The design may be old, but out-dated? Never! The Concorde is a stunning plane. Yes, the interior is small; yes, it eats a lot of fuel; but it is one of the great flying experiences. I love flying and have been up in everything from a restored Sopwith Camel to a DC-3 to an F-14 Tomcat. One of my greatest joys is still that I've had the pleasure in flying in the Concorde once. Like the DC-3, the Concorde will live forever in the heart of flyers. Alas, unlike the DC-3, which still flies on in tiny airlines after 68 years, we're unlikly to see the Concorde fly again.
> Could this be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back?"
What back? Why? Make people stop buying Sun? I don't think so. All companies exist to make money, one way to do that is by hiring cheap labor. H-1B lets companies do that. Deal.
One such law suit has already failed, the others will as well. Now getting rid of H-1B might help solve these disgruntled ex-workers problem, but that's another kettle of fish.
> That's not really the issue... the issue is that they are (allegedly) engaging in the scummy business of submarine patents.
First, it's not a patent, it's a copyright issue. There's a big difference and the rules on how they're handled are as different as Greek and Latin.
Next, submarine? Look at your OS, chances are you'll find AT&T and USL mentioned prominently. Some companies, like IBM, have always paid the current owners, SCO, of this IP. Others... well, that's what all the fuss is about, but it's no more a submarine issue than the USS Nimitz is a submarine.
Caldera sued and Microsoft settled with them rather than take it to court on Jan, 10, 2000. The exact number is under wraps but most ballpark estimates put it at at about $150 million.
What about IBM? They didn't sue. Sun did. To the victor goes the spoils.
Not that any of this really matters. It's only a prelimary injunction. Microsoft will appeal it, the wheels of the justice system will slowly grind on, and there still won't be a working Java bundled with shipping with Windows anytime soon.
to my mind is: The Brick Testament. The Bible in Lego. As anyone who's really read the Bible knows there's some disturbing stuff in there. Seeing some of that material in Lego makes it even more troublesome.
Other folks have already pointed out that read correctly Arent Fox's letter makes perfect legal sense. You may disagree with it, but you need to take that up with AOL. I'd just like to mention that Arent Fox is a Major DC and NYC lawfirm. You could call them lots of things, especially if you were on the losing side, but sleazy isn't one of them. These guys you take seriously. If Peng is to have a shot of surviving this--and for what little it's worth I think they do--they need serious legal help and they need it now.
Steven*
*Who has nothing to do with Arent Fox except that he knows their reputation.
And, it's not an Apache worm either. It's an OpenSSL worm that exploits security holes in OpenSSL 0.9.6f and earlier.
While the current generation of Slapper targets only OpenSSL on Linux, it will try its attack on any system. And, with a little code tweaking, the next generation of Slapper could hammer on any OS that uses older versions of OpenSSL such as AIX, Solaris, Windows. In short, pretty much any OS that uses OpenSSL is potentially a victim.
Could you have it? If you're a Unix/Linux admin, use chkroot version 0.37 and up to find out. It's available at:
http://www.chkrootkit.org/
In any case, anyone who uses OpenSSL should update with OpenSSL 0.9.6g or higher ASAP. And, while you're at, be certain to relink everything since OpenSSL isn't used just by Apache. ISC, for example, used it in their BIND 9.1. Slapper wouldn't hit BIND, but would you care to bet that someone couldn't modify the code to launch a BIND attack--and aren't we all really, really sick of BIND getting bungled?
For more on Slapper, and a listing of patches for many operating systems see:
Slapper: The FUD and the Danger http://www.practical-tech.com/network/n091 82002.ht m
Finally, most of these patches, which would have stopped Slapper dead, were available in late July/early August. Consider it more proof that security is a full time system administrator job.
Note, it's their Linux guying talking. When McNeally gets up and says we're merging Solaris and Linux, then you can get up and pay attention. This is just another step in Sun's long, slow embrace of Linux on the x86 platform. So long as they make most of their money from SPARC boxes running Solaris, I don't expect you'll see Linux at their core. Running Linux programs in a compatibility mode, ala Caldera's OpenUnix, yes; running a Linux kernel on SPARC, as the recommended course, no.
