and the debs work just fine now. It used to be hard but that was years ago. And for that matter it has been years since installing from the source was hard at all and even when it was hard you had to hack like one line in one makefile to make it work. Really it can't get much easier and still be a nix.
This is a very true story some time ago I had a problem get a new kernel for Debian to install. I sent off a bug at ~9 at night. Now granted the maintainer lives down under but by the time I got up I had a patch in my mail. And that is a pretty typical story. Damn cool.
It was supposed to be the end of next year when I first heard about it but then it got changed to 2006. Of course I started in this business after the orginal end of life so your dates and mine could be the same just counting from two starting points. In any case yea we are selling an HPUX based HP 9000 solution and it is a *sweet* box.
So you are also going through MPE/3000 end of life.:) I feel for you.
Yup MPE is still *huge* in some places. For example if you do business with a credit union there is a very good chance that they run on a HP 3000 and are working on moving to the HP 9000. And you are right that is not going away for a very long time.
When I was in the Air Force I was a weather guy. Well part of my job was to go with forward air controllers etc. to take weather observations and send them back to the people who put toghether briefings etc. Well the people who ran that part of the program wanted to put out a small kit with everything we needed in it. Since weather observations are useless if you don't know where you are they wanted to put a GPS unit in the kit. To save money they went with a civillian model. Nobody thought of the problem with theis till I was beta testing the unit and asked. I was told in a very formal way to shut the fuck up. AFAIK they are still using those units so there are going to be some very pissed of weather folks. Gawd I fell for them.
Yes this is illegal and no it is not the same as building a plant overseas. Let me explain.
These Visas are supposed to be used to bring in people when no one can be found in the domestic pool to do the job and no one is supposed to be laid off or fired to bring them in. Now you can argue whether that should be the law or not but the fact here is that that is the law and if what is being said is correct Sun broke that law.
The reason this is not the same as going offshore is because compared to going offshore the risk/costs for the company are much less. If companies want to use cheap overseas labor they have every right to do so but they should be forced to take the risks associated with that and when those risks are brought in it often is *not* less expensive. That is why, IMO, they should not be allowed to use cheap labor with none of the risks. Basiclly paying US labor costs is part of the cost of doing business here and is one of the things that makes it so attractive to do so. So yes it is illegal there is no argument there. I think it should be illegal but you can argue that point.
* WebDAV is *nothing* like a VPN. A VPN has end to end encryption that is what makes it secure. Does WebDAV have end to end encryption?
* "using any number of authentication schemes" does not "lock down" anything at all. If your security depends on authentication schemes you are hosed. You have to have authentication but you also have to have a whole slew of other measures. Which WebDAV does not.
* It doesn't matter if you are running it over HTTP or HTTPS. Both are the wrong protocol to use for filesharing. Just like using SOAP over HTTP(S).
This is because if you are using 80 or 443 then there is no way to control or shut down the file sharing without also shutting down web access. This is a *bad* thing. Also it makes firewall logs useless.
* Web applications are irrevalent to network security.
Your network has to be secure and have a good security policy and then web apps should be made to work within that framework rather than skirt it.
I want to kill whoever redefined "firewall friendly" to mean "tunnels through 80"
Yes because it is banned in Germany. So they don't want to get into a fight with the German government so the comply with the laws of the land. The Germans need to work on changing Germany not Google. So I must be missing something cause I really don't see your point as it seems like the parent post, you and I are all thinking the same thing but you sound like you think you disagree.
The website says that because the cd that ships with the unit wants that. They have to make sure that someone with 95 does not buy it and bitch. If you want Linux stuff do the research it is out there.
There are bears, bunnies, orcs, vampires and other dangers. The only real answer is to go out heavily armed and frag anything that moves before they can get you. Good advice my friend good advice.
The guy that runs Kazaa Lite is a hypocrite. Here he is building an unofficial client that lets you use Kazaa without looking at their ads and yet when I try to go to his site I get blocked by Anti-Leech for not allowing popups. He is a true and royal asshole and I hope he dies. Well not really but kind of.
