I bought a screamer from them and sevral months later saw a similarly equipped Compaq box, $1500 more expensive. I like them. Don't know what you have against them, but lies like yours don't make your arguments look very real.
I spent my money at VAResearch and everything's been just fine, thank you, including a price less than Compaq for the same speed, ram, disk. Substantially less, so I figure it's an NT tax.
Say Mr Dell, are the Linux boxes going to be cheaper, since there's no Bill tax?
The place I had been at for about 4 years had several different software departments (yes, we talked to each other:-) Our dept used CVS, another one used RCS. The RCS one's management decided they had to get a real ($$$) system; they bought clearcase for who knows how much money. It required its own SunOS server, it crashed several times and took them a day to recover. I refused to use it. CVS is great.
I'm just getting over a terrible head cold / food poisoning bout, and my brain is like a PIII w/o cache. Glad to know I haevn't lost it all just yet...
From Windows, I have no doubt there's some bogus ActiveX backdoor to run arbitrary native code. But Unix? They can run some Javascript, they can run Java, but they can't run arbitrary native binaries. So how exactly could they read this PSN on a Unix machine?
Because if you avoid it only because it won't last long enough, that's ok; just rely on the UPS long enough to do an orderly shutdown, then power everything off, including the UPS. Then when the UPS detects power back on, it will start up your box.
It's sort of a skeleton for making mod_perl, mod_php, etc, right? Sort of a meta application server?
I too am baffled by a lot of the buzzwords coming out nowadays (and olden days too:-). They mostly seem like marketing buzzwords to differentiate same-old same-old products.
200 years ago, even 100 years ago, 17 year patents made sense. Everything was a mechanical invention, society was slower moving.
Some thing still apply. Pharmaceuticals, for instance, take so much money and time to develop and get regulatory approval.
But business practices? XOR cursors? auctions? These are obvious to anyone even not so skilled in the art. Other patents, like the suid/guid bit, strike me as a true clever invention (altho I don't know the state of the art at that moment) but surely a couple of years would be sufficient.
Look, they have what, 2000 developers, plus at least as many marketing droids? Consider how much innovation they get out of that investment. It's pretty obvious that only Billy is allowed to think, everyone else has to carry out his plans. Imagien M$ without Billy. Balmer and these other flunkies have learnt to parrot his arrogance but not his brains.
So this is just their arrogance acrrying thru. Remember that comment abotu the video, about version 1.0 not so hot, but version 2.0 is better? Well jack, that's not how the legal system works. They are arrogant slimeball coward bullies and this trial just shows how incapable of thinking any of their idiots are.
I especially like how Rosen was characterized as "a low level employee" -- well duh, who picked him as a M$ witless^H^H^H^Hness anyway? But I bet he becomes pretty low level pretty soon...
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I've only been using AIX for 6 months now, off and on, and maybe once or twice a month have to configure things. They are sufficiently different from othe *nix that I like to use SMIT to show me what the command is.
I didn't understand until their guidelines for getting started with Linux, where they recommend starting with servers on otherwise-unused about-to-be-junked machines. This report includes DESKTOP usage -- not just servers. This strikes me as a major sea change in the industry, even allowing for how much I would pay for their reports. Very positive from the desktop point of view.
Someone down the page a bit says some city decided to not put up the cameras. He's missing the point too.
Maybe there won't be police cameras everywhere, but there will be citizen cameras. Look at all the cameras in stores. Now imagine them cheaper and smaller. Imagine every citizen with a $5 lapel button camera. Think you can stop it?
Now imagine everyone's camera relays home to their home computer. They get mugged, it's all recorded. If not by their camera, how many other people would show some trace? How about cameras on front doors and at all windows? When they cost $5 with Jini interface, you can bet it will happen.
That's his point. It WILL happen. If you try to pretend otherwise, and make it "illegal", then only the rich will be able to afford to hire thugs to act on it. Anyone else would go to jail for showing the evidence of their mugging.
And I have no doubt that with a Jini interface, these cameras will be under your control. Shut them off when inside the house. Take off the camera when you come in the door. You will have all the privacy you want in your own home.
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He claims he started thinking about the idea 12 years before he started working at DSC.
