All publically accessible machines that are known to belong to MS are known to be running W2K, NT, etc. That's easy enough to present to the world. An MS IIS server at the front, Oracle running on Solaris in the backend on non-routable network.....
Nah, it's not really whining... it's that they're telling companies that they should migrate their large databases to Windows. They claim it's easy and the ROI is incredible, and that you'll attain nirvana.
Trouble is, that if you're sure of your product, you'll use it. Oracle uses their products, Netscape uses their own, and at my company, we use our own products in house. It's like on-going quality assurance, and not like some dirty secret that you have to hide from your customers.
It amazes me that people continue to confuse the concepts of "easy to learn" and "easy to use". Windows in all of its incarnations has been of the "easy to learn" variety, which makes advanced users' options rather limited. Linux, on the other hand is "easy to use" but with a respectably steep learning curve.
As for ease of installation, I have to spend 2 hours installing windows 95 on one of my laptops, fighting to make the PCMCIA slots work correctly, and get sound working. As of two years ago, however, I could install any linux distribution on it in 1/2 hour and have the PC Cards and sound work out of the box... It all depends.
Yah, it takes them forever to do anything - unless you're a large corporation like... oh, pick one at random...for sake of arguement, let's say Amazon. They can get a patent on something amazingly NON-patentable in less than a year, but this machine took 67 years. Amazing.
Well, there are decent ports of bash and other shells to NT / 2000 already that I've been using in place of the "DOS" shell. As with most everything else included in Windows now, there are much better third party replacements.
I suppose the same could be said of the underlying OS, but that's another story.
In one paragraph, Fred dismisses the Linux server sales stats by stating that there are many versions of Linux that comprise what the stats-keepers count as "Linux" in their survey.
Then in the next claims that Linux has the most bugtraqs. Is he counting double and triple bug reports; counting a Debian Advisory about a problem with a common package, and then counting the Red Hat and Slackware advisories as well?
Although we aren't asking you to do this, we have seen that many of you in your comments have asked if you can pay extra to help cover the costs of the dishonest people who will download The Plant and not pay. You should be applauded for this desire to pay -- and should be held out as an example to those of you reading this who are not planning to pay. You know who you are. No stealing from the blind newsboy. If you wish to pay more than $1, you can either send a check to the address specified at Amazon.com Payments or pay multiple times with your credit card and then do not download the file.
I rather like his version of a license.... Especially the bit where he's blatantly honest regarding the user's obligations;
2. Not to print extra copies and sell them to your friends. If you want to print copies and give them away, I can't stop you (in fact I can't stop you from doing anything, which is the beauty of this thing-think of it as web-moshing). But don't sell them. Two reasons: first, it's against the law, and second, it's nasty behavior. Respect my copyright. As a writer, it's all I've got.
It's not the standard legalese agreement, and it gets right to the SPIRIT of the other licenses out there from the GPL and others. This is a Good Thing (tm), and I'm for the theory that is consumer driven, and not prisoner driven - ie, I want to see more books released like this - cheaply, efficiently, etc.
Two years later, the Horvitz team saw its first commercial program become part of Microsoft's Office software. The program, based on Bayesian techniques, was a relatively simple tool known as the Answer Wizard, which tried to anticipate the needs of users looking up topics in the software's electronic documentation.
Okay, so this same group of whackos was in charge of 'innovating' the Answer Wizard. They're the ones who ensure that you don't find what you're searching for. Great. Now they're designing software that will decide how important my incoming email is and either deliver it or hold onto it until it thinks I'm not busy.
Yippee! So what happens when it decides I'm always busy and I never get that email I'm waiting for, etc etc. Exchange keeps doing this NOW - 'forgetting' to deliver email.
1. SUV's sit higher on the road allowing for better vision. Sit in a Honda Civic and see if you can get as good a view as you do in an Explorer.
I drive a Nissan 240sx, and it sits pretty low to the ground. However, in my experience the Explorers tend to pull out way past the stop line, blocking my view of traffic when trying to turn on a red light. That's much safer that way.
That site is a START. Let me just say, though, that any web host ranking site that lists Superb Internet as among the top 25 is suspect. Their bandwidth reliability may have improved over the past little while, but only because they have no customers on their lines. Don't plan on having any of their staff available at 4am to reboot a server, and don't plan on ever visiting the NOC or replies to your questions via email or phone.
Good to see you didn't waste your time reading their Acceptable Use Policy...
Yes, the only things that they explicitly state that you can't do are a) spam and b) "Attempts to subvert, disrupt, damage, or misuse data, data traffic, network users, or equipment."
Then, in the very next paragraph;
Unacceptable publications include, but are not limited to:
Material that is ruled unlawful in the jurisdiction of the originating server (Such as child pornography or other obscene material.
Sounds like they'll kick you out if you're serving porn and your server came from Saudi Arabia, or if you're posting warez and come from the USA. Though, even if they don't observe the laws of the server-originating country, there's always the might-makes-right argument...
"Okay, so we can't SUE you to get you to take down that site, but lets say we park all of our warships around your island. Any of your planes try to take off or land, we'll consider that hostile. What? Okay, so when will you have the site offline? In an hour? Great, pleasure doing business with you."
