First, this seems to be "what runs your department" (p3) as opposed to "what runs your company". This is like saying that NT runs my department as a passwd and file server, but UNIX handles the entire company's e-mail, web, NFS, print sharing, etc.
You also have about 75% of the respondants saying they use less than 20 exchange servers. How many users are served by these 20 servers? If I worked for IBM, I'd say that we have more than 100,000 employees, but I'd have no idea how many exchange servers are in operation, so I'd have to answer that question based on the number of servers in my group/department.
There are a couple promising questions in there (especailly about Linux) but I'd wait to see the next survey before trumpeting this to the PHBs.
It shouldn't be that hard to write Windows drivers. That should at least get a bootstrap of money coming in.
The point being that while investors don't see much $$ in free software, it's the hardware that's going to sell and make money. Unlike RedHat, linuxtv.org is trying to make a physical hardware product that could work with any OS.
Sure it is, but what's wrong with rewarding the employees with a piece of the pie? It's pretty common these days for high-tech companies. Paying higher wages isn't the answer, since stock has real tangible value to it, and has the ability to make the recipient of said stock very wealthy very quickly.
Why not just pay them back with cash?
Because cash has a stable value (actually, it loses value due to inflation). Stock has the ability to rise or fall, and a company with the press of RedHat will most likely rise. Let's say IBM gave RH $1 million. Now, if you were IBM, what would you rather get, $1 million cash back, or $1 million worth of RH stock? These numbers obv. don't include a ROI for IBM, but hopefully you get the idea.
There are two big places where having an IPO will big a big boost:
1) Employees. Oh yeah. They probably have stock options up the wazoo, making many of them probably paper millionaires. 2) Netscape/AOL and IBM are going to want their money back. How better to repay then giving them x% of RH stock? 3) (did I say two?) Buy up smaller companies. Not a real advantage for RH and the technology it uses (since much of it is GPL), but stock swaps seem to be the way buyouts work.
I'm in easter MA (along rt 128) and I have to say that M1 has what sounds to be the best cable modem offering around. Uplink is about 300kbps, downlink is about T1 (1.44Mb).
I do notice some slowdown at night and on the weekends, but never enough to make it slower than a 28.8kb modem. Plus the fact that it's always on, so I don't get busy signals, no dropped FTP connects, etc. I even installed RedHat a few times over the net with it.
The total cost for the service (including the cable modem box) is $39.95. If you buy the cable modem from Circuit City for $200ish, the price drops to $29.95. It's $10 more if you don't have cable service with M1.
Given the price I'm paying and the speed I'm getting, cable modems are far far better than DSL.
On a side note, 56k modems work the following way:
The uplink is still 28.8 or 33.6 or whatever. The remote side has to have an ISDN or 56k modem on the other end. The downlink goes digital as far as it can until it goes analog at the CO, hopefully nearby your house. The important point is that the 56k downlink has no error correction built into it, which is one of the reasons that you can get a higher speed out.
The simple explination is "know thy enemy". Doing a competitive analysys is pretty common, and I'm sure that the marketing people over at RedHat, VAR, and so on have done these. And I'd venture to guess they do this not only against MS products, but against SCO, IBM, probably even other Linux vendors.
MS is looking for what to say when a customer says "but what about that Linux thing? why is Win2000 better?", they'll know what to say besides "it's free software".
If anything, I take this as one of the best compliments the Linux community can get. We're really competition. Now if only we can get a hold of the complete analysis when complete....
Copyrights (which Java is probably protected by) indicate that you can make your own knock-off as long as you don't use the original code. This is the reason that Mesa3D and Lesstif can exist. A patent, on the other hand, means that no matter what, you can't make a knock-off without paying royalties, wether you saw the original code or not.
The way I read this, the judge in the case said that MS is free to make their own knock-off of Java, which doesn't have to pass the tests the same way Mesa3D and Lesstif don't have to. But, the existing codebase that MS is using is tained by Sun code.
Where this will hurt MS is that they may have to scrap their entire Java group, since most of them have probably been tainted by seeing the original Sun code. That means that MS will have to start fresh and could cause a delay in getting their knockoff up and running. Probably on the order of at least 6 months.
I have a sibling in the theater industry and I've heard the same thing about using direct satellite feeds in the future. On a side note, I'm not sure if it made the list, but theaters usually get about 30% of ticket sales, with the rest of the revenue coming from the consession stand (which is why they charge $3.50 for a $.10 box of popcorn). Lucas is demanding 90% of ticket revenues, leaving theaters with only 10%. My guess is this is one of the reasons why the 2-3 screen theaters are going out of business or doing second-run movies while everyone's building 15-20 screen monster buildings.
