forms that comprise of likely email addresses).
believe it or not, but most spam sent to hotmail email addresses is generated from either a dictionary or brute forced. Choose a random 20 digit number as your username for hotmail and see how much spam you get...
Coupons have to be applied after the sales tax is calculated. The coupon does not effect the sale price of the item -- if the item costs $10 and you have a coupon, the sale price of the item is still $10; the store is required to tax you on that amount, not the subtotal reflected on the receipt (though there may be some states were it works differently; the variety of tax laws out there throughout the states is crazy). Think of coupons as a type of instant rebate.
And if you think that's a pain in the arse, try writing software that correctly reports the amount of taxes collected that deals with all of the rounding crap correctly.:) (if I ever have to fix another "off by one penny" error again it'll be too soon).
Ooh, that's a neat idea... dynamically sized timeout windows, based on the number of attempts sender/recipient pairs from the same IP source. That would require a spammer to send mail at an incredibly slow rate AND do the retry. Me likey.:)
Though the odds of killing legitimate email using this method is slighly higher than not doing so (ie: listservs).
Unfortunately, the quality of results returned by google lately has been going into the crapper -- mainly due to people trying to get "their" page to be the first page returned in a search, regardless of actual relevance.
You'd think I wouldn't have much trouble trying to find information about 4U rackmount cases, but all I get are junk pages, or sites that link to sites that sell cases. Though in fairness to google, the msn results are just as bad.;)
...and just because I was curious, I tried the same searches using google:
Search: browser 1) [Opera Software] www.opera.com 2) [Netscape.com] wp.netscape.com 3) [mozilla.org] www.mozilla.org 4) [Internet Explorer Home Page] www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp 5) [internet.com the Internet and IT Network from Jupitermedia Corp...] www.internet.com
Based on the first five results: Google gave better results for a search for browser. MSN search gave better results for seaches for mozilla, open office, and apple computer. Results for a search on quicktime were pretty poor for both IMO, though if a choice had to be made I'd say the MSN results were more useful.
Based on the first result each engine returned, the results were the same for apple computer, openoffice, and mozilla. The first result for a search on quicktime was different, but each result was appropriate IMO. I would think it would be kind of hard to judge the result for browser, but since the MSN result was so dumb that one goes to Google.
Open IE, click the search icon in the toolbar, select change preferences from the left panel, select change internet search behavior from the left panel, examine the listbox in the left panel.
I have the following engines listed, in this order: MSN AltaVista Google Ask Jeeves Fast DirectHit Excite GoTo NothernLigh t Yahoo
Applications should not be standards, they should implement standards....and that's his point. Linux does not have a standard update mechanism (you named 4 programs which go about getting and applying updates from difference sources in different ways). Linux does not have a standard configuration mechanism. And so on. Choice is great, but the problem isn't that there is too much too choose from, its that none of it works together.
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I'm not nearly that bad, but I have episodes like it. Best solution I've found is to keep a list. Every time I see something that I think needs to be done, instead of doing it, I write it down. Then I'll do whatever I was doing to do before, or whatever I wrote down. And when I finish it, I cross it off the list.
What ends up happening is that I end up with this big harry list and it seems like I'll never get anything done, but eventually I stop finding new things to do and the list begins to shrink.
The hard part is to force yourself to keep the list and use it...
McDonald Douglas is owned by Boeing, which builds military aircraft. When I was living in St. Louis, I remember one of the congressman pushing through some spending bill to have the plant there build more jets to keep people working... I'd assume that they're still building them.:)
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Again, I must ask, what magic switch was thrown that is keeping NT from working? It's not like there is a magic switch that only an MS guy knows about which needs to be toggled every other day to keep the system running.
MS was willing to extend support for OfficeXP an additional year beyond EOL. If Munich chooses to keep using Office XP after that point, it WILL continue to work.
Now, I must also ask, if SuSE will be supporting their distro for 6 years, what is Munich left with after that? No support for their distro...same boat. A call to Redhat isn't going to do them any good (I don't think anyone is deluded enough to think that Redhat will support a 6 year old version of a competitor's distro).
So perhaps in your circle I'm missing 'the point', but I think you are missing my point. Stuff that works doesn't magically stop working because your support contract runs out. And the tooth fairy doesn't fix your systems when they stop working unless you give them a wad of cash.
What the hell is this myth that some magic switch gets thrown that makes all of your computers stop working, forcing you to put a new version on? Don't want the new version? Keep using the old one!
.Net sucks. If I had to go back to writing OLE code today I rather shoot myself. Though at the time, OLE was lightyears better than doing it all by hand.
The progression from OLE->COM/DCOM->.Net wasn't done to turn everyone's world upside down. Rather, OLE compared to COM sucks. And COM compared to
Yet, scary thing is, OLE apps still work, COM apps still work. Gee, what a shock. What EVER were they thinking. If you don't like the new stuff (or there isn't any benefit to using the new stuff), don't use it. If you think you can do your old stuff better using the new stuff, use it.
