Why on earth would anyone *want* to view DRM infected documents? Having the opportunity to restrict my own use of media is certainly not a good selling point for switching to Vista.
"Why would you need more than one server on a big beefy server instead of running everything on one server?"
Good grief, where do I start?
Putting everything on one big server is a recipe for disaster. What if one app goes down and you need to take it down, reboot, rebuild, whatever? You have to take your whole bloody network down. Lots of angry users.
What if you upgrade your apache server which inadvertantly causes your mysql server to die? What do you do. Restore the whole shooting match from backups? Spend an hour or two trying to roll everything back? All while your users are looking over your shoulder asking "how long before it's fixed?"
Doing it that way is just shitfight city.
On the other hand, if you run all your servers virtually you open up a whole world of possibilities.
For example, a few years back I worked at a place that ran their whole operation on a bunch of NT4 servers made up of a pair of Compaq Proliant ML530's (which supported SMP but only had single 1Ghz P3s fitted). These servers also had 1Gb RAM each plus 3 x 18Gb SCSI in raid 5 configuration. On top of that they had a hodge podge of whitebox servers, all with SMP mobos but only single CPUs. It was a nightmare.
One day the backup tape drive died and the bosses were not keen to spend 3 grand for a new one. Also, I already had the shits with the whole shitfight so I built a few tempory boxes, moved the stuff onto them and pulled the 2 compaqs offline. I cannibalised one of them and made a monster (well it was back then) server with dual P3's, 2Gb RAM, 6 disk hardware raid and redundant PSU's. I kept the remaining chassis as a spare in case the main box died.
I stuck redhat 9 on the "monster" and GSX server on that. Then I built 8 virtual servers, 2 x Win2K AS and 6 x redhat 9 and ran all of the main apps (apache, sendmail, PDC, BDC, FIle+print, MySQl and a CRM package all on seperate virtual servers. Once this was done I switched off all the other boxes and after running like that for a few weeks to make sure all was OK I also scrapped those boxes. Again I cannibalised them and came up with a lesser monster whitebox which I also put vmware GSX on, stuck 1gbit lan cards in both and hooked the two up with a link cable, wrote some scripts to backup the servers across that link nightly.
So, I had rationalised the entire server room down to two boxes, considerably improved reliability and all for the price of a vmware license and on top of that I had a spare chassis available in case of a catastrophic failure.
About a year later one of the SCSI discs died. The whole thing kept working but it was sloooow. So, all I did was manually copy over the server images from the nightly backup, shutdown the main server and turn on the primary lan interface of the backup box. The whole shebang was back up and running within an hour with no loss of data. Neato.
Other advantages for vmware are;
If you want to do major upgrade to a server, you can just copy the server image to your development box, fire it up, do the upgrade and then test it all out. All perfectly safely. If you fuck it up then you just do it again and try to figure out what went wrong, document your steps and when it is time to do the live upgrade you simply do a manual backup and then do the upgrade. It should work OK because you have already tested and documented your process and even if it doesn't it is a simple job to just restart the old server from the backup you made and start again.
If you want to do something like a major overhaul of something like a webserver with a mysql backend then you will love vmware. You just leave your old server running and build up the new one over how many days/weeks/months you like. You can fully test it in a sandbox network (another great feature of vmware, "host only" networks) and once you are satisfied that all is well you just copy it over to the main box, shutdown the old virtual server, start up the new one and you're done. If there is a problem down the track you ju
There are a few intel mobos out there that are pretty close to the ones that intel supplied to apple as dev machines. I know how that works.
But then there is the problem of the "hardware verification" which has been hacked out off all the iso's on BT, but will return if you ever install (even by accident) any apple provided updates in the future. Meaning you have to manually find and install hacked patches too, and you just don't know what else hase been hacked in those packages. Apple could even concievably hide their TPM code in something like an itunes update which would kill many hacked PCs very quickly before it was discovered and itself hacked. That would be cold comfort if you were one of the ones that "discovered" the stealth code by accidently nuking your machine.
All in all, I wouldn't put OSX on my Aunt Emily's PC in a pink fit. It would be a recipe for disaster. The only truly "seamless" OSX experience that is available to Aunt Emily is to be had by buying a Mac.