TWELVE YEARS!!!
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If it's for their internal network, no, they need not release the sources.
I bought a personal screamer from them, and my company bought one too. No problems with either. And I compared my price with a similar Compaq box, running NT of course, and mine was $1500 cheaper near as I could tell. Probably a lot of that is the Billy Tax, but it was close enough to reassure myself that VAResearch didn't lose much on economy of scale.
Back in the days of Babe Ruth, good baseball players rose to the top by their own natural talent. There was a wide gulf between the best, the average, and the worst. Today everyone gets coaching from Little League on up. The sum and the average of the talent remain the same, but the worst have been improved by coaching while the best have had their natural talent smothered by that same coaching.
Thus it is with programming. Hackers have the natural talent. Design Schools and Programming Guidelines raise the proficiency of the worst and smother the best. Yes, Schools churn out tolerable programmers, but the best learn on their own without being smothered by Guidelines and Certificates. They may well go to school too, but they learn a craft on their own, and put up with the Official Line just to get that degree.
Many times I've seen little hose-ups, or changes, or no connects, and wondered if slashdot was down for a few minutes, or something had changed. A status page would be useful. Combine that with comments to report problems. Keep the last 5 days worth of comments (this would be a special case).
I have a checking account at Security First Network Bank, and it's really nice being able to access my account from any browser any time. The only "feature" I don't like is that physical deposits have to go in by snail mail, and there is no email announcing when they get it, or when it clears, so you have to check periodically. But electronic deposit works fine, and they have an ATM card which has no charges at grocery stores, gas stations, etc.
I tried other banks which claim to have online banking, but they require their custom software, Lose95/Mac only of course. I wouldn't dream of being tied down to my home computer any more.
Ever use PGP? You have to have access to your private key to decrypt, and to sign. Where'd you get that garbage about keeping public and private keys on separate machines?
Maybe you also don't know that the private key ring is encrypted by a pass phrase, as several others have posted. If you choose reasonably well, you're safe nough.
Where'd you get your so-called knowledge -- a box of cornflakes came with a,agic decoder ring?
This is a sorry attitude. You don't care enough to tell VAR how to get better, yet you care enought to whine. Isn't part of the free source attitude supposed to be helping others in the same boat? VAR has helped slashdot at expos, they have helped others, and they probably will keep on doing so. Yet you can't be bothered to do anything but whine vaguely.
So what's your problem? Are you just a parasite, hoping to get a better deal from Gullible People using Linux? Nothing to contribute back, even such a simple matter as constructive criticism?
I don't work for VAResearch, I don't have any relation other than a twice satisfied customer.
I bought a personal system, nnd my company bought a fancy dancy server; We are both as happy as clams at high tide.
If all you want to do is gripe, why not say so? If you really want to make things right, don't just whine. Tell chrisd how to make things better. It sounds pretty petty otherwise.
You BEGIN a transaction, then INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, etc to your heart's content. When all done, you END the transaction. Nothing is actually written to the database until the END.
The point is that anywhere befroe that END, you can ABORT the transaction, and nothing will have changed. So if you keeping data consistent requires 17 operations, and the 15th one fails (dup record which you don't want), you can abort, and all you've lost is time. You don't have to go back and undo the whole schmeer manually.
I was amazed at the lack of FUD, the lack on install nonsense, and the generally very down to earth tone of the entire article. Did ZD just start up this Sm@rt Reseller, or just buy it? Maybe they haven't had a chance yet to destroy it. I've seen it around for a few months, which may mean ZD stuff hasn't come out of the print pipeline yet.
It's like trying to legislate against dope, booze, tobacco, swearing in public, porno, whatever. It's only effective if the targeted act is already considered immoral by a huge majority (like murder). Big companies will gather data regardless of legislation. All legislation can do is stop companies selling that data to each other. And until privacy legislation is extended to our friends in government, it really doesn't matter a whole lot.
As usual, the crooks and rich will invent false personas, and have privacy of a sort. The punters will lose.
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I bought a screamer from them and sevral months later saw a similarly equipped Compaq box, $1500 more expensive. I like them. Don't know what you have against them, but lies like yours don't make your arguments look very real.
