You don't need Techorati trackbacks to be a blog. You don't need comment spam to be a blog. And a blog isn't determined by the size of the audience. What? You don't think Instapundit gets a ton of hits? How about DailyKos?
Slashdot is a blog. It has been a blog since Taco started it in his dorm room. Now deal with it.
Oracle RAC can work over ssh, the 10g install docs even specifically mention it.
Note: This section describes how to set up user equivalence for rcp, which the Installer uses when copying Oracle software to the other cluster nodes. If you prefer, you can configure the Secure Shell (SSH) tool suite, so that the Installer uses scp instead of rcp. See the SSH documentation for information about setting up user equivalence for scp.
It gives Sun a ready made pool of sales people who understand how to sell storage. Sun's server-centric sales force has never really gotten that. Even though the Network Storage Division at Sun generates a lot of revenue with a relatively small employee base (less than 1000 people), it could be doing better if it had a better storage focused sales force. Sun's attach rate for it's own storage on its own Solaris Servers lags the industry standard. That's easy money if done even a few percentage points better. Sun has always worked closely with STK. STK is right down the street from Sun's Colorado campus. STK will help drive storage sales.
This also gives Sun a pool of tech support people who know how to support things in a heterogenous server environment, mainly Windows, but others as well. With Sun selling servers that are Microsoft Certified (the opeteron based ones for example), look for Sun storage to be attached to more and more Windows servers. Check out the Microsoft blogger with pics of Sun storage in Redmond if you doubt that.
EMC is obviously the big hitter in the storage arena, at the enterprise level at least. But of course, trying to aquire them would have been more expensive and also would have conflicted with current resale agreements with Hitachi. Doable? Possibly. But STK & Sun probably have a closer historical relationship that has had less bumps in the road. Sun has never really competed with STK, its always resold their tape libraries.
Why on earth would you think there is a lot of Veritas code in Solaris? Nevermind that Sun has (and has had for a long, long time) products that compete directly with Veritas. Solaris Volume Manager is a replacement for Vertias Volume Manager and why use VxFS when UFS is just as good? Why pay for the Veritas licenses as well?
UFS is a Non-journaled fileysytem?? Ever hear of mounting UFS with "-o logging"? It's only been around since, oh I don't know..SOLARIS 7, which was released in 1998.
Sun and Oracle are close too, is there a lot of Oracle code in Solaris?
It was about as inevitable as Microsoft dropping SMB because samba was created, and blaiming samba.
You're terrible at analogies. This nothing of the sort. Was Microsoft donating Free Microsoft licenses to a company while one of said company's employees was reverse-engineering SMB protocols? Furthermore, you can still *buy* a license for Bitkeeper. Shocking suggestion to some, I'm sure.
And here is a genuine question. If Tridge was not a BK user...just whose wire transmissions was he sniffing to do his reverse engineering?
With Samba, one can easily surmise he had two legitimately licensed Windows boxes set up to talk to one another via SMB and he just sniffed the wire between them. No problem. What the hell was he doing with BK? He presumably couldn't have been using a free version..he claims he never agreed to the license. So...where was he getting his data? Was someone with a free license allowing him to snoop the traffic? Was he snooping someone's traffic without their knowledge?
"...I understand what you're saying, but keep in mind the Opensource mantra: there are free (OSS) alternatives for everything, and they're just about as good...."
And where is this mantra written? Who is the keeper of "the Opensource mantra"? Is this the only mantra? It sure seems so with the words "the Opensource mantra".
And apparently the problem is that there WASN'T a free alternative to everything. If there was, no one would have to be reverse-engineering BK, now would they? And from what I've read, the intent was never to build a Free clone of BK (ala The Gimp or something similar), that would have at least been useful. No, the intent was to bypass the BK client, by reverse engineering the protcols, to interface with the BK repositories. That's a strong acknowledgement that BK was pretty damn good.
