advantage to sticking some copper or aluminum to my 400mhz ram.
It makes your 400MHz a faster 400MHz. Also, I have some electro-audacity coated and synergized speaker cable to sell--only $200. Any takers? Sure, it looks like lamp cord, but the sound! Oh, the highs! And the lows!
You claim to be a Windows user and you haven't already been aquainted with the crash-curse-reformat-reinstall drill? I think you made your whole story up.
Desktop and server, Apple and Sun have given Microsoft a solid challenge for the next several years. Tie in Linux, and Microsoft is really looking isolated. They are the only one who isn't UNIX. They are the only one not competing on merit. They are the only one who really have only one product worth anything, and that is Office. All the other products are fads or can be done as well elsewhere more inexpensively. I thought I would never have said this, but the modern UNIX/Linux destop is as good as Windows is, right now. The only thing propping up Microsoft is Office lock-in, their WMA lock-in. How long is that going to last as more customers get pissed off over their incompetence towards security?
considering how much IBM benefits from Linux already
Seriously, how much Linux stuff does IBM sell as compared to their Windows 2003 stuff. Their revenue off of a half a dozen mainframes probably challenges their Linux revenue. Don't forget just how big an amorphic blob IBM is, and don't think you really mean much to them.
The gist from The News Hour was that they acted out of haste to get a leg up on the other networks. Dan Rather had been really busy beforehand and didn't have time to do proper follow-ups on the story himself. The whole thing was just a big helping of really really bad journalism. Also, the other networks were chasing this story, too, it's just that CBS made themselves look like asses, first.
Where do people get the idea that copying is the same as stealing when the original is still owned by the copyright owner?
I should have made the distinction between fair use and blatant infringement. However, even in the blatant infringement aisle, copying a CD from someone else is still small potatoes. The RIAA would profit much more from encouraging iTunes and doing value-added things to CDs than they would from strafing their customer base with legal threats.
It may outperform the coming dual core AMD chip, both in raw performance and in lower power consumption.
And in wallet-lightening technology. The Opteron has hit an awesome sweet spot for entry-level servers. Big SMP servers will still always lean toward POWER, UltraSPARC, PA-RISC, etc., but for a 4-way server for a medium-sized office Opteron is hard to beat.
Huh? The words "Enterprise", "Resource", and "Planning" appear all over in Microsoft's marketing materials. It's just some mix and match, and, like magic, we got ERP!
JDS you say. Frankly, I'm rather unimpressed by the Gnome effort...
One thing is that Sun really was between a rock and a hard place with CDE. It works and it's stable, but it is ugly. GNOME and KDE have gone so far towards making UNIX look nice for once that Sun had no choice but "if you can't beat'em join'em." They can keep all the Solaris goodness under the hood but also check off "pretty" to the customer-monkeys who need that. Ultimately, this is good for both Sun and their customers.
You wouldn't by any chance have on-hand experience with the 3310 enclosure?:)
Sorry, no. However, I would expect that with Fireengine TCP/IP and ZFS coming, Solaris 10 is going to be really good for an NFS server with RAID (they claim ZFS will be able to detect and correct bad blocks on the fly with RAID).
Throw more people in prison; make the sentences longer to keep 'em there. To hell with reform; make sentences punitive and harsh for the sake of scaring people straight. It'll work eventually, right?
Isn't this the same philosophy behind No Child Left Behind?
If a person does direct damage to a company by stealing their source code and giving it to a competitor, that's one thing, but common "piracy" is the social equivalent of eating a couple grapes at the grocery store and not paying for them. Eating grapes without paying for them is wrong, but grocers just eat the minor loss and try to stay on their customers' good side.
It seems that the IP criminalization faction doesn't have the right priorities, especially given that source code theft, for example, is already handled by the FBI. Just look at all the stories about record companies still raking in tons of cash, in spite of "piracy." These people need a serious whack with a clue stick.
I'm not sure if internal sabotage is more or less common than it has been in the past, but it is still a valid concern and one that is difficult to prevent.
Of course it is valid, but internal problems are best prevented by not pissing off employees. You can use financial interests very effectively internally to stem problems (people do like being rewarded, losing a job is a deterrent, etc.).
Also, there is nothing wrong with internal firewalls to help protect some servers. Internal firewalls are easily over-done, so they should be limited to the most important servers.
both slow compared to 2.6 maybe, but at least they stay up over night:)
You should try out Solaris 10 on a spare machine when you get a chance. The JDS desktop really took me by surpise (I've been using CDE since Solaris 2.5, for better and worse).
I wonder how many people who would pick Solaris 8 over 9 for "stability and maturity" are often the same people who feel insecure if they aren't running the latest 2.6 kernel on their Linux boxes. It's amazing what groupthink and marketing can do.
Why can't people just concentrate on making the best kernel possible?
So, what is the best kernel possible? Oops, here comes the politics, again. It would be more flexible if more modular...but the benchmark fanboys bitch about that...okay, it performs better now...uh oh, here comes round two...
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advantage to sticking some copper or aluminum to my 400mhz ram.
It makes your 400MHz a faster 400MHz. Also, I have some electro-audacity coated and synergized speaker cable to sell--only $200. Any takers? Sure, it looks like lamp cord, but the sound! Oh, the highs! And the lows!
Where else can you get a fully-redundant RAID for under $10K?
You claim to be a Windows user and you haven't already been aquainted with the crash-curse-reformat-reinstall drill? I think you made your whole story up.
