You've the point. It's not quite right to force them to do anything, we are just admins nevertheless.
Fortunately for us, our users are not students(heh), and they do not need to comply to our policy, as long as they do not connect to our network.
Well, policy is policy, we always find people do they own way. It's easier to handle this situation. I believe it's much more difficult to enforce it on students.:)
using an access database is a bad idea for a website, microsoft recomend no more than 9-10 connections, need to spend more and use SQL, or go free and postgresql (or mysql)
Yeah, so I keep clicking it until I can get in that 9-10 connections.:)
I'm aware that by invoking the right granted to 'YOU' by 'this license', 'YOU' has no implied right to use this software. It's the same case as in any other licenses, because without explicitly stated otherwise, the owner of the software is the creator himself. 'YOU' have no right whatsoever to use this software unless there's a license specified.
This is the statement in question:
...any license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause
That's is to say, you are not only being invoked of the right granted by 'this licenses', but also other products that has this exact statement in their licenses, even you are not going to sue other products with this license.
Therefore, the patent owners must think very carefully before suing a software infringement bearing this license, because the implication would be forfeiting of the right of using ALL other products with this license!
The more softare has licenses bearing this statement, the harder to sue for patent infringement - isn't it exactly the world domination with softare?:) (j/k for humor impaired)
I'm glad that OSI has thought of this term before Microsoft did. Oh wait, the others might follow....
9. Mutual Termination for Patent Action. This License shall terminate automatically and You may no longer exercise any of the rights granted to You by this License if You file a lawsuit in any court alleging that any OSI Certified open source software that is licensed under any license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause infringes any patent claims that are essential to use that software.
The hightlight took away the bold part. It seems to me this statement is like "We don't like patent lawsuits. If you've ever file one against any of us, you are the enemy of the rest, and don't bother using our software for the rest of your life."
I doubt it'd be enforceable, if it does, it'd be rather interesting. Why not just replace 'patent' with 'any legal'. Total world domination would not be a dream.:)
We are running a 1000+ organization but our solution is much better than banning older release of windows to force students upgrade at their own expenses.
First of all, remind them of the security policies, and the consequence of failure to compliant
Second, we do not rely on individual machines in our network to ensure OUR network security. We include in risk accessment that clients machines are subjected to be exploited, and have plans to deal with it.
To minimize and control the damage, we blocks off unauthorized ports across segments. Say they could open port 80 to be access within their own segment, but outsiders cannot have access to it. Now the virus outbreak would only affect their own segment.
Of course, they could apply for the opening of ports with proper justifications and management approval.
Third and most important, install Software Access Management software on all Windows boxes. SAM enables admin to perform license management and remote controlling. Users may complain about about it, but it's your choice to use Windows, you've options to use something else.
Do not think we'd relax restrictions to Linux and Mac, policies require that each box must be tested(and challenged, on password, services and ports opened) by our tiger teams from time to time.
what's the odd that someone else using exactly YOUR email address to spread virus? Is that someone you know?
Report to FBI after you've received the legal letter from that CEO because in this case you've legitimate ground for seeking feds help($5000 in total lost iirc).
If they could find this bastard(very likely) you could proceed to sue him/her for covering any legal expenses incurred by CEO's lawsuit, plus expenses need to cure your severe case of depression.:)
Imagine we'd end up having Linux 3.1, Linux 3.95*, and Linux 3.98. I can't stand Linux end up walking the same path Microsoft did. Some day they'd say Linx N10** is a good idea!
* Just in case you didn't realize, find MSINFO.EXE in old Windows 95 machine, run it and you'll see Windows 95 is in fact coded as Windows 3.95 on MSDOS 6.22
** N10 = NT
ur right. Believe it or not, Taiwaneses have already done heavy investment in China years ago,and they are more than happy to move their chips manufacturing into China.
go to his house, strike an axe on his skull, burn down his house with his corpose and everthing else inside and piss on the ashes?
...or just talk to him with your rationale?
