Windows sure.. but any *nix box will have only the ports opwn that I need. So I put up a firewall that opens the exact same ports as I have on my server and it helps how??
That's not the reason why they do it. It['s usually a side affect of doing a generic block on ICMP at the firewall. The generic block seems logical to your average clueless sysadmin since now the local network is harder to flood with ICMP Pings or used to bounce them. Unfortunatly people keep forgetting that ICMP is more than just PING and TRACEROUTE.
I actually watched Stallman speak in Montreal recently. One interesting tidbit was that he still seems dumbfounded about the fact that the Linux kernel beat them into production even though one of the advantages of microkernel is supposed to be ease of design and the fact that mach had half of the work done already.
Yeah it's a great help if the odds of a drive failing is rare but you can't risk it.
The problem here is that thanks to a general lack of quality in the desktop ICE space from vendors like IBM and fujitsu who will continue to sell known faulty drives the odds of losing 2 drives at once are sadly not in your favor.
Yes but redundant is only usefull when youve taken other steps to make everything else as reliable as possible.
I simply don't buy the statement that 2 unreliable parts can be combined into someting that's more reliable than something that's better than both of them in the first place.
I've watched not one but 2 high profile projects have multi day outages because they bet their buisness on IDE raid.
That's the whole problem.. the pet shop example app was never designed to be efficiant or even used.
It's an *example* app that demonstrats how to implement certain java features. They did not allow or ask anyone to make a new app they did it themselves then asked MS to make a competing one.
Even if there exists a "UPER OPTIMIZED PET SHOP APPLICATION" it's doubtfull they would have used it and optimising the current app would kill it's usefullness as a teaching aid.
The whole comparison is completely bogus and it reminds me of someone comparing a ferrari with one of those trainer station wagons with random extra wiring the Canadian millitary used to use to train their mechanics.
IBM never said it was over liability concerns MS did. It's a red herring anyhow becuse if IBM sells it then they are the ones who are liable if the machine goes down because it's their machine and they sold and setup the software on it. Why should they bother with their own distro? It's just duplicating work if they do and at least this way any enhancements that need to be made to the distro benifit non IBM users as well.
As for their contribution, it goes much deeper than JFS. Many of the performance improvements in the latest development kernels are from IBM. I even saw a mini contest between 2 of their labs to see who could get the shortest compile time on a 16 way box. VM improvements? Subsystem cleanups? Reliabillity testing for even random patches? None of that comes free.
Oh and by Linus decree none of their improvements can slow down single CPU systems.
I have counted at least 5 full time developers on the Linux kernel mailing list.
The sad thing is that by doing so they will eventually stagnate. The RIAA willing this war will hurt them as well in the long term though they will make better money in the meantime.
It isn't that good.. there is virtually no accountabillty and it doesn't take many reports before you find yourself listed. Reports as added by acount holders on the website.
Even vger.kernel.org was listed once...
Odds are using spews to filter will nail a lot of good email along the way.
My father and all of my uncles have found that local anesthetic doesn't work at all.
Thankfully I don't have it as bad but I have noticed that local doesn't work as well or last as long as the medical staff usually expect it to and general simply takes forever to work.
I have a nasty memory of having a doctor trying to stich my leg back together only to realise the anesthetic had completely worn off.
Several of my uncles have had to have relatively minor cuts stitched without anesthetic simply because it's less painful than having the emergency room they happen to be in constantly apply needles in the hopes that a large enough dose will work.
There are no redheads in my father's side of the the family at all and that side of the family is German.
Keep in mind that unlike everyone else currently alive in the industry MS cannot allow that to happen. The mod chips esentially allow you to turn an X-BOX into a cheap PC that MS lost money selling in the hopes that users will buy enugh games to make up the loss.
Having said that; the law should not be used to protect idiot buisness plans.
Given that the Linux kernel is much newer than the Hurd yet has matured faster don't you think Linus got something RIGHT in his development process?
The Linux tree is actually very organised but that doesn't solve all of the problems.
Hmm lets take a recent scenario: Combine an interface change with the maintainer adding functionality while a kernel janitor cleanes up random portions of code? In each case the code changes are only on a single driver yet you have 3 people making changes.
