Sure, that's obviously what they're trying to do, but realistically, either their new manufacturing technique works, or it doesn't. The point of Ontario's alternative energy initiative is to reduce air pollution, and cut greenhouse gas emissions. If this research investment ever pays dividends, it won't be for many many years in the future, and will likely still come at a high cost to the Ontario taxpayer.
The point I was trying to make was, the safest investment of Ontario's resources would be to contribute to a proper national power grid, it's been in the planning stages since the '80s, had they acted then, there'd be a lot less coal used to generate electricity then there is today, and Southern Ontario would be breathing cleaner air.
It does seem like a colossal waste of government resources to create 40MW of generating capacity (when the sun is shining). The 300-400 million would be better spent upgrading the Canadian east-west power grid between southern Ontario, and the province of Manitoba, perhaps with an efficient High Voltage DC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC long haul interconnect.
Manitoba has 2180MW of clean hydroelectric generating capacity that is slated to be completed within the next ten years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_River_Hydroele ctric_Project however the existing transmission capacity between the two provinces is so poor, most of Manitoba's power is exported to the United States, rather than displacing some of Ontario's dirty coal power generation.
It's considered 'out of date', however there isn't a clause stating that you can't call yourself an RHCE, even if you're carrying an 'out of date' cert.
From the RHCE Page: (http://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/courses/)
" RHCE certifications on 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0 are all considered current by Red Hat, Inc. RHCT certifications commence with 8.0. Red Hat has no plans to de-list RHCEs, however, RHCE and RHCT certification will only be "current" for 2 full releases after the release on which the Exam was taken. Re-certification is a matter of choice by professionals and their employers."
Whew.
I know my employer would have fits if I asked them to send me to Toronto (again) for my RHCE exam.
I would be concerned if -ac resigned due to philosophical differences.
Besides any company who uses and defends the GPL as vigorously as Redhat can't be all bad. Ex: RedHat never made a stink when early Mandrake installers were 98% based on RedHat's GPL'd installer.
And as for switching to Linux, you might not have that option, as the entire point about Palladium was that it is mean to be enforced in hardware via alliances with Intel and AMD (for now).
Surely a major CPU/mobo manufacturer will spring up in Taiwan, mainland China, or possibly Europe who'll simply continue to build on the 'Open' PC platform.
I really don't see this form of electronic colonialism going over too well outside of the USA.
Then again, I'm sure the current US administration would inflict harsh trade sanctions on any country that doesn't fall into lock-step with their, or more precisely the Corporate Lobby's World View. That's been the trend in US foreign/economic policy these days (US Farm subsidies, Canadian softwood lumber tarrifs....I could go on....
Do you hear that furious clicking sound? That's the sound of a thousand 'Katz filters' being turned on.
Rant: Katz has the amazing ability to turn every meaningless 'news story' into a 'huge win for geek culture' or a 'monumental culture shift'. NEWSFLASH KATZ: Most people who've seen both thought Spiderman was a better movie, could that be why it's doing better at the box office??
Rant: Don't even get me started on his milking of 9/11, it reminded me of NBC's Olympic coverage where every American athlete was a hero just for waking up every morning to compete. It's sick how the 'media' keeps milking an event where 3000 everyday people died, I would have thought even Katz would be above this.
My former employer is currently in the process of evaluating a '4-node' 'Google-Box', very neat hardware, essentially a mini-rack about 2.5 feet high, with 4 1U rack servers (presumably a mini linux cluster), storage, and a UPS.
The selling point for them:
As a governmental organization, regulations stipulate they must be able to provide online content to the RCMP upon request, so it must be hosted on-site. As I'm sure most corporations have similar guidelines, this could be a big cash cow for google at some point.
Google's top notch search technology, now on-site? Sign me up!
Seeing an authentic MS Office on Linux would jump an important hurdle impeding wide-spread rollouts of Desktop Linux.
OpenOffice (as good as it is) won't make large scale gains in the 'Enterprise' because it will take more than Free Software ideals for the massive MS Office massive user-base to migrate to a Linux platform.
I'm sure many IT Directors are looking for alternatives to MicroSoft's new 'software-rental' purchasing. Many know linux is a solid desktop OS, unfortunately that's when reality hits. Not having true MS Office means:
- MS Access client apps will need to be rewritten (hundreds lurk in my company)
- Any Visual Basic code and Macros will need to be redeveloped
- Retrain hundreds/thousands of end-users
- Train all new employees (When's the last time an applicant listed StarOffice as a skill?)
I believe MS Office on Linux could lead to widescale Linux OS adoption in the corporate world, and wouldn't that be the first half of the battle won? By that tme I'm sure OpenOffice will be tough to beat.
On january 16h MSNBC reported a similar issue related to the MSSQL server's "sa" account, and default/blank/poor passwords being used on several e-commerce sites..
http://www.msnbc.com/news/357305.asp
Slashdot also linked it:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/16/138234.sht ml
uberman, thinking there's a need for widespread auditing of so-called ecommerce consultant's work
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, that's obviously what they're trying to do, but realistically, either their new manufacturing technique works, or it doesn't. The point of Ontario's alternative energy initiative is to reduce air pollution, and cut greenhouse gas emissions. If this research investment ever pays dividends, it won't be for many many years in the future, and will likely still come at a high cost to the Ontario taxpayer.
