All of their JBoss customers which currently ship Jboss products using 3rd party licensing like flexlm and such - definitely. They will switch to a much better license enforcement mechanism supported by their primary framework provider. Cuts their costs and keeps their customers happier. As far as native apps running on Linux - possibly as well in the long run, not as soon as with the web services.
The most to suffer from this will be Globetrotter, Aladin and the like which provide license enforcement solutions for commercial software that ships on RHEL or based on Jboss. With one move Redhat just made them redundant as far as anything on their OS and application stack is concerned. Extra revenue for redhat and less revenue for some of the most hated companies out there.
You can still do something like the Current Intel pseudo-4-core CPUs efficiently with this if you change the chip packaging. Cooling both top and bottom simultaneously may be able to compensate for the stacking of 2 layers. This will require complete redesign of the socket as we know it, but the gains may actually be worth it for some applications.
It is actually an interesting take on the licensing paradigm. Most licensing programs either start denying you access which leads to loss of data if this happens in the middle of an operation. Alternatively, they kill your program altogether which is again loss of data. Alternatively they check for licensing only when the program starts. In the days of software suspend and 200+ days of uptimes neither one of these is a good idea.
What redhat is patenting is a three pronged approach - OS suspend, component suspend or application suspend when a license violation is encountered. The first one is obvious, the second one and third one are non-obvious until one consideres RedHat aquisition of Jboss. These actually make a lot of sense in a Jboss application.
Overall, I am not surprised that RedHat has no intention of licensing this commercially. If they provide the relevant support, this will give a Jboss based commercial application considerable advantage over BEA and Websphere.
* freebsd-update(8) provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches
Which year is it? 1995? On a more serious note - about bloody effing time.
Same for IPFW(4) packet tagging. One of the reasons why I stopped using the BSD ALTQ in QoS control applications 2 years ago was exactly this sticking point. It is all so nice and wonderfull to abandon the original lame KAME classifiers in 5.x, but PF(4) is not a replacement for them for most people. Doing firewall rules in PF is like having a really bad brainfuck. IPFW(4) is another matter - it is a more or less sane firewall system. It has its failings, but it can be understood without your brain switching into antisocial Theo mode.
No. The visual design is "Ford tries to copy Renault/Matra Avantime". The result for some reason looks ends up looking like a slightly squashed Ford Transit. Surprise, surprise.
There are quite a few posts about this car being nonviable in other threads. Dunno about this, but IMO it is clearly a viable competitor to the GM electric crapmobile in at least one category. Definitely - it can compete with it on ugliness.
I think you underestimate the fragility of the market with all those hedge funds running computer assisted dealings. It does not take a lot to break many of their precious "quantitative models" and they have no idea how to account for any changes in investment patterns brought by "ethical investment requirements". Ethics and morale are difficult to compute.
You also underestimate the significance of publicity. If Gates foundation really accepted this as a policy it would have most likely made a big deal out of it. So now, let's suppose that every major US newspaper comes out with a headline "All the money of Bill Gates and all the money of Warren Buffet will now be invested only in ethical companies". While Bill Gates is not the most popular person in the world, the wizard of Omaha has a lot of me-too followers. And he nowdays has donated a large portion of his capital to BGF. This is what will actually make the impact, not the BG part of BGF. This and all the mee-too doing it so that they are not left behind.
I still remember the campaigns against investing in South Africa from 20 years ago. It did not take a lot for companies to pull out their money. In fact the problem was accumulating initial critical mass. Once the avalanche has started it was nearly impossible to invest in SA for PR reasons. This was the primary (and well forgotten) factor in toppling apartheid. BGF has the potential to have the critical mass to do this. And the financial sector knows this. So no wonder it was pressured into withdrawing this policy.
Intel's BTX has the same goal (besides a few others) but for Intel. Airflow and component positioning with respect to airflow is part of the spec. IIRC it does not account for having industrial heaters (AKA modern videocards) in the case, but this can be taken care of by amending the spec. It is clearly a good hardware spec and it fixes most ATX problems.
miniITX has a similar goal in theory and it has the advantage of being nearly 100% backward compatible with ATX, but fails at making a good small factor PC as it does not specify an airflow across the MB. It is also severely limited in its expansion capabilities as it supports only 32bit PCI. Every single ITX MB out there has slightly different positioning of thermally active components and different airflow requirements. Why Via did not make the airflow and the thermals a part of the standard is beyond me as it often defeats all the advantages of having a quiet motherboard and multiple bad case designs give Via's otherwise excellent Eden based MBs an undeserved bad name. Classic example are older Cubid cases where the CPU and the disk overheat while the case emits hovercraft like noise because it has 3 fans to blow air from nowhere to nowhere. There was an even more horrible one which used a 1U rackmount PS with 40+db noise (forgot the manufacturer). And all this to power a 7W fanless CPU system...
