Actually, microsoft always used NT/2k for their webserver, they only used FreeBSD for processing and storing the actual mail. When you send a message through hotmail, it goes through a very complicated and icky process, but the actual webserver was always NT, I don't know where the info is on this, but they also used sun/solaris for part of the processing. If you were to scan the hotmail lan today from the inside, you would probably see alot of sun/*bsd servers.
I recently swtiched from Win2k/XP (2k workstation, XP laptop) to MacOS X. I like it alot better, and it just makes me wish I took the pluge earlier. Back to what I was saying. The only way to get into the windows "enterprise" market is to make a nice GUI liike IIS's for Apache, and EASY PHP/Perl/MySQL installation/intergration. Easy enough so the people I work for could do it. That is all that is holding them back to unix server is the interface to Apache/etc. If these guys whipped up a GUI to apache like IIS's, I'm sure alot of companies would be willing to switch to Linux.
Just wondering, but is it the older version or the newer one? PBG4's have been out for a while, but they tend to change over time. I have one and it seems to be pretty sturdy.
Than just look at it the same with X as one of those options, but OSX/XP would still beat it, because they are big companies who don't do everything in their spare time (sorry for the flames).
Yeah, but some of us aren't gay and don't want a ifag.
Some of us are brave enough to reveal our faces and say who we are and not hide as AC. You seem to be bashing Mac's alot AC, who are you? A worker for Microsoft, Intel, AMD, C|Net?
I have a VAIO and a PowerBook. I hate the VAIO, it is heavy, the powerbook is ALOT lighter and it is very easy, so it does make a big difference. The powerbook is also better and I hate Sony because they don't speak good english and they are rude. Apple people are friendly and their support is better and all. So, you are a woman on slashdot? Want to email me your number? How old are you? Preston [@] moderngeek [dot] com
My 600 Mhz VAIO only gets about 30-50 min of battery power, just playing mp3's and surfing wireless. With no wireless I get about 1 hour if I am very lucky. I think x86 just plain sucks in terms of power consumption. I got a powerbook now, and it's battery life is about 3.5 hours and that isn't just playing mp3's, that is using the internet, photoshop, VNC, terminal, SSH, chat, etc. I don't see why people put up with Wintel laptops.
Well, I'm happy with my 15" PowerBook, and I would never want to go back to a WinTel platform again. No matter how much they try, Windows will not be stable because they have to spend time writing different drivers for different computers, and then keep it all closed up. With apple, they only have to write drivers for a few computers, they go for quality not quantity.
Oh, and something else I would also like (with my parent). Is the ability to download an entire albumn, and the albumn name/etc being there when you search for it, and maybe an entire albumn of 18 songs could be like $10. maybe if apple reads slashdot like in the Safari thing, they will listen and do it.
Bascially this sounds like Apple taking over more of the music market. They are going todo it at a cost, but you will have it in better-than-mp3-quality. One thing I would like to see is the lyrics also being bundled with the song somehow, or every song having a GUID that will let you easily get the lyrics. And previewing the songs would also be a big must have. Maybe a search for songs by lyrics too? I find myself typing: "Lyrics la la la la" into google looking for song names, so adding lyrics search would also help out. I am getting my Powerbook G4 somtime this week, so I am very excited to see this.
*snort* "yes, ugh, Windows fanatic here, ugh, how do I get an MD5 under windows?"
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So, to me, this particular instance of the same thing from 1999 [slashdot.org] is basically a neat soldering job but nothing technically innovative in terms of embedded connectivity. But as art, it's pretty cool.;)
Yes, and even back then, people were saying it was nothing special. Now, if someone made an RJ-45 webserver with tiny HDD, TCP/IP, DHCP, ETC, that sized, THEN I will be imprssed.
"With all my gay little files from when I was 12 years old. 16-color porn, anyone?"
Does that mean gay porn? or 12 year old porn? or gay 12 year old kid porn? I doubt it, but the way you worded it sounds funny, you need to mirror those 16 colour porn files somewhere.
The Sony VAIO I have has been treated nicely and sucks. The display on it has alot of ghosts and only goes up to 800 x 600, the battery doesn't last any time at all, the screen used to flicker, then I find the ribbon cable to the monitor was torn (no telling how). I hate VAIO's and don't see what the rant and rave is about. Oh yeah, about the whole abused hardware. Trying to fix the VAIO's flickery screen I took it apart and had a dumbass friend of mine help me. My dumbass friend always breaks things just by looking at them, and he never washes his hair, so that would be abuse to my computer. It starts, but since the LCD cable is torn, I dunno if it still works.
I did the exact same thing before, the sticker came off because of heat, and the actuall chip started to turn brown and smell. It still worked though, I guess computer chips can withstand more heat than I thought.
For the power supply's, couldn't have just have plugged them into eachother with the one's he was using? Or could he just have used alot of octopus cables? For a setup like this, an XServe seems alot easier and practical though, I don't see anything about his total cost.
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The screenshots on the site have seemed to have changed differently from what they were earlier today, strange.
Actually, microsoft always used NT/2k for their webserver, they only used FreeBSD for processing and storing the actual mail. When you send a message through hotmail, it goes through a very complicated and icky process, but the actual webserver was always NT, I don't know where the info is on this, but they also used sun/solaris for part of the processing. If you were to scan the hotmail lan today from the inside, you would probably see alot of sun/*bsd servers.
