Actually MSFT is the probelm. Forget being pro-linux(i am not currently running it). MSFT doesn't know security. It doesn't know how to design security. MSFT first builds features and then tries to figure a way to secure them. Your supposed to work the other way around.
Also Why does WMP default open IE eve if your default web browser is something else?
MSFT programs that were designed wrong to begin with
IE, WMP, Outlook, Active X, Windows Scripting, MS word macros, MS excel Macros(yes they are close).
The fact is MSFT has designed lot's of software and duplicated functionality first, then thought about if what they were doing could cause a probelm.
No OS or software is perfect, but MSFT puts stupid obvious holes in their software and dismisses those who complain. there is no reason why Active x should be designed to take advantge of the entire system. How about Macro's? IE, WMP, Outlook are basically ONE program. That is how tightly they are tied together. Is there a reason why?
If you want really scary I got bored one day and decided to get some good scores in Minesweeper.
It took a couple of days and when I was done I saw the various number sequences in my sleep. I could play minesweeper in my head.
Then I realised the truth. MSFT had control of my brain and was using it to upgrade minesweeper. A bit of tinfoil and a linux install and I am feeling much better now.
>>look at how inspirational OS X has been, do you think something like that would exists
If F/OSS didn't exist neither would OS X. The sub system is all BSD based. In fact the entire closed source program (copland) was shut down. Some body took BSD and added on a unique (closed) graphic display system. How many hours of programming could you have saved if all you did was design an interface to a BSD based editor?
I have one last thing for you to think about. What happens to your software if you were to die suddenly? (think about the car accident in france with the major OSS developers) Your software will stop. Stop growing, Stop being of use. Not right away but over a few years. At least with F/OSS somebody can pick it up and continue. I say this knowing that your successors could sell your software as it is today, but that doesn't mean it will continue. I know this from experience, a friend and the guy who built our office POS software died in a plane crash, We are now left without help if something breaks, and no way to migrate.
I say this not to be morbid but for your to consider a point. How much closed software is gone? How many good programs have been reinvented over and over? How many good programming tools have been built, and how many have been lost forever? Closed source may make you cash, but it doesn't last.
Is there a balance? What does the future hold. I don't know. I do know the world changes. The old way of working sometimes hold true, and sometimes they don't.
First doing anything with passion is a good thing. Textmate was something you wanted to do. If you didn't want to really write that plugin then you wouldn't of enjoyed it.
The probelm is that many 'small' software shops couldn't exist without being a part time job for one person. They simply can't survive on their own.
Your only hope is that nobody desires a free version of your simple little program. The moment somebody does what happens to you. It doesn't have to be F/OSS it could be Apple, or Sun, or MSFT or whomever. Big companies are just as likely to screw over as F/OSS is. Netscape, Beos, Konfabulator.
So your product must be a niche enough that only a few use it, yet enough must use it for you to live off of it.
Some business model. Where is F/OSS any worse? At least your product always has your name on it with F/OSS. I guess it depends on what you want. Not everybody wants money.
How many linux distro's charge for their services?
Let me guess you have sold maybe a few hundred copies? Have you calculated out the time it took you to code it, multiply by your hourly rate. Have you actually made a profit yet? Did you have to buy software, or hardware to work on the project? Did you have to rent space on a website, or register a domain? Did you figure in part of your home electric bills?
The real question is have you figured out how many copies you have to sell before you even make a profit adding up all this?
You can't run a software company off of one small piece of softare, in a market where the F/OSS and home users are very selective in what they use, or the companies use one product for comforitive standards.
Now the better question is how do you expect to make money in that market? Now I am not making fun of your software. It looked good. Nor am I making fun of you. But your comments for small developers doesn't work. You need to either build customised software for companies on contract terms, or build lot's of software packages. If you get lucky and build a package everybody wants, your next hope is to sell out to a big company for cash.
What kind of market is that. You build software and either dream of never making a profit, or being bought out by somebody?
I am not really sure, but I think you are correct. I know some parts aren't navigable as the ice goes down for miles, but I thought it was all ice. I always thought it was why that russia and the USA have both sent Subs to the North pole.
They can go under the ice. it was still dangerous, like driving through a tunnel without any lights on and lot's of curves in the tunnel.
