The open source and free software is a natural response to draconian measures by proprietary software companies.
It is a response to over priced buggy software.
It is a response by developers that are tired of monopolistic control artificially imposed by vendors of propriatary software.
Open software wrenches the control back to the individual and individual developer.
It may shift control and the current business model but it will hardly mean the end to the software business. Open source software has already changed the software business and it is going to overtake it in my opinion. The only question is are the software development shops going to adapt or die?
Eveyone can thank the can spam act for this but he is still going to win his suits. As long as he is fully following the federal can spam act rules he is on strong legal grounds. Yes it may suck but according to the law he may be doing absolutely nothing wrong.
Personally I could care less which file system is fastest. The most important aspect to a file system is how stable it is with my important data. All the speed in the world means absolutely nothing if the file system is not stable. EXT 3 has never ever let me down so I intend to stick with it, at least until RedHat releases their version of GFS.
And tell me what exactly are the bandwidth requirements of X? I actually run one of these setups and I can tell you that my 150 desktops only require around 200kb sustained which is not a whole lot.
I am currently running 150 desktops off of two servers using thin client deployment. Instead of going with ltsp we use a slackware live cd that gets it's final config from a web server using wget and a php script that passes out configurations based on the sent mac address.
Finally it just lanches x against the servers using the -query option. This is one hell of a lot simpler than ltsp and we do not have to worry about nfs mounted root or none of that junk.
The servers are actually redhat AS 3.0 running in clustered mode. Now if redhat would just hurry the up and release GFS I could run a shared/home which would be really cool.
The gnome guys could also help out greatly by adding the ability to deploy desktop icons to multiple users from say root's desktop. I have scripts to do this but it would be nice to have it as a option to creating a link to a application.
If she only does email and web browsing then Linux is exactly what she needs. Might suggest installing Fedora and all of the Livna.org goodies. Make her a user account, only you have root and all the problems will magically go away.
Reading the suit I am convinced they will win the suit. If they are sending spam that meets federal regulations they can and will win this suit. Now of course spammers suck but if they are playing by the federal rules then end of story their rights are being violated by spamcop, spam assasin and every other filtering solution if it does not let the message pass. They are morally wrong but legally right.
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Send out a bunch of spam that is legit complete with the adv in the subject line and that meets all requirements by the new can spam law. When your messages get blocked sue every single spam filtering solution out of existance. Now to tell you the truth I cannot stand spammers but it is a hole in the law that one of them is going to exploit and win.
I love spyware, the more machines infested with it the better. Users get fed up with all the pop ups and machine stability problems. I either get money to remove it or it becomes amazingly simple to convince these people try Linux. It also had a dramatic effect on overall TCO of the environment. I work in a mixed environment windows and linux desktops. The windows side takes three to four times the amount of maintenance because the support guys spend at a minimum 70% of their day cleaning machines.
use one of these covers http://www.phantomplate.com/ modify a frame with 50 infrared leds pointing directly on the plate for cams above normal view a addition of a multibladed shade much like the stop lights have on them would work nicely.
Install a root kit on your own machine and if you get sued you can just claim someone else did it while proxied through your machine. Seriously if you get busted for sharing music and you actually where doing it, I have about as much sympathy for you as I do for the people that pirate commercial software.
I like postgres but the ability to keep it online 24/7 cost us a trip to the oracle camp I am afraid. We ran our manufacturing floor on it but had problems with scalability and keeping it up 24/7. I still to this day have to sit down and run vacuum on all of the databases on sunday night right before first shift starts. We where running a dual zeon box with about 200 connected users running simple small selects and it would just bring it to it's knee's. I had the developers change the app to always drop the connections and this helped a little bit but I still had the problems with vacuum. Running vacuum with the user connected just brings the database to a near halt or locks them out all together. Not running vacuum causes the database to come to a near halt in under 6 days
If I had to do it again I would go with mysql. I should not have to babysit a database every week and it should be able to handle more that 200 read connections on a dual zeon 4gb ram box.
The absolute first thing I would check with network is that if you are connected to a full duplex switch set the card to full duplex in modules.conf . Yes shit is supposed to autonegotiate but it never does.
Go to basicx.com and get a simple to use and program basic stamp compatible chip. Better yet it is way faster than any basic stamp and holds more instructions. 50 dollar chip and some cheap leds and switches and much more flexibility. His idea is ok but it is to costly compared to some of the other solutions. This is nothing more that the ibutton idea except ibutton only requires a single wire.
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The open source and free software is a natural response to draconian measures by proprietary software companies.
It is a response to over priced buggy software.
It is a response by developers that are tired of monopolistic control artificially imposed by vendors of propriatary software.
Open software wrenches the control back to the individual and individual developer.
It may shift control and the current business model but it will hardly mean the end to the software business. Open source software has already changed the software business and it is going to overtake it in my opinion. The only question is are the software development shops going to adapt or die?
