Absolutely. One compelling reason for restricting access to system logs is the case of users who inadvertently enter their passwords when prompted for their login id. The password then becomes visible in plain-text to anyone with read access to the logs. World-read access is clearly a bad idea, but group-read for trusted individuals may be an acceptable compromise.
Other people can't define how useful a certification will be for you. If you earn one with the expectation of gaining employment based on the certification alone, then you are probably not getting as much from it as you potentially could. Some people learn better having a well-defined objective such as passing a certification exam. And some certifications, like CCIE, are certainly not trivial and require signficant discipline and effort to obtain. Accordingly, they will provide a greater degree of recognition.
If you find certifications personally helpful in skill and career development, then go for it. Just don't walk in to a job interview expecting the piece of paper to talk for you. Point out that you earned it, and in what ways it has or hasn't helped your growth. If you are dealing with competent interviewers, they will recognize and value your focus on real-world skills.
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I used to use bookmarks, until I got in the habit of exiting my shells with Control-D. I spend 90% of my computer time either in a terminal window or mozilla, and I don't use click to focus. Therefore, many times when I hit control-D to exit a shell, I have accidentally left focus on the mozilla window and I add an unwanted bookmark. My bookmarks quickly become cluttered beyond use in this way. Surely there is some way to remap this function to another key, but I've yet to find it.
From TFA: "While simple but powerful keyword searches have revolutionized how Internet users locate and retrieve information, IBM is looking to transform how office workers sift through the piles of data stored inside organizations."
The posting implies that IBM is entering into competition with MS and Google. I saw no indication that IBM intends to launch a web search engine.
The main reason this is useful to me is for "kicking the tires" of Solaris 9 (as the CoyboyNeal implies in his caption). At work we are still running Solaris 7 on production servers and don't have a lot of spare Sparc systems lying around for testing. Being able to install Solaris 9 under VMware or random x86 systems is a very convenient way for me to get some experience with this release. However, I can't think of a good reason to deploy it in production.
The value that RHEL offers me as a system administrator in an enterprise environment is a quality operating system with a support life-cycle that is in-line with industry standards. My reaction, and that of the overwhelming majority of my colleagues with whom I have discussed this issue, to your RHEL offerings is that the prices are disproportionate to that value. That is, there does not seem to be a reasonably priced option for customers who simply want access to releases from and errata from Red Hat, but who either do not require technical support or, for whatever reason, choose to procure technical support contracts from a third-party.
So, my question is: how apparent to Red Hat is this reaction from (potential) enterprise customers, and what if any plans are there to expand your offerings to win the business of such customers?
When I went to kill my membership, they offered me the same membership for less money
I just went to cancel my membership to see if I got the same offer. I was offered a *different* membership for less money (which I accepted:). The membership offered was two DVD's out at a time, with a maximum of four DVD's total per month, for $9.95/month. What I had before was three DVD's out at a time, "unlimited" total per month, for $21.95/month.
This service is currently being offered by Linuxcare Labs. We currently offer vendor nuetral product certification designed to demonstrate compatibility with the Linux kernel and other major subsystems of a GNU/Linux operating system environment. Working in this capacity I have learned about many of the challenges that come with trying to provide independent validation of Open Source based product.
There are many challenging questions to answer when certifying Linux/Open Source based products. For example, which distribution are tested against by default? How do you treat hardware that is only partially supported, i.e. 3D video acceleration, USB, fire wire, etc. How do you make a hardware vendor understand that the certification of their products depends on external factors over which they have no control, i.e. distribution packaging practices or the ability or willingness of Free Software developers to write a driver? Do you require everything to work "out of the box" or do you allow post installation configuration steps to be taken? For example, many sound cards on the market today won't work after a default installation of most distributions, and require that you download, compile, and install the latest version of ALSA to support the card.
Answering these questions is a constant balancing act between meeting the needs of the product vendor and delivering a true benefit to the consumer. In the end, certification loses its value if strict standards are not adhered to. However, at this point in the game it is difficult to convince a vendor to even consider investing in having their products tested under Linux without making it a very attractive proposition for them. What this usually translates to is going the extra mile to "make" a product work. When Linux compatibility testing is no longer optional for computer product vendors, the burden of finding out and documenting how to support a particular product will be shifted to the product vendor.
This also will not let you install your licensed copy of Windows under VMware. This happened to me, I got a "Windows Recovery CD" with my new Fujitsu notebook. I run Linux on the machine, but one day I decided to use VMware and install Windows as a guest OS. Of course, the setup program aborted with an error message saying that it couldn't be installed on this computer. I was able to get around it though, by actually installing Windows on a different hard disk, creating a boot floppy, and burning all the.cabs from the hard disk on to a CDROM. What a pain.
"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."
They want to maintain the image that Linux is for "low end to mid-range" servers. That way they create a perceived demand for their proprietary OS in the "high end" server market.
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Absolutely. One compelling reason for restricting access to system logs is the case of users who inadvertently enter their passwords when prompted for their login id. The password then becomes visible in plain-text to anyone with read access to the logs. World-read access is clearly a bad idea, but group-read for trusted individuals may be an acceptable compromise.
