I'm a little unclear on why Nagios (which AFAIK is a server monitoring app) would have to do specifically with a file server that houses business contracts.
Would you care to comment on whether Samba4 is useful only for replicating MS technologies in the network, or also for use in a pure Linux/POSIX environment (UNIX, Linux, Mac)?
Can you use pure Kerberos (not the MS version), or is that recommended?
And can Linux Terminal Server Project tie into this in some way (serve an appropriate terminal image based on a Samba profile)?
I'm guessing the reason for some of the comments in this thread (wherin big bad Oracle is raping an innocent FOSS project) is just that people don't know or have forgotten that Sun paid for Star Office and then released it as a free gift to humanity.
(OK, the last part was sort of unicorny, but no more than the characterizations of Larry Ellison and Oracle.)
Sun/Oracle took money (invested by miners, teachers, etc. in their pension funds, and others), bought Star Division and released their code for free to the world. Cry me a river about evil Sun/Oracle.
>They are playing stupid, using their shut up power over enslaved programmers they succeed to bribe with their salaries because they need to eat, and they try to rip the community into their pockets just because the "own" (in a legalistic way) the name.
Did we just jump into the labor theory of value? There are definite excesses in Western economies, but are you seriously proposing from each according to his means, to each according to his needs? That was tried and failed.
They don't "legalistically" own the name. They own it legally and morally.
If someone's giving out free cookies on Christmas, you don't have to praise him to high heaven. But the least you can do is not dis him.
The forkers were within their rights to fork; but asking to remain on the OO council and to take the name is just amazing chutzpah.
The thing is, Sun/Oracle paid for the development of StarOffice (by compensating its employees and owners). It then released it for free. Then it contributed the majority of paid employees working on OpenOffice. I would think that that would count for something morally.
People didn't code OpenOffice for fun. It was a gift.
I think the LibreOfficers seemed to have brought this upon themselves. Instead of working with Oracle, they just made a self-fulfilling prophecy (they're going to boot us, so let's make a fork before they boot us, make a fork and then expect to still lead the main trunk).
Agree with not building your own. If you want to avoid Dell, use a local whiteboxer.
Anyway, does anybody have anything to say about Dell vs. HP vs. anybody else (Lenovo?). Better warranties, better build process, more open architecture?
Does Dell make network PCs (X or Citrix terminals) like HP?
I've heard that Dell used to be highly proprietary with their RAM and so on. Has that changed? Will you be able to make replacements from the standard peripherals market?
The MS video features this gem: "New employees lacked OpenOffice.org applications' use skills that significantly increased employees' adaptation period and adversely affected their operational efficiency." -- Igor Gentosh, Head of Systems Integration Department, Kredobank JSC
Uhhmm... so is that the reason you went and changed the entire interface in Office 2007 to the ribbon? If anything OO preserves skill investments.
OO is basically Office97+, which was a great version. OO is just fine for the non-templated letters that pass for "Office suite" use in most offices. Not that it doesn't have better templates (and page formats, too).
The only major deficiency is the non user-friendly macro system.
Don't get me wrong, though. I love books (real books).
On the other hand, I also like underdogs, and I hate towers of power, so I'm inclined to root for self-publishers. If this gets publishers to return authors' calls, it'll be a good thing.
THAT. I think proponents and opponents of this trend might not exactly be hearing what the other is saying. I think the point is that people CAN self-publish, not that it's always "better" (for whom?) or more profitable to do so.
The latest trend in covers is to have a picture of something totally unrelated to the subject.
O'Reilly is the canonical example, but there are others (can't remember) in the tech arena that feature, e.g., Buddhist and other temples on the cover. Some Packt covers features color pics of wild animals.
A picture plus the title in a large font doesn't seem so difficult.
And if you're not doing this as your main living, it's not really a big deal.
For example, if you're a college professor, and your goal is the learning for learning's sake and the distribution of knowledge, and society is already paying you for that, it might be OK to make 50 cents per book, basically the same as you would for traditional publishing.
