And doesn't GigE give you more connections at the same bandwidth, rather than significantly higher bandwidth with only one connection?
No, it's one connection, it's just a whole lot less efficient, because programs were not designed to use GigE. You have to use Jumbo Frames (9000MTU) to even get any signifant improvement, and even then, unless you are willing to edit the source code of every app you run and change the way it handles socket buffers, to get a little more out of it.
Good one, in seriousness though, the original poster was wrong in another respect, adding GigE, even with 9000 MTU, gives you nothing near 10X speed increase.
Maybe if you went in the source code and tweaked all your software, it would come closer, but we are talking maybe a 2-4X speed increase over 100Mbit, even using Jumbo Frames.
That's a pretty lame arguement, sorry. I think the 55-year-old precedent with free to air TV showing you ads in trade for free "entertainment" is enough to avoid any barter income issues here.
DURHAM, North Carolina (AP) -- The Washington Post reported late Friday that Durham-based Red Hat, distributer of the popular Linux operating system, has decided to change their business focus.
Sources close to the situation report that the company will concentrate on selling fine haberdashery, abandoning their efforts to sell Linux based software and services.
"As a company policy, we don't respond to rumors, but this one is true," Red Hat spokeswoman Melissa London told The Associated Press in response to the report.
An anonymous source told The Associated Press, "They just realized they could make more money selling red fedoras. I can't blame them really, the fedoras they make are very nice, and were making them a lot more money than Red Hat Database was."
Further details are expected later this week.
About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat is the world's premier provider of fine haberdashery. Red Hat is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. and has offices worldwide. Please visit Red Hat on the Web at www.redhat.com. For investor inquiries, contact Gabriel Szulik at Red Hat, (919) 754-3700.
LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS Forward-looking statements in this press release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release that are not strictly historical statements, including, without limitation, management's plans and objectives for future operations, and management's assessment of market factors, constitute forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. Other statements in this release may be total fabrications and should not be relied on for medical reseach, nuclear control systems, or anything in particular. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, reliance upon strategic relationships, management of growth, the possibility of undetected hat making errors, the risks of economic downturns generally, and in Red Hat's industry specifically, the risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures, the viability of the haberdashery industry, and other risks detailed in Red Hat's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ironic you say that, while your post implies you are are secretly vying for said FP.
Although, I thought my "April 1st post" in this story was kind of funny. I guess the editors don't share my sense of humor. I don't see how any message could be offtopic today... What's that rationalization? People were coming here to read serious news today, and not meaningless funny posts? Right!
Yeah, that's what I mean. It's annoying when you see a post, but you can't see the parent because of your threshold. I usually try to respond to posts at their original level, to avoid causing that to happen.
Then maybe it's just an emergency measure to stop the trolltalk... who knows. If it's an April fool joke, it's not very funny.
LIke I said in another reply to this parent, I've actually been in favor of removing anon posting, if anything, it's an illusion of anonmity, however you spell it. They will always have IP address logs, and an account created with a hotmail email address created with fake info offers the same level of protection as AC does.
What will the karma whores do when they want to flame and not lose their karam points?
Dedicated trolling accounts, or just logging out. I assume not logged in users can still post?
--It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment-- that is driving me crazy. Couldn't they fix it so you could post like, 3 comments in 6 minutes, but not require you to space out the individual comments so much? The net effect would be the same. OK I guess I have wasted 60 seconds of my life now. Time to hit submit again.
All I have to say is that editors better not bitchslap this thread down, it's unrealistic to make such a big change to the site, not create a story for it, and then mod anyone offtopic that posts about it in an unrelated story.
Mine's gone too... Looks like Taco finally bought the argument that people can just easily create "anonymous" accounts, or log out, if they want to be anonymous.
I've argued that before, so I can't say I'll miss it much. The only thing I much used it for was to avoid reparenting when replying to ACs.
There is a balance to be found, and I say that even as a Libertarian.
