Anyway, the real question is: "what's the critical mass of itantium". Is it fissionable?
Ok, so maybe Itanium is fissionable, but I think Pentium must be certainly FUSIONABLE: As you know, the best known fusion materials are deuterium and tritium, which is actually hydrogene with respectively one or two added netrons in their core. So, Pentium would be a hydrogene isotope with four neutrons in the core!? (and you wonder what happened with quartium)
Did this interesting chemical analogy occur to anyone before?
Sorry but you are wrong: we are using HP UX 11.0 since may at least. Even I was on an admin course for HP UX 11.0. I compiled a lot of freeware stuff on a HP Apollo workstation where I installed HP UX 11.0. So, it is here.
OK, I went to my company (yeah, on sunday, I can do that) to try the speed of these HP 9000 K-series babes. The box I tried has 2 PA-RISC processors. I tried to run Seti@home, and my jaw dropped to the floor. Now I didn't have the time to wait for a whole work unit to be completed (on a PIII 400 MHz it takes 9 hours 30 min) but it was shocking. Probably 2 hours per work unit, or less. It's amazing expecially because this system is running another app (top shows seti@home gets 70% cpu time). I don't know at which frequency these PA-RISCS are running, butcertainly less than 700 MHz because thatis currently the max for silicon technology. Admitting now my ignorance, I must ask the community if you have any insights. It might be these HP cpu's use GaAs (galium arsenide) technology, which allows higher frequencies. If, however, they are silicon processors, I really really have to ask myself what's wrong with the Intel architecture??!!
You are correct about the statement that a higher frequency means higher current onsumption (the eternal problem of handhelds and laptops: how to have better performance but less consumption) but I argue that upping the voltage would really solve the voltage-drop problem. A real solution would be to decrease the internal impendance of the power source. If you studied electrical engineering, you would remember Tevenin's theorem, which would remind you that a power source can be represented as a serial connection (ok, I don't know all this stuff in english language) of an ideal voltage generator, and an impendance (called "internal" impendance of the voltage source). In practical life, a better power source would be equivalent to an ideal voltage generator with a smaller impendance. It's technically very simple to have better power sourcces, you effectively have to inrease the power of the high frequency MOSFETs of the switching-mode power generator and/or the output linear circuitry of the on-board voltage regulator. I believe the guys at kryotech have modified the motherboard accordingly.
As you can imagine, I have signed a non-disclosure agreement with momma-Nokia. However, I have found this excerpt from an article. It's not directly related to WAP, but it shows MS's attitude:
In significant contrast to recent mega deals, Microsoft has just acquired STNC, a small 40 strong British software company founded in 1993, based in Bury St. Edmunds. No purchase price has been announced.
Perhaps just a small deal on the side? Not according to industry commentator 'Peter PDAntic'. He interprets the move, along with the previous acquisition of Swedish company Sendit as part of a deliberate strategy to control the related middleware and pivotal enablers for the Symbian Alliance's EPOC operating system, which Gates has already declared to be one of Microsoft's biggest threats.
PDAntic says Gates probably argues that if Microsoft can't (yet) control or own the major players of the Symbian alliance such as Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Matsushits, then perhaps they can buy as many as possible of the middleware enablers. "Money, after all, does talk", he says.
Davis Haskin of Allnet says STNC's products (already available or under development) include key parts of the EPOC operating system, especially EPOC communications and browser code, as well as WinCE software. STNC's Hitchhiker smart phone platform includes a TCP/IP stack, a microbrowser, e-mail support and other tools. Symbian has recently licensed STNC's web browsing software.
MS got them just to piss off those who want to make WAP-based clients, including Nokia. However, Microsoft was very late and feet-dragging to join the WAP Forum (www.wapforum.org). It was not long ago when on our meetings we spoke about MS as "noticeably missing" from the WAP Forum. No wonder, they were pushing some proprietary protocols, and I have completely forgotten by now what they were. MS made some partnerships, but as we know, whoever is in bed with MS gets screwed. For MS partners, not to adopt WAP would be really screwy; WAP is taking the industry by storm and everyone and their dog is adopting and developing on it.
