Looks like the Free/Open Source Software movement is very close to closing up one of the most noticeable software gaps remaining from its glorious efforts.
I'm sorry. How does disassembling a program address mediocre driver support?
-- charge the same price as Google.
I was paying yahoo! for the privelage to POP my mail. They wouldn't budge on the price, so now I use GMAIL. The transition was painless, and my spam has yet to catch up to me.....
All the posts thus far are technical in nature. The easiest way into that machine is through the front door. Find the server, grab it, and run. If these guys are stupid enough to allow you to break into their property-- take them up on the challenge.
AFter all, they did lay down the challenge.....
If it's so bad, why are *YOU* paying $600/year for (gasp) television?
While we're at it, since the cable solution is so bad, what is your alternative solution?
Well, if that's true, then you don't use Acrobat to read PDFs.
Adobe uses a 16 bit counter to name temporary work files. I know this b/c I ended up with 32K files in "My Documents\User Data" and Acrobat stopped working.
My point is, I suspect this impacts our lives in more ways than we know.
The hundresds of staff required to maintain 50 Windows and Unix servers will be replaced by 20 people running a mainframe that will do the work of those 50 servers.
The past repeats itself.....
The one in Tivoli is scary because it rolls around in wooden channels, and has a guy who manually operates the brakes. No necksnapping, but scary noetheless.....
I don't claim to be smarter than Mr. Dell, but the patent office did announce in the early 20th century that all inventions of consequence had already been patented.
Given that premature statement, I suspect Mr. Dell is thinking along the same (incorrect) lines.
is to do something like AIX does, where I can use "vmtune" to customize the percentages of memory I devote (hard or soft limit) to filesystem pages or computational pages. This way I can tune for my Bloatware, tune for file copying a la XP, or tune for my DBMS, whatever suits me....
The developers could take it one step further and provide a simple, understandable (as opposed to AIX's) interface for configuration......
If Wine/David becomes so good that a windows program runs *as well* on Linux(under wine) as it does on windows, Linux may suffer the same fate as OS/2. Remember WIN/OS2? The development community saw this functionality as an excuse to write their apps. to windows (why worry about OS/2 when they have WIN/OS2?)
Before you knew it, nobody was writing OS/2 apps..... and OS/2 cratered.
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Looks like the Free/Open Source Software movement is very close to closing up one of the most noticeable software gaps remaining from its glorious efforts. I'm sorry. How does disassembling a program address mediocre driver support?
-- charge the same price as Google. I was paying yahoo! for the privelage to POP my mail. They wouldn't budge on the price, so now I use GMAIL. The transition was painless, and my spam has yet to catch up to me.....
it's stuch in a chimney of afraternity house
My carpenter switched from a 15" hammer to a 16" hammer. It's just a tool fer Chrissakes....
All the posts thus far are technical in nature. The easiest way into that machine is through the front door. Find the server, grab it, and run. If these guys are stupid enough to allow you to break into their property-- take them up on the challenge. AFter all, they did lay down the challenge.....
No it is not. IBM is providing freat innovations on hardware and software. Cell CPUs and blade technology to name a couple.
you get what you pay for.......
1. DVD Player (Linux could learn from Windows) I know there is one of Linux, but it's not legal.... shall I continue?
If it's so bad, why are *YOU* paying $600/year for (gasp) television? While we're at it, since the cable solution is so bad, what is your alternative solution?
...the refridge was an older 16-bit model
Well, if that's true, then you don't use Acrobat to read PDFs. Adobe uses a 16 bit counter to name temporary work files. I know this b/c I ended up with 32K files in "My Documents\User Data" and Acrobat stopped working. My point is, I suspect this impacts our lives in more ways than we know.
You must be dreading Christmas, what with SANTA coming to your house.
Mod parent UP!!! Dell is repackaged Chinese crap....they only make money on the float from their rebate......
The hundresds of staff required to maintain 50 Windows and Unix servers will be replaced by 20 people running a mainframe that will do the work of those 50 servers. The past repeats itself.....
The one in Tivoli is scary because it rolls around in wooden channels, and has a guy who manually operates the brakes. No necksnapping, but scary noetheless.....
at one time too....
this is actually news for DORKS, not "news for nerds." I'm cancelling my subscription.....
COBOL
It took me 3 tries to get past the password.....
One *can* make chicken salad out of chicken shit!!
I don't claim to be smarter than Mr. Dell, but the patent office did announce in the early 20th century that all inventions of consequence had already been patented. Given that premature statement, I suspect Mr. Dell is thinking along the same (incorrect) lines.
...without a clear strategy. I wish they would just s... or get off the pot. Props to IBM for making a commitment and sticking to it.
college dorm refrigerator. Kills two birds with one stone.....
is to do something like AIX does, where I can use "vmtune" to customize the percentages of memory I devote (hard or soft limit) to filesystem pages or computational pages. This way I can tune for my Bloatware, tune for file copying a la XP, or tune for my DBMS, whatever suits me.... The developers could take it one step further and provide a simple, understandable (as opposed to AIX's) interface for configuration......
If Wine/David becomes so good that a windows program runs *as well* on Linux(under wine) as it does on windows, Linux may suffer the same fate as OS/2. Remember WIN/OS2? The development community saw this functionality as an excuse to write their apps. to windows (why worry about OS/2 when they have WIN/OS2?) Before you knew it, nobody was writing OS/2 apps..... and OS/2 cratered.