Gates is noting that Linux is taking over, and claims that 10 years forward Linux and Windows will be the only OSs left in the market.
I have quite another vision of future. 10 years forward, there will be 11354 variants of Linux only on the market, all the same. Or perhaps he did mean a flea market? That's where I would seek for Windows then.
With those
green lasers II
from ThinkGeek for only 100 buckazoids, OSTG may soon be found on the list of terrorist organisations. Maybe USAF should bomb every disco in the world for prevention of such "attacks".
If I'd be a windows user today, having or not having some particular media player would be the last of my concerns. I'd be more interested in removing more...eh, dangerous... uh, features.
For me, there is a big diference between Solaris and Linux: massive kernel debug facilities in Solaris versus lack of them in Linux. Because it signifies good codebase quality of the Linux kernel versus lack of it in Solaris. They are simply not needed for Linux.
And yes, I know what I am speaking of, 25 years ago crash dump analysis was my daily bread on a mainframe. And I am glad time has chaged.
This sort of grief is very typical. But only for incompetent drones, known better publicly as "Windows users". It is extremely unlikely for enlightened open source hermetics.
Their secret plan is to license and/or sell some future version of Java Desktop System on Solaris only, forcing all established customers to migrate away from Linux. Silly idea. Microsoft money, of course. Maybe, two or three years?
My clean solution: make mental note to ignore java now. It's too slow for me, nor open either. Why the hell the j2re1.4.2.05 is missing SSL support in non american downloads, while j2re1.4.2.04 had it?
I used Robotics 8000-02 Broadband Router for multiport switching, NAT and firewall for almost one year. I was very dissatisfied with the device. I really liked Robotics hardware some 15 years ago, being a high speed modem dealer in early ninetees, but this time it was a complete disaster.
Here is the list of incidents I had with it, I believe many of other so called consumer grade broadband routers have very similar symptoms:
1. Web interface
- http status/configuration pages required support for javascript in browser. Not working in konqueror at all. Sends incredibly buggy HTML code with incomplete tags, bad headers, incorrectly nested frames.
- Using links console browser to just open the index page crashed the device completely. Nice kind of trivial DoS attack from LAN side, available to everybody.
- Running for more than ten days, internal web server crashed, not responding anymore on http port (memory leak?).
2. parallel port/printer server function
- not operational with HP Deskjet. I can't imagine "more standard" parallel printer
- uPnP adds another enigmatic vulnerability, crashing caused just by rebooting random Windows boxes on the LAN side
3. Network
- incredibly big latency for LAN ports, increasing every day of operation by a small factor (table fragmentation?)
- filtering on MAC addresses not working properly
- WAN side had subtle problems with DHCP from outer side
4. In crashed state, often a power cycle was necessary with reset to reinitialize the device (bad hardware design?)
Conclusion: bad coding can ruin even an almost decently designed embedded hardware. If the coder of the Robotics 8000-02 (it's the patch 2!) firmware is to be found here on Slashdot, I have a message for you: You are lame!
As expected in 21 century, Robotics responded only automated emails to any of my reports/querries. Something like that never happened in ninetees.
After failure of power supply (once, I did not waited the necessary 15 seconds of power cycle to reset) I declared the router dead.
I replaced it with a "normal" 8-port 3Com switch hooked to decent Pentium 120 box (10 years old), running customized Slack in 32 Megs of RAM from ancient 120MB Maxtor. Yes, megabytes, it's 15+ years old drive. No CD drive, because I realised the old IDE has a 1/4 of the power consumption of the today's speedy CD drive. Ridiculous, isn't it?
I haven't need to touch the box for seven months up to now. It is still running the first power up after installation.
Nothing in this universe can technically prevent to do in software what can be done in hardware. And vice versa. Future Secure USB emulator in some old PDA will do the job well.
More, I bet my hat the OSS implementation of anything standardized will be more compatible, more secure and less buggy than Microsoft one. Linux drivers included.
Funny part of it is, banning USB disks will bring on alredy existing technology: ethernet disk drives. SATA over IP. With Microsoft's history of networking code nonquality, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Even if you do not believe in skills of open source community, at least you can hire your own specialist to look at possible problems in critical code. You cannot do that with closed source, you are doomed to remain a believer of code vendor.
I repeat: You CANNOT be sure you are secure with closed source, no matter what you do. You CAN secure yourself with open source, if you make effort.
Picking Suse as the primary target implies Microsoft realises they already lost a world market to linux. Big swarm of linux distros, so many movable targets they cannot compete with.