So now AMD has joined the fray. By the way, it is still mostly vapourware as there is nothing on their website. Personally, I would like to see a spec, especially the thermal,ps,expansion and airflow part of it. Without this it is not possible to compare it to the existing competition. AMD has plenty of experience aquired via Geode as well as a clear picture of the failures in the miniITX, nanoITX and BTX specs so it should be able to make a better one if it wants to. I somehow doubt it. It is more likely going to end up as another marketing initiative like Live!
The impact of a responsible investment policy on the money scale of GF will exceed the results from donating proceeds by an unimaginable magnitude.
While the money it is giving to good causes may sound great, it is nothing compared to the possible impact of running a strictly "responsible investment" policy with a money chest of their size (Most of BG money and most of the wizard of Omaha money nowdays).
This will turn the stockmarket bottom up, upside down and leave it on its head for a very long time. Money this size will cause a large number of companies to accept responsible corporate polices in order to be eligible for investment. You cannot just ignore it or turn its back on it. This in turn will force move of other investment and so on and so on.
I can bet that the perspective of this happening has scared all those pyramid jugglers with "quantitative models" shitless. I can bet that the real reason for BGF to abandon the policy 2 days after stating it is that Gates personal phone (the one not published in the phonebook) did not stop ringing during that period.
So this most likely is an order from above and it sucks. A money chest this size which is bound by "responsible investment" covenant may have forced many companies to assume more responsible polices and ultimately changed the world to the better much more than the money GF gives away to good causes. Everything else aside, its effect would have been much more long term.
This is a classic case of throwing the baby out along with the bath water as this will also prohibit FCC to enforce mandatory interoperability and adherence to standards.
And as far as I am concerned that just moved this device from the "no buy" from a "must buy" category. I would have been seriously interested in something that is portable, mobile, GSM/GPRS capable and running a reasonable general purpose OS. The iPhone with OSX was starting to look like something which fits the bill. Unfortunately - it appears that it does not so it definitely goes into no-buy category.
In addition to that Jobs just killed his best target market. This device could have eaten the palms and BBs which currently split the "mobile corporate applications" space for breakfast. In that market 599$ are pocket change.
Oh well, we live to learn. I had a thought that Apple has finally seen the light and shipped something that will be useable outside the consumer space, but I guess they have as usually made me regret these thoughts.
That's because the U. States has the world's EASIEST immigration rules.
I generally do not answer ACs, but in your case I will. You are making me roll on the floor laughing. Like most Americans when talking about immigration and other countries you do not have the slightest clue what are you talking about. The only developed countries with tighter rules than America are France and Israel. EU is way more lax. Japan has also been relaxing rules year after year.
It takes 4-5 years of residence or 2-3 years of marriage in the EU to become a full cittizen in all countries except France. UK is lowest at 4:2. That is by several years less than the US.
In every single country in the EU (even France) false marriage for obtaining cittisenship has to be proven in court using court level standards of evidence. In the US the immigration service can examine yours and kick you out with no right of appeal all of this by their standards completely violating your right to privacy and shitting all over all relevant amendments of the US consitution (as one of the spouses is a US cittizen they should actually apply). For example by the US immigration service rules me and my wife are engaged in a fake marriage because we keep our bank accounts separate and have no common bank account.
Most EU countries till recently did not even have cittizenship exams. Some still do not. Compare that with the US.
In most EU countries a work permit automatically covers the spouse and grants your wife (or husband) full right to work with no extra restrictions (IIRC France as usually being one of the few exemptions). US - depends on visa status, but for most varieties each needs to apply separately. I would not even comment on the sexism and stupidity of this idea.
In the US qualified foreign workers are payed the industry average and this is controlled at government level via the H1B slave import programme. Very few are properly payed. In the EU as a rule qualified foreigners command salaries above the industry average (at least all foreigners I know). They have been brought in because they are qualified and they are being payed accordingly (and not a xenophobic specially controlled wage). Same with US people working in the EU actually.
Would you mind showing me the Americans that want to go offshore please?
