then don't ditch windows. this is about choice. if windows is the best environment for you, then fine. for many of us, it isn't. and for many more, it needn't be either. if i had an ofdice, and istalled say RH9/Mandrake9.X, and had them use OO.org, mozilla, evolution, etc., i would save tons on licensing, tons on maintenance, and tons on virus/trojan worries. and, i doubt i would lose 1 ounce of productivity.
part of the sluggishness is, because they are commercial distros, they have to work out of the box. they can't require tons of fiddling, recompiling, etc. and yes, in the install, afaik, drake does let you turn off all the uneeded services, and will even ask you when yo install apache, et al., if you want to turn them on by default. but, the fact is, they have to work. and since they are commercial, they can take an approach to their distro based on the standard, common hardware around. for instance, most people are at around a P3 with min. 128MB ram. so, a little bloat is overcome with hardware. is that okay? well, maybe.
on another, sorta related note, don't let anyone tell you that that makes linux harder to set up. i just got a new g4 ibook (awesome), and when i had to set up my airport card, it asked for the password. since i use 128bit encryption on my wifi router, i had to type in the number. two times it don't work. damn!! oh yeah, it's hex, so pwd is 0xABCDEF... ya think there's a clue in the user's manual? nope. how many people are sitting around with a shiny new mac unable to connect to their wifi?
By bundling RHEL with a support contract that restricts redistribution, RHEL itself violates the GPL.
if RHEL is 100% GPL, then it would be, but, if RH is selling non-GPL stuff in there as well, then no it isn't. this would be configf tool that write the/etc/... files, or it could be monitoring software, or even there freakin graphics. i might be wrong here, but part of the deal is their red carpet service, for each server. thus, you are limited to how many servers can be updated. it's not just making the source available, it's the method of content delivery as well.
one, it is nice to see novell embrace linux, provide a groupwise interface, and make linux desktop, through ximian, an option. great job. but funny thing is that at my school district, which uses netware, i've been playing nicely with novell for some time.
i had got my linux box at school (couldn't stand those damn win98 POS they give us) up and running, and used ncpmount to mount my novell share, and got our attendance and grade programs (SASI) to run through wine. now, one day our district technidiot comes into my classroom, going through his usual hardware inventory, etc., and he notices the district computer collecting dust in the corner (hell, it was a P200 i think). so, he takes a peek, and notices that i am running SASI on this weird desktop. he can't figure out how i can get linux to work with the network, how i could run sasi, how i could connect to the internet. poor fella.
this is a great point. for one, apple could never substantially increase their share without dramatically changing their structure. i was an econ major, not business, but i know a a little about vert/horiz integration and economic scalability. apple is a "niche" player. to be able to compete with the dell $799 un-inspiron or the best buy special o' the week, they would have to cut back on what makes them a "mac". then they are not different, and they cannot compete, because they can't scale that high. so, they are better off being where they are. if they change, they don't compete, they die. great point.
because: one, the screen res and clarity kicks ass. try looking a that POS dell screen for anhour or two. you'll get a headache. two, the keyboard is a dream to type/code on (except no g**damn delete key. oh wait, i use vim, just hit x). three, because it just plain freakin works. you pay for what you get. buy some POS markup ODM portable from dell/hp/sony, etc., you get what you pay for. i'll tkae the rock solid os x, the tough cover, and the greta ergonomics (and yes, it does matter.) i ahve a 12"/700mhz ibook. i love it. one thing you can be sure of. even if i ran linux on any laptop, which i would do, not a single laptop would ever gain the relgious following that apple's do. and it's not an OS thing either. beacuse we'd all be running debian on or stinkads.
even bill clinton mentioned several times that saddam possessed nuclear capability. as for material breach, hans blox last report was very clear. he was without a doubt.
saddam posed a very real, present, and credible threat to us, and the targets of terrorists. period. this is indisputable. he was responsible for hundreds of thousands of murders. that is undeniable.
there were major intelligence flaws. our cia needs an enema, in a big way. but what many are calling lies are simply different interpretations of the same information. we are in a war for or survival. some might not see it, nor choose to believe it, but we are. we must take the fight to the enemy. we have been in this war for 20+ years, dating back to the tehran hostage situation. they do not need to declare war, and in fact, they won't.
