In 2003, when Nero came out with their Windows v5.5 version and a few months later with the v6 release, I was happy to pay them their 40+35(upgrade) Euros for their product. It was a very good investment... and now in 2005 I get to use NeroLinux for free:-)
Windows users with proper purchased Nero v6 license will be the ones to most benefit from this release...
Many IT reviews online are disappointed with the late release by Red Hat of an Enterprise Linux based on the 2.6 Kernel. I disagree with their views, Red Hat has done a lot to it's previous release running on the 2.4 kernel to make it stable, performant and has back-ported quiet a lot of interesting 2.6 features. Enterprise want stable systems above all, and they do not want to change their installed base to often (just look at how many Windows NT 4.0 servers there still are out there in companies, while SP1 for Windows Server 2003 is just around the corner).
One surprising testament to this slow upgrade-cycle is that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will have a seven year support cycle. That's two years more than RHEL3, and way longer than other operating systems. And this is a customer request.
What I'm looking forward in RHEL4 is LVM2, Larger filesystem support (1TB+), SElinux, e-poll (will provide better support for some commercial applications)
Freedom Fries vs french fries: self-explaining Right, why they are called French fries is still a mystery, because fries have trully a Belgian/Dutch ancistry.
Germany and France vs the US over Iraq : people often forget that it was Schroder who first opposed any war in Iraq. However Germany has never had much weight in international politics. France has much more clout, so the world hears them more. Well here, might I just point out that France has a veto right at the UN, while Germany has not ? Germany has also grown-up since the last war, with a strong self-imposed rigour on keeping it's military and foreign policy under control. It's only in the past 5 years that Germany has been more open on the topic. Only in 2004 was Germany official invited at the D-Day commeration.
I believe France stood on for their opinion on the Iraq war (good or bad), and with their UN veto right, and their unflinching stance on the topic, the US just regarded them as the 'bad-guys'. The vote (the last resolution to 'official support' an invasion) never took place, as it was a deadlock situation. This veto-lock at the UN has been happening for a long time.
A Tehnology leap can be successfully achieved if the new technology it tries to replace is 10 cheaper... or 10 times more powerfull or if there is a significant leap of medium/technology (like the CD over tape evolution).
If it's open source it might work (cost/license saving), if the audio quality is so much better than mp3 and makes the files really smaller it might work (performance).
But as many companies are finding out... mp3 was the revolution that they didn't notice till it was too late. Companies tried getting new codecs out to try to debunk mp3, but it was too late. They are now slowly forced to embrace the mp3 tech, but they are still trying to turn the tide. It won't.
mp3 is good enough for most people, it's widely available, and the source codes are out in the wild
I'm also a bit puzzeled, as VMware does work very well for me. The only issue I can see is with the pasthrou to the pcmcia card ? Ie Linux Host, Windows Guest, and no way to use the wireless card from Windows (Natively) or the otherway around. I'm also find it sometimes difficult to stop my Linux host to capturing and not releasing the integrated Bluetooth USB device, while I need it under Windows on VMware (HP Compaq nx7000).
I do have doubts that Steve Digicams review's are done without any influence by the constructors. There is no way such a person can have access to so many cameras on a private budget, and spend all his time doing just reviews. But don't get me wrong, I still read a lot of Steve's reviews as they are nicely detailed and the comparison with other products are great.
I'm long looking for a Open-Source Calendar application that can re-use 6 years Palm Desktop history of addresses, events and notes. I hope they soon get the import facility for Palm Desktop files, as well as connectivity to PocketPC, Zaurus etc...
In reply to your point 3... Switzerland... 703 years of existance (1291), with four different type of mentality and languagues. Nobody said it was easy and there are still differences... ~58 years a non-UN member... so it's probably stoll going to take a while for switzerland to join the EU.
Come on... and the american where not supplying the Talibans to help fight the russian's, when it was convenient ? All countries, may they be US, France, UK, China, Russia, Germany, Italy benefit from selling weapons... this is not going to change soon... country 1 sells to team 1, five years later country 2 sells to team 2. I stopped wondering where all the anti-personel mines used through out sectors in Asia and Africa came from...
The two main components provided by OpenBSD are CARP (the Common Address Redundancy Protocol), which allows a backup host to assume the identity of the primary, and pfsync, which ensures that firewall states are synchronised so that the backup can take over exactly where the master left off and no connections will be lost.
