Forgive me for asking, but if you lace the program up with all sorts of.NET and MS SQL extentions are you not boxing yourself into a corner?
Say I produce a commercial product, why not keep it simple and use ODBC so you can connect to almost anything?
If it is in house, what if the MS machine runs out of juice, can't take any more and one of those larger 8 processor UNIX boxes could do it in a heart beat.
So even if you are a MS only programmer, why limit yourself when it adds so little value? Reminds me of the Pied Piper.
Eric Schmidt's comments and insight were very good. As sort of a geek myself if gives me insight on why I have liked some managers, and not others. Why was I so purely productive in one environment and then screaming inside myself to get out in others.
The best single task I had was as a consultant. I walked into the interview, I was myself. It lasted 5 minutes and I was hired. The project manager spent the morning with me on the first day and made the business objectives quite clear to me. Some ground rules on documentation and my scope were set clearly and realistically. And the rules and objectives didn't change because of convenience. He outlined the problems and the needs while I was being introduced to the business players. Then set me off for two weeks to study it, with the mandate to be creative and practical. Note here, the technical solution was not predisposed, only the business needs were. I then presented (poorly presented) my observations and ideas outlining a solution to the business people. I walked away thinking I didn't do too well as the business asked some specific questions some of which I didn't have the answers.
But I guess I did good enough, a few weeks later approval came down to do it. I implemented the project as the technical lead in 8 months, on time and on schedule. The parent company hired me right after the gig. I learned later that their own people wouldn't touch the project. Wow, there is money in dealing with screwed up environments if you get the stick to clean them up.
The biggest thrill was the Monday morning when 600 people started to use our work for the first time, it was a big cutover. It went down as planned. Call me nuts, but this geek gets a thrill out of seeing others use my work. It is the best perk of the job. The politics of position jousting and power thrills do little for me but does makes me walk.
So it is good that some environments actually think about how to empower and guide their geeks as opposed to a more Machiavellian BS that so often occurs. Too bad Novell has fallen off a good ride, as Ray Noorda was the last decent Novell CEO.
and wondered how applicable the information was today
This is simple. It is. Geeks haven't socially evolved that much in 6 years other than the fact that chicks like it when you have the car thats not a beater and you have the money to fill up the tank before picking her up. As the article says, geeks are not anti-social, we just don't like cheap manipulative self serving management styles any more than we like chicks that way. And when geeks do it, we do it with thought!
A smooth roadmap ought to include licensing and other non-technical concerns along with the technology. Unless KDE can get Trolltech to release Qt/X11 under the LGPL, or at least get a guarantee that Qt/Commercial licenses will never go above a certain price and never have any more restrictions in usage than the present EULA has, the roadmap will always have a certain air of uncertainty to long-term enterprise decision makers.
By Timothy R. Butler
Editor-in-Chief, Open for Business
July 05, 2005, 22:32:41 EDT
While I'm still a bit surprised to see Novell give such a slight to KDE this soon, there were signs that they were becoming a GNOME operation.
I am not, although KDE is a good interface, I have always favored GNOME. So to me, seeing SUSE carry GNOME right there along with KDE was good and is now one of the reasons why I now run SUSE 10. The other is SUSE 10 supports my 54g wireless card.
But I suspect there is more to it. Proprietary Qt libraries inside of KDE have always plagued KDE adoption. And quite frankly, I like programming in the GNOME/GTK+ environment and usually have no trouble to move such works to Solaris x86 or Sparc.
Not really, now you get paid $250-500 per site found as a war driver. Get 1000 open access points and that could be $500000 in gross revenue. So cops can now play PC games in the car while looking for open WAP. Guess they are tired of giving seat belt tickets. A new use for NetStumbler.
About time. I figure the only way law enforcement is going to enforce internet good practices is if it becomes like traffic tickets. Get caught, pay the fine. This is a good idea unless you want your access point open.
