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Alan Moves from B3 to Red Hat UK
Sarge_97 wrote to us with the latest from Alan Cox [?] 's diary. With Red Hat's movement into Europe, and the creation of Red Hat UK, he'll be
closing Building Number 3 and going to work for Red Hat UK. This is, of course, no change in what was actually going on anyway.
disclaimer:Hemos owns shares in red hat
Gotta love when you can drive half way acrossed a country in 3 hours.
You have a paltry understanding of telenetworking technologies. T1 is NOT ISDN! T1 is 24 aggregated 64kb channels. Just because those channels have the same datarate as 1 ISDN 1b channel, does not mean they are the same thing. However, PRI ISDN has the same speed as 1 T1.
This isn't News For Nerds!!! I ought to know, I'm a nerd and I don't care about this. How dare the creators of this site force me to read something I'm not interested in! Those egotistical maniacs act like they own this site, posting whatever they want to. The nerve.
/. lately, I mean I keep seeing stories that I'm not interested in. What's up with that? It mush be Andover's influence. We need story moderation, I demand Taco (If that is his real name) to work harder on implimating a system to protect us AC's from his stupid stories.
There really has been a decline in
SlashDot: News for tech stock Investors, Stuffs SlashDot: News for tech stock Investors Stuffs that Matters to share holders. just a year and a half ago i recall people calling "Rob why don't you stop drooling at the toys and get a job!" but nowadays we see this "Stock disclaimers" all the time. Fact is, the entire scene has changed. A while ago i'd have to ask, "What's IPO?" "Internetwork Protocol..??" Maybe when i become a millionair i'd appreciate this...
IFAIK, this is standard journalist ethics. All news organizations are supposed to announce if they have a vested interest in the subject of a news story. Of course, some "journalist" organizations, in their giant conglomerate glory, have probably decided that things like disclosures aren't as important as fitting in another 7.5 second commercial or garage sale ad.
Also, not to rag on Hemos (who I trust), but the "117 bytes in body" link reminded me of something else: I can see some organizations in the future shoving their disclosures into some inconvenient section of their production (half-second message at 5% of TV height at the end of the show, or stuffed into small type in the "copyright & legal" section) and then claim they're meeting ethical standards. I'm one of those pushy types that think that disclosures need to be as prominent as the news report.
Come to think of it, Slashdot is also one of the few organizations I see that still posts corrections with the same priority as the original reports. That's another "minor" thing most billion-dollar precooked news companies don't think are important enough to bother with.
Actually you both need to go back and learn about telecom. A T1 isn't channelized unless you order it that way and then it is a "Channelized T1". Also ISDN uses out of bandwidth signaling, one D Channel for every 23 channels unless you share the D channel across multiple PRIs. A T1 channelized uses in-band signaling and doesn't have per channel the same bandwidth capability as PRI (which uses out of bandwidth singaling). The most data you can push across a channelized T1 channel is about 56k because it uses part of the bandwidth for singaling.
If your going to tell someone they don't know what they are talking about at least have part of a clue yourself.
You can order a T1 that isn't channelized for internet connectivity as a Point-to-Point circuit, and in fact it is done all the time, which has more bandwidth available than a Channelized T1 or ISDN PRI, because of the signalling methods.
I always thought that alan's tiny handtop pc 110 was one of the coolest thing that you could buy
Yeh! huh, huh! Beavis... I'm gonna kick your ass.
This sucks - I'm going to the Naked Spicegirls Page. That's cool.
Wow... You finally remembered your user ID?
:)
Sorry, just had to comment on it
This is probably a stupid question (hence Anonymous coward), but does this mean that this is the end of Alan's diary?
... without cluttering up the display? That's the design deliema.
Here's an idea... a small icon - perhaps a pile of gold coins - that's no more than a twenty or so pixels high, placed after the authors name anytime they post a story needing the disclaimer. It would of course be a link to the actual disclaimer just like the text today, and the alt text would be the textual disclaimer as used today.
jeez.. you think you're funny with your pineapple something operating system, but you're not
you fucking asshole, stop posting such unfunny
shit, at least the grits boy is funny, bitch.
i thought I had no sig?
