... the article was probably researched in April, and written in May. Still quite out of date, but they probably want to be sure that everything about the SQL Slammer worm is already known.
So IBM, unlike Sun, has engineers who work on Linux AND engineers who had access to SCO ip
Bizarre that most articles on the lawsuit does not even mention Project Monterrey. Given IBM's compartmentalisation I wonder if the relevant groups have any significant communication between them... we shall see, as long as there is no settlement, really.
Solaris/Intel is a real dog, has always had limited hardware compatibility and Sun's Intel boxes are simply too expensive
Interesting, I have not seen any specific benchmark for Solaris/x86. How much of an underperformer is it? Presumably Sun now having their own x86 line means they would have to tune it up...
On the matter of price, since Sun is hardly likely to use custom components, surely one can create a Sun/x86 clone with the same components, thus guaranteeing hardware compatibility. Support cost might then go up since it's not an official Sun build, though.
Solaris is based on System V R4 and is licensed as such
So is AIX, but SCO is threatening to revoke their license (it remains to be seen whether that's legal or not) due to claims of technology transfer to Linux. Since Sun ships Linux solutions too it is conceivable that they might get entangled in the same way.
Granted, Sun does not have a high-profile involvement in Linux but the IBM case is most likely totally FUD anyway. If there turns out to be Microsoft involvement in it, then Sun is the obvious next target...
If you run a heavily Sun-oriented tech shop, presumably it will be advantageous to run a single OS (well, Solaris/Sparc and Solaris/Intel) to running Solaris/Sparc and Linux/Intel; cautious companies might more easily justify purchasing Intel-based hardware if they don't have to put a new OS on it at the same time.
It is quite interesting that Oracle is to be made available on Solaris/Intel. If Sun could not keep up its CPU development - should UltraSparc IV be a dud, say - a jump to Intel (or more probably AMD64) would be easier if a customer and software base is already established.
Solaris for Intel - that news is a few months old. Nothing to see here - though appearing in a business-oriented publication might indicate Sun's seriousness on the matter
SCO lawsuit - left unsaid is the possibility that Solaris itself would be targeted next, should SCO win or settle its IBM lawsuit. It's not only Sun's Linux strategy that is in question (Though both cases are equally questionable)
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This is for York City Screen, a Picturehouse Cinema, that shows lots of non-mainstream European and American movies, but also show blockbusters like the Matrix and Lord of the Rings.
Not too much of a rip-off; London prices are exorbitant though, granted. Mostly to do with property pricing I expect.
Though funnily, for ethnic food, London tends to be *cheaper* than north England.
Because every Linux user who gives a hoot about gaming dual boots Windows
Or dual boots to OS X, but I digress.
If the cost of porting is low enough, though (as it would be for OpenGL games), it might become handy to cultivate Linux gamers by releasing a Linux port. It does not even have to be concurrent - look at Neverwinter Nights.
A side effect might be maintaining portability; the platform-specific parts of the code would have to be clearly delineated, which is good engineering practice.
Bad, sand-dry tobacco during the Spanish Revolution-Civil-War (Homage to Catalonia) that ran out of the cigarette before you could smoke it became Victory cigarettes in 1984, etc.
Ah yes, I suppose that would be the model for the vividly depicted hardships. The cigarette example is interesting though - in the Second World War, it was a status symbol for German officers to smoke Russian cigarettes - made from cardboard, with awful acrid smokes - since that portrayed the smoker as someone who had survived 'real' war.
I wish I have mod points so I could mod you up as being at least Underrated, or Funny.
Before I get flamed, a disclaimer: I know that Gentoo has its proper uses, but on the other hand, 'wannabe hacker' types do tend to use the flavour-of-the-month, preferable on the unstable side, distros.
Before Gentoo it used to be Mandrake. I used to cringe when reading mailing list archives at the kind of questions that get asked.
A friend of mine I made the mistake of converting to Linux now swears by his Gentoo system. He claimed he could not figure out RPM, finding all the flags impossible to memorise (eh? you might ask), and blaming the fact that some obscure software he needed were not available in RPM packages.