If Steve Jobs has any brains (and he does, being a nutjob does not preclude being smart) he will be well aware that OS X x86 will be hacked and "pirated" and he will in fact be relying on this to happen. Anybody with a hint of a clue knows that Microsoft rose to market dominance on the coat tails of geeks who have long been in the habit of "illegally" copying MS's various OS offerings, spreading the word and creating a *huge* install base for Microsoft to the exclusion of almost all their competition.
Steve Jobs knows that because he watched it happen.
He also knows that for each geek who makes the switch from Windows to MacOS there will be 10 non geeks looking on (friends + family) saying "oooooohh, whasat perty thing on your screen, Can I get that too?"
Of course a good percentage of the non geek "switchers" will also "pirate" the OS and put it on their existing machines but a lot won't too. This is because OSX *requires* at least an SSE2 capable CPU and if you want it to run even vaguely well you also need an reasonably equivalent video card to the ones used in the intel macs. There are many problems related to lack of proper video drivers in OSX, add to those a lack of ability to do any Auto Updates and all the other kludginess involved with running OSX on non Mac hardware and you can bet that most geeks will just say "sure you can" and point their relatives to www.apple.com for more info.
Successfully hacking an OS onto hardware that its not intended for is the very definition of geek nirvana. Supporting Uncle Ted when he attempts the same is another thing entirely.
I run OSX myself on my Athlon PC. Yes it is "pirated". I don't use it much though as I still prefer to boot into Ubuntu most of the time, I just have OSX installed "because I can" but I sure as hell wouldn't stick it on my sisters PC without expecting to get a phone call down the line along the lines of "my computer won't boot up anymore after I installed something. Do you think all my files are OK?"
No siree bob. My credo is, "if you can't figure out how to find, download and install it and ultimately fix it yourself, then you shouldn't be running it at all".
According to Cringely Apple has a legal right to use the actual Windows XP API itself due to their 1997 cross-licencing agreement with MS. He claims that he has been told that Apple has long had running in their labs "Intel Macs running OS X while mixing Apple and XP applications."
If he is correct, and OS X 10.5 includes this level of native Windows application support directly within OSX and without the need for virtualised hardware or reverse engineered API translators such as wine then it could actually be a real "Vista killer"
Gawd I hate EA. Not that they can manage to make much in the way of a good game, but when they do it would be a prime candidate for massive scale piracy just on a purely moral basis alone.
They simply don't deserve to get *any* of my money, even when they squeeze out the occasional non-turdish title.
The sooner EA just fucks off and dies the better off the games industry as a whole will be IMHO.
"anyone with a transmitter can broadcast whatever they want"
But they can't reach a global audience, they can't even reach outside of a few kilometer radius without a massive tower which I'm sure would be noticed by the regulating authorities pretty quickly.
1) He didn't actually promise to send him money. He promised to evaluate the guys work with a possible sponsorship to follow. Yes, he did lie but it was not a lie of anything like the audacity of the general 419 scam, where many people have been biled out of thousands of dollars.
2) He didn't take any money from the guy, who himself has later claimed to be "earning" US$45K per month from his scamming business. In fact the scammee apparently approached "Shiver Metimbers" regarding him joining his 419 scamming organisation as a collector.
3) The guy lied about who he was and his connection to the original 419 scam letter. He lied about having "read about Trotter Fine Arts" on the internet (and no, I am well aware that the WWW is *not* "the internet" and that technically speaking reading an email is reading something "on the internet" but in a colloquial context such as this it is generally accepted that when somebody says "on the internet" they actually mean "on the web". If not the guy would have said "my friend showed me an email . ..")
4) I have no idea why anybody would even bother trying to defend these scumbags.
I was there son, I just wasn't subject to the brainwashing and PR management coming out of Wordperfect HQ as you were. Hence I am amble to see clearly what happened. You are not.
If direct quotes from the co-founder of Wordperfect Corp don't do it for you then nothing will.
"Your version of what happened with Word Perfect and Windows is not accurate."
Bollocks.
WordPerfect for several reasons decided not to write a version of its product for Windows, and deliberately delayed writing software for Windows as a way of trying to hurt Microsoft.
"We didn't write for Windows" because "we were rooting for anybody but Microsoft to win."
WordPerfect co-founder W.E. "Pete" Pederson, March 2002 deposition
WordPerfect believed that "the impending GUI revolution would take some time to catch on."
