Who cares if it is UNIX, BSD, POSIX, whatever. They are just labels. All that really matters is how well it works, and how well it interoperates with other operating systems.
I could care less if it has a BSD core, so long as I can compile a GNU proogie on it and it'll work with no hidden tricks, hooks, or extensions.
... Regardless of whether it is subscription based or not. Here is why:
When you have to support dozens or hundreds of PCs, you have to find ways to make your job as easy as possible. That means have ghost images of preconfigured systems, the use of a single product key, or other images so you can rebuild systems quickly and easily. By generating a fingerprint for each build, you eliminate the ability to do automated rollouts using images, or a single product key for an entire office. The fact that you own adequete licenses is irrelevent.
Watch the support costs grow when XP is rolled out in a corporate environment.
Is for ONE person to make a device to tap into the signal going to the picture tube, and this protection scheme will be useless.
It is getting to the point where I am going to ACTIVELY pirate copyrighted media, just to show my absolute disgust for the MPAA and RIAA. This blatent manipulation of the computer and electronics industry by these monolithic giants must stop.
True. Perhaps I was not clear in my statement. When I view support costs, I look at the whole picture. I look at lost productivity, increased administrative costs due to more frequent maintenance, increased training, etc etc etc.
You know, at the office where I was stationed at, we had a Netware 5 server, and an NT server. The NT server, running Lotus Notes, only ran Notes. For the most part, it would BSOD after running for... oh... 2 to 6 weeks. That was pretty good compared to the other NT servers in the company. The Netware File/print server, on the other hand, just kept working. It never went down. It never had a problem. The only time I had to do *anything* on it was when a print job got stuck (once every 3 months or so), or when I had to add/remove a user. That was it. Maybe 2 hours a month was spent on the netware server. Every morning the users would log in, and get their printers and network drives. No lost connections. No fucked up print queues. They had the tools they needed.
I worked for an organization with a massive Lotus Notes install base. Currently, they are migrating everything to NT, in the mistaken belief that a single desktop will reduce support costs....
When they get their heads out of their asses, something like this will definately appeal to the more rational minded within the organization. Mmmmmmm. Uptime. Mmmmmmmm.
Regardless of how abhorrent the neo-nazi sites are, if the German gov't tries that, they will find their backbone access to the Internet SERIOUSLY compromised. Carriers will not tolerate that kind of behaviour.....
I'll bet some crackpot with some half baked title of ownership is already drooling over the prospect of his solar system having habitable planets, and thus, commercial real estate.
Since the.org domain has been wildly abused over the last couple years, exactly how is this to-be-announced non profit organization re-establish control over the.org domain, and make sure that it is used for its original purpose?
This is going to get ugly...... I sincerely hope they let existing.org owners keep their domain names......
'The result will be consumer devices that are more powerful than IBM's Deep Blue super-computer
Holy shit. Kasparov will be PISSED.
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What is more troublesome than the kinds of errors I list above, however, is the general terrible writing online. Even supposed professionals -- Jon Katz springs immediately to mind -- frequently post long-winded, repetitive, confused pieces which, in the worst cases, contradict themselves. Frequently, the rhetorical flourish is deployed at the expense of clear, well-reasoned paragraphs designed to lead the reader inexorably from premise to conclusion. There is little worse in the world than prose dressed up in empty jargon, useless "well-that's-the-way-I-feel" rants, and irrelevant paragraphs. Words mean things, and it isn't enough just to type some in, if one wants to write something that will convince, or edify, or even describe.
Hey, if UCITA becomes law in most or all states, then guess what?
Reverse engineering will become even more rampant in countries outside of the USA, Shrinkwrap licenses will become null and void due to their draconian and rights violating terms, and suddenly open-source will look even MORE apealing to the corporations.
Hmmmmm. Could this be a good thing in the long term for all involved?
What are the odds that The CoS will try to get/. to remove this post?
How refreshing to see that, despite the constant and unending abuse of the "Anonymous Coward" option when posting, some actually *do* use it for legitimate purposes.......
Ya, its 1.75inches high, and yes, it is only half the width of a rack. But c'mon. A 486? You can get an SBC (Single Board Computers) that are credit card sized (as previous/. articles have pointed out). Having 84 of these in a full sized rack would prolly be the equivilant of 2-3 dual PIII/800 rack servers......
