Given the recent headlines involving cloning how about Frank Herbert? We have the Bene Tleilaxu and their axolotl tanks. We have the tech guys from IX. Mentats anyone?
Okay where are the references to now? Well IX is a good place to start, if you're not from IX every thing is Black box technology. Aside from the readers here who really understand what's going on in the box on your desk?
Then we have the Orange Catholic Bible and the backlash against technology and "thinking machines"
Throw in a little slavery and oppression, some economically motiviated warfare and you're almost there.
If you expand on that, giving other people power, is not necesarily a good idea. I personally know several people that I would not want to give more power to.
Having said that, this does not detract from the message. In fact I rather enjoy these ongoing discussions of what freedom actually means. Everyone has their own interpretation of this, and well they should. If you can get by the flames and the trolls (please adjust your thresholds accordingly) there are a lot of good ideas to be had, here and elsewhere.
With a little luck you will find other people who's idea of freedom is close to your own. I really believe that this is the best that we're going to get. That however doesn't mean that we should stand still. People write software mainly 'cause it's a cool way to kill time, or pay rent and buy cool things like DVD's and Spawn action figures.
The license that they are going to release the software under has to do with where their personal understanding of freedom lies.
Can you really tell someone that their own understanding of freedom is wrong. I could not, but I might be interested in speaking (typing) with them to try and glean some understanding of their position. Later I would relate my position if they were interested in hearing it.
This latest piece on the nature of power raises some interesting questions. As one who writes code your work preceeds you, and may or may not impinge on the freedoms of those who would use it.
Anyhoo, it's interesting to read, in the meantime I'm gonna break out another six pack and watch the LOTR trailer again.
The Canadian Initiative is called GOL (Govenment Online). All federal departments have to have thier services available online by 2004. the man site is here and the GOL info is here .
It's a ptetty big initiative, but they are making a lot of progress. It's looking like every taxpayer is going to have a government issue PKI key.
While I was in high school I was in the reserves, (Canadian). While most of the rest of my class was flipping burgers or selling Nike's at the mall, myself and couple other classmates spent weekends working for the Queen, learning how to kill people.
Just what is it that you thing the military does?
If large corporations are allowed to sponsor all kinds of events (sporting or or other types of entertainment) in order to attract workers, why can't the military use video games (popular for of entertainment) to recruit?
hey,
Actually Active Directory if implemented properly will do almost all of the things you're talking about. Unattended installs, license monitoring, install on demand for applications, and with a little cleverness in the login scripts, hotfixes and patches.
However I have yet to see a perfectly optimized Active Directory Network set up like this.
And I've been looking for one. Most people have half-assed Win2K / NT4 / Novell / Sun / Linux setups. I exagerate a bit (okay a lot), but the point it that inorder to get all of that wonderfull functionality that Win2k and AD can provide, it's an all or nothing type of commitment.
I don't know anyone that want's to put all thier eggs one basket, especially if it's Microsoft's basket.
Then of course it the new Pay More Now or Pay More Later licensing swindle. For months I have been trying to get some of our customers to pay attention to this, and only recently they've begun to realize that, if you are not up to date now, there is no upgrade. You have to buy everything all over again.
I'm starting to not make sense, so I'll summarize.
Active Directory and Windows 2000 can do all those cool things you're talking about, but you have to have an all Microsoft network. And you've got to cough up the coin. So really it's not a vialble option for most people, and that's assuming you can find people who can understand the damn stuff.
While it's not an exact copy, for most purposes I think it would suffice. I wonder if this would be considered a violation of the DMCA, since I suppose you are technically cirumventing copy protection schemes.
Probably not, I'd guess that'd be akin to copying a DVD to VHS which last time I checked was discouraged, but not illegal.
I'd say the odds are better that 50/50.
I used to work for a site, and one of the things I was occasionally pressured to do wha get us on slashdot, so we'd be legit.
I did not by the way comply (although some one else did).
Technically he's way off too.
First the car thing. Ever check out the aftermarket of Japanese cars. Hopped up civics with USB ports on the console so you can tune the gear ratios according to ambient temperatures.
Admittedly more difficult that a 15 year old with a couple of magazines and a socket set but....
and on the non-automotive end the machine he's talking about is a Mac and people have been hacking them for years.
Why? Well lets follow the money. Large corperations are in buisness to make money. That's a given. These buisness's have investors,individual stock holders and big corperate investors like mutual funds.
We all want to retire and buy a cabin and spend the rest of our day making finshing fly, writing novels, debugging print drivers or what ever.. But we need money to do that. So we invest in mutual fund, we have RRSP's or 401k's or what ever.
