There is one thing that should bug every SysAdmin: in case of a problem, will the programs that are mentioned in this thread be available? I do NOT talk about trying to find a CD with the necessary editors, etc. Every SysAdmin worth his/her paycheck can make sense out of the usual config-files in/etc, try the config of EtherShare to get an idea about the adverse (there is a program to make sense of the config, something every SysAdmins likes to use, don't they?). When the users are breathing into your neck because they need access to their files, messing around in XML using vi/emacs or worse ex, just is not funny. The fact that.NET uses something do not make it viable for *NIX
There is just one problem regarding the "professional" grade stuff, with every new generation of hardware, the manufacturers of said gadgests introduce new "features", say DRM-"improvements" (sometimes waiting in your gear for the command to bite you in the backside when you least expect it), blocked or non-existing ports, and so on. Sometimes its better nowadays to buy the cheap stuff - produced too cheap to contain any new "nifty" (as seen from the *AAs) features.
You are missing a point here, companies patent something, wait until someone makes a real product, a.k.a. uses real brains and qualified engineers to create something, and then sue. Net result, a bunch of persons comes up with "something" and waits until people with the skills and knowledge actually create said something, profit. If nobody bothers to "infringe" (seen from the perspective of a lawyer/extortionist) nobody cares, getting broad-worded patents that say nothing in the first place, is just to easy AND to profitable. my 2 cents
One of the undisclosed sections of the new EU patent-directive contains the following sentence: Using non-Microsoft browsers to access the extended and embraced MS-Internet from any EU member state is a punishable offense. The poor policemen simply didn't know that the intended waving-through at the last meeting of the agricultural ministers didn't happen, they acted according to future laws.
Let's see what they didn't tell us besides that....
Upgrade to Solaris 9, activate the supplied firewall (needs some configuration, though) and you are golden. Only Traffic supposed to reach the machine will reach it. I used this as an example in my book, if you are willing to invest 30 minutes reading documentation, getting the firewall up and running is a no-brainer; it will rat every IP trying to access it out to you as a bonus.
I get the feeling that this perception of XML is being perpetuated by vendors who do not really want to open up their data formats. Allowing them to successfully propagate this impression would be a very real step backwards for all IT professionals. I agree 100%. The most important advantage IMHO is that no vendor is able to lock me out of the data I created. As soon as the XML is in binary format, the usual suspects (lawyers and Bill himself) will pop up and try to sue everyone decoding some patent-ridden file format. The beauty of XML IS the fact that I'm able to use vi or similar to view/change the contents and will be able to do so as long as there is a program capable of reading ASCII files. my 2 cents
... or saving in a non M$ format. There won't be much you can do about that, either. -- Dialogbox Since you are trying to save into a non MS owned file format, enter your credit card details in the fields below to proceed... -- end Dialogbox I don't care if I gave them a new business idea, I avoid being locked into proprietary file formats when creating things.
Most of "autoconf" exists to support obsolete UNIX implementations run by very few people. I don't think so. Many of the bigger Data-Centers are using these obsolete *NIXes and they perform very well. Based on my experience, it's the other way round. If a program proofs itself on the bigger boxes, usage on the smaller ones (a.k.a. Intel/AMD based) is considered. The fact that many IT-Managers are evaluating Grids or Clusters of the said "little" boxes doesn't necessarily mean they trust them at this point in time. A working "autoconf" is very important to further the adoption of OSS. my 2 cents
After reading most of the posts, I think we're missing the point here. The big plus in the *NIX world (Linux included) is diversity. No *NIX worth its money or effort put in by volunteers ever vanished. They all were killed by the marketing suits or PHBs. Given the fact that a seasoned *NIX admin knows his/her way around on every *NIX-based box and taking into account the subtle differences, the answer is actually simple: use the right *NIX for the job at hand, don't do the WinDOS mantra "if all I got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail". The "Zones" in Solaris 10 are a great way to partition a machine, for example. If I need something like it, I'll use Solaris. If I need to utilize an old machine, Linux or BSD is the OS of choice. When deciding about a new box, it depends what I want to do with it. It's really that simple. From a security point of view, diversity is key. My Solaris box watches over the Linux machines and vice versa. Both flavors are controlled by a Mac. Should a break-in occur, good admins make sure the cracker has a hard time covering all the bases.