The point I was trying to make was, the safest investment of Ontario's resources would be to contribute to a proper national power grid, it's been in the planning stages since the '80s, had they acted then, there'd be a lot less coal used to generate electricity then there is today, and Southern Ontario would be breathing cleaner air.
Scott
It does seem like a colossal waste of government resources to create 40MW of generating capacity (when the sun is shining). The 300-400 million would be better spent upgrading the Canadian east-west power grid between southern Ontario, and the province of Manitoba, perhaps with an efficient High Voltage DC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC long haul interconnect.
e ctric_Project however the existing transmission capacity between the two provinces is so poor, most of Manitoba's power is exported to the United States, rather than displacing some of Ontario's dirty coal power generation.
Manitoba has 2180MW of clean hydroelectric generating capacity that is slated to be completed within the next ten years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_River_Hydroel
Scott
Not exactly.
It's considered 'out of date', however there isn't a clause stating that you can't call yourself an RHCE, even if you're carrying an 'out of date' cert.
From the RHCE Page: (http://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/courses/)
" RHCE certifications on 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0 are all considered current by Red Hat, Inc. RHCT certifications commence with 8.0. Red Hat has no plans to de-list RHCEs, however, RHCE and RHCT certification will only be "current" for 2 full releases after the release on which the Exam was taken. Re-certification is a matter of choice by professionals and their employers."
Whew.
I know my employer would have fits if I asked them to send me to Toronto (again) for my RHCE exam.
uberman
7. Alan Cox hasn't quit yet.
I would be concerned if -ac resigned due to philosophical differences.
Besides any company who uses and defends the GPL as vigorously as Redhat can't be all bad.
Ex: RedHat never made a stink when early Mandrake installers were 98% based on RedHat's GPL'd installer.
uberman
Possibly because this release is in limo between 7.3 and 8.0?
I suspect the next will be an 8.0 release for no other reason than they've switched to GCC3.x, may the hack known as GCC 2.96 rest in peace...woo hoo!
uberman
And as for switching to Linux, you might not have that option, as the entire point about Palladium was that it is mean to be enforced in hardware via alliances with Intel and AMD (for now).
Surely a major CPU/mobo manufacturer will spring up in Taiwan, mainland China, or possibly Europe who'll simply continue to build on the 'Open' PC platform.
I really don't see this form of electronic colonialism going over too well outside of the USA.
Then again, I'm sure the current US administration would inflict harsh trade sanctions on any country that doesn't fall into lock-step with their, or more precisely the Corporate Lobby's World View. That's been the trend in US foreign/economic policy these days (US Farm subsidies, Canadian softwood lumber tarrifs....I could go on....
/uberman
Do you hear that furious clicking sound? That's the sound of a thousand 'Katz filters' being turned on.
Rant:
Katz has the amazing ability to turn every meaningless 'news story' into a 'huge win for geek culture' or a 'monumental culture shift'.
NEWSFLASH KATZ: Most people who've seen both thought Spiderman was a better movie, could that be why it's doing better at the box office??
Rant:
Don't even get me started on his milking of 9/11, it reminded me of NBC's Olympic coverage where every American athlete was a hero just for waking up every morning to compete. It's sick how the 'media' keeps milking an event where 3000 everyday people died, I would have thought even Katz would be above this.
Whew. I'm ready to have this modded down now....
My former employer is currently in the process of evaluating a '4-node' 'Google-Box', very neat hardware, essentially a mini-rack about 2.5 feet high, with 4 1U rack servers (presumably a mini linux cluster), storage, and a UPS.
The selling point for them:
As a governmental organization, regulations stipulate they must be able to provide online content to the RCMP upon request, so it must be hosted on-site. As I'm sure most corporations have similar guidelines, this could be a big cash cow for google at some point.
Google's top notch search technology, now on-site? Sign me up!
uberman
The exe appears to be a compiled Visual Basic executable, sprinkled throughout the EXE are references to:
Font.Color
FormResize
TabOrder
...
uberman
Microsoft Office for Linux - A means to an end?
Seeing an authentic MS Office on Linux would jump an important hurdle impeding wide-spread rollouts of Desktop Linux.
OpenOffice (as good as it is) won't make large scale gains in the 'Enterprise' because it will take more than Free Software ideals for the massive MS Office massive user-base to migrate to a Linux platform.
I'm sure many IT Directors are looking for alternatives to MicroSoft's new 'software-rental' purchasing. Many know linux is a solid desktop OS, unfortunately that's when reality hits. Not having true MS Office means:
- MS Access client apps will need to be rewritten (hundreds lurk in my company)
- Any Visual Basic code and Macros will need to be redeveloped
- Retrain hundreds/thousands of end-users
- Train all new employees (When's the last time an applicant listed StarOffice as a skill?)
I believe MS Office on Linux could lead to widescale Linux OS adoption in the corporate world, and wouldn't that be the first half of the battle won? By that tme I'm sure OpenOffice will be tough to beat.
/uberman tossing in his $0.02
On january 16h MSNBC reported a similar issue related to the MSSQL server's "sa" account, and default/blank/poor passwords being used on several e-commerce sites..
t ml
http://www.msnbc.com/news/357305.asp
Slashdot also linked it:
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/16/138234.sh
uberman, thinking there's a need for widespread auditing of so-called ecommerce consultant's work