Yes. And you don't need a computer science degree to be an IT worker. IT != CS. Universities invent new degrees all the time... at my university there are three computer paths. CST for programmers covering theory, CS for people wanting to be monkey coders and CIS for people interested in IS/IT jobs.
Most people choose CIS because its the easiest. There are few math and science requirements. Its mostly business + how to use windows server + intro vb.
I'll believe there's a shortage of computer science majors, but they are not IT workers in general. Most of the masters canidates at my university are from India or China. I would guess at least 60% are from another country. About half want to go back to their country upon graduation. My wife is a minority in the program since she's american, white and female.
I think the real problem is that we won't have people to be project managers in 20 years. Large companies like to outsource the peon work and keep people here to manage it. No one will be qualified to do so in 20 years in the US.
You can do the equivalent of a font tag with a span tag. You can even replace b tags with span tags using a font-weight: bold; (assuming you want the style only and not the meaning...)
I really don't see why HTML is still used. Browsers could get smaller and faster if they could assume all websites are XHTML! Essentially browsers would be XML parsers that apply style sheets to the markup. In fact, why not just improve XSL instead of CSS.
Point is, XHTML 1.0 is here to stay. I don't expect most people to adopt XHTML 1.1 or newer CSS versions anytime soon. For one, we have to wait on Microsoft. Where do we want to go today? Standards!!!!!!
lol.. guess i'm not the only one that remembers Microsoft Antivirus from back in the day...
My first pc, a packard bell (very sad) included dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 for workgroups. Microsoft antivirus had a dos and windows graphical interface and basically did a checksum test on all the files. It created files to remember what it checksum'd in each directory as I recall.
It took forever to scan and obviously didn't catch much and had many false positives. Imagine using tripwire to check for viruses except on a dos partition with nothing to check but byte size and maybe the modify date!
It was credited to symantec in the about box I think.
Its not just GNU/Linux. I work for my university. We purchase mostly dell systems. Dell often does not want to support problems on laptops because we have our own XP image and its SP2. "Dell does not recommend SP2." Well, I don't recommend running unpatched windows.. its bad enough patched!
It reminds me of the Dell "N" systems that come with freedos but you can install Linux if you really want to! They usually cost MORE than a windows PC for the same hardware. You don't even get a Linux distro!
Here's what needs to happen for widespread use of Linux:
1. Minimize the number of distros to a few tailored to each market. (desktops, servers, corporate, embedded devices)
2. Standardize on a desktop environment for all of the above. It doesn't matter which one.
3. Focus on the user experience. Fix the various memory problems and bloat common to OSS software. (don't flame me here.. look at a gnome terminal or how many libraries i need to link to php to get features in.NET)
4. Create a Netware/Groupwise system thats OSS for Linux. People want zenworks and other management features. Linux MUST BE EASIER TO MANAGE than windows to win!
5. Scream our heads off to switch for every reason under the sun.. price, performance, ease of use (when its finally true), security, etc.
6. Rejoice and hope we didn't create another microsoft with the FSF/GNU.
The other option is to let the idiots run windows all they want and continue to use other OSes ourselves. I like this option. Its called choice and thats what OSS is all about. At home, I have a collection of operating systems that i reguarly use for different tasks. Sometimes having the best tool for the job makes life easier! (Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, OS/2 Warp 4)
Adobe has a monopoly with an "open document format" like PDF. Sure there's plenty of free and commercial products besides acrobat, but most business people still call them acrobat files. I always call them PDF documents to seperate adobe from the product title. One of the first features I loved about OSX was that you could save in PDF without paying adobe money or using a complex series of steps to get an open source product to work.
Adobe buying macromedia is a scary thing. I'm actually happy for once microsoft is taking someone on. Clash of the monopolies!
An xml format is good, but I'd like to see it go one step further and be an RDF document. Then we may see the TimBL promise of documents that know their data types.
