If you look at the Novell product line, they are almost all server software which run on a network and a client from almost any OS can connect to them.They have almost no client part which makes them money.
So, Novell I think has almost no interest in desktop, other than to use them as their "clients" to their servers. So I am sceptical how much novell will do for the desktop especially the GUI.If you have ever used netware you will know how bad their GUI is (ofcourse with Netware you are not supposed to be using the GUI, but using their web interface instead to manage it).
And If my guess is right, they bought Ximian for their connector,so that they can use their mail server software to better integrate with exchange (maybe for migration, i dont know), in the process unintentionally acquiring one of the best desktops and a.NET implementation (again maybe some interoperatbility benefits here). They are acquiring Suse so that they get a stable base for their Netware 7 and so that they can use the mindshare to push their enterprise offerings , again in the process acquiring the biggest supporter of KDE (ximian is Gnome and Suse is KDE!).
What they now have is some stuff they can make money on immediatly and some which maybe they can use later. The future of desktop linux depends on what novell does with the latter.
Will the hardware vendors now start moving away from Redhat towards Suse? IBM is already sold out (they already own a stake in Suse and now this move). HP and Dell were worried about the SCO problem (HPs indemnification program etc.), maybe now they will see some added legitimacy in buying from Suse rather than from Redhat (questionable since,assuming GPL is valid, a redhat kernel is as good as a Suse one).
Anyway it is a bad day for desktop linux and an extremely good one for redhat servers.
Also what is the IBM-novell synergy here? Its true that IBM is pushing web services and that Novell has some products in that area, and also Novell has some nice management suites (some of which clash with IBMs existing line) , but I cannot make a link between IBM and Novell.Waiting for a move from IBM
....there's just about nothing Microsoft can realistically do short of dropping their prices to the blackmarket established pricing levels...
Well if microsoft sells it at blackmarket pricing ($10) in this case, they will be on the wrong side of WTO rules instead of Vietnam. I think this could easily be shown as dumping and hence illegal. So no, microsoft has no way out other than to sell it cheap everywhere in the world and hope that the income of the world rises to reasonable levels. If they can develop in Hyderabad and pay their developers in rupees, its only fair that they get Indian prices for their finished goods.
If I read the blog and the article correctly, this is a case where two guys are throwing mud at each other.Finally one of them couldnt take it anymore and called a lawyer. The only thing that is probably interesting to slashdot is that somebody is not willing to treat blogging equivalent to free speech.
Next article please....
Thats true. I like to keep Video and photography for devices that are made for it. No matter how good the digital technology gets, you really cant substitute good (and probably large sized) lenses with software. I think this wave of cameraphones is because somebody thought "Oh, since we are putting a high res. LCD color display, why not slap in another photosensitive unit and a lens and I then have a cameraphone". And of course when somebody does it everybody else has to.
Well I'm still waiting for a device that plays MP3s (with a storage the size of iPod), a PDA which runs linux (and a pullout keyboard) and a cellphone, all in one. I want to be able to jot down notes while talking on the phone but dont want to carry around an extra headphone, so I want a headphone whose cable goes inside the device when Im not talking,spring loaded or something (I should be able to just pull it out and use it, kinda like a telescopic antenna on radios but with a flexible wire instead of a solid cylinder antenna) . I also want a small pullout keyboard, like sharp zaurus, but arranged with keys on both sides of the phone like in old Nokia 5510 (so I can use both my thumbs to type).A split keyboard on either side of the phone also means a wide aspect ratio screen which is excellent for reading text.
So there are people who want features, and since they can, i think they should keep making these stuff.
I was about to post an ascii picture of it, but slashcode wont let me.
Sheesh, I'll never understand the slashdot point of view
When music industry hypes up Brittany spears or Shakira (looks good, sounds bad) every geek worth his salt hates it. When Apple does the same thing its a good thing ? I have listened to the iPod and it is excellent as far as sound quality is concerned. But apple refuses to release tech specs, so we have to take the audiophiles word for it,who talk in terms I cant understand. Dell on the otherhand talks of a Signal to noise of 94dB and harmonic distortion of 0.1 percent on their website, which I think is pretty good. iPod does not have a recorder built in, while Dell has one.It also has a remote control port built in.