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I spent my money at VAResearch and everything's been just fine, thank you, including a price less than Compaq for the same speed, ram, disk. Substantially less, so I figure it's an NT tax.
Say Mr Dell, are the Linux boxes going to be cheaper, since there's no Bill tax?
Too late! Go get stufft.
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Unix lets you use the design tool you were born with. M$ forces you to use ONLY m$-brand of canned pre-digested mis-design tool.
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The place I had been at for about 4 years had several different software departments (yes, we talked to each other :-) Our dept used CVS, another one used RCS. The RCS one's management decided they had to get a real ($$$) system; they bought clearcase for who knows how much money. It required its own SunOS server, it crashed several times and took them a day to recover. I refused to use it. CVS is great.
Long Live CVS!
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Who do you want to know where you're going today?
I'm just getting over a terrible head cold / food poisoning bout, and my brain is like a PIII w/o cache. Glad to know I haevn't lost it all just yet...
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From Windows, I have no doubt there's some bogus ActiveX backdoor to run arbitrary native code. But Unix? They can run some Javascript, they can run Java, but they can't run arbitrary native binaries. So how exactly could they read this PSN on a Unix machine?
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Because if you avoid it only because it won't last long enough, that's ok; just rely on the UPS long enough to do an orderly shutdown, then power everything off, including the UPS. Then when the UPS detects power back on, it will start up your box.
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It's sort of a skeleton for making mod_perl, mod_php, etc, right? Sort of a meta application server?
:-). They mostly seem like marketing buzzwords to differentiate same-old same-old products.
I too am baffled by a lot of the buzzwords coming out nowadays (and olden days too
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200 years ago, even 100 years ago, 17 year patents made sense. Everything was a mechanical invention, society was slower moving.
Some thing still apply. Pharmaceuticals, for instance, take so much money and time to develop and get regulatory approval.
But business practices? XOR cursors? auctions? These are obvious to anyone even not so skilled in the art. Other patents, like the suid/guid bit, strike me as a true clever invention (altho I don't know the state of the art at that moment) but surely a couple of years would be sufficient.
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Look, they have what, 2000 developers, plus at least as many marketing droids? Consider how much innovation they get out of that investment. It's pretty obvious that only Billy is allowed to think, everyone else has to carry out his plans. Imagien M$ without Billy. Balmer and these other flunkies have learnt to parrot his arrogance but not his brains.
So this is just their arrogance acrrying thru. Remember that comment abotu the video, about version 1.0 not so hot, but version 2.0 is better? Well jack, that's not how the legal system works. They are arrogant slimeball coward bullies and this trial just shows how incapable of thinking any of their idiots are.
I especially like how Rosen was characterized as "a low level employee" -- well duh, who picked him as a M$ witless^H^H^H^Hness anyway? But I bet he becomes pretty low level pretty soon...
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I've only been using AIX for 6 months now, off and on, and maybe once or twice a month have to configure things. They are sufficiently different from othe *nix that I like to use SMIT to show me what the command is.
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I didn't understand until their guidelines for getting started with Linux, where they recommend starting with servers on otherwise-unused about-to-be-junked machines. This report includes DESKTOP usage -- not just servers. This strikes me as a major sea change in the industry, even allowing for how much I would pay for their reports. Very positive from the desktop point of view.
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Someone down the page a bit says some city decided to not put up the cameras. He's missing the point too.
Maybe there won't be police cameras everywhere, but there will be citizen cameras. Look at all the cameras in stores. Now imagine them cheaper and smaller. Imagine every citizen with a $5 lapel button camera. Think you can stop it?
Now imagine everyone's camera relays home to their home computer. They get mugged, it's all recorded. If not by their camera, how many other people would show some trace? How about cameras on front doors and at all windows? When they cost $5 with Jini interface, you can bet it will happen.
That's his point. It WILL happen. If you try to pretend otherwise, and make it "illegal", then only the rich will be able to afford to hire thugs to act on it. Anyone else would go to jail for showing the evidence of their mugging.
And I have no doubt that with a Jini interface, these cameras will be under your control. Shut them off when inside the house. Take off the camera when you come in the door. You will have all the privacy you want in your own home.
