1. boot to ghost disk or whatever image utility you are using immediately after a fresh install of the MS Flavor Of the Month and of course all your pretty little aplications too.
2. Make disk image with no locked files:). Of course save the image to the network somewhere and put it on physical media also. Don't forget to label image with server/workstaion name and model number.
3. Schedule backups using MS backup on a weekly or daily or whenever basis.
4. Profit = you now have a two step restore of everything on your computer up to date of last backup or a onestep process of basic MS install with your companies apps ready to go. You could also put multiple hardware profiles on the image to cover all your different machines.
I find it incredable that this person got there article on slashdot. Perhaps people who hate MS should stick to administrating non MS networks. Your hatred has made you blind to a simple task that most MS admins should know. Be careful if you go chasing monsters that you don't become one yourself.
Finally some one has said it precisely and elegantly. I fear RH may have misstepped here. Now the only thing that makes them different from MS is size and Kernel but not philosophy.
Red Hat just put a bunch of eggs into the Fedora basket. If it does not get wide spread adoption in this transition we might see a RH 10 or perhaps a slow death at Red Hat. Anyway death to Red Hat, long live Red Hat.
Personally I have played and enjoyed consoles since the 2600. I did have pong first but it lost it's charm very quickly. After the 2600 I had a NES and let me tell you it was gamers heaven compared to the 2600. After the NES I had a SNES and again heaven was reclaimed anew. I also bought a Genesis too (used) but just for sonic and PGA Golf. After that I bought a N64 and damn was I impressed Goldeneye remains one of my favorites to this day. I also had a Play Station at the time and did not like it as much as the N64 (controller mainly). So there you have it I have been in it since the beginning and will probably still be playing video games when my children commit me to an old folks home. I'll bet you Nintendo will still be around then and still be making one of the best consoles with some of the best games.
Nintendo has three major segments it is profitable in?
1.Mobile gamming 2.Console gamming 3.Publisher of games for console and mobile
If you hate Nintendo then no reason to read any further. Now lets look at this logically. Who do you think is the leader in the game market as far as sales strictly dealing with gamming. I bet you Nintendo is the top sales dog still. Sony and Microsoft are bleeding money when it comes to sale of thier consoles. They have to pick up the slack on the licensing end. Sony has been successful in this since there console base is the strongest among the three followed by Xbox and cube neck and neck. That is of couse if you don't consider mobile gamming. Look at the numbers. Nintendo crushes Microsoft when it come to install base if you include mobile gamming. Yes I know niether Sony nor Microsoft have mobile platforms but I do have a point here. Now if we start looking at first party sales of games (I could only find figures for the first part of September)Nintendo is dominating. Sony comes in a distant second and Xbox is an also ran. Nintendo is still very successful leader in the gamming industry. You can twist the numbers around so Sony is number one followed by Nintendo but Xbox is clearly the console in danger of being slapped down by the top two.
Atari is irrelevant. It's like taking a bucket of water out of the ocean and then checking to see how much the sea level has dropped. I am not trying to disrespect Atari I am just pointing out that as far as Nintendo's market viability goes Atari is meaningless.
Nintendo is the gamming company that still loves gamming. Nintendo is a company soley focused on gamming. They are the last console manufacturer with this special perspective. If microsoft or Sony loses in the gamming market they would still go on. Not so for Nintendo. They have always been very calculating and that is why they not only survive but are still a leader in the gamming market. Microsoft is just a poser (perhaps thier status will rise if they make it to another console release). Sony has become a significant player but by no means dominates the whole market. Nintendo knows the gamming industry better than its competitors and they have been good about directing thier company to take advantage of market trends. They have not put out a bad console yet in my opinion and it is fair to say most people will have fun playing any game in thier catalog. Could Sony and Microsoft say the same?
Sony and Microsoft still have to take huge risks to get inroads to dominate the market. Nintendo does not use that strategy as far as I can tell nor do I think they have to. Anyway This is not the time for Nintendo to become reckless. They are doing the right thing by focusing on not making major mistakes or miscalculations. I would put my money on Microsoft losing the console war this christmass season.