"...And speaking of the man, I fear the results of Mr. Bush's actions more than this terrorist turning up at my doorstep. Mr. Laden, if you're reading this: I don't like you either, but you're welcome at my place for a coffee and exchange of thoughts. Mr. Bush, if you're reading this, you're welcome here for a good kick in your b*tt..."
Aaaandd that's where you revealed yourself as a stark raving loonie. Coffee and an exchange of thoughts?? You live in the Netherlands! You know, that laid-back country with permissive laws concerning drugs and sex? Hell, I'll bet you let women walk the street without covering their faces. Yeah, the Bin Ladens of the world would love to "talk" to you. Ask Van Gogh how his "exchange of thoughts" went with people who belived in the same type of extremism as Bin Laden does.
But to the point of this article, the GPL is NOT the only Open Source license out there. This is the point that many people miss. BSD, Apache, Mozilla/Firefox...are the GPL zealots ignoring these hugely important pieces of software when they rant?
Just because JS is poking at various points of the GPL, doesn't me he is poking at Open Source.
"...Do you really want to take away this potentially useful tool from law enforcement because you do not want to be inconvienced for a few minutes?..."
Abso-frickin-lutely. The State is not your friend.
SEE! The Amazing Randy get into a car as a passenger! WATCH! as The Amazing Randy is driven in modern comfort across State Lines. BE AMAZED! as The Amazing Randy shows no ID.
Tune in next week folks for another STUPENDOUS! installment of THE AMAZING RANDY...Interstate Traveler Extraordinaire! POW!
You just can't come to grips with the fact that some of the biggest opponents of the death penalty in the US are Christian groups can you?
Catholic Bishops of Texas for instance. TEXAS!! The movie Dead Man Walking was based on the true story of Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic Nun. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has issued statements against the Death Penalty.
About the only mainstream Christian groups in the US that have vocally and publically supported the Death Penalty are the Southern Baptists and the Evangelicals (not the same as the Evangelical Lutheran Church mind you). You can throw the LDS in there as well. The Catholic Church and the ECLA have roughly 71 million members between them in the US, the Southern Baptists have 16 million...just to give an idea of where the actual number lie. This is not to say *all* Christians are either pro or anti anything, simply to show that there is severe disagreement on this issue, among others, in the US Christian community. (and hell, I'm not even Christian)
I think you are extrememly ignorant about what US "Christians" believe in and really are in no position to generalize a damn thing about them. It's amazing to see so many internet experts on Slashdot (and elsewhere) point out minute difference in Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim faiths, quote the Koran or the Bible ad nauseum to play tit-for-tat debating on theological points but yet be so WILLFULLY ignorant about the Christian faith in its many forms.
So your dad is a twit. Sorry to break it to you, I'm sure otherwise he is a decent guy, but he is a twit. I'm an American who is not scared of terrorists as being a significant threat to my person. I'm not afraid to live my life. I travel (outside the US even, what a shock that must be to some). So by your standard, the terrorists have *not* won.
The fact that certain people like your dad get scared everytime the word terrorist is mentioned doesn't mean everyone does. Something tells me your Dad probably ranted at the Commies in the 50s, the dirty Hippies in the 60s and 70s and how Japan was about to take over America in the 80s. Some people are easily spooked..like cattle.
The fact that politicians are using terrorism to gain political clout and power does not mean everyone is scared either. If it wasn't terrorism, politicians would invent some other scheme to justify a larger and more controlling government. Terrorists are just the reason de jour.
Are you scared? Everyone who is scared, raise your hand. Now, smack yourself with heavy object while the rest of us point at you and laugh.
Fine, my point still stands. Forcing MS to remove WMP does nothing to lessen their (supposed) monopoly on the desktop OS. The next step would be to mandate that X% of EU government contracted sales be non-Microsoft. The next step after that would be to ban the use of Microsoft entirely. Not that I advocate such a move, but hey, if you want to get serious about this "problem", half-measures are for the weak. How about forcing Microsoft to divest itself of its Office Division to be able to sell in the EU?
