That accomplishes two things: (1) some free PR for Opera, and (2) if anyone really follows through with it, it is far easier for Opera to adapt to the results than Microsoft. Opera has only a miniscule installed base that it needs to stay compatible with.
It might be more correct to say, Microsoft's lack of standards has led it to the same predicament as any other mature off the cuff systems, you can't change it without breaking it until you understand it completely. And not even M$ with 40B in the bank can do it.
Best ot stick to published and accepted standards not brought on by business, but by those without a dollar bill in mind.
Line 2007, column 7: end tag for "TABLE" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this
Likely the table error should be fixed but I have found validator.w3.org to be of an "interesting site" only. What counts is that most browsers present it properly. The rest is hyperbole and perhaps some chit chat value.
LI tags do not need to be closed, it is just the author of the validator thinks so. Either that or maybe a new spec changes that but I admit, I don't read evey one that was ever written.
And what if the output was written to a prior version? Validator will surely complain. Try re-writing the internet because someone decided to change the spec in the last version.
What would be nice if the tool relaxed a bit and worked on pointing out issues with the top 3-5 browsers in presentation. The world does NOT revolve around w3.org.
GATES: We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry.
With a statement like that, what about TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore PET and others. Steve Jobs would be the man if he wasn't so closed up with his architecture and IBM was not. All Microsoft and Bill did was be in the right place when IBM had 100,000 PCs without an OS. After that they screwed their way to the top of the heap with questionable business practices to ride the wave. It was well under way long before Bill had DOS.
Microsoft even had interest in SCO to get code and make sure they didn't rival their Windows NT. Oh yes, these two companies have a long relationship more than most know.
In fact, we just announced that we'll have a new version of the browser so we're innovating very rapidly there and it's our commitment to have the best.
I guess this hints of a new browser. I wonder how much open source code and ideas it will contain. Most people, including Microsoft seem to forget that Microsoft really hasn't invented anything new. They just use other's ideas.
In a few years when the biggest market in the world runs Linux (China) we will see Microsoft in second place. It will be a glorious day when Microsoft gets a long needed lesson in humility.
Something that makes Microsoft folders in Exchange look like crap. NNTP readers were more advanced 10 years ago than Microsoft folders are today. Threading for example. Man, I hate scrolling back 300 messages to refer to the last relaated comment.... all because we are biggoted and bias to M$ and socially uncultured in our use of the internet.
The only real problem for usenet today is too much garbage and spam. It was good when it was moderated and abusive users got kicked off the internet for abusing it.
But I guess we are stuck with learning a dozen dfferent web sites.
I'm not comfortable with this, and I would like someone to tell me I'm just paranoid.
You are not paranoid and your comfort level is well tuned. Unreliable behavior cannot be tolerated unless it is entropy.
I figure microprocessor development as we have seen it is nearing its end without new ideas. For example, gigahertz isn't by it self an indication of computational capability. It takes hundreds of CPU cycles on a P4 to do common operations that on an 8080 would take one CPU cycle. If you can reduce the CPU cycle per operation count and reduce transistor count you could end up with a much faster lower power counterpart. But right now the marketing is on megahertz sells and a lot of the transistor count goes into making it stable at ever-faster speeds.
Clearly, not enough has gone into optimizing the transistors used today.
Then with the new dye space, add multiple cores for parallel processing, 2, 4, 8 and maybe 16 cores per dye. Perhaps a 3 processor core with the 4 section of dye having a specialized audio/video processor.
We think computers are 0 and 1 based, but there is no reason it could not be ternary or beyond. Memory states could be 1, 0 or maybe. From a software perspective this could make AI programming practical.
But for some, put a 10GHz oscillator into an in-line divider that feeds to a 1GHz processor and it will sell premium to some.
American's may be wiser than you think on gun control. Imagine invading the US... no sane country in the world would contemplate this. It stems from gun control before independance.
Global warming really isn't as big of an issue as it might seem. It makes living further north (and south) more habitable.
8 months of summer and beach front proprty in Greate Slave Lake anyone?
whereas UPN has done little to promote Enterprise.
And the local stations prempt it for the dummest of things. I believe the original BSG also fought to continue.
