The only restriction applies if you SELL a product (be it commercial or open source, I believe) that REQUIRES MySQL to run. There you have to pay a license, about $200 per server / product?
Which is what I'm doing:)
And if you can't afford that they have released an older version of MySQL under the GPL.
Old version = buggy verison, IMHO. I'd rather have something that gets bugfixed.
I've been using PostgresSQL for a web-style application and it works just fine. My co-worker on the project has used MySQL and that also works just fine. IMHO, MySQL is probably better (it has some neat features such as the LIMIT/OFFSET on queries), but I cant affort the licensing restructions of MySQL for this.
Also, if you're going to be learning Perl for this application, might I suggest using Python instead? It can do anything Perl can, but its a considerably cleaner language (read: more readable), and there's also a Apache module for it.
Perl's fine for programs around 50-100 lines or so, but larger than that and it starts to be come really messy.
The filesystem can handle larger files, but unless the application uses special file write calls, then it too is limited.
This is exactly the same with Unix-style OSs that perport to support very large files (eg, solaris); one still has to use special calls to create files greater than 2GB, because the standard calls still use 32-bit file pointers.
THe comment that 'solaris can do everything linux can do, only better' is complete rubbish. There are so many things that solaris does so/poorly/.
For example.
1. Solaris is slower than linux. We have done tests here to show that linux is faster by at least a factor of two compared to solaris-x86, in things such as forking processes, network activity, disk activity. A friend of mine has made similar comparisons with linux and soalris on a sparc.
2. Solaris' utilities are poor. Have you ever tried running any of the pkgtool utilites? they're horrible... RPM, for example, is much better. (Probably the same for dpkg as well)
3. Solairs (at least 2.6)/still/ uses classed network addressing (did they fix this in version 7?). Other aspects of then networking side are also still ancient. (including slow)
4. Solaris is less flexible than linux. For example, have you/seen/ how many file system types Linux supports??
5. Solaris' organisation of boot structures and startup scripts is exceptionally complicated. Linux is easy enough to change things around and do things the way you want, if you needed to.
6. Solaris' collection of utilits (mail,dns,etc) is very basic. This, of course, could be solved just by repackaging all the GNU utilities for solaris. (Technically, the GNU programs arent really part of linux either)
I believe we certainly do have a right to complain about Corel's actions.
It's quite feasible that Corel fully intend to comply with the GFL on the final release of the product, but just don't want to get a bad rep. from people reporting on the beta. But...
The GPL is just that, and they can't just ignore it because its an 'Internal' release. If we say that this is okay, then other companies may decide to take advantage of it by saying that all of their distributions are 'Internal' releases.
If Corel doesn't want us reporting on their beta product, then they shouldn't release it at all, and that's that. They can't have the quality of the GPL products both ways.
On each of the machines with the 'spare' space, make sure you can either export the partition as a file, or just create a big file that is also exported.
Then... on a single linux box, use the loopback device to turn the exported files into loop devices. Then use raid-0 to 'stripe' across all the mounted, imported loopback devices. Create your filesystem, and voila!
Don't have the resources here to try it, but it sounds like it might work.
There's absolutely nothing at all wrong with the algorithms that Microsoft uses for security on their operating system.
Well, that's not quite true either. Some of MS's algorithms positively suck.
Eg, the one that encrypts SMB passwords before passing them over the wire. Not only did it make Samba break, but it's also incredibly easy to work around; you can simply just sniff then use the encrypted password... none of the tried-and-trusted challenge/authenticate method.
That is a poor algorithm, and MS are notorious for it.
I do not know if this line of vacuum cleaners is superior to the "VAX" line of vacuum cleaners, whose manufacturer unsuccessfully tried to sue Digital for copyright infringement in the mid-1980s.
Off topic, but the story as far I as I knew was that Dec held the trademark in the US, and The Vax Vacuum company held it in the UK. And then they got together and agreed they could still use the same name in each other's countries.