Well then WHY ship computers with CDROM DRIVES NOW!!!!! Apple still ships ibook g4's in an acedemic configuration with DVD drives. How can they upgrade to tiger? What about my ibook g4.. its 16 months old and I can't upgrade my OS without sending away for cds. The CD offer expires in june if you check the website.
http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/tigermediaexcha ngev2.pdf
At least linux gets acrobat reader. Look at the poor bsd community. We can run it in "emulation mode".. big deal. FreeBSD is the most widely used bsd and yet we can't get binaries for commercial apps or often drivers. (nvidia is coming around)
Open source developers need to start pushing for generalized support of alternate platforms, not just Linux. I wouldn't just push for BSD drivers.
Adobe has pulled support for several products on the Mac platform. Aside from this suprise acrobat release, i think they've focused on Windows.
This is great news. I switched from KDE about a year ago because of the newer gnome interface. (2.4+?)
I run gnome on FreeBSD 5-stable and found that my biggest complaint is the memory usage. I have a dual xeon 2.0 gig with 1 gig of ram and gnome + xorg eat up at least 200-300mb of the ram. Maybe while they are at it they can fix some other problems with gnome like the fact the default stack size needs to be increased in many non linux systems when porting it!!!!!
Some users report problems with NetBSD as well. I think all of the BSD projects are going through a transition period. There is a need. FreeBSD is getting ready for dual core processors. The SMP support is good. I have a dual xeon 2.0ghz box here and its very nice. On a single cpu system, it is much slower than 4.x or presumably netbsd. (i've only used sparc ports of netbsd) Fine grained locking will slow down a uni.. they knew that going into it. The primary market for freebsd is still servers and many servers have 2 processors or more. Some have HTT enabled. It makes sense to focus on SMP at this point. In 2 years everyone will wish netbsd had done it too!
Personally, I think all the bsd systems need work on the desktop front. Linux is still by far ahead in this area. Since XORG and others have stopped work on DRI for modern video cards we are stuck with no hardware acceleration in freebsd at the moment. (ati at least) That really hurts with KDE or gaming. My gentoo install runs circles around freebsd 5-stable (post 5.3) and i built a custom 2.6 kernel in gentoo.:)
With time, FreeBSD will mature. I think by 6.0 release, we will have a good chance to compete with Linux. Linux development seems stalled as its so commercial. Look for a Lamer friendly distro of linux thats FREE!!!!! I tried to get my mother to switch to linux, but she saw it costs money and didn't want to switch. I could not convince her otherwise. Thats a real issue. In contrast, hit any bsd site and look for a "fee" attached. (apple excluded of course)
I agree with the underlying point made and this point about calling others weenies.
I suspect it is easy for Mac users like myself to get defensive and call pc users weenies. I am a CS student and walking down the hall with my iBook, i often get made fun of for having a Mac. I really find it annoying since a portable unix workstation is quite handy! I've even had professors call me stupid in class. (especially electrical engineers)
Its nice to see the shoe on the other foot even though I also have a dual xeon at home. (windows, FreeBSD, and gnu/linux!)
As for price and performance, I think the Mac Mini is ideal for home audio/video usage. It would technically run World of Warcraft too!
I don't see how Mac is "out". Lets look at a price breakdown between Mac, Windows and Linux.
Situation 1: New hardware
600 dollar pc with 100 dollar monitor & windows
600 dollar pc with 100 dollar monitor & linux
800 dollar eMac
Hidden costs:
Windows - Required anti-virus & maybe a commercial firewall. at least 30 dollars. (plus yearly renewals and upgrades)
1 hour setup time. ( network plus software installs)
10 hours of windows updates
Linux - Free, but configuring a linux/unix system takes more initial time. 3 hours of redhat updates (or your favorite distro)
Mac OS X system - 5 minute setup plus software installs (comparable to windows).
3 hours of updates if its toward the end of the product cycle (new os a year) Like linux, no anti-virus is required.
Situation 2: Existing hardware
Windows: 100-200 dollars an upgrade, plus antivirus software upgrade or renewals (at least 5 bucks for virus definitions) required. Microsoft broke compatibility with something to make you buy office XP.. additional costs. (old software doesn't run). IT must learn it.
Linux: Free (or pay redhat for free stuff) plus cost to install upgrade. Minimal. No antivirus, old software runs.
Mac: 130 for OSX. install time takes about 45 minutes changing 2 cds on an old iMac. Old software runs perfect. No antivirus.
