>You would think large companies would ditch MS wholesale simply because MS may one day use the revenue to compete with them.
One could also say: you would think large software companies would ditch Linux wholesale simply because Linux and open source software may one day use compete with them.
Coompetion - Cisco and Microsoft are in that situation right now.
And Red Hat more and more looks like Microsoft - if you do on top of their OS anything they want to do (HA software, J2EE, etc.) they will give you shit and generally use their inferior but cheaper software to undersell your value-added options.
Still, neither of this prevents companies partnering with Microsoft or with Red Hat.
>Consider Sun Microsystems, whose SunOS operating system was based on BSD. What did they give back? Other than a few bug fixes early on, nothing. >Ultrix, from Digital Equipment, was BSD-based. Little to nothing came back to BSD from DEC. >Remember OSF/1, which was based on Mach/BSD? How much of their work went back? Next to nothing. >Microsoft used the BSD TCP stack as the basis of their TCP stack. What did they give back? Nothing. >FTP software based their whole product suite on the BSD codebase. How much came back? Nothing.
All together, they a) paid billions of dollars in taxes b) made tens of millions of individuals well off c) created lots of business opportunities for their suppliers (and even customers)
>Do you sue the person you hired to work at the booth? >No...
Yes, of course you do! If you can prove that the same competitor came in ten times, each time taking with him a shitload of marketing material and your employee still didn't recognize it was the same person and with dishonest intentions at that. In the meantime, all other people who came to the boot came only once and took two or less brochures with them.
In other news, the new Linux phone lasted the same as the best Windows phone when the both phones were powered off..
What a bunch of fucking bullshit!
>If those figures prove true, Linux sure is improving quickly on the power management front.
It means Motorola's drivers and other code have improved. And so fucking what anyway? Am I supposed to ditch my current phone just because this piece of shit can standby 200 hours?
And this: -------------- Google is one of the most popular search engines for users worldwide. Google's cache function, though, allows users to access (at least intermittently) filtered content, because the request for that material goes to Google's servers, not to the blocked source's servers.168 Concerned by this circumvention method, China temporarily blocked access to Google in September 2002169; requests for Google's site were redirected to Chinese search engines.170 According to the company, Google negotiated with Chinese officials, and eventually access was restored.171
However, we found that while Google's site is accessible to Chinese users,172 the Google cache173 and certain keyword searches are blocked. -------------- Source: http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/china/#to c4
The linked site does not exactly show how they plan to limit (ab)use to actual opressed bloggers and keep the spam and ads out.
BTW, what is wrong with opening a (Chinese) blog account on one of Western sites and emailing blog posts via some foreign Webmail site that provides HTTPS encryption of Web sessions?
>Personally, I'd prefer it if $HUMAN_RIGHTS_VIOLATOR *now* can't use GPL-ed code
Lets remind ourselves that $HUMAN_RIGHTS_VIOLATOR can use the loophole in (L)GPL that allows xSPs running GPL apps without abiding by the license (as they do not re-distribute the code).
Here are some workarounds for opressive governments worldwide:
b) outsource IT operations to multinationals who will run GPL-ed code in any way necessary (including assisting in human rights violations) as long as it helps them make money. I can wholeheartedly recommend IBM as they have related experience and references stretching as far back as World War II.
> More likely that there was a hardware failure of some kind. > These things are a perfect example of the evils of closed-source design
Evils of closed-source hardware design?
All h/w I use (as far as I know) is closed-source and I don't find it evil by nature. And why would a h/w malfunction make a closed source design evil? Laws of physics apply to all - it would/could have happened to any type of hardware, not only closed source.
>All it would take is a second robot identifying itself as Internet Explorer slowly crawling the web looking for pages that give completely different results than the google spider.
I'd just block all (MS IE) traffic from non *search?* pages of *.google.*
>Now compare that with the install of a modern Linux distro. See the difference?
