Posts by Daniel B.
1929 posts • joined Friday 12th October 2007 19:57 GMT
Page:
Re: @Eadon BYOD is a way of avoiding lockin
"1 linux box does the same work as 3 windows boxes. That's nice, any particular application we're talking about here?"
Actually, I wouldn't go that far, but I do have a particular case in mind:
2 Solaris boxes - 200k users.
11 Windows boxes - 2000 users.
The service is LDAP (on Solaris) vs. fugly Active Directory.
There are linux boxen that equally have 2 or 4 box configurations and still curbstomp the Windows boxen in performance and redundancy. Also, AD sucks even with small loads (~2k entries), while true LDAP solutions running on Solaris, AIX or Linux can handle millions of entries...
Re: Pay for my own device, and have them lock it down???
BYOO (Bring Your Own OS) is something that is practiced in some companies. Consulting firms that don't have any OS dependencies with corporate crapware shat out with VB6 means that we don't really care about the OS, as long as productive work is being made.
In our case, most stuff is either spec documents, reports, and such (PDF) or Java apps. Both of these can be made with any OS. Therefore, I use OSX & Linux, and others use Linux. There's the odd Windows user, but even then it is actually Windows under a VM running on Linux, or a dual-boot lappy. Oh, good times...
And here was me
Expecting them to be called Mickey & Goofy.
Re: I'm not Eadon...
Not to mention that Eadon's anti-windows comments have no bearing on this, as the article states that Windows *can* and *does* brick a Samsung lappy the same as Linux. IIRC the 'AC's were also mostly MS shills saying the same thing about "freetards getting what they deserved".
So it is actually the shilltards who should be apologizing to *Eadon*. My my ... the irony...
Re: Blue ? @TOS
Anyone using Access for "database" stuff who has even entry-level CompSci skills is doing something very wrong. Unless the "database" is actually linking to a real RDBMS like PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, DB2 or yes, even SQL Server.
The one person I can forgive for using Access would be an accountant who doesn't have programming skills, yet she was savvy enough to realize that Excel ain't a DB tool and thus built accounting stuff using Access.
You LIKE Metro?
Dude, you're getting a downvote just for that man!
On other news: my coworker who went down the brave path of using Win8 got fed up and is wiping that POS out, replacing it with Fedora 17. TIFKA Metro is a huge part of that decision.
Re: IBM RS/6000 Marketing Meet
Though it isn't the Ethernet we all think about these days. It had a fugly AUI port instead of either coax or RJ45. I managed our sole remaining RS/6000 workstation at our college computer lab during the early 2000's and the AUI-to-cat5 transceiver was constantly being fought for between the RS/6000 users and the CCNA dudes (the Cisco routers only had AUI ports). Yeech!
Re: Ring was too expensive
IIRC Token Ring was actually *RING* topology, hence the name.
The other ring topology network I can remember is LocalTalk, which for years was what our home network had.
Worries for Workgroups
Ah, that thing. Windows 3.11 with DOS 6.22, which for some weird reason broke compatibility with all the stuff in windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2. I kept the 3.1/6.2 combo because it wasn't worth doing the upgrade.
Re: That's not her philosophy
Oh the irony. Metcalfe made it big by doing a network that runs *against* Ayn Rand ideals. Interesting!
Re: 0.666
0x029A - The Hexadecimal Number of the Beast.
Reminds me ...
Plaza Carso, which can be basically described as "Slim Enterprises Plaza" (yes, *that* Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world) has some buildings with a 13th floor. The plaza was built recently. A certain company from that group has the 13th floor unoccupied ... because most people are superstitious.
OTOH, another company has a 13th floor elsewhere, and they do occupy it. Nobody cares about the superstition stupidity.
Re: Pushed into a corner ...
"From my POV, the real insanity is that the bad guy in the case -- Amazon -- have got away with monopolistic behaviour, peaking at 90% of all ebooks sold, while the DOJ opened fire with the big guns on the folks who were trying to claw their way up from a minority position."
... as opposed to let the publishers enter into a cartel with Apple, ensuring their ability to raise prices across the board? Because that was the point over the DOJ case. It would serve them awesomely, as Apple would say "oh publishers set the price" and publishers would go "Apple said I can't sell 'em cheaper elsewhere".
