HP made crap computers before the merger, but can't help and marvel at Compaq's technologies. I think that as far as for business applications, Compaq has been THE leader of the pack for years.
Too bad the thing won't run Linux native tho. (Does Linux even support something like this?)
You hit the nail on the head with this one. I think that a standardized driver system would help to persuade many people to use Linux. I know that my main concern about implementing Linux in business setting is it's incompatibility, and standardized drivers would be a giant leap towards solving this problem.
Heh, this was marked as a troll for some reason, when it's good information. No matter how precious Linux may be to you, one still has to face the facts. M$ dominates the market and it doesn't look like that will change any time soon.
However wonderful getting the US gov't on the open source bandwagon would be, it's entirely unlikely (especially in the atmosphere of today's gov't).
I'd say that the US gov't is more likely to have an entire OS coded for themselves and by themselves (to 'assure security') or to just put up a Sun cluster.
Better yet, in the interests of capitalism, they could run on Win XP Pro instead! It's secure... really;)
And if it's desktop too I sure hope they hire a BIG support staff.
Sure KDE is great, but qhat happens when you transfer thousands of users from Windows to X? Chaos.
Sure people will learn, but until they do, I would anticipate the need for Support Engineers with a steely resolve and a lot of caffiene! GO STARBUCHS!
I'd say more like a chip off of a much large cinder block. This is a milestone for Linux, but remember, M$ still dominates the market. This whole deal will prove much more benifical to the entire Linux movement if the entire undertaking proves an overwhelming success and remamins so for some time.
Demonstrated reliability and usability on a massive scale=priceless.
IBM isn't charging them for the software, but for the implementation. Just because something is free doesn't meant it's not gonna cost money to set it up. (especially if you want it done the right way from the start).
To expand on that, when you are buying red hat in the box, you aren't paying for the software but for printed documentation and the pretty pressed disks.
An easy to use GUI and rock solid security that doesn't involve watch a mailing list and sitting in front of a console 20 out of 24 hours in a day. For infrastructure, it's top notch, for ease of use, it's a lumbering elephant. Just remember, some people don't care how or why it works, just that it works.
This will be useful in designing a equipment. We really don't know that much about Mars yet, much less what it would take to put a manned mission there, but given time and devices like thi one, will eventually get there. Hopefully they don't send an american team tho, or else it will be polluted with beer cans and broken glass by 2025.
Now we can build 10,000 unit subdivisions in the desert at half the cost! Won't it be grand when we're all out of water?! I CAN'T WAIT!
(Yeah, this is a bit paranoid BTW, but I live in new mexico so give me a break. EL VADO LAKE is a mud hole and I didn't catch any fish this weekend so I'm bitter.)
Not like any government would currently fund such an expensive move, not with all the important "wars" currently being fought. Oh right, and if microsoft isn't making money on it, you KNOW that it's not gonna happen any time soon...
Well I used to work for them and they were trying to bring WiFi to the consumer at about the same rate per monthas DSL/Cable.
It's funny that it didn't take off, but mismanagement of company resources and firing your entire Tech. Support Dept. Doesn't help.
It seems like many of the microwave devices are of somewhat low quality anyway, I recall the connection was supposed to have 1.5 MBps up and down, but was never faster than a 256/256 DSL. On top of that data loss and corruption was prolific.
I think these companies should leave WiFi to Cisco (w0rd to your 802.11b) and research even higher frequencies so that in 10 years when the demand increases we wont all think back to the days of AOL 3.0 and it's loverly 26.4 KBps connections...
Honestly, this sin't a victory for anyone except the lawyers involved. Napster was mearly a ripple in the sea of piracy which has swept the internet as a result of highly availible and cheap bandwidth. On top of that, there are now so many random Napster-like P2P applications availible, ALONG with many other forums in which piracy occurs (IRC, ICQ, Usenet, and the list rambles on down the road almost endlessly...)
The RIAA should stop wasting it's time and money by suing individuals and companies like it has been. It's pointless, wasteful, and gives them an image in the public eye that I'm sure doesn't help them curry favor with the masses. No matter how many news specials Tom Brokaw brings us, it's all still the same BS, kids have cable modems but no money and as long as the United States' doesn't decide to start filtering the net, piracy will march on.
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Who cares, basic cable sux.
Now if there was a way to get the cable modem to route porn directly to my brain I'd be all for it.
HP made crap computers before the merger, but can't help and marvel at Compaq's technologies. I think that as far as for business applications, Compaq has been THE leader of the pack for years.
Too bad the thing won't run Linux native tho. (Does Linux even support something like this?)
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So sayeth Jerry Springer..
