Linux isn't sold, only packaging and support can be sold, its a GPL thing. For example I can get a red hat enterprise distro and legaly run it to my hearts content, might not be able to get updates because they're via subscription, but that's my choise. Wonder how they would count an IBM S390 running a thousand instances of linux?
I've been using Linux since just before Win95 came out and have never used the support contract so why should I "buy" a commercial distro?
I've found the opposite to be true, and have atributed it to the same reasons. Microsoft's hardware is usualy pretty good, because through inexperience and lack of confidence, they tend to over-build things, there is a saying "anybody can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands". This is probably more along the lines of the PS vendor assuring MS that their PS have been used for years at the specified output levels, but didn't realise that gamers use them in a more rugged enviroment than a business suit would.
Actualy the pictures look like a normal "brick" power supply for a laptop or a portable printer. I wouldn't be suprised if the just weren't ordered from an industrial cataloge of stock parts and had a xbox360 lable stuck on. Most likely if microsoft is at fault for anything it's more along the lines of not specing enough saftey factor and not testing that the PS's actualy preformed in spec's.
dude it's like military contracts, propose for the highest specifications, then award to the lowest bidder, then you always get the best of the worst! Actualy I'm kind of glad that this is getting sorted out, recently big-evil microsoft hasn't been as big-evil as Sony, so I was hoping that Sony would get a bit mauled before the x-mass shopping frenzy; r00tkitting a half million 'puters just ain't cool.
I've frequently seen 81mm mortor rounds in flight, generaly as they approach and pass their maximum ordinate (peak of flight), rifle bullets are extremely dificualt to see unless you are looking through binoculars or a spotting scope.
FTA Romney administration officials are investigating whether Quinn violated travel procedures by not obtaining written authorization for six of the trips... State rules also require employees to provide a detailed estimate of the cost of travel sponsored by private firms and other outside groups... Quinn said he sought the legal advice of Linda M. Hamel, the lawyer for the Informational Technology Division, on the propriety of his appearing at a conference in which his travel and room were being paid for by the sponsors of the conference.
yup it sounds like it, probably more of an ethics thing rather than a legal thing, most likely some executive order that's ignored half the time, by the 1/3 of the people that even know it exists. Seems to me that the state requiring written authorization for travel, might have some serious constitutional freedom of assembly issues if push came to shove.
Well let's see , Microsoft is evil, and Microsoft is a corporation, Microsoft is primarily physicaly located in the US, Microsoft is a large cap corp; therefore Google a large cap, publicly traded corporation, with a primary physical location in the US must be evil. If Google is making the suits actually compete for software talent, then obviously the sofware talent is selling out to the "man". Far better for software engineers to be under-compensated, over-worked and stoicaly suffering the abuse; than it is to simpley get a job at Google and be fairly compensated, appreciated and have an occasional chance to work on a personal project on company time and equipment.
My wife wanted a Windows machine for that very reason, now I tell her the problem with WindowsXP SP2... none of the popular software will run on it...
As windows moves toward the multi-user, networked security paradigm, more and more of the old single-user with no thought toward security programs don't work.
This was 47 pages long if memory serves me correctly, after about a ten page "executive summary", you came to ten more pages of "methodology", then you came to the "that's really brain-dead why did they make the Linux guys do that" part.
That was one of the things that seemed contrived in the study, if I was going to upgrade MySQL and discovered that it required me to upgrade my glibc also, I would do a whole distro upgrade, why not let the experts chase down all of the dependcies and other oopsie; especialy on a production server. Then after the Linux guy managed to get the upgrades of MySQL/glibc installed properly, they made him upgrade from SuSE 8 to SuSE 9 WTF?
