[cynical mode on]
The market I can see for this is consultancy companies with expertise in VB.Net that are required to deliver a solution running on Linux.
No staff retraining will be necessary so they can make use of the existing skills. The costs involved will be way less than those of such retraining. Furthermore they will be able to deliver something quickly to the client. The ongoing server fees can be hidden in the consultancy fees.
Any ongoing problems will require more consultancy to remedy them. Providing the client has signed off on the initial delivery these will be fixed at additional cost.
[cynical mode off]
Seriously I can see this being used in the above situation and based on that the pricing looks well thought out. Its not going to create a massive movement of apps from IIS to Apache/Tomcat but probably enough to keep them in business.
The difference is symantic. It is true that you aren't breaking copyright by downloading a song and listening it. There is a breach of copyright going on though by the person sharing the music with you if they don't have rights to distribute it. In both cases, there is a breach in copyright.
The only insightful thing about the parent is that is proves that Slashdot mods could be replaced by bots that mod up anything that disses MS and mentions a piece of open sores software.
Apple have released a Bonjour SDK and a user tool that shows the potential of it. They have obviously chosen IE because a) it comes as part of Windows and so they can be sure that everyone has it and b) that the vast majority of people using Windows use IE as their browser.
Move along, nothing to see above. The parent rather than being informative is merely making a cheap shot.
There are many examples wherein an oft repeated untruth is more widely accepted than the reality. What is so bad about people putting their comments into their blogs? Oh, I get it.. if they were real open sores developers then they would only have time for the project. The rest of life would be as nothing to the all encompassing goal of making it work.
Off topic but... return-receipts are not guaranteed to be supported by the MUA. That said it is possible to add the necessary header into an auto-going email to request a return-receipt.
Feh, actually worked in development on defect fixing? The defect/bug described may run to several pages and include additional information, should as images, to illustrate the problem. Whilst more information might be helpful without the full description of the problem it could be misleading.
Now access to part of rdar would be useful. The question is whether this is something that's possible.
Given that the majority of PCs out there don't have the necessary hardware to support the feature isn't this just an obvious statement. Reading the article its clear that the hardware isn't in a state to support the feature yet. It does hint that Longhorn will make use of the hardware should it be present.
So rather than this being something pulled from Longhorn it's just being emphasised that having a system with the TPM chip isn't a requirement for running Longhorn.
iTunes is too restrictive. I tried it when it came out, but because I don't have an Apple mp3 player, I cannot play any of my songs.
Moderators. Please read this post and stop modding up as insightful. It's nothing of the sort. Its Flamebait or an ordinary Troll at best.
The issue, as always, is the invasion of external legilation onto the web. The reason for no global launch is two fold; the rights holders and the local government.
In the early days of e-commerce it was simple for me to buy goods from the USA (I live in the UK) and electronically download them, or have them physically shipped, for less money than I paid locally. Now this is much harder. There are agreements in place that require overseas suppliers to charge me UK sales tax, or make it easy for the UK authorities to charge me it directly. This has made the world shrink again. I recently looked to buy something only available in the US but found that the company didn't ship to the UK, not because of shipping costs but because of the hassle of the form filling.
The idea behind DNG is that it is a wrapper for the Camera RAW format. The RAW data is encapsulated in DNG. There are then additional tags added to the DNG to describe how the RAW data should be interpreted. For a given camera this information is likely to be static, all dynamic information being contained within the RAW format, so the encapsulation should be speedy.
So in answer to the parent. No DNG isn't RAW format but it doesn't have any impact on the image quality and should not have an impact on performance.
I don't agree with the parent at old. I suspect that they have knowledge of the benefits of them. I'll try and educate a little.
