Can't Debian sue them too?
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Xandros 1.0
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I would think that much of Xandros's niceness comes from the fact that it is Debian based... Now if you use all those goodies and not abiding by the GPL, you can probably be sued by Debian too?
First world countries have almost non-existent population growthrates. What does that mean for their economies? Well it is arguable that if the amount of possible consumers do not grow, then your economy won't grow...
So where are populations growing? Third world countries. Only problem is these countries will never reach their potential if life is a daily struggle against poverty, disease and hunger...
This would be a good deal for his family still in South Africa. They can visit him at the nearby jail and they don't need to feed or shelter him!
Seriously this probably only affects a few big players like IBM and Zaxus (ex Baltimore) who supply solutions that are used in Banking sector. There is at least one local South-African player in the market that will blow anyone else out of the water with both price and performance.
One of the great things about CVS is that I can use ssh with it, it gives me the following advantages: 1) I can access CVS server indirectly by doing tunneling. 2) My code is encrypted on the wire so I can access it over public networks without the possibility of someone hijacking it. 3) I can use PKI to authenticate someone to the CVS. (not as important to me as the fact that data is encrypted)
Now I've heard people coming up with solutions like using.htaccess and SSL. Why would I want to use SSL if I can use ssh? Are all of us now suddenly supposed to be openssl coders? It must be easy for people to develop tools like cervisia for subversion (with SSL)...
South Africa has been doing this since 1980's
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When Looks Can Kill
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Hi,
Not many of you might know it or believe it, but the South Afican arms industry has been using this in their planes since about mid-1980. Although the system was excellent and worked well in the war in Angola, the only weak link was probably the missiles called the Kukri missile. The US missiles of now and that time are probably superior to the Kukri.
In the early 90's they also moved this technology to their Rooivalk helicopters.
You probably don't believe this. As a South African Electronic engineer I find it interesting that people believe nothing good comes from Africa. Personally I prefer being under than over estimated...
Racist or not, BRING YOUR OWN BANDWIDTH
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Biohackathon
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Hi,
All visitors will probably feel bandwidth deprived. Now you've got 1 of 2 options: 1) Petition the SA Government on how they are depriving you of your constitutional (very important word) right to bandwidth. 2) Bring your own pipe.
Unless your parents give you a bribary allowance, 2 will be by far the most painless.
And for the last time: "NO! Zimbabwe isn't a province of South-Africa. And NO Africa doesn't consist of 2 countries North and South Africa!:)"
Could it be that the people buying hardware for companies are just a bunch of idiots and doesn't know any better?
I know my small company could save about $50 000 a year just by buying AMD and not Intel, that is if they even knew about AMD....
Haven't sony been having some losses which they blame on advertising costs. I find it desturbing that someone obviously as mentally desturbed as this Heckler fellow can run a technology company when he can't even grasp the concept of The Internet.
Unix is Power? Well although I'm not the first to come up with it, you can blame me if you want to:)
Let me give you a real life example of why I can say so.. A while ago I was sitting on the corporate network of a financial institution. I was developing some PHP on a linux machine (A) which was sitting on the DMZ of their firewall. I connected to this machine through the only connection I was allowed, ssh. A few problems arose with some systems of other customers which was about 2000 km's away. The linux box was only allowed access to one IP (B) outside the institutions network. Thus I connected to box A with ssh, from there to B with ssh. B wasn't allowed to either of the final 2 customers network, so I had to go via box C to box D and E respectively. So from 2000 km's away and through 3 intermediate machines, I was developing code in C on box C, debugging communication with cryptographic hardware, etc.... while fixing some bugs in perl on box E as well as debugging a Postgres database, and all of the above communication was encrypted.
The only limit you have with Unix is your own skill and imagination....
Yes, there must always be people on site of course, they just don't need to babysit every machine. As for NT's remote management, I know about it, I have used it, but how effective is it if you don't have the bandwidth?
Except for the slight miscalculation... With 2500 linux boxes you would need a third of the support staff at most, none of them will be idiots AND THEY CAN BE ANYWARE IN THE WORLD AND REACH ANY BOX ON THE NETWORK. I've worked for EDS and I you can easily spy a windows administrator running around from machine to machine, something us Linux oaks never do:) Unix is power, Windows lets your feet do the walking instead of your mind
While I was doing my final year Electronic Engineering project at University in 1995, one of my fellow students was implementing this using neural nets as his final year project. The system was used for user verification on a unix system. I don't know about the end of the project, but someone was definitively doing it.
The now legendary bad design of the move Battlefield Earth hints of subtle genius. By now newspapers all around the world have the following headline, Battlefield Earth: The BOOK is BETTER!! Millions are rushing back to school, the book READING FOR DUMMIES sells out, reading is back this season!!! All the while in Hollywood, a secret genius smiles, the days of idiot movies for idiots are limited.