WordPerfect co-founder W.E. "Pete" Pederson, Almost Perfect, 1994
"Just when we were winning decisively in the DOS word processing market, the word processing world wanted Windows."
WordPerfect co-founder W.E. "Pete" Pederson, Almost Perfect, 1994
Actually, the artist and the scammer were not the same person. If you properly RTA (oops, this is slashdot, sorry) you will find that the scammer paid the artist to produce the carving in the hope that "Derek Trotter" would ultimately pay up big time in the form of a large "art scholarship".
As for the GP suggesting that this might be a case o ripping off "the one honest artist in Nigeria", again, if you properly RTA you would learn that this all came about after the fake "Derek Trotter, Director; Trotters Fine Arts" replied to a standard 419 scam letter with something like "Sorry I'm too busy giving out $100K art scholarships right now to help but do get any artist friends you might have to contact me".
Two days later the same scammer replied back under a different name claiming to have read about the non-existant "Trotters Fine Arts" on the internet and was interested in applying for a scholarship. From there it was game on, the scammer paid an artist to produce the works thinking some naive western art dealer would in turn pay huge money to foster the scammers non-existant artistic talent. He also ended up paying the freight costs to ship the pieces as well.
It appears this 419 scammer has just learnt a lesson that he should already well know, that unchecked greed will make people do the stupidist things.
"[..] wordperfect) protected their 'asset' and MS Word was notoriously easy to copy. [..] The future computer users (students) within their corporations were MS Word users! Word got selected, many copies were bought,"
A nice story indeed, it's just a pity it doesn't describe the primary reason that WP failed, which was "Wordperfect Corp's refusal to migrate their app to Windows and when they finally did it was a total crapfest.". By the time they got a barely OK of WP up and runningin Windows it was all overe bar the shouting. Microsoft was in the predominant position and Wordperfects ex-users were all trying to forget the atrocity that was Wordperfect 5.1 For Windows.
"Frankly, I'm confused why Microsoft thinks it needs to be designing a music player in the first place. This company enters so many markets for no valid reason."
No valid reason that you can think of.
Microsoft have spent the last 30 years making billions off the Windows Tax. Virtually none of their product lines outside of their Windows & Office products have ever made them any money. Were Linux with Open Office to really take off for example they would find themselves in a great deal of trouble. MS execs quite rightly feel that they need to find new ways to make billions *before* the Windows/Office cash cow gets slaughtered.
Personally I hope they fail, and I think I will be right.
In Australia last year a proposal was put forward by a privately funded trust to offer six scholarships to men who would be willing to become primary school teachers in an effort to address the well known and widely acknowledged gender imbalance in schools.
Predictably, the feminazis kicked up a storm declaring it to be all manner of evil and sexist until a compromise was reached. The organisation was forced to offer half the scholarships to women.
Yes that is right, a program that was intended to increase the numbers of men in primary schools was virtually forced to subsidise the entry of more women into the field.
"So who are the three males who won't be getting the scholarships because the money will go to three less qualified candidates?"
Well, my dog won't be getting one for a start.
I think you mean "men" there, and not "males". Feminazis just love to de-humanise men by referring to us as "males". Don't legitamise their hatred by helping to promulgate it.
hehe. It's funny that I've been using gmail for over a year and I have not even noticed what is being advertised to me at all. I couldn't care less if they target me with datamined ads or just random ads, I don't look at either.
"1) any plans to make a.deb installation package instead of tar.gz or rpm (admittedly tar.gz works ok in ubuntu I just wonder what its done to my package management)."
Have you tried using "alien --to-deb" to convert the RPM so you can then install it as a package? I haven't tried this for vmware, but I have tried it for other binary RPM packages and it has worked every time AFAIR.
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I can imagine this going down gangbusters in our overcrowded emergency departments.
"Nurse, get this man into a suspended animation pod stat! We'll let the next shift worry about him . . . "
Why on earth would anyone *want* to view DRM infected documents? Having the opportunity to restrict my own use of media is certainly not a good selling point for switching to Vista.
Kewl. I'm going to head on over to the vmware website and download the source code right now!
"Why would you need more than one server on a big beefy server instead of running everything on one server?"
Good grief, where do I start?