If we had market driven pricing in IP, I doubt there would be nearly as much piracy. It's only due to the unnatural forces that monopolies are exerting on the market that create these problems. It might require a shift from, "here's the music, now go fuck yourself", to a more value added form of selling music, but so be it. There is no constitutional right to have your market protected, as a huge media monopoly and middleman. Copyright was meant for the artists.
Yes, markets are, on paper, nicer and more rational and more adaptive than political processes
It was interference with natural market forces through political process that caused this "problem".
There is demand, a market, and people willing to provide the service, but there are government protected third parties that are preventing natural market forces from allowing business to continue in a natural way.
I've managed to secure these pictures from an anonymous source within intel. Wonder no longer what the P4 has insi*e. I suggest we all start writing insi*e like that, the same way we do with UNIX, to remind people on Intel's stupidity.
Actually, a large portion of security holes in MS software are fixed before there is an exploit. The problem is the few that aren't get lots of press, and people don't install the patches, and MS still gets the blame.
I think you are kind of missing the point. A lot of people forget that the script kiddie warez and IRC bots is just one form of security risk.
We assert that open source has less total security flaws, because more are discovered by the general public.
A major security hole, unknown to the general public, could be considered a weapon, of vast power. It would allow you to break in to your enemy's and competitors computers, stealing sensitive information, etc.
It is impossible to know how many secret security holes there are in Windows, that people may be keeping under their hat. Look at eEye. They are a company that regularly finds major security holes, because they beat on windows constantly looking for them. I'm sure their core talent isn't more than one or two people.
Suppose a blackhat version of eEye, with a couple or few adept people, banging on windows in every possible way. It's likely that such an orginization would have found many previously unknown security holes, and/or combinations of little holes that can lead to system compromise.
With open source, it's more likely that people in the normal course of debugging their problems will find problems, such as the zlib issue. That was just someone trying to get his project working, and that led him to discover the error in zlib that could be a security hole.
It's not the holes we know about that matter, it's the ones we don't.
Qt is Quicktime. Qt is being devloped by Apple as a fully functional toolkit for creating GUI applications in X. Many Linux applications were written in Quicktime, in fact most of KDE is Quicktime. The licensing arguments are about the sorensen license, that Apple chose for Qt. It may or may not be compatible with the GPL.
It looks like this Linux Media Arts company is picking up the development and service on it.
It's not clear whether it's still open source or not, and I don't have the background to tell you whether Bcast2000 was unencumbered enough to take out of GPL. Basically if the previous owners got assignment of all contributers copyrights, then it's posible they have taken future versions closed. The GPL fork will of course always exist to be built from in any case.
Yes, I know all that, I mean normal operation defined as launching flying around in space, and landing.
It's not as if someone deliberately sabotaged it, unless you want to argue that the O-ring thing could constitute that, though it's more like gross negligence than intentional sabotage.
Anyway, I was just trying to make a simple point, the failure of the WTC shouldn't shake anyone's faith in technology. There seem to be a lot of luddites out for this story.
XML with CSS looks great in Opera. Flash works Crossover plugin works (quicktime et al) 99.9% of all sites work. That other.1% is Frontpage crap that barely works in Moz. Very easy and intuiitive system for defining your custom document settings, you just pick a tag, and tell it what font you want, i.e. H1=whatever H2=whatever PRE=whatever.
It's cheap.
If it crashes, it saves your place 90% of the time, and you don't have to search for the pages again.
Cookie handling is nice, with white and black lists on server or domain, and also it flushes all cookies on exit by default, unless you explicitely said that cookie could stick around.
Major Con: Printing doesn't work. Ever. I have never gotten printing to work on Red Hat Linux with Opera. Come on guys, it couldn't be that hard to fix.
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And doesn't GigE give you more connections at the same bandwidth, rather than significantly higher bandwidth with only one connection?
No, it's one connection, it's just a whole lot less efficient, because programs were not designed to use GigE. You have to use Jumbo Frames (9000MTU) to even get any signifant improvement, and even then, unless you are willing to edit the source code of every app you run and change the way it handles socket buffers, to get a little more out of it.
