"Dividuum...has built a very cool RFID application. He stores SID-files (SID is the music format for the C64) on RFID tags. When you put such a tag near to the reader, the music is played on the stereo."
There's also the Classic "Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines" for System 1 through OS 9 (have to hunt it down yourself), GNOME's HIG,KDE's, and Tog's.
Without reading through them all, I can't point out where they address BPs for reuse, management, etc., but I know it is touched on somewhat (although from a NeXT slant) in Apple and NeXT's guidelines.
-- The only thing SUSE has going for it is the Novell support backing, and only corporate installations care about that. With the Oracle/RedHat support deal that factor carries less momentum.
I felt good, almost warm about working with Novell.
I'm rolling out servers all over the globe, and they were going to be running SLES. This is because it was a solidly supported platform, partnered and certified with Dell, and clearly exhibited potential as a stable, longterm Linux solution.
Novell could have done without Microsoft indefinately.. Tell them to get their own Linux.
Many of the people who were in SUSE for Novell will be parting ways.
Take a look through POS vendor's sites. Most Non-Microsoft POS platforms run on Linux.
* Wincor/Nixdorf * IBM * SAP/Triversity * Micros * BananaPOS
There are more..
Novell even has a Point of Service-specific Distribution, NLPOS..
You might have to get creative - not all individuals' success stories are public, but vendors are happy to tout their successes with a list of clients that successfully use their product. Add them to your list!
I don't know when the mapping thing was set up, but I imagine it's got something to do with the Roadshow - getting an idea of how many people would attend, perhaps?
There aren't many people (maybe 6?) around my city (Dallas, TX) that are mapped.
Teh Internets liked making fun of 'OMG!!!11 Snakes on a PLANE!!' big time..
Maybe Hollywood mis-took that attention for real love, when it was only fickle 'hearting' from afar.
The idea of 'Snakes on a Plane' is better to me than the thought of sitting through the movie. The internet took ownership of it and had their fun long ago..
SNAKES! ON A MUTHA-EFFIN PLANE!!
The movie itself is not new to most of the people who they thought would see it - and would have to borrow money from Parental Units to see it.
OMG MF'in' SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!
Look at me! I'm a bad ass mofo in a beret! On an mf'in' aeroplane infested with snakes!!
Pick up a 'UNIX' administration guide, and count the 'UNIXes' in there; Linux (Redhat, SUSE, Debian, Slackware...), FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, (not mentioning SCO), etc..
If you're going to carry it in your pocket, why not have points of perspective?
Like it or not, if you are supporting or developing for applications in an enterprise or corporate environment, it doesn't take more than two or three projects to span more than one RDMS - not to mention versions. Statements to Oracle 7 can have different results from Oracle 9, from MySQL, from Postgres... --
Yeah, my point was that nVidia and ATI squished Matrox, S3 and others out of the market by selling their chipsets to hardware manufacturers - like Leadtek, Elsa, STB, etc..
Selling graphics cards in an already saturated market won't be SGI's saving grace is all. They have nothing to offer over nVidia.
Trident and S3 *are* commodity PC hardware..
I guess I wasn't clear enough. I went for a 'Monster (TM)' for a reason, I guess..
Apple has no need for SGI's assets. They are incompatible with Apple's direction and Steve's vision. Also, as one of NeXT's former competitors, Steve would prefer to see them die of starvation, shivering in the cold.
Today's Apple is NeXT in disguise.. Kind of like how Joe Dirt's wig grew into his scalp..
If SGI/would/ license their brand, what would happen?
Would we have a real competitor to Sun for Opteron boxes?
Licensing the SGI mark (the chrome dealy and name) to Asus, so they can double up on niche X86-ish gear; Apple's outsourcing on one hand, and their own sturdy 'sgi' rendering boxes on the other side?
Would that put them in a bad place with Steve? (would sgi renderfarm boxen have any impact on Pixar/DreamWorks, et al?)
Would Asus (for example - being a high-quality OEM) be able to make it happen? Is their stuff high-tech enough? Could they handle NUMAflex, blades, specialized memory/channeling/processes, etc? Is all of that becoming irrelevant?
