Ahh, understand. I wasn't aware that teh other mainframes could run MVS (?) or OS/360 code.
I'm a newbie to computers as I only started with my TRS-80 in the late '70s. I didn't actually get into mainframes until the late '90s. (I still have nightmares about coding EBCDIC <> ASCII in Visual Basic.)
However, I'm not sure this really qualifies as OSS or FOSS software. You really couldn't run it on any other system and there was a very closed community of heavy-smoking computer people who were able to run or modify this.
I did find it cool that the article mentioned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month -The Mythical Man-Month which I'm reading right now. Funny how different - yet the same - software development is some fourty years later.
Okay, the author makes an interesting statement - unless you have something to hide, why encrypt? IOTW, for those looking at computers, the author argues that encryption is nto widespread enough to have it be looked at without suspicion.
Now - let's turn it around. In my work, we manadate that all laptops and usb keys are encrypted. Always. When we get a laptop (I think my department has around 800 laptops, with mine the only one running Ubuntu.) the hard drive gets encrypted. Any USB key gets encrypted.
I do the same for home. My three desktop PCs (two Ubuntu one Vista) are all encrypted.
Why?
In the case of work, they don't want the possibility of any portable device having personal or otherwise comprimising data being stolen. (See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101602.html or http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/04/lost-laptop-okdhs.html for examples.)
In the case of my house, I don't want the possibility of my home PC being run off with my last years tax statements in plain view. (Actually I have those on a separate hard drive, but you get the idea.)
Now - for downloading pr0n, one should simply do what comes naturally and use a neighbors open unprotected wifi connection...;)
when I'm kind of in a lull - such as on vacation or between huge assignments - I play the "dumb" games like Zaxxon or Super Mario Bros. or Wesnoth. Right now, I'm engaged in very serious work (at work) and enjoy playing teh old infocom text-based adventure games. Right now I'm starting on Zork (which I never played) having just finished The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (I have a z-machine emulator on my Blackberry.)
I thought everyone knew that this is how the Mozilla project finances itself. So they have an extension which opens to the mozilla search page on new tab, which also has the google search pointing to ad revenue for mozilla.
So?
Now - the fact that it may have installed itself without my knowing is a bit of an issue. Looks like my Ubuntu (9.04) firefox (3.0.013) doesnt' have it yet. I only have Flashtog, Foxyproxy, googlbar lite and User agent switcher.
I have a cousin diagnosed as schizophrenic. He's 33 and lives at home with no ability to maintain a simple job.
Now, prior to being diagnosed a few years back, he self-medicated with both cigarettes and alcohol. I wonder - if nicotene is a stimulant - wouldn't a few Red Bull cans or even Ritalin do the same job? I figure I'm ADAD, and I love my caffeine. I don't really care for smoking though I can see its benefits. (It has its drawbacks also, as my two-pack/day father passed away at the early age of 67.)
Seriously, I tried to read the article, but sentences like, "this treatment induced the production of intact, bioactive retrocyclin-1 peptide by human epithelial cells and cervicovaginal tissues," just make my eyes glaze over and think that the peers reviewing this journal are way out of my league.
I use Windows 7 regularly on my Ubuntu-powered laptop. The power management of my laptop handles the Windows 7 guest OS (running inside Virtual Box - http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/20090527_vbox_win7_70.jpg ) and have no issues with "draining battery."
yes, im aware that CH is an independent country - all 26 cantons. (Is that how they're spelled?) I was just quoting to ensure no one thought I hadn't read the article.
I did read the article, "Linux vendor Red Hat, and 17 other vendors, have protested a Swiss government contract given to Microsoft without any public bidding. The move exposes a wider Microsoft monopoly that European governments accept, despite their lip service for open source, according to commentators." However, they made their decision irrelevant of public bidding. (By the way, I work for local government in California and can't tell you how much money we lose in the "bidding" process, since it takes up way too much time.)
I'm glad to see that the budesgericht uses GNU/Linux. If only the California courts would. (By the way, I worked for Migros one summer back in '91 near Schaffhausen as an internship.)
The government is run by people. Let's face it, most people don't have a clue about GNU/Linux or FOSS. Most "technogeeks" may have heard of it, but the majority will be using Windows variants because it is what they learned in school.
I run a systems development group. Of my 13 staff members, I have one who consistently uses GNU/Linux. One of our tech support people will use UNIX but thinks Linux is a "toy" used by hobbyists.
I am slowly migrating servers over to SLES from MS 2000 and 2003, simply because my server-side programs - written in C# - can run under Mono. I probably won't even try to conquer the desktop for another few years.
Well at least the contract wasn't on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard." Seriously, you know how government contracts work? A person or group says, "I want XYZ." The organization then writes an RFP, goes to public bid, then comes up with a reason to get XYZ over all competitors.
I'm not saying Switzerland is making the right choice, just trying to make people see common sense. If OSS is to win (and I advocate it every day at work - just not in the COLA way) then this isn't the
Ahh, Dave Cutler. The One who designed NT 4 and Win 2K.
