This driver, if I understood it correctly, has no other purpose but to enable a proprietary VM to work with the kernel (correct me if I'm wrong). If I'm right, I see no reason why it should ever be included in it.
This seems like very odd logic as if followed through, we shouldn't allow any drivers into the kernel. Every driver in the kernel has the express purpose of making a proprietary piece of hardware work in Linux, whether coded by the manufacturer or not. The truth behind your statement is exactly what Linus was referring to, the "M$ Disease." Simply because it is Microsoft you feel the complete and utter need to bash it. No rhyme or reason. Defies all logic. It just must be done.
This is a great step for the Linux community. I doubt very few people would believe that Microsoft would ever become a contributor to the Linux kernel. They have made an investment now in Linux. That is quite monumental. Those 20,000 lines of code weren't free and they will likely be continued to be maintained. This is an exciting time!
I find it interesting that/. will say "Microsoft's recent gains raise the prospect that Windows may soon challenge Apache's leadership position," for a 14.2% difference, but when it is the other way around, for example IE and Firefox, Firefox has been challenging IE since the days when the difference was more than 70%.
but anyone who has tried candy from abroad knows what we're missing out on.
I'll second that motion. The cheap easter candy in America just flat out sucks. In comparison, the cheap easter candy in say Germany is on par with some of the finer chocolate here.
Have to upgrade to the NEXT next version of Windows Office Vista JUST SO I can have the emotiflag feature!
The real stupidity in it is that if it is patented and Microsoft wants to be paid licensing fees for it (which is most likely what they want) then it will never be used but possibly within an organization running Exchange and Outlook. While I think an indicator of the tone for an email is a good idea (as I've seen major misunderstandings arise from not knowing the tone), patenting this idea just means that it'll never be used.
Microsoft has been involved with Xen for quite some time. Anyone familar with the Xen project will remember that with Xen 1.x, the researchers were able to run Windows paravirtualized. This could not happen without Microsoft's help. This statement is Microsoft now saying that they will begin using their investment from a few years ago.
Oh, and it also checks for updates, so Microsoft can presumably execute arbitrary code on any machine with it installed, merely by making that code part of a WGA update.
I fail to see how this is something special. Any other update could do this. Even the updates I do for my Adobe Acrobat. Any software I run on my computer could do that. This isn't just limited to Windows, but any OS.
Could it be that a one company server package that will rival Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 and ASP will finally emerge?
Short Answer: No.
Long Answer: Yes. It is going to take a lot more than the purchase of one relatively small company (when compared to the size of Microsoft). I believe it's a long road ahead before Microsoft will be debunked. I do believe that one day it'll happen, just not as fast as some might hope.
(dare I say, it may have even appeared that she was preferred, simply due to her sex)
I have been very much involved in the hiring of several IT employees where I work. We have often tried to have at least one woman working in the IT office (the office has 5 employees). The reason was for an attempt at balance of personality and thinking. In my experience, women often bring in another view point that men don't think about. This is very beneficial when brainstorming ideas to solve a problem. Now the office is currently an only male operation. We have never hired a woman that was less qualified than a male counterpart, but if there were no females in the office when a position was open and we had a man and a woman equally qualified, I think we would lean towards hiring the woman.
This sounds like one of the guys on a UUG list I'm on, in which he said that he hates GUI config tools and much rather use CLI for configuration. I think that Linus' comment follows the same idea as this user. We want Linux to be tough and difficult so that its users are the "elite". GNOME's purpose is to bring Linux to everyone. Make it simple enough for the idiot to use it, but powerful enough for the powerusres. If we really want Linux to become mainstream, which I do, then this idea of "Linux needs to be tough" has gotta go.
A real solution would be a policy engine, an actual application that read policies from an enterprise server then took those policies and applied them to the workstation. Take that and give it an interface (whether gui or tui) to allow the management of the different policies. I've looked around and there isn't much. Zenworks from Novell is supposed to be able to do this but haven't had time to setup a test system to see what it can do. As much as one might hate Microsoft, he/she has to admit that their Enterprise management tools are one of the best out of very few options.
