I wonder with Microsoft's and Sun's new friendship, and with the open-sourcing of Solaris, if code from Solaris will find its way into Windows? I wonder if there will be a port of the Solaris kernel to run on the NT microkernel? Old-time Sun engineers have long been very resistant to microkernel designs, but the younger ones think there are useful advantages.
Just think, you could have a Windows NT (i.e. XP or Professional whatever) machine that would run Windows, Solaris and Linux binaries on AMD64 hardware.
Rumour has it they actually did produce a SPARC version but never made it public, since Sun refused to stop Solaris development in favour of Windows NT.
Incidentally, all those old Windows NT RISC ports were all 32-bit, using the 32-bit compatibility features of those processors initially designed to run legacy software. The way that the AMD64 architecture handles backwards compatibility is quite similar to those RISC processors.
Microsoft once again shows why it is the world leader at the very cutting edge of computer science and software technology.
Now, with the world's first 64-bit operating system, they have further extended their lead.
How long will it be until competitors such as IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer and Linux Technology get their code ported to 64-bits?
Will this finally render all other operating systems obsolete?
Corporations and novice users the world over have come to appreciate the simplicity and ease of installing and administering Windows(TM) systems. Now they can do this it 64-bits, with the added speed and simplicity this provides.
Internet downloads, MP3 music and DVD video have never been so fast, stable, efficient and high-quality.
Programmers too will feel the benefit of 64-bit.NET technology, allowing portability across all versions of Windows on diverse processor architectures from intel(TM) and cheap Advanced Micro Devices(TM) not-quite-work-alikes, making them viable in the Enterprise and for home gaming for the very first time.
I've pre-ordered my 5 license pack for Windows-64 Home Edition(R)(TM)(pat pending) already. Have you? What are you waiting for?
I'd have tried Solaris 10 a while ago but Sun bascically refuses to provide a torrent for it(I emailed them and requested one and got the standard reply
Everything that Sun makes available for download must go through their download center to ensure compliance with export regulations, for example, to prevent certain technologies finding their way into the hands of "terrorists" and people in enemy countries (like North Korea, Iran, etc.).
I used to work for Sun until very recently. I am very frustrated by their methods of communicating with "the community." I fear that the PHBs still don't get it.
P.S. What does your sig mean? All 'laws' in physics are theories. Everything in physics is just a theory.
The religious loonies are going around saying, "Evolution is only a theory," just now.
Well, I've been involved in computers and programming for 18 years and I've never even heard of her. Then again, I don't read those crappy mainstreamed business journals.
Quite right. Stick to the museli, natural yoghurt and hemp-fibre smocks.
I can vouch for this... the OO.org 2.0 beta has so far required non-RPM Linux users (or those who want to have a single-user installation of the beta version) to build from source
I just used rpm2targz which is a standard utility on Slackware.
Yes, you personally have every right to hack the encryption, since you personally own the copyright on the image, but Adobe has no such right.
The DMCA was a cold, calculated, unjust attempt for large corporations to sqeeze more money out of consumers via the consumers themselves and each other.
If you have been following the incoherent ranting of the likes of the RIAA and MPAA over recent years you will also realise that they bandy about the term "copyrighted works" without paying any attention to what that means. WHat they take it to mean is data (music, images, programs, films etc.) for which a large corporation owns the copyright. They also conveniently ignore licenses that allow copying e.g. the GPL, which is used in conjunction with copyright law. They often wrongly refer to such work as "public domain." They also take a "little people" attitude to the rest of us, i.e. they barely acknowledge that we, by default, own the copyright on any work which we create ourselves.
Stick with Java unless you wish to confine yourself only to the Windows platform. Yes, Mono aims to be a Free implementation in Linux but it's still in development.
If you stick with Java, you can use Java language compilers from many different vendors, including gcc, and your code will be portable between many different Operating Systems.
Java is more stable and mature, has a huge developer community and is supported by enormous, comprehensive class libraries.
