I think that may be a big portion of it. I love to code, I've been doing it since I was 12. However, after putting in 60 hours a week coding at the job that puts food on my table, I find it hard justify entering a contest when I could spend that time getting more coding done. To top it off, I actively contribute to a number of open source projects when I do get some spare cycles. So, on that note, if outsourcing wasn't nipping at our heels, we worked a (gasp) 40 hour work week, got a more than a couple of weeks vacation a year, and my wife didn't have this unintelligible need to spend time with me, I'd be far more likely to enter these types of things for fun.
Mainframes excel in throughput, if you have a sh!t load of data that needs to go through in a contiguous run, mainframes are the answer. Think IRS refunds, telco billing, utilities billing, etc. Lots of the same stuff in massive amounts. That said, mission critical, 24x7, and 3-9s are no longer the sole domain of mainframes. In fact, we cluster Solaris and Linux boxen in mission critical, 24x7, 5-9 configs (that's 5 minutes downtime a year... think network hiccup) at virtually all our deployments. Clustering took this advantage from mainframes. On that note, we don't have the same insane throughput needs that mainframes are built to address. My $0.02, take it or leave it.
Why, pray tell, would you judge the Linux desktop using a fringe Linux distro like Ubuntu? That's like me saying Windows sucks because I use the Windows XP Starter Edition and it won't let me run more than 3 programs at once, therefore, Windows is shite. Use a distro that's not closed to binary modules or licensing like SuSE Linux or (ugh) Lindows and most of that nonsense you mentioned becomes moot. Anyhow, you can buy a closed driver from Paragone to r/w NTFS partitions from Linux, just like you have to buy software under Windows. Beyond that, if you don't mind security issues, the ever expanding registry file, complete data loss when the NTFS partition gets corrupted, not understanding what's happening "under the hood" or are satisfied enough, then, just please friggen stick with Windows. The world NEEDS end users so that IT people have a reason to remain employed.
Ubuntu is obviously the choice for first-time switchers, and is the most polished and accessible distribution for newbies and gurus alike.
Uhhhh, no it's not, not to say that Ubuntu isn't good, but Novell's SuSE Linux is the most polished and accessible distribution. Everything "Just Works" (tm) in Novell SuSE and they aren't all upitty about including binary only modules / plugins. As a bonus, you won't get laughed out of a meeting (or even better fired) for throwing the name Novell around like you will Ubuntu.
Ummmm... for server security, performance, flexibility, ease of administration, lack of license restrictions, and cost? Linux does everything we need on the server, why even bother looking at anything else?
That's the cause in 99% of MPlayer segfaults. If all else fails, use i586 to build it or find an i586 binary. MPlayer gets very cranky when an i686 build is used on a non-pentiumpro CPU. However, MPlayer does very much rule, when DVD menus are added, it will be the best all around media solution for Linux. DVD playing on MPlayer right now is a bit tricky, you need to know the chapter you're looking for.
Well, it's *kind of* interesting, espcially if you peek at the source first. Probably the most interesting thing to me is the pie chart here which shows Linux at about 22% of the participants vs. 5% for OSX and 6% for BSD. Anyhow, there's nothing malicious in the source code, wouldn't run something unknown without looking, greping, and compiling it myself first.
You're right, can you please post instructions on getting XP to work on a 17" PowerBook G4 and a Sun 10000E... I want a REAL OS (tm) too!!! You dime a dozen MCSE, point-and-click "techies" make me laugh. Bet you'd shit your pants if somebody took your precious precious mouse away. Oh btw, this is 2006, your driver crap logic hasn't been true since the last time Microsoft was over $30 a share.
32 million people vs. 295 million, call me when the average Canadian produces 10x the CO2 than the average American and you'll have an argument. Besides, Canada ratified the Kyoto treaty.
The Future of Software is Consulting, not Licenses
I mostly agree, the is a problem for established companies in that margins on licenses are near 100%, where as margins on consulting are closer to 30%. Moreover, there's far more fixed overhead associated with increasing consulting revenue than with increasing software revenue. The OSS model chips away at the foundation of software revenue while freeing dollars for consulting revenue. It's good because it means more employment for software techs. However, I think the future is going to be broader than just consulting. There are going to be openings in customization and implementation that weren't fully possible in the world of closed software.
Genesis 1:27 God created man in his own image.... so that would imply that god is an omniprsent monkey. Zealots prefer to worship the image of an old guy with a white beard and hair, they're not so keen on worshipping Koko the signing gorilla.
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I'm going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico
Actually, that would make for a very interesting documentary. My guess is that anybody attempting this experiment will be tossed into a Mexican prison on relatively short order.