Another excerpt, this one a bit OT, but sweet:
According to Bloomberg, market consideration of the Motorola results boosted optimism for Nokia whose shares rose Euros 0.75 to Euros 90.7.
But meanwhile, Finland's industry minister, Erkki Tuomioja, is reportedly worried about Nokia.
According to Digital Strategies Europe, the minister believes that Nokia may be a takeover target for Microsoft.
The minister is said to be concerned that such a move by Microsoft 'would be impossible for Nokia and the Finnish government to resist' and any such deal would seriously undermine the Symbian alliance and Europe's chances of overtaking the US in the ICT field.
Microsoft is said to be known to be increasingly interested in Nokia's market, especially in the WAP-enabled smart phones business.
MS's strategy: if you can't beat them, buy them:o)
No wonder, since WAP is a very nice, open protocol suite modeled upon the Internet protocol stack.
I joined Nokia at the time they invested in Symbian, together with Ericsson and Motorola. (Note: Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson are the three biggest players in mobile phone market, and otherwise there is bloody competition between them.) I was/am a fan of Palm and so was a bit disappointed, believing Nokia would have been better off to invest in the Palm OS. OTOH, Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola (and now Matsushita and Philips and who else..) know well where they put their money. They certainly wouldn't cooperate on a project if they weren't sure it's going to be turbogood, and strategially important. Also, please note how Nokia has really *huge* know-how of embedded and special purpose OSs. I don't mean only the GSM (and nordic) phones, but also the multiprocessor/modular DX-200 switching platform. So in the end Nokia decided to use Epoc *and* Palm OS. Why not? They are both great embedded OSs, efficient and well designed, and as such it's easily possible to find synergies.
I would also like to add that Nokia as a corporation doesn't like Microsoft. MS did some bad and ugly things to push their non-standards against WAP and have, quite simply put, annoyed a lot of people here. MS proved again to be full of sh*t, in every respect. That's (probably) one of the reasons Nokia chose Linux for it's multimedia set-top/wireless Internet access device.
And, just as another example, Linux and *BSD are meeting with less and less resistence in the corporation, you can see these boxes everywhere now! A good place to work for a nerd (which I am not (fingers crossed)).
Gnome has a baaaaaaaaad reputation in the Nokia division where I work. People call it the synonim for "crappy". I believe there is much good work behind the project, I also know how powerful is the object model on which it's based, ultrakudos to Gnome. But when they released version 1.0, they shot themselves in the feet.
Personally I had a non-nice experience installing Gnome, I admit I never made it working. I also admit I didn't try very hard because fvwm2 was enough for me at the time, and KDE got my heart when I tried it later. KDE was nice enough to not want me trying to install Gnome again. But I am sure the guys here will happily install it on the RH boxes, and I will certainly have many feedbacks on how it's performing. I wish Gnome all the best, and succesful bug-hunting.
Well, I live in Finland since almost one year, and I have entered a bank only when I opened my account. I have NEVER filled out a check, or any other sort of paper. I pay, of course, all my bills online. BTW. MANY other things can be done online, and actually, WITH YOUR MOBILE PHONE! Well, on the other hand, I bet my colleagues in The Valley make much more money than me, so they can take the inconvenience of not having these services:o)
Strange that they didn't try to restore the data from the drive with, for example, Ontrack's service. The Ontrack guys will (try to) restore the data from a failed HD by opening it up and tweaking with some special HD heads. They're expensive, but maybe 15 months of work is worth it? Just my 2 pennies.
from what I'll ask you will recon I am not a big gamer (I liked Wolfenstein3D, though). So, I understand there is a shareware and full version of doom. The code of which version is available? I have seen these Win32 ports, but all seem to require doom... I guess they require the original Doom written for DOS, but which one? The shareware or the full? Is there something that is understood by default and I don't get it? Has the code for the DOS port been available previously (but under a different license, non GPL), or only the Linux port was open? I would appreciate your inputs, I am looking forward on trying some Win32 ports.
