From Wikipedia's 2050 edition... "The Microsoft Advantage": in early 21st, century using Microsofts products was considered an advantage by experts and common people. One of the reasons was the allmost absolute market dominance (monopoly) in their business area (software). This dominance was later the reason for a total collaps of the Internet due to massive attacks on Microsofts products made by hackers who used malicious software called viruses, worms and trojans (Trojan Horses).
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I see a bright future for the penguin...
"Do they really mean just e-mail, or do they mean a replacement for Outlook?" Something like... like... like Lotus Notes / Lotus Domino ? Lotus Domino exist for several server platforms (incl, Linux) and Lotus Notes is available for Windows and OS X. I can't btw. understand why there are no Linux client... could someone from IBM pls. respond ?
Probably somone who belive in the "Your Creativity is Our Passion" commercial... I don't really know why all (well ok, allmost all) PowerPoint presentations look and feel the same... I suppose I don't understand the real meaning of the word "creativity".
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I don't understand "Buy Itanium servers, they give you a easy path for upgrading your UNIX to Windows"... I guess I must be too stupid.
Ecuse me... SAY WHAT ??? you know, "admins want predictability" Real SysAdmins does not care about this kind of "predictability"... we care about our systems predictability and a system is not predictable if it is not secure. Managers, beencounters etc. wants on-paper "predictability" and that has NOTHING to do with real life... This is a fucking "We lost the war but our paperwork was good" mentality...
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Dead men don't need excuses.
As others have said, it is possible and it has been done. It has been tested back in the 30-ties for use as an emergency exit before subs got a real emergency exit.
"...they rejected the idea of evolution." If we look at the theory of evolution then the ideal alpha-male is G.W. Bush and the ideal alpha-female is Paris Hilton... No wonder anybody would reject that...
",,,has not yet demonstrated a workable DRM scheme for music CDs." I am sorry to bust your illusions... but the very first CD specification did have a 100% foolproof copy protection scheme... the problem is that nobody in the industry wanted to use it. Look at a real CD (not a writable one) and check: there is a barcode just beside the hole (the barcode is now used in the factory). The basic idea was to check the barcode, only a real CD would have a working barcode. Simple and elegant... who screwed up ? the industry itself... why ? too expensive... yes, it is the real answer, the drive manufacturers said that a barcode reader inside the drive would be too expensive.
I just wonder how specific your customer was about the configurations ? As I see it your test was not a comparision between Windows 2003 Server and SuSE Linux... it was a comparision of a Microsoft platform and a platform based on SuSE Linux.
...will be placing a giant mirror in space... so the northern part of Sweden and Finland can get some sun in the winter... EU could even try to sell some winter-sunshine to Norway and NW Russia...
"If we can't use those tools, we go out of business. Plain and simple." That is just the right reason for looking for alternatives... if something happens to one of them, to Microsoft or to any kombination of them your corp will be dead... What can possibly go wrong ?
"Windows gives you everything you need and more easily than Linux ever could." So all your needed applications are preinstalled ? Wich version of Windows do you use ?? Even all the Windows admin tools (the adminpack.msi) are not fully installed in a std. Windows XP or 2000 installation,,, so no you can not "just do your admin stuff".
...with my laptop and SuSE 9.1 in dec. 2004, it pretty quick became my primary workstation... and it still is my primary workstation (now upgraded to 9.3)... noone has noticed anything. Oh yaeh... everything is working ! if something does not work it is because I did not want it to work (= i do not have any use of it).
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From Wikipedia's 2050 edition...
"The Microsoft Advantage": in early 21st, century using Microsofts products was considered an advantage by experts and common people. One of the reasons was the allmost absolute market dominance (monopoly) in their business area (software). This dominance was later the reason for a total collaps of the Internet due to massive attacks on Microsofts products made by hackers who used malicious software called viruses, worms and trojans (Trojan Horses).
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I see a bright future for the penguin...