ZFS. The 128 bit nature is the thing that is touted most of all, however this is a headline figure that can be latched onto by journalists and PHBs. The real advantages of ZFS are to do with the elimination of complex volume management systems to handle mirroring and data integrity. Volume management could be called a high end feature so ignore that an move onto data integrity. ZFS uses a copy on write approach when writing blocks a opposed to overwriting existing blocks. The net result is should the system fail during operation the file system will not be corrupt. The last write may be lost but the filesystem will be okay. No more fsck. Another feature is when mirroring ZFS stores a checksum of each block in a parent block. If one of the mirrors has bad blocks ZFS can determine not only that there is an error but which of the two alternative blocks to use.
Zones. What amazes me is how many people just don't see the potential of zones from a security standpoint. Using zones you can make the base system secure, to the point of only allowing SSH access from specific networks/hosts. Zones can then be created for each application running on the host and resources allocated appropriately. This allows a real separation between administration and user access. Even for a server at home running say a web server and email running each of those in a separate zone with no need for general user accounts is safer than running all services on a traditional system.
As a Brit who has worked abroad it depends on the amount of time spent abroad as to whether the UK government is entitled to claim tax on the income. For short durations there are dual taxation agreements to prevent this. In these cases the UK government takes the difference between what you have paid and what you would have paid if you'd been paying UK taxes. There is no rebate if working abroad results in lower taxes.
I move around different workplaces and have to exchange documents with people from more organisations. I have worked places where some people quite admantly would not supply.doc files, instead sending in an StarOffice format. I would always wait for someone else to produce an RTF or DOC format of the file before being able to handle it.
I don't understand why being forced to use an OpenOffice/StarOffice file format as opposed to an MS Office one is any better. It still forces me to install software that I don't want on my system in order to handle it.
As a user why should I care about the difference? I'm making a document to send to someone, I should use a document editor. I don't care about what sort of document it is, I shouldn't need to know. I just create the document and distribute it in the most appropriate way. If its got video in then I know that it won't print very well but I understand that. Why should I have to create two types of document based on the distribution medium?
So make changes to grades across the board. Just little ones. If its discovered the finger then points at the professor trying to boost the grades of his class.
No, this is the job of the software architects, not the goverment. If it were left to the government it would be easy to see why it were a problem.
Look at this internet thing we are using. It has defined objects and interfaces and methods of accessing them. Apply the same principles to government IT projects. The government can define the objects and interfaces and keep control of them. The information stored is based on the input of forms that the goverment writes in the first place after all. With a published set of interfaces and objects to deal with a market would exist bringing in competition. The only alternative is better management of huge monolithic projects as we have at present which patently does not work.
Having worked for a number of consultancy companies don't be so quick to blame them. The problems with large scale procurement of this sort is generally down to a complete lack of knowledge by the purchaser and the desire to have completely new systems every time. I have seen consultancy project both work and fail. The reasons have always been down to management, or lack thereof, of the consultancy from the client.
We have a multi-billion pound project on the way at the moment in the UK. This is running into huge problems as well, who knows what the end cost will be, but I blame the approach rather than the consultants. Instead of spending money on huge monolithic systems with attendant ongoing support tie-ins, the government bodies should be defining the data that needs to be stored, the interfaces to them and the interactions between them. If they produced a well defined model they could then place a general specification out there and let individual authorities purchase compliant systems from the market. The degree of competition that this would introduce would improve the quality and reduce the chance of cost overruns.
I disagree. Microsoft gets very little right, but they don't have to. What they do is provide just enough so that people don't jump ship. They are in a monopoly position on the desktop and have no need to push new features. They can trickle things out when they reckon its good enough to ship.
OSS on the other hand needs hooks to get people to look at it. It has to counter all that MS say that they are going to come out without in order not to lose the PR battle. What OSS lacks is a clear spokesman, someone who can evangilise for it. Part of the recent upturn in Apple's fortunes can be directly attributed to Steve Jobs. Like him or loathe him, he does provide a focus in the same way that Gates does for MS. There is no one of similar stature in the OSS desktop space.
Why is this modded as a troll? The post says that he's using Linux on it. If you read the post it could be taken as being a compliment that given a Mac with OS X Linus has chosen to run Linux instead.
