This isn't a whole lot of use if you have a DSL connection using a router then, is it? This sounds like it would be impossible to use on a DSL solution.
VAT is a sales tax, but it is included in the price... so what you see is what you pay, you don't have to add anything to the sticker on the shelf. VAT rates differing, will mean a different sticker price, not the same sticker price but a higher price at the till.
Near as I understand, we'll see 2.6 in RHEL 4. I think that's due Q1 or Q2 2005.
In the meantime, we've got backported O1 scheduler, most of the EXT3 speedups and fixes and a raft of other things.
At the moment, the only real killer problem for RHEL in the enterprise is the lack of a supported filesystem that will allow dynamic resizing. You have to unmount an ext3 volume before you can resize it, so it's not suitable for some volume management solutions. I believe that XFS will allow you to resize on the fly, but from what I've heard, there are no plans to support that at the moment.
The problem is that the people that MS are suing have to win _EVERY_ suit. MS won't care if it loses one or two along the way and has patents ruled invalid, as they have enough to just keep coming back with more.
Two weeks ago I witnessed an act of vandalism at Mansion house tube station. Two female youths threw a bottle at a train waiting on the platform, spraying glass along the platform and the train.
There were two camera filming them. I also photographed them with my camera phone. I reported the problem to a station worker, who was not interested in dealing with it, so I reported it to British transport police (after 3 failed attempts, but that's another story about law enforcement in.uk:))
After a week, they came back to me and said that they were unable to take any action as the footage from the CCTV wasn't clear enough to ensure that the people I took the picture of were actually the people throwing the bottle.
This is the second or third time I've seen CCTV fail miserably.
a) People that are old enough to be grandmothers are old enough to know that copyright infringement is illegal
What you're _not_ mentioning though is that one of the people sued in the last batch was a grandmother - but she'd never downloaded or shared an illegal track. She was actually an Apple Mac user, and incapable of running the software that they said she was.
And there's the problem - these people can just run around making citizen's lives miserable at random, without doing proper checks that they're suing the right person!
This decision scares me. I believe that this will create pressure that will lead to one of two things:
Kernel fork so that companies can have a stable branch that they can trust, and just cherry pick new things from the main tree as and when they want
OR - vendors like Oracle, Sybase, IBM, etc. only supporting one or at most two distributions
Before you shout me down, hear my reasoning out...
Vendors developing applications need stable APIs and ABIs. We're already too close to a potential fragmentation situation with multiple distributions on different kernel versions, glibc versions, etc. It's giving vendors headaches because they claim to support Linux, but then the masses spew insults when their particular distribution doesn't work.
Ignoring performance stability, instability of the code base will hurt Linux acceptance. If it costs vendors more to keep up with the ever-changing world than they can make from selling Linux solutions, they'll either find a way to freeze that world (i.e. fork), or they'll discontinue or reduce their support, and tie it to just one or two distributions. These are both bad options for the end-user.
You also have to wonder how much trust should be placed in the distribution companies. Going for a Red Hat solution is in many cases more expensive than a similar Sun solution, and Red Hat don't provide a lot of choice. Want to use XFS or JFS on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 server that you paid them $1000 for ? That's just tough, because if you do that, they won't support the box.
Pay a grand and get no support - that's the price of 'choice' with Red Hat. I'm sure other distribution vendors will be the same, because at the end of the day, they need a known-good installation to troubleshoot against. That's fair enough, they're in this for business reasons. But to say that we should rely on their altruism for our stable kernels ? Doesn't seem like good forward thinking to me!
Don't judge them too hastily on SLES 8 (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server). SLES 9 has gone gold recently, and the Beta's and the Release Candidates were FANTASTIC! Their admin / management tools are _far_ superior to the comparitave Red Hat Enterprise Linux tools.
Another thing to consider... Enterprise products such as SLES and RHAS will have a 5 year supported lifecycle. That means that you'll still be able to get security patches in 5 years time. Can you say that about your current version of Fedora ?
You know the fragmentation fear that most big companies have with regards to Linux ? You know how the community is always explaining that this just can't possibly happen? Well guess what...
Fragmentation is the reason that most teams don't put out RPM's for their projects. This non-existant, mythical condition that can't possibly exist:)
Basically, each distro will be ever so slightly different. You can't depend on functionality being supplied by specific RPM's, you can't depend on files being in specific locations, you can't depend on kernel versions being the same or compatible.
So it's just easier to put the source out there, and let the distro managers deal with it.
You can now buy 1.136l of milk at the store. Not 1l, not 1.5l, but 1.136l. That's 2 pints for those of you who hadn't worked it out yet:) They just changed the labels to have a metric unit, not the actual volumes they sell.
Most things still have a/lb cost in bigger type than the KG information.
The UK is still almost entirely imperial from what I can see. I grew up on a metric system (.za) and people here have NO idea what I'm on about when they ask my weight or height.
The cinema I use these days has a message saying that it is illegal to operate a video camera in the cinema... They quote the Federation against copyright something or other...