You got a point here. This will go on as long as the ones who outsourced the job in question aren't blamed if something goes wrong. Given the fact that most redundant jobs are to blame on incompetent management - which gets a bonus for firing the "redundancies" they created by making bad decisions, I don't see this happen in the near future.
In one way or another all media outlets are owned by content-providers. Look at CNN, they used to be objective, now they are just repeating the mantra fed by Time-Warner. "P2P is bad, we're an objective news-source owned by the cartel, we know, P2P costs the taxpayers millions." I'm to lazy to check who owns Reuters, but they must be owned by the Media-Cartel(TM), otherwise they would have used the phrase you mentioned in your posting or they are to sleazy to report the facts. They are undermining their credibility anyway.
man nis man nfs or if you don't have a *NIX box to do that, google for it. BTW: the local files thingy can be done in more than one way on *NiX, most people don't bother, though. NFS is usually fast enough. Trick here is to use a protocol that's not bloated and you have to eliminate the port 135 broadcasts, makes the net go faster, you know. If this is to complicated, use a Mac. Everything you're asking for is provided with a nice GUI running on top of BSD.
Not so, I'm afraid. At the last count I know of, there are 30.000 software-related patents registered in Europe. Most of them by US companies on a "just to make sure we can sue the competition as soon as the EU politicians are stupid enough to let SW-pats pass" basis. Means the patents are worth squat at the moment, but I'm not so sure about the future.
If you should get Patent #23424234 "A method of making money by actually providing value to the customer", you'd finalize the situation we're actually in at the moment, I'm afraid. Every SCO or M$ of this world will refuse to pay you royalties and continue with what they are doing right now. Patenting the obvious and have their gang of vultures (lawyers) waiting for someone trying to create something of actual value.
my 2 cents
BTW: You'll run into the problem of prior art, if the examination of the patent should consider a timeframe older than two weeks, kind of improbable, though.
All good and sound advice, I saw something similar. The reason for not having a backup? They didn't want to spend the money on a backup strategy and they tried to fix it themselves.
Maybe Mr. Ecclestone is behind this deal. If it should happen that all parts of FIAT have to use M$ Products, Michael Schumacher has the disadvantage said Mr. Ecclestone is hoping for to make F1 more interesting again. BTW: judging from the latest HP commercials, Williams-BMW seems to run Windows, check out their performance and my theory becomes even more interesting.;-)
Judging from various news sources, the license was created as a protection for OSS developers. French law doesn't seem to allow the "if something bad happens, you've been warned before" clause in the GPL, means a developer can't be hold liable for e.g. lost data. For that reason the "experienced user" term was added to this license, so a potential user has some kind of warning that the code might not perform as expected.
...and there was that UNIX thing.., that the suits in HP management land didn't understand, among other things they had for that sake (ALPHA). And the suits did what they are best at: "if you don't get it, kill it, quick!".....and they lived happily ever after (because the managers in question got their shareholder value before someone noticed that all that was left could be copied by Dell). my 2 cents
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There is one thing that should bug every SysAdmin: in case of a problem, will the programs that are mentioned in this thread be available? I do NOT talk about trying to find a CD with the necessary editors, etc. Every SysAdmin worth his/her paycheck can make sense out of the usual config-files in /etc, try the config of EtherShare to get an idea about the adverse (there is a program to make sense of the config, something every SysAdmins likes to use, don't they?). .NET uses something do not make it viable for *NIX
When the users are breathing into your neck because they need access to their files, messing around in XML using vi/emacs or worse ex, just is not funny.