Do you really tink IBM will let the PowerPC chips fail because of Intel phoenix and Microsoft working together?
Do you think AMD will roll over and die?.
Sorry but this stuff will only be for corporate users. Home users will complain that things don't work correctly. Becuase MSFT has never made a large profit on a project that wasn't OS or Office.
It's the only reason why I am not overly scared. That and if you can't load other OS's without paying Large fees. the antitrust trials will come back and quickly. We might even get a real judge too.
Got back to airport express. There is third party streaming software setup for it now. It was one of the first hacks that people started putting out for the AE.
During the power outage in the north east a few years back, all the local cell towers were down. I got an international bill from canada because that is where my signal and the calls I made were entering the physical phone network. 40+ miles to the north.
If you don't believe that one, I can go out to the middle of the lake, 20 miles to either shore and still get a signal. It may not be the best reception ever but it does work. Granted if you don't have a great phone, or wide area plan you might not get coverage. I always pick the always roaming, Nationwide, no long distance, plans. I haven't lived in my "home network" for 5 years.
you get interface around a town from the buildings, and overlapping signals.
How do I know this? during the same black out I could get one english speaking radio station. Which broadcasts over a hundred miles from where I was. I was also picking up several candian french stations which were nearly a hundred miles away.
>>It is inevitable that the typical user interface will evolve toward the same one used between humans for everyday interaction, e.g. the spoken word.
Great now not only will I not be able to understand the guy speaking to me, but my omputer won't either.
Spoken word only works for SOME interface uses. I use it to play chess. writing a document I can type many times faster than I can speak. Unless it's for a ~20 word memo. Then I simply memorize it.
I see a blending of the the two. I also traditional keyboards going only to those who write long documents. with multi function keypads for primary interface control.
SCO three years ago could of been bought out by, Sun, IBM, HP, Novell, etc.
Now nobody can buy them, they are doomed to bankruptcy, and nobody will be able to save them.
SCO had a better chance of partial survival inside another company. Now they are road kill. Just because they are running down the highway today doesn't mean they will live.
That's the beauty of Open Source. No ONE person tells it where to go next. YOU just pick it up and start walking. TiVo, can take it one way, Montavista takes it another, IBM, and Red Hat heads toward the servers, While Xandros, and Suse are aiming for your desktops.
Linux itself doesn't need a direction, The people decide what they want, and they take Linux there.
Instead of Controling the people, YOU decide Where Do You Want to GO Today?
Good managers, work for the employees. When times are tough they take their fair share of the cuts. When times are good they share the wealth.
Bad managers, blame everybody but themselves, and give themselves raises and/or bonuses for cutting staff. When times are good they give themselves huge raises, while maybe giving the rest a few scraps.
The wealth doesn't have to be cash either. Though it usaully is in the case of bad managers.
Guess which one Linus Torvalds, and which one is Darl Mcbride? All you have to look at is their quarterly reports. Darl's Salary is still a million dollars a year, yet he has to trim stay up.
My biggist paranoid fear about doing that, is that you never really know if they slipped in a nice little trojan and hole in the swiss cheese firewall to begin with.
For testing I don't mind but for machine that keep my data, I only trust certian systems.
Are their DOS only based utilities to edit registry settings? since everything in windows is configured from the registry how do you edit those settings?
>>But Linux running a KDE or GNOME desktop is pretty similar.
of course it is but Linux doesn't need a gui. How do you tweak your registry settings without a gui? updates, okay they can be done, but how do you fix the little things when you have to run the GUI to do so.
yes remote desktop is like VNC, but then again you don't need VNC to run linux.
I guess the simple solution is show me a telnet(ssh) server that gives you FULL control over the entire OS from the command line. Not just the ability to launch a remote desktop system.
And windows GUI is built into the kernel at least parts of it. tech wise the NT kernel isn't bad, it's a lot of extra stuff that MSFT has added in.
Also note why is windows using telnet? unless it's a totally closed network(which it should be anyway) it should be running ssh.
yet each of those servers still run the GUI. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not in the memory.
At least with Linux you get two options. a low memory command shell that shuts down when you log out, or X which only loads the application on the local processor, using the remote machine for actual display. And when your done it turns off, restoring memory to the system.
