Ah, I see, you;re one of these "professional trolls." What's this great obsession with Sun? This is Mono and Microsoft we're talking about here. I had an argument about kernel threading with one of you guys before that ended up in my old account being bitchslapped. This discussion is now over.
The real danger is Sun. It is Sun's stated goal with Java to make the underlying operating system or native toolkit irrelevant. That is Sun really is trying to migrate people off of Linux by getting programmers to develop in and for Java APIs. Of course, they would like to migrate them to Solaris, but they might more readily migrate to Windows. Even without all the legal b.s. from Sun, that alone would constitute a big threat to Linux.
How can an Open Standards UNIX company with its roots in BSD and contributions of millions of lines of code to the Open Source community (just look at OpenOffice.org) be a threat to Linux?
How can a company upon whose OS (Solaris, SPARC and x86) "Linux" code usually just compiles and runs be a threat to Linux and Open Source?
How can a company who is comitted to playing fair and abiding by Open Standards, with public documentation be a threat to Linux?
How can a company who devotes big $ to GNOME development be a threat to Linux?
Sun makes its JVM and JRE and development kit available for free beer on Linux.
What about netbeans?
I will say it again: people around here have short memories, are naieve and don't know who their friends really are.
Why would Sun hate Linux when it keeps closed, proporietary, buggy, virus and trojan-infested, expensive Windows off PCs?
Some of you slashbots really need your heads examining!
Thanks for making me a foe, too.;) Apparently, I've gained four new ones due to this post. Must have hit a soft spot.
It's just that those of us who have to drive to work are the current scapegoat for all the ills of humanity (just listen to the news).
I was the one who told you to live a little.
My wife and I recently moved from a tiny two-bedroom flat in a town (10 mins walk from my work, 3 miles drive from hers - and no, there are nu bussed and she has lots of stuff to carry being a teacher) to a 3 bedroom semi in the country, 20 miles away. The rent is so much cheaper that the petrol cost is still less. The council tax is less. We now have nice, green, leafy surroundings and a large house and garden. Commuting only takes 35 minutes each way for me and then another 10 on to my wife's school. Our qulaity of life is so muhc better.
Every day we have to contend with full-hardy cyclists who seem to want to die, or at least be hit by cars, or to take down pedestrians. I cycle myself occasionally and I try to do so responsibly, stopping at traffic lights, keeping off the pavement, not "undertaking" cars in queues etc.
You're lucky in that you're riding is mostly cross-country.
I can and do telework, but since we're car sharing, there's often not much point on a day to day business, and it's extra time together in the car.
As the old saying goes, it takes all sorts to make a world. I do not believe that blaming people who drive cars for all the ills of life is the way forward.
My own personal opinion is that if there was ubiquitous and cheap broadband in this country (the UK) and more forward thinking amongst PHBs then teleworking could take a lot of the strain off the roads, reduce pollution, reduce traffic jams (and time wasted), reduce injuries and save lives.
They don't need Opteron. They have the 64-bit RISC PowerPC G5 which is backwards compatible with all Mac software since 1996. Why change binary architectures when you don't have to?
Most people I know, myself included, try very hard not to follow through. It is indeed challenging after 10 pints of real ale not to follow through when one sneezes or coughs. I doubt very much if Mr Cox wants to follow through at all. I suspect he'd rather visit the toilet to be safe.
...a lot of the bicycle riders ride on the pavement (which is illegal) getting in the way of pedestrians. They dart out into the road unexpectedlt, putting themselves at risk of injury and death, cross the road at pedestrian crossings, go up the inside of cars waiting to turn at junctions and traffic lights and go the wrong way up one-way streets.
Yes, they have rights too, but with those rights come responsibilities.
The guy is a wanker, and a twatt, but what he says does have some merit. I doubt it applies to all Open Source/Free Software, but what we have to remember is that the likes of him tar everything with the same brush, so to speak. He's obviously of the PHB varaiety. People like him don't comprehend the fact the a lot of Free and Open Source software is written by volunteers for a need or for fun, and that it doesn't all come from a corporation called "open source". As such each "product" is different in terms of the philosophy behind it, and the type of documentation if has, if any, the way it compiles, the systems it compiles on, the way it is distrubuted, the license under which it is distributed etc.