Every time I come to the US on business I am again and again surprised by people thinking that I have to be hell bent to go there and live there at any cost, violating all of my moral principles in the process. For some reason they cannot fathom the fact that I have a better standard of living where I live and I have no intention of immigrating to the US (and never had).
95% of the American's consider it to be the center of the world and every other region to be vastly inferior. The 5% or so percent that that do not are already abroad. For most Americans getting a work permit in the UK (or anywhere in the EU) is trivial.
So, may I suggest that you are talking absolute bullshit when saying "not American workers". The reality is - the majority of American workers do not _WANT_ to go abroad.
Definitely. I would not spend more than 40£ on a subsidized phone or 100£ on non-subsidized now. I will spend 300£ on something with the iPhone feature set. More specifically:
Working imaps with client side certificates (if it uses the latest generation of the OSX mailapp it should be able to do it. If not it has enough grunt and space to get a variety of the Mozilla monster on it
Enough disk space to keep an offline copy of my key mail including non-root folders containing mailing lists. The crackberry does not have enough resource for that. Even if it did it does not sync non-root folders. Same for the B.S. known as pocket outlook.
Working browser with useable client side certificates. Crackberry does not have that and anyone who has ever had to upload a cert on WinCE will understand what I am talking about.
There is no PDA or smartphone on the market capable of all this.
In addition to that the price is not that hefty from a business perspective either. The real cost of a crackberry is way more than 200$. Around 50$ for an exchange, Novell groupwise or other BES compatible system CAL, On top of that BES CAL, on top of that main BES license, on top of that support and maintenance contracts. This all adds up to 200$-300$ per user per year for a small size shop going down to 100-200$ for a large one. So the math there ends up favourable for the iPhone especially for a small to medium shop suffering from an allergy to Microsoft. For a large shop the math once again is favourable for an iPhone. Blackberry is horrible as far as custom applications are concerned. OSX, while not easy, is a useable platform for internal development and if worst comes to worst there is a proper browser onboard.
So I would not dismiss it outright. It has a set of features which will appeal to a specific type of consumer, SME and it has a clear appeal to any business large enough to have to write its own mobile apps. It also has a large captive audience at hand with its yahoo and gmail alliances. Being the top of the range ipod it also has the apple users as a target audience.
IMHO, Apple has delivered a worthy opponent to RIM, something MSFT and Nokia have proved to be unable to do for a long time. As far as the lack of 3G, if it has a good working wifi (not like the crippled crap shipped with XDA and other PocketPC phones), this is not likely to be a big problem for the target audience. By the time it ships 3G networks in large cities will have enough users to be unable to deliver even a fraction of the promissed speed. While 3G is clearly superior when nothing is going on, its contention/congestion model is horrible. Each device doing anything on a nodeB effectively drops the max bandwidth by 1/2. Each device is homed on at least 2 nodeBs due to soft handover. At the moment there are very few devices around. With all the super-duper 3G phones coming out this will not be the case in less than a year.
Dunno, time will tell, but if they ship what they show I may buy it even without subsidy (and I am not an apple fan, just the opposite).
One of the SPAM botnets was lost over Christmas (I guess, not only NASA and ESA can lose systems by bogus commands/software uploads). As a result the spamgangs have ordered a couple of clones of old beaten up viruses to go and capture new zombies. At least some of these use the codebase of one of the old crap pieces of code that generated fake addresses in known domains. As a result - loads of bounces for fake names.
The only way of dealing with these is to filter for valid names on your frontline relay. This is a well known problem without a good solution as this means that the frontline has to do full alias expansion. I have some ideas on how to do that for exim, but have not got the time to do it at the moment.
While your attitude is quite common in the tech circles, I have yet to observe it in people who have managed to make repeated high achievements. Nearly all consistent high achievers do not red-shift the moment they can, they move away quietly after a time to do different things and usually succeed again in the new thing they do. So based on your attitude you are least likely to manage this even once. In fact I doubt the "even once". All I can say - good luck and all the best as you are least likely to say "thank you for the fish" right on time.
multiple servers - servers are easy. On average, the number of distinct function specific packages on a server is no more than a 30 and BSD makes a perfect server.
I am are talking about workstations in the GP, not servers. So does the article (which asks the question "why do free desktop developers stick with linux"). On average, a developer workstation requires 300+ distinct packages if it is also used as a main office machine.