The problem with big profit driven corporations doesn't lie with the corporations it lies with us. We reward this behavior every time we deduct 10% of our pay cheque to put in out pension plan.
We're the real problem here and nobody seems to see that.
Contract chipmaker United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) is to join Texas Instruments as a manufacturer of Sun's UltraSPARC processors.
taken right form a story on the register found here
I know of at lease one government department, roughly 4000 seats that is actively considering going all open source. Linux on the desktop (KDE) StarOffice the whole deal. They priced out thier usual 4 year upgrade and the cost was unbelievable. The current line of thinking it that for the same price they could hire developers to write thier own office suite and have thier PC supplier preinstall thier own custome distro and still come out ahead.
Microsoft is so missing the mark. Windows XP, yeah whatever. Intentionally crippling Server 2002 so they can sell more Advanced Server licenses. And lets not forget the almost total failure of windows datacenter.
The point about the Nuclear plant was interesting.
So are we going to have an FDA style body that tests and approves algorithms.
Think about it who know what these little beasties will do? After approval you need a prescription to run one, and that give patent protection to the "discoverer" of the "genes".
Then after it's deemed non harmful (or less profitable) it's released on the public.
I may be way off here but has anyone seen a backup agent for mySQL.
I deal a lot with backups, ARCServe, BackupEXEC and a bit of NetBackup.
The point I am trying to get to is that for most Comercial Backup Software you can find MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase agent to do live backups.
Yes I know you can do a dump and backup up the file system. How often do you see that being done (with the possible exception of MSSQL 'cause restoring through an agent is at best painful)
Yes I suppose you could get out the PERL DB modules and home brew your own "agent" to do live backups, but who's gonna pay for that?
I guess the point I eventually going to arrive at is that it's not necessisarly the support the vendor (or developers) provide it's the support the rest of the industry provides. What do other large enterprise software firms take seriously?
Having said that I truly like mySQL and have "sold" it to several people, but you can't compare mySQL to DB2. Or at lease not now, in a couple of months (year?) who knows?
Wait M$ will license the technology and introduce new Couch licensing.
The couch components (CCOM) will unfortunately only interface with other M$ CCOM objects, like lamps, end table and ottomans.
Developers will be allow to buy developer kits, M$ Furniture WorkShop 3.0 that will allow you to build middleware ( re-upholster) that will allow you to upgrade your old furniture.
Additionally the MPAA has announced support for CCOM and will be building CCOM interfaces into new DVDs, this allows the use of couch license enforcement to protect Copywrited material.
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another Power PC manufacturer. Anyone please......
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I still use HotBot a lot.
Okay where are the references to now? Well IX is a good place to start, if you're not from IX every thing is Black box technology. Aside from the readers here who really understand what's going on in the box on your desk?
Then we have the Orange Catholic Bible and the backlash against technology and "thinking machines"
Throw in a little slavery and oppression, some economically motiviated warfare and you're almost there.
Having said that, this does not detract from the message. In fact I rather enjoy these ongoing discussions of what freedom actually means. Everyone has their own interpretation of this, and well they should. If you can get by the flames and the trolls (please adjust your thresholds accordingly) there are a lot of good ideas to be had, here and elsewhere.
With a little luck you will find other people who's idea of freedom is close to your own. I really believe that this is the best that we're going to get. That however doesn't mean that we should stand still. People write software mainly 'cause it's a cool way to kill time, or pay rent and buy cool things like DVD's and Spawn action figures.
The license that they are going to release the software under has to do with where their personal understanding of freedom lies.
Can you really tell someone that their own understanding of freedom is wrong. I could not, but I might be interested in speaking (typing) with them to try and glean some understanding of their position. Later I would relate my position if they were interested in hearing it.
This latest piece on the nature of power raises some interesting questions. As one who writes code your work preceeds you, and may or may not impinge on the freedoms of those who would use it.
Anyhoo, it's interesting to read, in the meantime I'm gonna break out another six pack and watch the LOTR trailer again.
It's a ptetty big initiative, but they are making a lot of progress. It's looking like every taxpayer is going to have a government issue PKI key.
and?
While I was in high school I was in the reserves, (Canadian). While most of the rest of my class was flipping burgers or selling Nike's at the mall, myself and couple other classmates spent weekends working for the Queen, learning how to kill people.
Just what is it that you thing the military does?
If large corporations are allowed to sponsor all kinds of events (sporting or or other types of entertainment) in order to attract workers, why can't the military use video games (popular for of entertainment) to recruit?
The term paramedics sometimes use is DRT. Dead Right There
You so got that right. I haven't even gotten my wireless point set up and I've become the neighbourhood helpdesk.
