People have been hacking their XBoxes and Palm Pilots to run Linux for a while now. Any bets on how long it will be before someone decides to put Linux on their shopping cart? (Wow, that sentence really sounds weird...)
A faculty member at my school was talking about running benchmarks on a various set of Java applications servers, including Oracle's, JBoss, and some others. I'm going to bring up this one to him and hopefully I'll have some unbiased results for you guys.
I really hope that this becomes a case-study for the open source movement. Could you imagine the guys at Apache saying "We've found a bug that lets a user access your system" WITHOUT releasing a patch? And the guys at Microsoft get _paid_ to fix these problems. Sheesh!
Yeah, I was dual-booting with Win2K and I only noticed the problem because it killed my existing NTFS partition (*insert angry face here*). I'm not trying to bash Mandrake (I've heard great things), but it just put a bad taste in my mouth. The install was just an experiment as I try (still trying) to find the perfect Linux distro. Right now, I'm still with Red Hat.
I don't know if anyone else has experienced this or not, but Mandrake 10 screwed up my partition table. It didn't even recognize 20 of the 60 GB in my drive. Since then I haven't used Mandrake. Anyone else have a problem like this before?
I totally agree! I "upgraded" to the new version of AIM recently and it doesn't work correctly. The preferences page that lets you select whether or not to show the AIM.com window on startup doesn't actually stop the window from popping up.
The problem is, however, that gaim doesn't work well on Windows with the AIM protocol. I haven't tried it with jabber, though, because no one that I know uses it.
Does this mean that libraries are protected under this patent? I have applications that "ask" zlib for compression "help", so could they sue me (and theoretically every software developer on the planet), right? It just seems a little silly to me...
Go with Cisco Catalyst switches. Because of the number of systems you have on that net, I'm guessing that cost is less of an object than it would be for a small business, so go with Cisco. The server farm for the company I'm consulting for right now needs to be up 24/7/365, so that's what we use. They 3550 series has a bunch of different options (10/100 or 1000 and 10/100 with gigabit uplinks).
I am a young programmer (still in school) and I _love_ open source software. The idea that you can take a computer and install all the software you need on it without cost is amazing. Also, open source software helps you learn how to code certain things. I learned network programming by looking at different SourceForge projects. I cost me a lot less than a book would have and showed me (obviously) working code samples.
I like the idea that I can change something in a program to make it work better for me, which might not be a feature a commercial software company would put in its products just because I asked them to (although this has happened).
Agreed, its hard to make money from something you give away, but their are other ways to profit from OSS.
I've been waiting for Sun to open up Java for a long time. If you're giving it away for free, their is little purpose in keeping it closed source, especially when other people have JVMs out there, too. The only point of freeware v. open source is that people must use your software or visit your website to get it, but that's not the case with Java. I hope Sun goes for it.
Some friends of mine are planning to start an ISP that provides wireless internet access (no overhead of the dial-up lines and its faster). Being the geek that I am, they asked me to design their infrastructure. They are placing Wireless Access Points connected to gateways in a few locations around the city. Those gateways (running NoCat) look to a central authentication server (also running NoCat, but with MySQL) to verify usernames and passwords. If you're charging for access as they are, you can setup the authentication server with Apache-SSL and PHP so you can process payments.
You know, as much as I dislike Microsoft (I don't say hate only because I liked Windows 2000 and 98) I don't want to see them lose this case. If Microsoft used the same method for detection, then maybe the suit should be against M$. Otherwise, this could hurt more than just Microsoft. Don't some Linux distros have autoplay? I know Red Hat 8 does.
I've been putting Linux on small systems for a while, now. Generally, it means rolling my own kernel with uClibc and using BuildBox. A company could start building a good, stable distro for compact notebooks and handhelds (yes, I know there's Linux on handhelds already...) and make a killing selling it to OEMs.
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Do you mean the new Swiss or Belgian administration?
