Well, yeah, from an obviously limited POV like this it may make some sort of sense, mainly for accountants. However, the fact that there is an application for patents that hurts you as a consumer (not paying corporate taxes is stealing from the poor - literally) is still no guarantee that these patents will not be abused. Did you actually read the article? F5 - the patent holder, is suing it's competitors for using cookies, under the premise that "If I am not making making, let's make sure nobody else is making money either".
Dude, can I have some of that crack you are smoking? The only thing slower then a Superdome is a underconfigured Commodore C64. Running a webserver. During a slashdotting.
Hmmm. While factually correct, you miss the point of the post your are responding to, nl. that yes, when running your own host, identd is pretty useless, but still, it will allow for limited protection against a very specific type of abuse.
I do agree that PKI is the way to go though. There are organisation that know how to make it work seamlessly though. Ask Novell.
"However, I don't think mainframes and GUI's are mutually-exclusive anyhow (as described in another post "GUI + Mainframes")."
Phone IBM. Tell them you want to buy a mainframe. tell them you want Linux LPARs. Ask them how many concurrent users you can serve with X11. Mainframes do batch processing. Everything else is either a hack, or a wrapper for batch processing. The IBM site has an interesting redbook on the subject.
Well, besides the fact that this is a carbon-copy post from the ars forum, you don't get the point of mainframes at all. You simply can't compare PC's with Mainframes. They have different properties, different design criteria, and pose different solutions to different problems. Sure, with clusters you may reach a higher then usual level of uptime (BTW, clusters are not new, and are not "arriving from the pc world" - your post makes me think that your closest encounter with technology is staring at Lara Croft's boobs on your playstation 2), but it is not just about uptime. The fact that mainframes are so reliable is just an interesting selling point, not the main feature (something the article didn't get out properly).
The main feature of mainframes are the staggering amounts of data it can move. The mainframe is like the bulldozer of the Computer world. The CPU is terribly slow at certain operations - run X11 on it, and have 20 people log in - say bye bye to your performance. But the amounts of data it can move, and the speed with which it can move that data is nothing short of amazing. Oh, and let's see you doing processor lock-stepping on a PC-based cluster.
I can't believe you got modded up to +5 for this drivel....
Well, don 't feed the Trolls and all that, but an innocent bystander might accidently take you seriously...
"why would you pay extra for widgets that look different and act different?"
Mmm... let's see... Cross platform abillities (Think Opera) maybe? Good and solid API? easy to use? Or wait, how about PDA's? Trolltech looks to me far from doomed....
"Solution? MS can use bags of cash to set up their own leasing program a la GE capital to spread out the big $ hurt, or otherwise accelerate their move towards selling their "software as a service"."
I'd be laughing my ass off when (when, not if) GE Capital & co. will start offering this with Linux.
One day, I started reading a Clarke book - I think it was Rama something, and I made the mistake of reading Clarke's intro notes. I realised that Clarke was a seriously pedantic, condensending person, whose every word exhumed his belief that the sun shine out of his ass. That sort of put me off.
The one author I keep returning to is Stephen Donaldson. I have read the whole Gap Series 5 times now, and it remains interesting. There is nothing like the raw power, emotion, violence and vile politics that Donaldson portrays in the Gap series. Every page you think that the characters cannot endure more - cannot go further. The final book, "This Day All God Die", is one massive crescendo - a fitting finale for a space series of serious proportions.
"... there are easier jobs out there, with higher pay, less pressure, more job security, where your work is appreciated and valued, and where you aren't blamed for the mistakes of others..."
Where? What kind of jobs? Can I do it without bending over and keeping my clothes on?
ehm, no. If you have a pirated copy of any MS software, MS will hold *you* responsible for it. Check out the MS piracy site. As for the labelling, you wouldn't believe the kind of stuff I see at the local markets, with holograms, kays and all.....
Given the lack of activation, the lack of bitching after upgrades, and the fact that you only paid $5 for your copy, I am pretty convinced you have been duped into buying a pirated copy of an Enterprise build of XP. Microsoft will, at some point, hunt you down for this, and make you pay double.
Hey, thats a coincidence! My experiences so-far have been almost exactly the same. Right on! I don't notice any DRM stuff, as you say - if it is there at all, it is pretty well hidden and transparent. I didn't even notice anything about product activation, install as such was a breeze - all my hardware was detected with no problems at all - not like the stories you hear about some of the more inferiour OS's out there. Even the patches - I get a notification in my taskbar, press the button, and my laptop is patched!
So, it seems like we have the same experiences. Oh, wait. No, some things are different. When I changed my motherboard, I didn't have to call or do anything. No activation required. The Redhat 8 OS on my latop doesn't need any of that. I do have a Windows XP running sometimes at home. It runs in a VMWare machine, and I boot it every now and again. So far, I have been harrassed to death for signing on to Passport, upgrading my messenger that I never use, and a lot of other annoying stuff that gets in my face. Sometimes after I start, XP has decided my system has changed (it *can't* change, due to the nature of VMWare) and wants me to ask Microsoft nicely if i can please continue using my machine. I just rollback my VMWare virtual-disk partition to a last-known-good state, and XP can take a hike.
Would you say that over 9 million downloads would approach popularity, on the MSOffice scale?
