Admiral freebee is indeed one of the best things on cd atm. in fact the cd is almost 2 years old, but i can _still_ enjoy it everyday. I have a lot of cd's, most of them are belgian bands (i'm also from belgium), and the quality of a lot of bands is going up up up. One time we used to be happy with deus, hooverphonic and k's choice, but those days are over (my favourite from way back has always been 'daan' and ozark henry, at last they are getting some hard deserved succes.). right now i am eagerly waiting for the new cd of soulwax. anouk in indeed dutch, and sux live. right now there are not many great bands in.nl, i just HATE within temptation and krezip!
1. linux keeps me legal. my windows using friends spend their days hunting down cracks and reg keys for all kind of programs because the bare bone Windows installation contains no great tools. All tools are available (some might argue they are better on windows then on linux), but a lot of them require you to pay. i used to be a crack/regkey hunter myself (i was young and foolish), but no more.
2. linux lets me do what i want, windows lets me do what microsoft wants. guess which one i like most.
3. multiplatform. it may not be a biggy to many of you, but it is to me. i can now have a consitent environment on x86 and my ppc box.
4. i am a unix administrator, all the tools i need for my job are there by default. all my colleagues need extra software to provide them with 25% of the features i have, again at a price.
5. what a fsck mess the windows os is. linux has a nice modular design, i can take bits out, build stuff myself. i can't do that with windows.
6. i like the design of unix/linux. it all seems logical to me. i have yet to find the logic in windows. things like the registry don't help much there either.
7. linux _is_ more secure, say whatever you want, it is al least true for _now_. what that means is that i don't need to install extra stuff like virus scanners, spyware detectors and additional firewall software and other stuff i don't even know about to keep windows going safely.
8. linux is more stable for me. in a way that i don't need to reinstall every x months. sure, your locked down office windows pc probably runs for years on end, but your home windows pc does not. after installing this and that program/game to test/play/use (and removing it later) the stability of the system will be bad and after a while you end up with a reinstall.
9. i have 2 pc's, my girlfriend has one, and we have a fileserver running with our personal files on it. am i supposed to pay MS 4 times, every 2 years?! i don't want to use a copy because see nr.1 (i want to stay legal).
1. this guy must be jalous or something at linus because the only reason he says linus stole code is because he can not believe it is possible to write a working kernel in one year, wtf, you know, all those researchers are wrong, smoking is good for you, i don't believe them, read all about it in my book i'll be releasing soon. *doh*
2. he is using the arguments of BSD against the GPL. he calls BSD true open source and the GPL is bad bad open source. why? because quote: 'building a product that starts with the accomplishment of others and announcing it as completely your own work product, is not invention, nor is it innovation. Innovation can only work properly if innovators properly credit the work of others, especially if the innovator has decided to introduce the product into the marketplace for commercial gain'. hello, reality check! that is exactly BSD.
is this guy stupied or stupied or both? he doesn't even understand the difference between the two licenses.
Java needs to be under strict control, else we'll have a dozen forks that won't play nice with each other. Open Source and Free Software are all well and good, but when it comes to Java, I'm drawing a line in the sand. It's a noble goal, but not worth the risk of shattering the language.
and why would this happen? java is under strict control and would remain to be so under an open source license.
are you worried that multiple engines might be created? that would be no different then today, there are already different java jre's to pick from.
open source for java would be good. just like it is good for perl and python and...
first we would render parts of the movie on our own pc's and if we would like to go to see the movie in the theatres we'd have to pay 6.5 euro for something i helped create. next i won't be able to play the dvd legaly (which i had to pay for again) on my linux box. can't wait to start...
a lot of people are making a fuss about the desktop pc, but it seems we are forgetting those important laptops. if you think a desktop will be underpowered for the longhorn job, just imagine what it will do to your poor laptop, which by nature will always be slower then your average desktop pc (ok, perhaps there are killer laptops out there, but _most_ laptops are slower.)
Linux Magazine issue of April 2004 covered a new debugging technique that has been used on the 2.6 kernel, called 'source code analysis'.
the program used, called smatch, and all the documentation needed can be found on sourceforge here.
its main focus is the kernel, but it should be easy enough to adapt to other programs. not a debugger in the true sense of the word but it will detect a lot of bugs for you which you might otherwise have to hunt down with a debugger.
