But PHP is far better suited for webpage development than Perl. For starters, PHP is understood by more people, meaning there are more existing projects that you can implement or just borrow code from.
A lot of people find themselves developing web pages in addition to performing other duties. You sound like you have it rather easy. Try being a desktop technician/network admin/HP-UX sys admin while being paid for only one, and then talk to me about stress, sissy.
That's an interesting point. Unfortunately, I know the answer already: since you are a little fish swimming in their huge pond, you sort of have to play by their rules. In their pond, money talks. Without enough money and power, they simply out litigate you.
This (your statement) is an experienced user's advanced work around to a basic problem. Your statement doesn't really answer the initial question and thus doesn't remedy the problem.
Newbies are routinely encouraged before delving into Linux to ask for help from the "gurus". Unfortunately, that is the type of answers they tend to recieve when asking questions concerning very basic functions of an operating system: "This is so outdated, only morons don't know this. Download urpmi and these libraries, change the install script to match your distro (check the readme) or just use the RPM. Then all you have to do is run the following bash command to install a program. Just make sure the server is up to get the updated files, or use a different one. Simple."
The Linux desktop (traditionally KDE or Gnome) does not need to gain more usability for Linux to gain more market acceptance. Linux needs killer home-use apps that people can't do without, and also apps that businesses find economically viable to use and eventually rely on.
Windows is pervasive for many reasons, but two of the most critical reasons are the Office Suite and Exchange.
Just look at Mac OS X: arguably as usable (or more usable) as Windows 98/2000/XP, but a tiny market share.
There was almost no interest in the N-Gage due to inflated prices, poor design, demand miscalcualtion (hardly anyone was actually looking to buy such a device), and corny marketing. Removing the idiotic features won't help this late in the game.
Do tell me when these two gentlemen have passed. It is at that moment, that momentous and glorious occassion to come, that I will celebrate and send praise on high.
The D&D systems/rulesets are always robust and mature, having been in the making for the better part of forty years. Furthermore, they always translate very well to any medium, be it paper and pencil or PC video game.
I would say that it is a much better idea to use the tried-and-true D&D rulesets than to create your own on the fly. Heck, for starters, it saves you a huge amount of time.
It adds a new dimension to the entire joke. Now, you can run a Beowulf cluster of IBM zSeries 900's running multiple Linux images, which are in turn running coLinux which is running Linux on Windows.
With Cygwin, you aren't running a full blown Linux environment. Here is the Cygwin FAQ. I can't read the article (Slashdotted), but judging from the snippet here, it seems like coLinux will run an actual Linux image, which would be a big difference.
I could put it to use in places where upper management might still be afraid of Linux, so I can run Linux apps. Another use would be to run more powerful versions of software. One example is a web filtering product called SurfControl. The Windows versions, hindered by the poor IP stack I'm sure, doesn't have the flexibility and power of the Linux version (Here is a comparison chart).
So, the next time your manager is afraid of having a Linux server on the production network, use CoLinux instead?
Google has been integrated into just about every heavily used website out there. Every instant messenger and personal information manager has integration with Google. Many company's intranets utilize Google directly as their web search engine. I don't know anyone (including the 300+ users I support) that doesn't use Google.
Oh yes, Google is damn pervasive - it is much more than an "occasionally accessed search engine".
You would think that a little thing like a bull frog would be able to be easily controlled also. They were introduced them into some parts of Texas and Arizona almost a hundred years ago to act as game, and even food for cowboys. Considering that there wasn't/isn't many marshlands in the areas that they were introduced into, you would figure that they could be easily contained and controlled, right?
Well, suddenly the bull frogs started turning up in wet areas FAR from where they were originally introduced. No one knew that they could cover such long distances without water. Then they started eating all of the local wildlife that was smaller than themsevles: tarantulas, birds, other species of frogs, fish, etc.
1. Just build fences and keep them out, right? Wrong, the bull frogs learned to climb over the fences.
2.Posion them? How, when the poison will kill everything else too?
3. Bioengineer a poison that only affects bull frogs? On whom's dime, the taxpayers?
4. Kill them all with spears, guns, knives, and arrows? Tried that, night after night by dozens of volunteers: virtually no effect, the population held strong as ever.
But back where the bullfrogs came from, in the bayous of Louisiana, the alligators and birds that evolved alongside the frogs have no problem keeping their population in check.
Do you get the logisitical issue(s) of introducing new species into new environments (manmade or otherwise)? It is never easy to control.
Gigabit pipes are needed for stuff that can actually utilize it, like when you have 100+ servers needing to be backed up throughout the day to your SAN, or when you are serving out 600-800GB from your SAN to your servers. This is why you find gigabit pipes at the core and throughout the datacenter, but not from your workstations to your switches. Not yet, anyways.
With over 600 nodes on our network (300-310 being workstations) we only require gigabit at our core, from servers to SAN (Storage Area Network), and from work group switches to the core. Hell, we don't even have a DS3 to the outside world yet. Our largest collision domain serves approximately 90 hosts that are all heavily used, and it never congests its 100mb pipe (unless a worm gets in and actually does some damage, anyways).
Hard as I try, I can't imagine ever having enough stuff in my house to warrant gigabit. Damn.
I couldn't think of a good, stellar troll with which to contribute to Troll Tuesday this April the 6th, 2004. So in its stead I provided you with this short, albiet pointless crap flood.
Cheerio.
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80+ comments and no Gentoo zealots have opined about how mega-awesome and perfect their distro is yet. You guys are letting me down.
" The future of Linux lies with Suse/Novell and IBM."
