I don't mean to sound like a troll, but what does DCE/DFS buy me now?
With kerberos, pam, ldap and NFSv4 it seems like alternatives are available. And the 90% of computer users in the enterprise needing authentication, directory service on Windows users are getting embraced by AD.
Plus, last time I remember using DCE/DFS about 7 or 8 years ago it was sloooooow.
While I'm as aggrieved against the Harvard Business School as anyone for the simple reason that all the managers in the world read their magazine and start spouting buzzwords based on those articles, your conclusion needs more research.
That is,
Is the percentage of HBS graduates heading failed dotcom's
greater than the percentage of HBS graduates heading companies that made it through the dotcom bust?
In retrospect, Steve Case was able to buy a huge media conglomerate using dotcom overvalued AOL stock. Bad for TW, sure. Disparate businesses, sure. But anyone that was able to leverage their dotcom overvaluations to provide themselves a long term equity stake that retained its value through the crash looks either wise or lucky to me.
there is not much demand for higher capacities (very few people would need >160gb).
But there will be once the HD DVR market grows. But that probably won't happen in 2005.
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One of the proposed expansions of the acronym for fvwm was "frugal" virtual window manager. It might even have a smaller footprint than the venerable twm.
I used fvwm for several years on a SPARCstation in the mid 1990's when the Sun's first CDE implementations were just too bloated and slow for my tastes.
So the obvious question is why can the MS Office development team straddle the Mac OS X and the Windows platforms while the OpenOffice development team deems it too difficult?
Is it
they can't afford to pay as many professional developers?
they have higher standards about messy codebases where MS marketing gets to run over the Office development team and tells 'em to lump it?
there are smaller technical differences between the low level display technologies of Mac and Windows than between Mac and X11?
there isn't enough flexibility in the personalities of the different OOo developers (wouldn't be the first time that programming talent was bundled with prickly personalities)?
While they may have a point about the stability of X11, I can't believe everyone is happy about its technical features - hopefully X.org will improve things for all of us.
a good sales person is supposed to sell a solution to a problem rather than just a product.
The problem is that selling has become scientific and professional to the extreme.
You'd think that selling was designed to deliver the information about the products to the people who actually needed the products, the customers who have carefully and rationally assessed their needs and done their homework.
Not anymore. No one has time, no one person has all the expertise. And the customers are a bunch of human beings full of emotional hot buttons that can be pushed.
It's more profitable to sell more, to generate a mythical reality for the customer that makes buying the product an indispensible need, as much as mating or gathering food. And that mythical reality can be quite independent of the customer's actual need for the product based on rational analysis. If deception sells, then deception will flourish. The side effect is what we see - a lot of jaded, skeptical customers.
Given its prevalence in modern culture, I think it's high time that high school students are taught exactly how marketing works, half because it's a necessary skill these days, and half because it's necessary to inure them against the ploys that they are subject to on a daily basis.
it would be much better if it had more driver support, which would be the case if it had more marketshare.
That, and from what I've read over the years on Slashdot, the driver support increases if the interfaces with the kernel are kept more stable over time and distributions.
Red Hat got a lot of flack for previous Fedorae that were too buggy or made it too hard for independent developers to write into the repository.
Fedora 3 seems to be better (been running it for a couple of months), but I do notice the annoyances like lack of fonts, shockwave, acrobat, flash player, java, nVidia X drivers, etc. that one comes to expect.
Red Hat can make a fine living by loading the luxury items onto Fedora 3 and calling it RHEL 4, providing support, etc.
But with other developers also providing pathways for making Fedora 3 nicer, Red Hat is implicitly providing RHEL 4 low-cost competitors.
Red Hat must feel they can provide a product that customers will want to pay for despite the competition. Or, maybe the customers will feel more comfortable buying into an enterprise service agreement with Red Hat because the Exit door is visible just because such competition exists (remembering their experiences with MS where there's no where to run if you're dissatisfied except off the cliff).
Why not have an international on-line system for auctioning spectrum at various power levels at various locations for given times (with some zero threshhold for existing 2.4 GHz equipment)?
