True this. Where I work we have some folks in the accounting department who use a couple of external websites that require Java support. Too bad the different sites keep changing their code and requiring different JVM versions from each other! Write once, run anywhere. Sure thing...
I do the same thing. There is a Panera right next door to where my head office is. So I take a lunch break every now and then to test out some of our new wireless equipment. The only thing that's a bit of a pain is when one of the devices I'm testing is using MSDE (the free 5-user MS SQL Server lite). Panera must use local MS SQL Server instances at their locations, since my SQL Server control icon down in the system tray would be hanging there trying to connect to whatever they have. Then again that's what I get for using M$:-)
Here's a blog entry regarding this AARD system check. Some of the points seem valid if the Windows 3.1 setup actually relied on altering DOS environmental items on the fly as Windows was being installed. Perhaps it wasn't purely some monolithic attempt at owning every aspect of a user's computer after all...
No it shouldn't. It's not supported or available as an option for Windows 98. For my corporate environment I had to edit some of the setup files for it in order for it to ignore checking the Windows version when installing. Then it would work. But otherwise it wouldn't. The.NET Framework is a huge resource and storage hog. Either Microsoft was figuring most Win 98 workstations wouldn't be able to handle things from a hardware standpoint or else the split between 9x and NT branches was otherwise too tough to make the jump.
Let's face it. Windows 98 was released over 7 years ago. How can you expect any software company to continue offering backwards-compatible support for something like that? And it's across the board, as the Linux distros don't work in such a fashion either.
There are plenty of underlying differences in the 9x and NT branches of the Windows software tree. A lot of recent Microsoft application releases require things like.NET Framework installed and the like. The.NET Framework won't run on a Windows 98 platform. I haven't seen the anti-spyware application but perhaps it's a similar requirement.
Microsoft is requiring an OS version that's (gasp) 5 years old. That doesn't sound too unreasonable to me. Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't want them to demand bleeding edge requirements. Especially since I'm stuck with roughly a dozen legacy Win98 boxes at my work I have to keep up:-(
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Michael support community when IDC confirmed that Michael has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all reactionary editors. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Michael has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Michael is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent reactionary editor study.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Michael's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Michael faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Michael because Michael is dying. Things are looking very bad for Michael. As many of us are already aware, Michael continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
There can no longer be any doubt: Michael is dying.
Due to the troubles of half-baked, biased posts, abysmal moderation and so on, his editorial spot will probably be taken over by another hoser who will continue his legacy. Now Michael is also dead, his corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Michael has steadily declined in popularity. Michael is very sick and his long term survival prospects are very dim. If Michael is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. Michael continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save him at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Michael is dead.
I can see it now. When a Win32 illegal operations error is being thrown the dialog box will inform the user..."Da shizznit ain't the rizzle dizzle fo shizzle ma nizzle."
The reason that Microsoft hasn't ventured into a similar pursuit is that it probably wouldn't be a major boon to its arsenal and wouldn't be a prime strategic maneuver. No matter what you say about Microsoft's corporate ethics and insecure programming model they are shrewd businesspeople.
Everyone should admit that for North America at least Red Hat has the major market share for Linux distribution. From what I have read it sounds as if SuSE has a foothold in Europe, but from Sun's North American perspective it's pretty much true. I'm sure (as others have pointed out) he probably meant Red Hat's version or distribution of Linux, but even if he didn't he's pretty much on target.
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Exactly. That's why I use other toolkits such as the Tk Ruby extension. Then the GTK Glade stuff is out there as well for Ruby. Plus Fox, Wx, et. al. To me the Qt licensing makes me wary.
There also a good IDE called Widestudio. It's a large download (over 100MB) because it comes with installs for Python, Perl and Ruby. But it's a good tool for creating effective GUI applications.
There are GUI toolkits which typically are added on as an extension to something like Python. I am learning Ruby and can choose from Qt, Tk, Wx, Fox, etc. As long as someone has created the extensions you are good to go.