In the US the individual rights are protected against the majority even if it takes 100 years for the courts to get off thier asses and enforce the individual's rights. Think "Civil Rights", "Gay Rights", "Freedom of religion" ect. Democracy does not equal mob rule. The last presidential election is a perfect example. The majority of people wanted Gore but the minority of Amercian's forced Bush upon the majority. Nuff said no go back to civic 101.
This is such a good point that never really gets mentioned much anymore. It is the community of file sharers and the fact that I can browse someone elses music libray that makes p2p music so awesome. I am exposed to music I would never have listened to otherwise. Do I buy more albums? I doubt it. I did eliminate my previous trend of buying crappy albums now that I can preview them online first. I also purchased some vintage albums that I never considered before (bought them used).
I am far more careful and stingy with my music dollars now and will only buy verifiable albums of quality.
I remember when block buster music was around they would open an album and let you listen to it but you had to do it in store and it was very uncomfortable. In contrast P2P allows me to find and listen to music in the comfort of my own home at my liesure. When I find music gems I do go out and buy the album(used if I can find it). But I have been purchasing more and more old stuff and can't remember the last time I was interested in a new release. Could be I am just getting older and out of touch or perhaps new albums have sucked donkey for some time now.
Either way it is not just the free music that keeps people on the P2P swapping songs it's the ability to browse music libraries that are completely different than your own and the vast amount of p0rn doesn't hurt either.
Is it me? Have I suddenly become a blathering idiot overnight? Can you truly have a viable company exist on the slim revenues of PC hardware in non-upgradable set top box? Perhaps Infinium is planning on lightening the game publishers of some of thier bags of money they have lying around the office (I will assume this will not be done at gun point)? Or maybe they will start an as yet unnanounced broadbrand service to be sold along with this Phantom.
Now I am no idiot and I don't believe Tim Roberts or any other employees at Infinium are. This Phantom and service is going to be an extremely hard sell. Lets look at satellite radio as an example. Some very smart people and good ideas and excellent implementation. But the consumers on the other hand are doing a WTF "I have to pay $300 for an add on reciever and then pay $10 a month". Thus it has gotten very little market penetration.
For any model such as this to work you have to practically give the hardware away. Then get the consumer on board with the technology and the subscription. Then when you reach a critical mass start charging cost and maybe a little profit for the gear. This takes a long time and alot of money. Look at how long it took Direct TV and Dishnet to do it. Now they will charge you over $600 for thier respective PVR's and guess what we love it.
If there is any significant cost of entry into a subscrition service most consumers will not make the effort(lets face it that is what infinium is really selling). I am not opposed to spending $20 a month for gaming but I'll be damned if I have to pay you $400 first before I get the privilage of paying you the $20 a month subscription. So in the end I will have to say no thank you to the Phantom.
First lets dispell the typical myth about gamming being mainly the interest of teenage boys. The GBA and SP have played well to that myth, infact it appears to be common sense that Nintendo owns the teenage mobile game market. Everyone though knows that the bulk of gamers are not in highschool and many are even college graduates. That being said the Zodiac is set to dominate the +18 mobile gamming crowd. I am part of that demographic and this device looks very exciting. I will wait for a reputable review before I buy though. The Zodiac appeals to almost all of my wish list for a mobile gamming platform. So if there are no significant snags that come with the Zodiac then they have my $400 or so dollars. The specs read like a mobile gamer's wet dream:
Memory:
Zodiac1 = 32MB*
Zodiac2 = 128MB* * 12MB reserved for system use.
Display: 3.8 inch transflective display 480 x 320 (half VGA), 16-bit color backlit display (65,536 colors) Portrait and landscape display capabilities Digitizer for enhanced interactive game play, navigation and text input.
Sound: Yamaha(R) audio component and stereo speakers Standard 3.5mm stereo headphone plug Earbud-style headphones included Support for select third-party portable speakers
Vibration: Supports silent notification and interactive game play.
Controls: Variable pressure analog controller (joystick) 2 triggers, 4 programmable action buttons, 1 special function button, 1 home button, 1 power button, and 1 Bluetooth button.
Expandability: Dual expansion slots for MultiMediaCards, Secure Digital (SD) cards and SDIO cards, including digital cameras and more.* Zodiac Connector for additional peripherals. * Slot #1: supports MultiMediaCards, Secure Digital Cards (SD). Slot #2: supports MultiMediaCards, Secure Digital Cards (SD), and SDIO cards.