Perhaps none of your friends are using OpenOffice.org, but when you look at the rest of the world, especially the sectors that pay for MSOffice, like Governments etc., you will find a lot that are seriously looking into using OpenOffice.org. There are very few individuals left on this planet who have not, at some point or another, been fucked hard my Microsoft. There are even less organistations. At some point after the Windows95 launch, Microsoft lost respect for their customers. Paying customers usually don't like to be treated as pirates and enemies. This drives people to look for other solutions. The EU, for example, is looking into formally standardising on the OpenOffice.org file format.
You'd be amazed how much you can see when you pull your head out of your ass.
"robust features of.doc"? such as?.doc is a simple dump of the memory state, with little to no internal integrity. Probably one of the *least* robust file formats I know of
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Well, yeah, from an obviously limited POV like this it may make some sort of sense, mainly for accountants. However, the fact that there is an application for patents that hurts you as a consumer (not paying corporate taxes is stealing from the poor - literally) is still no guarantee that these patents will not be abused. Did you actually read the article? F5 - the patent holder, is suing it's competitors for using cookies, under the premise that "If I am not making making, let's make sure nobody else is making money either".
Patently ridiculous.....
Dude, can I have some of that crack you are smoking? The only thing slower then a Superdome is a underconfigured Commodore C64. Running a webserver. During a slashdotting.
Because basically, we are fish....
I do agree that PKI is the way to go though. There are organisation that know how to make it work seamlessly though. Ask Novell.
"I heard about these two guys yesterday. They built this thing called an airplane! They get people to go in, and fly around like birds."
Science Fiction, right? Now, before you go all knee-jerk on me, think about how people reacted to this development in 1903 and 1904.
Yes, there is a world outside the USA. However, the USA has effective control over this world: please look up WIPO and WTO.
Phone IBM. Tell them you want to buy a mainframe. tell them you want Linux LPARs. Ask them how many concurrent users you can serve with X11. Mainframes do batch processing. Everything else is either a hack, or a wrapper for batch processing. The IBM site has an interesting redbook on the subject.
The main feature of mainframes are the staggering amounts of data it can move. The mainframe is like the bulldozer of the Computer world. The CPU is terribly slow at certain operations - run X11 on it, and have 20 people log in - say bye bye to your performance. But the amounts of data it can move, and the speed with which it can move that data is nothing short of amazing. Oh, and let's see you doing processor lock-stepping on a PC-based cluster.
I can't believe you got modded up to +5 for this drivel....
"why would you pay extra for widgets that look different and act different?"
Mmm... let's see... Cross platform abillities (Think Opera) maybe? Good and solid API? easy to use? Or wait, how about PDA's? Trolltech looks to me far from doomed....
hey, you should be modded up + 5 interesting or something...
I'd be laughing my ass off when (when, not if) GE Capital & co. will start offering this with Linux.
here it is. Donaldson is brilliant.
The one author I keep returning to is Stephen Donaldson. I have read the whole Gap Series 5 times now, and it remains interesting. There is nothing like the raw power, emotion, violence and vile politics that Donaldson portrays in the Gap series. Every page you think that the characters cannot endure more - cannot go further. The final book, "This Day All God Die", is one massive crescendo - a fitting finale for a space series of serious proportions.
Donaldson is the master.
Where? What kind of jobs? Can I do it without bending over and keeping my clothes on?
Well, Divx and Divx ;-) are two different things...
ehm, no. If you have a pirated copy of any MS software, MS will hold *you* responsible for it. Check out the MS piracy site. As for the labelling, you wouldn't believe the kind of stuff I see at the local markets, with holograms, kays and all.....
Given the lack of activation, the lack of bitching after upgrades, and the fact that you only paid $5 for your copy, I am pretty convinced you have been duped into buying a pirated copy of an Enterprise build of XP. Microsoft will, at some point, hunt you down for this, and make you pay double.
So, it seems like we have the same experiences. Oh, wait. No, some things are different. When I changed my motherboard, I didn't have to call or do anything. No activation required. The Redhat 8 OS on my latop doesn't need any of that. I do have a Windows XP running sometimes at home. It runs in a VMWare machine, and I boot it every now and again. So far, I have been harrassed to death for signing on to Passport, upgrading my messenger that I never use, and a lot of other annoying stuff that gets in my face. Sometimes after I start, XP has decided my system has changed (it *can't* change, due to the nature of VMWare) and wants me to ask Microsoft nicely if i can please continue using my machine. I just rollback my VMWare virtual-disk partition to a last-known-good state, and XP can take a hike.
Perhaps none of your friends are using OpenOffice.org, but when you look at the rest of the world, especially the sectors that pay for MSOffice, like Governments etc., you will find a lot that are seriously looking into using OpenOffice.org. There are very few individuals left on this planet who have not, at some point or another, been fucked hard my Microsoft. There are even less organistations. At some point after the Windows95 launch, Microsoft lost respect for their customers. Paying customers usually don't like to be treated as pirates and enemies. This drives people to look for other solutions. The EU, for example, is looking into formally standardising on the OpenOffice.org file format.
You'd be amazed how much you can see when you pull your head out of your ass.
Is this a rather unfortunate juxtaposition of words, or an intentional statement of cause and effect?
Bernstein is an asshole and his software sucks.
ok, i'll bite. What's wrong with PHP?
How come?
Hmm. I think you are lucky with Groupwise. I am forced to use "Fujitsu TeamWare" an utter piece of crap.
"robust features of .doc"? such as? .doc is a simple dump of the memory state, with little to no internal integrity. Probably one of the *least* robust file formats I know of