Not a slam, but I think I can count the Real streams I've run across on two hands so far this year. I know RealNetworks has been focusing on the embedded market and moving away from the PC market and that strategy seems to be working for them from a revenue stand point. However, this retrenchment strategy against MS simply doesn't work, ask Palm and Corel about it. If Xandros's strategy is to hitch it's server to a format that's in retreat, there are probably going to be problems down the road. That said, I wish them luck, anything that prevents MS from gaining more traction in the server space is a good thing in my book. It may not be my cup of tea, but it sure beats the hell out of the alternative.
Primarily a SuSE shop here, the HP and Oracle relationships with Novell as well as the boardroom recognition of the Novell brand were the determinants. Admittedly, it's easier to sell Novell to the board than RH, RedHat simply doesn't have old-school recognition like Novell does. To me it feels like RH applies far more pressure trying to extract money for access to updates. That said, technically, at least on headless servers, there's very little difference between them other than the admin tools (yast vs. redhat-config). I like yast -but- it does make it a lot harder to version config files. Back to the point, I'm certain that RH is currently bigger than Novell in the server market, but I think the margin falls somewhere between 4:1 and 3:1. I *never*, in North America, used to hear about SuSE on servers before the Novell buyout, but I have been hearing it more and more over the last few years. That said, it would be interesting to see server deployment numbers, not just revenue because given equal deployment numbers, RH would have much higher revenue than SuSE.
I think you answered your own question in a way, if the host has x86 emulation, then why wouldn't it be able to? That said, it's a long way from a POC to a real live virus. I can write a virus today and claim a POC, nobody has ever said that Linux is immune to viruses. Viruses aren't that complicated. That said, an effective (ie. turn it lose and watch it spread) virus would be very difficult to achieve on Linux precisely because there isn't just one flavor of Linux, running the same binaries, on a single arch... unlike another well known OS.
If there was perfect competition in the ISP market, then fine, let market forces rule! However, the 1st tier ISP market today is far more oligopolistic than free market. You can bet that if there was perfect competition, this idea would not even have the slightest chance of gaining traction. Free market capitalism only works in competitive markets, that's why price fixing is illegal in the US. Sadly, the ISP market is beginning to resemble the telephone market, highly concentrated ownership, limited competition.
I think GTK is admirable, but GNOME has regressed over the last 2-3 years to the point that it's no longer usable for me. The dumbing down of the GNOME widget set cornered me into a Fisher-Price user experience that I disliked greatly. Let's face it, I'm sure only a tiny tiny slice of Linux users are technophobes. Catering to such a tiny user base is a death wish for any but the most specialized of projects. If GNOME doesn't make an about face, it will eventually become nothing more than a fringe player with KDE owning 95%+ of the desktop pie. I have faith that GNOME can turn about and drop this "simplicity" crap, the question is will it?
Whomever said Linux is bloated needs to get a fucking clue. If there're looking at opening a RedHat box and slapping it on here, they really don't know what they're doing. That's like taking W2K3 Server and trying to stuff it in there. Linux runs on mobile phones for pete's sake. Take a small distro like Puppy and work down from there if needed, those guys need to use those fat noggins of theirs for a nanosecond or two.
No system is safe from trojans, if a user can run an app, they can run a trojan. However, I would say that Linux in particular is hard for worms to exploit and virutally immune from viruses. Viruses exploit executable file offsets, under Linux, with unpredictable kernel setups, compiler options, processors, and patches, a widespread virus (note widespread) is virutally impossible . You could write one as a proof-of-concept, no doubt, but the infection rate would be severely constrainted. Worms are in a similar boat, you could only infect computers with similar architectures and setups. Linux is a fractured playfield, many different flavors, making an effective worm difficult to engineer. Windows is a nice homogenous breeding ground for virius and worms.
click to load Java so this little app can cause your browser experience to hang for 10 seconds while we consume 30megs of your RAM
Don't equate shit app programmers with a good programming lanugage. I can write a shitty flash app that chokes up your browser just like you described. It's a shame they teach non-CS folk to program in Java because some of the crap they put out really reflects badly on what can be a very powerful language. I have a few applets that I've written that start immediately and are lean on memory. Yeah, it takes skill, but I happen to know a few things about threads and memory management that apparently they refuse to teach at local tech training huts.
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I think that may be a big portion of it. I love to code, I've been doing it since I was 12. However, after putting in 60 hours a week coding at the job that puts food on my table, I find it hard justify entering a contest when I could spend that time getting more coding done. To top it off, I actively contribute to a number of open source projects when I do get some spare cycles. So, on that note, if outsourcing wasn't nipping at our heels, we worked a (gasp) 40 hour work week, got a more than a couple of weeks vacation a year, and my wife didn't have this unintelligible need to spend time with me, I'd be far more likely to enter these types of things for fun.