I was just talking about him to some of my managers the other day and how Win2K - his last main project - was the last "good" Windows variant in my opinion.
I don't know about these guys, but whenever I try and do a 3D image of a spider it just crawls away. By the time I get to actually rendering an image, the spider is flat.
Yes, they did. Here's Linus' announcement of his "minix-like" kernel: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/2194d253268b0a1b
And here is the famous Tannenbaum/Torvalds "Linux-is-Obsolete" debate: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_frm/thread/c25870d7a41696d2
" Most older operating systems are monolithic, that is, the whole operating
system is a single a.out file that runs in 'kernel mode.' This binary
contains the process management, memory management, file system and the
rest. Examples of such systems are UNIX, MS-DOS, VMS, MVS, OS/360,
MULTICS, and many more.
The alternative is a microkernel-based system, in which most of the OS
runs as separate processes, mostly outside the kernel. They communicate
by message passing. The kernel's job is to handle the message passing,
interrupt handling, low-level process management, and possibly the I/O.
Examples of this design are the RC4000, Amoeba, Chorus, Mach, and the
not-yet-released Windows/NT."
Though I've heard here and in a few other places that NT/Windows is a microkernel, I've also heard teh opposite. No opinion there, as I'm not a kernel hacker, just a PHB.
I am not surprised to see this kind of release. After all, they need to hold on to that monopoly position on the desktop to keep their server business afloat.
What was interesting was the complete lack of any mention of Novell's SLED product. Remember, that MS and Novell are in cahoots to put servers out there running both Windows Workstation 2008 and SLES. In fact, I distinctly remember Ballmer last year mentioning "suzie" in one of his speeches at the Visual Studio 2008 launch event.
Oddly enough, also, there's no mention of a distribution running KDE. Both Ubuntu (which I use now on my laptop) and Red Hat are GNOME-based distros by default. SLED (and openSUSE) are also becoming more GNOME-centric. (I know you can put KDE on any of these, and I run KTorrent as well as KRDC in my desktop.)
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Ahh, understand. I wasn't aware that teh other mainframes could run MVS (?) or OS/360 code.
I'm a newbie to computers as I only started with my TRS-80 in the late '70s. I didn't actually get into mainframes until the late '90s. (I still have nightmares about coding EBCDIC <> ASCII in Visual Basic.)
Interesting article to be sure -
However, I'm not sure this really qualifies as OSS or FOSS software. You really couldn't run it on any other system and there was a very closed community of heavy-smoking computer people who were able to run or modify this.
I did find it cool that the article mentioned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month -The Mythical Man-Month which I'm reading right now. Funny how different - yet the same - software development is some fourty years later.
LOL!
You mean to imply that my work uses unsafe operating systems like XP?
Nah...
(Like I say, I'm the one (AFAIK) Linux user in the bunch.)
Well, that's only if said employee is doing something like using an SSH Proxy to his home network or TOR to bypass the built-in proxy at work.
<whistles...>
Okay, the author makes an interesting statement - unless you have something to hide, why encrypt? IOTW, for those looking at computers, the author argues that encryption is nto widespread enough to have it be looked at without suspicion.
;)
Now - let's turn it around. In my work, we manadate that all laptops and usb keys are encrypted. Always. When we get a laptop (I think my department has around 800 laptops, with mine the only one running Ubuntu.) the hard drive gets encrypted. Any USB key gets encrypted.
I do the same for home. My three desktop PCs (two Ubuntu one Vista) are all encrypted.
Why?
In the case of work, they don't want the possibility of any portable device having personal or otherwise comprimising data being stolen. (See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101602.html or http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/04/lost-laptop-okdhs.html for examples.)
In the case of my house, I don't want the possibility of my home PC being run off with my last years tax statements in plain view. (Actually I have those on a separate hard drive, but you get the idea.)
Now - for downloading pr0n, one should simply do what comes naturally and use a neighbors open unprotected wifi connection...
I could - if needed - get myself a Prius. Would that slow down the sun from getting too warm?
I actually find the opposite.
when I'm kind of in a lull - such as on vacation or between huge assignments - I play the "dumb" games like Zaxxon or Super Mario Bros. or Wesnoth. Right now, I'm engaged in very serious work (at work) and enjoy playing teh old infocom text-based adventure games. Right now I'm starting on Zork (which I never played) having just finished The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (I have a z-machine emulator on my Blackberry.)
LOL!
I see. So whty're starting off at 3.5 TeV, moving to 5 and 7 TeV. They will get to 10 TeV at one point.
I wonder if it would be be louder if they turned the dial all the way up to 11 TeV.
I thought everyone knew that this is how the Mozilla project finances itself. So they have an extension which opens to the mozilla search page on new tab, which also has the google search pointing to ad revenue for mozilla.
So?
Now - the fact that it may have installed itself without my knowing is a bit of an issue. Looks like my Ubuntu (9.04) firefox (3.0.013) doesnt' have it yet. I only have Flashtog, Foxyproxy, googlbar lite and User agent switcher.
I'll be watching for this.
I have a cousin diagnosed as schizophrenic. He's 33 and lives at home with no ability to maintain a simple job.
