Is there someplace you can download the Redhat ES ISOs without paying? If not then you're stuck with regular Redhat and a product life cycle that most folks running web servers aren't going to want to have to deal with.
RedHat seems very competitive at most levels especially considering that there are no CALs to worry about and I don't think the Windows prices include the kind of service included in the RH Standard editions.
But where RedHat really slips in this price structure is at the bottom end web server pricing. The cheapest RH server you can get is $349, which is dangerously close to Windows Server 2003 web edtion at $399.
You haven't bothered to read many of the responses, have you? There's a fair amount of kicking and screaming going on.
Frankly I think it's foolish. RedHat is devaluing their certification program. It's this kind of stamping out certifications for anyone who can memorize the essentials that have made Microsoft certifications a joke.
Whether people want to consider what TiVo did SPAM or not doesn't make much difference. It had absolutely nothing to do with TiVo's decision. Suggesting that it did makes the original poster, and slashdot look like idiots to any informed observer - which is to say, pretty much "status quo."
TiVo simply hasn't found a manufacturer who wants to build and sell TiVo equipment for the U.K. without a subsidy. Given TiVo's need to pare expenses to reach break even before they run out of cash, there really is no other option than to pull the plug.
As for the "SPAM" issue. I enjoy about 75% of the promotional content that TiVo records automatically. Some folks complain about the extra menu item that becomes available when you've got SPAM, but it doesn't bother me in the least. I can just ignore it. It doesn't use my space and it will go away on it's own after a while.
Yes, you are welcome to consider it SPAM and decline to buy a TiVo because of it.
Like it or not, the whiney little bitch is right. The state of Linux video is pretty dismal. Unfortunately when you rely on geeks scratching an itch to supply your applications you sometimes end up with software only suitble for use by itchy geeks.
I don't think it is a coincidence that Tori Amos and Pearl Jam were targeted. Look at their past. Both have strong opinions about the recording industry. I bet they have pissed off enough executives, that this is the punishment.
Epic just signed Tori Amos last year. Sign an artist and then deliberately undermine their first release on your label? What a wonderfully Evil thing to do.
If Amos and Perl Jam were specifically targeted for any particular reason it's probably because they have strong internet followings. Their fans will instantly distribute any music that they can get their hands on. A six track sampler of Tori's new release was available on the net within a day or two of being released to reviewers.
These fans are going to buy the CD anyway, but record companies rely on first week sales from these diehards to get these artists far enough up the charts to get some attention. If all the diehards have heard the music already the urgency to go out and buy the CD that first week is gone.
In spite of this massive rogue P2P network that's being built, my firewall hasn't received a single probe for this Apache vulnerability this week. It has received about 200 probes for the Code Red virus and it's variants, however.
The Unixware/Novell SysV R4 code came from Unix System Labs, which AT&T spun off from Bell Labs. So basically Linux has killed the most direct descendent of the original Bell Labs UNIX.
I'm hopeful that this is good news. I finally gave up WindowMaker for Sawfish a few weeks ago because they appear to have ground to a virtual halt and they seem to have only a passing interest in playing nicely with GNOME.
I'm happy with it's relatively light weight, but it still seems somewhat hackish and rough around the edges. I don't need different frames for every window. Just give me a fast, light window manager that integrates with GNOME and provides reasonable themeability and I'll be happy.
I still prefer the simple elegance of the original Rogue. I'm afraid the original is pretty much extinct due to copyright issues, but there are some very close clones here.
To this day, it's surprising to me just how many Linux users positively bristle when I tell them that I actually paid for WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux,...
I wouldn't say "bristle" so much as "roll around on the floor laughing hysterically." I should know, I'm one of the poor suckers who actually paid money for that box of crap they labelled WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux.
WPO2k was alpha quality software and the updated Wine binaries barely got it up to beta standards. I don't believe that anyone who claims otherwise ever did much more than a one page memo in WPO2k.
Nothing that happened after the product went out and everyone realized what a joke it was can be blamed on anyone but Corel. They made their bed and seemed quite happy to just lie in it and blame their failure on others.
Anyway, thanks for the amusing image of people pirating WPO2k. Anyone who pirated a copy of WPO2k got their just deserts in spades.