Dell is cheaper, also has a longer battery life (almost double that of iPod).
Ipod has less movable parts and so is probably more long lasting. Dell player is almost the same size as iPod.
And last (atleast as far as I am concerned), Dell looks ugly while iPod is not. Hardly an unequal contest.
Can I use it as a portable hard drive? Can I use it to sync calendars and contacts between work and home? Can I extend it with accessories for voice recording, download from compact flash cards, play games, or hack away with my own scripts
Why dont you just RTA? They say you can sync your computer with the musicplayer, it has a built in microphone and recorder so no accesories required, does not have a compact flash reader or any easy programmable interface. It has also got a remote control port built in.
Dell DJ is ugly as hell, but it is cheap enough. It also has a built in recorder and 16 hours of battery time. Kinda compensates for the ugliness. keep the recorder on all the time at office,
next time the pointy haired guy asks you to do something, and you want some evidence in case it blows up you have it.No need of paper trail. Or if you are a student then no need to take notes.
The only good looking mp3 player with recorder I have found is from Philips. (http://www.consumer.philips.com/global/b2c/ce/cat alog/subcategory.jhtml ) The link had a lot of cookie info, so search around a bit.
The poster of the story missed a lot of stuff in the blurb. Dell has launched a Musicplayer, a music store, high speed internet connection and a HDTV. Its all there on the page jbellis linked to.
So Dell is no longer a PC maker?
As i said in my other post, Novells plan is to get out of the OS business. They plan to be a company which makes services for enterprise, which incidentally will run on Linux. Think of them like GNU in GNU/Linux.
Today all their services run on Netware OS which is kind of old (but good enough for the time being) and it is the services which make any money at all. By netware 7 they plan to move to Linux entirely. To do this they have two choices, run it on a stock OS and be dependant on the distro or roll their own distro. They seem to have found a third option now, which is to buy out a popular distro.
Well, Novell currently is a Good Company (TM)
They had a good idea with NDS which had no competitor in NT4. Marketing (and application support) won the market for Microsoft. With W2k microsoft came up with ADS which is as good as NDS (though it does not play well with other OSes as netware does). Novell now is trying to move from an OS company to supporting services company. NDS already runs on windows and Linux. You can download it from their website ( Note: Getting it to run on any of the newer Linuxes is a total pain).Novells plan is to move netware to a set of services that run on Linux. So they have an interest in Linux, and so are helping Linux.
Linux currently does not have anything like NDS/ADS that can support a very large and distributed network. So Novell is a good thing to happen to Linux.
Also check out their site Novell forge where they have a lot of stuff they released under GPL like their UDDI server IIRC. So they stand by GPL and put their money where their mouth is.
They also tried to stop SCO by releasing what they thought were some damning counter-evidence on the day of SCOs annual investor meet day. If they had their way SCO would be buried by now. But what you mentioned is correct, novell has a way of dropping the ball.First against NT4, then against SCO.
Anyway if you are a Linux guy, try using Novell a Netware server (free demo CDs available everywhere).They are damn stable, but their GUI sucks, reminds me of Linux of two years ago.
If you take a typical redhat kernel, it has support for AMD and Intel both built in,SSE2 and MMX are both on etc., meaning it is not optimised for either.It also enables a lot of stuff like i2c bus support on, which is useful for servers etc. Then there are stuff like patches for faster GUI response etc. which can be added to improve apparent speed. Modules being built in versus loaded matters a lot too.This is for the kernel.
When it comes to tools, there are so many tools available in the typical GNU stuff that choosing a different one can change performance for different stuff. A change in init can increase bootp speed, since this distro is based on another distro here this would not matter. What they probably did is to change a few package options to tweak the speed.For webserver performance you can tweak Apache (this ofcourse depends on knowing your typical load etc.).
Certainly there cant be a significant speed increase between distros, but if you know what you want, then you can compile your packages and set options well enough on YOUR system and get a significant boost.
It depends on what you want to use it for. Cracking coal to create hydrogen might be a useful way of liberating energy stored up from earths past, but if we have enough energy, say from sunlight we could use it to generate hydrogen from water. we are really not generating energy from hydrogen, but using hydrogen as a carrier for Solar energy since hydrogen is easier to transport and can run cars for longer than batteries.