Now, prior to being diagnosed a few years back, he self-medicated with both cigarettes and alcohol. I wonder - if nicotene is a stimulant - wouldn't a few Red Bull cans or even Ritalin do the same job? I figure I'm ADAD, and I love my caffeine. I don't really care for smoking though I can see its benefits. (It has its drawbacks also, as my two-pack/day father passed away at the early age of 67.)
I'm just saying...
Seriously, I tried to read the article, but sentences like, "this treatment induced the production of intact, bioactive retrocyclin-1 peptide by human epithelial cells and cervicovaginal tissues," just make my eyes glaze over and think that the peers reviewing this journal are way out of my league.
Yes, that is true. However, this is how things work.
I tend to agree.
I use Windows 7 regularly on my Ubuntu-powered laptop. The power management of my laptop handles the Windows 7 guest OS (running inside Virtual Box - http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2009/20090527_vbox_win7_70.jpg ) and have no issues with "draining battery."
yes, im aware that CH is an independent country - all 26 cantons. (Is that how they're spelled?) I was just quoting to ensure no one thought I hadn't read the article.
I did read the article, "Linux vendor Red Hat, and 17 other vendors, have protested a Swiss government contract given to Microsoft without any public bidding. The move exposes a wider Microsoft monopoly that European governments accept, despite their lip service for open source, according to commentators." However, they made their decision irrelevant of public bidding. (By the way, I work for local government in California and can't tell you how much money we lose in the "bidding" process, since it takes up way too much time.)
I'm glad to see that the budesgericht uses GNU/Linux. If only the California courts would. (By the way, I worked for Migros one summer back in '91 near Schaffhausen as an internship.)
The government is run by people. Let's face it, most people don't have a clue about GNU/Linux or FOSS. Most "technogeeks" may have heard of it, but the majority will be using Windows variants because it is what they learned in school.
I run a systems development group. Of my 13 staff members, I have one who consistently uses GNU/Linux. One of our tech support people will use UNIX but thinks Linux is a "toy" used by hobbyists.
I am slowly migrating servers over to SLES from MS 2000 and 2003, simply because my server-side programs - written in C# - can run under Mono. I probably won't even try to conquer the desktop for another few years.
Well at least the contract wasn't on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard." Seriously, you know how government contracts work? A person or group says, "I want XYZ." The organization then writes an RFP, goes to public bid, then comes up with a reason to get XYZ over all competitors.
I'm not saying Switzerland is making the right choice, just trying to make people see common sense. If OSS is to win (and I advocate it every day at work - just not in the COLA way) then this isn't the
I'm an OSS advocate. I use Ubuntu and openSUSE at home. My kids run Ubuntu.
However, if a decision was made to go with lesser closed-source software, than so be it. Move on.
Stunts such as this - bringing a lawsuit against the government - can only serve to harm the OSS movement.
Ahh, Dave Cutler. The One who designed NT 4 and Win 2K.
I was just talking about him to some of my managers the other day and how Win2K - his last main project - was the last "good" Windows variant in my opinion.
I don't know about these guys, but whenever I try and do a 3D image of a spider it just crawls away. By the time I get to actually rendering an image, the spider is flat.
...that's what the SCO lawyers want you to think. :P
Yes, they did. Here's Linus' announcement of his "minix-like" kernel: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/2194d253268b0a1b
And here is the famous Tannenbaum/Torvalds "Linux-is-Obsolete" debate: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_frm/thread/c25870d7a41696d2
" Most older operating systems are monolithic, that is, the whole operating
system is a single a.out file that runs in 'kernel mode.' This binary
contains the process management, memory management, file system and the
rest. Examples of such systems are UNIX, MS-DOS, VMS, MVS, OS/360,
MULTICS, and many more.
The alternative is a microkernel-based system, in which most of the OS
runs as separate processes, mostly outside the kernel. They communicate
by message passing. The kernel's job is to handle the message passing,
interrupt handling, low-level process management, and possibly the I/O.
Examples of this design are the RC4000, Amoeba, Chorus, Mach, and the
not-yet-released Windows/NT."
Though I've heard here and in a few other places that NT/Windows is a microkernel, I've also heard teh opposite. No opinion there, as I'm not a kernel hacker, just a PHB.
I am not surprised to see this kind of release. After all, they need to hold on to that monopoly position on the desktop to keep their server business afloat.
What was interesting was the complete lack of any mention of Novell's SLED product. Remember, that MS and Novell are in cahoots to put servers out there running both Windows Workstation 2008 and SLES. In fact, I distinctly remember Ballmer last year mentioning "suzie" in one of his speeches at the Visual Studio 2008 launch event.
Oddly enough, also, there's no mention of a distribution running KDE. Both Ubuntu (which I use now on my laptop) and Red Hat are GNOME-based distros by default. SLED (and openSUSE) are also becoming more GNOME-centric. (I know you can put KDE on any of these, and I run KTorrent as well as KRDC in my desktop.)
No, but "Windows NT is a better UNIX than UNIX." Linux is a minix-like monolithic kernel operating system.