As a beginning programmer I can say that between the handful of popular scripting languages Ruby is hands-down the easiest, most logical one to pick up. Most things just make sense and don't seem like bolted on pieces added on after the fact. I have checked out Perl, Ruby, C++, and Java and acknowledge that there are different tools for different jobs. But for someone starting out I've been 10 times more efficient coding applications in Ruby.
Plus what other programming language can you hop on a mailing list and have your question answered in an hour or even join an IRC channel where the language's author is usually listed as being in the channel as well?
Offtopic granted, but reading about a beginner's guide for Perl kind of struck a chord with me.
I'm not talking about a single workstation. I'm talking about a larger-scale deployment. So in essence, it's packaging the latest JRE, installing it, then including a registry tweak to default the MSIE JVM to Sun's. It's not as simple of a scenario as a single checkbox on one workstation.
On my development workstation I am reporting back JRE 1.4.2_02 but my MSIE plug-in reports it's running the Microsoft JVM 1.1.4. My corporate workstations can be upgraded to JRE 1.4.2_06 without a hitch. But then again I would really rather patch the Microsoft JVM since most of the standard workstations don't have (or need) the entire Sun JRE installed on them.
I know that Microsoft won't release a patch for their JVM. That means I will have to deploy the entire Sun JRE on all worsktations and then deploy some MSIE registry hack that will disable Microsoft's JVM in favor of the new Sun JRE instance. Fun, fun, fun.
By default I have disabled all active scripting unless users manually add websites to their Trusted Sites list. I would think then that the Javascript initiation of the exploit wouldn't work unless there was some site-spoofing going on. Perhaps this might be a band-aid just continuing this policy.
No matter what I think the only permanent solution for most Windows security is probably pulling the plug on the Internet connection. I don't think I could get away with that here at work though:-)
Isn't Asia larger in land size than the U.S.A.? And I recall reading how China's (as an example of a major Asian country) population is largely concentrated in their major cities. The rest of the country is really more spread out and isolated than the U.S. in terms of population I would think.
I wonder why you nearest Central Office can't supply DSL service. The nearest one to my main business office was even going to bring in our DSL service as HDSL2. I believe that this means running the service over a single copper pair. This is equivalent to an analog POTS line which could provide basic telephone service.
The incompatibility must be something to do with the repeaters, bridge taps, etc. all along the way breaking things. That's why I at first didn't understand why the U.S. couldn't provide DSL service as broadly based as its POTS service. The lines are there already. Just add some spans between locations. But therein lies the rub. The POTS service has already been pushed to the max in most areas and it's expensive to build it out since it's all based on dated technology. And adding DSL service along these same runs is price prohibitive to a degree. Most of the POTS service around my main business office is cobbled together on ancient hardware and probably is barely propped up.
He sounds like he has his head screwed on right from what I read of TFA. He concedes the in certain markets Solaris won't reach the status that Linux has. True. And he also states how that Linux disto branches are more disparate than has been the case in the past. Red Hat does seem to hold a tremendous market share. Whether this is a good or a bad thing is up to the reader.
As for the posters who are claiming that Sun is just another Microsoft and whatnot, just because a company is large and competitive doesn't mean that it's always patently evil. To me I believe that Sun is trying to adapt to a changing environment to keep their collective heads above water. Much akin to Novell's migration toward SUSE and all of the Linux inclusions in their new services.
If most **experts** view Linux as the most serious threat to Microsoft these former big players are trying to grab a life preserver. Hopefully they can help elevate and improve what they are latching onto, however. If not then things will get more fragmented and more financially endangered in the end.
Did Sen. Kerry and the other congressional folks have access to the same information? Or did the maniacal monster that is Dubya maliciously hide it from them? As far as I know everyone had access to the same data from the various sources.
As for the "other" intelligence reports that discredited things I wasn't aware of a conspiracy to cover them up. I'm sure if there was such a scenario the liberal press would've feasted on it as would have Sen. Kerry.
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True this. Where I work we have some folks in the accounting department who use a couple of external websites that require Java support. Too bad the different sites keep changing their code and requiring different JVM versions from each other! Write once, run anywhere. Sure thing...
