You have to start somewhere. If we required the full infrastructure to be in place first then we would never advance at all.
This may or may not end up working in the long term, but could theoretically have the advantages of gas (i.e. pour some liquid into your car every few miles) and the advantages of electric vehicles (efficiencies of scale by generating large amounts of power instead of all the cars generating small amounts inefficiently).
We tend to keep all of this type of stuff on a couple of smaller/older servers running as VMs. This way it's simple to move them to newer hardware when we retire them and they can be moved so that we don't suffer downtime if we need to service the physical machine.
Aren't there issues about not enforcing patents like copyright? Like if you don't go after someone then you loose your ability to go after people later?
Agreed. Dell doesn't manufacture motherboards. Dell designs motherboards and then gets other people to manufacture them. Trust me, I know several board layout people at Dell. I have a friend who was AMD's on site engineer for several years.
On the lower end boxes you're probably right, I'm sure they just by components and slap them in a box. But on the higher end stuff, especially servers and workstations, Dell does do design work.
Actually Intel does have engineers on site at Dell. Just like they do at HP and others.
You think developing a motherboard around a A0 stepping processor doesn't require some help from the processor vendor in a timely manner? I'd argue this is much harder than writing software on top of this proc...
... and so they didn't give this an OS X operating system, but if they had, then it would be the revolutionary device that all the hype was about.
I'm sure this will burn my karma... but how is a tablet form factor running the same OS as a desktop or laptop revolutionary? Didn't PC's do this years ago?
First off drunk drivers could kill people, this guy didn't.
Secondly, this is like saying "I'm sorry sir, you've got to buy a Ford Fiesta because we don't have an ignition bypass for your sports car."
I just checked this on my Vista Ultimate system. I played a MP3 (I even pulled up 2 other players at the same time to make sure) and my network still stayed up at 20 to 30% like normal. Closing the players did not affect the performance at all.
This might be a specific set of drivers or something but it doesn't seem to be a plain Vista issue... at least not for me.
The problem with that is you end up in a endless loop:
10 WATCH STAR WARS 1
20 WATCH STAR WARS 2
30 WATCH STAR WARS 3
40 GET MEMORIES OF JARJAR ERASED
50 GET MEMORIES OF HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN'S ACTING ERASED
60 GOTO 10
The way I see it choice is good. Dell or other OEMs selling other OSes than just Windows is good for the customer. Even if they try to make it "into the Same Old Thing" it is still a different choice and that's a good thing.
.... does the same stuff. I try to send a coworker the name of an exe or a dll and it shoots back that my message could not be sent. So even in a closed corporate environment stuff like this happens. Of course there probably is a way to turn that off at the server side, but our IT department has better things to do like hunting down copies of WinRAR and send us threating emails because "WinZip is our corporate standard compression tool."
Yes and no. The problem with local shops is that they might not be there tomorrow and rarely (if ever) offer 24/7/365 tech support. That is the real reason that most people buy from the big boys. They know that when something breaks they have a number to call and get it fixed.
See I've had the opposite experience. It doesn't just work at least not on my hardware. I've had much better experience with Fedora Core and OpenSuse. They just work on any hardware I've tried installing them on. Ubuntu is much more picky about hardware in my experience.
I will say that once I got it running it was nice and pretty, but it's not for me... at least not until it just works out of the box on my hardware. This is why we have a bunch of different distributions... Oh X didn't work, well try Y.
You really don't seem to know what your talking about. Redhat is SOLD by Dell on all of their server models. And I happen to know that they support both hardware and some software issues with Redhat as your OS. They even create alot of driver update packages and other support things for Redhat and SLES on servers.
If this is the same thing as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Bridge. Then they'll just end up bouncing from one slightly different earth to the next. And then they get to run into Kromags...
I'm not surprised. Apple really doesn't write more secure code, they just have a lower market share and thus aren't as much of a target.
And alot of their success at security on Mac OS is just them inheriting some of their security from the BSD kernel which I'm positive beats the hell out of the Windows kernel in terms of security.
But without corporations pushing their email to these devices you won't get the blackberry user base, and lets face it most big corporations haven't liked anything else Apple up to this point so why change for this product?
Now the home user? The reason most don't have a smart phone is that they just don't need it. Most of the regular phones on the market already do far more and are alot more complicated than people want them to be. The average person is going to ask why they need to upgrade to this expensive phone when their normal phone does far more than they ever wanted it to do.
So there will be a bunch of apple fans and tech geeks that buy this initially then it's sales will plummet and Apple will can the project.
And it's not the near future it's already happened. Look at Quake. I played that game for years because of some user created content called Team Fortress.
I am glad that companies are starting to think about this stuff though. It would be nice if more games had good mod kits when they are released.
HP or Lenovo? Your crazy right? And don't even get me started on trying to get Apple to replace a broken part. Let's just face it people NO major OEM has anything that approaches decent customer service.
Little tip: If your calling most of these major OEMs do it during the day. Sometimes you get lucky and actually get Americans that way... I'm not joking I talked to a guy in Oklahoma the other day.
I doubt they're going to preinstall any free distros. I think they will preinstall RHEL WS and SLED. They probably don't want to eat the support costs.
But them certifying their systems on any Linux distro and providing a no OS option. Is a good thing for Linux and probably for Dell too.
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You have to start somewhere. If we required the full infrastructure to be in place first then we would never advance at all. This may or may not end up working in the long term, but could theoretically have the advantages of gas (i.e. pour some liquid into your car every few miles) and the advantages of electric vehicles (efficiencies of scale by generating large amounts of power instead of all the cars generating small amounts inefficiently).
