The alchemy firmware for the wrt54g is excellent and free. The firmware includes a pptp server as well as other high end functions. We use the pptp server for our edge network here at lightspoke
Ajax is a fine integration platform. We here at Lightspoke have adopted this framework for our own web-based database. Since then scores of customers have used this capability to extend our database to their existing web sites.
We spent a lot of time figuring out the performance aspects - a sort of Ajax for the real world if you will. We need more articles on using Ajax in real settings - best practices, case studies, lessons learned. Integration is the key to eeking ever last but of value out from our existing technology investments. I believe our customers would be the first to agree to that.
All it takes it one person to have the equipment and the floodgates open. Today when you go an visit some dinky 100 ppl town in the middle of Wyoming you can find museums filled with working contraptions during the wild west / gold rush settlements. The key to this comment is that those contraptions still work. The people in the museum actually know how to use them.
So while the oh-so-big metropolis might not have these at their disposal, you would be surprised at how big the world actually is if you stepped out of our metro areas once in a while.
It is true that Microsoft continually makes mistakes of gargantuan proportions. Think about the browser or streaming. But the one good thing about MS is it's ability to turn a huge ship quickly. Think again the end result of the browser war and streaming (IE and WindowsMedia) currently dominate their respective marketplaces.
MS ability to do this is part culture, part capability and mostly money. It has a culture capable of change and self evaluation - something IBM was sorely lacking in the 90's (think OS/2 - they were still coding when they had already lost the market to windows). It is a great marketing organization and most importantly it has a war chest that can sustain huge losses before ultimately winning.
But here's the catch to it's new development efforts. MS is moving into uncharted territory. No other company in the world has ever had to deal with an engineering team the size of MS. One might argue that the terrorist / cell-ish nature of open source development is better suited for large scale development efforts simply due to the challenges described in the mythical man-month.
IMHO, all the money in the world does not cure those problems. It's kind of like poetic justice as MS' greed and phenomenal success has put it in its current predicament.
So linux lacks professionalism and conceptual integrity? Last time I checked, it was Microsoft that was laden with such severe security problems that could only be attribute to a LACK OF conceptual integrity.
The open source movement in many ways mimicks nature and darwinism. What exactly is conceptual integrity? It's quite simple from a survival of fittest standpoint. Open source promotes diversity and natural selection chooses the best. Works better than the thousands of man-years poured into Exchange Server!
So then according to Mr. Russell is nature lacking conceptual integrity? Or do you not believe in evolution?
My web-based database project
Lightspoke
is a commercial software using a host of open source frameworks and sub-applications. It has saved several man-years as far as I am concerned and has hence enabled us to be very generous with our costing. Our customers routinely enjoy an extremely high level of functionality for less money. Maybe Microsoft should takes some notes on this point - more stuff, less money!
Linux has traditionally been difficult on laptops - especially the power management aspects. If a vendor such as Dell or HP makes an effort, they can most certainly overcome the difficulties in heat and power management, sleep and hiberate. 2.6 kernels all have that ability now, but hardware compatibility and lack of available drivers are always result in a sub-optimal laptop.
Linux laptops make a lot of sense from a security standpoint. Every Windows laptop in at a starbucks is essentially vulnerable to worms, spyware and hackers.
I use a web-based database called Lightspoke - http://www.lightspoke.com/ and while part of the benefits of a web-based database is accessibility anywhere, I find myself paranoid about security when I use it at a coffee shop.
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The alchemy firmware for the wrt54g is excellent and free. The firmware includes a pptp server as well as other high end functions. We use the pptp server for our edge network here at lightspoke
Ajax is a fine integration platform. We here at Lightspoke have adopted this framework for our own web-based database. Since then scores of customers have used this capability to extend our database to their existing web sites. We spent a lot of time figuring out the performance aspects - a sort of Ajax for the real world if you will. We need more articles on using Ajax in real settings - best practices, case studies, lessons learned. Integration is the key to eeking ever last but of value out from our existing technology investments. I believe our customers would be the first to agree to that.
All it takes it one person to have the equipment and the floodgates open. Today when you go an visit some dinky 100 ppl town in the middle of Wyoming you can find museums filled with working contraptions during the wild west / gold rush settlements. The key to this comment is that those contraptions still work. The people in the museum actually know how to use them. So while the oh-so-big metropolis might not have these at their disposal, you would be surprised at how big the world actually is if you stepped out of our metro areas once in a while.
It is true that Microsoft continually makes mistakes of gargantuan proportions. Think about the browser or streaming. But the one good thing about MS is it's ability to turn a huge ship quickly. Think again the end result of the browser war and streaming (IE and WindowsMedia) currently dominate their respective marketplaces. MS ability to do this is part culture, part capability and mostly money. It has a culture capable of change and self evaluation - something IBM was sorely lacking in the 90's (think OS/2 - they were still coding when they had already lost the market to windows). It is a great marketing organization and most importantly it has a war chest that can sustain huge losses before ultimately winning. But here's the catch to it's new development efforts. MS is moving into uncharted territory. No other company in the world has ever had to deal with an engineering team the size of MS. One might argue that the terrorist / cell-ish nature of open source development is better suited for large scale development efforts simply due to the challenges described in the mythical man-month. IMHO, all the money in the world does not cure those problems. It's kind of like poetic justice as MS' greed and phenomenal success has put it in its current predicament.
So linux lacks professionalism and conceptual integrity? Last time I checked, it was Microsoft that was laden with such severe security problems that could only be attribute to a LACK OF conceptual integrity.
The open source movement in many ways mimicks nature and darwinism. What exactly is conceptual integrity? It's quite simple from a survival of fittest standpoint. Open source promotes diversity and natural selection chooses the best. Works better than the thousands of man-years poured into Exchange Server!
So then according to Mr. Russell is nature lacking conceptual integrity? Or do you not believe in evolution?
My web-based database project Lightspoke is a commercial software using a host of open source frameworks and sub-applications. It has saved several man-years as far as I am concerned and has hence enabled us to be very generous with our costing. Our customers routinely enjoy an extremely high level of functionality for less money. Maybe Microsoft should takes some notes on this point - more stuff, less money!
Linux has traditionally been difficult on laptops - especially the power management aspects. If a vendor such as Dell or HP makes an effort, they can most certainly overcome the difficulties in heat and power management, sleep and hiberate. 2.6 kernels all have that ability now, but hardware compatibility and lack of available drivers are always result in a sub-optimal laptop. Linux laptops make a lot of sense from a security standpoint. Every Windows laptop in at a starbucks is essentially vulnerable to worms, spyware and hackers. I use a web-based database called Lightspoke - http://www.lightspoke.com/ and while part of the benefits of a web-based database is accessibility anywhere, I find myself paranoid about security when I use it at a coffee shop.