I'd want to find out why they even suggested this. I'd be looking at the source of the request and trying to determine the reasons/motives for this question.
If their office can't write a submission web site that accomodates other browsers, then there's a question of competence. If there's a problem with the competence of the staff at that office, let's get the real problem fixed.
Yes, Borgware. Microsoft crushes both its competitors and its 'partners' alike. What's really cool about the success of Google is that, first, it comes on a non-Microsoft platform, and two, Google's success comes at the expense of Microsoft. Google is taking business that Microsoft wants.
Google is doing this by using a business model that is orthogonal to Microsoft's model; Google is open, non-proprietary, platform agnostic. Google does not restrict browser traffic, does not exclude 'competitors' sites, browsers, platforms, etc.
Google helps provide more for less. If Google helps bring Microsoft to heel, that's a good thing.
I think that SCO should be sued for filing a frivolous lawsuit, a bad-faith lawsuit. They violated copyright law, then attempted to claim that others had violated their copyrights.
Darl should be held personally liable along with the lawyers involved.
Although I Am Not A Lawyer, I do know enough about contract law to know that any contract that is in violation of the law is a void contract. And the NLRB is a government agency; they cannot rewrite the constitution. The NRLB cannot sanction an explicit constitutional right.
but more importantly it says workers can not socialize together outside of work whether or not they are wearing their uniforms. This is why this is a big deal. Workers are only allowed to go to union meetings, and only are because there is a law that says workers are allowed to (there's no law protecting socialization). And they can't go to the meetings in work uniforms, due to a rule against that. So you are just spreading FUD.
The first problem with this ruling is that it's unconstitutional; we have the right of assembly, especially for political reasons. Voting is a political process, so union meetings are protected.
I wasn't able to get to that link, but I have some more questions; does the employer require the uniform? Does the employer supply the uniform? Does the employer provide enough time and a place for the worker to change into the uniform at work?
If the employer either does not supply the uniform, or does not allow a time and place to change into, and out of, the uniform, then it is not reasonable to prohibit the wearing of the uniform after hours, regardless of the circumstance.
If the author of the article was actually around when the 'DOS ain't done...' thing actually happened, he'd know better than to try to dispute it. I personally experienced incompatibilities introduced in version of MSDOS 3.x as well as in Windows NT.
I've seen Lotus, Word Perfect and TCP/IP driver stack 'mysteriously' break by 'upgrading' or 'patching' the Microsoft OS. I really came to hate Microsoft operating systems because I'd seen so much of this kind of thing. Even though I was very knowledgeable with MS software, I chose to work on other OS (Novell, IBM OS/2, Linux) because of my feelings about Microsoft's behavior.
But what's really chapping my ass these days are the people who are trying to re-write history to exonerate Microsoft's past behavior. It seems to be an entire industry and it must be lucrative. Too bad Slashdot is helping that industry by giving it air time.
There's a lack of real information about RAID
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I worked for years in development of RAID solutions for a major manufacturer. One of the problems with selling RAID solutions is the lack of understanding, or the prejudice and bias of the people who were supposed to be specifying and buying the hardware. The 'tutorial' of the parent article is talking in kindergarden terms, oversimplifications and obsolete term, and overlooking some of the issues with using RAID. It's a good example of the true lack of understanding about the subject. By now, there are so many types of solutions that the term RAID hardly applies. But, even 10 years ago companies like Compaq had innovative rudundant storage solutions that were enterprise ready.
OS/2 v. 2.0 ran Windows 3.1 apps better than Windows 3.1. At the time, Microsoft was claiming that Windows 95 would run Windows 3.1 apps as well as apps written for 95. That turned out to be more Microsoft FUD.
OS/2 v. 2.0 ran Windows 3.1 apps in isolated virtual shells. Even if the app crashed, burned, BSOD, OS/2 would never miss a lick.
It's too bad that IBM wasn't able to sell OS/2, but Microsoft was able to out-market IBM.
I could hardly agree more that there are talented people all around us. Unfortunately, in our WalMart oriented, low-cost, budget, cut-rate society, its usually cheaper to replace something than to have it fixed. So this pool of talent goes untapped, under-utilized.
