Considering that people sue the cigarette industry for their self-inflicted problems caused by voluntarily smoking, I think it is only a matter of time before we see this BS as well.
That situation is completely different.
In the case of the tabacco industry, most of the lawsuits surround the fact that the industry never *told* anyone that their product was either dangerous to one's health, *nor* addictive. It's somewhat like gun manufacturers going out and telling everyone that guns are perfectly safe, and can't harm you - In the case of smoking, many people (current generation excluded as the information is "common" now) were not aware of the addictiveness or health implications of tobacco smoking when they started, and as a result, hold the company liable (rightly, IMHO) for not telling them otherwise.
"read a recent man page for hdparm and you will see kernel
allows remove/add ide interface. scripts with correct
parameter usage are in contrib directory of hdparm source.
IDE maintainer has code to electrically turn off (tristate)
ide channels on most PC ide chips, but is waiting to
demonstrate at an industry conference before releasing
to public."
-- Jeremy Jackson
Definately have a look at Dotster - Aside from offering great low rates, they also have an incredible web interface, and a ton of add-on features like parking, DNS hosting, and the like. They also allow you to generate reports every way you could imagine, and allow you to make "global" contact changes for all your registered domains.
I've never had a problem with them, or their DNS hosting services (which they do via nameresolve.com). I have no reason whatsoever to look elsewhere.:)
I loved RHN for a long time. It really worked well for us. I, too, marketed Red Hat to the "Powers that Be" by telling them that the Red Hat Network would allow us to upgrade our hundred-odd boxen without even loggin in! Instant win for Redhat and Linux in our organization. Because of this, I expected to see Solaris and *BSD out within the next year...
Then it happened.
While updating the SNMP errata that came out a few weeks back, I noticed it took an inordinate amount of time to actually *do* the update. Curious as to why, I jumped into the box, only to find that my quite, happy litle server had X, Gnome, EsounD, and about 100 other X or GUI-based RPM's installed (our servers run with no X features, including the libs).
The Red Hat network provides *no* logs (that I could find) about what it has done, so it took me some time to figure out *why* the Red Hat network had decided to add 100 additional RPM's to my box. Then it hit me:
- The snmp errata also included ethereal, and ethereal-gnome, both X packages, even though they were *not* installed on the server itself!
Apparently, the rhn had decided to install the dependancies for ethereal (basically, performing an rpm -U instead of an rpm -F). I informed rhn feedback and support of the issue, but never actually heard back from them.
So, unfortunately, I have no choice but to cancel the 100 workgroup licenses we were purchasing. I can't risk this happening to our other servers randomly, especially when RH doesn't even appear to want to correct the issue.
You're confusing the (AA Battery-equipped) 950 with the Internal battery of the 957. I can't believe how long that things lasts - always on, works for *weeks*.
You figure that my linux firewall is leaving the MAC address of our 500 hosts in the packets, and looking to the router that our external IP has 500 MAC addresses associated with it?
The firewall determines return traffic by re-assigning new ports to the connection - return traffic from the contacted host that hits that port is assumed to be for the translated internal box.
There's a building in Toronto (151 Front Street West) that's known as a "Telco hotel", in that it contains most of the switching equipment for most of southern Ontario.
What's interesting however is that the ISP's of the area have also moved into this building, due to it's prime location downtown and the proximity to Telco facilities.
If someone were to drop a bomb on this building, phone service for half the province and Internet connectivity for a huge part of the Greater Toronto Area would be toast.
It's one of those things that's oft-discussed as you take the elevator up into the building. Our only hope is to remain "under the radar" of Terrorists.:)
We purchased a half-terabyte IDE RAID system utilizing 8 75GXP Drives. 5 of the 8 drives failed in less than a month. In fact, the drives prompted our RAID vendor to remove them and replace them with Maxtor diamondMAX drives, which have operated flawlessly.
If you have a look at storagereview.com, you'll notice that the current king of IDE drives are the western digital "BB" Series drives.
I'd stay FAR away from the DeskStar's.
Re:DDE? That's dead for ages on win32.
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Not quite.
The problem wasn't that Moz was trying to implement DDE, its that many apps (ICQ, and a few others I fail to remember offhand) were using DDE, and that it was blocking the launch of Moz.