What would be a good thing is if we could pay $10 to download a season. Get 10 million people willing to kick in $10 then you have $100M to produce a season. That is, consumer to producer direct without the non-value added middle and excessive advertising.
...as more and more vendors get behind the OS, commercial pressures will lead to fragmentation, and users end up stuck with an isolated Linux distribution.
I must be missing the M$ point as software forks all the time. Did not Winodws NT 3.5 fork from Windows 3.11 ? Are not users of Windows NT 3.x user long since faced this same issue? I don't believe Microsoft nor Linux could release a new version without a fork... but Linux being POSIX and having source code can in fact address most of the issues by re-compiling and re-installing.
But if the point is Linux could fork to a different group supporting it, this is a plus. It prevents a monopoly and the associated costs with it. It also allows distributions to evolve to what the market wants, and not marketing letting us know what we want.
For example, I was using a very old version of Linux, stable but needed to upgrade. I ended up going to a different distro as it was nicely tailered towards the desktop and it was destined for my laptop. The switch was painless.
We're talking about TCO - Total Cost of Ownership. It takes time and effort to create an install and then mirror it to a hundred systems. The business pays for that time and effort. Even if it's an in house tech doing the job, at the very least his salary for the time spent doing the install should be factored into the cost.
Just like no one installs windows from raw OEM media, if you roll out Linux to many machines you image it just like Windows. And if your tech staff can't install Linux, I pitty you.
And it's hardly a win for Linux to say that Linux is not more expensive than Windows. If we can't show a cost savings for Linux, it's a win for Redmond.
Especially for companies, Linux TCO is cheaper. Most CEOs couldn't tell you how much they spend on Windows but do bet it is more that they realize. Linux comes with alot of stuff that in Windows is extra. Lets list a few I have never seen in TCO analysis:
Complete and full development environment including vetted source code
Secure terminal emulation such as secure shell
File distribution software and package management including remote install
Remote administration (securely)
Backup and recovery software (that works without an OS install!)
Proxy software (squid)
IMAP/POP3 servers including SSL versions
Firewall that works and is stateful.
VPN software
GRID and distrubuted computing that is tried and true
SQL servers
DNS, LDAP, sendmail and other servers included 0 best of all they even work with Windows.
Open Office
All the above (and likely more) is included and no CAL nickel and diming. Best of all, many functions can be shared!! That is the secretaries PC might also be the local mail server and no need for the extra system to support local mail or DNS.
If your like most corps, the same problems, and the same solutions exist to roll out linux as Windows XP. Not a whole lot of differences.
Mind you if your CEO/CIO/CFO and others spend more time playing games and watching videos, and like loading spyware instead of financial and business management and order input -- then Windows is your answer.
Heck, I hope their math and assumptions are good. With this many years, and assumptions you don't have to be far off for the big bang. That is, hit this blue marble instead of passing by.
I am not against software patents. I think they are a good thing. However, we seriously need to reconsider what is considered patentable. Some of the approved patents are blatantly absurd, and actually hurt commerce.
If I patent the phrase "considered patentable" then you would be in patent violation. Software is not unlike writing a book, it is a computer reading it to derive something out of it.
And back to your point, who is going to decide what is patentable? What do people do when they are trivially sued because of abiguity of the patent? The governments are supposed to filter trivial patents but my bet is 99.999% of the government employees do not even know what they are looking at.
Patents are desiged to encourage innovation...
Your right, this was the intent but in practicce it is an excuse for big corps like Microsoft to use to stifle innovation and adoption of competators.
How does anyone benefit (slime layers excluded) from SCO vs. IBM or the letters SCO sent out extoring companies for licesing Linux?
If you really want software innovation, make software patents unenforcable. This will allow smaller developers to produce products without having the additional burden of a legal team. Maybe hire extra programers that add value and less legal.
While no one is going to pay you to develop open source, you can make a living at maintaining and adding business value with it. IF you really have the skills a good living is possible.
A search of Big Endian and Little endian might help. Remember the whole internet is big endian so Intel processors have to do byte manipulations to work with it. Doesn't sound like much until you handle a few million socket connects per hour on a busy server. So many Intel operations require byte sized maniplulations to normalize the it but RISC+UNIX does not.
