You can never plan for everything, swap is there as a safety net. Anything from unanticipated loads, (a kickass site that shows up on Slashdot perhaps), or a bug in what ever applications your running on it can quickly monopolize your ram, and down things go. Obviously you never want to plan to use swap, and you size the system to what its going to do, with some leeway, but its impossible to plan for everything all the time.
I think you'll find he was referring to the astronomical cost of Oracle when only for a tiny site. How on earth did you ever get accounting to sign off on that.
Sort of got over that with Novell 4.11. Becides its not like your going to take FreeBSD 4.9 and 4.10, add them together to get FreeBSD 9. Its a numbering scheme to show progression, its very easy to see 10 is the release after 9.
$180 spread across how many companies compared to $100 million for one means MS is moving more product then any one Linux vendor. I bet Unix sales also were over $100 million but everyone still says Unix is going the way of the dodo. So still these numbers are nothing special.
I think you'll find that Oracle doesn't care that the Admin tools don't look the same as Mozilla or don't use the GTK, and it doesn't hurt usability just because they don't look as pretty as your desktop. Java was chosen for one reason, because it made the tools look and act exactly the same no matter what OS you decided to run. That makes them far more usable then having them look one way on Windows, another on Linux and a completely different way on Solaris.
If you don't like it don't use them, there's a whole host of tools for interacting with the Oracle Server.
Percent increase isn't impressive without hard numbers. Were there 100 or 50,000 shipments of linux servers the year before? Shipping an extra 57 this year isn't much, but an extra 28,650 is. So try not to wet yourself over this, there are no actual numbers, just some nice sounding percentages.
Read your TOS before whining like a child, you got what you paid for. If you didn't look to see what you were agreeing to, thats you fault not your ISP's. Just about every residential ISP TOS clearly states you are not to be running a server or services for external users, as in external to your home.
So its not that your ISP 'had the nerve,' to tell you what you agreed to, but you were too clueless to read what you were agreeing to before you agreed to it.
...project contemporary (modern?) views, beliefs and stereotypes back across periods and events preceding these views and beliefs.
This is different from traditional text books how? Mention Adolf Hitler to a high school student just about anywhere and you will get one response, "Evil." Now yes, not ignoring all that the Nazis did under the 3rd Reich, there was more to it then just that. Under Hitler, Germany was one of the first nations to emerge from the Depression. They don't know how the short sighted Act of Versailles created the grounds for Nazism to take root and grow. Even today, Older Germans who lived in Germany during the 30's will tell you, that before going to war, Hitler was almost a godsend.
History is written by the victors to justify what they did, its all biased, always has been and it always will be.
No its a Fedora problem, if it was Windows fault then no distro would dual boot with windows without triggering the same thing. As far as windows creating a "invalid, but usable" table, I don't buy it. If it was invalid, it wouldn't be usable. Sometimes your just going to have to accept that not all evil is Microsoft's fault. Red Hat changed their installer and now it screws up peoples systems. Its Red Hats problem and no one else's.
Who cares why Dell, HP and whoever else is promoting recycling programs, its enough that they are. Quite frankly, if you thought they were doing it for some other reason then to sell new systems, well your an idiot aren't you.
There's a lot of people here have commented that they use older systems in various situations, and I do to, but lets face it, we're special cases. We did it because we could and we already know what to do. The majority of people on the other hand don't and so I think its a good thing that they have the choice of Recycling their old system and getting some money off a new one, or throwing out their existing one when they get that new one. Either way they're gonna get a new one, its better to recycle the existing one, so I see these programs as nothing but a win-win situation.
Actually its RMS who calls Linus 'just an engineer' and its not a compliment. Its said in the vein of 'just a child,' as in he might be able to do something but he doesn't understand the ramifications. In this case, Linus isn't fighting his (RMS) holy war so he doesn't think highly of Linus and derides him as just an engineer who doesn't understand the whys of the GPL.
A closer quote from Revolution OS is "he calls me just an engineer."
Yes it was quite nice of him to document publicly that he made a conserted effort to ensure he didn't know what was happening. It also documents he knew exactly how to track what was going on. So if Comcast cuts his service, well he has no defence now does he.
Lets put it this way, I need money so I decide that I'm going to collect some insurence money on my car. Now obvoiuly if I go outright and push my car into a lake and claim it, thats fraud, so I won't do that. Instead, I park my car on a really steap hill near the same lake, leave it in neutral, and don't put the hand break on, and it rolles into the lake. Except I also blabed to everyone I know and wrote it in the local paper saying how brilliant I am I ensured I got money but I 'didn't know' it was going to roll down the hill.
So his documenting his attempts to make sure it appeared he couldn't do it, nullifies the whole thing.
So. They're within their right too, if it bothers the developers then what are they doing writing under the GPL anyway.
However, i would say that a large portion of the major developers in the Linux kernel, and by major I mean those contributing large amounts of code, are employed by the 'large companies' either to work on the kernel.