The visionary part wasn't the inclusion of DDE, it was the workaround of fixing the DDE blocking *issue*.
Whether you consider the comment out-of context or not, even in the larger context you'll find that the original poster is right here. The reveiwer fails to notice that these apps *are* available under Win2k. The fact that he bundled this comment in with a comment about usability doesn't make his assertions any more valid.
And as for the Apache issue, I think the point the poster was trying to make is that an average user can enable IIS and has a *GUI* to configure it. The same is true of ftpd (which I'm sure is why it was added). It would be a hell of a lot easier explaining how to start the webserver to a "newbie" with a GUI as opposed to having to manually configure the daemons in a non-GUI way.
Even Red-hat includes GUI configurations for apache (Linuxconf, apacheconf).
IMHO, you're ignoring some valid points about both factual inaccuracies in the article as well as valid supplementary points made by the poster. I believe that is far more commonly known as a Zealot than the original poster's comments.
1> Are you implying that God is somehow flawed by leaving the means to tamper with his decision to prohibit immortality accessible to Humankind?
2> Is there not at least some argument that these rings could be the steps towards producing "Heaven on Earth"?
3> I'd have to say there's about as much factual evidence as to the validity of these rings as there is factual evidence that God exists. Obviously it is an issue of faith. Is your faith somehow more relavent than the interviewee?
RMS wants you to use the GPL for your libraries, not the LGPL, for this very reason. If you GPL your libraries, then it means no proprietary software can use your library, period. That's exactly what his point was.:)
See his comments
here.
I work for a major corporation. I can get corporate Support for Linux. All our major vendors natively support linux (Compaq, HP, Citrix, bCandid, Oracle, others). I can go out and buy HORDES of books on Linux. I can call RedHat for Priority support. I can call bCandid and they have Linux developers on staff.
HP is migrating to support Linux over HP/UX. Compaq is now selling Linux clusters. IBM has Linux on their s/390's.
Fine, you say you could care less about the server environment? I can (and have) bought Heroes III and Quake III for linux. I can install Ximian Gnome seamlessly and have an incredible desktop.
What's coming? xfs from SGI, IBM's Billion dollars of development. I can go grab a nightly build of mozilla precompiled (yes, there are milestones for FreeBSD, but I have to compile from source if I want the fix to the bug fixed yesterday, as opposed to a simple download and install for Linux.)
As for FreeBSD being faster, heh. I work at an ISP. We have 200,000 customers. We watched our FreeBSD boxes die one by one at 100,000. We're running Linux (and HP/UX) smoothly now, without issue.
And lastly, I don't like having to compile the entire planet every time I upgrade. Long past is the time when watching a make run is the way I want to spend my time. Give me a binary RPM to install. If I *want* to compile from source for some reason, I have the choice. not the other way around.
The UN Has voted Canada #1 7 years running. Time magazine voted Toronto Canada the best place to "Live and raise a family". Here, health care is free, speech is protected, and we are respected as one of the best peacekeeping nations in the world.
Our legal system is not the shambles that to OJ Trial showed the US one to be. Our governments actually DO make a difference and attempt to keep corporations from growing to enormous and overpowering proportions.
the cultural age gap is closing fast in north america. 20 somethings are acting like teenagers and teenagers are acting like adults. teenagers are growing up fast and then don't ever want to fully grow up.
That's what Jon said in his first article, more-or-less. The implication of his statements regarding Teenagers needing the wisdom of their elders less, and finding online has, indeed, caused them to "morally age" much faster than they otherwise would.
Only being a quarter-century old myself, I can't recollect many teachings from my "elders" That even applied to my lifestyle - then or now.
I don't think he's wrong, just that he left this important fact out. Yes, the gap between the "older" generation and ourselves is widening. But at the same time, the next generation is definately closing in as well.
Have you seen what happens to the linux kernel above four
processors? Nothing it flat lines, no improvement.
I'm afraid your information is out of date. A cursory glance at Kernel Traffic indicates that Linux's "scalability of the most common workloads is limited by hardware (ie. the
kernel lets those workloads scale 'down to the metal')."
