If they have a support contract, they have access to the updates.
Right..and unless Red Hat made a serious change to the way they do business, the support contracts aren't free.
CentOS, on the other hand, does not have this limitation. The public yum repositories available by default in CentOS allows you to install and update packages, whereas in RHEL you have to be a paying customer to use their private yum repos.
Oracle's approach with Oracle Unbreakable Linux (which is essentially a re-hash of CentOS, which in turn is a re-hash of RHEL) is if you're not a paying subscriber, you can have access to their public repos, which will allow you to use yum to install the same packages that would be available on the CDs/DVD, but do not offer any of the updates. Although not perfect (perfect being that Red Hat would allow you unfettered access to their yum repos whether you paid for support or not), it is a step above the way Red Hat does things, in that if I don't need/want their support services, I can still utilize yum to install base packages.
Obviously, the best choice for an admin that wouldn't benefit from Red Hat's support services is to just install CentOS (if a RHEL-like environment is required). However, if you plan on setting up a box to run Oracle on, Oracle Unbreakable Linux is probably your best bet since you can still use yum to install your base packages...and the fact that Oracle only provides support to you if you're running on either RHEL or Oracle Unbreakable Linux (I found this out the hard way using CentOS on some database servers).
True. But Redhat put a lot of work into Linux, and I'm happy for my company to help fund those coders, so I buy RHEL licences.
Well...if you don't actually need the support and are only purchasing it as a way to support RedHat, wouldn't it make more sense to just make a donation to them and continue using your distro of choice?
lol...Playboy isn't about porn as is it is about good writing. Try actually reading the articles in it someday...I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Hell, you might even find reading an article with your wife to be an enjoyable experience.
If you don't trust Opera not to spy on your data, why in the hell would you trust them not to spy when you use https in their normal browser? You're always forced to place trust in your browser to keep things encrypted and secure; using their proxies is approximately the same amount of trust. If you're worried about them caching sensitive pages on their servers, that's somewhat more valid (even if you trust them, they could be hacked, say), but still not a very strong argument.
Last I checked, there weren't any backdoors in Opera that allow Opera employees access to my browser data.
Giving Opera the ability to decrypt my "secure" data on their servers gives them the ability to view that data and do whatever with it. I'm not saying this is something that is likely to happen, but there are such things as Bastard Operators From Hell, who on a bad day might decide to do something nasty with your private information. Probably not likely, but the way I see it, the least amount of hands in the cookie jar, the better.
Since Opera's proxy servers do the actual rendering of the page, anything that's accessed via https has to be decrypted by Opera's servers, then re-encrypted and sent back to the user (ala man-in-the-middle).
The Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated that radioactivity, rather than tar, accounts for at least 90% of all smoking-related lung cancers. The Center for Disease Control concluded Americans are exposed to far more radiation from tobacco smoke than from any other source.
You can thank the tobacco industry's choice of fertilizer for that.
I realize I'm stating the obvious, but I cannot stress enough how much more valuable real-world work experience is than just shiny paperwork (degree, certs, etc). I'd imagine this is why you're not hearing back from folks most of the time you submit a resume for a dev job or complete the initial interview. Getting experience isn't hard. Start your own passion project. Sure you won't be paid for it (unless you manage to come up with something groundbreaking that's in high demand), but the experience and project management skills you pick up along the way are invaluable.
The device you're referring to is called a token, and they're not nearly as cheap as a mass-produced CD.
The real-estate industry has used tokens before to limit access to MLS systems to only agents that are paying customers, in order to prevent agents from sharing accounts. However, due to a high demand from their members, the MLS associations have started getting rid of these tokens (partly because they get to be a PITA to deal with, and the high costs associated with them). I'd imagine online-banking-based tokens would end up suffering the same fate as well.
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With all due respect, the 'Decency Groups' can eat my $#*!.
<Mr. Slave>Jesus you two, calm it down.
The last thing we need is for girlintraining to show up here and give a few long-winded posts. </Mr. Slave>
Fixed that for you.
Maybe they should just go by a more realistic name: UglyGirlsThatWantAttentionFromAnyGuyThatWillGiveItTothem
I love this guy. So humble. I wish more people were like him.
Isn't that also why you put a limit on size of the tmpfs ramdisk?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't /tmp usually mapped to a ramdisk?
If they have a support contract, they have access to the updates.
Right..and unless Red Hat made a serious change to the way they do business, the support contracts aren't free.
CentOS, on the other hand, does not have this limitation. The public yum repositories available by default in CentOS allows you to install and update packages, whereas in RHEL you have to be a paying customer to use their private yum repos.