bush is hardly a fascist. your hatred makes you see things that aren't there. he is not destroying liberty. time to grow up. your not three, stop temper tantrum, and go back to your desk and start your homework
that you choose to ignore the fact that we are WW3, against the exact same sort of fascist minds that we were in 60 years ago is not Pres. Bush's fault.
that Bush relied on the best intel available, and that the Brits still stand by their yellowcake story, and you call that a lie, which is the conscious act of deception, i can't help
that everybody, even the frogs and krauts, agreed that saddam was in material breach, had WMD's, and was a major threat, and you call Bush a liar, i can't help
that Bush never said saddam was an imminent threat, but said that we can't let him get that far, and you still think him a liar, i can't help.
i shall stop there. you cannot name one lie the president told. you can claim policy differences, but not lies. are there intelligence failures? absolutely. do they need to be addressed? absolutely. but the bullshit that he somehow "lied", is pure ideological religion. it is the same religious fanaticism that drives the islamicists to blow up buildings with airplanes.
actually there is a difference. for instance, with the forced upgrades, there are changes. try going from office97 to office XP. which many have had to do. now, computer skills are just that, skills. the point is is that it is very possible to introduce say, linux/OO.org to an employee, and expect them to be able to use it. if they are familiar enough with computers, then they can figure out in a relatively short time the differences. for example, do you know how to embed a spreadsheet into a word doc? if yes, then you'll be able to figure out how to do it, because you'll know what it is you're trying to do. whereas if you don't know it on any program, then it isn't an option, whatever suite your using. if you have skills, then you should be able to adapt very quickly. and if a company can save some real bucks, then it makes sense. now, there are some things for sure where say excel is necessary, fine. but imagine going into a job interview, and saying i know program X, and if you're asked, "can you do program Y?", you reply, "no, i do program X", and when asked if you have the skills to learn a new program,you reply no. yeah, you'll get the job.
1) It takes money to develop open source software. Even if it is not money from licensing, the money does come from somewhere. Most open source developers are developing on the dime of their companies. There is a cost to doing this.
huh? don't you think they'd get fired really soon. how about stuff like OO.org or netbeans which are open source, but are funded by companies.
2) Open source is genuinely not as polished as a commercial product, and products that do add that polish tend to drive up the cost of open source stuff. For example, Oracle on Linux is still more expensive than SQL Server on Windows Server, by about 5k per server.
oracle is open source. does larry ellison know about this? and by polished you mean what? a gui/desktop? perhaps. but linux is marginally behind. don't say office, they break every GUI standard possible. like toolbar button menus, wtf? and as for polish, i'll take a rock solid stable kernel, and how about apache, samba, et al. they're far more "polished" than anything from redmond.
as for.NET, it is relatively new. it doesn't have a track record. sure, you can say, "i've been developing in.NET for the last six months and I can do...", but compared to the win32 API, anything is an improvement. and rememebr, microsoft has already fixed on, vbx, ocx, activex, com, dcom, mfc, and others. how long until they add another.
as for IDE's, try eclipse. really nice. ms IDE's are for windows only. fine, they control the desktop, they are poor cousins when developing anything else. say web apps. ASP is a freaking joke, and.NET only works (i know, mono, but...) on windows servers, and i think netcraft has them at about, what, 30%. and IDE's don't make a developer. they are more a crutch than a tool.
first, the training, argument is bullshit. do busineses really sit down and say, "first you take the mouse, move it over the text, push and hold the button, no the left one...". no, you're expected to know how to use a freakin computer. with something like KDE, hell, if some worker drone can't figure it out, they're idiots. one simple email:
dear worker drones:
My Documents is now/home/drone
you'll be using mozilla instead of IE for the internet. you'll notice the lack of popups.
the big K = start button
Thanks.
management.
p.s. since we have transitioned over to linux, and saved shitloads, we'll be upping the christmas, er, holiday bonus this year.
sure, there is support options. but look at it this way: if you save money on software licenses, virus attacks, security holes, etc., then you got a few bucks to hire a linux admin. nuff said. it is that easy. businesses just have to be willing to bite the bullet.
