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Troubles with Merced
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Umm, I distinctly remember reading an article (on/.?) about HP and SGI deciding to comeout with one or two more chips in their respective series because of Merced delays. I think, by the time Merced does ship, the chips from HP and SGI/MIPS will be significantly faster/scalable than Merced. The big Unix vendors just can't wait for Merced to ship faster boxes to their clients.
It's not an invasion of a system, it's an unsolicitied email, which isn't illegal.
Actually, I thought that uce was illegal in at least two states, and there was a bill in congress that would make it a federal offense. Since the email contained a list of commercial porno sites, as I understand the story, that would make it illegal, would it not (at least in those states where the law is in effect)?
I personally wouldn't want to be anywhere near a fusion explosion of a "half-handful of nuclei or so" -- or where you talking about how many you could count on one hand?
It has already been mentioned that high-end production systems always should be customized. The max inode and/or max open files is just one example of such a configuration. Ever heard about configuring shared memory limits on a Solaris box for a database? I think changing those requires a reboot also. If so, what's you point?
No, most major databases either require or have the option of using raw devices so that they can perform to the high demands of the system. Why put another layer between the database and disk if all of your multiple disks in your raid setup are used by the database? It's ignorant to do so.
Face it, Linux is now a religion, not just a software. And I think a world like this is worst than "Windows everywhere"
Then check out of this world. What do you think Gates and Co. have been doing for the past 19 years. They have more "religion" in their "movement" than the Linux crowd does. We just back it up with facts.
No no no. News organizations DO NOT modify official press releases from companies. They could get into a LOT of trouble doing so. It's quoted verbatim from Apple. Apple made a mistake and changed their web site to reflect that. See my above message.
NewsAlert quoted an official Apple press release. They didn't claim that Open Source was a trademark of Apple, Apple did.
I received a nice reply from Russell Brady at Apple stating that it was an honest mistake and: Open Source is a trade mark of the Open Source Initiative. He also stated that it has been corrected on their web site, so that's probably why people don't see it if they go there now.
I was wondering if anyone can clear up a question I have on this very topic.
Can anyone claim a trademark on any term or phrase even if there is a registered trademark holder for the same term or phrase?
I noticed in an article/release about the new Dell dual Pentium III/Xeon's that Microsoft is claiming a trademark on "NT" (not Windows NT, just NT). I think everyone knows that Nortel owns the registered trademark for NT, it's on every Windows NT box! So, can I claim a trademark for NT, or Open Source, or whatever, also - even if it conflicts with a registered trademark owned by another entity?
Hmmm. Seems to me that they would revoke the license of the affected part of the code in those circumstances, and not necessarily ALL code. I get the impression that they would even be willing to create another tarball with everything except the code in question...
What not? I read it as what you originally said, OTHER THAN FOR R&D, you can't use the code internally (for production) without distributing your modifications.
SSN? Driver's license #? Credit Card #? Password to a system you want to send to someone but want it protected?
Your statement is uncredible. You may choose to not send your private data over public networks at this time, but that does not mean you don't have any data that needs that level of encryption. Put all this info in a message on/. if you really mean it (might want to include your phone number, address, dob, bank account numbers, etc)...
I like this. It would have to be an option, of course. Or, may be be able to choose a language to be translated into with babelfish. Or that site that translates into jive, pig-latin, or whatever...
Um, your an idiot. Don't you understand what intermittent means? Bringing attention to this problem was responsible journalism, even though I don't think anyone considers/. a regular "news" entitiy. I know, it's "News for Nerds Stuff that Matters," but/. is not trying to come off as some ethical, responsible, holy'r than thou, news site. At least I don't consider them as such./. is for fun! It's "News for Nerds" and "Stuff that Matters." Maybe you don't belong here. If you don't like the content, seek your "news" elsewhere. Just because he titled it "InterNIC Blowing Up (again)" makes it libelous?
Did you read the freekin article? What's your response to the possibility of a company finding out who a whistleblower is because thier "ID" is stored in a document they create and send to authorities?
Why are you an AC if you don't mind everyone knowing every single document that you authored and being able to tie them back to you?
No, No, No. Yes, transmitting the GUID to MS is bad, but the storage of the number in documents is just as troubling, as is the use in creating cookies as implied in the article. It's just the bad design of OLE if this is "required." I can see a session based UUID, but one that is stored in the documents themselves is just ignorant.
No, I truely believe that a large percentage of/. posters who frequently make spelling or gramatical errors are kids. It would be interesting to see some statistics on posts that contained gramatical or spelling errors and the time that they were posted, along with location based on IP address if possible...
The average Windows user would format the whole disk as one "drive" if given the chance. The average Linux user would not partition the whole drive as one filesystem.
I thought I remember using Linux 0.96 as one of my first versions. Your hypo that Linux went from 0.12 to 0.99 would rule that out. And I though Alan Cox said that he user 0.95 at one point in his interview/. reported on.
May be I'm the ass that doesn't know what he's talking about???
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Umm, I distinctly remember reading an article (on /.?) about HP and SGI deciding to comeout with one or two more chips in their respective series because of Merced delays. I think, by the time Merced does ship, the chips from HP and SGI/MIPS will be significantly faster/scalable than Merced. The big Unix vendors just can't wait for Merced to ship faster boxes to their clients.