No, I don't. Both require download of over 100MB of updates (and the older the Linux, the more updates it needs - SuSE Enterprise 9 probably requires about 200MB of downloads by now).
And in any case I don't care how long they take to install - big deal, 12 or 42 min, I don't install OS more than once a quarter. Which is why discussing time to install is pointless in the first place.
>a cluster for a virtual server - an environment where one can add and remove machines as needed,
From the very beginning it is obvious that the submitter has no clue about clusters, virtual servers and high-traffic environments.
>high-traffic Web site of intensive database application:
What the fuck is this sentence supposed to mean?
>'The main advantage of using LVS is that unlike Microsoft network load-balancing clusters, the LVS allows you to add a node running any operating system that supports TCP/IP to the cluster.'"
Any TCP/IP load balancer allows that.
I haven't seen worse article for quite some time now. Even for/., it is terrible.
It's funny how people object to having their email read by other people but not by machines (like Google's ad engine).
Google should add a mail gateway feature to their yellow search appliance box which would automatically tag suspicous emails. They should also provide a Web-based GUI which would combine internal analysis with external Google searches (competitors' employees names, etc.) to create a very productive snooping environment.
>. My only real issue is all the ram it hogs after a box has been up for a couple weeks or so.
Oh, stop bitching, for Christ's!
Here, I'm running Win2KSP4 with Firefox 1.04 (and Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta). I have a single Firefox instance running in a single window and a single tab (Slashdot.org) open.
Task Manager tells me that: o Firefox is using 85MB RAM (resource hog #1). Yesterday I noticed it was eating about 120MB RAM with some 5-10 tabs open. That's fucking insane. o MS IE 6.0 is using 25MB RAM (one window, slashdot.org) o Skype is #2 with 16MB RAM utilization (idle, I'm not using it at the moment) o Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta is using 12MB (it is active, in the task bar).
I haven't noticed any starvation problems on Win2KSP4 or WinXPSP2, there must be something wrong with your box. In any case, I have to reboot once a week at least to let the damn Symantec updates take effect. As mine is a desktop/workstation, I don't find that to be a big problem, though.
>Given the current state of Windows security and >advances in spyware, probably any company has >become a very easy target for such spy attack >from competitors.
Oh, and I almost missed the point! Yes, Windows sucks! It is truly pathetic how these, sometimes interesting, articles nearly always descend to the lowest common denominator suitable for mass/. consumption! Goddamn trolls.
What has the Windows OS have to do with that? Unless you've got a firewall to detect or block outgoing connections (there are many good firewall utilities for Windows clients, BTW), you'd probably end up the same way with any client infested with spyware or Trojans.
Slashdot Mirror
> Sendmail is THE MTA of choice for all major ISPs.
2 1_044830
Not any more.
And what a sad piece of shit sendmail is!
In UNIX Hater's Handbook they rightly dedicated it a whole chapter "Sendmail: The Vietnam of Berkeley Unix".
Hahaha....
> Hotmail is not an ISP. Yahoo is not an ISP. Google is not an ISP.
ISP? Big deal - what now matters are these three.
According to educated guesses, sendmail has about 40% of MTA share:
http://www.softpanorama.org/Mail/mta.shtml
See this too: http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_200411
Sorry, pal, I hate to be the one to break it to you but MSNBC made the first profit this year.
b c13.html
And not only that.
"MSNBC.com's profitability mark was reached a year ahead of a schedule set two years ago, Tillinghast said."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/181825_msn
>You would think large companies would ditch MS wholesale simply because MS may one day use the revenue to compete with them.
One could also say: you would think large software companies would ditch Linux wholesale simply because Linux and open source software may one day use compete with them.
Coompetion - Cisco and Microsoft are in that situation right now.
And Red Hat more and more looks like Microsoft - if you do on top of their OS anything they want to do (HA software, J2EE, etc.) they will give you shit and generally use their inferior but cheaper software to undersell your value-added options.