crazy question here, but is there any alternative to quark? or, is ver. 5 good enough? this really does make a great point that there is really a far greater cost to using some software than just the license fees. perhaps this activation crap will be their cannae. sure, they'll win the battle, but they'll end up losing the war. so many businesses have become dependent, no, addicted, to proprietary software.
i think what's happening is that most products are reaching feature saturation, if they haven't already. the only real features left to offer are better security. the software business model can't deal with this too well. even the mighy microsoft is switching to a services based model. i wonder how long until you "lease" software, that it jut stops working after a certain date.
but could there maybe somehting in the architecture of os x that makes it not possible? i have an ibook, so i ain't gonna be running photoshop, but, i do plan on buying a g5 or a PB within a year. well, i still ain't gonna buy photoshop, don't need it. what is funny is that mac has not put any reg crap in jaguar, nor it seems upcoming panther. and hasn't put it into keynote either. is os x drm resillient? now, that'd be sweet.
all it does is just work right. microsoft software/philosophy has become enamored with features pver functionality. i'd much prefer software that does the things i need it to do, and does it very well, over something that does 7000 things i don't need.
apparently, the folks at JBOSS do think php scales as well as java. of course they have a product to push, but they did use php and found it wouldn't hold up.
apparently, you know nothing about the middle east. how many middle east nations allow palestinians citizen ship? how many middle east nations allow palestinians to vote? how many middle east nations allow palestinians to serve in the government? one. israel. now, they are hardly the agressor. i would be mad, but you're simply ignorant not spiteful. except for egypt, no other arab/muslim nation even recognizes israel's right to exist. now, look at palestinian text books. any mention of israel? none. according to oslo, they were supposed to totally revamp their texts. have they? not at all. so you got another generation of young palestinians growing up with the arab version of the blood libel.
israel is simply in defense mode. they have no other option. but apparently we who sit safely far away can pass judgement upon them while they fight for there very existence.
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wow, that's like what, 3 minutes interest on their $40 billion in the bank. that'll really set them back a ways.
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then don't ditch windows. this is about choice. if windows is the best environment for you, then fine. for many of us, it isn't. and for many more, it needn't be either. if i had an ofdice, and istalled say RH9/Mandrake9.X, and had them use OO.org, mozilla, evolution, etc., i would save tons on licensing, tons on maintenance, and tons on virus/trojan worries. and, i doubt i would lose 1 ounce of productivity.
1) all your PC's are belong to us
2) "we are your overlord" - Led Zeppelin
part of the sluggishness is, because they are commercial distros, they have to work out of the box. they can't require tons of fiddling, recompiling, etc. and yes, in the install, afaik, drake does let you turn off all the uneeded services, and will even ask you when yo install apache, et al., if you want to turn them on by default. but, the fact is, they have to work. and since they are commercial, they can take an approach to their distro based on the standard, common hardware around. for instance, most people are at around a P3 with min. 128MB ram. so, a little bloat is overcome with hardware. is that okay? well, maybe.
on another, sorta related note, don't let anyone tell you that that makes linux harder to set up. i just got a new g4 ibook (awesome), and when i had to set up my airport card, it asked for the password. since i use 128bit encryption on my wifi router, i had to type in the number. two times it don't work. damn!! oh yeah, it's hex, so pwd is 0xABCDEF... ya think there's a clue in the user's manual? nope. how many people are sitting around with a shiny new mac unable to connect to their wifi?
imagine a beo...nah, nevermind
By bundling RHEL with a support contract that restricts redistribution, RHEL itself violates the GPL.