Based on these two scenarios, Windows is by far the most expensive. Mac is second and linux is the cheapest. Now thats just physical cost. Software can be free for linux and mac as they both run open source systems and include X11.
When you count usability, things get gray. Everyone will argue their favorite platform is the easiest.
When you go for productivity, i think windows loses here too. There are new patches everyday.. plus linux and Mac systems don't crash as often.
In the end, Windows is the loser. The real choice between linux and Mac OS X is wheither or not you want to run commercial applications. Linux has few. Linux and Mac systems probably have more software available for them than Windows systems. (open source + commercial).
The other logical thing to point out here is that Macs CAN run linux.
Lastly, I have more of a question.. what do people think of HERD? Is it supposed to replace linux or compete with Mac OS X? (it is a Mach setup like Next openstep and Mac OS X )
I'm just wondering if everyone is happy about HERD or if a GNU civil war is coming between HERD and Linux people.
I'm going with what MICROSOFT said about the status of Windows a few months back. I also saw some of it on slash dot.
Microsoft is having problems with the floating point.. meaning when they coded it in C/C++ they picked a data type of a certain length which changes on a 64 bit cpu. Its normal to have this happen. Its called not being type safe.
I haven't seen microsoft's internal release of windows on an AMD 64 chip. I certainly wouln't blame AMD for Microsofts bad programming. Hell Microsoft can't get.NET to run last I heard because of the same problem.
I know there is a linux distro that runs fine.. and i'm sure linux people will get the job done first. The freebsd port even compiles now and boots.
In summary, Microsoft never planned on a portable operating system. I would agree that win 2k and xp are more stable than previous OS releases from Microsoft but not that Windows is reliable or stable. If you put windows in context with any other recent OS like Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux, or *BSDs you will see that windows is in fact not that stable. Win 2k and XP are based on NT4 which i used for several years as a desktop prior to upgrading to 2000 at home and now XP. Microsoft has had time to mature this OS and now they want to throw it out the window with the next release. I think its obvious microsoft doesn't care about stability. If every other company can build on their OSes, why can't Microsoft? (Apple is building on the next operating system with OSX)
Further I should not have to prove that AMD is waiting on microsoft. You can read press releases from Microsoft, AMD, and comments on Slash dot, FreeBSD (mailing lists comments on status of their port refer to windows problems) , and other sources for the info. Thats what google is all about.
True, but Mac OS X doesn't crash on a G5 like windows crashes on an AMD 64. Apple didn't write code for 32 processors exclusively.
Every release of Mac OS X will get more support too. The version shipped with the first batch of G5's supported 64 bit floating point operations for apps and offered additional memory addressing too.
Apple's hardware/software monopoly came through this time.. they don't have to wait for Microsoft to make their processor do something.
The problem is banks don't set trends.. if they did we would all use OS/2 as our desktop platform.
I realize you are talking about servers. I was also consider the fact that apple and IBM can take the time to build servers with 64 processors and destroy sun's remaining customer base.
The reason I focus on desktops is because that is how Microsoft and Apple entered the server markets. CEOs know what windows is.. most don't know or care what Sun is. Large companies have suns because IT departments tell them to. Also sun is entering the business desktop market like IBM tried to do with OS/2. I see failure in Suns future.. they need to innovate or they become Lotus.
Have you used iTunes in windows yet? Have you used a G5? I doubt it or you wouldn't say apple lies.
Apple does have the first 64 bit pc for home users. AMD is still in fantasy land.. where is windows 64 bit? thats what home users use. Linux does NOT count.. my mom does not use linux.
Speed on the other hand is mostly in perception. There is no way to compare a PowerPC and an Intel or AMD cpu fairly. I can see photoshop finishing faster on a Mac though. That's what end users see and thats what they care about. Thanks to AMD, end users are starting to realize bigger numbers don't mean everything. In the same regard, Apple is using big numbers to get those remaining idiots.. for example 64 bit vs 32 bit.
I have the balls to post this publicly..
The next release of SQL Server is scheduled to be written in.NET. At the very least it will be managed C++ code. The whole point of the next release is to make it.NET native allowing.NET stored procedures.