The more WMA gets compromised the sooner we can dump it in favor of open standards.
Desktop and server, Apple and Sun have given Microsoft a solid challenge for the next several years. Tie in Linux, and Microsoft is really looking isolated. They are the only one who isn't UNIX. They are the only one not competing on merit. They are the only one who really have only one product worth anything, and that is Office. All the other products are fads or can be done as well elsewhere more inexpensively. I thought I would never have said this, but the modern UNIX/Linux destop is as good as Windows is, right now. The only thing propping up Microsoft is Office lock-in, their WMA lock-in. How long is that going to last as more customers get pissed off over their incompetence towards security?
considering how much IBM benefits from Linux already
Seriously, how much Linux stuff does IBM sell as compared to their Windows 2003 stuff. Their revenue off of a half a dozen mainframes probably challenges their Linux revenue. Don't forget just how big an amorphic blob IBM is, and don't think you really mean much to them.
That does it. I'm buying a crapload of IBM stock.
You are a moron to buy stock based on this. And it looks like 100 shares of IBM stock is...about $10,000. Enjoy.
500 patents must be like 0.1% of IBM's patent holdings. This sounds like a PR move more than anything.
MS has no credibility in the enterprise space.
None.
And they earned it, too.
Or maybe it was a developer's joke, meaning it's a dog of a system?
The gist from The News Hour was that they acted out of haste to get a leg up on the other networks. Dan Rather had been really busy beforehand and didn't have time to do proper follow-ups on the story himself. The whole thing was just a big helping of really really bad journalism. Also, the other networks were chasing this story, too, it's just that CBS made themselves look like asses, first.
Where do people get the idea that copying is the same as stealing when the original is still owned by the copyright owner?
I should have made the distinction between fair use and blatant infringement. However, even in the blatant infringement aisle, copying a CD from someone else is still small potatoes. The RIAA would profit much more from encouraging iTunes and doing value-added things to CDs than they would from strafing their customer base with legal threats.
It may outperform the coming dual core AMD chip, both in raw performance and in lower power consumption.
And in wallet-lightening technology. The Opteron has hit an awesome sweet spot for entry-level servers. Big SMP servers will still always lean toward POWER, UltraSPARC, PA-RISC, etc., but for a 4-way server for a medium-sized office Opteron is hard to beat.
Huh? The words "Enterprise", "Resource", and "Planning" appear all over in Microsoft's marketing materials. It's just some mix and match, and, like magic, we got ERP!
JDS you say. Frankly, I'm rather unimpressed by the Gnome effort...
:)
One thing is that Sun really was between a rock and a hard place with CDE. It works and it's stable, but it is ugly. GNOME and KDE have gone so far towards making UNIX look nice for once that Sun had no choice but "if you can't beat'em join'em." They can keep all the Solaris goodness under the hood but also check off "pretty" to the customer-monkeys who need that. Ultimately, this is good for both Sun and their customers.
You wouldn't by any chance have on-hand experience with the 3310 enclosure?
Sorry, no. However, I would expect that with Fireengine TCP/IP and ZFS coming, Solaris 10 is going to be really good for an NFS server with RAID (they claim ZFS will be able to detect and correct bad blocks on the fly with RAID).
Throw more people in prison; make the sentences longer to keep 'em there. To hell with reform; make sentences punitive and harsh for the sake of scaring people straight. It'll work eventually, right?
Isn't this the same philosophy behind No Child Left Behind?
If a person does direct damage to a company by stealing their source code and giving it to a competitor, that's one thing, but common "piracy" is the social equivalent of eating a couple grapes at the grocery store and not paying for them. Eating grapes without paying for them is wrong, but grocers just eat the minor loss and try to stay on their customers' good side.
It seems that the IP criminalization faction doesn't have the right priorities, especially given that source code theft, for example, is already handled by the FBI. Just look at all the stories about record companies still raking in tons of cash, in spite of "piracy." These people need a serious whack with a clue stick.
This year they won't, but it remains to be seen if we'll get cash, straight-out stock, or a screw-job.
The question is whether you have to tell your spouse about option 3.
I'm not sure if internal sabotage is more or less common than it has been in the past, but it is still a valid concern and one that is difficult to prevent.
Of course it is valid, but internal problems are best prevented by not pissing off employees. You can use financial interests very effectively internally to stem problems (people do like being rewarded, losing a job is a deterrent, etc.).
Also, there is nothing wrong with internal firewalls to help protect some servers. Internal firewalls are easily over-done, so they should be limited to the most important servers.
In a historical account of computing's funniest moments, the Windows security certification should be in the top 10.
Debian's Stable
Debian Stable is the "BSD" of Linux, IMO. Problems with it are rare, and managing it is a breeze. The folks at Debian deserve a lot of credit.
both slow compared to 2.6 maybe, but at least they stay up over night :)
You should try out Solaris 10 on a spare machine when you get a chance. The JDS desktop really took me by surpise (I've been using CDE since Solaris 2.5, for better and worse).
Would it be fair to say that the 2.6 kernel should still be called 2.5.XX?
I wonder how many people who would pick Solaris 8 over 9 for "stability and maturity" are often the same people who feel insecure if they aren't running the latest 2.6 kernel on their Linux boxes. It's amazing what groupthink and marketing can do.
Why can't people just concentrate on making the best kernel possible?
So, what is the best kernel possible? Oops, here comes the politics, again. It would be more flexible if more modular...but the benchmark fanboys bitch about that...okay, it performs better now...uh oh, here comes round two...