That implied the need to defend at least at home. I bet you can expect some big law about operating systems in the U.S.A. in near future, based on DRM control, with publicity motivated by terrorism, as usual.
Maybe now top managers who can realy understand numbers do realise that migration from Windows XP to Linux will bring immediate increase in productivity by 12%.
It may be cheaper for some bussinesses to build their own private networks instead of using public internet for traffic. The regulators can do nothing with private networks.
Here in Europe, underground people are already building their own high speed comm links out of reach of government, at least in big cities. I suggest you should do the same in U.S.A.
I do not belive these reactors are intended to help development countries anyway. But certainly they will be necessary for next generation of american field weaponry based on laser and microwave technology.
Go hiking. Learn to play an instrument. Drink beer with friends. Read obscure books. Learn a foreign language. Play with children. Cook good food. Run.
...it is by invisible hand of the market. Development costs for embedded on Linux are lower, no matter what FUD about GPL are Microsoft vassals posting on Slashdot. Because embedded incarnations of Linux are very consistent with desktop ones.
An example from real life:
My girlfriend wrote some custom app (database client frontend +some.net stuff) for PocketPC using WinCE emulator in Windows XP. With a real pain, because running emulator took 98% of desktop CPU doing nothing. It was worth a new computer, two months of her work and many grey hairs to complete the task.
I replicated her effort on the identical hardware (HP iPaq, but with Linux flashed in) in three days. The trick I used was a http server running inside iPaq (sic!), calling local python scripts to query remote database and generate html content to local browser.
Guess, from these two implementations, which one is easier and/or cheaper to support?
Can you, Microsoft drones, stuff IIS or any existing COM/DCOM components you already payed for on Win32 into some WinCE device?
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I guess I will need to code some trusted hardware emulator soon, 'cause my current boxes lacks that preciouss chip. Any spec on sight, anyone?
Gates is noting that Linux is taking over, and claims that 10 years forward Linux and Windows will be the only OSs left in the market.
I have quite another vision of future. 10 years forward, there will be 11354 variants of Linux only on the market, all the same. Or perhaps he did mean a flea market? That's where I would seek for Windows then.
Left wing Australian Christian political party
If THIS is not a multioxymoron, who are the right wing on australian political scene then? Cthulhu believers?
Great firewall of Australia, here we come!
Well, Holy Great Firewall of Australia, now that sounds much better.
With those green lasers II from ThinkGeek for only 100 buckazoids, OSTG may soon be found on the list of terrorist organisations. Maybe USAF should bomb every disco in the world for prevention of such "attacks".
If I'd be a windows user today, having or not having some particular media player would be the last of my concerns. I'd be more interested in removing more...eh, dangerous... uh, features.
Well, now who is so bold to register "Moneky Bloging" as a Slashdot nick?
For me, there is a big diference between Solaris and Linux: massive kernel debug facilities in Solaris versus lack of them in Linux. Because it signifies good codebase quality of the Linux kernel versus lack of it in Solaris. They are simply not needed for Linux.
And yes, I know what I am speaking of, 25 years ago crash dump analysis was my daily bread on a mainframe. And I am glad time has chaged.
How typical is this sort of grief?
This sort of grief is very typical. But only for incompetent drones, known better publicly as "Windows users". It is extremely unlikely for enlightened open source hermetics.
Brakes not needed, it'll stop automatically at sunset, I guess.
Now THAT does mean after some nuclear incident I could get a truly lot of spam. What a mess...
Their secret plan is to license and/or sell some future version of Java Desktop System on Solaris only, forcing all established customers to migrate away from Linux. Silly idea. Microsoft money, of course. Maybe, two or three years?
My clean solution: make mental note to ignore java now. It's too slow for me, nor open either. Why the hell the j2re1.4.2.05 is missing SSL support in non american downloads, while j2re1.4.2.04 had it?
It's time to register "Twisted Grind" as a cool Slashdot nickname!
I used Robotics 8000-02 Broadband Router for multiport switching, NAT and firewall for almost one year. I was very dissatisfied with the device. I really liked Robotics hardware some 15 years ago, being a high speed modem dealer in early ninetees, but this time it was a complete disaster.
Here is the list of incidents I had with it, I believe many of other so called consumer grade broadband routers have very similar symptoms:
1. Web interface
- http status/configuration pages required support for javascript in browser. Not working in konqueror at all. Sends incredibly buggy HTML code with incomplete tags, bad headers, incorrectly nested frames.
