When you're automatically rebuilding a Linux box, and you only want to re-install the OS and not blow away the data on the SAN, this would be a godsend.
At the moment, we install Linux on/dev/sda which is a mirrored disk presented by the RAID controller. No worries if you have no SAN connection. But when your san disks are presented as/dev/sdx as well, and there is no guarantee that sda is the internal hard disk, having a controller / target naming scheme makes a lot more sense.
I regularly ship DVD's from the UK back to South Africa. My folks and some of my friends are still on dialup, so downloading 80MB.mov files of my vacation or skydiving movies just isn't an option for them.
I own the copyright on those movies. What right does someone else have to watch that without my permission? And if they don't watch it, how do they know if it is legit content or pirate ?
I fully agree with this, and I see this as one of the biggest barriers to enterprise adoption.
Vendors such as Red Hat and Novell attempt to give the client this - in fact they both guaranteed no API / ABI changes within a version (e.g. RHEL 3). This was difficult but feasible under the old model, but from what I can see it is impossible with the new development model.
They either have to stick with one specific kernel version for the entire lifetime of the product, backporting the things they need from new kernels, or they have to break this deal.
The whole threads change in 2.4 is STILL biting me in the ass today.
I agree that you can't freeze Linux forever, but an attempt should at least be made within major versions (e.g. 2.6).
Hard-to-steal cars get people killed. Look at any country where carjacking (hi-jacking) has become popular. You'll normally see the same escalation process:
1. Cars have no security, then get stolen 2. People get an alarm - thieves learn how to disable these 3. People get an imobiliser - thieves go work at the installers to learn how to disable these 4. People get a gearlock - the hijacking starts
At point 4, it's easier to take a car while it's rolling than it is when it's parked. So they do. But the escalation continues
5. People get satellite tracking so that hijacked vehicles can be recovered. Thieves turn to killers and murder the hijack victims to buy themselves enough time to get the car parked out of tracking reach while they chop it.
So give me an easy to steal car any day of the week. I want my car stolen from the shopping lot or my driveway. I don't want a gun in my back at a traffic light or a freeway onramp.
Sun don't allow redistribution or bundling of java JREs except under certain specific conditions. This makes java as a language unattractive to many organisations when compared with.NET and can also hurt developers tendering for work.
Lets take a hypothetical new company. So far, all they've done is bought Windows and installed their workstation and server population. Now they need an application to do Foo.
Team A propose a solution based on.Net. For the company, this means a single set of negotiations, one licence to review (Team A's app licence) and only 2 support contact points (Microsoft and Team A).
Team B propose a solution based on Java. Now the company would have to have their lawyers review 2 sets of licences as opposed to one (Team A and Sun), and their support contact points climbs to 3. It also increases overall administrative hassle, as Java has to be patched / updated outside of their OS / application lifecycle.
Team B automatically look less attractive to the company because their hidden costs are much higher. If Sun just allowed Team B to bundle the JRE with their application, this would go away. Of course, then the different problem of every application trying to install Java comes up, but that can be got around by providing a 'JRE bundled' and 'No JRE' version of the products.
If you think that companies won't bother to review Sun's licence before installing Java, you'd be wrong... I've consulted at 2 different places now where they had their lawyers review the GPL and Java's licence before allowing deployment of products licenced under those.
Are you serious? Even ignoring your racial comment, your post is still woefully mis-informed.
I work for an investment bank and we give a LOT back. We have several charity's that we contribute significant sums to (both Employees and the company). We also contribute both source code (on the rare occasions that we do make in-house mods) as well as support through various channels (irc, web, etc.)
Many very important contributions to Linux have come from banks. Maybe more would if Linux could finally reach the grade of enterprise operating system and be able to handle simple things like the addition of extra SAN LUNs without requiring a reboot. I'm the laughing stock of our Unix team because of that little gem, because I'm the Linux guy:)
You're sadly in the same position as my wife. She's a member of one of the largest health insurance companies in the UK, but the arrogant fuckers told her that they don't pay for cosmetic surgery.
Yeah, because I just want that limb back so that I can LOOK good right? It's not like opposable thumbs were actually useful or anything.
Weird thing happened to my shoulder recently. I went away for a couple of days skydiving. When I got back, my shoulder was killing me. I saw the doctor, and he sent me for physio which didn't help. Then I went away for another two weeks of driving and skydiving, but my shoulder was fine about 3 days into the trip. Even at the end of the trip it was still fine.
I got home from the trip and starting processing photos and video, and within 4 hours my shoulder was absolutely killing me.
