The site is very accesable. its just a takeback on the nostalgia from the days-gone-by. I used to spend long hours each day looking at hex dumps like that...
Mr Brown, seems to have made loads of statements with no real basis to back him up at all - much unlike his critics who have used real facts and figures to build upon. Where did he come up with statements like 'Linux is a leprosy' - and have nothing at all to say as to why he thinks its like that. He has no answer to his critics, so he will evade the real issues and facts, just try to keep people thinking about different things by such a response.
Okay, so he says that Linux might not be good for the s/w industry ( uneducated and uninformed as he is, he is most likely wrong ) - but is that the only industry there is in this whole world ? dont the other industries ( who have been held to ransom, more or less by organisations like MS and Sage ), also have a right to benefit ? If you look at the reality - the user base is many many times higher than the provider base. So how does the economy suffer ?
All in all, its not even worth commenting on this anymore. Mr. Brown is the hall mark of a paid dog, who is going to make a fwe bucks from his backers who want to see Linux down - cause they are incapable of doing that in real terms, tech terms or in direct compeition - so they must resort to people like Ken Brown to create this fascade and false FUD.
Look around you - does any of this work ?
If Linux wasent as big a threat to MS and such companies, they would leave it alone. But they cant, because Linux IS very much a threat - and its breaking them down.
Sounds pretty good. I think Linux needs a basic system of this sort in place as-soon-as-practical. It will bring together a lot of accountability of / for code in the Kernel itself. Plus, it should counter any issue like the SCO created one, in the future.
Another interesting point here seems to be that with this management overhead and the admin work that issue such as this create, how much of time is Linus actually spending with them ? while he might be working with the technical side of things ?
Inspite of all the noise, there are just a handfull of people contributing major code into the Kernel ( would 300 be a fair guess ? ) How are all these admin overheads going to effect their performance ? Also is anyone / everyone expected to research the piles and piles of patenets / copyrights before they make such a declaration ?
the numbers dont add up, Loads of people have already raised the issue about the fact that 20 servers ( even decently mid spec single CPU machines ) will handle 100k emails an hour ( about 80 emails per min per machine is very achieveable... ).
But there are some other issues you need to look at, with these emails not being scanned - do you know how much of storage you need to have online to have a mailstore this size and developing by the hour at 100k msgs ? not everyonce will use pop3 to get their emails, and not all the users will check email every day. Were talking about a very very large and very well setup Mail Store for this kind of volume. What about network bandwidth ?
A few basic things can reduce the work of those servers : Duplicacy level across these emails is going to be very high - all 100k emails per hour cannot be unique, there are going to be loads and loads of dupes, that dont even need to be scanned.
Creating a small database in-house with bad MailSender's list ( kind of like an in house RBL ), and flushing that list on an 6 hour interval will slow the inflow as well to quite an extent - in some tests done, i have seen it go down by almost 15 - 18% when there is a heavy load. Since most 'real' mailservers tend to retry, even if a genuine mailserver is blacklisted for 6 hours - it wont make much of a difference, however most 'hijacked PC's sending spam' dont have any retry or resending mechanism - and will just not be able to send into your server.
Another issue that helps stem the tide of bad email is to check for Virus infections before checking for spam. A lot of cases the tides of mail coming in can be virus infections ( which are easier and faster to check against - compared to rules + logic based spam checkers ).
However, all this is said and done without knowing of what system and what kind of a setup they use, there is no way anyone can really know what happened and why.
In the end, classic case for Linux and Unix based technologies to come into the frame I think.
The comparison dosent seem to be so much as google / other means - its more of an Online V/s Offline means to search for specific stuff.
I think its wrong to brand Google as the only means to look for information online.
Secondly, the issues that the reviewer raises are also adhoc - they cant be used to generalise the entire deal / spectrum of infomation that people need / want / desire.
Try looking for a code sample that shows you how the GTK# can be used from Mono to display a Multi level Outline filelist. What are the options that you have for this in the Non - Online world ?
The guy already knew who to ask / who to talk to - what if you dont know that - what then ? how do you go about finding the best non-online resource to speak with / enquire from ? My guess is that you are going to be heading right back online.
What about the fact that the online resources / google are avilable to you when you want it - how you want it and where you want it. Ever looked up what a word from the bible meant in the middle of sunday mass at the local church using a Wap phone over gprs at wml.google.com ? Me neither....
Dont know which cave you live in buddy, but most of the enterprise users dont think about linux as a development platform because apart from QT there really isnt much to migrate the development efforts to.
And everything said and done - there are a lot more developers working on c# at that end of the usage spectrum than anything else out there today.
At the moment, MS is in the top position with the tech and the money and the market share to dictate terms to almost everyout out there in the business community / Enterprise sector.
