Yeah, WRAP boards are great liitle platforms, and you can run a variety of open source stuff on them. I also like the RouterBoards running Mikrotik RouterOS; awesome affordable, extremely flexible platform.
Fun stuff! I've got a bunch deployed as firewalls, VPN appliances, and Access Points. Currently experimenting with dual radio access points (900mhz or 5.8ghz for backhaul & 2.4ghz for local hotspot)
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: Debian is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Debian community when IDC confirmed that Debian market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Debian has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Debian is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Bruce Perens to predict Debian's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Debian faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Ubuntu because Debian is dying. Things are looking very bad for Debian. As many of us are already aware, Debian continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Debian is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Debian developer Matthew Garrett only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Debian is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Debian leaders state that there are 7000 users of Debian. How many users of Kubuntu are there? Let's see. The number of Debian versus Kubuntu posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Kubuntu users. Xubuntu posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Kubuntu posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Xubuntu. A recent article put Ubuntu at about 80 percent of the Debian market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Ubuntu users. This is consistent with the number of Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Knoppix went out of business and was taken over by SCO who sell another troubled OS. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Debian has steadily declined in market share. Debian is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Debian is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Debian continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Debian is dead.
In the past Microsoft have commented that they have completely ditched the code Windows was written with and re-written from ground up, to try to address myriad flaws. That's pretty drastic.
Yeah, it's always new code; all new, better than ever. This time we REALLY mean it. Those of us who've been around the block a few times KNOW that they're full of crap. Always were, always will be.
The fact that Vista was vulnerable to the WMF exploit last year which dates back to Windows 3.x (I beleive) shows how much new code there is. But it will sell like hotcakes because, as mean and cynical as it sounds, people really are stupid and naive, and they actually beleive what a corporation tells them...
I thought CNN were supposed to be respectable, like the US version of the BBC or something?
Mod parent up +5 hilarious.
Please tell me you're kidding. I can't read this subtle brand of sarcasm without the tags, so maybe I'm just dense. Anyway, CNN is about as 'respectable' as FOX; they just have a slightly different agenda. Actually, same agenda, different presentation.
Of course, you *were* supposed to beleive they're respectable, but now you know different. Right?
You work for a '10 billions dollar' business that can't afford enough IT staff in its branches and gets hardware recommendations from 'ask slashdot'?
JACK: If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
BUSISNESS WOMAN: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
JACK: Oh, you wouldn't believe.
BUSINESS WOMAN:... Which... car company do you work for?
JACK:A major one.
You're a ^&#%@* moron, and just as bad (if not worse) than these liberals you despise. The only difference is that you stand on the far opposite side of the fence. Make no mistake, just as the liberals sound like wackos to you, you also do to them. But you're right, because these are *your* beliefs, which could not possibly be wrong. Correct?
I work at numerous companies where we need to read through each patch to see what they 'fix'.
Didn't we read a few days ago how MS is silently patching things in addition to what they're saying is being patched? If so, how would "reading through each patch" help? Wouldn't you actually have to patch a test machine to be sure?/Devil's advocate
I second the IPCop suggestion. We have deployed several, and setting up a net-to-net VPN is a snap.
To the parent (or anyone else): any suggestions or links for suitable diskless/alternative hardware for IPCop other than a standard PC? I don't like the idea of a hard drive in the box running for years, being reset occasionally by people used to unplugging linksys 'routers' etc
There are no company layoffs, there are 'realignments'.
Very rarely do layoffs simply mean reducing the number of people performing a particular function. Often, there is a fundamental change made to an existing business process, so people and organizations do indeed need to be "realigned" to support the new environment.
Oh, so they're not laid off, they're realigned. But they're still out of work. That's called a euphamism, useful for propaganda. So let's put this in plain English: There are no company layoffs, there are company layoffs.
Use whatever euphamisms you like, but a turd by any other name still smells as bad...
"Deliverables" - these are the tangible results that are to be achieved through a given project or activity. Nobody cares whether you're 67% of the way done, or 72% - they want to know when the Deliverable can be expected, so they can then act upon it.
Again, instead of saying "Product" or "Service", which is *exactly* what we're discussing here, you'll use the Web 2.0 version, namely "Deliverable".
Your post proves the OP's point: you're simply whipping out the thesaurus (for lack of a better term) to try to snow or impress people. It's really that simple.
These are actually pretty powerful terms, and it's important to have a common vocabulary that can be used when bringing together managers from varying fields like sales, IT, operations, finance, etc.
I'd say it's more important to convey ideas in plain english without resorting to flowery/trendy language to sound 'hip' or 'with it'. I guess I'm just old fashioned though... (not meant as a troll)
Now please hold on while I put this on my Action/Item list:rolleyes:
You do not know the definitions. You do not understand what they mean. You can call people pendantic, but the fact remains that you simply *do not* know what you're talking about. Do you know what propaganda means? I doubt it...
