I remember ten years ago read an article about developing a OS. It quoted Bill Gates on why there is so little competition. The gist of his answer is first the cost is too high for most companies to want to take on. Second he said to get to market then have the product mature takes about ten years. So Linux beat the cost factor, but not the time factor.
Too bad they just didn't go with the BSD license from the beginning then we wouldn't be having this conversation at all.
I don't like the GPL, I like that the BSD licence it lets you choose. When I have a choice I have freedom. I don't see the freedom in the GPL it dictates too much how GPL code HAS to be used.
IBM continues to layoff people, just a few months back they dumped around 4600. They mainly use contractors so they pay bad, no benefits, sick days, and on and on. They just bought a large outsourcing company in India. They keep cutting the retirement programs, stock purchase program and so on. Many they bring on are ITS a employee who is only allowed to work two years for company them have to leave. They are told they can go full time during the two years, but there are huge barriors they make it near impossible. IBM has turned into a services company and most of the services employees are contractors they treat like dirt. The managers make it very clear we are full-time you are contractor dirty. IBM isn't the company they once were.
To use a real Enterprise class operating system. OS X is a nice desktop OS and okay for web server or servers in a farm. Also read the reviews of OS X server they aren't that good it still has a ways to go. OS X server is not as mature as OS X desktop. Apple's main focus has always been desktop boxes, servers were alway an after thought.
Tubes are warmer sounding probably because they are richer in odd harmonics. Tubes gradually add distortion as they start to saturate. Transisters are cold sounding, but stay clean until they overloaded.
Not scientific but to my ear the high end with tubes has more clarity and definition to my ear.
The way it was explained to me by a lawyer is you can refure to give your name or answer anything, but be prepared to be taken to the police station. Once at the police station you can request a lawyer. Needless to say the police are not going be your fans, so you better be doing it for a good reason.
Do like IBM did with OS/2's big revision Warp. All the changes to Warp slowed performance down in general so IBM used smoke and mirrors. They worked on speeding up screen I/O as much as possible. End users raved about how fast Warp was. Looks faster, feels faster, but any program that required much prcessing was getting slower and slower. But joe user thought he had a speed deamon becasue the screen painted real fast.
Pascal was designed to be a teaching language. It's approach is simple if the language doesn't say it legal to do, it's illegal. Being such a tightly defined language its error messages are very good.
By law social security cards are NOT suppose to be used as an ID number. But its one of those laws the government looks the other way on. Many states use it for drivers license number, many schools use it for a student ID, and so on.
Well in looking at the numbers in the various articles IBM has 9K currently in India, now another 6K and a couple months ago annouced they will be outsourcing 4.6K current U.S. jobs to India. They might as well change their name. Also note their latest ad's on TV for IBM HR services. Guess they have the most experience at dumping US citizens and moving the jobs overseas.
Guess Bush and his CEO cronnies are to short sighted to realize in the long run they are gutting middle America. Whose going to buy all the products when middle America is unemployed. Unemployed people don't pay taxes, there goes the bulk of the tax base.
Then the security issues when corporate America's date is now being accessed all over the world.
Sure playing a word game with MS probably sounded like fun, but how much money in legal fees has it cost them. But more important most of the name recognition they have built will now be gone.
Don't want development tools on production servers for security reasons. So build from source on another box and test, once okay build a package and install. That will also help insure all your boxes are built the same.
Remember in the US what the government does to one it has to do to all. If they don't the lawyers make lots of money makes sure they do. Getting the goverment involved in regulating software like a utility company would be the worst thing to happen to computers and software.
Do you want Bush whose cutting the IT R&D budget (www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1540372,00.asp) for his pet programs to be controlling what software is or isn't? I sure don't.
All OS have a hood that opens how else would you do maintenance. What they should of said would you buy a car that didn't come with complete blueprints for the engines and all other components. Open source and engine blueprints are the equvilents.
>>Ultimately, free trade works out well; I think one of the issues is that white collar jobs are just beginning to feel the pinch, and are acting like manufacturers did in the 1970s and 1980s.
Blue collar work went oversea and we have ghost towns in old factory cities. Now white collor jobs are going overseas and basic service jobs. So what's left flipping burgers or being a manager. The jobs of people who do most of the spending inside the US are going away. These CEO's have to be pretty short sighted not to see they are reducing the customer base.