Mono is a step in the right direction ( various Querries about the legal viability of mono still being an issue ). A good c# platform on Linux will encourage a lot more of the enterprise sector adapters to think about Linux in a positive frame of mind - and might even encourage cross platform development. ( apart from QT there isnt really any alternative at this time ).
However for the Open Source community to really achieve something great and be able to lead 'from the front' - we need to innovate, create better and more adaptable technologies not just play 'follow the leader'. Some people might say that we need to catch up first before we can lead, well - Mono should help in the catchup situation - but then what ?
Are there enough people thinking, developing and colaborating about where to go from there ?
Be interesting to know what kind of a file system they use one something like this, and while they say loads and loads of data was generated - how and in what format was it actually stored.
MySQL is prolly not the best fit in this situation:)
login to the blogger account, and if you are amongst the selected - there will be a message to indicate an 'invite to try gmail' on the right side of the screen.
Not all blogger users have been invited. And people who are joining blogger now after the announcement are not getting accounts.
Apple dosent own the copyright on the songs and the media. They can only defend their part of the issue - the software and technology used behind this media. Not the media itself.
That is why this is a very valid point and can / will be upheld in court
The Forbes article is complete trash.
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A few days back,
I wrote about this same article in the Linux.com Forums. Click here and read that post, it will show you how badly informed and mistaken the Author of the article really is.
Either he is pushing a personal vendetta against Redhat, or he is writing what he is paid to.
well, since all my s/w is already free ( well,GPL anyway ) and once Mr. Gates' phophecy comes true - the h/w is going to be almost free, we can all have free computing. yah! way to go Mr.Gates
All someone needs to work on now is the Network. What can we do to get the Network for free ? Having said that, some cities are already working with Free Wifi access to the net for its residents.
wow! its all a free world.
so, now tell me - who is going to actually support the IT industry ? Since everything is being given away free ( and Advertisign revenue only works in so many cases... not everywhere ) who is going to be paying salaries to the people involved / rent for the landspace etc ?
I dont normally hang around in the coffee shop to listen to enough music that I would want it burnt onto disk for me. There might be an odd occasion when you come across some music playing that you might like, normally asking the guy behind the counter and then getting it where i normally get my music.
I say its a fair bet that this service wont recover the money they need to put into it to start off, not to mention the training cost of training all those 18 year olds who barely know enough to do a decent cup of coffee.
i have clients who were using naming conventions like this in 1995. email add's like name1@london.domain.com and name@sydney.domain.com were being used in those days as well.
I cant imagine how someone can actually enfore a patent of this nature.
Look at most medium to large scale companies that had email working then ( lots did ) and you will find this is quite a popular naming convention. Some even had subdomains on these... eg Firstname.Lastname@prod.london.company.com
This is NOT good news, you need to keep in mind the resources that are going to get wasted in the trial - the public money, time and resources that might be getter used elsewhere.
Just a bunch of wasters trying to make a quick buck if they can, otherwise no harm done.
But one thing i do agree on is that the system needs a bit of a revamp.
There is a similar service called the MPS that you can register with to block third part Postal Mailings.
As with the FPS the MPS is also a Third Party only legal requirement. If you have given your details to someone, they have the right to continue to send you material by Fax and Post, just they cant rent it out to anyone else.
There is a legal requirement for all list owners (! there is such a professional title !) to clean their data against the MPS and FPS. If your name is on the list, and you get something in the post / fax, you can claim compensation!
If you look on the website http://www.dmaconsumers.org/ [ dmsconsumers.org ] - there is an email Pref Service ( E-MPS ) there as well. The last time I went into this issue to any great detail, they were looking to see if they can make it a legal requirement along the lines of the MPS for third party email data rental work.
All this, as Jolyon, has already said - to keep the Direct Marketing Industry in the clear from Govt Action.
you make it sound just like most of Kill Bill or even for that matter Natural Born Killers.
The bottom line here is, as has already been said a few times, not that there is something wrong with the game itself, its just that it looking for a 18+ audience. If the parents have failed to enforce that, its their misgiving, not the guys who created it.
Come to the other end of the spectrum, if you dont like it, dont buy it - and keep your kids away from it as well.
Someone compared this to Drugs, we need to root it out at the creation stage. I dont agree with that at all - this is more of a content thing, like Porn and TopShelf Mag's. All you need is someone to enforce the rules.
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Hey,
Awrite then, let me know when that IA64 machine comes online :D)
and hope coughing isnt too manic.
Here is the actual Release Announcement - Editors on slashdot - please link to the Story itself....
/ 20 05-March/000739.html
http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos-devel
There is a rather simple Anaconda installer - which runs off the CD-Rom/ Dvd-Rom plus a host of other media formats ....
:D
go on try it - you know its good for you
Whitebox linux had nothing to do with CentOS. Ever. You need to get your facts correct dude...
