A kernel is about 30 megs or so out of the several hundred megs to several gigs you'll find in any Linux distro. If the collection of core utilities *nix depends on is GPLv3, the options Novell have are writing reverse-engineered versions of those utilities or stop selling products based on them.
I write Linux tutorials for a living. . . 100% of my research is online. No Net access means I'm out of business.
Online is where one gets current IT and science information, not from textbooks which might be several years old or magazines whose content is months old as of the cover date. Limiting access means limiting student access to essential research materials. A stupid thing for an engineering school to do.
If you have to ask why IIT is doing a bad thing in limiting Net access, what are you doing on slashdot?.
It's precisely the kind of students who aren't satified with anything but "the best" education who are least likely to put up with this.
More to the point, regardless of how much pr0n, myspace, and mp3s/movies students download, the Internet is an absolutely essential research tool for anyone doing science or engineering. The place one gets reference information on components is online. A generation ago, my reference stuff was a shelf of databooks. A few years ago, it was a pile of CDs. Now, I just download chip spec sheets in PDF when I need it. Of course, if one is in comp sci, the most likely time one is going to want to tie up one's broadband connection to download a Linux distro is just before going to bed... it'll be ready to burn in the morning regardless of how big it is.
How many class assignments require Net access to complete? Most, perhaps?
They'll either change policy or lose students disproportionately towards the top end of their intellectual spectrum.
I won't ask if they're getting their advice on controlling Net access from Oral Roberts University or schools of similar eminence, or if the guy who signed off from this was separated at birth from George Bush, that would be impolite.
I've had two occasions where I've needed to recover a tape backup. The first time, a software glitch produced a premature EOF... customer service told me that this was a known problem with the backup software and since the company didn't bother licensing the bug-fixed version, I should go to the software vendor site and download a time-limited demo version. The second time, it just plain failed... and I was several thousand miles from the originals.
Just then, DVD recorders finally dropped to the affordable point, I switched and never looked back.
Your data is probably in a lot more danger from physical damage than from breakdown of the dyes on your DVDs.
If your house gets destroyed through a disaster, it won't matter how stable your copies are.
I keep my backup copies on the other side of the continent. . . any disaster that takes out both sets of copies will probably be massive enough that it probably took me out with it.
quoted in the article too seriously, I don't think he's up to speed on how C/DVDs actually work.
"The CBC is running an article profiling the problems with archiving digital data in New Brunswick's provincial archives. Quote from the story: 'I've had audio tape come into the archives, for example, that had been submerged in water in floods and the tape was so swollen it went off the reel, and yet we were able to recover that. We were able to take that off and dry it out and play it back. If a CD had one-tenth of one per cent of the damage on one of those reels, it wouldn't play, period. The whole thing would be corrupted'. Given the difficulties with preserving digital data, is it really the medium we should be using for archival purposes?"
In the first place, CD-R isn't suitable for archiving purposes, the organic lacquer on the back which covers the dye layer is subject to all sorts of environmental attack. DVD+R (preferred to DVD-R) has layers of plastic on top and bottom. And Netflix's business model is based on the relative invulnerability of DVDs to environmental attack. I'd expect a decent quality burned DVD to handle a submerging just fine. I am far more concerned with dye breakdown over time.
In the second place, I don't think this guy understands C/DVD formatting. While it might take special software to get it to load if severely damaged, any track on which the bits storing the digitized data haven't been physically damaged should be just fine. Compressed file volumes might be a problem, I use dar for archiving, in which each file is sufficiently separated that if the data on an adjacent file is FUBAR, non-corrupted files should be just fine.
If the owner of a patent hasn't started to develop it or make it available for licensing within 2 years of a patent being awarded, it should be made available for mandatory licensing with set compensation to the owner.
The inventors of the US patent system didn't envision idle or submarine patents. Their intent was to encourage the creation of useful devices that would actually be made available to the public in exchange for the temporary monopoly on profiting from that invention. Having 95% of all patents idle doesn't fit the original intent.
An electric motor provides max torque at stall, the opposite of a gasoline engine. Does that answer your question?
How often do you see someone towing their boat trailer uphill, really, not in a commercial?
In RL, would your name happen to be A.Square and your home area Flatland? Hills and mountains are not imaginary things you see on your TV set. Lots of hills outside where you live, and to get from home to the water, one has to drag one's trailer over those hills.
They could probably get it for $1 and assuming SCO's debts. Which is only right, since they helped SCO incur them. Obsolete, of course, but even that is probably an improvement on the Vista Core. And since they had a version of Win4Lin, they even would have some legacy Windoze compatibility built in.