Real simple the cost of doing tech support. DOS can be supported by monkeys. Linux especially for newbies requires a fair amount of explanation and hand-holding.
It's the same reason so many manufacturers only install Windows. Windows is enough of a commodity product that lots of low cost trained monkeys to support it. Plus with Window's market share a newbies can pick up a phone, dial a random number, and whoever they get is bound to be able to help them.
Cert's were helping people get thier foot in the door during the.Com boom. But today there are too many experineced people looking for work, so cert's don't do much for you anymore. I'm part of the interview team at work and even experienced people are having trouble now. We are getting people out of work for a year or more and from not doing the work daily they are forgetting troubleshooting and other skills.
I say get hands-on experinece anyway you can. Help others, do volenteer work, anything to do real work. That way in an interview you don't sound like someone parroting a book. You will know real world answers to questions. Like in interviews we ask someone about their experience with a product or technology. If they start sounding like a spec sheet or text book they have two stikes to against them. If they start telling war stories about having to deal with deal with subject, we know they've been there.
WHat I heard at work was the contract with MS is up for renewal and MS practically doubled the price. So IBM is threatening going with Linux to get MS to drop the price.
IBM makes a lot from selling Windows products and supporting Windows so they don't want to rock the boat too much with MS. So they are in a tough position balancing their need to make money on Windows and Linux.
It's not so much Apache2 and PHP it's all the 3rd party add-ons that aren't threadsafe and probably never will be. It's asshame the Apache team did so much work on Aoache 2 and its got off to a slow start due to the 3rd thread safe issues.
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I remember ten years ago read an article about developing a OS. It quoted Bill Gates on why there is so little competition. The gist of his answer is first the cost is too high for most companies to want to take on. Second he said to get to market then have the product mature takes about ten years. So Linux beat the cost factor, but not the time factor.
The same guy keeps cutting and pasting the same message over and over. Just the number of times he's posted it is proof FreeBSD is not dead.
Linus, will you please stop posting this.
FACT: Chuckie Daemon will not die!
Too bad they just didn't go with the BSD license from the beginning then we wouldn't be having this conversation at all.
I don't like the GPL, I like that the BSD licence it lets you choose. When I have a choice I have freedom. I don't see the freedom in the GPL it dictates too much how GPL code HAS to be used.
IBM continues to layoff people, just a few months back they dumped around 4600. They mainly use contractors so they pay bad, no benefits, sick days, and on and on. They just bought a large outsourcing company in India. They keep cutting the retirement programs, stock purchase program and so on. Many they bring on are ITS a employee who is only allowed to work two years for company them have to leave. They are told they can go full time during the two years, but there are huge barriors they make it near impossible. IBM has turned into a services company and most of the services employees are contractors they treat like dirt. The managers make it very clear we are full-time you are contractor dirty. IBM isn't the company they once were.
To use a real Enterprise class operating system. OS X is a nice desktop OS and okay for web server or servers in a farm. Also read the reviews of OS X server they aren't that good it still has a ways to go. OS X server is not as mature as OS X desktop. Apple's main focus has always been desktop boxes, servers were alway an after thought.
That's still BSD under all the blue Goo.
The BSD's support 64-bit chips too.
Tubes are warmer sounding probably because they are richer in odd harmonics. Tubes gradually add distortion as they start to saturate. Transisters are cold sounding, but stay clean until they overloaded.
Not scientific but to my ear the high end with tubes has more clarity and definition to my ear.
Send your resume to India, I hear they are hiring.
The way it was explained to me by a lawyer is you can refure to give your name or answer anything, but be prepared to be taken to the police station. Once at the police station you can request a lawyer. Needless to say the police are not going be your fans, so you better be doing it for a good reason.
Caps Lock == Popup fave online pizza order form.
Shift Caps Lock == start coffee pot.
alt-Caps Lock == toggle office lights.
ctrl-Caps Lock == popup vi and kill nmap.
atl-ctrl-shift Caps lock == ignite thermite and melt hard drive.