Favoured-nation distribution contracts should be declared illegal.
Go get it now!
In fact, the book in question is back up in the Kindle Store. The author says that she has seen more sales *today* than the sales from the second half of 2012! So if you want it, go get it!
I'm guessing that Amazon saw the shitstorm and put it back up because:
- They know it's going to sell like mad
- They know that if GW tries anything, there's going to be an assload of people countering any legal action.
This is going to be awesome!
Posted in Why you need a home lab to keep your job
Re: Loooooooser
"Given a choice between 4 hours of research and practice in SharePoint Development or"
Given a choice between *anything* Microsoft, and *anything else*, I'll go for *anything else* anytime! Even more so if it's working hours. Thankfully, I rarely have to deal with MS crap.
That said, given my line of work, stuff I do on the 'home lab' will affect my future income. So sure, I can lay off the home lab, but that means I will run out of income further down the road. Sure, I *do* add up personal time & rest, so I'm not doing "home research" 24/7.
Posted in Why you need a home lab to keep your job
Re: But if this cycle continues
It depends on your job. If you acquire enough know-how with your home lab, it could be that you end up either outsourcing yourself (for real, not the scam that Verizon worker pulled off), opening up your own IT consulting business, or just polishing up your CV for better employers.
Either way, it'll pay off.
Posted in Why you need a home lab to keep your job
Re: Argh!
What would seem at a first glance as my 'living room' is actually half living room, half an unwalled space meant to be a third room. I have mostly used the latter space functionally as a "third room", and lo and behold, this is where all my IT gear lives. That includes my very first "home lab" which given that the hardware isn't top notch (and wasn't when I built it back in 2009) is now lagging. Though the 8Gb RAM helps.
These days, most of my "lab" resides in the 16Gb RAM, i5-powered MBP I take to work, which gives me the advantage of carrying my lab with me to work. For the stuff I use these days, VMs cover most of my needs.
Re: Contempt! @JDX and Jobs
Jobs rebuilt Apple deciding for users, but he actually knew that what he was pushing would be accepted. And he had his Reality Distortion Field to pull it off.
MS is copying Apple yet again, but this time they're pushing something that they KNOW nobody wants, their market studies point elsewhere but still they push it trying to pull a Jobs sans RDF. This is what happens.
At this point, defending MS is as bad as Eadon's MS trashing, if not worse.
Re: Not just for loyalists @TheVogon
They're only becoming "irrelevant" in the enterprise for those who don't have strict security standards. As it is, I know of at least two large financial entities that still rely on Blackberries for work stuff. BYOD isn't as universal as it seems.
Posted in Seagate squeezes out 4TB desktop monster
Re: best buy a couple @Danny 14
Someone already mentioned it, given that a previous poster mentioned "raidz2"...
Posted in When open-source eats itself, we win
KDE vs. GNOME
That particular competition has kinda produced results. Qt is the one true multiplatform GUI toolkit, and KDE was much easier to develop for.
GNOME, on the other hand, has done an EPIC FAIL by choosing JavaScript as their "main language". Meh.
Re: Am I the only one
So, should I try to get into the Nexus then?
Re: Baby out with the bathwater.
Lack of BIS is also making me iffy on this. Maybe I should go and upgrade to a 9900 instead, and sit out on this BB10 thing. I was going to jump in, but losing BIS is well, kinda losing the BB security advantage of having a BB. Yes, the handset itself is going to be FIPS 140-2 certified, but the email is going to take longer to get there, and it'll go unencrypted, *and* eat through my standard data plan.
On the upside, by the time I jump to BB10 maybe they'll re-open BIS and they'll have more apps to boot.
Re: I'll stick to my Microsoft stack ...
The "Microsoft stack" is mostly the Linux and/or Java stack, but just bastardized into going the Microsoft way:
Active Directory is LDAP as imagined by Microsoft: weird binary objects needed to change ACLs, non-standard password management/storage, non-standard hashes, forced RDN standards on objectclasses. Oh, and once you create an AttributeType or ObjectClass, you can't never, ever delete it!
.NET is the Java/JVM part, with byteco... um... "MSIL". They added more than one language to compile to this, though.