Regarding the original subject; I have learned to do most things for myself. It's always cheaper and I get better results. Computers, cars, lawnmowers, home improvement, I do it myself. Only is situations like taxes do I consult a professional, and even then, I have to check their work.
I suppose that some day the trend will reverse, and good help will be paid well, but right now good help is impossible to find at any price.
You missed my point. IBM/Microsoft DOS was based on CPM, an open source/free OS. The BIOS for the IBM PC was also open. This open source software/firmware/hardware is what created Microsoft's advantage.
This same situation now repeats itself with a new market, a market that is not dependent or even requires Microsoft applications. India and China will become a bigger market than USA/Europe. Here in our little myopic western world, we can't see the importance of this market force.
India and China will take the PC in a new direction. How could they not? The numbers of sales they will generate will create economies of scale that cannot be created in our Windows controlled market. Microsoft cannot coerce their marketing departments, cannot influence their governments.
China and India already make our PCs, and now they will design and sell them to their internal markets and they will shape the future development of the PC. And it will not have an OS that is licensed.
I hear the argument against the demise of Microsoft, but consider Microsoft's own history; a free OS on an 'open source' hardware platform. This time, instead of CPM/DOS on the S100/IBM PC, it will be Unix (Linux) on a PC.
But it's the follow-on to this miniaturized platform that will prove interesting. The volumes will help drive the price way down and with a PC that cheap, imbedding this Microsoft killer in toasters and lawn mowers without having to pay the Microsoft tax will have a chance to happen.
OS/2 2.0 and up had facilities to automatically install an operating system using a boot ROM on the LAN card, and a boot server with a REXX script. When I did testing of hardware, that was the technique I used to speed OS installation. Although I only used it with OS/2, I think it could have worked with other OS's, too.
I see this as another example of the self-policing that goes on here on the internet. Slashdot is another example on several levels. For example, this forum provides a means for people to express their feelings about a variety of subjects. And this forum is not mob rule, we moderate each other, and we moderate the moderations. Inflammatory and extremist talk is not tolerated silently.
On another level, Slashdot is the pulpit where the topic of freedom gets a lively and ongoing discussion. Freedom to use and create software, freedom to exchange ideas, data, tools, freedom of expression, etc., etc.
The 'net is not quite the free-for-all that some believe. And this self-regulation, self-policing, self-examination that is already the norm, is proof of the responsibility and maturity of so many here who make the net what it is; a cool place now, and a thing of hope for the future. So the idea of people going out and disrupting bad behavior on the 'net is a virtual tradition. To me this is a very good sign.
Let's continue working to keep the gummint's clumsy hands off the 'net. I know they made the net, but it has grown in size and importance because of public involvement.
To me, the story here is about the ever-increasing trend of companies toward opening up their licenses to the public. I seem to recall that this was the trend early in the PC and small computer life. The operating system that Microsoft eventually controlled was an 'open source' OS. And Unix was also open early in its life. And the 'killer app' that made PC's valuable, Visicalc, was also open source.
I wonder where the world would be today if that trend had continued. I think we would be much farther along in the digital revolution. It's clear that software hasn't kept up with the evolution of hardware, at least until recently.
It's heartening to see companies like Nokia, IBM, Novell, Sun and many others embrace open source.
Tassach is absolutely right about the lack of jobs for current grads. When I worked for a Fortune 50 company and the job market got tight in the late 90's, we were hiring anybody with any degree that looked even close. Some were less suitable than others.
Now that same Fortune 50 company is getting good Comp Sci majors through temp agencies, and they're getting lower wages, less (or no) benefits, and no job security.
I know that one of these underemployed programmers is trying to enlist in the Air Force. To me, that's a shock. It used to be taken for granted that if you were a decent programmer with a degree, you had some good job and life choices.
I, for one, am far more cynical about my relationship with my employer after the recent developments in the workplace (offshoring, outsourcing, lack of job security).
Ok, underclock the MoBo and then have the POE supplement the battery's power, not replace its power. With some intelligent power management, this would work and even keep the batteries charged.
Now we need a good application for this. How about an alarm system?
The day of lowered costs for phone, TV and Internet should have been here already. The holdup is that the various communications businesses bribe their congress-critters to stay in business.