It seems to me that if a community wanted to establish a WiFi network and they're out in some rural area away from others, then they ought to be entitled to bidding next to nothing for unused spectrum in their neighborhood.
If you want downtown Manhattan during M-F, 9-5, then you need to pay, as you would if you wanted to blast the entire continental U.S. or all of Europe with some band.
Young men and women, sitting in barracks in Iraq, sighing about having to go out on patrol yet again through IED land where distinguishing from the liberated and the insurgents is aggravatingly difficult. It's re-enlistment time....what should I do...
Fifty-year-old workers, getting laid off and spending time at home unemployed. Thinking about the pension that vaporized, the health insurance monthly premium cost.
You're right, it does take death or close to it for some people to come to a realization ("If I really am Superman, then I shouldn't just be rushing straight toward the ground this fast...my vaunted sideways flying powers aren't what they ought to be....")
Only some of the people that voted for the President are so fervent they'd go down with the ship. When the 2 terms are up in 2008, they will complain about the mess that the country is in as much as anyone. Their old favorite pundits, trying to blame it on the "liberals in Congress", will seem tired and inappropriate.
Don't forget the cynical slackers, either, that can be motivated by less than death and remain perceptive despite outward appearance.
One of the biggest losses for the country is that the winning mentality of "We know we're right and you're a bunch of whiny Frenchmen, liberals, etc." is that, not only has the administration lost support from the rest of the world, but it has lost support from half of all Americans who have no enthusiasm for the current course of the country. The losing side are unable to support a delusion because they don't see any logic in it - the winning side either has no logical argument or doesn't even care to construct and present a logical argument for their policies.
Bereft of the support of half of America, the President will have to rely upon his true believers to provide double support because the rest of the country have their thrown up their hands with skepticism. So, the sons and daughters of rural America, that half of America that voted for W, are providing double support for the President's vision by putting their lives on the line and mortgaging their fiscal future with deficit spending.
Sorry, I intended to cheer you up and lift you out of your pessimism, but I'm afraid I've only compounded it.
No, I'm the last person on Slashdot who would support W.
You are quite correct, that employment is actually increasing. The quality of those jobs relative to the jobs that were lost during the recession I do not know, though I've read that many people switching jobs have ended up taking significant cuts in pay and/or benefits. There are a lot of new jobs that have to be created to employ new people entering the workforce, something like 150k/month.
Also, to be fair, a President has less impact on the day-to-day economy than is typically thought. Longer term is a different story and I have grave reservations about the trends in the fiscal deficit and the tax policy and spending that includes US$4.5e9/month in Iraq.
Finally, it is true that employment figures during 2004 showed some growth due to government hiring, which is ironic considering the GOP stance against big government.
Many of my fellow Americans - bless them - they're really good people at heart - prefer to live in a myth and to listen to people that help maintain that mythology. They want to be part of a story where they play the good guys and they defeat the bad guys and it's easy to tell the two apart. The power of a delusion is strong and, unfortunately, conditions will have to get a lot worse before the cognitive dissonance creates a willingness to re-examine the facts. It's a shame, I'd rather people not have to learn such hard lessons from experience of hardship that I see coming like a train down the tracks.
Showing thumbnail gifs or favicons of the pages in the tree display would be nice, too.
My other favorite would be to have an automatic bookmark categorizer based on keyword incidence - something which would notice that "what all these pages have in common are lots of references to linux, x86-64, etc as well as being linked to one another" and to create a bookmark tree structure according to keyword incidence.
Not only a robust rendering engine for scalable vector graphics that looks good no matter how HD your monitor, but provides a path forward for putting figures and diagrams into web pages in a much better way than bitmaps.
This would be a tremendous development toward making it possible to publish quality scientific documents on the web in a format that would, finally, supersede paper.
If individuals properly used encryption for their email, it wouldn't be Yahoo as the primary point of contact - it would be the senders and recipients of the email.
Future DRM measures may put various corporations into a more central role in ways that we don't consider now. [Imagine if Nixon's tapes or Lewinsky's emails required corporate action to deciper.]
