I got this from etrade at 8:43 PDT. Notice the lag in their email server.
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The offering price for the RedHat initial public offering has been set at $14 per share. This is outside the original $10-$12 expected price range for the offering. BECAUSE THE OFFERING HAS PRICED OUTSIDE THE EXPECTED PRICE RANGE, YOU MUST RECONFIRM YOUR PREVIOUSLY TRANSMITTED CONDITIONAL OFFER IN RESPONSE TO THIS ACCOUNT ALERT IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS OFFERING.
To reconfirm your conditional offer: * Log into your E*TRADE account and click on the ACCOUNT SERVICES tab. * Click on OTHER QUESTIONS at the bottom of the page. Click on e-mail in this sentence: * Send us an email from there with the following subject line: RED HAT IPO CONFIRM
We understand that some affinity purchasers will not have the opportunity to reconfirm their conditional offers immediately after pricing. As a result, we will provide affinity purchasers with a period after pricing during which you may reconfirm your previously transmitted conditional offer.
Well, what seems to have happned is that non-affinity program people (no letter), had to resubmit during a little tiny window this morning, and if you didn't, tough.
But if you're a letter person (like me!) you can call up and resubmit. The broker I talked to said they were still accepting indications for affinity members for a little while, but it will close soon. Then they will do the allocations and leave a message in your account.
Of course they were supposed to leave message this morning saying to re-submit, but I never got it, so who knows.
I get to the point where it says click on "other questions". I don't have that anywhere on my screen under account services. Etrade sends you these emails saying you will might have to reindicate interest, but keeps it a secret when or how.
My ls, "ls (GNU fileutils) 3.16", doesn't have that option. I tried before I posted of course. Strange that fileutils-3.16 would have it for df but not ls. Guess it's time to upgrade to 4.0.
The announcements seemed pretty clear that the 800k was for employees, friends, family (the normal groups) and also community members (the unusual thing). Most likely, the employees will get some limit based on how long they've been with the company, 200, 400, etc., and they will get preference before community members. Wouldn't be very fair if Alan Cox got 0 and some guy who summited a incorrect bug report to redhat's bugzilla got 100, would it?
Of the shares that end up with community members, if there is not enough to give everyone 100, some people will get 100 and some will get 0. The chances of anyone except employees getting more than 100 are about zilch. Only way would be if far fewer people than redhat anticipated took advantage of "the letter".
No one will get 2 or 498 as some people seem to think, everything is done in blocks of 100. Just like how ATM cells are 43 bytes, no more, no less.
The shares aren't going to be allocated until it prices. It hasn't priced, so you're shares are not allocated. They probably told you they had your indication of interest for 200.
I remember in Jr HS one of my friends said something surprising about the specs he had seen for a UNIX machine a university had. You see the computer had 64 megs.......of RAM! hahahaha
You're not laughing??
The surpsise is that you think the person is going to say hard disk space, or say nothing at all because 64 megs is so huge it's obvious that it's the hard disk size. I had a 20MB drive and many of my friends didn't have any. It's probably funnier and more memorable if you were in Jr HS at the time..
Oh well, please moderate this down for being offtopic or flamebait or something. The 64mb memory chip thing just made me remember.
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I remember hearing about how linux follows the TCP spec and uses slow start, but NT doesn't.
When a TCP connection is first established, and one machine wants to start sending data to the other, it isn't supposed to start sending as fast as it can. Rather, it's supposed to send only one packet, then wait for an ack, then send two packets, etc. Otherwise you end up with congestion rendering the network useless as you approach full bandwith. Van Jacobson (remember VJ header compression from the days of SLIP?) has a paper on this.
Since the mindcraft test has unlimited bandwidth, no packetloss, no slow modem connections, etc. TCP stacks that don't do slow start properly can send out more data than ones that do.
The MFLOPS/$ for a processor goes down for the top end. The problem is that you can't just stick 1000 CPUs in a computer and then say it's 1000 times faster than a single CPU. For some problems, it might not be faster at all.
I have ones of those pumps for a water cooling system I'm building. It's silent. The AC is probably somewhat noisier. You could remove the compressor from an AC system and use just the heat exchanger. See this link for a water cooling design http://www.agaweb.com/coolcpu/default.htm
With no moving parts except for a submerged pump, and the hard drive in oil, you have a modern system about as quiet as the come.
How does giving away software decrease its value to the person who wants it written?
