My sincere apologies for misrepresenting. I took a liberty for the sake of sarcasm at the poster's expense.
Does advanced server not have to be rebooted for updates? Or is this noob running an outdated (read vulnerable peach ready for plucking) Windows server?
We need to keep a record of all these people that published the "independent" studies for reference later. We can call it the "Flatlanders List." Don't any of them worry at all about the integrity of their objectivity? It's like they're selling their soul - eventually this has to catch up with them. Give it up, the IT professionals that are comfortable implementing non-MS solutions aren't suddenly going to forget their experiences and say, "Hey, you know what? These guys are probably right, I should start recommending MS solutions." It's beyond the point of hilarity and a sad statement regarding "journalism."
If I open up multiple instance of a media player on Linux, once in awhile I do notice the box slows down. MS elegantly solved this by preventing multiple instances of windows media player being opened on my W2K Pro box...
Certainly the right path as far as "global information repository" schema's go but it seems a bit risky to centralize the meta data. Can't we frankenstein together a universal distributed meta data db (ie. via the headless p2p protocol du jour) that points to where everything is on the web?
Couldn't we come up with a gaming architecture that worked the way *ix does? I think gnuChess works this way. Ie. there's a use accessible low level interface wrapped in a high level interface. You could use the game in text mode or fire up the higher level wrapper that provides the more demanding gui. Ideally there would be a standard gaming protocol for inter-layer communication so you could mix & match. Insert XML plug here.
Depending on what you circle with your pencil as "The System," I would say that computer viruses do evolve... better or more sophisticated ones get written over time and the best ones prevail. If you consider the human coders as an extension to the digital organism then the resulting aggregate entity is evolving. Semantics aside- the evolution is occuring. Haven't I read somewhere that even humans have distinct organisms embedded internally on a low level that cause effects, possibly even genetic effects?
My guess? They discovered infected computers internally and just make up this story after the fact. This is probably just some "MS Win Sysadmin" (sic) thinking on his feet.
Religous & cost issues aside, I switched because I kept having problems with MSW2K & MSO2K updates not being regression tested adequately. Specifics? Ntbackup & ODBC were prime candidates for problems.
This issue of centralized vs. distributed architectures (ie. is google going to mirror the internet) reminds me of the oscillations that have occured between client-server & thin-client being vogue over the last two decades (both in hw and sw). Maybe the internet (something we all see as THE decentralized system) will revert back to some evolved form of the BBS's of the 80's- lots of little island systems. With the search engines and other major plays waxing so monolithic it does seem like a possible path. On the other hand, the proliferation of p2p protocols and the potential of something like torrent leads me to believe that the opposite will in fact be true.
... and release a MS linux distro? Why reinvent the wheel? Couldn't it be as easy as "becoming part of the solution" and making their money off service & consulting + integrating whatever useful original technology might have originated in The Halls Of Redmond into a linux distro?
I can vouch that mySQL scales unexpectedly better than at least one major commercial db. I had a process get out of control on a low end server that resulted in my coming in to work one day to find a table that accidently grew to 40 million rows. Out of curiosity I ran some queries on it and was pleasantly surprised at the responsiveness. This was a production server that experienced no instability during this time. MS SQL running on a h/w twin server would have gagged and fallen over backwards had the same thing happened. So while I can't speak to the scale refered to in the article, I can say that in the world of low end intel h/w, I get ALOT of bang for my buck with mySQL stability handling relatively large db's.
Here's the way I would take Gartners comments. Yes: by waiting 5 years you will reduce risk and pain of transition. You'll also be late. If on the other hand you don't want to be late and transition now- you'd be making a reasonable decision. For example- you can spend the next 5 years using unpeer-reviewed O/S / Distro / Kernel / util suite "X" or you can migrate to something more linuxish or BSHish now. What would be the value? Depending on what flavor you chose: performance, stability, cost. Here's an example - I recently replaced a commercial OS with a flavor of linux and a task that was taking 40 hrs now takes 12 hours. I increased speed, held stability constant, support constant and reduced cost.
If some of you want to wait 5 years for this because Gartner says so... be my guest.
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Does advanced server not have to be rebooted for updates? Or is this noob running an outdated (read vulnerable peach ready for plucking) Windows server?
Is this your MS uptime server or does it actually have a collateral duty? Many of us our curious.