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He claims he started thinking about the idea 12 years before he started working at DSC.
TWELVE YEARS!!!
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If it's for their internal network, no, they need not release the sources.
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I bought a personal screamer from them, and my company bought one too. No problems with either. And I compared my price with a similar Compaq box, running NT of course, and mine was $1500 cheaper near as I could tell. Probably a lot of that is the Billy Tax, but it was close enough to reassure myself that VAResearch didn't lose much on economy of scale.
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Back in the days of Babe Ruth, good baseball players rose to the top by their own natural talent. There was a wide gulf between the best, the average, and the worst. Today everyone gets coaching from Little League on up. The sum and the average of the talent remain the same, but the worst have been improved by coaching while the best have had their natural talent smothered by that same coaching.
Thus it is with programming. Hackers have the natural talent. Design Schools and Programming Guidelines raise the proficiency of the worst and smother the best. Yes, Schools churn out tolerable programmers, but the best learn on their own without being smothered by Guidelines and Certificates. They may well go to school too, but they learn a craft on their own, and put up with the Official Line just to get that degree.
--
Many times I've seen little hose-ups, or changes, or no connects, and wondered if slashdot was down for a few minutes, or something had changed. A status page would be useful. Combine that with comments to report problems. Keep the last 5 days worth of comments (this would be a special case).
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I have a checking account at Security First Network Bank, and it's really nice being able to access my account from any browser any time. The only "feature" I don't like is that physical deposits have to go in by snail mail, and there is no email announcing when they get it, or when it clears, so you have to check periodically. But electronic deposit works fine, and they have an ATM card which has no charges at grocery stores, gas stations, etc.
I tried other banks which claim to have online banking, but they require their custom software, Lose95/Mac only of course. I wouldn't dream of being tied down to my home computer any more.
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Ever use PGP? You have to have access to your private key to decrypt, and to sign. Where'd you get that garbage about keeping public and private keys on separate machines?
,agic decoder ring?
Maybe you also don't know that the private key ring is encrypted by a pass phrase, as several others have posted. If you choose reasonably well, you're safe nough.
Where'd you get your so-called knowledge -- a box of cornflakes came with a
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This is a sorry attitude. You don't care enough to tell VAR how to get better, yet you care enought to whine. Isn't part of the free source attitude supposed to be helping others in the same boat? VAR has helped slashdot at expos, they have helped others, and they probably will keep on doing so. Yet you can't be bothered to do anything but whine vaguely.
So what's your problem? Are you just a parasite, hoping to get a better deal from Gullible People using Linux? Nothing to contribute back, even such a simple matter as constructive criticism?
I don't work for VAResearch, I don't have any relation other than a twice satisfied customer.
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I bought a personal system, nnd my company bought a fancy dancy server; We are both as happy as clams at high tide.
If all you want to do is gripe, why not say so? If you really want to make things right, don't just whine. Tell chrisd how to make things better. It sounds pretty petty otherwise.
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You BEGIN a transaction, then INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, etc to your heart's content. When all done, you END the transaction. Nothing is actually written to the database until the END.
The point is that anywhere befroe that END, you can ABORT the transaction, and nothing will have changed. So if you keeping data consistent requires 17 operations, and the 15th one fails (dup record which you don't want), you can abort, and all you've lost is time. You don't have to go back and undo the whole schmeer manually.
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Follow the related links to find the graphs.
I was amazed at the lack of FUD, the lack on install nonsense, and the generally very down to earth tone of the entire article. Did ZD just start up this Sm@rt Reseller, or just buy it? Maybe they haven't had a chance yet to destroy it. I've seen it around for a few months, which may mean ZD stuff hasn't come out of the print pipeline yet.
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It's like trying to legislate against dope, booze, tobacco, swearing in public, porno, whatever. It's only effective if the targeted act is already considered immoral by a huge majority (like murder). Big companies will gather data regardless of legislation. All legislation can do is stop companies selling that data to each other. And until privacy legislation is extended to our friends in government, it really doesn't matter a whole lot.
As usual, the crooks and rich will invent false personas, and have privacy of a sort. The punters will lose.
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