This particular line in the sand over WMP is worthless.
Seriously..what is the EU's endgame in this? What's the point? So now instead of having to bother with installing Realplayer and Quicktime separately a person has to install Realplayer, Quicktime And Windows Media Player separately? This is a victory for the little guy, the consumer? Remember the consumer? I don't get it..seriously. I just don't get it. Monopolies can abuse their position, no doubt. I just don't see how the remedies that the EU have mandated really amount to anything more than hot air. If the average person surfs to 10 media rich websites, 7 of them are going to require WMP anyway...what's the point?
If the EU wanted to do some actual, tangible good, maybe they should have forced Dell or Gateway to offer alternative OS's on their PCs that are sold in EU markets.
Although I chose Fluxbox for my WM, I can say that memory consumption was a factor while installing linux on my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop. 800mhz, 256mb ram. Gnome was just a pig on the poor machine, while fluxbox brought it back to snappy goodness.
How do you prove that? Easy, put him in front of a jury of his peers that have been selected by jury experts to have shown a tendency to convict. People who automatically trust authority, believe in the government, are probably more likely to go along with the prosecuter. Stack a jury with people like that and WHAMMO! it's off to the bighouse with this guy.
Just because you don't have the faculties to see what happens in a society where young males have no chance of having family, in a society with upwards of 10% unemployment already, doesn't mean others share your short-sightedness.
Let's ignore history for a second and pretend that this large group of unmarried men is not turned against their neighboring countries as an invading force. Fine, these guys make it to old age and now what? Does China have a good social welfare and pension system? Does it have any pension system? Why did the past generation choose to keep the male babies over the females..because they felt the boys could support them better in their old age. Well who is going to be around to support this generation if they can't start families? Europe is going to show us what happens to a society (heavily dependent on a young workforce to fund their social programs mind you) that allows its birthrate to fall below replacement rate in about 25-30 years...China will be right behind them to show us what happens when you couple a low birthrate with a heavy preference for one sex over the other. A total collapse of Europe (at least as we now know it as white and predominately judeo-christian in background) and China within 75 years is not out of the realm of possibility.
And really, for the sake of simplicity, I'm just ignoring their upcoming problems with lack of water, destruction of arable land and any problems that global warming (with its concurrent rise in sea levels) causes a country that has an ever increasing percentage of its population cramming into coastal cities. China is F'd in the A.
In a story about China, I'd say China's actions are that all that matters. The fact that you choose to go cuckoo over the US in every story is your own problem.
btw, screw the moral high ground. No one has ever had it in the history of man, no one ever will. Whose morality? What set of morals? Impossible questions to answer. The rest of the world laughs when the US even attempts to talk about freedom, or liberal democratic ideals....do they believe in the moral high ground? Does anyone think the US ever had the moral high ground? Do you HONESTLY believe that any other sovereign nation ever did anything because they thought the US had the moral high ground? Is that how you think nation-states behave? That's a very naive point of view. Did Lincoln have the moral high ground when he suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War? Did Roosevelt have the moral high ground when he, Churchill and Stalin decided the fate of millions in the closing days of WWII? Did Eisenhower, Truman and Kennedy have the moral high ground as they embroiled the US in Vietnam? Johnson? Nixon? Did Ronnie RayGun have the moral high ground as he declared the USSR "The Evil Empire"?
I'm so glad you think it is the government's (any government's) duty to tell a family how large it should be. Couple that with a cultural preference for male children and you have the makings for 20million+ young men roaming around the country with no chance of finding wives. No problems there eh?
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I'm not aware of any federal dollars going to build baseball stadiums. State/local taxes? Sure. The US Congress has no authority or oversight over how a state or local municipality chooses to spend its money. I wouldn't have a problem if individual states or cities chose to investigate based on the "tax money" argument, but Congress has no business in doing so.
I know the Federal system is being chipped away everday, but this is riduculous.