Re: editing. Take advantage of colleagues or the Thinking in Java model.
copy editing: blog readers/TIJ model/pay someone.
marketing: depends on your goals. If you're not trying to become rich and famous, you don't really need paid marketing.
cover: again, it depends on your goals.
music analogy: Actually at $2.99, for many (most?) people, it'll cost less just to buy the book then to spend time vetting it.
The Skynet Funding Bill was passed. The system originally went online on August 4th 1997. Human decisions were removed from strategic defense. Skynet began to learn at a geometric rate. It originally became self-aware on August 29th 1997 2:14 am Eastern Time.
Do pot growers use "grow lights" because they're trying to hide their crop? Or because they're trying to grow it faster or better than it would in sunlight?
What you say is definitely true. But for places that want multiple levels of security, they might want to avoid you copying a 200-page document, which would be hard to copy quickly and inconspicuously with your camera.
While I'm not disagreeing that some whiners will attempt a lawsuit, it's just amazing that such are entertained at all.
Specified personnel get notified when a user attempts to copy something marked "Confidential-Not to be copied"? Cry me a river of privacy-emitting penumbras.
The feature is not going to be activated when people copy their boring love letters written in cursive, but why are they bringing those to work, anyway?
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I'm a little unclear on why Nagios (which AFAIK is a server monitoring app) would have to do specifically with a file server that houses business contracts.
Would you care to comment on whether Samba4 is useful only for replicating MS technologies in the network, or also for use in a pure Linux/POSIX environment (UNIX, Linux, Mac)?
Can you use pure Kerberos (not the MS version), or is that recommended?
And can Linux Terminal Server Project tie into this in some way (serve an appropriate terminal image based on a Samba profile)?
Your recollection is correct. Sun did buy Star Division.
I'm guessing the reason for some of the comments in this thread (wherin big bad Oracle is raping an innocent FOSS project) is just that people don't know or have forgotten that Sun paid for Star Office and then released it as a free gift to humanity.
(OK, the last part was sort of unicorny, but no more than the characterizations of Larry Ellison and Oracle.)
Sorry, but on what moral basis do you say this?
Sun/Oracle took money (invested by miners, teachers, etc. in their pension funds, and others), bought Star Division and released their code for free to the world. Cry me a river about evil Sun/Oracle.
>They are playing stupid, using their shut up power over enslaved programmers they succeed to bribe with their salaries because they need to eat, and they try to rip the community into their pockets just because the "own" (in a legalistic way) the name.
Did we just jump into the labor theory of value? There are definite excesses in Western economies, but are you seriously proposing from each according to his means, to each according to his needs? That was tried and failed.
They don't "legalistically" own the name. They own it legally and morally.
If someone's giving out free cookies on Christmas, you don't have to praise him to high heaven. But the least you can do is not dis him.
The forkers were within their rights to fork; but asking to remain on the OO council and to take the name is just amazing chutzpah.
The thing is, Sun/Oracle paid for the development of StarOffice (by compensating its employees and owners). It then released it for free. Then it contributed the majority of paid employees working on OpenOffice. I would think that that would count for something morally.
People didn't code OpenOffice for fun. It was a gift.
I think the LibreOfficers seemed to have brought this upon themselves. Instead of working with Oracle, they just made a self-fulfilling prophecy (they're going to boot us, so let's make a fork before they boot us, make a fork and then expect to still lead the main trunk).
You have to admit LibreOffice is kind of weird name compared to some others they could have come up with. How about just GoOffice?
Agree with not building your own. If you want to avoid Dell, use a local whiteboxer.
Anyway, does anybody have anything to say about Dell vs. HP vs. anybody else (Lenovo?). Better warranties, better build process, more open architecture?
Does Dell make network PCs (X or Citrix terminals) like HP?
I've heard that Dell used to be highly proprietary with their RAM and so on. Has that changed? Will you be able to make replacements from the standard peripherals market?
Movement to Overthrow MS Tyranny.
