It's funny (funny ironic, not funny ha ha) that when I've said the same thing about Apple being a mini-Microsoft with a better gui, but just as evil, in the past on Slashdot, it's been modded troll.
Hm, enough about me.
To the jackass who said Apple would not be doing their shareholders a favor if they didn't "protect" their property using the DMCA, jackass, you miss the point. The DMCA is a miserable piece of legislation, and if we are to respect and financially support any company, it would be for standing against the DMCA, and working out any problems directly, in a more civil manner, with the Playfair author.
But, if Apple (and this applies to Adobe too) was truly interested in "protecting" what is theirs, they'd implement their ideas in a more unbreakable fashion. Maybe, a better quality product will draw more real customers to the Apple camp. I was on the verge of buying my first Mac because of OSX, but you know, it's hard to financially support a company that does this kind of shit.
When the DMCA gets repealed, what are you going to do Apple? Hire thugs instead to find software authors, and deal with it that way??
I would have been the first to tell you about Plone, but I was in bed and apparently others beat me to it:)
Plone is extremely flexible, and fast to production. I have now tested and have in production many instances, and have developed installation, backup rotation, and restoration scripts. The system virtually runs itself when set up, and users find it very intuitive.. Additionally it has very granular user/group control, allowing you to control who publishes what with very little effort.
Sharepoint might be good or not, but on the reason of licensing costs alone, I would choose Plone. You will pay zero dollars for world class CMS/knowledge base solution.
Plone has bunches of modules (products) and features you may find useful. Trouble ticketing system, news section, RSS feeds and RSS publishing, mailing lists production, galleries, forums for discussion, among others. In addition to many levels of undo so that you can correct any action taken if need be.
Another plus is you can cluster (again at no dollars) instances using Zeo, if you need robustness.
Plone looks professional, clean and slick. Plus it's super customizable. Take a look at csszengarden.com and the various looks on the right, to get an idea of what can be acheived with CSS... and look at zopezen.org to see a real simple look that can be acheived on the skin. There's a lot you can do under the hood, or you can just leave it alone. It can easily be administered remotely. And I front end it with Apache and SSL, for a secure access solution.
The Plone community is friendly and responsive, but comprised of some serious Python hackers who probably expect you to come well versed up to a certain level.. Therefore I must second the idea mentioned before of engaging a professional to help you identify your needs now and going forward, and also you capabilities to narrow it down to the right solution for your company.
Most ATA HDD's can transfer around 40-60 MBps. You can easily saturate a 100BaseT network with bargain basement machines.
I beg to differ. The numbers you quote there are empty benchmarks of an ATA drive alone within an OS and a benchmark tool, or some OS-less independent method devised by manufacturers across and IDE bus. I said the drives couldn't handle it.. any sustained transfer at that rate, even if the drive would support a streamed write for a sustained period, being fed at "good" gigabit speeds of ~800Mb/s, would surely melt the drives. But in practical terms -- (I should not have said just the drives, earlier) -- the pure drive metrics are useless for this discussion. You must take into consideration that all of the following will destroy every good number you might have had: the data (or file) transfer method, the capabilities of the OS itself, and how it's tuned, the application in use, and how it handles checking, transmits, and writes, any number of ethernet based faults, retransmits, etc, IP fragmentation, packet reconstruction, TCP window size and frag size tuning (or lack thereof), the position of the moon at the start of transfer..
IMO gigabit in house is a waste. Take the money you would have spent on a switch and NICs and buy some good champagne and cigars.
You would not believe the amount of know-nothing corporate managers who not only pay attention to Gartner, but owe all their knowledge (what little it may be) about products and technologies to what they read there. IOW if it hasn't been covered by Gartner, it doesn't exist.
It's Michael. What do you expect. Just be glad he didn't doctor it up a little on the emotional spin side. This will be marked flamebait, offtopic, troll in about two minutes.
I did notice though that that is about the first full length article LX has themselves published (instead of pointing to other Linux sites) so kudos to them:)
To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard
By the intro blurb, I could not tell who said this.. no matter.
Programming a utility which circumvents Apple's DRM in Fairplay - or whatever it actually accomplishes - does well to show the weakness of that implementation, and is therefore valuable in two ways --
by proving false that any "security" is provided, and
this will get Apple to improve its implementation, and demonstrate if it really cares enough to do so.
