Posts by IGnatius T Foobar120 posts • joined Friday 15th August 2008 19:44 GMT
HPUX is a legacy operating system. There would be no uptake of an x86 port at this stage of the game because any ISV's that are porting to x86, will simply port to Linux. The bottom line is that Linux won the unix-on-x86 contest a long time ago.
It's the 21st century, people. No one makes money selling operating systems anymore except Microsoft, and even that is on its way out. There's plenty of money to be had in supporting those operating systems, as the likes of Red Hat and even IBM have discovered.
Of course, we all know that HP lost its way a long time ago.
Every upcoming version of Windows is touted by Microsoft as the most amazing thing EVAR!! It's going to cure world hunger, bring the planets into alignment, etc. etc. And every time, without fail, they release a barely usable piece of crud. Why should this time be any different?
Whenever I see f**kerburg's face I want to remove that obnoxious smile from his face with a baseball bat.
Advertisers drool at the thought of reaching all of those young, supple eyeballs.
Unfortunately the type of people who spend hours on faecesbook are not the people who have money to spend on advertised products and services, because they're wasting their lives away on faecesbook instead of going out into the world and having a job.
And you thought the kidney harvesting scheme was an urban legend! Now when you use Facebook it will make you 1000% *more* likely to wake up in a bathtub full of ice with organs missing.
Clearly this was all planned by Microsoft moles working from inside the chocolate factory.
It's pretty clear from reading this article that Android is winning and iPhone is irrelevant now.
I speak for the entire Linux community when I say Ubuntu is a piece of garbage that nobody wants. Anyone who disagrees with this sentiment is being paid by Canonical.
We want our computers to work like computers, not like overgrown smartphones. End of discussion.
Google has an absolutely valid point here. Facebook helps itself to all of the data Google makes available -- users' contact lists, all of youtube, etc etc but then locks all of its own data up inside proprietary API's and walled garden, so Google can't make any data flow in the other direction.
Facebook is a cancer on the Internet and must be killed in order for its host to survive. I am absolutely serious here.,
The idea of having "a desktop computer" is gradually disappearing. Your computer workspace will exist on a server somewhere, and you will access it using a terminal-like device, whether that is a tablet or a dumb-screen on your desk at work, or whatever.
Microsoft is doing whatever it can to delay this inevitable trend, while at the same time clawing at whatever market share it can get in the new world.
We're probably only a year or two away from the day when that 22" Samsung you buy at Big Box will have not only VGA/DVI inputs, but also Ethernet and USB ports. COMPUTER OPTIONAL -- if you don't need the headache of a desktop pc, you just plug it into your network, attach a keyboard and mouse, and away you go with a built-in Android OS running on an embedded chip that will cost $5 in quantity.
In this world, your "Windows(R) License(TM)" will be on a virtual server somewhere, whether Microsoft(R) likes it or not. And from there it's only a few steps further until people finally start to see that they don't really need the Windows after all.
I hope to piss on Bill Gates' grave someday.
Everyone's missing out on the opportunity. The first manufacturer who comes out with an inexpensive Android tablet that does not suck, will run away with the commodity market. We are still at the point where if you price an Android tablet comparably to an iPad, most people would just go buy the iPad.
Facebook makes the world a bad place. It brings out the worst in everyone. It turns everything into a junior high school drama fest. Facebook is the single worst site on the Internet and it ought to be shut down.
Samsung must stop all work on porting until they have completed ICS on the T989 (the US T-Mobile variant of the Galaxy S II). I speak for all mobile users everywhere when I say that this is the single most important thing for the company to be doing right now.
Android just passed 50% marketshare this month. Android is now the majority platform. Apple fanbois are going to have to get used to their phones being a minority player, just like their computers are. That's not necessarily a bad thing; the Mac is a high end niche player, and increasingly, the iPhone is becoming one too.
When I hear "LibreOffice" + "Cloud" it makes me happy because the possibility here is that the software will enable anyone to run a LibreOffice "cloud server" on their OWN equipment. This is good. The benefits of cloud-hosted office productivity suite without having to hand your data to a third party.
I'm posting this message from a mid size data center in the US and I can tell you from experience that private cloud is *the* popular thing right now. All of the benefits of virtualization without having to hand your IT over to a bookseller.
