I downloaded mosaic when the web was new and being a Linux user, Netscape was the only game in town and I suffered through the horrible Motif widgets because the browser and email client were the best of a poor set.
Firefox was wonderful when it came out and delivered a great shock to the system. IE 6 was bullocks and once people got used to downloading a browser, it opened the door wider for Opera and eventually Chrome. I don't know at what point they lost their way, but my Firefox nee IceWeasel got slower and slower and slower. The bickering over the trademark and the increasing performance problems lost me. Once I had to kill the browser every time I went to shut it down, I put Chrome in my sources.list and never looked back. Too bad, really.
That's great! I've been poking through their package mods and it looks like some real he-man coding was needed to get all this working with a more modern kernel and Xorg than it was originally intended. I need to send these guys a beer!
Unfortunately, my big needs aren't as simple as distro that works with the future-ported Poulsbo drivers. People and companies developing Linux products on netbooks and MIDs need those drivers in the mainline Linux kernel and Xorg source to gain wider general use, code reviews and more widespread testing. OEMs want to get a warm fuzzy that the drivers will still work and will still be maintained a year or two from now. As much as I love what I see in Jolicloud, I doubt many people will be willing to bet their company on them continuing to provide this Poulsbo support if Intel isn't willing to update their official drivers.
Half the available netbooks are running the GMA500 / Poulsbo and there hasn't been any support by Intel for Linux drivers since 2008. How can they claim MeeGo will support netbook and MID hardware without accelerated video drivers for their own product?
Agreed. There are certain classes of problems for which threads provide an elegant solution, but it is not the answer for every problem. The same with Object Oriented techniques; they really help in some cases. Unfortunately, there is a tendency in our industry to treat whatever this years popular tool or developmental concept as some kind of panacea and everything that has gone before as some kind of remedial solution for technological dinosaurs.
The truth is less cut and dried. UNIX philosophy still applies (small, discrete applications; clean interfaces; in separate process spaces), despite the inherited, object oriented model being in vogue. Threads are good for the kinds of parallel problems they solve, but you can't beat an straight-forward event loop for asynchronous performance and lack of obscure timing issues. Sometimes you just need an old fashioned FIFO for IPC, rather than some kind of sophisticated OS managed queuing system.
I'm old, but I've seen a lot. Most problems I've found in software development design / architecture is someone with a degree using the latest college-taught solutions to solve real-world problems and inadvertently making them almost impossible to solve.
When I started reading Slashdot (Jeez, 8+ years ago?), I was a geek sysadmin. Now I'm CTO and yell at my geeks to stop reading Slashdot and get back to work... How can I post when I told them they aren't supposed to be out here?!:) Oops, now I'm busted... Damn!
Bright House Networks here in Central Florida just disabled the VCR Commander on our cable boxes in an effort to force subscribers of their Digital Cable services to upgrade to their premium DVR.
I am really, really angry about this change. I know many of you will swear by the DVR's you know and love, but I like the freedom to share VCR tapes with friends and to watch recorded shows wherever we want in the house. My wife really likes Oprah and a couple of soaps and can watch them wherever she wants. If we only have a DVR and I am home, then I get to watch them too. *shudder*
The Practice of System and Network Administration by Thomas A. Limoncelli and Christine Hogan is the definitive reference to build, and more importantly, maintain any network and system infrastructure. It is written in an accessible style with plenty of real-world examples that focus on the importance of key infrastructure. It is not a "How To" book exactly, rather it offers advice and specifications for the kind of support infrastructure you have to build to be successful supporting large system and network infrastructure. If you are familiar with this book, please add your comments on it.
Doesn't make sense. Sending 50K emails I get. 1.2M subscribers I get, but how can you send 50K emails to 1.2M accounts? 50K to each? 50K split between them? That's like 0.042 emails each.
This (slightly old) Linux Terminal Cost Analysis shows better ways to spend that money than licensing software from Microsoft. From article: "Every company deserves to be compensated for the work it does, but no company deserves to be handed money when a more competitive solution is available." Some might consider it abhorrent, but I think it's just a waste of resources. (Disclaimer: I wrote the analysis...)
No one is forcing you to use Free / Open Source Software. I am sorry you are so threatened by customers stepping up and solving their own problems instead of giving their hard earned money to vendors that do not provide good products, do not listen to their customers and then feel threatened when the 'Open Source Community' commodifies their products. Guess who the 'Open Source Community' is, Rob? IT'S THE FARKING CUSTOMERS!!!
They are using Free / Open Source Software and spending time instead of money. Guess what? They are finding that it costs less and the vendors that should have been providing solutions were metering out features and bug fixes like crumbs to the hungry to extract the highest cost / benefit for their own bottom line. So if they want to play in the market now, they can play by our rules:
Debian is a different kind of distribution compared to other popular distros. I wrote an essay on these differences here if anyone is interested. Bottom line in the essay; Debian continues to be more important as a community collection of tools and knowledge for building and distributing an operating system than as a standalone distro itself.