Wireless Connectivity:
Built-in Bluetooth radio with dedicated activation button. Ideal for multiplayer wireless gaming, sharing information and connectivity to other compatible Bluetooth enabled devices.
PC Desktop Connectivity:
USB Cable USB Cradle (sold separately)
Cover: Protective Flip Cover
Wrist Strap: Convenient strap
Battery: High-capacity Rechargeable Lithium Batteries - 1540 mAh
Power Supply: AC Adapter / Battery Charger (120 volt AC, 60 Hz) International connectivity kit (sold separately)
You Know the first computer I ever put together to play games was installed from a borrowed copy of 95. Come to think of it I didn't have any money left for the OS (spent it all on performance hardware). The first thing I did was direct dial up my friend for a game of Warcraft (which I did purchase).
You bring up a good point. Given the chance would a current day Gamer opt to shell out $100 for the next MS upgrade or buy a couple of new games and a 40 oz. Maybe Game developers will realise if Gamers can switch to Linux they will have more money to buy thier games.
Please forgive me for commiting the two cardinal sins of slashdot. First I read the article and second I am going to comment directly about that article.
Paul Murphy seems to be well versed in online white papers on the subject of enterprise costs and who's pushing which enterprise scheme and how they plan to market it. Paul however seems to be lacking any practical experience in any enterprise of size or enacting change in a large enterprise. I found his article when it was not a verbatim regurgitation to be a boring derivative. Nothing new here if you are up on thin clients or converting desktops from MS to *nix. If I am wrong and Mr. Murphy does have extensive enterprise experience then my apologies but the article is still dangerously approaching crap. Won't waste my time on any future garbage from him.
Do not under estimate the power and influence of the technologist or as industry analysts like to call us "early adopters". We can kill a new product before it is even released. The content industries have always wanted to control how the consumer uses thier products. Need I mention the Divix player debacle back in the mid 90's. We were all frightened by the blatant message sent to us the consumer by the industry. We are not to be trusted with thier property, we have no property rights. But the technologists got the word out about the new product and guess what no one bought the sack of crap they were selling. Many people asked me about the divix player and I said "avoid it it will be obsolete by the end of the year". We killed the Divix player and it never even made a blip on the national level.
Left on thier own the content industry will have us in shackles but for one saving grace they need our money and they don't want to piss us the technologist off to badly because we establish technology trends with our buying habbits and the advice we give others from our direct experiences. I help make technology decisions at my work and gues what I will never recomend DRM equipment. My friends, family and co-workers know I live breath and eat electronics/technology and value my opinion. Remeber Processor serial numbers? We killed em. We will do the same with DRM. So lets get the word out to everyone who trusts us and before you know it DRM will be avoided like an ex-lover with genital warts.
Use the facts at hand and human's distrust of anyone or thing that directly tries to control them.
Maybe you read the article and maybe you just didn't understand that IBM is Claiming infringment on unixware. Why do I even waste my breath.
[snip]
The infringing SCO software, IBM said, is its UnixWare and OpenServer operating systems, its SCO Manager remote administration tool and its Reliant HA package, which enables one computer in a cluster take over if another fails.
[/snip]
$699 per single CPU
That sounds pretty good.
But I have a better Idea.
First I give you the finger.
Then I install my Linux distro.
I know my rights this Gestapo crap doesn't scare me.
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SCO group has been expertly marketing a new product. But will that product sell? Basically they are now selling insurance. Insurance that they will not try to sue your pants off. Sounds like a wimpy version of a type of fire insurance sold by a well know family business in NYC years ago. The real question to ask is does SCO have any IP rights to Unix at all? So far they have only shown contractual rights. No patents have been flaunted by SCO. They have shown no ownership of original art. So far we have heard about [and seen a little] of a contract of sale with Novell and the original ATT licenses. If SCO can't come up with original art or patents to support there IP claims then they are dead in the water. Although it will be interesting to see how a court sorts out a conflict between contract rights and patent rights. Perhaps the final note for SCO will be more like the crunch you hear when an enormous animal steps on a tiny bug [we can only hope it comes sooner than later].