Three versions, and Apple still can't manage to build a fondleslab with a proper Android operating system on it? Why would anyone want one of these things?
The article says: "Nobody I've spoken to wants Windows 8 to fail."
Well, consider yourself spoken to. I want Windows 8 to fail. I want Microsoft to fail completely, losing its unreasonably large market share.
To paraphrase the eloquent and insightful Rush Limbaugh: "I hope it fails."
Slowly but surely, Windows is turning into a bad clone of Unix. Given enough time it will start to resemble the awful proprietary non-unix minicomputer operating systems of the 1980's. Imagine that: decades after killing off Novell, Microsoft finally figured out that it's not really a great idea to have an operating system with a GUI that can't be turned off!
Since we see that Microsoft is building a poor imitation of unix, why not just get ahead of them and use a true state-of-the-art unix such as Linux?
Apple really blew it by introducing this feature. Google has their version of it in development and this is just the kind of thing that Google is *really* good at. A few months from now, when you ask your Android a question it's going to harness the power of all of those hundreds of thousands of servers in the Google data centers, which were programmed by the hordes of brainiacs that Google has spent the last decade hiring.
Give it up already. Apple should simply sh*tcan its iOS and install the vastly superior Android operating system on its iPhones, iPads, iWhatever.
There ought to be a 15% tarriff on anything made in China, and a 25% excise tax on anything made by union labor. That would bring useful jobs back to US and UK very quickly. (This will be made into law when I become president next year, see http://tinyurl.com/IGnatiusTFoobarForPresident for more details.)
I hope Facebook continues to have massive outages, all over the world. Facebook is the new evil empire, and must be destroyed.
Give me a tablet with a screen the size of the iPad, but with the wonderful Android operating system instead of Apple's training wheeled crap.
A desktop computer is NOT A PHONE. Stop pushing phone UI on desktop computers.
Microsoft, Apple, and Canonical all seem to think that we want our computers to look like overgrown smartphones. Guess what: we DON'T. We've all come to expect the OS navigation controls to be in a strip on the bottom of the screen, and it works well that way.
Car analogies are popular, so here's one: the basic controls of a car are in the same places on every make and model. Why? Because there's an agreed upon consensus that they're the best layout, arrived at after years of experimentation and innovation. Once the best layout was discovered everyone stuck with it and no one is complaining. So it should be with the computer desktop.
Of course it broke. They're running it on Windows. DUH.
Only apps written to Microsoft's API Du Jour will run on both Vista 8 and Vista Phone. The long tail of legacy apps which keep all those Pee Cees locked into Windows using the Win32 API will not run on Vista Phone, and never will.
windows is windows is windows ... same old warmed-over crap microsoft has always been peddling. They'll claim they won the market when they outsell Apple and Google but only because they'll be counting every laptop and desktop as a customer "won" against Apple and Google.
Android slabs are here, and the inexpensive ones are coming soon. Android's app market dwarfs Microsoft's, and that's what matters.
Microsoft will continue to be an also-ran in mobile.
Considering how much Microsoft has tried to do to harm the open Internet, they should not be permitted to have *any* IP addresses.
And we should also revoke all of Facebook's addresses for the same reason.
Congratulations to Apple for doing a much better job at concealing their spyware than the folks who integrated CarrierIQ into these other phones. Apple has not yet been caught!
A port of Android to this little device would be just the thing to turn every telly in the world into a large format Android device. I'd like to see that.
Google has every right to your SSID and its location. You must always remember that YOU are BROADCASTING this information to anyone in range. It is exactly the same thing as turning on an AM or FM radio transmitter in your home or office and repeatedly speaking into the microphone, "My network is named kitty-net ... my network is named kitty-net ... my network is named kitty-net ..."
If you don't want anyone in range to know the name and location of your network, DON'T BROADCAST IT.
The general consensus is that existing users don't like GNOME Shell, and generally *hate* Unity. So why bother with Ubuntu at all? If you're going to go with Xfce (and it seems that most of us existing Linux users are going that way, because we want our desktops to look and act like desktops, not like overgrown broken smartphones) then you might as well just stick with a stock Debian install.
