How about switching to DSL? No, I am not being an *ss I am serious! It seems that's the whole point of DSL - you pay more, but you have certain bandwidth guarantees. And the more you pay, the more bandwidth you get.
I have had two cable modems (currently Adelphia, and before that comcast@home) and I've NEVER gotten the kind of bandwidth you're describing. I always thought that was fine, I pay a lower fee than DSL and get more than enough bandwidth - but then again, I don't share my connection with 3 roomates - but then again, unless you were paying for the additional IPs, you're not supposed to do that anyway:)
Well, I often hear that remote X sessions take more network bandwidth than Microsoft's terminal server (a limitation of the X protocol as oppose to Microsoft's proprietary protocol) - that's obviously a non-issue on the PDA. Other than that, X is just fine by all accounts: it's been used on several PDAs already (including the Ipaq) and there has been no such complaint.
If you know something the rest of the world doesn't, please do share.
I may be wrong but I think this is a white colar job versus blue colar job thing, rather than an IT job versus everything else.
Sure, we do the christmas party, the "sponsor a kid" for the holidays stuff, the donuts on people's birthday, and on monday morning before our weekly status meetings we all talk about our weekends and stuff. But I would say this is all very superficial stuff. I see no deep bonding like you describe. Sure, a couple of people here that have similar interests (video games) do get together every once in a while to play, but that's about it. Maybe it's because of the way people come and go (get hired and laid off) or the way "political correctness" is such a huge influence that we hesitate interacting with our co-workers in any way that (heaven forbid!) could result in building a real friendship.
I think if you work in a type of job where your life depends on the other guy (firemen, policemen, etc) there is absolutely NO WAY BUT to forge really deep bonds with these co-workers. You know, the kind of job where "team work" is not just an abstraction that improves productivity, but where it means life and death.
I am sure there are exceptions to this. In fact, I know there are exceptions to this because my previous job was different. We were a very small team and yes, we did bond that way. But I always thought we were the exception rather than the rule.
Notice how the action affect 0 bytes?
Read the description. All you're doing is removing shortcuts from the start menu.
You cannot remove Internet Explorer. At most you can hide it. Shortcut or no shortcut, you can bet it will come back.. For example, ever browse for files on your computer? Guess what! That's Internet Explorer. Don't believe me? Just type a URL on top, you'll see.
I know you're just playing devil's advocate, so I won't pick on you too much:)
However, there is a difference between bugs and security vulnerabilities. A security vulnerability is a bug, but not all bugs are security vulnerabilities. While it's true that bug may not be fixed for a while - even at Red Hat - I have found that RedHat is extremely responsive to security problems. Significantly more responsive than Microsoft has.
I know this is a site for geeks (I am one of them) however I thought the sarcasm in my statement was clear enough that I didn't have to include the tags. My mistake.
Indeed you can. No questions about that. You can also make Oracle work just fine on Red Hat 7.1 because I've done it. The use of Red Hat 6.2 was purely determined by what was available at the time of install of these Oracle boxes.
And it's been running smoothly ever since, so we have not gotten back to upgrade the kernel. If it ain't broke, why fix it I guess? Next time the box's hardware will need to be sent back (we tend to lease our hardware rather than buy it) it will get an upgraded configuration all around...
At the company I work for (which will remain unnamed because I am not in a position to speak on its behalf - but it is an old and large american company with a single character stock symbol) we use Oracle 8i on Compaq Proliants running Red Hat Linux - not only that but it's RH6.2 with all of the limitations of that line of kernels.
None of the databases are gigantic - 80Gb is the largest, but we haven't had any problems at all. If anything, most of these databases used to be on True64 (Digital Unix before that) and we had a lot of problems (although they were probably hardware related). Also - users have reported that performance is better (not that it was a real issue before) but we've never bothered/attempted to document that.
