Posts by blondie101

Re: PowerShell

But why pay for a proprietary solution when you can get it all for free. MS is no playeron the internet cloud providers and I don't see it changing. Is there one compelling reason?

Re: If I was Microsoft I'd be worried

And when will that be you reckon? The same day mainframe will get their supremacy back or when there will be dinosaurs again?

Re: 15m people using iPhones on a 2G network?

Our use wifi? Like most people do with a smartphone whenever they can.

Re: Will it still apply

You mean that companies can pay local contractors in stead of handing over tax money to the USA... Our investing the money in their own company in stead of handing it over in a licensing scam....

Why paying for crap services anymore?

Re: ADA, Forth, Assembly, etc.

Mono's .NET because it's evil in itself

Re: Oops!

I'm a powershell noob, but " shutdown -s -t:1" reminds me of old times, now I just enter "poweroff" ;-)

Re: Line up, line up for Nokia's new 41MP camera..

Maybe that manufacturer can license the Nokia technology en get it to the market quick and with a real Phone OS.

yep, you're absolute right. Macs are a niche. You can hardly state Macs dominate the desktop market, do you?

Is Defense Industry Enterprise enough?

"Unless they are some weird hippy corporation that hasn't yet learned better (not because firefox has a problem per se, just because a lot of business software still doesn't work 100% properly in it)."

Do you consider Defense (like government) hippy? So speak for yuorself and not what other oraganisations are running!

RE: 900,000 too low for 198MW of power

Google uses no SAN or NAS but use their 2 build in normal desktop (maybe laptop nowadays) sata disk to form their ever expanding uber GFS storage thing. Network interaces tops probable at 2 certainly no more (give me one good reason). The only thing they spend some money on is on ECC memory, all the rest they buy the best bung for the buck. So have a look in the price list of the most common HW vedors and you can make a good guess what a Google server could look like.

centos

mhahahahaha.... epic fail....

outlook & exchange

so '90... nowadays email is a commodity that you order in the cloud. Especially if you want to hire some young folks.

eeehm, flash on Windows/ARM???

> What would you buy - a Win7 ARM device that lets you run anything you want, even Flash,or

> stick with an IOS device from Apple that will run only things that Steve Jobs approves of, and

> only then (most of the time) one at a time?

I dunno but why do you think flash will run on Windows/ARM? Right now it is an i386-binary, not an ARM. Porting Windows to ARM is nice and doable, but porting ALL known windows applications to Windows/ARM is another adventure.

No known applications (windows/i386 that is) will run on Windows/ARM without compiling. Good luck either without the source (Luke!!) or depended on ... Microsoft in the same way you are depended on Apple.

2. Oracle DB

I know of large SAP implementations on... MaxDB, SAP's own built-in don't worry DB. With big I mean one of the larger implementations around here

ordinary replacement

I guess that Google will replace it server park every 3, 4 or (max) 5 years. SO do the math that means (just replacement) 300.000 to 600.000 systems _each_ year!