I've recently had cause to investigate design tools to a degree that I had not previously.
My preference is open source. So imagine my dismay at finding that not just that the business world is held hostage to .doc,.xls,.ppt but that the design world is held hostage to .dwg.
I saw some hope in the Open Design Alliance, Open Cascade and some of the free CAD tools, but the range of secret but widely-used import and export formats that the commercial tools offer seem to make them an essential purchase for doing CAD work or development. That, in turn, is a barrier to entry to the development of free tools. Eg, the IGES standard, which is hard to find documented publicly, for free, seems to have more warts than a six ton toad because of decades of committee-added features.
The temptation to establish and own a standard is too high to resist given the return on investment that can be obtained.
I'm happy to see standard formats and commonly-used tools make their way to the free world so that vendors concentrate on true value-added products and services instead of milking windfalls of our IP-mad society.
So I'm curious then - are the most reliable computers those that have high-quality and redundant cooling fans in them? This sounds like an inexpensive way to increase the 9's of reliability for a relatively small cost.
There will be no shortage of ambulance chasing lawyers suing the town if something happened and the town had provided info of its own free will, as opposed to be compelled to by a court order.
Conversely, if something Good® happens to a town because they do release information, not much credit will go to the people that decide to release the information.
Nevertheless, as more and more people use the Web to do research on topics they care about, on topics that can have a profound impact on a community's livelihood, the greater web presence of Openville will impress companies, employees, retirees looking for places to relocate, to work, and to retire much more than Access Denied, Who Are You, and Why Do You Need to Know.
Consequently, Secretville will wither because it is invisible and has all the charm of a military checkpoint. The only new business it will attract are private prisons, landfills, and shady boilerroom financial telemarketers.
Same thing goes for larger geographic entities, too.
There are far more dangerous materials in common usage out there, but treated with proper respect they can be used. Bismuth is significantly more toxic than lead, as is cadmium,
I cringe everytime I think of how many Ni-Cd rechargeable batteries get thrown into landfills all over the place, including arid environments where life depends upon the availability of quality groundwater.
I dunno if this is the case everywhere, but my local public waste handling facility has an amnesty day, where you can bring in all those crusty old cans of solvents, paints, pesticides, household cleaners for free. This helps to mitigate the problem of people tossing dangerous chemicals into household trash and not get the proper treatment such chemicals deserve. Or the auxiliary problem of illegal dumping because "taking that stuff to the dump is expensive, dammit!"
like Bill Gates dropping out of Harvard. Probably a few relatives were dismayed at his lack of perseverance.
I think these counter-examples are noteworthy not because college ruins future success (I think the evidence is largely the other way), but because a lot of people who don't complete college need some reason for believing that they, too, can be successful. And they can - it's just these people are like lottery winners. They're exceptions to the trend.
As to giving management Stock Options I think that probably represents a screw-job for the non-management employees.
Yes, typically. It allows pumping the next few quarters' earnings by cutting costs of research, development, quality control, etc. that will doom the company in the longer term.
Which is why I advocate that companies make sure the options get exercised many years out into the future, gradually, so that the managers take a longer term view and even hire qualified successors instead of friends/relatives/glossy MBA's.
I wish we had a way of insuring longer term outlooks in our government, too. Something like tieing the pension and tax rates for congresspersons to the deficit five years from now. Tying military service requirements and law enforcement intrusion measures triple strength into members of the executive branch of government.
I find it very amusing every time I read about Americans complaining about loosing their jobs to outsourcing.
Me, too.
You'd think more people would get a clue from the President and become members of an 0wnership Society just like he and the Vice President have.
It's obvious that Owner of Large Stock Holdings is a job that will be the last to be outsourced.
Considering the undemanding nature of the work of being a stockholder, you'd think more kids would choose that profession.
And, for many, the elimination of the inheritence^W death tax will make it so you don't need to work too hard or be very smart to get such a job, either.
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I don't mean to sound like a troll, but what does DCE/DFS buy me now?