Unfortunately, I won't hold my breath waiting for Apple to invoke the DMCA here against any "criminals" who use it; that's bound to happen soon enough.
If Apple doesn't want WMA to become the standard, let Apple get its act together with a demonstrably good implementation of the DRM idea, one which can't be cracked.
These programmers are no more vandals than Dmitri Skylarov, and Apple should realize that they're doing them a favor - for FREE.
You think MS can be trusted? Or might there be some other code in there (even if just xml) referencing ideas, algorithms, etc... That's been discussed before, you know the consequences, not nice to find out the hard way..
Numbers please, anyone can shout something like this. Last I heard was that RHAT had about 87500 subscriptions, of which 4000 entered last year. Read it today somewhere, but can't find the link anymore:-/
Numbers please, anyone can shout something like this.
It seems like you're not holding yourself to the standards you impose on others.
No matter. We don't need "numbers" to substantiate the fact that the community is vastly unhappy with Red Hat's move to the enterprise subscription model, which is causing financial and logistical pain. Your "numbers" will show up soon enough.
And customers don't like it. Do you think they're stupid? Generally subscription models mean the customer pays more, for not necessarily more service or features.
People are in general moving away from RedHat, not toward it. RHEL means lock-in, with less features. It may be OSS, but if you change the code - is Red Hat going to support your changes? No.
So this is the model Sun wants to emulate? Sun is already perceived as too expensive in general for a Unix. The people that have stuck with Sun tend to be those running specialized platforms they couldn't migrate out of too easily. Sun's best bet is the Chinese desktop deal, not trying to compete with Linux here in the States..
Re:What, no editorial?
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I'm disappointed in michael
I'm not.
He's got a touchy trigger finger, though. Lighting fast at coming in and modslapping 0 Flamebait, -1 Troll, and the best one, "Overrated".
Michael you are like a menopausal school principal whose late for her micromanagement seminar. You do steal some good stories from other sites, though, which is why I keep showing up at/. when you're on shift, beee-ache.
Can't recommend RHAT to customers these days...
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The job used to be having to explaing OSS and Linux, sell it, and if they wanted Red Hat, fine. It was the least of your worries.
Red Hat is now three separate moving targets:
fedora rhel rh9
Present that to a business person and they just say... "Thank you. Next".
if everybody with bad WHOIS information lost their domains until they corrected it.
Nah, that would be fruitless.
Most people have put incorrect info for email and street address in whois on purpose - to avoid being the recipient of spam and postal mail, so punishing them by taking a domain away won't help the spam problem at all.
Second, and much more importantly, the WHOIS information if often wrong, outdated or simply has fields missing. Especially in the.ORG domains, after the transition to PIR. And a lot is Network Solutions' fault I think, as they did not transfer updated data in a timely or correct fashion.
How about this: crack down on fucking ICANN, and get rid of the bureaucracy. It's useless, but you never notice it until you need it, like in September when Netsol put up Sitefinder....02
The registrar should be required to verify, not only at purchase time, but on a regular basis, the billing address for the domain registrant. The whois information should not be required to be public - since it contains addresess, phone numbers and email addresses. Yes, you could get this information somehow if you looked - but this information should not be made public in the context of a simple directory listing.
Above all it's stupid. Anyone putting correct information in there is not breaking the law anyway.
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It's funny (funny ironic, not funny ha ha) that when I've said the same thing about Apple being a mini-Microsoft with a better gui, but just as evil, in the past on Slashdot, it's been modded troll.
Hm, enough about me.
To the jackass who said Apple would not be doing their shareholders a favor if they didn't "protect" their property using the DMCA, jackass, you miss the point. The DMCA is a miserable piece of legislation, and if we are to respect and financially support any company, it would be for standing against the DMCA, and working out any problems directly, in a more civil manner, with the Playfair author.
But, if Apple (and this applies to Adobe too) was truly interested in "protecting" what is theirs, they'd implement their ideas in a more unbreakable fashion. Maybe, a better quality product will draw more real customers to the Apple camp. I was on the verge of buying my first Mac because of OSX, but you know, it's hard to financially support a company that does this kind of shit.
When the DMCA gets repealed, what are you going to do Apple? Hire thugs instead to find software authors, and deal with it that way??
I told you so....
