Couldn't you just sumggle in a copy of putty on a floppy? Copy over telnet.exe, see if they even know the difference.
In a lot of companies, doing things like that can get you fired. Including mine, unfortunately.:(
Besides, it's already clear from his original post that his IT group is scared of anything resembling management of the desktops. That's why they insist upon 'pristine' Windows and RedHat.
(Verizon are whores, they give everyone free outgoing sms and charge for incoming sms so you cann't control your spending)
I call bullshit! I am a (less than happy, but still satisfied for the price as my company gets me a pretty decent discount) Verizon customer. Verizon currently charges.10 US$ for outgoing and.02 US$ for incoming text. On Aug. 1st, the cost goes to.10 US$ for both.
Verizon also offers quote unquote "unlimited" texting options at $5/mo, $10/mo, and one other price point ($20/mo?). Not the best deals on the planet by any means. Still, they're a LONG way from the situation that the PP describes.
Let's see... The design of the Internet's predecessor was funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), the DoD runs the single largest contiguous IP network, one of the largest DNS domain name spaces in.mil, and arguably has more IPv4 addresses assigned to it than any other single entity in the world. The DoD has also funded research in and/or deployed BSD, Linux, Apache, etc. all over the place for years. The Navy sysadmins for years have also quietly resisted a mandate that came directly from the Pentagon to convert ALL of their systems over to Windows on Intel.
[sarcasm]Oh, yeah. The DoD admins are all noobs, all right.[/sarcasm]
Moron.
Next time, check your facts before you open your mouth about something you clearly know nothing about.
I've been trying to wean my fiance off of Microsoft dependence for a while. She was less than impressed when I showed her Google's satellite pics of her house. She showed me sharper, more recent satellite imagery on msn.com! Then she told me that she's been using it off and on for quite some time. Exactly how long, I don't recall.
Still, it's embarrassing when Microsoft actually beat Google to the punch and is apparently managing to provide a higher level of service. Anyone know how long they've actually been doing it?
The PP is right. B5 and FF probably draw from different fan bases. I admit to being both a B5 and FF fan, a fan of SG1 from the time I first saw it in Showtime, the new BSG, Buffy, Angel, etc. (I've always had pretty eclectic tastes. Why eat just vanilla and chocolate ice cream?:) ) Anyhow, I think there's a lot of underrated sci-fi on the small screen. Every series has its strong points, and I tend to look for what any particular series or movie does right and downplay the things that they got wrong. Yet even I had a hard time getting excited about something like Farscape, for example. Not that I thought Farscape lacked for storytelling. It's just that I couldn't get into the story or the characters.
Back on topic. I'm not surprised by Joss's marketing approach. The man has consistently demonstrated an ability to think outside the box that much of Hollywood lacks. He has also demonstrated a respect for his stories, his characters, and his fans that again, much of Hollywood lacks. IMO those qualities combined with his very real talent for writing a good story will mean that his series will probably be watched 30 to 50 years from now. And no, I don't mean just on TV Land, but in widespread syndication. How many current series do you think can make the same claim?
As bad as this sounds, it used to be much, MUCH worse back in the late '70s. Back then, the All Volunteer Force was just getting off the ground. Also, many civilians really believed that anyone who wished to serve his or her country in uniform was either a latent baby killer, or a complete incompetent who couldn't make it in the 'real world'.
I was lucky enough to have an honest recruiter for the Navy warn me up front about what I'd be facing if I put the uniform on. However, once I reached boot camp I heard plenty of horror stories; lots of recruiters who lied about conditions, guys whose recruiters took the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) for them, faked drug tests by recruiters, recruiters who lied on the paperwork about recruits' educational background, etc.
Why was this going on? Well, mostly because the Navy would severely punish sailors who did not meet their recruiting quota. When you have some guy with 15 years in uniform who was struggling just to support his family (on food stamps no less!), staring at the possibility of the loss of his pension because he's about to lose a stripe (which puts him below the minimum rank to be allowed to re-enlist to reach 20 years), he'll do what he has to to avoid it. When you have guys who are facing the possibility of time in the brig if they don't meet quota, they'll do what they have to to avoid it. And forget ever making chief petty officer if you get a letter of reprimand because you missed one monthly quota!