Today he was wondering why his kernel broke the binary nVidia drivers and so he's stuck without X since he did not know how to edit XF86Config to move back to the free nv driver, or down to VGA. He could not get help online because it did not occur to him, should all else fail, to use a text browser.
given that many people don't even know or want to know how to install XviD.
I am rather surprised that this point has been made, but XviD is DivX compatible. You can watch any XviD encoded movie if you have the DivX5 codec. DivX4 might do if experimental XviD features such as B-frames are not used.
I personally use ffmpeg for encoding right now. I have not noticed any movie that would not play interchangably across the DivX-compatible, MPEG4 clone codecs.
Many UNIX and Linux geeks have switched to Mac OS X, including people like James Gosling, Bud Tribble, James Duncan Davidson, Tim O'Reilly, and most of the Perl 6 core team. At least 4 or 5 Slashdot editors are now Mac users.
I should point out that there are those like me who tried it for a while (twice, actually) and came back to Linux/Intel.
Why, you might ask? With the G3 iBook it was video encoding speed. With the G4 Powerbook - well, OS X still feels sluggish compared to the latest Gnome 2.2. And the official Windows Media Player, MPlayerOSX, and VLC all could not play WMV9 video clips - MPlayer on Linux/x86 does it handily.
Plus all the agonizing about Apple's future and my investment in propietary software (I do use Fink as well, mind, but open-source Cocoa apps are not quite there yet) that surely lost me quite a few hours of productive work...
Still, I do cheer Apple when praise is due. Like the new iTunes service, which alas I can't try (my PB is still with me while closing my eBay auction) since I don't live in the States. Pressure from Apple, AMD and IBM should keep the Wintel camp (more) honest...
The problem with using IPsec as a replacement for WEP, however, is that IPsec is higher up on the OSI layer diagram, so more information is left unencrypted than when using WEP (yes, I'm aware that WEP is weak and in this case, won't make a difference, I'm just illustrating a point.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does it mean that since wavesec/IPsec uses public-key cryptography, each client cannot snoop on each other's traffic (different session keys, and different client public keys), while using WEP each client possessing the WEP password could still snoop on each other?
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A-ha! What have you been reading - The Sun, Daily Mirror or Daily Express?
The top 2 or 3 serious broadsheets are on par with their American equivalents really, though granted, we don't get two editions a day.
Did I hear someone say Freemod? Woohoo!
:-p - Michel
Sort of a postmortem, really.
Bizarre that most articles on the lawsuit does not even mention Project Monterrey. Given IBM's compartmentalisation I wonder if the relevant groups have any significant communication between them... we shall see, as long as there is no settlement, really.
Bizarre, what is their claim of having a perpetual license about then?
Does IBM mean as long as we pay, we cannot be denied the license? Sounds rather weak to me.
Should IBM lose its license for AIX though, can they not just license it from Sun instead, if Sun indeed bought the total rights?
Cool. I shall post a journal entry that's self-referencing, that way my future pronouncements shall be infinitely credible
Interesting, I have not seen any specific benchmark for Solaris/x86. How much of an underperformer is it? Presumably Sun now having their own x86 line means they would have to tune it up...
On the matter of price, since Sun is hardly likely to use custom components, surely one can create a Sun/x86 clone with the same components, thus guaranteeing hardware compatibility. Support cost might then go up since it's not an official Sun build, though.
Interesting, thanks. Now that Sun actually produces their own x86 servers, presumably they should have more staying power...
So is AIX, but SCO is threatening to revoke their license (it remains to be seen whether that's legal or not) due to claims of technology transfer to Linux. Since Sun ships Linux solutions too it is conceivable that they might get entangled in the same way.
Granted, Sun does not have a high-profile involvement in Linux but the IBM case is most likely totally FUD anyway. If there turns out to be Microsoft involvement in it, then Sun is the obvious next target...
If you run a heavily Sun-oriented tech shop, presumably it will be advantageous to run a single OS (well, Solaris/Sparc and Solaris/Intel) to running Solaris/Sparc and Linux/Intel; cautious companies might more easily justify purchasing Intel-based hardware if they don't have to put a new OS on it at the same time.