I do the same thing. There is a Panera right next door to where my head office is. So I take a lunch break every now and then to test out some of our new wireless equipment. The only thing that's a bit of a pain is when one of the devices I'm testing is using MSDE (the free 5-user MS SQL Server lite). Panera must use local MS SQL Server instances at their locations, since my SQL Server control icon down in the system tray would be hanging there trying to connect to whatever they have. Then again that's what I get for using M$ :-)
Here's a blog entry regarding this AARD system check. Some of the points seem valid if the Windows 3.1 setup actually relied on altering DOS environmental items on the fly as Windows was being installed. Perhaps it wasn't purely some monolithic attempt at owning every aspect of a user's computer after all...
No it shouldn't. It's not supported or available as an option for Windows 98. For my corporate environment I had to edit some of the setup files for it in order for it to ignore checking the Windows version when installing. Then it would work. But otherwise it wouldn't. The .NET Framework is a huge resource and storage hog. Either Microsoft was figuring most Win 98 workstations wouldn't be able to handle things from a hardware standpoint or else the split between 9x and NT branches was otherwise too tough to make the jump.
Let's face it. Windows 98 was released over 7 years ago. How can you expect any software company to continue offering backwards-compatible support for something like that? And it's across the board, as the Linux distros don't work in such a fashion either. There are plenty of underlying differences in the 9x and NT branches of the Windows software tree. A lot of recent Microsoft application releases require things like .NET Framework installed and the like. The .NET Framework won't run on a Windows 98 platform. I haven't seen the anti-spyware application but perhaps it's a similar requirement.
Microsoft is requiring an OS version that's (gasp) 5 years old. That doesn't sound too unreasonable to me. Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't want them to demand bleeding edge requirements. Especially since I'm stuck with roughly a dozen legacy Win98 boxes at my work I have to keep up :-(
There is a GNU C Compiler that's available for Win32 platforms. It's kosher AFAIK. That's what I use for some of my projects...
Alright....you asked for it.
Netcraft confirms: Michael is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Michael support community when IDC confirmed that Michael has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all reactionary editors. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Michael has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Michael is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent reactionary editor study.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Michael's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Michael faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Michael because Michael is dying. Things are looking very bad for Michael. As many of us are already aware, Michael continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
There can no longer be any doubt: Michael is dying.
Due to the troubles of half-baked, biased posts, abysmal moderation and so on, his editorial spot will probably be taken over by another hoser who will continue his legacy. Now Michael is also dead, his corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Michael has steadily declined in popularity. Michael is very sick and his long term survival prospects are very dim. If Michael is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. Michael continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save him at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Michael is dead.
Fact: Michael is dying
We are dealing with quantum applications here. Maybe you should look a little harder. It's small after all...
At least you have a support group.
I can see it now. When a Win32 illegal operations error is being thrown the dialog box will inform the user..."Da shizznit ain't the rizzle dizzle fo shizzle ma nizzle."
The reason that Microsoft hasn't ventured into a similar pursuit is that it probably wouldn't be a major boon to its arsenal and wouldn't be a prime strategic maneuver. No matter what you say about Microsoft's corporate ethics and insecure programming model they are shrewd businesspeople.
Everyone should admit that for North America at least Red Hat has the major market share for Linux distribution. From what I have read it sounds as if SuSE has a foothold in Europe, but from Sun's North American perspective it's pretty much true. I'm sure (as others have pointed out) he probably meant Red Hat's version or distribution of Linux, but even if he didn't he's pretty much on target.
There also a good IDE called Widestudio. It's a large download (over 100MB) because it comes with installs for Python, Perl and Ruby. But it's a good tool for creating effective GUI applications.
Funny. And read the post just below yours. They finally have included Winsock2 support. This is about 5 years after its original release. Sweet.
There are GUI toolkits which typically are added on as an extension to something like Python. I am learning Ruby and can choose from Qt, Tk, Wx, Fox, etc. As long as someone has created the extensions you are good to go.
