How can you give away the source for free, yet also charge for the software? What stops people just downloading the source and compiling it, without paying?
The build process for some things is not trivial... Some of the big distros - SuSE and Redhad enterprise versions don't (and I could be wrong, but bare with me) have the source code available. Reproducing those distros in the binary bootable iso format is not for the faint of heart. Look at the elbow grease it took to get White Box Linux - compiled from the source of RHEL - up and running. In corporate, it is often easier to buy open source kit than get it running yourself. As a bonus, you get someone else to take care of the maintenance....
SCO went after IBM's legal team. Their moves could best be described as 'death by cop' thinking about how they will spend the life insurance afterwards. This is not even in the same ballpark. While Verisign may rank on the asshat scale, they really have nothing to loose by chasing this venue. They loose this, no big deal... they win, they win big until DNS servers get recoded.
We could only dream they pull a SCO...
Banana Bread, recipe courtesy of Emeril Lagasse
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Not hard at all...
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 3/4 cup mashed ripe bananas 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/4 cups flour 1/2 cup macadamia nuts Pinch of cinnamon
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Oil and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
Using an electric mixer, cream the shortening and sugar. With the mixer running on medium speed, add the eggs one at a time. Add the bananas and mix well. Add the baking soda, salt, flour, nuts and cinnamon and mix thoroughly. The dough will be sticky.
Pour the dough into the prepared pan and bake about one hour or until the center is brown and set.
Sure it will. The form factor is much smaller than it use to be, but I have enough room on top for a couple x86 boxes, a Sun box, and room left over for a hidden cache of nerf guns. Tall ceilings are a must...
Very few machines are worth 10.5 hours for me. Factoring in labor, I can save a lot of money by saving the data elsewhere then FDisking and reinstalling the OS. Even considering windows install time, program install time, and configuration, I don't have 10.5 hours in it and the user probably has a less glitchy machine for it
I've done this a few times... The victim is almost always in the position where they don't have a recovery disk / install media / key for some critical bit of software. Nuking from orbit is easy, teasing out the DLLs, registry settings, and data for a critical custom application is hard. I've seen the lone win95 486 chugging away because they could not migrate it on their shinny new XP box. (Extra points if the old software even works on a current OS) More often then not, they actually *have the data backed up - only to find they never understood how the tape drives actually work. We do an incremental backup every week. We swap back and forth between these two tapes... Anyhow, this is usually when the customer also learns how much that custom application / data is worth.
Even for myself, I'll install the OS, an Application Server, DB, LDAP and a few other bits on new hardware and park a disk image because the time to set up my development environment. IS is more than happy to build a fresh Solaris box, but the apps are what take all the time.
Which, patently, they do, being major contributors to GNOME, OpenOffice, etc.
All of those are running on my Sparc/Solaris box... Point being these guys are not even helping a little (from the work I've done with them) to push Linux in the server space - even the low end server. Not saying they don't contribute to OSS, just *really* wonder what they would do with a non desktop version of Linux.
Novell also released SuSE Enterprise 9 today - all that good stuff in the 9.1 desktop version, with even better hardware support. Not what I would call a typical laptop distribution, but it automagically detected my wireless network card in my Thinkpad and got the video right... Sweet 2.6 kernel goodness officially blessed now that an *enterprise* distribution supports it.
I get about five hours on a Thinkpad t41p w/extended battery, mostly coding with eclipse/app server/db/ldap running so the CPU is not idle. It is not uncommon to see six hours when the CPU throttles back... tragically making documentation portion of the project really seem like it last forever. More than enough battery to watch a dvd and do a bit more gaming on a trans atlantic flight.
Reactivation is required if you make any changes to the VMWare config, not just RAM.
I've changed RAM sizes and updated VMWare drivers - never had it kick of an activation event. Not disagreeing with you about two activation minimum (one host, one guest), just not had any activation issues swapping VM images and tuning sizes to fit whatever workstation I hack my part into a demo/etc. I've fiddled with settings quite a bit too - going from workstation to laptop and back again - so in practice it has been a non-issue.
appearantly you are expected to buy two copies of it because of the product activation.
Yes, but... with VMWare, your hardware is virtual. Perhaps the person doing the first install had to do the product activation, but as long as you don't hork about with the ram allocated to the VM it can be passed from person to person without *ever* dealing with that crap again. Never having to re-activate is not the same as being licensed to use it, however...
I do find it a little distrubing that I'm even saying something like that.... The short term mentality for success is putting a lot of un-needed pressure on companies.