I can't say that the main factor for the move was money (although it was a factor) - after all, if you can afford the Oracle licenses you probably should not be cheap with the hardware/OS but we've had a whole lot of RH Linux for other applications and it just made sense to consolidate.
The point I was trying to make is that you (and a lot of people on slashdot) are reading waaay too much into this ID card (empire building? give me a break). And yes, it definetely DOES have benefits (although probably not as far as fighting terrorism) therefore this is why I think it's a good idea.
Your last 6 paragraphs may be a reflection on the US (I don't think so, but that's another post for another day) but I don't quite see what it has to do with an ID card. You are acting like its some sort of novel idea or something. It isn't (ever tried doing much of ANYTHING without a driver's license?). The only thing that's new is that it would be federalized and that it would not be tied to your ability to drive.
I pretty much agree with everything you said, but as a side note - eventhough a lot of european countries (including Belgium, my own country) have these national IDs, they're not the oppressive, dictatorial, government-knows-all-your-moves regimes everybody on slashdot seem to the think the US would become with these IDs. In fact, if I recall headlines from slashdot a few months ago, Europe is much stricter privacy laws that the US has. In other words, while I don't see how this would make one bit of difference in the fight against terrorism, I also don't really see what everybody is afraid of! In fact, I like the idea! I've lived in the US for 10 years now, and I always thought that having to rely on a driver's licence for indetity verification was a rather stupid idea for several reasons:
many of the states "farm out" their DMV. Call me silly, but I really feel this needs to be managed by the government.
Some of the IDs are so plain/basic, it's not even a challenge to copy them! Not that I have ever tried...
With so many different cards, it's impossible for anyone to be familiar with all the different card designs. If I worked in a liquor store and somebody showed me a alleged driver's license for South Dakota for example - I guess I'd have to take his word that it's real. (of course, why you need to be 21 to buy alcohol is ridiculous - but that's another topic for another day)
He is indeed innocent of what he is charge for. The actual writing of the code was done in Russia, where the US has no jurisdiction. The US recognizes that (presumably) and they're not charging him for anything of that sort. What they're charging him for is trafficing the code since apparently they used a web host and payment processing service that's based in the US. OK, well, isn't it Elmosoft and Elmosoft only that's responsible? Since when are employees responsible for the misdeeds of their employers? This is like getting sued because your employers poluted some river somewhere (sorry for the analogy, but I work for a Steel company...)
That being said, I don't even believe in the charges at all (and needless to say I don't believe in the DMCA). It looks to me that the US would have charged him even if it wasn't hosted in the US. They'd probably figured out a way to prove that the internet traffic between the host and the person downloading passed through a cable that goes through some Guam airforce base that's American sovereignty. These charges are just a loophole they found to try to enforce a law makes no sense.
You missed the point.
Moderation is users "censoring" (if you want to use that word at all) EACH OTHER. Now, if you're implying that Taco and company downgrade themselves messages that criticizes them, that's another thing entirely. But you'd be have some sort of proof before making that claim (like an insider blowing the whistle or something)
a great deal of H1B workers (like myself) actually came to the US before getting the infamous visa - usually as a student (F1). In other words, a lot of H1B workers like myself, came to the US looking for a degree with no intend to stay, then after 4 years in the country got "americanized" and the same high quality education as americans. By graduation time we get recruited heavily (that may not be the case anymore with the economic downturn) and get offered jobs...
I don't see how talking about ANYTHING can be illegal - I think that much is in the constitution. Now, I was not at the conference, but I don't believe he was passing free copies of this program or source code for it (the two actions if that had happen could possibly be construed as being illegal).
Did not break US law because it did not happen in the US and the US has no jurisdiction over what a Russian citizen does in Russia. And considering that what he did in Russia is not even illegal there, there really truly is something wrong with this scenario.
To me this is like visiting China and getting arrested because they've learned (in one way or another) that you surfed the internet for porn while you were at home...
And giving a talk about something at a conference is and has always been protected by free speech.