Still, neither of this prevents companies partnering with Microsoft or with Red Hat.
>Consider Sun Microsystems, whose SunOS operating system was based on BSD. What did they give back? Other than a few bug fixes early on, nothing.
>Ultrix, from Digital Equipment, was BSD-based. Little to nothing came back to BSD from DEC.
>Remember OSF/1, which was based on Mach/BSD? How much of their work went back? Next to nothing.
>Microsoft used the BSD TCP stack as the basis of their TCP stack. What did they give back? Nothing.
>FTP software based their whole product suite on the BSD codebase. How much came back? Nothing.
All together, they
a) paid billions of dollars in taxes
b) made tens of millions of individuals well off
c) created lots of business opportunities for their suppliers (and even customers)
>Do you sue the person you hired to work at the booth?
>No...
Yes, of course you do!
If you can prove that the same competitor came in ten times, each time taking with him a shitload of marketing material and your employee still didn't recognize it was the same person and with dishonest intentions at that.
In the meantime, all other people who came to the boot came only once and took two or less brochures with them.
>The proprietor knows you and your purchasing history.
Maybe, but he probably does not know your BROWSING history which Amazon's patent is based on.
Can't wait for Google ASCII Earth
In other news, the new Linux phone lasted the same as the best Windows phone when the both phones were powered off..
What a bunch of fucking bullshit!
>If those figures prove true, Linux sure is improving quickly on the power management front.
It means Motorola's drivers and other code have improved.
And so fucking what anyway? Am I supposed to ditch my current phone just because this piece of shit can standby 200 hours?
> And I think it means Gbps
:)
How is that different from the parent who said gigabits?
Or you aren't quite sure what you're saying here?
>Unless cards wear out after 10 Gigabits.
???
How the fuck is pirating someone's article Informative?
If anything, it should be modded Redundant.
>Oh, they are, but unlike Yahoo, they're doing something with them.
Yeah, I heard that Yahoo bought a company called Overture, fired all employees, closed it and burned its offices.
>Yes, but a company can make a tonne of money and still not be evil. They two things are not mutually exclusive.
o c4
Google this:
http://battellemedia.com/archives/000919.php
And this:
--------------
Google is one of the most popular search engines for users worldwide. Google's cache function, though, allows users to access (at least intermittently) filtered content, because the request for that material goes to Google's servers, not to the blocked source's servers.168 Concerned by this circumvention method, China temporarily blocked access to Google in September 2002169; requests for Google's site were redirected to Chinese search engines.170 According to the company, Google negotiated with Chinese officials, and eventually access was restored.171
However, we found that while Google's site is accessible to Chinese users,172 the Google cache173 and certain keyword searches are blocked.
--------------
Source:
http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/china/#t
The linked site does not exactly show how they plan to limit (ab)use to actual opressed bloggers and keep the spam and ads out.
BTW, what is wrong with opening a (Chinese) blog account on one of Western sites and emailing blog posts via some foreign Webmail site that provides HTTPS encryption of Web sessions?
>Personally, I'd prefer it if $HUMAN_RIGHTS_VIOLATOR *now* can't use GPL-ed code
s /2005/06/20/tech_firms_help_tyrants_keep_their_gri p/
Lets remind ourselves that $HUMAN_RIGHTS_VIOLATOR can use the loophole in (L)GPL that allows xSPs running GPL apps without abiding by the license (as they do not re-distribute the code).
Here are some workarounds for opressive governments worldwide:
a) have xSPs (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo et al) do the dirty work fo' ya (Microsoft a bit less likely to use GPL software for that, but still).
Motto: We're snitches so you don't have to be.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/article
b) outsource IT operations to multinationals who will run GPL-ed code in any way necessary (including assisting in human rights violations) as long as it helps them make money.
I can wholeheartedly recommend IBM as they have related experience and references stretching as far back as World War II.
> More likely that there was a hardware failure of some kind.
