Whoever modded this down - most people whose/. UID pre-dates the 6-figure mark tend to be geeks of some considerable standing... and more often than not, worth listening to (unlike me - haha)
FWIW, past/. stories such as this one prove his point.
Please bear in mind though, that until such a time as Evolution will either run on Windows or cleanly compile on CYGWIN, these Mozilla apps are the best OSS PIM app available to many users.
I'm glad someone spotted that - but then Microsoft love to "create" standards (XLS, DOC, PPS) - I'm sure they'd love to have WMA accepted as a stnandard, not by the industrial bodies but by the end-users. Windows Media everywhere is what they need far more than genuine accreditation as a standard.
I'm amused that they missed a trick though... just weeks after they released WinXP SP2 which updates WMP to a patched 9.x release.. they have to start all over again by releasing WMP10. Form a strictly marketing PoV it would have made sense to include WMP10 in SP2. That said, I'm glad they didn't as it's unproven technology.
I hope that if X-Chat is going to have troubles with the GPL it will encourage more developers to help with Mozilla's ChatZilla.
With Mozilla Calendar (Sunbird), Browser (Firefox) and Mail (Thunderbird) already spun off into interesting projects in various stages of development, how long can it be until we have a trule OSS IRC client from them as well?
I've been using iChat for a year and its fine for IRC use already.
You fail to consider all the hidden / internal API's with which WINE developers struggle on a near-daily basis.
Try reading the WINE developers lists before making offensive and inaccurate posts like that...... If the Win32 API was open, WINE would have taken a lot less time to develop to its present state of completion.
Opensource the API, then you'lll suddenly have a lot more coders working on your system. The way I see it, Microsoft doesn't need to cpmete for customer base any more.
They need to compete for coder base, as we're approaching a time when the system will be sold not on its own merits but on those of the applications it runs. This is already the case in enterprise computing and can only grow.
I have a Windows box with XP Pro to which I connect using Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Mac (There's a port of the OSS RDesktop app available too). Bearing in mind how cheaply one can acquire an x86 PC capable of reasonable performance (no app run over remote desktop will ever be *fast*), this has to be the most efficient way for users of low-powered macs to run Windows apps.
You can even full-screen it and freak out your mac-addict friends by showing them a Mac with, apparently, Windows installed on it.
Google's biggest assets above its staff, are its name and reputation for solid, advanced technology effectively implemented. I figure they could move into any web-based application field but expect that it will begin with licensing out search technology for company intranets (already available from them actually) and instant messaging/conference software. (Jabber?)
They're probably terrified that Google Gmail will become a universal sign-in system to compete with MSN Passport - which, after all, is the real business reason to get people onto Hotmail.
Microsoft wants to control Online Identity services and Instant Messaging. Google has the ability to be a significant threat to that if they decide to enter the market. (I'm hoping they will)
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Two more words for you. Signal tracking.
Give soldiers equipment which broadcasts on known frequencies and you hand anyone with an interest, a way to trace or triangulate their location.
Whatever the rights or wrongs of the present situation, this can't be good.
My concern wasn't that it would be able to handle it per se, but to catalogue it. Most OS' react to a new volume by trying to index it. There's a difference between indexing and managing a TB raid array which is permanently attached and on which indexing is limited to noting changes.. and coping with the unannounced addition of that much storage to a bus which already looks slow compared to the rest of the system.
Perhaps these drives, if they are produced, will have to sit on a Hypertransport bus or similar...
I suspect that he's working on the principles of mass production and Moore's Law - and hoping that they'll become cheaper to produce. I guess the best comparison could be to compare the price-per-Gigabyte difference between the 1st-gen 5gb iPod and the current 20gb entry model.
This release wasn't designed to be used.
It was designed to be issued with computers which otherwise would have had a government-endorsed Linux system preinstalled: Something Microsoft would sink to any depths to prevent
I'm not convinced modern machines could even handle this: Bear in mind that IDE buses run at what - 250mbps max?
How would an OS react to suddenly having to catalogue a multi-terabyte disk? By locking, I suspect.
That said, just think of what the thought of this disk would do to the RIAA: A single disk, no larger than a floppy, which could hold a high-bitrate Mp3 copy of every song ever produced.....
Yeah, however as I said, I did a slipstream install: Intgrated the service pack into the windows CD to save time and get better driver support. So its kinda, awkward to need to apply the patch beforehand..... lol
If you are running a firewall for incoming connections (and yes, Windows Firewall does this job WELL), use A/V and AntiSpyware software, and are reasonably intelligent about installing programs, you don't NEED outgoing protection.
Outgoing protection is very useful to stop applications "calling home" - things like the updater for Sun Java or Yahoo messenger. If you like to decide for yourself when to upgrade, its a useful feature.
Because AVG is not a better product, it doesnt even have an auto update function... and I have a FW already in addition to windows FW, I just chose not t mention that as it was an irrelevance.
Mac OSX has a firewall supplied which does exactly the same - inbound connections only with an option to open ports for file sharing, remote desktop etc... except NOT enabled by default. Again, if you're using it for serious stuff you'd add a hardware FW at the network perimeter.
I just installed a slipstreamed version of XP-SP2 and can't get Norton Antivirus 2002 or 2003 to work, both report the Liveupdate product list is corrupt
Both copies are known to work on XP SP1. I suspect Windows firewall is interfering. Anyone else had this?
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Whoever modded this down - most people whose /. UID pre-dates the 6-figure mark tend to be geeks of some considerable standing... and more often than not, worth listening to (unlike me - haha)
/. stories such as this one prove his point.
FWIW, past
Please bear in mind though, that until such a time as Evolution will either run on Windows or cleanly compile on CYGWIN, these Mozilla apps are the best OSS PIM app available to many users.
