I have a queer feeling that readers who understand the following term - Application Service Provider - might not see anything special about this 'vision':
Some day, firms will indeed stop maintaining huge, complex and expensive computer systems that often sit idle and cannot communicate with the computers of suppliers and customers. Instead, they will outsource their computing to specialists (IBM, HP, etc) and pay for it as they use it, just as they now pay for their electricity, gas and water. As with such traditional utilities, the complexity of the supply-systems will be entirely hidden from users.
What exactly are the applications not being sufficiently well served by the current model? What about constant innovations in the algorithms and techniques used to carry out the actual 'computing', and the constant reduction in the cost of equivalent computing hardware, which makes it difficult to actually quantify the amount of work done (for the purpose of charging for computing as a utility)? What about the security implications of hosting your ccritical applications with a third party? No, sir, computing power in not the same as gas power.
In all the ways that matter Ximian is "the gnome company". Check out some of their products. Unless there's something I am missing, why would Novell acquire Ximian and not intend to have a Linux Desktop plan centred around Ximian Desktop?
'We don't expect to make Ximian the default user interface, and for the medium term KDE will remain the default GUI on SuSE Linux.'
In other words, on the long term KDE will not remain the default GUI.
"Ximian, SuSE and Novell will continue to deliver projects to the community where it makes sense,"
In some cases where it is deemed not to make sense, Ximian, SuSE and Novell will no longer deliver such projects to the community.
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Yahoo to Dump Google
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Most responders don't seem to notice that the article mentions Yahoo's acquisition of two search engines (Inktomi for searches and Overture for paid searches).
Yahoo has always used an 'improved' version of google results; the search quality shouldn't be much worse. Yahoo is doing this for the money to be saved (by using their own acquired search technology) and gained (more and smarter paid listings).
WhenU enables consumers to receive valuable software for free by
agreeing to see occasional ads instead of paying a fee
The injunction against the company only prevents them from using a particular pop-up ad that is triggered when a user visits the webste of one of their customers. So I think the main issue is it ethical to draw people away from your competitor by taking advantage of the fact that you have some software installed which "knows" when you visit your competitors' site?
ISPs can aready monitor your internet traffic whether or not they use a proxy server, actually, except for traffic using end-to-end encryption (SSL, SSH). The proxy filtering software is a service the enquirer intends to run for customers who ask for it. I think the proxy aproach is just the perfect way. Pop-up ads are generaly served from the ad network's domain, for now (unti pop-up blockers become too popular).
Consider the fact that its just as easy to get such sensitive information by installing spy cam or hidden microphone in your home, through your friends, etc with or without SSL.
Online or offline, there's always a trade-off between convenience and security and these sites are no exception. SSL tends to be slower because it requires more round trips between the server and client, much more processing power, etc and sites know that performance affects their popularity.
The rule of thumb should be: get informed about how easy it is for someone to hijack information you put on any social networking site and and don't put it there if you think someone may be sufficiently motivated to do so in your own case.
One thing social networking sites can do is provide higher security, including SSL, to those that need it and perhaps charge them more. Besides the free e-mail providers like Yahoo and Hotmail have a similar problem to solve on a much larger scale!
Well, I guess binary XML is a serious option as someone already said. Possibly combined with any reliable datagram protocol (TCP may not be slow if combined with some form of multiplexing and reusing of individual connections). Have you considered this?
It would have been really great if you mentioned the protocols you have already ruled out and the ones you are considering. Best of luck to your project!
Nuclear weapons? Missile technology? Yeah that's exactly what India needs to feed its teeming masses!
I wish governments could be more people-serving. But I guess as people climb the food chain they inevitably forget how important silly little things like food and shelter are at the bottom.
The RPC mechanism should be independent of the platform
Why? (if this is a special-purpose kind of project). Are you going to be using different programming languages or OSs for this task? Why would you program the various nodes in different languages or on different platforms?
The funny thing is that many of these failures could probably be predicted. What makes them "big" is that they had the backing of bodies who could afford to spend so much money on them before concluding that their projects have failed!
The internet was not designed for such things as real time video, audio and broadcasting of any form. A lot of 'hacking' of the original protocols is necessary to support all these efficiently on the internet. VoIP and video on the web are 'cheap' simply because of the different way ISPs charge for bandwidth compared with telcos, and not because there is something inherently superior about using the net for everything. So there is the possibility of the internet continuing to run side by side with other communication systems.
There's nothing wrong with e-voting; I would gladly cast my vote online. Using the normal techniques of secure computing (HTTP-S, encryption, etc) once you get over the issue of being able to identify unique individuals online I see no reason why they can't cast their votes online. There is no reason why it shouldn't be more secure (apart from being cheaper to operate)
Or he could use wget to download the latest copy of the page and then use CVS (or another version control system) to record the latest changes.
There's no real need for console access, unless its a dynamic site in which case you need to store the source for your scripts as well as maintain versions of the database!
At this point it's nothing more than keeping multi-versioned backups of your website and database files. Check out rdiff-backup
The 'atomic update' quality is something MySQL and PostgreSQL can take advantage of, or in fact any lication that often writes small amounts of data and calls fsync/fdatasnc. And it shouldn't be terribly difficult to make the required changed. Kudos!
With the release of Firebird Mozilla is as fast as any other browser on Windows or Linux and the rendering is cool but sadly (as we already know) it won't take over.