Because the risks to a career were so high, recruiting duty at the time was considered as unpaid hazardous duty by many. Sailors used to volunteer for back to back sea duty tours just to avoid it.
I once found an English language copy entitled, "A History of Postwar Japan" that was written by a Japanese history professor some time in the '70s. While the book was focussed primarily on the '50s and '60s, he did discuss was the end of the war itself. It was his opinion that only the two A bombs gave the Emperor enough political clout to override the Japanese High Command and seek peace. Without those two extreme examples of total devastation, the Japanese Army would have fought to the last man and the last bullet.
Find that hard to believe? Read any history of Battle of Okinawa that bothers to explore the Japanese point of view.
The core value of Linux is that it is open source.
Agreed. However, I don't think things are as black and white as far as Nvidia is concerned. What you may not be aware of is that Nvidia uses technology from other companies. Those companies have chosen to keep their technology closed source. Some of it is patented, some copyrighted. In either case, as long as Nvidia wishes to use that technology, they are legally and morally bound to honor their wishes.
The copyright issues are pretty trivial to work around, and I gather from what I've read in various places that Nvidia has worked to minimize the impact of that material. The patented technology, however, presents them with a much larger headache. There really is no safe way to code around known patent issues. You can try, and face the probability of a $20M lawsuit, or fork over some licensing fee and move on. Nvidia chose the latter solution.
Do we have fast, completely unencumbered, open source 2D drivers for Nvidia's cards? Absolutely!
Do I want to see completely unencumbered, fast, open source 3D drivers? Absolutely! Can I program them? Absolutely not! Can Nvidia or anyone else? Apparently not! At least, not for anything resembling a reasonable cost.:(
Nope. They don't just look like different planets. Anyone who has visited both knows that they are different planets. In different solar systems. In different galaxies.:)
No, Al Gore did not misspeak, nor did he ever say he invented the Internet. Here's the quote, courtesy of Snopes:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
But, but... that IS a lie. The Internet ALREADY EXISTED. All Al really did was recognize that there was a big groundswell of support for a publicly available, for pay network that could be used for commercial purposes. He jumped on the bandwagon to remove the restrictions that prevented that kind of activity on the Internet of the day. That's all he did. Anything else is a gross, gross overstatement of his real involvement.
Vinton Cerf's statement simply highlights the fact that he (VC) happened to be a corporate guy who was buttering up what looked like the strongest presidential candidate in 2000.
Gentoo has by far the best installation documentation set that I have ever seen for a Linux distribution. I can't say the same for much of the Linux distro documentation that I've used in the past.
Gentoo's forums are some of the most useful that I've ever seen for solving Linux related problems, regardless of distribution. They make a fantastic resource for troubleshooting. I've taken to checking them first for issues that come up for my Debian laptop. The answers that I find in the Gentoo forums are always knowledgable, clear, and to the point.
The thing that is most galling for his detractors is that he always turns out to be right.
Umm, no he doesn't always turn out to be right. My immediate experience with his stuff is daemontools. Nice package in a lot of ways, but the toolset forces far too many default choices that deviate away from common practice.
I found two big hangups that pushed me away from daemontools and over to start-stop-daemon. The first was that assigning logfiles by default deep within the daemontools subdirectory instead of within/var/log. The second was that I found that it really didn't do such a great job of recovering some of the server daemons that failed in odd ways.
Start-stop-daemon uses sane default behavior for logfiles, which makes it much easier to work with out of the box. It has also done a much better job of recovering daemons.
Don't get me wrong, I think that DJB is a very smart programmer. It's just that he thinks that if something is not done his way, it's automatically wrong. That's simply not true. No one is that good, for one. And doing something different just for the sake of doing it is truly A Bad Thing (tm) for system admins.
I call BS. Sun historically has contributed some code to various projects. However, they no longer are anywhere near as active as they used to be. And before you bring up Solaris 10, I'm still not 100% convinced that they can legally open it all up because they don't hold most of the necessary copyrights! If anyone does, it's Novell.
And note that they deliberately designed a license that will make it difficult to intermix their code with that from GPL'ed projects. That's their right, of course. However, to characterize them as wholehearted supporters of OSS is blind at best. Personally, I think IBM's current commitment to F/LOSS is far more substantial and far more effective than Sun's has ever been. Where is Sun's equivalent to IBM's Global Services arm? Where are Sun's OSS customer test labs? Where are Sun's lawyers?