Also, as a side note, COM was not a replacement for ActiveX, and DCOM is not a replacement for COM. ActiveX is based on COM, and is a way to write reusable GUI controls. COM is a technology to allow one component to talk to talk to another component (invoke methods with parameters, get results) in a completely different process space. DCOM is a way to allow one component to talk to another component on a different MACHINE (DCOM is basically an COM->RPC wrapper).
There were also a few really neat ones for the Atari. My dad used to have an application called PageStream (I think that's what it was called) that I used to write all of my school papers on as a kid ... it was an awesome little program.
... no onboard memory, sucked it directly off of the onboard ram using some odd technique).
:)
The thing was running on a TT030 with one of those big ass monitors running at what at the time was an ungodly resolution (and even today is way more than most people use), printing to a reasonably affordable laser printer (that was a wierd bugger too
Ahh...simpler times, where you could poke at the hardware without the OS throwing a fit.
How do you define "more"? They actually got less software ... one of the biggest points in the article was that they didn't want anything more than a word processor on most of the machines.
On top of that, the duration for both contracts was the same, so they're paying more for linux support costs & training than they were for MS costs & training.
When you mention that they can switch to a different company for their distro & support contracts, you assume that there is another company out there willing & able to take that sort of thing on -- if IBM was not in the picture SuSE wouldn't have been a contender.
Looks suspiciously like a craft in a popular scifi series that was recently cancelled...
And then you'll need to have a 3rd shuttle standing by in case the 2nd shuttle craps out on its way up too...
My experience with a GPS unit was rather crappy.
It told me to go the wrong way down one way streets. It instructed me to turn left onto a road that I was crossing UNDER. It told you to exit the highway after access to the exit ramp went away.
I was not impressed.
Because we all know that the reason the systems were out of order was because it was running windows, and not because the people writting the software to run on the systems screwed up ...
No it's not. The "free" pieces you speak of have clauses in the liscense that prohibit redistribution. You've got to be kidding if you think Sun or Apple will let MS include their products in the OS for "free". The mere thought of it would cause their eyes to turn into dollar signs comic style...
People already complain that windows costs too much. Do you really think that if MS has to liscense all of this 3rd party code that it's going to get cheaper?!
The problem isn't that a bad network admin doesn't configure the system correctly, it's that a single employee plugs in a linksys router into a hub. You can say all you want about making policy to require that people don't, but it won't solve the problem.
So now institutions will be spending money on "insurance", which is an added cost that every place will have to put up with, because it's not possible to completely tie down a network. So now we're making everyone suffer and pay more for an education because you think that fines will solve the problem.
Except the only thing that will do is either make the school more expensive to go to (tuitions rise) or cause the quality of the education its current students receive to decrease.
The writer is speaking in typical exec speak. Read any statement made by a high level executive of a large company and it'll read the same way.
Instead of making your name "bob@hotmail.com" try "123512341619192351291969212@hotmail.com" and try again. Most hotmail spam is brute forced (ie: every possible comination of usernames consisting of 8 characters) or based on a dictionary attack (words combined in various forms that comprise of likely email addresses).
believe it or not, but most spam sent to hotmail email addresses is generated from either a dictionary or brute forced. Choose a random 20 digit number as your username for hotmail and see how much spam you get ...
Coupons have to be applied after the sales tax is calculated. The coupon does not effect the sale price of the item -- if the item costs $10 and you have a coupon, the sale price of the item is still $10; the store is required to tax you on that amount, not the subtotal reflected on the receipt (though there may be some states were it works differently; the variety of tax laws out there throughout the states is crazy). Think of coupons as a type of instant rebate.
:) (if I ever have to fix another "off by one penny" error again it'll be too soon).
And if you think that's a pain in the arse, try writing software that correctly reports the amount of taxes collected that deals with all of the rounding crap correctly.
Ooh, that's a neat idea ... dynamically sized timeout windows, based on the number of attempts sender/recipient pairs from the same IP source. That would require a spammer to send mail at an incredibly slow rate AND do the retry. Me likey. :)
Though the odds of killing legitimate email using this method is slighly higher than not doing so (ie: listservs).
Unfortunately, the quality of results returned by google lately has been going into the crapper -- mainly due to people trying to get "their" page to be the first page returned in a search, regardless of actual relevance.
;)
You'd think I wouldn't have much trouble trying to find information about 4U rackmount cases, but all I get are junk pages, or sites that link to sites that sell cases. Though in fairness to google, the msn results are just as bad.