Maintaining something this size using ports is unfeasible. By the time you have turned around someone has checked in a port somewhere which breaks dependencies to bits. Debian (and hence Ubuntu) are one of the very few environments which maintain a mess of this size in a consistent manner. RedHat does not have some of the common developer environment choices so you often end up having to package locally or distribute in/usr/local. So it is a bit more effort. BSD, Gentoo - no. Just resolving dependencies on a security update to one of the packages via portage may take a day or so every time it happens if the sysadmin is also a qualified developer.
The insane maze of dependencies brought by a monster like openoffice along with KDE or god forbid Gnome is quite hard to resolve using portage (no offence, Gentoo fans, just personal opinion). In fact certain bits of it always remain dangling.
There was a period I have managed fairly large lot of workstations in NIS/NFS/Autofs network environment with under 20 man minutes per workstation a month using Debian. If the same lot was a portage based system this would have been nearly impossible. I had 4 BSD with considerably less complex software loads at the same time and keeping them up to date and ticking along nicely took about 4-8 man hours a month.
If you want it "just to work", debs and to a lesser extent rpms along with their relevant frontends are clearly superior to what BSD shipped up to 5.x (I have not played with 6.x as a workstation, as a server I did not notice any difference in terms of packaging).
In fact it is quite funny how tables turned over the years. In 1996 BSD (Free, Net and -OS) was clearly beating Slackware and Debian as a workstation. In those days my workstation was a NetBSD running on an ancient MIPS R3000 and I was way happier with it than with Slackware. 10 years later it is the exact opposite.
Frankly, Debian BSD may have some merit (in fact, with the current state of the Linux kernel I might as well assemble one of the spare machines I got in the loft and start putting some work in it).
I strongly suspect that the answer is about a slightly different form of dead man switch - the "fired man switch.
There is only one possible recommendation to be said here: "Do not".
First, your knowledge and capability are the best "dead" man switch you can have. If you need more than that you have failed in your professional objectives. Get real, sit down and get better at what you do.
Second, what goes around, comes around. You never know whom are you going to meet in your next job. Even if you meant it to be a real "dead man switch", you never know whom are your descendants, students or friends going to meet in their next job.
Third, if you leave a reasonable amount of time between the last check and firing the targets are likely to change, which will make the payload of the dead man switch misfire. You would either overdo it or fail to do it fully and leave traces. Either case is not in your favour. What may have been a harmless prank can become a crime which will be traced to you.
So the recommendations are do not, do not and do not. Your will deposited with your bank or insurance company is a good enough dead man switch and you will be surely dead when it gets invoked.
No, the attention has been drawn from people actually giving a fuck.
Kernels from 2.6.9 onwards are a disaster.
PIO IDE causes a deadlock on Via chipsets under heavy IO from 2.6.11 onwards. Worst in 2.6.16, but still reproducible on others.
IDE TAPE no longer works from 2.6.10 onwards
IDE-SCSI no longer works from 2.6.10 onwards at least up to 2.6.16
LONGHAUL is broken to some extent since 2.6.9
There is a change in fundamental APIs - termIO (2.6.16), locking (2.6.15), scheduling(every second f*** kernel), etc every release so it is takes a fully blown porting effort and untangling unrelated changes to backport fixes to a driver.
The original idea was that "distributions will fork off and maintain kernel for releases". This idea has degenerated into "only distributions can fork and maintain a kernel". Sole developers and hobbyists are being treated the same way Microsoft treats them - as a "one night stand". In fact, even distributions are unable to keep up with that. Fedora has half of these bugs in it. So does etch, so does mandriva and all other lesser distributions. Only RHELL and Suse ship something reasonably useable and it is 1 year behind on features.
Reality is that anything past 2.6.9 should be called 2.7.x and that is it. And it may be seriously worth it to consider Gentoo/BSD or Debian/BSD. While the BSD crowd has its own failings, it does not change fundamental APIs for entertainment purposes every month on the stable branch.
I am aware that the lamp-style iMac (and later) superdrive is one of the drives that can rip nearly anything. Unfortunately her Mac is rather old and does not have it.
As far as windows autorun software - I could not care less. The last windows machine in the house met its demise in 1995 (it was a 3.11). Unfortunately it was not just autorun, the tracks were intentionally corrupted with the ECC wrong (Different versions of Macrovision). On two of them it was to the point where normal CD players did not want to read the some of the tracks, had regular ticking noises or skipping. Utter shite. I can understand normal consumers saying f*** it and going to AllOfMp3s.
Check the Wikipedia article on Macromedia DRM. It describes the types of drive which you need to investigate. I got the right drive on the second attempt. The first one could not do it so make sure you get them from a shop which allows you to return stuff with no questions asked (UK mail/internet order laws come quite handy). You also need to rip with -libparanoia, not the default schilly transport library.