Eveyone can thank the can spam act for this but he is still going to win his suits. As long as he is fully following the federal can spam act rules he is on strong legal grounds. Yes it may suck but according to the law he may be doing absolutely nothing wrong.
exactly GFS the clustered file system
Personally I could care less which file system is fastest. The most important aspect to a file system is how stable it is with my important data. All the speed in the world means absolutely nothing if the file system is not stable. EXT 3 has never ever let me down so I intend to stick with it, at least until RedHat releases their version of GFS.
Why doesn,t then govt produce both the code and the machines. Produce the code in a open manner subject to anyones review.
rekall is a access replacement, well sort of. It is close but still needs some work.
Assuming of course that you upgraded your entire client base to 2000 or XP which does not exactly make it free now does it.
And tell me what exactly are the bandwidth requirements of X? I actually run one of these setups and I can tell you that my 150 desktops only require around 200kb sustained which is not a whole lot.
And RDP/ICA positively SUCKS when compared with NX protocol. Go do a little query on google for NX Mr Windows Troll.
I am currently running 150 desktops off of two servers using thin client deployment. Instead of going with ltsp we use a slackware live cd that gets it's final config from a web server using wget and a php script that passes out configurations based on the sent mac address.
/home which would be really cool.
Finally it just lanches x against the servers using the -query option. This is one hell of a lot simpler than ltsp and we do not have to worry about nfs mounted root or none of that junk.
The servers are actually redhat AS 3.0 running in clustered mode. Now if redhat would just hurry the up and release GFS I could run a shared
The gnome guys could also help out greatly by adding the ability to deploy desktop icons to multiple users from say root's desktop. I have scripts to do this but it would be nice to have it
as a option to creating a link to a application.
If she only does email and web browsing then Linux is exactly what she needs. Might suggest installing Fedora and all of the Livna.org goodies. Make her a user account, only you have root and all the problems will magically go away.
Oh you mean like the standard widgets used in photo shop and perhaps like the standard widgets used in
macromedia products?
Give me a break those guys all use custom widget sets so what the hell is the difference. Go troll on zdnet or something would you.
Reading the suit I am convinced they will win the suit. If they are sending spam that meets federal regulations they can and will win this suit. Now of course spammers suck but if they are playing by the federal rules then end of story their rights are being violated by spamcop, spam assasin and every other filtering solution if it does not let the message pass. They are morally wrong but legally right.
Send out a bunch of spam that is legit complete with
the adv in the subject line and that meets all requirements by the new can spam law. When your messages get blocked sue every single spam filtering
solution out of existance. Now to tell you the truth I cannot stand spammers but it is a hole in the law that one of them is going to exploit and win.
I love spyware, the more machines infested with it the better. Users get fed up with all the pop ups and machine stability problems. I either get money to remove it or it becomes amazingly simple to convince these people try Linux. It also had a dramatic effect on overall TCO of the environment. I work in a mixed environment windows and linux desktops. The windows side takes three to four times the amount of maintenance because the support guys spend at a minimum 70% of their day cleaning machines.
Now that game had a story line...bang as many as you can!
use one of these covers
http://www.phantomplate.com/
modify a frame with 50 infrared leds pointing directly on the plate
for cams above normal view a addition of a multibladed shade much like the stop lights have on them would work nicely.
Install a root kit on your own machine and if you get sued you can just claim someone else did it while proxied through your machine. Seriously if you get busted for sharing music and you actually where doing it, I have about as much sympathy for you as I do for the people that pirate commercial software.
I see two possible options:
* Implement Avalon/XAML and ship it with Linux (with Mono).
* Come up with our own, competitive stack.
wxwidgets and python with a sandboxed execution stack using the already existing xmlrpclib.
I like postgres but the ability to keep it online 24/7 cost us a trip to the oracle camp I am afraid. We ran our manufacturing floor on it but had problems with scalability and keeping it up 24/7. I still to this day have to sit down and run vacuum on all of the databases on sunday night right before first shift starts. We where running a dual zeon box
with about 200 connected users running simple small selects and it would just bring it to it's knee's. I had the developers change the app to always drop the connections and this helped a little bit but I still
had the problems with vacuum. Running vacuum with the user connected just brings the database to a near halt or locks them out all together. Not running vacuum causes the database to come to a near halt in under 6 days
If I had to do it again I would go with mysql. I should not have to babysit a database every week and it should be able to handle more that 200 read connections on a dual zeon 4gb ram box.
The absolute first thing I would check with network is that if you are connected to a full duplex switch set the card to full duplex in modules.conf . Yes shit is supposed to autonegotiate but it never does.
One word dude....custom applet could have easily saved the day, max 20 minutes to code it.
Go to basicx.com and get a simple to use and program basic stamp compatible chip. Better yet it is way faster than any basic stamp and holds more instructions. 50 dollar chip and some cheap leds and switches and
much more flexibility. His idea is ok but it is to costly compared to some of the other solutions. This is nothing more that the ibutton idea except ibutton only requires a single wire.
Hey won't it be nice to roll a fat one with a longhorn logo on it.
It can do both a single app or the entire desktop and it is a reasonable price.