In said same conversation, they mention that "I would be surprised if we had any serious problem
at 32 or 64 CPUs."
This issue of scalability of Linux has been put to rest, IMHO.
If you've followed the SGI/Linux debate on K-T, it's obvious that they indend to incorporate the option to enable BigIron features in the future, just not for 2.4 - as has been traditional with Linux.
Even in the cases where Linus has outright rejected BigIron patches, nothing stops a hardware vendor from patching the source after the fact - almost every major Linux distribution does this now for x86/ppc/sparc etc. (NFSv3 is a great example)
"the 2.4 kernel's scalability of the most common workloads is limited by hardware (ie. the
kernel lets those workloads scale 'down to the metal'). The 2.4 kernel scales quite decently on 8 CPUs. I would be surprised if we had any serious problem
at 32 or 64 CPUs. (Linux right now is architecturally limited to 32 CPUs on 32-bit systems and 64 CPUs on 64-bit systems - because we have some
per-CPU data structures put into word-size bitfields.)"
People are going to point out that the title is written by the submitter, not the editor.
Untrue. This was not the article title as I submitted it. it was submitted as:
'Microsoft threatenes litigation over NTFS in Linux' ..which was the title in the kt post. I didn't even include the word 'kernel', and made the distinction in my submission that it was the *developers* being sued. In this case, it is the editors fault.:)
In an interactive world populated by a cast of thousands, who knows what interactions will occur? It'll be like watching a miniture version of this world, but one that can experiment
with different scenarios.
As one of many (many!) who got nabbed with EverQuest addiction, I can honestly say that MMORPG's have a huge effect on human interaction. Moreso than PNP RPG's ever did. My world changed overnight, and remained that way for many months, as my interest level in my 'virtual' self grew stronger.
I consider myself to be a 'seasoned' RPGer, and I know how to segment my RL responsibilities from my 'virtual' ones. Many children, however, do not - and I see this movement to consoles as a replacement for television for those who engage in it, insofar as it will eat up all free (and not-so-free) time they have.
Don't get me wrong, I had some wonderful experiences in EverQuest. I made many friends, and enjoyed an enlightening view into the interactions of netizens in a virtual landscape. But for those of high-school age and younger, this will make an addictive passtime even more accessible. Parental control will me a must here.
Jeff Merkey is the head of a for-profit company, Timpaganos (or some such thing). There was some agreement between his company and M$, the exact nature of which I don't
know.
The par that bothers me the most, I think, is why They decided to complain. If Mr. Merkey is to be believed, they took this course of action, in part, because they realized exactly what was being done. Regardless of the reasons M$ Gives in this case, the fact of the matter is that they caused a fuss simply because they realized that Linux might actually get working NTFS Support. The fact that they had a way to bully Mr. Merkey is secondary.:)
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In the case of the tabacco industry, most of the lawsuits surround the fact that the industry never *told* anyone that their product was either dangerous to one's health, *nor* addictive. It's somewhat like gun manufacturers going out and telling everyone that guns are perfectly safe, and can't harm you - In the case of smoking, many people (current generation excluded as the information is "common" now) were not aware of the addictiveness or health implications of tobacco smoking when they started, and as a result, hold the company liable (rightly, IMHO) for not telling them otherwise.
They have also set a lower limit on the ice thickness, giving scientists an idea of the minimum depth such robots would have to dig.
"read a recent man page for hdparm and you will see kernel allows remove/add ide interface. scripts with correct parameter usage are in contrib directory of hdparm source. IDE maintainer has code to electrically turn off (tristate) ide channels on most PC ide chips, but is waiting to demonstrate at an industry conference before releasing to public." -- Jeremy Jackson
Definately have a look at Dotster - Aside from offering great low rates, they also have an incredible web interface, and a ton of add-on features like parking, DNS hosting, and the like. They also allow you to generate reports every way you could imagine, and allow you to make "global" contact changes for all your registered domains. I've never had a problem with them, or their DNS hosting services (which they do via nameresolve.com). I have no reason whatsoever to look elsewhere. :)
I loved RHN for a long time. It really worked well for us. I, too, marketed Red Hat to the "Powers that Be" by telling them that the Red Hat Network would allow us to upgrade our hundred-odd boxen without even loggin in! Instant win for Redhat and Linux in our organization. Because of this, I expected to see Solaris and *BSD out within the next year...
