Quad systems will be expensive. This means that they will have relatively little impact (low sales volumes). A much more interesting announcement would be the availability of cheap single CPU boards maybe based on IBM's POP specification.
Presumably that means that they trust you to do that job to the best of you ability. If this means that you use Linux, Apache and PostgreSQL rather than NT, IIS and MS SQL server to do that job then presumably you know what you are doing.
If they challenge you on your decisions and refuse to support them then *why* are you still working there?
Why would you work for an organisation who do not trust the judgement of their own employees? There are a lot of good employers out there who trust and value the skills of their employees.
The DNS system is designed to be a heirarchical naming system. It is certainly not being used in this manner.
Everyone wants a.com address and so the.com namespace has become flattened. DNS is no longer heirarchical and failed name searches can take a significant amount of time and have a significant system overhead. It also means that people have to fight over the namespace, hence all these lawsuits and trademark disputes and domain squatting.
The new top level domains are simply not enough to fix this. The desirable namespaces will simple be occupied by the people occupying the.com space, the name registrars will make more money and the DNS will continue to be abused.
A better solution would be to limit all individuals and organisations to 3rd or 4th level domains. The top level, second level and maybe even third level domains should be reserved for domain administration purposes only.
I want a PPC based ATX form factor motherboard with the latest CPU at similar prices to an Intel based system. I don't care about Firewire, USB, sound, disk or even a video card.
Vapourware, like the rest. Nothing shipping. I've looked everywhere and the story is the same. Everyone promising 'Real soon now' for the last 6 months.
I can go out and have an Intel based board in my hands within 30 minutes.
There's no-one out there holding a gun to his head and forcing his company to produce and sell a Linux distribution from all the free software that is around.
If he doesn't like the license he's perfectly free to write a kernel, libraries, utilities, GUI etc from scratch and he then will not be bound by the GPL at all.
Alternatively he could produce a FreeBSD distribution.
It's interesting to hear a CEO complaining about all the freedoms that he does have.
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Quad systems will be expensive. This means that they will have relatively little impact (low sales volumes). A much more interesting announcement would be the availability of cheap single CPU boards maybe based on IBM's POP specification.
Should be using sync on a sendmail queue filesystem if you want to make sure that when sendmail says it has the mail it's in the queue dir.
They hired you to do a job.
Presumably that means that they trust you to do that job to the best of you ability. If this means that you use Linux, Apache and PostgreSQL rather than NT, IIS and MS SQL server to do that job then presumably you know what you are doing.
If they challenge you on your decisions and refuse to support them then *why* are you still working there?
Why would you work for an organisation who do not trust the judgement of their own employees? There are a lot of good employers out there who trust and value the skills of their employees.
Are you sure they wouldn't come piling down on top of Red Hat and Debian like a tonne of bricks.
Microsoft have an awful lot of money, an awful lot of lawyers and have demonstrated a willingness to use them...
I'd rather log the mail. If space starts to be a problem send to /dev/null.
:0:
* Subject:.*I.*LOVE.*YOU
/var/log/iloveyou.log
I guess nobody loves me.
It's a bit like a popularity contest. The more peoples addressbooks you're in the more copies of the trojan you'll get.
BTW, all these filters being put in place. Do they just use the subject line? If so wouldn't it be trivial to change that and send it off again?
Call it LIBNET.
Hell you could even have Deja News index all the articles for you.
The DNS system is designed to be a heirarchical naming system. It is certainly not being used in this manner.
Everyone wants a .com address and so the .com namespace has become flattened. DNS is no longer heirarchical and failed name searches can take a significant amount of time and have a significant system overhead. It also means that people have to fight over the namespace, hence all these lawsuits and trademark disputes and domain squatting.
The new top level domains are simply not enough to fix this. The desirable namespaces will simple be occupied by the people occupying the .com space, the name registrars will make more money and the DNS will continue to be abused.
A better solution would be to limit all individuals and organisations to 3rd or 4th level domains. The top level, second level and maybe even third level domains should be reserved for domain administration purposes only.
Use the DNS the way it is supposed to be used.
I can pick up an ALPHA motherboard for less than a PPC one from any one of half a dozen vendors. SMALLER market!
The real truth is that IBM and Motorola fucked up when they let Apple determine the market for PPC systems.
Plus better reliability, better service and a more sophisticated operating system.
That's all really.
I want a PPC based ATX form factor motherboard with the latest CPU at similar prices to an Intel based system. I don't care about Firewire, USB, sound, disk or even a video card.
I don't want Intel, SPARC or PA-RISC either.
Jeez, read the posts.
Vapourware, like the rest. Nothing shipping. I've looked everywhere and the story is the same. Everyone promising 'Real soon now' for the last 6 months.
I can go out and have an Intel based board in my hands within 30 minutes.
Now, if it was only possible to actually buy one.
The ONLY shipping standalone PPC motherboard you can buy is from Motorola and it costs $2500. This is FACT. Don't believe me? Have fun searching.
I have absolutely no interest in buying a Mac and ripping it's guts out.
I just want a PPC based motherboard without all that Apple bullshit.
ATX formfactor. That's all, nothing fancy. I'm not interested in buying Macs and striping them.
Make em cheap so any school/enthusiast can put one in their back yard/garden.
Still, it's difficult to see how they'll get quality results from cheap kit.
but threading, compiling, lvalue subroutines sound like feature bloat to me. However I suppose *someone* must ned them.
There's no-one out there holding a gun to his head and forcing his company to produce and sell a Linux distribution from all the free software that is around.
If he doesn't like the license he's perfectly free to write a kernel, libraries, utilities, GUI etc from scratch and he then will not be bound by the GPL at all.
Alternatively he could produce a FreeBSD distribution.
It's interesting to hear a CEO complaining about all the freedoms that he does have.
They make the same mistakes again and again and again.
I see it every day.
Synonym for serial unfounded litigation?
Make them post something that they later regret. They usually have absolutely no sense of humour. Hence the legal recourse.
No real substance required.
Gradwellregistered his domain: http://www.gradwell.com/ who are owned by Onyx Internet: http://www.onyxnet.co.uk/
However his posts seem to come from a number of places. Most recently from Planet Online (Freeserve?):
Posting host: newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk and abuse@theplanet.net
Also:
Posting host: news3.cableinet.net
abuse@telinco.net
Email: laurence.godfrey@pmail.net and laurence@godfreynet.co.uk
Seems very interested in the chances of catching HIV in Thailand?
Ooh I am a bad bad person today.
Ooh some of his posts are just nasty. Maybe they are libelous. I wonder if his ISP should be notified of a potential legal action?
Sorry Rob.