I guess that the Linux fanboys on slashdot take any comparison with OS X as a criticism.
In an ideal world this is indeed true and has been true for many years. When at college, over 20 years ago, it was drummed into us that we should spend more time designing than coding because in the end it would save time. In the 20 years since then I've only worked on a few projects that have embodied this principle. In most cases the pressure to deliver something outweighs everything else.
Apple released a public beta of OS X to take advantage of the nerd factor. This did cost, but only enough to cover shipping costs. One key thing was that they provided an easy mechanism to provide feedback on bugs encountered. That there were bugs sort of proves the point of the article, that the OS as a whole was too big to be tested, at least in economic terms.
Finding out whether a file is infected by a virus is a case of looking at the file and seeing if that virus signature is present in the file. This is likely to be done by a program as its easier. These chunks of virus code will live in different places dependent on the type of file being effected. This is all obvious. Surely this patent isn't worth a damn as it can be challenged as such.
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The market I can see for this is consultancy companies with expertise in VB.Net that are required to deliver a solution running on Linux.
No staff retraining will be necessary so they can make use of the existing skills. The costs involved will be way less than those of such retraining. Furthermore they will be able to deliver something quickly to the client. The ongoing server fees can be hidden in the consultancy fees.
Any ongoing problems will require more consultancy to remedy them. Providing the client has signed off on the initial delivery these will be fixed at additional cost.
[cynical mode off]
Seriously I can see this being used in the above situation and based on that the pricing looks well thought out. Its not going to create a massive movement of apps from IIS to Apache/Tomcat but probably enough to keep them in business.
The difference is symantic. It is true that you aren't breaking copyright by downloading a song and listening it. There is a breach of copyright going on though by the person sharing the music with you if they don't have rights to distribute it. In both cases, there is a breach in copyright.
Apple have released a Bonjour SDK and a user tool that shows the potential of it. They have obviously chosen IE because a) it comes as part of Windows and so they can be sure that everyone has it and b) that the vast majority of people using Windows use IE as their browser.
There are many examples wherein an oft repeated untruth is more widely accepted than the reality. What is so bad about people putting their comments into their blogs? Oh, I get it.. if they were real open sores developers then they would only have time for the project. The rest of life would be as nothing to the all encompassing goal of making it work.
Off topic but ... return-receipts are not guaranteed to be supported by the MUA. That said it is possible to add the necessary header into an auto-going email to request a return-receipt.
IMO Apple don't need to release the source code for Safari. They do need to release the source code for the webkit that is the source of the fun.
Now access to part of rdar would be useful. The question is whether this is something that's possible.
So rather than this being something pulled from Longhorn it's just being emphasised that having a system with the TPM chip isn't a requirement for running Longhorn.
iTunes is too restrictive. I tried it when it came out, but because I don't have an Apple mp3 player, I cannot play any of my songs. Moderators. Please read this post and stop modding up as insightful. It's nothing of the sort. Its Flamebait or an ordinary Troll at best.
In the early days of e-commerce it was simple for me to buy goods from the USA (I live in the UK) and electronically download them, or have them physically shipped, for less money than I paid locally. Now this is much harder. There are agreements in place that require overseas suppliers to charge me UK sales tax, or make it easy for the UK authorities to charge me it directly. This has made the world shrink again. I recently looked to buy something only available in the US but found that the company didn't ship to the UK, not because of shipping costs but because of the hassle of the form filling.
So in answer to the parent. No DNG isn't RAW format but it doesn't have any impact on the image quality and should not have an impact on performance.
ZFS. The 128 bit nature is the thing that is touted most of all, however this is a headline figure that can be latched onto by journalists and PHBs. The real advantages of ZFS are to do with the elimination of complex volume management systems to handle mirroring and data integrity. Volume management could be called a high end feature so ignore that an move onto data integrity. ZFS uses a copy on write approach when writing blocks a opposed to overwriting existing blocks. The net result is should the system fail during operation the file system will not be corrupt. The last write may be lost but the filesystem will be okay. No more fsck. Another feature is when mirroring ZFS stores a checksum of each block in a parent block. If one of the mirrors has bad blocks ZFS can determine not only that there is an error but which of the two alternative blocks to use.