It is quite interesting that Oracle is to be made available on Solaris/Intel. If Sun could not keep up its CPU development - should UltraSparc IV be a dud, say - a jump to Intel (or more probably AMD64) would be easier if a customer and software base is already established.
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This is for York City Screen, a Picturehouse Cinema, that shows lots of non-mainstream European and American movies, but also show blockbusters like the Matrix and Lord of the Rings.
Not too much of a rip-off; London prices are exorbitant though, granted. Mostly to do with property pricing I expect.
Though funnily, for ethnic food, London tends to be *cheaper* than north England.
Or dual boots to OS X, but I digress.
If the cost of porting is low enough, though (as it would be for OpenGL games), it might become handy to cultivate Linux gamers by releasing a Linux port. It does not even have to be concurrent - look at Neverwinter Nights.
A side effect might be maintaining portability; the platform-specific parts of the code would have to be clearly delineated, which is good engineering practice.
VIA is based in Taiwan, and I believe Chinese Christians have something for the Old Testament.
I always felt VIA chip naming is overtly OT - from Joshua, to Gideon, to Ezra and now Nehemiah...
Ah yes, I suppose that would be the model for the vividly depicted hardships. The cigarette example is interesting though - in the Second World War, it was a status symbol for German officers to smoke Russian cigarettes - made from cardboard, with awful acrid smokes - since that portrayed the smoker as someone who had survived 'real' war.
Was not there a room 101 in George Orwell's 1984? The torture chamber where you face your worst nightmares?
Before I get flamed, a disclaimer: I know that Gentoo has its proper uses, but on the other hand, 'wannabe hacker' types do tend to use the flavour-of-the-month, preferable on the unstable side, distros.
Before Gentoo it used to be Mandrake. I used to cringe when reading mailing list archives at the kind of questions that get asked.
A friend of mine I made the mistake of converting to Linux now swears by his Gentoo system. He claimed he could not figure out RPM, finding all the flags impossible to memorise (eh? you might ask), and blaming the fact that some obscure software he needed were not available in RPM packages.
Today he was wondering why his kernel broke the binary nVidia drivers and so he's stuck without X since he did not know how to edit XF86Config to move back to the free nv driver, or down to VGA. He could not get help online because it did not occur to him, should all else fail, to use a text browser.
Believe me, this is a true story.
You may try speaking in tongues. That sure does not sound like anything intelligible :)
I am rather surprised that this point has been made, but XviD is DivX compatible. You can watch any XviD encoded movie if you have the DivX5 codec. DivX4 might do if experimental XviD features such as B-frames are not used.
I personally use ffmpeg for encoding right now. I have not noticed any movie that would not play interchangably across the DivX-compatible, MPEG4 clone codecs.
I should point out that there are those like me who tried it for a while (twice, actually) and came back to Linux/Intel.
Why, you might ask? With the G3 iBook it was video encoding speed. With the G4 Powerbook - well, OS X still feels sluggish compared to the latest Gnome 2.2. And the official Windows Media Player, MPlayerOSX, and VLC all could not play WMV9 video clips - MPlayer on Linux/x86 does it handily.
Plus all the agonizing about Apple's future and my investment in propietary software (I do use Fink as well, mind, but open-source Cocoa apps are not quite there yet) that surely lost me quite a few hours of productive work...
Still, I do cheer Apple when praise is due. Like the new iTunes service, which alas I can't try (my PB is still with me while closing my eBay auction) since I don't live in the States. Pressure from Apple, AMD and IBM should keep the Wintel camp (more) honest...
Ah, I remember when PGPi moved to ElGamal thanks to the RSA patent. GnuPG still uses ElGamal as well, I think.
Presumably IPsec started development after the RSA patent elapsed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does it mean that since wavesec/IPsec uses public-key cryptography, each client cannot snoop on each other's traffic (different session keys, and different client public keys), while using WEP each client possessing the WEP password could still snoop on each other?
Thanks,
Now we know how they got the idea for using to skip config files...
Precisely :). Speaking of funny eating habits, I also find it funny that Westerners do not tend to use spoons for eating rice ...
:p
ps did you happen to come from Owari then?
Ah - thank you. Did not know that. Never got a fortune cookie from a Japanese sushi bar or restaurant before though .. thankfully :)