Well, we did this.
Good one, in seriousness though, the original poster was wrong in another respect, adding GigE, even with 9000 MTU, gives you nothing near 10X speed increase.
Maybe if you went in the source code and tweaked all your software, it would come closer, but we are talking maybe a 2-4X speed increase over 100Mbit, even using Jumbo Frames.
That's a pretty lame arguement, sorry. I think the 55-year-old precedent with free to air TV showing you ads in trade for free "entertainment" is enough to avoid any barter income issues here.
Red Hat To Change Focus
04012002 Posted: 7:58 AM EST (1258 GMT)
DURHAM, North Carolina (AP) -- The Washington Post reported late Friday that Durham-based Red Hat, distributer of the popular Linux operating system, has decided to change their business focus.
Sources close to the situation report that the company will concentrate on selling fine haberdashery, abandoning their efforts to sell Linux based software and services.
"As a company policy, we don't respond to rumors, but this one is true," Red Hat spokeswoman Melissa London told The Associated Press in response to the report.
An anonymous source told The Associated Press, "They just realized they could make more money selling red fedoras. I can't blame them really, the fedoras they make are very nice, and were making them a lot more money than Red Hat Database was."
Further details are expected later this week.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world's premier provider of fine haberdashery. Red Hat is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. and has offices worldwide. Please visit Red Hat on the Web at www.redhat.com. For investor inquiries, contact Gabriel Szulik at Red Hat, (919) 754-3700.
LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS Forward-looking statements in this press release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release that are not strictly historical statements, including, without limitation, management's plans and objectives for future operations, and management's assessment of market factors, constitute forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. Other statements in this release may be total fabrications and should not be relied on for medical reseach, nuclear control systems, or anything in particular. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, reliance upon strategic relationships, management of growth, the possibility of undetected hat making errors, the risks of economic downturns generally, and in Red Hat's industry specifically, the risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures, the viability of the haberdashery industry, and other risks detailed in Red Hat's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ironic you say that, while your post implies you are are secretly vying for said FP.
Although, I thought my "April 1st post" in this story was kind of funny. I guess the editors don't share my sense of humor. I don't see how any message could be offtopic today... What's that rationalization? People were coming here to read serious news today, and not meaningless funny posts? Right!
Yeah, that's what I mean. It's annoying when you see a post, but you can't see the parent because of your threshold. I usually try to respond to posts at their original level, to avoid causing that to happen.
April 1st post? :)
Then maybe it's just an emergency measure to stop the trolltalk... who knows. If it's an April fool joke, it's not very funny.
LIke I said in another reply to this parent, I've actually been in favor of removing anon posting, if anything, it's an illusion of anonmity, however you spell it. They will always have IP address logs, and an account created with a hotmail email address created with fake info offers the same level of protection as AC does.
What will the karma whores do when they want to flame and not lose their karam points?
Dedicated trolling accounts, or just logging out. I assume not logged in users can still post?
--It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment-- that is driving me crazy. Couldn't they fix it so you could post like, 3 comments in 6 minutes, but not require you to space out the individual comments so much? The net effect would be the same. OK I guess I have wasted 60 seconds of my life now. Time to hit submit again.
Sort of like Andy Kaufman's death.
Holy shit, over 6000 comments.
All I have to say is that editors better not bitchslap this thread down, it's unrealistic to make such a big change to the site, not create a story for it, and then mod anyone offtopic that posts about it in an unrelated story.
Mine's gone too... Looks like Taco finally bought the argument that people can just easily create "anonymous" accounts, or log out, if they want to be anonymous.
I've argued that before, so I can't say I'll miss it much. The only thing I much used it for was to avoid reparenting when replying to ACs.
Hehe, I liked wall street kid! It was kind of predictable and cheesy, but a very original concept, a lot like Uplink
I'd like to see more of this type of simulator game, it's an unexplored genre for the most part.
There is a balance to be found, and I say that even as a Libertarian.