Looking at the screenshots, this looks like the best way of managing users for the Linux community. What I'm still waiting to see is an implementation of User and Computer policies allowing for mass management of systems. I know there are ways to kinda do this using rsync or scp and cron, but we don't need a hack we need a real solution.
While it's sacrilege on/. to say something good about a Microsoft product, Outlook (not Outlook Express) is quite powerful when used with their Exchange server. I would like to see an OSS product that can do all that Exchange can do with the ease of setup and integration. I've seen some that come close but they don't integrate easily and/or are a pain to setup.
Setting up the config settings on install I can see, but how do you change settings en masse after an install? Say the NFS server changed that is used to mount the home directories, how would I change that all at once on 100 machines?
I have a question for the/. crowd. In my workplace we have about 100 Windows desktops all on a Windows domain. I've looked into deploying a Linux distro, but the things that keep me from doing so are:
1. Mass Deployment (i.e. Altiris, Ghost, etc.)
2. Mass Management of settings
What do the rest of you do to do these two things?
What about the oil-for-food scandal that has recently rocked the UN? Sounds to me that even though the rules don't allow such profits to be made, they are made nonetheless.
From my understanding, Google didn't lay the fiber optic cable. The cable was laid back in the dot com boom and has been dark (no traffic) all this time, so Google is buying up this unused cable at I imagine a great price.
I agree with you. I've worked with MS Office for several years as a "tech guy" and have had very few problems with Office itself. Though I've had several of those errors that take place between the back of the chair and the keyboard.
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This driver, if I understood it correctly, has no other purpose but to enable a proprietary VM to work with the kernel (correct me if I'm wrong). If I'm right, I see no reason why it should ever be included in it.
This seems like very odd logic as if followed through, we shouldn't allow any drivers into the kernel. Every driver in the kernel has the express purpose of making a proprietary piece of hardware work in Linux, whether coded by the manufacturer or not. The truth behind your statement is exactly what Linus was referring to, the "M$ Disease." Simply because it is Microsoft you feel the complete and utter need to bash it. No rhyme or reason. Defies all logic. It just must be done.
This is a great step for the Linux community. I doubt very few people would believe that Microsoft would ever become a contributor to the Linux kernel. They have made an investment now in Linux. That is quite monumental. Those 20,000 lines of code weren't free and they will likely be continued to be maintained. This is an exciting time!
Ah, I remember Executive Decision. As I recall it was the first Steven Seagal movie that was any good!
It could have been better. Ten minutes with him in the movie was a little long.
Come on, most already have stickers for the MAC address.
And the managers will say, "Yeah. We have the MAC address on there already. We can use that for the default password."
I gave my statement not so much with regards to you, but rather towards the editors.
I find it interesting that /. will say "Microsoft's recent gains raise the prospect that Windows may soon challenge Apache's leadership position," for a 14.2% difference, but when it is the other way around, for example IE and Firefox, Firefox has been challenging IE since the days when the difference was more than 70%.
but anyone who has tried candy from abroad knows what we're missing out on.
I'll second that motion. The cheap easter candy in America just flat out sucks. In comparison, the cheap easter candy in say Germany is on par with some of the finer chocolate here.
I agree with you completely. This whole idea that whatever I choose to do with my life has no affect on anyone else's life is absurd and naive.
Have to upgrade to the NEXT next version of Windows Office Vista JUST SO I can have the emotiflag feature!
The real stupidity in it is that if it is patented and Microsoft wants to be paid licensing fees for it (which is most likely what they want) then it will never be used but possibly within an organization running Exchange and Outlook. While I think an indicator of the tone for an email is a good idea (as I've seen major misunderstandings arise from not knowing the tone), patenting this idea just means that it'll never be used.
...the fish didn't do so well due to lack of water
;-)
I bet it was from the levitaiton. That's why they used fish. Needed another excuse
Microsoft has been involved with Xen for quite some time. Anyone familar with the Xen project will remember that with Xen 1.x, the researchers were able to run Windows paravirtualized. This could not happen without Microsoft's help. This statement is Microsoft now saying that they will begin using their investment from a few years ago.