Linus may not have performed an actual contribution in the field, but what he did do is something that RMS could never do (and ESR was getting close to). That is, makeing OSS popular.
Linux and *BSD came out about the same time (the only reason I started with Linux instead was someone gave me the 10 floppies needed to install Linux). GNU was well known only in small circles. Linus was able to make OSS popular, reduce cost for thousands of people (schools included), helped start a new way of product design and release, and threw the software industry as we know it on its ear.
I was quickly approaching burnout about 6 months ago, trying to juggle MIS, customer support, phone support, training, and so on. My manager took me aside when I told him what I wanted to do and he said this:
"You can be either successful or happy. Me, I'm successful, but I'm divorced and I only see my kids twice a year. Given the choice, I'd rather be happy, work fewer hours, and live with my kids."
At that point, I decided that no job is worth 14+ hour days. I want to have a life. I want to have kids and actually be there instead of working all day. In 10 years (I'm 28 now) I want to have the same interest an enthusiasm in technology as I have now. Since I dropped or cut back many other responsibilities, I think I can achieve those goals.
Being a (former) coder and now QA person, I see both sides. However, I don't think that a civee goes to build a bridge without getting opinions from someone else. I know that if I were to design a bridge, I'd want someone to go over every inch of the design and make sure it's sound.
Enter QA. This is where Y2K should have been caught in the first place. You can't really blame the coders, as they wrote it to the design specs. There should have been a QA person as part of the design, coding, and testing phase as a double-check to watch for potential issues such as these.
Much of my QA expereince has to do with hardware QA, but I have been part of software QA where I have 5 other coders going over every line of code I wrote to make sure it's right.
Programmers are not to blame for Y2K. Go look at the QA and design docs to find better answers.
So you're saying that Windows NT was written to have this issue built into it? I think not, since MS is not paid for distributing SP 3/4/5. In fact, it probably costs MS a lot of money to build the CDs, distribute them, and so on.
Y2K issues with old mainframes, software written in 1950-1970, I can understand as design flaws. Anything after that is a bug, pure and simple.
That's kinda true (at least a few years ago) because Solaris NFS wanted 8k packets, while Linux does 1k by default. No hard numbers for a performance change, but increasing rsize and wsize to 8192 should help out a lot.
It all depends on the serial card chipset you have. If it's not a 16550 (or similar) you may have trouble getting faster than 56kb. But most 486s and so on use the '550, which has a 16 byte FIFO and could handle 128kb.
Till now, he has not really been spreading much FUD about Microsoft, leaving that to the rest of us. His tongue-in-cheek comments are usually to the effect of "world domination. fast." not referring to M$ at all. "MS probably controls the floor"? That makes him sound more like RMS or some paranoid nut than who we've seen in the past 7 years. He's suddenly become much more vocal in the press about his dislike of MS and Bill in general. Any idea why this is happening?
I got Tomorrow Never Dies "Sepcial Edition" which not only had trailers, a whole section on Bond Gadgets (tm) and a 45 minute section on special effects, but it also made use of "multiple angles" that DVD supports. The first movie angle was the movie (widescreen of course) and the second angle was the complete movie, but the lower right hand corner had the hand-drawn storyboards with a transparent background, so you would see the scene and the storyboard. There were two additional audio tracks: one interviewing the director, the other interviewing the special effects manager.
I rented "Austin Powers" which had similar features (trailer, no angles tho). A separate audio track had Mike Myers(sp) commenting on the left side, and the director on the right all the way through the movie. There were also scenes that didn't make the movie (like the two alternate endings) and some other funny stuff.
The problem with RA is that since it's always assuming that you have a 28.8k modem. If the speed gets kicked to ISDN (if you have a cable modem or T1+), the sound is much better.
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First, this seems to be "what runs your department" (p3) as opposed to "what runs your company". This is like saying that NT runs my department as a passwd and file server, but UNIX handles the entire company's e-mail, web, NFS, print sharing, etc.
You also have about 75% of the respondants saying they use less than 20 exchange servers. How many users are served by these 20 servers? If I worked for IBM, I'd say that we have more than 100,000 employees, but I'd have no idea how many exchange servers are in operation, so I'd have to answer that question based on the number of servers in my group/department.
There are a couple promising questions in there (especailly about Linux) but I'd wait to see the next survey before trumpeting this to the PHBs.