There exists quite a bit of software which is not itself a product. There are lots of people who want some piece of software that they don't intend to sell, they intend to use.
Your attitude sounds, quite frankly, like childish selfishness, like the kid who won't let his little brother play his video games when he's not using them. So you pay $10k and get some piece of software written that you want. Other people get to use it for free. Other's use of the software doesn't make it any less useful to you. In fact, it will probably make the software more useful, since others will contribute improvements, that you get to use, for free.
Didn't have any problems with the RPM version installed on my redhat 5.2 machine. The video works in packed 24bpp mode, unlike rvplayer5. Now if only xanim supported 24bpp. Strange that an open source program like xanim would lag behind real player in that respect. Of course the last improvement to xanim was what, two years ago?
Instead of the citizens voting directly for presindent, they vote for electors. Then all the electors get together to make something called the "electorial college" and then _they_ vote for president. The idea was that that you might vote for someone like Linus or RMS for elector, without knowing in advance who they were going to vote for. And for the first election or two that's how it worked. But pretty quickly the system degenerated to where people voted for the elector who was going to vote they wanted, making the electorial college irrelevant.
I hate those little finger keystrokes. That why I type with my right hand moved over 1 key, so it rests on kl;' instead of jkl; This way it's much closer to the keys like [];'./\ control, alt, enter and backspace, things I push a whole lot in UNIX and C programming that one did writing english on a typewriter 50 years ago.
I see I'm not alone in not writing anymore. I never write anything in cursive other than my signature. I have piles of scratch paper by my computer at home and work, but I only write down diagrams, equations, bitpattens and other programming stuff. Writing an actual paragraph of english text, that hurts as much as keyboarding for 8 hours.
I remember when I took the GRE, the hardest part was where you had to copy this paragraph, in cursive, about not cheating. I had to rest after every few words and by the time I was done my right hand hurt so much I had to fill in bubbles with my left hand for a while!
Buslogic has supported linux since the beginning. I remember when I downloaded the first linux buslogic driver Leonard Zubkoff wrote for my BT747 EISA SCSI-2 card in a (fast at the time) 486-66. Since then mylex/buslogic have been great at support for all their cards, VA research sells mylex RAID controlers with their servers. They will answer linux tech support questions and list linux on the box for their cards.
Adaptec on the other hand gave linux developers the cold shoulder for years! Now that they've finally seen that there is lots of money in the linux serer market, they release specs. They should get an award for "Most linux hostile hardware company", along with ATI.
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Well, what seems to have happned is that non-affinity program people (no letter), had to resubmit during a little tiny window this morning, and if you didn't, tough.
But if you're a letter person (like me!) you can call up and resubmit. The broker I talked to said they were still accepting indications for affinity members for a little while, but it will close soon. Then they will do the allocations and leave a message in your account.
Of course they were supposed to leave message this morning saying to re-submit, but I never got it, so who knows.
I get to the point where it says click on "other questions". I don't have that anywhere on my screen under account services. Etrade sends you these emails saying you will might have to reindicate interest, but keeps it a secret when or how.
My ls, "ls (GNU fileutils) 3.16", doesn't have that option. I tried before I posted of course. Strange that fileutils-3.16 would have it for df but not ls. Guess it's time to upgrade to 4.0.
The announcements seemed pretty clear that the 800k was for employees, friends, family (the normal groups) and also community members (the unusual thing). Most likely, the employees will get some limit based on how long they've been with the company, 200, 400, etc., and they will get preference before community members. Wouldn't be very fair if Alan Cox got 0 and some guy who summited a incorrect bug report to redhat's bugzilla got 100, would it?
Of the shares that end up with community members, if there is not enough to give everyone 100, some people will get 100 and some will get 0. The chances of anyone except employees getting more than 100 are about zilch. Only way would be if far fewer people than redhat anticipated took advantage of "the letter".
No one will get 2 or 498 as some people seem to think, everything is done in blocks of 100. Just like how ATM cells are 43 bytes, no more, no less.
The shares aren't going to be allocated until it prices. It hasn't priced, so you're shares are not allocated. They probably told you they had your indication of interest for 200.
I wish ls could do this. It's a pain when you have 100MB+ files, because the ls -l columns don't line up anymore.
I remember in Jr HS one of my friends said something surprising about the specs he had seen for a UNIX machine a university had. You see the computer had 64 megs.......of RAM! hahahaha
You're not laughing??