As far as buying a DVD +/-/bla/bells/whistles/dual layer recorder just to be able to rip CDs - yes I did. The CDs were bought as a present wife's birthday so they had to be made useable by any means necessary. End of the day, the DVD recorder cost as much as 3 relatively new non-discounted CDs so the amount of money was not that painfull.
Frankly, I consider it an investment. The "wife's birthday experiment" showed me that 95% of what I buy will not play on more than one piece of kit in the house so I need to rip anything I buy and rerecord it in proper red book format anyway. It was either that or spend the time downloading 10 different copies of each song from P2P networks just to find that half of them are poisoned and the other half are ripped at shit rate on crap equipment. Frankly, I 'd rather pay for the rewriter instead of wasting my time and bandwidth.
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RedHat themselves - never.
All of their JBoss customers which currently ship Jboss products using 3rd party licensing like flexlm and such - definitely. They will switch to a much better license enforcement mechanism supported by their primary framework provider. Cuts their costs and keeps their customers happier. As far as native apps running on Linux - possibly as well in the long run, not as soon as with the web services.
The most to suffer from this will be Globetrotter, Aladin and the like which provide license enforcement solutions for commercial software that ships on RHEL or based on Jboss. With one move Redhat just made them redundant as far as anything on their OS and application stack is concerned. Extra revenue for redhat and less revenue for some of the most hated companies out there.
You can still do something like the Current Intel pseudo-4-core CPUs efficiently with this if you change the chip packaging. Cooling both top and bottom simultaneously may be able to compensate for the stacking of 2 layers. This will require complete redesign of the socket as we know it, but the gains may actually be worth it for some applications.
Neither.
Read the patent application.
It is actually an interesting take on the licensing paradigm. Most licensing programs either start denying you access which leads to loss of data if this happens in the middle of an operation. Alternatively, they kill your program altogether which is again loss of data. Alternatively they check for licensing only when the program starts. In the days of software suspend and 200+ days of uptimes neither one of these is a good idea.
What redhat is patenting is a three pronged approach - OS suspend, component suspend or application suspend when a license violation is encountered. The first one is obvious, the second one and third one are non-obvious until one consideres RedHat aquisition of Jboss. These actually make a lot of sense in a Jboss application.
Overall, I am not surprised that RedHat has no intention of licensing this commercially. If they provide the relevant support, this will give a Jboss based commercial application considerable advantage over BEA and Websphere.
I think you are mistaken - they never ever stopped.
Which year is it? 1995? On a more serious note - about bloody effing time.
Same for IPFW(4) packet tagging. One of the reasons why I stopped using the BSD ALTQ in QoS control applications 2 years ago was exactly this sticking point. It is all so nice and wonderfull to abandon the original lame KAME classifiers in 5.x, but PF(4) is not a replacement for them for most people. Doing firewall rules in PF is like having a really bad brainfuck. IPFW(4) is another matter - it is a more or less sane firewall system. It has its failings, but it can be understood without your brain switching into antisocial Theo mode.
No. The visual design is "Ford tries to copy Renault/Matra Avantime". The result for some reason looks ends up looking like a slightly squashed Ford Transit. Surprise, surprise.
There are quite a few posts about this car being nonviable in other threads. Dunno about this, but IMO it is clearly a viable competitor to the GM electric crapmobile in at least one category. Definitely - it can compete with it on ugliness.
I think you underestimate the fragility of the market with all those hedge funds running computer assisted dealings. It does not take a lot to break many of their precious "quantitative models" and they have no idea how to account for any changes in investment patterns brought by "ethical investment requirements". Ethics and morale are difficult to compute.
You also underestimate the significance of publicity. If Gates foundation really accepted this as a policy it would have most likely made a big deal out of it. So now, let's suppose that every major US newspaper comes out with a headline "All the money of Bill Gates and all the money of Warren Buffet will now be invested only in ethical companies". While Bill Gates is not the most popular person in the world, the wizard of Omaha has a lot of me-too followers. And he nowdays has donated a large portion of his capital to BGF. This is what will actually make the impact, not the BG part of BGF. This and all the mee-too doing it so that they are not left behind.
