That video makes me hope Redhat stays dominant just a little bit more.
Redhat used to be the hands-down champ. 7.3 is still a solid product for older machines, honestly. But the transition to Fedoa, in my eyes(while smart theoretically) has hurt them a lot. With Fedora for a long while I got the slow bloated feeling. Too many options for initial install, too much overlap, etc.
I think as Fedora finally becomes fully democratic(as it has always been planned, but slow to actually come about) these issues will level off.
This made me get some confidence back into Redhat, for what its worth.
Well thank GOD we were smart enough to elect a great man like GW. He has really pulled this nation together... under a cloud of fear and propaganda... and made this world a better place... by breaking century-old precedent and attacking a sovereign national pro-actively. But thats OK, because Iraq was a bigger threat to us than those silly Iranians or North Koreans with their New-Que-Ler bombs. Nucs are overrated, I mean, seriously, the President told a bald-face lie about atomic weapons in Iraq, and no one seems to mind. Thank god, i mean really, thank GOD he is protecting us.
It may be a small price though, with our booming economy(the boom sound is the echo from the huge ass door to india getting thrown open), we can more than make up for the largest deficit and debt in the nation's history. It isn't all Bush's falt! Clinton only left him with a couple billion in the black, what was he suppose to do? Be a fiscally responsible republican... Hell no, that is just silly to ask of a GOP President with a GOP controlled congress.
While we are on the subject, how is that outsourcing incentive going for you? Over here it is great. Oregon really got a boost from all those tech jobs suddenly taking a red eye the f!*$ out of here.
All is well, though. I can't complain. Even with the oil crisis we are in(and out of, and in again) that is entirely unaffected by Iraq and Afghanistan's turmoil... Wait, whatever happen to Afghanistan... WAIT, what the fuck ever happened to Osama? Oh, thats right, Bush said he wasn't worried about him anymore. With all the oil shit going on, it is goo that the President has close financial/business/personal ties with the Royal Saudi family. And hey, if all that mid-east stuff doesn't work, Bush still can go tap the oil in Alaska... nevermind that it only contains, theoretically, about 6 months worth of US oil at the rate we consume. Those big paved roads, oil equipment, pipelines and foot/heavy machinery traffic will have a nice backdrop of a destroyed national forest...
I ask you, what the hell is the point of a natural forest if not to preserve the natural beauty?
Thank you
Yes, I will happily burn in hell. I have karma to wrap myself in.
First, the FSF != The open source community or movement. Though they are a huge part, they are not synonymous terms.
Sun is, I believe, still the number one corporation for donating to Open Source. They have given more code to the OS community than anyone else. Openoffice.org, which didn't help 'found' the community, but gave it a strong leg to stand on.
NFS, is one. There work with BSD OS, etc.
They have given a lot back, and were there early on in BSD's development.
Any other/.ers with a better knowledge of the 80s want to chime in?
Out of a dozen, songs, you don't need the name, you know its location in the cd. Also, you generally only hear one band, or one genre per disc. To change artist you change disc(and read the disc's label).
An mp3 player with a 200+ song library, you can't memorize where songs are, you have to have them sorted and classified. You need to be able to find a specific song among the 200, of which the artists, genre, songname/length and album all vary.
It is trivially to find a song among a dozen tracks when the artist and album are the same.
I say it is bogus soley because it doesn't even have a 1 or 2 line led display. How useful is a music player when you can't see what music you are playing?
"Gigabyte Lexar flash for their MP3 player for the low $70's off of eBay"
Good for you.
Me, I would rather have form and functionality in place of a low ICO. Besides, comparing used products to brand new is like comparing self-built PCs to highend Mac towers to show how 'expensive' they are.
You arn't the market apple wants(and currently dominates). Enjoy your mp3 player, though.
Yea. If slashdot says it will bomb, Apple orders more.
Are you kidding me? How rediculous. Apple scratched their PDA(recently, this is within the last couple years under steve jobs) and NO valid leaks were ever made. Most of Apple's best stuff doesn't get leaked, but given how GOOD it is, people are much more likely to try and leak it against apple's wishes...
Do you get all worked up over the new HP desktop tower? No? Well how about the dual-proc g5 tower when Apple released it? Apple's hardware has higher expectations for an initial WOW factor, thats all.