Man, sometime I really don't know which option is the best.:)
Re:that doesn't mean they'll produce good games
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dotcom "boom" is a very exceptional case in finance history. Moderate "boom" will happen once per decade, and there's almost no comparable "boom" as dotcom "boom" before(I remember there was one many years ago, it's about selling of flower seeds, I need to look for it before I can confirm)
Rare is quite a healthy company(compare to other audit-suspicious companies:) and Microsoft is absolutely making a good investment this time, if not for the XBox.
However, I must admit, if this buyout count, Microsoft has spent way to much money on XBox. If XBox would ever spawn as a seperate company then its stocks would be the last on my consideration list.:)
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They don't need to earn $375 in selling games to breakeven. Don't forget the company itself is an asset. Also, the increase in stock values as a result of successful games made could outweight the profit gains from revenue of games/console selling.
is an idiot. He's the best man around in this field, and if you don't serve him right, he'll look for somebody who does. Even evil empire as we called it does repect their developers ("Developer! Developer! Developer!").
A little bit straying away from the topic, but this explain why opensource is a huge success - the inovations come from the developers, inventors etc., not those who take the fruit of their labours and make money out of them.
Only a few years ago I heard an PHB said "Open Source?! Blah! It's so foolish of them to give their work away for free! Without our marketing and sales their work worth nothing!" (this PHB still works for big blue)
That's the case for PC. For some highly propriatary hardware platform like HP's, almost every parts of the component are produced by their own. Say if there's one customer still chose to pay the maintenace cost of F-class server, which may be 10 times as much as the hardware cost, they still have to keep the production line producing those obsoleted parts. They just couldn't tell people "Sorry we don't produce this parts even though we took your money" can they?:)
More maintenance years would only cause the result of $/tpc-c more favour to x86 platform, no wonder why MSSQL servers almost dominate top ten of this rating.
In general, TPC benchmarks are system-wide benchmarks, encompassing almost all cost dimensions of an entire system environment the user might purchase, including terminals, communications equipment, software (transaction monitors and database software), computer system or host, backup storage, and three years maintenance cost. Therefore, if the total system cost is $859,100 and the throughput is 1562 tpmC, the price/performance is derived by taking the price of the entire system ($859,100) divided by the performance (1562 tpmC), which equals $550 per tpmC.
Most people would focus on the hardware cost, but in reality the highlighted maintenance cost took the precedence.
Most midrange UNIX server has outragous maintenance cost. The maintenance cost of a UNIX server in the third year could be exceeding the cost of the hardware itself. It's due to the fact that older parts are difficult to find, thus make maintaining older servers more difficult. Besides, they really want to cut older production lines in favor of newer servers production.
x86 platform is known to have flat and lower maintenance cost, due to the low cost hardware and high compability with older hardware, i.e. older parts can be found easily. That's why Microsoft could easily beat the TPC pissing races.
Doomsday finally comes to Microsoft when Linux is entering the database market. Although at this moment big corps are still offering Linux maintenance with cost comparable to UNIX package, that's not surprising when Linux engineers are not as abandon as MCSE. However, it'll not be the case in the future. I think Microsoft would eventaully lose this pissing race in the long run.
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For a start, 200+ does not an authoritative respondent base make.
/. vote. Somehow I think it's profitable for /. to rent space for them to collect survey data. :)
Yeah, it's nothing compare to
You've the point. It's not quite right to force them to do anything, we are just admins nevertheless.
:)
Fortunately for us, our users are not students(heh), and they do not need to comply to our policy, as long as they do not connect to our network.
Well, policy is policy, we always find people do they own way. It's easier to handle this situation. I believe it's much more difficult to enforce it on students.
using an access database is a bad idea for a website, microsoft recomend no more than 9-10 connections, need to spend more and use SQL, or go free and postgresql (or mysql)
:)
Yeah, so I keep clicking it until I can get in that 9-10 connections.