Well you obviously don't know anything about windows.
Which computer is running that GUI?? just because you don't need a local monitor doesn't mean that the computer isn't running the GUI.
Talk about stupid person. REmote desktop basically takes snapshots of the desktop that is running in memory, Just because their isn't anything local doesn't mean jack shit.
The rest of the OS has way to much backwards compatibility to be able to strip things out.
Linux can run on clusters because you can install only those chunks that you need. in Windows every processor would also have to run the entire GUI. Even if it is never used.
Why do you think Longhorn is getting a full command line shell setup?
Viruses & trojans & root kits would exist without microsoft.
of course you would have more than 48 hours between the time a bug is found, and when the exploit starts working around the Net.
Also the patches would come out as fast as the exploits are noticed. You also would have responsible programers, and the Apps that breaks are the ones that gets fixed, unlike Windows were if your game doesn't work anymore, MSFT just patches around so that the game works again.
I sometimes do it, but my computer and TV are facing each other. In other words in order to watch tv I have to spin around in my chair and look up. in order to surf the web i must spin back.
makes it easy to ignore commercials. Also I can flip on the history channel, and when you hear something cool spin around to check it out.
Of course I am running about 2 hours of tv a day, but only Monday, Friday, Sat, and Sunday.
I don't count the half hour morning news segment. as I am surfing the web for the majority of it. Just enough to hear the weather reports, and traffic outlooks.
Note to self find easy to use audio based local weather reports for OS X. I don't normally drive enough to worry about traffic anyway.
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Actually MSFT is the probelm. Forget being pro-linux(i am not currently running it). MSFT doesn't know security. It doesn't know how to design security. MSFT first builds features and then tries to figure a way to secure them. Your supposed to work the other way around.
Also Why does WMP default open IE eve if your default web browser is something else?
MSFT programs that were designed wrong to begin with
IE, WMP, Outlook, Active X, Windows Scripting, MS word macros, MS excel Macros(yes they are close).
The fact is MSFT has designed lot's of software and duplicated functionality first, then thought about if what they were doing could cause a probelm.
No OS or software is perfect, but MSFT puts stupid obvious holes in their software and dismisses those who complain. there is no reason why Active x should be designed to take advantge of the entire system. How about Macro's? IE, WMP, Outlook are basically ONE program. That is how tightly they are tied together. Is there a reason why?
If you want really scary I got bored one day and decided to get some good scores in Minesweeper.
It took a couple of days and when I was done I saw the various number sequences in my sleep. I could play minesweeper in my head.
Then I realised the truth. MSFT had control of my brain and was using it to upgrade minesweeper. A bit of tinfoil and a linux install and I am feeling much better now.
>>look at how inspirational OS X has been, do you think something like that would exists
If F/OSS didn't exist neither would OS X. The sub system is all BSD based. In fact the entire closed source program (copland) was shut down. Some body took BSD and added on a unique (closed) graphic display system. How many hours of programming could you have saved if all you did was design an interface to a BSD based editor?
I have one last thing for you to think about. What happens to your software if you were to die suddenly? (think about the car accident in france with the major OSS developers) Your software will stop. Stop growing, Stop being of use. Not right away but over a few years. At least with F/OSS somebody can pick it up and continue. I say this knowing that your successors could sell your software as it is today, but that doesn't mean it will continue. I know this from experience, a friend and the guy who built our office POS software died in a plane crash, We are now left without help if something breaks, and no way to migrate.
I say this not to be morbid but for your to consider a point. How much closed software is gone? How many good programs have been reinvented over and over? How many good programming tools have been built, and how many have been lost forever? Closed source may make you cash, but it doesn't last.
Is there a balance? What does the future hold. I don't know. I do know the world changes. The old way of working sometimes hold true, and sometimes they don't.
First doing anything with passion is a good thing. Textmate was something you wanted to do. If you didn't want to really write that plugin then you wouldn't of enjoyed it.
The probelm is that many 'small' software shops couldn't exist without being a part time job for one person. They simply can't survive on their own.
Your only hope is that nobody desires a free version of your simple little program. The moment somebody does what happens to you. It doesn't have to be F/OSS it could be Apple, or Sun, or MSFT or whomever. Big companies are just as likely to screw over as F/OSS is. Netscape, Beos, Konfabulator.
