You laugh, but here I have a business critical service which is currently running on Solaris on SPARC.
You're a brave person, to post those two words out of the gate. The Larry-hate is strong here and engenders idiocy in what might otherwise be rational people. They rag Redmond too but tolerate that crap because, you know, muh games. Meanwhile the devs still chasing Sun.
But it appears that the reason for the darkening, especially far away from land is unknown.
Shoot that water.
Because Voyager is so incredibly distant
Only for the Earthlings.
Gonme is not Linux. I am still on fvwm, which was good when it came out 30 years ago and is still good today. I have maybe invested 20 hours for a desktop that looks exactly as I want it in all that time.
fvwm is the Slackware of window managers.
All my menus right where they need to be: under the cursor, wherever it is.
You mean the secret service agent at the front right of the convertable, who turned on hearing Oswald shots and accidently fired hitting Kennedy from the front right; that guy?
No, you're thinking of "Pulp Fiction".
Forget people, even Slashdotters...
I think it's a bigger opportunity for NetGear or Linksys/Cisco to bring something similarly inexpensive, but also secure.
If 'inexpensive = insecure' what business logic leads you to think 'similalrly inexpensive = also secure'?
Developers and Engineers at those places have families to feed and those families need a roof over their heads. Even setting aside the old chestnut of price gouging, those businesses aren't interested in undercutting themselves, nor should they be. People who pay rent should understand that, at least a little.
Security is entirely reactive; 'expensive and secure' is no better against some of the smartest humans you could ever meet.
"If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it..." -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, _The Forbidden Tower_
