I have seen the use of this tool, and seriously, it rocks. There is no other tracing tool to compare with this. So, I am very eager to hear any news about this being ported to Linux, as not many people use FreeBSD;-)
I am sure... check this link from Anandtech and say what the browser they are accessing inside it is. For my eyes it looks like Internet Explorer... it even says so on the top...
I really think that the OS is windows... the web browser it loads is Internet Explorer.. so I guess it should be windows... the truth is I was expecting it to be Firefox or atleast Konqueror:-(
I think this is where this has to be stopped... under such conditions everyone will be locked down by DRM and will be puppets to server their master, the corporations...
But unless all the consumers band together... I dont see anything else stopping this:-(
I agree with your views, but the article by itself raises some interesting questions...
What will happen if the joe sixpack doesn't know that something called Public Domain existed... what if they thing copyright is the right thing to do ? What I have to say that I was indeed deeply troubled by this article
The Fares application and infrastructure represent just 10 percent of the Galileo computing platform. The rest houses the massive collection of flight information for every airline, every route in the world, written in a 1970s-era mainframe language called the Transaction Processing Facility (TPF). "Unlike today's operating systems, TPF was designed almost exclusively for speed," says Wiseman.
I am one of the programmers who develop for TPF. What is mentioned here, the part about TPF being designed for speed is 100% correct. It is still the fastest OS available IMO...
Most of the development projects are done only in Assembly, and even in that we generally concentrate a lot on minimizing the code base and MIPS. There is no way any other architecture now, which includes Linux, Unix, BSD's can compete with TPF in terms of raw power... that raw power being speed. During top loads the system easily handles 4000 messages per second... which will choke off any other OS I know of.
And there is another new development in the horizon for TPF... apache has/is being ported to it... a web server in TPF will then be every WebAdmin's dreams... as it can never be slashdotted:-)
That said, I am really hapy that Linux is improving it's position in the market. I would've been much happier if this was in the desktop rather than the backend server .
Speaking with Wickstrand, and to a lesser extent actually using the system, provided me with a much clearer perspective about Windows XP Starter Edition, which is not the crippled dog that critics have described it as. Indeed, Wickstrand's story about the XP Starter Edition team and its dedication to actually meeting the needs of real users in disadvantaged parts of the world is quite inspiring. Far from its reported destitution, XP Starter Edition is, in fact, a triumph of cooperative product design, one that simultaneously meets the needs of users, governments, PC makers, and Microsoft itself. In my book, that's a win-win. As for the future of XP Starter Edition, I guess we'll have to wait and see how the pilot program performs. But from this point in time, with the pilot program just two-fifths of the way through a multi-month rollout, Windows XP Starter Edition looks like it has a bright future. It's just too bad that the ivory tower critics can't see beyond their own insular worlds to understand that truth.
--Paul Thurrott
January 3, 2005
If a system that has no network support, can only open three programs, and has only 800 x 600 is not crippled, I don't know what is. I like to know what crack this guy is using...I want to stay a long way from it.
PS : And I don't see anything inspriring in this...if MS has given more features than XP Pro for less cost...that is inspiring !!! Anyone who has not RTFA, please don't.
I will say what will happen from this ruling !!!
NOTHING !!!!!
MS will just go on and appeal with the EU, while it will try to start and settle this matter out of court, and then will continue its businees practices as usual. Note that any company/organisation that are/were suing MS are nowadays quickly settling out of court or else the case is being dragged till it is settled out of court;-)
How can one be sure about closed source kernels like Windows XP. Even though I agree that it has to contain more bugs, without the actual source how can any one make any judgement in this matter?
I have firefox.. and I don't see the "Block All Images from this Site" option in it? I've seen it in Mozilla, but I've never seen it in FireFox. Maybe its present in any one of the extensions?
In India too, the government banned minors from entering Cyber Cafes, and asked owners to verify the users identities. Worse, people using cyber cafes had to give their address so that they can be verified in case of any problem.
But like many other laws, people realised it was rubbish and thus no one took care to implement it:-) So, that law resides in the book only and I think it was made in the first place to appease certain left elements.
the myriad of problems users of GUI in Linux face. I mean, common, it surely pisses me if I have to edit a config file by hand if I install any nvidia driver. Also, I hate to do it again when I recompile a new kernel.