> These things are a perfect example of the evils of closed-source design
Evils of closed-source hardware design?
All h/w I use (as far as I know) is closed-source and I don't find it evil by nature.
And why would a h/w malfunction make a closed source design evil? Laws of physics apply to all - it would/could have happened to any type of hardware, not only closed source.
>have Linux-knowledgeable clerks and trained sales support for customers like you and me
That's a brilliant idea!
Now compare cost of selling Linux boxen with the cost of selling WinXP boxen (for which one can have the cheapest clerks possible).
>provides the ability to tinker w/ Open Power platforms at the University of Augsburg and Peking University.
I prefer to tinker with my x86 box at home.
>All it would take is a second robot identifying itself as Internet Explorer slowly crawling the web looking for pages that give completely different results than the google spider.
I'd just block all (MS IE) traffic from non *search?* pages of *.google.*
> what are the main advantages it has over Linux, BSD and Windows?. Just curious.
Go to www.google.com and do your research there.
>Now compare that with the install of a modern Linux distro. See the difference?
No, I don't.
Both require download of over 100MB of updates (and the older the Linux, the more updates it needs - SuSE Enterprise 9 probably requires about 200MB of downloads by now).
And in any case I don't care how long they take to install - big deal, 12 or 42 min, I don't install OS more than once a quarter.
Which is why discussing time to install is pointless in the first place.
>a cluster for a virtual server - an environment where one can add and remove machines as needed,
/., it is terrible.
From the very beginning it is obvious that the submitter has no clue about clusters, virtual servers and high-traffic environments.
>high-traffic Web site of intensive database application:
What the fuck is this sentence supposed to mean?
>'The main advantage of using LVS is that unlike Microsoft network load-balancing clusters, the LVS allows you to add a node running any operating system that supports TCP/IP to the cluster.'"
Any TCP/IP load balancer allows that.
I haven't seen worse article for quite some time now. Even for
It's funny how people object to having their email read by other people but not by machines (like Google's ad engine).
Google should add a mail gateway feature to their yellow search appliance box which would automatically tag suspicous emails.
They should also provide a Web-based GUI which would combine internal analysis with external Google searches (competitors' employees names, etc.) to create a very productive snooping environment.
How is that interesting?
From TFA:
>part of a patriotic effort to save energy and fight global warming.
The problem is that Japan won't be able to meet their obligations from the Kyoto Agreement.
>. My only real issue is all the ram it hogs after a box has been up for a couple weeks or so.
Oh, stop bitching, for Christ's!
Here, I'm running Win2KSP4 with Firefox 1.04 (and Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta).
I have a single Firefox instance running in a single window and a single tab (Slashdot.org) open.
Task Manager tells me that:
o Firefox is using 85MB RAM (resource hog #1).
Yesterday I noticed it was eating about 120MB RAM with some 5-10 tabs open. That's fucking insane.
o MS IE 6.0 is using 25MB RAM (one window, slashdot.org)
o Skype is #2 with 16MB RAM utilization (idle, I'm not using it at the moment)
o Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta is using 12MB (it is active, in the task bar).
I haven't noticed any starvation problems on Win2KSP4 or WinXPSP2, there must be something wrong with your box.
In any case, I have to reboot once a week at least to let the damn Symantec updates take effect. As mine is a desktop/workstation, I don't find that to be a big problem, though.
>Given the current state of Windows security and
/. consumption!
>advances in spyware, probably any company has
>become a very easy target for such spy attack
>from competitors.
Oh, and I almost missed the point!
Yes, Windows sucks!
It is truly pathetic how these, sometimes interesting, articles nearly always descend to the lowest common denominator suitable for mass
Goddamn trolls.
What has the Windows OS have to do with that?
Unless you've got a firewall to detect or block outgoing connections (there are many good firewall utilities for Windows clients, BTW), you'd probably end up the same way with any client infested with spyware or Trojans.