Many UNIX OSes have many components optimized for RISC, not CISC. The difference isn't so important in many applications but in the kernel where speed is important it maters. RISC usually executes instructions much faster by needing fewer clock cycles to do the same thing. This is why comparing RISC processor speeds to CISC speeds is not a true measure. Heck, I can pump a 20GHz microwave into a chip but it isn't necessarily going any faster. Will generate heat though.
Internal memory management is key for UNIX, and thus has been built in and used longer than say Windows. Although after the 386 Intel processor it was much better in the hardware it has never been as important in the Intel/Windows world to have high performance memory management. Not so with UNIX as UNIX is often running 15000 process threads for some 100-2000 users, which is still beyond reliable reach for Microsoft. Hey, when an application corrupts an OS driver at home, and the system crashes 10 minutes later is isn't like 3000 people are scrathing their ass waiting to do order input.
I know Linux != UNIX, but close enough
Linux as a kernel? Perhaps not... it had different roots. But as an architecure and all those things in/usr/bin,/usr/sbin -- most if not all have UNIX roots and or are developed from or in the UNIX/POSIX framework. If UNIX was defined as POSIX, then Linux is UNIX. Another point, we often view UNIX as one product, it is really a marriage of hundreds if not thousands when you view it as an OS.
What makes Linux so kewl is it comes with compilable source. If you don't like it change it. If you want to know, read the book or the source. Anything written on it will port to almost anything UNIX/BSD/Linux from almost any vendor in a heart beat. If a company goes bankrupt or is sold -- you have the source -- no sweating bullets.
Do keep in mind, Linux needs a compiler and many people put alot of good work into gcc and other tools like Perl, Tcl and others. Add that Linux kernels with UNIX technology and a great development environment is what makes Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD king.
Best of all, Linux, UNIX, BSDs play well together. There is likely more incompatibilites and querks between Windows 98/2000/2003 than there is between Mac OS-X (BSD inside) and any xNIXs.
What are they trying to pull here? That Intel was possibly behind SCO's litigation? I doubt it..
Lawyers get to make lots of money on this, but historically Intel has wanted to see big UNIX fail so it would help Xeon sales. Intel has never really been xNIX friendly although some of it's technology came from chips like the Alpha that were designed for UNIX.
This is now hurting Intel in that the most popular, and probably the best processor to run Linux is an AMD Athlon 64. And with competition from other chip sets Intel sales and margins are dropping.
The bottom line is if IBM can show Intel provided SCO the technology then in fact SCO has no claim, which I suspect be the case. IBM probably knows many SCO claims agqinst IBM were derived elsewhere as SCO hasn't innovated anything but business extortion since the early 80's.
Why not use GnuCAsh? It's so difficult to integrate with online banking?
Late last year I left Quicken for GnuCash and never used any of the Quicken on-line options.
What I use the program for ia a double entry check against the bank. If I enter what I do into it I expect my banl statement balances to match. If it does not, then either I or the bank missed something. I could do this if I just download what the bank thinks I did.
As for on-line payment, I use my banks on-line facilities using Mozilla as the browser.
So I never notice nor care if it integrates with my bank.
Compatible with open source, stolen and borrowed code. We own it, and invented the Internet and Linux. Buy a copy now and Open MS-Office (closed source with virus hooks and back doors built in) available now for a full featued desktop.
Even the EULA has improved, it is now twice as long, more complex and has been made into a 2 hour video.
Can now be backed up with the included MS-cpio. For corparate customers, secure file copy and encrypted interactive terminal sessions do not cost extra and are included with the MS-SSH package. You can also distribute these files around the clock using the reliable MS-RSync package.
For you personal protection there is MS-IPF firewall that protect not only what tries to get in, but also watches what goes out.
Corporations can easily prevent users from loading spyware, P2P, virus and other malware.
Comes with IE-Firefox, a new nify browser with less chance of being bothered by rude sites popups and viruses. We have customized it with new and improved annoyances.
Comes with a new reliable job scheduler called MS-cron. Never have to worry about setting the time as it uses MS-ntp for reliable and ultra accurate time settings.