So did I, unless this solution is $50 per month including 200 channels w. fibre connect I would say they might be right in 50 years.
What irks me about HDTV is the freaking sets can't seem to grasp they are getting a NTSC wide screen and adjust accordingly. Nor does my set have such and option...
Unfortunately, it seems that AMD still has several stability issues to solve...
I have run both AMD and Intel for years. I have 2 dead Intel processor/mobo - one is even a Intel PERL mobo! I usually retire my AMD processors because they get old, not because they fail. In fact, I have yet to have one die prematurely.
Since my last P4 2.4 HT on a PERL mobo gave up working one month out of warranty I was well - now a AMD kind of person. (I admit, I don't know if it was proc or mobo, but both were Intel). Given AMD is less power and faster, an AMD 64 X2 is my primary consideration for my next PC.
Mind you, if you work for Dell that does not sell Linux or AMD in North America I can understand the bias.
On second thought, if that is necessary for you to remember where you live, then maybe you shouldn't be entering the contest.
I guess this is true if you live in North America. And our governments wonder why software development is going offshore. Politicians aught to ask how silly their laws are.
and possibly liquid cooling where the radiator is outside the building...
And move the data centers to Canada where for 7 - 8 months a year cool air is FREE! Think, if you open up a data center in a colder prarie province the incoming air will be so cold it won't mater how many 90% turns it has to make. You could also pump the heat to the rest of the building.
It will end up requiring MS-Privacy v1.0 for all taxpayers. No linux version available.
True enough, when you fire up a Linux media player, unlike M$ Windows Media player; you don't have to worry about it sending info out that you played it. (Ya, I know you can turn it off but it is on be default).
That is also why my Windows PC sits behind a firewall that is as paranoid about what gets out as in.
OF course, you have to assume that they'll do good here.
For companies, M$ included it does not have squat to do with what is good. Microsoft is just realizing it has an impending image problem so it want to be perceived as the "good ole boy" in the block.
After all, Microsoft did rename Personal Computer (PC) to Public Computer. Do remember Windows media player does go out on the internet when you drop a CD-ROM in.
MS doesn't really want a law to protect people- they want a law that allows them to do basicly anything
When the CFO leaves, it's usually because they think they're in a sinking ship.
No fooling, it is not a good sign. See NorTel.... when CFOs leave early it is not good. When they have been there awhile and get a better offier this is good.
So the question is how far will the stock drop... -0.28 (2.24%) for the day... bet more is to follow.
why did sgi not do a reverse stock split to avoid delisting? did they want to be delisted?
Good question. But I suspect management either was asleep or perhaps they are as good as bankrupt and want to make a buyout more attractive. Certainly wasn't for shareholder value.
Not a word on user interfaces in the article itself.
The reason is simple. Microsoft is still borrowing from the Linux UI. One thing this stupid article does not say is the Linux UI, X Winodows was around before Microsoft had an OS!!!!!
It is also why Microsoft can't sue anyone for "windows" as Microsoft was not the first, nor the second to have windows.
Here are some tools I use for just about the same thing your about to do. And a brief reasons why I use each. Start with one, then once mastered move to another.
ethereal - good for interactive network monitoring and also for analyzing caputures from tcpdump
tcpdump - You can use this to caputre the network traffic. Have the router bridge a port so you can monitor everything. Can be a fundimaental component in a network recorder to record while your not there.
snort - if a packet matches known goofy stuff, it logs it. Chances are bad nodes generate a lot of snort alert entries.
arpwatch - when someone plugs in something new you know what/where it is
openbsd - the OS I prefer running most of this stuff on, and log the firewall violations with logwatch so if a virus scans for port 135, something that should happen on a BSD systems, you have a valid concern
router access - so you can shut down offending ports/ips to enforce policy as well as block broadcasts through the routers except for dhcp. Look at QoS in the routers.
policy - management supplied, so you can kick off the offenders without kick back. And don't ask, do kick them off until remediation is complete.
email (any kind) - let everyone know why the lan segement was cut off, use peer presure to get conformance. Students who get access cut off because a room mate with a WAP and no WEP and a virus/worm infested PC gets them cut off will talk to them in ways you can't
Be patient. Could be just that the lan/wan/Internet connect is just too slow for what the population expects. University and college management rarely understand this until a prof or big wig can't watch football game or something.