Step 2: Do whatever the hell you want to the whole place
True, except for the Step 1 part.
Other people can't define how useful a certification will be for you. If you earn one with the expectation of gaining employment based on the certification alone, then you are probably not getting as much from it as you potentially could. Some people learn better having a well-defined objective such as passing a certification exam. And some certifications, like CCIE, are certainly not trivial and require signficant discipline and effort to obtain. Accordingly, they will provide a greater degree of recognition.
If you find certifications personally helpful in skill and career development, then go for it. Just don't walk in to a job interview expecting the piece of paper to talk for you. Point out that you earned it, and in what ways it has or hasn't helped your growth. If you are dealing with competent interviewers, they will recognize and value your focus on real-world skills.
I used to use bookmarks, until I got in the habit of exiting my shells with Control-D. I spend 90% of my computer time either in a terminal window or mozilla, and I don't use click to focus. Therefore, many times when I hit control-D to exit a shell, I have accidentally left focus on the mozilla window and I add an unwanted bookmark. My bookmarks quickly become cluttered beyond use in this way. Surely there is some way to remap this function to another key, but I've yet to find it.
I've beeing seeing lots of ads for products that whiten teeth lately, but but who in their right mind would want...oh wait, nevermind.
From TFA: "While simple but powerful keyword searches have revolutionized how Internet users locate and retrieve information, IBM is looking to transform how office workers sift through the piles of data stored inside organizations."
The posting implies that IBM is entering into competition with MS and Google. I saw no indication that IBM intends to launch a web search engine.
The main reason this is useful to me is for "kicking the tires" of Solaris 9 (as the CoyboyNeal implies in his caption). At work we are still running Solaris 7 on production servers and don't have a lot of spare Sparc systems lying around for testing. Being able to install Solaris 9 under VMware or random x86 systems is a very convenient way for me to get some experience with this release. However, I can't think of a good reason to deploy it in production.
The value that RHEL offers me as a system administrator in an enterprise environment is a quality operating system with a support life-cycle that is in-line with industry standards. My reaction, and that of the overwhelming majority of my colleagues with whom I have discussed this issue, to your RHEL offerings is that the prices are disproportionate to that value. That is, there does not seem to be a reasonably priced option for customers who simply want access to releases from and errata from Red Hat, but who either do not require technical support or, for whatever reason, choose to procure technical support contracts from a third-party.
So, my question is: how apparent to Red Hat is this reaction from (potential) enterprise customers, and what if any plans are there to expand your offerings to win the business of such customers?
I just went to cancel my membership to see if I got the same offer. I was offered a *different* membership for less money (which I accepted :). The membership offered was two DVD's out at a time, with a maximum of four DVD's total per month, for $9.95/month. What I had before was three DVD's out at a time, "unlimited" total per month, for $21.95/month.
. . .
posing as computer programmers, were able to gain
employment at Microsoft
. . .
Isn't that how they all get their jobs there? ;)
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I work for LinuxCare.
</Disclaimer>
This service is currently being offered by Linuxcare Labs. We currently offer vendor nuetral product certification designed to demonstrate compatibility with the Linux kernel and other major subsystems of a GNU/Linux operating system environment. Working in this capacity I have learned about many of the challenges that come with trying to provide independent validation of Open Source based product.
There are many challenging questions to answer when certifying Linux/Open Source based products. For example, which distribution are tested against by default? How do you treat hardware that is only partially supported, i.e. 3D video acceleration, USB, fire wire, etc. How do you make a hardware vendor understand that the certification of their products depends on external factors over which they have no control, i.e. distribution packaging practices or the ability or willingness of Free Software developers to write a driver? Do you require everything to work "out of the box" or do you allow post installation configuration steps to be taken? For example, many sound cards on the market today won't work after a default installation of most distributions, and require that you download, compile, and install the latest version of ALSA to support the card.
Answering these questions is a constant balancing act between meeting the needs of the product vendor and delivering a true benefit to the consumer. In the end, certification loses its value if strict standards are not adhered to. However, at this point in the game it is difficult to convince a vendor to even consider investing in having their products tested under Linux without making it a very attractive proposition for them. What this usually translates to is going the extra mile to "make" a product work. When Linux compatibility testing is no longer optional for computer product vendors, the burden of finding out and documenting how to support a particular product will be shifted to the product vendor.
This also will not let you install your licensed copy of Windows under VMware. This happened to me, I got a "Windows Recovery CD" with my new Fujitsu notebook. I run Linux on the machine, but one day I decided to use VMware and install Windows as a guest OS. Of course, the setup program aborted with an error message saying that it couldn't be installed on this computer. I was able to get around it though, by actually installing Windows on a different hard disk, creating a boot floppy, and burning all the .cabs from the hard disk on to a CDROM. What a pain.
for the name of a new brand of cheap booze?
Ironically, I found this article today that discusses Java from a, uhm, different perspective ;)
"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
This article also mentions some recent acquisitions by Linuxcare.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/991214/c.html
They want to maintain the image that Linux is for "low end to mid-range" servers. That way they create a perceived demand for their proprietary OS in the "high end" server market.