The current state of CentOS6 is really not optimal: Lagging more than half a year behind Redhat means that there are security fixes for known vulnerabilities that are not applied to your system, and the same goes for bugfixes that may have an impact on overall stability of your systems (as in "lost man hours because of inaccessible services). I know that CentOS has promised to back-port critical security fixes from RHEL 6.1 to CentOS6 but that honestly makes me feel worse about the hole thing - in that case we would have a CentOS6 that was some unholy mix of RHEL 6.0 and RHEL 6.1, something I *really* don't want to be responsible for.
About a year and ago we had 8 RHEL subscriptions that were mainly maintained because we wanted to support OSS development - today we've replaced 30 of the CentOS installations we had back then with RHEL installations, simply because we had too many instability problems with virtualization on CentOS. Converting the servers to RHEL (not reinstalling - just changing a few configuration files and adding them to our Redhat Network) and installing the latest RHEL 6.1 kernel solved the problems in every single case - no exceptions.
Tell your CIO from someone who has been there that he will most likely be wasting more money on spent (or lost) man hours during the year than the subscription will cost you. If someone is relying on the services provided by the servers, there is a real risk that they will spend at least some time on waiting for you to get things back on track, and that is probably going to amount to real money lost pretty quickly.
No chance in hell. We're talking about Neelie Kroes here, and if there is one unbribable, tough bitch in the entire EU, it's her - and thank goodness for that. In my world, things approved by Neelie Kroes is most likely really OK.
OK, to be honest they actually do a bit more OSS work than I thought - the only projects I ever recall hearing of is InnoDB, which I don't know if they still actively maintains as it's not on the list on the page you linked to, and OCFS2.
Still, none of these projects are even remotely close to MySQL in terms of scope and complexity.
Depends on the definition of "large". One of the leading Danish Banks, Jyske Bank (4.145 employees, 122 offices), recently announced that they would be switching their online banking system to MySQL - the announcement (in Danish) is here:
I fear that we'll see a standstill in MySQL development until one of the recent forks gain enough traction for it to be accepted across Linux distributions and see an uptake in development efforts from third parties.
Oracle developing MySQL? How many open source projects does Oracle maintain today (except from a ripped off OS)? How many small and medium sized customers does Oracle have today? Exactly...
Of course it may depend on your personal taste in sci-fi but I never had read anything that could match the extremely well written "Nights Dawn Trilogy" by Peter F. Hamilton (published in 1996-1198-2000), so good sci-fi is still being written and published.
No, no, no! Novell is free to sue Microsoft six ways from sunday if they want but they cannot sue Microsoft *CUSTOMERS* for patent infringement. This deal (as rotten as it is in many other ways) at least got that part right.
It's not a question of professional or not - it's weight and volume in your bag I'm talking about. The old 12" PowerBook was used by a lot of photographers in the field because it was so small and lightweight but since it's been discontinued, the 15" is the smallest Intel-based alternative if you want to use Aperture in the field.
MacBook is small enough to be a great tool for photographers in the field but cannot run Aperture due to the GMA graphis - for that you'll need the MacBook Pro which is larger and heavier.
If your purchase/renewal of Software Assurance in December, 2004 was predicated solely on Vista's release in 2006, you made the wrong decision, and have nobody but yourself to blame for it.
I didn't - we've got no SA agreements at all so the problem doesn't really apply to us.
However, I don't agree with your view on "What Marketing Says" and "The Engineering reality" because that is not what is the problem here (at least the way I see it): When making the decision whether to go for SA or pay deployment support by the hours you try to balance the estimated cost of both alternatives and you do that based on the release estimates from Microsoft (paired with your own expectations, of course).
The longer Vista has been pushed into the future, the worse SA has come out in this calculation. If deployment could have been done within one SA period it would have looked good - but having to pay two periods it may very well have been a better idea to pay by the hours.
I don't think that's what I said - I merely pointed out that releasing an OS at a time when SA is about to run out is probably going to aggravate customers who may now be sufficiently used to Windows XP to run it on their own but who really would like to have some help deploying Vista in their organization.
With only one month to go that's not possible so the only option is to cough up for another SA period for deployment support, something most customers quite likely had expected to be covered by the current periods payment.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that most customers probably expected the current SA to cover more than just installation and support of XP and now that it doesn't I'm not sure that the SA was such a good deal, compared to paying to deployment support outside an SA agreement.
License keys and media kits are one thing - the support needed during the installation is quite another. SA includes numerous support options and is one of the key reasons to selecting this type of licensing (IMO) and that part will be gone once the SA agreement expires. So yes - SA customers are probably not going to be happy.
It's because you ARE an isolated bumpkin American!:)
I work for a Danish webhosting company and we have very few customers that run their website off a.com/.net/.whatever while almost everybody run a.dk domain as their main domain. Some have secured the.com counterpart and use it as a parked domain but it's ususally just companies that do business internationally.
So yes - local tld's are just as important to companies all over the world as.com is to US-based companies and believe me, there is some neat amounts of money involved when trading some domains. No, we're not talking sex.com amounts of money but still...