- Using links console browser to just open the index page crashed the device completely. Nice kind of trivial DoS attack from LAN side, available to everybody.
- Running for more than ten days, internal web server crashed, not responding anymore on http port (memory leak?).
2. parallel port/printer server function
- not operational with HP Deskjet. I can't imagine "more standard" parallel printer
- uPnP adds another enigmatic vulnerability, crashing caused just by rebooting random Windows boxes on the LAN side
3. Network
- incredibly big latency for LAN ports, increasing every day of operation by a small factor (table fragmentation?)
- filtering on MAC addresses not working properly
- WAN side had subtle problems with DHCP from outer side
4. In crashed state, often a power cycle was necessary with reset to reinitialize the device (bad hardware design?)
Conclusion: bad coding can ruin even an almost decently designed embedded hardware. If the coder of the Robotics 8000-02 (it's the patch 2!) firmware is to be found here on Slashdot, I have a message for you: You are lame!
As expected in 21 century, Robotics responded only automated emails to any of my reports/querries. Something like that never happened in ninetees.
After failure of power supply (once, I did not waited the necessary 15 seconds of power cycle to reset) I declared the router dead.
I replaced it with a "normal" 8-port 3Com switch hooked to decent Pentium 120 box (10 years old), running customized Slack in 32 Megs of RAM from ancient 120MB Maxtor. Yes, megabytes, it's 15+ years old drive. No CD drive, because I realised the old IDE has a 1/4 of the power consumption of the today's speedy CD drive. Ridiculous, isn't it?
I haven't need to touch the box for seven months up to now. It is still running the first power up after installation.
Wake up! You have two of them just at the front side of your head.
Nothing in this universe can technically prevent to do in software what can be done in hardware. And vice versa. Future Secure USB emulator in some old PDA will do the job well.
More, I bet my hat the OSS implementation of anything standardized will be more compatible, more secure and less buggy than Microsoft one. Linux drivers included.
Funny part of it is, banning USB disks will bring on alredy existing technology: ethernet disk drives. SATA over IP. With Microsoft's history of networking code nonquality, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Even if you do not believe in skills of open source community, at least you can hire your own specialist to look at possible problems in critical code. You cannot do that with closed source, you are doomed to remain a believer of code vendor.
I repeat: You CANNOT be sure you are secure with closed source, no matter what you do. You CAN secure yourself with open source, if you make effort.
Picking Suse as the primary target implies Microsoft realises they already lost a world market to linux. Big swarm of linux distros, so many movable targets they cannot compete with.
That implied the need to defend at least at home. I bet you can expect some big law about operating systems in the U.S.A. in near future, based on DRM control, with publicity motivated by terrorism, as usual.
Maybe now top managers who can realy understand numbers do realise that migration from Windows XP to Linux will bring immediate increase in productivity by 12%.
I wonder what Microsoft had in mind?
I do not wonder. I am sure Microsoft Collective had in his mind our money they'll never reach anymore.
Or rather undead. The good thing is the Sun realises about it. Opening closed source is a positive way to afterlife for software.
A cluster of them. Linux, of course.
It may be cheaper for some bussinesses to build their own private networks instead of using public internet for traffic. The regulators can do nothing with private networks.
Here in Europe, underground people are already building their own high speed comm links out of reach of government, at least in big cities. I suggest you should do the same in U.S.A.
I do not belive these reactors are intended to help development countries anyway. But certainly they will be necessary for next generation of american field weaponry based on laser and microwave technology.
Go hiking.
Learn to play an instrument.
Drink beer with friends.
Read obscure books.
Learn a foreign language.
Play with children.
Cook good food.
Run.
You do not think we are all SIMS, did you?
...it is by invisible hand of the market. Development costs for embedded on Linux are lower, no matter what FUD about GPL are Microsoft vassals posting on Slashdot. Because embedded incarnations of Linux are very consistent with desktop ones.
.net stuff) for PocketPC using WinCE emulator in Windows XP. With a real pain, because running emulator took 98% of desktop CPU doing nothing. It was worth a new computer, two months of her work and many grey hairs to complete the task.
An example from real life:
My girlfriend wrote some custom app (database client frontend +some
I replicated her effort on the identical hardware (HP iPaq, but with Linux flashed in) in three days. The trick I used was a http server running inside iPaq (sic!), calling local python scripts to query remote database and generate html content to local browser.
Guess, from these two implementations, which one is easier and/or cheaper to support?
Can you, Microsoft drones, stuff IIS or any existing COM/DCOM components you already payed for on Win32 into some WinCE device?