With MS server stored profiles, just the user profile content, not necessarily their home directory, is loaded, and very little if anything ever gets "copied back" at the end of the session. Yes, if the user has a 100GB home directory and you put that in your server stored profile, that will be a problem, but that is just a stupidly configured setup. There's no reason to have a user's data files in their server stored profile, and if you have it set up that way, it's not the mechanism that's wildly inefficient, it's just your particular setup of it. It's not so much a matter of Window's having poor features, it's a lack of knowledge of the tech people who are setting up the Windows networks, or just a lack of reason to implement those roaming profile features.
This has nothing to do with networking decisions, it has everything to do with the format of the data file and the way in which the client software writes to the file.
Terabyte class Oracle databases have error routines written into the front end, and roll-back of transactions on the back end, which makes certain that if a network error occurs, the entire transaction is rolled back and either tries again or sends an error to the client. If you want this type of functionality in Outlook, you aren't using PST's anyway, you're using Exchange. Many other programs also do not account for the disappearance of the source file while it is being written. If a file is partially written when the network goes down, any app's file can be corrupted no matter the server OS.
Oh and there is no way that remote access to files over GigE is faster than local file access unless you are talking about enterprise class servers, which most people don't have in their closets at home. Actual throughput over GigE is only going to be 400Mbps anyways, and if you have more than one user on that connection like you do in a corporate setting, that bandwidth has to be shared between everyone.
This is a fantastic point, because being able to produce a product that works is much more important than the idea itself. Invention is not so much about ideas as it is about putting ideas to work in a way that is both affordable and usable.
I think the vast majority of users have less than 80GB of data that they store. Even as an OS-only drive on a laptop, this SSD in the range of 8-16GB is pretty attractive. At the very least, using a SSD for the OS and maybe a few apps as well, would cut down on the hard drive usage, enabling the laptop to power down the hard disk for longer periods of time while the system is not using it. Furthermore, I don't consider Turbo Memory to be a flop at all. Depending on your usage it can be a SSD itself with apps loaded on it, or it can boost performance by 20% for operations that do a bit of hard disk writing. I don't know how you expected it to work, but I've been pretty happy with it personally.
MS has extended the XP OEM date until June 20, 2008, and if demand is still strong they will extend it beyond that. I would be very surprised if they cut it out of the OEM channel before 2009.
I have to disagree with you completely on this. Continuing the paralell, most people don't know they've been infected until the bomb goes off, at which point it is too late.
So if someone straps a bomb onto your car while it's sitting in a parking lot, you should be responsible for everything that happens to your car and everything else that is nearby when it blows. Because heck, you own the car and you were driving when it happened. After all, cars are inherently insecure and while we could choose to keep them snugly locked in our garages at home, we instead choose to use them in public places where other people could break into them, steal them, use them to do illegal things, and return it to the parking lot. Of course, if we had a car that required the driver to install his own parts, wire his ignition switch, and if he was really geekly, install a stereo that interfaced with the volume control buttons on the steering wheel, we'd all be more secure because noone would want to steal it.
I think MS did ok despite not getting on board sooner. Just remember, Apple could have been Microsoft if they hadn't insisted on being the all-in-one-box vendor.
Yes, occasionally a personal user will take a look at Mac and like it. More often than not, they stick with Windows because they are familiar with it and they would like to run all their old apps out of the box and without further expense, a la loading Windows on the Mac.
In the business world, most businesses not in the graphics or publishing business have transitioned off the Mac in the 90's. They aren't going to go through it again back to Mac just because the current revision of OS does not give them compelling reason to upgrade. They're just going to stay with what they have already.
I believe that by the time Quad core becomes mainstream, i.e. every piece of junk computer at Buy More has them, that 64 bit apps will also be the mainstream. By 2010 every computer sold will come with a 64bit OS, that will emulate for 32 bit programs but all the new software being developed will be transitioning to 64 bit. Can CPU performance hit a threshold? Sure it can. But maybe by then they will be integrating specialty processors for video encoding/decoding, data encryption, or for file system/flash write optimization, onto the CPU die. At some point nothing more will be required for corporate america to run word processors and spreadsheets, and tech spending and development will shift to smaller, virtual reality type applications rather than the traditional desktop. I think we have already reached the point where the desktop computer fulfills the needs of the typical office worker. The focus shifts to management & security over raw performance.