I really don't think EV1 is up for suing here... They are saying that they will be suing someone who has a SCO Unix licence. That implies someone like SGI or IBM.
They're talking about their Unix licences here, not their Linux IP licences.
SCO have long maintained that their primary gripe is that IBM helped accelerate SMP and some memory management stuff on the x86 platform. They claim that prior to IBM dishing out their code to the Linux camp, SCO was dominant on the x86 platform.
Looking at their list of files now, it seems like they are losing the plot internally. Many of these files have nothing to do with the x86 platform, and SMP and memory management are very different on other platforms. Also, many of these files don't have anything to do with SMP or memory management specifically.
Well, there is a problem with that. You see, the anti-drug puritans have basically defined "addiction" as "liking something and doing it regularly".
Rubbish! Addiction is commonly accepted to mean being so dependant on something that you just can't give it up. Addiction is normally accepted to mean that an addicted person trying to stop whatever behaviour or substance they are addicted to will suffer severe repurcussions and be unable to function during this period.
Actually, I'm pretty much willing to bet that the cost of training is where this party will end. Despite the closeness between Open Office and MS office, government drones will insist on being re-trained before they switch. The unions will back this.
The costs of this retraining will MORE than eat up the savings made by not paying licence fees.
Newham is actually quite an open-minded borough, well at least as far as their IT services team go. They have been quite instrumental in pioneering new IT technologies including Open Source solutions in the UK, and many other boroughs look to them for guidance.
Pity they're also the leaders in deployment of citizen surveilance solutions as well, and many other boroughs look to them for guidance on that too.
Samba often needs rewrites because of the scope of changes that MS make to their protocols and authentication mechanisms. The samba team will ALWAYS be one step behind on this one because they have to wait and see what MS do and then respond.
There are a lot of posts asking why the delay and why does it need rewriting. I would guess that the majority of the game WON'T need to be recoded, but certain things like CD key auth code will, certain networking code, etc.
Great... I hope they come something else for promoting the book in the rest of the world - we've not even got publication dates here yet (Well, neither books etc or waterstones have one).
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This isn't a whole lot of use if you have a DSL connection using a router then, is it? This sounds like it would be impossible to use on a DSL solution.
VAT is a sales tax, but it is included in the price... so what you see is what you pay, you don't have to add anything to the sticker on the shelf. VAT rates differing, will mean a different sticker price, not the same sticker price but a higher price at the till.
Which SuSE version is this ? Because apparantly SuSE aren't happy about their stuff being copied:
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http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&i
Near as I understand, we'll see 2.6 in RHEL 4. I think that's due Q1 or Q2 2005.
In the meantime, we've got backported O1 scheduler, most of the EXT3 speedups and fixes and a raft of other things.
At the moment, the only real killer problem for RHEL in the enterprise is the lack of a supported filesystem that will allow dynamic resizing. You have to unmount an ext3 volume before you can resize it, so it's not suitable for some volume management solutions. I believe that XFS will allow you to resize on the fly, but from what I've heard, there are no plans to support that at the moment.
The problem is that the people that MS are suing have to win _EVERY_ suit. MS won't care if it loses one or two along the way and has patents ruled invalid, as they have enough to just keep coming back with more.
Two weeks ago I witnessed an act of vandalism at Mansion house tube station. Two female youths threw a bottle at a train waiting on the platform, spraying glass along the platform and the train.
.uk :))
There were two camera filming them. I also photographed them with my camera phone. I reported the problem to a station worker, who was not interested in dealing with it, so I reported it to British transport police (after 3 failed attempts, but that's another story about law enforcement in
After a week, they came back to me and said that they were unable to take any action as the footage from the CCTV wasn't clear enough to ensure that the people I took the picture of were actually the people throwing the bottle.
This is the second or third time I've seen CCTV fail miserably.
a) People that are old enough to be grandmothers are old enough to know that copyright infringement is illegal
What you're _not_ mentioning though is that one of the people sued in the last batch was a grandmother - but she'd never downloaded or shared an illegal track. She was actually an Apple Mac user, and incapable of running the software that they said she was.
And there's the problem - these people can just run around making citizen's lives miserable at random, without doing proper checks that they're suing the right person!
If you like Richard Morgan's writing even a little, you will want to check out Market Forces.
:)
It's set in a different universe to his first two... a post-apocalyptic England mainly.
When I picked it up, I was quite concerned that it was going to be a straight rip off of Mad Max, but it kept me interested all the way through.
Hell, how can any book that starts off with a quote from a Midnight Oil song NOT be good
This decision scares me. I believe that this will create pressure that will lead to one of two things:
- Kernel fork so that companies can have a stable branch that they can trust, and just cherry pick new things from the main tree as and when they want
- OR - vendors like Oracle, Sybase, IBM, etc. only supporting one or at most two distributions
Before you shout me down, hear my reasoning out...Vendors developing applications need stable APIs and ABIs. We're already too close to a potential fragmentation situation with multiple distributions on different kernel versions, glibc versions, etc. It's giving vendors headaches because they claim to support Linux, but then the masses spew insults when their particular distribution doesn't work.