So maybe we could appoint you head of the Committe on Nerd Purity? You could than make lofty proclamations on what qualifies as "News For Nerds" and what does not. You could draw up a manifesto or something too.
What if I don't even consider myself a Nerd? Do I need to turn in my Slashdot UID?
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Slashdot is a blog. It has been a blog since Taco started it in his dorm room. Now deal with it.
This also gives Sun a pool of tech support people who know how to support things in a heterogenous server environment, mainly Windows, but others as well. With Sun selling servers that are Microsoft Certified (the opeteron based ones for example), look for Sun storage to be attached to more and more Windows servers. Check out the Microsoft blogger with pics of Sun storage in Redmond if you doubt that.
EMC is obviously the big hitter in the storage arena, at the enterprise level at least. But of course, trying to aquire them would have been more expensive and also would have conflicted with current resale agreements with Hitachi. Doable? Possibly. But STK & Sun probably have a closer historical relationship that has had less bumps in the road. Sun has never really competed with STK, its always resold their tape libraries.
Unions are on the retreat all over Europe.
UFS is a Non-journaled fileysytem?? Ever hear of mounting UFS with "-o logging"? It's only been around since, oh I don't know..SOLARIS 7, which was released in 1998.
Sun and Oracle are close too, is there a lot of Oracle code in Solaris?
You're terrible at analogies. This nothing of the sort. Was Microsoft donating Free Microsoft licenses to a company while one of said company's employees was reverse-engineering SMB protocols? Furthermore, you can still *buy* a license for Bitkeeper. Shocking suggestion to some, I'm sure.
And here is a genuine question. If Tridge was not a BK user...just whose wire transmissions was he sniffing to do his reverse engineering?
With Samba, one can easily surmise he had two legitimately licensed Windows boxes set up to talk to one another via SMB and he just sniffed the wire between them. No problem. What the hell was he doing with BK? He presumably couldn't have been using a free version..he claims he never agreed to the license. So...where was he getting his data? Was someone with a free license allowing him to snoop the traffic? Was he snooping someone's traffic without their knowledge?
And where is this mantra written? Who is the keeper of "the Opensource mantra"? Is this the only mantra? It sure seems so with the words "the Opensource mantra".
And apparently the problem is that there WASN'T a free alternative to everything. If there was, no one would have to be reverse-engineering BK, now would they? And from what I've read, the intent was never to build a Free clone of BK (ala The Gimp or something similar), that would have at least been useful. No, the intent was to bypass the BK client, by reverse engineering the protcols, to interface with the BK repositories. That's a strong acknowledgement that BK was pretty damn good.
Aaaandd that's where you revealed yourself as a stark raving loonie. Coffee and an exchange of thoughts?? You live in the Netherlands! You know, that laid-back country with permissive laws concerning drugs and sex? Hell, I'll bet you let women walk the street without covering their faces. Yeah, the Bin Ladens of the world would love to "talk" to you. Ask Van Gogh how his "exchange of thoughts" went with people who belived in the same type of extremism as Bin Laden does.
Just because JS is poking at various points of the GPL, doesn't me he is poking at Open Source.
Usually these same companies don't discover their customers are screwing them. That is bound to change the level of benevolence.
Abso-frickin-lutely. The State is not your friend.
Tune in next week folks for another STUPENDOUS! installment of THE AMAZING RANDY...Interstate Traveler Extraordinaire! POW!
Catholic Bishops of Texas for instance. TEXAS!!
The movie Dead Man Walking was based on the true story of Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic Nun.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has issued statements against the Death Penalty.
