By and large the CentOS team do an excellent job with the distribution - but it's a volunteer effort and there have been some notable times lately when important or security updates which have been shipped by Red Hat run late with CentOS, sometimes by a considerable amount of time.
If the CIO wants CentOS over Red Hat, he also needs to be prepared to accept the risk of delayed updates, no guarantees to updates or bug fixes and that one annoying time a particular server suffers an obscure bug, there won't be a vendor to go back to for obtaining a resolution.
This is the case here in New Zealand, if you are a donor, it is marked on your drivers license, however organs can still only be taken with permission of family members, if they refuse it overrides your choice to donate.
I need to access it pretty much daily. As well as that, I also need to access my business accounting software and customer management systems.
I'm sure a lot of other travelers will need to access their internet banking every few days or so as well, and a public terminal just isn't secure enough for that.
Sweet, so I can dump the laptop and conduct my internet banking using untrusted publicly accessibly computers? Nope, no problems there...
(And if you're going to say "use a bootable USB drive", then be aware that many internet cafes have their systems locked down to prevent people booting their own OS on them).
Yes, war is evil, and I'm sure that no-one here would say that war is a good thing - both sides always end up killing innocents and causing suffering. But sorry, it's a fact of life that war is necessary, and no amount of talk about peace and love and how killing incites more killing will change that.
Take WW2 for example - if the Nazis were killing off Jews and other minorities, would you just sit there and say "please don't do that, it's not very nice?", or would you try and stop them using force?
Or if your home town gets invaded - will you have a peaceful protest at your loss of freedom or will you try and protect what is yours?
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By and large the CentOS team do an excellent job with the distribution - but it's a volunteer effort and there have been some notable times lately when important or security updates which have been shipped by Red Hat run late with CentOS, sometimes by a considerable amount of time.
If the CIO wants CentOS over Red Hat, he also needs to be prepared to accept the risk of delayed updates, no guarantees to updates or bug fixes and that one annoying time a particular server suffers an obscure bug, there won't be a vendor to go back to for obtaining a resolution.
This is the case here in New Zealand, if you are a donor, it is marked on your drivers license, however organs can still only be taken with permission of family members, if they refuse it overrides your choice to donate.
Slashdot is a bit behind the times - Steven Joyce, Minister of Transport in NZ has instructed officials to fix this oversight in the law.
http://www.iphonewzealand.co.nz/2009/all/breaking-common-sense-prevails-law-is-to-be-amended/
I need to access it pretty much daily. As well as that, I also need to access my business accounting software and customer management systems. I'm sure a lot of other travelers will need to access their internet banking every few days or so as well, and a public terminal just isn't secure enough for that.
Sweet, so I can dump the laptop and conduct my internet banking using untrusted publicly accessibly computers? Nope, no problems there...
(And if you're going to say "use a bootable USB drive", then be aware that many internet cafes have their systems locked down to prevent people booting their own OS on them).
Yes, war is evil, and I'm sure that no-one here would say that war is a good thing - both sides always end up killing innocents and causing suffering. But sorry, it's a fact of life that war is necessary, and no amount of talk about peace and love and how killing incites more killing will change that. Take WW2 for example - if the Nazis were killing off Jews and other minorities, would you just sit there and say "please don't do that, it's not very nice?", or would you try and stop them using force? Or if your home town gets invaded - will you have a peaceful protest at your loss of freedom or will you try and protect what is yours?