SCO had to come to an agreement with their lawyers because they were going to go broke before a settlement occurred. (31 million dollars and something precent of whatever the outcome was.)
Someone kill Slashdot for using that expanding Intel ad on the front page. I do not block the ads because I enjoy Slashdot and want to help support them by viewing the ads, but that expanding ad they are now using will force me to block all Slashdot ads.
This is stupid and opens the door for more abuse/misuse. Next you will pay a gas tax the day you are born because they know someday you will get in a car.
Why did this even make it onto "Ask Slashdot"? Does this actually carry some importants somewhere? This sounds more like a water-cooler joke here at work. Not something I should be wasting work time reading when I could be wasting work time reading something more important like Groklaw bashing SCO...
See, I disagree somewhat. While Redhat's Desktop (see Fedora) isn't as great as Ubuntu or even some others. The one thing it does have is RedHat itself. All I beleive Redhat has to do is start offering corporate support for a version of Fedora on the desktop. Say one version behind current. (FC4) RedHat isn't stupid. They are where they are because they (just like Dell) did what the corporation wants, not what the home desktop user wants. I doubt RedHat couldn't spit out a lean corporate desktop in a short span of time based on Fedora. Hell Fedora is where RHEL gets most of it's features.
Mr. XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Dear Mr. XXXXXXX:
Thank you for contacting me with regard to the issue of net neutrality. It was good to hear from you.
The principle of net neutrality suggests that data from all Internet content providers should be treated equally, regardless of provider or content. In recent months, broadband service providers, including cable, telephone companies, and wireless providers, have expressed a desire to charge Internet content and application providers, such as Google, eBay, Amazon, and Vonage, for delivering content to Internet consumers.
Net neutrality is one of many issues that have been the subject of hearings held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation as it prepares to advance telecommunications reform legislation. Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-AK) has scheduled a meeting for June 22, 2006, where details of his proposed legislation will be debated among members of the Committee. Furthermore, you may be interested to know that Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced legislation, the Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006 (S. 2360), aimed at codifying the concept of net neutrality. According to Senator Wyden, S. 2360 would prohibit network operators from charging Internet content and application providers for faster delivery to consumers or from favoring certain content. Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have introduced similar legislation, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act (S. 2917). Both of these bills are pending consideration by the Commerce Committee. To keep track of future actions on this legislation, you can go to the "Bill Tracking" service at http://lieberman.senate.gov/issues/resources.
I strongly support efforts to promote broadband deployment, but we must remain vigilant to ensure that congressional efforts to promote deployment by reforming telecommunications law maintain the openness of the Internet that has fueled economic growth and has reinforced our nation's commitment to free speech. Please be assured that I will keep your views in mind should legislation affecting net neutrality come before the full Senate for debate. I also want to review the materials and testimony from the Committee hearings and actions. My official Senate web site is designed to be an on-line office that provides access to constituent services, connecticut-specific information, and an abundance of information about what I am working on in the Senate on behalf of Connecticut and the nation. I am also pleased to let you know that I have launched an email news update service through my web site. You can sign up for that service by visiting http://lieberman.senate.gov/ and clicking on the "Subscribe Email News Updates" button at the bottom of the home page. I hope these are informative and useful.
Thank you again for letting me know your views and concerns. Please contact me if you have any additional questions or comments about our work in Congress.
F. Someone cry foul, monopoly, or something. Stop the chaos. I've been using GeoTrust since about 2001ish because of how much I hate Vericrap. This will mean Verisign will own all the major CAs right? (the ones supported by 99% of browsers?) When I started with GeoTrust they weren't quite their yet but were gaining fast. Over the last few years they have been great!
I disagree. In the end it will mean a lot for the users. Competition is real and helps the consumer. The battle has only begun in this area and the phone makers are taking a step in the battle to remove the middleman. While the saving in our pocket may never be a huge wad of cash it will be more than it is today because of competition.
Linux is a pro consumer product. This is a consumer win.
Microsoft has to be screaming obscenities left and right. Free software attacks every single one of their real cash pipelines and Google attacks the rest. (except for hardware) Everyone know there isn't any real money in hardware unless your name is Apple. The only reason Apple makes money in hardware is because of their cult following who will fire the wallets at them like canon balls.
Personally I find Apple very much like Microsoft. They are trying to take over as "King of the Lock-in Mountain". Go European countries that are bitchslapping them.
