Sun a different shape in Sweden than down under

I read James C. McPhersons comment to Doug, and immediately got an alarm bell ringing in my head.

I don't know about Australia, but Sun Sweden is CRAP at trying to push out Sun Ray. He might think it's a very nice concept, but truth is, Sun is very bad at marketing it.

Sun even talked about opening the protocol used in Sun Ray, so you could have your own graphical (VNC-like) terminal, but they never opened it. And they have been talking about an newer revision of the Rayconcept for a very very long time, but still no real shipping products.

And don't get me started about Cobalt. While Cobalt was a company on its own, started by ex-Apple people, a lot of admin for small companies here know about it. I heard lots of discussion which model to choose, and if it was better to choose and Cobalt, than go the usual way of using an Windows server as webserver. Quite nice. Today, no-one even knows about Cobalt, the few that do, thinks it has gone bankrupt...... If there is one marketing department at Sun trying to push Cobalt servers, they really must be asleep.....

I am still surprised that Sun haven't tried to market either Cobalt, or LX50, and not their own SPARC low range server, harder. They ought to, IBM,, Dell and others aren't exactly waiting for Sun to catch up.

my 50 öre of comments

Örjan Larsson
Sweden

We have Sun Ray 100 computers at school. They were gifted to the school as part of a trial for the machines, and I can't argue that it was nice of Sun to do so.

However, actually trying to use the machines is a nightmare if you've ever used anything faster than a 386DX. Running Win2000/Terminal services it takes almost 2 seconds just to refresh the screen when you scroll down the page. "My workgroup, a tier-4 tech support team, eagerly traded high performance ultrasparc workstations for the flexibility of sunrays." Yeah whatever. The machines have a heart attack trying to cope with a user using the mouse to select text in internet explorer.

Yours sincerely

St0rmwarden
New Zealand

Hi Mr. Mageek,

WOW - and I thought New Zealand politicians were stupid. This Canadian thing is just about the most ill-conceived thing I've heard in months.

What interests me is:

1) WHO did the lobbying
2) WHO buckled under the pressure
3) WHO voted for it
4) WHO would believe the RIAA - EVER? I mean, if their lips are moving, they are lying!
5) WHO would bother to buy blank media in Canada now? I'd order from Newegg in lots of 1000
6) WHAT will be the ramifications? I can see many people very upset with the levy, and they'll re-double their efforts to share more music on WinMX, and to burn as many CDs as possible for their friends.
7) WHY would the Canadian Government try to collect a tax which will cost more to administer than it collects?

LMFAO. Seems to me the average IQ on the planet is falling fast. It used to be about 70. Must be around 50 by now...

Chris "Mobius" Davies
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... Is there such a thing as a theinquirer.net addict? I read this site several times a day. It's a tabeloid, soap-opera, and news site all in one. :-P

Ken
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Hi, Simpsons slog it out with Bluto for top news stories

Bluto is not owned by Disney but by the Hearst Corporation via King Features Syndicate.

See http://www.riverranchfreshfoods.com/coinfo/pressreleases/Popeye%20King%20Features%20Release.htm

Enjoy your site, I read it now instead of The Register. [Me too, Ed.]

Cheers

Jim Gladney
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To Adamson Rust The article you wrote "Intel app accelerator gives desktop PCs super boost" questioned why Intel keeps this driver a secret. The reason being that it is not fully compatible with most softwares, especially DVD/CD burning softwares. For example, tried using Shuttle SB51 and 321 Studio DVD X Copy with Intel App Accelerator installed and the system locks up.

T.Smith

INQUIRER staff,

As an aside (which will or will not matter) Spinola is also the name of the Spanish commander who mediated the surrender of Breda in 1625. Breda was a border fortress of the Netherlands.

I love your wire. It's a must read. Keep up the good work.

your faithful reader

esteban modad
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From what I can see on your website, it is clear you feel the Iraq regime can wage any kind of propaganda war they want and we need to be silent. I would like to know you logic here to be sure. While I generally do not favor aggression, I also realize that is next to impossible to present any kind of campaign, including war, when the playing fields are not level. On this issue, while I would agree the US has a much greater military capability technically, this is largely offset by the imbalance in warring tactics. Nothing is off limits to the Iraq government. They clearly feel less for their own people than US citizens. I would think it would be as easy for you to attack the "no conscience, no morality" war by Saddam more than you would the US President. This man, his sons, and some who stand in defense of him, are murderers and rapists. They govern by "fear" only. This is not propaganda by the US. This is widely accepted and known truth. How can a nation sit back and consciously do nothing year after year after year after year after year after year? Hitler would not have been able to murder millions had someone stepped up sooner. We could wait, yes, for the unthinkable to happen. In Iraq, the unthinkable has already happened, more than once. And, remember, the unthinkable is different now than it was when Hitler was in power. The unthinkable now could make the Holocaust of Hitler look like a pimple. The US had the luxury of waiting for attack in years gone by. With the technology we have today, do we still have that luxury where a known madman is concerned? I think it is at least a question worth posturing, and I am not so sure we have really given it that much thought. If we had done nothing....if Saddam would have unleashed his WMD upon the US, I can well imagine who would have criticized our President then. I am a registered Democrat and have been all my life. I consider myself to be more on the liberal end of the spectrum than the conservative. But I also consider myself to be a free-thinking individual. And I am open to not only what is, but would could be. Are you?

Jaye Vise
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In your article :. In a statement, it said: "The bombing of a television station, simply because it is being used for the purposes of propaganda, cannot be condoned. It is a civilian object, and thus protected under international humanitarian law."

Iraqi tv is not a civilian object. It is Government owned and controlled. They have no argument and that isnt clear in your article.

Norm Nichols

Universal Computing Solutions
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[Err... Amnesty International said that, not us. We just reported it, like the BBC did too. We're not a member of Amnesty International, the Labour Party, the Battersea Dogs Home or anything else. Basically, British hacks don't join anything. Ed.]

Intel secret X86-64 project still on the go

Mike

You actually have independent confirmation of this from Microsoft. The only reason Microsoft would be so coy about support for AMD Opteron is they are waiting for Intel to turn over engineering samples of their X86-64 processor to test to make sure that what ever code Microsoft writes will work on both architectures as it is death for Microsoft to support more than one at any level above the lowest kernel setup level.

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