Do like IBM did with OS/2's big revision Warp. All the changes to Warp slowed performance down in general so IBM used smoke and mirrors. They worked on speeding up screen I/O as much as possible. End users raved about how fast Warp was. Looks faster, feels faster, but any program that required much prcessing was getting slower and slower. But joe user thought he had a speed deamon becasue the screen painted real fast.
Pascal was designed to be a teaching language. It's approach is simple if the language doesn't say it legal to do, it's illegal. Being such a tightly defined language its error messages are very good.
I think Andrew lays things out quite nicely in this article. So hopefully Brown will crawl back under the rock he came from.
Also Tanenbaum made one of my favorite comments, something like this...
The wonderful thing about standards, is there are so many to choose from.
Tanenbaum is one the best minds in Computer Science.
By law social security cards are NOT suppose to be used as an ID number. But its one of those laws the government looks the other way on. Many states use it for drivers license number, many schools use it for a student ID, and so on.
Well in looking at the numbers in the various articles IBM has 9K currently in India, now another 6K and a couple months ago annouced they will be outsourcing 4.6K current U.S. jobs to India. They might as well change their name. Also note their latest ad's on TV for IBM HR services. Guess they have the most experience at dumping US citizens and moving the jobs overseas.
Guess Bush and his CEO cronnies are to short sighted to realize in the long run they are gutting middle America. Whose going to buy all the products when middle America is unemployed. Unemployed people don't pay taxes, there goes the bulk of the tax base.
Then the security issues when corporate America's date is now being accessed all over the world.
Sure playing a word game with MS probably sounded like fun, but how much money in legal fees has it cost them. But more important most of the name recognition they have built will now be gone.
Don't want development tools on production servers for security reasons. So build from source on another box and test, once okay build a package and install. That will also help insure all your boxes are built the same.
Remember in the US what the government does to one it has to do to all. If they don't the lawyers make lots of money makes sure they do. Getting the goverment involved in regulating software like a utility company would be the worst thing to happen to computers and software.
Do you want Bush whose cutting the IT R&D budget (www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1540372,00.asp) for his pet programs to be controlling what software is or isn't? I sure don't.
All OS have a hood that opens how else would you do maintenance. What they should of said would you buy a car that didn't come with complete blueprints for the engines and all other components. Open source and engine blueprints are the equvilents.
>>Ultimately, free trade works out well; I think one of the issues is that white collar jobs are just beginning to feel the pinch, and are acting like manufacturers did in the 1970s and 1980s.
Blue collar work went oversea and we have ghost towns in old factory cities. Now white collor jobs are going overseas and basic service jobs. So what's left flipping burgers or being a manager. The jobs of people who do most of the spending inside the US are going away. These CEO's have to be pretty short sighted not to see they are reducing the customer base.
Real simple the cost of doing tech support. DOS can be supported by monkeys. Linux especially for newbies requires a fair amount of explanation and hand-holding.
It's the same reason so many manufacturers only install Windows. Windows is enough of a commodity product that lots of low cost trained monkeys to support it. Plus with Window's market share a newbies can pick up a phone, dial a random number, and whoever they get is bound to be able to help them.
Cert's were helping people get thier foot in the door during the .Com boom. But today there are too many experineced people looking for work, so cert's don't do much for you anymore. I'm part of the interview team at work and even experienced people are having trouble now. We are getting people out of work for a year or more and from not doing the work daily they are forgetting troubleshooting and other skills.
I say get hands-on experinece anyway you can. Help others, do volenteer work, anything to do real work. That way in an interview you don't sound like someone parroting a book. You will know real world answers to questions. Like in interviews we ask someone about their experience with a product or technology. If they start sounding like a spec sheet or text book they have two stikes to against them. If they start telling war stories about having to deal with deal with subject, we know they've been there.
WHat I heard at work was the contract with MS is up for renewal and MS practically doubled the price. So IBM is threatening going with Linux to get MS to drop the price.
IBM makes a lot from selling Windows products and supporting Windows so they don't want to rock the boat too much with MS. So they are in a tough position balancing their need to make money on Windows and Linux.
It's not so much Apache2 and PHP it's all the 3rd party add-ons that aren't threadsafe and probably never will be. It's asshame the Apache team did so much work on Aoache 2 and its got off to a slow start due to the 3rd thread safe issues.