Then that would say something. Its not like UnixWare or OpenServer is really part of SCO's buisness plan for the future, but still, loosing support from the apache group would make it harder for them to pretend to care about their products.
As someone else has already pointed out there are 3,332,935 lines of code in the linux kernel. So I can guess that you are talking about a crater on the nano scale.
Who knew that it only takes 80 lines of code to draw a smoking gun?
This is why I think that if it where possible for people running cvs servers or where ever the central resources for historical code archives are kept should keep an eye out for connections coming from certain analysts companies and see what they appear to be most interested in.
If this where possible, or reasonable, it could prove telling. I know that if I had signed the NDA and looked at 80 lines of smoking code I would be looking code its source.
But the contention is now who owns the Unix copyrights. Its still in Novells name, and SC0 has been asking for it and claims that it should have been transfered to them when the contact between SC0 and Novell was made. Novell says no way. I think SC0 wants to appear to be coming from a stronger position and is going to have to sue Novell in an attempt to get the copyright. If they do that they will weaken their own position in the eyes of public opinion.
Anyone have a referance where Slashdot claimed to be fair, balenced and unbiased?
Most nerds I know don't like microsoft. Many of them hate, hate, hate them. Lots of nerds love to flame the hell out of microsoft. Many nerds enjoy this flaming. Its like a social weenie roast. Since slashdot is dominated by nerds I wouldn't be surprised if slashdot is biased towards flaming microsoft.
I personally don't mind. I don't think I would hang out at slashdot as often if there was some artificial toning down of microsoft bashing. That's the point, you can comment the way you want and you can read at -1 if you want.
I often kick or slam my computer case when I get angry. These "human" cases would definately make this more fun. Now I need one that looks like Bill Gates to run windows...
The green one reminds me of somthing from the algea invested pool in the back yard when I was a kid. Sort of bloated and sagging, green with darker things inside, like a bag of frog eggs about to be burp out a bunch of tad poles.
Doesn't France have some really low limit on encryption? Like 48bit encryption?
Does that apply to wireless as well?
Anyone have more on this?
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A DDoS attack is hitting below the belt, though, Stowell said. "It's one thing to have a complaint with SCO's lawsuit or with our position in terms of code being found in Linux. It's another thing to deal with that in an unprofessional way," he said.
Anyone here feel sorry they where treated unprofessionally? I don't know, I learned as a child to do unto others as I would like others to do unto me.
While performing illegal acts on the net threaten's the freedom's we currently enjoy, I don't particularly care in this case.
Oh, and uh, it wasn't me. OK? Hear that Big Bother? Not me. I didn't do it. I was downloading porn when it happened. Check your logs, you'll see.
I don't know if I would call it something one needs to "fight" but you can make yourself heard. Every time I get follow-up call asking if I was satisfied with my support experiance I say how satisfied I was.
If I couldn't understand the person on the other end I'm not satisfied and "No Mr. Faceless Survey Questionare Person, I would not recommend sun support based on my experiance with support". Enough people say so and someone is going to make the right decision as to what they need to do to keep their customers, and if they don't then customers will go somewhere else. That includes me.
Accents are one thing, not being able to communicate is another. Especially when I punch in the buttons on my phone that indicate "Critical; System Down or Unusable"
When I call sun for support over the last few years, it seems that they are more often indian and difficult to understand. I really can't stand having to ask for the same instruction 5 times to be able to understand what they are telling me. I think perhaps this is why an indian speaking support engineer is 75% more likely to email me the procedures they are asking me to perform.
I would hang up and try to get someone who speaks english more clearly if I had the time to do so when the raid array on the oracle server is acting up and I have lots of people pissed off.
My opinion of the (very expensive) support sun offers has taken a turn for the worse because of this. I don't mind speaking to an indian or any other person as long as they speak english clearly when I call the english support line.
Its available at safari.oreilly.com
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I had a few extra book places so I checked this book out last week. I was suprised how useful much of it was. I have been working with linux for years and there where plenty of things I had never done before, but would have had I known of them before. I may even get a copy for everyone at the office.
I work at a Java shop. At a government agency actually. There are a few people to whom anything that looks like C++ is too difficult for them. There are many developers who like java but there are those who would prefer something like VB.
Those developers who are proficient with java could make the objects that those that aren't as proficient could use to piece together for their customers in semi-programmer business-analyst fashion.
The business-analysts could stop writing crummy procedural based java code and use the simplified objects that other programmers make for them.
This is already possible to some extent with java as it is, but for some people that we have here (who should perhaps be let go of, but I'm not in charge) they find java to be too complicated. Anything to make it easier for these people will make java programming more accessible to people with less programming skills which could be better for everybody.
Except that when you are a small company using software that you have paid for that happens to also use flexlm for license management it can be a major pain in the administrators butt.
We have two such products that both need to run on the same server. Both products in their start up and install scripts start-up flexlm, on the same port. Every time I do a patch/upgrade/reinstall I have to force feed the programs to listen to differant ports, which is sort of like bending over backwards in the case of these particular programs.