"Do they really mean just e-mail, or do they mean a replacement for Outlook?"
Something like... like... like Lotus Notes / Lotus Domino ?
Lotus Domino exist for several server platforms (incl, Linux) and Lotus Notes is available for Windows and OS X.
I can't btw. understand why there are no Linux client... could someone from IBM pls. respond ?
...until that overheating problem is solved...
Some of us are getting paid for reading /.
Probably somone who belive in the "Your Creativity is Our Passion" commercial...
I don't really know why all (well ok, allmost all) PowerPoint presentations look and feel the same...
I suppose I don't understand the real meaning of the word "creativity".
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I don't understand "Buy Itanium servers, they give you a easy path for upgrading your UNIX to Windows"... I guess I must be too stupid.
Ecuse me... SAY WHAT ??? you know, "admins want predictability"
Real SysAdmins does not care about this kind of "predictability"... we care about our systems predictability and a system is not predictable if it is not secure.
Managers, beencounters etc. wants on-paper "predictability" and that has NOTHING to do with real life...
This is a fucking "We lost the war but our paperwork was good" mentality...
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Dead men don't need excuses.
As others have said, it is possible and it has been done. It has been tested back in the 30-ties for use as an emergency exit before subs got a real emergency exit.
You should change your employer. I am paid for keeping myself ajour with everything I need to know... and that includes reading /.
"...they rejected the idea of evolution."
If we look at the theory of evolution then the ideal alpha-male is G.W. Bush and the ideal alpha-female is Paris Hilton...
No wonder anybody would reject that...
",,,has not yet demonstrated a workable DRM scheme for music CDs."
I am sorry to bust your illusions... but the very first CD specification did have a 100% foolproof copy protection scheme... the problem is that nobody in the industry wanted to use it.
Look at a real CD (not a writable one) and check: there is a barcode just beside the hole (the barcode is now used in the factory). The basic idea was to check the barcode, only a real CD would have a working barcode. Simple and elegant... who screwed up ? the industry itself... why ? too expensive... yes, it is the real answer, the drive manufacturers said that a barcode reader inside the drive would be too expensive.
I just wonder how specific your customer was about the configurations ?
As I see it your test was not a comparision between Windows 2003 Server and SuSE Linux... it was a comparision of a Microsoft platform and a platform based on SuSE Linux.
I thought that Linux allready was there... Isn't it the reason for the ./configure make make -install sequence ?
...will be placing a giant mirror in space... so the northern part of Sweden and Finland can get some sun in the winter... EU could even try to sell some winter-sunshine to Norway and NW Russia...
...as the first and probably only rootkit wich has done something good.
"performance can drop even on new dual core processors as they share L2 cache"
Does this apply to AMD dual core or Intel dual core or both ??
No I don't, but I am sure that those who are paying for the development of such a device do not care...
"But will it report when the interrogation turns to illegal torture"
It would not be an "improvment" if it did... would it ?
...is Windows not ad supported ?
Windows IS one big ad.
...but I am single and colourblind, so my tie does probably not match my socks...
& wich flavours of UNIX/Linux is it for ? ...and what are the symptoms ?
...how expensive it is to change the system because our users then need to learn the new UI ??
"If we can't use those tools, we go out of business. Plain and simple."
That is just the right reason for looking for alternatives... if something happens to one of them, to Microsoft or to any kombination of them your corp will be dead...
What can possibly go wrong ?
"Windows gives you everything you need and more easily than Linux ever could."
So all your needed applications are preinstalled ? Wich version of Windows do you use ??
Even all the Windows admin tools (the adminpack.msi) are not fully installed in a std. Windows XP or 2000 installation,,, so no you can not "just do your admin stuff".
...with my laptop and SuSE 9.1 in dec. 2004, it pretty quick became my primary workstation... and it still is my primary workstation (now upgraded to 9.3)... noone has noticed anything.
Oh yaeh... everything is working ! if something does not work it is because I did not want it to work (= i do not have any use of it).