If I were in that position, I'd get a programming team to write a proprietary version of OpenBSD with as many members of the OpenBSD dev team as offering them LOTS of money would persuade to join the Dark Side, license VMware Server with an installed copy of XP on every box to handle legacy compatibility, (maybe even a 9.x and a DOS VM... because they can) and start porting Windoze apps to Win-nix.
That would give us all a dose of STFU about security and basically run everything anybody ever wrote for MS environments.
I did this from a terminal window from within KDE.
I already had X Windows open using the vesa driver which Debian had already configured for me without my intervention... my desktop looked just fine. But no nvidia driver, no OpenGL.
WTF's up with Ubuntu?
NOTE: my motherboard is an integrated Biostar GeForce 6100 AM2... and the reason I switched from FC6 is that it couldn't be made to run either with the Fedora kmod-nvidia or the Nvidia binary driver packages, even with extensive help from both Fedora or Nvidia forums. (hopefully, that's been fixed)
As you can see above in my response, I updated timezones in Debian by simply installing tzdata via automated installation... if I'd waited, tzdata might have been pushed out via automated update. I'll never know, I suppose.
But this could equally well have been done via any of the Debian GUI installation tools that work with apt-get.
Updating Debian for the new DST was a lot less work than installing the Windows fixes... which I had to find, download, install, and run. tzdata was a single command line command... only because I felt like installing it that way... as in tell it to download/install... and forget it. The GUI would actually have been more work.
Any Windoze user who managed to update in time would have been able to do this in Linux with less hassle.
Ortholattice, you worked way too hard. Before you do a source install in Debian, ALWAYS check the repositories.
aptitude search tzdata
It made the change without even a hiccup. I used the Karen's Power Tools update software to handle the Windows install in the VM... which also worked just fine.
the DJ has nothing to do with it. Payola is run out of the major chains directly as a profit center. Simply assume that EVERY song played on a radio station part of a chain is a commercial some RIAA label paid for. And that the same will continue to be true, all that will result is more creative ways to get around the anti-payola laws and FCC regulations.
that'll change the clock for MS OSs automatically. I grabbed one, installed it on the Windows VM running in my copy of VMware Server, problem solved. Find out how to get it and set it up here
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A kernel is about 30 megs or so out of the several hundred megs to several gigs you'll find in any Linux distro. If the collection of core utilities *nix depends on is GPLv3, the options Novell have are writing reverse-engineered versions of those utilities or stop selling products based on them.
they're risking here. Lawsuit time?
science or technology related for a living?
I write Linux tutorials for a living. . . 100% of my research is online. No Net access means I'm out of business.
Online is where one gets current IT and science information, not from textbooks which might be several years old or magazines whose content is months old as of the cover date. Limiting access means limiting student access to essential research materials. A stupid thing for an engineering school to do.
If you have to ask why IIT is doing a bad thing in limiting Net access, what are you doing on slashdot?.
It's precisely the kind of students who aren't satified with anything but "the best" education who are least likely to put up with this.
More to the point, regardless of how much pr0n, myspace, and mp3s/movies students download, the Internet is an absolutely essential research tool for anyone doing science or engineering. The place one gets reference information on components is online. A generation ago, my reference stuff was a shelf of databooks. A few years ago, it was a pile of CDs. Now, I just download chip spec sheets in PDF when I need it. Of course, if one is in comp sci, the most likely time one is going to want to tie up one's broadband connection to download a Linux distro is just before going to bed... it'll be ready to burn in the morning regardless of how big it is.
How many class assignments require Net access to complete? Most, perhaps?
They'll either change policy or lose students disproportionately towards the top end of their intellectual spectrum.
I won't ask if they're getting their advice on controlling Net access from Oral Roberts University or schools of similar eminence, or if the guy who signed off from this was separated at birth from George Bush, that would be impolite.
I've had two occasions where I've needed to recover a tape backup. The first time, a software glitch produced a premature EOF... customer service told me that this was a known problem with the backup software and since the company didn't bother licensing the bug-fixed version, I should go to the software vendor site and download a time-limited demo version. The second time, it just plain failed... and I was several thousand miles from the originals.
Just then, DVD recorders finally dropped to the affordable point, I switched and never looked back.
Your data is probably in a lot more danger from physical damage than from breakdown of the dyes on your DVDs.
If your house gets destroyed through a disaster, it won't matter how stable your copies are.
I keep my backup copies on the other side of the continent. . . any disaster that takes out both sets of copies will probably be massive enough that it probably took me out with it.
In the first place, CD-R isn't suitable for archiving purposes, the organic lacquer on the back which covers the dye layer is subject to all sorts of environmental attack. DVD+R (preferred to DVD-R) has layers of plastic on top and bottom. And Netflix's business model is based on the relative invulnerability of DVDs to environmental attack. I'd expect a decent quality burned DVD to handle a submerging just fine. I am far more concerned with dye breakdown over time.