It shouldn't be that hard to write Windows drivers. That should at least get a bootstrap of money coming in.
The point being that while investors don't see much $$ in free software, it's the hardware that's going to sell and make money. Unlike RedHat, linuxtv.org is trying to make a physical hardware product that could work with any OS.
Might even prompt me to get a DVD-ROM.
True, but this is still the "bail-out" theory.
Sure it is, but what's wrong with rewarding the employees with a piece of the pie? It's pretty common these days for high-tech companies. Paying higher wages isn't the answer, since stock has real tangible value to it, and has the ability to make the recipient of said stock very wealthy very quickly.
Why not just pay them back with cash?
Because cash has a stable value (actually, it loses value due to inflation). Stock has the ability to rise or fall, and a company with the press of RedHat will most likely rise. Let's say IBM gave RH $1 million. Now, if you were IBM, what would you rather get, $1 million cash back, or $1 million worth of RH stock? These numbers obv. don't include a ROI for IBM, but hopefully you get the idea.
There are two big places where having an IPO will big a big boost:
1) Employees. Oh yeah. They probably have stock options up the wazoo, making many of them probably paper millionaires.
2) Netscape/AOL and IBM are going to want their money back. How better to repay then giving them x% of RH stock?
3) (did I say two?) Buy up smaller companies. Not a real advantage for RH and the technology it uses (since much of it is GPL), but stock swaps seem to be the way buyouts work.
I'm in easter MA (along rt 128) and I have to say that M1 has what sounds to be the best cable modem offering around. Uplink is about 300kbps, downlink is about T1 (1.44Mb).
I do notice some slowdown at night and on the weekends, but never enough to make it slower than a 28.8kb modem. Plus the fact that it's always on, so I don't get busy signals, no dropped FTP connects, etc. I even installed RedHat a few times over the net with it.
The total cost for the service (including the cable modem box) is $39.95. If you buy the cable modem from Circuit City for $200ish, the price drops to $29.95. It's $10 more if you don't have cable service with M1.
Given the price I'm paying and the speed I'm getting, cable modems are far far better than DSL.
On a side note, 56k modems work the following way:
The uplink is still 28.8 or 33.6 or whatever. The remote side has to have an ISDN or 56k modem on the other end. The downlink goes digital as far as it can until it goes analog at the CO, hopefully nearby your house. The important point is that the 56k downlink has no error correction built into it, which is one of the reasons that you can get a higher speed out.
Oops. My bad. I meant "competitive analysis when complete".
Or "complete analysis" or "analysis when complete".
The simple explination is "know thy enemy". Doing a competitive analysys is pretty common, and I'm sure that the marketing people over at RedHat, VAR, and so on have done these. And I'd venture to guess they do this not only against MS products, but against SCO, IBM, probably even other Linux vendors.
MS is looking for what to say when a customer says "but what about that Linux thing? why is Win2000 better?", they'll know what to say besides "it's free software".
If anything, I take this as one of the best compliments the Linux community can get. We're really competition. Now if only we can get a hold of the complete analysis when complete....
Actually I remember a program I used on my '286 and '386 that would increase the memory refresh time and boosted the processor speed by 5-10%.
Mmmm...that brings back memories of rumors of a 486 that would actually run at 100Mhz. Boy were those the days.
Copyrights (which Java is probably protected by) indicate that you can make your own knock-off as long as you don't use the original code. This is the reason that Mesa3D and Lesstif can exist. A patent, on the other hand, means that no matter what, you can't make a knock-off without paying royalties, wether you saw the original code or not.
The way I read this, the judge in the case said that MS is free to make their own knock-off of Java, which doesn't have to pass the tests the same way Mesa3D and Lesstif don't have to. But, the existing codebase that MS is using is tained by Sun code.
Where this will hurt MS is that they may have to scrap their entire Java group, since most of them have probably been tainted by seeing the original Sun code. That means that MS will have to start fresh and could cause a delay in getting their knockoff up and running. Probably on the order of at least 6 months.
I have a sibling in the theater industry and I've heard the same thing about using direct satellite feeds in the future.
On a side note, I'm not sure if it made the list, but theaters usually get about 30% of ticket sales, with the rest of the revenue coming from the consession stand (which is why they charge $3.50 for a $.10 box of popcorn). Lucas is demanding 90% of ticket revenues, leaving theaters with only 10%.
My guess is this is one of the reasons why the 2-3 screen theaters are going out of business or doing second-run movies while everyone's building 15-20 screen monster buildings.