The Sarge release is great, but Debian's success is also in its franchisees. I remember a press conference where one of the marketing types predicted that there would eventually only be two major distributions. Robin 'roblimo' Miller piped up and burst his grand vision by asking 'Debian and who?' He got a laugh and made a point that continues to be made today. Debian is a fantastic laboratory to grow operating systems and the knowledge on how it happens is right there in its mailing lists, utilities and documentation.
I've used my email address publically since 1998 when I got my domain name. It's far too late for me, but if you browse anywhere on my site using a 'banned' user agent all you will ever see is this:
All I want is the right for a simple small claims mediation. Let me shoulder the burden of prosecution! These guys are absolutely punishing my email servers and bandwidth. Let me hit them back! Here is how it would go:
Me: I didn't ask for this email and I have no relationship with the vendor. Here is the proof that I got spam for their product, directing me to the following websites they control...
Mediator: Do you have proof that DaGoodBoy agreed to be solicited?
Spammer: Uh...
Mediator: That will be $500 bucks. Next!
If I lose, I'll agree to pay $500 for the trouble. Hell, let this happen on a teleconference with a mediation company sanctioned by the government instead of court. I bet I could make a living just from persuing my spammers!
Either this or just look the other way while I set up an anonymous payout deadpool for the members of the ROKSO list...:)
No No NO! Just say 'no' to imaging... Debian supports preseeded configured values to be passed to a blank system during its install and a very easy method to run a script before and after the second stage installer. Do yourself a favor and actually track the tweaks you perform on a client when you build a system. Document them and put them in the install scripts. Then you can rely on the hardware detection method built into the Debian installer to allow you a diverse hardware ecology, consistent packages and a sliding target going forward as the repository ages.
Just my $0.02 from a fellow sysadmin who has left imaging and never looked back!
Slashdot Mirror
Me too. Of course, I *am* old so maybe that's why.
... the more systems will slip through your fingers."
I downloaded mosaic when the web was new and being a Linux user, Netscape was the only game in town and I suffered through the horrible Motif widgets because the browser and email client were the best of a poor set.
Firefox was wonderful when it came out and delivered a great shock to the system. IE 6 was bullocks and once people got used to downloading a browser, it opened the door wider for Opera and eventually Chrome. I don't know at what point they lost their way, but my Firefox nee IceWeasel got slower and slower and slower. The bickering over the trademark and the increasing performance problems lost me. Once I had to kill the browser every time I went to shut it down, I put Chrome in my sources.list and never looked back. Too bad, really.
That's great! I've been poking through their package mods and it looks like some real he-man coding was needed to get all this working with a more modern kernel and Xorg than it was originally intended. I need to send these guys a beer!
Unfortunately, my big needs aren't as simple as distro that works with the future-ported Poulsbo drivers. People and companies developing Linux products on netbooks and MIDs need those drivers in the mainline Linux kernel and Xorg source to gain wider general use, code reviews and more widespread testing. OEMs want to get a warm fuzzy that the drivers will still work and will still be maintained a year or two from now. As much as I love what I see in Jolicloud, I doubt many people will be willing to bet their company on them continuing to provide this Poulsbo support if Intel isn't willing to update their official drivers.
Thanks for the lead!
Half the available netbooks are running the GMA500 / Poulsbo and there hasn't been any support by Intel for Linux drivers since 2008. How can they claim MeeGo will support netbook and MID hardware without accelerated video drivers for their own product?
Agreed. There are certain classes of problems for which threads provide an elegant solution, but it is not the answer for every problem. The same with Object Oriented techniques; they really help in some cases. Unfortunately, there is a tendency in our industry to treat whatever this years popular tool or developmental concept as some kind of panacea and everything that has gone before as some kind of remedial solution for technological dinosaurs.
The truth is less cut and dried. UNIX philosophy still applies (small, discrete applications; clean interfaces; in separate process spaces), despite the inherited, object oriented model being in vogue. Threads are good for the kinds of parallel problems they solve, but you can't beat an straight-forward event loop for asynchronous performance and lack of obscure timing issues. Sometimes you just need an old fashioned FIFO for IPC, rather than some kind of sophisticated OS managed queuing system.
I'm old, but I've seen a lot. Most problems I've found in software development design / architecture is someone with a degree using the latest college-taught solutions to solve real-world problems and inadvertently making them almost impossible to solve.
I'm sure the EGlibc and EGcs naming was not entirely coincidental.
When I started reading Slashdot (Jeez, 8+ years ago?), I was a geek sysadmin. Now I'm CTO and yell at my geeks to stop reading Slashdot and get back to work... How can I post when I told them they aren't supposed to be out here?! :) Oops, now I'm busted... Damn!
