Doesn't exactly come as a surprise. And make no mistake, for some of these countries a nuclear power plant will only be the first step on the road to nuclear weapons. Saudi-Arabia has already for some time tried to get their hands on atomic weapons. For more details read this. They also financed Pakistan and exchanged scientists. The former Saudi defense minister Prince Sultan met with the father of the Pakistani A-bomb Quadir Khan in May 1999 at his nuclear reasearch labs. Crown prince Abdallah offered cheap oil in exchange for nuclear weapons at a state visit end of 2003 (washington post reported on this end of 2003). nukes need a delivery mechanism, so they try to take care of that too. In All-Sulayil they erected launching silos, allegedly they already have some pakistani Ghauri-rockets. For sure they already possess middle-range (2500 km) Dong-Feng-3. In May 2005 Saudi-Arabia asked the IAEO to "limi" their inspections, at June 16 2005 they signed an agreement to the effect that there will be no surprise inspections. In my eyes Saudia-Arabia having nukes would be much more dangerous than Iran. Iran never waged war or was as aggressor starting a war (though financing terrorist and supporting groups taking hostages) and is in this region a 20th century country - good infrastructure, good education and NO monarchy/dictatorship with an absolutist leader/sheik/king. Saudi-Arabia in contrast spreads hate, finances terrorists on a large scale - of these guys i would be afraid.
google was hiding a certain version of "Mein Kampf" which was offered by canadian nazi Garry Lauck on his website. But the copyright is with the Bavarian State in Germany and Lauck was offering an "illegal reproduction". So the copyright owner went to court and google had to take this out of their search results. The bavarian government only allows reprints of "Mein Kampf" which are accompanied by critical annotations, at least in Germany. But historic editions from the 40s can be sold as any other books. so no censorship there.
The setup you describe reminds me of ConAir. So why not add #6. Handcuff the passengers to their seats. In case they would want anything the stewardesses are there to help. It would be a little price to pay for feeling and being secure.
Why should i care for their hosting fees. Noone forced them to put their servers online in the fisrt place. At any given time could they go offline or switch to a subscriber model, so they wouldn't have all theses pesky freeriders "stealing" their bandwidth. By the way, who gives me something for the connection costs i have when those hefty flash ads come my way? Seems to me Yahoo is stealing my bandwidth, not the otherway round, aren't they ? What a bullshit argument this is
some of the important base packages are knoppix-version, but these are not really far from the usual debian version. analogous to self-created packages from deb-src you can update these very easily to the standard debian versions. i have done this here on 2 machines with rather new hardware where the debian-installer wasn't really working; called knoppix hdinstall and then apt-get update from there on. knoppix's hardware detection is just so much better and very mature, i wished the debian people would select the best tool for the installation job and accept different installers for different architectures. at least i can see no good in giving >90% of users a harder time
On the one hand you write "I've got too many customers that aren't willing to pay the premium for RHEL" but then "so they were eager to buy RHEL". Though i understand your thoughts about the lossleader building a brand, i believe red hat already has a very strong brand and can cut the losses coming from there without worrying about their brand too much. They perhaps can even appear more "enterprise IT" when not having a software by the same name running on the desktop of the cto's mom at home;-) Personally i think it is ok if red hat moves in this direction given they still support linux development/developers in general as they have done in the past and adhere to set linux standards (lsb etc.). I am sure in the not so distant future we will see Suse Enterprise renamed to Novell Server, so the desktop and the server distro will be named differently; and they'll adapt a similar price scheme. Customers still have the choice to migrate to other distros if they are not willing to pay the price and there are a lot of good distros out there. In the long run i believe it will be a win for linux that red hat earns more money and will be able to finance more enterprise features which will trickle down to all of us. i just hope the microsoft comment was an example of dry humour...
we developers work mostly under linux, the office staff with windows. except for one sales person who likes synchronizing his pda with outlook just too much, we are very happy with mozilla as a mailclient for accessing our imap mailserver. we use it additionally for accessing our central address database in ldap (just read-only though), just hope the mozilla guys will get their own ldap scheme someday with more supported attributes. i can't tell you much about centralized deployment as we are a rather small shop (15 people). most of our users under windows use mozilla even for surfing as it renders faster than IE. but the real IE-killers for them were the password manager (they hate repeatedly typing ebay logins) and for some the ad suppression. firebird is even better, but right now it is just me using it.
one thing everyone hates though is that you cannot display the recipient in the sent-folder, no real help seeing the sender - doh. alltogether a very good job by the mozilla people and you won't regret migrating from IE.
c't (german magazine) compared apache vs. IIS in a quite exhaustive test and made some very interesting points. Though not Win2k was involved the article may give you some hints and it is even available in plain english here
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Doesn't exactly come as a surprise. And make no mistake, for some of these countries a nuclear power plant will only be the first step on the road to nuclear weapons.