C# is pirated Java, except a lot of the classpath is actually a wrapper over the Win32 library. (This isn't bad, actually! But it sucks for portability outside Win32). MS didn't have the balls to kill their stupid language (VB) so instead they hacked it into having something "similar" to C# and called it "VB.net".
WebServices using weird stuff that can't be read by other platforms that arent .NET. I regularly had to build shell WebServices on Java just to get a WSDL that could be implemented in .NET and not make everyone else barf at it.
The Microsoft stack is OK as long as you have everything 100% MS.
Re: Really, guys?
JavaScript is good for one thing only: webby stuff. It works as a webpage enrichment language and to make web stuff look c00l, and alternatively for AJAX stuff.
But it sucks for anything else. I'd rather do stuff in *Perl* than Javascript!
Re: API, not language @boltar
The thing with Gnome/GTK+ is that they actually implemented OO in C instead of going for C++. So the whole thing looks as ugly as MFC, because your "pointers" are actually representing objects, but instead of having the OO specific syntax, you have to use weird function voodoo to get the same stuff you get with C++.
And I don't know about Gnome, but GTK development was a nightmare. I gave up and switched to Qt real fast... and by "real fast", I mean 2002. It's much cleaner.
Re: Battery life?
Hopefully, having the QNX kernel might help on that side. I do however think that they should keep the email-through-BIS feature up, it's kinda one of their core selling points, encrypted email.
FIPS certification
"At this point, the on device encryption is not certified, but that is coming – Microsoft has stated that they are looking to get the encryption FIPS certified."
Meanwhile, the WP8 devices can't be sold to Gov't. Even WP7 isn't certified, which speaks a lot of how much MS cares about these certs.
By now...
I'm betting that MS has a worse standing than Blackberry by now.
- BB10 has the FIPS 140-2 certification, so they get to keep US Gov contracts, and have an edge over the fruity phone which lacks this cert, and WinPhone8 possibly lacks this as well, given that WP7 lacks it.
- MS has a thing on abandoning mobile platforms. Just ask anyone who used Windows CE before it "morphed" into WinMo. Or those who developed for WinMo. Then more recently the WinPhone7 OS. By now, betting on WinPhone8 would be like betting on a Pinto not catching fire.
- BB10 had something of a "beta" version in the form of the PlayBook OS. So there are already developers familiar with it.
- BB10's QNX legacy means it has features that no other OS has, like being able to share stuff between same devices (check out PlayBook Confetti)
- As the article mentioned, a pretty large user base still remains hooked to BBM.
So maybe BB does have a chance to overtake MS....
O RLY?
Given that those stores only exist in the US, it's no wonder it's US only!
Re: where did the difference goes to?
As much as I don't like the taxman charging for unreal profits, the claim is that the 6 consecutive losses weren't real, and there was actual profit on those losses. Thus the 1.5billion is based on those profits.
@Fred Flinstone
There are others who died after MS got their grubby hands on them:
- Palm: tanked after switching PalmOS to WinMo.
- Sendo: oooh the humanity!
Re: Am I the only person..
Theres a Cracked article on "stupid things you can't believe are copyrighted" and they mention exactly this thing. I doubt they could be sued for defamation. Even if they could do it, doing so would actually bring the issue to the Streissand Effect.
Fun fact
The "El Plato Supreme" ad might be even biting on something that is true: NFL does troll over its rights to SuperBowl. If say, Domino's offers a special SuperBowl discount package ... they can't say it's the "Super Bowl package" but they have to say something like "The Big Game Package".
hehehe
The difference between Javascript and Java is:
One is a steaming pile of bull used a lot in web stuff ... and the other can actually be compiled to bytecode. ;)
Re: Fixable by editing XProtect.meta.plist
Indeed, yesterday had 1.7.13 come out, so I do wonder if it is more of an issue with Apple sending the minimum version update before the actual update came out.
Indeed
It is the browser plugin of Java. Though 1.7.13 is out, so it might actually be a matter of Apple putting the dependency *before* Oracle put out the update, not actually blocking Java intentionally.
The JRE itself isn't blocked, attested by me being able to use LdapBrowser and NetBeans. :)
Re: Hmm.
JavaScript is a turd. Nothing even remotely related to security should be ever implemented in that. Not just for performance, but also because it can be modified by clients, so anything depending on JS to validate business rules is easily overridden.
Posted in Michael Dell to buy himself on Monday?