Thanks for the correction. Although I don't think timming is irrelevent to your first point. Timming could point to intention on Caldera's part if they did not own any IP to the code when it was originally donated. SCO group could still claim that it took them awhile to figure out what this employee did. Even though they were distributing it after they realized what happened it does not lessen there ability to try and reclaim there IP regardless of how much damage they inflicted on it themselves. It would be interesting to see how much wiggle room the courts give comapnies in regard to self inflicted damages to there own IP. This is where the GPL comes into the argument I think. This is where we see how the court will react to it as a contract.
Time tables are very important here because if Caldera was not purchased by SCO when the donation happend then it coul be a real mess for the court to figure out. If Caldera did not have the same IP rights as SCO then they were contributing derrivitive works contolled under the original ATT licensing. If SCO was not aware of this when they bought Caldera or if SCO had purchased Caldera but were unaware that an employee of Caldera was violating SCO's IP then they are still free to seek remedy for the IP violations. This assumes Caldera tried to donate code to Linux which they did not own the IP or copyright to. This is all specutlation though (IANAL). The case does have some merrits in my opinion and I think will be a good test of the GPL if IBM decides to argue that point in court.
Do you see the AP/IP Lawyers playing the traditional role of going after the illegal distributors as they did in the early 90's (Example1: Video stores renting illegal copies of movies. Example2: Individuals who illegally copied software onto floppy disks and gave them to everyone at the local computer club) Or do you see the department expanding into action against individuals knowingly receiving illegal/unlicensed IP? If the latter is the case do you see any significant legal hurdles left for the courts to address that the DOJ/US attorneys office will have to overcome?
This should not affect any MS SQL user even if they developed customized code to run with it. This will affect companies that sell third party add-on/customization software for MS SQL. I suppose Timeline could press the user community for royalties and damage one of the best alternatives to Oracle but I doubt they will try. This is really about developers skirting royalties to Timeline by trying to piggy back onto Microsoft's developers lisence purchased from Timeline. The bad guys here are the unscrupulous or Imbicile third party developers.
Great point. But what would be an alternative to a desktop model for multitasking computer workstations. I know in the server environment desktops can become comberson but on my workstation I cannot think of any alternatives to a desktop philosophy
I would assume you mean 12 channels of cable because it would be impractical with satellite and pointless with broadcast tv. I suppose you could try to build your own 12 channel demux/decrypt for satellite but you would need an awfully large crack pipe.
Even if you had satellite, cable and broadcast antenna to feed this monster who the hell will have the time to watch all the content you are recording. You would be far to busy administering your mini-headend and working a second job to pay the electric bill. Perhaps you should just start off with single PC with 4 capture cards. You could even purchase an IDE raid to store even more crap. You could impress your friends by playing every episode of Aqua Teen in high quality digital video but beyond similar efforts I don't see much use in 12 record channels.
I applaude the ruling it was a just and sound decision that will stand up to scrutiny. The court must provide remedies for copyright holders. But there just might be a silver linning to this. The judge just handed the RIAA the gun to shoot themselves in the foot with whether he knew or not. The RIAA will have a very tough case to win against this soon to be not so anonymous user. Even if they do win it will be costly both monetarily and to the reputation of the industry. Let them prosecute the users of P2P's that break the law. It will be a great mistake perhaps even a fatal one. The main issue I see with this is the ISP will spend tons of money complying with an aparent overwhelming number of subpenas that will be sent and many ISP's may go under or do worse things to peoples privacy online than comply with a judges order.
yes this is true but you must go through great pains to get a unique desktop for each user and you use up lots of resources doing it. I imagine that you would have to pull the users desktop from an archive and load it into the current environment which would take a long time then when they logged off you would have to clean up the desktop of all user info in preparations for the next person to logon. All in all extremely inefficiant compared to Crossover, Citrix or even bare MS Terminals. I would pay the money it would be well worth it.
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1. boot to ghost disk or whatever image utility you are using immediately after a fresh install of the MS Flavor Of the Month and of course all your pretty little aplications too.
:). Of course save the image to the network somewhere and put it on physical media also. Don't forget to label image with server/workstaion name and model number.