For developers, MS-perl, MS-java, MS-C/C++, tcl, wish, php, MS-apache, MSksh, SHsh, MSawk, MSmysql MSprogress and MSsccs/rcs all await your pleasure and are included with the OS at no extra charge. Will save your company thousands
You can run your own servers with the optional included package of MS-imap, MS-sendmail, MS-DNS, MS-apache, MS-php and others, all Writen to Micosoft standards. Our developers have made sure buffer overflows and back doors exist for the NSA for legal compliance. Source is not provided so it is maintenace free.
The system can natively run open source. Although it is advised not to do so as it voids your warenty. See EULA line item 104786.
Comes with a real VM so when the boss comes by you can swap desktops quickly and reliably.
Get you MS-Linux for an introductory price of $999 *Which is less than Windows 2003 or 2005!
You are no longer bound to expensive Intel P5 chips. Runs on the Dragon 2008, systems usually start at $180 for a 3GHz quad processor.
Includes MS-OpenVPN to connect to work or your companys MS-Linux gateway. No extra charge. But will not work with Cisco.
Includes a threaded news reader to coordinate the threads of messages in the shared folders. No more will you need to search for related messages from 3 months ago.
Hmm..going by your logic, if companies replace their servers every 4-5 years, it is going to be a long time before Linux sees any server market share.
For some companies where managers need to feel a familiarity between their desk top and what a server looks like... and perhaps have low skilled server manager - yes. These markets will be initially hard to crack. Some of these shops still might even still be running Netware.
But do remember, Linux is in almost every Netgear, SMC, LinkSys cable modems, routers and even cell phones. For web servers, Netcraft reports more sites run on Linux/BSD/xNIX than Windows.
China bought a million seats of Linux from Sun not to long ago. And since most distros are free -- no one really knows how many there out there but I would bet the farm that it is alot more than Microsoft will admit to or have you believe.
Many shops use VMWare to run Windows servers to increase reliability by removing driver depenancies. VMWare also facilitates quick backup and recovery as well as OS instance sharing of hardware. VMWare server version is modified Linux. Modified versions of xNIX can be found in Bluecoats, file share devices
This you can be sure of, China with relatively inexpensive labour could pile 1,000,000 programmers towards Linux and like TVs, computers, camera, auto parts, toys and hundereds of other things the next software package for ERP, HRS or servers might also come from the orient.
And China isn't going to spend $1000 per PC on Microsoft for 5 billion people. More like 50 cents for a Linux distro with a Chinese version of Open Office that runs on a $125 PC. Comes with source for quick bug fixes and isn't back doored.
The chinese are learning Linux now. Give then a year, maybe two and the shrink wrapped ERP server might be at your door to replace that Microsoft server.
Intel is already feeling the pinch as why spend $300 for a P4 when I can get the whole system, memory, hard drive, case CD-RW for $300.
Our businesses feel the pinch as users routinely load spyware and viruses daily costing billions in unproductive time for our companies. And yes, users infect more machines than worms do. A Linux appliances will come in a way the user can't do this and save adopers many millions.
So no, I think the Linux revolution is huge and only begun. And it is building momentum by the day. And I do predict the day Micosoft adopts Linux as theor OS or they will be crushed.
This isn't another episode of funny accounting is it?
It is of sorts. Microsoft has so much cash in various accounts is is commonly known in the past that not was all accounted for as to make their profits more reasonable. With a 80-90% markup in North American markets does not hurt either.
Y2K was 4-5 years ago, and alot of the sales are upgrades from NT to W2000 or W2003. 1999 was a bubble sales year and after 4-5 years write down many companies will upgrade servers. Sales for this type are Y2K cyclical and will not last.
And if you don't plow the income into R&D to fix issues of security, usability and reliability then it is like milking a cow without feeding it.
Novell had such a bubble near it's end at the top as did Digital and IBM before them. History is just repeating itself.
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It might be more correct to say, Microsoft's lack of standards has led it to the same predicament as any other mature off the cuff systems, you can't change it without breaking it until you understand it completely. And not even M$ with 40B in the bank can do it.
Best ot stick to published and accepted standards not brought on by business, but by those without a dollar bill in mind.