With kerberos, pam, ldap and NFSv4 it seems like alternatives are available. And the 90% of computer users in the enterprise needing authentication, directory service on Windows users are getting embraced by AD.
Plus, last time I remember using DCE/DFS about 7 or 8 years ago it was sloooooow.
While I'm as aggrieved against the Harvard Business School as anyone for the simple reason that all the managers in the world read their magazine and start spouting buzzwords based on those articles, your conclusion needs more research.
That is,
In retrospect, Steve Case was able to buy a huge media conglomerate using dotcom overvalued AOL stock. Bad for TW, sure. Disparate businesses, sure. But anyone that was able to leverage their dotcom overvaluations to provide themselves a long term equity stake that retained its value through the crash looks either wise or lucky to me.
there is not much demand for higher capacities (very few people would need >160gb).
But there will be once the HD DVR market grows. But that probably won't happen in 2005.
One of the proposed expansions of the acronym for fvwm was "frugal" virtual window manager. It might even have a smaller footprint than the venerable twm.
I used fvwm for several years on a SPARCstation in the mid 1990's when the Sun's first CDE implementations were just too bloated and slow for my tastes.
So the obvious question is why can the MS Office development team straddle the Mac OS X and the Windows platforms while the OpenOffice development team deems it too difficult?
Is it
While they may have a point about the stability of X11, I can't believe everyone is happy about its technical features - hopefully X.org will improve things for all of us.
I'm curious if anyone has experience using Bugzilla and GForge.
It looks as if Bugzilla might just be bug handling, while GForge is for an entire project management, including the funtionality of CVS/subverion.
Sometimes the AllInOne approach is fast, flexible and easy to learn. But sometimes not.
I'm wondering which way to go on a new project.
a good sales person is supposed to sell a solution to a problem rather than just a product.
The problem is that selling has become scientific and professional to the extreme.
You'd think that selling was designed to deliver the information about the products to the people who actually needed the products, the customers who have carefully and rationally assessed their needs and done their homework.
Not anymore. No one has time, no one person has all the expertise. And the customers are a bunch of human beings full of emotional hot buttons that can be pushed.
It's more profitable to sell more, to generate a mythical reality for the customer that makes buying the product an indispensible need, as much as mating or gathering food. And that mythical reality can be quite independent of the customer's actual need for the product based on rational analysis. If deception sells, then deception will flourish. The side effect is what we see - a lot of jaded, skeptical customers.
Given its prevalence in modern culture, I think it's high time that high school students are taught exactly how marketing works, half because it's a necessary skill these days, and half because it's necessary to inure them against the ploys that they are subject to on a daily basis.
it would be much better if it had more driver support, which would be the case if it had more marketshare.
That, and from what I've read over the years on Slashdot, the driver support increases if the interfaces with the kernel are kept more stable over time and distributions.
Red Hat got a lot of flack for previous Fedorae that were too buggy or made it too hard for independent developers to write into the repository.
Fedora 3 seems to be better (been running it for a couple of months), but I do notice the annoyances like lack of fonts, shockwave, acrobat, flash player, java, nVidia X drivers, etc. that one comes to expect.
Red Hat can make a fine living by loading the luxury items onto Fedora 3 and calling it RHEL 4, providing support, etc.
But with other developers also providing pathways for making Fedora 3 nicer, Red Hat is implicitly providing RHEL 4 low-cost competitors.
Red Hat must feel they can provide a product that customers will want to pay for despite the competition. Or, maybe the customers will feel more comfortable buying into an enterprise service agreement with Red Hat because the Exit door is visible just because such competition exists (remembering their experiences with MS where there's no where to run if you're dissatisfied except off the cliff).
Why not have an international on-line system for auctioning spectrum at various power levels at various locations for given times (with some zero threshhold for existing 2.4 GHz equipment)?
It seems to me that if a community wanted to establish a WiFi network and they're out in some rural area away from others, then they ought to be entitled to bidding next to nothing for unused spectrum in their neighborhood.