As much as I am a fan of Corel and Debian, I would have prefered if Corel made their distro available in open source, as it should be by law. If a company, that is quite friendly to the Linux community, does such a thing, would you be surprised if Microsoft does the same? Includes freely available GPL code into their crappy products, and get away with that?
The Gartner Group, the Aberdeen Group, and Burton, they all have reports that confirm how badly has NT proved in the enterprise, compared to NetWare 4.x, OS/2 Warp and various unices. I even had a bunch of interesting links a year ago, should I look them up again?
I like the "35 hours, 90 minutes, 93 seconds" part.:o)
ANd btw, the trusted good ol' NetWare 3.11 servers that I started with after graduation, had/have often uptimes of 2 to 3 years. And the NW 3.11 server from a company in Delhi showed 10 years of uptime! The funny part is, noone knew where the server actually was, the admin accessed it through rconsole, evey patch could be applied remotely and without rebooting the thing. So when the consultants from Novell came to finally upgrade the thing, they had to first FIND the server! Yep, NetWare 3.11 was too good of a server, not many companies wanted to upgrade, which was bad for Novell. Microsoft has a much better strategy: make crap, so that companies must upgrade in vain hope of improvement. How sad.
Well, I am going to disclose that i was born in croatia. In the Zagreb Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science (a huge institution for that part of the world, about 30.000 students, maybe more) Solaris was king until just a couple of years ago. Then NT started to leak in, and now it's there, more and more, pushed by an invisible, evil force called money. BTW, there is a computer magazine in the country where I was born which used to be a very nice publication, until, 4 years ago, M$ started "funding" some of the journalists. Suddenly NT became the NOS of choice, the NOS that "will win and bury all those UNIXOIDES." (BTW, the name of that magazine is BUG) The thing that makes me even more sad is the thought the Zagreb Faculty and BUG were cheap targets compared to the US colleges. %#@@£#& Microsoft (sorry for the flame)
"...this is your unique opportunity to glance at the marvels of our Windows 2000 sources! Imagine, you will have the chance to join the developers of the greatest software company in the world and add your improvements to the greatest OS in the world. For 2 hours it's yours! And you could win a copy of Windows 2000, Office 2000 and Visual J++2000! Where else would you want to go today?"
It's free, it's open, it has a robust client-server architecture and a good AI engine. Furthermore, there are ports for OS/2, *BSD, BeOS, Amiga, etc. And I don't miss any features that CivCTP has. If you say isometric presentation, I have to say that the isometric presentation is very bad for my eyes (I have a rare eye-disease), so I prefere the plain 2D. I am afraid one day freeciv might go isometric, which will make it unusable for suckers with my same illness. But the good point about open source is that I have a chance to at least try to change it to my willing.
I love Linux, but the library incompatibilities not! That's a catastrophical issue that Debian seem to be taming somehow. Oh, and I don't like our little distro wars either! In my company (it's a very huge neterprise) we are trying to estabilish a policy on using Linux in the labs. I have seen a lot of *BSD machines around, too, maybe as much as Linux hosts. However, noone seems to be supporting the *BSD people. They seem to be very quiet and just go along and use *BSD and not giving a dime about policies. Me being primarily a network man, I don't care that much if we use Linux or *BSD, I only care to find all the OSPF and BGP routing features on the platfor. The more TCP/IP management programs, the better. So far, *BSD has proved to be more useful to us. So I wish the *BSD people here could push with more force, even though I use Linux more.