So, how much Intel stock do you own???
It's not an invasion of a system, it's an unsolicitied email, which isn't illegal.
Actually, I thought that uce was illegal in at least two states, and there was a bill in congress that would make it a federal offense. Since the email contained a list of commercial porno sites, as I understand the story, that would make it illegal, would it not (at least in those states where the law is in effect)?
I personally wouldn't want to be anywhere near a fusion explosion of a "half-handful of nuclei or so" -- or where you talking about how many you could count on one hand?
Yet.
It has already been mentioned that high-end production systems always should be customized. The max inode and/or max open files is just one example of such a configuration. Ever heard about configuring shared memory limits on a Solaris box for a database? I think changing those requires a reboot also. If so, what's you point?
No, most major databases either require or have the option of using raw devices so that they can perform to the high demands of the system. Why put another layer between the database and disk if all of your multiple disks in your raid setup are used by the database? It's ignorant to do so.
Face it, Linux is now a religion, not just a software. And I think a world like this is worst than "Windows everywhere"
Then check out of this world. What do you think Gates and Co. have been doing for the past 19 years. They have more "religion" in their "movement" than the Linux crowd does. We just back it up with facts.
No no no. News organizations DO NOT modify official press releases from companies. They could get into a LOT of trouble doing so. It's quoted verbatim from Apple. Apple made a mistake and changed their web site to reflect that. See my above message.
Your wrong, Apple made a mistake in their original news release but corrected it. See my above message.
NewsAlert quoted an official Apple press release. They didn't claim that Open Source was a trademark of Apple, Apple did.
I received a nice reply from Russell Brady at Apple stating that it was an honest mistake and:
Open Source is
a trade mark of the Open Source Initiative. He also stated that it has been corrected on their web site, so that's probably why people don't see it if they go there now.
For the uneducated, 1000% is 10 times the speed, not 1000 times. Also, 1000% as fast is not the same as 1000% faster.
I was wondering if anyone can clear up a question I have on this very topic.
Can anyone claim a trademark on any term or phrase even if there is a registered trademark holder for the same term or phrase?
I noticed in an article/release about the new Dell dual Pentium III/Xeon's that Microsoft is claiming a trademark on "NT" (not Windows NT, just NT). I think everyone knows that Nortel owns the registered trademark for NT, it's on every Windows NT box! So, can I claim a trademark for NT, or Open Source, or whatever, also - even if it conflicts with a registered trademark owned by another entity?
Hmmm. Seems to me that they would revoke the license of the affected part of the code in those circumstances, and not necessarily ALL code. I get the impression that they would even be willing to create another tarball with everything except the code in question...
What not? I read it as what you originally said, OTHER THAN FOR R&D, you can't use the code internally (for production) without distributing your modifications.
Can it be read any other way?
SSN? Driver's license #? Credit Card #? Password to a system you want to send to someone but want it protected?
/. if you really mean it (might want to include your phone number, address, dob, bank account numbers, etc)...
Your statement is uncredible. You may choose to not send your private data over public networks at this time, but that does not mean you don't have any data that needs that level of encryption. Put all this info in a message on
I like this. It would have to be an option, of course. Or, may be be able to choose a language to be translated into with babelfish. Or that site that translates into jive, pig-latin, or whatever...
Um, your an idiot. Don't you understand what intermittent means? Bringing attention to this problem was responsible journalism, even though I don't think anyone considers /. a regular "news" entitiy. I know, it's "News for Nerds Stuff that Matters," but /. is not trying to come off as some ethical, responsible, holy'r than thou, news site. At least I don't consider them as such. /. is for fun! It's "News for Nerds" and "Stuff that Matters." Maybe you don't belong here. If you don't like the content, seek your "news" elsewhere. Just because he titled it "InterNIC Blowing Up (again)" makes it libelous?
You are an idiot.
Poor bastard. I'm hooked up pretty much constantly with ISDN and I pay a flat rate per month (for both the line and the ISP).
Poor bastard...
Did you read the freekin article? What's your response to the possibility of a company finding out who a whistleblower is because thier "ID" is stored in a document they create and send to authorities?
Why are you an AC if you don't mind everyone knowing every single document that you authored and being able to tie them back to you?
No, No, No. Yes, transmitting the GUID to MS is bad, but the storage of the number in documents is just as troubling, as is the use in creating cookies as implied in the article. It's just the bad design of OLE if this is "required." I can see a session based UUID, but one that is stored in the documents themselves is just ignorant.
No, I truely believe that a large percentage of /. posters who frequently make spelling or gramatical errors are kids. It would be interesting to see some statistics on posts that contained gramatical or spelling errors and the time that they were posted, along with location based on IP address if possible...
How about a movement to notify Todd, the webmaster for the site, that he is not using standards compliant HTML?
The average Windows user would format the whole disk as one "drive" if given the chance. The average Linux user would not partition the whole drive as one filesystem.
I thought I remember using Linux 0.96 as one of my first versions. Your hypo that Linux went from 0.12 to 0.99 would rule that out. And I though Alan Cox said that he user 0.95 at one point in his interview /. reported on.
May be I'm the ass that doesn't know what he's talking about???