Well, I'm a fool... I bought a song to "test" the poster's theory. No go. MPlayer reads the header and gacks immediately. However, it does work in Windows Media Player running in Win98SE under Win4Lin not that that's much consolation.
It got outsourced to India! On related item, I remember when *everything* at WalMart *had* to be made in America but those days are long gone. In fact, you'd have a hard time finding anything at WalMart that *isn't* made in China now.
Ummmm, Apple does *not* have an 8% market share. They may have back in 1997 but they now have 2.9% COE (client operating environment) market share to Linux's 2.8% as per IDC. Linux is expected to overtake Apple for the number 2 spot on the desktop early in 2004. To me that means Apple should refuse, now more than ever, to release Quicktime for Linux since that would only help Linux grab and extend it's lead. The good news for Apple is that Linux is only taking market rank from it, not market share, that's coming from the MS piece of the pie. All that market share crap aside, I still want a 17" PowerBook for x-mas!
Well, they're certainly not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. We'll just get the positive side effect of them protecting their own self-interests. Spam accounts for about 80% of all email traffic and Microsoft has both Hotmail and MSN hosting email. It's in their own best interests to nail these jack asses since handling and storing spam emails costs them real $$$.
You're trolling. Most of popular mass mailers used by spammers are Windows only. In this particular instance it's not MS's fault though since it would be just as easy to write similar programs for Linux or FreeBSD. The real problems are open relays and ISPs who lease lines to these a-holes.
They use WMA, so to listen on an iPod you'd have to burn to CD, rip, and re-encode. Re-encoding previously encoded music introduces some very noticeable artifacts. Anyhow, isn't downloading music legal in Canada after some recent court ruling? So just fire up Kazaa and go to town.
You're right that ripping an existing system out for no other reason than "to change" doesn't make sense. The article is very very brief so I'm guessing here but one possibility is that there's a longer term plan to migrate those desktops to Linux. Since MS doesn't offer Office on Linux, this kind of move would make sense in that context. Another possibility is that they simply want to eliminate *future* license fees but that seems more far fetched than the Linux option given that the MS Office costs are already sunk and the incremental cost would be almost irrelevant.
Yeah but you're painting with too wide a brush. I could just as easily say that Windows 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, NT, 2K, XP, and 2K3 are all Windows. By using a very narrow scope, I can make the argument hold, but it's exactly like arguing that Apples, Oranges, and Tomatoes are all fruit.
That aside, there's is solid support for your argument since it's possible to get relatively similar OS shells if you build and install the GNU tools on all of these, but that's not always an option with some IT departments. For the most part, the stock OS's have very different implementations of many of the GNU tools you're likely thinking of. Personally, I like the GNU tool implementations over the sotck ones specifically because I know and use the GNU implementations daily.
Also, there will be at least one other OS that will hang around, MVS nee OS/390, that powers wide bus mid-range++ hardware. There's also a good argument that HP's OpenVMS will stay around for a good long while. However, their shares will remain small since they require some expensive hardware and hard to find expertise.
I'm confused, you're doing Java development and they were considering buying Visual Studio? Isn't that a little like trying to mix oil and water? Does the new VS.NET even support Java, I thought it only supported J#, the MS Java bastard step-child?
Thanks for the link. Doesn't look like the one I saw though. fsck.jfs was looping on phase 1 (Check Blocks, Files/Directories, and Directory Entries) on what I know what a directory entry corruption. I'm a little disappoint that I blew it away now since it would have been useful for debugging. If I see it again, I'll add some debug hooks to phase1_processing() in xchkdsk.c from jfsutils to see if I can pinpoint where the choke was.
Absolutely, notice that they have yet to move beyond mere threats and actually sue any Linux users. If Google gets sued, they could *easily* have the case delayed until the IBM trial is settled, after which there will be no SCO to do any suing anyhow. Regardless, it's not going to happen. I'm sure SCO will come up with a very good reason in February why they have yet to sue anybody. A lot of talk, very little walk.
Hey, that's interesting! I had issues with JFS hanging (well not hanging but endless looping) on fsck on one box. I though it was the HD at first but swapping it out wasn't an immediate option, so I switched the problem partition to XFS and haven't had problems since (yet). I use JFS on pretty much everything else so I'd like to see whatever this is fixed.
