Ok.. talk about scary; I was just told that I'm going to be handed a SCO UnixWare disk drive with some CRM package on it and I'm expected to port it to either Debian or Solaris (my choice).
Nice.. very nice. I'll be interested in seeing some statistics regarding the usage of that tool later on...
(this could also help those being sued by the RIAA should a case ever go to court).
As opposed to what? The months before Blaster came out that the patch was available?
Actually, it was a couple of weeks. And that was very much the exception to the rule with regards to Microsoft's history with bug reporting/patching.
Case in point is the IE mishandling of SSL which allowed anyone with a valid cert to issue a "valid" cert for any OTHER domain. This went on, denied and downplayed by Microsoft, for HOW long?
There is no "transponder" because the satellites merely "beep" a signal containing the time, satellite position, and any clock correction necessary (there are also other components, but these three will suffice for this discussion). The GPS receiver, in order to function, must be able to receive the signal from four satellites. It then calculates terrestrial position based on triangulation between the times and positions reported by each bird.
This is similar to how the older LORAN system worked (which used terrestrial signal stations), but is more accurate (less signal loss/reflection than land-based transmitters) and more ubiquitous (as long as you can see the sky, you can get a fix).
There is no receive functionality in the satellites except for the command&control functions (which your piddly little $400 Garmin can't touch).
I do quite a bit of hiring. If you are having to wade through too much BS I will reiterate my point about slashdot as a hiring forum.
Ok... that particular point was a little tongue-in-cheek, I'll admit....
Regarding the app which you run on SCO Unix; is it even ported to Linux? I would expect very odd problems if you just took a binary from one Unix to the other unless you were able to do a build from source (with whatever necessary adjustments).
I have an enterprise application myself which has versions for NT and Solaris (two guesses which one I chose). I'd dearly love to have it run on Linux (so I can make the entire cluster of which it is a part all Debian systems). But I don't have access to the source code and in any event am not in a position to have my staff spending the man-hours porting it. This is not the fault of Linux - it's the fault of the vendor who likewise won't spend the man-hours (days/months/years) doing the port either. The vendor is starting to listen to my whining about it, but their staff is probably too small right now to do much more than support the current ports and release upgrades as new feature sets become popular with all customers.
What, exactly, was "smart ass" about my response? You whined about not having any competent technical support and I casually mentioned how very easy it is to obtain competent technical support. If you didn't want to hire the people in-house, it was as easy as buying a support contract from Red Hat; they've made many millions providing such support. Barring that, there are other countless outside consultants and consultant-agencies able to provide top-notch Linux support.
If you don't like wading through BS resumes then you have obviously done precious little hiring (especially these days).
Finally: I do not care how many wide spread use Win32 apps Linux supports. Until it can run my 1.2 M $ custom made sales/warehouse and finance packages it is not worth talking about.
Well sir, I submit then that your original Point B is very disingenuous. You complain that Linux can not support some mission-critical application, but you fail to mention the application in question is custom-built for Win32. I believe any Win32 platform would have a hell of a time coping with KMail, and that was a mission-critical application for me until I switched to Ximian's Evolution.
This type of argument is why I and my peers have such a good time laughing at what emanates from Redmond and its associates.
IMHO as a corporate IT director (and home Linux user), if Linux was:
a) easier to find quality support for
b) able to run more mission critical apps
I would use it in more places in my corporate network.
A) You want quality support for Linux? Just post a job req. here on Slashdot and watch the resumes fly in. Or you could simply purchase an Enterprise package from RedHat.
B) Please name a "mission-critical app" that Linux can't run (or have a counterpart to) but is in wide use on Win32 (aside from some of the more dipshit mid-level CRM applications).
The reason is because European countries actually INVESTED in infrastructure. Here in the States, land lines are so ubiquitous that nobody really cares about wireless comm and cell sites are extremely expensive. These factoids combine to make cell companies attempt to get by with the bare minimum.
If you all only knew how much better things SHOULD be (even in Europe, where coverage stomps its American counterpart) you'd be burning down executive buildings in protest.
I once used a hollowed-out monitor for a Chip-n-Putt contest during a fundraiser. I was doing some free-lance for a computer consultant in the local real estate market (a consultant for a consultant.. LOL). The fundraiser was held at a golf course, and each of the various participating vendors (lenders, banks, consultants such as ourselves) arranged little activities at the Tee's of each of the 18 holes
We had one of the most popular activities. The object was to pop a little chip-shot into the monitor; a successful chip-shot was awarded a gift certificate to a local electronics superstore. A couple of guys didn't want to use the little 9-Iron I provided, opting instead to whip out their drivers. One guy damned near blew a hole in the back of the casing.