If you want downtown Manhattan during M-F, 9-5, then you need to pay, as you would if you wanted to blast the entire continental U.S. or all of Europe with some band.
I believe that as individuals, in isolation,
Young men and women, sitting in barracks in Iraq, sighing about having to go out on patrol yet again through IED land where distinguishing from the liberated and the insurgents is aggravatingly difficult. It's re-enlistment time....what should I do...
Fifty-year-old workers, getting laid off and spending time at home unemployed. Thinking about the pension that vaporized, the health insurance monthly premium cost.
You're right, it does take death or close to it for some people to come to a realization ("If I really am Superman, then I shouldn't just be rushing straight toward the ground this fast...my vaunted sideways flying powers aren't what they ought to be....")
Only some of the people that voted for the President are so fervent they'd go down with the ship. When the 2 terms are up in 2008, they will complain about the mess that the country is in as much as anyone. Their old favorite pundits, trying to blame it on the "liberals in Congress", will seem tired and inappropriate.
Don't forget the cynical slackers, either, that can be motivated by less than death and remain perceptive despite outward appearance.
One of the biggest losses for the country is that the winning mentality of "We know we're right and you're a bunch of whiny Frenchmen, liberals, etc." is that, not only has the administration lost support from the rest of the world, but it has lost support from half of all Americans who have no enthusiasm for the current course of the country. The losing side are unable to support a delusion because they don't see any logic in it - the winning side either has no logical argument or doesn't even care to construct and present a logical argument for their policies.
Bereft of the support of half of America, the President will have to rely upon his true believers to provide double support because the rest of the country have their thrown up their hands with skepticism. So, the sons and daughters of rural America, that half of America that voted for W, are providing double support for the President's vision by putting their lives on the line and mortgaging their fiscal future with deficit spending.
Sorry, I intended to cheer you up and lift you out of your pessimism, but I'm afraid I've only compounded it.
No, I'm the last person on Slashdot who would support W.
You are quite correct, that employment is actually increasing. The quality of those jobs relative to the jobs that were lost during the recession I do not know, though I've read that many people switching jobs have ended up taking significant cuts in pay and/or benefits. There are a lot of new jobs that have to be created to employ new people entering the workforce, something like 150k/month.
Also, to be fair, a President has less impact on the day-to-day economy than is typically thought. Longer term is a different story and I have grave reservations about the trends in the fiscal deficit and the tax policy and spending that includes US$4.5e9/month in Iraq.
Finally, it is true that employment figures during 2004 showed some growth due to government hiring, which is ironic considering the GOP stance against big government.
Many of my fellow Americans - bless them - they're really good people at heart - prefer to live in a myth and to listen to people that help maintain that mythology. They want to be part of a story where they play the good guys and they defeat the bad guys and it's easy to tell the two apart. The power of a delusion is strong and, unfortunately, conditions will have to get a lot worse before the cognitive dissonance creates a willingness to re-examine the facts. It's a shame, I'd rather people not have to learn such hard lessons from experience of hardship that I see coming like a train down the tracks.
corporations, the media, and government.
Lately I've come to the conclusion that mixing any of these 4 institutions will taint and degrade them.
- government
- money
- religion
- media
The empirical evidence supporting my hypothesis seems overwhelming.Nominal separation of church and state was a good insight, but doesn't go far enough.
What other vendor keeps supporting an OS 8 years after release and 5 years as a legacy OS?
IBM?
I'm sure their mainframe customers would be real unhappy if they didn't support their old stuff.
but to recognize the page body.
Showing thumbnail gifs or favicons of the pages in the tree display would be nice, too.
My other favorite would be to have an automatic bookmark categorizer based on keyword incidence - something which would notice that "what all these pages have in common are lots of references to linux, x86-64, etc as well as being linked to one another" and to create a bookmark tree structure according to keyword incidence.
An unambiguous description of the One True Way to properly render
Not only a robust rendering engine for scalable vector graphics that looks good no matter how HD your monitor, but provides a path forward for putting figures and diagrams into web pages in a much better way than bitmaps. This would be a tremendous development toward making it possible to publish quality scientific documents on the web in a format that would, finally, supersede paper.