A Kernel should be written in a language like C. Its portable, fairly fast, and our Unix heritage. At this point in the "war", its Unix like vs Microsoft.
It doesn't matter what IE is written in. All applications are exploitable in ANY language. Sure, the risk is smaller in java but you can still do some damage. If an app is running as root, does it matter? Half of windows runs as the system account.
Don't blame the languages. I think everyone would agree C was designed before many of these ideas were considered important. People were more concerned about speed than buffer overflows. Remember the y2k bug? Its arrogant to think we are not making the same mistakes now. We just don't see them as a group yet.
Web Development is an area that is very insecure for example.
As I said in another post, Sun needs to get a new CPU under the hood that has some speed on it. What happens to java if sun goes under? No one has answered that question.
What's the point of buying a 64 processor sparc. Half their boxes are at 500 mhz still. I know about the megahertz myth, but even apple claims their chips are faster at lower clock rates. If its true, then sun boxes are slower than dirt.
Sun used to have the 64 bit advantage, but its gone now. Apple will continue to grow in the server market and IBM is turning into Intel.. they want to sell processors. Intel is turning into motorolla.. i.e. dead.
IBM and Apple use the same fast processors. Unless sun switches to the IBM G5 type cpu's and keeps up with apple on speeds there is no chance for them.
Apple and linux systems are better workstations. Sun servers are pathetic next to an Apple xserve or even a 2000 dollar rack mount dell/gateway/ibm/hp.
I used to own a sparc. When it died, it was rather depressing but my Mac OS X box sure took over the load.
There is nothing wrong with blogging. Many people use it for stress relief or to communicate events in their life with friends and family. No one forces you to view blogs.
One might say in your eyes i contribute to the problem! http://www.justjournal.com/
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You could blind someone while driving?
Yes. And you don't need a computer science degree to be an IT worker. IT != CS. Universities invent new degrees all the time... at my university there are three computer paths. CST for programmers covering theory, CS for people wanting to be monkey coders and CIS for people interested in IS/IT jobs.
Most people choose CIS because its the easiest. There are few math and science requirements. Its mostly business + how to use windows server + intro vb.
I'll believe there's a shortage of computer science majors, but they are not IT workers in general. Most of the masters canidates at my university are from India or China. I would guess at least 60% are from another country. About half want to go back to their country upon graduation. My wife is a minority in the program since she's american, white and female.
I think the real problem is that we won't have people to be project managers in 20 years. Large companies like to outsource the peon work and keep people here to manage it. No one will be qualified to do so in 20 years in the US.
You can do the equivalent of a font tag with a span tag. You can even replace b tags with span tags using a font-weight: bold; (assuming you want the style only and not the meaning...)
I really don't see why HTML is still used. Browsers could get smaller and faster if they could assume all websites are XHTML! Essentially browsers would be XML parsers that apply style sheets to the markup. In fact, why not just improve XSL instead of CSS.
Point is, XHTML 1.0 is here to stay. I don't expect most people to adopt XHTML 1.1 or newer CSS versions anytime soon. For one, we have to wait on Microsoft. Where do we want to go today? Standards!!!!!!
lol.. guess i'm not the only one that remembers Microsoft Antivirus from back in the day...
My first pc, a packard bell (very sad) included dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 for workgroups. Microsoft antivirus had a dos and windows graphical interface and basically did a checksum test on all the files. It created files to remember what it checksum'd in each directory as I recall.
It took forever to scan and obviously didn't catch much and had many false positives. Imagine using tripwire to check for viruses except on a dos partition with nothing to check but byte size and maybe the modify date!
It was credited to symantec in the about box I think.
This is nothing new.. just a comeback!
Its not just GNU/Linux. I work for my university. We purchase mostly dell systems. Dell often does not want to support problems on laptops because we have our own XP image and its SP2. "Dell does not recommend SP2." Well, I don't recommend running unpatched windows.. its bad enough patched!
.NET)
It reminds me of the Dell "N" systems that come with freedos but you can install Linux if you really want to! They usually cost MORE than a windows PC for the same hardware. You don't even get a Linux distro!
