...someone with such vast technical knowledge that there is no room left in his magnificent cranium for grammar checking.
Uhh, the grammar police - everbody to the trenches !
Ever thought about that he just maybe was not a native English speaker (as am I, FWIW). His English seemed pretty decent to my uninitiated eyes, and certainly better than the crap many perfectly USian kids and adults daily unload onto the net.
back, when this still mattered, there existed pretty excellent Token Ring support for BSD. Quite a few X-Terminal vendors hat built it for their products, and those were BSD based. But until this day, there is no decent TR suupport in any BSD. I sat on a TR for five open source years, unable to get anything working.
several BSD based appliances have an IP routing feature called "return to sender" which can be very usefull in balanced high availability scenarios. No BSD has that. As far as HA is involved, there are probably quite a few more examples. I would absolutely love to have the HA failover NFS stuff that NetApp has in my FreeBSD boxes (though I was never able to confirm the rumour that they are BSD based).
according to rumours, for years Yahoo and HP had a working BSD software and driver support for HP proliant servers. Those happen to be the most sold servers in the world. None of this ever made its way into any of the officuial distributions, though the few FreeBSD based customers HP had practically begged for it. (Though I hear through the grapevine some stuff might have become available in a limited fashion recently)
please give more substance. According to the web site Salzenberg reported the issues to CEO and COO. That is absolutely normal and correct in a company of that size.
I did comparable things numerous times - reporting upwards as far as I reasonably could what I considered unethical or criminal behaviour.
Why th f** do you claim he made threats ? Is it a threat already to tell Mr CEO that his company is breaking the law ? Is a CEO entitled not to be told such things because it breaks his plausible deniability shield ??
You awfully sound like a f** paid shill for that criminal slimeball CEO.
I'm not trying to be flamebait; It would be a nice option though.
Thats not flamebait, but -17 offtopic. You successfully managed the first post, and immediately distract debate from the real topic.
No. blogs are not spam, but there are gazillions of real spam blogs. We should deboate how to dela with them. But, now, thanks to you smartass, slashdot discusses if blogs are spam in general. Shit like this is all too common on/. these days - instead of contributing somebody makes some smartass ccomment or pseudo funny post and everbody starts discussiong that instead of the topic at hand.
And you got +4 insightful, while this will get me some flambait scoring. No wonder things are the way they are.
naaa... the "Pistols or Swords, Senator?" Lady has elevated fluff to an art form (which is mostly amusing to read), while the one debated here has elevated hackery to a trade.
And O'Gara isn't a columnist, either. Just a abysmally bad jounalist.
Actually, there are a few decent German Champagnes out there. They are just not calling it "Champagne", because in Europe that term is restricted / protected for the products of the French Region of that name.
But if you see a better German "Sekt" (sparkling wine) with remarks like "Flaschengärung" or "methode champagnoise" or some such, its probably a German cellary's take on champagne.
The real problem though isn't MAPS and their attitude, it's the spammers. Get rid of the spammers and you get rid of the need for MAPS. These lowlife internet-scum are where any ire ought to be directed, again IMHO.
One can't repeat that often enough.
You have to consider a spammer problem an urgent operational issue that has to be dealt with immediately.
Let's quote the OP: "and all because of a few spam complaints that weren't dealt with quickly enough." That's a dead sure giveaway for they didn't seriously handle spam issues at all.
The OP should sue the spammer and the offending ISP for damages - after all its their reckless and criminal behaviour that caused his inconvenience. Whining on slashdot is certainly not going to solve any of his problems.
Sometimes you want to yell in frustration. That one is a port of the Sun JRE. And it is source (diffs) only. And Sun does absolutely everything in their power to prevent those folks from making this easy to install - they are not even allowed to automate building it from source.
This is exactly the shit that gets me up in arms.
What I don't understand is why you are asking these questions on Slashdot, as the answers are easily available to anyone with a web browser and access to Google?
because those answers are not answers at all, and are mostly fake or misinterpreted by Sun apologists like you.
A JRE can be called Java if it passes the compatibility tests.
Hmmm... Name one I can install on FreeBSD. Name one truly open source. Heck, just name one I can run on Windows or Linux. No, dying superserver environments don't count. Nor do funny mobile phones. As for HP, well, did they actually implement the whole jre, or did they do the binaries and get the class libraries from Sun ?
Sun's Mantra with Java is "we support Windows, Linux, MacOS and Solaris, everbody else can go to hell". And Go To Hell means not only no support, but they make your life miserable as best as they can. The harassment a BSD user gets when trying to install a bunch of servers with Java is annoying to a point where you avoid Java wherever possible.