Haven't you wondered why Linux has picked up so much steam recently? Why not in '95, Linux was almost 5 then? Its the difference between actual volunteers, then those volunteers getting jobs doing the same thing.
Yes a company that makes a product might not give everything as OSS, but just employing a developer to do the same work they were doing before allows them a lot more time to do the work, and is a hell of a lot larger contribution then most OSS zealots ever do.
Without IBM, Novel, Red Hat, SuSE and whoever else employing those developers, Linux would have remained a hobby OS for a lot longer then it did.
Your probably right, there's a good chance that user base has nothing to do with it.
There's also a good chance that Comcast and other ISP's haven't signed a document agreeing to a TOS that says they are the end user and are not selling or otherwise distributing their connection. There is a difference between an end user and a Service Provider.
Stars look like little candle lights, twinkle and flicker like little candle lights, they're little candle lights. I don't care what science says.
Paypal isn't a bank, they never said they were a bank, and if the courts say its not a bank, well guess what, no matter how you slice it, its not a bank.
Many "people who know" are just as stupid, the author of this article and my girl-friends brother included. How can I say this?
I am careful with my systems, so at home I have a firewall, AV on my 2 Windows systems, I keep up to date with patches, both before and after I had broadband. I install and uninstall a lot of software on my XP system, which was 2000 before, and before that NT/98 dual boot. Never have I had to, or felt the need to format just to keep it running, thats what maintenance is for. Immediately you can classify anyone who says you have to reformat every so often as completely clueless.
Second, the author here got blaster, so we know he didn't keep up to date with patches. Once again, numerous "people in the know" will tell you that WindowsUpdate is evil, and you should never ever update because it will screw up your system every time, these are often the same people that have to format to fix a sound card issue. The author might have also said WindowsUpdate was ad, i stopped reading when it became apparent he had no idea what he was talking about, but I know my girl friends brother tells that to everyone he works for, he has a few small support contracts, so you can imagine how busy he gets with every worm outbreak.
So there are stupid people everywhere, but until people who think they know what there talking about really do, stupid things like blaster and idiots reformatting every 6 months because they think they have to to keep windows running will continue to exist and cause havoc.
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You can never plan for everything, swap is there as a safety net. Anything from unanticipated loads, (a kickass site that shows up on Slashdot perhaps), or a bug in what ever applications your running on it can quickly monopolize your ram, and down things go. Obviously you never want to plan to use swap, and you size the system to what its going to do, with some leeway, but its impossible to plan for everything all the time.
I think you'll find he was referring to the astronomical cost of Oracle when only for a tiny site. How on earth did you ever get accounting to sign off on that.
Sort of got over that with Novell 4.11. Becides its not like your going to take FreeBSD 4.9 and 4.10, add them together to get FreeBSD 9. Its a numbering scheme to show progression, its very easy to see 10 is the release after 9.
A MCSE counts as qualified?
$180 spread across how many companies compared to $100 million for one means MS is moving more product then any one Linux vendor. I bet Unix sales also were over $100 million but everyone still says Unix is going the way of the dodo. So still these numbers are nothing special.
I'm sure that the people that employ this 'institute' will either never hear about this or wont care. In short nothing will come of this.
I think you'll find that Oracle doesn't care that the Admin tools don't look the same as Mozilla or don't use the GTK, and it doesn't hurt usability just because they don't look as pretty as your desktop. Java was chosen for one reason, because it made the tools look and act exactly the same no matter what OS you decided to run. That makes them far more usable then having them look one way on Windows, another on Linux and a completely different way on Solaris.
If you don't like it don't use them, there's a whole host of tools for interacting with the Oracle Server.
Percent increase isn't impressive without hard numbers. Were there 100 or 50,000 shipments of linux servers the year before? Shipping an extra 57 this year isn't much, but an extra 28,650 is. So try not to wet yourself over this, there are no actual numbers, just some nice sounding percentages.
My ISP had the nerve
Read your TOS before whining like a child, you got what you paid for. If you didn't look to see what you were agreeing to, thats you fault not your ISP's. Just about every residential ISP TOS clearly states you are not to be running a server or services for external users, as in external to your home.
So its not that your ISP 'had the nerve,' to tell you what you agreed to, but you were too clueless to read what you were agreeing to before you agreed to it.
...project contemporary (modern?) views, beliefs and stereotypes back across periods and events preceding these views and beliefs.
This is different from traditional text books how? Mention Adolf Hitler to a high school student just about anywhere and you will get one response, "Evil." Now yes, not ignoring all that the Nazis did under the 3rd Reich, there was more to it then just that. Under Hitler, Germany was one of the first nations to emerge from the Depression. They don't know how the short sighted Act of Versailles created the grounds for Nazism to take root and grow. Even today, Older Germans who lived in Germany during the 30's will tell you, that before going to war, Hitler was almost a godsend.
History is written by the victors to justify what they did, its all biased, always has been and it always will be.