DaGoodBoy
We use this: http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php
Works well for our needs.
Had to say it... ;)
D
Bright House Networks here in Central Florida just disabled the VCR Commander on our cable boxes in an effort to force subscribers of their Digital Cable services to upgrade to their premium DVR.
Details here if you care: http://www.awtrey.com/brighthouse-extortion/
I am really, really angry about this change. I know many of you will swear by the DVR's you know and love, but I like the freedom to share VCR tapes with friends and to watch recorded shows wherever we want in the house. My wife really likes Oprah and a couple of soaps and can watch them wherever she wants. If we only have a DVR and I am home, then I get to watch them too. *shudder*
Brighthouse Stinks...
DaGoodBoy
No, no, not ooga booga... snu snu!
The Practice of System and Network Administration by Thomas A. Limoncelli and Christine Hogan is the definitive reference to build, and more importantly, maintain any network and system infrastructure. It is written in an accessible style with plenty of real-world examples that focus on the importance of key infrastructure. It is not a "How To" book exactly, rather it offers advice and specifications for the kind of support infrastructure you have to build to be successful supporting large system and network infrastructure. If you are familiar with this book, please add your comments on it.
Doesn't make sense. Sending 50K emails I get. 1.2M subscribers I get, but how can you send 50K emails to 1.2M accounts? 50K to each? 50K split between them? That's like 0.042 emails each.
This (slightly old) Linux Terminal Cost Analysis shows better ways to spend that money than licensing software from Microsoft. From article: "Every company deserves to be compensated for the work it does, but no company deserves to be handed money when a more competitive solution is available." Some might consider it abhorrent, but I think it's just a waste of resources. (Disclaimer: I wrote the analysis...)
...to buy a state senator.
I thought there was a Sparc laptop from Tadpole back in the mid-1990's that Sun promoted for a while. Does anyone else remember that?
Good luck doing this without the Apple BIOS....
No one is forcing you to use Free / Open Source Software. I am sorry you are so threatened by customers stepping up and solving their own problems instead of giving their hard earned money to vendors that do not provide good products, do not listen to their customers and then feel threatened when the 'Open Source Community' commodifies their products. Guess who the 'Open Source Community' is, Rob? IT'S THE FARKING CUSTOMERS!!!
They are using Free / Open Source Software and spending time instead of money. Guess what? They are finding that it costs less and the vendors that should have been providing solutions were metering out features and bug fixes like crumbs to the hungry to extract the highest cost / benefit for their own bottom line. So if they want to play in the market now, they can play by our rules:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
DaGoodBoy
...touching my network places... :)
DaGoodBoy
Debian is a different kind of distribution compared to other popular distros. I wrote an essay on these differences here if anyone is interested. Bottom line in the essay; Debian continues to be more important as a community collection of tools and knowledge for building and distributing an operating system than as a standalone distro itself.
The Sarge release is great, but Debian's success is also in its franchisees. I remember a press conference where one of the marketing types predicted that there would eventually only be two major distributions. Robin 'roblimo' Miller piped up and burst his grand vision by asking 'Debian and who?' He got a laugh and made a point that continues to be made today. Debian is a fantastic laboratory to grow operating systems and the knowledge on how it happens is right there in its mailing lists, utilities and documentation.
Go Debian!
DaGoodBoy
I've used my email address publically since 1998 when I got my domain name. It's far too late for me, but if you browse anywhere on my site using a 'banned' user agent all you will ever see is this:
:)
http://www.awtrey.com/lists/
DaGoodBoy
All I want is the right for a simple small claims mediation. Let me shoulder the burden of prosecution! These guys are absolutely punishing my email servers and bandwidth. Let me hit them back! Here is how it would go:
:)
Me: I didn't ask for this email and I have no relationship with the vendor. Here is the proof that I got spam for their product, directing me to the following websites they control...
Mediator: Do you have proof that DaGoodBoy agreed to be solicited?
Spammer: Uh...
Mediator: That will be $500 bucks. Next!
If I lose, I'll agree to pay $500 for the trouble. Hell, let this happen on a teleconference with a mediation company sanctioned by the government instead of court. I bet I could make a living just from persuing my spammers!
Either this or just look the other way while I set up an anonymous payout deadpool for the members of the ROKSO list...
...than a toadying suck-up to vendors.
DaGoodBoy
No No NO! Just say 'no' to imaging... Debian supports preseeded configured values to be passed to a blank system during its install and a very easy method to run a script before and after the second stage installer. Do yourself a favor and actually track the tweaks you perform on a client when you build a system. Document them and put them in the install scripts. Then you can rely on the hardware detection method built into the Debian installer to allow you a diverse hardware ecology, consistent packages and a sliding target going forward as the repository ages.
Just my $0.02 from a fellow sysadmin who has left imaging and never looked back!
DaGoodBoy