I have never heard that term, Active X Content. Aren't Web Services based on standards such as XML and SOAP.
Active X content is Microsoft's attempt to leverage their installed user base to make an imcompatible replacement to Flash and similar technologies that is only available to Windows users.
If a government picks a Windows solution, it is very hard to make sure that everyone can communicate with it (.doc files being a prime example).*
If government picks an open source (or at least an open standards solution - which just as effectivly denies them picking Microsoft who have at best shoddy compliance, although it would allow them to pick Apple) solution then everyone can communicate with it.
That way the pubilc that the government is there to serve can choose to run any platform they like, be it closed or open - and thats where the choice should be. Government shouldn't be making that choise for them by using a platform that doesn't interoperate well.
*This also goes for things like web services - deployments of ASP.net using ActiveX content on Windows aren't the most compatible things in the world. It also goes for in house software - any work paid for by the taxpayer should be available to the taxpayer, and if it's developed on Windows it will only run on Windows, denying the people of their right to use it on their platform of chocie.
If I look out my window I can see a pyramid of shopping carts 4x5x3 (assembled in a crazy patton to connect the security chains and get the £1 deposit back) collected by my fellow students from under the nose of supermarket security people.
Now, imagine if said trolles were a cheap source of WiFi parts as well, ideal for putting in your own projects...
Just need some tin foil to stop them being locatable, and somewhere good to stash the carts after you have removed the WiFi kit - such as the center of your student halls of residence.
1100*2*2Gig=4.4 million PMU (Pointless measuring units) 1100*4G=4.4TB ram 1100*160G=176TB disk
Xbox cluster, $5.2M
52000*733=38.1 million PMU 52000*64M=3.3TB ram 52000*10G=520TB disk
Looks like the XBox wins to me, assuming you would figure out a way of jamming an infiniband network card in there, but then Google manages just fine with 100mbit*.
Of course you would get a big scream out of Redmond either way - buying Apple or buying the XBox, and it might be a tad difficult to get them to take you seriously when you ring up to order 52,000 XBoxes...
These things might be looking a bit slow now, but where else can you get a 100 node cluster with 6.4GB of ram and 1TB of disk for just £10k? That's practically in the home computing market.
Not only that but once you get it up and running you will get a certain mention on the/. front page!
It might only cost the same for the song as the US, but by the time you have paid the extortionate Aus bandwidth rate it would be cheaper to buy the CD:o(
I just read your article at internetweek (Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry) and I must that although I don't agree with your opinions I think you have some backbone to say them in public:o)
Of particular amusement was this part:
"He is contemplating building an open source-free saferoom in his solar-powered home."
I only hope that you weren't planning on installing Windows on any of those machines as the Windows TCP stack and Microsoft SFU are (Free|Open)BSD derived code. Longhorn will include elements of ksh (free) and several other new 'innovations' also derived from Open Source (although not GPL) code. You cant even dive for Apple who use Darwin (free, BSD derived) and khtml (free, developed on Linux) as well as other things - or Solaris (ships huge quantites of GNU applications). Almost every operating system on earth is now 'tainted' by code donated because when the marginal cost of something is zero, giving it away helps the whole world benefit.
We might not do it better all the time, but every now and again our community turns out something that everyone can see is better (Apache for example) and quite often they even beat a proprietary vendor at their own game (Samba versus Windows/CIFS). Given another time, every closed source tool will be replaced with something open, and resources will be redeployable into something more worthwhile as the market dictates.
Perhaps next they will sue Microsoft for putting such a devious circumvention system into their operating systems. After all, what kind of responsible company would let a user do what they wanted with their computer that they paid for?
Oh, hang on, perhaps _that's_ what palladium is all about - lawsuit avoidance.
I have a pair of 17" TFTs on my desk* and I found that my productivity dropped like a rock because the first thing I did was install the GLMatrix mode** for xscreensaver - now I just sit there for hours on end thinking how cool it looks.
* 2 computers linked with synergy - acts like one computer with two screens, but you can tie one up with heavy cycles and leave the other free for browsing etc. Works cross platform Linux/OSX/Win as well.