I eventually realised that the day after the first skydiving trip, I had started using a new mouse. Not believing this could be related, I moved back to my old mouse. A day later, my shoulder was fine and it hasn't troubled me since.
I just kinda assumed that it was the skydiving that had done the harm. I mean, which is more likely to cause physical harm? Falling out of the sky or using a mouse? In this case, it turned out to be the mouse:D
That's the risk Bush knowingly took when he invaded Iraq and ousted Saddam, thereby attempting to speed up their civilization's growth. I'm sure it's even more complicated than I see it.
If the war in Iraq was so necessary and so justfied, why do our leaders LIE to us all about the reasons? Surely if the cause was just, they could afford to be honest about why they needed our fathers, brothers and sons to die?
Most people's main complaint about the ID card bill in the UK was the national database. At the moment, many of the databases (such as DVLA, Revenue, etc.) are not linked. This will allow them to build complete profiles.
The 'compromise' that has been reached missed the point entirely. The 'compromise' forces you onto the national database immediately.
I really hate that this is getting linked to from so many places. This should never have been posted, and will only hurt Open Source Software's cause.
We keep telling companies that they can trust open source software. When they point out that there is no support, we tell them about the wonderful community that they can turn to for support.
This is PERFECT MS anti-linux fodder. Yeah, sure you can turn to the OS community for support... if you want to get ridiculed on the Internet.
I'm not arguing that the town manager was a dick - he clearly was from his mails, but even so, this thread should not have been posted on the 'net.
My MP is Jim Fitzpatrick, an individual I have very little respect for. When I wrote to him prior to the vote on the Iraq war, he responded that he had to vote his conscience. And here was me thinking that actually, he was there to vote MY conscience, or at least, the general consensus of his constituents.
Anyway, here is his reply to a letter I sent him on this issue:
Dear Mr.XXXXX,
Thank you for your e mail. I will write to you on this. I hope to be able persuade you that this is not a fascist administration,
I would love a PVR that can deal with Satellite TV. I have a Sky subscription, and I hardly use it, mainly because most of what I want to watch is on at inconvenient times for me.
Sky+ is Ok, but I don't want a solution that turns into a brick and won't let me access any of the stuff that I've recorded when I stop subscribing to them. I'd also like to be able to archive stuff off to DVD / elsewhere at times.
Uh, that seems to be a mistake that a lot of people make. I've actually found the opposite though - the further up the food chain you crawl, the less you work. I've now made it to an international investment bank. I'm making good money, but my contract is only for a 35 hour work week. On top of this, I get free health insurance and some other perks.
This means that I can afford the good schools, but I can also be there to spend time with my family almost every night.
When I was working SA for a web hosting company, I almost NEVER had any free time. The 70 hour week was the norm. I've doubled my salary and halved my hours.
Don't get me wrong - I know how incredibly lucky I am. There are not that many openings for my kind of role and I lucked out big time in getting it. But I think there are other options out there too.
A lot of comments here are along the lines that if they were dying they would screw work and spend time with their families. I gotta ask - why would it take your impending death to spend this time ?
Every day you go to work before your child gets up and get home after they've gone to sleep is a day that you both lose. Every saturday you spend getting those TPS reports done is another day of play and growth that you will miss with your child.
An earlier poster said that they would spend the time making sure that their kids know what they need to. That kinda implies they aren't doing it now. People say that they would spend the time with their family.
Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick - maybe you already do that. But to me, every day I live is one day closer to the end of my life. I only work to make sure that I can keep my family safe, warm, healthy and educated. Once I've worked enough to make that happen, the rest of the time is for them, because each day is one less day that I have to share with them.
One of the most prominent cases where there is a threat to ongoing software availability in recent years is the NTP vs RIM patent suit. SCO vs The World may have had more publicity back in the day, but there was never a serious legal threat, whereas with NTP and RIM, an injunction blocking the use of RIM software was sought and hearings were held.
Is RIM's software Open Source? No. So is this letter from these lawyers pure bullshit? Yes.
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I sooooo wish Linux had that naming scheme.
/dev/sda which is a mirrored disk presented by the RAID controller. No worries if you have no SAN connection. But when your san disks are presented as /dev/sdx as well, and there is no guarantee that sda is the internal hard disk, having a controller / target naming scheme makes a lot more sense.
When you're automatically rebuilding a Linux box, and you only want to re-install the OS and not blow away the data on the SAN, this would be a godsend.
At the moment, we install Linux on
I regularly ship DVD's from the UK back to South Africa. My folks and some of my friends are still on dialup, so downloading 80MB .mov files of my vacation or skydiving movies just isn't an option for them.