As a stockholder for the past four years - I say it is not just the day traders they should be afraid of... I let my geek side stop me from dumping them because I wanted to believe they could turn things around. These guys needed a solid plan (and stuck with it rather than changing every week) - and the buck stops at McNealy.
This is changing... I know a couple pros that moved all digital and are charging for the photo service and editing rather than megabucks per print. Still set up back four grand, but you have the copyright and can send a wedding shot to every third cousin if you want by ordering prints on-line. The IP thing is not really understood, but letting the average Joe use whatever print processor they use for their cheapo digital camera and paying for the work done seems to be groked. A huge differentiator for folks breaking into a tough market... Anyhow, good advice. I'd add look for someone who is just turning pro - odds are they will give you the flexibility than the dinosaurs in the well established studios.
You think just because you're using a web browser tool, to remotely access a web browser, to remove vermin, is a design decision on the vermin designer's part?
If this is webex, the problem is not so much the browser as the file explorer has some funky interaction with the software. It installs as an activex, but if you toggle the view file options to see 'hidden files' (or make any other changes for that matter that you typically do when carving out malware) it dumps you from the session. VNC works, but if the victim does a couple first steps before they join, webex can work OK.
Wow... talk about a backlash. I'm sitting in an airport doing/. on one of these (normal blackberry) right now. These things are great little tools. Aside from email/phone/web, you can run Java and C++ apps on them and do all sorts of custom apps. Unlike my ipaq with a wireless card, this thing is almost always connected to the net for days without charge. Slow, but fast enough to do a secure lookup. This type of thing sounds like the perfect 'car computer' for bicycle cops. Silly to not use off the shelf kit like this.
What insurance policy covers meteor impacts? If there's anything in the world that might happen that could be called an Act of God, surely 'smiting with flaming rocks from the heavens' qualifies?
I'm sure the insurance company could have... but that would have created some very bad publicity. Can you imagine the homeowners saying - we have been paying them premiums for the last ten years and the rats claimed it was an "act of god". With no fatalities, light damage, and global coverage paying was the correct corporate maneuver. That kind of favorable branding is hard to get.
Sun is already using Linux at the low end, where it has it's niche. It's called the Java Desktop System.
I'll not argue the high end... but my experience with Sun does not pitch JDS as a low-end server but rather a low TCO client. Too bad, as I know my code runs just fine on SuSE 8.x. There are tons of department level servers out there that will run single/dual CPU boxes - heck, even a lowly worm like myself has a few cheapo SunBlades and 1U rackmount jobs. More and more, they just get used to test code on Solaris (SPARC) for deployment on higher end boxes. I'm seeing customers spending a few thousand on dual x86 kit running Linux and being pleased - problem is, it is almost never Sun hardware. They are missing out on the transition from $5k to the 'lets spend mad enterprise' cash.
Try turning in an expense report, complete with the itemized receipts, from a trip to Japan back at a US office. I suspect it was more a mental seg fault than quivering in delight, however...
Nice to see both PCI Express x16 and AGP 8X slots on board at least one of them. I'm looking to squeeze a bit more life out of my AGP based ti4200 before updating to one of the newer video cards in a year or so...
So if you don't mind, please elaborate on the alleged screwing that took place.
My last two HP experiences.
I bought HP's i100 DVD burner, thinking I could use it to build bootable ghost images for a collection of demo laptops. Boy was I wrong. Using a dozen brands of media, I found only a couple DVD drives that could even read the (data only) media, much less boot from one. They also claimed (in the website info, later removed) it could handle some other media types. For the update? They wanted $100 USD! This was after paying for the support call, btw, which made no promises that the update would let me read media burned on the updated version by other machines if I shelled out the extra money. Ah, no thanks. Cut my losses at that point, and have not purchased HP kit since.
I did win an HP 318 digital camera at a trade show drawing. I was on the road and packed the camera and USB cable, but did not have the laptop software installed. No problem, just go to HP and download the driver, right? Nope, no such luck. They want to charge ten or fifteen dollars. A bit of googling, and I could configure it to act as a USB drive... no driver required. Not that HP support bothered to mention that. They only would 'ship a cd' rather than download, which was loads of help when I was out of the country.
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One of the hazards of posting from a mobile phone... the 'guess to what I am trying to spell' does not always get it right (grin)
How can you give away the source for free, yet also charge for the software? What stops people just downloading the source and compiling it, without paying?