Now mind you, both these programs that use flexlm came from another software company than macrovision, but god damn, its annoying as hell! Plus the time I spend on other systems filling out forms and faxing it into the company to be gracious enough to get back to me within 24 hours with the license key for the privliage of using the crappy software that we licensed from them for 30 grand.
I think Executive Software is still doing quite well. They had their NTFS disk defragmenter software bundled with windows 2000. I'm not sure if windows XP uses it. But the company still looks like its doing well and I havn't heard any complaints from them, although I havn't used it since I bought a mac.:)
You can't explain to me how 6 hours every 3 months works on systems that need to stay secure when a security patch is realesed once a month, unless every system is clusered.
I have unix boxes that have been up for 450 days. Many more have been up for 300 days. They are all up to date on their security patches and are working well. We have about 26 unix/linux boxes in operation.
We are a 24hour/7day shop.
We have 50 windows boxes with security patches that need to be installed once every month. These windows servers require about 4 times as much administration as the unix servers while they perform about the same amount of services for our customers as the 26 unix/linux boxes.
Can you explain to me how you keep your windows servers up as long as unix servers?
What I can't understand is when windows server security patch comes out and requires you to REBOOT your server how do you keep it up?
And after you install several "hot fixes" and "roll up patches" how do you keep the windows server stable? How do you experiance strange errors that require some more installation of "hot fixes" and reboots which generally follow the installation of said "hot fixes" and "roll up patches".
You do patch you windows servers and keep them secure don't you?
See we have this problem where I work. Our windows admins are pretty good but they are constantly playing wack a mole with the windows servers keeping them patched and secure.
The unix/linux servers however don't need a reboot unless the kernel needs to be patched.
We have 1327385 work units completed and are in 22nd place.
So if everybody on Team Slashdot would join Team Linux then we could almost compete with "The Knights who say Ni!" who are in 11th place. I suspect they are in 11th place because they have a cool name and I almost want to join them myself.
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Another option for you may be to subscribe to a service like Safari from oreilly. I subscribed and use it daily. Basicly you can check out books from oreilley and several other publisher for 45 days at a time (when you can then check them back in if you want another book).
Its not too expensive compared to how much technical books cost in some countries outside the US I have visited. The Safari service is about 10 dollars a month (US) for 5 books and 15 dollars for 10, and so on.
Slashdot Mirror
I couln't find a date on that page however.
Then that would say something. Its not like UnixWare or OpenServer is really part of SCO's buisness plan for the future, but still, loosing support from the apache group would make it harder for them to pretend to care about their products.
I read that three times before I realized I was reading it wrong. I thought it said
Ideas for High School Computer Cult Activities?
As someone else has already pointed out there are 3,332,935 lines of code in the linux kernel. So I can guess that you are talking about a crater on the nano scale.
Who knew that it only takes 80 lines of code to draw a smoking gun?
This is why I think that if it where possible for people running cvs servers or where ever the central resources for historical code archives are kept should keep an eye out for connections coming from certain analysts companies and see what they appear to be most interested in.
If this where possible, or reasonable, it could prove telling. I know that if I had signed the NDA and looked at 80 lines of smoking code I would be looking code its source.
Actually, according to netcraft, its running linux. Perhaps they have been DOSed again.
But the contention is now who owns the Unix copyrights. Its still in Novells name, and SC0 has been asking for it and claims that it should have been transfered to them when the contact between SC0 and Novell was made. Novell says no way.
I think SC0 wants to appear to be coming from a stronger position and is going to have to sue Novell in an attempt to get the copyright.
If they do that they will weaken their own position in the eyes of public opinion.
Anyone have a referance where Slashdot claimed to be fair, balenced and unbiased?
Most nerds I know don't like microsoft. Many of them hate, hate, hate them. Lots of nerds love to flame the hell out of microsoft. Many nerds enjoy this flaming. Its like a social weenie roast. Since slashdot is dominated by nerds I wouldn't be surprised if slashdot is biased towards flaming microsoft.
I personally don't mind. I don't think I would hang out at slashdot as often if there was some artificial toning down of microsoft bashing. That's the point, you can comment the way you want and you can read at -1 if you want.
You could do worse for program errors how about something like this?
NOT WORK SAFE! if you are grossed out easily then don't look at this. You have been warned!
http://gold-exp.hp.infoseek.co.jp/collecti.htm
I don't know why they did this or who buys these things, but just that someone did is really stange.
I often kick or slam my computer case when I get angry. These "human" cases would definately make this more fun. Now I need one that looks like Bill Gates to run windows...
The green one reminds me of somthing from the algea invested pool in the back yard when I was a kid. Sort of bloated and sagging, green with darker things inside, like a bag of frog eggs about to be burp out a bunch of tad poles.
Doesn't France have some really low limit on encryption? Like 48bit encryption?
Does that apply to wireless as well?
Anyone have more on this?
A DDoS attack is hitting below the belt, though, Stowell said. "It's one thing to have a complaint with SCO's lawsuit or with our position in terms of code being found in Linux. It's another thing to deal with that in an unprofessional way," he said.
Anyone here feel sorry they where treated unprofessionally? I don't know, I learned as a child to do unto others as I would like others to do unto me.
