Comments for Youseph Tanha Dot Com http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog Flawless Rock N' Rol Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:37:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 Comment on Open Source Quote by Youseph http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/2008/11/21/open-source-quote/#comment-1282 Youseph Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:23:48 +0000 http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/?p=783#comment-1282 @Alex, Can you call the software that is sitting on the chips on the Mars Rover Open Source? I have no doubt NASA uses open source software. But has it been modified by them to suit their needs? Have they made their modifications available to the open source community? I have the same questions for router manufacturers, and for the people running power grids all over the world. I just don't have the answers to thoughts questions yet. If they all contribute their knowledge and changes back to the open source community then I should stand corrected. I would be happy to find that out because then I would have learned something today I didn't know before. But if that is not the case, I don't understand how it can be still called open source. @Alex, Can you call the software that is sitting on the chips on the Mars Rover Open Source? I have no doubt NASA uses open source software. But has it been modified by them to suit their needs? Have they made their modifications available to the open source community? I have the same questions for router manufacturers, and for the people running power grids all over the world. I just don’t have the answers to thoughts questions yet.

If they all contribute their knowledge and changes back to the open source community then I should stand corrected. I would be happy to find that out because then I would have learned something today I didn’t know before.

But if that is not the case, I don’t understand how it can be still called open source.

]]> Comment on Open Source Quote by Alex http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/2008/11/21/open-source-quote/#comment-1268 Alex Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:36:33 +0000 http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/?p=783#comment-1268 There is open source software running the electrical power grid for the US right now. There is open source software running space probes and robots on other planets. There is open source software running on everything from the highest throughput routers on the internet to your wall thermostat. The most important thing running Mac OS is a computer in some hipster's loft in SoHo. Also, I have to laugh about the BSD comment. Apple decided to resurrect the worst form of BSD ever to exist: NeXTSTEP. Of course they just did this so Jobs could save face after the massive failure of NeXT, Inc. There is open source software running the electrical power grid for the US right now. There is open source software running space probes and robots on other planets. There is open source software running on everything from the highest throughput routers on the internet to your wall thermostat.

The most important thing running Mac OS is a computer in some hipster’s loft in SoHo.

Also, I have to laugh about the BSD comment. Apple decided to resurrect the worst form of BSD ever to exist: NeXTSTEP. Of course they just did this so Jobs could save face after the massive failure of NeXT, Inc.

]]> Comment on Open Source Quote by Youseph http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/2008/11/21/open-source-quote/#comment-1233 Youseph Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:37:05 +0000 http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/?p=783#comment-1233 @Suge, Yes I do. You know better then to ask me that. You also know what my response going to be. Yes the under pining OS for the Macintosh interface is a form of BSD UNIX. But it just works, and I think we should explore why that is. It's because Apple pays their programmers to insure that the OS is stable. Apple also has their own quality control processes that their products must past through before being shipped. Don't think for one second that they just take BSD out of the box and slap the Macintosh GUI on top of it, then sell it to millions. They do under the hood work to UNIX to ensure it will be stable for their hardware and their customers. The end product is NOT something that was built from the free time and good will of open source programmers. unfortunately for the open source, all of these reasons are why it just works. @Suge, Yes I do. You know better then to ask me that. You also know what my response going to be.

Yes the under pining OS for the Macintosh interface is a form of BSD UNIX. But it just works, and I think we should explore why that is.

It’s because Apple pays their programmers to insure that the OS is stable. Apple also has their own quality control processes that their products must past through before being shipped. Don’t think for one second that they just take BSD out of the box and slap the Macintosh GUI on top of it, then sell it to millions. They do under the hood work to UNIX to ensure it will be stable for their hardware and their customers.

The end product is NOT something that was built from the free time and good will of open source programmers. unfortunately for the open source, all of these reasons are why it just works.

]]> Comment on Open Source Quote by Suge http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/2008/11/21/open-source-quote/#comment-1230 Suge Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:47:12 +0000 http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/?p=783#comment-1230 You realize that Mac runs on Open Source? You realize that Mac runs on Open Source?

]]> Comment on Open Source Quote by Youseph http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/2008/11/21/open-source-quote/#comment-1222 Youseph Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:59:55 +0000 http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/?p=783#comment-1222 @Lyle, I have not forgotten sir. I have my reasons for using open source software as little as Possible. You know me well enough to know that. There is a reason why I don't use Linux for my desktop. There are valid reasons why I don't use open source graphic software. There are reasons why I don't use open source text editors. Yes my website uses Linux, Apache, MySQL to run. But it's a personal blog used for fun and only fun. I don't make money. I am not going to lose my job if it comes crashing down one day. @Lyle, I have not forgotten sir. I have my reasons for using open source software as little as Possible. You know me well enough to know that. There is a reason why I don’t use Linux for my desktop. There are valid reasons why I don’t use open source graphic software. There are reasons why I don’t use open source text editors.

Yes my website uses Linux, Apache, MySQL to run. But it’s a personal blog used for fun and only fun. I don’t make money. I am not going to lose my job if it comes crashing down one day.

]]> Comment on Open Source Quote by Lyle http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/2008/11/21/open-source-quote/#comment-1220 Lyle Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:37:47 +0000 http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/?p=783#comment-1220 You're quoting a troll?! Don't forget that LOTS of the software you and I use daily is open source. Linux, Apache, MySQL, RT... You’re quoting a troll?! Don’t forget that LOTS of the software you and I use daily is open source. Linux, Apache, MySQL, RT…

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]]> Comment on My iPhone Experince (Part 2 of 2) by Youseph http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/2008/09/03/my-iphone-experince-part-2-of-2/#comment-1078 Youseph Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:44:12 +0000 http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/?p=556#comment-1078 @Terr - I can't speak from personal experience because I haven't been out to the Auke Bay area in some time. But I have friends who use AT&T out in that area and I have not yet heard one of them complain about their service yet. I know the Google maps triangulation stuff is spotty unless your on Egan. @Terr - I can’t speak from personal experience because I haven’t been out to the Auke Bay area in some time. But I have friends who use AT&T out in that area and I have not yet heard one of them complain about their service yet.

I know the Google maps triangulation stuff is spotty unless your on Egan.

]]> Comment on My iPhone Experince (Part 2 of 2) by Terr http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/2008/09/03/my-iphone-experince-part-2-of-2/#comment-1076 Terr Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:34:07 +0000 http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/?p=556#comment-1076 Juneau's coverage has got the competition beat. I have ACS and their dead spots are around the hospital. ATT? So far I've not found one, although I hear there's spotty coverage just after the ferry terminal at Auke Bay. Juneau’s coverage has got the competition beat. I have ACS and their dead spots are around the hospital. ATT? So far I’ve not found one, although I hear there’s spotty coverage just after the ferry terminal at Auke Bay.

]]> Comment on Floating Image Change For Wordpress 2.6 by Youseph http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/2008/07/29/floating-image-change-for-wordpress-26/#comment-1016 Youseph Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:38:15 +0000 http://www.yousephtanha.com/blog/?p=366#comment-1016 @Lisa Paul - Glad I was able to help. @Lisa Paul - Glad I was able to help.

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