AT&T saw this trend and started buying cable TV, and cell phone businesses so that they could be the ones to provide this integrated communications services. Unfortunately, they underestimated the political power that would be used to slow this integration.
Other countries surpass us in the quality of their services because businesses have to compete in those countries.
Someday, the promise of cheap, widespread, and rich communications services will arrive.
Both of my Window$ PCs run a grid app. I think grid computing is going to become ubiquitous, so the cost of power per CPU cycle is going to matter.
Laptop-type low power technology will be important. LAN speed matters more than disk speed.
I think that low power, low noise, high peformance PCs will replace the current trend of faster (and more) memory, faster memory speed, faster CPU speed. Individual CPU speed won't be so important in a distributed computing environment.
Perhaps you haven't heard that Microsoft's stock price is flat, that they're losing market share in servers, that China and India are focused on Linux for the desktop? Yes, stock price matters. The stock market has a way of seeing through the BS because money is at stake.
In the past Microsoft has used its OS monopoly and its control of the API to kill competition. Linux, the web, and other technologies will leave Microsoft in the dustbin if they don't get off their collective lazy butts and take advantage of their position to do some innovation that will secure their place in the business market.
Until then, they are like the phone company or the electricity company; they provide a particular function, but they don't show much promise for the future.
My stock 86 Mustang GT Conv. got 25-27 mpg over three tanks, including some travel at 115 mph. Must be something about that little car body that gets such good mileage. Stock 5 speed transmission, stock tires.
BTW, if you're travelling on a trip, add four ounces of Acetone to the tank for every 10 gal of fuel. Helps with vaporization of the fuel.
Before the internet, there was an ARPA Net that was the domain of universities and the department of defense. It was the opening of the ARPA Net to the public that Al Gore was responsible for.
Yes, the internet could have been a very different thing without people like Al Gore.
How insincere can Microsoft be? They don't need to sit down with anybody. All they need to do is publish their specifications for the API to their operating system. This claim that they want to 'find common ground' could hardly be more insincere.
When they're ready to cut the BS and be serious, all they have to do is publish their API. After that, let's talk.
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I'd want to find out why they even suggested this. I'd be looking at the source of the request and trying to determine the reasons/motives for this question.
If their office can't write a submission web site that accomodates other browsers, then there's a question of competence. If there's a problem with the competence of the staff at that office, let's get the real problem fixed.
Yes, Borgware. Microsoft crushes both its competitors and its 'partners' alike. What's really cool about the success of Google is that, first, it comes on a non-Microsoft platform, and two, Google's success comes at the expense of Microsoft. Google is taking business that Microsoft wants.
Google is doing this by using a business model that is orthogonal to Microsoft's model; Google is open, non-proprietary, platform agnostic. Google does not restrict browser traffic, does not exclude 'competitors' sites, browsers, platforms, etc.
Google helps provide more for less. If Google helps bring Microsoft to heel, that's a good thing.
I think that SCO should be sued for filing a frivolous lawsuit, a bad-faith lawsuit. They violated copyright law, then attempted to claim that others had violated their copyrights.
Darl should be held personally liable along with the lawyers involved.
Although I Am Not A Lawyer, I do know enough about contract law to know that any contract that is in violation of the law is a void contract. And the NLRB is a government agency; they cannot rewrite the constitution. The NRLB cannot sanction an explicit constitutional right.
The first problem with this ruling is that it's unconstitutional; we have the right of assembly, especially for political reasons. Voting is a political process, so union meetings are protected.
I wasn't able to get to that link, but I have some more questions; does the employer require the uniform? Does the employer supply the uniform? Does the employer provide enough time and a place for the worker to change into the uniform at work?
If the employer either does not supply the uniform, or does not allow a time and place to change into, and out of, the uniform, then it is not reasonable to prohibit the wearing of the uniform after hours, regardless of the circumstance.
Welcome to 1984.
If the author of the article was actually around when the 'DOS ain't done...' thing actually happened, he'd know better than to try to dispute it. I personally experienced incompatibilities introduced in version of MSDOS 3.x as well as in Windows NT.
I've seen Lotus, Word Perfect and TCP/IP driver stack 'mysteriously' break by 'upgrading' or 'patching' the Microsoft OS. I really came to hate Microsoft operating systems because I'd seen so much of this kind of thing. Even though I was very knowledgeable with MS software, I chose to work on other OS (Novell, IBM OS/2, Linux) because of my feelings about Microsoft's behavior.
