Because Linux is the project ("product?") that has moved to being a "threat" to Microsoft; even though Microsoft has a monopoly of desktop OSs.
How did this happen? What can Microsoft do to retain their position? What do Linux contributors think about Microsoft and Microsofts offerings. What would it take to move Linux developers to the Microsoft platform?
So, back to square one: Microsoft is obviously doing something right, as people continue to use their products and development environments, so why not ask a Microsofty some questions?
What can Linux people learn from them?
And who says ANY Linux developers would want to move to the Microsoft platform? That boggles the mind.
You're not really saying anything. Could you please clarify?
Some interpreter/compiler/yadda yadda is needed. And in non-beta form, this is currently the ISAPI dll. In the Apache/Mono world, this is XSP (mod_mono currently uses XSP on the back-end).
In beta, this is no longer the case. See the whole Whidbey deal for further information.
True, there is only one platform they care about, Windows.
Yeah, which is why they're implementing all those proprietary technologies like XML, XSLT, SOAP, Web Services and other industry-standard protocols to lock everyone else out.
Yes, that's sarcasm.
If they want to slag it off, just pick on the.NET APIs, too much of which are thin wrappers around Win32.
Too true, but they've got to start somewhere and their "progress" with Longhorn, and their real progress with ASP.NET 2.0 shows they are eliminating this as quick as they can and going to managed solutions.
OR the fact that the.NET runtime needs IE6 installed, and IE6 is the web browser component for.NET apps.
IE is their browser. It makes sense to me that they use their own product. Does it not to you?
OR the fact that ASP.net is built on IIS.
It's not built on IIS at all, it's built on an ISAPI.DLL called aspnet_isapi.dll. The code for this could be quickly adapted for any other platform (assuming it was open sourced/completed by MS).
There were recent articles in aspnetPro and MSDN that discussed and showed a code example that implements ASP.NET on top of a basic, custom web server. No IIS at all.
Those are security holes. Windows is a security hole.
blah blah blah, slashdot trolling. Microsoft has been seriously slacking in security, but Windows 2003 and IIS 6 show they're serious and competent on designing secure software.
IIS is server side disaster.
IIS 2-4.0, maybe, although 5.0 wasn't stellar either. 6.0 however, is quite nice, quite speedy, and relatively secure. I actually like it more than Apache, which scares me.
Update your biases on technology that isn't years old and crappily designed. Take a look at the current offerings. It's like rambling about KDE 1.1 or Apache 1.0.
"We've only just begun and we're pleased to say that we're getting 90 percent reliability when scanning users," said Sebastian.
90% is piss poor. 90% isn't good enough for those who depend on their guns. If one round out of every 10 in a magazine jammed, one would label that gun a piece of junk and go out and buy something of better quality.
Additionally, NJ's law would seem to violate the 2nd amendment. Before the anti-gun loonies state that NJ is in the right, and that you can buy another gun if you like it:
1.) No you can't. Read their screwed up law. 2.) If you think the second amendment doesn't guarantee individual gun rights, think again.
"We're not taking away your free speech. You're free to say anything you want, as long as it's not something we don't want you to say."
Lautenberg said New Jersey's legislative effort to introduce smart gun technology should be a national model for the country"."
It's not the government's right to screw with our constitutional rights.
So you like public corporate performance art do you?
We sure do, especially when it comes from Apple. Steve's Reality Distortion Field (tm) is quite a pleasing experience, and they announce the goodies to back it up.
See, that's the difference, since I've made the switch to Apple. I'm actually excited about hearing about new product releases, because I know that Apple innovates and knows what their users want.
I don't have to worry about App X coming out and finding out that the only new feature is a little happy, dancing paperclip that talks to me.
Although Microsoft and other PC vendors have the occasional great product (W2003, AD,.NET), the norm is to be heavily disappointed. Great. WMP 10 with new, improved DRM. Wow.
Apple wows. If you don't like it, don't pay attention.
Demos are made up. They never show the defects (hence the name "showstoppers" for those defects). I could demo Duke Nukem Forever for you if you want: a bunch of screens, a fake video, and if I'm a great presenter like Steve Jobs allegedly is, you'll want to buy it.
Fortunately, Apple has a history of living up to their word and releasing "insanely great" products. So they've earned that trust with their customers.
Add Qwest to this fucked-up list of idiots. They threatened us ( a local consortium of public education and city government in Oregon) with legal action because we wanted to set up our own fiber network instead of paying to run over their lines.
Joke's on them, though. We finished it, and its fully operational.
Bye bye income for Qwest, probably one of the worst companies in terms of price, service, and billing. Their incompetence with billing and overbilling customers is legendary.
Uhm he belittles commercial software programmers in the the interview this very topic covers, by calling them anti-social, and implying they are doing something wrong.