Well, considering that Alan has had that acronym for more than twenty-five years longer than any Anonymous Coward, Cowards shoould consider themselves lucky to be allowed to use it...
BTW, if you meant that last remark as a joke, it ain't very funny.
No, he's right. Question the integrity of RH before even thinking about impugning Alan's reputation.
(CNNfn) - Red Hat Inc. struck a deal Thursday to ship Veritas Software Corp.'s storage management software with itsversion of the Linux operating system, sending stock of both companies sharply higher in early trading.
I am currently looking for a Building Number 3 in states. Has to be in good condition and have maxium hacker appeal, must have bar in kichten and a T1 coming though the back. No smokers, No ISDN.
So what if RedHat has Alan work on things that benefit them? As far as I recall, the only time that I personally have ever worked on open source was to suit my own needs. I needed X feature in Y, so I put X feature in Y. Simple. After a while, with hundreds of users/developers adding their features, you get a strong product. In addition, if you don't like the direction it is going, you branch. As bad is this sounds, branching should always be an option. Branching is the check that will keep people honest.
The core of what RedHat works on is GPL and, by the nature of the license, must remain that way, no matter how many features they add.
Now if they want Alan to work on something closed source, it is up to Alan and his bosses if that happens. I don't think RedHat should be forced to open source everything they write. It is perfectly reasonable, to me, if they want to use Linux as the base for some proprietary kiosk app or workstation platform. I don't think it would be in their best interest because they would miss out on the hundreds of developers adding features, but it is still their decision and shouldn't be harassed for it.
people are really freaked out about first posts aren' they? I guess the message is, unless you have something very insightful to say, make very sure your post is not the first of the discussion.
SuSE have opened an office in the UK as well
And what is the f*?k is wrong with him putting extra features into the ac tree? It's his fork - you know, as allowed under the GPL (perhaps you've heard of that?) - so he can do whatever the hell he likes with it.
Plenty of vendors have opted to put extra patches into the kernels they use (e.g., the latest RAID patches); there's nothing at all unusual about it, and it gives them a way to distinguish themselves from other distributions.
Anyway, where the hell do you get off bitching about all the work that Alan's put into the kernel? Prepared to stack your list of kernel contributions up against his?
I didn't think so.
Awwright, I know this is gonna generate a lot of flame mail, but I gotta ask: in the december 3rd entry, where you refer to "Tesla's 15" present", are you talking about a monitor, or a dildo? The only reason I ask is that I would think that the amount of time you guys spend on computers would necessitate larger monitors...maybe even redhat could provide them. That said, if it WAS a 15" dildo, Im impressed.
Oh yes, ever since RHAT incorporated, they have started requiring Alan Cox to wear ties, shave beard, wear pinstriped suits, and you don't want to hear the new dietary restrictions...
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Boy, are you dumb or what!
I thought the joke was good for a laugh...
Light-heartedness makes the world more fun,and safer.
Hub
That's actually a good and necessary idea. It just struck me a bit humorous, as I was imagining most posters starting to add such a disclaimer in their sig, or at the bottom of all their posts.
Bummer now he has to commute every day.. well commute more than walk up to the computer room. :)
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You got to wonder if he called them or vice versa? With SUSE being in Europe, I wonder if they ever tried to recruit him. Off course, they are in Germany and it seems he's a bit attached to his island. Wow. Just thought: Wouldn't it be nifty to get paid to keep a diary?
when Push Comes to Shove
Maybe this is a little paranoid, but RedHat employs a large chunk of the Linux kernel developers (as well as apps). This is fine, because there are checks and balances in place (ie, Linus has the last laugh), but Alan controls the stable tree. This is not a good idea in my mind. I like the fact that Linus is employed by a company that has no immediate interest in the success or failure of Linux. It keeps Linus honest. Can we say the same for Alan?