Mind you, I recognize that IBM is not doing all this out of the goodness of their hearts. The company's officers is going in this direction because they have figured out what Sun has not yet; the rules of the game for the computer industry have changed forever. The time when you could expect to have unlimited opportunities to create customer lock-in are gone forever. Now is the time for companies to learn how to make a buck within the constraints of the new rules while also building (or at least maintaining) brand loyalty. Not hold on to a dead dream of world dominance of the Unix market.
Huh? If any prospective employer ever indicated that I couldn't take time off to take care of my kids I'd have my resume back out so fast the paper would be smoking. This should NOT be a gender issue. This is a parental issue. Thank Ghu Minnesota has a law that allows both parents to take 6 weeks unpaid leave after the birth of a child. That first 12 weeks makes all the difference for the kids.
I can't speak for other states, but I know that Minnesota has reciprocal tax agreements in place with every state that borders it for a very long time. We got into the practice becauase we have a couple of smaller metro areas that historically have bled across borders; Duluth MN/Superior WI and Fargo ND/Moorhead MN. Then there are the bedroom communities in Wisconsin that house commuters to the Twin Cities, Rochester, etc.
I don't know the details of the tax agreements, but the concept itself seems fair when you have people who use state owned facilities and resources in two states on a daily basis. However, none of that really applies to the situation outlined in the article, as that guy was NOT using facilities in New York that were state owned.
Really? Actually, it was pretty common back in the late '70s and early '80s among the gearheads and sailors during my misspent youth in high school and the Navy. Generally used to describe a really fast car/boat/motorcycle/whatever.:)
Nope, it's only 5% of revenue. They won't even blink an eye at it. Not when giving in means FINALLY having to give up on one of the key ways that they keep people locked in to their crap.
I have no illusions that Microsoft will pay that fine. While it's not exactly chump change, it still isn't enough to dissuade them from moving forward, as they can still easily show a profit.
Don't kid yourself, this really is a small fine for a company the size of Microsoft. For all companies, small fines are just the cost of doing business. They'll just raise the price of some of the products elsewhere to cover the loss in profit.
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How about Ubuntu's sister project KUbuntu? KDE instead of Gnome based.
In a lot of companies, doing things like that can get you fired. Including mine, unfortunately.
Besides, it's already clear from his original post that his IT group is scared of anything resembling management of the desktops. That's why they insist upon 'pristine' Windows and RedHat.
I call bullshit! I am a (less than happy, but still satisfied for the price as my company gets me a pretty decent discount) Verizon customer. Verizon currently charges
Verizon also offers quote unquote "unlimited" texting options at $5/mo, $10/mo, and one other price point ($20/mo?). Not the best deals on the planet by any means. Still, they're a LONG way from the situation that the PP describes.
Let's see... The design of the Internet's predecessor was funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), the DoD runs the single largest contiguous IP network, one of the largest DNS domain name spaces in .mil, and arguably has more IPv4 addresses assigned to it than any other single entity in the world. The DoD has also funded research in and/or deployed BSD, Linux, Apache, etc. all over the place for years. The Navy sysadmins for years have also quietly resisted a mandate that came directly from the Pentagon to convert ALL of their systems over to Windows on Intel.
[sarcasm]Oh, yeah. The DoD admins are all noobs, all right.[/sarcasm]
Moron.
Next time, check your facts before you open your mouth about something you clearly know nothing about.
?? Why do that when a couple of Pringle's cans on 802.11g antennas will get you the same thing for a lot less work?
I've been trying to wean my fiance off of Microsoft dependence for a while. She was less than impressed when I showed her Google's satellite pics of her house. She showed me sharper, more recent satellite imagery on msn.com! Then she told me that she's been using it off and on for quite some time. Exactly how long, I don't recall.
Still, it's embarrassing when Microsoft actually beat Google to the punch and is apparently managing to provide a higher level of service. Anyone know how long they've actually been doing it?
Time loop stories go way, way back. I think the earliest that I read was a reprint of something that Campbell had approved in the late 1930's.