I would have been the first to tell you about Plone, but I was in bed and apparently others beat me to it:)
Plone is extremely flexible, and fast to production. I have now tested and have in production many instances, and have developed installation, backup rotation, and restoration scripts. The system virtually runs itself when set up, and users find it very intuitive.. Additionally it has very granular user/group control, allowing you to control who publishes what with very little effort.
Sharepoint might be good or not, but on the reason of licensing costs alone, I would choose Plone. You will pay zero dollars for world class CMS/knowledge base solution.
Plone has bunches of modules (products) and features you may find useful. Trouble ticketing system, news section, RSS feeds and RSS publishing, mailing lists production, galleries, forums for discussion, among others. In addition to many levels of undo so that you can correct any action taken if need be.
Another plus is you can cluster (again at no dollars) instances using Zeo, if you need robustness.
Plone looks professional, clean and slick. Plus it's super customizable. Take a look at csszengarden.com and the various looks on the right, to get an idea of what can be acheived with CSS... and look at zopezen.org to see a real simple look that can be acheived on the skin. There's a lot you can do under the hood, or you can just leave it alone. It can easily be administered remotely. And I front end it with Apache and SSL, for a secure access solution.
The Plone community is friendly and responsive, but comprised of some serious Python hackers who probably expect you to come well versed up to a certain level.. Therefore I must second the idea mentioned before of engaging a professional to help you identify your needs now and going forward, and also you capabilities to narrow it down to the right solution for your company.
Well damn, I'll eat my words!
Most ATA HDD's can transfer around 40-60 MBps. You can easily saturate a 100BaseT network with bargain basement machines.
I beg to differ. The numbers you quote there are empty benchmarks of an ATA drive alone within an OS and a benchmark tool, or some OS-less independent method devised by manufacturers across and IDE bus. I said the drives couldn't handle it.. any sustained transfer at that rate, even if the drive would support a streamed write for a sustained period, being fed at "good" gigabit speeds of ~800Mb/s, would surely melt the drives. But in practical terms -- (I should not have said just the drives, earlier) -- the pure drive metrics are useless for this discussion. You must take into consideration that all of the following will destroy every good number you might have had: the data (or file) transfer method, the capabilities of the OS itself, and how it's tuned, the application in use, and how it handles checking, transmits, and writes, any number of ethernet based faults, retransmits, etc, IP fragmentation, packet reconstruction, TCP window size and frag size tuning (or lack thereof), the position of the moon at the start of transfer..
IMO gigabit in house is a waste. Take the money you would have spent on a switch and NICs and buy some good champagne and cigars.
Michael? Brecker? jazz? sax? jazz-sax.com?
BRECKER RULES!!!!!!
all right, I'll calm down now...
BRECKER!!!
at Gigabit speeds successfully on your home LAN, your slow ass drives ain't gonna deal with the flow of bytes.
Dude that is like trying to use jet fuel in a 1984 Capri.
Cain, for windows... forgot.
and on Windows, never mind.
ethereal, tcpdump
I tend to
-make an outline, or TOC for the final docs as I visualize
-make a formatted template for the entire document(s) in the word processor
-do the project, or what ever your work is
Keep a textfile open the whole time with the outline, take notes every day under each outline topic I'm working on.
Final step is just turn the notes into real prose.
Drop it into the templated final docs.
Change "hardradio" to "hard radio" in your meta data.
Compose a clearly written letter telling the infringed to fuck themselves.
Keep checking Slashdot for advice, on all topics.
ROCK ON DUDE!!!
You would not believe the amount of know-nothing corporate managers who not only pay attention to Gartner, but owe all their knowledge (what little it may be) about products and technologies to what they read there. IOW if it hasn't been covered by Gartner, it doesn't exist.
It's Michael. What do you expect. Just be glad he didn't doctor it up a little on the emotional spin side. This will be marked flamebait, offtopic, troll in about two minutes.
I did notice though that that is about the first full length article LX has themselves published (instead of pointing to other Linux sites) so kudos to them:)
To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard
By the intro blurb, I could not tell who said this.. no matter.
Programming a utility which circumvents Apple's DRM in Fairplay - or whatever it actually accomplishes - does well to show the weakness of that implementation, and is therefore valuable in two ways --
by proving false that any "security" is provided, and
this will get Apple to improve its implementation, and demonstrate if it really cares enough to do so.
