I read the article hoping that it would have some useful info in it but came away extremely disappointed.
Wow! A process based dispatch model. How novel.
You mean crashing a process doesn't bring down the whole application? Let me think. Oh yeah. I remember learning something about that in the 70s. Pretty new concept.
Come on now. The whole basis for this model is flawed. It uses multiple processes and then slips in the fact that it uses shared memory to communicate between the processes. This makes the whole model practically useless in any real world scenario.
I've built systems that handle many ten of millions of users. Production systems mind you (you know, people actually pay money to use them and rely on them. They are still running today happily processing hundreds of millions of requests per day.
Those were all multithreaded servers and have an average downtime rate of just a handful of minutes per year. (By contract they are only allowed only an hour of downtime per year including upgrades).
Writing robust servers just requires some basic skill, not a new paradigm (or in this case an archaic paradigm).
Did anyone actually read that article. What a steaming pile. It had no factual information in it regarding free software.
Why would/. allow such a troll article to be posted? Oh, because its self serving.
Reading that article is like listening to Fox news. The lies are simply unbelievable.
All major voip media servers already support what you call "wire tapping". I'm not talking about the dinky little gateways or phones that a typical/. would have. Those don't matter and never will. But for mass market voip you're concerns are already a reality. Deal with it.
The post in question was somehow rated a 5-informative when all it really says is "Roland Piquepaille is an asshole". There are at least 10 posts further down that say the same thing but get rated as 1-Troll.
The only difference seems to be that one person took 500 words to say it and the other took 5.
You are 100% correect. Linus will not look at Solaris because he knows that Linux cannot compete with it.
If Linus were not such an arrogent retard he would have told the truth...
"Of course I'm going to look at Solaris. It's the most stable, scalable, robust version of Unix out there. And to top it off it actually works in a production environment. Linux is still 5-10 years away from that level."
Too bad all of the gnu people don't understand that GPL is a EULA. It's just as restrictive and punative as any commercial license. GNU != OpenSource. Sorry.
Even though the miniseries was not great it was at least watchable. The books are unreadable.
There's not much out there that's worse than a Ursula K. Le Guin book. In fact I don't think I can think of a single thing off the top of my head.
I never understood how people can mix this up. The XServer concept (and terminology) makes perfect sense and in no way conflicts with what people consider the "normal" definition of client and server.
The problem stems from the fact that very few people actually understand what the terms 'client' and 'server' mean in any context.
How can we be sure that un-ethical companies will not try to steal code that is covered under the GPL and try to pass it off as their own?
You don't have to worry about this happening for voip. I've written highly scalable voip servers that are now deployed by several large carriers and cable companies.
The open source voip code is unusable. It may work if you're hacking something together for you house (as geeks are wont to do). But believe me. I looked into every voip package there was (open source, closed source, in-house, etc). The open source was horrible.
You could say that it is as disruptive as... mainframes going to PCs or landlines going to cell phones. Software as it has been sold for years is about to be turned on its head completely," says Lucinda Stewart from OVP Venture Partners."
Thank god none of my venture funds are with OVP Venture Partners. That statement is so ridiculous it's unbelievable. It shows you how disconnected and uninformed most VC's are. If this guy actually used any open source software he would immediately shut down all open source funding.
There's a reason that many law firms STILL use WordPerfect 5.1 to this day, and that's 'cause Word is horrendous when it comes to heavily formatted documents.
Nope. Try again. Legal documents have almost zero formatting.
And I'll never cease to get annoyed at its tendency to tack on a blank page at the end of any document where the text terminates near or at the end of a page.
Wow. That's a pretty basic thing to prevent from happening. Just as simple option.
Correct. Legal documents have no formatting to speak of (I've reviewed my fair share). So the argument about formatting is bunk.
There are only two products in the history of computing that are worse than word perfect. Both of those also come from Novel.
This lawsuit is without merit and is just more spilt milk. Does this sound familiar:
Company had successful product but screwed it up. Who to blame? Their own incompetence? Nope. Easier to blade Microsoft.
I'm going with the "nothing but greedy hypocrites" thanks
You're an uninformed retard.
This is one reason apple has failed...
on
NeXTSTEP To Mac OS X
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
'With the beginning of 1996, Apple realized that with the next generation PC's running Windows NT to be released within the decade, they would need a new, modern operating system...
They should have realized this back in the late 80's. 1996 was far too late. Apple was already relegated to a niche market by then.
Did everybody wake up and take a stupid pill this morning or something? The arguments about this being too fast for commercial flight are in the same vein as early arguments that noboby would ever need more than 64KB of memory.
Of course this is acceptable speed for commercial flights. It'll take a while to get there, but it will happen
Oh god. This is funny. Hahahahahahahahaha. Jesus. I can't stop laughing. The moderators agree as well. They laughed so hard they gave this a 5! Very Funny.
Retard.
This just shows how out of touch the standards bodies are with reality. Nobody has adopted that idiotic naming convention. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. No question about it.
What the standards body needs to do is to look at the common usage and use that. Making up words as they go along does not help as is evident by the confusion in this article.
