The article says, "...In the late seventies, Intel won the chip war with Motorola and Zilog by offering certain features in its 8086 chip that favored MS-DOS over then existing competitive OSes...".
What were the features?
Heh heh. You said "weltanschauung".
"...they have a responsibility to..." do nothing. People do not have a "responsibility" to watch, read, or think anyting they don't want to. If you don't want to see the world through Mad magazine, then don't.
Who cares if you have a static IP? If your house ever looses DSL, mail bounces.
Before you even worry about backups, failover, etc., worry that any server which sees the world over the local loop is not reliable. Even if you like your DSL provider, you still depend on the "local monopoly" for the wire and the CO. Oh, and I wouldn't trust that any DSL provider, despite all good intentions, is tooled up to provide 5 9's reliablity (99.999% uptime) at each DSL node - there is simply no market pressure for such a thing. Go with a centralized service far from the edge of the network. Don't do it yourself.
Perhaps my own experience is unusual, but the speed and stability of _my_ Netscape on Linux hardly make the product a good yardstick for sofware engineering achievement.
One group of folks needs to write some XML/XSL/Java widgets once, then java servlet apps can use something like Apache's Cocoon to spit out DHTML/HTML/WML/VML/FooML: the best depth and markup for the particular client browser. The future is full of different kinds of clients, but you should only have to define new mappings, and you should do that using a high-level toolbox of XML structures and XSL translations. Anyone interested in building such an (Open Source) system? Anyone know of something similar already existing? If so, please mail me: jeremNywerneOr@ySahPooA.coMm
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You can run unmodified Linux binaries on Solaris 10 thanks to Janus.
You can run Linux applications unchanged on Solaris 10 thanks to Janus.
The article says, "...In the late seventies, Intel won the chip war with Motorola and Zilog by offering certain features in its 8086 chip that favored MS-DOS over then existing competitive OSes...". What were the features?
Heh heh. You said "weltanschauung". "...they have a responsibility to..." do nothing. People do not have a "responsibility" to watch, read, or think anyting they don't want to. If you don't want to see the world through Mad magazine, then don't.
Who cares if you have a static IP? If your house ever looses DSL, mail bounces. Before you even worry about backups, failover, etc., worry that any server which sees the world over the local loop is not reliable. Even if you like your DSL provider, you still depend on the "local monopoly" for the wire and the CO. Oh, and I wouldn't trust that any DSL provider, despite all good intentions, is tooled up to provide 5 9's reliablity (99.999% uptime) at each DSL node - there is simply no market pressure for such a thing. Go with a centralized service far from the edge of the network. Don't do it yourself.
Perhaps my own experience is unusual, but the speed and stability of _my_ Netscape on Linux hardly make the product a good yardstick for sofware engineering achievement.
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One group of folks needs to write some XML/XSL/Java widgets once, then java servlet apps can use something like Apache's Cocoon to spit out DHTML/HTML/WML/VML/FooML: the best depth and markup for the particular client browser. The future is full of different kinds of clients, but you should only have to define new mappings, and you should do that using a high-level toolbox of XML structures and XSL translations. Anyone interested in building such an (Open Source) system? Anyone know of something similar already existing? If so, please mail me: jeremNywerneOr@ySahPooA.coMm