Funny, people said the same thing about WordPerfect, Borland C++, and Lotus 1-2-3. The pathetic truth is that the technology doesn't even need to be better, MS will integrate it into every other one of it's products and it'll be game over for Macromedia. The playing field is littered with the corpses of companys who's lunch Microsoft decided they wanted. It's the risk you take and price you pay for building a software company around Windows.
It certainly wasn't the raciest episode ever, it just dealt with Jewish stereotypes about being good with money, smart, etc. Peter uses the word "Jew" quite a bit so that might be the reason why it ended up getting banned. In the commentary on the DVD even Seth admits he was surprised it didn't get to air.
You're using too wide a brush to paint the desktop market. There are many different segments in the desktop market. Linux is ready for about 75% of the commercial desktop market, 3rd party applications being a blocking point. Most of the commerical market has an in-house front line of support, be it one person or twenty. This helps make support contracts more profitable,which is where RH makes it's money.
The place Linux needs to stay clear of in the near term is the moderately advanced home user. This probably comprises well over 50% of the home user desktop segment. I'd characterize this group as gamers and powerusers who do not have a programming background. The problem with targeting Linux at this group is a) most games are coded to DirectX and b) hardware setup / compatibility. You're right about the "crushing" but the crushing would be due to the fact that this group generates a disproportionate amount of helpdesk traffic. It's simply not a profitable group to target from a support standpoint.
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The non-compete agreement prohibits Novell from directly competing with SCO's Unix-on-Intel business, McBride said.
Linux Is Not UniX, any more so than BSD, BeOS, or MacOSX. Better double check the wording of that contract Darl.
They're big enough that they may be able to muscle the record companies into cutting them a deal for the songs.
Well, since WalMart has a revenue stream 10x that of Microsoft's and makes a higher quarterly profit than MS, not to mention the fact that the have a pre-existing relationship with the labels, they should be able to get an even better deal from the record companies. That means they'll be able to undercut whatever Microsoft tries to establish as a new price point.
Did you read the article??? They're not threatening to sue anybody. They're offering to indemnify their customers in the event that JBoss code is found to to infringe on patents or copyrights. They're doing to same thing HP did with it's Linux customers here. If customers want it, it's available. JBoss isn't the one who'd be doing the suing.
I agree with you but I'll play devil's advcate here, is it the government's job to ensure garbage, water, and sewer systems to homes? Based on the article, this government believes that internet service is the next essential service. Devil's advocate aside, it's a hell of a stretch. I'm not sure how much economic growth this will actually generate for them, personally, I don't think the investment will reap the kinds rewards they're banking on. You don't hear about much outsourcing... to Utah. Regardless, it's an interesting, but expensive, experiment.
Good catch, I was anticipating a post like yours!;-) No seriously, eMusic is fine and I'm not huge fan of *most* mainstream music. However, there's some mainstream stuff that I like such as the new Simply Red and Sarah McLaughlin that eMusic simply doesn't have. My whole point was that DRM is silly, it's a speed bump, not a roadblock, and people who want MP3s are going to get MP3s one way or another without contending with DRMd music sites.
Yep, you're right, my bad. I had to re-read the license a few times to get the full gist of it here. If I'm reading this right, you can ONLY redistribute Yast free of charge, and even then, not on any kinda of physical media. This pisses me off to say the least since I really like the SuSE distro. Since Mandrake is finally offering their DVD based distro at a reasonable price, it might be time to revisit them.
Things were bound to heat up sooner or later. I'm still waiting for a legit, not a.RU, one to offer mainstream MP3s w/o DRM. Even though the odds are pretty slim, maybe Walmart given it's sheer size ($250B rev in 2002 vs. $28B rev for MS), can strong arm some DRM-less tunes?
The only problem I see with this is that Torvalds and Stallman, regardless of what people think of them as personalities, are extremely intelligent individuals, not to mention highly methodical. These types rarely "put their foot in it" so to speak. SCO's lawyers, regardless of how intelligent they think they are, are dealing with 2 people that are way above their league in terms of "knowing what they're talking about".
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Well, I'm a fool ... I bought a song to "test" the poster's theory. No go. MPlayer reads the header and gacks immediately. However, it does work in Windows Media Player running in Win98SE under Win4Lin not that that's much consolation.