I recently swtiched from Win2k/XP (2k workstation, XP laptop) to MacOS X. I like it alot better, and it just makes me wish I took the pluge earlier. Back to what I was saying. The only way to get into the windows "enterprise" market is to make a nice GUI liike IIS's for Apache, and EASY PHP/Perl/MySQL installation/intergration. Easy enough so the people I work for could do it. That is all that is holding them back to unix server is the interface to Apache/etc. If these guys whipped up a GUI to apache like IIS's, I'm sure alot of companies would be willing to switch to Linux.
hmm, does that mean it is going todo somthing horrible??
Just wondering, but is it the older version or the newer one? PBG4's have been out for a while, but they tend to change over time. I have one and it seems to be pretty sturdy.
I wanna see a good X vs. X vs. XP shootout.
Than just look at it the same with X as one of those options, but OSX/XP would still beat it, because they are big companies who don't do everything in their spare time (sorry for the flames).
Yeah, but some of us aren't gay and don't want a ifag.
Some of us are brave enough to reveal our faces and say who we are and not hide as AC. You seem to be bashing Mac's alot AC, who are you? A worker for Microsoft, Intel, AMD, C|Net?
I have a VAIO and a PowerBook. I hate the VAIO, it is heavy, the powerbook is ALOT lighter and it is very easy, so it does make a big difference. The powerbook is also better and I hate Sony because they don't speak good english and they are rude. Apple people are friendly and their support is better and all. So, you are a woman on slashdot? Want to email me your number? How old are you? Preston [@] moderngeek [dot] com
My 600 Mhz VAIO only gets about 30-50 min of battery power, just playing mp3's and surfing wireless. With no wireless I get about 1 hour if I am very lucky. I think x86 just plain sucks in terms of power consumption. I got a powerbook now, and it's battery life is about 3.5 hours and that isn't just playing mp3's, that is using the internet, photoshop, VNC, terminal, SSH, chat, etc. I don't see why people put up with Wintel laptops.
Well, I'm happy with my 15" PowerBook, and I would never want to go back to a WinTel platform again. No matter how much they try, Windows will not be stable because they have to spend time writing different drivers for different computers, and then keep it all closed up. With apple, they only have to write drivers for a few computers, they go for quality not quantity.
You idiot, noone is going to follow through with that .... oh, I guess I forgot where I was ;-D
You forgot the ??? step
Just like Windows NT/OT, we don't support OT anymore because it sucks and is outdated.
I also want to know how this is different from a program putting a DLL in the same directory as it if they want to use a specific DLL version.
Hey, they should make cars that run on ethanol gas!
I got a picture of the dell dude right here
Oh, and something else I would also like (with my parent). Is the ability to download an entire albumn, and the albumn name/etc being there when you search for it, and maybe an entire albumn of 18 songs could be like $10. maybe if apple reads slashdot like in the Safari thing, they will listen and do it.
Bascially this sounds like Apple taking over more of the music market. They are going todo it at a cost, but you will have it in better-than-mp3-quality. One thing I would like to see is the lyrics also being bundled with the song somehow, or every song having a GUID that will let you easily get the lyrics. And previewing the songs would also be a big must have. Maybe a search for songs by lyrics too? I find myself typing: "Lyrics la la la la" into google looking for song names, so adding lyrics search would also help out. I am getting my Powerbook G4 somtime this week, so I am very excited to see this.
*snort* "yes, ugh, Windows fanatic here, ugh, how do I get an MD5 under windows?"
So, to me, this particular instance of the same thing from 1999 [slashdot.org] is basically a neat soldering job but nothing technically innovative in terms of embedded connectivity. But as art, it's pretty cool. ;)
Yes, and even back then, people were saying it was nothing special. Now, if someone made an RJ-45 webserver with tiny HDD, TCP/IP, DHCP, ETC, that sized, THEN I will be imprssed.
how's that for stability?
Once I turned off my Linux PC without halting and it never came back, so I guess it just varies from person to person.
"With all my gay little files from when I was 12 years old. 16-color porn, anyone?"
Does that mean gay porn? or 12 year old porn? or gay 12 year old kid porn? I doubt it, but the way you worded it sounds funny, you need to mirror those 16 colour porn files somewhere.
The Sony VAIO I have has been treated nicely and sucks. The display on it has alot of ghosts and only goes up to 800 x 600, the battery doesn't last any time at all, the screen used to flicker, then I find the ribbon cable to the monitor was torn (no telling how). I hate VAIO's and don't see what the rant and rave is about. Oh yeah, about the whole abused hardware. Trying to fix the VAIO's flickery screen I took it apart and had a dumbass friend of mine help me. My dumbass friend always breaks things just by looking at them, and he never washes his hair, so that would be abuse to my computer. It starts, but since the LCD cable is torn, I dunno if it still works.
I did the exact same thing before, the sticker came off because of heat, and the actuall chip started to turn brown and smell. It still worked though, I guess computer chips can withstand more heat than I thought.
For the power supply's, couldn't have just have plugged them into eachother with the one's he was using? Or could he just have used alot of octopus cables? For a setup like this, an XServe seems alot easier and practical though, I don't see anything about his total cost.