I don't have a reference for this either, but this is the message that Intel regularly conveys to the channel. You can see the usage of this release strategy starting with the later Pentium 4 CPUs and it has continued through the various renditions of the Core series processors.
You nailed it right on the head. The name recognition alone gives HD-DVD an instant advantage. I think you will see more and more studios switching to HD-DVD, or at least producing on both medias, and not just solely Bluray.
By the way, couldn't they have thought up a better name than Blu-Ray? WTH is a Blu Ray?
Virtualization is not a new feature for RedHat Enterprise. Advanced Server 5.0 already supports unlimited guest OS's. According to RedHat's web site (for Enterprise 5.0), the only product they support running in virtualization is, you guessed it, RedHat Enterprise. According to the article, it sounds like the only thing they added for 5.1 is support for Windows guests.
You wouldn't need to worry about weather because you'd have the laser link on a satellite. The satellite would have a gyroscopically mounted laser, and would communicate with the remote station via radio and they would auto-align their lasers accordingly. Once a link was achieved, it should be fairly easy to keep it established, and the satellite would simply relay the info back to terra firma.
It may be sad, but it's a legitimate concern that has to be addressed before it becomes mainstream technology. The article does not address this concern at all and I would be very interested to hear what Phoenix is doing to ensure the security of this system.
This sounds very similar to virtualization technologies being developed that allow an application, say a database, to run in a virtual environment on a server without having an underlying OS. Why not virtualize a desktop as well? Why not run a simple OS with networking capabilities?
My concern would be data security, as if you wanted to run a word processor or any app that needs access to your hard drive or thumb drive, you would have to have appropriate security built into the miniOS to handle reading and writing. An option would be to provide some onboard flash storage for Hyperspace to use. How much can you enable the end user to customize the user experience without opening up the system to security risks?
Actually, if you check out reputable sites like webhostingtalk.com, you hear enough negative publicity from actual (former) customers to stay away from them in the first place. Their prices are too good to be true which is really the first clue that they are a cheap, unreliable choice. I'm surprised you stayed with them as long as you did.
The problem with that theory, is that Nigeria is not nearly well run or organized enough to handle this. It's amazing that they even have the money to pull off this purchase - likely half of the funds allocated to this project went to lining the pockets of whoever was put in charge of negotiations. I've been to Nigeria, I know people there. And while a few good people may have a vision of creating an offshore workforce like you described, there are countless others who will sabotage it just to make a quick buck for themselves.
Why? Because I can do it with one click of the mouse. Then I can bring it back quickly with one click of the mouse on the taskbar.
If I hide an app on the mac, I still have to go to the Option+Tab screen or the Dock to bring it back. This may not be very annoying if you only occasionaly go from app to app, but if you switch back and forth between multiple apps for a while, the Mac can get very aggravating.
Yes, Apple shipped just over 2 million new units in their fiscal 2007 4th quarter, which places their market share at about 3.2 percent. However, this number was at 2.8 percent one year ago, but dropped to 2.5% at the end of their fiscal 2007 2nd quarter in March 2007. Apple sold an estimated 5.2 Million Macs in fiscal 2006, while bootcamp downloads numbered over 1 million, suggesting that the increase in Mac sales has as much to do with their switch to Intel architecture and ability to run Windows, had as much or more to do with the surge in Mac sales than the iPod. Apple themselves attribute strong 4th quarter 2007 sales with the introduction of the new iMac and strong laptop sales, while iPod sales have remained fairly level and even dropped slightly over the second half of fiscal 2007.
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With MS server stored profiles, just the user profile content, not necessarily their home directory, is loaded, and very little if anything ever gets "copied back" at the end of the session. Yes, if the user has a 100GB home directory and you put that in your server stored profile, that will be a problem, but that is just a stupidly configured setup. There's no reason to have a user's data files in their server stored profile, and if you have it set up that way, it's not the mechanism that's wildly inefficient, it's just your particular setup of it.