/etc/... files, or it could be monitoring software, or even there freakin graphics. i might be wrong here, but part of the deal is their red carpet service, for each server. thus, you are limited to how many servers can be updated. it's not just making the source available, it's the method of content delivery as well.
if RHEL is 100% GPL, then it would be, but, if RH is selling non-GPL stuff in there as well, then no it isn't. this would be configf tool that write the
one, it is nice to see novell embrace linux, provide a groupwise interface, and make linux desktop, through ximian, an option. great job. but funny thing is that at my school district, which uses netware, i've been playing nicely with novell for some time.
i had got my linux box at school (couldn't stand those damn win98 POS they give us) up and running, and used ncpmount to mount my novell share, and got our attendance and grade programs (SASI) to run through wine. now, one day our district technidiot comes into my classroom, going through his usual hardware inventory, etc., and he notices the district computer collecting dust in the corner (hell, it was a P200 i think). so, he takes a peek, and notices that i am running SASI on this weird desktop. he can't figure out how i can get linux to work with the network, how i could run sasi, how i could connect to the internet. poor fella.
but those are bought by mommy and daddy.
this is a great point. for one, apple could never substantially increase their share without dramatically changing their structure. i was an econ major, not business, but i know a a little about vert/horiz integration and economic scalability. apple is a "niche" player. to be able to compete with the dell $799 un-inspiron or the best buy special o' the week, they would have to cut back on what makes them a "mac". then they are not different, and they cannot compete, because they can't scale that high. so, they are better off being where they are. if they change, they don't compete, they die. great point.
because: one, the screen res and clarity kicks ass. try looking a that POS dell screen for anhour or two. you'll get a headache. two, the keyboard is a dream to type/code on (except no g**damn delete key. oh wait, i use vim, just hit x). three, because it just plain freakin works. you pay for what you get. buy some POS markup ODM portable from dell/hp/sony, etc., you get what you pay for. i'll tkae the rock solid os x, the tough cover, and the greta ergonomics (and yes, it does matter.) i ahve a 12"/700mhz ibook. i love it. one thing you can be sure of. even if i ran linux on any laptop, which i would do, not a single laptop would ever gain the relgious following that apple's do. and it's not an OS thing either. beacuse we'd all be running debian on or stinkads.
even bill clinton mentioned several times that saddam possessed nuclear capability. as for material breach, hans blox last report was very clear. he was without a doubt.
saddam posed a very real, present, and credible threat to us, and the targets of terrorists. period. this is indisputable. he was responsible for hundreds of thousands of murders. that is undeniable.
there were major intelligence flaws. our cia needs an enema, in a big way. but what many are calling lies are simply different interpretations of the same information. we are in a war for or survival. some might not see it, nor choose to believe it, but we are. we must take the fight to the enemy. we have been in this war for 20+ years, dating back to the tehran hostage situation. they do not need to declare war, and in fact, they won't.
bush is hardly a fascist. your hatred makes you see things that aren't there. he is not destroying liberty. time to grow up. your not three, stop temper tantrum, and go back to your desk and start your homework
- that you choose to ignore the fact that we are WW3, against the exact same sort of fascist minds that we were in 60 years ago is not Pres. Bush's fault.
- that Bush relied on the best intel available, and that the Brits still stand by their yellowcake story, and you call that a lie, which is the conscious act of deception, i can't help
- that everybody, even the frogs and krauts, agreed that saddam was in material breach, had WMD's, and was a major threat, and you call Bush a liar, i can't help
- that Bush never said saddam was an imminent threat, but said that we can't let him get that far, and you still think him a liar, i can't help.
i shall stop there. you cannot name one lie the president told. you can claim policy differences, but not lies. are there intelligence failures? absolutely. do they need to be addressed? absolutely. but the bullshit that he somehow "lied", is pure ideological religion. it is the same religious fanaticism that drives the islamicists to blow up buildings with airplanes.actually there is a difference. for instance, with the forced upgrades, there are changes. try going from office97 to office XP. which many have had to do. now, computer skills are just that, skills. the point is is that it is very possible to introduce say, linux/OO.org to an employee, and expect them to be able to use it. if they are familiar enough with computers, then they can figure out in a relatively short time the differences. for example, do you know how to embed a spreadsheet into a word doc? if yes, then you'll be able to figure out how to do it, because you'll know what it is you're trying to do. whereas if you don't know it on any program, then it isn't an option, whatever suite your using. if you have skills, then you should be able to adapt very quickly. and if a company can save some real bucks, then it makes sense. now, there are some things for sure where say excel is necessary, fine. but imagine going into a job interview, and saying i know program X, and if you're asked, "can you do program Y?", you reply, "no, i do program X", and when asked if you have the skills to learn a new program ,you reply no. yeah, you'll get the job.