The fact that
my 2 cents
There is just one problem regarding the "professional" grade stuff, with every new generation of hardware, the manufacturers of said gadgests introduce new "features", say DRM-"improvements" (sometimes waiting in your gear for the command to bite you in the backside when you least expect it), blocked or non-existing ports, and so on. Sometimes its better nowadays to buy the cheap stuff - produced too cheap to contain any new "nifty" (as seen from the *AAs) features.
my 2 cents
You are missing a point here, companies patent something, wait until someone makes a real product, a.k.a. uses real brains and qualified engineers to create something, and then sue.
Net result, a bunch of persons comes up with "something" and waits until people with the skills and knowledge actually create said something, profit.
If nobody bothers to "infringe" (seen from the perspective of a lawyer/extortionist) nobody cares, getting broad-worded patents that say nothing in the first place, is just to easy AND to profitable.
my 2 cents
The disinformation would be: M$ Office files are open and can be created via XML.
The fact that they are not, damages the business of OpenOffice.
my 2 cents
One of the undisclosed sections of the new EU patent-directive contains the following sentence:
Using non-Microsoft browsers to access the extended and embraced MS-Internet from any EU member state is a punishable offense.
The poor policemen simply didn't know that the intended waving-through at the last meeting of the agricultural ministers didn't happen, they acted according to future laws.
Let's see what they didn't tell us besides that....
...since they don't get the Internet anyway, maybe that's their next try to "embrace and destroy(TM)" it?
Just a thought
Upgrade to Solaris 9, activate the supplied firewall (needs some configuration, though) and you are golden.
Only Traffic supposed to reach the machine will reach it. I used this as an example in my book, if you are willing to invest 30 minutes reading documentation, getting the firewall up and running is a no-brainer; it will rat every IP trying to access it out to you as a bonus.
my 2 cents
Erik
I get the feeling that this perception of XML is being perpetuated by vendors who do not really want to open up their data formats. Allowing them to successfully propagate this impression would be a very real step backwards for all IT professionals.
I agree 100%. The most important advantage IMHO is that no vendor is able to lock me out of the data I created. As soon as the XML is in binary format, the usual suspects (lawyers and Bill himself) will pop up and try to sue everyone decoding some patent-ridden file format.
The beauty of XML IS the fact that I'm able to use vi or similar to view/change the contents and will be able to do so as long as there is a program capable of reading ASCII files.
my 2 cents
... or saving in a non M$ format. There won't be much you can do about that, either.
-- Dialogbox
Since you are trying to save into a non MS owned file format, enter your credit card details in the fields below to proceed...
-- end Dialogbox
I don't care if I gave them a new business idea, I avoid being locked into proprietary file formats when creating things.
My 2 cents
Agreed. A wise man once said: "The ISO certification makes sure you're repeating the same mistakes and be able to document them properly."
(Sorry, can't remember the name of the bloke LISA/really late at night/lots of beer/don't ask.)
Most of "autoconf" exists to support obsolete UNIX implementations run by very few people.
I don't think so. Many of the bigger Data-Centers are using these obsolete *NIXes and they perform very well. Based on my experience, it's the other way round. If a program proofs itself on the bigger boxes, usage on the smaller ones (a.k.a. Intel/AMD based) is considered.
The fact that many IT-Managers are evaluating Grids or Clusters of the said "little" boxes doesn't necessarily mean they trust them at this point in time. A working "autoconf" is very important to further the adoption of OSS.
my 2 cents
After reading most of the posts, I think we're missing the point here. The big plus in the *NIX world (Linux included) is diversity. No *NIX worth its money or effort put in by volunteers ever vanished. They all were killed by the marketing suits or PHBs.
Given the fact that a seasoned *NIX admin knows his/her way around on every *NIX-based box and taking into account the subtle differences, the answer is actually simple: use the right *NIX for the job at hand, don't do the WinDOS mantra "if all I got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".