Mainframes excel in throughput, if you have a sh!t load of data that needs to go through in a contiguous run, mainframes are the answer. Think IRS refunds, telco billing, utilities billing, etc. Lots of the same stuff in massive amounts. That said, mission critical, 24x7, and 3-9s are no longer the sole domain of mainframes. In fact, we cluster Solaris and Linux boxen in mission critical, 24x7, 5-9 configs (that's 5 minutes downtime a year ... think network hiccup) at virtually all our deployments. Clustering took this advantage from mainframes. On that note, we don't have the same insane throughput needs that mainframes are built to address. My $0.02, take it or leave it.
Why, pray tell, would you judge the Linux desktop using a fringe Linux distro like Ubuntu? That's like me saying Windows sucks because I use the Windows XP Starter Edition and it won't let me run more than 3 programs at once, therefore, Windows is shite. Use a distro that's not closed to binary modules or licensing like SuSE Linux or (ugh) Lindows and most of that nonsense you mentioned becomes moot. Anyhow, you can buy a closed driver from Paragone to r/w NTFS partitions from Linux, just like you have to buy software under Windows. Beyond that, if you don't mind security issues, the ever expanding registry file, complete data loss when the NTFS partition gets corrupted, not understanding what's happening "under the hood" or are satisfied enough, then, just please friggen stick with Windows. The world NEEDS end users so that IT people have a reason to remain employed.
Ubuntu is obviously the choice for first-time switchers, and is the most polished and accessible distribution for newbies and gurus alike.
Uhhhh, no it's not, not to say that Ubuntu isn't good, but Novell's SuSE Linux is the most polished and accessible distribution. Everything "Just Works" (tm) in Novell SuSE and they aren't all upitty about including binary only modules / plugins. As a bonus, you won't get laughed out of a meeting (or even better fired) for throwing the name Novell around like you will Ubuntu.
Ummmm ... for server security, performance, flexibility, ease of administration, lack of license restrictions, and cost? Linux does everything we need on the server, why even bother looking at anything else?
I'm not sure what you're talking about here, can you print out a Word document that demonstrates these features and snail-mail it to me ;-)
That's the cause in 99% of MPlayer segfaults. If all else fails, use i586 to build it or find an i586 binary. MPlayer gets very cranky when an i686 build is used on a non-pentiumpro CPU. However, MPlayer does very much rule, when DVD menus are added, it will be the best all around media solution for Linux. DVD playing on MPlayer right now is a bit tricky, you need to know the chapter you're looking for.
Well, it's *kind of* interesting, espcially if you peek at the source first. Probably the most interesting thing to me is the pie chart here which shows Linux at about 22% of the participants vs. 5% for OSX and 6% for BSD. Anyhow, there's nothing malicious in the source code, wouldn't run something unknown without looking, greping, and compiling it myself first.
Yep, line 429 of spoofer.c in the source code, hardcoded. He should have used the rundll url call instead.
You're right, can you please post instructions on getting XP to work on a 17" PowerBook G4 and a Sun 10000E ... I want a REAL OS (tm) too!!! You dime a dozen MCSE, point-and-click "techies" make me laugh. Bet you'd shit your pants if somebody took your precious precious mouse away. Oh btw, this is 2006, your driver crap logic hasn't been true since the last time Microsoft was over $30 a share.
1%??? Ummm, FF has 12% market share and growing. My server logs show it closer to 20%, but then again we serve a specalized market.
32 million people vs. 295 million, call me when the average Canadian produces 10x the CO2 than the average American and you'll have an argument. Besides, Canada ratified the Kyoto treaty.
The Future of Software is Consulting, not Licenses
I mostly agree, the is a problem for established companies in that margins on licenses are near 100%, where as margins on consulting are closer to 30%. Moreover, there's far more fixed overhead associated with increasing consulting revenue than with increasing software revenue. The OSS model chips away at the foundation of software revenue while freeing dollars for consulting revenue. It's good because it means more employment for software techs. However, I think the future is going to be broader than just consulting. There are going to be openings in customization and implementation that weren't fully possible in the world of closed software.
Genesis 1:27 God created man in his own image. ... so that would imply that god is an omniprsent monkey. Zealots prefer to worship the image of an old guy with a white beard and hair, they're not so keen on worshipping Koko the signing gorilla.
I'm going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico
Actually, that would make for a very interesting documentary. My guess is that anybody attempting this experiment will be tossed into a Mexican prison on relatively short order.
you get what you pay for
So how does that interpolate to the US armed forces? I seem to recall that those are a free state service.