Can I have a free MSDN license?
The MS video features this gem: "New employees lacked OpenOffice.org applications' use skills that significantly increased employees' adaptation period and adversely affected their operational efficiency." -- Igor Gentosh, Head of Systems Integration Department, Kredobank JSC
Uhhmm ... so is that the reason you went and changed the entire interface in Office 2007 to the ribbon? If anything OO preserves skill investments.
OO is basically Office97+, which was a great version. OO is just fine for the non-templated letters that pass for "Office suite" use in most offices. Not that it doesn't have better templates (and page formats, too).
The only major deficiency is the non user-friendly macro system.
True about the quantities.
Don't get me wrong, though. I love books (real books).
On the other hand, I also like underdogs, and I hate towers of power, so I'm inclined to root for self-publishers. If this gets publishers to return authors' calls, it'll be a good thing.
>You CAN make a book cover using random artwork with a large font, but you'd be surprised how many people can screw that up, too.
Agreed.
>And if you screw it up, it'll make people think the contents of your book are amateurish, too, and nobody will read it.
Maybe you could just print the title in normal font (like old-style theses).
The thing is, though, for people who have a modicum of Word ability, just totally copying something like:
https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/2268OS_MockupCover_0.jpg
is within their grasp.
THAT. I think proponents and opponents of this trend might not exactly be hearing what the other is saying. I think the point is that people CAN self-publish, not that it's always "better" (for whom?) or more profitable to do so.
The latest trend in covers is to have a picture of something totally unrelated to the subject.
O'Reilly is the canonical example, but there are others (can't remember) in the tech arena that feature, e.g., Buddhist and other temples on the cover. Some Packt covers features color pics of wild animals.
A picture plus the title in a large font doesn't seem so difficult.
And if you're not doing this as your main living, it's not really a big deal.
Well, it depends on your goals.
For example, if you're a college professor, and your goal is the learning for learning's sake and the distribution of knowledge, and society is already paying you for that, it might be OK to make 50 cents per book, basically the same as you would for traditional publishing.
Re: editing. Take advantage of colleagues or the Thinking in Java model.
copy editing: blog readers/TIJ model/pay someone.
marketing: depends on your goals. If you're not trying to become rich and famous, you don't really need paid marketing.
cover: again, it depends on your goals.
music analogy: Actually at $2.99, for many (most?) people, it'll cost less just to buy the book then to spend time vetting it.
The Skynet Funding Bill was passed. The system originally went online on August 4th 1997. Human decisions were removed from strategic defense. Skynet began to learn at a geometric rate. It originally became self-aware on August 29th 1997 2:14 am Eastern Time.
Great post.
The spirit of the Carterphone fight (ability to connect any lawful device) echoes the spirit of today's network neutrality fight.
Did you use rrdtool?
Do pot growers use "grow lights" because they're trying to hide their crop? Or because they're trying to grow it faster or better than it would in sunlight?
What you say is definitely true. But for places that want multiple levels of security, they might want to avoid you copying a 200-page document, which would be hard to copy quickly and inconspicuously with your camera.
Why did they need to make the copier shut down just to avoid making a copy? (Especially B&W.)
I'd think it would be better to print some text like "DOCUMENT COPY" in dot matrix across the copy.
Hey, that image also blocks my browser from displaying it!
>Use something that will print the constellation and print up a ream of paper.
And then use something that won't copy the constellation when you don't want to make copies.
Then use something that will copy the constellation when you do want to make copies. :)
Seriously, though, thanks for the info, I never knew about this particular mark before.
While I'm not disagreeing that some whiners will attempt a lawsuit, it's just amazing that such are entertained at all.
Specified personnel get notified when a user attempts to copy something marked "Confidential-Not to be copied"? Cry me a river of privacy-emitting penumbras.
The feature is not going to be activated when people copy their boring love letters written in cursive, but why are they bringing those to work, anyway?
The one that says "Confidential - Eyes Only"
get hurt.
Hand over your cell phone and tell me your Facebook email.