I still remember the campaigns against investing in South Africa from 20 years ago. It did not take a lot for companies to pull out their money. In fact the problem was accumulating initial critical mass. Once the avalanche has started it was nearly impossible to invest in SA for PR reasons. This was the primary (and well forgotten) factor in toppling apartheid. BGF has the potential to have the critical mass to do this. And the financial sector knows this. So no wonder it was pressured into withdrawing this policy.
Intel's BTX has the same goal (besides a few others) but for Intel. Airflow and component positioning with respect to airflow is part of the spec. IIRC it does not account for having industrial heaters (AKA modern videocards) in the case, but this can be taken care of by amending the spec. It is clearly a good hardware spec and it fixes most ATX problems.
miniITX has a similar goal in theory and it has the advantage of being nearly 100% backward compatible with ATX, but fails at making a good small factor PC as it does not specify an airflow across the MB. It is also severely limited in its expansion capabilities as it supports only 32bit PCI. Every single ITX MB out there has slightly different positioning of thermally active components and different airflow requirements. Why Via did not make the airflow and the thermals a part of the standard is beyond me as it often defeats all the advantages of having a quiet motherboard and multiple bad case designs give Via's otherwise excellent Eden based MBs an undeserved bad name. Classic example are older Cubid cases where the CPU and the disk overheat while the case emits hovercraft like noise because it has 3 fans to blow air from nowhere to nowhere. There was an even more horrible one which used a 1U rackmount PS with 40+db noise (forgot the manufacturer). And all this to power a 7W fanless CPU system...
So now AMD has joined the fray. By the way, it is still mostly vapourware as there is nothing on their website. Personally, I would like to see a spec, especially the thermal,ps,expansion and airflow part of it. Without this it is not possible to compare it to the existing competition. AMD has plenty of experience aquired via Geode as well as a clear picture of the failures in the miniITX, nanoITX and BTX specs so it should be able to make a better one if it wants to. I somehow doubt it. It is more likely going to end up as another marketing initiative like Live!
The impact of a responsible investment policy on the money scale of GF will exceed the results from donating proceeds by an unimaginable magnitude.
While the money it is giving to good causes may sound great, it is nothing compared to the possible impact of running a strictly "responsible investment" policy with a money chest of their size (Most of BG money and most of the wizard of Omaha money nowdays).
This will turn the stockmarket bottom up, upside down and leave it on its head for a very long time. Money this size will cause a large number of companies to accept responsible corporate polices in order to be eligible for investment. You cannot just ignore it or turn its back on it. This in turn will force move of other investment and so on and so on.
I can bet that the perspective of this happening has scared all those pyramid jugglers with "quantitative models" shitless. I can bet that the real reason for BGF to abandon the policy 2 days after stating it is that Gates personal phone (the one not published in the phonebook) did not stop ringing during that period.
So this most likely is an order from above and it sucks. A money chest this size which is bound by "responsible investment" covenant may have forced many companies to assume more responsible polices and ultimately changed the world to the better much more than the money GF gives away to good causes. Everything else aside, its effect would have been much more long term.
Loaded question. Especially in Bhopal.
If I was an american - I wish he was not my rep.
This is a classic case of throwing the baby out along with the bath water as this will also prohibit FCC to enforce mandatory interoperability and adherence to standards.
Absolutely.
And as far as I am concerned that just moved this device from the "no buy" from a "must buy" category. I would have been seriously interested in something that is portable, mobile, GSM/GPRS capable and running a reasonable general purpose OS. The iPhone with OSX was starting to look like something which fits the bill. Unfortunately - it appears that it does not so it definitely goes into no-buy category.
In addition to that Jobs just killed his best target market. This device could have eaten the palms and BBs which currently split the "mobile corporate applications" space for breakfast. In that market 599$ are pocket change.
Oh well, we live to learn. I had a thought that Apple has finally seen the light and shipped something that will be useable outside the consumer space, but I guess they have as usually made me regret these thoughts.
I generally do not answer ACs, but in your case I will. You are making me roll on the floor laughing. Like most Americans when talking about immigration and other countries you do not have the slightest clue what are you talking about. The only developed countries with tighter rules than America are France and Israel. EU is way more lax. Japan has also been relaxing rules year after year.
Would you mind showing me the Americans that want to go offshore please?
Every time I come to the US on business I am again and again surprised by people thinking that I have to be hell bent to go there and live there at any cost, violating all of my moral principles in the process. For some reason they cannot fathom the fact that I have a better standard of living where I live and I have no intention of immigrating to the US (and never had).
95% of the American's consider it to be the center of the world and every other region to be vastly inferior. The 5% or so percent that that do not are already abroad. For most Americans getting a work permit in the UK (or anywhere in the EU) is trivial.