CARP The Common Address Redundancy Protocol manages failover at the intersection of Layers 2 and 3 in the OSI Model (link layer and IP layer). Each CARP group has a virtual MAC (link layer) address, and one or more virtual host IP addresses (the common address). CARP hosts respond to ARP requests for the common address with the virtual MAC address, and the CARP advertisements themselves are sent out with this as the source address, which helps switches quickly determine which port the virtual MAC address is currently "at".
The master of the address sends out CARP advertisement messages via multicast using the CARP protocol (IP Protocol 112) on a regular basis, and the backup hosts listen for this advertisement. If the advertisements stop, the backup hosts will begin advertising. The advertisement frequency is configurable, and the host which advertises most frequently is the one most likely to become master in the event of a failure.
A reader who is familiar with VRRP will find this is somewhat familiar, however there are some significant differences:
* The CARP protocol is address family independent. The OpenBSD implementation supports both IPv4 and IPv6, as a transport for the CARP packets as well as common addresses to be shared.
* CARP has an "arpbalance" feature that allows multiple hosts to share a single IP address simultaneously; in this configuration, there is a virtual MAC address for each host, but only one IP address.
* CARP uses a cryptographically strong SHA-1 HMAC to protect each advertisement.
Besides these technical differences, there is another significant difference (perhaps the most important one, in fact): CARP is not patent encumbered. See this page for details on the history of CARP and our reasons for avoiding a VRRP implementation.
pfsync pfsync transfers state insertion, update, and deletion messages between firewalls. Each firewall sends these messages out via multicast on a specified interface, using the PFSYNC protocol (IP Protocol 240). It also listens on that interface for similar messages from other firewalls, and imports them into the local state table.
In order to ensure that pfsync meets the packet volume and latency requirements, the initial implementation has no built-in authentication. An attacker who has local (link layer) access to the subnet used for pfsync traffic can trivially add, change, or remove states from the firewalls. It's possible to run the pfsync protocol on one of the "real" networks, but because of the security risks, it is strongly recommended that a dedicated, trusted network be used for pfsync. This can be as simple as a crossover cable between interfaces on two firewalls
Another good news for Linux in the Enterprise came from CodeWeaver's CrossOver Office 3.0. It now supports Lotus Notes 6.5.1 on Linux.
CodeWeaver is happy to announce that today we have shipped version 3.0 of CrossOver Office.
We've added new, official, support for Outlook XP, Microsoft Project, and Notes 6.5.1. Unofficially, we're excited by users comments that far more applications are working now. These include programs like Framemaker and Microsoft Money. You can see the full list of changes here:
Further, this version marks some fairly ubstantial changes in our CrossOver Product line. First, we have merged the CrossOver Plugin product into the CrossOver Office product offering, so now all non server versions of CrossOver automatically provide the Plugin functionality.
I *might* agree with the CTO of SUSE if Red Hat backported features, but didn't support them. Yet that is not the case. Red Hat promises a 5 year support for their Enterprise Linux releases, and I'm willing to pay for such a support. For my company's systems, I don't need to stay on the edge of new features, tools and other improvements. I NEED a stable operating system, requirering low change management (expect for security issues).
The 2.4Ghz bandwidth used by 802.11b and 802.11g have overlaps. The 5Ghz used by 802.11a and upcoming 802.11h (802.11a with Power Management) have non overlapping channels.
802.11g => ~32Mbps throughtput x 3 non-overlapping channels = ~90Mbps total usable bandwidth 802.11a => ~25Mbps throughput x 12 non-overlapping channels = ~300Mbps total usable bandwidth 802.11h => ~25Mbps throughput x 24 non-overlapping channels (due to better pwr mgmt) = ~600Mbps total usable bandwidth
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My was at 1328Mb two hours ago, now it's at 1428Mb.
In 2003, when Nero came out with their Windows v5.5 version and a few months later with the v6 release, I was happy to pay them their 40+35(upgrade) Euros for their product. It was a very good investment... and now in 2005 I get to use NeroLinux for free :-)
Windows users with proper purchased Nero v6 license will be the ones to most benefit from this release...
If you use commercial database, you will also see an cost increase due to the license-per-cpu. Lucky open source databases will take up on that slack.