I've watched the MSOffice 2k3 Format != MSOffice '97 Format, and it turns out that Microsoft does have proper support between the various versions for MS Word at least,
This might be true considering you edit every document and save/update it with every version upgrade since Word 1.0 for DOS came out. But not true if you have not done so. And given the quantity and age of government documents it is unlikely they have. Even when it does work, content and formatting loss, even minor can happen.
Government senators think with their personal pocket books and alliances before common sense, it is common sense for governments to keep their documents iin an open format to 1) reduce costs of copy type when technology changes and 2) to maximizing the viewing audience.
Now if Microsoft wants to participate in this, there is nothing to stop them from doing so but their own desires to "lock out" competition. Which in this case will not be allowed. Mind you, knowing Microsoft they will do their best to hinder the effort in whatever way they can.
Now imagine how television and telco transmissions would work if they couldn't agree on standards.
But when it's found "Hey, calling this function with these arguments causes a crash", why *isn't* fixing the function the first thing that comes to mind?
Has any Windows security problem ever hurt Microsoft's stock price?
If it does, the stock price might actually go up. Companies will buy another ISA server to protect the server from its defects. Of course, Microsoft marketing does not factor in these costs to TCO. CIOs are technically backwards people but like the familiarity of a Windows screen so they buy readily into more Microsoft.
Only Microsoft could get away with producing the problem, make itself look like a hero for fixing or mitigating it and then financially benefit from the defects in the product. An ISA server is an admission of that. Why fix the problem when you can sell another server license, ISA.
Microsoft is a marketing company, and Windows is the biggest patched conglomerate software out there today. Few remain that actually understand it. Windows will eventually fail under the weight of it's patching.
Novell has made some interesting changes in distribution and development since our last review of SUSE Linux
I plugged Suse 10 Eval into my Sony portable and damm, the wireless 54G with my D-Link G650 shone bright! Noisy too, the sound card worked like a charm. Plugged in the WEP key for the G650 and on the air I was.
This is a smooth install for average users.... developers will have to head back and load gcc and stuff but what a hoot. Get to use Evolution with PGP, will not need 63 patch bundles and installs quickly. Office (openoffice) tools are included, but a few were missing on the intial install but were on the CD.
What really maters is that the file formats be 100% open, 100% available to Microsoft and NON-Microsoft products alike. And without the usual closed source tricks of useless proprietary extentions, traps for proprietary lock-in and the usual antics employed my MS Office in the past.
If it is created with OSS or OSS made proprietary or even Microsoft does it mater? If created with Suse open office, it can be viewed by all - even Microsoft users. This is the point.
Everyone knows that "msh" really stands for "Microsoft Hell".
And once people realize it is crippled there will be a gsh (Gate Shell) and a bsh (Ballmer Shell) as equally handycaped as the msh. A legal suit will follow from Google for gsh but the bsh will last.
Wouldn't it be easier just to get a copy of Linux and call it MS-Linux? I thought Microsoft thought all of UNIX/POSIX was crap and you didn't need a shell?
This is a safe use of Windows. If it crashes, and the building isn't moving it can't collide with anything.
Hot dogs can continue to cook with residual heat, and be served while the servers are repaired.
Sooner or later the blue screen of death will hit the big board but the worst that will happen is people get a good chuckle and don't know what the current score is.
Linux will make it inside as PDAs/cell phones with Linux will work despite Microsoft efforts.
Hey, now you can watch a live game and hack a computer at the same time! Just don't lock the doors.