IBM will only sell in medium/large bulk, not individual users. And they donate/give R&D money to Apple+IBM for business class software and such.
The only problem would be IBM getting the design/graphics labs that Apple has owned for so long. High end graphic workstations are Apple's bread and butter.
First, Apple is trading at rediculously high prices, with expectations to top $100 bucks a share at its peek. So buying in the near future(foreseeable) would be rediculous.
Next, IBM sells divisions that are unprofitable and grows divisions that are traditionally profitable. All their moves are as business-oriented as can be. Which is fine, but don't act as if they have this invisible hand guiding them. They are a true company, they go by the bottom line.
IBM's culture (suits) versus Apple culture (not-suits) would just not merge. It would just be a broken relationship. Why go through it?
Apple decided not to go by the Econ of Scale, they wern't forced into it. They choose the luxury line of computers so they could provide a unified experience, Dell provides the low/medium end that ships with another companies OS. Dell has MUCH less control over the end' experience' (for better or worse, you might say) than Apple does with the Mac.
Apple has consistantly moved away(Jobs) from licensing the OS. They don't want to be that kind of company. That is there poragative.
You are allowed to dream. Personally, I would rather see a Sun+Apple merger with a multi-platform (nextstep-esque fat binaries & Java) workstation / server system. That is just me. It won't happen either, but I can dream too.
"real terrorists kill people instead of rooting your box."
Real terrorist use fear(terror) as a tool to push their agenda. Death is just an effective way to incite fear.
Cyber-torrorism.. Computer/Internet-based Terrorism, if you will can certainly kill people. Those stop lights at the intersections, the 911 systems, the radio and wireless systems for police/fire systems. The banking systems, ATMs. If core systems (heaven forbid!) crash, lives most certainly could and would be lost.
More importantly, fear would be struck. Which is entirely the point of terrorism.
If I am going to put up an anti-microsoft site, and Microsoft wants to give me money by puting ads I know my users will just ignore, bring it on. They are just funding the site.
I always thought man pages should be a wiki snapshot. There is so much crap or overly-confusing info in man pages, when all you need to know is the default use of the tar command for tar.gz files, for example
A wiki could add/delete/cleanup any information needed, and a couple moderators keeping a heads up on changes to be safe. When it is time for a product release you run your snapshot script, make man pages out of the html and BAM. Up to the date documentation.
Good points, BBF's are not perfect, but on the same token, neither are the alternative(whichever acronym they fit undeR).
My experience with BBF's on the mac side seem to remind me of drag-and-drop plug-ins, and the like. Meaning that to add perl, you drop the perl.plug-in file to the plugin directyory or the app(or whatever). Point being, it didn't take a recompile to add.
Mac comes with a fairly comprehensive(so far as I know) system library base, where a lot of functionality can be had in a single, standard, system-wide place. Relying on this means that bug fixes are handled, obviously, by Apple.
It seems that when I, for instance, download a patch or update to A mac or windows program, it has nothing to do with a recompile, just replacing the files that were editted.
So corporation X wants to deploy production/enterprise level software Y or Z. Y is open source, Z is closed source. Y and Z are comparable feature-wise, and both equally fill the role.
If Y has a backdoor, you have the option for your software development department to look at the code, review and check for buffer overflows and backdoors.
If Z has a backdoor, you are unaware of it, but it is likely that only company Z knows about it(for the time being, backdoors are commonly cracked by third-party hackers).
So in the first scenario, many people could know about the hole but you can also fix it, or use a fix provided by a programmer that also knows about the while.
In the second scenario, few peopl know (initially) about it, but it cannot be patched by anyone but the company that made it(and put in the backdoor in the first place. could you really trust them to patch it?).
This sounds almost like my experience with an mac os 9 server(here me out).
OS 9 was actually quite nice, for software maintenance and configuration. Very consistant and either there were no installers, or the installers were just smart copy/paste scripts.
I had an OS 9 box that I wanted to run as a web server. I found one, download the file, doubl-clicked it and pretty much without any more effort a web server was up.