This is a great notion, but I don't know who could pull it off. Sun seems to be ditching the highly-specialzed hardware of the past, and going lean and mean (UltraSPARC GPL'ed, Thumper, AMD boxes, etc.) Schwartz seems to hint that custom chips are dead, and high-speed, high-efficiency, general-purpose machines are the next thing.
If that's true, and the SGI brand followed suit while we all wait for the next, next big thing (tinier, faster, more) they might be able to stage a comeback.
Sleek new SGI AMD-based Linux machines with clustering, virtualization, and tidiness.. I'd buy one.
What are you doing with Fedora? Will you get a better experience out of another distribution?
You can look at others to get a feel for why things are they way they are. Novell uses a slightly different configuration and package management mechnism than Redhat and Debian. You might understand why Yum is in your Fedora there if you deal with YaST for a while. The main attraction to Fedora just might be the default GTK theme - the way the screen looks..
Nobody is counting 'geek points', so you are free to do whatever you want. Personal preference and necessity are what decide who uses what and why.
Miguel's main talent is self promotion, pure and simple.
I would almost agree. Stick-to-it-ive-ness and self promotion go a long way in this OpenSource world. Especially when we're *just now* gaining traction with "Old World"/"Post Dot-Com" corporate minds.
It's not all bad.
It can be a good thing if you can work with it. Miguel apparently is. He has the ear of a good many execs at Novell, and the Mono inititive there will do much to initiate some quaking in Microsoft's boots.
Apple and their Safari development (as it pertains to Konqueror, et al) will find another outlet, and the better off we'll all be.
I love Wine. (Cheap Red in addition to 'Wine is not an emulator')
I'm a Debian user. I have been working on a Graphic Arts-centric Debian distro for the better part of a year now, and much of what I have been working toward in the areas of usability and cohesion between system components seems to be in place with SLES 10 RC3.
I have a SLES Admin job, and if we weren't sticking with 9 for support reasons (Dell is staying with 9 for the forseeable future 1Y+) I'd be excited to support 10.
KDE is gone - practically erased from the experience. There is a QT4 interface control panel, and a few mentions of Kthis and Kthat, but you hardly ever see it. YaST (GUI) is GTK2/Mono, the Zen software manager is Mono, the Desktop is Gnome.
The usability is almost there.. I give it until version 11, and if HP and Dell get behind it like they say they are, you can validate the 'Vista-killer' remark, no matter how stupid it is.. There will finally be two real alternatives for Intel desk/laptops: Leopard and SLED.
Verizon's BroadbandAccess Package:
$59.99 monthly access w/ 2-yr customer agreement and qualifying voice plan, two-year Customer Agreement, $25 activation fee per line.
However,
Unlimited NationalAccess/BroadbandAccess services cannot be used (1) for uploading, downloading or streaming of movies, music or games, (2) with server devices or with host computer applications, including, but not limited to, Web camera posts or broadcasts, automatic data feeds, Voice over IP (VoIP), automated machine-to-machine connections, or peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, or (3) as a substitute or backup for private lines or dedicated data connections.
Which makes me ask, "In that case, why the hell would I want it?"
If Genetic Modification in the modern, scientific sense means the same thing to you as conventional animal husbandry and horticulture, then you have bought the big lie, my friend.
Slashdot Mirror
How about "Memory Bank".
Solid State could be optional.
I've been waiting a long time to be able to say "memory bank" in a monotone voice and be taken seriously. Now's my chance!
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/ 23/0111213
Combining RFID, SIDs, and Ruby..
"Dividuum...has built a very cool RFID application. He stores SID-files (SID is the music format for the C64) on RFID tags. When you put such a tag near to the reader, the music is played on the stereo."
Badass.
Some resources:
Apple's User Interface Guidelines; adapted from the NeXT/OpenStep Interface Guidelines (PDF).
There's also the Classic "Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines" for System 1 through OS 9 (have to hunt it down yourself), GNOME's HIG,KDE's, and Tog's.
Without reading through them all, I can't point out where they address BPs for reuse, management, etc., but I know it is touched on somewhat (although from a NeXT slant) in Apple and NeXT's guidelines.
XGL/Compviz is available elsewhere..
/everywhere/..
YaST is available elsewhere..
The GNOME2/Nautilus desktop is available
Easy Samba, WiFi, LDAP, Windows Terminal Services, and other "office-y" stuff is available elsewhere..