Actually that's the point.. The first question wanted to deal with local bands. He should talk to each band before hand and get permission (preferably in writing) then keep a lawer nearby in case they send a letter to his ISP complaining of infringement.
INAL: But I think such a letter to the isp would qualify as defamiation of character. (someone correct me if I'm wrong) What these buggers need is someone to sue them for a lot of money right back again.
"Anyone out there providing ssh'd remote X access to an IRIX box so one could have a look?"
Yeah any scientific intitution still running last year's IRIX.
Seriously though IRIX is very tied to the hardware and by the time they ported it to x86 they would have a mostly new OS.
SGI wants to go x86 but the best way for them seems to be just having their own engineers port the best IRIX features to Linux. SGI is still active on linux-kernel so they havn't changed their minds yet.
All that matters is that an often linked to site(slashdot) has plenty of links to his site.
So yeah you check for "free porn" and he shows up as number 6. Our preceptions of him don't affect that at all unless somone mods him into negative karma.
Sure but if Linus thought the same way I'd still be stuck in Windows and not using any free software at all. It's all about one battle at a time.
And it's not the hair I disklke about RMS it's the childish way he presents himself. Scuttling press confrences over naming issues? Comparing Linus to the makers of the attomic bomb?
It used to be a simple dislike but after reading that Gnu/Linux FAQ I will now go out of my way to avoid mentioning stallman. It's down right offensive.
And yes I was calling it GNU/linux to be fair but no longer.
I'm not saying the GNU folks did nothing.. they started the movement and built a lot of needed tools.
But my point is that Linus(mostly by accident) popularised them and for that the GNU folks should give him alot more respect than they seem to.
They should be thanking him instead of questioning his ideals and comparing his mindset with those who created the atomic bomb. (see the why it should be GNU/Linux faq - very childish)
And they wonder why more people Listen to Linus... Linus is not for free software? Then why the hell did he release his code under the GPL?
No. Non-Free software is NOT needed to devlelop Linux. Linus and the bitkeeper folks have gone our of their way to make sure that it's even easier to sumbit patches the old way than it was before. And as he has stated he is willing to consider a free tool instead of Bitkeeper should one become as good.
And if you read his book he explains that he in fact tried calling it GNU/Linux for a bit then gave up realising that even he can't fight what's become the defacto naming standard.
Linus has done more for free software than the GNU folks want to admit. How many people would even be using free software if not for Linux? I wouldn't be.. "hey lets lose the useabillity battle but we can still win the war?"
The fact that stallman has been moved out of the spotlight is pretty much his own doing. Reporters tend not to like people who side track press confrences to argue over naming.
Linus on the other hand had to be coerced into having a book done and has a notable dislike for politics and correctness. I never see him grabbing the spotlight from someone else and demanding attention.
While the GNU folks were busy trying to fight the whole battle at once and having press confrence Linus managed to build a working kernel and kickstart the free software movement.
Yeah I run non free software from time to time.. no I don't like it. But I'd rather run one or 2 non free apps than be forced to use windows on my office desktop and run ENTIRELY non free software.
I'm all for the free software ideals and I know it will bring a better age of software if it manages to take over.
But seriously.. lets fight this one battle at a time and spend less time arguing views. Buisness seem to have an apathy for ideals.
Linus pragmatic approach has brought the entire movement into the public software and he deservs more respect than he has been getting from the GNU people.
This soft of "we hate the competition" has been around since I started with computers. Only then it was Apple II vs IBM vs Commodore each camp poking fun at the others.
I'm sure buisnesses will continue to do what theve always done: and buy the products they think will work best for them.
I'm trying to picture some buisness caring about the signal to noise ratio of the linux community and I just can't at least not when we have the likes of RedHat SuSE and Mandrake providing a suit friendly place for them to deal with.
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On a new install yes.. keep in mind that as the administrator I should know exactly what is running at all times.
You lost me when you said any box.
Windows sure.. but any *nix box will have only the ports opwn that I need. So I put up a firewall that opens the exact same ports as I have on my server and it helps how??
Had you actually read the story you would know that the Guiness book of world records verified the claim.