Many IT reviews online are disappointed with the late release by Red Hat of an Enterprise Linux based on the 2.6 Kernel. I disagree with their views, Red Hat has done a lot to it's previous release running on the 2.4 kernel to make it stable, performant and has back-ported quiet a lot of interesting 2.6 features. Enterprise want stable systems above all, and they do not want to change their installed base to often (just look at how many Windows NT 4.0 servers there still are out there in companies, while SP1 for Windows Server 2003 is just around the corner).
One surprising testament to this slow upgrade-cycle is that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will have a seven year support cycle. That's two years more than RHEL3, and way longer than other operating systems. And this is a customer request.
What I'm looking forward in RHEL4 is LVM2, Larger filesystem support (1TB+), SElinux, e-poll (will provide better support for some commercial applications)
And it's sure will connect to the nice Novell Open-Xchange implementation.
Freedom Fries vs french fries: self-explaining
Right, why they are called French fries is still a mystery, because fries have trully a Belgian/Dutch ancistry.
Germany and France vs the US over Iraq : people often forget that it was Schroder who first opposed any war in Iraq. However Germany has never had much weight in international politics. France has much more clout, so the world hears them more.
Well here, might I just point out that France has a veto right at the UN, while Germany has not ? Germany has also grown-up since the last war, with a strong self-imposed rigour on keeping it's military and foreign policy under control. It's only in the past 5 years that Germany has been more open on the topic. Only in 2004 was Germany official invited at the D-Day commeration.
I believe France stood on for their opinion on the Iraq war (good or bad), and with their UN veto right, and their unflinching stance on the topic, the US just regarded them as the 'bad-guys'. The vote (the last resolution to 'official support' an invasion) never took place, as it was a deadlock situation. This veto-lock at the UN has been happening for a long time.
Babylon 5 was a five year show, with two additional spin-offs such as Babylon 5 - The Legends of the Rangers, and Crusade, including 5 or 6 TV movies. Not bad...
A Tehnology leap can be successfully achieved if the new technology it tries to replace is 10 cheaper... or 10 times more powerfull or if there is a significant leap of medium/technology (like the CD over tape evolution).
If it's open source it might work (cost/license saving), if the audio quality is so much better than mp3 and makes the files really smaller it might work (performance).
But as many companies are finding out... mp3 was the revolution that they didn't notice till it was too late. Companies tried getting new codecs out to try to debunk mp3, but it was too late. They are now slowly forced to embrace the mp3 tech, but they are still trying to turn the tide. It won't.
mp3 is good enough for most people, it's widely available, and the source codes are out in the wild
I'm also a bit puzzeled, as VMware does work very well for me. The only issue I can see is with the pasthrou to the pcmcia card ? Ie Linux Host, Windows Guest, and no way to use the wireless card from Windows (Natively) or the otherway around.
I'm also find it sometimes difficult to stop my Linux host to capturing and not releasing the integrated Bluetooth USB device, while I need it under Windows on VMware (HP Compaq nx7000).
Still running a MicroVAX 3100/24 with VMS 5.5-H2 under my desk. For sentimental reasons.
I do have doubts that Steve Digicams review's are done without any influence by the constructors. There is no way such a person can have access to so many cameras on a private budget, and spend all his time doing just reviews.
But don't get me wrong, I still read a lot of Steve's reviews as they are nicely detailed and the comparison with other products are great.
I'm long looking for a Open-Source Calendar application that can re-use 6 years Palm Desktop history of addresses, events and notes. I hope they soon get the import facility for Palm Desktop files, as well as connectivity to PocketPC, Zaurus etc...
No kernel 2.6 before RHEL4 (2005)
Forget Andromeda, it also got canned at the end of the 4th season... the last two episode where a quick & dirty attempt to finish the story... :-(
In reply to your point 3...
Switzerland... 703 years of existance (1291), with four different type of mentality and languagues. Nobody said it was easy and there are still differences...
~58 years a non-UN member... so it's probably stoll going to take a while for switzerland to join the EU.
Come on... and the american where not supplying the Talibans to help fight the russian's, when it was convenient ?
All countries, may they be US, France, UK, China, Russia, Germany, Italy benefit from selling weapons... this is not going to change soon... country 1 sells to team 1, five years later country 2 sells to team 2.
I stopped wondering where all the anti-personel mines used through out sectors in Asia and Africa came from...