One reason Linux has more patches is because the patches are targeted, that means a patch for MySQL does not patch other packages, in windows a patch isn't well targeted and frequently patch multiple programs, installing a service pack is like changing the whole OS. Another reason is linux packages are more receptive to plugging security vulnerabilities and are able to do so faster because the code is better organized; Vista is being delayed because they are finally refactoring the spaghetti mess that windows has become over the decades. Cleaner organized code make it faster to patch, easier to test and have less side-effect bugs. Why don't Windows admins install patches in a timely manner, it's because they are afraid of side-effect bugs.
it just auto-magicaly works integrity is taken care of, dependencies are taken care, file conflicts are taken care of. Configuration isn't point and click like SuSE, but if you were ambitious the program is GPLed so it could be used in any distro with modification.
That what bothers me the most is that when I buy music, I'm buying the right to listen to the music. If I rip it to a MP3 so My original CD doesn't get scratches, that's part of the deal, my sharing with friends isn't part of the deal (at least in the US) and limiting how many rips I can make isn't part of the deal. I have never downloaded a song that I either didn't have on CD or a LP, or it was distributed by creative commons or simular license.
well you forgot that there are incications that the r00tkit also contain pirated software so if you add in another $50,000 per for unintentional copyright violation that's 2 per CD if true, that kicks it up a notch or two.
And if the AG wins this, customer's suits will almost be a shoe-in. I figure that just the copyright infringement settlements would be $60M a year for the next millenium.
Nobody considers MySQL, PHP and Apache applications, they are tools to build applications with. What I was wondering is MySQL, PHP and Apache all run on both Windows and Linux why require linux to support a 3rd party application running on 3rd party tools? The question was what application required upgrading MySQL from 3.23 to 4.01 which application required upgrading the glibc, which application required upgrading PHP? What we suspect is it's an application, that was carefully selected to make the upgrade as difficult as possible, rather than one selected to fulfill the requirements as easily as possible.
I suspect that if you were required to upgrade the asp interpreter on your porn site to one which was not supported on your servers version of windows, you would also have a bit of trouble.
Yeah just before christmas, just a couple weeks before Xbox 360 launch; Sony is such a big company that the left hand doesn't know the right hand even exists, SonyBMG seems to forgotten that a big chunk o'change comes from movies, games and gaming hardware, computers and even high and mid level consumer electronics, and pro grade equipment. This puts such an impact on their corporate reputation, it's going to ripple outward a long ways. Six-pack joe might not know what a root-kit is, but the geeks that buy their high-margin stuff does, hard-core gamers does, and a lot of music-fanatics do.
Most farmer's are not prohibited by long-term contracts from other distribution channels. I can go to the farm, pick put a hog or beef, and it gets shipped to a packing house, a week later I pick up the meat all packaged and frozen. The farmer gets more by going arround the more commercial route, as does the packing house and I even get a good deal. With the record companies a band might sign a 3 album, exclusive contract and the label pulls the plug after the first and they're stuck owing the lable money, and two more albums that'll never get made.
But I bet if INTEL said, "If we don't get a satisfactory resolution in this matter, we are going to have to look at how we supply Chinese manufacturers." The chinese would move heaven and earth to correct the problem.
You know I could get a bunch of these, set up at the flea market put one on the counter, opened up and put a sign on it celeron 1.7 GHz; people would see the remarked chip and think I was some moron that they could rip-off. When word got a round a bit, these things would be flyiing off the shelf, each one invoiced as celeron 1.7GHz!
that they don't even recognise what zope has to do with open source. Actually I think both side should get 20 whacks with the anti-trademark-abuse stick. A radio show and a blog talking about getting lawyers involved in a dispute over each using the words open source is about as pathetic as them fussing over one have the.com and the other the.net!
Personaly I'd rather face an enemy that was fear-less, recklessly audatious, very likely to under-estimate the threat I present, over-estimate his abilities and unable to learn from his mistakes.
We have or had a chemical agent called BZ which if memory serves me correctly was chemicaly related to LSD, and caused hallucinations and almost universaly caused "bad trips". Our stocks were trivial amounts and only used in tests to devise defensive measures. That was the thing that bothered me about Iraq and WMD, with all of that chemical defense equipment, there should have been a little bit of everything for testing purposes. Telling and showing the inspectors 100gm of sarin and a couple liters of cyanogen-cyanide gas would have made things more believable.