The surpsise is that you think the person is going to say hard disk space, or say nothing at all because 64 megs is so huge it's obvious that it's the hard disk size. I had a 20MB drive and many of my friends didn't have any. It's probably funnier and more memorable if you were in Jr HS at the time..
Oh well, please moderate this down for being offtopic or flamebait or something. The 64mb memory chip thing just made me remember.
Guess that answers it
I remember hearing about how linux follows the TCP spec and uses slow start, but NT doesn't.
When a TCP connection is first established, and one machine wants to start sending data to the other, it isn't supposed to start sending as fast as it can. Rather, it's supposed to send only one packet, then wait for an ack, then send two packets, etc. Otherwise you end up with congestion rendering the network useless as you approach full bandwith. Van Jacobson (remember VJ header compression from the days of SLIP?) has a paper on this.
Since the mindcraft test has unlimited bandwidth, no packetloss, no slow modem connections, etc. TCP stacks that don't do slow start properly can send out more data than ones that do.
The MFLOPS/$ for a processor goes down for the top end. The problem is that you can't just stick 1000 CPUs in a computer and then say it's 1000 times faster than a single CPU. For some problems, it might not be faster at all.
I ordered one from buy.com
I think this is the true reason you haven't gotten it yet.
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Let the authors of the packages they distribute and which make up the majority of their product in on the IPO.
I have ones of those pumps for a water cooling system I'm building. It's silent. The AC is probably somewhat noisier. You could remove the compressor from an AC system and use just the heat exchanger. See this link for a water cooling design http://www.agaweb.com/coolcpu/default.htm
With no moving parts except for a submerged pump, and the hard drive in oil, you have a modern system about as quiet as the come.
How does giving away software decrease its value to the person who wants it written?
There exists quite a bit of software which is not itself a product. There are lots of people who want some piece of software that they don't intend to sell, they intend to use.
Your attitude sounds, quite frankly, like childish selfishness, like the kid who won't let his little brother play his video games when he's not using them. So you pay $10k and get some piece of software written that you want. Other people get to use it for free. Other's use of the software doesn't make it any less useful to you. In fact, it will probably make the software more useful, since others will contribute improvements, that you get to use, for free.
Didn't have any problems with the RPM version installed on my redhat 5.2 machine. The video works in packed 24bpp mode, unlike rvplayer5. Now if only xanim supported 24bpp. Strange that an open source program like xanim would lag behind real player in that respect. Of course the last improvement to xanim was what, two years ago?
Instead of the citizens voting directly for presindent, they vote for electors. Then all the electors get together to make something called the "electorial college" and then _they_ vote for president. The idea was that that you might vote for someone like Linus or RMS for elector, without knowing in advance who they were going to vote for. And for the first election or two that's how it worked. But pretty quickly the system degenerated to where people voted for the elector who was going to vote they wanted, making the electorial college irrelevant.
I hate those little finger keystrokes. That why I type with my right hand moved over 1 key, so it rests on kl;' instead of jkl; This way it's much closer to the keys like [];'./\ control, alt, enter and backspace, things I push a whole lot in UNIX and C programming that one did writing english on a typewriter 50 years ago.
I see I'm not alone in not writing anymore. I never write anything in cursive other than my signature. I have piles of scratch paper by my computer at home and work, but I only write down diagrams, equations, bitpattens and other programming stuff. Writing an actual paragraph of english text, that hurts as much as keyboarding for 8 hours.
I remember when I took the GRE, the hardest part was where you had to copy this paragraph, in cursive, about not cheating. I had to rest after every few words and by the time I was done my right hand hurt so much I had to fill in bubbles with my left hand for a while!
Most programs written for Beowulf clusters use PVM or MPI. PVM is older, most new codes use MPI. At least, all the ones I've written use MPI.
mozilla = netscape 4.x + old bugs*2 + new bugs
What platforms do you think staroffice 1 and 2 were on? It wasn't linux.
it's like that normally.
Buslogic has supported linux since the beginning. I remember when I downloaded the first linux buslogic driver Leonard Zubkoff wrote for my BT747 EISA SCSI-2 card in a (fast at the time) 486-66. Since then mylex/buslogic have been great at support for all their cards, VA research sells mylex RAID controlers with their servers. They will answer linux tech support questions and list linux on the box for their cards.
Adaptec on the other hand gave linux developers the cold shoulder for years! Now that they've finally seen that there is lots of money in the linux serer market, they release specs. They should get an award for "Most linux hostile hardware company", along with ATI.
Their cards sucks and are overpriced, too!