I took the SAIR GNU tests back in february, and found most of them to be ok, pretty nice. The last one, though, had an extremely american viewpoint. Example: Where I live (Norway), your boss may ask you (the system administrator) to get at copy of the proxy logs, mail logs, mail boxes etc. and you can answer him "You won't get that. It's not legal", as Norwegian law does not permit anyone to read such logs. They can only be used for troubleshooting. As I understood from the SAIR stuff, all countries does not have such laws.
But as the first step of a certification (the four CLA tests), I find them quite good. I've done some 25 tests of such in total (Master CNA, some Lotus Notes stuff and MCSE), and I find the SAIR/GNU ones quite a lot better than most Microsoft tests, though not as good as those on Novell systems.
Well... Luckily, these laws are not universial. I happen to live in a country whose laws forbid anyone tapping my phone, reading my mail, reading the documents I have stored on my home directory on the server etc. unless the police have a very good reason for doing so.
Welcome to the land of the "a-little-more-free" as long as you don't mind paying loads of tax: Norway. Personally, I have a little problem figuring out how people can stand living under the "Land-of-the-free"'s current privact laws.
At the same time - in one of the world's only country where the police aren't allowed to carry guns, Norway has one of the world's lowest number of crime situations per year.
How many times have we heard rumor about Microsoft releasing whatever product's source code, all ending up in someone denying all. We've all seen it, time after time. Then why don't we all sit down and reflect over this for a second while we turn our faces back to freshmeat or something...
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Question is - How are anyone going to get these people (old-fashioned businessmen, crocks, Microsoft etc.) to understand the possibilities of earning money without the nasty tricks. We all know it: Tell the drug dealer down the street she's doing a bad thing and wait for her to stop it... Dream on. As long they can get away with it, they'll still go on as ever before.
Microsoft is really a good example. After they "lost" he trial and this judge spoke of Bill Gates as the devil of all times (metaphorically), they haven't been at all better. One should beleive the company at least slowed down their hyper-licencing and stuff to show the court "We're cool". Have anyone seen that happen?
All right. We all want this to be a good world with free software, cheap hardware, no wars, plages or crime. But as long as there are countries worshipping capital like USA, what can you do? Roy
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Example: Where I live (Norway), your boss may ask you (the system administrator) to get at copy of the proxy logs, mail logs, mail boxes etc. and you can answer him "You won't get that. It's not legal", as Norwegian law does not permit anyone to read such logs. They can only be used for troubleshooting. As I understood from the SAIR stuff, all countries does not have such laws.
But as the first step of a certification (the four CLA tests), I find them quite good. I've done some 25 tests of such in total (Master CNA, some Lotus Notes stuff and MCSE), and I find the SAIR/GNU ones quite a lot better than most Microsoft tests, though not as good as those on Novell systems.
Roy Karlsbakk
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Luckily, these laws are not universial. I happen to live in a country whose laws forbid anyone tapping my phone, reading my mail, reading the documents I have stored on my home directory on the server etc. unless the police have a very good reason for doing so.
Welcome to the land of the "a-little-more-free" as long as you don't mind paying loads of tax: Norway .
Personally, I have a little problem figuring out how people can stand living under the "Land-of-the-free"'s current privact laws.
At the same time - in one of the world's only country where the police aren't allowed to carry guns, Norway has one of the world's lowest number of crime situations per year.
Roy <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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As long as AMD stays on top... We really don't know - do we?
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Microsoft is really a good example. After they "lost" he trial and this judge spoke of Bill Gates as the devil of all times (metaphorically), they haven't been at all better. One should beleive the company at least slowed down their hyper-licencing and stuff to show the court "We're cool". Have anyone seen that happen?
All right. We all want this to be a good world with free software, cheap hardware, no wars, plages or crime. But as long as there are countries worshipping capital like USA, what can you do? Roy
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Novell will continue supporting NetWare 3.2 for some time, thought.
Roy
According to Linus, the 2.4 was intentionally scheduled for November...
I think someone missed that...
Roy
or ... 132? Check kernel.org Roy