Didn't think there was much of a challenge over it at all.
... its like saying that if you use a pen for more than 4 hours a day, then you're addicted to pens. What does this say about high-school students, for example? Authors? Secretaries?
The Internet is a tool like many other things. It can be abused just like pens can be abused (And just what are you thinking now, you pervert!:)
You don't have to rewrite a Win3x Program to run on W2k.
Well, that I'm going to have to disagree with. Sure, many applications will run with a simple recompile, but many wont. Especially those that use some of the more esoteric interfaces that weren't working properly in Win3.x, such as communications or sockets.
- Speaking from experience, thank ghod I don't program under Windoze anymore.
Note that while bandwidth will probably catch up enough to play PCM's directly, memory, particually flash memory, still has a-ways to catch up.
MP3's will/still/ be useful.
Anyway... they're only complaining about MP3s because MP3s make the so called 'piracy' possible. Once bandwidth catches up, they'll complain about that and then they'll/really/ push their 'net tax' policy on the government.
To Affect = To do something that has a action on something else. Eg: 'I cut the power which affected the web server.'
To Effect = To make something happen. Eg: "I effected the changes'.
Effect can also be a noun, but affect cannot.
An amusing anecdote; 'Maestro' brand modems which were sold here in Australia had a amusing typo on the model sticker: 'Using this product in areas of high electrical noise may effect performance'.:):)
That I suspect is oversimplifying the issue greatly. I don't know of anyone who would admit to wanting more sensationalism, but I sure do know folks that love police chases.
So... we have two possibilies: a) We're all kidding ourselves, and we really do like drivel. or b) We're mostly capable of distinguishing entertaining drivel from useful information.
I would like to think its the latter.
Additionally, I think the current batch of 'guides' are more interested in their own personal careers than what is truely useful to us.
Of course... there is at least one guide that outshines the rest by several orders of magnitude:
What's the bet that the US government knew that the export laws could be appealed on constitutional grounds, but went ahead and got all these countries (including my own, Australia) to sign the Wassenar agreement.
So... now the US can quite legimately claim that it can't honour the agreement because of the constitutional appeal, giving US software companies an advantage over all the poor countries that were duped into signing over their rights (and most of us don't have those sort of clauses in our own constitution).
I purchased two orb drives, and one extra disk (total of three disks). The extra disk I purchased had a sector error, but the drive supports sector remapping, so zeroing the disk will fix those problems. I returned the disk since it was only a week old. This seems to be a common problem; 3 of the 9 disks I know about have had some sort of problem; hopefully their quality control will improve over time.
The drives don't have excellent linux support. One needs windows to switch the drive from fixed to removable (or you're going to have problems treating them as removable disks). Also, they don't use a standard 'eject' IOCTL. Apparently, Castlewood are releasing the OEM manual so linux support can be written for these things.
Apart from those shortcomings, I think the drives are great. The media is convenient, and cheap (although signifigantly pricier here in Australia). The access time is noticably slower than a hard-drive, but the sustained throughput rate is excellent. (ie, I can dd if=/dev/orb very quick, but cp -axv of lots of little files is a tad slower than I'd like).
A warning, though. The place in the US I got it from was having troubles getting the media. So... buy a few extras if they're available.
I purchased two orb drives, and one extra disk (total of three disks). The extra disk I purchased had a sector error, but the drive supports sector remapping, so zeroing the disk will fix those problems. I returned the disk since it was only a week old. This seems to be a common problem; 3 of the 9 disks I know about have had some sort of problem; hopefully their quality control will improve over time.
The drives dont have excellent linux support. YOU need windows to switch the drive from fixed to removable (or you're going to have problems treating them as removable disks). Also, they dont use a standard 'eject' IOCTL. Apparently, Castlewood are releasing the OEM manual so linux support can be written for these things.
