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- Merry Christmass!
- Merry Christmass!Jup.Same to U Murph :)=// JesperOne certainly expects ...... and increase in mass this X.Have a good one!RE: Merry Christmass!Thanks Murph,Merry Christmas to you and yours!Stay safe, stay warm, have a great holiday!Merry Christmas Murph. Peace.nt"... defense on the Oboe"?The oboe solo at the end of Night on Bare...
- Tags: Ubantu, Murph, Anton
- Discussion threads 2008-12-24
- Umm, Yummy: Mactel eats Lintel's desktop
- Red Hat recently issued a press release under the title What's Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update whose content boiled down to "It's a loser, so We're bailing." Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is a cool two year old product from a...
- Tags: Linux Desktop, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ubantu, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Open Source, Desktops, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
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- Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?
- We can only hope so! It would make a much better back end than what linux has to offer. Solaris has always been a solid performer and is a real UNIX, not some hacked up clone like linux. The best option for Oracle would be to ditch linux...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., OpenSolaris, Open Solaris
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the States
- Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the StatesAgreed, with one minor point difference . . .I believe that the reason you're seeing what you are in China is that since most Windows installations are pirated copies, they get no support. And if you're going to have no support, might...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux/Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Linux, minor player, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Boot Up Times (Windows 7 build 6956 performance test)
- Boot Up Times (Windows 7 build 6956 performance test)Apple Uses Unix, Linux is a Unix Clone -- This is what we needMicro$oft makes the worst software on the face of the Earth. Open Source is changing the world. Just look at Wikipedia. Get Linux and all of...
- Tags: Operating systems, Performance management, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Micro$oft, Microsoft Windows 7, BOOT UP TIMES, Microsoft Windows, performance test, Linux, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-12-12
- Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate is out
- Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate is outUbuntu 8.10 release candidate is outWhoopdeefriggindoo! Run linux fanboys! Go and reinstall every 6 months just to have an almost usable system. Don't forget to set aside a week of your time trying to get it installed like poor Chris Dawson. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate, release candidate
- Discussion threads 2008-10-24
- Thinking about multicore and software
- Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...
- Tags: Software, Job, T2, Multi-core, Hardware, Multi-threading, Tim Bray, Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all rightEric may be right, it ttmight just be too much legal work, but, Sun couldGPL important parts that could be mixed with Linux. Of course that would mean they would have to move to Linux at some point and give up the...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Sun Solaris, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, nothing, UN*X, Unix, AT&T Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Novell: HP to preload SLED on desktops, laptops
- Novell: HP to preload SLED on desktops, laptopsSuprised that they picked NovellDon't get me wrong, I think Novell Linux on a server is the best of breed, but on the desktop there are better options. UbantuSince SUSE is MS-approvedA certain large software vendor with whom HP does business should...
- Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Sled, Hewlett-Packard Co., desktop, Novell Inc., Linux, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- U.K.'s Elonex readies low-cost Linux laptop
- U.K.'s Elonex readies low-cost Linux laptopPotential but.....until I see it it's vaporware. The cost seems right. I have nothing against Linux. However the missing component is an actual system up and running for said price.Pagan jimanother agenda perhaps?It just could be that the Brits want their kids...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux proponent, Linux, laptop computer, Elonex, low-cost Linux laptop, Linux laptop, multimedia
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- The missing demonstration project (1)
- The missing demonstration project (1)Where is everybody? you guys wanna talk weather, or what?Very strange here in Lethbridge: -19 Celsius here yesterday afternoon, went to plus 5.6 by about 9PM, back to minus 14.7 right now.A blowby chinook?Yes, I have seen it over and over. Do you want to oversee...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Unix, Debian, Sun Ray
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- $450 just bought me a sweet laptop
- $450 just bought me a sweet laptopI bought the same Compaq but.....I bought the same PC as well but yesterday I had to send it back to HP because it would not power up. After calling HP's tech support and getting through in no more than 10 minutes (at...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, sweet laptop, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Why desktop Linux fails in big organizations
- I believe that the key reason Unix hasn't taken over the generic office desktop has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the people and processes involved.Thus the generic corporate PC user I talked about yesterday would be completely unaffected if someone snuck in overnight and...
- Tags: Enterprise Policy, Linux, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Staffing for Linux, not distribution X
- Back in the mid to late 1970s the battle for control of corporate IT was in full swing. One side, the corporate data processing group in Finance, maintained an almost absolute ideological purity with deep commitments to one vendor and the One Right Way while, on the other, line...
- Tags: Standards, Linux, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Torvalds doesn't live in Indiana
- Torvalds doesn't live in IndianaThere's two sides to any coin[i]"the more whining and complaining you hear about the leadership, the healthier the place is and the more freedom the members are likely to have."[/i]It can also be a sign that something is wrong and nobody is listening. The [i]"whining and...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Leadership, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Torvalds, Unix, Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2007-06-19
- Whose is the standard Linux?
- Whose is the standard Linux?UbuntuClearly Ubuntu has taken the technical lead for ease-of-use, and kept most aspects free. My vote is for Ubuntu!!The money's on the server.You wrote:"I think it means, is Ubuntu now a desktop operating system which can go head-to-head with Windows and win? We have standard Linux...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, Ubuntu, Linux, Gentoo, Debian, standard Linux, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-01
- More Vista modifications on tap
- More Vista modifications on tapMessage has been deleted.Media sensationalizationI think one can read between the lines that most likely there will be a delay with one more build going to the testers. You have mentioned in a previous blog that one more build is probably required to get all the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., computer, EULA
- Discussion threads 2006-10-13
- The long green
- It may not be obvious to most of us yet, but theres a green revolution on its way into our data centers and onto our desktops. Now I dont mean one based on global environmental consciousness or the latest mass media insanity - complete with the usual media intolerance...
- Tags: data center
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- SMP/CMT, ZFS, and RDBMS internals
- SMP/CMT, ZFS, and RDBMS internalsAll that matters littlePutting myself in the role of CIO - Why should I go with ANYTHING from a company that cuts another 10% of its workforce every 6 months? Stability matters - moreso than technology. Many companies are burned every year by trying to implement...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Databases, Operating systems, UNIX, Intel x86, Sun Microsystems Inc., RDBMS
- Discussion threads 2006-06-05
- Quacking the SPARC barrier
- Quacking the SPARC barrierNow that's what I call...Return on Product development Investment.One small problem: What's the lifecycle of it?If developmentspeed is 3 month's at max for a new product, then a new product will hit the market in 3 months, thus eliminating the posibility for Sun to earn some more...
- Tags: UNIX, Processors, Operating systems, barrier, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Sparc
- Discussion threads 2006-06-02
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