It might be on the pricey side but for some reason, they refuse to die!
i'd say you've been lucky. sure they have rock solid hardware available. but some models are also downward terrible. we have SUN too, and let me tell you we are expiriencing problems over and over again with the same few machines. at the time we bought them they were one of the most expensive SUN machine available (after the 10k) and they have been nothing but trouble for us. it has gone so far that they have took the whole machine apart and back together again, with no change in stability, problems just keep occuring. we asked them if it was possible to just replace these boxes with new machines of the same model but they never agreed to it, while we paid enough money, sun refused the most logical way out of this mess.
solaris legendary stability is a joke as well. i have seen plenty of panics from solaris. it is not any better then the other unix versions out there as far as i can tell. the difference is that i (still) like the solaris environment more then hpux or aix, but that is just personal preference that is probably shared by a lot of people.
I'm such a VAG (VolksWagen Audi Group) fanboy. I think everything they do is the beste thing ever:) This car once again demonstrates the knowledge and technology that they have in house, gems like DSG, the W16, quatro, etc. all bring a tear to my car-loving-eye. Ofcourse i hear that VW does not have a very good reputation in the states, but here in europe they are bige and many people here will acknowledge their cars as highly reliable.
I've seen it, i have used it as well. It's not that good as ximian desktop and i personally think they call it 'java desktop' explicitly _not_ to mention linux. They just don't want anybody to know, because really SUN does not like Linux much. So 'java desktop' (basicly gnome with an ugly theme and sun logo's all over the place) runs on it, but only because they don't have that much choice (no, solaris x86 is no good for this, sure you might have it working, but i'm not talking about you). I think it is also clear from the article that they are trying to create confusion in the linux market. When you read between the lines they are saying that all that stuff does/will not happen with solaris. So what if SUN released a lot of open stuff in the past. It seems microsoft is starting to do that too, but that does not make MS suddenly good and great.
what about it? linux comes on a few cd's (ranges from 1 to 7 or something) or a dvd and everything is already on there, nothing to install anymore! i'm done... finito...
oh yeah, i used to get the microsoft truetype fonts but since the bitstream fonts got released i no longer have to do that either...
on unix, like the wonderfull (not) hpux, i install: bash, ssh, lsof, tar, fileutils, tusc, tcpwrappers, sudo, screen, less,... (list goes on until eternity)
When I start getting annoyed, though, I try to think of what it would really be like to have another kind of job - working on an assembly line, delivering packages for FedEx, picking up trash,...
try to imagine being a sys admin for FedEx and the tracking server goes down. when i do a courier ride those are the most relaxed days of the year, perhaps i should request a transfer:P
I never would have thought that is the reason that is holding Linux back! Our sound support sux, it's true, i use wine all the time for anything that needs to produce sound.
Who is this fool? Perhaps that is the reason Linux is the only modern os where you can still use your GUS (gravis ultrasound) on? because, oh, that _great_ card is no longer supported since windows2000. no problems on linux, sweet as ever, my girl uses it for all her mp3 playing pleasures. Or, is it the excellent support for an SoundBlaster Audigy? it is _so_ good on windows that a friend of mine gave the card to me for _free_ because he never wanted to see the damn thing again. it works mighty fine on my linux box though, that could not be said about windows where the driver created a BSOD fest. Wait, it gets even better, use multiple soundcards, fill up those pci slots!
what an achievement, electronic voting. I remember voting only once, the first time, using a pencil and paper! the last two times have been electronic for me (i live in belgium,). Some very small villages are still manual but even they will be switched over next time. Brazil also already had electornic voting and now India, does the US want to be last at this or something? I don't see what is so difficult about it. We all had a good laugh out of the US presidency elections last time.
we have 'tv a la carte' available for some years now already. You can either pick 'bundles' that come with predefined channels or you can select only the channels you want. It works through cable, but almost everybody has cable here.
again this person has no clue. his argument is that the exploits found in the wild are the result of 'hackers' who interprete and write an exploit on the information found in the security alert released by the software company.
according to this guy security holes are never found outside of the company doing internal audits. this is wrong in so many ways... if this is true, you don't have to slow down the patch release cycle, you just don't release patches anymore, because as long as you don't nobody knows about it anyway.
For years Mac users talked about how stable the OS was. Then when OSX came out everyone was saying, "Finally, it doesn't crash anymore. OS9 had real stability problems."
The pharmacies had been running their day-to-day operations on a DOS-based system. The answer was SCO UNIX(R) running on Compaq(R) Proliant(R) 800 servers. They found an OS that is worse then SCO Unix running somewhere.
