For fucks sake, when will people learn that _THERE IS NO SUCH THING_ as Nobel Price in Economics. It's a price _IN MEMORY OF_ Alfred Nobel. Personally, as a swede, I think the the so called price is a _TOTAL_ fraud. It is rewarded by the swedish central bank; Riksbanken (the oldest in the world by the way); and central banks are by definition fraudulent institutions.
What most people don't understand is that IBM _really_ is going OSS to kill competitors, but not for the reason sited in the article. Since IBM is B-I-G they kan kill all major competitors by "supporting" OSS early and therefor be the first big fish in the pond. This is done so that IBM can easily eat all other small fishes that enter the pond. Other big fishes are either left in drying ponds (for the reasons sited in the article) or forced to enter the pond in much the way IBM dictate, for being there first.
The reason is consulting. If a new market exploads around a new cool OSS project, IBM can simply embrace it, fork it, and make more money on consulting. It's simply self serving.
But that is not so bad. Because; if I recall correctly; Apple allows you to make 5 installs of each license OS X you buy, or at least get them so cheap they're practically for free. You'll see OS X Server with virtualisation and unlimited installs of the OS on that VM in the very near future, I'm sure.
So, you have to buy a Mac, but you get practically unlimited installs. Not so with Microsoft.
But who cares, I got premium MSDN subscriptions and can do pretty much whatever I please.
This is a good move, for the rest of us. Both these organisations where pretty much a Linux-only club; to say the least, at least extremely Linux-biased.
This new name spells it out in clear text, which is great for all of us that don't use Linux; be it Solaris, BSD or whatever. It also means that OSDL will lose part of its meddling ability because its now in the open that it only exist to promote Linux and not other open source systems.
I love it, I wish more organisations and companies did the same; no more hidden agendas.
If there was a GPL violation they would go to the offended party, in this case Novell, and they can dual license their own code. So problem solved. No, this is a strategic move to bring.NET into the enterprise in a more rapid pace. How do I know? Well, my main customer is uses a in-house soft PLC which they develop on unix. Everything else run on Windows with.NET in the bottem (this is no smallfry company eaither, one of the biggest within a huge industry). The stratic part is that we (a consultant firm) will probably pretty soon be able to better integrate Mono with the PLC:s and those with Windows.
To support Mono is a good thing for Microsoft, then they can be the real enterprise hub even in traditional industries. So, a win-win situation. Now, if I can get them to go from Linux to NetBSD, they will benefit even more.
Reminds me of SPAM; like all the penis enlargement pills, and what not.
The problem is that penis enlargement pills will never work, but the money hunt is similar.
Spinal cord treatment is very risky research on humans. Rats have better regenerative abilites, stronger immunesystem and shorter lifespans; so doing clinic tests on human almost always fails completely. I wish that they did some proper clinical tests on humans instead trying to get more funds by publishing things like this, time and time again.
Similar to the "Cry Wolf" story? Well, the risk is fairly obvious, I think. The more spam we get like this, a smaller portion will be put into research going somewhere useful.
What I really want to know is which architecture is best suited as a server, I've seen no detailed tests for such things.
Personally I got a massive hard on for Sun Fire X4200 when it comes to 64bit PC "server" (UltraSPARC T1 is really where it's at for real servers) architecture; running lighttp, Zope v3 and PostgreSQL.
Does anyone have some links based on server perfomance (mostly IO).
NetBSD has verified exec option, it doesn't prevent you from being exploited if the kernel is compromised though. But NetBSD's kernel is extremely well written and as far as I've seen is the one with the best track record of all open source kernels. Together with the Systrace (by NetBSD developer Niels Provos) you can build extremely secure systems that are super portable.
I don't know, but the university I went to was excellent when it came to pure computer science; it was a UltraSPARC/Solaris only when I started there in the 90's. Those of us who actually passed all the courses where Amiga or BSD users, who loved the Solaris environment and its technical benefits.
But the fact is, when I entered the consulting biz I had very little use for CS. Everything is done half-assed, if at all, and real science was nowhere to be found.
Now, I just switched job and have gone the Microsoft route, and stangely, the quality of work is much better. Simply because you can still to things "quick and dirty" and manage to produce some quite acceptable results.
Thus, if your goal is science (a PhD or similar) a Solaris/UNIX shop is the way to go, especially today with OpenSolaris. But if you're going to work in tha' biz, Microsoft is where it's at.
I still miss the good old days, but clients wont pay for quality unless its billions in cash at stake or a great possibility that people can die if something goes wrong (which is essentially the same thing to an enterprise).
I still run BSD at home, but I'm glad I can work with MS software as it stands.
Since the New Testament is much newer than the Gospel of St. Thomas, and (for obvious reasons) has remained unmodifed through the time(unlike the New Testament) it is not an assumption, but a fact.