If we had market driven pricing in IP, I doubt there would be nearly as much piracy. It's only due to the unnatural forces that monopolies are exerting on the market that create these problems. It might require a shift from, "here's the music, now go fuck yourself", to a more value added form of selling music, but so be it.
There is no constitutional right to have your market protected, as a huge media monopoly and middleman. Copyright was meant for the artists.
Yes, markets are, on paper, nicer and more rational and more adaptive than political processes
It was interference with natural market forces through political process that caused this "problem".
There is demand, a market, and people willing to provide the service, but there are government protected third parties that are preventing natural market forces from allowing business to continue in a natural way.
http://developer.intel.com/pressroom/archive/photo s/p4_photos.htm
I've managed to secure these pictures from an anonymous source within intel. Wonder no longer what the P4 has insi*e. I suggest we all start writing insi*e like that, the same way we do with UNIX, to remind people on Intel's stupidity.
Actually, a large portion of security holes in MS software are fixed before there is an exploit. The problem is the few that aren't get lots of press, and people don't install the patches, and MS still gets the blame.
I think you are kind of missing the point. A lot of people forget that the script kiddie warez and IRC bots is just one form of security risk.
We assert that open source has less total security flaws, because more are discovered by the general public.
A major security hole, unknown to the general public, could be considered a weapon, of vast power. It would allow you to break in to your enemy's and competitors computers, stealing sensitive information, etc.
It is impossible to know how many secret security holes there are in Windows, that people may be keeping under their hat. Look at eEye. They are a company that regularly finds major security holes, because they beat on windows constantly looking for them. I'm sure their core talent isn't more than one or two people.
Suppose a blackhat version of eEye, with a couple or few adept people, banging on windows in every possible way. It's likely that such an orginization would have found many previously unknown security holes, and/or combinations of little holes that can lead to system compromise.
With open source, it's more likely that people in the normal course of debugging their problems will find problems, such as the zlib issue. That was just someone trying to get his project working, and that led him to discover the error in zlib that could be a security hole.
It's not the holes we know about that matter, it's the ones we don't.
Even worse, it allows you to cast your pointer directly into the private section of an object!
I bet you feel pretty dumb right about now. :)
Qt is Quicktime. Qt is being devloped by Apple as a fully functional toolkit for creating GUI applications in X. Many Linux applications were written in Quicktime, in fact most of KDE is Quicktime. The licensing arguments are about the sorensen license, that Apple chose for Qt. It may or may not be compatible with the GPL.
(Remember the date, moderators.)
It looks like this Linux Media Arts company is picking up the development and service on it.
It's not clear whether it's still open source or not, and I don't have the background to tell you whether Bcast2000 was unencumbered enough to take out of GPL. Basically if the previous owners got assignment of all contributers copyrights, then it's posible they have taken future versions closed. The GPL fork will of course always exist to be built from in any case.
This is a far cry from BTTV cards. I should have said "high end video market, on the x86 platform". That would have been more accurate.
Yes, I know all that, I mean normal operation defined as launching flying around in space, and landing.
It's not as if someone deliberately sabotaged it, unless you want to argue that the O-ring thing could constitute that, though it's more like gross negligence than intentional sabotage.
Anyway, I was just trying to make a simple point, the failure of the WTC shouldn't shake anyone's faith in technology. There seem to be a lot of luddites out for this story.
XML with CSS looks great in Opera. .1% is Frontpage crap that barely works in Moz.
Flash works
Crossover plugin works (quicktime et al)
99.9% of all sites work.
That other
Very easy and intuiitive system for defining your custom document settings, you just pick a tag, and tell it what font you want, i.e. H1=whatever H2=whatever PRE=whatever.
It's cheap.
If it crashes, it saves your place 90% of the time, and you don't have to search for the pages again.
Cookie handling is nice, with white and black lists on server or domain, and also it flushes all cookies on exit by default, unless you explicitely said that cookie could stick around.
Major Con:
Printing doesn't work. Ever. I have never gotten printing to work on Red Hat Linux with Opera. Come on guys, it couldn't be that hard to fix.