We evaluated a number of options but felt that SCO UNIX(R) had the proven reliability and scalability we needed translation: The application running on these boxes is not important to the business what so ever
McDonald's restaurants over the past 10 years and we're looking forward to migrating our restaurants to the current version. translation: SCO promises us all those #@$% bugs will be fixed in the next release, we believe them, we've got hamburgs for brains
SCO has a channel of more than 11,000 solution providers, a developer network of nearly 8,000, thousands of direct account customers and an installed base of more than two million servers. yeah, right, and what, 1.9 million of those servers are running in the SCO data centre? Where the hell do these marketing people keep pulling these figures, 8000 developers! i would be surprised if there are still 8 people working over at SCO!
SCO will continue to listen to the market requirements Either they have something stuck in their ears, or they are not listening hard enough.
The 'Legend' edition of SCO UNIX(R), which is targeted at SMB customers, will be refitted with SCOx Web services support, an XML parser and SOAP toolkit, an OpenLDAP directory, better multithreading, open-source tools Tomcat, PHP and Mozilla This will sure be the legend edition, as it will be the last freaking bastard unix they produce before going belly up. Oh, look, they include open source! Nothing like those linux distros, because these have been improved by our 8000 developers!
SCO also plans to debut in 2004 or 2005 a 64-bit version of SCO UNIX or 2006 or 2007 or 2008, no really we will get there...
SCO has had an amazing year as a company. We've enjoyed record earnings during the past two quarters, been one of the top performing stocks on the NASDAQ, been a pioneer in intellectual property protection. they certainly have been a pioneer in getting hated by lots of people in a record time, telling lies, making no sense, the number of press releases (they are so proud of this one),... what an amazing year!
the future continues to look extremely bright for SCO and its partners. SCO has a future?
SCO UNIX(R) has all of the security features. These security features guard against business interruption, denial of service attacks and protect against identity or corporate information theft. First, we all know how good sco unix protects you against a DOS (mydoom), and second, if sco unix protects your company against theft, how the hell did all that sco code get into the linux kernel?
I will stop now, but that page is one to print out and read again after 5 years... hu... months;)
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Admiral freebee is indeed one of the best things on cd atm. in fact the cd is almost 2 years old, but i can _still_ enjoy it everyday. .nl, i just HATE within temptation and krezip!
I have a lot of cd's, most of them are belgian bands (i'm also from belgium), and the quality of a lot of bands is going up up up. One time we used to be happy with deus, hooverphonic and k's choice, but those days are over (my favourite from way back has always been 'daan' and ozark henry, at last they are getting some hard deserved succes.). right now i am eagerly waiting for the new cd of soulwax.
anouk in indeed dutch, and sux live. right now there are not many great bands in
while these are for me the most important;
1. linux keeps me legal. my windows using friends spend their days hunting down cracks and reg keys for all kind of programs because the bare bone Windows installation contains no great tools. All tools are available (some might argue they are better on windows then on linux), but a lot of them require you to pay. i used to be a crack/regkey hunter myself (i was young and foolish), but no more.
2. linux lets me do what i want, windows lets me do what microsoft wants. guess which one i like most.
3. multiplatform. it may not be a biggy to many of you, but it is to me. i can now have a consitent environment on x86 and my ppc box.
4. i am a unix administrator, all the tools i need for my job are there by default. all my colleagues need extra software to provide them with 25% of the features i have, again at a price.
5. what a fsck mess the windows os is. linux has a nice modular design, i can take bits out, build stuff myself. i can't do that with windows.
6. i like the design of unix/linux. it all seems logical to me. i have yet to find the logic in windows. things like the registry don't help much there either.
7. linux _is_ more secure, say whatever you want, it is al least true for _now_. what that means is that i don't need to install extra stuff like virus scanners, spyware detectors and additional firewall software and other stuff i don't even know about to keep windows going safely.
8. linux is more stable for me. in a way that i don't need to reinstall every x months. sure, your locked down office windows pc probably runs for years on end, but your home windows pc does not. after installing this and that program/game to test/play/use (and removing it later) the stability of the system will be bad and after a while you end up with a reinstall.
9. i have 2 pc's, my girlfriend has one, and we have a fileserver running with our personal files on it. am i supposed to pay MS 4 times, every 2 years?! i don't want to use a copy because see nr.1 (i want to stay legal).
etc...
there are two things that we can conclude here.