I own the copyright on those movies. What right does someone else have to watch that without my permission? And if they don't watch it, how do they know if it is legit content or pirate ?
You're posting a comment on some guy's blog saying that his birthday doesn't matter? Then don't post on his blog!
Where are you paying $3.70 a gallon?
Ignoring the fact that $3.70 is half of what we pay in the UK roughly, I just got back from LA last week, and I didn't pay more than £3.20 anywhere.
I fully agree with this, and I see this as one of the biggest barriers to enterprise adoption.
Vendors such as Red Hat and Novell attempt to give the client this - in fact they both guaranteed no API / ABI changes within a version (e.g. RHEL 3). This was difficult but feasible under the old model, but from what I can see it is impossible with the new development model.
They either have to stick with one specific kernel version for the entire lifetime of the product, backporting the things they need from new kernels, or they have to break this deal.
The whole threads change in 2.4 is STILL biting me in the ass today.
I agree that you can't freeze Linux forever, but an attempt should at least be made within major versions (e.g. 2.6).
You owe me a new keyboard :D
Hard-to-steal cars get people killed. Look at any country where carjacking (hi-jacking) has become popular. You'll normally see the same escalation process:
1. Cars have no security, then get stolen
2. People get an alarm - thieves learn how to disable these
3. People get an imobiliser - thieves go work at the installers to learn how to disable these
4. People get a gearlock - the hijacking starts
At point 4, it's easier to take a car while it's rolling than it is when it's parked. So they do. But the escalation continues
5. People get satellite tracking so that hijacked vehicles can be recovered. Thieves turn to killers and murder the hijack victims to buy themselves enough time to get the car parked out of tracking reach while they chop it.
So give me an easy to steal car any day of the week. I want my car stolen from the shopping lot or my driveway. I don't want a gun in my back at a traffic light or a freeway onramp.
Sun don't allow redistribution or bundling of java JREs except under certain specific conditions. This makes java as a language unattractive to many organisations when compared with .NET and can also hurt developers tendering for work.
.Net. For the company, this means a single set of negotiations, one licence to review (Team A's app licence) and only 2 support contact points (Microsoft and Team A).
Lets take a hypothetical new company. So far, all they've done is bought Windows and installed their workstation and server population. Now they need an application to do Foo.
Team A propose a solution based on
Team B propose a solution based on Java. Now the company would have to have their lawyers review 2 sets of licences as opposed to one (Team A and Sun), and their support contact points climbs to 3. It also increases overall administrative hassle, as Java has to be patched / updated outside of their OS / application lifecycle.
Team B automatically look less attractive to the company because their hidden costs are much higher. If Sun just allowed Team B to bundle the JRE with their application, this would go away. Of course, then the different problem of every application trying to install Java comes up, but that can be got around by providing a 'JRE bundled' and 'No JRE' version of the products.
If you think that companies won't bother to review Sun's licence before installing Java, you'd be wrong... I've consulted at 2 different places now where they had their lawyers review the GPL and Java's licence before allowing deployment of products licenced under those.
Which countries were competing ?
American civilians have been killed in terrorist attacks in Madrid, London and I believe Indonesia.
Experts attribute at least 2 of these attacks to groups enraged by the US and allies actions abroad.
So do you mean that only American soil matters?
Are you serious? Even ignoring your racial comment, your post is still woefully mis-informed.
:)
I work for an investment bank and we give a LOT back. We have several charity's that we contribute significant sums to (both Employees and the company). We also contribute both source code (on the rare occasions that we do make in-house mods) as well as support through various channels (irc, web, etc.)
Many very important contributions to Linux have come from banks. Maybe more would if Linux could finally reach the grade of enterprise operating system and be able to handle simple things like the addition of extra SAN LUNs without requiring a reboot. I'm the laughing stock of our Unix team because of that little gem, because I'm the Linux guy
You're sadly in the same position as my wife. She's a member of one of the largest health insurance companies in the UK, but the arrogant fuckers told her that they don't pay for cosmetic surgery.
Yeah, because I just want that limb back so that I can LOOK good right? It's not like opposable thumbs were actually useful or anything.
Last time I saw the optician, we were chatting for about 5 minutes when she said 'Do you do that on purpose?' I said 'do what on purpose?'
:)
Turns out, I hadn't been blinking for most of the conversation. It's something I have to remember to do
Weird thing happened to my shoulder recently. I went away for a couple of days skydiving. When I got back, my shoulder was killing me. I saw the doctor, and he sent me for physio which didn't help. Then I went away for another two weeks of driving and skydiving, but my shoulder was fine about 3 days into the trip. Even at the end of the trip it was still fine.