when RedHat went public, I didn't think it would change things too much. I knew RH has approximately 50% of the linux community, so I knew they would capitalize on that. That is ok. I also knew that many third parties were making software that runs better or only on RedHat linux. That is not OK, and it resambles the MS world and MS way. However, since Linux is opensource, there will always competition, right? At least this is the opinion of many, including Nicholas Petreley, whom I regard as a good IT journalist. However, shortly after RH went public, something started to change: the new RedHat shareholders, who happened to be talented programmers and technoligists, intelligent people therefore, started to hail RedHat a bit louder than usual. This shouldn't have been unexpected, but it still was surprising to me. I know money corrupts people, as it did corrupt many if not all the people who work for Microsoft. Or anyone who makes a buck from Microsoft and it's BS products. But I thought "these Linux guys are developing open source stuff, they arecertainly moral, honest, otherwise they wouldn't do such a noble thing as writing programs and releasing them open and free.." What hurts me is seeing Slashdot being biased. I don't mean the slashdot posters in general, even though most ofthem support RH above anything else. No wonder, again, since the largest marketshare RH has among Linux distros. I mean, the moderators seem to be biased. There was a guy in this thread that just said *BSD has good security, and RedHat doesn't. ANd this post was labeled as "Troll". This guy didn't swear, didn't curse. It stated it's opinion. Another example: beginning this week, I have posted to Slashdot about Caldera (my preferite RH-like distro) releasing OpenLinux 2.3. It's not a bera, it's a final product. I also informed that the ISO image of the new OL 2.3 is available for download, (as I have downloaded it myself). This didn't appear on Slashdot. I have seen much more examples of this biased behaviour on Slashdot, but I am referring only to theones Ihave in front of my eyes right now.
Well, thinking that my dream of a fair playground for OSs is shattered already really sucks.
This post won't make a big differene in how things will evolve, still, I wish all of you guys who read it could start being OS agnostic. No matter how much shares of RH you have.
I access slashdot through a firewall that implements PAT. I know of a certainty that the same IP address is assigned to approx. a thousand users. And I also suppose there are at least a dozen that access/. I guess they are all nice (they are my collegues) but I can't know for sure whetherthey post stuff that you wantto moderate, or not. So I agree you can moderate by username, but why by IP addy?
but with version 2.3, disks over 8 GB are supported. In order to protect the data on your hard drive and simplify the installation of OpenLinux, a new version of Partition Magic CE (Caldera Edition) has been provided by PowerQuest. This upgraded version now includes support for hard drives larger than 8 GB. Also, the commercial backup and restore utility BRU is integrated into the KDE desktop. The added performance of the robust 2.2.10 Linux kernel is included.
I expecially like the "Set Up Mouse" window, because of the "Test Mouse Here!" feature, and the "Test Soundcard". Caldera says the new OpenLinux 2.3 detects your soundcard automtically. Anyone tried this new thing already? Or did they release it this friday??
Anyway, I will get a copy of that OL 2.3. Too bad it'll cost me more than 50 bucks here in Finland:o(
If SCO opened some of it's UnixWare source...
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that would be great. UnixWare rocks, and some of the comments I have read in this forum are really shameful. Instead of using untrue, unpolite and sometimes plain rude comments, we should look at the strenghts of some of SCOs stuff. UnixWare supports more than Linux does today. (And Beowulf is not a viable solution for most processor-intensive applications, as the well-informed people know) And Tarantella is another gem.
go ahead, flame...
Re:Ironic? In more ways than one.
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Certainly compared to AIX, Solaris, Irix or HP-UX, UnixWare is less scalable. But it does scale well on much more CPUs and supporting much more disks and RAM than currently, for example, Linux or *BSD. (I think SCO OpenServer is SCOs current low-end OS). Linux will be there, too, one day, butyou have to get them credit that UnixWare 7 is a helluva OS (too bad Win2000 will try to get mindshare by showing much poorer performance). OK, now go ahead and flame:o)
You can look at it from the other point, to: if one saves money by replacing hardware solutions with simple commands, she/he can afford a kickass CPU, after a "while".:o) I was actually stating (later in the same thread) that I am considering a copper-based K7. By the time I have the money for it in the budget, they'll become affordable.
Strange how a thread evolves:o)))))))) (Was it installer source?)
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Anyway, the real question is: "what's the critical mass of itantium". Is it fissionable?