I hope those studies are right. If they aren't, then the pain is just beginning.
It got outsourced to India! On related item, I remember when *everything* at WalMart *had* to be made in America but those days are long gone. In fact, you'd have a hard time finding anything at WalMart that *isn't* made in China now.
Ummmm, Apple does *not* have an 8% market share. They may have back in 1997 but they now have 2.9% COE (client operating environment) market share to Linux's 2.8% as per IDC. Linux is expected to overtake Apple for the number 2 spot on the desktop early in 2004. To me that means Apple should refuse, now more than ever, to release Quicktime for Linux since that would only help Linux grab and extend it's lead. The good news for Apple is that Linux is only taking market rank from it, not market share, that's coming from the MS piece of the pie. All that market share crap aside, I still want a 17" PowerBook for x-mas!
Well, they're certainly not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. We'll just get the positive side effect of them protecting their own self-interests. Spam accounts for about 80% of all email traffic and Microsoft has both Hotmail and MSN hosting email. It's in their own best interests to nail these jack asses since handling and storing spam emails costs them real $$$.
You're trolling. Most of popular mass mailers used by spammers are Windows only. In this particular instance it's not MS's fault though since it would be just as easy to write similar programs for Linux or FreeBSD. The real problems are open relays and ISPs who lease lines to these a-holes.
They use WMA, so to listen on an iPod you'd have to burn to CD, rip, and re-encode. Re-encoding previously encoded music introduces some very noticeable artifacts. Anyhow, isn't downloading music legal in Canada after some recent court ruling? So just fire up Kazaa and go to town.
You're right that ripping an existing system out for no other reason than "to change" doesn't make sense. The article is very very brief so I'm guessing here but one possibility is that there's a longer term plan to migrate those desktops to Linux. Since MS doesn't offer Office on Linux, this kind of move would make sense in that context. Another possibility is that they simply want to eliminate *future* license fees but that seems more far fetched than the Linux option given that the MS Office costs are already sunk and the incremental cost would be almost irrelevant.
Yeah but you're painting with too wide a brush. I could just as easily say that Windows 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, NT, 2K, XP, and 2K3 are all Windows. By using a very narrow scope, I can make the argument hold, but it's exactly like arguing that Apples, Oranges, and Tomatoes are all fruit.
That aside, there's is solid support for your argument since it's possible to get relatively similar OS shells if you build and install the GNU tools on all of these, but that's not always an option with some IT departments. For the most part, the stock OS's have very different implementations of many of the GNU tools you're likely thinking of. Personally, I like the GNU tool implementations over the sotck ones specifically because I know and use the GNU implementations daily.
Also, there will be at least one other OS that will hang around, MVS nee OS/390, that powers wide bus mid-range++ hardware. There's also a good argument that HP's OpenVMS will stay around for a good long while. However, their shares will remain small since they require some expensive hardware and hard to find expertise.
I'm confused, you're doing Java development and they were considering buying Visual Studio? Isn't that a little like trying to mix oil and water? Does the new VS.NET even support Java, I thought it only supported J#, the MS Java bastard step-child?
Thanks for the link. Doesn't look like the one I saw though. fsck.jfs was looping on phase 1 (Check Blocks, Files/Directories, and Directory Entries) on what I know what a directory entry corruption. I'm a little disappoint that I blew it away now since it would have been useful for debugging. If I see it again, I'll add some debug hooks to phase1_processing() in xchkdsk.c from jfsutils to see if I can pinpoint where the choke was.
Absolutely, notice that they have yet to move beyond mere threats and actually sue any Linux users. If Google gets sued, they could *easily* have the case delayed until the IBM trial is settled, after which there will be no SCO to do any suing anyhow. Regardless, it's not going to happen. I'm sure SCO will come up with a very good reason in February why they have yet to sue anybody. A lot of talk, very little walk.
JFS still has some issues
Hey, that's interesting! I had issues with JFS hanging (well not hanging but endless looping) on fsck on one box. I though it was the HD at first but swapping it out wasn't an immediate option, so I switched the problem partition to XFS and haven't had problems since (yet). I use JFS on pretty much everything else so I'd like to see whatever this is fixed.