Then it happened.
While updating the SNMP errata that came out a few weeks back, I noticed it took an inordinate amount of time to actually *do* the update. Curious as to why, I jumped into the box, only to find that my quite, happy litle server had X, Gnome, EsounD, and about 100 other X or GUI-based RPM's installed (our servers run with no X features, including the libs).
The Red Hat network provides *no* logs (that I could find) about what it has done, so it took me some time to figure out *why* the Red Hat network had decided to add 100 additional RPM's to my box. Then it hit me:
- The snmp errata also included ethereal, and ethereal-gnome, both X packages, even though they were *not* installed on the server itself!
Apparently, the rhn had decided to install the dependancies for ethereal (basically, performing an rpm -U instead of an rpm -F). I informed rhn feedback and support of the issue, but never actually heard back from them.
So, unfortunately, I have no choice but to cancel the 100 workgroup licenses we were purchasing. I can't risk this happening to our other servers randomly, especially when RH doesn't even appear to want to correct the issue.
*sigh*
You're confusing the (AA Battery-equipped) 950 with the Internal battery of the 957. I can't believe how long that things lasts - always on, works for *weeks*.
How is that possible?
You figure that my linux firewall is leaving the MAC address of our 500 hosts in the packets, and looking to the router that our external IP has 500 MAC addresses associated with it?
The firewall determines return traffic by re-assigning new ports to the connection - return traffic from the contacted host that hits that port is assumed to be for the translated internal box.
There's no MAC voodoo involved.
There's a building in Toronto (151 Front Street West) that's known as a "Telco hotel", in that it contains most of the switching equipment for most of southern Ontario.
:)
What's interesting however is that the ISP's of the area have also moved into this building, due to it's prime location downtown and the proximity to Telco facilities.
If someone were to drop a bomb on this building, phone service for half the province and Internet connectivity for a huge part of the Greater Toronto Area would be toast.
It's one of those things that's oft-discussed as you take the elevator up into the building. Our only hope is to remain "under the radar" of Terrorists.
We purchased a half-terabyte IDE RAID system utilizing 8 75GXP Drives. 5 of the 8 drives failed in less than a month. In fact, the drives prompted our RAID vendor to remove them and replace them with Maxtor diamondMAX drives, which have operated flawlessly. If you have a look at storagereview.com, you'll notice that the current king of IDE drives are the western digital "BB" Series drives. I'd stay FAR away from the DeskStar's.
Not quite.
The problem wasn't that Moz was trying to implement DDE, its that many apps (ICQ, and a few others I fail to remember offhand) were using DDE, and that it was blocking the launch of Moz.
The visionary part wasn't the inclusion of DDE, it was the workaround of fixing the DDE blocking *issue*.
But his *comments* were quite valid.
Whether you consider the comment out-of context or not, even in the larger context you'll find that the original poster is right here. The reveiwer fails to notice that these apps *are* available under Win2k. The fact that he bundled this comment in with a comment about usability doesn't make his assertions any more valid.
And as for the Apache issue, I think the point the poster was trying to make is that an average user can enable IIS and has a *GUI* to configure it. The same is true of ftpd (which I'm sure is why it was added). It would be a hell of a lot easier explaining how to start the webserver to a "newbie" with a GUI as opposed to having to manually configure the daemons in a non-GUI way.
Even Red-hat includes GUI configurations for apache (Linuxconf, apacheconf).
IMHO, you're ignoring some valid points about both factual inaccuracies in the article as well as valid supplementary points made by the poster. I believe that is far more commonly known as a Zealot than the original poster's comments.
A few interesting points to consider:
1> Are you implying that God is somehow flawed by leaving the means to tamper with his decision to prohibit immortality accessible to Humankind?
2> Is there not at least some argument that these rings could be the steps towards producing "Heaven on Earth"?
3> I'd have to say there's about as much factual evidence as to the validity of these rings as there is factual evidence that God exists. Obviously it is an issue of faith. Is your faith somehow more relavent than the interviewee?