I will stick with OSS thanks.
This doesn't follow my experience
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I can't fathom why large hosting providers would switch unless something is happening under the radar. Even then, I've managed both Apache and IIS. IIS by far requires more of a hands on approach and Apache is far more versatile in what exactly you can do with it.
I've rolled my own self-healing scripts that manage my Apache servers and warn me if something is amiss. Our IIS servers can be a pain at times...
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from "niche" open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said. The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation."
Hmm, thats odd. Linux documentation has always been in great abundance. It's getting information about how OS interals worked that caused me the biggest OS to Application head-aches. (Both Unix and Windows)
On a broader note, said Yankee analyst Laura DiDio
Ohhhhhh, I see. Laura DiDio had her nasty little Microsoft-lead hand in this survey.
To boycott Yahoo means to stop using Yahoo products. (search, email, messenger, web hosting, any Yahoo services)
Answers:
Question 1: How can you reduce or stop something that's non-existent?
What doesn't exist? Yahoo services? Just stop using anything Yahoo is how to boycott Yahoo.
Question 2: Agreement? Among journalists? Yeah, right.
I don't understand the question. Journalist can't come to an agreement? Sure they do. All the time as sometimes it's the difference between life and death.
I'm not using DSL, I have cable at home. Here at work we have 3 T1s, 1 Cable (with boost) and FiOS multiplexed with a fatpipe. We keep our outgoing internet access primarily on the cable and FiOS because they are far faster than the T1s. T1s are going to become obsolete at the rate broadband is growning and the overhead cost envolved with T1s vs other options
Not an exception but you are getting better service than you are paying for. Back when I lived in Dallas. My company paid SBC for a 1.5MB DSL line. DSL was just out of our range. We told SBC that we would sign a contract with them for all our phones, and Frame Relay but they had to build the DSLAM. They said if we sign the deal they would build next to our building since they planed on building one within the next year anyhow. The fibre hut was about 45 feet from the building and we had what equaled a 6MB line when only paying for 1.5MB.
Take the level of services you expect and divide it by 10. Thats what you will get. Have a 1.5M t-1? You will get 150k service. 7M connection, you should get close to 700k, 768k service, 76k downloads. This isn't a trick by ISPs, it's the way it works and the way it's always worked.
Your getting ripped off if your paying $149 a month. I live in the same general area and pay $29.99 and get faster service than that. You can look into FiOS too. (though I can't get it where I live) You also note that you live in a very large town in SE Connecticut. I can only guess Stamford. I was going to say that there arn't any very large towns in SE Connecticut (population wise) but I will cut you some slack since it's just barley over 100k people. Large yes, very large no.
What we may even see is MySQL squeezed out of the market. I know many database developers who are starting to use PostgreSQL for their higher-end databases, and SQLite for the lower-end.
I can understand porting to PostgreSQL for higher end stuff since PostgreSQL is more enterprise ready. I can see small home user sites using SQLite for there database. Even small apps can store configs among other things. On the other hand, For simplistic data storage but large amounts of it. (storing blogs, BBS (in todays sence not the old sense) or other of similar type) I think MySQL is best suited. It has replication, is extremely fast and very easy to manage. You can cluster it (in a sense) that allows it to scale to large read access without all the management overhead. MyDNS break several DNS barriers and it does it because it uses a DB as it's data storage. It scales because of MySQL's ability to scale and it's easy to manage because MySQL is easy to manage. It's ability to scale all you have to do is look at Slashdot. If you ratio it's total management to it's abilities it's the best DB. It just doesn't fit all jobs.
The only question to ask is: What does your job require?
Just as a note, my DB experience include.
MySQL (Linux & Windows) PostgreSQL (Linux) Oracle (Solaris & Linux) Progress (AIX) BerkleyDB (Linux) SQL Server MS Access SQLite Sybase (Tru64)
While I don't currently run this wide range of DBs I found each of them fit the roll that they were used even if you could have mixed and match some of them for what uses they were used with the same result.
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Because all those IP lawyers making millions would be out of a job and 'ol George Bush doesn't want the unemployment rate to rise!
See SCO vs IBM.
SCO had to come to an agreement with their lawyers because they were going to go broke before a settlement occurred. (31 million dollars and something precent of whatever the outcome was.)
Someone kill Slashdot for using that expanding Intel ad on the front page. I do not block the ads because I enjoy Slashdot and want to help support them by viewing the ads, but that expanding ad they are now using will force me to block all Slashdot ads.