Funny, people said the same thing about WordPerfect, Borland C++, and Lotus 1-2-3. The pathetic truth is that the technology doesn't even need to be better, MS will integrate it into every other one of it's products and it'll be game over for Macromedia. The playing field is littered with the corpses of companys who's lunch Microsoft decided they wanted. It's the risk you take and price you pay for building a software company around Windows.
It certainly wasn't the raciest episode ever, it just dealt with Jewish stereotypes about being good with money, smart, etc. Peter uses the word "Jew" quite a bit so that might be the reason why it ended up getting banned. In the commentary on the DVD even Seth admits he was surprised it didn't get to air.
You're using too wide a brush to paint the desktop market. There are many different segments in the desktop market. Linux is ready for about 75% of the commercial desktop market, 3rd party applications being a blocking point. Most of the commerical market has an in-house front line of support, be it one person or twenty. This helps make support contracts more profitable,which is where RH makes it's money.
The place Linux needs to stay clear of in the near term is the moderately advanced home user. This probably comprises well over 50% of the home user desktop segment. I'd characterize this group as gamers and powerusers who do not have a programming background. The problem with targeting Linux at this group is a) most games are coded to DirectX and b) hardware setup / compatibility. You're right about the "crushing" but the crushing would be due to the fact that this group generates a disproportionate amount of helpdesk traffic. It's simply not a profitable group to target from a support standpoint.
The non-compete agreement prohibits Novell from directly competing with SCO's Unix-on-Intel business, McBride said.
Linux Is Not UniX, any more so than BSD, BeOS, or MacOSX. Better double check the wording of that contract Darl.
They're big enough that they may be able to muscle the record companies into cutting them a deal for the songs.
Well, since WalMart has a revenue stream 10x that of Microsoft's and makes a higher quarterly profit than MS, not to mention the fact that the have a pre-existing relationship with the labels, they should be able to get an even better deal from the record companies. That means they'll be able to undercut whatever Microsoft tries to establish as a new price point.
Did you read the article??? They're not threatening to sue anybody. They're offering to indemnify their customers in the event that JBoss code is found to to infringe on patents or copyrights. They're doing to same thing HP did with it's Linux customers here. If customers want it, it's available. JBoss isn't the one who'd be doing the suing.
I agree with you but I'll play devil's advcate here, is it the government's job to ensure garbage, water, and sewer systems to homes? Based on the article, this government believes that internet service is the next essential service. Devil's advocate aside, it's a hell of a stretch. I'm not sure how much economic growth this will actually generate for them, personally, I don't think the investment will reap the kinds rewards they're banking on. You don't hear about much outsourcing ... to Utah. Regardless, it's an interesting, but expensive, experiment.
Good catch, I was anticipating a post like yours! ;-) No seriously, eMusic is fine and I'm not huge fan of *most* mainstream music. However, there's some mainstream stuff that I like such as the new Simply Red and Sarah McLaughlin that eMusic simply doesn't have. My whole point was that DRM is silly, it's a speed bump, not a roadblock, and people who want MP3s are going to get MP3s one way or another without contending with DRMd music sites.
Yep, you're right, my bad. I had to re-read the license a few times to get the full gist of it here. If I'm reading this right, you can ONLY redistribute Yast free of charge, and even then, not on any kinda of physical media. This pisses me off to say the least since I really like the SuSE distro. Since Mandrake is finally offering their DVD based distro at a reasonable price, it might be time to revisit them.
SuSE is not an OSS Linux distribution.
... including the YaST source code, begs to differ.
My SuSE 9.0 DVD with the source to ALL the software in the SuSE Linux distro, yes
Things were bound to heat up sooner or later. I'm still waiting for a legit, not a .RU, one to offer mainstream MP3s w/o DRM. Even though the odds are pretty slim, maybe Walmart given it's sheer size ($250B rev in 2002 vs. $28B rev for MS), can strong arm some DRM-less tunes?
The only problem I see with this is that Torvalds and Stallman, regardless of what people think of them as personalities, are extremely intelligent individuals, not to mention highly methodical. These types rarely "put their foot in it" so to speak. SCO's lawyers, regardless of how intelligent they think they are, are dealing with 2 people that are way above their league in terms of "knowing what they're talking about".