Granted, the whole reliability/multi-tasking issues for OS 9 make it a less than ideal system to run as a server, but for software that is a self-contained executable, it works great. On first boot(or when it cannot fild an existing file(s)) it creates the configuration files and preferences files. It has a nice simple gui clicky-tab page to change the settings, and a simple interface.
Another product even had php etc. pre-compiled in. This would be nice if we could have all the most common extensions of apache prebuilt in, but disabled.
I know, different way of getting to your solution. It isn't as secure or 'cool'. But the self-contained binary for the software I wanted was really impressive.
But Xen has nothing to do with VirtualPC. VPC lets you run emulation software on Windows or a Mac to emulate an x86 computer for running operating systems like windows, linux, *bsd, etc.
Xen is a userlinux-style system that is Linux-only for running only linux virtual systems, essentially. This is more like a Sun Contrainers competitor(if that) than a VirtualPC or VMWare competitor.
1. It doesn't work reliably. 2. You can't host files, and it takes a long time to insert large(medium even) files. 3. Files are dropped if not popular. Thus, you can't get rare files, only popular or recent ones. 4. It DOES NOT WORK reliably.
And this coming from a guy that hopes beyong hope that one day it WILL work. Today is not that today. Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.
I think a killer feature, that does a somewhat decentralized bittorrent, would be for the protocol to dynamicly failover if the tracker goes down, so that a seeder would assume reponsibility(or several would). Maybe this is what they are going for, I can't tell(/.ed), but a roaming-tracker would be a killer feature.
I wonder if they could evelop it such that It is a protocol extension, rather than a napster-esque program. Hopefully backwards compatable! This would allow people to use their current BT program(Azureus, etc) instead of a single app.
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That video makes me hope Redhat stays dominant just a little bit more.
Redhat used to be the hands-down champ. 7.3 is still a solid product for older machines, honestly. But the transition to Fedoa, in my eyes(while smart theoretically) has hurt them a lot. With Fedora for a long while I got the slow bloated feeling. Too many options for initial install, too much overlap, etc.
I think as Fedora finally becomes fully democratic(as it has always been planned, but slow to actually come about) these issues will level off.
This made me get some confidence back into Redhat, for what its worth.
Well thank GOD we were smart enough to elect a great man like GW. He has really pulled this nation together ... under a cloud of fear and propaganda ... and made this world a better place ... by breaking century-old precedent and attacking a sovereign national pro-actively. But thats OK, because Iraq was a bigger threat to us than those silly Iranians or North Koreans with their New-Que-Ler bombs. Nucs are overrated, I mean, seriously, the President told a bald-face lie about atomic weapons in Iraq, and no one seems to mind. Thank god, i mean really, thank GOD he is protecting us.
It may be a small price though, with our booming economy(the boom sound is the echo from the huge ass door to india getting thrown open), we can more than make up for the largest deficit and debt in the nation's history. It isn't all Bush's falt! Clinton only left him with a couple billion in the black, what was he suppose to do? Be a fiscally responsible republican... Hell no, that is just silly to ask of a GOP President with a GOP controlled congress.
While we are on the subject, how is that outsourcing incentive going for you? Over here it is great. Oregon really got a boost from all those tech jobs suddenly taking a red eye the f!*$ out of here.
All is well, though. I can't complain. Even with the oil crisis we are in(and out of, and in again) that is entirely unaffected by Iraq and Afghanistan's turmoil... Wait, whatever happen to Afghanistan... WAIT, what the fuck ever happened to Osama? Oh, thats right, Bush said he wasn't worried about him anymore. With all the oil shit going on, it is goo that the President has close financial/business/personal ties with the Royal Saudi family. And hey, if all that mid-east stuff doesn't work, Bush still can go tap the oil in Alaska... nevermind that it only contains, theoretically, about 6 months worth of US oil at the rate we consume. Those big paved roads, oil equipment, pipelines and foot/heavy machinery traffic will have a nice backdrop of a destroyed national forest...
I ask you, what the hell is the point of a natural forest if not to preserve the natural beauty?
Thank you
Yes, I will happily burn in hell. I have karma to wrap myself in.
Then China would just outright block Google. What would that accomplish?
Losing a 1.3 billion person market on principle... Sounds nice, but unfortunately, this is the real world.
First, the FSF != The open source community or movement. Though they are a huge part, they are not synonymous terms.