Cool. Thanks also I've noticed that they have added an expections feature. This is very cool as I have a couple of vendor sites that use popups for loggin on. Stupid I know but I don't go with them because of their web design. In any case I was just looking for it.:)
Default install of Debian with all the desktop stuff vs. Default install of Windows XP.
Now lets talk grandma's email. Kmail is by default more secure than Outlook express since Grandma is likely to use the default mail client with it's default settings Linux wins because by default there are fewer evil things in the the dafault client. Same with browsers. Same with default permissions.
Keep in mind grandma could no more install XP than she could Debian so someone is doing the install for her so installation arguments do not apply. You are right no one who cares about security is going to run a default install but everyone who does not care does run a default install and by default Linux is more secure than Windows if for no other reason than that the default apps have fewer problems.
It is kind of like polishing a turd but here is some more info. The point is that out of the box *nix tends to be more secure and have beeter settings by default.
Simple answer (Stolen from someone much smarter than me)
This is suicide by cop[1].
Or it's something similarly twisted. SCO is simply dead. The back story may be interesting though.
The news.com story notes that SCO may be pissed over the failure of Project Monterey, which was aimed at reimplementing GNU/Linux as a proprietary Unix for the Itanic (that's just so wrong so many ways I won't even start).
Just a few off-the-cuff observations.
- You don't launch a land war in Asia.
- You don't launch a billion-dollar patent battle with IBM, if your
strategy is in fact to win that battle.
- Corrolary of the above is that you're either trying to lose, you're
not calling the shots, or you're aiming to win another battle.
These are not mutually exclusive, though options 2 & 3 are the most
likely pairing.
- Aside: IBM generates over $1b (approaching 1.5b IIRC) annually in
patent licensing revenues. Their patent portfolio numbers over
22,000. IBM is the single largest holder and recipient of US patent
grants.
- Theory: somebody's trying to sow patent problems for IBM, and/or
tie up IBM legal in a suit, while somebody else pulls a fast one.
- Theory: Caldera wants to prod IBM into reviving the DR-DOS suit (or
something similar) against Microsoft (or other parties). I find
this unlikely, but mention it for completeness.
- Theory: Caldera's management is trying to avoid breach-of-
fiduciary-interest or other similar charges, while disposing of the
company while putatively pursuing a fiduciary interest of the
company.
- Theory: This is Wang v. Netscape again. In that case, Microsoft
bought a significant interest in the dying Wang corporation, and
Wang pursued patent suits against Netscape. The patent was
eventually invalidated, but such battles are costly.
- Theory: (left field variety) LFP or similar[2] have corraled
Caldera into making a blatent demonstration of just how broken the
patent system is by going after its (the patent system's) largest
beneficiary.
Watch this space, things got interesting.
Peace.
-------------------- Notes:
1. If you're not familiar with the term: a perp assaults a police
officer, in such a way that the cop has to use deadly force. This
being the apparently desired outcome of the perp.
2. LPF: League for Programming Freedom, an anti-patent group associated
with Richard M. Stallman.
Credit to Karsten on this one. This is good enough that it needs to be posted here.
And you are being nice and assuming that the guy was really selling viagra. What most likely happend is that he got the cards, names, numbers, etc and then procedded to turn those numbers into cash, not so much with the sending of stuff to the people, So most likely he was making thousands as opposed to hundreds.:)
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I heard once that a second a week is pretty good. Don't know how true that is but it sounds right.
and the debs work just fine now. It used to be hard but that was years ago. And for that matter it has been years since installing from the source was hard at all and even when it was hard you had to hack like one line in one makefile to make it work. Really it can't get much easier and still be a nix.
I never ever thought I would see MPE humor on /. Thanks. BTW you have plenty of time to retrain to be a HPUX guy that is what we are doing.