MS clustering is for load balancing and stability. As such, it does a reasonable job. Beowulf is for high-end scientific computing and does a resonable job.
To really do clustering well, you don't want either. You want AIX or Solaris, but you probably can't afford them. But, Linux clustering in load balancing style is developing quickly with IBM, TurboLinux, VMWare and Intel doing many interesting things. Beowulf is still cheaper.
In any case, though, for your situation, there's only one solution and that's Beowulf. Besides afford MS' licensing fees, you mentioned that you're running on older equipment. I sincerely doubt that those servers could run W2K Server in its standalone mode, much less in clustering.
Troll alert! Troll alert! Anyone who whines about everthing that's wrong with a company he used to 'work' for and can't even get the names straight is a jerk who probably never came closer to Caldera than say as much as rms agrees with Ransom Love's open source philosophy.
What does Linux need for the enterprise? Well, according to Love in an earlier interview, Caldera would like to make UnixWare's large file system support, synchronous input/output (I/O), the UnixWare API, extended developer kit and multipath I/0 available as an optional open source add-on to Linux as well as bringing Linux binary compatibility to Unixware.
Personally, I think Linux 2.4.1 is as enterprise server ready as you can get, but I can see how UnixWare's file support and advanced I/O could make it even nicer--especially if you were running massive DBMSs.
For more on Caldera's UnixWare/Linux plans see:
http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2682 46 1,00.html
I take my hat off to the whole NASA crew, but I'll tell you the real hero is Robert Farquhar. He's the closest thing to as astrogater, not counting the ones on Star Trek, that we've got. He did remarkable work with ICE, the satellite which he managed to nudge at Halley's comet when the US couldn't be bothered to send up a real probe. Once more, he's managed to do the space equivalent of throwing a raw egg into the air and then catching it on an iron skillet--without breaking it. There's simply no one better at navigating in space.
But so long as you avoid libel, spilling company secrets covered by an NDA, misrepresenting yourself as a company spokesman, and other dumb instant loser tricks, you're in the clear.
That isn't to say that a company won't try to make your life miserable. Giving someone a case of FUD works better on individuals than it does on operating systems. In exceptional cases, a company may try to take you to court. Such cases almost never make it to trial. That's usually because the threat is more than enough to make most people hush up.
Everyone has freedom of speech, few has the courage to use it.
Tripwire couldn't have time its announcement any better on the heels of the the MS fiasco. In fact it's so well timed that.. nah!;-)
Steven
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Besides some people at LoC not being that crazy about Usenet & Internet discussion forums (e.g. Slashdot) in the first place, the real bottom line is that LoC doesn't have the money.
There's a lot of federal waste, but, to my mind, the really useful agencies like NASA and the LoC are always being short-changed.
Monterey is dead. The press releases are just trying to put the best face possible on the situation. Monterey's best bits are simply being incorporated into the next generation of AIX.
Why? Because with the tidal wave of Linux, especially 64-bit Linux, there was no real point in developing another 64-bit Unix.
OSF's stated purpose was to unify Unix against Solaris/SysV. The reality was to pay lip service to unification and protect AIX, HP-UX and Digital Unix against Sun and AT&T. Unix unification never happened of course, but it's only now with Linux forcing a de facto Unix standard that the Unix family is finally coming together.
The Gnome Foundation and buddies actually, as Bob Young said at the end of the press conference, "We haven't signed a single license among any of us....With the GPL, we have eliminated the need for trust."
See more on the press conference at:
http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2615 998-3,00.html
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And that's about the long and short of it.
The design may be old, but out-dated? Never! The Concorde is a stunning plane. Yes, the interior is small; yes, it eats a lot of fuel; but it is one of the great flying experiences. I love flying and have been up in everything from a restored Sopwith Camel to a DC-3 to an F-14 Tomcat. One of my greatest joys is still that I've had the pleasure in flying in the Concorde once. Like the DC-3, the Concorde will live forever in the heart of flyers. Alas, unlike the DC-3, which still flies on in tiny airlines after 68 years, we're unlikly to see the Concorde fly again.