Putting everything on one big server is a recipe for disaster. What if one app goes down and you need to take it down, reboot, rebuild, whatever? You have to take your whole bloody network down. Lots of angry users.
What if you upgrade your apache server which inadvertantly causes your mysql server to die? What do you do. Restore the whole shooting match from backups? Spend an hour or two trying to roll everything back? All while your users are looking over your shoulder asking "how long before it's fixed?"
Doing it that way is just shitfight city.
On the other hand, if you run all your servers virtually you open up a whole world of possibilities.
For example, a few years back I worked at a place that ran their whole operation on a bunch of NT4 servers made up of a pair of Compaq Proliant ML530's (which supported SMP but only had single 1Ghz P3s fitted). These servers also had 1Gb RAM each plus 3 x 18Gb SCSI in raid 5 configuration. On top of that they had a hodge podge of whitebox servers, all with SMP mobos but only single CPUs. It was a nightmare.
One day the backup tape drive died and the bosses were not keen to spend 3 grand for a new one. Also, I already had the shits with the whole shitfight so I built a few tempory boxes, moved the stuff onto them and pulled the 2 compaqs offline. I cannibalised one of them and made a monster (well it was back then) server with dual P3's, 2Gb RAM, 6 disk hardware raid and redundant PSU's. I kept the remaining chassis as a spare in case the main box died.
I stuck redhat 9 on the "monster" and GSX server on that. Then I built 8 virtual servers, 2 x Win2K AS and 6 x redhat 9 and ran all of the main apps (apache, sendmail, PDC, BDC, FIle+print, MySQl and a CRM package all on seperate virtual servers. Once this was done I switched off all the other boxes and after running like that for a few weeks to make sure all was OK I also scrapped those boxes. Again I cannibalised them and came up with a lesser monster whitebox which I also put vmware GSX on, stuck 1gbit lan cards in both and hooked the two up with a link cable, wrote some scripts to backup the servers across that link nightly.
So, I had rationalised the entire server room down to two boxes, considerably improved reliability and all for the price of a vmware license and on top of that I had a spare chassis available in case of a catastrophic failure.
About a year later one of the SCSI discs died. The whole thing kept working but it was sloooow. So, all I did was manually copy over the server images from the nightly backup, shutdown the main server and turn on the primary lan interface of the backup box. The whole shebang was back up and running within an hour with no loss of data. Neato.
Other advantages for vmware are;
If you want to do major upgrade to a server, you can just copy the server image to your development box, fire it up, do the upgrade and then test it all out. All perfectly safely. If you fuck it up then you just do it again and try to figure out what went wrong, document your steps and when it is time to do the live upgrade you simply do a manual backup and then do the upgrade. It should work OK because you have already tested and documented your process and even if it doesn't it is a simple job to just restart the old server from the backup you made and start again.
If you want to do something like a major overhaul of something like a webserver with a mysql backend then you will love vmware. You just leave your old server running and build up the new one over how many days/weeks/months you like. You can fully test it in a sandbox network (another great feature of vmware, "host only" networks) and once you are satisfied that all is well you just copy it over to the main box, shutdown the old virtual server, start up the new one and you're done. If there is a problem down the track you ju
Perhaps. I was only reporting what Cringely believes.
I did say "If Cringely is correct . . . " for a reason.
Yes, I alluded to that in another thread/post.
There are a few intel mobos out there that are pretty close to the ones that intel supplied to apple as dev machines. I know how that works.
But then there is the problem of the "hardware verification" which has been hacked out off all the iso's on BT, but will return if you ever install (even by accident) any apple provided updates in the future. Meaning you have to manually find and install hacked patches too, and you just don't know what else hase been hacked in those packages. Apple could even concievably hide their TPM code in something like an itunes update which would kill many hacked PCs very quickly before it was discovered and itself hacked. That would be cold comfort if you were one of the ones that "discovered" the stealth code by accidently nuking your machine.
All in all, I wouldn't put OSX on my Aunt Emily's PC in a pink fit. It would be a recipe for disaster. The only truly "seamless" OSX experience that is available to Aunt Emily is to be had by buying a Mac.