So your product must be a niche enough that only a few use it, yet enough must use it for you to live off of it.
Some business model. Where is F/OSS any worse? At least your product always has your name on it with F/OSS. I guess it depends on what you want. Not everybody wants money.
Foss to startups right?
How many linux distro's charge for their services?
Let me guess you have sold maybe a few hundred copies? Have you calculated out the time it took you to code it, multiply by your hourly rate. Have you actually made a profit yet? Did you have to buy software, or hardware to work on the project? Did you have to rent space on a website, or register a domain? Did you figure in part of your home electric bills?
The real question is have you figured out how many copies you have to sell before you even make a profit adding up all this?
You can't run a software company off of one small piece of softare, in a market where the F/OSS and home users are very selective in what they use, or the companies use one product for comforitive standards.
Now the better question is how do you expect to make money in that market? Now I am not making fun of your software. It looked good. Nor am I making fun of you. But your comments for small developers doesn't work. You need to either build customised software for companies on contract terms, or build lot's of software packages. If you get lucky and build a package everybody wants, your next hope is to sell out to a big company for cash.
What kind of market is that. You build software and either dream of never making a profit, or being bought out by somebody?
I am not really sure, but I think you are correct. I know some parts aren't navigable as the ice goes down for miles, but I thought it was all ice.
I always thought it was why that russia and the USA have both sent Subs to the North pole.
They can go under the ice. it was still dangerous, like driving through a tunnel without any lights on and lot's of curves in the tunnel.
>>Why the need for a giant consortium?
Because it's the MSFT way?
One company to rule them all,
One company to find them,
One company to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the land of Redmond were the shadow's lay.
Note: I don't really think Redmond, Wash. is evil. It just goes best.
Do you really tink IBM will let the PowerPC chips fail because of Intel phoenix and Microsoft working together?
Do you think AMD will roll over and die?.
Sorry but this stuff will only be for corporate users. Home users will complain that things don't work correctly. Becuase MSFT has never made a large profit on a project that wasn't OS or Office.
It's the only reason why I am not overly scared. That and if you can't load other OS's without paying Large fees. the antitrust trials will come back and quickly. We might even get a real judge too.
>>On the other hand, saying that we're not seeing 10 ghz processors, so Moore's law is broken is wrong.
Um it's Moore's Theory? Theory's haven't been proven but are just observed & hypothetical states.
So Moore's theory is finally being broken down 3 decades later.
Got back to airport express. There is third party streaming software setup for it now. It was one of the first hacks that people started putting out for the AE.
It's easy you can do it now. Just dump the raw hex of the files into a postscript and print. use a photocopier to make as many copies as you like.
then hand them out. end users use OCR and their scanners. reassemble the files by hand.
Warning large files may use lot's of paper.
Okay I get to call bullshit.
During the power outage in the north east a few years back, all the local cell towers were down. I got an international bill from canada because that is where my signal and the calls I made were entering the physical phone network. 40+ miles to the north.
If you don't believe that one, I can go out to the middle of the lake, 20 miles to either shore and still get a signal. It may not be the best reception ever but it does work. Granted if you don't have a great phone, or wide area plan you might not get coverage. I always pick the always roaming, Nationwide, no long distance, plans. I haven't lived in my "home network" for 5 years.
you get interface around a town from the buildings, and overlapping signals.
How do I know this? during the same black out I could get one english speaking radio station. Which broadcasts over a hundred miles from where I was. I was also picking up several candian french stations which were nearly a hundred miles away.
>>It is inevitable that the typical user interface will evolve toward the same one used between humans for everyday interaction, e.g. the spoken word.
Great now not only will I not be able to understand the guy speaking to me, but my omputer won't either.
Spoken word only works for SOME interface uses. I use it to play chess. writing a document I can type many times faster than I can speak. Unless it's for a ~20 word memo. Then I simply memorize it.
I see a blending of the the two. I also traditional keyboards going only to those who write long documents. with multi function keypads for primary interface control.
I have heard that arguement before.
I have a counter.
SCO three years ago could of been bought out by, Sun, IBM, HP, Novell, etc.