Here's what needs to happen for widespread use of Linux:
1. Minimize the number of distros to a few tailored to each market. (desktops, servers, corporate, embedded devices)
2. Standardize on a desktop environment for all of the above. It doesn't matter which one.
3. Focus on the user experience. Fix the various memory problems and bloat common to OSS software. (don't flame me here.. look at a gnome terminal or how many libraries i need to link to php to get features in
4. Create a Netware/Groupwise system thats OSS for Linux. People want zenworks and other management features. Linux MUST BE EASIER TO MANAGE than windows to win!
5. Scream our heads off to switch for every reason under the sun.. price, performance, ease of use (when its finally true), security, etc.
6. Rejoice and hope we didn't create another microsoft with the FSF/GNU.
The other option is to let the idiots run windows all they want and continue to use other OSes ourselves. I like this option. Its called choice and thats what OSS is all about. At home, I have a collection of operating systems that i reguarly use for different tasks. Sometimes having the best tool for the job makes life easier! (Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, OS/2 Warp 4)
Adobe has a monopoly with an "open document format" like PDF. Sure there's plenty of free and commercial products besides acrobat, but most business people still call them acrobat files. I always call them PDF documents to seperate adobe from the product title. One of the first features I loved about OSX was that you could save in PDF without paying adobe money or using a complex series of steps to get an open source product to work.
Adobe buying macromedia is a scary thing. I'm actually happy for once microsoft is taking someone on. Clash of the monopolies!
An xml format is good, but I'd like to see it go one step further and be an RDF document. Then we may see the TimBL promise of documents that know their data types.
But from my understanding, it is OK to have a DVD player in the UK that doesn't care about region codes. You guys get something.
Well then WHY ship computers with CDROM DRIVES NOW!!!!! Apple still ships ibook g4's in an acedemic configuration with DVD drives. How can they upgrade to tiger? What about my ibook g4.. its 16 months old and I can't upgrade my OS without sending away for cds. The CD offer expires in june if you check the website. http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/tigermediaexcha ngev2.pdf
At least linux gets acrobat reader. Look at the poor bsd community. We can run it in "emulation mode".. big deal. FreeBSD is the most widely used bsd and yet we can't get binaries for commercial apps or often drivers. (nvidia is coming around)
Open source developers need to start pushing for generalized support of alternate platforms, not just Linux. I wouldn't just push for BSD drivers.
Adobe has pulled support for several products on the Mac platform. Aside from this suprise acrobat release, i think they've focused on Windows.
"I think you're right. Chewy lock in the auxilary controls!"
This is great news. I switched from KDE about a year ago because of the newer gnome interface. (2.4+?) I run gnome on FreeBSD 5-stable and found that my biggest complaint is the memory usage. I have a dual xeon 2.0 gig with 1 gig of ram and gnome + xorg eat up at least 200-300mb of the ram. Maybe while they are at it they can fix some other problems with gnome like the fact the default stack size needs to be increased in many non linux systems when porting it!!!!!
I think stoner AND alcoholic makes you a Windows ME user. At least it does in my mom's case. :)
Lossless is part of iTunes and therefore part of Windows and Mac versions of iTunes (and probably quicktime)
Some users report problems with NetBSD as well. I think all of the BSD projects are going through a transition period. There is a need. FreeBSD is getting ready for dual core processors. The SMP support is good. I have a dual xeon 2.0ghz box here and its very nice. On a single cpu system, it is much slower than 4.x or presumably netbsd. (i've only used sparc ports of netbsd) Fine grained locking will slow down a uni.. they knew that going into it. The primary market for freebsd is still servers and many servers have 2 processors or more. Some have HTT enabled. It makes sense to focus on SMP at this point. In 2 years everyone will wish netbsd had done it too! Personally, I think all the bsd systems need work on the desktop front. Linux is still by far ahead in this area. Since XORG and others have stopped work on DRI for modern video cards we are stuck with no hardware acceleration in freebsd at the moment. (ati at least) That really hurts with KDE or gaming. My gentoo install runs circles around freebsd 5-stable (post 5.3) and i built a custom 2.6 kernel in gentoo. :)
With time, FreeBSD will mature. I think by 6.0 release, we will have a good chance to compete with Linux. Linux development seems stalled as its so commercial. Look for a Lamer friendly distro of linux thats FREE!!!!! I tried to get my mother to switch to linux, but she saw it costs money and didn't want to switch. I could not convince her otherwise. Thats a real issue. In contrast, hit any bsd site and look for a "fee" attached. (apple excluded of course)
I submitted a logo this weekend so they have at least 1. :)
I agree with the underlying point made and this point about calling others weenies. I suspect it is easy for Mac users like myself to get defensive and call pc users weenies. I am a CS student and walking down the hall with my iBook, i often get made fun of for having a Mac. I really find it annoying since a portable unix workstation is quite handy! I've even had professors call me stupid in class. (especially electrical engineers) Its nice to see the shoe on the other foot even though I also have a dual xeon at home. (windows, FreeBSD, and gnu/linux!) As for price and performance, I think the Mac Mini is ideal for home audio/video usage. It would technically run World of Warcraft too!