Actually, I think people see Linus as the guy who created the thing which will take down MS.
He's not a hero for taking down MS, he's a hero for creating this really cool thing and setting it in motion in the correct direction. We all chose to get in line behind it and help it along. His little beastie will take down MS by itself, but is not organic so can not be considered "a hero" itself.
Companies could sell whatever they wanted, but at risk of severe penalties from Microsoft. This was actually spelled out in the anti-trust hearings, and was found to be illegal anti-competitive behavior.
Nice obfuscation, though.
I hate that whenever I drink my tea, I get a stabbing pain in my eye. But, the spoon is there; that's the way it has to be.
btw: I also work at a financial institution. There is migration to web-based services rather than locally-run applications. Soon it won't matter which platform (except the farking morons who write web-apps only for IE).
That's all well and fine if you want to discount the fact that Microsoft forbid PC distributors from releasing an alternative OS on their systems. Microsoft isn't supposed to do that anymore, but still plays games with "Preferred Partnership" programs and the like.
So, the PC distributors who had customers requesting a Linux desktop system were not allowed to even investigate opening up that market because Microsoft would have jacked up their costs of bundling Windoze on the rest of their systems. Truly take Microsoft out of monopoly status and watch the landscape change.
Microsoft has been having lots of trouble breaking into the server market (a relatively recent market for them) because Enterprise-class people know (from supporting the mess that is the MS desktop) that Microsoft is a back-end infrastructure nightmare. It is universally regarded as better to go with a robust adult OS (UNIX) and/or its young upstart cousin (Linux) for your server needs and keep the MS nonsense contained in Desktop Userland.
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Ok.. talk about scary; I was just told that I'm going to be handed a SCO UnixWare disk drive with some CRM package on it and I'm expected to port it to either Debian or Solaris (my choice).
You and I may be talking again real soon....
Nice.. very nice. I'll be interested in seeing some statistics regarding the usage of that tool later on...
(this could also help those being sued by the RIAA should a case ever go to court).
As opposed to what? The months before Blaster came out that the patch was available?
Actually, it was a couple of weeks. And that was very much the exception to the rule with regards to Microsoft's history with bug reporting/patching.
Case in point is the IE mishandling of SSL which allowed anyone with a valid cert to issue a "valid" cert for any OTHER domain. This went on, denied and downplayed by Microsoft, for HOW long?
Why, when I see your sig ("+++"), do I want to respond with "OK"?
There is no "transponder" because the satellites merely "beep" a signal containing the time, satellite position, and any clock correction necessary (there are also other components, but these three will suffice for this discussion). The GPS receiver, in order to function, must be able to receive the signal from four satellites. It then calculates terrestrial position based on triangulation between the times and positions reported by each bird.
This is similar to how the older LORAN system worked (which used terrestrial signal stations), but is more accurate (less signal loss/reflection than land-based transmitters) and more ubiquitous (as long as you can see the sky, you can get a fix).
There is no receive functionality in the satellites except for the command&control functions (which your piddly little $400 Garmin can't touch).
This link might prove helpful...
Hugh Jass
Wolverine is downloading MP3s??
wow man.. does Dr. Xavier know about this?
Linux doesn't crash. It "creatively parks".
But do you have a functioning SYSTEM?
XP-login != fully-booted
Unfortunately, this time the pendulum has a pit to go with it...
I do quite a bit of hiring. If you are having to wade through too much BS I will reiterate my point about slashdot as a hiring forum.
Ok... that particular point was a little tongue-in-cheek, I'll admit....
Regarding the app which you run on SCO Unix; is it even ported to Linux? I would expect very odd problems if you just took a binary from one Unix to the other unless you were able to do a build from source (with whatever necessary adjustments).
I have an enterprise application myself which has versions for NT and Solaris (two guesses which one I chose). I'd dearly love to have it run on Linux (so I can make the entire cluster of which it is a part all Debian systems). But I don't have access to the source code and in any event am not in a position to have my staff spending the man-hours porting it. This is not the fault of Linux - it's the fault of the vendor who likewise won't spend the man-hours (days/months/years) doing the port either. The vendor is starting to listen to my whining about it, but their staff is probably too small right now to do much more than support the current ports and release upgrades as new feature sets become popular with all customers.
Good luck with your vendor!
What, exactly, was "smart ass" about my response? You whined about not having any competent technical support and I casually mentioned how very easy it is to obtain competent technical support. If you didn't want to hire the people in-house, it was as easy as buying a support contract from Red Hat; they've made many millions providing such support. Barring that, there are other countless outside consultants and consultant-agencies able to provide top-notch Linux support.