Ok, so maybe Itanium is fissionable, but I think Pentium must be certainly FUSIONABLE: As you know, the best known fusion materials are deuterium and tritium, which is actually hydrogene with respectively one or two added netrons in their core. So, Pentium would be a hydrogene isotope with four neutrons in the core!? (and you wonder what happened with quartium)
Did this interesting chemical analogy occur to anyone before?
Sorry but you are wrong: we are using HP UX 11.0 since may at least. Even I was on an admin course for HP UX 11.0. I compiled a lot of freeware stuff on a HP Apollo workstation where I installed HP UX 11.0. So, it is here.
OK, I went to my company (yeah, on sunday, I can do that) to try the speed of these HP 9000 K-series babes. The box I tried has 2 PA-RISC processors. I tried to run Seti@home, and my jaw dropped to the floor. Now I didn't have the time to wait for a whole work unit to be completed (on a PIII 400 MHz it takes 9 hours 30 min) but it was shocking. Probably 2 hours per work unit, or less. It's amazing expecially because this system is running another app (top shows seti@home gets 70% cpu time). I don't know at which frequency these PA-RISCS are running, butcertainly less than 700 MHz because thatis currently the max for silicon technology. Admitting now my ignorance, I must ask the community if you have any insights. It might be these HP cpu's use GaAs (galium arsenide) technology, which allows higher frequencies.
If, however, they are silicon processors, I really really have to ask myself what's wrong with the Intel architecture??!!
You are correct about the statement that a higher frequency means higher current onsumption (the eternal problem of handhelds and laptops: how to have better performance but less consumption) but I argue that upping the voltage would really solve the voltage-drop problem. A real solution would be to decrease the internal impendance of the power source. If you studied electrical engineering, you would remember Tevenin's theorem, which would remind you that a power source can be represented as a serial connection (ok, I don't know all this stuff in english language) of an ideal voltage generator, and an impendance (called "internal" impendance of the voltage source). In practical life, a better power source would be equivalent to an ideal voltage generator with a smaller impendance. It's technically very simple to have better power sourcces, you effectively have to inrease the power of the high frequency MOSFETs of the switching-mode power generator and/or the output linear circuitry of the on-board voltage regulator. I believe the guys at kryotech have modified the motherboard accordingly.
As you can imagine, I have signed a non-disclosure agreement with momma-Nokia. However, I have found this excerpt from an article. It's not directly related to WAP, but it shows MS's attitude:
:o)
In significant contrast to recent mega deals,
Microsoft has just acquired STNC, a small 40 strong
British software company founded in 1993, based in
Bury St. Edmunds. No purchase price has been
announced.
Perhaps just a small deal on the side?
Not according to industry commentator
'Peter PDAntic'. He interprets the move, along with
the previous acquisition of Swedish company
Sendit as part of a deliberate strategy to control
the related middleware and pivotal enablers for
the Symbian Alliance's EPOC operating system,
which Gates has already declared to be one of
Microsoft's biggest threats.
PDAntic says Gates probably argues that if
Microsoft can't (yet) control or own the major
players of the Symbian alliance such as Nokia,
Ericsson, Motorola and Matsushits, then perhaps
they can buy as many as possible of the
middleware enablers. "Money, after all, does
talk", he says.
Davis Haskin of Allnet says STNC's products
(already available or under development) include
key parts of the EPOC operating system, especially
EPOC communications and browser code, as well
as WinCE software. STNC's Hitchhiker smart phone
platform includes a TCP/IP stack, a microbrowser,
e-mail support and other tools. Symbian has
recently licensed STNC's web browsing software.
MS got them just to piss off those who want to make WAP-based clients, including Nokia. However, Microsoft was very late and feet-dragging to join the WAP Forum (www.wapforum.org). It was not long ago when on our meetings we spoke about MS as "noticeably missing" from the WAP Forum. No wonder, they were pushing some proprietary protocols, and I have completely forgotten by now what they were. MS made some partnerships, but as we know, whoever is in bed with MS gets screwed. For MS partners, not to adopt WAP would be really screwy; WAP is taking the industry by storm and everyone and their dog is adopting and developing on it.
