>Without my knowledge this would be a grave >ntrusion, certainly worth suing
I am not sure if this applies outside of the US or not. No, it is not. The system is not yours it is the companies and they are free to do anything with it the like. They can monitor/log keystrokes, watch what you are doing, ANYTHING!
Easy. Once NT crashed on one of our servers. The reason? I right clicked on "My Computer". The system locked hard. Just died, would not respond to pings. This was on a $10,000+ DEC server with the correct drivers.
I thought that the reason that Windows clients were not cheating was due to the fact the the Windows client did NOT have the bug in it that caused it to do a WU ever 5-10 minutes. From the article - Anderson said that at least two of the top 10 work groups have only reached the rankings because some of the members had cheated. "I don't want to name names," he said, "But it's fair to say the Unix and Linux crowds are causing most of the headaches. It seems to be the hacker mentality."
Sun and Apple used to have Mac Application Enviroment for Solaris/SPARC. That product, however, is no longer available.
Try Magic Exec and parallel make for MOSIX from: http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/txt_contrib.html http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/mosix/
>Without my knowledge this would be a grave >ntrusion, certainly worth suing
I am not sure if this applies outside of the US or not. No, it is not. The system is not yours it is the companies and they are free to do anything with it the like. They can monitor/log keystrokes, watch what you are doing, ANYTHING!
Where is to logic in this?
Strong encryption code and binaries are both available from a lot of http/ftp sites all over the world.
Just because the USA desides to restrict it does not mean that it will automagicly delete it self from all the servers outside the USA.
Why is Redhat so hated??? What have they done that is so bad? In my opinion they have done nothing but help Linux.
http://www.random.org/corba.html This site allows you to get random numbers via a CORBA interface.
Easy. Once NT crashed on one of our servers. The reason? I right clicked on "My Computer". The system locked hard. Just died, would not respond to pings. This was on a $10,000+ DEC server with the correct drivers.
http://www.webmin.com Really cool. Runs under Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and IRIX.
a portable version of the iToaster priced under $500 will be introduced by next year.
Code Forge has Ada support. I use if all the time for Perl, PHP, and HTML.
http://www.codeforge.com/features.html
I thought that the reason that Windows clients were not cheating was due to the fact the the Windows client did NOT have the bug in it that caused it to do a WU ever 5-10 minutes. From the article - Anderson said that at least two of the top 10 work groups have only reached the rankings because some of the members had cheated. "I don't want to name names," he said, "But it's fair to say the Unix and Linux crowds are causing most of the headaches. It seems to be the hacker mentality."
About #1,#2: Are their any GPL and/or OpenSource alternatives?
About #3: They no longer include BRU.
About #4: Redhat never said that the apps on the app CD had to be OpenSource and/or GPL.
About #5: Not GPL, but it is OpenSource