The PP is right. B5 and FF probably draw from different fan bases. I admit to being both a B5 and FF fan, a fan of SG1 from the time I first saw it in Showtime, the new BSG, Buffy, Angel, etc. (I've always had pretty eclectic tastes. Why eat just vanilla and chocolate ice cream? :) ) Anyhow, I think there's a lot of underrated sci-fi on the small screen. Every series has its strong points, and I tend to look for what any particular series or movie does right and downplay the things that they got wrong. Yet even I had a hard time getting excited about something like Farscape, for example. Not that I thought Farscape lacked for storytelling. It's just that I couldn't get into the story or the characters.
Back on topic. I'm not surprised by Joss's marketing approach. The man has consistently demonstrated an ability to think outside the box that much of Hollywood lacks. He has also demonstrated a respect for his stories, his characters, and his fans that again, much of Hollywood lacks. IMO those qualities combined with his very real talent for writing a good story will mean that his series will probably be watched 30 to 50 years from now. And no, I don't mean just on TV Land, but in widespread syndication. How many current series do you think can make the same claim?
As bad as this sounds, it used to be much, MUCH worse back in the late '70s. Back then, the All Volunteer Force was just getting off the ground. Also, many civilians really believed that anyone who wished to serve his or her country in uniform was either a latent baby killer, or a complete incompetent who couldn't make it in the 'real world'.
I was lucky enough to have an honest recruiter for the Navy warn me up front about what I'd be facing if I put the uniform on. However, once I reached boot camp I heard plenty of horror stories; lots of recruiters who lied about conditions, guys whose recruiters took the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) for them, faked drug tests by recruiters, recruiters who lied on the paperwork about recruits' educational background, etc.
Why was this going on? Well, mostly because the Navy would severely punish sailors who did not meet their recruiting quota. When you have some guy with 15 years in uniform who was struggling just to support his family (on food stamps no less!), staring at the possibility of the loss of his pension because he's about to lose a stripe (which puts him below the minimum rank to be allowed to re-enlist to reach 20 years), he'll do what he has to to avoid it. When you have guys who are facing the possibility of time in the brig if they don't meet quota, they'll do what they have to to avoid it. And forget ever making chief petty officer if you get a letter of reprimand because you missed one monthly quota!
Because the risks to a career were so high, recruiting duty at the time was considered as unpaid hazardous duty by many. Sailors used to volunteer for back to back sea duty tours just to avoid it.
I once found an English language copy entitled, "A History of Postwar Japan" that was written by a Japanese history professor some time in the '70s. While the book was focussed primarily on the '50s and '60s, he did discuss was the end of the war itself. It was his opinion that only the two A bombs gave the Emperor enough political clout to override the Japanese High Command and seek peace. Without those two extreme examples of total devastation, the Japanese Army would have fought to the last man and the last bullet.
Find that hard to believe? Read any history of Battle of Okinawa that bothers to explore the Japanese point of view.
G.E.B.?
Agreed. However, I don't think things are as black and white as far as Nvidia is concerned. What you may not be aware of is that Nvidia uses technology from other companies. Those companies have chosen to keep their technology closed source. Some of it is patented, some copyrighted. In either case, as long as Nvidia wishes to use that technology, they are legally and morally bound to honor their wishes.
The copyright issues are pretty trivial to work around, and I gather from what I've read in various places that Nvidia has worked to minimize the impact of that material. The patented technology, however, presents them with a much larger headache. There really is no safe way to code around known patent issues. You can try, and face the probability of a $20M lawsuit, or fork over some licensing fee and move on. Nvidia chose the latter solution.
Do we have fast, completely unencumbered, open source 2D drivers for Nvidia's cards? Absolutely!
Do I want to see completely unencumbered, fast, open source 3D drivers? Absolutely! Can I program them? Absolutely not! Can Nvidia or anyone else? Apparently not! At least, not for anything resembling a reasonable cost.
Nope. They don't just look like different planets. Anyone who has visited both knows that they are different planets. In different solar systems. In different galaxies. :)
But, but... that IS a lie. The Internet ALREADY EXISTED. All Al really did was recognize that there was a big groundswell of support for a publicly available, for pay network that could be used for commercial purposes. He jumped on the bandwagon to remove the restrictions that prevented that kind of activity on the Internet of the day. That's all he did. Anything else is a gross, gross overstatement of his real involvement.