The rant wasn't aimed at you specifically, it was aimed at the USA in general and its prevailing mindset, or at least what we in Europe perceive it to be. I'm in the mood for ranting, being objectionable and making sweeping generalisations. It's Friday.
It's the land of opportunity, not the land of a free ride.
Jesus H. Christ on a motorised bicycle.
Since when was a free-at-the-point-of-use open-to-all state-run and regulated education system or health service a free ride?
Why do you think that we europeans are communist-like or spongers?
I am proud that in this country (the UK) we see further that provate financial gain, we value each other as people, we value good qulaity education and good quality public health.
I pay through my taxes and National Insurance for my health care and those who earn less or nothing at all, and also for the education of children to the high standards that a civillised technological nation requires, not like the Pepsi/Coke-sponsored brainwashing that you Americans subject your less well-off children to.
That's not Communist or Communist-like. It's Socialist. I'm not afraid to say that, or to say that I support it.
It's not rocket science, it's really very simple: Communism refers to a centrally-planned economy.
China used to be Communist. It is now Capitalist. The American company I used to work for is now expanding into China.
China is not a democracy, it is a Totalitarian regieme, but it isn't Communist any more.
Luckily, now that am unemployed, I can still go to see my doctor, for free, go to hospital for free, if I need to. I don't begrudge this to anyone else. I don't begrudge this to any of the little children born to poor parents who would otherwise suffer in pain if this system was not in place, or the old people who have worked hard all their lives.
The people cooperating to make their own broadband should form an official company or partnership. Therefore they will no longer be individuals helping each other out (i.e. Communists like the frontiersmen and women who founded expansion of the West - you milk my cow and I'll sow your turnip seed) but a proper "all-american" company. All they need is a red, white and blue logo incorporating a stars and stripes motif and they should be good to go.
The Good Lord in His Infinite Wisdom made Evil and the Devil to Test our Faith(TM). Those of weak or no Faith fall under the Devil's Evil Spell and are Damned for Eternity.
Satan, the Devil, has no Power but if you are of weak Faith He does.
The Good Lord bade Satan to put the dinosaur fossils in the ground to tempt and corrupt the wek-minded (scientists, athiests, liberals and "reasonable men").
Dinosaurs are the work of Satan, and meddling in Satanic affairs will bring no Good, only Hellish Torment(TM) and terror upon those foolish enough to dabble in the Occult.
By playing with Dinosaurs' eggs, the Occult is being dabbled with, and Bad Men will unleash a thousand years of Darkness upon the face of the Earth, just like in liberal socialist Europe where they're all athiests, muslims and catholics anyway.
Pay heed, my children and shun the Work of the Devil. Do not dabble in the occult. Do not fiddle with the eggs of Dinosaurs lest ye should unleash Satan's unholy demonic army of plague, death, pestilence and Heavy Metal.
The 286 could address 16 megabytes of physical memory (very large for the day) but only in segments of 64k. The 386 extended segments to 4 gigabytes and could address 4 gigabytes of physical memory, effectively giving you a flat 32-bit address space. The IA-32 architecture nowadays has been extended to have a physical address space of 36-bits, but the segment registers are 32-bits wide. The AMD64 architecture does away with segments and gives you 64-bit addressing but due to the design of the MMU only 48-bits worth will be available (currently its about 40 bits).
Linux got me the job at Sun in the first place. If it hadn't been for Linux and GNU my life would me much less fulfilling and interesting. I still use Slackware at home. We have a Windows-free house here. In due course, I'll be writing a little synopsis of Sun's current position without breaking the confidentiality clause in my contract.
Linux didn't lose me my job. High exchange rates lost me my job.
There are a lot of good people at Sun for whom I have a lot of respect. Sure, some things could be done better, but Sun's not evil or in dire straights as the trolls here would have you believe. I'm proud of Solaris 10. I believe that it's the best Operating System on the planet, period.