Mozilla will be a thousand times more useful if it could offer an IE-compatibility mode (Javascript model, plugins) which works on Unix platforms. That way people can actually have a reason to use Mozilla (IE works just fine on Windows)
Hi,
I used to use Mozilla on RedHat Linux simply because it was the best avaliable browser and it was slow. I recently tested the Firebird both on Linux and Windows and the experience was just as fast as IE.
I see Mozilla as the browser you use "outside Windows", period. (it used to be Opera for me because of the performance issues until Firebird). So 5 stars to the Mozilla team!
If only there was a way to get explorer plugins to work with Mozilla on Unix...
You're looking for an Object Oriented RPC language but you forget to tell us what language you're actually coding for. Objects in C++ are very different from Objects in Java, Python... you get the picture!
Also, to get better input it'd by nice to know why exactly you need an RPC! Perhaps you have chosen to have one to solve your problems?
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In all the ways that matter Ximian is "the gnome company". Check out some of their products. Unless there's something I am missing, why would Novell acquire Ximian and not intend to have a Linux Desktop plan centred around Ximian Desktop?
Most responders don't seem to notice that the article mentions Yahoo's acquisition of two search engines (Inktomi for searches and Overture for paid searches). Yahoo has always used an 'improved' version of google results; the search quality shouldn't be much worse. Yahoo is doing this for the money to be saved (by using their own acquired search technology) and gained (more and smarter paid listings).
The injunction against the company only prevents them from using a particular pop-up ad that is triggered when a user visits the webste of one of their customers. So I think the main issue is it ethical to draw people away from your competitor by taking advantage of the fact that you have some software installed which "knows" when you visit your competitors' site?
ISPs can aready monitor your internet traffic whether or not they use a proxy server, actually, except for traffic using end-to-end encryption (SSL, SSH). The proxy filtering software is a service the enquirer intends to run for customers who ask for it. I think the proxy aproach is just the perfect way. Pop-up ads are generaly served from the ad network's domain, for now (unti pop-up blockers become too popular).
Consider the fact that its just as easy to get such sensitive information by installing spy cam or hidden microphone in your home, through your friends, etc with or without SSL.
Online or offline, there's always a trade-off between convenience and security and these sites are no exception. SSL tends to be slower because it requires more round trips between the server and client, much more processing power, etc and sites know that performance affects their popularity.
The rule of thumb should be: get informed about how easy it is for someone to hijack information you put on any social networking site and and don't put it there if you think someone may be sufficiently motivated to do so in your own case.
One thing social networking sites can do is provide higher security, including SSL, to those that need it and perhaps charge them more. Besides the free e-mail providers like Yahoo and Hotmail have a similar problem to solve on a much larger scale!
Well, I guess binary XML is a serious option as someone already said. Possibly combined with any reliable datagram protocol (TCP may not be slow if combined with some form of multiplexing and reusing of individual connections). Have you considered this?
It would have been really great if you mentioned the protocols you have already ruled out and the ones you are considering. Best of luck to your project!
Nuclear weapons? Missile technology? Yeah that's exactly what India needs to feed its teeming masses!
I wish governments could be more people-serving. But I guess as people climb the food chain they inevitably forget how important silly little things like food and shelter are at the bottom.
The funny thing is that many of these failures could probably be predicted. What makes them "big" is that they had the backing of bodies who could afford to spend so much money on them before concluding that their projects have failed!
The internet was not designed for such things as real time video, audio and broadcasting of any form. A lot of 'hacking' of the original protocols is necessary to support all these efficiently on the internet. VoIP and video on the web are 'cheap' simply because of the different way ISPs charge for bandwidth compared with telcos, and not because there is something inherently superior about using the net for everything. So there is the possibility of the internet continuing to run side by side with other communication systems.
Yes, side-by-side.
There's nothing wrong with e-voting; I would gladly cast my vote online. Using the normal techniques of secure computing (HTTP-S, encryption, etc) once you get over the issue of being able to identify unique individuals online I see no reason why they can't cast their votes online. There is no reason why it shouldn't be more secure (apart from being cheaper to operate)
Or he could use wget to download the latest copy of the page and then use CVS (or another version control system) to record the latest changes.
There's no real need for console access, unless its a dynamic site in which case you need to store the source for your scripts as well as maintain versions of the database!
At this point it's nothing more than keeping multi-versioned backups of your website and database files. Check out rdiff-backup
Best of Luck.
The 'atomic update' quality is something MySQL and PostgreSQL can take advantage of, or in fact any lication that often writes small amounts of data and calls fsync/fdatasnc. And it shouldn't be terribly difficult to make the required changed. Kudos!
With the release of Firebird Mozilla is as fast as any other browser on Windows or Linux and the rendering is cool but sadly (as we already know) it won't take over.
Mozilla will be a thousand times more useful if it could offer an IE-compatibility mode (Javascript model, plugins) which works on Unix platforms. That way people can actually have a reason to use Mozilla (IE works just fine on Windows)
Hi, I used to use Mozilla on RedHat Linux simply because it was the best avaliable browser and it was slow. I recently tested the Firebird both on Linux and Windows and the experience was just as fast as IE. I see Mozilla as the browser you use "outside Windows", period. (it used to be Opera for me because of the performance issues until Firebird). So 5 stars to the Mozilla team! If only there was a way to get explorer plugins to work with Mozilla on Unix...
Hi,
... you get the picture!
You're looking for an Object Oriented RPC language but you forget to tell us what language you're actually coding for. Objects in C++ are very different from Objects in Java, Python
Also, to get better input it'd by nice to know why exactly you need an RPC! Perhaps you have chosen to have one to solve your problems?
Regards!