The reason the Gospel of St. Thomas has been rejected by the church is because; literaly; Jesus stated that a church is no more sacred than an outhouse, a stone or even a turd from a dog. Please note that Jesus wasn't as negative as it sounds, he just admired everything; everthing was just as sacred as another. This is what made him a humble, loving and caring man.
Naturally, christans normally reject the Gospel of St. Thomas; but then, they aren't really followers of the words of Jesus now, are they...
Actually, CORBA wasn't a component framework untill version 3 (and versioning of CORBA specifications is stupid, as a verion is an extension-only of previous verions). When was CORBA v3 released? Can't remember, 2002? Compare that to COM, which is based on the drafts of CORBA v1 but with added component framework, it's easy to see why COM won.
Haha, IBM is not going to like this. They have taken Sun's OpenOffice and integrated it into their Workplace (ILWP) and have been touting it as the greatest thing since sliced bread; except that it cost a shitload of money, like all of IBMs crap.
Good thing, now we can focus on what to do, instead of who to pay. Good on Sun, I've been waiting for this.
Woah, that Linux Torvalds guy must be annoyed that some retarded bearded hippie at MIT insists that he's a really is wilderbeast and thus should be named thereafter.
Could you imagine all sysadmins running around with servers in their heads; not that we could get any less spare time than we have now. Imagine the horror of spam!
"V1AGR4! Straight in your head, only 9.95."
Could be worse, though I can't think of anything... ever.
Practically impossible to get that that kind of job unless you get into politics, law or economics; and you probably end up beeing to good at it right at the start:)
How about the Supreme Court? Bush needs help, and those Enron lads too... then you to be in all positions at once.
What I would like is the ability to register information on google, so that people google me an by doing it they can find a travelroute to my place in Sweden. Hook it in with GPRS and GPS and my friend could always find where the fuck I'm at, especially useful when i visit Stockholm, a suck-ass town in which I always get lost...
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For fucks sake, when will people learn that _THERE IS NO SUCH THING_ as Nobel Price in Economics. It's a price _IN MEMORY OF_ Alfred Nobel. Personally, as a swede, I think the the so called price is a _TOTAL_ fraud. It is rewarded by the swedish central bank; Riksbanken (the oldest in the world by the way); and central banks are by definition fraudulent institutions.
What most people don't understand is that IBM _really_ is going OSS to kill competitors, but not for the reason sited in the article. Since IBM is B-I-G they kan kill all major competitors by "supporting" OSS early and therefor be the first big fish in the pond. This is done so that IBM can easily eat all other small fishes that enter the pond. Other big fishes are either left in drying ponds (for the reasons sited in the article) or forced to enter the pond in much the way IBM dictate, for being there first.
The reason is consulting. If a new market exploads around a new cool OSS project, IBM can simply embrace it, fork it, and make more money on consulting. It's simply self serving.
But that is not so bad. Because; if I recall correctly; Apple allows you to make 5 installs of each license OS X you buy, or at least get them so cheap they're practically for free.
You'll see OS X Server with virtualisation and unlimited installs of the OS on that VM in the very near future, I'm sure.
So, you have to buy a Mac, but you get practically unlimited installs. Not so with Microsoft.
But who cares, I got premium MSDN subscriptions and can do pretty much whatever I please.
This is a good move, for the rest of us. Both these organisations where pretty much a Linux-only club; to say the least, at least extremely Linux-biased.
This new name spells it out in clear text, which is great for all of us that don't use Linux; be it Solaris, BSD or whatever. It also means that OSDL will lose part of its meddling ability because its now in the open that it only exist to promote Linux and not other open source systems.
I love it, I wish more organisations and companies did the same; no more hidden agendas.
Under pressure are we? Being squeezed between Microsoft and Oracle must hurt, especially when SuSE is now gaining ground all around you.
No, I'm afraid that the Linux community is better of supporting Debian or Ubuntu or switching to one of the BSD:s. Sorry, no candy for you.
Hmm, back trolling on /. are we?
.NET into the enterprise in a more rapid pace. How do I know? Well, my main customer is uses a in-house soft PLC which they develop on unix. Everything else run on Windows with .NET in the bottem (this is no smallfry company eaither, one of the biggest within a huge industry). The stratic part is that we (a consultant firm) will probably pretty soon be able to better integrate Mono with the PLC:s and those with Windows.
Are you really that short sighted?
If there was a GPL violation they would go to the offended party, in this case Novell, and they can dual license their own code. So problem solved. No, this is a strategic move to bring
To support Mono is a good thing for Microsoft, then they can be the real enterprise hub even in traditional industries. So, a win-win situation. Now, if I can get them to go from Linux to NetBSD, they will benefit even more.
There was a hilarous presentation about "BSD is Dying" at NYCBSDCon 2006 about two weeks ago; you can get it here.
Reminds me of SPAM; like all the penis enlargement pills, and what not.
The problem is that penis enlargement pills will never work, but the money hunt is similar.