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Forgive me for asking, but if you lace the program up with all sorts of .NET and MS SQL extentions are you not boxing yourself into a corner?
Say I produce a commercial product, why not keep it simple and use ODBC so you can connect to almost anything?
If it is in house, what if the MS machine runs out of juice, can't take any more and one of those larger 8 processor UNIX boxes could do it in a heart beat.
So even if you are a MS only programmer, why limit yourself when it adds so little value? Reminds me of the Pied Piper.
Eric Schmidt's comments and insight were very good. As sort of a geek myself if gives me insight on why I have liked some managers, and not others. Why was I so purely productive in one environment and then screaming inside myself to get out in others.
The best single task I had was as a consultant. I walked into the interview, I was myself. It lasted 5 minutes and I was hired. The project manager spent the morning with me on the first day and made the business objectives quite clear to me. Some ground rules on documentation and my scope were set clearly and realistically. And the rules and objectives didn't change because of convenience. He outlined the problems and the needs while I was being introduced to the business players. Then set me off for two weeks to study it, with the mandate to be creative and practical. Note here, the technical solution was not predisposed, only the business needs were. I then presented (poorly presented) my observations and ideas outlining a solution to the business people. I walked away thinking I didn't do too well as the business asked some specific questions some of which I didn't have the answers.
But I guess I did good enough, a few weeks later approval came down to do it. I implemented the project as the technical lead in 8 months, on time and on schedule. The parent company hired me right after the gig. I learned later that their own people wouldn't touch the project. Wow, there is money in dealing with screwed up environments if you get the stick to clean them up.
The biggest thrill was the Monday morning when 600 people started to use our work for the first time, it was a big cutover. It went down as planned. Call me nuts, but this geek gets a thrill out of seeing others use my work. It is the best perk of the job. The politics of position jousting and power thrills do little for me but does makes me walk.
So it is good that some environments actually think about how to empower and guide their geeks as opposed to a more Machiavellian BS that so often occurs. Too bad Novell has fallen off a good ride, as Ray Noorda was the last decent Novell CEO.
and wondered how applicable the information was today
This is simple. It is. Geeks haven't socially evolved that much in 6 years other than the fact that chicks like it when you have the car thats not a beater and you have the money to fill up the tank before picking her up. As the article says, geeks are not anti-social, we just don't like cheap manipulative self serving management styles any more than we like chicks that way. And when geeks do it, we do it with thought!
Proprietary Qt libraries? I've got news for you: QT is GPL licensed as well.
Closer to QPL, read the following to understand more...
http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=arti cle&sid=364&mode=&order=0&thold=0
The short if it is:
A smooth roadmap ought to include licensing and other non-technical concerns along with the technology. Unless KDE can get Trolltech to release Qt/X11 under the LGPL, or at least get a guarantee that Qt/Commercial licenses will never go above a certain price and never have any more restrictions in usage than the present EULA has, the roadmap will always have a certain air of uncertainty to long-term enterprise decision makers.
By Timothy R. Butler Editor-in-Chief, Open for Business July 05, 2005, 22:32:41 EDT
While I'm still a bit surprised to see Novell give such a slight to KDE this soon, there were signs that they were becoming a GNOME operation.
I am not, although KDE is a good interface, I have always favored GNOME. So to me, seeing SUSE carry GNOME right there along with KDE was good and is now one of the reasons why I now run SUSE 10. The other is SUSE 10 supports my 54g wireless card.
But I suspect there is more to it. Proprietary Qt libraries inside of KDE have always plagued KDE adoption. And quite frankly, I like programming in the GNOME/GTK+ environment and usually have no trouble to move such works to Solaris x86 or Sparc.
Qt is KDE's achilles heel.
This law would be impossible to enforce anyway.
Not really, now you get paid $250-500 per site found as a war driver. Get 1000 open access points and that could be $500000 in gross revenue. So cops can now play PC games in the car while looking for open WAP. Guess they are tired of giving seat belt tickets. A new use for NetStumbler.