A dedicated Real Media Server.
Not a slam, but I think I can count the Real streams I've run across on two hands so far this year. I know RealNetworks has been focusing on the embedded market and moving away from the PC market and that strategy seems to be working for them from a revenue stand point. However, this retrenchment strategy against MS simply doesn't work, ask Palm and Corel about it. If Xandros's strategy is to hitch it's server to a format that's in retreat, there are probably going to be problems down the road. That said, I wish them luck, anything that prevents MS from gaining more traction in the server space is a good thing in my book. It may not be my cup of tea, but it sure beats the hell out of the alternative.
Primarily a SuSE shop here, the HP and Oracle relationships with Novell as well as the boardroom recognition of the Novell brand were the determinants. Admittedly, it's easier to sell Novell to the board than RH, RedHat simply doesn't have old-school recognition like Novell does. To me it feels like RH applies far more pressure trying to extract money for access to updates. That said, technically, at least on headless servers, there's very little difference between them other than the admin tools (yast vs. redhat-config). I like yast -but- it does make it a lot harder to version config files. Back to the point, I'm certain that RH is currently bigger than Novell in the server market, but I think the margin falls somewhere between 4:1 and 3:1. I *never*, in North America, used to hear about SuSE on servers before the Novell buyout, but I have been hearing it more and more over the last few years. That said, it would be interesting to see server deployment numbers, not just revenue because given equal deployment numbers, RH would have much higher revenue than SuSE.
I think you answered your own question in a way, if the host has x86 emulation, then why wouldn't it be able to? That said, it's a long way from a POC to a real live virus. I can write a virus today and claim a POC, nobody has ever said that Linux is immune to viruses. Viruses aren't that complicated. That said, an effective (ie. turn it lose and watch it spread) virus would be very difficult to achieve on Linux precisely because there isn't just one flavor of Linux, running the same binaries, on a single arch ... unlike another well known OS.
"regulate the market"
If there was perfect competition in the ISP market, then fine, let market forces rule! However, the 1st tier ISP market today is far more oligopolistic than free market. You can bet that if there was perfect competition, this idea would not even have the slightest chance of gaining traction. Free market capitalism only works in competitive markets, that's why price fixing is illegal in the US. Sadly, the ISP market is beginning to resemble the telephone market, highly concentrated ownership, limited competition.
Can it turn SQL and Visual Basic novice into pro?
Dear god I hope not. Visual Basic Professional is the single biggest contradiction in terms I've ever seen.
I think GTK is admirable, but GNOME has regressed over the last 2-3 years to the point that it's no longer usable for me. The dumbing down of the GNOME widget set cornered me into a Fisher-Price user experience that I disliked greatly. Let's face it, I'm sure only a tiny tiny slice of Linux users are technophobes. Catering to such a tiny user base is a death wish for any but the most specialized of projects. If GNOME doesn't make an about face, it will eventually become nothing more than a fringe player with KDE owning 95%+ of the desktop pie. I have faith that GNOME can turn about and drop this "simplicity" crap, the question is will it?
Tux needs to go on a diet.
Whomever said Linux is bloated needs to get a fucking clue. If there're looking at opening a RedHat box and slapping it on here, they really don't know what they're doing. That's like taking W2K3 Server and trying to stuff it in there. Linux runs on mobile phones for pete's sake. Take a small distro like Puppy and work down from there if needed, those guys need to use those fat noggins of theirs for a nanosecond or two.
No system is safe from trojans, if a user can run an app, they can run a trojan. However, I would say that Linux in particular is hard for worms to exploit and virutally immune from viruses. Viruses exploit executable file offsets, under Linux, with unpredictable kernel setups, compiler options, processors, and patches, a widespread virus (note widespread) is virutally impossible . You could write one as a proof-of-concept, no doubt, but the infection rate would be severely constrainted. Worms are in a similar boat, you could only infect computers with similar architectures and setups. Linux is a fractured playfield, many different flavors, making an effective worm difficult to engineer. Windows is a nice homogenous breeding ground for virius and worms.
click to load Java so this little app can cause your browser experience to hang for 10 seconds while we consume 30megs of your RAM
Don't equate shit app programmers with a good programming lanugage. I can write a shitty flash app that chokes up your browser just like you described. It's a shame they teach non-CS folk to program in Java because some of the crap they put out really reflects badly on what can be a very powerful language. I have a few applets that I've written that start immediately and are lean on memory. Yeah, it takes skill, but I happen to know a few things about threads and memory management that apparently they refuse to teach at local tech training huts.