Another excerpt, this one a bit OT, but sweet:
According to Bloomberg, market consideration
of the Motorola results boosted optimism for
Nokia whose shares rose Euros 0.75 to
Euros 90.7.
But meanwhile, Finland's industry minister,
Erkki Tuomioja, is reportedly worried about Nokia.
According to Digital Strategies Europe, the
minister believes that Nokia may be a takeover
target for Microsoft.
The minister is said to be concerned that such a
move by Microsoft 'would be impossible for Nokia
and the Finnish government to resist' and any
such deal would seriously undermine the
Symbian alliance and Europe's chances of
overtaking the US in the ICT field.
Microsoft is said to be known to be increasingly
interested in Nokia's market, especially in the
WAP-enabled smart phones business.
MS's strategy: if you can't beat them, buy them
No wonder, since WAP is a very nice, open protocol suite modeled upon the Internet protocol stack.
I joined Nokia at the time they invested in Symbian, together with Ericsson and Motorola. (Note: Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson are the three biggest players in mobile phone market, and otherwise there is bloody competition between them.) I was/am a fan of Palm and so was a bit disappointed, believing Nokia would have been better off to invest in the Palm OS. OTOH, Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola (and now Matsushita and Philips and who else..) know well where they put their money. They certainly wouldn't cooperate on a project if they weren't sure it's going to be turbogood, and strategially important.
Also, please note how Nokia has really *huge* know-how of embedded and special purpose OSs. I don't mean only the GSM (and nordic) phones, but also the multiprocessor/modular DX-200 switching platform.
So in the end Nokia decided to use Epoc *and* Palm OS. Why not? They are both great embedded OSs, efficient and well designed, and as such it's easily possible to find synergies.
I would also like to add that Nokia as a corporation doesn't like Microsoft. MS did some bad and ugly things to push their non-standards against WAP and have, quite simply put, annoyed a lot of people here. MS proved again to be full of sh*t, in every respect. That's (probably) one of the reasons Nokia chose Linux for it's multimedia set-top/wireless Internet access device.
And, just as another example, Linux and *BSD are meeting with less and less resistence in the corporation, you can see these boxes everywhere now! A good place to work for a nerd (which I am not (fingers crossed)).
Gnome has a baaaaaaaaad reputation in the Nokia division where I work. People call it the synonim for "crappy". I believe there is much good work behind the project, I also know how powerful is the object model on which it's based, ultrakudos to Gnome. But when they released version 1.0, they shot themselves in the feet.
Personally I had a non-nice experience installing Gnome, I admit I never made it working. I also admit I didn't try very hard because fvwm2 was enough for me at the time, and KDE got my heart when I tried it later. KDE was nice enough to not want me trying to install Gnome again. But I am sure the guys here will happily install it on the RH boxes, and I will certainly have many feedbacks on how it's performing. I wish Gnome all the best, and succesful bug-hunting.
Well, I live in Finland since almost one year, and I have entered a bank only when I opened my account. I have NEVER filled out a check, or any other sort of paper. I pay, of course, all my bills online. BTW. MANY other things can be done online, and actually, WITH YOUR MOBILE PHONE! :o)
Well, on the other hand, I bet my colleagues in The Valley make much more money than me, so they can take the inconvenience of not having these services
Strange that they didn't try to restore the data from the drive with, for example, Ontrack's service. The Ontrack guys will (try to) restore the data from a failed HD by opening it up and tweaking with some special HD heads. They're expensive, but maybe 15 months of work is worth it?
Just my 2 pennies.
Hello all,
from what I'll ask you will recon I am not a big gamer (I liked Wolfenstein3D, though).
So, I understand there is a shareware and full version of doom. The code of which version is available?
I have seen these Win32 ports, but all seem to require doom... I guess they require the original Doom written for DOS, but which one? The shareware or the full? Is there something that is understood by default and I don't get it?