Napster wouldn't have a hope. They _do_ support piracy in the same way that Locksmith on the Apple did - by claiming that it's just a tool and that people who use the tool are the trouble, not them.
Personally I'm confused about his thought process on the selections for both OS and Hardware.
Given, Bob's done some interesting things towards making a business model based around open source, but I'm not sure if Operating Systems is the right category for this. I use RH, but I don't see IT as an Operating System - but then again, I may be overly pedantic.
And Linus is the Linux guy, but he isn't the Transmeta guy - he's likely the only person there that also has an OS named after him, but the chip isn't a one person show. Honestly, Jesse.
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All publically accessible machines that are known to belong to MS are known to be running W2K, NT, etc. That's easy enough to present to the world. An MS IIS server at the front, Oracle running on Solaris in the backend on non-routable network.....
Maybe there's a reason they're defunct then? Unreliable sources, bad 'news', etc?
Trouble is, that if you're sure of your product, you'll use it. Oracle uses their products, Netscape uses their own, and at my company, we use our own products in house. It's like on-going quality assurance, and not like some dirty secret that you have to hide from your customers.
Well, a factor of 8 makes the difference between 2 megabits per second 2 megabytes per second when downloading a SOF test or a new Netscape...
INCONCEIVABLE!
As for ease of installation, I have to spend 2 hours installing windows 95 on one of my laptops, fighting to make the PCMCIA slots work correctly, and get sound working. As of two years ago, however, I could install any linux distribution on it in 1/2 hour and have the PC Cards and sound work out of the box... It all depends.
Yah, it takes them forever to do anything - unless you're a large corporation like... oh, pick one at random...for sake of arguement, let's say Amazon. They can get a patent on something amazingly NON-patentable in less than a year, but this machine took 67 years. Amazing.
I suppose the same could be said of the underlying OS, but that's another story.
Then in the next claims that Linux has the most bugtraqs. Is he counting double and triple bug reports; counting a Debian Advisory about a problem with a common package, and then counting the Red Hat and Slackware advisories as well?
Sounds like he had issues installing Caldera.
Statistical anomoly. Acceptable losses. Reboot and reinstall.
Well, paypal's a nice start, but it is only open to US residents. Despite what some people think, that's not enough of a solution.
Cool. CFC Compatibility would be so great. Crash For Crash.
Sure, you can't share it with a friend, but their taste in movies generally suck anyhow.
"Ah damn, Genes crashed again. I guess little Billy won't be going to school in the morning...."
So come on, link to http://www.microsoft.com already......
2. Not to print extra copies and sell them to your friends. If you want to print copies and give them away, I can't stop you (in fact I can't stop you from doing anything, which is the beauty of this thing-think of it as web-moshing). But don't sell them. Two reasons: first, it's against the law, and second, it's nasty behavior. Respect my copyright. As a writer, it's all I've got.
It's not the standard legalese agreement, and it gets right to the SPIRIT of the other licenses out there from the GPL and others. This is a Good Thing (tm), and I'm for the theory that is consumer driven, and not prisoner driven - ie, I want to see more books released like this - cheaply, efficiently, etc.I seem to recall him mentioning that he was going to eat a hockey puck if he was wrong.... I want to see this.
Okay, so this same group of whackos was in charge of 'innovating' the Answer Wizard. They're the ones who ensure that you don't find what you're searching for. Great. Now they're designing software that will decide how important my incoming email is and either deliver it or hold onto it until it thinks I'm not busy.
Yippee! So what happens when it decides I'm always busy and I never get that email I'm waiting for, etc etc. Exchange keeps doing this NOW - 'forgetting' to deliver email.
I drive a Nissan 240sx, and it sits pretty low to the ground. However, in my experience the Explorers tend to pull out way past the stop line, blocking my view of traffic when trying to turn on a red light. That's much safer that way.
That site is a START. Let me just say, though, that any web host ranking site that lists Superb Internet as among the top 25 is suspect. Their bandwidth reliability may have improved over the past little while, but only because they have no customers on their lines. Don't plan on having any of their staff available at 4am to reboot a server, and don't plan on ever visiting the NOC or replies to your questions via email or phone.
Yes, the only things that they explicitly state that you can't do are a) spam and b) "Attempts to subvert, disrupt, damage, or misuse data, data traffic, network users, or equipment."
Then, in the very next paragraph;
Sounds like they'll kick you out if you're serving porn and your server came from Saudi Arabia, or if you're posting warez and come from the USA. Though, even if they don't observe the laws of the server-originating country, there's always the might-makes-right argument...
"Okay, so we can't SUE you to get you to take down that site, but lets say we park all of our warships around your island. Any of your planes try to take off or land, we'll consider that hostile. What? Okay, so when will you have the site offline? In an hour? Great, pleasure doing business with you."
Napster would be laughed out of court.
I suppose there are a lot of newly paper-wealthy people out there itching to use that money that results from their IPO investments.
Given, Bob's done some interesting things towards making a business model based around open source, but I'm not sure if Operating Systems is the right category for this. I use RH, but I don't see IT as an Operating System - but then again, I may be overly pedantic.
And Linus is the Linux guy, but he isn't the Transmeta guy - he's likely the only person there that also has an OS named after him, but the chip isn't a one person show. Honestly, Jesse.