You hit the nail on the head with this one. I think that a standardized driver system would help to persuade many people to use Linux. I know that my main concern about implementing Linux in business setting is it's incompatibility, and standardized drivers would be a giant leap towards solving this problem.
What is your opinion of the current state of the open-source community at this time, and do you think open source beer has a future?
Also, Do yout think that Germany's swich to open source will have a signifigant impact on the open source community and/or IT in general?
Heh, this was marked as a troll for some reason, when it's good information. No matter how precious Linux may be to you, one still has to face the facts. M$ dominates the market and it doesn't look like that will change any time soon.
Remember, it's just an OS.
**runs and hides in a bunker**
However wonderful getting the US gov't on the open source bandwagon would be, it's entirely unlikely (especially in the atmosphere of today's gov't).
;)
I'd say that the US gov't is more likely to have an entire OS coded for themselves and by themselves (to 'assure security') or to just put up a Sun cluster.
Better yet, in the interests of capitalism, they could run on Win XP Pro instead! It's secure... really
And if it's desktop too I sure hope they hire a BIG support staff.
Sure KDE is great, but qhat happens when you transfer thousands of users from Windows to X? Chaos.
Sure people will learn, but until they do, I would anticipate the need for Support Engineers with a steely resolve and a lot of caffiene! GO STARBUCHS!
I'd say more like a chip off of a much large cinder block. This is a milestone for Linux, but remember, M$ still dominates the market. This whole deal will prove much more benifical to the entire Linux movement if the entire undertaking proves an overwhelming success and remamins so for some time.
Demonstrated reliability and usability on a massive scale=priceless.
IBM isn't charging them for the software, but for the implementation. Just because something is free doesn't meant it's not gonna cost money to set it up. (especially if you want it done the right way from the start).
To expand on that, when you are buying red hat in the box, you aren't paying for the software but for printed documentation and the pretty pressed disks.
HTH
You have to be careful about your implementation or else your could end up with a nasty core dump all over someone's shoes...
;)
Lets not even get into seg faults...
Hey! Novell is still around...
Not that anyone cares...
Bah... Just use active directory and XP Pro. You'll never EVER crash!
ROFL!
Open source beer?
Now all the homebrewers can have a bugtraq mailing list dedicated to holes in the HOPS and YEAST servers...
An easy to use GUI and rock solid security that doesn't involve watch a mailing list and sitting in front of a console 20 out of 24 hours in a day. For infrastructure, it's top notch, for ease of use, it's a lumbering elephant. Just remember, some people don't care how or why it works, just that it works.
How does one say LUNIX RUELS in german?
This will be useful in designing a equipment. We really don't know that much about Mars yet, much less what it would take to put a manned mission there, but given time and devices like thi one, will eventually get there. Hopefully they don't send an american team tho, or else it will be polluted with beer cans and broken glass by 2025.
Now we can build 10,000 unit subdivisions in the desert at half the cost! Won't it be grand when we're all out of water?! I CAN'T WAIT!
(Yeah, this is a bit paranoid BTW, but I live in new mexico so give me a break. EL VADO LAKE is a mud hole and I didn't catch any fish this weekend so I'm bitter.)
Not like any government would currently fund such an expensive move, not with all the important "wars" currently being fought. Oh right, and if microsoft isn't making money on it, you KNOW that it's not gonna happen any time soon...
Anyone ever heard of Usurf America?
Well I used to work for them and they were trying to bring WiFi to the consumer at about the same rate per monthas DSL/Cable.
It's funny that it didn't take off, but mismanagement of company resources and firing your entire Tech. Support Dept. Doesn't help.
It seems like many of the microwave devices are of somewhat low quality anyway, I recall the connection was supposed to have 1.5 MBps up and down, but was never faster than a 256/256 DSL. On top of that data loss and corruption was prolific.
I think these companies should leave WiFi to Cisco (w0rd to your 802.11b) and research even higher frequencies so that in 10 years when the demand increases we wont all think back to the days of AOL 3.0 and it's loverly 26.4 KBps connections...
Aww po' baby.
:P.
You're just going to have to develop for BSD like you should have been doing all along
Honestly, this sin't a victory for anyone except the lawyers involved. Napster was mearly a ripple in the sea of piracy which has swept the internet as a result of highly availible and cheap bandwidth. On top of that, there are now so many random Napster-like P2P applications availible, ALONG with many other forums in which piracy occurs (IRC, ICQ, Usenet, and the list rambles on down the road almost endlessly...)
The RIAA should stop wasting it's time and money by suing individuals and companies like it has been. It's pointless, wasteful, and gives them an image in the public eye that I'm sure doesn't help them curry favor with the masses. No matter how many news specials Tom Brokaw brings us, it's all still the same BS, kids have cable modems but no money and as long as the United States' doesn't decide to start filtering the net, piracy will march on.