No, you misunderstood what I said. :)
...any license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause
:) (j/k for humor impaired)
I'm aware that by invoking the right granted to 'YOU' by 'this license', 'YOU' has no implied right to use this software. It's the same case as in any other licenses, because without explicitly stated otherwise, the owner of the software is the creator himself. 'YOU' have no right whatsoever to use this software unless there's a license specified.
This is the statement in question:
That's is to say, you are not only being invoked of the right granted by 'this licenses', but also other products that has this exact statement in their licenses, even you are not going to sue other products with this license.
Therefore, the patent owners must think very carefully before suing a software infringement bearing this license, because the implication would be forfeiting of the right of using ALL other products with this license!
The more softare has licenses bearing this statement, the harder to sue for patent infringement - isn't it exactly the world domination with softare?
I'm glad that OSI has thought of this term before Microsoft did. Oh wait, the others might follow....
9. Mutual Termination for Patent Action. This License shall terminate automatically and You may no longer exercise any of the rights granted to You by this License if You file a lawsuit in any court alleging that any OSI Certified open source software that is licensed under any license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause infringes any patent claims that are essential to use that software.
:)
The hightlight took away the bold part. It seems to me this statement is like "We don't like patent lawsuits. If you've ever file one against any of us, you are the enemy of the rest, and don't bother using our software for the rest of your life."
I doubt it'd be enforceable, if it does, it'd be rather interesting. Why not just replace 'patent' with 'any legal'. Total world domination would not be a dream.
We are running a 1000+ organization but our solution is much better than banning older release of windows to force students upgrade at their own expenses.
First of all, remind them of the security policies, and the consequence of failure to compliant
Second, we do not rely on individual machines in our network to ensure OUR network security. We include in risk accessment that clients machines are subjected to be exploited, and have plans to deal with it.
To minimize and control the damage, we blocks off unauthorized ports across segments. Say they could open port 80 to be access within their own segment, but outsiders cannot have access to it. Now the virus outbreak would only affect their own segment.
Of course, they could apply for the opening of ports with proper justifications and management approval.
Third and most important, install Software Access Management software on all Windows boxes. SAM enables admin to perform license management and remote controlling. Users may complain about about it, but it's your choice to use Windows, you've options to use something else.
Do not think we'd relax restrictions to Linux and Mac, policies require that each box must be tested(and challenged, on password, services and ports opened) by our tiger teams from time to time.
Just my two cents.
what's the odd that someone else using exactly YOUR email address to spread virus? Is that someone you know?
:)
Report to FBI after you've received the legal letter from that CEO because in this case you've legitimate ground for seeking feds help($5000 in total lost iirc).
If they could find this bastard(very likely) you could proceed to sue him/her for covering any legal expenses incurred by CEO's lawsuit, plus expenses need to cure your severe case of depression.
You are the victim ONLY when you chose to be one.
Imagine we'd end up having Linux 3.1, Linux 3.95*, and Linux 3.98. I can't stand Linux end up walking the same path Microsoft did. Some day they'd say Linx N10** is a good idea!
* Just in case you didn't realize, find MSINFO.EXE in old Windows 95 machine, run it and you'll see Windows 95 is in fact coded as Windows 3.95 on MSDOS 6.22
** N10 = NT
I support you! I'll leave my comment to your petition.
I'll definitely buy the iPod if it could decode Ogg!
ur right. Believe it or not, Taiwaneses have already done heavy investment in China years ago,and they are more than happy to move their chips manufacturing into China.
go to his house, strike an axe on his skull, burn down his house with his corpose and everthing else inside and piss on the ashes?
...or just talk to him with your rationale?
:)
Man, sometime I really don't know which option is the best.
dotcom "boom" is a very exceptional case in finance history. Moderate "boom" will happen once per decade, and there's almost no comparable "boom" as dotcom "boom" before(I remember there was one many years ago, it's about selling of flower seeds, I need to look for it before I can confirm)
:) and Microsoft is absolutely making a good investment this time, if not for the XBox.