Saudi-Arabia has already for some time tried to get their hands on atomic weapons. For more details read this. They also financed Pakistan and exchanged scientists. The former Saudi defense minister Prince Sultan met with the father of the Pakistani A-bomb Quadir Khan in May 1999 at his nuclear reasearch labs. Crown prince Abdallah offered cheap oil in exchange for nuclear weapons at a state visit end of 2003 (washington post reported on this end of 2003).
nukes need a delivery mechanism, so they try to take care of that too. In All-Sulayil they erected launching silos, allegedly they already have some pakistani Ghauri-rockets. For sure they already possess middle-range (2500 km) Dong-Feng-3. In May 2005 Saudi-Arabia asked the IAEO to "limi" their inspections, at June 16 2005 they signed an agreement to the effect that there will be no surprise inspections.
In my eyes Saudia-Arabia having nukes would be much more dangerous than Iran. Iran never waged war or was as aggressor starting a war (though financing terrorist and supporting groups taking hostages) and is in this region a 20th century country - good infrastructure, good education and NO monarchy/dictatorship with an absolutist leader/sheik/king. Saudi-Arabia in contrast spreads hate, finances terrorists on a large scale - of these guys i would be afraid.
"Mein Kampf" is not illegal in Germany and google isn't hiding it from you - see http://www.dhd24.com/extra/kaufen-verkaufen/Mein-K ampf.html where you can buy it.
google was hiding a certain version of "Mein Kampf" which was offered by canadian nazi Garry Lauck on his website. But the copyright is with the Bavarian State in Germany and Lauck was offering an "illegal reproduction". So the copyright owner went to court and google had to take this out of their search results. The bavarian government only allows reprints of "Mein Kampf" which are accompanied by critical annotations, at least in Germany. But historic editions from the 40s can be sold as any other books. so no censorship there.
never mind spending a lot of effort for speeding up the boot process. as soon as MRAM will be available hibernate/standby/startup time are obsolete.
The setup you describe reminds me of ConAir. So why not add
#6. Handcuff the passengers to their seats. In case they would want anything the stewardesses are there to help. It would be a little price to pay for feeling and being secure.
Why should i care for their hosting fees. Noone forced them to put their servers online in the fisrt place. At any given time could they go offline or switch to a subscriber model, so they wouldn't have all theses pesky freeriders "stealing" their bandwidth.
By the way, who gives me something for the connection costs i have when those hefty flash ads come my way? Seems to me Yahoo is stealing my bandwidth, not the otherway round, aren't they ?
What a bullshit argument this is
some of the important base packages are knoppix-version, but these are not really far from the usual debian version. analogous to self-created packages from deb-src you can update these very easily to the standard debian versions. i have done this here on 2 machines with rather new hardware where the debian-installer wasn't really working; called knoppix hdinstall and then apt-get update from there on.
knoppix's hardware detection is just so much better and very mature, i wished the debian people would select the best tool for the installation job and accept different installers for different architectures. at least i can see no good in giving >90% of users a harder time
On the one hand you write "I've got too many customers that aren't willing to pay the premium for RHEL" but then "so they were eager to buy RHEL". Though i understand your thoughts about the lossleader building a brand, i believe red hat already has a very strong brand and can cut the losses coming from there without worrying about their brand too much. They perhaps can even appear more "enterprise IT" when not having a software by the same name running on the desktop of the cto's mom at home ;-)
Personally i think it is ok if red hat moves in this direction given they still support linux development/developers in general as they have done in the past and adhere to set linux standards (lsb etc.). I am sure in the not so distant future we will see Suse Enterprise renamed to Novell Server, so the desktop and the server distro will be named differently; and they'll adapt a similar price scheme.
Customers still have the choice to migrate to other distros if they are not willing to pay the price and there are a lot of good distros out there. In the long run i believe it will be a win for linux that red hat earns more money and will be able to finance more enterprise features which will trickle down to all of us. i just hope the microsoft comment was an example of dry humour...
we developers work mostly under linux, the office staff with windows. except for one sales person who likes synchronizing his pda with outlook just too much, we are very happy with mozilla as a mailclient for accessing our imap mailserver. we use it additionally for accessing our central address database in ldap (just read-only though), just hope the mozilla guys will get their own ldap scheme someday with more supported attributes. i can't tell you much about centralized deployment as we are a rather small shop (15 people).
most of our users under windows use mozilla even for surfing as it renders faster than IE. but the real IE-killers for them were the password manager (they hate repeatedly typing ebay logins) and for some the ad suppression. firebird is even better, but right now it is just me using it.
one thing everyone hates though is that you cannot display the recipient in the sent-folder, no real help seeing the sender - doh. alltogether a very good job by the mozilla people and you won't regret migrating from IE.
c't (german magazine) compared apache vs. IIS in a quite exhaustive test and made some very interesting points. Though not Win2k was involved the article may give you some hints and it is even available in plain english here