1. this guy must be jalous or something at linus because the only reason he says linus stole code is because he can not believe it is possible to write a working kernel in one year, wtf, you know, all those researchers are wrong, smoking is good for you, i don't believe them, read all about it in my book i'll be releasing soon. *doh*
2. he is using the arguments of BSD against the GPL. he calls BSD true open source and the GPL is bad bad open source. why? because quote: 'building a product that starts with the accomplishment of others and announcing it as completely your own work product, is not invention, nor is it innovation. Innovation can only work properly if innovators properly credit the work of others, especially if the innovator has decided to introduce the product into the marketplace for commercial gain'. hello, reality check! that is exactly BSD.
is this guy stupied or stupied or both? he doesn't even understand the difference between the two licenses.
and why would this happen? java is under strict control and would remain to be so under an open source license.
are you worried that multiple engines might be created? that would be no different then today, there are already different java jre's to pick from.
open source for java would be good. just like it is good for perl and python and...
This game reminds me a bit of the old 'alien breed' series on the amiga.
first we would render parts of the movie on our own pc's and if we would like to go to see the movie in the theatres we'd have to pay 6.5 euro for something i helped create.
next i won't be able to play the dvd legaly (which i had to pay for again) on my linux box.
can't wait to start...
For a quick benchmark between ext3 with different 'data' options and reiserfs you can look here
...laptops!
a lot of people are making a fuss about the desktop pc, but it seems we are forgetting those important laptops.
if you think a desktop will be underpowered for the longhorn job, just imagine what it will do to your poor laptop, which by nature will always be slower then your average desktop pc (ok, perhaps there are killer laptops out there, but _most_ laptops are slower.)
Linux Magazine issue of April 2004 covered a new debugging technique that has been used on the 2.6 kernel, called 'source code analysis'. the program used, called smatch, and all the documentation needed can be found on sourceforge here.
its main focus is the kernel, but it should be easy enough to adapt to other programs. not a debugger in the true sense of the word but it will detect a lot of bugs for you which you might otherwise have to hunt down with a debugger.
It might be on the pricey side but for some reason, they refuse to die!
i'd say you've been lucky. sure they have rock solid hardware available. but some models are also downward terrible. we have SUN too, and let me tell you we are expiriencing problems over and over again with the same few machines. at the time we bought them they were one of the most expensive SUN machine available (after the 10k) and they have been nothing but trouble for us. it has gone so far that they have took the whole machine apart and back together again, with no change in stability, problems just keep occuring. we asked them if it was possible to just replace these boxes with new machines of the same model but they never agreed to it, while we paid enough money, sun refused the most logical way out of this mess.
solaris legendary stability is a joke as well. i have seen plenty of panics from solaris. it is not any better then the other unix versions out there as far as i can tell. the difference is that i (still) like the solaris environment more then hpux or aix, but that is just personal preference that is probably shared by a lot of people.
I'm such a VAG (VolksWagen Audi Group) fanboy. I think everything they do is the beste thing ever :)
This car once again demonstrates the knowledge and technology that they have in house, gems like DSG, the W16, quatro, etc. all bring a tear to my car-loving-eye.
Ofcourse i hear that VW does not have a very good reputation in the states, but here in europe they are bige and many people here will acknowledge their cars as highly reliable.
I've seen it, i have used it as well. It's not that good as ximian desktop and i personally think they call it 'java desktop' explicitly _not_ to mention linux. They just don't want anybody to know, because really SUN does not like Linux much. So 'java desktop' (basicly gnome with an ugly theme and sun logo's all over the place) runs on it, but only because they don't have that much choice (no, solaris x86 is no good for this, sure you might have it working, but i'm not talking about you).
I think it is also clear from the article that they are trying to create confusion in the linux market. When you read between the lines they are saying that all that stuff does/will not happen with solaris.
So what if SUN released a lot of open stuff in the past. It seems microsoft is starting to do that too, but that does not make MS suddenly good and great.
How about for a Unix machine?
... (list goes on until eternity)
what about it? linux comes on a few cd's (ranges from 1 to 7 or something) or a dvd and everything is already on there, nothing to install anymore! i'm done... finito...
oh yeah, i used to get the microsoft truetype fonts but since the bitstream fonts got released i no longer have to do that either...
on unix, like the wonderfull (not) hpux, i install: bash, ssh, lsof, tar, fileutils, tusc, tcpwrappers, sudo, screen, less,
try to imagine being a sys admin for FedEx and the tracking server goes down. :P
when i do a courier ride those are the most relaxed days of the year, perhaps i should request a transfer
I never would have thought that is the reason that is holding Linux back! Our sound support sux, it's true, i use wine all the time for anything that needs to produce sound.