2. Make disk image with no locked files
3. Schedule backups using MS backup on a weekly or daily or whenever basis.
4. Profit = you now have a two step restore of everything on your computer up to date of last backup or a onestep process of basic MS install with your companies apps ready to go. You could also put multiple hardware profiles on the image to cover all your different machines.
I find it incredable that this person got there article on slashdot. Perhaps people who hate MS should stick to administrating non MS networks. Your hatred has made you blind to a simple task that most MS admins should know. Be careful if you go chasing monsters that you don't become one yourself.
Finally some one has said it precisely and elegantly. I fear RH may have misstepped here. Now the only thing that makes them different from MS is size and Kernel but not philosophy.
Red Hat just put a bunch of eggs into the Fedora basket. If it does not get wide spread adoption in this transition we might see a RH 10 or perhaps a slow death at Red Hat. Anyway death to Red Hat, long live Red Hat.
A fresh if not frustrating view into the SCO Vs. IBM case
Ransom love interview
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1300359,00.a
Personally I have played and enjoyed consoles since the 2600. I did have pong first but it lost it's charm very quickly. After the 2600 I had a NES and let me tell you it was gamers heaven compared to the 2600. After the NES I had a SNES and again heaven was reclaimed anew. I also bought a Genesis too (used) but just for sonic and PGA Golf. After that I bought a N64 and damn was I impressed Goldeneye remains one of my favorites to this day. I also had a Play Station at the time and did not like it as much as the N64 (controller mainly). So there you have it I have been in it since the beginning and will probably still be playing video games when my children commit me to an old folks home. I'll bet you Nintendo will still be around then and still be making one of the best consoles with some of the best games.
Nintendo has three major segments it is profitable in?
1.Mobile gamming
2.Console gamming
3.Publisher of games for console and mobile
If you hate Nintendo then no reason to read any further. Now lets look at this logically. Who do you think is the leader in the game market as far as sales strictly dealing with gamming. I bet you Nintendo is the top sales dog still. Sony and Microsoft are bleeding money when it comes to sale of thier consoles. They have to pick up the slack on the licensing end. Sony has been successful in this since there console base is the strongest among the three followed by Xbox and cube neck and neck. That is of couse if you don't consider mobile gamming. Look at the numbers. Nintendo crushes Microsoft when it come to install base if you include mobile gamming. Yes I know niether Sony nor Microsoft have mobile platforms but I do have a point here. Now if we start looking at first party sales of games (I could only find figures for the first part of September)Nintendo is dominating. Sony comes in a distant second and Xbox is an also ran. Nintendo is still very successful leader in the gamming industry. You can twist the numbers around so Sony is number one followed by Nintendo but Xbox is clearly the console in danger of being slapped down by the top two.
Atari is irrelevant. It's like taking a bucket of water out of the ocean and then checking to see how much the sea level has dropped. I am not trying to disrespect Atari I am just pointing out that as far as Nintendo's market viability goes Atari is meaningless.
Nintendo is the gamming company that still loves gamming. Nintendo is a company soley focused on gamming. They are the last console manufacturer with this special perspective. If microsoft or Sony loses in the gamming market they would still go on. Not so for Nintendo. They have always been very calculating and that is why they not only survive but are still a leader in the gamming market. Microsoft is just a poser (perhaps thier status will rise if they make it to another console release). Sony has become a significant player but by no means dominates the whole market. Nintendo knows the gamming industry better than its competitors and they have been good about directing thier company to take advantage of market trends. They have not put out a bad console yet in my opinion and it is fair to say most people will have fun playing any game in thier catalog. Could Sony and Microsoft say the same?
Sony and Microsoft still have to take huge risks to get inroads to dominate the market. Nintendo does not use that strategy as far as I can tell nor do I think they have to. Anyway This is not the time for Nintendo to become reckless. They are doing the right thing by focusing on not making major mistakes or miscalculations. I would put my money on Microsoft losing the console war this christmass season.
In the US the individual rights are protected against the majority even if it takes 100 years for the courts to get off thier asses and enforce the individual's rights. Think "Civil Rights", "Gay Rights", "Freedom of religion" ect. Democracy does not equal mob rule. The last presidential election is a perfect example. The majority of people wanted Gore but the minority of Amercian's forced Bush upon the majority. Nuff said no go back to civic 101.