The build process for some things is not trivial... Some of the big distros - SuSE and Redhad enterprise versions don't (and I could be wrong, but bare with me) have the source code available. Reproducing those distros in the binary bootable iso format is not for the faint of heart. Look at the elbow grease it took to get White Box Linux - compiled from the source of RHEL - up and running. In corporate, it is often easier to buy open source kit than get it running yourself. As a bonus, you get someone else to take care of the maintenance....
SCO went after IBM's legal team. Their moves could best be described as 'death by cop' thinking about how they will spend the life insurance afterwards. This is not even in the same ballpark. While Verisign may rank on the asshat scale, they really have nothing to loose by chasing this venue. They loose this, no big deal... they win, they win big until DNS servers get recoded.
We could only dream they pull a SCO...
Not hard at all...
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1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup mashed ripe bananas
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup macadamia nuts
Pinch of cinnamon
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Oil and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
Using an electric mixer, cream the shortening and sugar. With the mixer running on medium speed, add the eggs one at a time. Add the bananas and mix well. Add the baking soda, salt, flour, nuts and cinnamon and mix thoroughly. The dough will be sticky.
Pour the dough into the prepared pan and bake about one hour or until the center is brown and set.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/
I don't think windows will run on a mainframe.
Sure it will. The form factor is much smaller than it use to be, but I have enough room on top for a couple x86 boxes, a Sun box, and room left over for a hidden cache of nerf guns. Tall ceilings are a must...
Very few machines are worth 10.5 hours for me. Factoring in labor, I can save a lot of money by saving the data elsewhere then FDisking and reinstalling the OS. Even considering windows install time, program install time, and configuration, I don't have 10.5 hours in it and the user probably has a less glitchy machine for it
I've done this a few times... The victim is almost always in the position where they don't have a recovery disk / install media / key for some critical bit of software. Nuking from orbit is easy, teasing out the DLLs, registry settings, and data for a critical custom application is hard. I've seen the lone win95 486 chugging away because they could not migrate it on their shinny new XP box. (Extra points if the old software even works on a current OS) More often then not, they actually *have the data backed up - only to find they never understood how the tape drives actually work. We do an incremental backup every week. We swap back and forth between these two tapes... Anyhow, this is usually when the customer also learns how much that custom application / data is worth.
Even for myself, I'll install the OS, an Application Server, DB, LDAP and a few other bits on new hardware and park a disk image because the time to set up my development environment. IS is more than happy to build a fresh Solaris box, but the apps are what take all the time.
Which, patently, they do, being major contributors to GNOME, OpenOffice, etc.
All of those are running on my Sparc/Solaris box... Point being these guys are not even helping a little (from the work I've done with them) to push Linux in the server space - even the low end server. Not saying they don't contribute to OSS, just *really* wonder what they would do with a non desktop version of Linux.
Novell also released SuSE Enterprise 9 today - all that good stuff in the 9.1 desktop version, with even better hardware support. Not what I would call a typical laptop distribution, but it automagically detected my wireless network card in my Thinkpad and got the video right... Sweet 2.6 kernel goodness officially blessed now that an *enterprise* distribution supports it.
Life is good...
I get about five hours on a Thinkpad t41p w/extended battery, mostly coding with eclipse/app server/db/ldap running so the CPU is not idle. It is not uncommon to see six hours when the CPU throttles back... tragically making documentation portion of the project really seem like it last forever. More than enough battery to watch a dvd and do a bit more gaming on a trans atlantic flight.
Now Sun won't have to buy them, they can just fork them :)
That would imply they wanted to care and nurture Linux kit...
Reactivation is required if you make any changes to the VMWare config, not just RAM.
I've changed RAM sizes and updated VMWare drivers - never had it kick of an activation event. Not disagreeing with you about two activation minimum (one host, one guest), just not had any activation issues swapping VM images and tuning sizes to fit whatever workstation I hack my part into a demo/etc. I've fiddled with settings quite a bit too - going from workstation to laptop and back again - so in practice it has been a non-issue.
appearantly you are expected to buy two copies of it because of the product activation.
Yes, but... with VMWare, your hardware is virtual. Perhaps the person doing the first install had to do the product activation, but as long as you don't hork about with the ram allocated to the VM it can be passed from person to person without *ever* dealing with that crap again. Never having to re-activate is not the same as being licensed to use it, however...
I do find it a little distrubing that I'm even saying something like that.... The short term mentality for success is putting a lot of un-needed pressure on companies.
As a stockholder for the past four years - I say it is not just the day traders they should be afraid of... I let my geek side stop me from dumping them because I wanted to believe they could turn things around. These guys needed a solid plan (and stuck with it rather than changing every week) - and the buck stops at McNealy.
Yah, I'm not bitter...