Get a MacAlly 2.5 enclosure from NewEgg (or your favorite vendor) for ~$30, and use a 2.5 HD of your choosing. This is a very nice aluminum enclosure, supports FW400 & USB 2, and is powered off the connector you use (FW *OR* USB)...no external power needed. Affordable, sturdy, attractive (for a HD case), dissipates heat, no power adapters.
I carry one in my laptop bag, and it constantly comes in handy. As far as FW800 goes, why would this be useful for a run of the mill 2.5 IDE drive? Thay can only transfer ~20MB/s from the platters, so FW800 is overkill. USB2 & FW400 are just fine for this application.
FWIW, I'm not affiliated w/these companies I mentioned, just a happy customer.
Raise your hand if you have iTunes...
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port...
Raise your hand if you have both...
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
Being sort of a slow news day, I tried something different and actually read TF "article", as there were no comments featuring "in Soviet Russia" yet posted. First off, SPONSORED LINKS are evil and annoying.
I see the blurb mentions introduction of 6 dual core & 2 single core chips, and I wonder if this will be the new product tier differentiating mechanism: dual and single. Traditionally, we'd see the low end, which was the crippled version of the mid-range, then the high end typically added more cache and un-crippled SMP abilities. Perhaps the low end will be single core, mid-range dual, and high end w/larger caches & 4/8-way ability.
Now that the MHz "wars" seem to be behind us, it's a race to pack multiple cores onto chips, which I see as a good thing. I've always had a thing for SMP rigs (my current & previous boxes are duals), and dual-core going mainstream means several good things for us SMP freaks, the least of which is more affordable 4-way boxen!
In closing, I'd like to mention that this whole blurb about a story (which is in fact an ad vehicle) which references a yet-to-be published story, is rather silly and bizarre. And poorly written. Like my post.
Slashdot Mirror
October 1st came early this year...
Don't worry; there'll most likely be a dupe!
Yeah, WRAP boards are great liitle platforms, and you can run a variety of open source stuff on them. I also like the RouterBoards running Mikrotik RouterOS; awesome affordable, extremely flexible platform.
Check it: http://www.routerboard.com/products.html
http://www.mikrotik.com/
Fun stuff! I've got a bunch deployed as firewalls, VPN appliances, and Access Points. Currently experimenting with dual radio access points (900mhz or 5.8ghz for backhaul & 2.4ghz for local hotspot)
am I out-of-step here with the general design sensibilities of society?
Yes
Do people genuinely love the iMac's design?
Yes
If so - honestly, why?
Because it's a sweet, compact design. IOW, you apparently have bad taste.
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: Debian is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Debian community when IDC confirmed that Debian market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Debian has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Debian is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Bruce Perens to predict Debian's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Debian faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Ubuntu because Debian is dying. Things are looking very bad for Debian. As many of us are already aware, Debian continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Debian is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Debian developer Matthew Garrett only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Debian is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Debian leaders state that there are 7000 users of Debian. How many users of Kubuntu are there? Let's see. The number of Debian versus Kubuntu posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Kubuntu users. Xubuntu posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Kubuntu posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Xubuntu. A recent article put Ubuntu at about 80 percent of the Debian market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Ubuntu users. This is consistent with the number of Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Knoppix went out of business and was taken over by SCO who sell another troubled OS. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Debian has steadily declined in market share. Debian is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Debian is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Debian continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Debian is dead.
Fact: Debian is dying
In the past Microsoft have commented that they have completely ditched the code Windows was written with and re-written from ground up, to try to address myriad flaws. That's pretty drastic.
Yeah, it's always new code; all new, better than ever. This time we REALLY mean it. Those of us who've been around the block a few times KNOW that they're full of crap. Always were, always will be.
The fact that Vista was vulnerable to the WMF exploit last year which dates back to Windows 3.x (I beleive) shows how much new code there is. But it will sell like hotcakes because, as mean and cynical as it sounds, people really are stupid and naive, and they actually beleive what a corporation tells them...
What, me bitter? No...well maybe a little
Not to sound like a jerk, but until you quit buying this 1st gen crap, they'll keep pushing it out the door. It's really simple...
2. there's no possibility to pirate a service;
;) Oh, and quit misusing the word "pirate", please.
Tell that to the Cable TV industry
A customer of mine bought a new Compaq laptop very recently, and the Google toolbar was preinstalled. FWIW.
I thought CNN were supposed to be respectable, like the US version of the BBC or something?
Mod parent up +5 hilarious.
Please tell me you're kidding. I can't read this subtle brand of sarcasm without the tags, so maybe I'm just dense. Anyway, CNN is about as 'respectable' as FOX; they just have a slightly different agenda. Actually, same agenda, different presentation.
Of course, you *were* supposed to beleive they're respectable, but now you know different. Right?
Oh well, I guess I'll go read TFA...
You work for a '10 billions dollar' business that can't afford enough IT staff in its branches and gets hardware recommendations from 'ask slashdot'?
... Which... car company do you work for?
JACK: If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
BUSISNESS WOMAN: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
JACK: Oh, you wouldn't believe.
BUSINESS WOMAN:
JACK:A major one.