** Looks like the bit from the opening credits of Matrix 2 - way cooler than the old 2D xmatrix module.
IMHO, those big-sized PDA's have not and will not be successful because they are too big to be as convienient as a palm-sized PDA but too small to be enjoy the benefits of a notebook.
It's aimed at the corporate market - who will buy it because it has an 8 hour life on one charge (with a wireless card) and is much harder to mess up than a laptop. It also can display a decent ammount of a technical manual and work with an Extech wireless printer - an ideal type of device for a company like Sears and their home service guys.
(Sears currently use Extech printers and PDAs for their field staff - but they are a bit of a pain to read tech manuals on. This size PDA is no more hassle to fit in a truck, and a good deal more robust than its competitors, tablet PCs, as well as having a much better battery life.)
In the same way that Mac On Linux makes moving people to Linux on a Mac pretty painless (just give them an icon for OSX in a window) this might do the same for migrating Windows users.
The biggest problem with emulators/virtualisation has always been speed. If a system can be set up that runs Linux but can boot XP easily and run fast, that will be a big improvement.
Of course it's not going to be much good for gamers (doesn't look like it can use hardware accelaration) but it's still pretty promising.
When your boss told you to replace your Debian webserver with Win2k3 server, did you...
1[] Capitulate to the microwenie with pleasure. 2[] Change the ID strings and pocket the money. 3[] Install Win2k3 but leave Linux doing the real work (dynamic pages etc). 4[] Tell him to f**k off. 5[] Electrocte the boss with a waffle iron.
So... only 5% chose 1, although some may have done 2 or 3 instead - so call it 2%. Me? My boss knows better than to tell me to install Win2k3 - the previous electrical burn marks attest to that.
A better translation of the MSN press release would be:
"Chat rooms too expensive, scape goat for closure found."
By blaming pedophilia and advertising they can shut off the service with little user backlash.
This is roughly in line with the changes to MSN messenger taking place on Oct 15th - no non-Windows/MS clients will be allowed to connect. An exemption may be arranged for Trillian, but no Linux or BSD clients will be available. This is apparently because of "security concerns and virus risk" - although if that was what you wanted to stop you would be more sensible disconnecting all of the Windows clients from the network:D
There is a big chunk of people out there who aren't afraid to open up their own machines, but use Windows because they don't have enough Round Tuits to try Linux.
If Lindows is easy enough to give a go it might last for a few days before being scrubbed (doesn't play game X)... but then the idea that Linux systems can do things pretty well will stick in the back of the mind for the next time they have to assemble a 'second machine' for general use in the house.
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A physical address space that can support systems with up to one terabyte of installed RAM, shattering the 4 gigabyte RAM barrier present on all current x86 implementations.
If you implement x86 with PAE then you get 8gb.
It's only 4gb if you exclude dirty hacks - but if you did that then you would have to rule out x86 in it's entirety.
Pah, who needs all this new fangled rubbish, my Amstrad portable is more than compact enough for me, and as a bonus doubles as a great offensive weapon for use in riots or indeed small wars.
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I have never heard that term, Active X Content. Aren't Web Services based on standards such as XML and SOAP.
Active X content is Microsoft's attempt to leverage their installed user base to make an imcompatible replacement to Flash and similar technologies that is only available to Windows users.
If a government picks a Windows solution, it is very hard to make sure that everyone can communicate with it (.doc files being a prime example).*
If government picks an open source (or at least an open standards solution - which just as effectivly denies them picking Microsoft who have at best shoddy compliance, although it would allow them to pick Apple) solution then everyone can communicate with it.
That way the pubilc that the government is there to serve can choose to run any platform they like, be it closed or open - and thats where the choice should be. Government shouldn't be making that choise for them by using a platform that doesn't interoperate well.
*This also goes for things like web services - deployments of ASP.net using ActiveX content on Windows aren't the most compatible things in the world. It also goes for in house software - any work paid for by the taxpayer should be available to the taxpayer, and if it's developed on Windows it will only run on Windows, denying the people of their right to use it on their platform of chocie.
