Ironic that other companies pay Microsoft for their Windows OEM entrenchment...but in Democratic America Microsoft pays Sun!
The key: Sun has no Windows OEM agreements like Dell and HP do. That, right there, gives Sun tons of freedom in giving customers what they want. Linux? No problem. Solaris? No problem. Windows? Just use your corporate site license, again no problem.
I'd love to get a used Blade 1000 one day, but my finances are still a bit tight. I'll probably end up going the Ultra 20 or similar route after a year or two.
The allure of the Blade 1000/2000 are that these are the last of the Sun "tanks", where the damn things are built with what feels like bullet proof steel, thick plastic, and CPU wind tunnels. All the new Sun's still have decent cases, but they just don't compare to the era of SPARCstation 20s and Ultra 60s, when weak backs cowered in fear just in the presence of these machines.
Nope. OpenSolaris is here for good. Sun is committed to open sourcing all their software. Their execs have said it several times already. They've made good on Solaris, J2EE, seems a database is on the way, and there've been hints about J2SE.
After all this is done, imagine Sun being a hardware/services company with a 100% OSS stack. And it's all supported by Sun's engineering processes.
I actually swiched from Linux to Solaris 9 and 10. Not dicking around with the kernel drivers and actually having documentation has been awesome. I'm not going back, unless Linux gets some magic pixie dust and some real organization.
IPTables...HAHAHAHA Solaris 10 comes with IPF, which is the mainstay of the BSD systems, at least until OpenBSD went to PF.
Solaris pkgadd works well, it's very mature, and there are awesome front ends for it, like pkg-get from Blastwave.
Real command line utils? Solaris provides the original Bourne Shell all the way to modern Bash, with ksh, zsh, etc. for good measure. Sun provides both BSD and SYS V variants of commands. Sun also provides a butt load of GNU utils under/usr/sfw and/opt/sfw.
Color ls?!?!? LOL.
GNU Tar is available, too.
Good luck with your future trolling. You'll need it!
No, the GP post said specifically his family didn't qualify for the aid. The people you are talking about are the people living off of the EIC, Medicaid, Social Security, WIC, food stamps, school lunch programs, county-provided transportation, rent subsidies, heating fuel subsidies, electricity subsidies, telephone subsidies, and need-based scholarships.
I refuse to give to charity, anymore, after I realized a portion of my power bill goes to the needy, a portion of my phone bill goest to the needy, my payroll taxes go to the needy, part of my income tax goes to the needy, and part of my sales tax goes to the needy. I'd say at least 10% of my income, probably more, is tax-based "charity."
My favorite: the Earned Income Credit. Don't work much, and get an instant 30% bonus from Uncle Sam! It's never been easier to be totally broke. I agree the people who lose out are the people on the edge, the people trying to get ahead but don't get any help at all, and the rent is due tomorrow.
Actually, with the right encryption, it could work fairly well. Unrecoverable media failure (leaving the CD on a car dashboard) is mitigated by the huge redundancy.
Of course, there's only so much a CD or even a DVD can hold, so only the smallest businesses could do this.
I don't know about you, but I have always found the most annoying websites to be government sites.
Some do really well. My state's website is awesome. I found out how to start a sole prorpietorship and do sales tax within a few clicks of the mouse. It also helps my state has awesome laws for sole prorietorships and sales tax (no business license and a single page return for state and county tax!).
Sometimes, how a state government presents itself shows the overall health of that state. My state has a very level-headed approach, it seems, and tries hard to be reasonable to businesses. Some other states put on the red tape so thick, it is just pathetic...oh, and their websites suck, too.
Add that the only agencies that could ever hope to get funding to do a computer system properly are not under DHS. The CIA, NSA, somewhere deep in the DoD, etc., they probably get the resources they need, but DHS is a cost for Congress to budget without immediate intelligence or defense benefits like spy satellites or cruise missiles.
Probably the biggest challenge for DHS is not computers, either, as it is probably raw man power. Thousands of miles of borders, compounded by interdependent economies, isn't an easy thing to deal with, for example.
Because the CPU is irrelevant in the big picture. People buy the engineered package, called an iMac or a PowerMac or a PowerBook, and the PowerPC is really a sidebar in the whole deal.
Sure, some apps perform better on PowerPC, but some others perform better on x86. And no one said exactly what model of Intel CPU future Macs will have. Given that Mr. Jobs mentioned a concern about power consumption, I'd bet that the current Pentium 4 or Xeon CPUs will not get a Mac logo. The Pentium M or an even better CPU in the pipeline (Jobs specifically said he had access to Intel's roadmap) are much more likely to be in future Macs.
Watching the keynote reminded me why people love Apple. It really has nothing to do with PowerPC. The WWDC presentation was full of energy and hype and buzz, and the audience applauded and cheered like no other tech company presentation I've seen.
I watched the keynote, and Apple (Mr. Jobs) did a really good job selling the transition. The only advantage of Intel is gigahumungous manufacturing capacity, which IBM obviously wasn't willing to steer Apple's way. PowerPC is good and all...up to the point of there being no road map or a stubborn IBM negotiator.