I am going to stop my email-marketing business and going to pay a million to the government to let me teach students why a large penis is important in their life.And if they dont want that, ill teach them how to meet naked teens desperate to talk to them. And if they want alternatives, ill teach 'em how to put a wireless camera to good use.
If RIAA plan is legit, so is mine.
Oh well then you write with a pen inside the shuttle and when you have landed on the moon write with a pencil. Its not as if a broken pencil lead is going to fly off on the moon surface and hit a lunar goat in the ass
Anyway what sort of paper holds up from -100 to 200C ?
No. Theory is all good, but practice doesnt support it. Just try writing with a pen upside down or the pen kept horizontally (stick a paper to a wall and write on it), I bet you cant go more than a page (I tried it just now, did not last more than 3 lines). So this means that gravity against capillary action, gravity wins. But probably in space, zero gravity, capillary action might be enough to pull the ink.
BTW: do the russians use smaller diameter refills? IIRC capillary force increases with smaller diameter, in proportion to dia to the power four or something. Of course you have smaller inkflow so compensating for the area it should be atleast diameter squared.
But most of the advertisers are still in the US since most of the revenue from online sales is from US. They just outsource their advertising to outside agencies. So if ou can prove that a US company asked a Taiwaneese company to send you spam, it should be easy to get them convicted too.So the rule is not altogether bad.
Basically two things :
From the report For this report, we collected original data from two sources. The first was a national telephone survey of 2,200 adults.
I would think that there would be a correlation between people who answer surveys and people who answer spam
And the other one is ,
as usual hyping the results (this is slashdot, so expected ) The results were (from the report)
7% of email users report that they have ordered a product or service that was offered in an unsolicited email, although not all of this is pure ?spam.?33% of email users have clicked on a link in unsolicited email to get more information. So only 33 % of the people have EVER clicked on a spam mail and only 7% of the people have ever bought something when prompted to by an email.
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Even funny will be when somebody who did not write the virus sets himself up so that he gets some money. $250,000 is a lot of money in many countries.
If you look at the Novell product line, they are almost all server software which run on a network and a client from almost any OS can connect to them.They have almost no client part which makes them money. .If you have ever used netware you will know how bad their GUI is (ofcourse with Netware you are not supposed to be using the GUI, but using their web interface instead to manage it). .NET implementation (again maybe some interoperatbility benefits here). They are acquiring Suse so that they get a stable base for their Netware 7 and so that they can use the mindshare to push their enterprise offerings , again in the process acquiring the biggest supporter of KDE (ximian is Gnome and Suse is KDE!).
So, Novell I think has almost no interest in desktop, other than to use them as their "clients" to their servers. So I am sceptical how much novell will do for the desktop especially the GUI
And If my guess is right, they bought Ximian for their connector,so that they can use their mail server software to better integrate with exchange (maybe for migration, i dont know), in the process unintentionally acquiring one of the best desktops and a
What they now have is some stuff they can make money on immediatly and some which maybe they can use later. The future of desktop linux depends on what novell does with the latter.
Will the hardware vendors now start moving away from Redhat towards Suse? IBM is already sold out (they already own a stake in Suse and now this move). HP and Dell were worried about the SCO problem (HPs indemnification program etc.), maybe now they will see some added legitimacy in buying from Suse rather than from Redhat (questionable since ,assuming GPL is valid, a redhat kernel is as good as a Suse one).
Anyway it is a bad day for desktop linux and an extremely good one for redhat servers.
Also what is the IBM-novell synergy here? Its true that IBM is pushing web services and that Novell has some products in that area, and also Novell has some nice management suites (some of which clash with IBMs existing line) , but I cannot make a link between IBM and Novell.Waiting for a move from IBM
Well if microsoft sells it at blackmarket pricing ($10) in this case, they will be on the wrong side of WTO rules instead of Vietnam. I think this could easily be shown as dumping and hence illegal. So no, microsoft has no way out other than to sell it cheap everywhere in the world and hope that the income of the world rises to reasonable levels. If they can develop in Hyderabad and pay their developers in rupees, its only fair that they get Indian prices for their finished goods.