Oh, and it also checks for updates, so Microsoft can presumably execute arbitrary code on any machine with it installed, merely by making that code part of a WGA update.
I fail to see how this is something special. Any other update could do this. Even the updates I do for my Adobe Acrobat. Any software I run on my computer could do that. This isn't just limited to Windows, but any OS.
Could it be that a one company server package that will rival Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 and ASP will finally emerge?
Short Answer: No.
Long Answer: Yes. It is going to take a lot more than the purchase of one relatively small company (when compared to the size of Microsoft). I believe it's a long road ahead before Microsoft will be debunked. I do believe that one day it'll happen, just not as fast as some might hope.
(dare I say, it may have even appeared that she was preferred, simply due to her sex)
I have been very much involved in the hiring of several IT employees where I work. We have often tried to have at least one woman working in the IT office (the office has 5 employees). The reason was for an attempt at balance of personality and thinking. In my experience, women often bring in another view point that men don't think about. This is very beneficial when brainstorming ideas to solve a problem. Now the office is currently an only male operation. We have never hired a woman that was less qualified than a male counterpart, but if there were no females in the office when a position was open and we had a man and a woman equally qualified, I think we would lean towards hiring the woman.
This sounds like one of the guys on a UUG list I'm on, in which he said that he hates GUI config tools and much rather use CLI for configuration. I think that Linus' comment follows the same idea as this user. We want Linux to be tough and difficult so that its users are the "elite". GNOME's purpose is to bring Linux to everyone. Make it simple enough for the idiot to use it, but powerful enough for the powerusres. If we really want Linux to become mainstream, which I do, then this idea of "Linux needs to be tough" has gotta go.
A real solution would be a policy engine, an actual application that read policies from an enterprise server then took those policies and applied them to the workstation. Take that and give it an interface (whether gui or tui) to allow the management of the different policies. I've looked around and there isn't much. Zenworks from Novell is supposed to be able to do this but haven't had time to setup a test system to see what it can do. As much as one might hate Microsoft, he/she has to admit that their Enterprise management tools are one of the best out of very few options.
Looking at the screenshots, this looks like the best way of managing users for the Linux community. What I'm still waiting to see is an implementation of User and Computer policies allowing for mass management of systems. I know there are ways to kinda do this using rsync or scp and cron, but we don't need a hack we need a real solution.
Strange thing, they do fight over which is better, vi or that other editor.
And you say they aren't nerds?
While it's sacrilege on /. to say something good about a Microsoft product, Outlook (not Outlook Express) is quite powerful when used with their Exchange server. I would like to see an OSS product that can do all that Exchange can do with the ease of setup and integration. I've seen some that come close but they don't integrate easily and/or are a pain to setup.
Setting up the config settings on install I can see, but how do you change settings en masse after an install? Say the NFS server changed that is used to mount the home directories, how would I change that all at once on 100 machines?
I have a question for the /. crowd. In my workplace we have about 100 Windows desktops all on a Windows domain. I've looked into deploying a Linux distro, but the things that keep me from doing so are:
1. Mass Deployment (i.e. Altiris, Ghost, etc.)
2. Mass Management of settings
What do the rest of you do to do these two things?
What about the oil-for-food scandal that has recently rocked the UN? Sounds to me that even though the rules don't allow such profits to be made, they are made nonetheless.
But the description talks about extras like videos and such. So how does that factor into your calculations?
From my understanding, Google didn't lay the fiber optic cable. The cable was laid back in the dot com boom and has been dark (no traffic) all this time, so Google is buying up this unused cable at I imagine a great price.
Internet Explorer monopoly?
Market Share of IE in July 2005
Definition of "monopoly"
How does 87.2% of the market constitue an exclusive control?
I agree with you. I've worked with MS Office for several years as a "tech guy" and have had very few problems with Office itself. Though I've had several of those errors that take place between the back of the chair and the keyboard.