That's not the reason why they do it. It['s usually a side affect of doing a generic block on ICMP at the firewall. The generic block seems logical to your average clueless sysadmin since now the local network is harder to flood with ICMP Pings or used to bounce them. Unfortunatly people keep forgetting that ICMP is more than just PING and TRACEROUTE.
I actually watched Stallman speak in Montreal recently. One interesting tidbit was that he still seems dumbfounded about the fact that the Linux kernel beat them into production even though one of the advantages of microkernel is supposed to be ease of design and the fact that mach had half of the work done already.
Yeah it's a great help if the odds of a drive failing is rare but you can't risk it.
The problem here is that thanks to a general lack of quality in the desktop ICE space from vendors like IBM and fujitsu who will continue to sell known faulty drives the odds of losing 2 drives at once are sadly not in your favor.
Yes but redundant is only usefull when youve taken other steps to make everything else as reliable as possible.
I simply don't buy the statement that 2 unreliable parts can be combined into someting that's more reliable than something that's better than both of them in the first place.
I've watched not one but 2 high profile projects have multi day outages because they bet their buisness on IDE raid.
Unless the whole raid dies at once as happened to several deskstar users.
Raid is not a means of combatting unreliabillity.
It's entirely possible the potential employer had her email address from before she had the problem.
So yes that does cut it. The fact that it was a mistake in her ISP's accounting system in the first place only makes it worse.
That's the whole problem.. the pet shop example app was never designed to be efficiant or even used.
It's an *example* app that demonstrats how to implement certain java features. They did not allow or ask anyone to make a new app they did it
themselves then asked MS to make a competing one.
Even if there exists a "UPER OPTIMIZED PET SHOP APPLICATION" it's doubtfull they would have used it and optimising the current app would kill it's usefullness as a teaching aid.
The whole comparison is completely bogus and it reminds me of someone comparing a ferrari with one of those trainer station wagons with random extra wiring the Canadian millitary used to use to train their mechanics.
IBM never said it was over liability concerns MS did. It's a red herring anyhow becuse if IBM sells it then they are the ones who are liable if the machine goes down because it's their machine and they sold and setup the software on it. Why should they bother with their own distro? It's just duplicating work if they do and at least this way any enhancements that need to be made to the distro benifit non IBM users as well.
As for their contribution, it goes much deeper than JFS. Many of the performance improvements in the latest development kernels are from IBM. I even saw a mini contest between 2 of their labs to see who could get the shortest compile time on a 16 way box. VM improvements? Subsystem cleanups? Reliabillity testing for even random patches? None of that comes free.
Oh and by Linus decree none of their improvements can slow down single CPU systems.
I have counted at least 5 full time developers on the Linux kernel mailing list.
So yes.. they deserve credit.
Optical device== Camera ?
So I'm guessing they think the patent covers anyone who took pictures of their product and put them up on their website.
The sad thing is that by doing so they will eventually stagnate. The RIAA willing this war will hurt them as well in the long term though they will make better money in the meantime.
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It isn't that good.. there is virtually no accountabillty and it doesn't take many reports before you find yourself listed. Reports as added by acount holders on the website.
Even vger.kernel.org was listed once...
Odds are using spews to filter will nail a lot of good email along the way.
My father and all of my uncles have found that local anesthetic doesn't work at all.
Thankfully I don't have it as bad but I have noticed that local doesn't work as well or last as long as the medical staff usually expect it to and general simply takes forever to work.
I have a nasty memory of having a doctor trying to stich my leg back together only to realise the anesthetic had completely worn off.
Several of my uncles have had to have relatively minor cuts stitched without anesthetic simply because it's less painful than having the emergency room they happen to be in constantly apply needles in the hopes that a large enough dose will work.
There are no redheads in my father's side of the the family at all and that side of the family is German.
Keep in mind that unlike everyone else currently alive in the industry MS cannot allow that to happen. The mod chips esentially allow you to turn an X-BOX into a cheap PC that MS lost money selling in the hopes that users will buy enugh games to make up the loss.
Having said that; the law should not be used to protect idiot buisness plans.
How can you even argue this?
Given that the Linux kernel is much newer than the Hurd yet has matured faster don't you think Linus got something RIGHT in his development process?
