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Cringley, MacTel, and nutty theories

Cringley, MacTel, and nutty theoriesQuestion Murphy,"So far Cringley's track record on Apple hasn't been good, but this is one prediction that I think may have merit because what he's really talking about is using Apple's 1997 patent exchange agreement with Microsoft to allow Apple to update and use Sun's WABI...

Tags: Operating systems, Processors, theory, Wabi, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., system call, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-12-14

Bring back my WABI, to me, to me

Bring back my WABI, to me, to meOops! and, hey talkbacks work again!Subject: Thanks for the mention of Win4LinDate: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:33:16 -0600But, I wanted to point out that Win4Lin is absolutely not based on WINE.Win4Lin runs a copy of Windows as a Linux process and applications are...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows 2000, desktop, NeTraverse Win4Lin, wine, Wabi, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-02-23

Bring back my WABI, to me, to me

Away back in pre-history, actually in the days when the 33Mhz i80486 stalked the land as king of the PC world, I got an odd little assignment: negotiate for, and then set-up and run, a 30 user Resumix resume search and retrieval system for a former employer's Dallas office. ...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Servers, Wabi, Microsoft Corp., wine

Blog posts 2006-02-23

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Crushing dreams

Its common wisdom that less than one business idea or product per hundred ever makes it to market - so, have you ever wondered what were missing, and why? On the sad but not true side, Im glad to report that at least one of the big four...

Tags: plate, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-18

Cringley, MacTel, and nutty theories

When Apple first announced its MacTel decision Robert Cringley started to spend a lot of time looking for the long term smart in Apples otherwise inexplicable decision. As a result he first used his PBS pulpit to announce what I thought was a fairly nutty conspiracy theory...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, theory, Microsoft Windows, Apple Computer Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-12-14

Protected: Coding as Art

Protected: Coding as ArtConfusedNo idea how I ended up here, I was looking for weight loss tablets.Glad to seethat security is now a top priority for you ;-)Now I get itObviously someone who is a Perl and C enthusiast wants to have a "write-only" blog.a new feature.. and mymistakeOnposting it...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Programming languages, Development tools, algorithm

Discussion threads 2006-09-22

Why haven't GUIs progressed?

Why haven't GUIs progressed?SwitchBoth Novell and Sun are pushing Gnome over KDE. I used KDE for a long time. I switched about a year ago when I heard Novell might dump KDE out of SUSE. Now that I have switched, I can appreciated Gnome much better. The problem with...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Vista GUI, GUI, user interface, KDE

Discussion threads 2006-05-31

Smart displays and user productivity

As regular readers know, I maintain that using a Unix/Smart display architecture allows organizations to centralise processing, devolve control to users, and gain significant productivity benefits over client-server users. Today's rant, and tomorrow's too, actually; is going to be in defence of this position. First, lets clarify terms. A smart...

Tags: Smart Display

Blog posts 2006-05-24

The fall of McNealy: the end of an error

The fall of McNealy: the end of an errorSun and softwareWhen Sun wanted to switch all of their hardware to use SPARC chips (from the MC680x0 chips), they knew that they needed a way to assure their customers that the move wouldn't be painful. They worked hard with many...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, Sun Sparc, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-04-25

The problem at Sun: is in the middle

The problem at Sun: is in the middleRespectfully disagreeThe "responsibility" system is tough, and can be criticised, but other approaches are worse. Thus the captain of a ship IS responsible for mistakes made by subordinates while the captain is not on duty. Because it is the captain's job to be...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., captain

Discussion threads 2006-04-18

How to deploy Windows software on Sun Ray

Here's the core bit from the question I got: I'm doing some research for my Unix/Linux Administration class, and I'm wondering about Smart Displays. I'm looking for more information on how to run Windows and Unix programs on them simultaneously and I'm assuming that there...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows, Sun Ray, Unix

Blog posts 2006-02-10

All about Linux: in one paragraph

All about Linux: in one paragraphWindsows was made for easily playing solitaireIts like they designed a really good looking car and spent tons of effort to make the dashboard pretty and the interior shiny with bells and whistles and buttons for everything but forgot to put any time into the...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2005-05-27

Sun open-source license could mean Solaris-Linux barrier

Sun open-source license could mean Solaris-Linux barrierWell duh? Did anyone think Sun was going to handeverything over to Linux? Surely not...Yes! Good move Sun! Best for Linux.I'm not being sardonic in any way shape or form. A barrier between Linux and Solaris is best for all parties concerned....

Tags: Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Sun Solaris, GPL, Linux, Unix

Discussion threads 2004-12-02

Sun settles with Microsoft, announces layoffs

Sun settles with Microsoft, announces layoffsNo SurpriseSUN real and only value to IT market was/is? Solaris.That is, until the next lawsuit..Any takers on how long it will be until Sun sues MS again?-DB in 2004In other news...We'll probably hear that Sun has opened up a 3300 employee center in India...The...

Tags: Programming languages, Operating systems, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft .NET, layoff, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Java, Unix

Discussion threads 2004-04-02