I can't believe I am responding to a troll, but anyway... It's sunday morning and I am bored...
It is extremely arrogant of software engineers to assume that the entire US industry revolves around us - because it simply does NOT.
I would be tempted to dissagree with the fact that there is no "linux jobs", because that is simply not true. RedHat may not be hiring additional engineers at this time, but they are employing plenty including many of the big names of linux kernel development. Also were I work, we've started using linux for right about all of our server work. Sysadmins now administer linux boxes, some new programmers were hired, but most are the old programmers that used to program on other platforms (VAXes, Digital Unix). What's wrong with that? Absolutely nothing.
Are you under the impression that now all the sudden that linux is here MORE positions should exist? Why is that?
OK, maybe I should not talk because I do think that kIllustrator should probably change its name.
However...
I think your point is nevertheless off base for the following reason:
1. This is not about "dilution of trademark", it's plainly stealing the trademark. These people are not even changing any part of the name. It's not kMySQL.org or MySQL2.org or anything like that. It's just plain MySQL.org
2. Since we all know how the TLDs are desperately broken, we realize that this would in fact confuse the users into believing that it is the official website of MySQL. You see most users just expect all trademark owners to own all the domain name for their trademarks in all TLDs. i.e.: coca-cola.org redirects to coca-cola.com (and it does), etc etc. Now, MySQL apparently did not do that (wonder why, $35/year is pretty cheap). Think of it this way: if pepsi had registered coca-cola.org and sold its stuff on it, do you think that coca-cola would have been wrong to sue?? I don't think so.
There is no reason they would say no to installing a beta (or RC) on more than one PC. So, sure, they will "override" without asking too many questions.
Try this scenario with the final version and good luck.
You're talking about PSI and spam as if they are a thing of the past. I personally get about 6 piece of spam a week originating from the PSI network (most of it comes from miami for whatever reason). I got two of them today.
I am one of these sick weirdo that actually investigate and report every single piece of spam to the originating ISP, as well as to other ISPs if the spammer has a mail drop box or website.
PSI does respond to each spam report (first the canned reply, then some note saying that "action has been taken" - whatever that means). So, I don't know how that compares with their track report from way back when, but I am less than pleased about them TODAY.
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How about switching to DSL? No, I am not being an *ss I am serious! It seems that's the whole point of DSL - you pay more, but you have certain bandwidth guarantees. And the more you pay, the more bandwidth you get.
:)
I have had two cable modems (currently Adelphia, and before that comcast@home) and I've NEVER gotten the kind of bandwidth you're describing. I always thought that was fine, I pay a lower fee than DSL and get more than enough bandwidth - but then again, I don't share my connection with 3 roomates - but then again, unless you were paying for the additional IPs, you're not supposed to do that anyway
Well, I often hear that remote X sessions take more network bandwidth than Microsoft's terminal server (a limitation of the X protocol as oppose to Microsoft's proprietary protocol) - that's obviously a non-issue on the PDA. Other than that, X is just fine by all accounts: it's been used on several PDAs already (including the Ipaq) and there has been no such complaint.
If you know something the rest of the world doesn't, please do share.
I may be wrong but I think this is a white colar job versus blue colar job thing, rather than an IT job versus everything else.
Sure, we do the christmas party, the "sponsor a kid" for the holidays stuff, the donuts on people's birthday, and on monday morning before our weekly status meetings we all talk about our weekends and stuff. But I would say this is all very superficial stuff. I see no deep bonding like you describe. Sure, a couple of people here that have similar interests (video games) do get together every once in a while to play, but that's about it. Maybe it's because of the way people come and go (get hired and laid off) or the way "political correctness" is such a huge influence that we hesitate interacting with our co-workers in any way that (heaven forbid!) could result in building a real friendship.
I think if you work in a type of job where your life depends on the other guy (firemen, policemen, etc) there is absolutely NO WAY BUT to forge really deep bonds with these co-workers. You know, the kind of job where "team work" is not just an abstraction that improves productivity, but where it means life and death.
