psting non-anonymously because I *am * a karma Whore
Posted on: Sep 04, 2003 - 04:41 AM by mangeli The next in the long awaited series of interviews, Tinyminds.org sits down with Linux International Director, Jon "Maddog" Hall.
From LI.org: Jon has been in the computer industry since 1969, using Unix since 1977, and Linux since 1994.
He has been a software engineer, systems administrator, product manager, marketing manager and professional educator. Jon has been the Executive Director of Linux International since 1995, the first four years as a volunteer. Jon has been employed by VA Linux systems, Compaq Computer Corporation in the Digital UNIX Marketing group and Bell Laboratories among other companies.
Before that he was Department Head of Computer Science at Hartford State Technical College, where his students lovingly (he hopes) gave him the nickname maddog. Maddog as he prefers to be called, has an MS in Computer Science from RPI (1977) and a BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973).
Tm: Anyone who searches for your name online, will come across an organization known as Linux International. What are LI's goals and what is its general purpose?
MD: In 1994 an Australian named Patrick D'Cruze saw the need for a vendor-based organization to care about vendor needs with Linux. He tried to start the organization in Australia, but found that the Australian Linux market was not ready for it at that time. Instead he transferred the idea to the United States where a group of small companies ran with the idea.
Linux International's job is simply to promote Linux among companies and governments. We try to do what is difficult for any one company or individual to do. It was Linux International who first protected the Linux trademark from being held captive by an individual who wanted to hold it ransom, and got the mark assigned to Linus. LI member companies also started the Linux Standard Base project, which later spun off to become the Free Standards Organization.
LI helped to sponsor the concept of Systems Administration Certification, and now works closely with the Linux Professional Institute to spread this concept around the world.
LI has helped major tradeshow and conference companies (IDG, Jupitermedia, Logon, Messe) to put on Linux Conferences and events all over the world.
Finally, LI has tried to act as a vendor-neutral, rational voice for the Linux community to the press.
Tm: What part do you play in Linux International?
MD: Since 1995 I have been Executive Director
Tm: As the mess with SCO unfolds, where do you see Linux heading? Is there really anything to be concerned about regarding their claims?
MD: What mess with SCO?
Seriously, this issue comes down to two issues:
# when will SCO disclose whatever code they say is "tainted" # how long after that will it take for the Linux community to either:
* prove it is untainted (i.e. it is not SCO's code)
* remove whatever code may belong to SCO from the kernel
SCO HAS to disclose the code under current copyright law. Some of this code has leaked, and people have stated that the leaked code is not SCO's to claim. If the rest of the code that SCO claims is also not theirs, then there will be nothing to remove. This type of issue has happened before with proprietary code, and even in cases of blatant copying, the courts have given time for the offending code to be removed.
Tm: What role will Linux International play in the SCO debacle?
MD: My lawyers tell me not to say anything. Sorry.
Tm: Anyone who reads your bio will note that you've been using Unix since the late 70's and Linux since 1994. What are some of the greatest advances you feel that have been made in the operating system in that time?
MD: Unix in the late 70's was a scientific operating system, not a business-oriented system. It had no real scalability. It was not SMP, could not do threads, had n
Federal Power Commission investigators found a single faulty relay at the Sir Adam Beck Station no. 2 in Ontario, Canada, which caused a key transmission line to disconnect ("open"). This small failure triggered a sequence of escalating line overloads that quickly raced down the main trunk lines of the grid, separating major generation sources from load centers and weakening the entire system with each subsequent separation.
As town after town went dark throughout the northeast, power plants in the New York City area automatically shut themselves off to prevent the surging grid from overloading their turbines.
... "I'm sorry, but comfortable is the last thing I want in my server room. I want it unbearably cold, and noisy. I want items scattered dangerously around the floor. I want random floor tiles to be missing. I want a very old sandwich of undetermined origin sitting half-eaten in the corner. I want the first thought of any person that enters my server room to be "Dear $DEITY, I must get out of this place IMMEDIATELY!"
And, more importantly, if they can see a consistant pattern between multiple search engines that make the first, oh 2 or 3 pages, unmarked sponsored links the can prosecute under the RICO laws.
Obviously hard to prove, but the Feds seem to be getting (oh gahd I hope) more fed up with coporate malfeasance
Typically, when there is a blacklist like this, the things that are black listed include sites that would be embarresing to the government,
This is a very large stretch, assumption wise. evidence please.
having nothing to do with the morality of the public, and everything with the lack of morality of the government officials involved.
Now this has a bigger chance of getting past my cliche filter. I' e often noticed that those who whine the loudest about an issue are those that have something ing the closet to hide (skeletons maybe)
Slashdot Mirror
psting non-anonymously because I *am * a karma Whore
Posted on: Sep 04, 2003 - 04:41 AM by mangeli
The next in the long awaited series of interviews, Tinyminds.org sits down with Linux International Director, Jon "Maddog" Hall.
From LI.org: Jon has been in the computer industry since 1969, using Unix since 1977, and Linux since 1994.
He has been a software engineer, systems administrator, product manager, marketing manager and professional educator. Jon has been the Executive Director of Linux International since 1995, the first four years as a volunteer. Jon has been employed by VA Linux systems, Compaq Computer Corporation in the Digital UNIX Marketing group and Bell Laboratories among other companies.
Before that he was Department Head of Computer Science at Hartford State Technical College, where his students lovingly (he hopes) gave him the nickname maddog. Maddog as he prefers to be called, has an MS in Computer Science from RPI (1977) and a BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973).