Steven
> Could this be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back?"
What back? Why? Make people stop buying Sun? I don't think so. All companies exist to make money, one way to do that is by hiring cheap labor. H-1B lets companies do that. Deal.
One such law suit has already failed, the others will as well. Now getting rid of H-1B might help solve these disgruntled ex-workers problem, but that's another kettle of fish.
Steven
> That's not really the issue... the issue is that they are (allegedly) engaging in the scummy business of submarine patents.
First, it's not a patent, it's a copyright issue. There's a big difference and the rules on how they're handled are as different as Greek and Latin.
Next, submarine? Look at your OS, chances are you'll find AT&T and USL mentioned prominently. Some companies, like IBM, have always paid the current owners, SCO, of this IP. Others... well, that's what all the fuss is about, but it's no more a submarine issue than the USS Nimitz is a submarine.
Steven
Caldera sued and Microsoft settled with them rather than take it to court on Jan, 10, 2000. The exact number is under wraps but most ballpark estimates put it at at about $150 million.
Steven
It may be more than those libraries. I'll be writing up more of the story for my newsletter, which will then see print on the Website next week.
The Final story will take a while as everyone, including SCO, vets their code.
Steven
What about IBM? They didn't sue. Sun did. To the victor goes the spoils.
Not that any of this really matters. It's only a prelimary injunction. Microsoft will appeal it, the wheels of the justice system will slowly grind on, and there still won't be a working Java bundled with shipping with Windows anytime soon.
Steven
to my mind is: The Brick Testament. The Bible in Lego. As anyone who's really read the Bible knows there's some disturbing stuff in there. Seeing some of that material in Lego makes it even more troublesome.
http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/
Fair warning: The site is Extremely slow.
Steven
Other folks have already pointed out that read correctly Arent Fox's letter makes perfect legal sense. You may disagree with it, but you need to take that up with AOL. I'd just like to mention that Arent Fox is a Major DC and NYC lawfirm. You could call them lots of things, especially if you were on the losing side, but sleazy isn't one of them. These guys you take seriously. If Peng is to have a shot of surviving this--and for what little it's worth I think they do--they need serious legal help and they need it now.
Steven*
*Who has nothing to do with Arent Fox except that he knows their reputation.
And, it's not an Apache worm either. It's an OpenSSL worm that exploits security holes in OpenSSL 0.9.6f and earlier.
1 82002.ht m
While the current generation of Slapper targets only OpenSSL on Linux, it will try its attack on any system. And, with a little code tweaking, the next generation of Slapper could hammer on any OS that uses older versions of OpenSSL such as AIX, Solaris, Windows. In short, pretty much any OS that uses OpenSSL is potentially a victim.
Could you have it? If you're a Unix/Linux admin, use chkroot version 0.37 and up to find out. It's available at:
http://www.chkrootkit.org/
In any case, anyone who uses OpenSSL should update with OpenSSL 0.9.6g or higher ASAP. And, while you're at, be certain to relink everything since OpenSSL isn't used just by Apache. ISC, for example, used it in their BIND 9.1. Slapper wouldn't hit BIND, but would you care to bet that someone couldn't modify the code to launch a BIND attack--and aren't we all really, really sick of BIND getting bungled?
For more on Slapper, and a listing of patches for many operating systems see:
Slapper: The FUD and the Danger
http://www.practical-tech.com/network/n09
Finally, most of these patches, which would have stopped Slapper dead, were available in late July/early August. Consider it more proof that security is a full time system administrator job.
Steven
"a" was speced out slightly before b. Of course, in the event, b made it to market years before a did.
Steven
"Microsoft's been working on a new, secure authentication standard for 802.11b called PEAP.
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Actually, MS is more than working on it. They've implemented it in WinXP SP1. See the July Cable Guy for more details.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defau
Steven
Note, it's their Linux guying talking. When McNeally gets up and says we're merging Solaris and Linux, then you can get up and pay attention. This is just another step in Sun's long, slow embrace of Linux on the x86 platform. So long as they make most of their money from SPARC boxes running Solaris, I don't expect you'll see Linux at their core. Running Linux programs in a compatibility mode, ala Caldera's OpenUnix, yes; running a Linux kernel on SPARC, as the recommended course, no.