You're a ^&#%@* moron, and just as bad (if not worse) than these liberals you despise. The only difference is that you stand on the far opposite side of the fence. Make no mistake, just as the liberals sound like wackos to you, you also do to them. But you're right, because these are *your* beliefs, which could not possibly be wrong. Correct?
I work at numerous companies where we need to read through each patch to see what they 'fix'.
/Devil's advocate
Didn't we read a few days ago how MS is silently patching things in addition to what they're saying is being patched? If so, how would "reading through each patch" help? Wouldn't you actually have to patch a test machine to be sure?
Because they actually mean something...
I second the IPCop suggestion. We have deployed several, and setting up a net-to-net VPN is a snap.
To the parent (or anyone else): any suggestions or links for suitable diskless/alternative hardware for IPCop other than a standard PC? I don't like the idea of a hard drive in the box running for years, being reset occasionally by people used to unplugging linksys 'routers' etc
(not a design firm, a real office)
/sarcasm
What are you implying?
There are no company layoffs, there are 'realignments'. Very rarely do layoffs simply mean reducing the number of people performing a particular function. Often, there is a fundamental change made to an existing business process, so people and organizations do indeed need to be "realigned" to support the new environment.
:rolleyes:
Oh, so they're not laid off, they're realigned. But they're still out of work. That's called a euphamism, useful for propaganda. So let's put this in plain English: There are no company layoffs, there are company layoffs.
Use whatever euphamisms you like, but a turd by any other name still smells as bad...
"Deliverables" - these are the tangible results that are to be achieved through a given project or activity. Nobody cares whether you're 67% of the way done, or 72% - they want to know when the Deliverable can be expected, so they can then act upon it.
Again, instead of saying "Product" or "Service", which is *exactly* what we're discussing here, you'll use the Web 2.0 version, namely "Deliverable".
Your post proves the OP's point: you're simply whipping out the thesaurus (for lack of a better term) to try to snow or impress people. It's really that simple.
These are actually pretty powerful terms, and it's important to have a common vocabulary that can be used when bringing together managers from varying fields like sales, IT, operations, finance, etc.
I'd say it's more important to convey ideas in plain english without resorting to flowery/trendy language to sound 'hip' or 'with it'. I guess I'm just old fashioned though... (not meant as a troll)
Now please hold on while I put this on my Action/Item list
You really need to look up the following words:
Piracy
Theft
You do not know the definitions. You do not understand what they mean. You can call people pendantic, but the fact remains that you simply *do not* know what you're talking about. Do you know what propaganda means? I doubt it...
Get a MacAlly 2.5 enclosure from NewEgg (or your favorite vendor) for ~$30, and use a 2.5 HD of your choosing. This is a very nice aluminum enclosure, supports FW400 & USB 2, and is powered off the connector you use (FW *OR* USB)...no external power needed. Affordable, sturdy, attractive (for a HD case), dissipates heat, no power adapters.
I carry one in my laptop bag, and it constantly comes in handy. As far as FW800 goes, why would this be useful for a run of the mill 2.5 IDE drive? Thay can only transfer ~20MB/s from the platters, so FW800 is overkill. USB2 & FW400 are just fine for this application.
FWIW, I'm not affiliated w/these companies I mentioned, just a happy customer.
Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...
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/. visionary. Taken from http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22940&ci d=2467504
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port
Raise your hand if you have both
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
Another
This seems like a story designed to raise OSS hackles rather than anything useful.
/. business model:
I though that was the
1. Troll readership
2. Cash in on ad impressions as furious nerds are reading & posting incendiary replies to CmdrTaco et al
3. Profit!
Notice the missing ??? step? Somewhere, an Underpants Gnome is proud.
Mine will soon be: AllahsTubeSteak
I hope you don't have any embassies...
It confuses more than it clarifies.
I suppose that's intentional; that way the customer, confused about which 'version' to buy, will upsell themselves, just to be 'safe'.
Geeze, what does a president have to do these days to get impeached when breaking an enshrined value in the constitution, and a law isn't enough?
Get a blowjob from an intern.
Talk about a loaded question. Your response was the first thing that came to mind...
Being sort of a slow news day, I tried something different and actually read TF "article", as there were no comments featuring "in Soviet Russia" yet posted. First off, SPONSORED LINKS are evil and annoying.
I see the blurb mentions introduction of 6 dual core & 2 single core chips, and I wonder if this will be the new product tier differentiating mechanism: dual and single. Traditionally, we'd see the low end, which was the crippled version of the mid-range, then the high end typically added more cache and un-crippled SMP abilities. Perhaps the low end will be single core, mid-range dual, and high end w/larger caches & 4/8-way ability.
Now that the MHz "wars" seem to be behind us, it's a race to pack multiple cores onto chips, which I see as a good thing. I've always had a thing for SMP rigs (my current & previous boxes are duals), and dual-core going mainstream means several good things for us SMP freaks, the least of which is more affordable 4-way boxen!
In closing, I'd like to mention that this whole blurb about a story (which is in fact an ad vehicle) which references a yet-to-be published story, is rather silly and bizarre. And poorly written. Like my post.
So....
Who first?