:D
I got home from the trip and starting processing photos and video, and within 4 hours my shoulder was absolutely killing me.
I eventually realised that the day after the first skydiving trip, I had started using a new mouse. Not believing this could be related, I moved back to my old mouse. A day later, my shoulder was fine and it hasn't troubled me since.
I just kinda assumed that it was the skydiving that had done the harm. I mean, which is more likely to cause physical harm? Falling out of the sky or using a mouse? In this case, it turned out to be the mouse
What other MMORPGS are there for Mac users? My wife and I both play WoW, and I'd be interested in looking at other options.
We have G5's so bootcamp and then Windows isn't an option for us.
As long as they are backing restrictive IP legislation, Red Hat do not have my support in any form.
That's the risk Bush knowingly took when he invaded Iraq and ousted Saddam, thereby attempting to speed up their civilization's growth. I'm sure it's even more complicated than I see it.
If the war in Iraq was so necessary and so justfied, why do our leaders LIE to us all about the reasons? Surely if the cause was just, they could afford to be honest about why they needed our fathers, brothers and sons to die?
Most people's main complaint about the ID card bill in the UK was the national database. At the moment, many of the databases (such as DVLA, Revenue, etc.) are not linked. This will allow them to build complete profiles.
The 'compromise' that has been reached missed the point entirely. The 'compromise' forces you onto the national database immediately.
Arse.
What is the British citizen getting for that expense?
Shafted. Royally.
I really hate that this is getting linked to from so many places. This should never have been posted, and will only hurt Open Source Software's cause.
We keep telling companies that they can trust open source software. When they point out that there is no support, we tell them about the wonderful community that they can turn to for support.
This is PERFECT MS anti-linux fodder. Yeah, sure you can turn to the OS community for support... if you want to get ridiculed on the Internet.
I'm not arguing that the town manager was a dick - he clearly was from his mails, but even so, this thread should not have been posted on the 'net.
My MP is Jim Fitzpatrick, an individual I have very little respect for.
When I wrote to him prior to the vote on the Iraq war, he responded that he had to vote his conscience. And here was me thinking that actually, he was there to vote MY conscience, or at least, the general consensus of his constituents.
Anyway, here is his reply to a letter I sent him on this issue:
Dear Mr.XXXXX,
Thank you for your e mail. I will write to you on this. I hope to be
able persuade you that this is not a fascist administration,
Yours etc,
Jim
Yours etc, ? What is that about ?
I would love a PVR that can deal with Satellite TV. I have a Sky subscription, and I hardly use it, mainly because most of what I want to watch is on at inconvenient times for me.
Sky+ is Ok, but I don't want a solution that turns into a brick and won't let me access any of the stuff that I've recorded when I stop subscribing to them. I'd also like to be able to archive stuff off to DVD / elsewhere at times.
Uh, that seems to be a mistake that a lot of people make. I've actually found the opposite though - the further up the food chain you crawl, the less you work. I've now made it to an international investment bank. I'm making good money, but my contract is only for a 35 hour work week. On top of this, I get free health insurance and some other perks.
This means that I can afford the good schools, but I can also be there to spend time with my family almost every night.
When I was working SA for a web hosting company, I almost NEVER had any free time. The 70 hour week was the norm. I've doubled my salary and halved my hours.
Don't get me wrong - I know how incredibly lucky I am. There are not that many openings for my kind of role and I lucked out big time in getting it. But I think there are other options out there too.
A lot of comments here are along the lines that if they were dying they would screw work and spend time with their families. I gotta ask - why would it take your impending death to spend this time ?
Every day you go to work before your child gets up and get home after they've gone to sleep is a day that you both lose. Every saturday you spend getting those TPS reports done is another day of play and growth that you will miss with your child.
An earlier poster said that they would spend the time making sure that their kids know what they need to. That kinda implies they aren't doing it now. People say that they would spend the time with their family.
Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick - maybe you already do that. But to me, every day I live is one day closer to the end of my life. I only work to make sure that I can keep my family safe, warm, healthy and educated. Once I've worked enough to make that happen, the rest of the time is for them, because each day is one less day that I have to share with them.
One of the most prominent cases where there is a threat to ongoing software availability in recent years is the NTP vs RIM patent suit. SCO vs The World may have had more publicity back in the day, but there was never a serious legal threat, whereas with NTP and RIM, an injunction blocking the use of RIM software was sought and hearings were held.
Is RIM's software Open Source? No. So is this letter from these lawyers pure bullshit? Yes.