While performing illegal acts on the net threaten's the freedom's we currently enjoy, I don't particularly care in this case.
Oh, and uh, it wasn't me. OK? Hear that Big Bother? Not me. I didn't do it. I was downloading porn when it happened. Check your logs, you'll see.
I don't know if I would call it something one needs to "fight" but you can make yourself heard. Every time I get follow-up call asking if I was satisfied with my support experiance I say how satisfied I was.
If I couldn't understand the person on the other end I'm not satisfied and "No Mr. Faceless Survey Questionare Person, I would not recommend sun support based on my experiance with support". Enough people say so and someone is going to make the right decision as to what they need to do to keep their customers, and if they don't then customers will go somewhere else. That includes me.
Accents are one thing, not being able to communicate is another. Especially when I punch in the buttons on my phone that indicate "Critical; System Down or Unusable"
When I call sun for support over the last few years, it seems that they are more often indian and difficult to understand. I really can't stand having to ask for the same instruction 5 times to be able to understand what they are telling me. I think perhaps this is why an indian speaking support engineer is 75% more likely to email me the procedures they are asking me to perform.
I would hang up and try to get someone who speaks english more clearly if I had the time to do so when the raid array on the oracle server is acting up and I have lots of people pissed off.
My opinion of the (very expensive) support sun offers has taken a turn for the worse because of this. I don't mind speaking to an indian or any other person as long as they speak english clearly when I call the english support line.
I had a few extra book places so I checked this book out last week. I was suprised how useful much of it was. I have been working with linux for years and there where plenty of things I had never done before, but would have had I known of them before. I may even get a copy for everyone at the office.
I work at a Java shop. At a government agency actually. There are a few people to whom anything that looks like C++ is too difficult for them. There are many developers who like java but there are those who would prefer something like VB.
Those developers who are proficient with java could make the objects that those that aren't as proficient could use to piece together for their customers in semi-programmer business-analyst fashion.
The business-analysts could stop writing crummy procedural based java code and use the simplified objects that other programmers make for them.
This is already possible to some extent with java as it is, but for some people that we have here (who should perhaps be let go of, but I'm not in charge) they find java to be too complicated. Anything to make it easier for these people will make java programming more accessible to people with less programming skills which could be better for everybody.
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Except that when you are a small company using software that you have paid for that happens to also use flexlm for license management it can be a major pain in the administrators butt.
We have two such products that both need to run on the same server. Both products in their start up and install scripts start-up flexlm, on the same port. Every time I do a patch/upgrade/reinstall I have to force feed the programs to listen to differant ports, which is sort of like bending over backwards in the case of these particular programs.
Now mind you, both these programs that use flexlm came from another software company than macrovision, but god damn, its annoying as hell! Plus the time I spend on other systems filling out forms and faxing it into the company to be gracious enough to get back to me within 24 hours with the license key for the privliage of using the crappy software that we licensed from them for 30 grand.
I think Executive Software is still doing quite well. They had their NTFS disk defragmenter software bundled with windows 2000. I'm not sure if windows XP uses it. But the company still looks like its doing well and I havn't heard any complaints from them, although I havn't used it since I bought a mac. :)
Anyone know how OSX handles "root" access separately from other users? I'm just curious.
You can't explain to me how 6 hours every 3 months works on systems that need to stay secure when a security patch is realesed once a month, unless every system is clusered.
I have unix boxes that have been up for 450 days. Many more have been up for 300 days. They are all up to date on their security patches and are working well. We have about 26 unix/linux boxes in operation.
We are a 24hour/7day shop.
We have 50 windows boxes with security patches that need to be installed once every month. These windows servers require about 4 times as much administration as the unix servers while they perform about the same amount of services for our customers as the 26 unix/linux boxes.
Can you explain to me how you keep your windows servers up as long as unix servers?
What I can't understand is when windows server security patch comes out and requires you to REBOOT your server how do you keep it up?
And after you install several "hot fixes" and "roll up patches" how do you keep the windows server stable? How do you experiance strange errors that require some more installation of "hot fixes" and reboots which generally follow the installation of said "hot fixes" and "roll up patches".
You do patch you windows servers and keep them secure don't you?
See we have this problem where I work. Our windows admins are pretty good but they are constantly playing wack a mole with the windows servers keeping them patched and secure.
The unix/linux servers however don't need a reboot unless the kernel needs to be patched.
We have 1327385 work units completed and are in 22nd place.
So if everybody on Team Slashdot would join Team Linux then we could almost compete with "The Knights who say Ni!" who are in 11th place. I suspect they are in 11th place because they have a cool name and I almost want to join them myself.
Its not too expensive compared to how much technical books cost in some countries outside the US I have visited. The Safari service is about 10 dollars a month (US) for 5 books and 15 dollars for 10, and so on.
Its news for Nerds man! Stuff that matters!
To me this matters. I have wanted one of these for a long time. This is the most important post to me all day.
Where else am I going to hear about this? Right here. That's where.I'm a pathetic Nerd and I want my stapler.
And since links are being slashdoted right now I suspect it matters to other people too. And since you bothered to post, I bet it matters to you.