Apart from those shortcomings, I think the drives are great. The media is convenient, and cheap (although signifigantly pricier here in Australia). The access time is noticably slower than a hard-drive, but the sustained throughput rate is excellent. (ie, I can dd if=/dev/orb very quick, but cp -axv of lots of little files is a tad slower than I'd like).
A warning, though. The place in the US I got it from was having troubles getting the media. So.. buy a few extras if they're available.
By saying "there was clearly a market for free software but this was mainly confined to relatively simple applications such as word processing and spreadsheets" it appears that Beelzegates is taking people's attention off Linux as a server (of which it is excellent) and onto Linux as a workstation (of which it is relatively poor).
For example, some people might get the impression from that comment that Linux would be worth a go at doing word processing and spreadsheet applications... and... actually try it out. Once they do this, and go though all the mucking around getting it set up, and finding that... in reality... it isn't really as well polished as Windows, they're going to ignore the excellent potential of Linux as a server as well.
Ie... Bill is attempting to shift the focus of Linux to something it doesnt excel at. This is somewhat similar to the recent Mindcraft 'test'. (Now, if only Mindcraft had 'crippled' the linux box by taking most of its memory out of it:) ).
At any rate, its a brilliant FUD tactic on Microsoft's part. (About the only thing they do well, IMHO).
If it encounters errors in the NTFS (and perhaps even a DOSFS), then it needs to reboot after its corrected the error. In all fairness, even Linux does this.
IMHO, one of the things that slows NT down (and, for that matter, Solaris too), is that it uses a number of abstraction layers in its 'kernel'. Sure, it makes for a more elegant kernel structure, but at severe cost to speed.
(Solaris, apparently, is a dream to write drivers for, but is around half as slow as linux. NT's still a bitch, but that's M$ for you:)
YOu misread... they're using 8/millimeter/ tapes. The data for the 25/50GB SCSI version says 192 tracks... so I assume its a serpentine reading formation. (or a 192 track head, which I kinda doubt;)
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Which is what I'm doing :)
And if you can't afford that they have released an older version of MySQL under the GPL.
Old version = buggy verison, IMHO. I'd rather have something that gets bugfixed.
I've been using PostgresSQL for a web-style application and it works just fine. My co-worker on the project has used MySQL and that also works just fine. IMHO, MySQL is probably better (it has some neat features such as the LIMIT/OFFSET on queries), but I cant affort the licensing restructions of MySQL for this.
Also, if you're going to be learning Perl for this application, might I suggest using Python instead? It can do anything Perl can, but its a considerably cleaner language (read: more readable), and there's also a Apache module for it.
Perl's fine for programs around 50-100 lines or so, but larger than that and it starts to be come really messy.
The filesystem can handle larger files, but unless the application uses special file write calls, then it too is limited.
This is exactly the same with Unix-style OSs that perport to support very large files (eg, solaris); one still has to use special calls to create files greater than 2GB, because the standard calls still use 32-bit file pointers.
I think linux would survive perfectly well.
/poorly/.
/still/ uses classed network addressing (did they fix this in version 7?). Other aspects of then networking side are also still ancient. (including slow)
/seen/ how many file system types Linux supports??
THe comment that 'solaris can do everything linux can do, only better' is complete rubbish. There are so many things that solaris does so
For example.
1. Solaris is slower than linux. We have done tests here to show that linux is faster by at least a factor of two compared to solaris-x86, in things such as forking processes, network activity, disk activity. A friend of mine has made similar comparisons with linux and soalris on a sparc.
2. Solaris' utilities are poor. Have you ever tried running any of the pkgtool utilites? they're horrible... RPM, for example, is much better. (Probably the same for dpkg as well)
3. Solairs (at least 2.6)
4. Solaris is less flexible than linux. For example, have you
5. Solaris' organisation of boot structures and startup scripts is exceptionally complicated. Linux is easy enough to change things around and do things the way you want, if you needed to.