To make matters worse, tech support needs for Linux products were greater, apparently because the few users they did manage to sell their Linux products to were "newbies" rather than Linux veterans, who don't seem to buy software at all.
First of all Corel targeted Linux newbies for their distribution from the start. So the tech support requirements were a direct reflection of how well their product met the needs of their target market. Which is to say not at all.
If sales were poor and tech support needs were too great the reason is simple - they could have filled the boxes for every Linux product Corel ever released with five pounds of dog crap and there would have been no apparent difference to the end user experience.
I have never encountered a worse case of buggy, incomplete and just plain useless software being rushed to market and sold as a finished product.
With so much good free software available I have no doubt that Linux users are less apt to buy software than their Windows or Mac counterparts. It's a small market to begin with and the bar for creating a product compelling enough to buy is set pretty high.
Anyone who thinks that Linux or Open Source are bandaids that can be slapped on a problem and fix it overnight are misguided and should just stay away. They're not doing us any favors.
Microsoft threw Corel a bone because they couldn't afford for another major competitor to go belly up during the anti-trust proceedings. Once those proceedings are over look for Microsoft to put the knife in and finish them. With luck maybe their few remaining worthwhile products will be picked up by a company with vision that extends beyond their nose.
TiVo sure as fuck knows what commercial I'm watching.
No, they only know that someone is watching that commercial. If you're bothered by that, just call an opt out. It's been varified by hackers that opting out turns of the return data stream.
If slashdot's moderation system worked Otto's remarks would all be modded to 'informative' and all this FUD would be modded to 'funny'. Instead the comments of nitwits who spit out words just to see where they splatter pass as 'informative' and 'insightful' because the people modding them know even less on the subject than the blathering posters themselves.
The PrivacyFoundation.org report linked above broke the news that the way the anonymized data is FTP'd up to TiVo's homebase leaves a way that an insider employee (or an unscrupulous, lying company) could potentially correlate your syslog to your name, instead of just your zipcode.
Not really. TiVo hackers had already figured out exactly what is sent back to TiVo and how. The implications of that had already
been discussed at length on the Tivo Underground forum. All the Privacy Foundation did was dream up a convoluted scheme whereby TiVo could violate it's own privacy policy and then sensationalize it.
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Smells like FUD.
Are open source developers really so unimaginative that they have to argue over two such mundane names?
Is there someplace you can download the Redhat ES ISOs without paying? If not then you're stuck with regular Redhat and a product life cycle that most folks running web servers aren't going to want to have to deal with.
Here are links for pricing on RedHat Enterprise Blah Blah and Windows Server 2003.
RedHat seems very competitive at most levels especially considering that there are no CALs to worry about and I don't think the Windows prices include the kind of service included in the RH Standard editions.
But where RedHat really slips in this price structure is at the bottom end web server pricing. The cheapest RH server you can get is $349, which is dangerously close to Windows Server 2003 web edtion at $399.
Right, so not so much "alive and kicking" as "dead and scavaged for parts".
You haven't bothered to read many of the responses, have you? There's a fair amount of kicking and screaming going on.
Frankly I think it's foolish. RedHat is devaluing their certification program. It's this kind of stamping out certifications for anyone who can memorize the essentials that have made Microsoft certifications a joke.
Whether people want to consider what TiVo did SPAM or not doesn't make much difference. It had absolutely nothing to do with TiVo's decision. Suggesting that it did makes the original poster, and slashdot look like idiots to any informed observer - which is to say, pretty much "status quo."
TiVo simply hasn't found a manufacturer who wants to build and sell TiVo equipment for the U.K. without a subsidy. Given TiVo's need to pare expenses to reach break even before they run out of cash, there really is no other option than to pull the plug.
As for the "SPAM" issue. I enjoy about 75% of the promotional content that TiVo records automatically. Some folks complain about the extra menu item that becomes available when you've got SPAM, but it doesn't bother me in the least. I can just ignore it. It doesn't use my space and it will go away on it's own after a while.
Yes, you are welcome to consider it SPAM and decline to buy a TiVo because of it.
Like it or not, the whiney little bitch is right. The state of Linux video is pretty dismal. Unfortunately when you rely on geeks scratching an itch to supply your applications you sometimes end up with software only suitble for use by itchy geeks.