Serious pain.
Wasn't it called fidonet?
Actually Active Directory if implemented properly will do almost all of the things you're talking about. Unattended installs, license monitoring, install on demand for applications, and with a little cleverness in the login scripts, hotfixes and patches.
However I have yet to see a perfectly optimized Active Directory Network set up like this.
And I've been looking for one. Most people have half-assed Win2K / NT4 / Novell / Sun / Linux setups. I exagerate a bit (okay a lot), but the point it that inorder to get all of that wonderfull functionality that Win2k and AD can provide, it's an all or nothing type of commitment.
I don't know anyone that want's to put all thier eggs one basket, especially if it's Microsoft's basket.
Then of course it the new Pay More Now or Pay More Later licensing swindle. For months I have been trying to get some of our customers to pay attention to this, and only recently they've begun to realize that, if you are not up to date now, there is no upgrade. You have to buy everything all over again.
I'm starting to not make sense, so I'll summarize.
Active Directory and Windows 2000 can do all those cool things you're talking about, but you have to have an all Microsoft network. And you've got to cough up the coin. So really it's not a vialble option for most people, and that's assuming you can find people who can understand the damn stuff.
Probably not, I'd guess that'd be akin to copying a DVD to VHS which last time I checked was discouraged, but not illegal.
I did not by the way comply (although some one else did).
Technically he's way off too.
First the car thing. Ever check out the aftermarket of Japanese cars. Hopped up civics with USB ports on the console so you can tune the gear ratios according to ambient temperatures.
Admittedly more difficult that a 15 year old with a couple of magazines and a socket set but....
and on the non-automotive end the machine he's talking about is a Mac and people have been hacking them for years.
whatever
Why? Well lets follow the money. Large corperations are in buisness to make money. That's a given. These buisness's have investors,individual stock holders and big corperate investors like mutual funds.
We all want to retire and buy a cabin and spend the rest of our day making finshing fly, writing novels, debugging print drivers or what ever.. But we need money to do that. So we invest in mutual fund, we have RRSP's or 401k's or what ever.
The problem with big profit driven corporations doesn't lie with the corporations it lies with us. We reward this behavior every time we deduct 10% of our pay cheque to put in out pension plan.
We're the real problem here and nobody seems to see that.
Uh maybe because writeing to NTFS from linux is hokey at best. No use in benchmarking something that rarely works reliable anyway.
Contract chipmaker United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) is to join Texas Instruments as a manufacturer of Sun's UltraSPARC processors. taken right form a story on the register found here
Microsoft is so missing the mark. Windows XP, yeah whatever. Intentionally crippling Server 2002 so they can sell more Advanced Server licenses. And lets not forget the almost total failure of windows datacenter.
although another Open Source Database can't possibly be a bad thing.
And SAP being who they are, well.....
We're getting more legit each day. Sweet...
So are we going to have an FDA style body that tests and approves algorithms.
Think about it who know what these little beasties will do? After approval you need a prescription to run one, and that give patent protection to the "discoverer" of the "genes".
Then after it's deemed non harmful (or less profitable) it's released on the public.
This could et really weird in a hurry.
thanks
Ya for that!!!!
I deal a lot with backups, ARCServe, BackupEXEC and a bit of NetBackup.
The point I am trying to get to is that for most Comercial Backup Software you can find MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase agent to do live backups.
Yes I know you can do a dump and backup up the file system. How often do you see that being done (with the possible exception of MSSQL 'cause restoring through an agent is at best painful)
Yes I suppose you could get out the PERL DB modules and home brew your own "agent" to do live backups, but who's gonna pay for that?
I guess the point I eventually going to arrive at is that it's not necessisarly the support the vendor (or developers) provide it's the support the rest of the industry provides. What do other large enterprise software firms take seriously?
Having said that I truly like mySQL and have "sold" it to several people, but you can't compare mySQL to DB2. Or at lease not now, in a couple of months (year?) who knows?
The couch components (CCOM) will unfortunately only interface with other M$ CCOM objects, like lamps, end table and ottomans.
Developers will be allow to buy developer kits, M$ Furniture WorkShop 3.0 that will allow you to build middleware ( re-upholster) that will allow you to upgrade your old furniture.
Additionally the MPAA has announced support for CCOM and will be building CCOM interfaces into new DVDs, this allows the use of couch license enforcement to protect Copywrited material.
another Power PC manufacturer. Anyone please......
I may be wrong but you may have to go through a reseller. Having said that Compaq has a very agressive pricing policy if you have a SUN box.
I've nerver met Linus, but the whole hving a child thing I can certainly relate to.
Congrats
Colin