If I read the blog and the article correctly, this is a case where two guys are throwing mud at each other.Finally one of them couldnt take it anymore and called a lawyer. The only thing that is probably interesting to slashdot is that somebody is not willing to treat blogging equivalent to free speech.
Next article please....
Thats true. I like to keep Video and photography for devices that are made for it. No matter how good the digital technology gets, you really cant substitute good (and probably large sized) lenses with software. I think this wave of cameraphones is because somebody thought "Oh, since we are putting a high res. LCD color display, why not slap in another photosensitive unit and a lens and I then have a cameraphone". And of course when somebody does it everybody else has to.
As i mentioned in my other post, this is an excellent form factor for reading books.
Well I'm still waiting for a device that plays MP3s (with a storage the size of iPod), a PDA which runs linux (and a pullout keyboard) and a cellphone, all in one. I want to be able to jot down notes while talking on the phone but dont want to carry around an extra headphone, so I want a headphone whose cable goes inside the device when Im not talking,spring loaded or something (I should be able to just pull it out and use it, kinda like a telescopic antenna on radios but with a flexible wire instead of a solid cylinder antenna) . I also want a small pullout keyboard, like sharp zaurus, but arranged with keys on both sides of the phone like in old Nokia 5510 (so I can use both my thumbs to type).A split keyboard on either side of the phone also means a wide aspect ratio screen which is excellent for reading text.
So there are people who want features, and since they can, i think they should keep making these stuff.
I was about to post an ascii picture of it, but slashcode wont let me.
Sheesh, I'll never understand the slashdot point of view
When music industry hypes up Brittany spears or Shakira (looks good, sounds bad) every geek worth his salt hates it. When Apple does the same thing its a good thing ?
I have listened to the iPod and it is excellent as far as sound quality is concerned. But apple refuses to release tech specs, so we have to take the audiophiles word for it,who talk in terms I cant understand. Dell on the otherhand talks of a Signal to noise of 94dB and harmonic distortion of 0.1 percent on their website, which I think is pretty good.
iPod does not have a recorder built in, while Dell has one.It also has a remote control port built in.
Dell is cheaper, also has a longer battery life (almost double that of iPod). Ipod has less movable parts and so is probably more long lasting. Dell player is almost the same size as iPod.
And last (atleast as far as I am concerned), Dell looks ugly while iPod is not. Hardly an unequal contest.
Can I use it as a portable hard drive? Can I use it to sync calendars and contacts between work and home? Can I extend it with accessories for voice recording, download from compact flash cards, play games, or hack away with my own scripts
Why dont you just RTA? They say you can sync your computer with the musicplayer, it has a built in microphone and recorder so no accesories required, does not have a compact flash reader or any easy programmable interface. It has also got a remote control port built in.
Dell DJ is ugly as hell, but it is cheap enough. It also has a built in recorder and 16 hours of battery time. Kinda compensates for the ugliness.t alog/subcategory.jhtml ) The link had a lot of cookie info, so search around a bit.
keep the recorder on all the time at office, next time the pointy haired guy asks you to do something, and you want some evidence in case it blows up you have it.No need of paper trail. Or if you are a student then no need to take notes.
The only good looking mp3 player with recorder I have found is from Philips. (http://www.consumer.philips.com/global/b2c/ce/ca
The poster of the story missed a lot of stuff in the blurb. Dell has launched a Musicplayer, a music store, high speed internet connection and a HDTV. Its all there on the page jbellis linked to.
So Dell is no longer a PC maker?
As i said in my other post, Novells plan is to get out of the OS business. They plan to be a company which makes services for enterprise, which incidentally will run on Linux. Think of them like GNU in GNU/Linux.
Today all their services run on Netware OS which is kind of old (but good enough for the time being) and it is the services which make any money at all. By netware 7 they plan to move to Linux entirely. To do this they have two choices, run it on a stock OS and be dependant on the distro or roll their own distro. They seem to have found a third option now, which is to buy out a popular distro.
Oops bad link. The correct link is http://forge.novell.com. here
The earlier one became a relative link by mistake
Well, Novell currently is a Good Company (TM)
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They had a good idea with NDS which had no competitor in NT4. Marketing (and application support) won the market for Microsoft. With W2k microsoft came up with ADS which is as good as NDS (though it does not play well with other OSes as netware does). Novell now is trying to move from an OS company to supporting services company. NDS already runs on windows and Linux. You can download it from their website ( Note: Getting it to run on any of the newer Linuxes is a total pain).Novells plan is to move netware to a set of services that run on Linux. So they have an interest in Linux, and so are helping Linux.