So if you user Java in your project, this is a slap in the face of everybody not on that list.
This may be acceptable in controlled environments, where Java support is assumed to exist everywhere, but for a Open Source project it is offensive and inappropriate.
My point of disagreement was that even tho Company B is in the wrong (whether intentionally or accidentally), it isn't Company C's place to play enforcer.
You are mistaken. In many countries, unfair competition laws specifically allow the harmed competitor to sue. The reasoning is simple - Company B actually hurts Company C by ignoring its legal obligations and saving a buck, thereby enabling it to offer lower prices.
Added advantage of that is its it saves enforcement and regulation costs for the government.
Dream on. Throughput isn't even a topic there any more, hasn't been for years, actually. IDE drives have been beating SCSI hands down on this for years now.
The real stated advantage of SCSI drives is seek time. Seek time is the holy grail when it comes to database applications. The key is not to shovel so and so many gigs around - the key is running around super fast and picking a few bytes here and there - thats essentially what a database does.
But (and thats a Big Butt) Theo and his merry men don't need that sort of performance here. They just have some CVS server (which, database wise, is probably rather small, just a few gigs). Most of this will be eventually be cached in RAM anyway.
Marco may be as brilliant as God the Almighty... but that doesn't change facts. SCSI drives and SCSI based arrays are currently in the process of becoming a high end niche product.
Especially against good caching SATA arrays you will have a hard time to even state a convincing performance case, not to mention one based on costs.
Im not arguing those are better. I argue he doesn't need those extra 10 or what percent faster seek times. Over all system design is more than knowing disk to the last atoms. If Marco is responsible fr this design, he confused his desire to have superior Hard drives with his project's desire to maximise a price-performance ratio under a given minimum performance requirement.
So you're a network administrator who has to deal these kinds of issues all the time, with the same kinds of loads for your servers? You make your living making these choices?
Basically, yes.
And I live in the morass of my predecessor's sins, with huge FC and NAS/SCSI arrays on ridiculously small hard drives all over the place, eating mainetancy budget like crazy and doing seldom any good.
There are a few good cases for high end SCSI and FC drives to be made, especially in the database area, but somehow I doubt CVS is one of them.
You dont really get it. This is not about multimillion dollar companies. This is about you.
In a few decades intellectual property will probably be the only means the west has to finance its life style substantially above those "second tier" countries. Like the Roman Empire, the provinces have to be plundered for Rome to live. The moment the plundering stops, Rome will die.
The original poster is right on the mark - IP will be a live or die issue for the self decared world goverment in Washington DC, and there will be no means spared to keep that firmly under control.
Another case of stupid imperial legislation. Its none of Klinton's business to determine the age of consent or the legal status of prostitution in other countries.
We're talking quality here. None of this SATA shit, which is great for the desktop, but not for much else.
Nope. We are talking stupid oldtimers clinging to a technology long after its time.
You can buy excellent IDE or SATA based RAID systems with an excternal interface to your liking (both U320 and Fiber Channel). And they cost substantially less $$. Something like 1/3rd or so.
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Ever thought about that he just maybe was not a native English speaker (as am I, FWIW). His English seemed pretty decent to my uninitiated eyes, and certainly better than the crap many perfectly USian kids and adults daily unload onto the net.
Nonsense.
shared memory ?
semaphores ?
*BSD.
*Gasp* you say - but they are not complaining.
Well, but I do. Let me give you a few examples:
please give more substance. According to the web site Salzenberg reported the issues to CEO and COO. That is absolutely normal and correct in a company of that size.
I did comparable things numerous times - reporting upwards as far as I reasonably could what I considered unethical or criminal behaviour.
Why th f** do you claim he made threats ? Is it a threat already to tell Mr CEO that his company is breaking the law ? Is a CEO entitled not to be told such things because it breaks his plausible deniability shield ??
You awfully sound like a f** paid shill for that criminal slimeball CEO.
Thats not flamebait, but -17 offtopic. You successfully managed the first post, and immediately distract debate from the real topic.
No. blogs are not spam, but there are gazillions of real spam blogs. We should deboate how to dela with them. But, now, thanks to you smartass, slashdot discusses if blogs are spam in general. Shit like this is all too common on
And you got +4 insightful, while this will get me some flambait scoring. No wonder things are the way they are.
This want funny. Not even remotely. It's alike a "comic" telling jokes while his neighbours burn in their house.
It was meant to disrupt serious debate.
It was meant to derail serious debate.
It was a statement, and it was bad.
naaa... the "Pistols or Swords, Senator?" Lady has elevated fluff to an art form (which is mostly amusing to read), while the one debated here has elevated hackery to a trade.