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Linux isn't sold, only packaging and support can be sold, its a GPL thing. For example I can get a red hat enterprise distro and legaly run it to my hearts content, might not be able to get updates because they're via subscription, but that's my choise. Wonder how they would count an IBM S390 running a thousand instances of linux?
I've been using Linux since just before Win95 came out and have never used the support contract so why should I "buy" a commercial distro?
Javascript is almost always client-side, there are server-side implimentations, rare but they exist.
I've found the opposite to be true, and have atributed it to the same reasons. Microsoft's hardware is usualy pretty good, because through inexperience and lack of confidence, they tend to over-build things, there is a saying "anybody can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands". This is probably more along the lines of the PS vendor assuring MS that their PS have been used for years at the specified output levels, but didn't realise that gamers use them in a more rugged enviroment than a business suit would.
Actualy the pictures look like a normal "brick" power supply for a laptop or a portable printer. I wouldn't be suprised if the just weren't ordered from an industrial cataloge of stock parts and had a xbox360 lable stuck on. Most likely if microsoft is at fault for anything it's more along the lines of not specing enough saftey factor and not testing that the PS's actualy preformed in spec's.
dude it's like military contracts, propose for the highest specifications, then award to the lowest bidder, then you always get the best of the worst! Actualy I'm kind of glad that this is getting sorted out, recently big-evil microsoft hasn't been as big-evil as Sony, so I was hoping that Sony would get a bit mauled before the x-mass shopping frenzy; r00tkitting a half million 'puters just ain't cool.
I've frequently seen 81mm mortor rounds in flight, generaly as they approach and pass their maximum ordinate (peak of flight), rifle bullets are extremely dificualt to see unless you are looking through binoculars or a spotting scope.
FTA Romney administration officials are investigating whether Quinn violated travel procedures by not obtaining written authorization for six of the trips... State rules also require employees to provide a detailed estimate of the cost of travel sponsored by private firms and other outside groups... Quinn said he sought the legal advice of Linda M. Hamel, the lawyer for the Informational Technology Division, on the propriety of his appearing at a conference in which his travel and room were being paid for by the sponsors of the conference.
yup it sounds like it, probably more of an ethics thing rather than a legal thing, most likely some executive order that's ignored half the time, by the 1/3 of the people that even know it exists. Seems to me that the state requiring written authorization for travel, might have some serious constitutional freedom of assembly issues if push came to shove.
Well let's see ,
Microsoft is evil, and
Microsoft is a corporation,
Microsoft is primarily physicaly located in the US,
Microsoft is a large cap corp; therefore Google a large cap, publicly traded corporation, with a primary physical location in the US must be evil. If Google is making the suits actually compete for software talent, then obviously the sofware talent is selling out to the "man". Far better for software engineers to be under-compensated, over-worked and stoicaly suffering the abuse; than it is to simpley get a job at Google and be fairly compensated, appreciated and have an occasional chance to work on a personal project on company time and equipment.
My wife wanted a Windows machine for that very reason, now I tell her the problem with WindowsXP SP2 ... none of the popular software will run on it...
As windows moves toward the multi-user, networked security paradigm, more and more of the old single-user with no thought toward security programs don't work.
This was 47 pages long if memory serves me correctly, after about a ten page "executive summary", you came to ten more pages of "methodology", then you came to the "that's really brain-dead why did they make the Linux guys do that" part.
That was one of the things that seemed contrived in the study, if I was going to upgrade MySQL and discovered that it required me to upgrade my glibc also, I would do a whole distro upgrade, why not let the experts chase down all of the dependcies and other oopsie; especialy on a production server. Then after the Linux guy managed to get the upgrades of MySQL/glibc installed properly, they made him upgrade from SuSE 8 to SuSE 9 WTF?
One reason Linux has more patches is because the patches are targeted, that means a patch for MySQL does not patch other packages, in windows a patch isn't well targeted and frequently patch multiple programs, installing a service pack is like changing the whole OS.
