MySQL(because even the client libs are licensed under essentially the GPL, which prevents linking with many other open source projects)
I agree that licensing client libs under the GPL instead of the LGPL is somewhat annoying but that really doesn't prevent other OS projects from using the code. It just limits the licensing options of their project.
Proprietary software means software that someone can make copyright
FOSS software is still copyrighted. If someone uses my GPL released code without proper credit or in violation of the GPL, I can most certainly make copyright claims against them.
For that matter I could apply for patent on a software method I use in my GPL code if I didn't want people to use the same method in their proprietary code. Kind like forcing them to use and update my GPL code for that method.
PythonGTK is nice, but still nowhere near VB6 (look at the complexity of the runtimes). There is a few 'fringe' programs but to be honest you have to get much closer to the bone to do anything on Linux. Even Mono is still lacking true click and drag programming.
Are you suggesting that drag and drop programming is a good thing? Maybe it allows for faster implementation but it provides much slower and far more stupid solutions than true programming. I am not even sure that it can be consider true programming.
All those companies that went for the easy way out in '97 deserve to suffer the consequences. They got what they paid for. They getting what they desire. If you cut corners when you do things eventually you end up paying to have the corners squared off.
Imagine a embedded device running linux. You can use it but the distibuter gives you no updated "firmware" and thus no binaries. The only way to find out it runs linux is to "hack" it.
Come on this is just getting really stupid.
If they have box running the firmwire, they have the binaries. Because the firmware is the binary. You can't run the software without the binaries.
Any problems like that are hardly FC related. If FC doesn't have proper support for NCQ drives on specific chipsets it's a libata issue if it's related software at all. Thus it would affect any distro running the same kernel.
The worst thing about the XP install is you need a SATA driver floppy to install to the sata drive. Most manufacturers ship the drivers on CD. Considering Microsoft said the floppy should be in the 1998 Computer, why in the world do they still require one for installing in 2005.
I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 and nothing was broken at all. The only issue I faced was that new packages offered in FC3 where not installed because no previous version had been. IE I had to add thunderbird with a yum install thunderbird after upgrading. Not a big deal at all.
Simple answer No definitely not. Though Synaptic is nice, apt cannot handle multilib dependencies like FC x86_64 provide. Yum is getting a graphical frontend (yumex) as well that though not working 100% is looking pretty good and in some ways is a lot nicer than Synaptic.
The challenge response method doesn't scale well as it adds too much overhead to the email system.
Also as a sales rep, I would never use it because I wouldn't want to make it any harder than it already is to contact me. I can guarantee that some customers won't bother replying to the response challenge and just move on to some other company that is easier to contact.
Just imagine what happens if customer Bob sends me an email for a quote request on Friday Evening, goes home for the weekend and doesn't check his email to Monday morning. Wham! Waiting in his email box is a challenge response asking if he really wanted to send me that email on Friday.
What does he do?
He trashes the email challenge and looks for someone else to provide a quote.
The HAM operators can use 802.11 (2.4GHz is in the Armature Band). Just generally point to point. They are also allowed to use higher transmission power than regular folks.
unless someone figures out a way to send a WiFi signal across an ocean, they'll be needed to maintain the hardwires and satellites
That really depends on your definition of Wifi. I think Marconi has already sent communication across the ocean wirelessly.
I believe you will also find that Ham operators can send data packets that far now. The question is not whether it can be done but at what type of bandwidth and reliability.
Using a satellite to bounce the signal off of is just more reliable even with the greater delay.
Chances are in a few years, you won't have to forgo that new $60,000 dollar car just to buy an 82" LCD monitor. I would count on a 102" Plasma dropping much in price though.
The Supreme Court of Canada has proven to be anything but trustworthy. They take the objective and make it subjective just so they can re-write Canadian law on a whim.
"Oh that's what the writers of the bill of rights intended, they just didn't have the forethought to write anything about it."
Ah but they are completely different that what we saw in terminator. Look at how hard Baltar needs to work to differentiate them. They aren't machines with psuedo skin. They are generically modified human clones or copies.
Why would you? Even if they start shooting in March the North American First Session would be complete before they finish post production on the session premier so they really won't have any reason to air staggered since it costs them some "counted viewers" do to downloading.
Yeah that's a newer implementation. I was talking about BSD initscripts. It's nice that NetBSD/FreeBSD has updated them to a more logical form but they are no longer true BSD initscripts then are they.
Can you fit more than eight Opterons in a single machine?
Yeah I can put 8 dual cores in the new 8 Way boards so 16
Can the CPUs be hot swapped?
Well with current motherboards no but they are adding that type of support. Similar to what you have on an Alpha where you can suspend a CPU.
Do they have the proven uptime record of UltraSparcs?
Do I care? A Sun machine with the uptime promise like that costs over a million dollars. I can easily build a much more reliable solution with multiple opterons for a lot less. And Sun won't be having me sign any non disclosure agreements when my so called never break down sun actually breaks down. And yes they do break down.
Contrary to popular Slashdot belief, not every task is suitable for clustering.
No that statement is incorrect. The correct statement is "not every software application is suitable for clustering." Written a different way most applications can be parallelized.
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More Correctly FC2 was the beta for RHEL 4. The beta work was continued into FC3 when they couldn't get SELinux working properly before FC2 shipped.
MySQL(because even the client libs are licensed under essentially the GPL, which prevents linking with many other open source projects)
I agree that licensing client libs under the GPL instead of the LGPL is somewhat annoying but that really doesn't prevent other OS projects from using the code. It just limits the licensing options of their project.
Proprietary software means software that someone can make copyright
FOSS software is still copyrighted. If someone uses my GPL released code without proper credit or in violation of the GPL, I can most certainly make copyright claims against them.