If I look out my window I can see a pyramid of shopping carts 4x5x3 (assembled in a crazy patton to connect the security chains and get the £1 deposit back) collected by my fellow students from under the nose of supermarket security people.
Now, imagine if said trolles were a cheap source of WiFi parts as well, ideal for putting in your own projects...
Just need some tin foil to stop them being locatable, and somewhere good to stash the carts after you have removed the WiFi kit - such as the center of your student halls of residence.
VT cluster, $5.2M.
1100*2*2Gig=4.4 million PMU (Pointless measuring units)
1100*4G=4.4TB ram
1100*160G=176TB disk
Xbox cluster, $5.2M
52000*733=38.1 million PMU
52000*64M=3.3TB ram
52000*10G=520TB disk
Looks like the XBox wins to me, assuming you would figure out a way of jamming an infiniband network card in there, but then Google manages just fine with 100mbit*.
Of course you would get a big scream out of Redmond either way - buying Apple or buying the XBox, and it might be a tad difficult to get them to take you seriously when you ring up to order 52,000 XBoxes...
*100mbit to the rack switches.
These things might be looking a bit slow now, but where else can you get a 100 node cluster with 6.4GB of ram and 1TB of disk for just £10k? That's practically in the home computing market.
/. front page!
Not only that but once you get it up and running you will get a certain mention on the
It might only cost the same for the song as the US, but by the time you have paid the extortionate Aus bandwidth rate it would be cheaper to buy the CD :o(
Um, nope, wasn't me that posted that. And yes, I'm aware that I fucked up the HTML for the link, but you can't go back and edit posts you know.
I was posting a lame joke, and decided to (try and) be helpful and put in the google cache link as well for the lazy. Nothing to see here, move along.
Unfortunatly it seems that MiniGui was running on a MiniServer :o\
: www.minigui.org/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Google cache here: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:kHpwvk7mvSgJ
(Also sent by e-mail.)
:o)
Hi there,
I just read your article at internetweek (Opinion: Reasons To Shun Open Source-ry) and I must that although I don't agree with your opinions I think you have some backbone to say them in public
Of particular amusement was this part:
"He is contemplating building an open source-free saferoom in his solar-powered home."
I only hope that you weren't planning on installing Windows on any of those machines as the Windows TCP stack and Microsoft SFU are (Free|Open)BSD derived code. Longhorn will include elements of ksh (free) and several other new 'innovations' also derived from Open Source (although not GPL) code. You cant even dive for Apple who use Darwin (free, BSD derived) and khtml (free, developed on Linux) as well as other things - or Solaris (ships huge quantites of GNU applications). Almost every operating system on earth is now 'tainted' by code donated because when the marginal cost of something is zero, giving it away helps the whole world benefit.
We might not do it better all the time, but every now and again our community turns out something that everyone can see is better (Apache for example) and quite often they even beat a proprietary vendor at their own game (Samba versus Windows/CIFS). Given another time, every closed source tool will be replaced with something open, and resources will be redeployable into something more worthwhile as the market dictates.
Good luck anyway,
Perhaps next they will sue Microsoft for putting such a devious circumvention system into their operating systems. After all, what kind of responsible company would let a user do what they wanted with their computer that they paid for?
Oh, hang on, perhaps _that's_ what palladium is all about - lawsuit avoidance.
I have a pair of 17" TFTs on my desk* and I found that my productivity dropped like a rock because the first thing I did was install the GLMatrix mode** for xscreensaver - now I just sit there for hours on end thinking how cool it looks.
* 2 computers linked with synergy - acts like one computer with two screens, but you can tie one up with heavy cycles and leave the other free for browsing etc. Works cross platform Linux/OSX/Win as well.
** Looks like the bit from the opening credits of Matrix 2 - way cooler than the old 2D xmatrix module.
IMHO, those big-sized PDA's have not and will not be successful because they are too big to be as convienient as a palm-sized PDA but too small to be enjoy the benefits of a notebook.
It's aimed at the corporate market - who will buy it because it has an 8 hour life on one charge (with a wireless card) and is much harder to mess up than a laptop. It also can display a decent ammount of a technical manual and work with an Extech wireless printer - an ideal type of device for a company like Sears and their home service guys.