I should have said "The future of Linux in the business space....", as no company will likely ever govern where Linux's future lies, merely influence at best.
Redhat is still around?
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The future of Linux lies with Suse/Novell and IBM.
Novell has Ximian for its connectors (that means ZENworks for Linux is on the way), a solid distribution to integrate their tools with and run their services (like eDirectory) on, and GroupWise for productivity - which is already mature. In other words, Novell has the future of Linux on the corporate desktop locked, and is poised to make Linux easily managed in the low end server market with their already existing tools and directories.
It is only a matter of time before IBM stops relying on Redhat as a partner, and instead chooses Novell/Suse or their own Linux distro.
Redhat is pretty much over. I stopped caring about them after they released Fedora.
Microsoft had nothing to fear from Sun or their litigation. Sun is a company that is slowly dying, largely due to McNealey's failure to forecast the changing OS climate over that past 10 years (and partially due only his ignorance of Linux and his stout refusal to utilize - especially in saving his low and medium end business). Sun had every oppurtunity between 1998 and 2001 to do exactly what IBM and Novell did, but McNealey's ignorance damned them.
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But PHP is far better suited for webpage development than Perl. For starters, PHP is understood by more people, meaning there are more existing projects that you can implement or just borrow code from.
A lot of people find themselves developing web pages in addition to performing other duties. You sound like you have it rather easy. Try being a desktop technician/network admin/HP-UX sys admin while being paid for only one, and then talk to me about stress, sissy.
It's really sad when you think about it.
The article speaks as if Java is still a real contender. It is not.
Newbies are routinely encouraged before delving into Linux to ask for help from the "gurus". Unfortunately, that is the type of answers they tend to recieve when asking questions concerning very basic functions of an operating system: "This is so outdated, only morons don't know this. Download urpmi and these libraries, change the install script to match your distro (check the readme) or just use the RPM. Then all you have to do is run the following bash command to install a program. Just make sure the server is up to get the updated files, or use a different one. Simple."
Windows is pervasive for many reasons, but two of the most critical reasons are the Office Suite and Exchange.
Just look at Mac OS X: arguably as usable (or more usable) as Windows 98/2000/XP, but a tiny market share.
There was almost no interest in the N-Gage due to inflated prices, poor design, demand miscalcualtion (hardly anyone was actually looking to buy such a device), and corny marketing. Removing the idiotic features won't help this late in the game.
Do tell me when these two gentlemen have passed. It is at that moment, that momentous and glorious occassion to come, that I will celebrate and send praise on high.
There, Apple experience complete.
I would say that it is a much better idea to use the tried-and-true D&D rulesets than to create your own on the fly. Heck, for starters, it saves you a huge amount of time.
It adds a new dimension to the entire joke. Now, you can run a Beowulf cluster of IBM zSeries 900's running multiple Linux images, which are in turn running coLinux which is running Linux on Windows.
With Cygwin, you aren't running a full blown Linux environment. Here is the Cygwin FAQ. I can't read the article (Slashdotted), but judging from the snippet here, it seems like coLinux will run an actual Linux image, which would be a big difference.
So, the next time your manager is afraid of having a Linux server on the production network, use CoLinux instead?
These questions should be screamed aloud while a greedy, slime-ball, outsourcing CEO is flogged to death with an aluminum baseball bat. RAAAHHH!
Oh yes, Google is damn pervasive - it is much more than an "occasionally accessed search engine".
Well, suddenly the bull frogs started turning up in wet areas FAR from where they were originally introduced. No one knew that they could cover such long distances without water. Then they started eating all of the local wildlife that was smaller than themsevles: tarantulas, birds, other species of frogs, fish, etc.
1. Just build fences and keep them out, right? Wrong, the bull frogs learned to climb over the fences.
2.Posion them? How, when the poison will kill everything else too?
3. Bioengineer a poison that only affects bull frogs? On whom's dime, the taxpayers?
4. Kill them all with spears, guns, knives, and arrows? Tried that, night after night by dozens of volunteers: virtually no effect, the population held strong as ever.
But back where the bullfrogs came from, in the bayous of Louisiana, the alligators and birds that evolved alongside the frogs have no problem keeping their population in check.
Do you get the logisitical issue(s) of introducing new species into new environments (manmade or otherwise)? It is never easy to control.
I would raher have had the chance to shoot him in the face with a .357 Magnum. That's just me, though.
Gigabit pipes are needed for stuff that can actually utilize it, like when you have 100+ servers needing to be backed up throughout the day to your SAN, or when you are serving out 600-800GB from your SAN to your servers. This is why you find gigabit pipes at the core and throughout the datacenter, but not from your workstations to your switches. Not yet, anyways.
And you have enough cash to be utilizing a JBOD to back up your pr0n, there is a problem.
Hard as I try, I can't imagine ever having enough stuff in my house to warrant gigabit. Damn.
Cheerio.
80+ comments and no Gentoo zealots have opined about how mega-awesome and perfect their distro is yet. You guys are letting me down.
I should have said "The future of Linux in the business space....", as no company will likely ever govern where Linux's future lies, merely influence at best.
Novell has Ximian for its connectors (that means ZENworks for Linux is on the way), a solid distribution to integrate their tools with and run their services (like eDirectory) on, and GroupWise for productivity - which is already mature. In other words, Novell has the future of Linux on the corporate desktop locked, and is poised to make Linux easily managed in the low end server market with their already existing tools and directories.
It is only a matter of time before IBM stops relying on Redhat as a partner, and instead chooses Novell/Suse or their own Linux distro.
Redhat is pretty much over. I stopped caring about them after they released Fedora.
Microsoft could have just waited Sun out.