Ignoring performance stability, instability of the code base will hurt Linux acceptance. If it costs vendors more to keep up with the ever-changing world than they can make from selling Linux solutions, they'll either find a way to freeze that world (i.e. fork), or they'll discontinue or reduce their support, and tie it to just one or two distributions. These are both bad options for the end-user.
You also have to wonder how much trust should be placed in the distribution companies. Going for a Red Hat solution is in many cases more expensive than a similar Sun solution, and Red Hat don't provide a lot of choice. Want to use XFS or JFS on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 server that you paid them $1000 for ? That's just tough, because if you do that, they won't support the box.
Pay a grand and get no support - that's the price of 'choice' with Red Hat. I'm sure other distribution vendors will be the same, because at the end of the day, they need a known-good installation to troubleshoot against. That's fair enough, they're in this for business reasons. But to say that we should rely on their altruism for our stable kernels ? Doesn't seem like good forward thinking to me!
Another thing to consider... Enterprise products such as SLES and RHAS will have a 5 year supported lifecycle. That means that you'll still be able to get security patches in 5 years time. Can you say that about your current version of Fedora ?
You know the fragmentation fear that most big companies have with regards to Linux ? You know how the community is always explaining that this just can't possibly happen? Well guess what...
:)
Fragmentation is the reason that most teams don't put out RPM's for their projects. This non-existant, mythical condition that can't possibly exist
Basically, each distro will be ever so slightly different. You can't depend on functionality being supplied by specific RPM's, you can't depend on files being in specific locations, you can't depend on kernel versions being the same or compatible.
So it's just easier to put the source out there, and let the distro managers deal with it.
Sure, the UK changed - in name.
:) They just changed the labels to have a metric unit, not the actual volumes they sell.
/lb cost in bigger type than the KG information.
You can now buy 1.136l of milk at the store. Not 1l, not 1.5l, but 1.136l. That's 2 pints for those of you who hadn't worked it out yet
Most things still have a
The UK is still almost entirely imperial from what I can see. I grew up on a metric system (.za) and people here have NO idea what I'm on about when they ask my weight or height.
The cinema I use these days has a message saying that it is illegal to operate a video camera in the cinema... They quote the Federation against copyright something or other...
Broken angels rocked! I'm waiting to see more from Richard Morgan, as I've been very impressed by his first two outings.
:)
Tell me what you thought of the book once you finish the last page
I really don't think EV1 is up for suing here... They are saying that they will be suing someone who has a SCO Unix licence. That implies someone like SGI or IBM.
They're talking about their Unix licences here, not their Linux IP licences.
Besides using their feedback button, you can also register a complaint if you feel that they have breached editorial standards. To do this, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/contactus/serious.shtml
SCO have long maintained that their primary gripe is that IBM helped accelerate SMP and some memory management stuff on the x86 platform. They claim that prior to IBM dishing out their code to the Linux camp, SCO was dominant on the x86 platform.
Looking at their list of files now, it seems like they are losing the plot internally. Many of these files have nothing to do with the x86 platform, and SMP and memory management are very different on other platforms. Also, many of these files don't have anything to do with SMP or memory management specifically.
WTF?
Well, there is a problem with that. You see, the anti-drug puritans have basically defined "addiction" as "liking something and doing it regularly".
Rubbish! Addiction is commonly accepted to mean being so dependant on something that you just can't give it up. Addiction is normally accepted to mean that an addicted person trying to stop whatever behaviour or substance they are addicted to will suffer severe repurcussions and be unable to function during this period.
Actually, I'm pretty much willing to bet that the cost of training is where this party will end. Despite the closeness between Open Office and MS office, government drones will insist on being re-trained before they switch. The unions will back this.
The costs of this retraining will MORE than eat up the savings made by not paying licence fees.
In this case, one of the chief ICT guys for Newham said Open Office was a no-brainer, not open source in general.
Newham is actually quite an open-minded borough, well at least as far as their IT services team go. They have been quite instrumental in pioneering new IT technologies including Open Source solutions in the UK, and many other boroughs look to them for guidance.
Pity they're also the leaders in deployment of citizen surveilance solutions as well, and many other boroughs look to them for guidance on that too.
Samba often needs rewrites because of the scope of changes that MS make to their protocols and authentication mechanisms. The samba team will ALWAYS be one step behind on this one because they have to wait and see what MS do and then respond.
You don't remember correctly. Educators paid around USD70.00 for 10.2
There are a lot of posts asking why the delay and why does it need rewriting. I would guess that the majority of the game WON'T need to be recoded, but certain things like CD key auth code will, certain networking code, etc.
Great... I hope they come something else for promoting the book in the rest of the world - we've not even got publication dates here yet (Well, neither books etc or waterstones have one).