/.ers with a better knowledge of the 80s want to chime in?
Sun is, I believe, still the number one corporation for donating to Open Source. They have given more code to the OS community than anyone else. Openoffice.org, which didn't help 'found' the community, but gave it a strong leg to stand on.
NFS, is one. There work with BSD OS, etc.
They have given a lot back, and were there early on in BSD's development.
Any other
Out of a dozen, songs, you don't need the name, you know its location in the cd. Also, you generally only hear one band, or one genre per disc. To change artist you change disc(and read the disc's label).
An mp3 player with a 200+ song library, you can't memorize where songs are, you have to have them sorted and classified. You need to be able to find a specific song among the 200, of which the artists, genre, songname/length and album all vary.
It is trivially to find a song among a dozen tracks when the artist and album are the same.
I say it is bogus soley because it doesn't even have a 1 or 2 line led display. How useful is a music player when you can't see what music you are playing?
"Gigabyte Lexar flash for their MP3 player for the low $70's off of eBay"
Good for you.
Me, I would rather have form and functionality in place of a low ICO. Besides, comparing used products to brand new is like comparing self-built PCs to highend Mac towers to show how 'expensive' they are.
You arn't the market apple wants(and currently dominates). Enjoy your mp3 player, though.
Yea. If slashdot says it will bomb, Apple orders more.
Are you kidding me? How rediculous. Apple scratched their PDA(recently, this is within the last couple years under steve jobs) and NO valid leaks were ever made. Most of Apple's best stuff doesn't get leaked, but given how GOOD it is, people are much more likely to try and leak it against apple's wishes...
Do you get all worked up over the new HP desktop tower? No? Well how about the dual-proc g5 tower when Apple released it? Apple's hardware has higher expectations for an initial WOW factor, thats all.
Apple already spends a ton of money on OS X R&D. The more the better, but they are disproportionally large in their research spending.
Apple does end-user experience and awesome software to compliment a solid hardware package.
IBM does business class hardware and support contracts. Software is an afterthought to complete the hardware.
The two just don't mix well, ya know?
If the stipulation was something like:
IBM will only sell in medium/large bulk, not individual users. And they donate/give R&D money to Apple+IBM for business class software and such.
The only problem would be IBM getting the design/graphics labs that Apple has owned for so long. High end graphic workstations are Apple's bread and butter.
Wow. Quite the armchair executive now arn't we?
Let me just make my first comment: no.
Now, let me elaborate:
You are aboslutely wrong.
First, Apple is trading at rediculously high prices, with expectations to top $100 bucks a share at its peek. So buying in the near future(foreseeable) would be rediculous.
Next, IBM sells divisions that are unprofitable and grows divisions that are traditionally profitable. All their moves are as business-oriented as can be. Which is fine, but don't act as if they have this invisible hand guiding them. They are a true company, they go by the bottom line.
IBM's culture (suits) versus Apple culture (not-suits) would just not merge. It would just be a broken relationship. Why go through it?
Apple decided not to go by the Econ of Scale, they wern't forced into it. They choose the luxury line of computers so they could provide a unified experience, Dell provides the low/medium end that ships with another companies OS. Dell has MUCH less control over the end' experience' (for better or worse, you might say) than Apple does with the Mac.
Apple has consistantly moved away(Jobs) from licensing the OS. They don't want to be that kind of company. That is there poragative.
You are allowed to dream. Personally, I would rather see a Sun+Apple merger with a multi-platform (nextstep-esque fat binaries & Java) workstation / server system. That is just me. It won't happen either, but I can dream too.
"real terrorists kill people instead of rooting your box."
Real terrorist use fear(terror) as a tool to push their agenda. Death is just an effective way to incite fear.
Cyber-torrorism.. Computer/Internet-based Terrorism, if you will can certainly kill people. Those stop lights at the intersections, the 911 systems, the radio and wireless systems for police/fire systems. The banking systems, ATMs. If core systems (heaven forbid!) crash, lives most certainly could and would be lost.
More importantly, fear would be struck. Which is entirely the point of terrorism.
Why not?
If I am going to put up an anti-microsoft site, and Microsoft wants to give me money by puting ads I know my users will just ignore, bring it on. They are just funding the site.