It's not so much a matter of Window's having poor features, it's a lack of knowledge of the tech people who are setting up the Windows networks, or just a lack of reason to implement those roaming profile features.
This has nothing to do with networking decisions, it has everything to do with the format of the data file and the way in which the client software writes to the file.
Terabyte class Oracle databases have error routines written into the front end, and roll-back of transactions on the back end, which makes certain that if a network error occurs, the entire transaction is rolled back and either tries again or sends an error to the client. If you want this type of functionality in Outlook, you aren't using PST's anyway, you're using Exchange. Many other programs also do not account for the disappearance of the source file while it is being written. If a file is partially written when the network goes down, any app's file can be corrupted no matter the server OS.
Oh and there is no way that remote access to files over GigE is faster than local file access unless you are talking about enterprise class servers, which most people don't have in their closets at home. Actual throughput over GigE is only going to be 400Mbps anyways, and if you have more than one user on that connection like you do in a corporate setting, that bandwidth has to be shared between everyone.
This is a fantastic point, because being able to produce a product that works is much more important than the idea itself. Invention is not so much about ideas as it is about putting ideas to work in a way that is both affordable and usable.
Yes, but when he ignores the warning, then we REALLY have a big traffic jam.
Buy a 1TB external disk for under $300. Or a couple of 500GB drives, which will be cheaper.
You've really got no excuse for not doing backups, it's going to cost you a heck of alot more to recover that data if you don't have the backup.
I think the vast majority of users have less than 80GB of data that they store. Even as an OS-only drive on a laptop, this SSD in the range of 8-16GB is pretty attractive. At the very least, using a SSD for the OS and maybe a few apps as well, would cut down on the hard drive usage, enabling the laptop to power down the hard disk for longer periods of time while the system is not using it.
Furthermore, I don't consider Turbo Memory to be a flop at all. Depending on your usage it can be a SSD itself with apps loaded on it, or it can boost performance by 20% for operations that do a bit of hard disk writing. I don't know how you expected it to work, but I've been pretty happy with it personally.
MS has extended the XP OEM date until June 20, 2008, and if demand is still strong they will extend it beyond that. I would be very surprised if they cut it out of the OEM channel before 2009.
I have to disagree with you completely on this. Continuing the paralell, most people don't know they've been infected until the bomb goes off, at which point it is too late.
So if someone straps a bomb onto your car while it's sitting in a parking lot, you should be responsible for everything that happens to your car and everything else that is nearby when it blows. Because heck, you own the car and you were driving when it happened. After all, cars are inherently insecure and while we could choose to keep them snugly locked in our garages at home, we instead choose to use them in public places where other people could break into them, steal them, use them to do illegal things, and return it to the parking lot. Of course, if we had a car that required the driver to install his own parts, wire his ignition switch, and if he was really geekly, install a stereo that interfaced with the volume control buttons on the steering wheel, we'd all be more secure because noone would want to steal it.
I think MS did ok despite not getting on board sooner. Just remember, Apple could have been Microsoft if they hadn't insisted on being the all-in-one-box vendor.
Am I just missing something here? Where's algore.com? I mean if he invented it you'd think he'd have been on it...
Yes, occasionally a personal user will take a look at Mac and like it. More often than not, they stick with Windows because they are familiar with it and they would like to run all their old apps out of the box and without further expense, a la loading Windows on the Mac.
In the business world, most businesses not in the graphics or publishing business have transitioned off the Mac in the 90's. They aren't going to go through it again back to Mac just because the current revision of OS does not give them compelling reason to upgrade. They're just going to stay with what they have already.
I believe that by the time Quad core becomes mainstream, i.e. every piece of junk computer at Buy More has them, that 64 bit apps will also be the mainstream. By 2010 every computer sold will come with a 64bit OS, that will emulate for 32 bit programs but all the new software being developed will be transitioning to 64 bit.
