I really find it hard to believe that Perl with apache could be the best example for why OSS works! These are hardly the best example of what they can do for a person or corporation. When the possibilities are endless, how does Perl fall into the fold?
I agree with you, and it seems to me that this DMCA thingie is mostly empowering large companies to impose various policies on smaller companies who can't defend themselves. Like the google filtering and other stuff that has made the news recently.:(
I was quite happy with the way the advertising was going already.. This isn't a sign of something worse looming over the horizon is it? Though I have to say that some of your sponsors are pretty cool!
But I doubt it will last, I mean who would want to rent 3 DVDs and then just watch those over and over again? You'd still have to make a trip to pick up something new.. Could really save on those excruciating Blockbuster late charges though..
The L.L Bean website was one of the worst designs I have seen in ages. In addition when my girlfriend and I bought online there to have a gift shipped to her parents in Texas as a gift, they actually shipped only 1 of the 2 products we ordered (backorder). However, they never notified us. And we were quite embarassed, as the second gift was to be for her mother's boyfriend. Consequently, he didn't receive anything! And we didn't find out in time to send him something else. If you want cutting edge, there are few if any sites on the internet that can do better than amazon.com. And I hope that's the major reason that they are finally successful, they have an excellent site. A clear second place for me for service and a great site is one here in Canada. Mountain Equipment Co-op doesn't dissapoint, and they offer free shipping, and Canadian prices!
Another thing that usually is overlooked is browsing habits. Were the habits of your users to change unexpectedly, likely it would affect performance in unpredictable ways. I suppose there is a framework needed to define thresholds far in advance.
But don't.
Actually a very interesting article, to be honest, in my 1 year of building webserver applications. I haven't gone through a process like this once. Usually we make a rough guess about how the application has performed (or more usually underperformed on existing servers, and just scale a percentile. As you can imagine, this is hardly realistic. Thanks for the read!
I love space, I love the shuttle, but these days it seems hardly the kind of thing we should all be spending ooodles of cash on, when there's so much trouble brewing here on earth. Franky, this should fall on the backburner for a little while.
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you may in fact be right about that. But let's face it, fiber sounds so cool that we don't even need to to a needs-analysis.;-) I can't think of many other technologies that have has such sensational support.:)
Is this really the next thing in technology we need? Seems to me that ability to attain high motherboard speeds isn't as much of an issues as getting one that is reasonably priced. Why do I have the feeling that fibre is not a cost-effective solution?
Sure the Germans could bounce back quickly, they are highly disciplined and fairly nationalistic, which is a plus I suppose for SuSe. Though in contrast, and having worked in Germany, I can also say that companies there tend to be very pragmatic and conservative in their approach to changing their current business, so I'm not sure how those two things will balance out.
I agree with you. As a UNIX admin, I seriously prefer working with linux over the other (AIX,Solaris) os'es because most linux distros incorporate many of the nice features of the "commercial" Os'es. Also, to me a very large concern is the price of Sun hardware, it's exorbitantly expensive, imagine the cost of adding just 1 CPU to a 420R. At least with linux you don't have to be stuck with one platform to run on.. Sure Solaris can run on intel (cough) but we won't even get into that. If it was up to me, I'd like to see some of the smaller servers here on Linux (to begin with), that would make my day-to day a little nicer. I'd even love it more if there was something out there for email besides outlook, if it wasn't for outlook, our whole place could be under linux, and we wouldn't even need an NT exchange server and NT workstations.
I could actually imagine the German government using SuSe Linux, it would be a great coup! But I am sceptical still, the bigger the organization, the less likely they are to adopt an open-standard for their system. I would love to be proven wrong, but ever here at my company (banking industry) there is a lot of reluctance towards linux... Not everyone wants to move away from a commercial solution, be it for maintenance reasons, or just maintaining a standard with other companies. We'll that's my two cents for whatever they are worth
I would love to see Hydrogen become the next consumable resource. Though maybe it's the oil corporations, maybe it's the fact that Hydrogen is inherantly dangerous to store. But we've seen so many new vehicules and technologies that use Hydrogen, and none of these have ever made it to the consumer market. It's fun to dream, but I can't help but be sceptical.
If it happens, and at a reasonable cost, I'll be the first to jump on board. But more likely, this and other related technologies will just fall into obsurity.
I agree. But in that case, he should avoid interviews altogether, since he probably has some idea of the questions he will be asked. Maybe he prefers talking about what he does at Transmeta.. then again, maybe not.
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I really find it hard to believe that Perl with apache could be the best example for why OSS works! These are hardly the best example of what they can do for a person or corporation. When the possibilities are endless, how does Perl fall into the fold?
I agree with you, and it seems to me that this DMCA thingie is mostly empowering large companies to impose various policies on smaller companies who can't defend themselves. Like the google filtering and other stuff that has made the news recently. :(
hehhe, while the other companies, like say.. Nortel fourish. riight ;-)
We will win, or die trying.