About the only mainstream Christian groups in the US that have vocally and publically supported the Death Penalty are the Southern Baptists and the Evangelicals (not the same as the Evangelical Lutheran Church mind you). You can throw the LDS in there as well. The Catholic Church and the ECLA have roughly 71 million members between them in the US, the Southern Baptists have 16 million...just to give an idea of where the actual number lie. This is not to say *all* Christians are either pro or anti anything, simply to show that there is severe disagreement on this issue, among others, in the US Christian community. (and hell, I'm not even Christian)
I think you are extrememly ignorant about what US "Christians" believe in and really are in no position to generalize a damn thing about them. It's amazing to see so many internet experts on Slashdot (and elsewhere) point out minute difference in Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim faiths, quote the Koran or the Bible ad nauseum to play tit-for-tat debating on theological points but yet be so WILLFULLY ignorant about the Christian faith in its many forms.
The fact that certain people like your dad get scared everytime the word terrorist is mentioned doesn't mean everyone does. Something tells me your Dad probably ranted at the Commies in the 50s, the dirty Hippies in the 60s and 70s and how Japan was about to take over America in the 80s. Some people are easily spooked..like cattle.
The fact that politicians are using terrorism to gain political clout and power does not mean everyone is scared either. If it wasn't terrorism, politicians would invent some other scheme to justify a larger and more controlling government. Terrorists are just the reason de jour.
Are you scared? Everyone who is scared, raise your hand. Now, smack yourself with heavy object while the rest of us point at you and laugh.
This particular line in the sand over WMP is worthless.
If the EU wanted to do some actual, tangible good, maybe they should have forced Dell or Gateway to offer alternative OS's on their PCs that are sold in EU markets.
Different strokes for different folks.
Gunny Hartman? Is that you
How do you prove that? Easy, put him in front of a jury of his peers that have been selected by jury experts to have shown a tendency to convict. People who automatically trust authority, believe in the government, are probably more likely to go along with the prosecuter. Stack a jury with people like that and WHAMMO! it's off to the bighouse with this guy.
I just bought a new computer that had WinXP. SP2 was already installed.
Let's ignore history for a second and pretend that this large group of unmarried men is not turned against their neighboring countries as an invading force. Fine, these guys make it to old age and now what? Does China have a good social welfare and pension system? Does it have any pension system? Why did the past generation choose to keep the male babies over the females..because they felt the boys could support them better in their old age. Well who is going to be around to support this generation if they can't start families? Europe is going to show us what happens to a society (heavily dependent on a young workforce to fund their social programs mind you) that allows its birthrate to fall below replacement rate in about 25-30 years...China will be right behind them to show us what happens when you couple a low birthrate with a heavy preference for one sex over the other. A total collapse of Europe (at least as we now know it as white and predominately judeo-christian in background) and China within 75 years is not out of the realm of possibility.
And really, for the sake of simplicity, I'm just ignoring their upcoming problems with lack of water, destruction of arable land and any problems that global warming (with its concurrent rise in sea levels) causes a country that has an ever increasing percentage of its population cramming into coastal cities. China is F'd in the A.
btw, screw the moral high ground. No one has ever had it in the history of man, no one ever will. Whose morality? What set of morals? Impossible questions to answer. The rest of the world laughs when the US even attempts to talk about freedom, or liberal democratic ideals....do they believe in the moral high ground? Does anyone think the US ever had the moral high ground? Do you HONESTLY believe that any other sovereign nation ever did anything because they thought the US had the moral high ground? Is that how you think nation-states behave? That's a very naive point of view. Did Lincoln have the moral high ground when he suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War? Did Roosevelt have the moral high ground when he, Churchill and Stalin decided the fate of millions in the closing days of WWII? Did Eisenhower, Truman and Kennedy have the moral high ground as they embroiled the US in Vietnam? Johnson? Nixon? Did Ronnie RayGun have the moral high ground as he declared the USSR "The Evil Empire"?
I'm so glad you think it is the government's (any government's) duty to tell a family how large it should be. Couple that with a cultural preference for male children and you have the makings for 20million+ young men roaming around the country with no chance of finding wives. No problems there eh?
I know the Federal system is being chipped away everday, but this is riduculous.
What if I don't even consider myself a Nerd? Do I need to turn in my Slashdot UID?