6. Solaris' collection of utilits (mail,dns,etc) is very basic. This, of course, could be solved just by repackaging all the GNU utilities for solaris. (Technically, the GNU programs arent really part of linux either)
I believe we certainly do have a right to complain about Corel's actions.
It's quite feasible that Corel fully intend to comply with the GFL on the final release of the product, but just don't want to get a bad rep. from people reporting on the beta. But...
The GPL is just that, and they can't just ignore it because its an 'Internal' release. If we say that this is okay, then other companies may decide to take advantage of it by saying that all of their distributions are 'Internal' releases.
If Corel doesn't want us reporting on their beta product, then they shouldn't release it at all, and that's that. They can't have the quality of the GPL products both ways.
On each of the machines with the 'spare' space, make sure you can either export the partition as a file, or just create a big file that is also exported.
Then... on a single linux box, use the loopback device to turn the exported files into loop devices. Then use raid-0 to 'stripe' across all the mounted, imported loopback devices. Create your filesystem, and voila!
Don't have the resources here to try it, but it sounds like it might work.
Well, that's not quite true either. Some of MS's algorithms positively suck.
Eg, the one that encrypts SMB passwords before passing them over the wire. Not only did it make Samba break, but it's also incredibly easy to work around; you can simply just sniff then use the encrypted password... none of the tried-and-trusted challenge/authenticate method.
That is a poor algorithm, and MS are notorious for it.
When you apply for a trademark, you generally need to specify which catagory or catagories the trademark applies to.
So... its quite possible to have a 'Linux' brand washing machine, and a 'Linux' brand operating system without any trademark conflicts.
OH? And here I was, thinking the topic was about Korean trademarks... silly me :)
It's already doable... all one has to do is trademark it normally, then issue irrovacable rights to use the trademark, just has already been done.
What do you think the copyleft (GPL) is ?
Off topic, but the story as far I as I knew was that Dec held the trademark in the US, and The Vax Vacuum company held it in the UK. And then they got together and agreed they could still use the same name in each other's countries.
Didn't think there was much of a challenge over it at all.
... its like saying that if you use a pen for more than 4 hours a day, then you're addicted to pens. What does this say about high-school students, for example? Authors? Secretaries?
:)
The Internet is a tool like many other things. It can be abused just like pens can be abused (And just what are you thinking now, you pervert!
Well, that I'm going to have to disagree with. Sure, many applications will run with a simple recompile, but many wont. Especially those that use some of the more esoteric interfaces that weren't working properly in Win3.x, such as communications or sockets.
- Speaking from experience, thank ghod I don't program under Windoze anymore.
Note that while bandwidth will probably catch up enough to play PCM's directly, memory, particually flash memory, still has a-ways to catch up.
/still/ be useful.
/really/ push their 'net tax' policy on the government.
MP3's will
Anyway... they're only complaining about MP3s because MP3s make the so called 'piracy' possible. Once bandwidth catches up, they'll complain about that and then they'll
To Affect = To do something that has a action on something else. Eg: 'I cut the power which affected the web server.'
To Effect = To make something happen. Eg: "I effected the changes'.
Effect can also be a noun, but affect cannot.
An amusing anecdote; 'Maestro' brand modems which were sold here in Australia had a amusing typo on the model sticker: 'Using this product in areas of high electrical noise may effect performance'. :):)
So... we have two possibilies: a) We're all kidding ourselves, and we really do like drivel. or b) We're mostly capable of distinguishing entertaining drivel from useful information.
I would like to think its the latter.
Additionally, I think the current batch of 'guides' are more interested in their own personal careers than what is truely useful to us.
Of course... there is at least one guide that outshines the rest by several orders of magnitude:
Slashdot
What's the bet that the US government knew that the export laws could be appealed on constitutional grounds, but went ahead and got all these countries (including my own, Australia) to sign the Wassenar agreement.
