Microsoft Didn't invent anything other than a huge market-share and a mainstream platform, primarily for people to become victims of DDoS Attacks and Identity Theft!
I have a laptop, a desktop, and my home-made server farm.
I only use my laptop for Electronic Music and Audio Engineering, and since it's a laptop, I can play live anywhere. It is the only machine I have left that runs windows, and the only reason I use windows for Audio/Music is because im too cheap/poor to buy a powerbook (and linux audio/midi is a joke!).
I have a mid-tower 'Desktop' system that runs Slackware, and a series of rackmount (FreeBSD/Debian) servers that I built to create my own staging/production, Firewall/NAT/Router, and Database Replication Environment.
Aside from Audio/Music Production, the only time I really use a 'desktop', is to browse web pages, read email, spit some code, and/or use IM, all of which I can 'technically' do using a desktop-process, on one of my servers.
However, since (imo) servers should not run desktop processes, I use the mid-tower 'desktop' for a Graphical Desktop Environment, and leave the servers running as terminals.
They even had reporters at the katrina disaster handing out Redhat Linux hats to children they interviewed, and made sure they wore the hats during the interview. =/
and it WILL NOT last too long (now that morons @ fox are running it).
This type of project requires a continuous life-cycle of evolving, or else it is as pointless as archiving film-slides like the FBI was doing years ago (and probably still uses when they have too).
The fact that the technique now has it's own trendy acronym to represent it (like DHTML = JS+CSS), just means more marketing possibilities for devious IT sales kacks.
For mental exhaustion of deleting 78901238120138923 septic tank and viagra spams per day.
What about those emails that are titled 'you need to increase the size of your wang to make your wife happy', what about the mental stress this has put on myself and my relationship.
In that case, it really doesn't matter which platform you choose...
If you are simply choosing a platform that has a corporate entity that can be blamed when shit hits the fan, then you really are not taking responsibility for your work.
advanced users know to steer-clear of commercialized distros.
SuSE was the 1st distro I used when trying to learn linux (from a windows state of mind), but there came a point in time that I was too restricted to thier compilation of programs, and hideous package management system (Yast2, *shrug*).
Package Managers are great for lazy windows migrants, but not for production environments.
A Linux Production Environment should be built from the ground-up, not jumbled into a CD loaded with EVERYTHING and then stripped-down.
Not everyone will agree, but most should.
Slackware and Debian are the only commercial distros I'd suggest using, for a (linux) production environment.
key phrase in the article: "online thieves who steal and then sell the products"
It's one thing to download warez/mp3's/divx/etc (for personal/backup/try-b4-ya-buy), but to try to profit from it, is displicable (it goes against the ethics of most who enjoy downloading from other peers), and they deserve whatever fait awaits them in the corporate-lobbied court of law.
(FORBES.COM) These days the big star at Sony Pictures' special-effects shop, Imageworks, isn't Spider-Man or Stuart Little--it's a piece of software called Linux.
Instead of buying pricey specialized computers from the likes of Silicon Graphics, the techies at Imageworks simply load Linux onto hundreds of cheap Intel-based PCs to crank out dazzling effects for movies like Lord of the Rings, Seabiscuit and Spider-Man. Better yet, these low-cost systems are way more powerful than what they replaced.
"Almost everything we do now we could not have done before," says George Joblove, a senior vice president at Imageworks. "To have Spider-Man swinging through New York City, to have the entire city--the sky, the buildings, everything in that frame--digitally created, that could not have been done five years ago."
Most of Hollywood's big special-effects and animation companies now use Linux. DreamWorks, maker of Shrek and Sinbad, boasts on its Web site of its "groundbreaking adoption of Linux." Digital Domain, which worked on Titanic and Apollo 13, runs Linux on about 1,000 processors. Lucas Digital runs Linux on nearly 1,500 boxes to create effects for the Star Wars epics and Harry Potter.
Most of these companies use Linux in "render farms," where hundreds of low-cost Intel-based servers are yoked together to do the number-crunching needed to churn out visual effects and animated images. Imageworks and others also use Linux to power some desktop machines that artists use.
Until two years ago most effects shops used expensive workstations from SiliconGraphics. The SGI machines used specialized chips and SGI's own souped-up version of Unix. But these days ordinary Intel machines can outgun SGI machines for a fraction of the price, and free Linux sharpens that edge. Hammerhead Productions, a 30-person effects house in Studio City, Calif. that created effects for Blue Crush and 2 Fast 2 Furious, uses Linux machines that cost one-tenth the price of its old SGIgear--$1,200 versus $12,000--and yet are ten times faster, says Thaddeus Beier, director of technology.
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Microsoft Didn't invent anything other than a huge market-share and a mainstream platform, primarily for people to become victims of DDoS Attacks and Identity Theft!
We made the internet. We allow other countries to use our internet. If they don't like it, then let them create their own internet.
[pirate] I bootlegged a copy of star wars that I got from work, I'm soo industry!
[bubba] oh yea? welcome to the darkside bitch, now bend over!
What kind of sentance do these guys really deserve?
A Jail sentance for (free) piracy is immoral imo.
Making them watch that horrible movie for 300 hours straight would be a bit more effective imo.
j\k
I have a laptop, a desktop, and my home-made server farm.
I only use my laptop for Electronic Music and Audio Engineering, and since it's a laptop, I can play live anywhere. It is the only machine I have left that runs windows, and the only reason I use windows for Audio/Music is because im too cheap/poor to buy a powerbook (and linux audio/midi is a joke!).
I have a mid-tower 'Desktop' system that runs Slackware, and a series of rackmount (FreeBSD/Debian) servers that I built to create my own staging/production, Firewall/NAT/Router, and Database Replication Environment.