His post may be a troll, but he has unintentionally brought up an issue that many "traditionalists" in the industry bring up. It's the way the dinosaurs see things, and it's a natural consequence of the way that the Great Unwashed like to make sweeping generalisations.
Althigh modern machines are several orders of magnitude more powerful, the old 8- and 16-bit machines were ideal for kids to learn on, being so simple.
I owe much of what I have today to having been able to learn on 8-bit machines with a few 10's of K or RAM, built-in BASIC and cassette recorders for loading and saving programs.
The single memory space and easy access to machine code (just dump some bytes into ram and execute) made things so simple. You could turn on your machine, type in a 10-line hex loader and start banging in op-codes. If it crashed, and trashed the machine, just power-cycle and be back there instantly.
Programs were small, games were cheap, coding was easy but BASIC, machine code and FORTH were all you had, Graphics were poor, sound was scratchy, loading and saving to tape was so slowwwwww...
Now when my multi-GHz machine slices like a hot knife through SETI work units and I can do complex 3D and not even stress the CPU I find incredible.
What I find sad is that current generations will find it much harder to become intimate with their machines without much more study, and at a much later age.
It wouldn't be fair, since the NTFS specs are a closely guarded secret. That's why development of the NTFS driver has been slow and incomplete on Linux. What would be more interesting would be a comparison of one of the Veritas offerings across platforms.
It's a trade off between speed, space, reliablility etc. I'd rather have reliability, especially on my root paritition. Like I said, who cares about NTFS or FAT performance? Most people will only need to mount it once, read off their old data and then reformat it with something else.
The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant. This is slashdot. Get back under your bridge, troll.
NTFS is only there for compatibility with legacy systems (i.e. Windows) and as such, performance is not really relevant, becuase you'll probably be migrating all your data over to something better and Linux-native like Reiser.
Off topic - if Apple were to port OSX to X86 commodity hardware, I'm sure that we'd have a lot of businesses jumping on board - especially in the light of the "Homogenous Windows Environments Are Bad" article. It just makes good sense.
The G5 is selling like hot cakes. They can't make enough of them. Porting to x86 wouldn't make the blind bit of difference. 32-bit is going the way of the dodo. The G5 is 64-bit, and IBM has an amazing roadmap going forward. People are going Apple in their droves. Most people want a nice, shiny, easy-to-use, integrated and fast system. That's what Apple is selling. I don't work for Apple:-(
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Ah, I see, you;re one of these "professional trolls." What's this great obsession with Sun? This is Mono and Microsoft we're talking about here. I had an argument about kernel threading with one of you guys before that ended up in my old account being bitchslapped. This discussion is now over.
How can an Open Standards UNIX company with its roots in BSD and contributions of millions of lines of code to the Open Source community (just look at OpenOffice.org) be a threat to Linux?
How can a company upon whose OS (Solaris, SPARC and x86) "Linux" code usually just compiles and runs be a threat to Linux and Open Source?
How can a company who is comitted to playing fair and abiding by Open Standards, with public documentation be a threat to Linux?
How can a company who devotes big $ to GNOME development be a threat to Linux?
Sun makes its JVM and JRE and development kit available for free beer on Linux.
What about netbeans?
I will say it again: people around here have short memories, are naieve and don't know who their friends really are.
Why would Sun hate Linux when it keeps closed, proporietary, buggy, virus and trojan-infested, expensive Windows off PCs?
Some of you slashbots really need your heads examining!
Is your school funded by EDS? You should be able to walk right into a job with them after graduating!
Mark my words: it will all end in tears.
it's very easy to start using Mono--it's just a nicer version of C++
You have a lot of reading, coding and listening to do. Then you will see the error of what you have said.
I would like to get a diesel car one day and run it on vegetable oil. It's becoming quite popular :-)
... Mr Mensa, you'd realise that this isn't a slashdot interview. :-)
It's just that those of us who have to drive to work are the current scapegoat for all the ills of humanity (just listen to the news).