Slashdot Mirror
I read the article hoping that it would have some useful info in it but came away extremely disappointed. Wow! A process based dispatch model. How novel. You mean crashing a process doesn't bring down the whole application? Let me think. Oh yeah. I remember learning something about that in the 70s. Pretty new concept. Come on now. The whole basis for this model is flawed. It uses multiple processes and then slips in the fact that it uses shared memory to communicate between the processes. This makes the whole model practically useless in any real world scenario. I've built systems that handle many ten of millions of users. Production systems mind you (you know, people actually pay money to use them and rely on them. They are still running today happily processing hundreds of millions of requests per day. Those were all multithreaded servers and have an average downtime rate of just a handful of minutes per year. (By contract they are only allowed only an hour of downtime per year including upgrades). Writing robust servers just requires some basic skill, not a new paradigm (or in this case an archaic paradigm).
Did anyone actually read that article. What a steaming pile. It had no factual information in it regarding free software. Why would /. allow such a troll article to be posted? Oh, because its self serving.
Reading that article is like listening to Fox news. The lies are simply unbelievable.
All major voip media servers already support what you call "wire tapping". I'm not talking about the dinky little gateways or phones that a typical /. would have. Those don't matter and never will. But for mass market voip you're concerns are already a reality. Deal with it.
There are many lcos models on the market right now. The article is apocryphal. Just go down to your local Best Buy and take a look.
The post in question was somehow rated a 5-informative when all it really says is "Roland Piquepaille is an asshole". There are at least 10 posts further down that say the same thing but get rated as 1-Troll.
The only difference seems to be that one person took 500 words to say it and the other took 5.
Pseudointellectualism at its best.
If Linus were not such an arrogent retard he would have told the truth...
"Of course I'm going to look at Solaris. It's the most stable, scalable, robust version of Unix out there. And to top it off it actually works in a production environment. Linux is still 5-10 years away from that level."
Too bad all of the gnu people don't understand that GPL is a EULA. It's just as restrictive and punative as any commercial license. GNU != OpenSource. Sorry.
If you block spam you'll never increase the size of your penis.
Even though the miniseries was not great it was at least watchable. The books are unreadable. There's not much out there that's worse than a Ursula K. Le Guin book. In fact I don't think I can think of a single thing off the top of my head.
I never understood how people can mix this up. The XServer concept (and terminology) makes perfect sense and in no way conflicts with what people consider the "normal" definition of client and server. The problem stems from the fact that very few people actually understand what the terms 'client' and 'server' mean in any context.
It's pretty easy to tell if the biometric info is a replay or not so the scenario you mention is not a problem.
You don't have to worry about this happening for voip. I've written highly scalable voip servers that are now deployed by several large carriers and cable companies.
The open source voip code is unusable. It may work if you're hacking something together for you house (as geeks are wont to do). But believe me. I looked into every voip package there was (open source, closed source, in-house, etc). The open source was horrible.
So, quit stressing about someone stealing it.
You could say that it is as disruptive as ... mainframes going to PCs or landlines going to cell phones. Software as it has been sold for years is about to be turned on its head completely," says Lucinda Stewart from OVP Venture Partners."
Thank god none of my venture funds are with OVP Venture Partners. That statement is so ridiculous it's unbelievable. It shows you how disconnected and uninformed most VC's are. If this guy actually used any open source software he would immediately shut down all open source funding.
There's a reason that many law firms STILL use WordPerfect 5.1 to this day, and that's 'cause Word is horrendous when it comes to heavily formatted documents.
Nope. Try again. Legal documents have almost zero formatting.
And I'll never cease to get annoyed at its tendency to tack on a blank page at the end of any document where the text terminates near or at the end of a page.
Wow. That's a pretty basic thing to prevent from happening. Just as simple option.
Correct. Legal documents have no formatting to speak of (I've reviewed my fair share). So the argument about formatting is bunk. There are only two products in the history of computing that are worse than word perfect. Both of those also come from Novel. This lawsuit is without merit and is just more spilt milk. Does this sound familiar: Company had successful product but screwed it up. Who to blame? Their own incompetence? Nope. Easier to blade Microsoft.
I'm going with the "nothing but greedy hypocrites" thanks
You're an uninformed retard.
'With the beginning of 1996, Apple realized that with the next generation PC's running Windows NT to be released within the decade, they would need a new, modern operating system ...
They should have realized this back in the late 80's. 1996 was far too late. Apple was already relegated to a niche market by then.
Did everybody wake up and take a stupid pill this morning or something? The arguments about this being too fast for commercial flight are in the same vein as early arguments that noboby would ever need more than 64KB of memory. Of course this is acceptable speed for commercial flights. It'll take a while to get there, but it will happen
You're kidding right? MAC filtering provides absolutely no added security. Once the encryption is broken, spoofing a MAC address is trivial.
Oh god. This is funny. Hahahahahahahahaha. Jesus. I can't stop laughing. The moderators agree as well. They laughed so hard they gave this a 5! Very Funny. Retard.
This just shows how out of touch the standards bodies are with reality. Nobody has adopted that idiotic naming convention. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. No question about it. What the standards body needs to do is to look at the common usage and use that. Making up words as they go along does not help as is evident by the confusion in this article.