Now nobody can buy them, they are doomed to bankruptcy, and nobody will be able to save them.
SCO had a better chance of partial survival inside another company. Now they are road kill. Just because they are running down the highway today doesn't mean they will live.
That's the beauty of Open Source. No ONE person tells it where to go next. YOU just pick it up and start walking. TiVo, can take it one way, Montavista takes it another, IBM, and Red Hat heads toward the servers, While Xandros, and Suse are aiming for your desktops.
Linux itself doesn't need a direction, The people decide what they want, and they take Linux there.
Instead of Controling the people, YOU decide
Where Do You Want to GO Today?
it's simple
Good managers, work for the employees. When times are tough they take their fair share of the cuts. When times are good they share the wealth.
Bad managers, blame everybody but themselves, and give themselves raises and/or bonuses for cutting staff. When times are good they give themselves huge raises, while maybe giving the rest a few scraps.
The wealth doesn't have to be cash either. Though it usaully is in the case of bad managers.
Guess which one Linus Torvalds, and which one is Darl Mcbride? All you have to look at is their quarterly reports. Darl's Salary is still a million dollars a year, yet he has to trim stay up.
My biggist paranoid fear about doing that, is that you never really know if they slipped in a nice little trojan and hole in the swiss cheese firewall to begin with.
For testing I don't mind but for machine that keep my data, I only trust certian systems.
Okay that does answer one question I have had.
Now for the second.
Are their DOS only based utilities to edit registry settings? since everything in windows is configured from the registry how do you edit those settings?
How do you change the hardware settings?
>>But Linux running a KDE or GNOME desktop is pretty similar.
of course it is but Linux doesn't need a gui. How do you tweak your registry settings without a gui? updates, okay they can be done, but how do you fix the little things when you have to run the GUI to do so.
yes remote desktop is like VNC, but then again you don't need VNC to run linux.
I guess the simple solution is show me a telnet(ssh) server that gives you FULL control over the entire OS from the command line. Not just the ability to launch a remote desktop system.
And windows GUI is built into the kernel at least parts of it. tech wise the NT kernel isn't bad, it's a lot of extra stuff that MSFT has added in.
Also note why is windows using telnet? unless it's a totally closed network(which it should be anyway) it should be running ssh.
yet each of those servers still run the GUI. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not in the memory.
At least with Linux you get two options. a low memory command shell that shuts down when you log out, or X which only loads the application on the local processor, using the remote machine for actual display. And when your done it turns off, restoring memory to the system.
Windows GUI never shuts off. It's always there.
Well you obviously don't know anything about windows.
Which computer is running that GUI?? just because you don't need a local monitor doesn't mean that the computer isn't running the GUI.
Talk about stupid person. REmote desktop basically takes snapshots of the desktop that is running in memory, Just because their isn't anything local doesn't mean jack shit.
The NT kernel is well designed.
The rest of the OS has way to much backwards compatibility to be able to strip things out.
Linux can run on clusters because you can install only those chunks that you need. in Windows every processor would also have to run the entire GUI. Even if it is never used.
Why do you think Longhorn is getting a full command line shell setup?
Viruses & trojans & root kits would exist without microsoft.
of course you would have more than 48 hours between the time a bug is found, and when the exploit starts working around the Net.
Also the patches would come out as fast as the exploits are noticed. You also would have responsible programers, and the Apps that breaks are the ones that gets fixed, unlike Windows were if your game doesn't work anymore, MSFT just patches around so that the game works again.
no you are not.
I sometimes do it, but my computer and TV are facing each other. In other words in order to watch tv I have to spin around in my chair and look up. in order to surf the web i must spin back.
makes it easy to ignore commercials. Also I can flip on the history channel, and when you hear something cool spin around to check it out.
Of course I am running about 2 hours of tv a day, but only Monday, Friday, Sat, and Sunday.
I don't count the half hour morning news segment. as I am surfing the web for the majority of it. Just enough to hear the weather reports, and traffic outlooks.
Note to self find easy to use audio based local weather reports for OS X. I don't normally drive enough to worry about traffic anyway.
Well that depends on what you use to see the internet with.
IE users get roughly 10 times more advertising.
firefox users are divided some only get the same amount.
The rest use Adblock, and don't know what advertising is.