Steven
Been there. Done that.
MS clustering is for load balancing and stability. As such, it does a reasonable job. Beowulf is for high-end scientific computing and does a resonable job.
To really do clustering well, you don't want either. You want AIX or Solaris, but you probably can't afford them. But, Linux clustering in load balancing style is developing quickly with IBM, TurboLinux, VMWare and Intel doing many interesting things. Beowulf is still cheaper.
In any case, though, for your situation, there's only one solution and that's Beowulf. Besides afford MS' licensing fees, you mentioned that you're running on older equipment. I sincerely doubt that those servers could run W2K Server in its standalone mode, much less in clustering.
Steven
Troll alert! Troll alert! Anyone who whines about everthing that's wrong with a company he used to 'work' for and can't even get the names straight is a jerk who probably never came closer to Caldera than say as much as rms agrees with Ransom Love's open source philosophy.
Steven
What does Linux need for the enterprise? Well, according to Love in an earlier interview, Caldera would like to make UnixWare's large file system support, synchronous input/output (I/O), the UnixWare API, extended developer kit and multipath I/0 available as an optional open source add-on to Linux as well as bringing Linux binary compatibility to Unixware.
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Personally, I think Linux 2.4.1 is as enterprise server ready as you can get, but I can see how UnixWare's file support and advanced I/O could make it even nicer--especially if you were running massive DBMSs.
For more on Caldera's UnixWare/Linux plans see:
http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,268
Steven
I take my hat off to the whole NASA crew, but I'll tell you the real hero is Robert Farquhar. He's the closest thing to as astrogater, not counting the ones on Star Trek, that we've got. He did remarkable work with ICE, the satellite which he managed to nudge at Halley's comet when the US couldn't be bothered to send up a real probe. Once more, he's managed to do the space equivalent of throwing a raw egg into the air and then catching it on an iron skillet--without breaking it. There's simply no one better at navigating in space.
Steven
But so long as you avoid libel, spilling company secrets covered by an NDA, misrepresenting yourself as a company spokesman, and other dumb instant loser tricks, you're in the clear.
That isn't to say that a company won't try to make your life miserable. Giving someone a case of FUD works better on individuals than it does on operating systems. In exceptional cases, a company may try to take you to court. Such cases almost never make it to trial. That's usually because the threat is more than enough to make most people hush up.
Everyone has freedom of speech, few has the courage to use it.
Steven
Tripwire couldn't have time its announcement any better on the heels of the the MS fiasco. In fact it's so well timed that.. nah! ;-)
Steven
Besides some people at LoC not being that crazy about Usenet & Internet discussion forums (e.g. Slashdot) in the first place, the real bottom line is that LoC doesn't have the money.
There's a lot of federal waste, but, to my mind, the really useful agencies like NASA and the LoC are always being short-changed.
Steven
It would have been in Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 3, March 1968 then.
You can find "GOTO Considered Harmful" online at
http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/
Even now, I think everyone who codes should read it at least once. For, alas, some of the same sloppy programming habits are with still!
Steven
How much did Caldera's buy have to do with it?
Next to nothing. This has been coming together for some time.
Steven
Monterey is dead. The press releases are just trying to put the best face possible on the situation. Monterey's best bits are simply being incorporated into the next generation of AIX.
Why? Because with the tidal wave of Linux, especially 64-bit Linux, there was no real point in developing another 64-bit Unix.
It's that simple.
Steven
OSF's stated purpose was to unify Unix against Solaris/SysV. The reality was to pay lip service to unification and protect AIX, HP-UX and Digital Unix against Sun and AT&T. Unix unification never happened of course, but it's only now with Linux forcing a de facto Unix standard that the Unix family is finally coming together.
Steven
The Gnome Foundation and buddies actually, as Bob Young said at the end of the press conference, "We haven't signed a single license among any of us....With the GPL, we have eliminated the need for trust."
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See more on the press conference at:
http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,261
Steven