It matters when they stop writing software for the OS you are using and you failed to notice that
everyone else stopped using it 3 years ago.
If you are an IT shop. Suddenly, you can't get any programmers.
All you good programmers are quitting because they are adding
years of experience using stuff no one else is using.
Maybe the software you are using on OS/2 is the best today.
But what if no new versions come out for it.
Meanwhile the Windows solution is heavily developed
because they are getting the sales and can plow the money back
into improving the software.
It does matter how many other people are using the same OS.
I disagree about Bill Gates not having the faintest idea of distributing source.
I recently read something by him on the web where he talks about the
early days when he and his friends would read any printed source code
they could get their hands on. The object was to learn about programming.
But maybe he could not conceive of returning the favor to future programmers.
This is not quite true. IANAL but, I beleive that if you file in court before they file for bankruptcy, then you can a portion of what cash is
paid to creditors when they are forced to liquidate
their assets.
The idea that it is impossible to get any money because they are broke is false.
They have equiment they can sell off if they are
forced into bankruptcy.
You may get pennies on the dollar, you may get nothing. You will probably have to wait a long time.
Accepting their offer might be a better deal.
Talk to a lawyer. They can tell you what to expect.
So what do you do if, while you are making them aware of this, someone else discovers this and
destroys their data?
You had the motive (you lost the contract).
You had the opportunity (you know how to break in).
Do you think the police will spend any time looking for the real culprits or just arrest
instead?
On cbsmarketwatch, (www.marketwatch.com), they mentioned one important reason:
Perhaps more importantly, IBM executives said,
the purchase adds 2,500 employees, many
skilled in database sales, marketing and
research, to IBM's army of 4,000 distributed
database employees.
"We are in a war for database talent, and the
most talented army is going to win this war," said
Janet Perna, a general manager in charge of
IBM's database business. "Informix bulks us up
for future growth in the database market.
Distributed systems will be an $18 billion market
by 2004, and customers are investing heavily."
One problem I have with tar.gz distributions is they don't always have an uninstall target in the makefile.
Source RPMs are nice because you can configure them different options and then build an RPM.
Then RPM keeps track of the files so you can un-install them later.
I would be interested if someone could explain how the other (non-RPM) packagers keep track of
files installed by "make install".
In the C-Net article, they indicated that the broadcasts could
go back on line as soon as technology is put in place to
automatically remove the commercials.
That would be great! Listen to the music on-line without all the
loud car-sale ads.
Then, the advertiser doesn't have to pay extra for the online playing,
I don't have to listen to the ads, and the actors are guaranteeing no internet exposure!
This can't compete for performance with technology that doesn't.
I believe if you are using CORBA, you should be selective about which interfaces you wrap in CORBA and which ones you don't.
That is if you care about performance.
I don't care how many people use it. I care more how many people code it.
Maybe no one will ever get rich off of it. So what!
There is more to life than money.
As long as it keeps getting better, I will keep upgrading mine.
If they never even get 5% of the desktop market I could care less.
Oh, HPUX and Solaris will be shipping with GNOME soon.
Many of the sysadmins and Unix programmers will still use it.
If you attended talks given by Miguel a few years back, you would
know that he studied OLE/COM/ActiveX APIs quite a bit during the early days of Bonobo.
CORBA does all the same things EXCEPT allow
the component code to be loaded into the same
process as the client application.
COM does this. CORBA does not. One of the two desktops (GNOME or KDE)
came out with a modified CORBA that allowed "in-process"
component instances.
I installed RedHat 5.2 on a server on the internet at a previous place of employment.
I later quit that job. After that, no patches
were applied to that box, which was the company mail server.
I later heard, from a friend of a friend who still works there that the box was hacked.
When you put your credit card number into a web site, how do you know if they have a full staff
to maintain the boxes and network where your
credit card is stored?
At my current place of employment, an NT/IIS based web site was recently defaced. So they ran down
the list of measures required to close the holes
and sent them to the list of sysadmins for all the boxes outside the firewall.
Not all the measures where service packs. Some involved disabling RDO. Luckily, there were
no credit card numbers involved.
Kernel versions and service packs are not enough.
To greatly reduce the chance of being hacked, you have to have
good people given enough time to keep checking the
security alerts and changing the box configurations (both Linux and NT) to keep all
the known security holes shut.
Slashdot Mirror
I noticed that this page quoted the same professor and referred to the National Post article.
So this one guy will have a great deal of impact on industrial policy in the US.
That is assuming that President Bush hadn't made up his mind without reading any publication.
The timing is certainly convenient.
It matters when they stop writing software for the OS you are using and you failed to notice that
everyone else stopped using it 3 years ago.
If you are an IT shop. Suddenly, you can't get any programmers.
All you good programmers are quitting because they are adding
years of experience using stuff no one else is using.
Maybe the software you are using on OS/2 is the best today.
But what if no new versions come out for it.
Meanwhile the Windows solution is heavily developed
because they are getting the sales and can plow the money back
into improving the software.
It does matter how many other people are using the same OS.
I agree.
If you own the CD, just RIP it!
I disagree about Bill Gates not having the faintest idea of distributing source.
I recently read something by him on the web where he talks about the
early days when he and his friends would read any printed source code
they could get their hands on. The object was to learn about programming.
But maybe he could not conceive of returning the favor to future programmers.
This is not quite true. IANAL but, I beleive that if you file in court before they file for bankruptcy, then you can a portion of what cash is
paid to creditors when they are forced to liquidate
their assets.