Spinal cord treatment is very risky research on humans.
Rats have better regenerative abilites, stronger immunesystem and shorter lifespans; so doing clinic tests on human almost always fails completely.
I wish that they did some proper clinical tests on humans instead trying to get more funds by publishing things like this, time and time again.
Similar to the "Cry Wolf" story? Well, the risk is fairly obvious, I think. The more spam we get like this, a smaller portion will be put into research going somewhere useful.
What I really want to know is which architecture is best suited as a server, I've seen no detailed tests for such things.
Personally I got a massive hard on for Sun Fire X4200 when it comes to 64bit PC "server" (UltraSPARC T1 is really where it's at for real servers) architecture; running lighttp, Zope v3 and PostgreSQL.
Does anyone have some links based on server perfomance (mostly IO).
NetBSD has verified exec option, it doesn't prevent you from being exploited if the kernel is compromised though.
But NetBSD's kernel is extremely well written and as far as I've seen is the one with the best track record of all open source kernels.
Together with the Systrace (by NetBSD developer Niels Provos) you can build extremely secure systems that are super portable.
FreeBSD has similar functionality with its TrustedBSD framework.
I would say NetBSD or FreeBSD is your best bet.
Maybe you can make a Linux install with a subset of the same functionality through SELinux, but I dubt it will be as nice as the NetBSD route.
I don't know, but the university I went to was excellent when it came to pure computer science; it was a UltraSPARC/Solaris only when I started there in the 90's. Those of us who actually passed all the courses where Amiga or BSD users, who loved the Solaris environment and its technical benefits.
But the fact is, when I entered the consulting biz I had very little use for CS. Everything is done half-assed, if at all, and real science was nowhere to be found.
Now, I just switched job and have gone the Microsoft route, and stangely, the quality of work is much better. Simply because you can still to things "quick and dirty" and manage to produce some quite acceptable results.
Thus, if your goal is science (a PhD or similar) a Solaris/UNIX shop is the way to go, especially today with OpenSolaris. But if you're going to work in tha' biz, Microsoft is where it's at.
I still miss the good old days, but clients wont pay for quality unless its billions in cash at stake or a great possibility that people can die if something goes wrong (which is essentially the same thing to an enterprise).
I still run BSD at home, but I'm glad I can work with MS software as it stands.
Scientist.
Since the New Testament is much newer than the Gospel of St. Thomas, and (for obvious reasons) has remained unmodifed through the time(unlike the New Testament) it is not an assumption, but a fact.
The reason the Gospel of St. Thomas has been rejected by the church is because; literaly; Jesus stated that a church is no more sacred than an outhouse, a stone or even a turd from a dog.
Please note that Jesus wasn't as negative as it sounds, he just admired everything; everthing was just as sacred as another.
This is what made him a humble, loving and caring man.
Naturally, christans normally reject the Gospel of St. Thomas; but then, they aren't really followers of the words of Jesus now, are they...
The Gospel of St.Thomas is considered to be the most accurate recordings of Jesus teachings.
Actually, CORBA wasn't a component framework untill version 3 (and versioning of CORBA specifications is stupid, as a verion is an extension-only of previous verions).
When was CORBA v3 released? Can't remember, 2002? Compare that to COM, which is based on the drafts of CORBA v1 but with added component framework, it's easy to see why COM won.
Obviously that is not true.
[...]However several people have brickified their iMacs when playing with EFI.
;-)
Aha, but don't worry, just ask these nice people to add bricks to their existing set of architectures
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Haha, IBM is not going to like this. They have taken Sun's OpenOffice and integrated it into their Workplace (ILWP) and have been touting it as the greatest thing since sliced bread; except that it cost a shitload of money, like all of IBMs crap.
Good thing, now we can focus on what to do, instead of who to pay. Good on Sun, I've been waiting for this.
Woah, that Linux Torvalds guy must be annoyed that some retarded bearded hippie at MIT insists that he's a really is wilderbeast and thus should be named thereafter.
Sorry if I come off as a complete ass wanker, but have you considered building your own OEM Installation CD with the console-drivers integrated?
Could you imagine all sysadmins running around with servers in their heads; not that we could get any less spare time than we have now.
Imagine the horror of spam!
"V1AGR4! Straight in your head, only 9.95."
Could be worse, though I can't think of anything... ever.
Practically impossible to get that that kind of job unless you get into politics, law or economics; and you probably end up beeing to good at it right at the start :)
How about the Supreme Court? Bush needs help, and those Enron lads too... then you to be in all positions at once.
What I would like is the ability to register information on google, so that people google me an by doing it they can find a travelroute to my place in Sweden.
Hook it in with GPRS and GPS and my friend could always find where the fuck I'm at, especially useful when i visit Stockholm, a suck-ass town in which I always get lost...
I wear a rubber hat, and people say I only think of one thing... so I guess they where right. //5"-man