(Sears currently use Extech printers and PDAs for their field staff - but they are a bit of a pain to read tech manuals on. This size PDA is no more hassle to fit in a truck, and a good deal more robust than its competitors, tablet PCs, as well as having a much better battery life.)
Nice to see that DRM is helping to make sure that it's hard to cheat and rip off the hard working games companies...
Those who want to steal will, those who are honest will pay anyway. Why piss off your entire userbase with DRM?
In the same way that Mac On Linux makes moving people to Linux on a Mac pretty painless (just give them an icon for OSX in a window) this might do the same for migrating Windows users.
The biggest problem with emulators/virtualisation has always been speed. If a system can be set up that runs Linux but can boot XP easily and run fast, that will be a big improvement.
Of course it's not going to be much good for gamers (doesn't look like it can use hardware accelaration) but it's still pretty promising.
So, at most 15 channels plus broadband should run what $25-30? They can have the other 70 channels.
:o(
Home shopping channels pay for the privilage of piping their crap into your homes.
Don't get them, and the cost will rise - at least its easier not to watch than ads WHICH HAVE THE DAMN VOLUME TURNED UP. Even the BBC do that now
I handed in a research paper this morning on enterprise class distributed file systems.
If I had put it off until tomorrow, I would now be up in front of the proctors for plagarism - it's that similar to my idea.
Remember to hand in your work on time kids!
And Comcast just got video on demand working too. I guess now they are going to need a _much_ faster cable?
When your boss told you to replace your Debian webserver with Win2k3 server, did you...
1[] Capitulate to the microwenie with pleasure.
2[] Change the ID strings and pocket the money.
3[] Install Win2k3 but leave Linux doing the real work (dynamic pages etc).
4[] Tell him to f**k off.
5[] Electrocte the boss with a waffle iron.
So... only 5% chose 1, although some may have done 2 or 3 instead - so call it 2%. Me? My boss knows better than to tell me to install Win2k3 - the previous electrical burn marks attest to that.
A better translation of the MSN press release would be:
:D
"Chat rooms too expensive, scape goat for closure found."
By blaming pedophilia and advertising they can shut off the service with little user backlash.
This is roughly in line with the changes to MSN messenger taking place on Oct 15th - no non-Windows/MS clients will be allowed to connect. An exemption may be arranged for Trillian, but no Linux or BSD clients will be available. This is apparently because of "security concerns and virus risk" - although if that was what you wanted to stop you would be more sensible disconnecting all of the Windows clients from the network
There is a big chunk of people out there who aren't afraid to open up their own machines, but use Windows because they don't have enough Round Tuits to try Linux.
If Lindows is easy enough to give a go it might last for a few days before being scrubbed (doesn't play game X)... but then the idea that Linux systems can do things pretty well will stick in the back of the mind for the next time they have to assemble a 'second machine' for general use in the house.
A physical address space that can support systems with up to one terabyte of installed RAM, shattering the 4 gigabyte RAM barrier present on all current x86 implementations.
If you implement x86 with PAE then you get 8gb.
It's only 4gb if you exclude dirty hacks - but if you did that then you would have to rule out x86 in it's entirety.
Linux 32 bit on the P4, 32 bit on the AMD and 64 bit on the AMD. Throw in 64 bit Linux on the P970 and G4.
;o)
It would be nice to see something that could be well controlled (all non-proc specific compile flags equal) to do the testing.
Besides, no one runs this Windows XP rubbish right, where can I see an article testing real systems?
And you didn't read the article or the follow up post.
There are no cirsumstances where you need to hit the number. To select a number, press the surrounding 4 letter keys at the same time instead.
Pah, who needs all this new fangled rubbish, my Amstrad portable is more than compact enough for me, and as a bonus doubles as a great offensive weapon for use in riots or indeed small wars.
How prevalent are large campaign donations in Europe? Are lobby groups any where near as powerful as they are in the US?
No, most of our politicians push stupid, industry biased laws _without_ being purchased.