The idea that it is impossible to get any money because they are broke is false.
They have equiment they can sell off if they are
forced into bankruptcy.
You may get pennies on the dollar, you may get nothing. You will probably have to wait a long time.
Accepting their offer might be a better deal.
Talk to a lawyer. They can tell you what to expect.
Oh my god, the source forge link is SNF2!
So what do you do if, while you are making them aware of this, someone else discovers this and
destroys their data?
You had the motive (you lost the contract).
You had the opportunity (you know how to break in).
Do you think the police will spend any time looking for the real culprits or just arrest
instead?
If you are afraid to make a mistake, hire a consultant to do it for you.
On cbsmarketwatch, (www.marketwatch.com), they mentioned one important reason:
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Perhaps more importantly, IBM executives said,
the purchase adds 2,500 employees, many
skilled in database sales, marketing and
research, to IBM's army of 4,000 distributed
database employees.
"We are in a war for database talent, and the
most talented army is going to win this war," said
Janet Perna, a general manager in charge of
IBM's database business. "Informix bulks us up
for future growth in the database market.
Distributed systems will be an $18 billion market
by 2004, and customers are investing heavily."
I read the full story here:
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?sitei
So your employer has something that works, and you want them to pay you to re-write it?
It sounds like you want your employer to pay for your Java training (in the guise of re-writing something that works).
We used to call this a "resume enhancing task."
The other way around this is to put you application on a web server and control the
...)
web server environment.
If you don't like coding against browser differences, then put as much logic as possible on the back end.
(For Java, use Servlets/JSP, for perl, use mod_perl
I thought this was funny too. But I'm not sure I get the reference.
It sounds like Hunter S. Thomson though.
Gonzo programming?
I have a spare box, maybe I'll get a hold of Slackware 7 and give it a try.
You should have skipped 6.0 and waited for 6.2.
I've had no complaints with RedHat 6.2.
I still have a 1995 CD of Slackware though
(3.0 I think).
One problem I have with tar.gz distributions is they don't always have an uninstall target in the makefile.
Source RPMs are nice because you can configure them different options and then build an RPM.
Then RPM keeps track of the files so you can un-install them later.
I would be interested if someone could explain how the other (non-RPM) packagers keep track of
files installed by "make install".
In the C-Net article, they indicated that the broadcasts could
go back on line as soon as technology is put in place to
automatically remove the commercials.
That would be great! Listen to the music on-line without all the
loud car-sale ads.
Then, the advertiser doesn't have to pay extra for the online playing,
I don't have to listen to the ads, and the actors are guaranteeing no internet exposure!
So, does this mean ISS will get a NAL?
Will NASA have to pay a fine to the FCC?
Or is it id'ing properly.
On 2 meters, TCP/IP is dreadfully slow.
It can be done, however.
The ham specific routing protocols that sit on top of AX.25 stuff are much more usable on 2 m.
I haven't done this for several years, but one
of them was called ROSE and I can't remember what
the other one was called.
KN6QC (inactive)
However, it still goes through the TCP/IP stack.
This can't compete for performance with technology that doesn't.
I believe if you are using CORBA, you should be selective about which interfaces you wrap in CORBA and which ones you don't.
That is if you care about performance.
GNOME is on my desktop.
I don't care how many people use it. I care more how many people code it.
Maybe no one will ever get rich off of it. So what!
There is more to life than money.
As long as it keeps getting better, I will keep upgrading mine.
If they never even get 5% of the desktop market I could care less.
Oh, HPUX and Solaris will be shipping with GNOME soon.
Many of the sysadmins and Unix programmers will still use it.
If you attended talks given by Miguel a few years back, you would
know that he studied OLE/COM/ActiveX APIs quite a bit during the early days of Bonobo.
CORBA does all the same things EXCEPT allow
the component code to be loaded into the same
process as the client application.
COM does this. CORBA does not. One of the two desktops (GNOME or KDE)
came out with a modified CORBA that allowed "in-process"
component instances.
$600,000/160,000,000 shares is
$0.00375 or 0.375 cents/share.
If you round that to the nearest penny, its $0.00
or break even.
The last time I looked at their burn rate versus
cash, they had a few years worth of cash.
Now their burn rate is nearly zero. So they can go even longer without rasing more capital.
The project a profit for next quarter.
This doesn't sound like a deterirating cash position.
They are doing a lot better than eToys.
Disclorure: I own stock in Red Hat.
I installed RedHat 5.2 on a server on the internet at a previous place of employment.
I later quit that job. After that, no patches
were applied to that box, which was the company mail server.
I later heard, from a friend of a friend who still works there that the box was hacked.
When you put your credit card number into a web site, how do you know if they have a full staff
to maintain the boxes and network where your
credit card is stored?
At my current place of employment, an NT/IIS based web site was recently defaced. So they ran down
the list of measures required to close the holes
and sent them to the list of sysadmins for all the boxes outside the firewall.
Not all the measures where service packs. Some involved disabling RDO. Luckily, there were
no credit card numbers involved.
Kernel versions and service packs are not enough.
To greatly reduce the chance of being hacked, you have to have
good people given enough time to keep checking the
security alerts and changing the box configurations (both Linux and NT) to keep all
the known security holes shut.
This sounds bad until you realise that there is only one RIAA and 20 million or so Napster users.
Even people that don't use Napster might agree with his views.
I think $40 million ought to help him get re-elected.
Large contributions only matter to politicians because so many voters base their choice on what TV ads they see.