So, may I suggest that you are talking absolute bullshit when saying "not American workers". The reality is - the majority of American workers do not _WANT_ to go abroad.
- Working imaps with client side certificates (if it uses the latest generation of the OSX mailapp it should be able to do it. If not it has enough grunt and space to get a variety of the Mozilla monster on it
- Enough disk space to keep an offline copy of my key mail including non-root folders containing mailing lists. The crackberry does not have enough resource for that. Even if it did it does not sync non-root folders. Same for the B.S. known as pocket outlook.
- Working browser with useable client side certificates. Crackberry does not have that and anyone who has ever had to upload a cert on WinCE will understand what I am talking about.
There is no PDA or smartphone on the market capable of all this.In addition to that the price is not that hefty from a business perspective either. The real cost of a crackberry is way more than 200$. Around 50$ for an exchange, Novell groupwise or other BES compatible system CAL, On top of that BES CAL, on top of that main BES license, on top of that support and maintenance contracts. This all adds up to 200$-300$ per user per year for a small size shop going down to 100-200$ for a large one. So the math there ends up favourable for the iPhone especially for a small to medium shop suffering from an allergy to Microsoft. For a large shop the math once again is favourable for an iPhone. Blackberry is horrible as far as custom applications are concerned. OSX, while not easy, is a useable platform for internal development and if worst comes to worst there is a proper browser onboard.
So I would not dismiss it outright. It has a set of features which will appeal to a specific type of consumer, SME and it has a clear appeal to any business large enough to have to write its own mobile apps. It also has a large captive audience at hand with its yahoo and gmail alliances. Being the top of the range ipod it also has the apple users as a target audience.
IMHO, Apple has delivered a worthy opponent to RIM, something MSFT and Nokia have proved to be unable to do for a long time. As far as the lack of 3G, if it has a good working wifi (not like the crippled crap shipped with XDA and other PocketPC phones), this is not likely to be a big problem for the target audience. By the time it ships 3G networks in large cities will have enough users to be unable to deliver even a fraction of the promissed speed. While 3G is clearly superior when nothing is going on, its contention/congestion model is horrible. Each device doing anything on a nodeB effectively drops the max bandwidth by 1/2. Each device is homed on at least 2 nodeBs due to soft handover. At the moment there are very few devices around. With all the super-duper 3G phones coming out this will not be the case in less than a year.
Dunno, time will tell, but if they ship what they show I may buy it even without subsidy (and I am not an apple fan, just the opposite).
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And as far as the stream of bounces flowing at the moment I think this has mostly to do with this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/09/scam_decl
One of the SPAM botnets was lost over Christmas (I guess, not only NASA and ESA can lose systems by bogus commands/software uploads). As a result the spamgangs have ordered a couple of clones of old beaten up viruses to go and capture new zombies. At least some of these use the codebase of one of the old crap pieces of code that generated fake addresses in known domains. As a result - loads of bounces for fake names.
The only way of dealing with these is to filter for valid names on your frontline relay. This is a well known problem without a good solution as this means that the frontline has to do full alias expansion. I have some ideas on how to do that for exim, but have not got the time to do it at the moment.
While your attitude is quite common in the tech circles, I have yet to observe it in people who have managed to make repeated high achievements. Nearly all consistent high achievers do not red-shift the moment they can, they move away quietly after a time to do different things and usually succeed again in the new thing they do. So based on your attitude you are least likely to manage this even once. In fact I doubt the "even once". All I can say - good luck and all the best as you are least likely to say "thank you for the fish" right on time.
I am are talking about workstations in the GP, not servers. So does the article (which asks the question "why do free desktop developers stick with linux"). On average, a developer workstation requires 300+ distinct packages if it is also used as a main office machine.
Maintaining something this size using ports is unfeasible. By the time you have turned around someone has checked in a port somewhere which breaks dependencies to bits. Debian (and hence Ubuntu) are one of the very few environments which maintain a mess of this size in a consistent manner. RedHat does not have some of the common developer environment choices so you often end up having to package locally or distribute in /usr/local. So it is a bit more effort. BSD, Gentoo - no. Just resolving dependencies on a security update to one of the packages via portage may take a day or so every time it happens if the sysadmin is also a qualified developer.
Yep. Usually it is.
The insane maze of dependencies brought by a monster like openoffice along with KDE or god forbid Gnome is quite hard to resolve using portage (no offence, Gentoo fans, just personal opinion). In fact certain bits of it always remain dangling.