Who is this fool?
Perhaps that is the reason Linux is the only modern os where you can still use your GUS (gravis ultrasound) on? because, oh, that _great_ card is no longer supported since windows2000. no problems on linux, sweet as ever, my girl uses it for all her mp3 playing pleasures.
Or, is it the excellent support for an SoundBlaster Audigy? it is _so_ good on windows that a friend of mine gave the card to me for _free_ because he never wanted to see the damn thing again. it works mighty fine on my linux box though, that could not be said about windows where the driver created a BSOD fest.
Wait, it gets even better, use multiple soundcards, fill up those pci slots!
there must be something wrong with linux...
what an achievement, electronic voting. I remember voting only once, the first time, using a pencil and paper! the last two times have been electronic for me (i live in belgium,). Some very small villages are still manual but even they will be switched over next time.
Brazil also already had electornic voting and now India, does the US want to be last at this or something? I don't see what is so difficult about it.
We all had a good laugh out of the US presidency elections last time.
we have 'tv a la carte' available for some years now already. You can either pick 'bundles' that come with predefined channels or you can select only the channels you want. It works through cable, but almost everybody has cable here.
again this person has no clue. his argument is that the exploits found in the wild are the result of 'hackers' who interprete and write an exploit on the information found in the security alert released by the software company.
according to this guy security holes are never found outside of the company doing internal audits. this is wrong in so many ways...
if this is true, you don't have to slow down the patch release cycle, you just don't release patches anymore, because as long as you don't nobody knows about it anyway.
this suc*PFFFSSSSHHH* as*KKHHHRRRRTTTSS*...
linux is aboot freedom, it is aboot choice, it's aboot...
excuse me, can you tell me what it is 'aboot' again?
didn't these people watch enough x-files episodes not to know to do this! ;)
and how is this any different from windows users?
you can do hardware partitioning on hpux machines as well, depending on the model.
They found an OS that is worse then SCO Unix running somewhere.
We evaluated a number of options but felt that SCO UNIX(R) had the proven reliability and scalability we needed
translation: The application running on these boxes is not important to the business what so ever
McDonald's restaurants over the past 10 years and we're looking forward to migrating our restaurants to the current version.
translation: SCO promises us all those #@$% bugs will be fixed in the next release, we believe them, we've got hamburgs for brains
SCO has a channel of more than 11,000 solution providers, a developer network of nearly 8,000, thousands of direct account customers and an installed base of more than two million servers.
yeah, right, and what, 1.9 million of those servers are running in the SCO data centre? Where the hell do these marketing people keep pulling these figures, 8000 developers! i would be surprised if there are still 8 people working over at SCO!
SCO will continue to listen to the market requirements
Either they have something stuck in their ears, or they are not listening hard enough.
The 'Legend' edition of SCO UNIX(R), which is targeted at SMB customers, will be refitted with SCOx Web services support, an XML parser and SOAP toolkit, an OpenLDAP directory, better multithreading, open-source tools Tomcat, PHP and Mozilla
This will sure be the legend edition, as it will be the last freaking bastard unix they produce before going belly up. Oh, look, they include open source! Nothing like those linux distros, because these have been improved by our 8000 developers!
SCO also plans to debut in 2004 or 2005 a 64-bit version of SCO UNIX
or 2006 or 2007 or 2008, no really we will get there...
SCO has had an amazing year as a company. We've enjoyed record earnings during the past two quarters, been one of the top performing stocks on the NASDAQ, been a pioneer in intellectual property protection.
they certainly have been a pioneer in getting hated by lots of people in a record time, telling lies, making no sense, the number of press releases (they are so proud of this one),... what an amazing year!
the future continues to look extremely bright for SCO and its partners.
SCO has a future?
SCO UNIX(R) has all of the security features. These security features guard against business interruption, denial of service attacks and protect against identity or corporate information theft.
First, we all know how good sco unix protects you against a DOS (mydoom), and second, if sco unix protects your company against theft, how the hell did all that sco code get into the linux kernel?
I will stop now, but that page is one to print out and read again after 5 years... hu... months ;)
...for a guy working at SCO called Andy.