Also, I hope they provide a solid backdrop from where desktop linux can emerge.
This is really a very big problem plagueing the industry. Some one has to do something, and it's good to see people starting to notice this. Let's hope something worthwhile comes out of this.
SCO and IBM settled their long standing dispute with IBM agreeing to pay SCO 3 billions and SCO accepting that Linux source code does not belong to them:-)
And Bill Gates and RMS met over a dinner and shared jokes about their college days.
My personal opinion is that Mono must never come into the code base. It is a project doomed from the start, and I don't want it polluting the code base.
Java is good, but I don't know if any actual advantage in speed or performance will be gained by using Java over C/C++
But this is a wake up call for the community to direct the course of the all important desktop environment, which if corectly done, will make Linux usable to the average Joe.
Hey, can't these ads be just blocked out using firewalls, or by using some plug-ins for browsers like firebird? I don't think this is going to be successful if we have to download an ad just to view a web page.
PS : But I did like *that* ad which showed a girl in bikini:-)
If I had any doubts that MS is helping OSS and slowly erasing itself, it is now clearing:-)
Jokes aside, this will seriously affect businesses that have paid for their upgrade licenses, as the licenses will expire before the sql server is released. This will make decision makers view Open Source in a new light. Atleast, in Open Source you don't pay for future vaporware in the present.
I thought this will also be a total failure, but I am really happy to know that I am wrong.
Now, bush has another supporter for his *travel to mars* plans.
PS : Have any of you read the Edgar Rice Burroughs fiction books about life on Mars. I really liked them. Now to know that they were all false....
I think the server has been slashdotted;)
Any how, I think that whatever you do to IE, it will still have a lot of holes, and will make people vulnerable by just using it. And this facility only is like a candy wrapper, as it cannot do anything to fix the bugs in the engine.
Slashdot Mirror
I have seen the use of this tool, and seriously, it rocks. There is no other tracing tool to compare with this. So, I am very eager to hear any news about this being ported to Linux, as not many people use FreeBSD ;-)
I am sure ... check this link from Anandtech and say what the browser they are accessing inside it is. For my eyes it looks like Internet Explorer ... it even says so on the top ...
I really think that the OS is windows ... the web browser it loads is Internet Explorer .. so I guess it should be windows ... the truth is I was expecting it to be Firefox or atleast Konqueror :-(
I think this is where this has to be stopped ... under such conditions everyone will be locked down by DRM and will be puppets to server their master, the corporations ...
But unless all the consumers band together ... I dont see anything else stopping this :-(
I agree with your views, but the article by itself raises some interesting questions ...
What will happen if the joe sixpack doesn't know that something called Public Domain existed ... what if they thing copyright is the right thing to do ? What I have to say that I was indeed deeply troubled by this article
The Fares application and infrastructure represent just 10 percent of the Galileo computing platform. The rest houses the massive collection of flight information for every airline, every route in the world, written in a 1970s-era mainframe language called the Transaction Processing Facility (TPF). "Unlike today's operating systems, TPF was designed almost exclusively for speed," says Wiseman.
... that raw power being speed. During top loads the system easily handles 4000 messages per second ... which will choke off any other OS I know of.
... apache has/is being ported to it ... a web server in TPF will then be every WebAdmin's dreams ... as it can never be slashdotted :-)
I am one of the programmers who develop for TPF. What is mentioned here, the part about TPF being designed for speed is 100% correct. It is still the fastest OS available IMO...
Most of the development projects are done only in Assembly, and even in that we generally concentrate a lot on minimizing the code base and MIPS. There is no way any other architecture now, which includes Linux, Unix, BSD's can compete with TPF in terms of raw power
And there is another new development in the horizon for TPF
That said, I am really hapy that Linux is improving it's position in the market. I would've been much happier if this was in the desktop rather than the backend server .
