Posts by Goat Jam 2482 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Mar 2008
Use your ISP email? Great idea!
Until, of course, you inevitably change ISP and find yourself having to change your email address for countless online and offline services as well as advise your entire set of contacts that you now have a new address.
That is when you will discover that having an email account that is not tethered to your ISP de jour might in fact be a grand idea after all.
Numptie
"defence giant" indeed.
Unless fighting off the incensed locals in the various countries which you are busy "introducing to democracy" counts as "defence" I guess.
Raytheon make their money from providing arms with which the US fights its various wars. Defence hardly comes into it.
"The crux of the argument is that, yes, you can fork a GPL project - such as MySQL - but the fork is not viable. That's because while you can duplicate the code, you cannot easily duplicate the ecosystem around it or the brand itself that have taken years to build."
Tell that to the guys at Xorg, they obviously didn't get that memo
Why is it that the so called U.S. "Justice Department" is able to "glare" at Sony over what is most likely mildly uncompetitive behaviour causing relatively low levels of damage while steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the elephant in the room that is Microsoft?
If there is one company today that behaves in a more uncompetitive manner than Microsoft then I don't know what it is.
The damage that MS cause to business and industry across the entire planet is immense. The source of their obscenely huge annual profits is essentially a tax on individuals and business across the globe and the U.S. "Justice Department" completely ignores it.
Microsoft: US Corp raping the world = GOOD
Sony : Japanese Corp raping Amerikans = BAD
Fucking hypocrites
Interesting. Thought I might take a look at ESXi, went to the vmware site, logged in with my existing account and the website fails with a "page does not exist" when you hit "Continue" during the download process.
P.S. It seems to me that ESXi is not "the freebie version" of ESX, but rather the replacement for.
From the ESXi faq
What is the difference between VMware ESX and VMware ESXi?
VMware ESX and VMware ESXi are both bare-metal hypervisors that install directly on the server hardware. Both provide industry-leading performance and scalability; the difference resides in the architecture and the operational management of VMware ESXi. Although neither hypervisor relies on an OS for resource management, VMware ESX relies on a Linux operating system, called the service console, to perform two management functions: executing scripts and installing third party agents for hardware monitoring, backup or systems management. The service console has been removed from ESXi, drastically reducing the hypervisor footprint and completing the ongoing trend of migrating management functionality from the local command line interface to remote management tools. The smaller code base of ESXi represents a smaller “attack surface” and less code to patch, improving reliability and security. The functionally of the service console is replaced by remote command line interfaces and adherence to system management standards.
There are efficiency advantages in running the motors in series.
Internal combustion engines have a relatively narrow RPM range that provides maximum power at peak efficiency. Operating the engine outside of this rev range through direct drive to the wheels reduces engine efficiency considerably. If you could design and build some sort of an "infinite" gearbox that allows the motor to run at a constant speed then that would alleviate this problem.
Unfortunately we cant build such a gearbox that is both cheap and reliable, if at all.
Fortunately however, if you use electric motors, you can design a generator + motor combination that runs at the RPM for which it is at its peak efficiency and use it to charge a battery for the electric motor, which doesn't have an efficiency problem at different speeds.
HTH
Good in theory, difficult in practice.
Unless the hardware has built in crypto silicon then you are forced to use the handsets GP CPU with software crypto.
Then you have to choose between crippling power drain due to high cpu usage or less than stellar algorithms making interception that much easier.
"You could probably get Microsoft to fund a lawsuit to crack open IBM's z/OS and mainframe middleware license"
Doesn't Microsoft have a clause in their EULA that forbids you from running their (desktop) OS in an emulator?
I'm sure they do.
I'm not certain they would be overly interested in opening that particular can'o'worms
Yet another clueless corp intent on shooting itself in the foot through some old school control freakery.
One day one of the companies will come to understand the way the market works and they will make a killing from it.
What these numpties should be doing is *embracing* the GPL, get the source code out there and let enthusiasts improve on it.
This will benefit them in a number of ways. Free development resources being the obvious one but the other even more important benefit is the whole word of mouth thing that will result.
Initially it will be the geek hackers buying the product in order to hack around and do their thing. In turn, when the friends and families of these geeks see/hear/ask about the device which device do you think the geek will be recommending they purchase?
For gods sake it's not rocket science. The aim here is to sell the hardware. If opening up the software to the geek fraternity helps you sell more hardware then why the hell aren't you doing it WD?
Have they got approval to do this from sweaty monkey boy? Because the last I heard MS OEM agreements specifically forbid dual booting Windows with another OS. Initially that was meant to crush BEOS but I'd be mighty surprised if they have since revoked that clause, what with the growing threat of Linux and all
An easy way to force more people on the 'net would be to stop allowing idiots to pay their utility bills at the local post office.
I had to duck out at lunch the other day to do a warranty return and the 40 odd person queue was made up almost entirely of cretins paying their bills.
Haven't those morons got better things to do than stand in queues to pay their bills?
For the love of all that is holy can we give up on these Atom products with their crappy intel chipsets?
Give me Atom + ion or something with an ARM processor and enough gfx performance to render properly on a FullHD.