This is such a good point that never really gets mentioned much anymore. It is the community of file sharers and the fact that I can browse someone elses music libray that makes p2p music so awesome. I am exposed to music I would never have listened to otherwise. Do I buy more albums? I doubt it. I did eliminate my previous trend of buying crappy albums now that I can preview them online first. I also purchased some vintage albums that I never considered before (bought them used).
I am far more careful and stingy with my music dollars now and will only buy verifiable albums of quality.
I remember when block buster music was around they would open an album and let you listen to it but you had to do it in store and it was very uncomfortable. In contrast P2P allows me to find and listen to music in the comfort of my own home at my liesure. When I find music gems I do go out and buy the album(used if I can find it). But I have been purchasing more and more old stuff and can't remember the last time I was interested in a new release. Could be I am just getting older and out of touch or perhaps new albums have sucked donkey for some time now.
Either way it is not just the free music that keeps people on the P2P swapping songs it's the ability to browse music libraries that are completely different than your own and the vast amount of p0rn doesn't hurt either.
Is it me? Have I suddenly become a blathering idiot overnight? Can you truly have a viable company exist on the slim revenues of PC hardware in non-upgradable set top box? Perhaps Infinium is planning on lightening the game publishers of some of thier bags of money they have lying around the office (I will assume this will not be done at gun point)? Or maybe they will start an as yet unnanounced broadbrand service to be sold along with this Phantom.
Now I am no idiot and I don't believe Tim Roberts or any other employees at Infinium are. This Phantom and service is going to be an extremely hard sell. Lets look at satellite radio as an example. Some very smart people and good ideas and excellent implementation. But the consumers on the other hand are doing a WTF "I have to pay $300 for an add on reciever and then pay $10 a month". Thus it has gotten very little market penetration.
For any model such as this to work you have to practically give the hardware away. Then get the consumer on board with the technology and the subscription. Then when you reach a critical mass start charging cost and maybe a little profit for the gear. This takes a long time and alot of money. Look at how long it took Direct TV and Dishnet to do it. Now they will charge you over $600 for thier respective PVR's and guess what we love it.
If there is any significant cost of entry into a subscrition service most consumers will not make the effort(lets face it that is what infinium is really selling). I am not opposed to spending $20 a month for gaming but I'll be damned if I have to pay you $400 first before I get the privilage of paying you the $20 a month subscription. So in the end I will have to say no thank you to the Phantom.
First lets dispell the typical myth about gamming being mainly the interest of teenage boys. The GBA and SP have played well to that myth, infact it appears to be common sense that Nintendo owns the teenage mobile game market. Everyone though knows that the bulk of gamers are not in highschool and many are even college graduates. That being said the Zodiac is set to dominate the +18 mobile gamming crowd. I am part of that demographic and this device looks very exciting. I will wait for a reputable review before I buy though. The Zodiac appeals to almost all of my wish list for a mobile gamming platform. So if there are no significant snags that come with the Zodiac then they have my $400 or so dollars. The specs read like a mobile gamer's wet dream:
.55" (14mm) / 6.3 ounces
Memory:
Zodiac1 = 32MB*
Zodiac2 = 128MB*
* 12MB reserved for system use.
Processor:
Motorola(R) i.MX1(TM) ARM9 processor (200 MHz)
Graphics Accelerator:
ATI(R) Imageon(TM) W4200 graphics accelerator (with 8MB dedicated SDRAM).
Display:
3.8 inch transflective display
480 x 320 (half VGA), 16-bit color backlit display (65,536 colors)
Portrait and landscape display capabilities
Digitizer for enhanced interactive game play, navigation and text input.
Sound:
Yamaha(R) audio component and stereo speakers
Standard 3.5mm stereo headphone plug
Earbud-style headphones included
Support for select third-party portable speakers
Vibration:
Supports silent notification and interactive game play.
Controls:
Variable pressure analog controller (joystick)
2 triggers, 4 programmable action buttons, 1 special function button,
1 home button, 1 power button, and 1 Bluetooth button.
Expandability:
Dual expansion slots for MultiMediaCards, Secure Digital (SD) cards
and SDIO cards, including digital cameras and more.*
Zodiac Connector for additional peripherals.