Well, Linus is getting his honorary degree...
Linus may not have performed an actual contribution in the field, but what he did do is something that RMS could never do (and ESR was getting close to). That is, makeing OSS popular.
Linux and *BSD came out about the same time (the only reason I started with Linux instead was someone gave me the 10 floppies needed to install Linux). GNU was well known only in small circles. Linus was able to make OSS popular, reduce cost for thousands of people (schools included), helped start a new way of product design and release, and threw the software industry as we know it on its ear.
For those reasons, Linus deserves recognition.
I was quickly approaching burnout about 6 months ago, trying to juggle MIS, customer support, phone support, training, and so on.
My manager took me aside when I told him what I wanted to do and he said this:
"You can be either successful or happy. Me, I'm successful, but I'm divorced and I only see my kids twice a year. Given the choice, I'd rather be happy, work fewer hours, and live with my kids."
At that point, I decided that no job is worth 14+ hour days. I want to have a life. I want to have kids and actually be there instead of working all day. In 10 years (I'm 28 now) I want to have the same interest an enthusiasm in technology as I have now. Since I dropped or cut back many other responsibilities, I think I can achieve those goals.
"Fire in the valley". It was written somewhere pre 1990, actually, probably pre 1985, and does have a good deal of info about Apple.
Being a (former) coder and now QA person, I see both sides. However, I don't think that a civee goes to build a bridge without getting opinions from someone else. I know that if I were to design a bridge, I'd want someone to go over every inch of the design and make sure it's sound.
Enter QA. This is where Y2K should have been caught in the first place. You can't really blame the coders, as they wrote it to the design specs. There should have been a QA person as part of the design, coding, and testing phase as a double-check to watch for potential issues such as these.
Much of my QA expereince has to do with hardware QA, but I have been part of software QA where I have 5 other coders going over every line of code I wrote to make sure it's right.
Programmers are not to blame for Y2K. Go look at the QA and design docs to find better answers.
So you're saying that Windows NT was written to have this issue built into it? I think not, since MS is not paid for distributing SP 3/4/5. In fact, it probably costs MS a lot of money to build the CDs, distribute them, and so on.
Y2K issues with old mainframes, software written in 1950-1970, I can understand as design flaws. Anything after that is a bug, pure and simple.
As I just told some friends, if this goes through, we'll be getting some new channels on the line:
MSNBC, MSCNN, MSFOX, MSMTV, MSVH-1, MSHBO....
*sigh*
-Enry
MediaOne Customer with cable modem
That's kinda true (at least a few years ago) because Solaris NFS wanted 8k packets, while Linux does 1k by default. No hard numbers for a performance change, but increasing rsize and wsize to 8192 should help out a lot.
It all depends on the serial card chipset you have. If it's not a 16550 (or similar) you may have trouble getting faster than 56kb. But most 486s and so on use the '550, which has a 16 byte FIFO and could handle 128kb.
Probably because you don't use tunelp to assign an IRQ to the parallel port. Otherwise, the lp driver polls.
Till now, he has not really been spreading much FUD about Microsoft, leaving that to the rest of us. His tongue-in-cheek comments are usually to the effect of "world domination. fast." not referring to M$ at all.
"MS probably controls the floor"? That makes him sound more like RMS or some paranoid nut than who we've seen in the past 7 years.
He's suddenly become much more vocal in the press about his dislike of MS and Bill in general. Any idea why this is happening?
I got Tomorrow Never Dies "Sepcial Edition" which not only had trailers, a whole section on Bond Gadgets (tm) and a 45 minute section on special effects, but it also made use of "multiple angles" that DVD supports. The first movie angle was the movie (widescreen of course) and the second angle was the complete movie, but the lower right hand corner had the hand-drawn storyboards with a transparent background, so you would see the scene and the storyboard. There were two additional audio tracks: one interviewing the director, the other interviewing the special effects manager.
I rented "Austin Powers" which had similar features (trailer, no angles tho). A separate audio track had Mike Myers(sp) commenting on the left side, and the director on the right all the way through the movie. There were also scenes that didn't make the movie (like the two alternate endings) and some other funny stuff.
DVD rocks.
The problem with RA is that since it's always assuming that you have a 28.8k modem. If the speed gets kicked to ISDN (if you have a cable modem or T1+), the sound is much better.
I write mostly in PHP and Perl (since a lot of stuff is web based). You should also take a look at Python and SQL. Not to mention C.
In Linux, they're called 'jiffies' and they used to expire after about 4 years, but I think it's fixed now.