But what's really chapping my ass these days are the people who are trying to re-write history to exonerate Microsoft's past behavior. It seems to be an entire industry and it must be lucrative. Too bad Slashdot is helping that industry by giving it air time.
I worked for years in development of RAID solutions for a major manufacturer. One of the problems with selling RAID solutions is the lack of understanding, or the prejudice and bias of the people who were supposed to be specifying and buying the hardware.
The 'tutorial' of the parent article is talking in kindergarden terms, oversimplifications and obsolete term, and overlooking some of the issues with using RAID. It's a good example of the true lack of understanding about the subject. By now, there are so many types of solutions that the term RAID hardly applies. But, even 10 years ago companies like Compaq had innovative rudundant storage solutions that were enterprise ready.
OS/2 v. 2.0 ran Windows 3.1 apps better than Windows 3.1. At the time, Microsoft was claiming that Windows 95 would run Windows 3.1 apps as well as apps written for 95. That turned out to be more Microsoft FUD. OS/2 v. 2.0 ran Windows 3.1 apps in isolated virtual shells. Even if the app crashed, burned, BSOD, OS/2 would never miss a lick. It's too bad that IBM wasn't able to sell OS/2, but Microsoft was able to out-market IBM.
I could hardly agree more that there are talented people all around us. Unfortunately, in our WalMart oriented, low-cost, budget, cut-rate society, its usually cheaper to replace something than to have it fixed. So this pool of talent goes untapped, under-utilized. Regarding the original subject; I have learned to do most things for myself. It's always cheaper and I get better results. Computers, cars, lawnmowers, home improvement, I do it myself. Only is situations like taxes do I consult a professional, and even then, I have to check their work. I suppose that some day the trend will reverse, and good help will be paid well, but right now good help is impossible to find at any price.
You missed my point. IBM/Microsoft DOS was based on CPM, an open source/free OS. The BIOS for the IBM PC was also open. This open source software/firmware/hardware is what created Microsoft's advantage.
This same situation now repeats itself with a new market, a market that is not dependent or even requires Microsoft applications. India and China will become a bigger market than USA/Europe. Here in our little myopic western world, we can't see the importance of this market force.
India and China will take the PC in a new direction. How could they not? The numbers of sales they will generate will create economies of scale that cannot be created in our Windows controlled market. Microsoft cannot coerce their marketing departments, cannot influence their governments.
China and India already make our PCs, and now they will design and sell them to their internal markets and they will shape the future development of the PC. And it will not have an OS that is licensed.
I hear the argument against the demise of Microsoft, but consider Microsoft's own history; a free OS on an 'open source' hardware platform. This time, instead of CPM/DOS on the S100/IBM PC, it will be Unix (Linux) on a PC.
But it's the follow-on to this miniaturized platform that will prove interesting. The volumes will help drive the price way down and with a PC that cheap, imbedding this Microsoft killer in toasters and lawn mowers without having to pay the Microsoft tax will have a chance to happen.
OS/2 2.0 and up had facilities to automatically install an operating system using a boot ROM on the LAN card, and a boot server with a REXX script. When I did testing of hardware, that was the technique I used to speed OS installation. Although I only used it with OS/2, I think it could have worked with other OS's, too.
I see this as another example of the self-policing that goes on here on the internet. Slashdot is another example on several levels. For example, this forum provides a means for people to express their feelings about a variety of subjects. And this forum is not mob rule, we moderate each other, and we moderate the moderations. Inflammatory and extremist talk is not tolerated silently.
On another level, Slashdot is the pulpit where the topic of freedom gets a lively and ongoing discussion. Freedom to use and create software, freedom to exchange ideas, data, tools, freedom of expression, etc., etc.
The 'net is not quite the free-for-all that some believe. And this self-regulation, self-policing, self-examination that is already the norm, is proof of the responsibility and maturity of so many here who make the net what it is; a cool place now, and a thing of hope for the future. So the idea of people going out and disrupting bad behavior on the 'net is a virtual tradition. To me this is a very good sign.