The "Zones" in Solaris 10 are a great way to partition a machine, for example. If I need something like it, I'll use Solaris. If I need to utilize an old machine, Linux or BSD is the OS of choice. When deciding about a new box, it depends what I want to do with it. It's really that simple.
From a security point of view, diversity is key. My Solaris box watches over the Linux machines and vice versa. Both flavors are controlled by a Mac. Should a break-in occur, good admins make sure the cracker has a hard time covering all the bases.
my 2 cents
You got a point here. This will go on as long as the ones who outsourced the job in question aren't blamed if something goes wrong. Given the fact that most redundant jobs are to blame on incompetent management - which gets a bonus for firing the "redundancies" they created by making bad decisions, I don't see this happen in the near future.
my 2 cents
Do you work for Adobe, by chance???? ;-)
Erik
Well said, especially the wording with no user intervention makes me nervous.
my 2 cents
Watch "The thirteenth Floor" and be afraid, very afraid.
my 2 cents
In one way or another all media outlets are owned by content-providers. Look at CNN, they used to be objective, now they are just repeating the mantra fed by Time-Warner. "P2P is bad, we're an objective news-source owned by the cartel, we know, P2P costs the taxpayers millions."
I'm to lazy to check who owns Reuters, but they must be owned by the Media-Cartel(TM), otherwise they would have used the phrase you mentioned in your posting or they are to sleazy to report the facts. They are undermining their credibility anyway.
my 2 cents
man nis
man nfs
or if you don't have a *NIX box to do that, google for it.
BTW: the local files thingy can be done in more than one way on *NiX, most people don't bother, though. NFS is usually fast enough. Trick here is to use a protocol that's not bloated and you have to eliminate the port 135 broadcasts, makes the net go faster, you know.
If this is to complicated, use a Mac. Everything you're asking for is provided with a nice GUI running on top of BSD.
my 2 cents
Not so, I'm afraid. At the last count I know of, there are 30.000 software-related patents registered in Europe. Most of them by US companies on a "just to make sure we can sue the competition as soon as the EU politicians are stupid enough to let SW-pats pass" basis. Means the patents are worth squat at the moment, but I'm not so sure about the future.
my 2 cents
If you should get Patent #23424234 "A method of making money by actually providing value to the customer",
you'd finalize the situation we're actually in at the moment, I'm afraid.
Every SCO or M$ of this world will refuse to pay you royalties and continue with what they are doing right now. Patenting the obvious and have their gang of vultures (lawyers) waiting for someone trying to create something of actual value.
my 2 cents
BTW: You'll run into the problem of prior art, if the examination of the patent should consider a timeframe older than two weeks, kind of improbable, though.
All good and sound advice, I saw something similar. The reason for not having a backup? They didn't want to spend the money on a backup strategy and they tried to fix it themselves.
It's a shareholder value thing, you know.
my 2 cents
Maybe Mr. Ecclestone is behind this deal. If it should happen that all parts of FIAT have to use M$ Products, Michael Schumacher has the disadvantage said Mr. Ecclestone is hoping for to make F1 more interesting again. ;-)
BTW: judging from the latest HP commercials, Williams-BMW seems to run Windows, check out their performance and my theory becomes even more interesting.
Judging from various news sources, the license was created as a protection for OSS developers.
French law doesn't seem to allow the "if something bad happens, you've been warned before" clause in the GPL, means a developer can't be hold liable for e.g. lost data. For that reason the "experienced user" term was added to this license, so a potential user has some kind of warning that the code might not perform as expected.
my 2 cents
...and there was that UNIX thing.., that the suits in HP management land didn't understand, among other things they had for that sake (ALPHA). And the suits did what they are best at: "if you don't get it, kill it, quick!". ....and they lived happily ever after (because the managers in question got their shareholder value before someone noticed that all that was left could be copied by Dell).
my 2 cents