Aside from that, I have read a few blogs from females that RMS have met, and apparently he has a problem respecting them.
His abrasiveness is infamous and well-known, and has been covered on Slashdot in the past. Where have you been?
I have virtually no interest in science fiction or star wars or any of that cruft. I thought the first two movies (Phantom Menace? and Attack of the Clones? I think?) were okay... mediocre.
I saw the sneak preview trailer for the third movie when my gf and I were watching Meet The Fockers (great movie). The sneak preview for the third movie looked pretty damn cool, and I must say got me eager to want to see it.
Looks like a lot of cool plot unfoldings and lots of action. I remember seeing the preview trailers for the other movies and they didn't really do much for me. Here's hoping that Lucas or whoever's making them now, finally listened to the people and went back to the drawing board to develop something decent, so it doesn't turn into a mediocre Matrix trilogy flop.
Too bad they didn't get the LOTR guy to make these three movies.
Uhm, the OS itself has quite an advanced security model, actually. It's arguably more advanced than UNIX. It's just that most programmers, including Microsoft's own middleware drones, don't bother to use it or integrate it well. Many UNIX middleware authors are similarly ignorant.
Pick up a copy of Inside Windows 2000 so that you don't continue to make such ignorant comments.
You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash.
I've heard of numerous commercial airline fatalities in the news. Can't say I've heard of any civilization-ending events in my lifetime.
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Because Linux is the project ("product?") that has moved to being a "threat" to Microsoft; even though Microsoft has a monopoly of desktop OSs.
How did this happen? What can Microsoft do to retain their position? What do Linux contributors think about Microsoft and Microsofts offerings. What would it take to move Linux developers to the Microsoft platform?
So, back to square one: Microsoft is obviously doing something right, as people continue to use their products and development environments, so why not ask a Microsofty some questions?
What can Linux people learn from them?
And who says ANY Linux developers would want to move to the Microsoft platform? That boggles the mind.
You're not really saying anything. Could you please clarify?
Some interpreter/compiler/yadda yadda is needed. And in non-beta form, this is currently the ISAPI dll. In the Apache/Mono world, this is XSP (mod_mono currently uses XSP on the back-end).
In beta, this is no longer the case. See the whole Whidbey deal for further information.
Why are we asking him about anything? He should be asking /us/.
Why? What the fuck have you done lately?
True, there is only one platform they care about, Windows.
.NET APIs, too much of which are thin wrappers around Win32.
.NET runtime needs IE6 installed, and IE6 is the web browser component for .NET apps.
.DLL called aspnet_isapi.dll. The code for this could be quickly adapted for any other platform (assuming it was open sourced/completed by MS).
Yeah, which is why they're implementing all those proprietary technologies like XML, XSLT, SOAP, Web Services and other industry-standard protocols to lock everyone else out.
Yes, that's sarcasm.
If they want to slag it off, just pick on the
Too true, but they've got to start somewhere and their "progress" with Longhorn, and their real progress with ASP.NET 2.0 shows they are eliminating this as quick as they can and going to managed solutions.
OR the fact that the
IE is their browser. It makes sense to me that they use their own product. Does it not to you?
OR the fact that ASP.net is built on IIS.
It's not built on IIS at all, it's built on an ISAPI
There were recent articles in aspnetPro and MSDN that discussed and showed a code example that implements ASP.NET on top of a basic, custom web server. No IIS at all.
Those are security holes. Windows is a security hole.
blah blah blah, slashdot trolling. Microsoft has been seriously slacking in security, but Windows 2003 and IIS 6 show they're serious and competent on designing secure software.
IIS is server side disaster.
IIS 2-4.0, maybe, although 5.0 wasn't stellar either. 6.0 however, is quite nice, quite speedy, and relatively secure. I actually like it more than Apache, which scares me.
Update your biases on technology that isn't years old and crappily designed. Take a look at the current offerings. It's like rambling about KDE 1.1 or Apache 1.0.
Longest... FUD... campaign.... ever.
And who's Microsoft to be some authority on security?
Pot, kettle, black...
fix your own shit first, etc
How will creating a monster make our world better, morally?
What an excellent way to shift the blame.
"Well, there wouldn't be so many worms and exploits out there if it wasn't for those damned pirates."
"Sorry dear customer, due to all those evil pirates, you got infected by a worm."
"It wasn't our software, it was the pirates."
Why would they do that? They're now partnering with Microsoft on all sorts of technologies. Did you miss that whole deal?
OS X is essentially FreeBSD with a pretty GUI on top.
Actually it's Mach, with a BSD-like environment on top of it, including most of its userspace coming from FreeBSD.
It's really nothing like FreeBSD in the kernelspace, and is in fact, quite a bit slower than FreeBSD.
Real geeks loved Apple up until about 1982. The Apple II was open and geeks loved it. Steve Jobs closed the Machintosh shut.