Something happened today that has no effect on anything. Further bulletins as events warrant.
Tune in at 11:00 tonight for more non-news!
Because that would be a nasty commute.
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Open mind, insert foot.
Also, does anyone know if Alan'll still be working from home, or if he'll have to move to Guildford (eeewww - that kind of put me off too when I applied for a job with them, just as well I didn't get one in a way)
Listening for the sound of the coming rain...
.. I thought "Building Number Three" was some kind of cryptic reference to his working on 2.x versions of the Linux kernel.
This makes more sense now.
The real currency of the internet is respect & reputation. Alan has those in spades, which is why he's trusted. Should he ever violate that trust, then he won't be as influential as he is now.
If he becomes sufficiently untrustworthy, then someone else that most developers trust could start managing a fork of the Linux tree. But, Red Hat's continued success depends on the general public's favorable impression of Linux. Even if a particular fork turns out to be a "good thing", the public opinion would start to turn, and Red Hat would suffer. Methinks Red Hat won't use any hidden agenda to shoot themselves in the foot deliberately.
Christopher A. Bohn
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Oooh! What does this button do!?
Q:What's wrong with Guildford? A:Everything (but Godalmings worse)
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I'm staying put - right here.
Admittedly it isn't entirely faultless, but I can think of far worse places to live. Like Liverpool. Or Bradford.
Disclaimer: I grew up near Guildford
Chris Wareham
The government (bless 'em) have decided that that's quite unfair and have introduced this new IR35 thing that basically makes the whole system unaffordable.
(Naturally, computer contractors have very portable skills, and can easily work in Europe or the States for a few months at a time and pay very little tax anywhere. And now lots more will have an incentive to do so - so overall, the UK government could lose tax income because of this. But who ever accused politicans of thinking things out?)
Anyway, there are no longer any advantages to having your own company, and lots of disadvantages (paperwork, hassle, tax inspections), so lots of contractors are "going permie" - especially those on long-term contracts.
I wonder if that's one of the factors behind Alan making this move? He wouldn't be alone.
One of RedHats major selling points is that they are well regarded by the linux developers, and employ several of them. If the devolopers had cause to leave, Redhat would go rapidly downhill because of the two, Redhat would lose the most if ac and RHAT parted company.
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Two things that this brings to mind:
1) Linux is inextricable from the GPL. Red Hat can succeed (and seems to be doing great, good luck to the stockholders!), but they're limited by the GPL. Yes, there are some software pieces that they can make proprietary, but they can't pre-empt Linus' approval for kernel changes. However, RH seems to put the vast majority (all?) of their software under the GPL anyhow, so it seems very appropriate that Alan Cox should be working there. In fact, it seems like the fastest way for changes to make themselves into the kernel, since RH sells / downloads so many copies
2) I'm not convinced that Transmeta has no immediate interest in the success of failure of Linux. The strong impression I get is that Crusoe will run Linux as a base, whatever its transmogrifiability. I mean, isn't that why they hired Dr. Torvalds?
Maybe I'm silly, and await corrections
:)
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
who stood up to IDG on the issue of speaker funding:
Mucho fun on the IDG front. Seems my original diary entry started a small grass fire that then blazed out of controller across slashdot (not that slashdot is exactly known for its ablative properties). Anyway IDG are now paying some speakers on the basis of need. I'm told that some of it is a misunderstanding between their higher and lower echelons. I don't actually care too much if they've learned or just sorted a problem internally. Its now going in the right direction. I know Miguel of Gnome fame now has his funding sorted.
Three words for ya, guys: Alan Cox 3:16.
And what did he do then?
They did offer to pay my travel expenses but since they can only fund some people I figure they should fund others instead. The Bazaar can afford me somehow on their low budget but IDG can't on their not insustantial price per stand budgetting. I don't wish to overtax IDG's budget.
AC's record is stone cold.
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what makes this a slashdot -headline- worthy story?
"Ex-Segfault poster"
-Stephen
If the Onion had a news section covering Linux, this could easily be the top headline.