"So? What did Apple expect? "
If Steve Jobs has any brains (and he does, being a nutjob does not preclude being smart) he will be well aware that OS X x86 will be hacked and "pirated" and he will in fact be relying on this to happen. Anybody with a hint of a clue knows that Microsoft rose to market dominance on the coat tails of geeks who have long been in the habit of "illegally" copying MS's various OS offerings, spreading the word and creating a *huge* install base for Microsoft to the exclusion of almost all their competition.
Steve Jobs knows that because he watched it happen.
He also knows that for each geek who makes the switch from Windows to MacOS there will be 10 non geeks looking on (friends + family) saying "oooooohh, whasat perty thing on your screen, Can I get that too?"
Of course a good percentage of the non geek "switchers" will also "pirate" the OS and put it on their existing machines but a lot won't too. This is because OSX *requires* at least an SSE2 capable CPU and if you want it to run even vaguely well you also need an reasonably equivalent video card to the ones used in the intel macs. There are many problems related to lack of proper video drivers in OSX, add to those a lack of ability to do any Auto Updates and all the other kludginess involved with running OSX on non Mac hardware and you can bet that most geeks will just say "sure you can" and point their relatives to www.apple.com for more info.
Successfully hacking an OS onto hardware that its not intended for is the very definition of geek nirvana. Supporting Uncle Ted when he attempts the same is another thing entirely.
I run OSX myself on my Athlon PC. Yes it is "pirated". I don't use it much though as I still prefer to boot into Ubuntu most of the time, I just have OSX installed "because I can" but I sure as hell wouldn't stick it on my sisters PC without expecting to get a phone call down the line along the lines of "my computer won't boot up anymore after I installed something. Do you think all my files are OK?"
No siree bob. My credo is, "if you can't figure out how to find, download and install it and ultimately fix it yourself, then you shouldn't be running it at all".
So, it's off to apple.com for you sis I'm afraid.
Yes, but it is hardly a "seamless" experience though.
According to Cringely Apple has a legal right to use the actual Windows XP API itself due to their 1997 cross-licencing agreement with MS. He claims that he has been told that Apple has long had running in their labs "Intel Macs running OS X while mixing Apple and XP applications."
If he is correct, and OS X 10.5 includes this level of native Windows application support directly within OSX and without the need for virtualised hardware or reverse engineered API translators such as wine then it could actually be a real "Vista killer"
You did
Yes, that philosophy has worked wonderfully for 3D Realms . . .
"Actually, they already have a patent for the process to produce toxic ricin."
Ahah, so that's why the US went to Iraq, they were just enforcing their patent from use by that patent infringing bastard Saddam.
Gawd I hate EA. Not that they can manage to make much in the way of a good game, but when they do it would be a prime candidate for massive scale piracy just on a purely moral basis alone.
They simply don't deserve to get *any* of my money, even when they squeeze out the occasional non-turdish title.
The sooner EA just fucks off and dies the better off the games industry as a whole will be IMHO.
"anyone with a transmitter can broadcast whatever they want"
But they can't reach a global audience, they can't even reach outside of a few kilometer radius without a massive tower which I'm sure would be noticed by the regulating authorities pretty quickly.
1) He didn't actually promise to send him money. He promised to evaluate the guys work with a possible sponsorship to follow. Yes, he did lie but it was not a lie of anything like the audacity of the general 419 scam, where many people have been biled out of thousands of dollars.
2) He didn't take any money from the guy, who himself has later claimed to be "earning" US$45K per month from his scamming business. In fact the scammee apparently approached "Shiver Metimbers" regarding him joining his 419 scamming organisation as a collector.
3) The guy lied about who he was and his connection to the original 419 scam letter. He lied about having "read about Trotter Fine Arts" on the internet (and no, I am well aware that the WWW is *not* "the internet" and that technically speaking reading an email is reading something "on the internet" but in a colloquial context such as this it is generally accepted that when somebody says "on the internet" they actually mean "on the web". If not the guy would have said "my friend showed me an email . .
4) I have no idea why anybody would even bother trying to defend these scumbags.
I was there son, I just wasn't subject to the brainwashing and PR management coming out of Wordperfect HQ as you were. Hence I am amble to see clearly what happened. You are not.
If direct quotes from the co-founder of Wordperfect Corp don't do it for you then nothing will.
"Your version of what happened with Word Perfect and Windows is not accurate."
Bollocks.