For that matter I could apply for patent on a software method I use in my GPL code if I didn't want people to use the same method in their proprietary code. Kind like forcing them to use and update my GPL code for that method.
PythonGTK is nice, but still nowhere near VB6 (look at the complexity of the runtimes). There is a few 'fringe' programs but to be honest you have to get much closer to the bone to do anything on Linux. Even Mono is still lacking true click and drag programming.
Are you suggesting that drag and drop programming is a good thing? Maybe it allows for faster implementation but it provides much slower and far more stupid solutions than true programming. I am not even sure that it can be consider true programming.
All those companies that went for the easy way out in '97 deserve to suffer the consequences. They got what they paid for. They getting what they desire. If you cut corners when you do things eventually you end up paying to have the corners squared off.
Tom Cruise and Val Klimer are too old for the role. Frankly so is Weaton these days but at least he would be more beliveable as a 20ish student.
Imagine a embedded device running linux. You can use it but the distibuter gives you no updated "firmware" and thus no binaries. The only way to find out it runs linux is to "hack" it.
Come on this is just getting really stupid.
If they have box running the firmwire, they have the binaries. Because the firmware is the binary. You can't run the software without the binaries.
Any problems like that are hardly FC related. If FC doesn't have proper support for NCQ drives on specific chipsets it's a libata issue if it's related software at all. Thus it would affect any distro running the same kernel.
Cool. I haven't seen an Windows XP with SP2 disk yet.
Sure. The drives have never been the issue. The SATA chipsets on the other hand are a different story.
THat should be shouldn't be in the 1998 Computer.
The worst thing about the XP install is you need a SATA driver floppy to install to the sata drive. Most manufacturers ship the drivers on CD. Considering Microsoft said the floppy should be in the 1998 Computer, why in the world do they still require one for installing in 2005.
I can't afford to play with $20,000 dollar "science projects" as IBM called Itanium.
I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 and nothing was broken at all. The only issue I faced was that new packages offered in FC3 where not installed because no previous version had been. IE I had to add thunderbird with a yum install thunderbird after upgrading. Not a big deal at all.
Simple answer No definitely not. Though Synaptic is nice, apt cannot handle multilib dependencies like FC x86_64 provide. Yum is getting a graphical frontend (yumex) as well that though not working 100% is looking pretty good and in some ways is a lot nicer than Synaptic.
As long as you want either all 32 or 64Bit libs. APT still can't handle multilib installs.
If you can handle a pure 64Bit distro debian is fine. But man I know I prefer not seeing those puzzle pieces in FireFox when I hit a flash site.
I know how challenge response works.
Now you want to encrypt everything and again add more overhead. Not only that how do you do any server side filtering with encrypted messages?
And, if you wanted to receive mail from everyone, you could just configure "*" into your whitelist.
Or I could just run spamassassin and not waste my time on challenge response.
The challenge response method doesn't scale well as it adds too much overhead to the email system.
Also as a sales rep, I would never use it because I wouldn't want to make it any harder than it already is to contact me. I can guarantee that some customers won't bother replying to the response challenge and just move on to some other company that is easier to contact.
Just imagine what happens if customer Bob sends me an email for a quote request on Friday Evening, goes home for the weekend and doesn't check his email to Monday morning. Wham! Waiting in his email box is a challenge response asking if he really wanted to send me that email on Friday.
What does he do?
He trashes the email challenge and looks for someone else to provide a quote.
Why?
Because obviously I don't want his business.
The HAM operators can use 802.11 (2.4GHz is in the Armature Band). Just generally point to point. They are also allowed to use higher transmission power than regular folks.
unless someone figures out a way to send a WiFi signal across an ocean, they'll be needed to maintain the hardwires and satellites
That really depends on your definition of Wifi. I think Marconi has already sent communication across the ocean wirelessly.
I believe you will also find that Ham operators can send data packets that far now. The question is not whether it can be done but at what type of bandwidth and reliability.
Using a satellite to bounce the signal off of is just more reliable even with the greater delay.
Chances are in a few years, you won't have to forgo that new $60,000 dollar car just to buy an 82" LCD monitor. I would count on a 102" Plasma dropping much in price though.
The Supreme Court of Canada has proven to be anything but trustworthy. They take the objective and make it subjective just so they can re-write Canadian law on a whim.
"Oh that's what the writers of the bill of rights intended, they just didn't have the forethought to write anything about it."
similar to what we saw in Terminator
Ah but they are completely different that what we saw in terminator. Look at how hard Baltar needs to work to differentiate them. They aren't machines with psuedo skin. They are generically modified human clones or copies.
Why would you? Even if they start shooting in March the North American First Session would be complete before they finish post production on the session premier so they really won't have any reason to air staggered since it costs them some "counted viewers" do to downloading.
Yeah that's a newer implementation. I was talking about BSD initscripts. It's nice that NetBSD/FreeBSD has updated them to a more logical form but they are no longer true BSD initscripts then are they.
Can you fit more than eight Opterons in a single machine?
Yeah I can put 8 dual cores in the new 8 Way boards so 16
Can the CPUs be hot swapped?
Well with current motherboards no but they are adding that type of support. Similar to what you have on an Alpha where you can suspend a CPU.
Do they have the proven uptime record of UltraSparcs?
Do I care? A Sun machine with the uptime promise like that costs over a million dollars. I can easily build a much more reliable solution with multiple opterons for a lot less. And Sun won't be having me sign any non disclosure agreements when my so called never break down sun actually breaks down. And yes they do break down.
Contrary to popular Slashdot belief, not every task is suitable for clustering.
No that statement is incorrect. The correct statement is "not every software application is suitable for clustering." Written a different way most applications can be parallelized.