There was a period I have managed fairly large lot of workstations in NIS/NFS/Autofs network environment with under 20 man minutes per workstation a month using Debian. If the same lot was a portage based system this would have been nearly impossible. I had 4 BSD with considerably less complex software loads at the same time and keeping them up to date and ticking along nicely took about 4-8 man hours a month.
If you want it "just to work", debs and to a lesser extent rpms along with their relevant frontends are clearly superior to what BSD shipped up to 5.x (I have not played with 6.x as a workstation, as a server I did not notice any difference in terms of packaging).
In fact it is quite funny how tables turned over the years. In 1996 BSD (Free, Net and -OS) was clearly beating Slackware and Debian as a workstation. In those days my workstation was a NetBSD running on an ancient MIPS R3000 and I was way happier with it than with Slackware. 10 years later it is the exact opposite.
Frankly, Debian BSD may have some merit (in fact, with the current state of the Linux kernel I might as well assemble one of the spare machines I got in the loft and start putting some work in it).
I strongly suspect that the answer is about a slightly different form of dead man switch - the "fired man switch.
There is only one possible recommendation to be said here: "Do not".
First, your knowledge and capability are the best "dead" man switch you can have. If you need more than that you have failed in your professional objectives. Get real, sit down and get better at what you do.
Second, what goes around, comes around. You never know whom are you going to meet in your next job. Even if you meant it to be a real "dead man switch", you never know whom are your descendants, students or friends going to meet in their next job.
Third, if you leave a reasonable amount of time between the last check and firing the targets are likely to change, which will make the payload of the dead man switch misfire. You would either overdo it or fail to do it fully and leave traces. Either case is not in your favour. What may have been a harmless prank can become a crime which will be traced to you.
So the recommendations are do not, do not and do not. Your will deposited with your bank or insurance company is a good enough dead man switch and you will be surely dead when it gets invoked.
No, the attention has been drawn from people actually giving a fuck.
Kernels from 2.6.9 onwards are a disaster.
The original idea was that "distributions will fork off and maintain kernel for releases". This idea has degenerated into "only distributions can fork and maintain a kernel". Sole developers and hobbyists are being treated the same way Microsoft treats them - as a "one night stand". In fact, even distributions are unable to keep up with that. Fedora has half of these bugs in it. So does etch, so does mandriva and all other lesser distributions. Only RHELL and Suse ship something reasonably useable and it is 1 year behind on features.
Reality is that anything past 2.6.9 should be called 2.7.x and that is it. And it may be seriously worth it to consider Gentoo/BSD or Debian/BSD. While the BSD crowd has its own failings, it does not change fundamental APIs for entertainment purposes every month on the stable branch.
So much for our love for democracy... If that is not the ultimate super absolute dictatorship...
yes, thanks for the correction. It is Macrovision.
I am aware that the lamp-style iMac (and later) superdrive is one of the drives that can rip nearly anything. Unfortunately her Mac is rather old and does not have it.
As far as windows autorun software - I could not care less. The last windows machine in the house met its demise in 1995 (it was a 3.11). Unfortunately it was not just autorun, the tracks were intentionally corrupted with the ECC wrong (Different versions of Macrovision). On two of them it was to the point where normal CD players did not want to read the some of the tracks, had regular ticking noises or skipping. Utter shite. I can understand normal consumers saying f*** it and going to AllOfMp3s.
Check the Wikipedia article on Macromedia DRM. It describes the types of drive which you need to investigate. I got the right drive on the second attempt. The first one could not do it so make sure you get them from a shop which allows you to return stuff with no questions asked (UK mail/internet order laws come quite handy). You also need to rip with -libparanoia, not the default schilly transport library.
As far as buying a DVD +/-/bla/bells/whistles/dual layer recorder just to be able to rip CDs - yes I did. The CDs were bought as a present wife's birthday so they had to be made useable by any means necessary. End of the day, the DVD recorder cost as much as 3 relatively new non-discounted CDs so the amount of money was not that painfull.
Frankly, I consider it an investment. The "wife's birthday experiment" showed me that 95% of what I buy will not play on more than one piece of kit in the house so I need to rip anything I buy and rerecord it in proper red book format anyway. It was either that or spend the time downloading 10 different copies of each song from P2P networks just to find that half of them are poisoned and the other half are ripped at shit rate on crap equipment. Frankly, I 'd rather pay for the rewriter instead of wasting my time and bandwidth.