Delrin
P-T: what is your stance on making open source software illegal?
Vivendi Rep: If the open source code is being used by someone other than the creator for a profit, then it is illegal under the DMCA.
Ummm, it's just this kind of thinking that will destroy us all.
Is there a chance
that we can expect to see some REAL news today, or is it all going to be this absurd stuff that forces me to think?
Delrin
Okay, nevermind, this must of course be an april-fools joke. Though you DID turn off anon posting! :)
Delrin
I was quite happy with the way the advertising was going already.. This isn't a sign of something worse looming over the horizon is it? Though I have to say that some of your sponsors are pretty cool!
But I doubt it will last, I mean who would want to rent 3 DVDs and then just watch those over and over again? You'd still have to make a trip to pick up something new.. Could really save on those excruciating Blockbuster late charges though..
The L.L Bean website was one of the worst designs I have seen in ages. In addition when my girlfriend and I bought online there to have a gift shipped to her parents in Texas as a gift, they actually shipped only 1 of the 2 products we ordered (backorder). However, they never notified us. And we were quite embarassed, as the second gift was to be for her mother's boyfriend. Consequently, he didn't receive anything! And we didn't find out in time to send him something else. If you want cutting edge, there are few if any sites on the internet that can do better than amazon.com. And I hope that's the major reason that they are finally successful, they have an excellent site. A clear second place for me for service and a great site is one here in Canada. Mountain Equipment Co-op doesn't dissapoint, and they offer free shipping, and Canadian prices!
Another thing that usually is overlooked is browsing habits. Were the habits of your users to change unexpectedly, likely it would affect performance in unpredictable ways. I suppose there is a framework needed to define thresholds far in advance.
But don't.
Actually a very interesting article, to be honest, in my 1 year of building webserver applications. I haven't gone through a process like this once. Usually we make a rough guess about how the application has performed (or more usually underperformed on existing servers, and just scale a percentile. As you can imagine, this is hardly realistic. Thanks for the read!
Hey, I'd like to know where I can get one of those frames with the GIFs. ;-)
That sounds like an interesting read, do you have a URL link to that article??
I love space, I love the shuttle, but these days it seems hardly the kind of thing we should all be spending ooodles of cash on, when there's so much trouble brewing here on earth. Franky, this should fall on the backburner for a little while.
hey, that's pretty cool, and it works!
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You got them on that one (In my opinion). here here.
Let me take a guess. It's a pre-existing technology that MS subsequently bastardised and made proprietary. Didn't they do the same with kerberos?
you may in fact be right about that. But let's face it, fiber sounds so cool that we don't even need to to a needs-analysis. ;-) I can't think of many other technologies that have has such sensational support. :)
Is this really the next thing in technology we need? Seems to me that ability to attain high motherboard speeds isn't as much of an issues as getting one that is reasonably priced. Why do I have the feeling that fibre is not a cost-effective solution?
I though McNealy was the entertainer. ;-p
Sure the Germans could bounce back quickly, they are highly disciplined and fairly nationalistic, which is a plus I suppose for SuSe. Though in contrast, and having worked in Germany, I can also say that companies there tend to be very pragmatic and conservative in their approach to changing their current business, so I'm not sure how those two things will balance out.
I agree with you. As a UNIX admin, I seriously prefer working with linux over the other (AIX,Solaris) os'es because most linux distros incorporate many of the nice features of the "commercial" Os'es. Also, to me a very large concern is the price of Sun hardware, it's exorbitantly expensive, imagine the cost of adding just 1 CPU to a 420R. At least with linux you don't have to be stuck with one platform to run on.. Sure Solaris can run on intel (cough) but we won't even get into that. If it was up to me, I'd like to see some of the smaller servers here on Linux (to begin with), that would make my day-to day a little nicer. I'd even love it more if there was something out there for email besides outlook, if it wasn't for outlook, our whole place could be under linux, and we wouldn't even need an NT exchange server and NT workstations.
I could actually imagine the German government using SuSe Linux, it would be a great coup! But I am sceptical still, the bigger the organization, the less likely they are to adopt an open-standard for their system. I would love to be proven wrong, but ever here at my company (banking industry) there is a lot of reluctance towards linux... Not everyone wants to move away from a commercial solution, be it for maintenance reasons, or just maintaining a standard with other companies. We'll that's my two cents for whatever they are worth
I would love to see Hydrogen become the next consumable resource. Though maybe it's the oil corporations, maybe it's the fact that Hydrogen is inherantly dangerous to store. But we've seen so many new vehicules and technologies that use Hydrogen, and none of these have ever made it to the consumer market. It's fun to dream, but I can't help but be sceptical.
If it happens, and at a reasonable cost, I'll be the first to jump on board. But more likely, this and other related technologies will just fall into obsurity.
Delrin
I agree. But in that case, he should avoid interviews altogether, since he probably has some idea of the questions he will be asked. Maybe he prefers talking about what he does at Transmeta.. then again, maybe not.