* Slot #1: supports MultiMediaCards, Secure Digital Cards (SD).
Slot #2: supports MultiMediaCards, Secure Digital Cards (SD), and
SDIO cards.
Wireless
Connectivity:
Built-in Bluetooth radio with dedicated activation button.
Ideal for multiplayer wireless gaming, sharing information and connectivity to other compatible Bluetooth enabled devices.
PC Desktop
Connectivity:
USB Cable
USB Cradle (sold separately)
Cover:
Protective Flip Cover
Wrist Strap:
Convenient strap
Battery:
High-capacity Rechargeable Lithium Batteries - 1540 mAh
Power Supply:
AC Adapter / Battery Charger (120 volt AC, 60 Hz)
International connectivity kit (sold separately)
Size/Weight
5.6" (143mm) x 3.1" (79mm) x
Color
Zodiac1 - Slate Gray
Zodiac2 - Charcoal Gray
You Know the first computer I ever put together to play games was installed from a borrowed copy of 95. Come to think of it I didn't have any money left for the OS (spent it all on performance hardware). The first thing I did was direct dial up my friend for a game of Warcraft (which I did purchase).
You bring up a good point. Given the chance would a current day Gamer opt to shell out $100 for the next MS upgrade or buy a couple of new games and a 40 oz. Maybe Game developers will realise if Gamers can switch to Linux they will have more money to buy thier games.
Please forgive me for commiting the two cardinal sins of slashdot. First I read the article and second I am going to comment directly about that article.
Paul Murphy seems to be well versed in online white papers on the subject of enterprise costs and who's pushing which enterprise scheme and how they plan to market it. Paul however seems to be lacking any practical experience in any enterprise of size or enacting change in a large enterprise. I found his article when it was not a verbatim regurgitation to be a boring derivative. Nothing new here if you are up on thin clients or converting desktops from MS to *nix. If I am wrong and Mr. Murphy does have extensive enterprise experience then my apologies but the article is still dangerously approaching crap. Won't waste my time on any future garbage from him.
Do not under estimate the power and influence of the technologist or as industry analysts like to call us "early adopters". We can kill a new product before it is even released. The content industries have always wanted to control how the consumer uses thier products. Need I mention the Divix player debacle back in the mid 90's. We were all frightened by the blatant message sent to us the consumer by the industry. We are not to be trusted with thier property, we have no property rights. But the technologists got the word out about the new product and guess what no one bought the sack of crap they were selling. Many people asked me about the divix player and I said "avoid it it will be obsolete by the end of the year". We killed the Divix player and it never even made a blip on the national level. Left on thier own the content industry will have us in shackles but for one saving grace they need our money and they don't want to piss us the technologist off to badly because we establish technology trends with our buying habbits and the advice we give others from our direct experiences. I help make technology decisions at my work and gues what I will never recomend DRM equipment. My friends, family and co-workers know I live breath and eat electronics/technology and value my opinion. Remeber Processor serial numbers? We killed em. We will do the same with DRM. So lets get the word out to everyone who trusts us and before you know it DRM will be avoided like an ex-lover with genital warts. Use the facts at hand and human's distrust of anyone or thing that directly tries to control them.
Maybe you read the article and maybe you just didn't understand that IBM is Claiming infringment on unixware. Why do I even waste my breath. [snip] The infringing SCO software, IBM said, is its UnixWare and OpenServer operating systems, its SCO Manager remote administration tool and its Reliant HA package, which enables one computer in a cluster take over if another fails. [/snip]
$699 per single CPU That sounds pretty good. But I have a better Idea. First I give you the finger. Then I install my Linux distro. I know my rights this Gestapo crap doesn't scare me. this
SCO group has been expertly marketing a new product. But will that product sell? Basically they are now selling insurance. Insurance that they will not try to sue your pants off. Sounds like a wimpy version of a type of fire insurance sold by a well know family business in NYC years ago. The real question to ask is does SCO have any IP rights to Unix at all? So far they have only shown contractual rights. No patents have been flaunted by SCO. They have shown no ownership of original art. So far we have heard about [and seen a little] of a contract of sale with Novell and the original ATT licenses. If SCO can't come up with original art or patents to support there IP claims then they are dead in the water. Although it will be interesting to see how a court sorts out a conflict between contract rights and patent rights. Perhaps the final note for SCO will be more like the crunch you hear when an enormous animal steps on a tiny bug [we can only hope it comes sooner than later].