1) It takes money to develop open source software. Even if it is not money from licensing, the money does come from somewhere. Most open source developers are developing on the dime of their companies. There is a cost to doing this.
.NET, it is relatively new. it doesn't have a track record. sure, you can say, "i've been developing in .NET for the last six months and I can do ...", but compared to the win32 API, anything is an improvement. and rememebr, microsoft has already fixed on, vbx, ocx, activex, com, dcom, mfc, and others. how long until they add another.
.NET only works (i know, mono, but...) on windows servers, and i think netcraft has them at about, what, 30%. and IDE's don't make a developer. they are more a crutch than a tool.
huh? don't you think they'd get fired really soon. how about stuff like OO.org or netbeans which are open source, but are funded by companies.
2) Open source is genuinely not as polished as a commercial product, and products that do add that polish tend to drive up the cost of open source stuff. For example, Oracle on Linux is still more expensive than SQL Server on Windows Server, by about 5k per server.
oracle is open source. does larry ellison know about this? and by polished you mean what? a gui/desktop? perhaps. but linux is marginally behind. don't say office, they break every GUI standard possible. like toolbar button menus, wtf? and as for polish, i'll take a rock solid stable kernel, and how about apache, samba, et al. they're far more "polished" than anything from redmond.
as for
as for IDE's, try eclipse. really nice. ms IDE's are for windows only. fine, they control the desktop, they are poor cousins when developing anything else. say web apps. ASP is a freaking joke, and
dear worker drones:
- My Documents is now
/home/drone
- you'll be using mozilla instead of IE for the internet. you'll notice the lack of popups.
- the big K = start button
Thanks.management.
p.s. since we have transitioned over to linux, and saved shitloads, we'll be upping the christmas, er, holiday bonus this year.
sure, there is support options. but look at it this way: if you save money on software licenses, virus attacks, security holes, etc., then you got a few bucks to hire a linux admin. nuff said. it is that easy. businesses just have to be willing to bite the bullet.
let's face it, this is a confusing ruling. but it is coming from the french. so what else would you expect.
crazy question here, but is there any alternative to quark? or, is ver. 5 good enough? this really does make a great point that there is really a far greater cost to using some software than just the license fees. perhaps this activation crap will be their cannae. sure, they'll win the battle, but they'll end up losing the war. so many businesses have become dependent, no, addicted, to proprietary software.
i think what's happening is that most products are reaching feature saturation, if they haven't already. the only real features left to offer are better security. the software business model can't deal with this too well. even the mighy microsoft is switching to a services based model. i wonder how long until you "lease" software, that it jut stops working after a certain date.
but could there maybe somehting in the architecture of os x that makes it not possible? i have an ibook, so i ain't gonna be running photoshop, but, i do plan on buying a g5 or a PB within a year. well, i still ain't gonna buy photoshop, don't need it. what is funny is that mac has not put any reg crap in jaguar, nor it seems upcoming panther. and hasn't put it into keynote either. is os x drm resillient? now, that'd be sweet.
from the website:
"Product activation applies only to the individual retail version of Photoshop CS for Windows...". there's no mention of the os x version. hmmm...
all it does is just work right. microsoft software/philosophy has become enamored with features pver functionality. i'd much prefer software that does the things i need it to do, and does it very well, over something that does 7000 things i don't need.
s/do think/don't think/
apparently, the folks at JBOSS do think php scales as well as java. of course they have a product to push, but they did use php and found it wouldn't hold up.
apparently, you know nothing about the middle east. how many middle east nations allow palestinians citizen ship? how many middle east nations allow palestinians to vote? how many middle east nations allow palestinians to serve in the government? one. israel. now, they are hardly the agressor. i would be mad, but you're simply ignorant not spiteful. except for egypt, no other arab/muslim nation even recognizes israel's right to exist. now, look at palestinian text books. any mention of israel? none. according to oslo, they were supposed to totally revamp their texts. have they? not at all. so you got another generation of young palestinians growing up with the arab version of the blood libel.
israel is simply in defense mode. they have no other option. but apparently we who sit safely far away can pass judgement upon them while they fight for there very existence.
it comes with a neato car too.
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