Comments on: T-Mobile & Microsoft – What Could Go Wrong?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:33:00 +0000

In reply to Kryten42.

Well, it is possible that the people who wrote the filter don’t know that Australia is a continent, as well as an island and a nation. As I told a friend who is a Kiwi, she shouldn’t expect Americans to know about New Zealand – they don’t know about the old one. [Actually a lot of people who do know about New Zealand, don’t know about the original.]

I still limp along with Paint Shop Pro 4. Corel Draw was just too full featured for my abilities. I have gimp, but don’t have the time to read enough about it to migrate. I’ll keep Inkscape in mind, because if I accidentally become wealthy and buy a new box, it will be for Linux. I’ll leave this one on XP, just like I have left its predecessor on Win95.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:45:20 +0000

oops! I forgot… Here’s a really good 3rd part manual for Inkskape in English, french, SPanish & Italian. Take your pick! 😀 (Sorry Bryan… No German or Russian! Though I am sure they are online somewhere.) 😉 😆

Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program

Righto… errrm… back to work then. 😉

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:38:38 +0000

LOL Good timing I guess h! :D Here's a link if you need it (assuming Bryans blog system, that really hates me for some reason... must be owned by M$!) :P Inkskape - Main Site Inkscape Tutorials blog Inkscape Wiki If you (or anyone) are looking for other good GPL (or other free licensed) software, just ask. :) Enjoy! :D

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:35:58 +0000

inkscape, eh? you must be psychic, kryten. i was thinking just the other day, as i was idly doodling in gimp and paint, that i missed corel draw from back in the day. .-= last blog ..Once more unto the breach, single payer advocates, once more =-.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:36:28 +0000

Errrm… I’m not using that Chinese proxy… The s/w don’t (yet) work on Win7! 😉 Sadly! 😆 Was good while it lasted. 😉

Vista was good for one thing (two actually, possibly 3) 😉 It was so bad that Dell forced M$ to extend the life of XP, and Dell began shipping Linux as an alternative desktop OS. The third is that it made many ordinary people annoyed at how bad Vista was! Even some of the sheeple woke up! 😆

I am thankful that some of the dev tools I use are finally being ported to Linux! If the trend continues, it won’t be long before I can dump windoze entirely!! YES!! Then I will joyfully do the *happy dance*! 😀

I found a very good vector drawing program (open source, for a bonus) for linux that means I can finally do away with Ill.ustra.tor and the exorbitant fees the other crooks at A.d.o.b.e (no free plugs from me for them!) charge! it’s called Inkscape! Looks good so far. 🙂 I still use Canvas (that runs on Mac/Win), but it’s not the same since AC.D S.ystems took over Deneba! 🙁 *sigh* Still… it could have been worse!! The crooks at a.d.o.b.e might have gotten it!!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:09:47 +0000

Maybe it’s your Asian IP that is setting it off, because I’m logging a lot of Asian spam in the last few days. Actually the spam counter is spinning and I’m seeing the Asian flags on Feedjit. Most of them are coming from Digg and such, and I don’t even participate in their program. The references seem to be for various products that I don’t want or need.

If they had something to eliminate cat fits or fire ants, I might care.

At this point I assumed someone would bundle a graphics friendly system for Linux, but I just don’t have the particular need, because I can’t convince clients to break away from MS.

Hell, MS doesn’t even include a decent backup system with their OS, so you know they don’t put any importance on it. They make it such a total PITA to restore from a hardware failure, that even if you do make backups, it’s takes entirely too long to rebuild the system you had.

Being better than Vista is kind of like being better than Bush or Howard, not much of a challenge.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:16:08 +0000

COntinued, part duex…

And if you want to build a multimedia appliance, or entertainment center, there is MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/) and others. Though… all of these, as does any Windoze system, still has some problems depending on what you try to make them do. 😉

I am now running Win7 Ultra x64 (with Virtual PC and XP SP3 Mode) build 7600.16393 RTM on my main design system (for about 2 weeks), and so far, it’s a hell of a lot better than Vista ever was! It is a resource pig though (of course!) 😉 I have a dual-core 3.2GHz CPU with 8GB RAM (and you need at least 4GB to run the VPC/XP Mode). I still hate windoze but! I only use it because I sadly have no real choice… but that is changing! 😀

OK! Hopefully… THE END! Hmmph! 😛

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:14:30 +0000

...continued :P I use Linux all the time, as a dev environment, for which it's perfectly suited, especially if developing for target linux server environment's, as I do. There are now several linux variants aimed specifically at multimedia, such as StartCom MultiMedia Edition, Ubuntu Studio, 64 Studio and others such as Dreamlinux Multimedia GL, Linux Mint -- I use this as well as CentOS (which is an Enterprise Server and I wouldn't even attempt to do any multimedia on it!) :lol: And.... To Be Continued, again... *sigh*

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:12:23 +0000

What all this really shows, is a distinct lack of serious planning and management. They obviously had no disaster recovery plan that had actually been tested, reviewed, and approved, with all stakeholders on-board and with each knowing exactlty what their roles and responsibilities were in case of disaster. And this is such a BASIC first-choice for a potential disaster that ANY competent Risk Manager SHOULD have had a working plan for! People would be amazed at just how common this scenario is, especially with Oracle! (I much prefer Sybase! Much easier to work with, and much less fragile!) Oracle as a company are more arrogant than M$ & HP combined (speaking from personal experience when I worked at HP).

This should never have happened… and I don’t mean that the servers failed, that happens often. It’s what happened after the failure that shows a complete contempt and lack of care for the customers.

As for linux… M$ once tried to migrate Hotmail after they acquired it to M$ server based systems. It was a dismal failure and Hotmail continued to run on FreeBSD (though I don’t know if they have since moved it, there was a rumor a couple years ago about RedHat). M$ secretly use Unix/Linux and other Open Source technologies, but woe-betide ANY employee (even a CIO) that mentions it!

Has Microsoft Fired Its CIO Because Hotmail Secretly Runs on Free Software?

M$ is the perfect example of an American company. Totally hypocritical to the core. 🙂

To be Continued… (stoopid spam system!) 😛

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:19:53 +0000

Thinking back to the NT servers I’ve dealt with, it could take them this long to reboot.

It was a network, the data had to be there if you knew where to look.

I saw it reported [CNet, maybe] that they had outside consultants from Hitachi doing the upgrade. I can believe they used an outside firm, but why didn’t the consultants check before they touched the server?

The delays may have been a conference with all of the various attorneys for MS, Hitachi, and T-Mobile deciding who was going to pay for this mess.

Yes, Oracle has a thing about importing that is a true PITA, and you have to babysit the process or it blows up. If you catch it, you can halt, fix, and re-start from that point, otherwise it’s back to the beginning. Not quite as bad as the scan before installing Novell in the old days, but close.

OK, now I get it. I don’t use the multimedia features, so I would never encounter those problems. Hell, 99% of what I do is still text, with a few jpegs or gifs. If I was doing sound or video, then I would probably go with Mac. If you stay with text and pictures, Linux does everything without hassle, and has for years.