Has the code for the DOS port been available previously (but under a different license, non GPL), or only the Linux port was open?
I would appreciate your inputs, I am looking forward on trying some Win32 ports.
As much as I am a fan of Corel and Debian, I would have prefered if Corel made their distro available in open source, as it should be by law. If a company, that is quite friendly to the Linux community, does such a thing, would you be surprised if Microsoft does the same? Includes freely available GPL code into their crappy products, and get away with that?
The Gartner Group, the Aberdeen Group, and Burton, they all have reports that confirm how badly has NT proved in the enterprise, compared to NetWare 4.x, OS/2 Warp and various unices. I even had a bunch of interesting links a year ago, should I look them up again?
I like the "35 hours, 90 minutes, 93 seconds" part. :o)
ANd btw, the trusted good ol' NetWare 3.11 servers that I started with after graduation, had/have often uptimes of 2 to 3 years. And the NW 3.11 server from a company in Delhi showed 10 years of uptime! The funny part is, noone knew where the server actually was, the admin accessed it through rconsole, evey patch could be applied remotely and without rebooting the thing. So when the consultants from Novell came to finally upgrade the thing, they had to first FIND the server!
Yep, NetWare 3.11 was too good of a server, not many companies wanted to upgrade, which was bad for Novell. Microsoft has a much better strategy: make crap, so that companies must upgrade in vain hope of improvement. How sad.
Well, I am going to disclose that i was born in croatia. In the Zagreb Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science (a huge institution for that part of the world, about 30.000 students, maybe more) Solaris was king until just a couple of years ago. Then NT started to leak in, and now it's there, more and more, pushed by an invisible, evil force called money.
BTW, there is a computer magazine in the country where I was born which used to be a very nice publication, until, 4 years ago, M$ started "funding" some of the journalists. Suddenly NT became the NOS of choice, the NOS that "will win and bury all those UNIXOIDES." (BTW, the name of that magazine is BUG)
The thing that makes me even more sad is the thought the Zagreb Faculty and BUG were cheap targets compared to the US colleges.
%#@@£#& Microsoft (sorry for the flame)
"...this is your unique opportunity to glance at the marvels of our Windows 2000 sources! Imagine, you will have the chance to join the developers of the greatest software company in the world and add your improvements to the greatest OS in the world. For 2 hours it's yours! And you could win a copy of Windows 2000, Office 2000 and Visual J++2000!
Where else would you want to go today?"
It's free, it's open, it has a robust client-server architecture and a good AI engine.
Furthermore, there are ports for OS/2, *BSD, BeOS, Amiga, etc.
And I don't miss any features that CivCTP has. If you say isometric presentation, I have to say that the isometric presentation is very bad for my eyes (I have a rare eye-disease), so I prefere the plain 2D. I am afraid one day freeciv might go isometric, which will make it unusable for suckers with my same illness. But the good point about open source is that I have a chance to at least try to change it to my willing.
I love Linux, but the library incompatibilities not! That's a catastrophical issue that Debian seem to be taming somehow. Oh, and I don't like our little distro wars either!
In my company (it's a very huge neterprise) we are trying to estabilish a policy on using Linux in the labs. I have seen a lot of *BSD machines around, too, maybe as much as Linux hosts. However, noone seems to be supporting the *BSD people. They seem to be very quiet and just go along and use *BSD and not giving a dime about policies. Me being primarily a network man, I don't care that much if we use Linux or *BSD, I only care to find all the OSPF and BGP routing features on the platfor. The more TCP/IP management programs, the better. So far, *BSD has proved to be more useful to us. So I wish the *BSD people here could push with more force, even though I use Linux more.
Hello everybody,
when RedHat went public, I didn't think it would change things too much. I knew RH has approximately 50% of the linux community, so I knew they would capitalize on that. That is ok. I also knew that many third parties were making software that runs better or only on RedHat linux. That is not OK, and it resambles the MS world and MS way. However, since Linux is opensource, there will always competition, right? At least this is the opinion of many, including Nicholas Petreley, whom I regard as a good IT journalist.