:)
Rare is quite a healthy company(compare to other audit-suspicious companies
However, I must admit, if this buyout count, Microsoft has spent way to much money on XBox. If XBox would ever spawn as a seperate company then its stocks would be the last on my consideration list.
They don't need to earn $375 in selling games to breakeven. Don't forget the company itself is an asset. Also, the increase in stock values as a result of successful games made could outweight the profit gains from revenue of games/console selling.
Thanks for the instruction. Now how may I send a huge bat to the sky with this? We got some problem here in Gothem...
How do you fake a roll-back with LOCK?
I could tell you if I get to look at the code of MSSQL...
Just as my boss asking me what is DRM, I stared in his eyes as if this was the first time I heard about it.
"That must be some kind of obscure acronym that we could ignore"
"....yeah, I guess so"
Nope, it's not just a pretty phone. It's a PDA running on Symbian OS, which is being used in Nokia 9210/9290.
Symbian is more powerful than PalmOS, which is simpler and cheaper.
compare to this, that smartphone looks like an old nanny.
Boom. That's the end of legal free (and Free) software in the USA
and only in USA.
Unless US Government would pass export laws that forbidden export of non-DRM electronics, like they did to cryptos.
This is unlikely to happen, but in view of its track records...hmm...
is an idiot. He's the best man around in this field, and if you don't serve him right, he'll look for somebody who does. Even evil empire as we called it does repect their developers ("Developer! Developer! Developer!").
A little bit straying away from the topic, but this explain why opensource is a huge success - the inovations come from the developers, inventors etc., not those who take the fruit of their labours and make money out of them.
Only a few years ago I heard an PHB said "Open Source?! Blah! It's so foolish of them to give their work away for free! Without our marketing and sales their work worth nothing!" (this PHB still works for big blue)
I always want to ask: does it hurt an MCSE's diginity using Linux tools to recover their servers? :)
That's the case for PC. For some highly propriatary hardware platform like HP's, almost every parts of the component are produced by their own. Say if there's one customer still chose to pay the maintenace cost of F-class server, which may be 10 times as much as the hardware cost, they still have to keep the production line producing those obsoleted parts. They just couldn't tell people "Sorry we don't produce this parts even though we took your money" can they? :)
I think automatic logrotate is already done in most default installation. The problem is the overwhelming virus logs. :)
Make it 4 then. hehe
More maintenance years would only cause the result of $/tpc-c more favour to x86 platform, no wonder why MSSQL servers almost dominate top ten of this rating.
Thanks for the info.
Of course, I'll get flamed for not bashing microsoft
:)
Don't be silly.
From this FAQ you'll see:
In general, TPC benchmarks are system-wide benchmarks, encompassing almost all cost dimensions of an entire system environment the user might purchase, including terminals, communications equipment, software (transaction monitors and database software), computer system or host, backup storage, and three years maintenance cost. Therefore, if the total system cost is $859,100 and the throughput is 1562 tpmC, the price/performance is derived by taking the price of the entire system ($859,100) divided by the performance (1562 tpmC), which equals $550 per tpmC.
Most people would focus on the hardware cost, but in reality the highlighted maintenance cost took the precedence.
Most midrange UNIX server has outragous maintenance cost. The maintenance cost of a UNIX server in the third year could be exceeding the cost of the hardware itself. It's due to the fact that older parts are difficult to find, thus make maintaining older servers more difficult. Besides, they really want to cut older production lines in favor of newer servers production.
x86 platform is known to have flat and lower maintenance cost, due to the low cost hardware and high compability with older hardware, i.e. older parts can be found easily. That's why Microsoft could easily beat the TPC pissing races.
Doomsday finally comes to Microsoft when Linux is entering the database market. Although at this moment big corps are still offering Linux maintenance with cost comparable to UNIX package, that's not surprising when Linux engineers are not as abandon as MCSE. However, it'll not be the case in the future. I think Microsoft would eventaully lose this pissing race in the long run.