Sure, this is cheap, but only if your time is worth little. Yes, it has geek value, but Geek value is becoming harder to obtain, as most of this has already been done..............
bash-2.04$ ping -i 100000 pathfinder.mars
PING pathfinder.mars (208.56.123.4): 56 data bytes
request timed out
request timed out
request timed out
64 bytes from 208.56.123.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=86603.712 ms
request timed out
request timed out
Would be kinda cool to set up a quake2 server at mars, even thou the ping would suck.....
If they come up with some funky copy protection scheme built into hard drives, then all that will happen is the proliferation of higher level hard drive device drivers that will bypass the copy protection scheme. It is, after all, only a hard drive.........
Looks like Doom 3 will be another game where the color palette is "shades of black". Sigh.
If you have played more than 1 generation of any ID game, you will know that ID has a tendency to design games that are 'dark' in nature. They use shadows, darkness, and lots of metallic textures to emphasis an overwhelming feeling of cold and isolation during gameplay. This does not mean their engine only works in 'shades of black'. It means that their engine has the capability of realistically portraying dark, spooky scenes.
This is ID, and this is why they are popular. Would you prefer the nice and cutsie colours of Commander Keen? How about a nice helping of Barbi Software?
It will give other file sharing proggies the time necessary to mature to the point where they are better than Napster......
Unfortunately, this action, if approved by the Music companies, will mean that the RIAA will focus their attentions on the other file sharing apps on the 'net.....
but from the open email clients that allow these little buggers to do the damage, and propagate like minks.......
I worked for a company that used Lotus Notes, and when the ILOVEYOU virus hit, there was only 1 instance of any damage being done, and it was easily reversable. The virus was not propogated within our network, our mail server was not overloaded to the point of crashing, and the damage that it *did* do (due to a user receiving and launching the.VBS script) was easily reversed (we were using Novell, so undeleting the deleted JPG files was a breeze).
Og that 18Billion dollars, how much of it is due to the virii, and how much is due to the shit mail servers on the market today?
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The point is that everyone is using the Linux or UNIX buzzword so much, it is losing meaning.
Who cares if it is UNIX, BSD, POSIX, whatever. They are just labels. All that really matters is how well it works, and how well it interoperates with other operating systems.
I could care less if it has a BSD core, so long as I can compile a GNU proogie on it and it'll work with no hidden tricks, hooks, or extensions.
... Regardless of whether it is subscription based or not. Here is why:
When you have to support dozens or hundreds of PCs, you have to find ways to make your job as easy as possible. That means have ghost images of preconfigured systems, the use of a single product key, or other images so you can rebuild systems quickly and easily. By generating a fingerprint for each build, you eliminate the ability to do automated rollouts using images, or a single product key for an entire office. The fact that you own adequete licenses is irrelevent.
Watch the support costs grow when XP is rolled out in a corporate environment.
Is for ONE person to make a device to tap into the signal going to the picture tube, and this protection scheme will be useless.
It is getting to the point where I am going to ACTIVELY pirate copyrighted media, just to show my absolute disgust for the MPAA and RIAA. This blatent manipulation of the computer and electronics industry by these monolithic giants must stop.
True. Perhaps I was not clear in my statement. When I view support costs, I look at the whole picture. I look at lost productivity, increased administrative costs due to more frequent maintenance, increased training, etc etc etc.
You know, at the office where I was stationed at, we had a Netware 5 server, and an NT server. The NT server, running Lotus Notes, only ran Notes. For the most part, it would BSOD after running for... oh... 2 to 6 weeks. That was pretty good compared to the other NT servers in the company. The Netware File/print server, on the other hand, just kept working. It never went down. It never had a problem. The only time I had to do *anything* on it was when a print job got stuck (once every 3 months or so), or when I had to add/remove a user. That was it. Maybe 2 hours a month was spent on the netware server. Every morning the users would log in, and get their printers and network drives. No lost connections. No fucked up print queues. They had the tools they needed.
It does not lower costs when you consider the downtime, increased administration, and lost productivity.
Get your head out of your ass and look at all the factors.
I worked for an organization with a massive Lotus Notes install base. Currently, they are migrating everything to NT, in the mistaken belief that a single desktop will reduce support costs....
When they get their heads out of their asses, something like this will definately appeal to the more rational minded within the organization. Mmmmmmm. Uptime. Mmmmmmmm.