I am sure there are exceptions to this. In fact, I know there are exceptions to this because my previous job was different. We were a very small team and yes, we did bond that way. But I always thought we were the exception rather than the rule.
Notice how the action affect 0 bytes?
Read the description. All you're doing is removing shortcuts from the start menu.
You cannot remove Internet Explorer. At most you can hide it. Shortcut or no shortcut, you can bet it will come back.. For example, ever browse for files on your computer? Guess what! That's Internet Explorer. Don't believe me? Just type a URL on top, you'll see.
hmm. no. You can't - looking at it right now.
I know you're just playing devil's advocate, so I won't pick on you too much :)
However, there is a difference between bugs and security vulnerabilities. A security vulnerability is a bug, but not all bugs are security vulnerabilities. While it's true that bug may not be fixed for a while - even at Red Hat - I have found that RedHat is extremely responsive to security problems. Significantly more responsive than Microsoft has.
I know this is a site for geeks (I am one of them) however I thought the sarcasm in my statement was clear enough that I didn't have to include the tags. My mistake.
ahhh... but Microsoft claimed in court that IE could not be removed from Windows so this is indeed a security hole in Windows.
Unless... *gasp* you're calling Microsoft a liar and telling us that IE and Windows are indeed two separable products?
Indeed you can. No questions about that. You can also make Oracle work just fine on Red Hat 7.1 because I've done it. The use of Red Hat 6.2 was purely determined by what was available at the time of install of these Oracle boxes.
And it's been running smoothly ever since, so we have not gotten back to upgrade the kernel. If it ain't broke, why fix it I guess? Next time the box's hardware will need to be sent back (we tend to lease our hardware rather than buy it) it will get an upgraded configuration all around...
Well, you have 26 multiple choices I guess - T is one of them, but I am not going to play the guessing game... Sorry :)
At the company I work for (which will remain unnamed because I am not in a position to speak on its behalf - but it is an old and large american company with a single character stock symbol) we use Oracle 8i on Compaq Proliants running Red Hat Linux - not only that but it's RH6.2 with all of the limitations of that line of kernels.
None of the databases are gigantic - 80Gb is the largest, but we haven't had any problems at all. If anything, most of these databases used to be on True64 (Digital Unix before that) and we had a lot of problems (although they were probably hardware related). Also - users have reported that performance is better (not that it was a real issue before) but we've never bothered/attempted to document that.
I can't say that the main factor for the move was money (although it was a factor) - after all, if you can afford the Oracle licenses you probably should not be cheap with the hardware/OS but we've had a whole lot of RH Linux for other applications and it just made sense to consolidate.
The point I was trying to make is that you (and a lot of people on slashdot) are reading waaay too much into this ID card (empire building? give me a break). And yes, it definetely DOES have benefits (although probably not as far as fighting terrorism) therefore this is why I think it's a good idea.
Your last 6 paragraphs may be a reflection on the US (I don't think so, but that's another post for another day) but I don't quite see what it has to do with an ID card. You are acting like its some sort of novel idea or something. It isn't (ever tried doing much of ANYTHING without a driver's license?). The only thing that's new is that it would be federalized and that it would not be tied to your ability to drive.
Oops! Well, that's what it always sounded to me :)
Hmmm... No.
He is indeed innocent of what he is charge for. The actual writing of the code was done in Russia, where the US has no jurisdiction. The US recognizes that (presumably) and they're not charging him for anything of that sort. What they're charging him for is trafficing the code since apparently they used a web host and payment processing service that's based in the US. OK, well, isn't it Elmosoft and Elmosoft only that's responsible? Since when are employees responsible for the misdeeds of their employers? This is like getting sued because your employers poluted some river somewhere (sorry for the analogy, but I work for a Steel company...)
