Technically it's not exactly a load balancer, the entire site isn't coming from Akamai, just some portions of the content. Akamai is typically used for large objects - large GIFs, music, video files - that get spikey use. You pay for the bandwidth used, when it's used. You don't have to pay your ISP for a huge pipe that occiasionally gets filled, and is usually idle. In my dotcom days, we built an ad firm off of this, the adserver was a single Dell box because it just threw out URLs, the real bandwidth was coming from Akamai.
As far as "ha ha, MS uses Linux", there really isn't a lot of competition out there for that particular service. MS isn't an ISP, they're not in business to service websites. They chose Akamai because it was the best (or only company still existing) that did what it needed, it using Linux notwithstanding.
UNIX throughout it's history acquired BSD code. The great BSD lawsuit was settled because UCB folks proved that UNIX had BSD code and didn't give proper attributions. SVR4 UNIX (UnixWare is SVR5) was the meld of a great portion of BSD code and SYSV code.
<FLAMEBAIT>Emacs would be a great OS if someone would just write a decent text editor for it</FLAMEBAIT>
Jokes aside, I agree with this point, in that it defies the "smaller is better" UNIX philosophy. I never use it, but i'm pseudo-admin and last install I did of xemacs was over 100Mb, I still remember 20Mb hard drives and single 800Kb floppy Macs. But there is an overarching "the right tool for the job" philosphy, and for certain people, the bulk that is emacs is the right tool for the job. I wouldn't deny them their tool just to satisfy my ego about maintaining philosophical purity.
Not sure what Gancarz says (haven't read the book) but UNIX philosophy, to a great extent, has consistently been open source. Much of the coolness in UNIX today came out of Berkeley. Termcap, vi, virtual memory, a lot of the coolness that makes up UNIX today was created at Bezerkely and distributed by tape to the world. Sun made SunOS from BSD and later released NFS to an unsuspecting public. Major changes in the philosophy now aren't so much changes that open source is new, but much easier to get because 1) no need to charge for tapes - Internet gives you the source for no (incremental) cost and 2) you no longer need an AT&T source license to get the code, you can just get it.
I read that same article, found it very interesting.
The thing to remember is that IBM is not breaking the social contract, SCO/Caldera did. SCO/Caldera not only violated the GPL, but when they realized their business plan wasn't going to work, sued the very people that made one of the products that they sell, violating "hey, don't be a dick" social contracts well beyond the GPL. IBM is trying to right these somewhat. What percentage of their zeal is "to be right" and what percentage is a dollars and cents reaction to the lawsuit, well my guess is as bad as anyone's.
I think one of the best social contracts in America is the library system. Here are all these free books, free for you to use whenever you want, just don't steal them. Even this social contract, one of the most benign, needs enforcement. I think the author of that piece isn't pining for a world he knew as much as for a world he wanted and got thrust back to reality.
I agree that it's bad, but not "worst".. methinks blue text on red background is worse. And I've actually seen that; man they shoulda chipped in for the aspirin my headache called for.
Kind of cool to see that Linus still tinkers enough to totally hose his own box. People with that much curiosity tend to make cool stuff. Not sure if Mrs. Linux likes it tho. =)
Actually, another article linked states that the later fee will be $1,399 which is more in-line with their UnixWare licenses, which makes sense since they've been talking about "indemnifying us poor miscreants" with UnixWare licensing. The $699 is just a 50% off type deal.
An interesting link in the other SCO/Caldera article today (i wish I could find the link) stated something along the lines of "whenever anything threatens their stock price, the SCO/Caldera execs release some more bit of news to pump it up." After being hit slightly by the RedHat announcement, well, here you go. Some traders probably will see the number, make a back of the envelope calculation "well, there are millions of Linux boxes, they're gonna get $699 or $1399 for every one, I want a piece of that" and pump up their stock. The more McBride pulls stuff out of his ass like this, the more obvious that it's just a stock ploy becomes.
I'd be interested to know what the percentage of machines out there running Linux are less than the $1400 price point. Granted, SCO/Caldera is (currently) only talking about commercial licenses so it's likely the machines are better than the overall average box, but still likely to be cheaper than the license. If this is the cost of a UnixWare license, no wonder they went into the toilet.
BTW: I call it SCO/Caldera because McBride's company is really just SCO in name and IP rights only. The real SCO people are at Tarantella, where they are soldiering on, doing real work.