Maybe, oh just maybe...
They're gobbling up Quest. Dell (company) seems to be killing a certain useful piece of software Quest has, that is very good (a VDS solution) and there's no real replacement in the market. Maybe Dell (the man) might think otherwise?
Or maybe, just maybe, pull off non-MS hardware and not have to give a flying fudge? Private companies don't need to have ever-increasing profits.
Hell, everything's possible!
Re: face
hehe. They have to pay something like 40% to iFone in Mexico. Karma!
Which version?
The Bold 9000 and 9700 came with BBOS 4.6 and 5.0 respectively, which included the infamous "piece o'crap" BB browser. The 9700 can be upgraded to BBOS6, which has the WebKit-based browser for a much better browsing experience.
More recent Bold handsets had OS6 or 7, so you got the better browser. If BB10 has anything like the PlayBook's browser, I'm guessing the web browsing is going to be very good.
Re: Thanks Oracle, for showing us how to fix security issues
"(chorus follows trying to explain how they need Java for this and that and they cannot remove it from their browsers. Sorry folks, this is my home PC environment and enterprisey applications or banking contraptions written ten years ago don't apply)"
If the Enterprise were no longer writing stuff in Java, I'd probably be out of work. *New* stuff is being made in Java. And Mexico's SAT (the taxman, that is) uses Java for sending in stuff, as everything you send is signed with a private key you register with SAT. The whole signing/validation thing is done by ... an applet. So disable Java, and you can't send your stuff to the taxman!
Oh, that app I'm talking about? Made in 2010.
Re: Duh, perhaps there are too many bugs in Java 6 and it's time for an update?
I do distinctly remember having problems a couple of years ago running an app that did an RMI/IIOP connection to WebLogic Server 8.1 (which runs on J2EE 1.4) from a client running Java 6. Autoboxing breaks something server-side, as it tries to send a Boolean to a boolean. However, this can be fixed by simply doing
java -version:1.4 -jar MyClientApp.jar
which makes Java run in something akin to a compat mode. Of course, the problem referred to in this article isn't a compat issue, but more of the exe no longer being where the scripts expect them to be. I'd add that usually these out of place JRE/JDKs might have some extra libraries in lib/ext that aren't in the "updated" JRE, which might end up breaking the apps when they start using the new JRE...
FoxPro!
Actually, I used FoxPro for anything "Windows GUI programming" for most of the 90's. It was pretty goodd for Windows 3.1, their problem was that it never really got updated after that.
Spring/Hibernate is reinventing the wheel
Actually, it is a reinvention of the wheel. J2EE already existed, as a framework, and does most of the stuff Spring and Hibernate does. Some folks just got mad that Entity Beans were chosen for ORM mapping, then went on and built the "renegade" framework. The EE5 spec now uses annotations, threw away the original EntityBean and now uses something closer to Hibernate (IIRC Hibernate can be used as the persistence engine). Upshot of using EE5+JSF w/o extras is that resulting EARs can be deployed to appservers without munging with extra libs or XML config files on the appserver...
My god it's full of shills
MS astroturfing. Nice.
Now let's see, what would these shills say if a virus were to reweite the Win8 EFI loader, taking advantage of this particular bug and brick the Samsung laptops when booting Win8?
I'm old enough to remember the Chernobyl/CIH virus. Motherboard designs were changed after that, so why should Samsung dismiss this as "freetard tinkering"?
Re: @Stephen 2 If they really want to help video creators
I think you mean "Google Ad Land" ... with one d. The only add Google does, is when they add their profits from the wall o' ads. ;)
That said, IIRC YouTube was actually losing money before the Google acquisition. The dudes who sold it to Google were really happy to sell it because the model wouldn't have succeeded without ads...
Re: Crapware Payload
The developer version of Java SE / JRE doesn't come with the crapware stuff. In fact, I learned about the crapware only after the ZDNet article that mentioned it.
Garbage arch
x86 is the garbage architecture of the world. We should be running RISC based hardware by now, but Intel cranked up the clock rates to get their processors to match RISC. Notice that ARM was born sometime around the late-80s and yet manages to have a fairly good performance without running hot or drawing too much power.
Hopefully, we're closer to an ARM takeover, maybe we'll finally get R&D for non-Intel architectures...