...and just because I was curious, I tried the same searches using google:
...] www.internet.com
Search: browser
1) [Opera Software] www.opera.com
2) [Netscape.com] wp.netscape.com
3) [mozilla.org] www.mozilla.org
4) [Internet Explorer Home Page] www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp
5) [internet.com the Internet and IT Network from Jupitermedia Corp
Search: mozilla
1) [mozilla.org] www.mozilla.org
2) [ODP - Open Directory Project] dmoz.org
3) [**** - mozilla.gr.jp] www.mozilla.gr.jp
4) [www.mozilla.com] www.mozilla.com
5) [Mozilla.org: Bugzilla] bugzilla.mozilla.org
Search: OpenOffice.org
1) [OpenOffice.org] OpenOffice.org
-- only 1 result returned --
Search: OpenOffice
1) [OpenOffice.org] www.openoffice.org
2) [OpenOffice.org Users Group Japan] blow-away.net/openoffice
3) [OpenOffice.org] de.openoffice.org
4) [lang.openoffice.org/de] lang.openoffice.org/de
5) [Bluefish editor] bluefish.openoffice.nl
Search: quicktime
1) [QuickTime Download] www.apple.com/quicktime/download
2) [**** - QuickTime - ******] www.apple.co.jp/quicktime/download
3) [qtvr.quicktime.apple.com] qtvr.quicktime.apple.com
4) [Developer - QuickTime] developer.apple.com/quicktime
5) [www.info.apple.com/usen/quicktime] www.info.apple.com/usen/quicktime
Search: Apple computer
1) [Apple] www.apple.com
2) [Apple - Support] www.info.apple.com
3) [*********] www.apple.co.jp
4) [Apple Australia] www.apple.com/au
5) [Apple] www.apple.de
My conclusion?
Based on the first five results: Google gave better results for a search for browser. MSN search gave better results for seaches for mozilla, open office, and apple computer. Results for a search on quicktime were pretty poor for both IMO, though if a choice had to be made I'd say the MSN results were more useful.
Based on the first result each engine returned, the results were the same for apple computer, openoffice, and mozilla. The first result for a search on quicktime was different, but each result was appropriate IMO. I would think it would be kind of hard to judge the result for browser, but since the MSN result was so dumb that one goes to Google.
That's funny, because it is on my machine:
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Open IE, click the search icon in the toolbar, select change preferences from the left panel, select change internet search behavior from the left panel, examine the listbox in the left panel.
I have the following engines listed, in this order:
MSN
AltaVista
Google
Ask Jeeves
Fast
DirectHit
Excite
GoTo
NothernLig
Yahoo
IE version is 6.0.3790.03 running on Win2k3.
What you actually get:
Search: browser
1) [MSN Explorer] explorer.msn.com/home.htm
2) [Guide to Browsers] tech.msn.com
3) [Internet Explorer] www.microsoft.com/windows/ie
4) [Internet Explorer] www.microosft.com/windows/ie/default.htm
5) [Netscape Netcenter] www.netscape.com
Search: mozilla
1) [Mozilla.org] www.mozilla.org
2) [mozdev.org] www.mozdev.org
3) [Mozilla.org - Bugzilla] bugzilla.mozilla.org
4) [Mozilla.org - Chimera Development Information] www.mozilla.org/projects/chimera/development.html
5) [Mozilla.org - The Chimera Project] www.mozilla.org/projects/chimera
Search: OpenOffice.org
1) [OpenOffice.org Source Project] www.openoffice.org
2) [OOoDocs.org] www.ooodocs.org
3) [OOExtras] ooextras.sourceforge.net
4) [OpenOffice.org Companion, Paperback - Amazon.com] www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131407457
5) [OOoForum.org] www.oooforum.org
Search: quicktime
1) [Apple Computer - QuickTime] www.apple.com/quicktime
2) [Apple Store] store.apple.com
3) [ICB QuickTime Internet Software] www.well.com/user/ivanski/download.html
4) [Univ of Houston - QuickTime Virtual Field Trips] www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/quick.html
5) [Apple - QuickTime Broadcaster] www.apple.com/quicktime/products/broadcaster
Search: Apple computer
1) [Apple Computer] www.apple.com
2) [Interact with Mactopia Newsgroups] microsoft.com/mac/support/newsgroups.asp
3) [AppleCare Support] www.info.apple.com
4) [Apple - Hardware] www.apple.com/hardware
5) [Mac OS - Apple Computer] www.apple.com/macos
It's definately better than the results that MSN used to return...
The registery was meant to replace INI files, not the file system.
Your post is the first piece of information I've ever read that implied microsoft intended the registry to be a file system replacement.
Applications should not be standards, they should implement standards. ...and that's his point. Linux does not have a standard update mechanism (you named 4 programs which go about getting and applying updates from difference sources in different ways). Linux does not have a standard configuration mechanism. And so on. Choice is great, but the problem isn't that there is too much too choose from, its that none of it works together.
I'm not nearly that bad, but I have episodes like it. Best solution I've found is to keep a list. Every time I see something that I think needs to be done, instead of doing it, I write it down. Then I'll do whatever I was doing to do before, or whatever I wrote down. And when I finish it, I cross it off the list.
What ends up happening is that I end up with this big harry list and it seems like I'll never get anything done, but eventually I stop finding new things to do and the list begins to shrink.
The hard part is to force yourself to keep the list and use it...
McDonald Douglas is owned by Boeing, which builds military aircraft. When I was living in St. Louis, I remember one of the congressman pushing through some spending bill to have the plant there build more jets to keep people working ... I'd assume that they're still building them. :)