Ubuntu, ubuntu, ubuntu, ubuntu. Debian, debian, debian, debian. CentOS, OpenSolaris, Gentoo, RHEL.
--
The only thing SUSE has going for it is the Novell support backing, and only corporate installations care about that. With the Oracle/RedHat support deal that factor carries less momentum.
Novell Linux is an interim reality.
I felt good, almost warm about working with Novell.
I'm rolling out servers all over the globe, and they were going to be running SLES. This is because it was a solidly supported platform, partnered and certified with Dell, and clearly exhibited potential as a stable, longterm Linux solution.
Novell could have done without Microsoft indefinately.. Tell them to get their own Linux.
Many of the people who were in SUSE for Novell will be parting ways.
Three cheers for Debian and it's offspring!!
Huzzah! Updates to Sarge!
Hurray! Ubuntu certified on Sun hardware!
Hip! gNewSense, Knoppix, Puppy, DSL, et al!
Don't you mean the Hurd?
(Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (a.k.a. sarge) was released on the 6th of June, 2005)
Take a look through POS vendor's sites. Most Non-Microsoft POS platforms run on Linux.
* Wincor/Nixdorf
* IBM
* SAP/Triversity
* Micros
* BananaPOS
There are more..
Novell even has a Point of Service-specific Distribution, NLPOS..
You might have to get creative - not all individuals' success stories are public, but vendors are happy to tout their successes with a list of clients that successfully use their product. Add them to your list!
Unless you're using a Novell Linux product (SLES/SLED 8, 9, or 10) which is what this article (Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS) is about.
The default in those cases is ReiserFS.
I know of a project that implemented that same logic during the planning and initial implementation phase.
They will now be exploring the possibility of a filesystem change.
It's more common than you think..
http://www.novell.com/linux/yourlinuxtour/
I don't know when the mapping thing was set up, but I imagine it's got something to do with the Roadshow - getting an idea of how many people would attend, perhaps?
There aren't many people (maybe 6?) around my city (Dallas, TX) that are mapped.
Look into:
* the storage methods/solutions for patient records (folders, color coding, space)
* meeting with some olde tyme mainframers or data secretaries to find out their system for handling reels of mag tape.
If operations are dependant on keeping these things around, storage space may have to be/become part of their scope.
Teh Internets liked making fun of 'OMG!!!11 Snakes on a PLANE!!' big time..
Maybe Hollywood mis-took that attention for real love, when it was only fickle 'hearting' from afar.
The idea of 'Snakes on a Plane' is better to me than the thought of sitting through the movie. The internet took ownership of it and had their fun long ago..
SNAKES! ON A MUTHA-EFFIN PLANE!!
The movie itself is not new to most of the people who they thought would see it - and would have to borrow money from Parental Units to see it.
OMG MF'in' SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!
Look at me! I'm a bad ass mofo in a beret! On an mf'in' aeroplane infested with snakes!!
111!
--
My ironic anti-robot image is 'airfare'
Pick up a 'UNIX' administration guide, and count the 'UNIXes' in there; Linux (Redhat, SUSE, Debian, Slackware...), FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, (not mentioning SCO), etc..
If you're going to carry it in your pocket, why not have points of perspective?
Like it or not, if you are supporting or developing for applications in an enterprise or corporate environment, it doesn't take more than two or three projects to span more than one RDMS - not to mention versions. Statements to Oracle 7 can have different results from Oracle 9, from MySQL, from Postgres...
--
Yeah, my point was that nVidia and ATI squished Matrox, S3 and others out of the market by selling their chipsets to hardware manufacturers - like Leadtek, Elsa, STB, etc..
Selling graphics cards in an already saturated market won't be SGI's saving grace is all. They have nothing to offer over nVidia.
Trident and S3 *are* commodity PC hardware..
I guess I wasn't clear enough. I went for a 'Monster (TM)' for a reason, I guess..
The point of licensing the brand is that you don't have to design hardware. Your name sells someone else's gear.
The 'Thinkpad' name sells Lenovo notebooks. The difference there is that Lenovo was already making Thinkpads, they just got more leverage.
If you tried to sell me a 'Lenovo' notebook, never having made the connection to IBM and fuzzy, Thinkpad-inspired feelings, I'd tell you no.