If Amos and Perl Jam were specifically targeted for any particular reason it's probably because they have strong internet followings. Their fans will instantly distribute any music that they can get their hands on. A six track sampler of Tori's new release was available on the net within a day or two of being released to reviewers.
These fans are going to buy the CD anyway, but record companies rely on first week sales from these diehards to get these artists far enough up the charts to get some attention. If all the diehards have heard the music already the urgency to go out and buy the CD that first week is gone.
To Hell with Bad Browsers"
Mod this up. The WaSP have done lots of work explaining why adhering to standards is important for accessibility and cross-platform compatability.
Also check A List Apart's To Hell With Bad Browsers for more standards evangelism.
The Unixware/Novell SysV R4 code came from Unix System Labs, which AT&T spun off from Bell Labs. So basically Linux has killed the most direct descendent of the original Bell Labs UNIX.
I'm hopeful that this is good news. I finally gave up WindowMaker for Sawfish a few weeks ago because they appear to have ground to a virtual halt and they seem to have only a passing interest in playing nicely with GNOME.
I'm happy with it's relatively light weight, but it still seems somewhat hackish and rough around the edges. I don't need different frames for every window. Just give me a fast, light window manager that integrates with GNOME and provides reasonable themeability and I'll be happy.
Oh, and icons instead of task bars.
That is one damn big banner ad up there.
Just one more voice calling the supposed ubergeeks at slashdot a bunch of dipshits for failing to consider timezone differences and TiVo users.
Way to go, nitwits.
I still prefer the simple elegance of the original Rogue. I'm afraid the original is pretty much extinct due to copyright issues, but there are some very close clones here.
In response to this terrifying news I'm going to turn my thermostat up two more degrees. Because if we're all doomed I might as well be comfy.
With over 100 members and 1200 shows, its not a bad place to start to find that lost episode of The Tick.
Of course if you had a TiVo you wouldn't have missed that episode of The Tick to begin with. >;)
I wouldn't say "bristle" so much as "roll around on the floor laughing hysterically." I should know, I'm one of the poor suckers who actually paid money for that box of crap they labelled WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux.
WPO2k was alpha quality software and the updated Wine binaries barely got it up to beta standards. I don't believe that anyone who claims otherwise ever did much more than a one page memo in WPO2k.
Nothing that happened after the product went out and everyone realized what a joke it was can be blamed on anyone but Corel. They made their bed and seemed quite happy to just lie in it and blame their failure on others.
Anyway, thanks for the amusing image of people pirating WPO2k. Anyone who pirated a copy of WPO2k got their just deserts in spades.
To make matters worse, tech support needs for Linux products were greater, apparently because the few users they did manage to sell their Linux products to were "newbies" rather than Linux veterans, who don't seem to buy software at all.
First of all Corel targeted Linux newbies for their distribution from the start. So the tech support requirements were a direct reflection of how well their product met the needs of their target market. Which is to say not at all.
If sales were poor and tech support needs were too great the reason is simple - they could have filled the boxes for every Linux product Corel ever released with five pounds of dog crap and there would have been no apparent difference to the end user experience.
I have never encountered a worse case of buggy, incomplete and just plain useless software being rushed to market and sold as a finished product.
With so much good free software available I have no doubt that Linux users are less apt to buy software than their Windows or Mac counterparts. It's a small market to begin with and the bar for creating a product compelling enough to buy is set pretty high.
Anyone who thinks that Linux or Open Source are bandaids that can be slapped on a problem and fix it overnight are misguided and should just stay away. They're not doing us any favors.
Microsoft threw Corel a bone because they couldn't afford for another major competitor to go belly up during the anti-trust proceedings. Once those proceedings are over look for Microsoft to put the knife in and finish them. With luck maybe their few remaining worthwhile products will be picked up by a company with vision that extends beyond their nose.
TiVo sure as fuck knows what commercial I'm watching.
No, they only know that someone is watching that commercial. If you're bothered by that, just call an opt out. It's been varified by hackers that opting out turns of the return data stream.
If slashdot's moderation system worked Otto's remarks would all be modded to 'informative' and all this FUD would be modded to 'funny'. Instead the comments of nitwits who spit out words just to see where they splatter pass as 'informative' and 'insightful' because the people modding them know even less on the subject than the blathering posters themselves.
They know when you hit rewind?!?!
No. They know somebody hit rewind.