Some belgians do ;-)
The two main components provided by OpenBSD are CARP (the Common Address Redundancy Protocol), which allows a backup host to assume the identity of the primary, and pfsync, which ensures that firewall states are synchronised so that the backup can take over exactly where the master left off and no connections will be lost.
CARP
The Common Address Redundancy Protocol manages failover at the intersection of Layers 2 and 3 in the OSI Model (link layer and IP layer). Each CARP group has a virtual MAC (link layer) address, and one or more virtual host IP addresses (the common address). CARP hosts respond to ARP requests for the common address with the virtual MAC address, and the CARP advertisements themselves are sent out with this as the source address, which helps switches quickly determine which port the virtual MAC address is currently "at".
The master of the address sends out CARP advertisement messages via multicast using the CARP protocol (IP Protocol 112) on a regular basis, and the backup hosts listen for this advertisement. If the advertisements stop, the backup hosts will begin advertising. The advertisement frequency is configurable, and the host which advertises most frequently is the one most likely to become master in the event of a failure.
A reader who is familiar with VRRP will find this is somewhat familiar, however there are some significant differences:
* The CARP protocol is address family independent. The OpenBSD implementation supports both IPv4 and IPv6, as a transport for the CARP packets as well as common addresses to be shared.
* CARP has an "arpbalance" feature that allows multiple hosts to share a single IP address simultaneously; in this configuration, there is a virtual MAC address for each host, but only one IP address.
* CARP uses a cryptographically strong SHA-1 HMAC to protect each advertisement.
Besides these technical differences, there is another significant difference (perhaps the most important one, in fact): CARP is not patent encumbered. See this page for details on the history of CARP and our reasons for avoiding a VRRP implementation.
pfsync
pfsync transfers state insertion, update, and deletion messages between firewalls. Each firewall sends these messages out via multicast on a specified interface, using the PFSYNC protocol (IP Protocol 240). It also listens on that interface for similar messages from other firewalls, and imports them into the local state table.
In order to ensure that pfsync meets the packet volume and latency requirements, the initial implementation has no built-in authentication. An attacker who has local (link layer) access to the subnet used for pfsync traffic can trivially add, change, or remove states from the firewalls. It's possible to run the pfsync protocol on one of the "real" networks, but because of the security risks, it is strongly recommended that a dedicated, trusted network be used for pfsync. This can be as simple as a crossover cable between interfaces on two firewalls
Another good news for Linux in the Enterprise came from CodeWeaver's CrossOver Office 3.0. It now supports Lotus Notes 6.5.1 on Linux.
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CodeWeaver is happy to announce that today we have shipped version 3.0 of CrossOver Office.
We've added new, official, support for Outlook XP, Microsoft Project, and Notes 6.5.1. Unofficially, we're excited by users comments that far more applications are working now. These include programs like Framemaker and Microsoft Money. You can see the full list of changes here:
http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice
Further, this version marks some fairly ubstantial changes in our CrossOver Product line. First, we have merged the CrossOver Plugin product into the CrossOver Office product offering, so now all non server versions of CrossOver automatically provide
the Plugin functionality.
Now, they only need to release a Windows port of Evolution and even more people will be able to enjoy this awesome program.
I would not forget an essential for all browser and some network apps, the J2SE Jave Runtime Engine J2SE-1.4.2_04
The Checkpoint NG and the ServerProtect from TrendMicro come to mind... they are VERY specific on which kernel you run :-(
And I'm willing to pay for the long-term support of my company's systems.
I *might* agree with the CTO of SUSE if Red Hat backported features, but didn't support them. Yet that is not the case. Red Hat promises a 5 year support for their Enterprise Linux releases, and I'm willing to pay for such a support. For my company's systems, I don't need to stay on the edge of new features, tools and other improvements. I NEED a stable operating system, requirering low change management (expect for security issues).
The 2.4Ghz bandwidth used by 802.11b and 802.11g have overlaps. The 5Ghz used by 802.11a and upcoming 802.11h (802.11a with Power Management) have non overlapping channels.
802.11g => ~32Mbps throughtput x 3 non-overlapping channels = ~90Mbps total usable bandwidth
802.11a => ~25Mbps throughput x 12 non-overlapping channels = ~300Mbps total usable bandwidth
802.11h => ~25Mbps throughput x 24 non-overlapping channels (due to better pwr mgmt) = ~600Mbps total usable bandwidth