As a student, I worked in a computer store where we built custom PCs and we used to put a sort of aluminium (very fragile) sticker on the back of the machine, on the edge of the outer casing and the inner framework.
If we didn't do this, people would order 256 MBs of RAM, take half of it out and come back claiming there was only 128 MB in it. Or harddisks would be switched, video cards, etc.
That might be true, but there must be technical ways around this. I still find it a damn shame that with all this knowledge in the open source community, there's still no piece of software that matches VMWare's featureset.
If you need to run Windows, than you can afford to do VMWare
It's an excellent product and my company paid for it. However, I don't find the pricing friendly for the Linux hobbyist who runs Linux fulltime but wants an occasional trip to Windows.
I wish it would run Windows, but it doesn't. That would mean a cheap alternative to VMWare and would also mean a much higher usage (and thus testing).
They give a reason:
Longer term, virtualisation features in next-generation CPUs should make it much easier to support unmodified OSes: at that time we will reconsider Windows support.
Although I understand, I'm unsure why VMWare and Bochs can run Windows and Xen can't...
If you believe your code is stable, don't advertise it as "alpha". Just go ahead and call it 1.0.
This is DEFINITELY a good advice. The other day I told the project manager that I was going to use this Java library and he came back to me, saying "hey, the library is versioned at 0.0.6, that doesn't look good AT ALL". No matter that it was part of Classpath and passed a bunch of unit tests I threw at it.
In fact, you can do this with the _entire_ government
That's actually one of the threads in a story by (I think) Jack Vance.
One of two warring countries its council hires a corporation to do the governing. The salesman of the corp told the country that their "country manager" would win them the war. When it comes down to it, the manager wants to start negotiations etc: everything to make peace.
The council objects at first, saying that the promise was that they would win the war. The manager claims that they didn't say how and that it's far more profitable to trade instead of just bash other people's skulls. In the end, the concil succumbs... Quite a fun read.
Of course, noone in their right mind would use untested software in a production environment. I fully agree on that.
My point is that some open source software is so useful, that it gets used and tested in the field. When professionals begin to use it for customer-related work, they often demand support for it from the suppliers of commercial software. Witness Ant, the Java build tool.
Of course this is just one example, but I don't see why a new programming environment would be any different.
Unless Sun, IBM or someone else with enough $$$ and not too much love for Microsoft backs up the project and takes care of marketing and promoting it. But the chances are very slim.
Why is this modded insightful? There are lots of examples where open source software became widely used without extensive marketing campaigns.
Marketing doesn't always start with a huge corporate marketing department doing brainstorms. It's also about developers and users who are enthousiastic about a piece of software and promote it through blogs, presentations, user group meetings, etc in their community whereever they can. Think here Linux, JBoss, KDE, Gnome, ALL of the Apache Jakarta products.
but when are we going to FINISH some of this stuff we started
"We" aren't going to finish it. I think the way to go is have it preinstalled, like Linspire does, because most hardware has a perfectly working driver, it's just the pain of getting it all working, editing/etc/modules.conf,/etc/rc.d/rc.local et cetera. In the future, I don't expect to have time for this anymore, so I'll probably give my cash to a hardware vendor which has a deal with Linspire or similar distributions.
I agree my post was somewhat off-topic, but can't you read?! The submitter of the question DID NOT ask for instructions on setting up Samba, but for EXPERIENCE with integration of Linux in AD.
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Anonymous Coward, only he's black?
That's a funny pic you found there. On the left, a guy is walking with his two little sons! Wait until the wife finds out how he educates sex... :D
I wonder when someone writes a script to google for Word documents, get the protected ones out and decrypt them. Ought to be a fun project.
Hey, how can I search for brothels? That ought to deliver some cool pictures :)
For that amount of money, I'd expect her in the back seat. And while my girlfriend might not agree, she could certainly join.
Don't just shrink-wrap it, but seal it please. Thick, air-tight sealing.
And for example C++, it should be "write once, port anywhere and then test anywhere"? At least with Java, you can skip one step.
Most people don't care. If they would, they had registered their own domain.
Most customers I visit still use telnet and FTP. It's on their private, switched, networks. Who cares.
About 95% of the time I hear this, it's office politics getting in the way.
As a student, I worked in a computer store where we built custom PCs and we used to put a sort of aluminium (very fragile) sticker on the back of the machine, on the edge of the outer casing and the inner framework.
If we didn't do this, people would order 256 MBs of RAM, take half of it out and come back claiming there was only 128 MB in it. Or harddisks would be switched, video cards, etc.
That might be true, but there must be technical ways around this. I still find it a damn shame that with all this knowledge in the open source community, there's still no piece of software that matches VMWare's featureset.
It's an excellent product and my company paid for it. However, I don't find the pricing friendly for the Linux hobbyist who runs Linux fulltime but wants an occasional trip to Windows.
They give a reason:
Although I understand, I'm unsure why VMWare and Bochs can run Windows and Xen can't...mirror
Coincidentally, the third looks like my mother-in-law.
This is DEFINITELY a good advice. The other day I told the project manager that I was going to use this Java library and he came back to me, saying "hey, the library is versioned at 0.0.6, that doesn't look good AT ALL". No matter that it was part of Classpath and passed a bunch of unit tests I threw at it.
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That's actually one of the threads in a story by (I think) Jack Vance.
One of two warring countries its council hires a corporation to do the governing. The salesman of the corp told the country that their "country manager" would win them the war. When it comes down to it, the manager wants to start negotiations etc: everything to make peace.
The council objects at first, saying that the promise was that they would win the war. The manager claims that they didn't say how and that it's far more profitable to trade instead of just bash other people's skulls. In the end, the concil succumbs... Quite a fun read.
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My point is that some open source software is so useful, that it gets used and tested in the field. When professionals begin to use it for customer-related work, they often demand support for it from the suppliers of commercial software. Witness Ant, the Java build tool.
Of course this is just one example, but I don't see why a new programming environment would be any different.
Why is this modded insightful? There are lots of examples where open source software became widely used without extensive marketing campaigns.
Marketing doesn't always start with a huge corporate marketing department doing brainstorms. It's also about developers and users who are enthousiastic about a piece of software and promote it through blogs, presentations, user group meetings, etc in their community whereever they can. Think here Linux, JBoss, KDE, Gnome, ALL of the Apache Jakarta products.
"We" aren't going to finish it. I think the way to go is have it preinstalled, like Linspire does, because most hardware has a perfectly working driver, it's just the pain of getting it all working, editing /etc/modules.conf, /etc/rc.d/rc.local et cetera. In the future, I don't expect to have time for this anymore, so I'll probably give my cash to a hardware vendor which has a deal with Linspire or similar distributions.
Note to self: don't reply to ACs.
I agree my post was somewhat off-topic, but can't you read?! The submitter of the question DID NOT ask for instructions on setting up Samba, but for EXPERIENCE with integration of Linux in AD.
Says a guy who posts anonymous.