RMS wants you to use the GPL for your libraries, not the LGPL, for this very reason. If you GPL your libraries, then it means no proprietary software can use your library, period. That's exactly what his point was. :)
See his comments
here.
I work for a major corporation. I can get corporate Support for Linux. All our major vendors natively support linux (Compaq, HP, Citrix, bCandid, Oracle, others). I can go out and buy HORDES of books on Linux. I can call RedHat for Priority support. I can call bCandid and they have Linux developers on staff.
HP is migrating to support Linux over HP/UX. Compaq is now selling Linux clusters. IBM has Linux on their s/390's.
Fine, you say you could care less about the server environment? I can (and have) bought Heroes III and Quake III for linux. I can install Ximian Gnome seamlessly and have an incredible desktop.
What's coming? xfs from SGI, IBM's Billion dollars of development. I can go grab a nightly build of mozilla precompiled (yes, there are milestones for FreeBSD, but I have to compile from source if I want the fix to the bug fixed yesterday, as opposed to a simple download and install for Linux.)
As for FreeBSD being faster, heh. I work at an ISP. We have 200,000 customers. We watched our FreeBSD boxes die one by one at 100,000. We're running Linux (and HP/UX) smoothly now, without issue.
And lastly, I don't like having to compile the entire planet every time I upgrade. Long past is the time when watching a make run is the way I want to spend my time. Give me a binary RPM to install. If I *want* to compile from source for some reason, I have the choice. not the other way around.
Our legal system is not the shambles that to OJ Trial showed the US one to be. Our governments actually DO make a difference and attempt to keep corporations from growing to enormous and overpowering proportions.
*shrug* - I wouldn't live anywhere else. :)
That's what Jon said in his first article, more-or-less. The implication of his statements regarding Teenagers needing the wisdom of their elders less, and finding online has, indeed, caused them to "morally age" much faster than they otherwise would.
Only being a quarter-century old myself, I can't recollect many teachings from my "elders" That even applied to my lifestyle - then or now. I don't think he's wrong, just that he left this important fact out. Yes, the gap between the "older" generation and ourselves is widening. But at the same time, the next generation is definately closing in as well.
I'm afraid your information is out of date. A cursory glance at Kernel Traffic indicates that Linux's "scalability of the most common workloads is limited by hardware (ie. the kernel lets those workloads scale 'down to the metal')."
In said same conversation, they mention that "I would be surprised if we had any serious problem at 32 or 64 CPUs."
This issue of scalability of Linux has been put to rest, IMHO.
Even in the cases where Linus has outright rejected BigIron patches, nothing stops a hardware vendor from patching the source after the fact - almost every major Linux distribution does this now for x86/ppc/sparc etc. (NFSv3 is a great example)
As taken from yet another Kernel Traffic Post:
Untrue. This was not the article title as I submitted it. it was submitted as: :)
'Microsoft threatenes litigation over NTFS in Linux'
..which was the title in the kt post. I didn't even include the word 'kernel', and made the distinction in my submission that it was the *developers* being sued. In this case, it is the editors fault.
As one of many (many!) who got nabbed with EverQuest addiction, I can honestly say that MMORPG's have a huge effect on human interaction. Moreso than PNP RPG's ever did. My world changed overnight, and remained that way for many months, as my interest level in my 'virtual' self grew stronger.
I consider myself to be a 'seasoned' RPGer, and I know how to segment my RL responsibilities from my 'virtual' ones. Many children, however, do not - and I see this movement to consoles as a replacement for television for those who engage in it, insofar as it will eat up all free (and not-so-free) time they have.
Don't get me wrong, I had some wonderful experiences in EverQuest. I made many friends, and enjoyed an enlightening view into the interactions of netizens in a virtual landscape. But for those of high-school age and younger, this will make an addictive passtime even more accessible. Parental control will me a must here.
The par that bothers me the most, I think, is why They decided to complain. If Mr. Merkey is to be believed, they took this course of action, in part, because they realized exactly what was being done. Regardless of the reasons M$ Gives in this case, the fact of the matter is that they caused a fuss simply because they realized that Linux might actually get working NTFS Support. The fact that they had a way to bully Mr. Merkey is secondary. :)