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I would think that much of Xandros's niceness comes from the fact that it is Debian based... Now if you use all those goodies and not abiding by the GPL, you can probably be sued by Debian too?
First world countries have almost non-existent population growthrates. What does that mean for their economies? Well it is arguable that if the amount of possible consumers do not grow, then your economy won't grow...
So where are populations growing? Third world countries. Only problem is these countries will never reach their potential if life is a daily struggle against poverty, disease and hunger...
No, you'll be Moered.
This would be a good deal for his family still in South Africa. They can visit him at the nearby jail and they don't need to feed or shelter him!
Seriously this probably only affects a few big players like IBM and Zaxus (ex Baltimore) who supply solutions that are used in Banking sector. There is at least one local South-African player in the market that will blow anyone else out of the water with both price and performance.
One of the great things about CVS is that I can use ssh with it,
.htaccess
it gives me the following advantages:
1) I can access CVS server indirectly by doing tunneling.
2) My code is encrypted on the wire so I can access it over public
networks without the possibility of someone hijacking it.
3) I can use PKI to authenticate someone to the CVS. (not as
important to me as the fact that data is encrypted)
Now I've heard people coming up with solutions like using
and SSL. Why would I want to use SSL if I can use ssh? Are all
of us now suddenly supposed to be openssl coders? It must be
easy for people to develop tools like cervisia for subversion (with
SSL)...
Hi,
Not many of you might know it or believe it, but
the South Afican arms industry has been using this
in their planes since about mid-1980. Although the system was excellent and worked well in the war in Angola, the only weak link was probably the missiles called the Kukri missile. The US missiles of now and that time are probably superior to the Kukri.
In the early 90's they also moved this technology to their Rooivalk helicopters.
You probably don't believe this. As a South African Electronic engineer I find it interesting that people believe nothing good comes from Africa. Personally I prefer being under than over estimated...
Hi,
:)"
All visitors will probably feel bandwidth deprived. Now you've
got 1 of 2 options:
1) Petition the SA Government on how they are depriving you
of your constitutional (very important word) right to bandwidth.
2) Bring your own pipe.
Unless your parents give you a bribary allowance, 2 will be
by far the most painless.
And for the last time: "NO! Zimbabwe isn't a province of
South-Africa. And NO Africa doesn't consist of 2 countries North
and South Africa!
the end.
Could it be that the people buying hardware for companies are just a bunch of idiots and doesn't know any better? I know my small company could save about $50 000 a year just by buying AMD and not Intel, that is if they even knew about AMD....
The Lower End is just a Marketing pitch meaning that if you don't have at least the Lower End, you're either out of fashion or dirt....
Haven't sony been having some losses which they blame on advertising costs. I find it desturbing that someone obviously as mentally desturbed as this Heckler fellow can run a technology company when he can't even grasp the concept of The Internet.
Unix is Power? Well although I'm not the first to come up with it, you can blame me if you want to :)
Let me give you a real life example of why I can say so..
A while ago I was sitting on the corporate network of a financial institution. I was developing some PHP on a linux machine (A) which was sitting on the DMZ of their firewall. I connected to this machine through the only connection I was allowed, ssh. A few problems arose with some systems of other customers which was about 2000 km's away. The linux box was only allowed access to one IP (B) outside the institutions network. Thus I connected to box A with ssh, from there to B with ssh. B wasn't allowed to either of the final 2 customers network, so I had to go via box C to box D and E respectively. So from 2000 km's away and through 3 intermediate machines, I was developing code in C on box C, debugging communication with cryptographic hardware, etc.... while fixing some bugs in perl on box E as well as debugging a Postgres database, and all of the above communication was encrypted.
The only limit you have with Unix is your own skill and imagination....
Yes, there must always be people on site of course, they just don't need to babysit every machine. As for NT's remote management, I know about it, I have used it, but how effective is it if you don't have the bandwidth?
Except for the slight miscalculation... With 2500 linux boxes you would need a third of the support staff at most, none of them will be idiots AND THEY CAN BE ANYWARE IN THE WORLD AND REACH ANY BOX ON THE NETWORK. I've worked for EDS and I you can easily spy a windows administrator running around from machine to machine, something us Linux oaks never do :) Unix is power, Windows lets your feet do the walking instead of your mind
Hi
While I was doing my final year Electronic Engineering project at University in 1995, one
of my fellow students was implementing this using neural nets as his final year project. The system was used for user verification on a unix system. I don't know about the end of the project, but someone was definitively doing it.
The now legendary bad design of the move Battlefield Earth hints of subtle genius.
By now newspapers all around the world have the following headline, Battlefield Earth: The BOOK is
BETTER!!
Millions are rushing back to school, the book READING FOR DUMMIES sells out, reading is back this season!!!
All the while in Hollywood, a secret genius smiles, the days of idiot movies for idiots are limited.