It's those warm fuzzies that get people buying. The solidity of the hardware keeps them from being disappointed.
Silicon Graphics 'graphics' engineers are now nVidia.
Commodity PC hardware ain't gonna cut it.
http://www.s3graphics.com/en/index.jsp
http://www.matrox.com/
http://www.tridentmicro.com/
have died at the hands of
http://www.leadtek.com/ (foxconn)
http://www.nvidia.com/
http://www.ati.com/
SGI's fu is weak besides..
Apple has no need for SGI's assets. They are incompatible with Apple's direction and Steve's vision. Also, as one of NeXT's former competitors, Steve would prefer to see them die of starvation, shivering in the cold.
Today's Apple is NeXT in disguise.. Kind of like how Joe Dirt's wig grew into his scalp..
You can't buy just one, especially without a service contract.
It's not worth their time - which is crap, but unfortunately, they're still doing business in the 80's.
If SGI /would/ license their brand, what would happen?
Would we have a real competitor to Sun for Opteron boxes?
Licensing the SGI mark (the chrome dealy and name) to Asus, so they can double up on niche X86-ish gear; Apple's outsourcing on one hand, and their own sturdy 'sgi' rendering boxes on the other side?
Would that put them in a bad place with Steve? (would sgi renderfarm boxen have any impact on Pixar/DreamWorks, et al?)
Would Asus (for example - being a high-quality OEM) be able to make it happen? Is their stuff high-tech enough? Could they handle NUMAflex, blades, specialized memory/channeling/processes, etc? Is all of that becoming irrelevant?
This is a great notion, but I don't know who could pull it off. Sun seems to be ditching the highly-specialzed hardware of the past, and going lean and mean (UltraSPARC GPL'ed, Thumper, AMD boxes, etc.)
Schwartz seems to hint that custom chips are dead, and high-speed, high-efficiency, general-purpose machines are the next thing.
If that's true, and the SGI brand followed suit while we all wait for the next, next big thing (tinier, faster, more) they might be able to stage a comeback.
Sleek new SGI AMD-based Linux machines with clustering, virtualization, and tidiness.. I'd buy one.
What are you doing with Fedora? Will you get a better experience out of another distribution?
You can look at others to get a feel for why things are they way they are. Novell uses a slightly different configuration and package management mechnism than Redhat and Debian. You might understand why Yum is in your Fedora there if you deal with YaST for a while. The main attraction to Fedora just might be the default GTK theme - the way the screen looks..
Nobody is counting 'geek points', so you are free to do whatever you want. Personal preference and necessity are what decide who uses what and why.
I would almost agree. Stick-to-it-ive-ness and self promotion go a long way in this OpenSource world. Especially when we're *just now* gaining traction with "Old World"/"Post Dot-Com" corporate minds.
It's not all bad.
It can be a good thing if you can work with it. Miguel apparently is. He has the ear of a good many execs at Novell, and the Mono inititive there will do much to initiate some quaking in Microsoft's boots.
Apple and their Safari development (as it pertains to Konqueror, et al) will find another outlet, and the better off we'll all be.
I love Wine. (Cheap Red in addition to 'Wine is not an emulator')
10.1 still ships with KDE as the Desktop.
SuSE recently shifted from KDE to GNOME since the acuisition of Ximian.
Miguel De Icaza has assumed a more influential role in Novell's Linux effort, hence the Mono presence in so many tools in SLES/D.
I have a SLES Admin job, and if we weren't sticking with 9 for support reasons (Dell is staying with 9 for the forseeable future 1Y+) I'd be excited to support 10.
KDE is gone - practically erased from the experience. There is a QT4 interface control panel, and a few mentions of Kthis and Kthat, but you hardly ever see it. YaST (GUI) is GTK2/Mono, the Zen software manager is Mono, the Desktop is Gnome.
The usability is almost there.. I give it until version 11, and if HP and Dell get behind it like they say they are, you can validate the 'Vista-killer' remark, no matter how stupid it is.. There will finally be two real alternatives for Intel desk/laptops: Leopard and SLED.
However,
Which makes me ask, "In that case, why the hell would I want it?"If Genetic Modification in the modern, scientific sense means the same thing to you as conventional animal husbandry and horticulture, then you have bought the big lie, my friend.