Oracle's approach with Oracle Unbreakable Linux (which is essentially a re-hash of CentOS, which in turn is a re-hash of RHEL) is if you're not a paying subscriber, you can have access to their public repos, which will allow you to use yum to install the same packages that would be available on the CDs/DVD, but do not offer any of the updates. Although not perfect (perfect being that Red Hat would allow you unfettered access to their yum repos whether you paid for support or not), it is a step above the way Red Hat does things, in that if I don't need/want their support services, I can still utilize yum to install base packages.
Obviously, the best choice for an admin that wouldn't benefit from Red Hat's support services is to just install CentOS (if a RHEL-like environment is required). However, if you plan on setting up a box to run Oracle on, Oracle Unbreakable Linux is probably your best bet since you can still use yum to install your base packages...and the fact that Oracle only provides support to you if you're running on either RHEL or Oracle Unbreakable Linux (I found this out the hard way using CentOS on some database servers).
True. But Redhat put a lot of work into Linux, and I'm happy for my company to help fund those coders, so I buy RHEL licences.
Well...if you don't actually need the support and are only purchasing it as a way to support RedHat, wouldn't it make more sense to just make a donation to them and continue using your distro of choice?
Hmmm. Would you care to explain what you think it is that CentOS would give you that RHEL doesn't?
Free access to their repositories..including updates?
lol...Playboy isn't about porn as is it is about good writing. Try actually reading the articles in it someday...I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Hell, you might even find reading an article with your wife to be an enjoyable experience.
I'm pretty sure that my wife would have something to say about Playboy being considered 'reputable'.
Sounds like you married yourself a real winner.
If you don't trust Opera not to spy on your data, why in the hell would you trust them not to spy when you use https in their normal browser? You're always forced to place trust in your browser to keep things encrypted and secure; using their proxies is approximately the same amount of trust. If you're worried about them caching sensitive pages on their servers, that's somewhat more valid (even if you trust them, they could be hacked, say), but still not a very strong argument.
Last I checked, there weren't any backdoors in Opera that allow Opera employees access to my browser data.
Giving Opera the ability to decrypt my "secure" data on their servers gives them the ability to view that data and do whatever with it. I'm not saying this is something that is likely to happen, but there are such things as Bastard Operators From Hell, who on a bad day might decide to do something nasty with your private information. Probably not likely, but the way I see it, the least amount of hands in the cookie jar, the better.
Yes...and it's something important enough that deserves being announced again.
Since Opera's proxy servers do the actual rendering of the page, anything that's accessed via https has to be decrypted by Opera's servers, then re-encrypted and sent back to the user (ala man-in-the-middle).
Quick, somebody call MIke Rowe!
I guess all these rappers are onto something.
Well...we could go back to the gool 'ol days of dueling it out. Personally, I'd rather watch that than 3+ years of boring court hearings.
So...does that mean we'll finally see OpenVPN support?
The Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated that radioactivity, rather than tar, accounts for at least 90% of all smoking-related lung cancers. The Center for Disease Control concluded Americans are exposed to far more radiation from tobacco smoke than from any other source.
You can thank the tobacco industry's choice of fertilizer for that.
The 4th dimension, in this case, enables 3D model clipping?
lol..I thought the exact same thing. So by this logic, Doom II is a "4D" game by typing in 'idclip'...I guess id was way ahead of its time.
I realize I'm stating the obvious, but I cannot stress enough how much more valuable real-world work experience is than just shiny paperwork (degree, certs, etc). I'd imagine this is why you're not hearing back from folks most of the time you submit a resume for a dev job or complete the initial interview. Getting experience isn't hard. Start your own passion project. Sure you won't be paid for it (unless you manage to come up with something groundbreaking that's in high demand), but the experience and project management skills you pick up along the way are invaluable.
The device you're referring to is called a token, and they're not nearly as cheap as a mass-produced CD.
The real-estate industry has used tokens before to limit access to MLS systems to only agents that are paying customers, in order to prevent agents from sharing accounts. However, due to a high demand from their members, the MLS associations have started getting rid of these tokens (partly because they get to be a PITA to deal with, and the high costs associated with them). I'd imagine online-banking-based tokens would end up suffering the same fate as well.
Why would you want to have sex with a "stranger" even if you did have a condom?
Oh I don't know...maybe because of this wacky thing called testosterone...maybe you've heard of it?
Why would you want to have sex with a "stranger" even if you did have a condom?
*Quickly glances at significant other and away*
Fixed that for you.
Let me be the first to say W T F? Yeah..I'm sure this wouldn't ever produce any false positives...