Another reason is linux packages are more receptive to plugging security vulnerabilities and are able to do so faster because the code is better organized; Vista is being delayed because they are finally refactoring the spaghetti mess that windows has become over the decades. Cleaner organized code make it faster to patch, easier to test and have less side-effect bugs. Why don't Windows admins install patches in a timely manner, it's because they are afraid of side-effect bugs.
That what bothers me the most is that when I buy music, I'm buying the right to listen to the music. If I rip it to a MP3 so My original CD doesn't get scratches, that's part of the deal, my sharing with friends isn't part of the deal (at least in the US) and limiting how many rips I can make isn't part of the deal. I have never downloaded a song that I either didn't have on CD or a LP, or it was distributed by creative commons or simular license.
well you forgot that there are incications that the r00tkit also contain pirated software so if you add in another $50,000 per for unintentional copyright violation that's 2 per CD if true, that kicks it up a notch or two.
they have a list of the affect artists and albums; if it goes by sales, Sony will not be in that much trouble!
And if the AG wins this, customer's suits will almost be a shoe-in. I figure that just the copyright infringement settlements would be $60M a year for the next millenium.
Nobody considers MySQL, PHP and Apache applications, they are tools to build applications with. What I was wondering is MySQL, PHP and Apache all run on both Windows and Linux why require linux to support a 3rd party application running on 3rd party tools? The question was what application required upgrading MySQL from 3.23 to 4.01 which application required upgrading the glibc, which application required upgrading PHP? What we suspect is it's an application, that was carefully selected to make the upgrade as difficult as possible, rather than one selected to fulfill the requirements as easily as possible.
I suspect that if you were required to upgrade the asp interpreter on your porn site to one which was not supported on your servers version of windows, you would also have a bit of trouble.
Yeah just before christmas, just a couple weeks before Xbox 360 launch; Sony is such a big company that the left hand doesn't know the right hand even exists, SonyBMG seems to forgotten that a big chunk o'change comes from movies, games and gaming hardware, computers and even high and mid level consumer electronics, and pro grade equipment. This puts such an impact on their corporate reputation, it's going to ripple outward a long ways. Six-pack joe might not know what a root-kit is, but the geeks that buy their high-margin stuff does, hard-core gamers does, and a lot of music-fanatics do.
Most farmer's are not prohibited by long-term contracts from other distribution channels. I can go to the farm, pick put a hog or beef, and it gets shipped to a packing house, a week later I pick up the meat all packaged and frozen. The farmer gets more by going arround the more commercial route, as does the packing house and I even get a good deal. With the record companies a band might sign a 3 album, exclusive contract and the label pulls the plug after the first and they're stuck owing the lable money, and two more albums that'll never get made.
But I bet if INTEL said, "If we don't get a satisfactory resolution in this matter, we are going to have to look at how we supply Chinese manufacturers." The chinese would move heaven and earth to correct the problem.
You know I could get a bunch of these, set up at the flea market put one on the counter, opened up and put a sign on it celeron 1.7 GHz; people would see the remarked chip and think I was some moron that they could rip-off. When word got a round a bit, these things would be flyiing off the shelf, each one invoiced as celeron 1.7GHz!
that they don't even recognise what zope has to do with open source. Actually I think both side should get 20 whacks with the anti-trademark-abuse stick. A radio show and a blog talking about getting lawyers involved in a dispute over each using the words open source is about as pathetic as them fussing over one have the .com and the other the .net!
Personaly I'd rather face an enemy that was fear-less, recklessly audatious, very likely to under-estimate the threat I present, over-estimate his abilities and unable to learn from his mistakes.
We have or had a chemical agent called BZ which if memory serves me correctly was chemicaly related to LSD, and caused hallucinations and almost universaly caused "bad trips". Our stocks were trivial amounts and only used in tests to devise defensive measures. That was the thing that bothered me about Iraq and WMD, with all of that chemical defense equipment, there should have been a little bit of everything for testing purposes. Telling and showing the inspectors 100gm of sarin and a couple liters of cyanogen-cyanide gas would have made things more believable.