If I could buy a wall mountable PC with 40+ inch screen, inbuilt tuner and enough grunt to do full HD then I might get interested.
These sad little "almost good enough" products are really starting to get annoying.
I believe that "e-ink" is a patented and trademarked product that is licensed to manufacturers by its inventor, therefore if it is described as an "e-ink display" you can be pretty sure that it will in fact be an actual "e-ink display", otherwise WD should probably be assembling a phalanx of lawyers as we speak to deal with the inevitable legal assault.
I always thought that in China, all software is treated as free (as in beer)
So what exactly is the attraction for them?
When I was in uni a couple of years back, my classmates were exclusively asian (not all Chinese but mostly)
None of them showed any interest whatsoever in free software, they all had (often) insanely malware infected copies of XP and Vista along Photoshop and the full suite of MS dev tools and other proprietary crap.
I'm pretty sure they didn't pay for most of that crap.
Despite all the purring they have been doing recently regarding their new found love of open standards, IE *still* represents a haven of proprietary protocols that MS can use to maintain their user lockin on the underlying OS. There are plenty of browser based apps and websites that simply won't work in any browser other than IE and while that might be slowly changing, Microsoft are now attempting to inject a new layer of lockin to the web via silverlight.
Ultimately, they won't really care what browser people use, as long as some part of the web "experience" relies on MS proprietary tech. If Silverlight ever achieve the ubiquity that MS hopes for then they can, to a degree, take less interest in browser market share and rely on the fact that users require Windows to run Silverlight properly thereby protecting their OS monopoly into the future.
Fortunately, Silverlight has been an epic fail up to this point so they are forced to continue trying to protect their browser market share while at the same time trying to look like they care about interoperability and open standards.
Evil Bill because THERE IS NO EVIL BALLMER ICON!
I mean, it was a neat idea and all. Dump an image of your ram contents to HDD so that you can reboot to where you were AND completely power off the machine in the meantime.
Frankly, who wouldn't want to do that?
Well, actually, anybody with more than about 256Mb of RAM wouldn't, if they have any sense.
I have 2GB RAM in my laptop. I could boot cycle it three times in the time it takes to reload a 2GB RAM image.
As Richard Lloyd suggests, 64 bit is worthless unless you have a need for lots of RAM.
Linux has had 64bit support for half a decade now and I still haven't done more than the occasional test install.
However, my newest PC has 4Gb of RAM installed and I expect that will increase on my next one so by then I reckon I will be making the switch but until then there is nothing to gain but a few extra hassles that I don't need.
Most of those hassles have been addressed by now I expect (Adobe Flash, I'm looking at you) so by the time I'm ready things should be sweet.
it has to be said that if it were not for Microsofts *deliberate* attempts to fragment and then monopolise the browser market in the first place then this situation would never have come about.
I think Google should simple stick with the "Please use another browser" message and do to IE users what other websites have been doing to the rest of us for years.
I'm sure glad I read all the comments before I added my own 2c because I was going to say the exact same thing. This is just a ploy to make you buy more because as you say, currently, a jar can last for months.. Unfortunately (for Kraft) it will fail because the stuff is revolting and no self respecting Aussie would be caught dead eating that shite any more than they would voluntarily choose to drink Fosters Lager.
As others have mentioned, MS have gotten to the point that their OS and apps have such a terrifying number of inter-dependancies that no one is really sure what is going on. Good coders know that good code is always loosely coupled. Microsoft have forgotten this somewhere along the line and have created what is without a doubt the most tightly coupled software suite in the short history of computer programming.
They have gotten to the point where they are finding it increasingly difficult to make their different apps interoperate without problems. They seem to have a lets-run-it-on-this-and-fix-the-parts-that-break method of getting everything to co-operate.
They can't keep it up forever.
*sigh* I'm soooo sick of the BillG icon. Surely it's time for a refresh?
while users perceive that Windows is "free" and companies continue to allow themselves to be bullied into buying MS products.
Make the OS a separate line item on the sales receipt and start rolling out Linux in the workplace and you will see more and more uptake of linux in the home.
Microsoft know this, that is why they continue with bullying OEMs into paying the Windows Tax along with the rest of the myriad lockin strategies they maintain in their business products.
Why would Google want to buy Zimbra?
As mentioned, Zimbra is a competitor of theirs. Normally, when you buy out a competitor it is to take their tech, customer base or just to squash them.
What are they gonna do? They have their own tech, and even if Zimbras tech is complementary to their own, they have access to it already due to it being open source. As for customers, I don't even know if Zimbra has any. Even if they do, the big G just ain't in that sort of business anyway. Which leaves the Microsoft option, which is to buy it and squash it? Well, they can hardly do that because once again, it is open source and the devs can simply fork it to a new project and keep on going.
I just want to be able to buy a laptop without paying "The Windows Tax" for something I won't be using.
I couldn't care less if most everyone else went a bought Windows anyway.
Computer OS's should not be like Religion except in the sense that you should be free to choose your own. Currently we have a situation where everyone is forced to financially support a particular "religion" despite practicing another or private.
It has to stop
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