RSS 1.0 wasn't created by the original author. It is the only version that is RDF compatible.
.91 was created for use by netscape's web portal system and the current release is 2.0. Harvard's law department now controls the standard.
RSS
I don't see how Mac is "out". Lets look at a price breakdown between Mac, Windows and Linux. Situation 1: New hardware 600 dollar pc with 100 dollar monitor & windows 600 dollar pc with 100 dollar monitor & linux 800 dollar eMac Hidden costs: Windows - Required anti-virus & maybe a commercial firewall. at least 30 dollars. (plus yearly renewals and upgrades) 1 hour setup time. ( network plus software installs) 10 hours of windows updates Linux - Free, but configuring a linux/unix system takes more initial time. 3 hours of redhat updates (or your favorite distro) Mac OS X system - 5 minute setup plus software installs (comparable to windows). 3 hours of updates if its toward the end of the product cycle (new os a year) Like linux, no anti-virus is required. Situation 2: Existing hardware Windows: 100-200 dollars an upgrade, plus antivirus software upgrade or renewals (at least 5 bucks for virus definitions) required. Microsoft broke compatibility with something to make you buy office XP.. additional costs. (old software doesn't run). IT must learn it. Linux: Free (or pay redhat for free stuff) plus cost to install upgrade. Minimal. No antivirus, old software runs. Mac: 130 for OSX. install time takes about 45 minutes changing 2 cds on an old iMac. Old software runs perfect. No antivirus. Based on these two scenarios, Windows is by far the most expensive. Mac is second and linux is the cheapest. Now thats just physical cost. Software can be free for linux and mac as they both run open source systems and include X11. When you count usability, things get gray. Everyone will argue their favorite platform is the easiest. When you go for productivity, i think windows loses here too. There are new patches everyday.. plus linux and Mac systems don't crash as often. In the end, Windows is the loser. The real choice between linux and Mac OS X is wheither or not you want to run commercial applications. Linux has few. Linux and Mac systems probably have more software available for them than Windows systems. (open source + commercial). The other logical thing to point out here is that Macs CAN run linux. Lastly, I have more of a question.. what do people think of HERD? Is it supposed to replace linux or compete with Mac OS X? (it is a Mach setup like Next openstep and Mac OS X ) I'm just wondering if everyone is happy about HERD or if a GNU civil war is coming between HERD and Linux people.
I'm going with what MICROSOFT said about the status of Windows a few months back. I also saw some of it on slash dot. Microsoft is having problems with the floating point.. meaning when they coded it in C/C++ they picked a data type of a certain length which changes on a 64 bit cpu. Its normal to have this happen. Its called not being type safe. I haven't seen microsoft's internal release of windows on an AMD 64 chip. I certainly wouln't blame AMD for Microsofts bad programming. Hell Microsoft can't get .NET to run last I heard because of the same problem.
I know there is a linux distro that runs fine.. and i'm sure linux people will get the job done first. The freebsd port even compiles now and boots.