Vinton Cerf's statement simply highlights the fact that he (VC) happened to be a corporate guy who was buttering up what looked like the strongest presidential candidate in 2000.
Gentoo has by far the best installation documentation set that I have ever seen for a Linux distribution. I can't say the same for much of the Linux distro documentation that I've used in the past.
Gentoo's forums are some of the most useful that I've ever seen for solving Linux related problems, regardless of distribution. They make a fantastic resource for troubleshooting. I've taken to checking them first for issues that come up for my Debian laptop. The answers that I find in the Gentoo forums are always knowledgable, clear, and to the point.
Don't knock the forums until you try them.
Probably the single most useful post in this entire thread!
Because IE sometimes won't properly render web standard compliant pages? :)
Umm, no he doesn't always turn out to be right. My immediate experience with his stuff is daemontools. Nice package in a lot of ways, but the toolset forces far too many default choices that deviate away from common practice.
I found two big hangups that pushed me away from daemontools and over to start-stop-daemon. The first was that assigning logfiles by default deep within the daemontools subdirectory instead of within
Start-stop-daemon uses sane default behavior for logfiles, which makes it much easier to work with out of the box. It has also done a much better job of recovering daemons.
Don't get me wrong, I think that DJB is a very smart programmer. It's just that he thinks that if something is not done his way, it's automatically wrong. That's simply not true. No one is that good, for one. And doing something different just for the sake of doing it is truly A Bad Thing (tm) for system admins.
I call BS. Sun historically has contributed some code to various projects. However, they no longer are anywhere near as active as they used to be. And before you bring up Solaris 10, I'm still not 100% convinced that they can legally open it all up because they don't hold most of the necessary copyrights! If anyone does, it's Novell.
And note that they deliberately designed a license that will make it difficult to intermix their code with that from GPL'ed projects. That's their right, of course. However, to characterize them as wholehearted supporters of OSS is blind at best. Personally, I think IBM's current commitment to F/LOSS is far more substantial and far more effective than Sun's has ever been. Where is Sun's equivalent to IBM's Global Services arm? Where are Sun's OSS customer test labs? Where are Sun's lawyers?
Mind you, I recognize that IBM is not doing all this out of the goodness of their hearts. The company's officers is going in this direction because they have figured out what Sun has not yet; the rules of the game for the computer industry have changed forever. The time when you could expect to have unlimited opportunities to create customer lock-in are gone forever. Now is the time for companies to learn how to make a buck within the constraints of the new rules while also building (or at least maintaining) brand loyalty. Not hold on to a dead dream of world dominance of the Unix market.
Huh? If any prospective employer ever indicated that I couldn't take time off to take care of my kids I'd have my resume back out so fast the paper would be smoking. This should NOT be a gender issue. This is a parental issue. Thank Ghu Minnesota has a law that allows both parents to take 6 weeks unpaid leave after the birth of a child. That first 12 weeks makes all the difference for the kids.
I can't speak for other states, but I know that Minnesota has reciprocal tax agreements in place with every state that borders it for a very long time. We got into the practice becauase we have a couple of smaller metro areas that historically have bled across borders; Duluth MN/Superior WI and Fargo ND/Moorhead MN. Then there are the bedroom communities in Wisconsin that house commuters to the Twin Cities, Rochester, etc.
I don't know the details of the tax agreements, but the concept itself seems fair when you have people who use state owned facilities and resources in two states on a daily basis. However, none of that really applies to the situation outlined in the article, as that guy was NOT using facilities in New York that were state owned.
Really? Actually, it was pretty common back in the late '70s and early '80s among the gearheads and sailors during my misspent youth in high school and the Navy. Generally used to describe a really fast car/boat/motorcycle/whatever. :)
I thought the original copyrights were set up under Queen Anne to create monopolies for certain publishers?
Nope, it's only 5% of revenue. They won't even blink an eye at it. Not when giving in means FINALLY having to give up on one of the key ways that they keep people locked in to their crap.
I have no illusions that Microsoft will pay that fine. While it's not exactly chump change, it still isn't enough to dissuade them from moving forward, as they can still easily show a profit.
Don't kid yourself, this really is a small fine for a company the size of Microsoft. For all companies, small fines are just the cost of doing business. They'll just raise the price of some of the products elsewhere to cover the loss in profit.