Except at least half of the people at raves are too young to remember anything before Mario.
Not endless upgrade cycles and constant patching
Well at least you never had to deal with that problem with OS/2, so advanced, you don't even need a new version.
I thought that fell under the authority of the MIB.
I'd like that NeXT system.
No its a Fedora problem, if it was Windows fault then no distro would dual boot with windows without triggering the same thing. As far as windows creating a "invalid, but usable" table, I don't buy it. If it was invalid, it wouldn't be usable. Sometimes your just going to have to accept that not all evil is Microsoft's fault. Red Hat changed their installer and now it screws up peoples systems. Its Red Hats problem and no one else's.
Who cares why Dell, HP and whoever else is promoting recycling programs, its enough that they are. Quite frankly, if you thought they were doing it for some other reason then to sell new systems, well your an idiot aren't you.
There's a lot of people here have commented that they use older systems in various situations, and I do to, but lets face it, we're special cases. We did it because we could and we already know what to do. The majority of people on the other hand don't and so I think its a good thing that they have the choice of Recycling their old system and getting some money off a new one, or throwing out their existing one when they get that new one. Either way they're gonna get a new one, its better to recycle the existing one, so I see these programs as nothing but a win-win situation.
People that use the word 'shizzle' should be shot.
Actually its RMS who calls Linus 'just an engineer' and its not a compliment. Its said in the vein of 'just a child,' as in he might be able to do something but he doesn't understand the ramifications. In this case, Linus isn't fighting his (RMS) holy war so he doesn't think highly of Linus and derides him as just an engineer who doesn't understand the whys of the GPL.
A closer quote from Revolution OS is "he calls me just an engineer."
...easier to program
Tell that to the Hurd people who are now 14 years over-due for a kernel.
Its called OpenGL and its cross plaform.
Yes it was quite nice of him to document publicly that he made a conserted effort to ensure he didn't know what was happening. It also documents he knew exactly how to track what was going on. So if Comcast cuts his service, well he has no defence now does he.
Lets put it this way, I need money so I decide that I'm going to collect some insurence money on my car. Now obvoiuly if I go outright and push my car into a lake and claim it, thats fraud, so I won't do that. Instead, I park my car on a really steap hill near the same lake, leave it in neutral, and don't put the hand break on, and it rolles into the lake. Except I also blabed to everyone I know and wrote it in the local paper saying how brilliant I am I ensured I got money but I 'didn't know' it was going to roll down the hill.
So his documenting his attempts to make sure it appeared he couldn't do it, nullifies the whole thing.
So. They're within their right too, if it bothers the developers then what are they doing writing under the GPL anyway.
However, i would say that a large portion of the major developers in the Linux kernel, and by major I mean those contributing large amounts of code, are employed by the 'large companies' either to work on the kernel.
Haven't you wondered why Linux has picked up so much steam recently? Why not in '95, Linux was almost 5 then? Its the difference between actual volunteers, then those volunteers getting jobs doing the same thing.
Yes a company that makes a product might not give everything as OSS, but just employing a developer to do the same work they were doing before allows them a lot more time to do the work, and is a hell of a lot larger contribution then most OSS zealots ever do.
Without IBM, Novel, Red Hat, SuSE and whoever else employing those developers, Linux would have remained a hobby OS for a lot longer then it did.
Your probably right, there's a good chance that user base has nothing to do with it.
There's also a good chance that Comcast and other ISP's haven't signed a document agreeing to a TOS that says they are the end user and are not selling or otherwise distributing their connection. There is a difference between an end user and a Service Provider.
Stars look like little candle lights, twinkle and flicker like little candle lights, they're little candle lights. I don't care what science says.
Paypal isn't a bank, they never said they were a bank, and if the courts say its not a bank, well guess what, no matter how you slice it, its not a bank.
Many "people who know" are just as stupid, the author of this article and my girl-friends brother included. How can I say this?
I am careful with my systems, so at home I have a firewall, AV on my 2 Windows systems, I keep up to date with patches, both before and after I had broadband. I install and uninstall a lot of software on my XP system, which was 2000 before, and before that NT/98 dual boot. Never have I had to, or felt the need to format just to keep it running, thats what maintenance is for. Immediately you can classify anyone who says you have to reformat every so often as completely clueless.
Second, the author here got blaster, so we know he didn't keep up to date with patches. Once again, numerous "people in the know" will tell you that WindowsUpdate is evil, and you should never ever update because it will screw up your system every time, these are often the same people that have to format to fix a sound card issue. The author might have also said WindowsUpdate was ad, i stopped reading when it became apparent he had no idea what he was talking about, but I know my girl friends brother tells that to everyone he works for, he has a few small support contracts, so you can imagine how busy he gets with every worm outbreak.
So there are stupid people everywhere, but until people who think they know what there talking about really do, stupid things like blaster and idiots reformatting every 6 months because they think they have to to keep windows running will continue to exist and cause havoc.