Going to stick with Mozilla and Firefox.
Likely the table error should be fixed but I have found validator.w3.org to be of an "interesting site" only. What counts is that most browsers present it properly. The rest is hyperbole and perhaps some chit chat value.
LI tags do not need to be closed, it is just the author of the validator thinks so. Either that or maybe a new spec changes that but I admit, I don't read evey one that was ever written.
And what if the output was written to a prior version? Validator will surely complain. Try re-writing the internet because someone decided to change the spec in the last version.
What would be nice if the tool relaxed a bit and worked on pointing out issues with the top 3-5 browsers in presentation. The world does NOT revolve around w3.org.
Good choice, mine too. I copy everything into IMAP, just works and works.
On the UNIX host, I periodically burn them to CD/DVD.
The best part is if you delete something from the spinning plater and you need it all you have to do is copy it back in from the CD.
GATES: We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry.
With a statement like that, what about TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore PET and others. Steve Jobs would be the man if he wasn't so closed up with his architecture and IBM was not. All Microsoft and Bill did was be in the right place when IBM had 100,000 PCs without an OS. After that they screwed their way to the top of the heap with questionable business practices to ride the wave. It was well under way long before Bill had DOS.
Microsoft even had interest in SCO to get code and make sure they didn't rival their Windows NT. Oh yes, these two companies have a long relationship more than most know.
In fact, we just announced that we'll have a new version of the browser so we're innovating very rapidly there and it's our commitment to have the best.
I guess this hints of a new browser. I wonder how much open source code and ideas it will contain. Most people, including Microsoft seem to forget that Microsoft really hasn't invented anything new. They just use other's ideas.
In a few years when the biggest market in the world runs Linux (China) we will see Microsoft in second place. It will be a glorious day when Microsoft gets a long needed lesson in humility.
What's this Usenet thing again?
Something that makes Microsoft folders in Exchange look like crap. NNTP readers were more advanced 10 years ago than Microsoft folders are today. Threading for example. Man, I hate scrolling back 300 messages to refer to the last relaated comment.... all because we are biggoted and bias to M$ and socially uncultured in our use of the internet.
The only real problem for usenet today is too much garbage and spam. It was good when it was moderated and abusive users got kicked off the internet for abusing it.
But I guess we are stuck with learning a dozen dfferent web sites.
This is gimic advertising.
I'm not comfortable with this, and I would like someone to tell me I'm just paranoid.
You are not paranoid and your comfort level is well tuned. Unreliable behavior cannot be tolerated unless it is entropy.
I figure microprocessor development as we have seen it is nearing its end without new ideas. For example, gigahertz isn't by it self an indication of computational capability. It takes hundreds of CPU cycles on a P4 to do common operations that on an 8080 would take one CPU cycle. If you can reduce the CPU cycle per operation count and reduce transistor count you could end up with a much faster lower power counterpart. But right now the marketing is on megahertz sells and a lot of the transistor count goes into making it stable at ever-faster speeds.
Clearly, not enough has gone into optimizing the transistors used today.
Then with the new dye space, add multiple cores for parallel processing, 2, 4, 8 and maybe 16 cores per dye. Perhaps a 3 processor core with the 4 section of dye having a specialized audio/video processor.
We think computers are 0 and 1 based, but there is no reason it could not be ternary or beyond. Memory states could be 1, 0 or maybe. From a software perspective this could make AI programming practical.
But for some, put a 10GHz oscillator into an in-line divider that feeds to a 1GHz processor and it will sell premium to some.
American's may be wiser than you think on gun control. Imagine invading the US... no sane country in the world would contemplate this. It stems from gun control before independance.
Global warming really isn't as big of an issue as it might seem. It makes living further north (and south) more habitable.
8 months of summer and beach front proprty in Greate Slave Lake anyone?
Now watch microsoft drop that price from 200$ to 10$.
And Microsoft security will put feet on the street...
Maybe Microsoft will offer the mayor a stock option...
whereas UPN has done little to promote Enterprise.
And the local stations prempt it for the dummest of things. I believe the original BSG also fought to continue.