Thanks for the correction. Although I don't think timming is irrelevent to your first point. Timming could point to intention on Caldera's part if they did not own any IP to the code when it was originally donated. SCO group could still claim that it took them awhile to figure out what this employee did. Even though they were distributing it after they realized what happened it does not lessen there ability to try and reclaim there IP regardless of how much damage they inflicted on it themselves. It would be interesting to see how much wiggle room the courts give comapnies in regard to self inflicted damages to there own IP. This is where the GPL comes into the argument I think. This is where we see how the court will react to it as a contract.
Time tables are very important here because if Caldera was not purchased by SCO when the donation happend then it coul be a real mess for the court to figure out. If Caldera did not have the same IP rights as SCO then they were contributing derrivitive works contolled under the original ATT licensing. If SCO was not aware of this when they bought Caldera or if SCO had purchased Caldera but were unaware that an employee of Caldera was violating SCO's IP then they are still free to seek remedy for the IP violations. This assumes Caldera tried to donate code to Linux which they did not own the IP or copyright to. This is all specutlation though (IANAL). The case does have some merrits in my opinion and I think will be a good test of the GPL if IBM decides to argue that point in court.
Do you see the AP/IP Lawyers playing the traditional role of going after the illegal distributors as they did in the early 90's (Example1: Video stores renting illegal copies of movies. Example2: Individuals who illegally copied software onto floppy disks and gave them to everyone at the local computer club) Or do you see the department expanding into action against individuals knowingly receiving illegal/unlicensed IP? If the latter is the case do you see any significant legal hurdles left for the courts to address that the DOJ/US attorneys office will have to overcome?
This should not affect any MS SQL user even if they developed customized code to run with it. This will affect companies that sell third party add-on/customization software for MS SQL. I suppose Timeline could press the user community for royalties and damage one of the best alternatives to Oracle but I doubt they will try. This is really about developers skirting royalties to Timeline by trying to piggy back onto Microsoft's developers lisence purchased from Timeline. The bad guys here are the unscrupulous or Imbicile third party developers.
Great point. But what would be an alternative to a desktop model for multitasking computer workstations. I know in the server environment desktops can become comberson but on my workstation I cannot think of any alternatives to a desktop philosophy
I would assume you mean 12 channels of cable because it would be impractical with satellite and pointless with broadcast tv. I suppose you could try to build your own 12 channel demux/decrypt for satellite but you would need an awfully large crack pipe. Even if you had satellite, cable and broadcast antenna to feed this monster who the hell will have the time to watch all the content you are recording. You would be far to busy administering your mini-headend and working a second job to pay the electric bill. Perhaps you should just start off with single PC with 4 capture cards. You could even purchase an IDE raid to store even more crap. You could impress your friends by playing every episode of Aqua Teen in high quality digital video but beyond similar efforts I don't see much use in 12 record channels.
I applaude the ruling it was a just and sound decision that will stand up to scrutiny. The court must provide remedies for copyright holders. But there just might be a silver linning to this. The judge just handed the RIAA the gun to shoot themselves in the foot with whether he knew or not. The RIAA will have a very tough case to win against this soon to be not so anonymous user. Even if they do win it will be costly both monetarily and to the reputation of the industry. Let them prosecute the users of P2P's that break the law. It will be a great mistake perhaps even a fatal one. The main issue I see with this is the ISP will spend tons of money complying with an aparent overwhelming number of subpenas that will be sent and many ISP's may go under or do worse things to peoples privacy online than comply with a judges order.
damn that excessive bandwidth consumption
yes this is true but you must go through great pains to get a unique desktop for each user and you use up lots of resources doing it. I imagine that you would have to pull the users desktop from an archive and load it into the current environment which would take a long time then when they logged off you would have to clean up the desktop of all user info in preparations for the next person to logon. All in all extremely inefficiant compared to Crossover, Citrix or even bare MS Terminals. I would pay the money it would be well worth it.
I believe that VNC connects only one concurrent user at a time to the console and that is useless in application discussed for Crossover and Citrix.