Violations would carry fines of $250-$500."
About time. I figure the only way law enforcement is going to enforce internet good practices is if it becomes like traffic tickets. Get caught, pay the fine. This is a good idea unless you want your access point open.
He's going to provide support for 50 million computers at 10 cents each?
Poor journalism, it was for licensing not support.
Microsoft pulls stunts, why should not Linspire. Who knows, it might work. If it does not it is free publicity.
I just upgraded to HDTV!
So did I, unless this solution is $50 per month including 200 channels w. fibre connect I would say they might be right in 50 years.
What irks me about HDTV is the freaking sets can't seem to grasp they are getting a NTSC wide screen and adjust accordingly. Nor does my set have such and option...
Unfortunately, it seems that AMD still has several stability issues to solve...
I have run both AMD and Intel for years. I have 2 dead Intel processor/mobo - one is even a Intel PERL mobo! I usually retire my AMD processors because they get old, not because they fail. In fact, I have yet to have one die prematurely.
Since my last P4 2.4 HT on a PERL mobo gave up working one month out of warranty I was well - now a AMD kind of person. (I admit, I don't know if it was proc or mobo, but both were Intel). Given AMD is less power and faster, an AMD 64 X2 is my primary consideration for my next PC.
Mind you, if you work for Dell that does not sell Linux or AMD in North America I can understand the bias.
On second thought, if that is necessary for you to remember where you live, then maybe you shouldn't be entering the contest.
I guess this is true if you live in North America. And our governments wonder why software development is going offshore. Politicians aught to ask how silly their laws are.
I'd go with 24 inches MINIMUM, myself.
Not bad, at about 1" per year is typical. Might last a career.
A layer each for:
Oh, and don't forget power, 2 phase and 3 phase, 240v and 120v. And those silly traceiver boxes and modems.
Floors end up being garbage pits...
and possibly liquid cooling where the radiator is outside the building...
And move the data centers to Canada where for 7 - 8 months a year cool air is FREE! Think, if you open up a data center in a colder prarie province the incoming air will be so cold it won't mater how many 90% turns it has to make. You could also pump the heat to the rest of the building.
It will end up requiring MS-Privacy v1.0 for all taxpayers. No linux version available.
True enough, when you fire up a Linux media player, unlike M$ Windows Media player; you don't have to worry about it sending info out that you played it. (Ya, I know you can turn it off but it is on be default).
That is also why my Windows PC sits behind a firewall that is as paranoid about what gets out as in.
OF course, you have to assume that they'll do good here.
For companies, M$ included it does not have squat to do with what is good. Microsoft is just realizing it has an impending image problem so it want to be perceived as the "good ole boy" in the block.
After all, Microsoft did rename Personal Computer (PC) to Public Computer. Do remember Windows media player does go out on the internet when you drop a CD-ROM in.
MS doesn't really want a law to protect people- they want a law that allows them to do basicly anything
But that is most accurate.
When the CFO leaves, it's usually because they think they're in a sinking ship.
No fooling, it is not a good sign. See NorTel .... when CFOs leave early it is not good. When they have been there awhile and get a better offier this is good.
So the question is how far will the stock drop... -0.28 (2.24%) for the day... bet more is to follow.
why did sgi not do a reverse stock split to avoid delisting? did they want to be delisted?
Good question. But I suspect management either was asleep or perhaps they are as good as bankrupt and want to make a buyout more attractive. Certainly wasn't for shareholder value.
Not a word on user interfaces in the article itself.
The reason is simple. Microsoft is still borrowing from the Linux UI. One thing this stupid article does not say is the Linux UI, X Winodows was around before Microsoft had an OS!!!!!
It is also why Microsoft can't sue anyone for "windows" as Microsoft was not the first, nor the second to have windows.
Here are some tools I use for just about the same thing your about to do. And a brief reasons why I use each. Start with one, then once mastered move to another.