People have been hacking their XBoxes and Palm Pilots to run Linux for a while now. Any bets on how long it will be before someone decides to put Linux on their shopping cart? (Wow, that sentence really sounds weird...)
A faculty member at my school was talking about running benchmarks on a various set of Java applications servers, including Oracle's, JBoss, and some others. I'm going to bring up this one to him and hopefully I'll have some unbiased results for you guys.
I really hope that this becomes a case-study for the open source movement. Could you imagine the guys at Apache saying "We've found a bug that lets a user access your system" WITHOUT releasing a patch? And the guys at Microsoft get _paid_ to fix these problems. Sheesh!
Yeah, I was dual-booting with Win2K and I only noticed the problem because it killed my existing NTFS partition (*insert angry face here*). I'm not trying to bash Mandrake (I've heard great things), but it just put a bad taste in my mouth. The install was just an experiment as I try (still trying) to find the perfect Linux distro. Right now, I'm still with Red Hat.
Thanks! I'll have to try that.
I don't know if anyone else has experienced this or not, but Mandrake 10 screwed up my partition table. It didn't even recognize 20 of the 60 GB in my drive. Since then I haven't used Mandrake. Anyone else have a problem like this before?
I totally agree! I "upgraded" to the new version of AIM recently and it doesn't work correctly. The preferences page that lets you select whether or not to show the AIM.com window on startup doesn't actually stop the window from popping up. The problem is, however, that gaim doesn't work well on Windows with the AIM protocol. I haven't tried it with jabber, though, because no one that I know uses it.
Does this mean that libraries are protected under this patent? I have applications that "ask" zlib for compression "help", so could they sue me (and theoretically every software developer on the planet), right? It just seems a little silly to me...
Go with Cisco Catalyst switches. Because of the number of systems you have on that net, I'm guessing that cost is less of an object than it would be for a small business, so go with Cisco. The server farm for the company I'm consulting for right now needs to be up 24/7/365, so that's what we use. They 3550 series has a bunch of different options (10/100 or 1000 and 10/100 with gigabit uplinks).
Well, students don't make much money...
Also, I love that you can learn from software, which you can't with closed source. I don't mind paying for a book, but I don't feel I learn as much.
I am a young programmer (still in school) and I _love_ open source software. The idea that you can take a computer and install all the software you need on it without cost is amazing. Also, open source software helps you learn how to code certain things. I learned network programming by looking at different SourceForge projects. I cost me a lot less than a book would have and showed me (obviously) working code samples.
I like the idea that I can change something in a program to make it work better for me, which might not be a feature a commercial software company would put in its products just because I asked them to (although this has happened).
Agreed, its hard to make money from something you give away, but their are other ways to profit from OSS.
I've been waiting for Sun to open up Java for a long time. If you're giving it away for free, their is little purpose in keeping it closed source, especially when other people have JVMs out there, too. The only point of freeware v. open source is that people must use your software or visit your website to get it, but that's not the case with Java. I hope Sun goes for it.
Some friends of mine are planning to start an ISP that provides wireless internet access (no overhead of the dial-up lines and its faster). Being the geek that I am, they asked me to design their infrastructure. They are placing Wireless Access Points connected to gateways in a few locations around the city. Those gateways (running NoCat) look to a central authentication server (also running NoCat, but with MySQL) to verify usernames and passwords. If you're charging for access as they are, you can setup the authentication server with Apache-SSL and PHP so you can process payments.
You know, as much as I dislike Microsoft (I don't say hate only because I liked Windows 2000 and 98) I don't want to see them lose this case. If Microsoft used the same method for detection, then maybe the suit should be against M$. Otherwise, this could hurt more than just Microsoft. Don't some Linux distros have autoplay? I know Red Hat 8 does.
I've been putting Linux on small systems for a while, now. Generally, it means rolling my own kernel with uClibc and using BuildBox. A company could start building a good, stable distro for compact notebooks and handhelds (yes, I know there's Linux on handhelds already...) and make a killing selling it to OEMs.
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Anyone want to start one? I'd go after it.