I've found the easiest way to handle the lack of recovery media is to purchase an external USB drive, install Clonezilla on it, and take an image of the hard drive before I ever boot from it (or overwrite it).
I'd guess that John C. Welsh has never laid his hands on, installed, or tried to configure OS X 10.5 server. I installed the developers' preview edition of Leopard server, and, well, someone's got a lot of writing to do.
In particular, I tried to set up the iCal server and test it with various clients. There's essentially no documentation, and what exists is less than helpful. It appears not to work well with the iCal application that ships with Tiger. I had a little better luck with Mozilla calendaring clients, but only a little.
If iCal is going to be the great alternative to MS Exchange that Apple aficiondos and the IT press would like it to be, it's got to a) work with a variety of existing clients (including Tiger's), b) be easy to set up from the client side, c) work with existing authentication databases, and d) have some meaningful documentation. Anything less, imo, and Leopard's iCal server is basically vaporware.
RHEL (or, for me, CentOS) is boring. It's not meant to run on the latest gamer PCs or laptops. It doesn't include proprietary video drivers. All it does is serve up bits without interruption: databases, web pages, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, files, login shells. Work gets done. Customers get served. Employees get paid. All without any danger/excitement! Boring is a feature, not a bug.
If Microsoft were to "embrace and extend" Linux in the way that it did Java or kerberos, would Linus Torvalds, as owner of the Linux trademark, have legal ground to sue? What would be the substance of the suit/defense?
Anything subject to fair use laws is likely to be multi-faceted. If I'm studying a first-edition Faulkner, I may solely be interested in the text of the work -- but I'm just as likely to be interested in the typography, illustrations, binding, paper quality, etc.
Same thing with a movie. I may just be interested in the screenplay -- but it's more likely that I'll want to study (or present for study) the cinematography, art design, costuming, sound effects, small facial expressions of the actors, and other details that could easily get lost or blurred in a lesser copy.
The issue may have legal reprecussions in addition to the obvious moral ones. Check out Section 508 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, esp. this tidbit:
...individuals with disabilities who are Federal employees to have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to the access to and use of the information and data by Federal employees who are not individuals with disabilities;
My reading of this legalese is that any company that wants to do business with the Federal government has to make corporate information easily accessible to all.
This is nothing new. An acquaintance at a local commercial Web site told me over a year ago that his site had "bought" keywords in Yahoo's search engine, guaranteeing that it would come out at or near the top of certain searches.
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me at all if I found out that all the commercial "portals" were doing this.
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I've found the easiest way to handle the lack of recovery media is to purchase an external USB drive, install Clonezilla on it, and take an image of the hard drive before I ever boot from it (or overwrite it).
It was Jason Lezak, not Phelps, who anchored the 4x100 Olympic relay and closed what appeared to be insurmountable lead by the French team.
I'd guess that John C. Welsh has never laid his hands on, installed, or tried to configure OS X 10.5 server. I installed the developers' preview edition of Leopard server, and, well, someone's got a lot of writing to do.
In particular, I tried to set up the iCal server and test it with various clients. There's essentially no documentation, and what exists is less than helpful. It appears not to work well with the iCal application that ships with Tiger. I had a little better luck with Mozilla calendaring clients, but only a little.
If iCal is going to be the great alternative to MS Exchange that Apple aficiondos and the IT press would like it to be, it's got to a) work with a variety of existing clients (including Tiger's), b) be easy to set up from the client side, c) work with existing authentication databases, and d) have some meaningful documentation. Anything less, imo, and Leopard's iCal server is basically vaporware.
RHEL (or, for me, CentOS) is boring. It's not meant to run on the latest gamer PCs or laptops. It doesn't include proprietary video drivers. All it does is serve up bits without interruption: databases, web pages, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, files, login shells. Work gets done. Customers get served. Employees get paid. All without any danger/excitement! Boring is a feature, not a bug.
Did Richard's father stab Sun with a fork?
Did Richard's mother run off with a man living in Sun's house?
Does Richard really dislike yellow and brown?
Once Wegener is proven correct, we'll all get ZIP drift.
If Microsoft were to "embrace and extend" Linux in the way that it did Java or kerberos, would Linus Torvalds, as owner of the Linux trademark, have legal ground to sue? What would be the substance of the suit/defense?
Anything subject to fair use laws is likely to be multi-faceted. If I'm studying a first-edition Faulkner, I may solely be interested in the text of the work -- but I'm just as likely to be interested in the typography, illustrations, binding, paper quality, etc.
Same thing with a movie. I may just be interested in the screenplay -- but it's more likely that I'll want to study (or present for study) the cinematography, art design, costuming, sound effects, small facial expressions of the actors, and other details that could easily get lost or blurred in a lesser copy.
The issue may have legal reprecussions in addition to the obvious moral ones. Check out Section 508 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, esp. this tidbit:
My reading of this legalese is that any company that wants to do business with the Federal government has to make corporate information easily accessible to all.
This is nothing new. An acquaintance at a local commercial Web site told me over a year ago that his site had "bought" keywords in Yahoo's search engine, guaranteeing that it would come out at or near the top of certain searches.
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me at all if I found out that all the commercial "portals" were doing this.