Zones. What amazes me is how many people just don't see the potential of zones from a security standpoint. Using zones you can make the base system secure, to the point of only allowing SSH access from specific networks/hosts. Zones can then be created for each application running on the host and resources allocated appropriately. This allows a real separation between administration and user access. Even for a server at home running say a web server and email running each of those in a separate zone with no need for general user accounts is safer than running all services on a traditional system.
As a Brit who has worked abroad it depends on the amount of time spent abroad as to whether the UK government is entitled to claim tax on the income. For short durations there are dual taxation agreements to prevent this. In these cases the UK government takes the difference between what you have paid and what you would have paid if you'd been paying UK taxes. There is no rebate if working abroad results in lower taxes.
I don't understand why being forced to use an OpenOffice/StarOffice file format as opposed to an MS Office one is any better. It still forces me to install software that I don't want on my system in order to handle it.
As a user why should I care about the difference? I'm making a document to send to someone, I should use a document editor. I don't care about what sort of document it is, I shouldn't need to know. I just create the document and distribute it in the most appropriate way. If its got video in then I know that it won't print very well but I understand that. Why should I have to create two types of document based on the distribution medium?
So make changes to grades across the board. Just little ones. If its discovered the finger then points at the professor trying to boost the grades of his class.
Errr... bluetooth is available for the mini at a BTO option. Apple sell a BT keyboard and a BT mouse.
However the current stable windows server version is Windows 2003.
Look at this internet thing we are using. It has defined objects and interfaces and methods of accessing them. Apply the same principles to government IT projects. The government can define the objects and interfaces and keep control of them. The information stored is based on the input of forms that the goverment writes in the first place after all. With a published set of interfaces and objects to deal with a market would exist bringing in competition. The only alternative is better management of huge monolithic projects as we have at present which patently does not work.
We have a multi-billion pound project on the way at the moment in the UK. This is running into huge problems as well, who knows what the end cost will be, but I blame the approach rather than the consultants. Instead of spending money on huge monolithic systems with attendant ongoing support tie-ins, the government bodies should be defining the data that needs to be stored, the interfaces to them and the interactions between them. If they produced a well defined model they could then place a general specification out there and let individual authorities purchase compliant systems from the market. The degree of competition that this would introduce would improve the quality and reduce the chance of cost overruns.
OSS on the other hand needs hooks to get people to look at it. It has to counter all that MS say that they are going to come out without in order not to lose the PR battle. What OSS lacks is a clear spokesman, someone who can evangilise for it. Part of the recent upturn in Apple's fortunes can be directly attributed to Steve Jobs. Like him or loathe him, he does provide a focus in the same way that Gates does for MS. There is no one of similar stature in the OSS desktop space.
I guess that the Linux fanboys on slashdot take any comparison with OS X as a criticism.
In an ideal world this is indeed true and has been true for many years. When at college, over 20 years ago, it was drummed into us that we should spend more time designing than coding because in the end it would save time. In the 20 years since then I've only worked on a few projects that have embodied this principle. In most cases the pressure to deliver something outweighs everything else.
Apple released a public beta of OS X to take advantage of the nerd factor. This did cost, but only enough to cover shipping costs. One key thing was that they provided an easy mechanism to provide feedback on bugs encountered. That there were bugs sort of proves the point of the article, that the OS as a whole was too big to be tested, at least in economic terms.
Finding out whether a file is infected by a virus is a case of looking at the file and seeing if that virus signature is present in the file. This is likely to be done by a program as its easier. These chunks of virus code will live in different places dependent on the type of file being effected. This is all obvious. Surely this patent isn't worth a damn as it can be challenged as such.