Consoles are where PowerPC is at from here on out.
Linux is more popular, but NetBSD allows quicker porting of "something useful".
I agreee that Microsoft has dealt a fair amount of damage with crappy APIs and bad QA regarding stability and security. A 'standard turd with a pretty GUI' is still a turd.
Cover letters can seem hard, but I've noticed that if I have a lot of trouble thinking up a cover letter for a job it means that probably isn't the right job for me. A resume can be only so long, so a person with strong experience has to leave stuff out. This leaves the cover letter as a prime location for adding additional details and making them relevant to the company you are applying to.
That is, if companies even bother reading the thousands of cover letters they get...sigh.
"Apple is adopting Intel, but is not "ditching" IBM."
This is a huge blow to PowerPC's credibility, though. First, Motorola had problems, then IBM couldn't deliver competitive chips. Without MAC, that leaves IBM's own machines running PowerPC, which will vastly shrink PowerPC's Slashdot fanboy club. MAC is what made PowerPC 'cool' outside of the embedded world.
It'll still be true that it's x86-64, SPARC, and PowerPC moving forward as the surviving ISAs, but the overall balance in the demographic will be quite different by a few million CPUs after two years.
Sun's MAJC: dual core VLIW FP monster...gone Transmeta: also VLIW...going Intel: Itanium VLIW FP monster...stagnant once HP's base converts from PA-RISC and Alpha
It seems that no VLIW architecture to date has really been successful against PowerPC, SPARC, and AMD64. Is it the compilers? Too nontraditional?
Yeah, but how many Linux users give credit to either the Linux kernel hackers or to Red Hat for OpenSSH? "Hey, this Linux is awesome! I can telnet home from anywhere!"
After a new kernel was released, power meters on mothers' basements everywhere saw a little blip. Add up all these blips, and you get a (somewhat) tested kernel.
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Ironic that other companies pay Microsoft for their Windows OEM entrenchment...but in Democratic America Microsoft pays Sun!
The key: Sun has no Windows OEM agreements like Dell and HP do. That, right there, gives Sun tons of freedom in giving customers what they want. Linux? No problem. Solaris? No problem. Windows? Just use your corporate site license, again no problem.
I'd love to get a used Blade 1000 one day, but my finances are still a bit tight. I'll probably end up going the Ultra 20 or similar route after a year or two.
The allure of the Blade 1000/2000 are that these are the last of the Sun "tanks", where the damn things are built with what feels like bullet proof steel, thick plastic, and CPU wind tunnels. All the new Sun's still have decent cases, but they just don't compare to the era of SPARCstation 20s and Ultra 60s, when weak backs cowered in fear just in the presence of these machines.
Sun has enjoyed particular success in Germany where it holds 41 per cent of the Opteron server market...
Sun Naysayer Power Rings unite! *fizzle* WTF? I say unite!!! *crackle* *floop* AAARRRGGH! My powers! My powers are gone! Waaaahhh, mommy hold me!
Nope. OpenSolaris is here for good. Sun is committed to open sourcing all their software. Their execs have said it several times already. They've made good on Solaris, J2EE, seems a database is on the way, and there've been hints about J2SE.
After all this is done, imagine Sun being a hardware/services company with a 100% OSS stack. And it's all supported by Sun's engineering processes.
I actually swiched from Linux to Solaris 9 and 10. Not dicking around with the kernel drivers and actually having documentation has been awesome. I'm not going back, unless Linux gets some magic pixie dust and some real organization.
IPTables...HAHAHAHA Solaris 10 comes with IPF, which is the mainstay of the BSD systems, at least until OpenBSD went to PF.
Solaris pkgadd works well, it's very mature, and there are awesome front ends for it, like pkg-get from Blastwave.
Real command line utils? Solaris provides the original Bourne Shell all the way to modern Bash, with ksh, zsh, etc. for good measure. Sun provides both BSD and SYS V variants of commands. Sun also provides a butt load of GNU utils under
Color ls?!?!? LOL.
GNU Tar is available, too.
Good luck with your future trolling. You'll need it!
My God, 10 replies and no one mentioned the Osh Kosh air show!
Are you people really from Wisconson or are you just pretending?
So....it took them four years to make a new skin for Windows XP...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH!!!!!
No, the GP post said specifically his family didn't qualify for the aid. The people you are talking about are the people living off of the EIC, Medicaid, Social Security, WIC, food stamps, school lunch programs, county-provided transportation, rent subsidies, heating fuel subsidies, electricity subsidies, telephone subsidies, and need-based scholarships.
I refuse to give to charity, anymore, after I realized a portion of my power bill goes to the needy, a portion of my phone bill goest to the needy, my payroll taxes go to the needy, part of my income tax goes to the needy, and part of my sales tax goes to the needy. I'd say at least 10% of my income, probably more, is tax-based "charity."