I'm immensely grateful for having been given a job at Sun. It's been a wonderful experience.
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Just think, you could have a Windows NT (i.e. XP or Professional whatever) machine that would run Windows, Solaris and Linux binaries on AMD64 hardware.
Incidentally, all those old Windows NT RISC ports were all 32-bit, using the 32-bit compatibility features of those processors initially designed to run legacy software. The way that the AMD64 architecture handles backwards compatibility is quite similar to those RISC processors.
Nowadays I think it's more like, "Three user-land tasks should be enough for poor foreigners."
Now, with the world's first 64-bit operating system, they have further extended their lead.
How long will it be until competitors such as IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer and Linux Technology get their code ported to 64-bits?
Will this finally render all other operating systems obsolete?
Corporations and novice users the world over have come to appreciate the simplicity and ease of installing and administering Windows(TM) systems. Now they can do this it 64-bits, with the added speed and simplicity this provides.
Internet downloads, MP3 music and DVD video have never been so fast, stable, efficient and high-quality.
Programmers too will feel the benefit of 64-bit .NET technology, allowing portability across all versions of Windows on diverse processor architectures from intel(TM) and cheap Advanced Micro Devices(TM) not-quite-work-alikes, making them viable in the Enterprise and for home gaming for the very first time.
I've pre-ordered my 5 license pack for Windows-64 Home Edition(R)(TM)(pat pending) already. Have you? What are you waiting for?
Everything that Sun makes available for download must go through their download center to ensure compliance with export regulations, for example, to prevent certain technologies finding their way into the hands of "terrorists" and people in enemy countries (like North Korea, Iran, etc.).
I used to work for Sun until very recently. I am very frustrated by their methods of communicating with "the community." I fear that the PHBs still don't get it.
P.S. What does your sig mean? All 'laws' in physics are theories. Everything in physics is just a theory.
The religious loonies are going around saying, "Evolution is only a theory," just now.
Right here. My favourite. An all-time classic.
Quite right. Stick to the museli, natural yoghurt and hemp-fibre smocks.
*sigh* You have to sign an agreement to contribute to OOo?
I had no idea things were that bad.
I just used rpm2targz which is a standard utility on Slackware.
Why don't you buy a physical media kit from Sun and get them to post it to you?
Tell that to the *BSD folks :-)
I doubt it. Lack of ext2 or ReiserFS is actually more of a hinderance if you want to dual boot your machine between Linux and Solaris.
But the worst though has to be the bugs present on x86
The bugs in x86 hardware? Or do you mean the x86 port (of Solaris)?
Isnt the move away from microsoft meant to INCREASE stability.
Any move away from Microsoft is likely to increase stability. However, if you weren't using Microsoft in the first place, I don't see your point.
With these bugs, unfortunately, we are back to block A
Which bugs?
I don't work for Sun any more so I have no vested interest, but please, get the facts right.
will ever really be a 'Linux alternative'
It is intended to be a (cheaper, better) alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, not "Linux" in general.
They cattle are stampeding in the other direction and will continue to do so.
So they are. And unfortunately, I think the Sun PHBs had their heads stuck in the sand for too long.
Yes, but this is ZDNet, the M$ Windoze shills and fanboys, we are talking about here.
The DMCA was a cold, calculated, unjust attempt for large corporations to sqeeze more money out of consumers via the consumers themselves and each other.
If you have been following the incoherent ranting of the likes of the RIAA and MPAA over recent years you will also realise that they bandy about the term "copyrighted works" without paying any attention to what that means. WHat they take it to mean is data (music, images, programs, films etc.) for which a large corporation owns the copyright. They also conveniently ignore licenses that allow copying e.g. the GPL, which is used in conjunction with copyright law. They often wrongly refer to such work as "public domain." They also take a "little people" attitude to the rest of us, i.e. they barely acknowledge that we, by default, own the copyright on any work which we create ourselves.
The law is an ass, and so are the media cartels.