Let's continue working to keep the gummint's clumsy hands off the 'net. I know they made the net, but it has grown in size and importance because of public involvement.
To me, the story here is about the ever-increasing trend of companies toward opening up their licenses to the public. I seem to recall that this was the trend early in the PC and small computer life. The operating system that Microsoft eventually controlled was an 'open source' OS. And Unix was also open early in its life. And the 'killer app' that made PC's valuable, Visicalc, was also open source.
I wonder where the world would be today if that trend had continued. I think we would be much farther along in the digital revolution. It's clear that software hasn't kept up with the evolution of hardware, at least until recently.
It's heartening to see companies like Nokia, IBM, Novell, Sun and many others embrace open source.
Tassach is absolutely right about the lack of jobs for current grads. When I worked for a Fortune 50 company and the job market got tight in the late 90's, we were hiring anybody with any degree that looked even close. Some were less suitable than others.
Now that same Fortune 50 company is getting good Comp Sci majors through temp agencies, and they're getting lower wages, less (or no) benefits, and no job security.
I know that one of these underemployed programmers is trying to enlist in the Air Force. To me, that's a shock. It used to be taken for granted that if you were a decent programmer with a degree, you had some good job and life choices.
I, for one, am far more cynical about my relationship with my employer after the recent developments in the workplace (offshoring, outsourcing, lack of job security).
(Balmer bends over, takes loafer off foot and pounds on the podium), "We will bury you!" Steve, we're already buried. But we're digging out.
Ok, underclock the MoBo and then have the POE supplement the battery's power, not replace its power. With some intelligent power management, this would work and even keep the batteries charged.
Now we need a good application for this. How about an alarm system?
The day of lowered costs for phone, TV and Internet should have been here already. The holdup is that the various communications businesses bribe their congress-critters to stay in business.
AT&T saw this trend and started buying cable TV, and cell phone businesses so that they could be the ones to provide this integrated communications services. Unfortunately, they underestimated the political power that would be used to slow this integration.
Other countries surpass us in the quality of their services because businesses have to compete in those countries.
Someday, the promise of cheap, widespread, and rich communications services will arrive.
Both of my Window$ PCs run a grid app. I think grid computing is going to become ubiquitous, so the cost of power per CPU cycle is going to matter.
Laptop-type low power technology will be important. LAN speed matters more than disk speed.
I think that low power, low noise, high peformance PCs will replace the current trend of faster (and more) memory, faster memory speed, faster CPU speed. Individual CPU speed won't be so important in a distributed computing environment.
Ouch! You got me there. :)
Perhaps you haven't heard that Microsoft's stock price is flat, that they're losing market share in servers, that China and India are focused on Linux for the desktop? Yes, stock price matters. The stock market has a way of seeing through the BS because money is at stake.
In the past Microsoft has used its OS monopoly and its control of the API to kill competition. Linux, the web, and other technologies will leave Microsoft in the dustbin if they don't get off their collective lazy butts and take advantage of their position to do some innovation that will secure their place in the business market.
Until then, they are like the phone company or the electricity company; they provide a particular function, but they don't show much promise for the future.
My stock 86 Mustang GT Conv. got 25-27 mpg over three tanks, including some travel at 115 mph. Must be something about that little car body that gets such good mileage. Stock 5 speed transmission, stock tires.
BTW, if you're travelling on a trip, add four ounces of Acetone to the tank for every 10 gal of fuel. Helps with vaporization of the fuel.
Two questions; Why should we have to buy a pro
Why is the major software vendor offering an add-on to protect its operating system?
That chaps my ass, Microsoft is making an operating system that makes the entire internet vulnerable and they're getting rich doing it.
For as long as Norton has been in business, its business has been propping up Microsofts POS OS.
How old are you skyshock21?
Before the internet, there was an ARPA Net that was the domain of universities and the department of defense. It was the opening of the ARPA Net to the public that Al Gore was responsible for.
Yes, the internet could have been a very different thing without people like Al Gore.
How insincere can Microsoft be? They don't need to sit down with anybody. All they need to do is publish their specifications for the API to their operating system. This claim that they want to 'find common ground' could hardly be more insincere.
When they're ready to cut the BS and be serious, all they have to do is publish their API. After that, let's talk.