First, I'm glad someone finally posted a story about SCO, there's been way too few of these recently, and it was difficult to find a forum whre I could ask....
OK, bad attampts at sarcasm aside: SCO's current angle of attack seems to be, that even though IBM wrote and has the copyrights to things such as JFS and FCU, by releasing them into AIX, it became a derivative work of UNIX and SYSV. Can we follow this "logic" to say that since device drivers are many times placed in the kernel (trying not to slit hairs on kernel modules here) that the drivers become derivative works of SYSV and therefore any hardware manufacturer that makes a driver for both UNIX and Linux may also be brought into the lawsuit?
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Replacing SMTP?
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It doesn't make it slow to send spam, makes it slow to send bulk email, of which SPAM is the best known and most annoying subset. Mailing lists are also a subset.
Most examples of "takes a second or two" are very processor dependent. You'd then also have the problem of running code on another machine, DOS attacks, all that fun.
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Perl 1.0?
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Things like this tend to become unreadable. And thats different from 99% of perl code out there how?
Biggest problem that hit me for y2k was half of the ATMs in paris didn't work for me for a few days. The other half did. The Euro conversion was supposed to be bigger than y2k as well. The Euro conversion thing didn't show a huge uptick in jobs as I recall either, which it should have if it was that huge. I don't remember huge hrings pre-Setp 9, 99 (9/9/99 was a flag date in a lot of code that assumed it would be retired well before then).
If you read Stevens' networking book, you can see how to write apps that survive the transition. For apps that can't be rewritten, I'm sure the kernel will insulate them from a lot of the issues.
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Technically it's not exactly a load balancer, the entire site isn't coming from Akamai, just some portions of the content. Akamai is typically used for large objects - large GIFs, music, video files - that get spikey use. You pay for the bandwidth used, when it's used. You don't have to pay your ISP for a huge pipe that occiasionally gets filled, and is usually idle. In my dotcom days, we built an ad firm off of this, the adserver was a single Dell box because it just threw out URLs, the real bandwidth was coming from Akamai.
As far as "ha ha, MS uses Linux", there really isn't a lot of competition out there for that particular service. MS isn't an ISP, they're not in business to service websites. They chose Akamai because it was the best (or only company still existing) that did what it needed, it using Linux notwithstanding.
Al Kaline, nice....
Wasn't the V1 Buzzbomb like this?
(And I'm sure there is some.)
UNIX throughout it's history acquired BSD code. The great BSD lawsuit was settled because UCB folks proved that UNIX had BSD code and didn't give proper attributions. SVR4 UNIX (UnixWare is SVR5) was the meld of a great portion of BSD code and SYSV code.
The BSD daemon mascot predates FreeBSD and is used in many places - including slashdot - as a generic symbol of BSD-ness.
Otsi J. was seen driving away in a white Ford Flinstonemobile.
Some of the best examples are sendmail and emacs.
<FLAMEBAIT>Emacs would be a great OS if someone would just write a decent text editor for it</FLAMEBAIT>
Jokes aside, I agree with this point, in that it defies the "smaller is better" UNIX philosophy. I never use it, but i'm pseudo-admin and last install I did of xemacs was over 100Mb, I still remember 20Mb hard drives and single 800Kb floppy Macs. But there is an overarching "the right tool for the job" philosphy, and for certain people, the bulk that is emacs is the right tool for the job. I wouldn't deny them their tool just to satisfy my ego about maintaining philosophical purity.
A lot of early UNIX philosphy was open source and non technical (think BSD more than USL).
Not sure what Gancarz says (haven't read the book) but UNIX philosophy, to a great extent, has consistently been open source. Much of the coolness in UNIX today came out of Berkeley. Termcap, vi, virtual memory, a lot of the coolness that makes up UNIX today was created at Bezerkely and distributed by tape to the world. Sun made SunOS from BSD and later released NFS to an unsuspecting public. Major changes in the philosophy now aren't so much changes that open source is new, but much easier to get because 1) no need to charge for tapes - Internet gives you the source for no (incremental) cost and 2) you no longer need an AT&T source license to get the code, you can just get it.
I read that same article, found it very interesting.
The thing to remember is that IBM is not breaking the social contract, SCO/Caldera did. SCO/Caldera not only violated the GPL, but when they realized their business plan wasn't going to work, sued the very people that made one of the products that they sell, violating "hey, don't be a dick" social contracts well beyond the GPL. IBM is trying to right these somewhat. What percentage of their zeal is "to be right" and what percentage is a dollars and cents reaction to the lawsuit, well my guess is as bad as anyone's.