I write Free software.
This is exactly what the DMCA was intended to do. I can't remember their being much corporate oppostition to the DMCA when it was being introduced.
The sad thing is, you've been modded down to -1.
If you stick with Java, you can use Java language compilers from many different vendors, including gcc, and your code will be portable between many different Operating Systems.
Java is more stable and mature, has a huge developer community and is supported by enormous, comprehensive class libraries.
The rant wasn't aimed at you specifically, it was aimed at the USA in general and its prevailing mindset, or at least what we in Europe perceive it to be. I'm in the mood for ranting, being objectionable and making sweeping generalisations. It's Friday.
Jesus H. Christ on a motorised bicycle.
Since when was a free-at-the-point-of-use open-to-all state-run and regulated education system or health service a free ride?
Why do you think that we europeans are communist-like or spongers?
I am proud that in this country (the UK) we see further that provate financial gain, we value each other as people, we value good qulaity education and good quality public health.
I pay through my taxes and National Insurance for my health care and those who earn less or nothing at all, and also for the education of children to the high standards that a civillised technological nation requires, not like the Pepsi/Coke-sponsored brainwashing that you Americans subject your less well-off children to.
That's not Communist or Communist-like. It's Socialist. I'm not afraid to say that, or to say that I support it.
It's not rocket science, it's really very simple: Communism refers to a centrally-planned economy.
China used to be Communist. It is now Capitalist. The American company I used to work for is now expanding into China.
China is not a democracy, it is a Totalitarian regieme, but it isn't Communist any more.
Luckily, now that am unemployed, I can still go to see my doctor, for free, go to hospital for free, if I need to. I don't begrudge this to anyone else. I don't begrudge this to any of the little children born to poor parents who would otherwise suffer in pain if this system was not in place, or the old people who have worked hard all their lives.
Anyway, this is becoming an idealist rant.
The people cooperating to make their own broadband should form an official company or partnership. Therefore they will no longer be individuals helping each other out (i.e. Communists like the frontiersmen and women who founded expansion of the West - you milk my cow and I'll sow your turnip seed) but a proper "all-american" company. All they need is a red, white and blue logo incorporating a stars and stripes motif and they should be good to go.
Satan, the Devil, has no Power but if you are of weak Faith He does.
The Good Lord bade Satan to put the dinosaur fossils in the ground to tempt and corrupt the wek-minded (scientists, athiests, liberals and "reasonable men").
Dinosaurs are the work of Satan, and meddling in Satanic affairs will bring no Good, only Hellish Torment(TM) and terror upon those foolish enough to dabble in the Occult.
By playing with Dinosaurs' eggs, the Occult is being dabbled with, and Bad Men will unleash a thousand years of Darkness upon the face of the Earth, just like in liberal socialist Europe where they're all athiests, muslims and catholics anyway.
Pay heed, my children and shun the Work of the Devil. Do not dabble in the occult. Do not fiddle with the eggs of Dinosaurs lest ye should unleash Satan's unholy demonic army of plague, death, pestilence and Heavy Metal.
The 286 could address 16 megabytes of physical memory (very large for the day) but only in segments of 64k. The 386 extended segments to 4 gigabytes and could address 4 gigabytes of physical memory, effectively giving you a flat 32-bit address space. The IA-32 architecture nowadays has been extended to have a physical address space of 36-bits, but the segment registers are 32-bits wide. The AMD64 architecture does away with segments and gives you 64-bit addressing but due to the design of the MMU only 48-bits worth will be available (currently its about 40 bits).
Linux didn't lose me my job. High exchange rates lost me my job.
There are a lot of good people at Sun for whom I have a lot of respect. Sure, some things could be done better, but Sun's not evil or in dire straights as the trolls here would have you believe. I'm proud of Solaris 10. I believe that it's the best Operating System on the planet, period.
I'm immensely grateful for having been given a job at Sun. It's been a wonderful experience.