This is changing... I know a couple pros that moved all digital and are charging for the photo service and editing rather than megabucks per print. Still set up back four grand, but you have the copyright and can send a wedding shot to every third cousin if you want by ordering prints on-line. The IP thing is not really understood, but letting the average Joe use whatever print processor they use for their cheapo digital camera and paying for the work done seems to be groked. A huge differentiator for folks breaking into a tough market... Anyhow, good advice. I'd add look for someone who is just turning pro - odds are they will give you the flexibility than the dinosaurs in the well established studios.
You think just because you're using a web browser tool, to remotely access a web browser, to remove vermin, is a design decision on the vermin designer's part?
If this is webex, the problem is not so much the browser as the file explorer has some funky interaction with the software. It installs as an activex, but if you toggle the view file options to see 'hidden files' (or make any other changes for that matter that you typically do when carving out malware) it dumps you from the session. VNC works, but if the victim does a couple first steps before they join, webex can work OK.
I'd check out what these guys had to say about locking down xp.
Wow... talk about a backlash. I'm sitting in an airport doing /. on one of these (normal blackberry) right now. These things are great little tools. Aside from email/phone/web, you can run Java and C++ apps on them and do all sorts of custom apps. Unlike my ipaq with a wireless card, this thing is almost always connected to the net for days without charge. Slow, but fast enough to do a secure lookup. This type of thing sounds like the perfect 'car computer' for bicycle cops. Silly to not use off the shelf kit like this.
What insurance policy covers meteor impacts? If there's anything in the world that might happen that could be called an Act of God, surely 'smiting with flaming rocks from the heavens' qualifies?
I'm sure the insurance company could have... but that would have created some very bad publicity. Can you imagine the homeowners saying - we have been paying them premiums for the last ten years and the rats claimed it was an "act of god". With no fatalities, light damage, and global coverage paying was the correct corporate maneuver. That kind of favorable branding is hard to get.
Sun is already using Linux at the low end, where it has it's niche. It's called the Java Desktop System.
I'll not argue the high end... but my experience with Sun does not pitch JDS as a low-end server but rather a low TCO client. Too bad, as I know my code runs just fine on SuSE 8.x. There are tons of department level servers out there that will run single/dual CPU boxes - heck, even a lowly worm like myself has a few cheapo SunBlades and 1U rackmount jobs. More and more, they just get used to test code on Solaris (SPARC) for deployment on higher end boxes. I'm seeing customers spending a few thousand on dual x86 kit running Linux and being pleased - problem is, it is almost never Sun hardware. They are missing out on the transition from $5k to the 'lets spend mad enterprise' cash.
"We do not accept bills larger than $20"
I'm sure that $100 bills have the same markings, but refusing to accept them is perfectly acceptable.
I pushed someone on this... and the manager said I was correct, they could not refuse it. He then continued - of course, I won't make change either...
You gotta lead the guy, show him there's an end at the end of the tunnel, give him what to do and track the progress.
Besides, it is a lot more fun to watch when he finds out the light is a train....
Looks like they posted it, if you want to try your hand at a 9.1 FTP install...
n ux /index.html
http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/suse_li
Wow, I've never seen an accountant visibly shake!
Try turning in an expense report, complete with the itemized receipts, from a trip to Japan back at a US office. I suspect it was more a mental seg fault than quivering in delight, however...
Nice to see both PCI Express x16 and AGP 8X slots on board at least one of them. I'm looking to squeeze a bit more life out of my AGP based ti4200 before updating to one of the newer video cards in a year or so...
So if you don't mind, please elaborate on the alleged screwing that took place.
My last two HP experiences.
I bought HP's i100 DVD burner, thinking I could use it to build bootable ghost images for a collection of demo laptops. Boy was I wrong. Using a dozen brands of media, I found only a couple DVD drives that could even read the (data only) media, much less boot from one. They also claimed (in the website info, later removed) it could handle some other media types. For the update? They wanted $100 USD! This was after paying for the support call, btw, which made no promises that the update would let me read media burned on the updated version by other machines if I shelled out the extra money. Ah, no thanks. Cut my losses at that point, and have not purchased HP kit since.
I did win an HP 318 digital camera at a trade show drawing. I was on the road and packed the camera and USB cable, but did not have the laptop software installed. No problem, just go to HP and download the driver, right? Nope, no such luck. They want to charge ten or fifteen dollars. A bit of googling, and I could configure it to act as a USB drive... no driver required. Not that HP support bothered to mention that. They only would 'ship a cd' rather than download, which was loads of help when I was out of the country.