I dunno about real geeks, but real hackers love closed systems. They're more fun to explore, personally.
e.g. bloat is coming, upgrade
Is this anything like FooOS 8.0 to make RAM more important?
"We've only just begun and we're pleased to say that we're getting 90 percent reliability when scanning users," said Sebastian.
90% is piss poor. 90% isn't good enough for those who depend on their guns. If one round out of every 10 in a magazine jammed, one would label that gun a piece of junk and go out and buy something of better quality.
Additionally, NJ's law would seem to violate the 2nd amendment. Before the anti-gun loonies state that NJ is in the right, and that you can buy another gun if you like it:
1.) No you can't. Read their screwed up law.
2.) If you think the second amendment doesn't guarantee individual gun rights, think again.
"We're not taking away your free speech. You're free to say anything you want, as long as it's not something we don't want you to say."
Lautenberg said New Jersey's legislative effort to introduce smart gun technology should be a national model for the country"."
It's not the government's right to screw with our constitutional rights.
So you like public corporate performance art do you?
.NET), the norm is to be heavily disappointed. Great. WMP 10 with new, improved DRM. Wow.
We sure do, especially when it comes from Apple. Steve's Reality Distortion Field (tm) is quite a pleasing experience, and they announce the goodies to back it up.
See, that's the difference, since I've made the switch to Apple. I'm actually excited about hearing about new product releases, because I know that Apple innovates and knows what their users want.
I don't have to worry about App X coming out and finding out that the only new feature is a little happy, dancing paperclip that talks to me.
Although Microsoft and other PC vendors have the occasional great product (W2003, AD,
Apple wows. If you don't like it, don't pay attention.
Demos are made up. They never show the defects (hence the name "showstoppers" for those defects). I could demo Duke Nukem Forever for you if you want: a bunch of screens, a fake video, and if I'm a great presenter like Steve Jobs allegedly is, you'll want to buy it.
Fortunately, Apple has a history of living up to their word and releasing "insanely great" products. So they've earned that trust with their customers.
Version 2.0:
#!/bin/sh
wget http://tinyurl.com/3t8mj
Always the hacker, I've ported your 2 line Perl program to sh:
t k-gnutella/gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c.tar.gz
#!/bin/sh
wget http://www.filefront.com/?filepath=/gnutelliums/g
You'll notice that it weighs in at significantly fewer bytes than your original Perl program.
Yet another example of inept Slashdot moderation. Heaven forbidden someone use a word ("gay") in its original meaning and context.
Luckily, I have troll post +5 modifiers. I didn't know about this smart-seeding thing, thanks!
Uhm, there isn't a code requirement any more. And the technician license took me 3 days of leisurely studying to pass.
Add Qwest to this fucked-up list of idiots. They threatened us ( a local consortium of public education and city government in Oregon) with legal action because we wanted to set up our own fiber network instead of paying to run over their lines.
Joke's on them, though. We finished it, and its fully operational.
Bye bye income for Qwest, probably one of the worst companies in terms of price, service, and billing. Their incompetence with billing and overbilling customers is legendary.
Uhm he belittles commercial software programmers in the the interview this very topic covers, by calling them anti-social, and implying they are doing something wrong.
Aside from that, I have read a few blogs from females that RMS have met, and apparently he has a problem respecting them.
His abrasiveness is infamous and well-known, and has been covered on Slashdot in the past. Where have you been?
Ah, thanks for the information.
wtf is a "gundam"?
I have virtually no interest in science fiction or star wars or any of that cruft. I thought the first two movies (Phantom Menace? and Attack of the Clones? I think?) were okay... mediocre.
I saw the sneak preview trailer for the third movie when my gf and I were watching Meet The Fockers (great movie). The sneak preview for the third movie looked pretty damn cool, and I must say got me eager to want to see it.
Looks like a lot of cool plot unfoldings and lots of action. I remember seeing the preview trailers for the other movies and they didn't really do much for me. Here's hoping that Lucas or whoever's making them now, finally listened to the people and went back to the drawing board to develop something decent, so it doesn't turn into a mediocre Matrix trilogy flop.
Too bad they didn't get the LOTR guy to make these three movies.
Uhm, they don't even have one button anymore. Now they have no buttons. It's been like this for quite some time.
1. Write buggy OS with no security model
Uhm, the OS itself has quite an advanced security model, actually. It's arguably more advanced than UNIX. It's just that most programmers, including Microsoft's own middleware drones, don't bother to use it or integrate it well. Many UNIX middleware authors are similarly ignorant.
Pick up a copy of Inside Windows 2000 so that you don't continue to make such ignorant comments.
You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash.
I've heard of numerous commercial airline fatalities in the news. Can't say I've heard of any civilization-ending events in my lifetime.
Sounds like FUD to me.