Unfortunately, I won't hold my breath waiting for Apple to invoke the DMCA here against any "criminals" who use it; that's bound to happen soon enough.
If Apple doesn't want WMA to become the standard, let Apple get its act together with a demonstrably good implementation of the DRM idea, one which can't be cracked.
These programmers are no more vandals than Dmitri Skylarov, and Apple should realize that they're doing them a favor - for FREE.
You think MS can be trusted? Or might there be some other code in there (even if just xml) referencing ideas, algorithms, etc ... That's been discussed before, you know the consequences, not nice to find out the hard way..
Numbers please, anyone can shout something like this. Last I heard was that RHAT had about 87500 subscriptions, of which 4000 entered last year. Read it today somewhere, but can't find the link anymore :-/
Numbers please, anyone can shout something like this.
It seems like you're not holding yourself to the standards you impose on others.
No matter. We don't need "numbers" to substantiate the fact that the community is vastly unhappy with Red Hat's move to the enterprise subscription model, which is causing financial and logistical pain. Your "numbers" will show up soon enough.
And customers don't like it. Do you think they're stupid? Generally subscription models mean the customer pays more, for not necessarily more service or features.
People are in general moving away from RedHat, not toward it. RHEL means lock-in, with less features. It may be OSS, but if you change the code - is Red Hat going to support your changes? No.
So this is the model Sun wants to emulate? Sun is already perceived as too expensive in general for a Unix. The people that have stuck with Sun tend to be those running specialized platforms they couldn't migrate out of too easily. Sun's best bet is the Chinese desktop deal, not trying to compete with Linux here in the States..
I'm disappointed in michael
/. when you're on shift, beee-ache.
I'm not.
He's got a touchy trigger finger, though. Lighting fast at coming in and modslapping 0 Flamebait, -1 Troll, and the best one, "Overrated".
Michael you are like a menopausal school principal whose late for her micromanagement seminar. You do steal some good stories from other sites, though, which is why I keep showing up at
The job used to be having to explaing OSS and Linux, sell it, and if they wanted Red Hat, fine. It was the least of your worries.
Red Hat is now three separate moving targets:
fedora
rhel
rh9
Present that to a business person and they just say... "Thank you. Next".
if everybody with bad WHOIS information lost their domains until they corrected it.
.ORG domains, after the transition to PIR. And a lot is Network Solutions' fault I think, as they did not transfer updated data in a timely or correct fashion.
.02
Nah, that would be fruitless.
Most people have put incorrect info for email and street address in whois on purpose - to avoid being the recipient of spam and postal mail, so punishing them by taking a domain away won't help the spam problem at all.
Second, and much more importantly, the WHOIS information if often wrong, outdated or simply has fields missing. Especially in the
How about this: crack down on fucking ICANN, and get rid of the bureaucracy. It's useless, but you never notice it until you need it, like in September when Netsol put up Sitefinder...
The registrar should be required to verify, not only at purchase time, but on a regular basis, the billing address for the domain registrant. The whois information should not be required to be public - since it contains addresess, phone numbers and email addresses. Yes, you could get this information somehow if you looked - but this information should not be made public in the context of a simple directory listing.
Above all it's stupid. Anyone putting correct information in there is not breaking the law anyway.
Interesting article, wasn't it.
Each point you've so beautifully organized (public speaking classes, was it?) is loaded with incorrect, inflammatory, and pompous presuppositions.
Come to work shaved, showered and neatly dressed
Aside from revealing utter stupidity for both mentioning and perpetuating this was-funny-about-1997 cliche, it's insulting, for no reason.
Actually, you are just a troll, and not a very good one at that.
Joe Barr and Eugenia Loli-Queru from OSnews will tie the knot this summer.
Honestly. That was one of the more amateurish reviews I've read in a while.
he much-abused H-1B and L-1 visas cate
yes, and what about the no paying of income tax during this period. Yet I have income tax and real estate taxes. Something is wrong.
ut the obscene hours the people in India had to keep to work with their American counterparts.
Maybe in some of the firms... I have seen a couple reports saying it was pretty much 9-5 in India, in the outsourced call centers anyway..
g to note that Brian Behlendorf not only "stumps" in front of college kids in India
Intersting you point this out. Something about it is starting to smell.