My favorite: the Earned Income Credit. Don't work much, and get an instant 30% bonus from Uncle Sam! It's never been easier to be totally broke. I agree the people who lose out are the people on the edge, the people trying to get ahead but don't get any help at all, and the rent is due tomorrow.
"We are now at a time when Russia is travelling in one direction and America is travelling in the other."
Yin and Yang seeking balance?
Actually, with the right encryption, it could work fairly well. Unrecoverable media failure (leaving the CD on a car dashboard) is mitigated by the huge redundancy.
Of course, there's only so much a CD or even a DVD can hold, so only the smallest businesses could do this.
I don't know about you, but I have always found the most annoying websites to be government sites.
Some do really well. My state's website is awesome. I found out how to start a sole prorpietorship and do sales tax within a few clicks of the mouse. It also helps my state has awesome laws for sole prorietorships and sales tax (no business license and a single page return for state and county tax!).
Sometimes, how a state government presents itself shows the overall health of that state. My state has a very level-headed approach, it seems, and tries hard to be reasonable to businesses. Some other states put on the red tape so thick, it is just pathetic...oh, and their websites suck, too.
Add that the only agencies that could ever hope to get funding to do a computer system properly are not under DHS. The CIA, NSA, somewhere deep in the DoD, etc., they probably get the resources they need, but DHS is a cost for Congress to budget without immediate intelligence or defense benefits like spy satellites or cruise missiles.
Probably the biggest challenge for DHS is not computers, either, as it is probably raw man power. Thousands of miles of borders, compounded by interdependent economies, isn't an easy thing to deal with, for example.
Just like in the embedded world, there will be orders of magnitude more PowerPCs in game consoles than in any IBM server or workstation.
Because the CPU is irrelevant in the big picture. People buy the engineered package, called an iMac or a PowerMac or a PowerBook, and the PowerPC is really a sidebar in the whole deal.
Sure, some apps perform better on PowerPC, but some others perform better on x86. And no one said exactly what model of Intel CPU future Macs will have. Given that Mr. Jobs mentioned a concern about power consumption, I'd bet that the current Pentium 4 or Xeon CPUs will not get a Mac logo. The Pentium M or an even better CPU in the pipeline (Jobs specifically said he had access to Intel's roadmap) are much more likely to be in future Macs.
Watching the keynote reminded me why people love Apple. It really has nothing to do with PowerPC. The WWDC presentation was full of energy and hype and buzz, and the audience applauded and cheered like no other tech company presentation I've seen.
Make the tower look like a 110 meter penis. That'd be sure to get your company more attention and press coverage than in your wildest dreams!
I watched the keynote, and Apple (Mr. Jobs) did a really good job selling the transition. The only advantage of Intel is gigahumungous manufacturing capacity, which IBM obviously wasn't willing to steer Apple's way. PowerPC is good and all...up to the point of there being no road map or a stubborn IBM negotiator.
Consoles are where PowerPC is at from here on out.
Linux is more popular, but NetBSD allows quicker porting of "something useful".
I agreee that Microsoft has dealt a fair amount of damage with crappy APIs and bad QA regarding stability and security. A 'standard turd with a pretty GUI' is still a turd.
Cover letters can seem hard, but I've noticed that if I have a lot of trouble thinking up a cover letter for a job it means that probably isn't the right job for me. A resume can be only so long, so a person with strong experience has to leave stuff out. This leaves the cover letter as a prime location for adding additional details and making them relevant to the company you are applying to.
That is, if companies even bother reading the thousands of cover letters they get...sigh.
"Also does this mean I will be able to buy a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Mac OSX Server?"
Talk about something out of a weird dream:
Welcome to Dell! On your new PowerEdge 2850, please choose your operating system:
o Windows 2003
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
o Solaris 10
o Mac OS X (includes spiffy one-button mouse)
"Apple is adopting Intel, but is not "ditching" IBM."
This is a huge blow to PowerPC's credibility, though. First, Motorola had problems, then IBM couldn't deliver competitive chips. Without MAC, that leaves IBM's own machines running PowerPC, which will vastly shrink PowerPC's Slashdot fanboy club. MAC is what made PowerPC 'cool' outside of the embedded world.
It'll still be true that it's x86-64, SPARC, and PowerPC moving forward as the surviving ISAs, but the overall balance in the demographic will be quite different by a few million CPUs after two years.
I remember seeing ads for embedded hardware JVMs in JavaPro magazine. Dunno if they took off or not.
Sun's MAJC: dual core VLIW FP monster...gone
Transmeta: also VLIW...going
Intel: Itanium VLIW FP monster...stagnant once HP's base converts from PA-RISC and Alpha
It seems that no VLIW architecture to date has really been successful against PowerPC, SPARC, and AMD64. Is it the compilers? Too nontraditional?
Yeah, but how many Linux users give credit to either the Linux kernel hackers or to Red Hat for OpenSSH? "Hey, this Linux is awesome! I can telnet home from anywhere!"
After a new kernel was released, power meters on mothers' basements everywhere saw a little blip. Add up all these blips, and you get a (somewhat) tested kernel.