WordPerfect for several reasons decided not to write a version of its product for Windows, and deliberately delayed writing software for Windows as a way of trying to hurt Microsoft.
"We didn't write for Windows" because "we were rooting for anybody but Microsoft to win."
WordPerfect co-founder W.E. "Pete" Pederson, March 2002 deposition
WordPerfect believed that "the impending GUI revolution would take some time to catch on."
WordPerfect co-founder W.E. "Pete" Pederson, Almost Perfect, 1994
"Just when we were winning decisively in the DOS word processing market, the word
processing world wanted Windows."
WordPerfect co-founder W.E. "Pete" Pederson, Almost Perfect, 1994
Actually, the artist and the scammer were not the same person. If you properly RTA (oops, this is slashdot, sorry) you will find that the scammer paid the artist to produce the carving in the hope that "Derek Trotter" would ultimately pay up big time in the form of a large "art scholarship".
As for the GP suggesting that this might be a case o ripping off "the one honest artist in Nigeria", again, if you properly RTA you would learn that this all came about after the fake "Derek Trotter, Director; Trotters Fine Arts" replied to a standard 419 scam letter with something like "Sorry I'm too busy giving out $100K art scholarships right now to help but do get any artist friends you might have to contact me".
Two days later the same scammer replied back under a different name claiming to have read about the non-existant "Trotters Fine Arts" on the internet and was interested in applying for a scholarship. From there it was game on, the scammer paid an artist to produce the works thinking some naive western art dealer would in turn pay huge money to foster the scammers non-existant artistic talent. He also ended up paying the freight costs to ship the pieces as well.
It appears this 419 scammer has just learnt a lesson that he should already well know, that unchecked greed will make people do the stupidist things.
"[..] wordperfect) protected their 'asset' and MS Word was notoriously easy to copy. [..] The future computer users (students) within their corporations were MS Word users! Word got selected, many copies were bought,"
A nice story indeed, it's just a pity it doesn't describe the primary reason that WP failed, which was "Wordperfect Corp's refusal to migrate their app to Windows and when they finally did it was a total crapfest.". By the time they got a barely OK of WP up and runningin Windows it was all overe bar the shouting. Microsoft was in the predominant position and Wordperfects ex-users were all trying to forget the atrocity that was Wordperfect 5.1 For Windows.
"Frankly, I'm confused why Microsoft thinks it needs to be designing a music player in the first place. This company enters so many markets for no valid reason."
No valid reason that you can think of.
Microsoft have spent the last 30 years making billions off the Windows Tax. Virtually none of their product lines outside of their Windows & Office products have ever made them any money. Were Linux with Open Office to really take off for example they would find themselves in a great deal of trouble. MS execs quite rightly feel that they need to find new ways to make billions *before* the Windows/Office cash cow gets slaughtered.
Personally I hope they fail, and I think I will be right.
In Australia last year a proposal was put forward by a privately funded trust to offer six scholarships to men who would be willing to become primary school teachers in an effort to address the well known and widely acknowledged gender imbalance in schools.
Predictably, the feminazis kicked up a storm declaring it to be all manner of evil and sexist until a compromise was reached. The organisation was forced to offer half the scholarships to women.
Yes that is right, a program that was intended to increase the numbers of men in primary schools was virtually forced to subsidise the entry of more women into the field.
"So who are the three males who won't be getting the scholarships because the money will go to three less qualified candidates?"
Well, my dog won't be getting one for a start.
I think you mean "men" there, and not "males". Feminazis just love to de-humanise men by referring to us as "males". Don't legitamise their hatred by helping to promulgate it.
hehe. It's funny that I've been using gmail for over a year and I have not even noticed what is being advertised to me at all. I couldn't care less if they target me with datamined ads or just random ads, I don't look at either.
"1) any plans to make a .deb installation package instead of tar.gz or rpm (admittedly tar.gz works ok in ubuntu I just wonder what its done to my package management)."
Have you tried using "alien --to-deb" to convert the RPM so you can then install it as a package? I haven't tried this for vmware, but I have tried it for other binary RPM packages and it has worked every time AFAIR.
Correction, "it's like a girlfriend . . . only worse"
"Wow!, 15 wives eh? That's a lot of sex"
"I said 15 wives, not girlfriends"