"apt-get install xubuntu-desktop" is a great way to make your computer usable again after Ubuntu updates force Unity at you, but it's pretty clear that Ubuntu has jumped the shark with this one.
The problem with "premium Android fondleslabs" is that they cost the same as an iPad. Look at the way HP's slabs flew off the shelves once they were reduced to fire sale price. As soon as one or more manufacturers start releasing decent tablets at realistic price points, the effects of the commodity market will kick in.
DVD Jon, where are you? I hope you are working diligently on the important task of obtaining and publishing Microsoft's signing key.
I may sound like a broken record here, but a cult favorite in the F/OSS community is ProxMox VE. They've got the whole stack together and it rocks.
The fact that there is such a thing as a "social gaming invention think tank" in existence means that the entire world has gone loopy and needs to be rebooted.
After two years in the Fecesbook cesspool I closed my account last weekend. It's just so much noise and drivel and unnecessary drama. And not a moment too soon now that we're hearing that Lord Zuckerbeast intends to make Fecesbook even *more* intrusive than it was before.
All this pollyanna wankfesting about Metro is nice, but it glosses over an important point: if you write a Metro app it will not run on Windows 7 or Vista or XP or any version of Windows other than 8. Are any ISV's going to release software *only* for 8? I don't think so.
By the way, if you haven't seen the preview of 8 yet -- despite Microsoft's posturing about the traditional desktop being relegated, all they *really* did was to replace the Start menu with Windows Phone. That's really all it is. When you click Start, the whole screen turns into a Windows Phone. If you select a non-Phone application it switches back to the desktop.
One might argue that Linux and Apple could counter this by simply replacing their Start menus with fully functional Android and iOS environments.
Applications written specifically for Windoze 8 will be written in .NET and will therefore run on any architecture. What *won't* work is a legacy Win32 app compiled for x86 running on an ARM device.
Microsoft's continued monopolization of the PC space is built upon all of those legacy Win32-x86 applications. If they won't run on Win8-ARM then there's no reason to buy ARMdoze -- everyone will simply continue to buy Android and Apple devices.
Customers are not willing to pay as much for Microsoft's virtualization software because -- it's from Microsoft. It runs on Windows. That's not how IT is done anymore.
Open source virtualization is the best value right now. Check out ProxMox VE [http://proxmox.org/products/proxmox-ve] these guys really have it together -- one CD install onto bare metal and you've got a full featured virtualization platform. Tying a bunch of them together into a cluster is almost effortless and you get most of the features of the expensive guys -- live migration, etc.
Commoditization in this space is going to happen fast. The days of charging premium prices for virtualization are over. VMware is going to have to reinvent itself as a management software company if it wants to survive. Microsoft, similarly, will have to learn to play in a multi-vendor world.
It's about time that the Fecesbook mania came to an end. Social networks are projectiles and they tend to have a flight time of about six years before they start to fade, so Fecesbook's time is just about over. And not a moment too soon.
So what's the new name for 3PAR? Will it be HPAR? 3PAQ?
...an app that automatically contacts all of your "friends" and helps them migrate along with you to Google+.
Force 10 gear is awesome. It is the FASTEST out there at just moving packets across the wire. I've used it in cluster networks and in financial services applications where raw bandwidth is of the utmost importance. I hope Dell does not reduce the awesomeness of Force 10 in order to make their gear palatable to the masses.
wait a minute, I thought everything was moving to "the cloud" now? How can this "unicks" thing not be in the cloud??
VMware's hypervisor absolutely *does* take advantage of Intel-VT and AMD-V hardware virtualization if it is present on the host CPU. Otherwise it falls back to software virtualization (and, incidentally, loses the ability to run 64-bit guests in that mode).
I'm so sick of the Facebook slobberfest and I hope there is a mass migration to Google+ in the very near future. Facebook are scumbags.
Dunno about that. The only reason Facebook appears to have more traffic than Google is because Google is designed to get things done, while the only purpose of Facebook is to get people to spend more time on Facebook. I already went to high school once, I didn't like it the first time so why would I want to do it again, all day, every day? A couple of weeks ago I just stopped using it entirely. I didn't even make a decision to do it -- it sort of just happened. Today I finally scored a Google+ account. It's a better Facebook than Facebook, and I hope everyone agrees and moves there too.