Be patient. Could be just that the lan/wan/Internet connect is just too slow for what the population expects. University and college management rarely understand this until a prof or big wig can't watch football game or something.
I've watched the MSOffice 2k3 Format != MSOffice '97 Format, and it turns out that Microsoft does have proper support between the various versions for MS Word at least,
This might be true considering you edit every document and save/update it with every version upgrade since Word 1.0 for DOS came out. But not true if you have not done so. And given the quantity and age of government documents it is unlikely they have. Even when it does work, content and formatting loss, even minor can happen.
Government senators think with their personal pocket books and alliances before common sense, it is common sense for governments to keep their documents iin an open format to 1) reduce costs of copy type when technology changes and 2) to maximizing the viewing audience.
Now if Microsoft wants to participate in this, there is nothing to stop them from doing so but their own desires to "lock out" competition. Which in this case will not be allowed. Mind you, knowing Microsoft they will do their best to hinder the effort in whatever way they can.
Now imagine how television and telco transmissions would work if they couldn't agree on standards.
But when it's found "Hey, calling this function with these arguments causes a crash", why *isn't* fixing the function the first thing that comes to mind?
Logically your right, but Microsoft is a marketing machine. They would rather you buy another ISA server so they can profit from defects. http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/default.mspx
Has any Windows security problem ever hurt Microsoft's stock price?
If it does, the stock price might actually go up. Companies will buy another ISA server to protect the server from its defects. Of course, Microsoft marketing does not factor in these costs to TCO. CIOs are technically backwards people but like the familiarity of a Windows screen so they buy readily into more Microsoft.
Only Microsoft could get away with producing the problem, make itself look like a hero for fixing or mitigating it and then financially benefit from the defects in the product. An ISA server is an admission of that. Why fix the problem when you can sell another server license, ISA.
Microsoft is a marketing company, and Windows is the biggest patched conglomerate software out there today. Few remain that actually understand it. Windows will eventually fail under the weight of it's patching.
Kind of reminds me of the Pied Piper.
Novell has made some interesting changes in distribution and development since our last review of SUSE Linux
I plugged Suse 10 Eval into my Sony portable and damm, the wireless 54G with my D-Link G650 shone bright! Noisy too, the sound card worked like a charm. Plugged in the WEP key for the G650 and on the air I was.
This is a smooth install for average users.... developers will have to head back and load gcc and stuff but what a hoot. Get to use Evolution with PGP, will not need 63 patch bundles and installs quickly. Office (openoffice) tools are included, but a few were missing on the intial install but were on the CD.
Now off to get MythTV....
What really maters is that the file formats be 100% open, 100% available to Microsoft and NON-Microsoft products alike. And without the usual closed source tricks of useless proprietary extentions, traps for proprietary lock-in and the usual antics employed my MS Office in the past.
If it is created with OSS or OSS made proprietary or even Microsoft does it mater? If created with Suse open office, it can be viewed by all - even Microsoft users. This is the point.
Proprietary file formats are bad for all.
Everyone knows that "msh" really stands for "Microsoft Hell".
And once people realize it is crippled there will be a gsh (Gate Shell) and a bsh (Ballmer Shell) as equally handycaped as the msh. A legal suit will follow from Google for gsh but the bsh will last.
Wouldn't it be easier just to get a copy of Linux and call it MS-Linux? I thought Microsoft thought all of UNIX/POSIX was crap and you didn't need a shell?
This is a safe use of Windows. If it crashes, and the building isn't moving it can't collide with anything.
Hot dogs can continue to cook with residual heat, and be served while the servers are repaired.
Sooner or later the blue screen of death will hit the big board but the worst that will happen is people get a good chuckle and don't know what the current score is.
Linux will make it inside as PDAs/cell phones with Linux will work despite Microsoft efforts.
Hey, now you can watch a live game and hack a computer at the same time! Just don't lock the doors.