Because Microsoft is a monopoly? Most countries has laws protecting their citizens against the power of monopolies and so does the EU - if Microsoft doesn't want to abide by those laws willingly they should be fined for not doing so or forced to do so if they want to keep on doing business in the EU.
The laws weren't created to annoy Microsoft but to protect the EU citizens - something that often seems to be forgotten in all this.
Actually you're about as far away from the truth as you could be on this one - if anything good has come from this, it's the fact that people in Denmark from different religions are finally TALKING to each other and expressing mutual understanding for each others beliefs.
We have our share of right wing nutcases and outright nazis, granted, but it's a lot less common than you might be led to believe when reading newspapers and watching TV - which probably is exactly the same situation most muslims are in: They're being tarnished by the fact that a few idiots has to compensate for low self esteem and a serious lack of brain.
He'd be torn to pieces by the public should he even consider it. If there is one thing we really (REALLY!) dislike in Denmark, it's people that uses their political power for their own benefit. It's not even three strikes and out - you're a done deal right away.
I don't know about software patents but ordinary patents have to be enforced - otherwise you lose them. Will MS take out a boatload of patents and then let them slip away without enforcing them? Don't think so.
I work as sysadmin in a webhosting company and while we had some initial concerns it soon became obvious that this is a pump 'n dump scam - nothing else. We're deploying new Linux servers all the time and has actually increased the deployment rate since the lawsuit was made.
- however, be aware that Pegasus is going to eat all of your CPU for an extended amount of time when opening a folder with a lot of mails through IMAP. While it may be of no concern to most users, it has caused me to drop Pegasus in favor of Netscape Mail, which handles IMAP very well in v7.1.
That really depends on what you're doing: If you're working client-side, then yes - performance is not likely to be that big an issue in most cases. However, working server-side (e.g servlets) is very different, especially if you're coding webapplications that may be serving a *lot* of users.
Of course you could write your high performance server-side application in C but then you'll loose your platform independence - and that could be a real bummer if you would like to migrate to a faster, more efficient platform because your current platform doesn't scale to the very popular website you were lucky enough to build. Or whatever.
Bottom line: Platform independence are very valuable in some situations and the way things may scale you have to maximize performance - and that's were tuning has it's place, even though it's time consuming in the first place.
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+1 on this one.
The current state of CentOS6 is really not optimal: Lagging more than half a year behind Redhat means that there are security fixes for known vulnerabilities that are not applied to your system, and the same goes for bugfixes that may have an impact on overall stability of your systems (as in "lost man hours because of inaccessible services). I know that CentOS has promised to back-port critical security fixes from RHEL 6.1 to CentOS6 but that honestly makes me feel worse about the hole thing - in that case we would have a CentOS6 that was some unholy mix of RHEL 6.0 and RHEL 6.1, something I *really* don't want to be responsible for.
About a year and ago we had 8 RHEL subscriptions that were mainly maintained because we wanted to support OSS development - today we've replaced 30 of the CentOS installations we had back then with RHEL installations, simply because we had too many instability problems with virtualization on CentOS. Converting the servers to RHEL (not reinstalling - just changing a few configuration files and adding them to our Redhat Network) and installing the latest RHEL 6.1 kernel solved the problems in every single case - no exceptions.
Tell your CIO from someone who has been there that he will most likely be wasting more money on spent (or lost) man hours during the year than the subscription will cost you. If someone is relying on the services provided by the servers, there is a real risk that they will spend at least some time on waiting for you to get things back on track, and that is probably going to amount to real money lost pretty quickly.
No chance in hell. We're talking about Neelie Kroes here, and if there is one unbribable, tough bitch in the entire EU, it's her - and thank goodness for that. In my world, things approved by Neelie Kroes is most likely really OK.
OK, to be honest they actually do a bit more OSS work than I thought - the only projects I ever recall hearing of is InnoDB, which I don't know if they still actively maintains as it's not on the list on the page you linked to, and OCFS2.
Still, none of these projects are even remotely close to MySQL in terms of scope and complexity.
Depends on the definition of "large".
One of the leading Danish Banks, Jyske Bank (4.145 employees, 122 offices), recently announced that they would be switching their online banking system to MySQL - the announcement (in Danish) is here:
http://dk.sun.com/sunnews/press/2009/090226.jsp
I fear that we'll see a standstill in MySQL development until one of the recent forks gain enough traction for it to be accepted across Linux distributions and see an uptake in development efforts from third parties.
Oracle developing MySQL? How many open source projects does Oracle maintain today (except from a ripped off OS)? How many small and medium sized customers does Oracle have today? Exactly...
- if this happens in the USA. Other places may (and do) have a more relaxed law regarding this and those photos would be perfectly good to use.
You really have got to be kidding.
Of course it may depend on your personal taste in sci-fi but I never had read anything that could match the extremely well written "Nights Dawn Trilogy" by Peter F. Hamilton (published in 1996-1198-2000), so good sci-fi is still being written and published.
How about reading your Amstrad floppies on your Amstrad CPC6128 and copying them to the attached PC floppy...? ;-)
No, no, no! Novell is free to sue Microsoft six ways from sunday if they want but they cannot sue Microsoft *CUSTOMERS* for patent infringement. This deal (as rotten as it is in many other ways) at least got that part right.