What would be a good thing is if we could pay $10 to download a season. Get 10 million people willing to kick in $10 then you have $100M to produce a season. That is, consumer to producer direct without the non-value added middle and excessive advertising.
What we really need is warp drive so we can meet real cute vulcans that can't be discontinued!
I must be missing the M$ point as software forks all the time. Did not Winodws NT 3.5 fork from Windows 3.11 ? Are not users of Windows NT 3.x user long since faced this same issue? I don't believe Microsoft nor Linux could release a new version without a fork... but Linux being POSIX and having source code can in fact address most of the issues by re-compiling and re-installing.
But if the point is Linux could fork to a different group supporting it, this is a plus. It prevents a monopoly and the associated costs with it. It also allows distributions to evolve to what the market wants, and not marketing letting us know what we want.
For example, I was using a very old version of Linux, stable but needed to upgrade. I ended up going to a different distro as it was nicely tailered towards the desktop and it was destined for my laptop. The switch was painless.
You're distributing information. Don't you know that's illegal now?
Unless it is false information that benefits Microsoft. That is legal until SCO patents it.
We're talking about TCO - Total Cost of Ownership. It takes time and effort to create an install and then mirror it to a hundred systems. The business pays for that time and effort. Even if it's an in house tech doing the job, at the very least his salary for the time spent doing the install should be factored into the cost.
Just like no one installs windows from raw OEM media, if you roll out Linux to many machines you image it just like Windows. And if your tech staff can't install Linux, I pitty you.
And it's hardly a win for Linux to say that Linux is not more expensive than Windows. If we can't show a cost savings for Linux, it's a win for Redmond.
Especially for companies, Linux TCO is cheaper. Most CEOs couldn't tell you how much they spend on Windows but do bet it is more that they realize. Linux comes with alot of stuff that in Windows is extra. Lets list a few I have never seen in TCO analysis:
Complete and full development environment including vetted source code
Secure terminal emulation such as secure shell
File distribution software and package management including remote install
Remote administration (securely)
Backup and recovery software (that works without an OS install!)
Proxy software (squid)
IMAP/POP3 servers including SSL versions
Firewall that works and is stateful.
VPN software
GRID and distrubuted computing that is tried and true
SQL servers
DNS, LDAP, sendmail and other servers included 0 best of all they even work with Windows.
Open Office
All the above (and likely more) is included and no CAL nickel and diming. Best of all, many functions can be shared!! That is the secretaries PC might also be the local mail server and no need for the extra system to support local mail or DNS.
If your like most corps, the same problems, and the same solutions exist to roll out linux as Windows XP. Not a whole lot of differences.
Mind you if your CEO/CIO/CFO and others spend more time playing games and watching videos, and like loading spyware instead of financial and business management and order input -- then Windows is your answer.
Heck, I hope their math and assumptions are good. With this many years, and assumptions you don't have to be far off for the big bang. That is, hit this blue marble instead of passing by.
I am not against software patents. I think they are a good thing. However, we seriously need to reconsider what is considered patentable. Some of the approved patents are blatantly absurd, and actually hurt commerce.
If I patent the phrase "considered patentable" then you would be in patent violation. Software is not unlike writing a book, it is a computer reading it to derive something out of it.
And back to your point, who is going to decide what is patentable? What do people do when they are trivially sued because of abiguity of the patent? The governments are supposed to filter trivial patents but my bet is 99.999% of the government employees do not even know what they are looking at.
Patents are desiged to encourage innovation ...
Your right, this was the intent but in practicce it is an excuse for big corps like Microsoft to use to stifle innovation and adoption of competators.
How does anyone benefit (slime layers excluded) from SCO vs. IBM or the letters SCO sent out extoring companies for licesing Linux?
If you really want software innovation, make software patents unenforcable. This will allow smaller developers to produce products without having the additional burden of a legal team. Maybe hire extra programers that add value and less legal.
CNet thinks this is something new?
It is not new.
While no one is going to pay you to develop open source, you can make a living at maintaining and adding business value with it. IF you really have the skills a good living is possible.
So this story is tainted.
This AI and natural language thing gives ne deja-vue
Maybe a start of Prolog version 2. Or an excuse to spend money.
How can a processor be designed for UNIX?