:P :)
So... now the US can quite legimately claim that it can't honour the agreement because of the constitutional appeal, giving US software companies an advantage over all the poor countries that were duped into signing over their rights (and most of us don't have those sort of clauses in our own constitution).
Thanks, guys!
**if** what you were using the removable media for was backup. You cant:
/dev/tape | cdrecord
mkisofs -a -r
:)
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I purchased two orb drives, and one extra disk (total of three disks). The extra disk I purchased had a sector error, but the drive supports sector remapping, so zeroing the disk will fix those problems. I returned the disk since it was only a week old. This seems to be a common problem; 3 of the 9 disks I know about have had some sort of problem; hopefully their quality control will improve over time.
The drives don't have excellent linux support. One needs windows to switch the drive from fixed to removable (or you're going to have problems treating them as removable disks). Also, they don't use a standard 'eject' IOCTL. Apparently, Castlewood are releasing the OEM manual so linux support can be written for these things.
Apart from those shortcomings, I think the drives are great. The media is convenient, and cheap (although signifigantly pricier here in Australia). The access time is noticably slower than a hard-drive, but the sustained throughput rate is excellent. (ie, I can dd if=/dev/orb very quick, but cp -axv of lots of little files is a tad slower than I'd like).
A warning, though. The place in the US I got it from was having troubles getting the media. So... buy a few extras if they're available.
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I purchased two orb drives, and one extra disk (total of three disks). The extra disk I purchased had a sector error, but the drive supports sector remapping, so zeroing the disk will fix those problems. I returned the disk since it was only a week old. This seems to be a common problem; 3 of the 9 disks I know about have had some sort of problem; hopefully their quality control will improve over time.
The drives dont have excellent linux support. YOU need windows to switch the drive from fixed to removable (or you're going to have problems treating them as removable disks). Also, they dont use a standard 'eject' IOCTL. Apparently, Castlewood are releasing the OEM manual so linux support can be written for these things.
Apart from those shortcomings, I think the drives are great. The media is convenient, and cheap (although signifigantly pricier here in Australia). The access time is noticably slower than a hard-drive, but the sustained throughput rate is excellent. (ie, I can dd if=/dev/orb very quick, but cp -axv of lots of little files is a tad slower than I'd like).
A warning, though. The place in the US I got it from was having troubles getting the media. So.. buy a few extras if they're available.
By saying "there was clearly a market for free software but this was mainly confined to
:) ).
relatively simple applications such as word processing and spreadsheets" it appears that
Beelzegates is taking people's attention off Linux as a server (of which it is excellent) and onto Linux as a workstation (of which it is relatively poor).
For example, some people might get the impression from that comment that Linux would be worth a go at doing word processing and spreadsheet applications... and... actually try it out. Once they do this, and go though all the mucking around getting it set up, and finding that... in reality... it isn't really as well polished as Windows, they're going to ignore the excellent potential of Linux as a server as well.
Ie... Bill is attempting to shift the focus of Linux to something it doesnt excel at. This is somewhat similar to the recent Mindcraft 'test'. (Now, if only Mindcraft had 'crippled' the linux box by taking most of its memory out of it
At any rate, its a brilliant FUD tactic on Microsoft's part. (About the only thing they do well, IMHO).
If it encounters errors in the NTFS (and perhaps even a DOSFS), then it needs to reboot after its corrected the error. In all fairness, even Linux does this.
IMHO, one of the things that slows NT down (and, for that matter, Solaris too), is that it uses a number of abstraction layers in its 'kernel'. Sure, it makes for a more elegant kernel structure, but at severe cost to speed.
:)
(Solaris, apparently, is a dream to write drivers for, but is around half as slow as linux. NT's still a bitch, but that's M$ for you
YOu misread... they're using 8 /millimeter/ tapes. The data for the 25/50GB SCSI version says 192 tracks... so I assume its a serpentine reading formation. (or a 192 track head, which I kinda doubt ;)