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Regardless of how abhorrent the neo-nazi sites are, if the German gov't tries that, they will find their backbone access to the Internet SERIOUSLY compromised. Carriers will not tolerate that kind of behaviour.....
I'll bet some crackpot with some half baked title of ownership is already drooling over the prospect of his solar system having habitable planets, and thus, commercial real estate.
Since the .org domain has been wildly abused over the last couple years, exactly how is this to-be-announced non profit organization re-establish control over the .org domain, and make sure that it is used for its original purpose?
.org owners keep their domain names......
This is going to get ugly...... I sincerely hope they let existing
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'The result will be consumer devices that are more powerful than IBM's Deep Blue super-computer
Holy shit. Kasparov will be PISSED.
What is more troublesome than the kinds of errors I list above, however, is the general terrible writing online. Even supposed professionals -- Jon Katz springs immediately to mind -- frequently post long-winded, repetitive, confused pieces which, in the worst cases, contradict themselves. Frequently, the rhetorical flourish is deployed at the expense of clear, well-reasoned paragraphs designed to lead the reader inexorably from premise to conclusion. There is little worse in the world than prose dressed up in empty jargon, useless "well-that's-the-way-I-feel" rants, and irrelevant paragraphs. Words mean things, and it isn't enough just to type some in, if one wants to write something that will convince, or edify, or even describe.
The whole textHey, if UCITA becomes law in most or all states, then guess what?
Reverse engineering will become even more rampant in countries outside of the USA, Shrinkwrap licenses will become null and void due to their draconian and rights violating terms, and suddenly open-source will look even MORE apealing to the corporations.
Hmmmmm. Could this be a good thing in the long term for all involved?
What are the odds that The CoS will try to get /. to remove this post?
How refreshing to see that, despite the constant and unending abuse of the "Anonymous Coward" option when posting, some actually *do* use it for legitimate purposes.......
Ya, its 1.75inches high, and yes, it is only half the width of a rack. But c'mon. A 486? You can get an SBC (Single Board Computers) that are credit card sized (as previous /. articles have pointed out). Having 84 of these in a full sized rack would prolly be the equivilant of 2-3 dual PIII/800 rack servers......
Sure, this is cheap, but only if your time is worth little. Yes, it has geek value, but Geek value is becoming harder to obtain, as most of this has already been done..............
Damn, need more coffee.
Has Slashdot encountered this problem yet, with their Anonymous coward postings?
If you buy a product, you can do whatever the hell you want with it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
:P
I just picked that IP out of thin air. Kinda scary that I chose a bible thumping site.
bash-2.04$ ping -i 100000 pathfinder.mars
PING pathfinder.mars (208.56.123.4): 56 data bytes
request timed out
request timed out
request timed out
64 bytes from 208.56.123.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=86603.712 ms
request timed out
request timed out
Would be kinda cool to set up a quake2 server at mars, even thou the ping would suck.....
If they come up with some funky copy protection scheme built into hard drives, then all that will happen is the proliferation of higher level hard drive device drivers that will bypass the copy protection scheme. It is, after all, only a hard drive.........
Looks like Doom 3 will be another game where the color palette is "shades of black". Sigh.
If you have played more than 1 generation of any ID game, you will know that ID has a tendency to design games that are 'dark' in nature. They use shadows, darkness, and lots of metallic textures to emphasis an overwhelming feeling of cold and isolation during gameplay. This does not mean their engine only works in 'shades of black'. It means that their engine has the capability of realistically portraying dark, spooky scenes.
This is ID, and this is why they are popular. Would you prefer the nice and cutsie colours of Commander Keen? How about a nice helping of Barbi Software?
Ya sighing wanker.....
It will give other file sharing proggies the time necessary to mature to the point where they are better than Napster......
Unfortunately, this action, if approved by the Music companies, will mean that the RIAA will focus their attentions on the other file sharing apps on the 'net.....
but from the open email clients that allow these little buggers to do the damage, and propagate like minks.......
.VBS script) was easily reversed (we were using Novell, so undeleting the deleted JPG files was a breeze).
I worked for a company that used Lotus Notes, and when the ILOVEYOU virus hit, there was only 1 instance of any damage being done, and it was easily reversable. The virus was not propogated within our network, our mail server was not overloaded to the point of crashing, and the damage that it *did* do (due to a user receiving and launching the
Og that 18Billion dollars, how much of it is due to the virii, and how much is due to the shit mail servers on the market today?