However, shortly after RH went public, something started to change: the new RedHat shareholders, who happened to be talented programmers and technoligists, intelligent people therefore, started to hail RedHat a bit louder than usual. This shouldn't have been unexpected, but it still was surprising to me. I know money corrupts people, as it did corrupt many if not all the people who work for Microsoft. Or anyone who makes a buck from Microsoft and it's BS products. But I thought "these Linux guys are developing open source stuff, they arecertainly moral, honest, otherwise they wouldn't do such a noble thing as writing programs and releasing them open and free.."
What hurts me is seeing Slashdot being biased. I don't mean the slashdot posters in general, even though most ofthem support RH above anything else. No wonder, again, since the largest marketshare RH has among Linux distros. I mean, the moderators seem to be biased. There was a guy in this thread that just said *BSD has good security, and RedHat doesn't. ANd this post was labeled as "Troll". This guy didn't swear, didn't curse. It stated it's opinion.
Another example: beginning this week, I have posted to Slashdot about Caldera (my preferite RH-like distro) releasing OpenLinux 2.3. It's not a bera, it's a final product. I also informed that the ISO image of the new OL 2.3 is available for download, (as I have downloaded it myself). This didn't appear on Slashdot.
I have seen much more examples of this biased behaviour on Slashdot, but I am referring only to theones Ihave in front of my eyes right now.
Well, thinking that my dream of a fair playground for OSs is shattered already really sucks.
This post won't make a big differene in how things will evolve, still, I wish all of you guys who read it could start being OS agnostic. No matter how much shares of RH you have.
Have a nice day,
haggar
I access slashdot through a firewall that implements PAT. I know of a certainty that the same IP address is assigned to approx. a thousand users. And I also suppose there are at least a dozen that access /. I guess they are all nice (they are my collegues) but I can't know for sure whetherthey post stuff that you wantto moderate, or not. So I agree you can moderate by username, but why by IP addy?
but with version 2.3, disks over 8 GB are supported.
In order to protect the data on your hard drive and simplify the installation of
OpenLinux, a new version of Partition Magic CE (Caldera Edition) has been
provided by PowerQuest. This upgraded version now includes support for hard
drives larger than 8 GB. Also, the commercial backup and restore utility BRU is
integrated into the KDE desktop. The added performance of the robust 2.2.10
Linux kernel is included.
Caldera says the new OpenLinux 2.3 detects your soundcard automtically. Anyone tried this new thing already? Or did they release it this friday??
Anyway, I will get a copy of that OL 2.3. Too bad it'll cost me more than 50 bucks here in Finland
that would be great. UnixWare rocks, and some of the comments I have read in this forum are really shameful. Instead of using untrue, unpolite and sometimes plain rude comments, we should look at the strenghts of some of SCOs stuff. UnixWare supports more than Linux does today. (And Beowulf is not a viable solution for most processor-intensive applications, as the well-informed people know)
And Tarantella is another gem.
go ahead, flame...
Certainly compared to AIX, Solaris, Irix or HP-UX, UnixWare is less scalable. But it does scale well on much more CPUs and supporting much more disks and RAM than currently, for example, Linux or *BSD. (I think SCO OpenServer is SCOs current low-end OS). Linux will be there, too, one day, butyou have to get them credit that UnixWare 7 is a helluva OS (too bad Win2000 will try to get mindshare by showing much poorer performance). OK, now go ahead and flame :o)
You can look at it from the other point, to: if one saves money by replacing hardware solutions with simple commands, she/he can afford a kickass CPU, after a "while". :o) I was actually stating (later in the same thread) that I am considering a copper-based K7. By the time I have the money for it in the budget, they'll become affordable.
:o)))))))) (Was it installer source?)
Strange how a thread evolves
Along a different line: I heared rumors that Linux PPC has some memory-leak problems? I thought Linux is immune to such crap.