I always thought man pages should be a wiki snapshot. There is so much crap or overly-confusing info in man pages, when all you need to know is the default use of the tar command for tar.gz files, for example
A wiki could add/delete/cleanup any information needed, and a couple moderators keeping a heads up on changes to be safe. When it is time for a product release you run your snapshot script, make man pages out of the html and BAM. Up to the date documentation.
Well a few quick thoughts to your post.
Good points, BBF's are not perfect, but on the same token, neither are the alternative(whichever acronym they fit undeR).
My experience with BBF's on the mac side seem to remind me of drag-and-drop plug-ins, and the like. Meaning that to add perl, you drop the perl.plug-in file to the plugin directyory or the app(or whatever). Point being, it didn't take a recompile to add.
Mac comes with a fairly comprehensive(so far as I know) system library base, where a lot of functionality can be had in a single, standard, system-wide place. Relying on this means that bug fixes are handled, obviously, by Apple.
It seems that when I, for instance, download a patch or update to A mac or windows program, it has nothing to do with a recompile, just replacing the files that were editted.
Just my personal user observations.
So corporation X wants to deploy production/enterprise level software Y or Z. Y is open source, Z is closed source. Y and Z are comparable feature-wise, and both equally fill the role.
If Y has a backdoor, you have the option for your software development department to look at the code, review and check for buffer overflows and backdoors.
If Z has a backdoor, you are unaware of it, but it is likely that only company Z knows about it(for the time being, backdoors are commonly cracked by third-party hackers).
So in the first scenario, many people could know about the hole but you can also fix it, or use a fix provided by a programmer that also knows about the while.
In the second scenario, few peopl know (initially) about it, but it cannot be patched by anyone but the company that made it(and put in the backdoor in the first place. could you really trust them to patch it?).
Which is the better way to go?
Ha. I see it now.
You deleted the default playlists from iTunes!
Doing well:)
:)
Ants has potential, it seemed flaky the first time I ran it, but I will look at it again. Competition is a good thing.
and you didn't even put letterhead on your press release. Too bad.
Next.
This sounds almost like my experience with an mac os 9 server(here me out).
OS 9 was actually quite nice, for software maintenance and configuration. Very consistant and either there were no installers, or the installers were just smart copy/paste scripts.
I had an OS 9 box that I wanted to run as a web server. I found one, download the file, doubl-clicked it and pretty much without any more effort a web server was up.
Granted, the whole reliability/multi-tasking issues for OS 9 make it a less than ideal system to run as a server, but for software that is a self-contained executable, it works great. On first boot(or when it cannot fild an existing file(s)) it creates the configuration files and preferences files. It has a nice simple gui clicky-tab page to change the settings, and a simple interface.
Another product even had php etc. pre-compiled in. This would be nice if we could have all the most common extensions of apache prebuilt in, but disabled.
I know, different way of getting to your solution. It isn't as secure or 'cool'. But the self-contained binary for the software I wanted was really impressive.
To differentiate information is to censor. To censor is to not be free.
But Xen has nothing to do with VirtualPC. VPC lets you run emulation software on Windows or a Mac to emulate an x86 computer for running operating systems like windows, linux, *bsd, etc.
Xen is a userlinux-style system that is Linux-only for running only linux virtual systems, essentially. This is more like a Sun Contrainers competitor(if that) than a VirtualPC or VMWare competitor.
1. It doesn't work reliably.
2. You can't host files, and it takes a long time to insert large(medium even) files.
3. Files are dropped if not popular. Thus, you can't get rare files, only popular or recent ones.
4. It DOES NOT WORK reliably.
And this coming from a guy that hopes beyong hope that one day it WILL work. Today is not that today. Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.
I think a killer feature, that does a somewhat decentralized bittorrent, would be for the protocol to dynamicly failover if the tracker goes down, so that a seeder would assume reponsibility(or several would). Maybe this is what they are going for, I can't tell(/.ed), but a roaming-tracker would be a killer feature.
I wonder if they could evelop it such that It is a protocol extension, rather than a napster-esque program. Hopefully backwards compatable! This would allow people to use their current BT program(Azureus, etc) instead of a single app.
Choice is good.