No somehow I don't think he was in the Senate in 1969 so it was in fact wrong and silly.
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http://www.iosys.demon.co.uk/nethist/the_start.
This is a very true story some time ago I had a problem get a new kernel for Debian to install. I sent off a bug at ~9 at night. Now granted the maintainer lives down under but by the time I got up I had a patch in my mail. And that is a pretty typical story. Damn cool.
It was supposed to be the end of next year when I first heard about it but then it got changed to 2006. Of course I started in this business after the orginal end of life so your dates and mine could be the same just counting from two starting points. In any case yea we are selling an HPUX based HP 9000 solution and it is a *sweet* box.
Yes but then Carly got mad at Bruce and fired him. After that it was all downhill.
As a huge HP reseller customer don't even get me started on what an evil bitch Carly is.
So you are also going through MPE/3000 end of life. :) I feel for you.
Yup MPE is still *huge* in some places. For example if you do business with a credit union there is a very good chance that they run on a HP 3000 and are working on moving to the HP 9000. And you are right that is not going away for a very long time.
When I was in the Air Force I was a weather guy. Well part of my job was to go with forward air controllers etc. to take weather observations and send them back to the people who put toghether briefings etc. Well the people who ran that part of the program wanted to put out a small kit with everything we needed in it. Since weather observations are useless if you don't know where you are they wanted to put a GPS unit in the kit. To save money they went with a civillian model. Nobody thought of the problem with theis till I was beta testing the unit and asked. I was told in a very formal way to shut the fuck up. AFAIK they are still using those units so there are going to be some very pissed of weather folks. Gawd I fell for them.
Yes this is illegal and no it is not the same as building a plant overseas. Let me explain.
These Visas are supposed to be used to bring in people when no one can be found in the domestic pool to do the job and no one is supposed to be laid off or fired to bring them in. Now you can argue whether that should be the law or not but the fact here is that that is the law and if what is being said is correct Sun broke that law.
The reason this is not the same as going offshore is because compared to going offshore the risk/costs for the company are much less. If companies want to use cheap overseas labor they have every right to do so but they should be forced to take the risks associated with that and when those risks are brought in it often is *not* less expensive. That is why, IMO, they should not be allowed to use cheap labor with none of the risks. Basiclly paying US labor costs is part of the cost of doing business here and is one of the things that makes it so attractive to do so. So yes it is illegal there is no argument there. I think it should be illegal but you can argue that point.
I don't know because I don't know much about 3d engines but how does Crystal Space stand up?
* WebDAV is *nothing* like a VPN.
A VPN has end to end encryption that is what makes it secure. Does WebDAV have end to end encryption?
* "using any number of authentication schemes" does not "lock down" anything at all.
If your security depends on authentication schemes you are hosed. You have to have authentication but you also have to have a whole slew of other measures. Which WebDAV does not.
* It doesn't matter if you are running it over HTTP or HTTPS. Both are the wrong protocol to use for filesharing. Just like using SOAP over HTTP(S).
This is because if you are using 80 or 443 then there is no way to control or shut down the file sharing without also shutting down web access. This is a *bad* thing. Also it makes firewall logs useless.
* Web applications are irrevalent to network security.
Your network has to be secure and have a good security policy and then web apps should be made to work within that framework rather than skirt it.
I want to kill whoever redefined "firewall friendly" to mean "tunnels through 80"
Yes because it is banned in Germany. So they don't want to get into a fight with the German government so the comply with the laws of the land. The Germans need to work on changing Germany not Google. So I must be missing something cause I really don't see your point as it seems like the parent post, you and I are all thinking the same thing but you sound like you think you disagree.
The website says that because the cd that ships with the unit wants that. They have to make sure that someone with 95 does not buy it and bitch. If you want Linux stuff do the research it is out there.
There are bears, bunnies, orcs, vampires and other dangers. The only real answer is to go out heavily armed and frag anything that moves before they can get you. Good advice my friend good advice.