If you don't like wading through BS resumes then you have obviously done precious little hiring (especially these days).
Finally: I do not care how many wide spread use Win32 apps Linux supports. Until it can run my 1.2 M $ custom made sales
Well sir, I submit then that your original Point B is very disingenuous. You complain that Linux can not support some mission-critical application, but you fail to mention the application in question is custom-built for Win32. I believe any Win32 platform would have a hell of a time coping with KMail, and that was a mission-critical application for me until I switched to Ximian's Evolution.
This type of argument is why I and my peers have such a good time laughing at what emanates from Redmond and its associates.
IMHO as a corporate IT director (and home Linux user), if Linux was:
a) easier to find quality support for
b) able to run more mission critical apps
I would use it in more places in my corporate network.
A) You want quality support for Linux? Just post a job req. here on Slashdot and watch the resumes fly in. Or you could simply purchase an Enterprise package from RedHat.
B) Please name a "mission-critical app" that Linux can't run (or have a counterpart to) but is in wide use on Win32 (aside from some of the more dipshit mid-level CRM applications).
The reason is because European countries actually INVESTED in infrastructure. Here in the States, land lines are so ubiquitous that nobody really cares about wireless comm and cell sites are extremely expensive. These factoids combine to make cell companies attempt to get by with the bare minimum.
If you all only knew how much better things SHOULD be (even in Europe, where coverage stomps its American counterpart) you'd be burning down executive buildings in protest.
I actually cut a CEO's network cable in half (in front of him and his just-about-to-faint secretary) for doing something quite similar.
I told him he could have his network connection back in 48 hours after he had thought about his sins.
When he got back from his weekend business trip, I never again had network problems originating from his office.
Believe it or not, the CEO kept my manager from firing me.
It's an act of "Goddamn you Bill, and your entire fucking army of troll programmers!"
I once used a hollowed-out monitor for a Chip-n-Putt contest during a fundraiser. I was doing some free-lance for a computer consultant in the local real estate market (a consultant for a consultant.. LOL). The fundraiser was held at a golf course, and each of the various participating vendors (lenders, banks, consultants such as ourselves) arranged little activities at the Tee's of each of the 18 holes
We had one of the most popular activities. The object was to pop a little chip-shot into the monitor; a successful chip-shot was awarded a gift certificate to a local electronics superstore. A couple of guys didn't want to use the little 9-Iron I provided, opting instead to whip out their drivers. One guy damned near blew a hole in the back of the casing.
Its equivalent to the Morris Worm would be the "Keith Moon Worm"...
Actually, I think people see Linus as the guy who created the thing which will take down MS.
He's not a hero for taking down MS, he's a hero for creating this really cool thing and setting it in motion in the correct direction. We all chose to get in line behind it and help it along. His little beastie will take down MS by itself, but is not organic so can not be considered "a hero" itself.
Perhaps we're all heroes then...
I vote for "bitch".
"Keep your stick on the ice, because we're all in this together now. Like it or not."
I prefer a little stickwork to Darl's face. That would be a sweet 4 minutes in the box.
But, if I *ever* find that clown with his head down in the corners.....
Companies could sell whatever they wanted, but at risk of severe penalties from Microsoft. This was actually spelled out in the anti-trust hearings, and was found to be illegal anti-competitive behavior. Nice obfuscation, though.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
"Won't get fooled again..." (R. Daltry)
I hate that whenever I drink my tea, I get a stabbing pain in my eye. But, the spoon is there; that's the way it has to be.
btw: I also work at a financial institution. There is migration to web-based services rather than locally-run applications. Soon it won't matter which platform (except the farking morons who write web-apps only for IE).
That's all well and fine if you want to discount the fact that Microsoft forbid PC distributors from releasing an alternative OS on their systems. Microsoft isn't supposed to do that anymore, but still plays games with "Preferred Partnership" programs and the like.
So, the PC distributors who had customers requesting a Linux desktop system were not allowed to even investigate opening up that market because Microsoft would have jacked up their costs of bundling Windoze on the rest of their systems. Truly take Microsoft out of monopoly status and watch the landscape change.
Microsoft has been having lots of trouble breaking into the server market (a relatively recent market for them) because Enterprise-class people know (from supporting the mess that is the MS desktop) that Microsoft is a back-end infrastructure nightmare. It is universally regarded as better to go with a robust adult OS (UNIX) and/or its young upstart cousin (Linux) for your server needs and keep the MS nonsense contained in Desktop Userland.
Well, since SCO is intent on violating the GPL like it was a passed-out sorority girl, why should this be any different?