That being said, I don't even believe in the charges at all (and needless to say I don't believe in the DMCA). It looks to me that the US would have charged him even if it wasn't hosted in the US. They'd probably figured out a way to prove that the internet traffic between the host and the person downloading passed through a cable that goes through some Guam airforce base that's American sovereignty. These charges are just a loophole they found to try to enforce a law makes no sense.
You missed the point.
Moderation is users "censoring" (if you want to use that word at all) EACH OTHER. Now, if you're implying that Taco and company downgrade themselves messages that criticizes them, that's another thing entirely. But you'd be have some sort of proof before making that claim (like an insider blowing the whistle or something)
a great deal of H1B workers (like myself) actually came to the US before getting the infamous visa - usually as a student (F1). In other words, a lot of H1B workers like myself, came to the US looking for a degree with no intend to stay, then after 4 years in the country got "americanized" and the same high quality education as americans. By graduation time we get recruited heavily (that may not be the case anymore with the economic downturn) and get offered jobs...
yahoo does as long as you are willing to put up with one spam email from them weekly.
I don't see how talking about ANYTHING can be illegal - I think that much is in the constitution. Now, I was not at the conference, but I don't believe he was passing free copies of this program or source code for it (the two actions if that had happen could possibly be construed as being illegal).
Did not break US law because it did not happen in the US and the US has no jurisdiction over what a Russian citizen does in Russia. And considering that what he did in Russia is not even illegal there, there really truly is something wrong with this scenario.
To me this is like visiting China and getting arrested because they've learned (in one way or another) that you surfed the internet for porn while you were at home...
And giving a talk about something at a conference is and has always been protected by free speech.
I can't believe I am responding to a troll, but anyway... It's sunday morning and I am bored...
It is extremely arrogant of software engineers to assume that the entire US industry revolves around us - because it simply does NOT.
I would be tempted to dissagree with the fact that there is no "linux jobs", because that is simply not true. RedHat may not be hiring additional engineers at this time, but they are employing plenty including many of the big names of linux kernel development. Also were I work, we've started using linux for right about all of our server work. Sysadmins now administer linux boxes, some new programmers were hired, but most are the old programmers that used to program on other platforms (VAXes, Digital Unix). What's wrong with that? Absolutely nothing.
Are you under the impression that now all the sudden that linux is here MORE positions should exist? Why is that?
Oh yeah, I did not even touch the "common term" argument (slipped my mind).
OK, maybe I should not talk because I do think that kIllustrator should probably change its name.
However...
I think your point is nevertheless off base for the following reason:
1. This is not about "dilution of trademark", it's plainly stealing the trademark. These people are not even changing any part of the name. It's not kMySQL.org or MySQL2.org or anything like that. It's just plain MySQL.org
2. Since we all know how the TLDs are desperately broken, we realize that this would in fact confuse the users into believing that it is the official website of MySQL. You see most users just expect all trademark owners to own all the domain name for their trademarks in all TLDs. i.e.: coca-cola.org redirects to coca-cola.com (and it does), etc etc. Now, MySQL apparently did not do that (wonder why, $35/year is pretty cheap). Think of it this way: if pepsi had registered coca-cola.org and sold its stuff on it, do you think that coca-cola would have been wrong to sue?? I don't think so.
There is no reason they would say no to installing a beta (or RC) on more than one PC. So, sure, they will "override" without asking too many questions.
Try this scenario with the final version and good luck.
You're talking about PSI and spam as if they are a thing of the past. I personally get about 6 piece of spam a week originating from the PSI network (most of it comes from miami for whatever reason). I got two of them today.
I am one of these sick weirdo that actually investigate and report every single piece of spam to the originating ISP, as well as to other ISPs if the spammer has a mail drop box or website.
PSI does respond to each spam report (first the canned reply, then some note saying that "action has been taken" - whatever that means). So, I don't know how that compares with their track report from way back when, but I am less than pleased about them TODAY.