I've recently had cause to investigate design tools to a degree that I had not previously.
My preference is open source. So imagine my dismay at finding that not just that the business world is held hostage to .doc, .xls, .ppt but that the design world is held hostage to .dwg .
I saw some hope in the Open Design Alliance, Open Cascade and some of the free CAD tools, but the range of secret but widely-used import and export formats that the commercial tools offer seem to make them an essential purchase for doing CAD work or development. That, in turn, is a barrier to entry to the development of free tools. Eg, the IGES standard, which is hard to find documented publicly, for free, seems to have more warts than a six ton toad because of decades of committee-added features.
The temptation to establish and own a standard is too high to resist given the return on investment that can be obtained.
I'm happy to see standard formats and commonly-used tools make their way to the free world so that vendors concentrate on true value-added products and services instead of milking windfalls of our IP-mad society.
So I'm curious then - are the most reliable computers those that have high-quality and redundant cooling fans in them? This sounds like an inexpensive way to increase the 9's of reliability for a relatively small cost.
Perhaps I'm just confusing death with downtime.
There will be no shortage of ambulance chasing lawyers suing the town if something happened and the town had provided info of its own free will, as opposed to be compelled to by a court order.
Conversely, if something Good® happens to a town because they do release information, not much credit will go to the people that decide to release the information.
Nevertheless, as more and more people use the Web to do research on topics they care about, on topics that can have a profound impact on a community's livelihood, the greater web presence of Openville will impress companies, employees, retirees looking for places to relocate, to work, and to retire much more than Access Denied, Who Are You, and Why Do You Need to Know.
Consequently, Secretville will wither because it is invisible and has all the charm of a military checkpoint. The only new business it will attract are private prisons, landfills, and shady boilerroom financial telemarketers.
Same thing goes for larger geographic entities, too.
There are far more dangerous materials in common usage out there, but treated with proper respect they can be used. Bismuth is significantly more toxic than lead, as is cadmium,
I cringe everytime I think of how many Ni-Cd rechargeable batteries get thrown into landfills all over the place, including arid environments where life depends upon the availability of quality groundwater.
I dunno if this is the case everywhere, but my local public waste handling facility has an amnesty day, where you can bring in all those crusty old cans of solvents, paints, pesticides, household cleaners for free. This helps to mitigate the problem of people tossing dangerous chemicals into household trash and not get the proper treatment such chemicals deserve. Or the auxiliary problem of illegal dumping because "taking that stuff to the dump is expensive, dammit!"
like Bill Gates dropping out of Harvard. Probably a few relatives were dismayed at his lack of perseverance.
I think these counter-examples are noteworthy not because college ruins future success (I think the evidence is largely the other way), but because a lot of people who don't complete college need some reason for believing that they, too, can be successful. And they can - it's just these people are like lottery winners. They're exceptions to the trend.
As to giving management Stock Options I think that probably represents a screw-job for the non-management employees.
Yes, typically. It allows pumping the next few quarters' earnings by cutting costs of research, development, quality control, etc. that will doom the company in the longer term.
Which is why I advocate that companies make sure the options get exercised many years out into the future, gradually, so that the managers take a longer term view and even hire qualified successors instead of friends/relatives/glossy MBA's.
I wish we had a way of insuring longer term outlooks in our government, too. Something like tieing the pension and tax rates for congresspersons to the deficit five years from now. Tying military service requirements and law enforcement intrusion measures triple strength into members of the executive branch of government.
I find it very amusing every time I read about Americans complaining about loosing their jobs to outsourcing.
Me, too.
You'd think more people would get a clue from the President and become members of an 0wnership Society just like he and the Vice President have.
It's obvious that Owner of Large Stock Holdings is a job that will be the last to be outsourced.
Considering the undemanding nature of the work of being a stockholder, you'd think more kids would choose that profession.
And, for many, the elimination of the inheritence^W death tax will make it so you don't need to work too hard or be very smart to get such a job, either.