A search of Big Endian and Little endian might help. Remember the whole internet is big endian so Intel processors have to do byte manipulations to work with it. Doesn't sound like much until you handle a few million socket connects per hour on a busy server. So many Intel operations require byte sized maniplulations to normalize the it but RISC+UNIX does not.
Many UNIX OSes have many components optimized for RISC, not CISC. The difference isn't so important in many applications but in the kernel where speed is important it maters. RISC usually executes instructions much faster by needing fewer clock cycles to do the same thing. This is why comparing RISC processor speeds to CISC speeds is not a true measure. Heck, I can pump a 20GHz microwave into a chip but it isn't necessarily going any faster. Will generate heat though.
Internal memory management is key for UNIX, and thus has been built in and used longer than say Windows. Although after the 386 Intel processor it was much better in the hardware it has never been as important in the Intel/Windows world to have high performance memory management. Not so with UNIX as UNIX is often running 15000 process threads for some 100-2000 users, which is still beyond reliable reach for Microsoft. Hey, when an application corrupts an OS driver at home, and the system crashes 10 minutes later is isn't like 3000 people are scrathing their ass waiting to do order input.
I know Linux != UNIX, but close enough
Linux as a kernel? Perhaps not... it had different roots. But as an architecure and all those things in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin -- most if not all have UNIX roots and or are developed from or in the UNIX/POSIX framework. If UNIX was defined as POSIX, then Linux is UNIX. Another point, we often view UNIX as one product, it is really a marriage of hundreds if not thousands when you view it as an OS.
What makes Linux so kewl is it comes with compilable source. If you don't like it change it. If you want to know, read the book or the source. Anything written on it will port to almost anything UNIX/BSD/Linux from almost any vendor in a heart beat. If a company goes bankrupt or is sold -- you have the source -- no sweating bullets.
Do keep in mind, Linux needs a compiler and many people put alot of good work into gcc and other tools like Perl, Tcl and others. Add that Linux kernels with UNIX technology and a great development environment is what makes Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD king.
Best of all, Linux, UNIX, BSDs play well together. There is likely more incompatibilites and querks between Windows 98/2000/2003 than there is between Mac OS-X (BSD inside) and any xNIXs.
What are they trying to pull here? That Intel was possibly behind SCO's litigation? I doubt it..
Lawyers get to make lots of money on this, but historically Intel has wanted to see big UNIX fail so it would help Xeon sales. Intel has never really been xNIX friendly although some of it's technology came from chips like the Alpha that were designed for UNIX.
This is now hurting Intel in that the most popular, and probably the best processor to run Linux is an AMD Athlon 64. And with competition from other chip sets Intel sales and margins are dropping.
The bottom line is if IBM can show Intel provided SCO the technology then in fact SCO has no claim, which I suspect be the case. IBM probably knows many SCO claims agqinst IBM were derived elsewhere as SCO hasn't innovated anything but business extortion since the early 80's.
When will it end?
Not soon enough.
Why not use GnuCAsh? It's so difficult to integrate with online banking?
Late last year I left Quicken for GnuCash and never used any of the Quicken on-line options.
What I use the program for ia a double entry check against the bank. If I enter what I do into it I expect my banl statement balances to match. If it does not, then either I or the bank missed something. I could do this if I just download what the bank thinks I did.
As for on-line payment, I use my banks on-line facilities using Mozilla as the browser.
So I never notice nor care if it integrates with my bank.
Microsoft Linux 2008
Compatible with open source, stolen and borrowed code. We own it, and invented the Internet and Linux. Buy a copy now and Open MS-Office (closed source with virus hooks and back doors built in) available now for a full featued desktop.
Even the EULA has improved, it is now twice as long, more complex and has been made into a 2 hour video.
Can now be backed up with the included MS-cpio. For corparate customers, secure file copy and encrypted interactive terminal sessions do not cost extra and are included with the MS-SSH package. You can also distribute these files around the clock using the reliable MS-RSync package.
For you personal protection there is MS-IPF firewall that protect not only what tries to get in, but also watches what goes out.
Corporations can easily prevent users from loading spyware, P2P, virus and other malware.