We need to keep a record of all these people that published the "independent" studies for reference later. We can call it the "Flatlanders List." Don't any of them worry at all about the integrity of their objectivity? It's like they're selling their soul - eventually this has to catch up with them. Give it up, the IT professionals that are comfortable implementing non-MS solutions aren't suddenly going to forget their experiences and say, "Hey, you know what? These guys are probably right, I should start recommending MS solutions." It's beyond the point of hilarity and a sad statement regarding "journalism."
If I open up multiple instance of a media player on Linux, once in awhile I do notice the box slows down. MS elegantly solved this by preventing multiple instances of windows media player being opened on my W2K Pro box ...
I use the "Angel" from Arcamax to organize my information. :D
Certainly the right path as far as "global information repository" schema's go but it seems a bit risky to centralize the meta data. Can't we frankenstein together a universal distributed meta data db (ie. via the headless p2p protocol du jour) that points to where everything is on the web?
Couldn't we come up with a gaming architecture that worked the way *ix does? I think gnuChess works this way. Ie. there's a use accessible low level interface wrapped in a high level interface. You could use the game in text mode or fire up the higher level wrapper that provides the more demanding gui. Ideally there would be a standard gaming protocol for inter-layer communication so you could mix & match. Insert XML plug here.
Oh man, I have to know how to read to play these games!? That doesn't sound like much fun at all.
Perhaps due to time distortion effects, Singularity will reach production before Vista. : )
Did Windows have this disclaimer when it launched? Or ... yesterday?
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"Again, this is a prototype research OS, not a full fledged OS that can run the typical applications you've come to expect of an OS"
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Depending on what you circle with your pencil as "The System," I would say that computer viruses do evolve... better or more sophisticated ones get written over time and the best ones prevail. If you consider the human coders as an extension to the digital organism then the resulting aggregate entity is evolving. Semantics aside- the evolution is occuring. Haven't I read somewhere that even humans have distinct organisms embedded internally on a low level that cause effects, possibly even genetic effects?
Ok, raise your hand, who thinks there's more than 1 infected windows machine on the Redmond campus?
My guess? They discovered infected computers internally and just make up this story after the fact. This is probably just some "MS Win Sysadmin" (sic) thinking on his feet.
Religous & cost issues aside, I switched because I kept having problems with MSW2K & MSO2K updates not being regression tested adequately. Specifics? Ntbackup & ODBC were prime candidates for problems.
This issue of centralized vs. distributed architectures (ie. is google going to mirror the internet) reminds me of the oscillations that have occured between client-server & thin-client being vogue over the last two decades (both in hw and sw). Maybe the internet (something we all see as THE decentralized system) will revert back to some evolved form of the BBS's of the 80's- lots of little island systems. With the search engines and other major plays waxing so monolithic it does seem like a possible path. On the other hand, the proliferation of p2p protocols and the potential of something like torrent leads me to believe that the opposite will in fact be true.
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show?
... and release a MS linux distro? Why reinvent the wheel? Couldn't it be as easy as "becoming part of the solution" and making their money off service & consulting + integrating whatever useful original technology might have originated in The Halls Of Redmond into a linux distro?
I think the most reason most people don't like Windows is that they are forced to buy somewhat buggy, insecure s/w bundled with their hardware.
Most of us need Toyota's.
I can vouch that mySQL scales unexpectedly better than at least one major commercial db. I had a process get out of control on a low end server that resulted in my coming in to work one day to find a table that accidently grew to 40 million rows. Out of curiosity I ran some queries on it and was pleasantly surprised at the responsiveness. This was a production server that experienced no instability during this time. MS SQL running on a h/w twin server would have gagged and fallen over backwards had the same thing happened. So while I can't speak to the scale refered to in the article, I can say that in the world of low end intel h/w, I get ALOT of bang for my buck with mySQL stability handling relatively large db's.
Now we just need a sensable self-organization scheme so we can accurately locate things.
Isn't that a little like "Nagin on disaster response?"
Isn't that a little like "Nagin on distaster response?"
Here's the way I would take Gartners comments. Yes: by waiting 5 years you will reduce risk and pain of transition. You'll also be late. If on the other hand you don't want to be late and transition now- you'd be making a reasonable decision. For example- you can spend the next 5 years using unpeer-reviewed O/S / Distro / Kernel / util suite "X" or you can migrate to something more linuxish or BSHish now. What would be the value? Depending on what flavor you chose: performance, stability, cost. Here's an example - I recently replaced a commercial OS with a flavor of linux and a task that was taking 40 hrs now takes 12 hours. I increased speed, held stability constant, support constant and reduced cost. ... be my guest.
If some of you want to wait 5 years for this because Gartner says so