CentOS isnt a one man show - for starters - and the updates and community support actually exist.
Using CentOS or RHEL for that matter with a Fedora repository is one of the only definite ways to smash up your system....
The site is very accesable. its just a takeback on the nostalgia from the days-gone-by. I used to spend long hours each day looking at hex dumps like that ...
Mr Brown, seems to have made loads of statements with no real basis to back him up at all - much unlike his critics who have used real facts and figures to build upon. Where did he come up with statements like 'Linux is a leprosy' - and have nothing at all to say as to why he thinks its like that. He has no answer to his critics, so he will evade the real issues and facts, just try to keep people thinking about different things by such a response.
Okay, so he says that Linux might not be good for the s/w industry ( uneducated and uninformed as he is, he is most likely wrong ) - but is that the only industry there is in this whole world ? dont the other industries ( who have been held to ransom, more or less by organisations like MS and Sage ), also have a right to benefit ? If you look at the reality - the user base is many many times higher than the provider base. So how does the economy suffer ?
All in all, its not even worth commenting on this anymore. Mr. Brown is the hall mark of a paid dog, who is going to make a fwe bucks from his backers who want to see Linux down - cause they are incapable of doing that in real terms, tech terms or in direct compeition - so they must resort to people like Ken Brown to create this fascade and false FUD.
Look around you - does any of this work ?
If Linux wasent as big a threat to MS and such companies, they would leave it alone. But they cant, because Linux IS very much a threat - and its breaking them down.
Sounds pretty good. I think Linux needs a basic system of this sort in place as-soon-as-practical. It will bring together a lot of accountability of / for code in the Kernel itself. Plus, it should counter any issue like the SCO created one, in the future.
Another interesting point here seems to be that with this management overhead and the admin work that issue such as this create, how much of time is Linus actually spending with them ? while he might be working with the technical side of things ?
Inspite of all the noise, there are just a handfull of people contributing major code into the Kernel ( would 300 be a fair guess ? ) How are all these admin overheads going to effect their performance ? Also is anyone / everyone expected to research the piles and piles of patenets / copyrights before they make such a declaration ?
the numbers dont add up, Loads of people have already raised the issue about the fact that 20 servers ( even decently mid spec single CPU machines ) will handle 100k emails an hour ( about 80 emails per min per machine is very achieveable ... ).
But there are some other issues you need to look at, with these emails not being scanned - do you know how much of storage you need to have online to have a mailstore this size and developing by the hour at 100k msgs ? not everyonce will use pop3 to get their emails, and not all the users will check email every day. Were talking about a very very large and very well setup Mail Store for this kind of volume. What about network bandwidth ?
A few basic things can reduce the work of those servers : Duplicacy level across these emails is going to be very high - all 100k emails per hour cannot be unique, there are going to be loads and loads of dupes, that dont even need to be scanned.
Creating a small database in-house with bad MailSender's list ( kind of like an in house RBL ), and flushing that list on an 6 hour interval will slow the inflow as well to quite an extent - in some tests done, i have seen it go down by almost 15 - 18% when there is a heavy load. Since most 'real' mailservers tend to retry, even if a genuine mailserver is blacklisted for 6 hours - it wont make much of a difference, however most 'hijacked PC's sending spam' dont have any retry or resending mechanism - and will just not be able to send into your server.
Another issue that helps stem the tide of bad email is to check for Virus infections before checking for spam. A lot of cases the tides of mail coming in can be virus infections ( which are easier and faster to check against - compared to rules + logic based spam checkers ).
However, all this is said and done without knowing of what system and what kind of a setup they use, there is no way anyone can really know what happened and why.
In the end, classic case for Linux and Unix based technologies to come into the frame I think.
The comparison dosent seem to be so much as google / other means - its more of an Online V/s Offline means to search for specific stuff.
I think its wrong to brand Google as the only means to look for information online.
Secondly, the issues that the reviewer raises are also adhoc - they cant be used to generalise the entire deal / spectrum of infomation that people need / want / desire.
Try looking for a code sample that shows you how the GTK# can be used from Mono to display a Multi level Outline filelist. What are the options that you have for this in the Non - Online world ?
The guy already knew who to ask / who to talk to - what if you dont know that - what then ? how do you go about finding the best non-online resource to speak with / enquire from ? My guess is that you are going to be heading right back online.
What about the fact that the online resources / google are avilable to you when you want it - how you want it and where you want it. Ever looked up what a word from the bible meant in the middle of sunday mass at the local church using a Wap phone over gprs at wml.google.com ? Me neither....
Dont know which cave you live in buddy, but most of the enterprise users dont think about linux as a development platform because apart from QT there really isnt much to migrate the development efforts to.