It is the first site you get when you google on Kazza Lite.
The guy that runs Kazaa Lite is a hypocrite. Here he is building an unofficial client that lets you use Kazaa without looking at their ads and yet when I try to go to his site I get blocked by Anti-Leech for not allowing popups. He is a true and royal asshole and I hope he dies. Well not really but kind of.
Cool. Thanks also I've noticed that they have added an expections feature. This is very cool as I have a couple of vendor sites that use popups for loggin on. Stupid I know but I don't go with them because of their web design. In any case I was just looking for it. :)
I just grabbed it from a T1 with no problem. It would appear that the folks over there where prepared. :)
here is yet another government server for us to destroy. It has many similar pretty thing for you to look at.
http://photojournal.wr.usgs.gov
This is just wrong.
Default install of Debian with all the desktop stuff vs. Default install of Windows XP.
Now lets talk grandma's email. Kmail is by default more secure than Outlook express since Grandma is likely to use the default mail client with it's default settings Linux wins because by default there are fewer evil things in the the dafault client. Same with browsers. Same with default permissions.
Keep in mind grandma could no more install XP than she could Debian so someone is doing the install for her so installation arguments do not apply. You are right no one who cares about security is going to run a default install but everyone who does not care does run a default install and by default Linux is more secure than Windows if for no other reason than that the default apps have fewer problems.
Yes yes it has.
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It is kind of like polishing a turd but here is some more info. The point is that out of the box *nix tends to be more secure and have beeter settings by default.
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/
Simple answer (Stolen from someone much smarter than me)
This is suicide by cop[1].
Or it's something similarly twisted. SCO is simply dead. The back
story may be interesting though.
The news.com story notes that SCO may be pissed over the failure of
Project Monterey, which was aimed at reimplementing GNU/Linux as a
proprietary Unix for the Itanic (that's just so wrong so many ways I
won't even start).
Just a few off-the-cuff observations.
- You don't launch a land war in Asia.
- You don't launch a billion-dollar patent battle with IBM, if your
strategy is in fact to win that battle.
- Corrolary of the above is that you're either trying to lose, you're
not calling the shots, or you're aiming to win another battle.
These are not mutually exclusive, though options 2 & 3 are the most
likely pairing.
- Aside: IBM generates over $1b (approaching 1.5b IIRC) annually in
patent licensing revenues. Their patent portfolio numbers over
22,000. IBM is the single largest holder and recipient of US patent
grants.
- Theory: somebody's trying to sow patent problems for IBM, and/or
tie up IBM legal in a suit, while somebody else pulls a fast one.
- Theory: Caldera wants to prod IBM into reviving the DR-DOS suit (or
something similar) against Microsoft (or other parties). I find
this unlikely, but mention it for completeness.
- Theory: Caldera's management is trying to avoid breach-of-
fiduciary-interest or other similar charges, while disposing of the
company while putatively pursuing a fiduciary interest of the
company.
- Theory: This is Wang v. Netscape again. In that case, Microsoft
bought a significant interest in the dying Wang corporation, and
Wang pursued patent suits against Netscape. The patent was
eventually invalidated, but such battles are costly.
- Theory: (left field variety) LFP or similar[2] have corraled
Caldera into making a blatent demonstration of just how broken the
patent system is by going after its (the patent system's) largest
beneficiary.
Watch this space, things got interesting.
Peace.
--------------------
Notes:
1. If you're not familiar with the term: a perp assaults a police
officer, in such a way that the cop has to use deadly force. This
being the apparently desired outcome of the perp.
2. LPF: League for Programming Freedom, an anti-patent group associated
with Richard M. Stallman.
Credit to Karsten on this one. This is good enough that it needs to be posted here.
And you are being nice and assuming that the guy was really selling viagra. What most likely happend is that he got the cards, names, numbers, etc and then procedded to turn those numbers into cash, not so much with the sending of stuff to the people, So most likely he was making thousands as opposed to hundreds. :)