I was the one who told you to live a little.
My wife and I recently moved from a tiny two-bedroom flat in a town (10 mins walk from my work, 3 miles drive from hers - and no, there are nu bussed and she has lots of stuff to carry being a teacher) to a 3 bedroom semi in the country, 20 miles away. The rent is so much cheaper that the petrol cost is still less. The council tax is less. We now have nice, green, leafy surroundings and a large house and garden. Commuting only takes 35 minutes each way for me and then another 10 on to my wife's school. Our qulaity of life is so muhc better.
Every day we have to contend with full-hardy cyclists who seem to want to die, or at least be hit by cars, or to take down pedestrians. I cycle myself occasionally and I try to do so responsibly, stopping at traffic lights, keeping off the pavement, not "undertaking" cars in queues etc.
You're lucky in that you're riding is mostly cross-country.
I can and do telework, but since we're car sharing, there's often not much point on a day to day business, and it's extra time together in the car.
As the old saying goes, it takes all sorts to make a world. I do not believe that blaming people who drive cars for all the ills of life is the way forward.
My own personal opinion is that if there was ubiquitous and cheap broadband in this country (the UK) and more forward thinking amongst PHBs then teleworking could take a lot of the strain off the roads, reduce pollution, reduce traffic jams (and time wasted), reduce injuries and save lives.
But what do I know?
They don't need Opteron. They have the 64-bit RISC PowerPC G5 which is backwards compatible with all Mac software since 1996. Why change binary architectures when you don't have to?
Most people I know, myself included, try very hard not to follow through. It is indeed challenging after 10 pints of real ale not to follow through when one sneezes or coughs. I doubt very much if Mr Cox wants to follow through at all. I suspect he'd rather visit the toilet to be safe.
Er, no, we're the unwashed minority.
Yes, they have rights too, but with those rights come responsibilities.
His post may be a troll, but he has unintentionally brought up an issue that many "traditionalists" in the industry bring up. It's the way the dinosaurs see things, and it's a natural consequence of the way that the Great Unwashed like to make sweeping generalisations.
Do you pray a lot to Jeesus?
Live a little.
I confidently predict you will end up with a nervous breakdown,
Belief in herbal healing crystals, Indian head massage and aromatherapy really does cure disease?
Eating a ton of chocolate a day is good for you?
Against what?
I owe much of what I have today to having been able to learn on 8-bit machines with a few 10's of K or RAM, built-in BASIC and cassette recorders for loading and saving programs.
The single memory space and easy access to machine code (just dump some bytes into ram and execute) made things so simple. You could turn on your machine, type in a 10-line hex loader and start banging in op-codes. If it crashed, and trashed the machine, just power-cycle and be back there instantly.
Programs were small, games were cheap, coding was easy but BASIC, machine code and FORTH were all you had, Graphics were poor, sound was scratchy, loading and saving to tape was so slowwwwww...
Now when my multi-GHz machine slices like a hot knife through SETI work units and I can do complex 3D and not even stress the CPU I find incredible.
What I find sad is that current generations will find it much harder to become intimate with their machines without much more study, and at a much later age.
'nuff said.
gperiodic is a very cool little program.
-1, Tinfoil Hat.
It wouldn't be fair, since the NTFS specs are a closely guarded secret. That's why development of the NTFS driver has been slow and incomplete on Linux. What would be more interesting would be a comparison of one of the Veritas offerings across platforms.
The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant. This is slashdot. Get back under your bridge, troll.
NTFS is only there for compatibility with legacy systems (i.e. Windows) and as such, performance is not really relevant, becuase you'll probably be migrating all your data over to something better and Linux-native like Reiser.
Maybe this is what itanium needs to make it onto the desktop and into the 1U rack.
The G5 is selling like hot cakes. They can't make enough of them. Porting to x86 wouldn't make the blind bit of difference. 32-bit is going the way of the dodo. The G5 is 64-bit, and IBM has an amazing roadmap going forward. People are going Apple in their droves. Most people want a nice, shiny, easy-to-use, integrated and fast system. That's what Apple is selling. I don't work for Apple :-(