Can CPU performance hit a threshold? Sure it can. But maybe by then they will be integrating specialty processors for video encoding/decoding, data encryption, or for file system/flash write optimization, onto the CPU die. At some point nothing more will be required for corporate america to run word processors and spreadsheets, and tech spending and development will shift to smaller, virtual reality type applications rather than the traditional desktop. I think we have already reached the point where the desktop computer fulfills the needs of the typical office worker. The focus shifts to management & security over raw performance.
I don't have a reference for this either, but this is the message that Intel regularly conveys to the channel. You can see the usage of this release strategy starting with the later Pentium 4 CPUs and it has continued through the various renditions of the Core series processors.
Yep, this sounds more like it. If this was indeed a bribe deal by MS, they obviously didn't know enough about their market to hit the right people.
You nailed it right on the head. The name recognition alone gives HD-DVD an instant advantage. I think you will see more and more studios switching to HD-DVD, or at least producing on both medias, and not just solely Bluray.
By the way, couldn't they have thought up a better name than Blu-Ray? WTH is a Blu Ray?
Virtualization is not a new feature for RedHat Enterprise. Advanced Server 5.0 already supports unlimited guest OS's. According to RedHat's web site (for Enterprise 5.0), the only product they support running in virtualization is, you guessed it, RedHat Enterprise.
According to the article, it sounds like the only thing they added for 5.1 is support for Windows guests.
You wouldn't need to worry about weather because you'd have the laser link on a satellite. The satellite would have a gyroscopically mounted laser, and would communicate with the remote station via radio and they would auto-align their lasers accordingly. Once a link was achieved, it should be fairly easy to keep it established, and the satellite would simply relay the info back to terra firma.
It may be sad, but it's a legitimate concern that has to be addressed before it becomes mainstream technology. The article does not address this concern at all and I would be very interested to hear what Phoenix is doing to ensure the security of this system.
This sounds very similar to virtualization technologies being developed that allow an application, say a database, to run in a virtual environment on a server without having an underlying OS. Why not virtualize a desktop as well? Why not run a simple OS with networking capabilities?
My concern would be data security, as if you wanted to run a word processor or any app that needs access to your hard drive or thumb drive, you would have to have appropriate security built into the miniOS to handle reading and writing. An option would be to provide some onboard flash storage for Hyperspace to use. How much can you enable the end user to customize the user experience without opening up the system to security risks?
Actually, if you check out reputable sites like webhostingtalk.com, you hear enough negative publicity from actual (former) customers to stay away from them in the first place. Their prices are too good to be true which is really the first clue that they are a cheap, unreliable choice. I'm surprised you stayed with them as long as you did.
The problem with that theory, is that Nigeria is not nearly well run or organized enough to handle this. It's amazing that they even have the money to pull off this purchase - likely half of the funds allocated to this project went to lining the pockets of whoever was put in charge of negotiations. I've been to Nigeria, I know people there. And while a few good people may have a vision of creating an offshore workforce like you described, there are countless others who will sabotage it just to make a quick buck for themselves.
In effect, what you call hiding and what I call minimizing are the same thing.
I just am of the opinion that Windows Taskbar makes it easier for me to quickly call up those "hidden" apps.
Why? Because I can do it with one click of the mouse. Then I can bring it back quickly with one click of the mouse on the taskbar.
If I hide an app on the mac, I still have to go to the Option+Tab screen or the Dock to bring it back. This may not be very annoying if you only occasionaly go from app to app, but if you switch back and forth between multiple apps for a while, the Mac can get very aggravating.
Yes, Apple shipped just over 2 million new units in their fiscal 2007 4th quarter, which places their market share at about 3.2 percent. However, this number was at 2.8 percent one year ago, but dropped to 2.5% at the end of their fiscal 2007 2nd quarter in March 2007. Apple sold an estimated 5.2 Million Macs in fiscal 2006, while bootcamp downloads numbered over 1 million, suggesting that the increase in Mac sales has as much to do with their switch to Intel architecture and ability to run Windows, had as much or more to do with the surge in Mac sales than the iPod. Apple themselves attribute strong 4th quarter 2007 sales with the introduction of the new iMac and strong laptop sales, while iPod sales have remained fairly level and even dropped slightly over the second half of fiscal 2007.