In summary, Microsoft never planned on a portable operating system. I would agree that win 2k and xp are more stable than previous OS releases from Microsoft but not that Windows is reliable or stable. If you put windows in context with any other recent OS like Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux, or *BSDs you will see that windows is in fact not that stable. Win 2k and XP are based on NT4 which i used for several years as a desktop prior to upgrading to 2000 at home and now XP. Microsoft has had time to mature this OS and now they want to throw it out the window with the next release. I think its obvious microsoft doesn't care about stability. If every other company can build on their OSes, why can't Microsoft? (Apple is building on the next operating system with OSX)
Further I should not have to prove that AMD is waiting on microsoft. You can read press releases from Microsoft, AMD, and comments on Slash dot, FreeBSD (mailing lists comments on status of their port refer to windows problems) , and other sources for the info. Thats what google is all about.
True, but Mac OS X doesn't crash on a G5 like windows crashes on an AMD 64. Apple didn't write code for 32 processors exclusively. Every release of Mac OS X will get more support too. The version shipped with the first batch of G5's supported 64 bit floating point operations for apps and offered additional memory addressing too. Apple's hardware/software monopoly came through this time.. they don't have to wait for Microsoft to make their processor do something.
The problem is banks don't set trends.. if they did we would all use OS/2 as our desktop platform. I realize you are talking about servers. I was also consider the fact that apple and IBM can take the time to build servers with 64 processors and destroy sun's remaining customer base. The reason I focus on desktops is because that is how Microsoft and Apple entered the server markets. CEOs know what windows is.. most don't know or care what Sun is. Large companies have suns because IT departments tell them to. Also sun is entering the business desktop market like IBM tried to do with OS/2. I see failure in Suns future.. they need to innovate or they become Lotus.
Have you used iTunes in windows yet? Have you used a G5? I doubt it or you wouldn't say apple lies. Apple does have the first 64 bit pc for home users. AMD is still in fantasy land.. where is windows 64 bit? thats what home users use. Linux does NOT count.. my mom does not use linux. Speed on the other hand is mostly in perception. There is no way to compare a PowerPC and an Intel or AMD cpu fairly. I can see photoshop finishing faster on a Mac though. That's what end users see and thats what they care about. Thanks to AMD, end users are starting to realize bigger numbers don't mean everything. In the same regard, Apple is using big numbers to get those remaining idiots.. for example 64 bit vs 32 bit. I have the balls to post this publicly..
The next release of SQL Server is scheduled to be written in .NET. At the very least it will be managed C++ code. The whole point of the next release is to make it .NET native allowing .NET stored procedures.
A Kernel should be written in a language like C. Its portable, fairly fast, and our Unix heritage. At this point in the "war", its Unix like vs Microsoft.
It doesn't matter what IE is written in. All applications are exploitable in ANY language. Sure, the risk is smaller in java but you can still do some damage. If an app is running as root, does it matter? Half of windows runs as the system account.
Don't blame the languages. I think everyone would agree C was designed before many of these ideas were considered important. People were more concerned about speed than buffer overflows. Remember the y2k bug? Its arrogant to think we are not making the same mistakes now. We just don't see them as a group yet.
Web Development is an area that is very insecure for example.
As I said in another post, Sun needs to get a new CPU under the hood that has some speed on it. What happens to java if sun goes under? No one has answered that question.
What's the point of buying a 64 processor sparc. Half their boxes are at 500 mhz still. I know about the megahertz myth, but even apple claims their chips are faster at lower clock rates. If its true, then sun boxes are slower than dirt. Sun used to have the 64 bit advantage, but its gone now. Apple will continue to grow in the server market and IBM is turning into Intel.. they want to sell processors. Intel is turning into motorolla.. i.e. dead. IBM and Apple use the same fast processors. Unless sun switches to the IBM G5 type cpu's and keeps up with apple on speeds there is no chance for them. Apple and linux systems are better workstations. Sun servers are pathetic next to an Apple xserve or even a 2000 dollar rack mount dell/gateway/ibm/hp. I used to own a sparc. When it died, it was rather depressing but my Mac OS X box sure took over the load.
There is nothing wrong with blogging. Many people use it for stress relief or to communicate events in their life with friends and family. No one forces you to view blogs.
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