I publicly request that shit STOP.
This is stupid and opens the door for more abuse/misuse. Next you will pay a gas tax the day you are born because they know someday you will get in a car.
Why did this even make it onto "Ask Slashdot"? Does this actually carry some importants somewhere? This sounds more like a water-cooler joke here at work. Not something I should be wasting work time reading when I could be wasting work time reading something more important like Groklaw bashing SCO...
I bet they happen after MS releases a patch. The servers are rebooting! Come on, we all know the drill!
See, I disagree somewhat. While Redhat's Desktop (see Fedora) isn't as great as Ubuntu or even some others. The one thing it does have is RedHat itself. All I beleive Redhat has to do is start offering corporate support for a version of Fedora on the desktop. Say one version behind current. (FC4) RedHat isn't stupid. They are where they are because they (just like Dell) did what the corporation wants, not what the home desktop user wants. I doubt RedHat couldn't spit out a lean corporate desktop in a short span of time based on Fedora. Hell Fedora is where RHEL gets most of it's features.
I just got a responce today:
June 20, 2006
Mr. XXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Dear Mr. XXXXXXX:
Thank you for contacting me with regard to the issue of net neutrality. It was good to hear from you.
The principle of net neutrality suggests that data from all Internet content providers should be treated equally, regardless of provider or content. In recent months, broadband service providers, including cable, telephone companies, and wireless providers, have expressed a desire to charge Internet content and application providers, such as Google, eBay, Amazon, and Vonage, for delivering content to Internet consumers.
Net neutrality is one of many issues that have been the subject of hearings held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation as it prepares to advance telecommunications reform legislation. Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-AK) has scheduled a meeting for June 22, 2006, where details of his proposed legislation will be debated among members of the Committee. Furthermore, you may be interested to know that Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced legislation, the Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006 (S. 2360), aimed at codifying the concept of net neutrality. According to Senator Wyden, S. 2360 would prohibit network operators from charging Internet content and application providers for faster delivery to consumers or from favoring certain content. Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have introduced similar legislation, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act (S. 2917). Both of these bills are pending consideration by the Commerce Committee. To keep track of future actions on this legislation, you can go to the "Bill Tracking" service at http://lieberman.senate.gov/issues/resources.
I strongly support efforts to promote broadband deployment, but we must remain vigilant to ensure that congressional efforts to promote deployment by reforming telecommunications law maintain the openness of the Internet that has fueled economic growth and has reinforced our nation's commitment to free speech. Please be assured that I will keep your views in mind should legislation affecting net neutrality come before the full Senate for debate. I also want to review the materials and testimony from the Committee hearings and actions. My official Senate web site is designed to be an on-line office that provides access to constituent services, connecticut-specific information, and an abundance of information about what I am working on in the Senate on behalf of Connecticut and the nation. I am also pleased to let you know that I have launched an email news update service through my web site. You can sign up for that service by visiting http://lieberman.senate.gov/ and clicking on the "Subscribe Email News Updates" button at the bottom of the home page. I hope these are informative and useful.
Thank you again for letting me know your views and concerns. Please contact me if you have any additional questions or comments about our work in Congress.
Sincerely,
Joseph I. Lieberman
UNITED STATES SENATOR
F. Someone cry foul, monopoly, or something. Stop the chaos. I've been using GeoTrust since about 2001ish because of how much I hate Vericrap. This will mean Verisign will own all the major CAs right? (the ones supported by 99% of browsers?) When I started with GeoTrust they weren't quite their yet but were gaining fast. Over the last few years they have been great!
I can tell you're not married. No woman would want such a whinny bitch. :P
$79.99. I got it for Christmas in 1986! I wonder how many people understood what you meant...
I disagree. In the end it will mean a lot for the users. Competition is real and helps the consumer. The battle has only begun in this area and the phone makers are taking a step in the battle to remove the middleman. While the saving in our pocket may never be a huge wad of cash it will be more than it is today because of competition.
Linux is a pro consumer product. This is a consumer win.
This is exactly what Apple does.
Microsoft has to be screaming obscenities left and right. Free software attacks every single one of their real cash pipelines and Google attacks the rest. (except for hardware) Everyone know there isn't any real money in hardware unless your name is Apple. The only reason Apple makes money in hardware is because of their cult following who will fire the wallets at them like canon balls.