And everything said and done - there are a lot more developers working on c# at that end of the usage spectrum than anything else out there today.
At the moment, MS is in the top position with the tech and the money and the market share to dictate terms to almost everyout out there in the business community / Enterprise sector.
Mono is a step in the right direction ( various Querries about the legal viability of mono still being an issue ). A good c# platform on Linux will encourage a lot more of the enterprise sector adapters to think about Linux in a positive frame of mind - and might even encourage cross platform development. ( apart from QT there isnt really any alternative at this time ).
However for the Open Source community to really achieve something great and be able to lead 'from the front' - we need to innovate, create better and more adaptable technologies not just play 'follow the leader'. Some people might say that we need to catch up first before we can lead, well - Mono should help in the catchup situation - but then what ?
Are there enough people thinking, developing and colaborating about where to go from there ?
Be interesting to know what kind of a file system they use one something like this, and while they say loads and loads of data was generated - how and in what format was it actually stored.
:)
MySQL is prolly not the best fit in this situation
Why will they need to charge for it ? They have the most effective ( IMHO ) ad system going in with it. cost of storage and network is coming down.
login to the blogger account, and if you are amongst the selected - there will be a message to indicate an 'invite to try gmail' on the right side of the screen.
Not all blogger users have been invited. And people who are joining blogger now after the announcement are not getting accounts.
Apple dosent own the copyright on the songs and the media. They can only defend their part of the issue - the software and technology used behind this media. Not the media itself.
That is why this is a very valid point and can / will be upheld in court
Either he is pushing a personal vendetta against Redhat, or he is writing what he is paid to.
well, since all my s/w is already free ( well,GPL anyway ) and once Mr. Gates' phophecy comes true - the h/w is going to be almost free, we can all have free computing. yah! way to go Mr.Gates
All someone needs to work on now is the Network. What can we do to get the Network for free ? Having said that, some cities are already working with Free Wifi access to the net for its residents.
wow! its all a free world.
so, now tell me - who is going to actually support the IT industry ? Since everything is being given away free ( and Advertisign revenue only works in so many cases... not everywhere ) who is going to be paying salaries to the people involved / rent for the landspace etc ?
I say its a fair bet that this service wont recover the money they need to put into it to start off, not to mention the training cost of training all those 18 year olds who barely know enough to do a decent cup of coffee.
oh man!
Trust me when I say this : I had nothing to do with the docs there, or for that matter, ever had anything to do with Microsoft itself!
And i dont use exchange!
i have clients who were using naming conventions like this in 1995. email add's like name1@london.domain.com and name@sydney.domain.com were being used in those days as well.
I cant imagine how someone can actually enfore a patent of this nature.
Look at most medium to large scale companies that had email working then ( lots did ) and you will find this is quite a popular naming convention. Some even had subdomains on these... eg Firstname.Lastname@prod.london.company.com
This is NOT good news, you need to keep in mind the resources that are going to get wasted in the trial - the public money, time and resources that might be getter used elsewhere.
Just a bunch of wasters trying to make a quick buck if they can, otherwise no harm done.
But one thing i do agree on is that the system needs a bit of a revamp.
Defcon is usually end of summer kinda things... the 2004 Defcon is posted for July 30th - 4th Aug 2004.
./
I remember looking at this story a while back - and the same page was linked. might be worth looking back on
There is a similar service called the MPS that you can register with to block third part Postal Mailings.
As with the FPS the MPS is also a Third Party only legal requirement. If you have given your details to someone, they have the right to continue to send you material by Fax and Post, just they cant rent it out to anyone else.
There is a legal requirement for all list owners (! there is such a professional title !) to clean their data against the MPS and FPS. If your name is on the list, and you get something in the post / fax, you can claim compensation!
If you look on the website http://www.dmaconsumers.org/ [ dmsconsumers.org ] - there is an email Pref Service ( E-MPS ) there as well. The last time I went into this issue to any great detail, they were looking to see if they can make it a legal requirement along the lines of the MPS for third party email data rental work.
All this, as Jolyon, has already said - to keep the Direct Marketing Industry in the clear from Govt Action.
hummm,
you make it sound just like most of Kill Bill or even for that matter Natural Born Killers.
The bottom line here is, as has already been said a few times, not that there is something wrong with the game itself, its just that it looking for a 18+ audience. If the parents have failed to enforce that, its their misgiving, not the guys who created it.
Come to the other end of the spectrum, if you dont like it, dont buy it - and keep your kids away from it as well.
Someone compared this to Drugs, we need to root it out at the creation stage. I dont agree with that at all - this is more of a content thing, like Porn and TopShelf Mag's. All you need is someone to enforce the rules.
Where exactly did you get this figure of 40%?
Correct me if I am wrong, but 40% of all applications on Windows translates to a few hundred thousand apps.