As a beginning programmer I can say that between the handful of popular scripting languages Ruby is hands-down the easiest, most logical one to pick up. Most things just make sense and don't seem like bolted on pieces added on after the fact. I have checked out Perl, Ruby, C++, and Java and acknowledge that there are different tools for different jobs. But for someone starting out I've been 10 times more efficient coding applications in Ruby. Plus what other programming language can you hop on a mailing list and have your question answered in an hour or even join an IRC channel where the language's author is usually listed as being in the channel as well? Offtopic granted, but reading about a beginner's guide for Perl kind of struck a chord with me.
I'm not talking about a single workstation. I'm talking about a larger-scale deployment. So in essence, it's packaging the latest JRE, installing it, then including a registry tweak to default the MSIE JVM to Sun's. It's not as simple of a scenario as a single checkbox on one workstation.
On my development workstation I am reporting back JRE 1.4.2_02 but my MSIE plug-in reports it's running the Microsoft JVM 1.1.4. My corporate workstations can be upgraded to JRE 1.4.2_06 without a hitch. But then again I would really rather patch the Microsoft JVM since most of the standard workstations don't have (or need) the entire Sun JRE installed on them.
:-)
I know that Microsoft won't release a patch for their JVM. That means I will have to deploy the entire Sun JRE on all worsktations and then deploy some MSIE registry hack that will disable Microsoft's JVM in favor of the new Sun JRE instance. Fun, fun, fun.
By default I have disabled all active scripting unless users manually add websites to their Trusted Sites list. I would think then that the Javascript initiation of the exploit wouldn't work unless there was some site-spoofing going on. Perhaps this might be a band-aid just continuing this policy.
No matter what I think the only permanent solution for most Windows security is probably pulling the plug on the Internet connection. I don't think I could get away with that here at work though
Ahhh. From the article. You caught me. Now I have to actually RTFA. My bad. :-)
Isn't Asia larger in land size than the U.S.A.? And I recall reading how China's (as an example of a major Asian country) population is largely concentrated in their major cities. The rest of the country is really more spread out and isolated than the U.S. in terms of population I would think.
I wonder why you nearest Central Office can't supply DSL service. The nearest one to my main business office was even going to bring in our DSL service as HDSL2. I believe that this means running the service over a single copper pair. This is equivalent to an analog POTS line which could provide basic telephone service.
The incompatibility must be something to do with the repeaters, bridge taps, etc. all along the way breaking things. That's why I at first didn't understand why the U.S. couldn't provide DSL service as broadly based as its POTS service. The lines are there already. Just add some spans between locations. But therein lies the rub. The POTS service has already been pushed to the max in most areas and it's expensive to build it out since it's all based on dated technology. And adding DSL service along these same runs is price prohibitive to a degree. Most of the POTS service around my main business office is cobbled together on ancient hardware and probably is barely propped up.
They give the maiden voyage a good thumbs up!
He sounds like he has his head screwed on right from what I read of TFA. He concedes the in certain markets Solaris won't reach the status that Linux has. True. And he also states how that Linux disto branches are more disparate than has been the case in the past. Red Hat does seem to hold a tremendous market share. Whether this is a good or a bad thing is up to the reader.
As for the posters who are claiming that Sun is just another Microsoft and whatnot, just because a company is large and competitive doesn't mean that it's always patently evil. To me I believe that Sun is trying to adapt to a changing environment to keep their collective heads above water. Much akin to Novell's migration toward SUSE and all of the Linux inclusions in their new services.
If most **experts** view Linux as the most serious threat to Microsoft these former big players are trying to grab a life preserver. Hopefully they can help elevate and improve what they are latching onto, however. If not then things will get more fragmented and more financially endangered in the end.
Did Sen. Kerry and the other congressional folks have access to the same information? Or did the maniacal monster that is Dubya maliciously hide it from them? As far as I know everyone had access to the same data from the various sources.
As for the "other" intelligence reports that discredited things I wasn't aware of a conspiracy to cover them up. I'm sure if there was such a scenario the liberal press would've feasted on it as would have Sen. Kerry.