We tend to keep all of this type of stuff on a couple of smaller/older servers running as VMs. This way it's simple to move them to newer hardware when we retire them and they can be moved so that we don't suffer downtime if we need to service the physical machine.
Aren't there issues about not enforcing patents like copyright? Like if you don't go after someone then you loose your ability to go after people later?
Agreed. Dell doesn't manufacture motherboards. Dell designs motherboards and then gets other people to manufacture them. Trust me, I know several board layout people at Dell. I have a friend who was AMD's on site engineer for several years. On the lower end boxes you're probably right, I'm sure they just by components and slap them in a box. But on the higher end stuff, especially servers and workstations, Dell does do design work.
Actually Intel does have engineers on site at Dell. Just like they do at HP and others. You think developing a motherboard around a A0 stepping processor doesn't require some help from the processor vendor in a timely manner? I'd argue this is much harder than writing software on top of this proc...
Destroying? Really? Not according to this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/26/idc_q4_2009_servers/
... and so they didn't give this an OS X operating system, but if they had, then it would be the revolutionary device that all the hype was about.
I'm sure this will burn my karma... but how is a tablet form factor running the same OS as a desktop or laptop revolutionary? Didn't PC's do this years ago?
FYI OpenManage installs to /opt/dell/srvadmin by default and creates a link in /etc called openmange, it doesn't install there.
First off drunk drivers could kill people, this guy didn't. Secondly, this is like saying "I'm sorry sir, you've got to buy a Ford Fiesta because we don't have an ignition bypass for your sports car."
I just checked this on my Vista Ultimate system. I played a MP3 (I even pulled up 2 other players at the same time to make sure) and my network still stayed up at 20 to 30% like normal. Closing the players did not affect the performance at all.
This might be a specific set of drivers or something but it doesn't seem to be a plain Vista issue... at least not for me.
The problem with that is you end up in a endless loop:
10 WATCH STAR WARS 1
20 WATCH STAR WARS 2
30 WATCH STAR WARS 3
40 GET MEMORIES OF JARJAR ERASED
50 GET MEMORIES OF HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN'S ACTING ERASED
60 GOTO 10
The way I see it choice is good. Dell or other OEMs selling other OSes than just Windows is good for the customer. Even if they try to make it "into the Same Old Thing" it is still a different choice and that's a good thing.
.... does the same stuff. I try to send a coworker the name of an exe or a dll and it shoots back that my message could not be sent. So even in a closed corporate environment stuff like this happens. Of course there probably is a way to turn that off at the server side, but our IT department has better things to do like hunting down copies of WinRAR and send us threating emails because "WinZip is our corporate standard compression tool."
Yes and no. The problem with local shops is that they might not be there tomorrow and rarely (if ever) offer 24/7/365 tech support. That is the real reason that most people buy from the big boys. They know that when something breaks they have a number to call and get it fixed.
See I've had the opposite experience. It doesn't just work at least not on my hardware. I've had much better experience with Fedora Core and OpenSuse. They just work on any hardware I've tried installing them on. Ubuntu is much more picky about hardware in my experience.
I will say that once I got it running it was nice and pretty, but it's not for me... at least not until it just works out of the box on my hardware. This is why we have a bunch of different distributions... Oh X didn't work, well try Y.
It will probably be a while since they would have to develop their own SDK as well.
You really don't seem to know what your talking about. Redhat is SOLD by Dell on all of their server models. And I happen to know that they support both hardware and some software issues with Redhat as your OS. They even create alot of driver update packages and other support things for Redhat and SLES on servers.
Yup, I've done it. Had no issues and I only let mine dry out for about 24 hours, of course I also took the keys off to help it dry faster.
Of course now I use a wireless keyboard and I'm not willing to try it.
If this is the same thing as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Bridge. Then they'll just end up bouncing from one slightly different earth to the next. And then they get to run into Kromags...
I'm not surprised. Apple really doesn't write more secure code, they just have a lower market share and thus aren't as much of a target.
And alot of their success at security on Mac OS is just them inheriting some of their security from the BSD kernel which I'm positive beats the hell out of the Windows kernel in terms of security.
Ok Apple fan boys go ahead and mod me troll.
But without corporations pushing their email to these devices you won't get the blackberry user base, and lets face it most big corporations haven't liked anything else Apple up to this point so why change for this product?
Now the home user? The reason most don't have a smart phone is that they just don't need it. Most of the regular phones on the market already do far more and are alot more complicated than people want them to be. The average person is going to ask why they need to upgrade to this expensive phone when their normal phone does far more than they ever wanted it to do.
So there will be a bunch of apple fans and tech geeks that buy this initially then it's sales will plummet and Apple will can the project.
Ok I'm done burning my karma now.
And it's not the near future it's already happened. Look at Quake. I played that game for years because of some user created content called Team Fortress.
I am glad that companies are starting to think about this stuff though. It would be nice if more games had good mod kits when they are released.
HP or Lenovo? Your crazy right? And don't even get me started on trying to get Apple to replace a broken part. Let's just face it people NO major OEM has anything that approaches decent customer service.
Little tip: If your calling most of these major OEMs do it during the day. Sometimes you get lucky and actually get Americans that way... I'm not joking I talked to a guy in Oklahoma the other day.
I doubt they're going to preinstall any free distros. I think they will preinstall RHEL WS and SLED. They probably don't want to eat the support costs.
But them certifying their systems on any Linux distro and providing a no OS option. Is a good thing for Linux and probably for Dell too.
Wrong with all the added virtualization it will run Vista (provided you have virtualization features in your CPU)