Anything will change into pollution when it starts to kill a natural habitat, be it nutrients, CO2 or even oxygen. It's not WHAT, it's the AMOUNT.
It's not a question of professional or not - it's weight and volume in your bag I'm talking about. The old 12" PowerBook was used by a lot of photographers in the field because it was so small and lightweight but since it's been discontinued, the 15" is the smallest Intel-based alternative if you want to use Aperture in the field.
One word: Aperture
MacBook is small enough to be a great tool for photographers in the field but cannot run Aperture due to the GMA graphis - for that you'll need the MacBook Pro which is larger and heavier.
I didn't - we've got no SA agreements at all so the problem doesn't really apply to us.
However, I don't agree with your view on "What Marketing Says" and "The Engineering reality" because that is not what is the problem here (at least the way I see it): When making the decision whether to go for SA or pay deployment support by the hours you try to balance the estimated cost of both alternatives and you do that based on the release estimates from Microsoft (paired with your own expectations, of course).
The longer Vista has been pushed into the future, the worse SA has come out in this calculation. If deployment could have been done within one SA period it would have looked good - but having to pay two periods it may very well have been a better idea to pay by the hours.
I don't think that's what I said - I merely pointed out that releasing an OS at a time when SA is about to run out is probably going to aggravate customers who may now be sufficiently used to Windows XP to run it on their own but who really would like to have some help deploying Vista in their organization.
With only one month to go that's not possible so the only option is to cough up for another SA period for deployment support, something most customers quite likely had expected to be covered by the current periods payment.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that most customers probably expected the current SA to cover more than just installation and support of XP and now that it doesn't I'm not sure that the SA was such a good deal, compared to paying to deployment support outside an SA agreement.
License keys and media kits are one thing - the support needed during the installation is quite another. SA includes numerous support options and is one of the key reasons to selecting this type of licensing (IMO) and that part will be gone once the SA agreement expires. So yes - SA customers are probably not going to be happy.
It's because you ARE an isolated bumpkin American! :)
.com/.net/.whatever while almost everybody run a .dk domain as their main domain. Some have secured the .com counterpart and use it as a parked domain but it's ususally just companies that do business internationally.
.com is to US-based companies and believe me, there is some neat amounts of money involved when trading some domains. No, we're not talking sex.com amounts of money but still...
I work for a Danish webhosting company and we have very few customers that run their website off a
So yes - local tld's are just as important to companies all over the world as
Because Microsoft is a monopoly? Most countries has laws protecting their citizens against the power of monopolies and so does the EU - if Microsoft doesn't want to abide by those laws willingly they should be fined for not doing so or forced to do so if they want to keep on doing business in the EU.
The laws weren't created to annoy Microsoft but to protect the EU citizens - something that often seems to be forgotten in all this.
Actually you're about as far away from the truth as you could be on this one - if anything good has come from this, it's the fact that people in Denmark from different religions are finally TALKING to each other and expressing mutual understanding for each others beliefs.
We have our share of right wing nutcases and outright nazis, granted, but it's a lot less common than you might be led to believe when reading newspapers and watching TV - which probably is exactly the same situation most muslims are in: They're being tarnished by the fact that a few idiots has to compensate for low self esteem and a serious lack of brain.
So you always count 38-39-4-41-42...? ;-)
The previous version was 2.37a and I'm pretty sure there was a 2.4 a long time ago - just after 2.3 and right before 2.5 unless I'm mistaken.
Centipede was a game. Not the bug. I think. Otherwise a centipede IS a bug. But who would clone THAT?
He'd be torn to pieces by the public should he even consider it. If there is one thing we really (REALLY!) dislike in Denmark, it's people that uses their political power for their own benefit. It's not even three strikes and out - you're a done deal right away.
Ah - yes, I think you're right, I'm probably confusing patents and trademarks. My mistake.
I don't know about software patents but ordinary patents have to be enforced - otherwise you lose them. Will MS take out a boatload of patents and then let them slip away without enforcing them? Don't think so.
I work as sysadmin in a webhosting company and while we had some initial concerns it soon became obvious that this is a pump 'n dump scam - nothing else. We're deploying new Linux servers all the time and has actually increased the deployment rate since the lawsuit was made.
- however, be aware that Pegasus is going to eat all of your CPU for an extended amount of time when opening a folder with a lot of mails through IMAP. While it may be of no concern to most users, it has caused me to drop Pegasus in favor of Netscape Mail, which handles IMAP very well in v7.1.
That really depends on what you're doing: If you're working client-side, then yes - performance is not likely to be that big an issue in most cases. However, working server-side (e.g servlets) is very different, especially if you're coding webapplications that may be serving a *lot* of users.
Of course you could write your high performance server-side application in C but then you'll loose your platform independence - and that could be a real bummer if you would like to migrate to a faster, more efficient platform because your current platform doesn't scale to the very popular website you were lucky enough to build. Or whatever.
Bottom line: Platform independence are very valuable in some situations and the way things may scale you have to maximize performance - and that's were tuning has it's place, even though it's time consuming in the first place.
Anders