Speaking with Wickstrand, and to a lesser extent actually using the system, provided me with a much clearer perspective about Windows XP Starter Edition, which is not the crippled dog that critics have described it as. Indeed, Wickstrand's story about the XP Starter Edition team and its dedication to actually meeting the needs of real users in disadvantaged parts of the world is quite inspiring. Far from its reported destitution, XP Starter Edition is, in fact, a triumph of cooperative product design, one that simultaneously meets the needs of users, governments, PC makers, and Microsoft itself. In my book, that's a win-win. As for the future of XP Starter Edition, I guess we'll have to wait and see how the pilot program performs. But from this point in time, with the pilot program just two-fifths of the way through a multi-month rollout, Windows XP Starter Edition looks like it has a bright future. It's just too bad that the ivory tower critics can't see beyond their own insular worlds to understand that truth.
--Paul Thurrott January 3, 2005
If a system that has no network support, can only open three programs, and has only 800 x 600 is not crippled, I don't know what is. I like to know what crack this guy is using...I want to stay a long way from it.
PS : And I don't see anything inspriring in this...if MS has given more features than XP Pro for less cost...that is inspiring !!! Anyone who has not RTFA, please don't.
I will say what will happen from this ruling !!! NOTHING !!!!! MS will just go on and appeal with the EU, while it will try to start and settle this matter out of court, and then will continue its businees practices as usual. Note that any company/organisation that are/were suing MS are nowadays quickly settling out of court or else the case is being dragged till it is settled out of court ;-)
How can one be sure about closed source kernels like Windows XP. Even though I agree that it has to contain more bugs, without the actual source how can any one make any judgement in this matter?
I have firefox.. and I don't see the "Block All Images from this Site" option in it? I've seen it in Mozilla, but I've never seen it in FireFox. Maybe its present in any one of the extensions?
If so, can anyone please give me a link to it.
In India too, the government banned minors from entering Cyber Cafes, and asked owners to verify the users identities. Worse, people using cyber cafes had to give their address so that they can be verified in case of any problem.
:-) So, that law resides in the book only and I think it was made in the first place to appease certain left elements.
But like many other laws, people realised it was rubbish and thus no one took care to implement it
the myriad of problems users of GUI in Linux face. I mean, common, it surely pisses me if I have to edit a config file by hand if I install any nvidia driver. Also, I hate to do it again when I recompile a new kernel.
Also, I hope they provide a solid backdrop from where desktop linux can emerge.
This is really a very big problem plagueing the industry. Some one has to do something, and it's good to see people starting to notice this. Let's hope something worthwhile comes out of this.
SCO and IBM settled their long standing dispute with IBM agreeing to pay SCO 3 billions and SCO accepting that Linux source code does not belong to them :-)
And Bill Gates and RMS met over a dinner and shared jokes about their college days.
My personal opinion is that Mono must never come into the code base. It is a project doomed from the start, and I don't want it polluting the code base.
Java is good, but I don't know if any actual advantage in speed or performance will be gained by using Java over C/C++
But this is a wake up call for the community to direct the course of the all important desktop environment, which if corectly done, will make Linux usable to the average Joe.
Hey, can't these ads be just blocked out using firewalls, or by using some plug-ins for browsers like firebird? I don't think this is going to be successful if we have to download an ad just to view a web page. PS : But I did like *that* ad which showed a girl in bikini :-)
If I had any doubts that MS is helping OSS and slowly erasing itself, it is now clearing :-)
Jokes aside, this will seriously affect businesses that have paid for their upgrade licenses, as the licenses will expire before the sql server is released. This will make decision makers view Open Source in a new light. Atleast, in Open Source you don't pay for future vaporware in the present.
Here is a link if the original site is /.
http://linux.iconrate.net/gallery/11-ml-02-earth-A 067R1.jpg
I thought this will also be a total failure, but I am really happy to know that I am wrong. Now, bush has another supporter for his *travel to mars* plans. PS : Have any of you read the Edgar Rice Burroughs fiction books about life on Mars. I really liked them. Now to know that they were all false....
I think the server has been slashdotted ;)
Any how, I think that whatever you do to IE, it will still have a lot of holes, and will make people vulnerable by just using it. And this facility only is like a candy wrapper, as it cannot do anything to fix the bugs in the engine.