I'm glad someone spotted that - but then Microsoft love to "create" standards (XLS, DOC, PPS) - I'm sure they'd love to have WMA accepted as a stnandard, not by the industrial bodies but by the end-users. Windows Media everywhere is what they need far more than genuine accreditation as a standard.
I'm amused that they missed a trick though... just weeks after they released WinXP SP2 which updates WMP to a patched 9.x release.. they have to start all over again by releasing WMP10. Form a strictly marketing PoV it would have made sense to include WMP10 in SP2. That said, I'm glad they didn't as it's unproven technology.
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For iChat read ChatZilla
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I hope that if X-Chat is going to have troubles with the GPL it will encourage more developers to help with Mozilla's ChatZilla.
With Mozilla Calendar (Sunbird), Browser (Firefox) and Mail (Thunderbird) already spun off into interesting projects in various stages of development, how long can it be until we have a trule OSS IRC client from them as well?
I've been using iChat for a year and its fine for IRC use already.
I'd imagine they want the skills for another unrelated media product (set-top box?), but its convenient to advertise it for iPods...
That said, they did advertise the iTunes for Windows dev job openly before admitting the product was pending.
Cannella is actually preparing for the X-Prize, this is just a land-based test launch.
Team Cannella's orbiter vehicle will have radiation shields made of old kettles.
You fail to consider all the hidden / internal API's with which WINE developers struggle on a near-daily basis.
Try reading the WINE developers lists before making offensive and inaccurate posts like that...... If the Win32 API was open, WINE would have taken a lot less time to develop to its present state of completion.
Opensource the API, then you'lll suddenly have a lot more coders working on your system. The way I see it, Microsoft doesn't need to cpmete for customer base any more.
They need to compete for coder base, as we're approaching a time when the system will be sold not on its own merits but on those of the applications it runs. This is already the case in enterprise computing and can only grow.
... is on a Windows machine.
I have a Windows box with XP Pro to which I connect using Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Mac (There's a port of the OSS RDesktop app available too).
Bearing in mind how cheaply one can acquire an x86 PC capable of reasonable performance (no app run over remote desktop will ever be *fast*), this has to be the most efficient way for users of low-powered macs to run Windows apps.
You can even full-screen it and freak out your mac-addict friends by showing them a Mac with, apparently, Windows installed on it.
"Are people really prepared to let insurance companies track their every move to save money on car insurance?"
No.
Not on your nelly.
I hope that's clear enough.
Google's biggest assets above its staff, are its name and reputation for solid, advanced technology effectively implemented. I figure they could move into any web-based application field but expect that it will begin with licensing out search technology for company intranets (already available from them actually) and instant messaging/conference software. (Jabber?)
They're probably terrified that Google Gmail will become a universal sign-in system to compete with MSN Passport - which, after all, is the real business reason to get people onto Hotmail.
Microsoft wants to control Online Identity services and Instant Messaging. Google has the ability to be a significant threat to that if they decide to enter the market. (I'm hoping they will)
Two more words for you. Signal tracking.
Give soldiers equipment which broadcasts on known frequencies and you hand anyone with an interest, a way to trace or triangulate their location.
Whatever the rights or wrongs of the present situation, this can't be good.
My concern wasn't that it would be able to handle it per se, but to catalogue it. Most OS' react to a new volume by trying to index it. There's a difference between indexing and managing a TB raid array which is permanently attached and on which indexing is limited to noting changes.. and coping with the unannounced addition of that much storage to a bus which already looks slow compared to the rest of the system.
Perhaps these drives, if they are produced, will have to sit on a Hypertransport bus or similar...
I suspect that he's working on the principles of mass production and Moore's Law - and hoping that they'll become cheaper to produce. I guess the best comparison could be to compare the price-per-Gigabyte difference between the 1st-gen 5gb iPod and the current 20gb entry model.
Perhaps in 2 years this thing will cost $100.
This release wasn't designed to be used.
It was designed to be issued with computers which otherwise would have had a government-endorsed Linux system preinstalled: Something Microsoft would sink to any depths to prevent
I'm not convinced modern machines could even handle this: Bear in mind that IDE buses run at what - 250mbps max?
How would an OS react to suddenly having to catalogue a multi-terabyte disk? By locking, I suspect.
That said, just think of what the thought of this disk would do to the RIAA: A single disk, no larger than a floppy, which could hold a high-bitrate Mp3 copy of every song ever produced.....
Yeah, however as I said, I did a slipstream install: Intgrated the service pack into the windows CD to save time and get better driver support.
So its kinda, awkward to need to apply the patch beforehand..... lol
If you are running a firewall for incoming connections (and yes, Windows Firewall does this job WELL), use A/V and AntiSpyware software, and are reasonably intelligent about installing programs, you don't NEED outgoing protection.
Outgoing protection is very useful to stop applications "calling home" - things like the updater for Sun Java or Yahoo messenger. If you like to decide for yourself when to upgrade, its a useful feature.
Because AVG is not a better product, it doesnt even have an auto update function... and I have a FW already in addition to windows FW, I just chose not t mention that as it was an irrelevance.
Mac OSX has a firewall supplied which does exactly the same - inbound connections only with an option to open ports for file sharing, remote desktop etc... except NOT enabled by default.
Again, if you're using it for serious stuff you'd add a hardware FW at the network perimeter.
I just installed a slipstreamed version of XP-SP2 and can't get Norton Antivirus 2002 or 2003 to work, both report the Liveupdate product list is corrupt
Both copies are known to work on XP SP1. I suspect Windows firewall is interfering. Anyone else had this?
the next e-marketing revolution: Transplant spam...
And FYI: Instructions for slipstreaming SP2 into a Windows XP CD
A slipstream disk and fresh install is always the most reliable way to install and run Windows.