I think one of the best social contracts in America is the library system. Here are all these free books, free for you to use whenever you want, just don't steal them. Even this social contract, one of the most benign, needs enforcement. I think the author of that piece isn't pining for a world he knew as much as for a world he wanted and got thrust back to reality.
sweaty bald monkey dance? =)
"Whoa dude, does it have skins? I'd kill for a gcc with a 7 of 9 skin..."
I agree that it's bad, but not "worst".. methinks blue text on red background is worse. And I've actually seen that; man they shoulda chipped in for the aspirin my headache called for.
Kind of cool to see that Linus still tinkers enough to totally hose his own box. People with that much curiosity tend to make cool stuff. Not sure if Mrs. Linux likes it tho. =)
So will SCO/Caldera die a heat death or an ice death?
Indian: Thats crazytalk
Lisa S.: No, it's true.
Indian: No, thats my brother, Crazy Talk.
SCO: SO, do you expect me to talk?
IBM: No, Mr. McBride, I expect you to die...
Back in the MacOS 7 days ATM for me could mean:
Automated Teller Machine
Asynch Transfer Mode
Adobe Type Manager
Now, pretty much the only ATM I need is the one that gives me cash. Much simpler.
Actually, another article linked states that the later fee will be $1,399 which is more in-line with their UnixWare licenses, which makes sense since they've been talking about "indemnifying us poor miscreants" with UnixWare licensing. The $699 is just a 50% off type deal.
An interesting link in the other SCO/Caldera article today (i wish I could find the link) stated something along the lines of "whenever anything threatens their stock price, the SCO/Caldera execs release some more bit of news to pump it up." After being hit slightly by the RedHat announcement, well, here you go. Some traders probably will see the number, make a back of the envelope calculation "well, there are millions of Linux boxes, they're gonna get $699 or $1399 for every one, I want a piece of that" and pump up their stock. The more McBride pulls stuff out of his ass like this, the more obvious that it's just a stock ploy becomes.
I'd be interested to know what the percentage of machines out there running Linux are less than the $1400 price point. Granted, SCO/Caldera is (currently) only talking about commercial licenses so it's likely the machines are better than the overall average box, but still likely to be cheaper than the license. If this is the cost of a UnixWare license, no wonder they went into the toilet.
BTW: I call it SCO/Caldera because McBride's company is really just SCO in name and IP rights only. The real SCO people are at Tarantella, where they are soldiering on, doing real work.
First, I'm glad someone finally posted a story about SCO, there's been way too few of these recently, and it was difficult to find a forum whre I could ask....
OK, bad attampts at sarcasm aside:
SCO's current angle of attack seems to be, that even though IBM wrote and has the copyrights to things such as JFS and FCU, by releasing them into AIX, it became a derivative work of UNIX and SYSV. Can we follow this "logic" to say that since device drivers are many times placed in the kernel (trying not to slit hairs on kernel modules here) that the drivers become derivative works of SYSV and therefore any hardware manufacturer that makes a driver for both UNIX and Linux may also be brought into the lawsuit?
It doesn't make it slow to send spam, makes it slow to send bulk email, of which SPAM is the best known and most annoying subset. Mailing lists are also a subset.
Most examples of "takes a second or two" are very processor dependent. You'd then also have the problem of running code on another machine, DOS attacks, all that fun.
Things like this tend to become unreadable.
And thats different from 99% of perl code out there how?
A robot running a Microsoft OS? Is that safe?
It's not safe in cars iDrive uses Win CE.
a self-charging robot...
AIBOs do this now. It's smart enough to read its battery level, walk to the charger and put itself on the charger.
Does Bush have one of these?
For Bush, thats Nookyular Engineering for Dummies...
Biggest problem that hit me for y2k was half of the ATMs in paris didn't work for me for a few days. The other half did. The Euro conversion was supposed to be bigger than y2k as well. The Euro conversion thing didn't show a huge uptick in jobs as I recall either, which it should have if it was that huge. I don't remember huge hrings pre-Setp 9, 99 (9/9/99 was a flag date in a lot of code that assumed it would be retired well before then).
If you read Stevens' networking book, you can see how to write apps that survive the transition. For apps that can't be rewritten, I'm sure the kernel will insulate them from a lot of the issues.