In the second place, I don't think this guy understands C/DVD formatting. While it might take special software to get it to load if severely damaged, any track on which the bits storing the digitized data haven't been physically damaged should be just fine. Compressed file volumes might be a problem, I use dar for archiving, in which each file is sufficiently separated that if the data on an adjacent file is FUBAR, non-corrupted files should be just fine.
If the owner of a patent hasn't started to develop it or make it available for licensing within 2 years of a patent being awarded, it should be made available for mandatory licensing with set compensation to the owner.
The inventors of the US patent system didn't envision idle or submarine patents. Their intent was to encourage the creation of useful devices that would actually be made available to the public in exchange for the temporary monopoly on profiting from that invention. Having 95% of all patents idle doesn't fit the original intent.
In RL, would your name happen to be A.Square and your home area Flatland? Hills and mountains are not imaginary things you see on your TV set. Lots of hills outside where you live, and to get from home to the water, one has to drag one's trailer over those hills.
They could probably get it for $1 and assuming SCO's debts. Which is only right, since they helped SCO incur them. Obsolete, of course, but even that is probably an improvement on the Vista Core. And since they had a version of Win4Lin, they even would have some legacy Windoze compatibility built in.
If I were in that position, I'd get a programming team to write a proprietary version of OpenBSD with as many members of the OpenBSD dev team as offering them LOTS of money would persuade to join the Dark Side, license VMware Server with an installed copy of XP on every box to handle legacy compatibility, (maybe even a 9.x and a DOS VM... because they can) and start porting Windoze apps to Win-nix.
That would give us all a dose of STFU about security and basically run everything anybody ever wrote for MS environments.
you can spend 100% of your time in Linux and run Windows in a VM when you need it without shutting down Linux.
Exception - some Windows games which don't work so well on a VM.
Since I don't run them, I don't even bother with keeping a Windows drive for dual-boot anymore, I use that slot to run experimental OSs when need be.
I did this from a terminal window from within KDE.
I already had X Windows open using the vesa driver which Debian had already configured for me without my intervention... my desktop looked just fine. But no nvidia driver, no OpenGL.
WTF's up with Ubuntu?
NOTE: my motherboard is an integrated Biostar GeForce 6100 AM2... and the reason I switched from FC6 is that it couldn't be made to run either with the Fedora kmod-nvidia or the Nvidia binary driver packages, even with extensive help from both Fedora or Nvidia forums. (hopefully, that's been fixed)
Debian Etch:
aptitude install nvidia
OK, I could have used a GUI shell, but why make more work for myself?
Hopefully, that's next.
As you can see above in my response, I updated timezones in Debian by simply installing tzdata via automated installation... if I'd waited, tzdata might have been pushed out via automated update. I'll never know, I suppose.
But this could equally well have been done via any of the Debian GUI installation tools that work with apt-get.
Updating Debian for the new DST was a lot less work than installing the Windows fixes... which I had to find, download, install, and run. tzdata was a single command line command... only because I felt like installing it that way... as in tell it to download/install... and forget it. The GUI would actually have been more work.
Any Windoze user who managed to update in time would have been able to do this in Linux with less hassle.
aptitude install tzdata
Ortholattice, you worked way too hard. Before you do a source install in Debian, ALWAYS check the repositories.
aptitude search tzdata
It made the change without even a hiccup. I used the Karen's Power Tools update software to handle the Windows install in the VM... which also worked just fine.
actually, we don't have to go back that far in history to discover people in our family tree who didn't get that.
Remember the examples from Greek mythology that involved inter-species breeding? There was a time when people thought the stories literal truth.
However, I was merely trying to make a crude joke about our ancestors and bestiality. Looks like the joke wasn't crude enough.
"going forth and multiplying" only works when one tries to multiply with one's own species?
Given the number of Democrats who don't like her, unless she retires at the end of this term, I think you can expect one.
that's 2000 Feinstein, Dianne ("D"-RIAA)
an "indie" label subsidiary to one of the major record labels?
If you don't, there probably is NO way for you to get any of that time.
the DJ has nothing to do with it. Payola is run out of the major chains directly as a profit center. Simply assume that EVERY song played on a radio station part of a chain is a commercial some RIAA label paid for. And that the same will continue to be true, all that will result is more creative ways to get around the anti-payola laws and FCC regulations.
Probably an A.
Do you think he does a better job for his regular employers than he does for the RIAA for a MUCH higher hourly rate?
that'll change the clock for MS OSs automatically. I grabbed one, installed it on the Windows VM running in my copy of VMware Server, problem solved. Find out how to get it and set it up here