MS has bigger clusters than that! Most botnets are Windows boxes! How about a 1.5 million node cluster!
e d+1.5+million+PCs/2100-7350_3-5906896.html
http://news.com.com/Bot+herders+may+have+controll
iPod.
Personally I find Apple very much like Microsoft. They are trying to take over as "King of the Lock-in Mountain". Go European countries that are bitchslapping them.
I will stick with OSS thanks.
I can't fathom why large hosting providers would switch unless something is happening under the radar. Even then, I've managed both Apache and IIS. IIS by far requires more of a hands on approach and Apache is far more versatile in what exactly you can do with it.
I've rolled my own self-healing scripts that manage my Apache servers and warn me if something is amiss. Our IIS servers can be a pain at times...
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from "niche" open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said. The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation."
Hmm, thats odd. Linux documentation has always been in great abundance. It's getting information about how OS interals worked that caused me the biggest OS to Application head-aches. (Both Unix and Windows)
On a broader note, said Yankee analyst Laura DiDio
Ohhhhhh, I see. Laura DiDio had her nasty little Microsoft-lead hand in this survey.
To boycott Yahoo means to stop using Yahoo products. (search, email, messenger, web hosting, any Yahoo services)
Answers:
Question 1: How can you reduce or stop something that's non-existent?
What doesn't exist? Yahoo services? Just stop using anything Yahoo is how to boycott Yahoo.
Question 2: Agreement? Among journalists? Yeah, right.
I don't understand the question. Journalist can't come to an agreement? Sure they do. All the time as sometimes it's the difference between life and death.
I'm not using DSL, I have cable at home. Here at work we have 3 T1s, 1 Cable (with boost) and FiOS multiplexed with a fatpipe. We keep our outgoing internet access primarily on the cable and FiOS because they are far faster than the T1s. T1s are going to become obsolete at the rate broadband is growning and the overhead cost envolved with T1s vs other options
Not an exception but you are getting better service than you are paying for. Back when I lived in Dallas. My company paid SBC for a 1.5MB DSL line. DSL was just out of our range. We told SBC that we would sign a contract with them for all our phones, and Frame Relay but they had to build the DSLAM. They said if we sign the deal they would build next to our building since they planed on building one within the next year anyhow. The fibre hut was about 45 feet from the building and we had what equaled a 6MB line when only paying for 1.5MB.
Take the level of services you expect and divide it by 10. Thats what you will get. Have a 1.5M t-1? You will get 150k service. 7M connection, you should get close to 700k, 768k service, 76k downloads. This isn't a trick by ISPs, it's the way it works and the way it's always worked.
Your getting ripped off if your paying $149 a month. I live in the same general area and pay $29.99 and get faster service than that. You can look into FiOS too. (though I can't get it where I live) You also note that you live in a very large town in SE Connecticut. I can only guess Stamford. I was going to say that there arn't any very large towns in SE Connecticut (population wise) but I will cut you some slack since it's just barley over 100k people. Large yes, very large no.
What we may even see is MySQL squeezed out of the market. I know many database developers who are starting to use PostgreSQL for their higher-end databases, and SQLite for the lower-end.
I can understand porting to PostgreSQL for higher end stuff since PostgreSQL is more enterprise ready. I can see small home user sites using SQLite for there database. Even small apps can store configs among other things. On the other hand, For simplistic data storage but large amounts of it. (storing blogs, BBS (in todays sence not the old sense) or other of similar type) I think MySQL is best suited. It has replication, is extremely fast and very easy to manage. You can cluster it (in a sense) that allows it to scale to large read access without all the management overhead. MyDNS break several DNS barriers and it does it because it uses a DB as it's data storage. It scales because of MySQL's ability to scale and it's easy to manage because MySQL is easy to manage. It's ability to scale all you have to do is look at Slashdot. If you ratio it's total management to it's abilities it's the best DB. It just doesn't fit all jobs.
The only question to ask is: What does your job require?
Just as a note, my DB experience include.
MySQL (Linux & Windows)
PostgreSQL (Linux)
Oracle (Solaris & Linux)
Progress (AIX)
BerkleyDB (Linux)
SQL Server
MS Access
SQLite
Sybase (Tru64)
While I don't currently run this wide range of DBs I found each of them fit the roll that they were used even if you could have mixed and match some of them for what uses they were used with the same result.