Comes with IE-Firefox, a new nify browser with less chance of being bothered by rude sites popups and viruses. We have customized it with new and improved annoyances.
Comes with a new reliable job scheduler called MS-cron. Never have to worry about setting the time as it uses MS-ntp for reliable and ultra accurate time settings.
For developers, MS-perl, MS-java, MS-C/C++, tcl, wish, php, MS-apache, MSksh, SHsh, MSawk, MSmysql MSprogress and MSsccs/rcs all await your pleasure and are included with the OS at no extra charge. Will save your company thousands
You can run your own servers with the optional included package of MS-imap, MS-sendmail, MS-DNS, MS-apache, MS-php and others, all Writen to Micosoft standards. Our developers have made sure buffer overflows and back doors exist for the NSA for legal compliance. Source is not provided so it is maintenace free.
The system can natively run open source. Although it is advised not to do so as it voids your warenty. See EULA line item 104786.
Comes with a real VM so when the boss comes by you can swap desktops quickly and reliably.
Get you MS-Linux for an introductory price of $999 *Which is less than Windows 2003 or 2005!
You are no longer bound to expensive Intel P5 chips. Runs on the Dragon 2008, systems usually start at $180 for a 3GHz quad processor.
Includes MS-OpenVPN to connect to work or your companys MS-Linux gateway. No extra charge. But will not work with Cisco.
Includes a threaded news reader to coordinate the threads of messages in the shared folders. No more will you need to search for related messages from 3 months ago.
But hurry, these prices will not last!
Hmm..going by your logic, if companies replace their servers every 4-5 years, it is going to be a long time before Linux sees any server market share.
For some companies where managers need to feel a familiarity between their desk top and what a server looks like... and perhaps have low skilled server manager - yes. These markets will be initially hard to crack. Some of these shops still might even still be running Netware.
But do remember, Linux is in almost every Netgear, SMC, LinkSys cable modems, routers and even cell phones. For web servers, Netcraft reports more sites run on Linux/BSD/xNIX than Windows.
China bought a million seats of Linux from Sun not to long ago. And since most distros are free -- no one really knows how many there out there but I would bet the farm that it is alot more than Microsoft will admit to or have you believe.
Many shops use VMWare to run Windows servers to increase reliability by removing driver depenancies. VMWare also facilitates quick backup and recovery as well as OS instance sharing of hardware. VMWare server version is modified Linux. Modified versions of xNIX can be found in Bluecoats, file share devices
This you can be sure of, China with relatively inexpensive labour could pile 1,000,000 programmers towards Linux and like TVs, computers, camera, auto parts, toys and hundereds of other things the next software package for ERP, HRS or servers might also come from the orient.
And China isn't going to spend $1000 per PC on Microsoft for 5 billion people. More like 50 cents for a Linux distro with a Chinese version of Open Office that runs on a $125 PC. Comes with source for quick bug fixes and isn't back doored.
The chinese are learning Linux now. Give then a year, maybe two and the shrink wrapped ERP server might be at your door to replace that Microsoft server.
Intel is already feeling the pinch as why spend $300 for a P4 when I can get the whole system, memory, hard drive, case CD-RW for $300.
Our businesses feel the pinch as users routinely load spyware and viruses daily costing billions in unproductive time for our companies. And yes, users infect more machines than worms do. A Linux appliances will come in a way the user can't do this and save adopers many millions.
So no, I think the Linux revolution is huge and only begun. And it is building momentum by the day. And I do predict the day Micosoft adopts Linux as theor OS or they will be crushed.
This isn't another episode of funny accounting is it?
It is of sorts. Microsoft has so much cash in various accounts is is commonly known in the past that not was all accounted for as to make their profits more reasonable. With a 80-90% markup in North American markets does not hurt either.
Y2K was 4-5 years ago, and alot of the sales are upgrades from NT to W2000 or W2003. 1999 was a bubble sales year and after 4-5 years write down many companies will upgrade servers. Sales for this type are Y2K cyclical and will not last.
And if you don't plow the income into R&D to fix issues of security, usability and reliability then it is like milking a cow without feeding it.
Novell had such a bubble near it's end at the top as did Digital and IBM before them. History is just repeating itself.