Linux currently does not have anything like NDS/ADS that can support a very large and distributed network. So Novell is a good thing to happen to Linux.
Also check out their site Novell forge where they have a lot of stuff they released under GPL like their UDDI server IIRC. So they stand by GPL and put their money where their mouth is
They also tried to stop SCO by releasing what they thought were some damning counter-evidence on the day of SCOs annual investor meet day. If they had their way SCO would be buried by now.
But what you mentioned is correct, novell has a way of dropping the ball.First against NT4, then against SCO.
Anyway if you are a Linux guy, try using Novell a Netware server (free demo CDs available everywhere).They are damn stable, but their GUI sucks, reminds me of Linux of two years ago.
When safari has had it for something like two years, how can it even be a new "method", it has prior art as far as I can see.
If you take a typical redhat kernel, it has support for AMD and Intel both built in,SSE2 and MMX are both on etc., meaning it is not optimised for either.It also enables a lot of stuff like i2c bus support on, which is useful for servers etc. Then there are stuff like patches for faster GUI response etc. which can be added to improve apparent speed. Modules being built in versus loaded matters a lot too.This is for the kernel.
When it comes to tools, there are so many tools available in the typical GNU stuff that choosing a different one can change performance for different stuff. A change in init can increase bootp speed, since this distro is based on another distro here this would not matter. What they probably did is to change a few package options to tweak the speed.For webserver performance you can tweak Apache (this ofcourse depends on knowing your typical load etc.).
Certainly there cant be a significant speed increase between distros, but if you know what you want, then you can compile your packages and set options well enough on YOUR system and get a significant boost.
Duh! Exactly why I said that pencils should be used on the Lunar surface and pens used inside a shuttle.
It depends on what you want to use it for. Cracking coal to create hydrogen might be a useful way of liberating energy stored up from earths past, but if we have enough energy, say from sunlight we could use it to generate hydrogen from water. we are really not generating energy from hydrogen, but using hydrogen as a carrier for Solar energy since hydrogen is easier to transport and can run cars for longer than batteries.
I am going to stop my email-marketing business and going to pay a million to the government to let me teach students why a large penis is important in their life.And if they dont want that, ill teach them how to meet naked teens desperate to talk to them. And if they want alternatives, ill teach 'em how to put a wireless camera to good use.
If RIAA plan is legit, so is mine.
Oh well then you write with a pen inside the shuttle and when you have landed on the moon write with a pencil. Its not as if a broken pencil lead is going to fly off on the moon surface and hit a lunar goat in the ass
Anyway what sort of paper holds up from -100 to 200C ?
No. Theory is all good, but practice doesnt support it. Just try writing with a pen upside down or the pen kept horizontally (stick a paper to a wall and write on it), I bet you cant go more than a page (I tried it just now, did not last more than 3 lines). So this means that gravity against capillary action, gravity wins. But probably in space, zero gravity, capillary action might be enough to pull the ink.
BTW: do the russians use smaller diameter refills? IIRC capillary force increases with smaller diameter, in proportion to dia to the power four or something. Of course you have smaller inkflow so compensating for the area it should be atleast diameter squared.
Pot... Kettle ... black
But most of the advertisers are still in the US since most of the revenue from online sales is from US. They just outsource their advertising to outside agencies. So if ou can prove that a US company asked a Taiwaneese company to send you spam, it should be easy to get them convicted too.So the rule is not altogether bad.
Basically two things :
From the report For this report, we collected original data from two sources. The first was a national telephone survey of 2,200 adults.
I would think that there would be a correlation between people who answer surveys and people who answer spam
And the other one is , as usual hyping the results (this is slashdot, so expected )
The results were (from the report)
7% of email users report that they have ordered a product or service that was offered in an unsolicited email, although not all of this is pure ?spam.?33% of email users have clicked on a link in unsolicited email to get more information.
So only 33 % of the people have EVER clicked on a spam mail and only 7% of the people have ever bought something when prompted to by an email.