Tm: Anyone who searches for your name online, will come across an organization known as Linux International. What are LI's goals and what is its general purpose?
MD: In 1994 an Australian named Patrick D'Cruze saw the need for a vendor-based organization to care about vendor needs with Linux. He tried to start the organization in Australia, but found that the Australian Linux market was not ready for it at that time. Instead he transferred the idea to the United States where a group of small companies ran with the idea.
Linux International's job is simply to promote Linux among companies and governments. We try to do what is difficult for any one company or individual to do. It was Linux International who first protected the Linux trademark from being held captive by an individual who wanted to hold it ransom, and got the mark assigned to Linus. LI member companies also started the Linux Standard Base project, which later spun off to become the Free Standards Organization.
LI helped to sponsor the concept of Systems Administration Certification, and now works closely with the Linux Professional Institute to spread this concept around the world.
LI has helped major tradeshow and conference companies (IDG, Jupitermedia, Logon, Messe) to put on Linux Conferences and events all over the world.
Finally, LI has tried to act as a vendor-neutral, rational voice for the Linux community to the press.
Tm: What part do you play in Linux International?
MD: Since 1995 I have been Executive Director
Tm: As the mess with SCO unfolds, where do you see Linux heading? Is there really anything to be concerned about regarding their claims?
MD: What mess with SCO?
Seriously, this issue comes down to two issues:
# when will SCO disclose whatever code they say is "tainted"
# how long after that will it take for the Linux community to either:
* prove it is untainted (i.e. it is not SCO's code)
* remove whatever code may belong to SCO from the kernel
SCO HAS to disclose the code under current copyright law. Some of this code has leaked, and people have stated that the leaked code is not SCO's to claim. If the rest of the code that SCO claims is also not theirs, then there will be nothing to remove. This type of issue has happened before with proprietary code, and even in cases of blatant copying, the courts have given time for the offending code to be removed.
Tm: What role will Linux International play in the SCO debacle?
MD: My lawyers tell me not to say anything. Sorry.
Tm: Anyone who reads your bio will note that you've been using Unix since the late 70's and Linux since 1994. What are some of the greatest advances you feel that have been made in the operating system in that time?
MD: Unix in the late 70's was a scientific operating system, not a business-oriented system. It had no real scalability. It was not SMP, could not do threads, had n
yes. The official report
http://blackout.gmu.edu/archive/pdf/fpc_65.pdf
But paying $129 for what ammounts to a system upgrade in the firstplace is ridiculous
Actually they do know.
Federal Power Commission investigators found a single faulty relay at the Sir Adam Beck Station no. 2 in Ontario, Canada, which caused a key transmission line to disconnect ("open").
This small failure triggered a sequence of escalating line overloads that quickly raced down the main trunk lines of the grid, separating major generation sources from load centers and weakening the entire system with each subsequent separation.
As town after town went dark throughout the northeast, power plants in the New York City area automatically shut themselves off to prevent the surging grid from overloading their turbines.
Ok...
Serious question. How are we going to know that they just didn't say "Shit..this is good code" & stick it into a closed, propietary environment?
with no way to enforce GPL or copyright
and if you don't think that could happen...why I have some wonderful bridges that I could sell you for 10 cents on the dollar
*tweet*
time out.
any admin who sets production servers to be "automatically updated" deserves to be terminated with prejudice.
you test all patches before deployment.
according to reports from local authorities they tried, nobody answered the phones
I *knew* there was a reason the Calder^H^H^H^H SCO logo resembled Mickey Mouse
Aside from the obvious; they are exhibiting Disneyesque behaviour
But I don't think they own a Senator
mod parent up!
there is more truth in the elegent simplicity of this comment then that of all the talking heads put together
.....teach"
Common 3 a : occurring or appearing frequently
Sense 6 b: sound mental capacity and understanding typically marked by shrewdness and practicality
obviously a massive contradiction in terms when applied to the USPTO
Now, get off the stick & build the Alpha EV8+
according to the actual announcement it looks very much like what we 'murkins would expect from Chapter 11
actually it'll be more like Open Sores
good.
nice start.
Just so you know where it can go; with not too much effort our family of 4 has reduce trash to a total of 2 bags per week on average.
...
"I'm sorry, but comfortable is the last thing I want in my server room. I want it unbearably cold, and noisy. I want items scattered dangerously around the floor. I want random floor tiles to be missing. I want a very old sandwich of undetermined origin sitting half-eaten in the corner. I want the first thought of any person that enters my server room to be "Dear $DEITY, I must get out of this place IMMEDIATELY!"
And the distribution is named Psyche
Known in the trade as "The Prince of Darkness"
Yes. interstate commerce
And, more importantly, if they can see a consistant pattern between multiple search engines that make the first, oh 2 or 3 pages, unmarked sponsored links the can prosecute under the RICO laws.
Obviously hard to prove, but the Feds seem to be getting (oh gahd I hope) more fed up with coporate malfeasance
and
The Practice of System and Network Administration
Actually, Dylan Thomas
Can't do much better than that
Typically, when there is a blacklist like this, the things that are black listed include sites that would be embarresing to the government,
This is a very large stretch, assumption wise. evidence please.
having nothing to do with the morality of the public, and everything with the lack of morality of the government officials involved.
Now this has a bigger chance of getting past my cliche filter. I' e often noticed that those who whine the loudest about an issue are those that have something ing the closet to hide (skeletons maybe)