Aside from Audio/Music Production, the only time I really use a 'desktop', is to browse web pages, read email, spit some code, and/or use IM, all of which I can 'technically' do using a desktop-process, on one of my servers.
However, since (imo) servers should not run desktop processes, I use the mid-tower 'desktop' for a Graphical Desktop Environment, and leave the servers running as terminals.
I smoke, chat, IM, email, blog, code, party, eat, shit, sleep, fu**, pay my bills, etc.
Stupidity is genetic. IQ is immune.
People who say these things are bad for you, are simply looking for something to blame for their own in-ability to accept and/or comprehend reality.
yea, this is a channel fully sponsered by google.
They even had reporters at the katrina disaster handing out Redhat Linux hats to children they interviewed, and made sure they wore the hats during the interview. =/
and it WILL NOT last too long (now that morons @ fox are running it).
This type of project requires a continuous life-cycle of evolving, or else it is as pointless as archiving film-slides like the FBI was doing years ago (and probably still uses when they have too).
hehe, sucks doesn't it!? =/
What happens when we stop buying their products? they kill us? =/
We are witnessing the hypocrisy of bureaucracy in action.
cheers! =)
I still love the mysql database, but now I SERIOUSLY must consider alternatives if they are going to undermind the OSS Community in this manor.
not to mention that nasty coffee breath, whew *sip*
AJAX has been around for a long time.
The fact that the technique now has it's own trendy acronym to represent it (like DHTML = JS+CSS), just means more marketing possibilities for devious IT sales kacks.
gimme an A...
what's that spell...???
D R A M A !!!!
advertise d33z!
that code doesn't work because it's written incorrectly.
Learn the language 1st, then bitch about it later! =p
you can save word documents as html documents, directly in word.
if it looks like shit, oh well... it was made in word.
For mental exhaustion of deleting 78901238120138923 septic tank and viagra spams per day.
What about those emails that are titled 'you need to increase the size of your wang to make your wife happy', what about the mental stress this has put on myself and my relationship.
lol
In that case, it really doesn't matter which platform you choose...
If you are simply choosing a platform that has a corporate entity that can be blamed when shit hits the fan, then you really are not taking responsibility for your work.
advanced users know to steer-clear of commercialized distros.
SuSE was the 1st distro I used when trying to learn linux (from a windows state of mind), but there came a point in time that I was too restricted to thier compilation of programs, and hideous package management system (Yast2, *shrug*).
Package Managers are great for lazy windows migrants, but not for production environments.
A Linux Production Environment should be built from the ground-up, not jumbled into a CD loaded with EVERYTHING and then stripped-down.
Not everyone will agree, but most should.
Slackware and Debian are the only commercial distros I'd suggest using, for a (linux) production environment.
Save tons of money by using Linux (or FreeBSD) Clusters (instead of Windows * Server or Sun Solaris).
.NET/MS-SQL platforms by using XML.
Save tons of money by using MySQL Clusters (instead of oracle or sql server).
Create scalable object oriented web interfaces with PHP5.
Make your web applications inter-operable with Java/Oracle and
Create Programs in C/PERL/Python that can be integrated into your web application.
Access TONS of free online resources for all of these technologies, including support from other developers via IRC.
Laugh at the rest of the comments below... =p
key phrase in the article: "online thieves who steal and then sell the products"
It's one thing to download warez/mp3's/divx/etc (for personal/backup/try-b4-ya-buy), but to try to profit from it, is displicable (it goes against the ethics of most who enjoy downloading from other peers), and they deserve whatever fait awaits them in the corporate-lobbied court of law.
and IRC is for cool people! =)
Hollywood uses Linux Clusters to Generate CGI's
Article Posted: 11/6/2003
(FORBES.COM) These days the big star at Sony Pictures' special-effects shop, Imageworks, isn't Spider-Man or Stuart Little--it's a piece of software called Linux.
Instead of buying pricey specialized computers from the likes of Silicon Graphics, the techies at Imageworks simply load Linux onto hundreds of cheap Intel-based PCs to crank out dazzling effects for movies like Lord of the Rings, Seabiscuit and Spider-Man. Better yet, these low-cost systems are way more powerful than what they replaced.
"Almost everything we do now we could not have done before," says George Joblove, a senior vice president at Imageworks. "To have Spider-Man swinging through New York City, to have the entire city--the sky, the buildings, everything in that frame--digitally created, that could not have been done five years ago."
Most of Hollywood's big special-effects and animation companies now use Linux. DreamWorks, maker of Shrek and Sinbad, boasts on its Web site of its "groundbreaking adoption of Linux." Digital Domain, which worked on Titanic and Apollo 13, runs Linux on about 1,000 processors. Lucas Digital runs Linux on nearly 1,500 boxes to create effects for the Star Wars epics and Harry Potter.
Most of these companies use Linux in "render farms," where hundreds of low-cost Intel-based servers are yoked together to do the number-crunching needed to churn out visual effects and animated images. Imageworks and others also use Linux to power some desktop machines that artists use.
Until two years ago most effects shops used expensive workstations from SiliconGraphics. The SGI machines used specialized chips and SGI's own souped-up version of Unix. But these days ordinary Intel machines can outgun SGI machines for a fraction of the price, and free Linux sharpens that edge. Hammerhead Productions, a 30-person effects house in Studio City, Calif. that created effects for Blue Crush and 2 Fast 2 Furious, uses Linux machines that cost one-tenth the price of its old SGIgear--$1,200 versus $12,000--and yet are ten times faster, says Thaddeus Beier, director of technology.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/1124/096.html
which is a good thing imo, considering China's determination to reach 'super power' status.
The last thing we need is China AND Russia economically able to operate (militarily) in space.
China is more worrysome than Russia at this point tho, but the 2 together would be very alarming.