And O'Gara isn't a columnist, either. Just a abysmally bad jounalist.
Actually, there are a few decent German Champagnes out there. They are just not calling it "Champagne", because in Europe that term is restricted / protected for the products of the French Region of that name.
But if you see a better German "Sekt" (sparkling wine) with remarks like "Flaschengärung" or "methode champagnoise" or some such, its probably a German cellary's take on champagne.
You have to consider a spammer problem an urgent operational issue that has to be dealt with immediately.
Let's quote the OP: "and all because of a few spam complaints that weren't dealt with quickly enough." That's a dead sure giveaway for they didn't seriously handle spam issues at all.
The OP should sue the spammer and the offending ISP for damages - after all its their reckless and criminal behaviour that caused his inconvenience. Whining on slashdot is certainly not going to solve any of his problems.
That one is a port of the Sun JRE. And it is source (diffs) only. And Sun does absolutely everything in their power to prevent those folks from making this easy to install - they are not even allowed to automate building it from source.
This is exactly the shit that gets me up in arms.because those answers are not answers at all, and are mostly fake or misinterpreted by Sun apologists like you.
You make me f** sick
gosh!
As for HP, well, did they actually implement the whole jre, or did they do the binaries and get the class libraries from Sun ?
because Sun made sure only the sun JRE is allowed to be called Java.
And "wide Range" is probably something miniscule like four.
you've not even understood the problem.
Sun's Mantra with Java is "we support Windows, Linux, MacOS and Solaris, everbody else can go to hell". And Go To Hell means not only no support, but they make your life miserable as best as they can. The harassment a BSD user gets when trying to install a bunch of servers with Java is annoying to a point where you avoid Java wherever possible.
So if you user Java in your project, this is a slap in the face of everybody not on that list.
This may be acceptable in controlled environments, where Java support is assumed to exist everywhere, but for a Open Source project it is offensive and inappropriate.
Just say no to Java.
BeOS
OS/2
Solaris
HpUX
Plan 9
GNU Hurd
Numerous Linux and BSD platforms != i386
Your reasoning is faulty.
Added advantage of that is its it saves enforcement and regulation costs for the government.
The real stated advantage of SCSI drives is seek time. Seek time is the holy grail when it comes to database applications. The key is not to shovel so and so many gigs around - the key is running around super fast and picking a few bytes here and there - thats essentially what a database does.
But (and thats a Big Butt) Theo and his merry men don't need that sort of performance here. They just have some CVS server (which, database wise, is probably rather small, just a few gigs). Most of this will be eventually be cached in RAM anyway.
Marco may be as brilliant as God the Almighty ... but that doesn't change facts. SCSI drives and SCSI based arrays are currently in the process of becoming a high end niche product.
Especially against good caching SATA arrays you will have a hard time to even state a convincing performance case, not to mention one based on costs.
Im not arguing those are better. I argue he doesn't need those extra 10 or what percent faster seek times. Over all system design is more than knowing disk to the last atoms. If Marco is responsible fr this design, he confused his desire to have superior Hard drives with his project's desire to maximise a price-performance ratio under a given minimum performance requirement.
Basically, yes.
And I live in the morass of my predecessor's sins, with huge FC and NAS/SCSI arrays on ridiculously small hard drives all over the place, eating mainetancy budget like crazy and doing seldom any good.
There are a few good cases for high end SCSI and FC drives to be made, especially in the database area, but somehow I doubt CVS is one of them.
You dont really get it. This is not about multimillion dollar companies. This is about you.
In a few decades intellectual property will probably be the only means the west has to finance its life style substantially above those "second tier" countries. Like the Roman Empire, the provinces have to be plundered for Rome to live. The moment the plundering stops, Rome will die.
The original poster is right on the mark - IP will be a live or die issue for the self decared world goverment in Washington DC, and there will be no means spared to keep that firmly under control.
Another case of stupid imperial legislation. Its none of Klinton's business to determine the age of consent or the legal status of prostitution in other countries.
It was changed recently. You might want to follow your country's constitutional development more closely.
Nope. We are talking stupid oldtimers clinging to a technology long after its time.
You can buy excellent IDE or SATA based RAID systems with an excternal interface to your liking (both U320 and Fiber Channel). And they cost substantially less $$. Something like 1/3rd or so.
Nope. Its because they insist in mostly oudated super expensive techology.
They could get the same or more with an IDE raid (a real one) at a fraction of those costs.
Don't think so. At this price this is a joke. They could get very nice U320 SCSI-IDE RAID system with
a terabyte or so for ~3 or 4k.
This is just a case of some braindead "SCSI is superior, blabla" moron having its stupid way with his project's funds. Disgusting.