The Linux tree is actually very organised but that doesn't solve all of the problems.
Hmm lets take a recent scenario: Combine an interface change with the maintainer adding functionality while a kernel janitor cleanes up random portions of code? In each case the code changes are only on a single driver yet you have 3 people making changes.
Actually that's the point.. The first question wanted to deal with local bands. He should talk to each band before hand and get permission (preferably in writing) then keep a lawer nearby in case they send a letter to his ISP complaining of infringement.
INAL: But I think such a letter to the isp would qualify as defamiation of character. (someone correct me if I'm wrong) What these buggers need is someone to sue them for a lot of money right back again.
"Anyone out there providing ssh'd remote X access to an IRIX box so one could have a look?"
Yeah any scientific intitution still running last year's IRIX.
Seriously though IRIX is very tied to the hardware and by the time they ported it to x86 they would have a mostly new OS.
SGI wants to go x86 but the best way for them seems to be just having their own engineers port the best IRIX features to Linux. SGI is still active on linux-kernel so they havn't changed their minds yet.
All that matters is that an often linked to site(slashdot) has plenty of links to his site.
So yeah you check for "free porn" and he shows up as number 6. Our preceptions of him don't affect that at all unless somone mods him into negative karma.
Sure but if Linus thought the same way I'd still be stuck in Windows and not using any free software at all. It's all about one battle at a time.
And it's not the hair I disklke about RMS it's the childish way he presents himself. Scuttling press confrences over naming issues? Comparing Linus to the makers of the attomic bomb?
It used to be a simple dislike but after reading that Gnu/Linux FAQ I will now go out of my way to avoid mentioning stallman. It's down right offensive.
And yes I was calling it GNU/linux to be fair but no longer.
Mentioning your site every chance you get on slashdot probably did more for your ranking than using a tag that google is known to ignore.
I'm not saying the GNU folks did nothing.. they started the movement and built a lot of needed tools.
But my point is that Linus(mostly by accident) popularised them and for that the GNU folks should give him alot more respect than they seem to.
They should be thanking him instead of questioning his ideals and comparing his mindset with those who created the atomic bomb. (see the why it should be GNU/Linux faq - very childish)
And they wonder why more people Listen to Linus ...
Linus is not for free software? Then why the hell did he release his code under the GPL?
No. Non-Free software is NOT needed to devlelop Linux. Linus and the bitkeeper folks have gone our of their way to make sure that it's even easier to sumbit patches the old way than it was before. And as he has stated he is willing to consider a free tool instead of Bitkeeper should one become as good.
And if you read his book he explains that he in fact tried calling it GNU/Linux for a bit then gave up realising that even he can't fight what's become the defacto naming standard.
Linus has done more for free software than the GNU folks want to admit. How many people would even be using free software if not for Linux?
I wouldn't be.. "hey lets lose the useabillity battle but we can still win the war?"
The fact that stallman has been moved out of the spotlight is pretty much his own doing. Reporters tend not to like people who side track press confrences to argue over naming.
Linus on the other hand had to be coerced into having a book done and has a notable dislike for politics and correctness. I never see him grabbing the spotlight from someone else and demanding attention.
While the GNU folks were busy trying to fight the whole battle at once and having press confrence Linus managed to build a working kernel and kickstart the free software movement.
Yeah I run non free software from time to time.. no I don't like it. But I'd rather run one or 2 non free apps than be forced to use windows on my office desktop and run ENTIRELY non free software.
I'm all for the free software ideals and I know it will bring a better age of software if it manages to take over.
But seriously.. lets fight this one battle at a time and spend less time arguing views. Buisness seem to have an apathy for ideals.
Linus pragmatic approach has brought the entire movement into the public software and he deservs more respect than he has been getting from the GNU people.
This soft of "we hate the competition" has been around since I started with computers. Only then it was Apple II vs IBM vs Commodore each camp poking fun at the others.
I'm sure buisnesses will continue to do what theve always done: and buy the products they think will work best for them.
I'm trying to picture some buisness caring about the signal to noise ratio of the linux community and I just can't at least not when we have the likes of RedHat SuSE and Mandrake providing a suit friendly place for them to deal with.