That might sound fine but in reality there is not enough bandwidth in the IINET network to handle even 100 of these connections at full speed let alone having thousands of users. The price per port for the IP ports (Oc12 or whatever) is still way to expensive to be able to cover the costs in any sort of reasonable time frame.
Slackware / Debian or Gentoo are the three primary choice. I wouldnt go with gentoo principally because of the huge amount of time it takes to setup and patch. I am currently running a Linux network of around 111 Slackware servers with a local ftp and swaret upgrading all the packages. it works without any problems and I can build the packages that are custom across the board and put them on the ftp and they are automatically patched across the network. This is much more difficult to maintain with gentoo and possibly debian (i have not tried this with the deb).
There is so much congestion in that market. Although google could easily get a great deal of business through that it would be one of those things that could in the future come and bite them...
but i would buy a domain from google if it was auto submitted into their search engine etc free or for a nominal life time fee..
One of the biggest benefits to open source is that it gives them a choice to use against microsoft and others on licensing fees. At the end of the day companies making billions in profit do it at the end users expense. I agree that they have R&D budgets to improve business and in general software costs are dropping but you cant beat the ability to develop your own operating system specifically for the department that you want and the root use of that departments need. eg water comapny only monitoring water etc.. no over heads reduced security risks etc. Its much more difficult to do on a windows based operating system simply because the underlying operating system still has the same fundamental flaws as seen previously with the rpc etc etc worms/vulnerabilities.
This doesnt really matter as you can still use google groups or any of the other web based usenet sites. at the end of the day the majority of good information can still be seen on usenet as its much easier to search through than web sites when trying to find cr*p. The primary reason i see for that is people that put up bs web pages that contaminate the search results with garbage or the term your using is very broad on the web but in the particular usenet group its automatically specific.
at the end of the day if you really want security use a piece of fibre or stp and make sure you can see the cable from point to point so you know there are no taps.. then turn your computers off..
It appears as though this issue has been a common problem since the later 2.4 and more particuarly with the 2.6 patch times. With an increased desire to have a quality check with "signing off" patches etc it seems as though the time to respond on open source patching is very long.
In the past patches for vulerabilities have been relased almost instantly / at the same time as the wide spread knowledge of the bugs are announced.
That was one of the biggest draw cards for me to open source. Now I have moved away from Linux to *bsd software in order to ensure minimum patch release times for security reasons.
This would be interesting. A large percentage of the sites running from china that would have promoted things like gambling etc are or would have been spam sites. It will be good to see if there is a drop over the next few weeks in spam on the internet.
This is inspiring. Having been in a situation where projects get cancelled and working on them from home and releasing the product later its good to see that even after such an issue the corp embraced the code. I hope that Apple appreciate the die hard following that they have.
The linux kernel has come a long long way in recent years. But when your running Linux on servers with more than 4 processors There is where you start to see issues. While running Solaris or Tru64, etc on 4 way systems or 8, 16 32 64 etc no problems at all. That is where Solaris has its stake and nobody can take that away from Solaris or any of the True Unix operating systems. With all the bitching etc about the differences both Operating systems have thier place and both are very powerful. IF sun release the Solaris OS will they also provide the compiler?? That would automatically improve suns image rather than being a dodgy rip off.
If there are bugs the wide spread adoption in using PHP with Apache 2.x would be more beneficial as it will resolve the bugs in a much more timly fashion.
This could be the perfect appliance base. Use it as your media station no worries.. low on power and has a fast enough cpu (the C3 isnt as slow as people like to claim).
It maybe a good replacement for my current media centre..
Ok.. so based on what this guy has to say is that anyone using linux cant trust thier browser. Even though all the linux browsers are all installed etc pretty much the same way.
Its interesting to see that HP are dropping the Itanium even though they have got HPUX on the Itanium. Are they going to continue with the alpha or are they going to re-look into the PA-RISC?
This would be very typical of the bush strategy. If someone can use it against us lets not let them use it. When in reality it would be a case of one person or group stuffing it for everyone.
This makes it even clearer that the EU needs to build a system that competes with and complements the GPS system thats currently in place. Regardless there is so much reliance on GPS in todays world that it would cause enconomic loss to so many millions of people based on shipping channels etc that now use GPS instead of many of the traditional methods of navigation.
this could move symantec into the Disaster Recovery world with anti virus and security solutions the next logical step is to have a segment that can secure data. With the Veritas backup suite of products it could realy provide them with the full suite of software packages.
All in all it could be a great merger. However having seen how both of the companies work it maybe a very difficult transition for the two companies to amalgamate properly. That could lead to problems.
I have heard of a report that Novel did before its migration of many/all of its systems to Linux (aparently) They saw a much greater saving than this report. Can anyone shed any light on that?
that is awesome. I personally prefer to use paypal on the internet if possible. It keeps everything nice and separate from my other bank / credit cards.
Any increased attention to renewable energy would be fantastic. Not only would it in the long term benefit the environment but it would also give the IT industry something else to fall back on in certain areas. For example the silicon valley turn down that we all to well know about would have been stored for a little longer if they had some other industries that they could fall back onto for revunue during tough times.
See most large companies wont just be doing one thing often touching in many induustries to try and diversify the bussines model for tough times.
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This is good news. Although Slackware has had some good documentation its often out of date by a few editions each time.
That might sound fine but in reality there is not enough bandwidth in the IINET network to handle even 100 of these connections at full speed let alone having thousands of users. The price per port for the IP ports (Oc12 or whatever) is still way to expensive to be able to cover the costs in any sort of reasonable time frame.
Slackware / Debian or Gentoo are the three primary choice. I wouldnt go with gentoo principally because of the huge amount of time it takes to setup and patch. I am currently running a Linux network of around 111 Slackware servers with a local ftp and swaret upgrading all the packages. it works without any problems and I can build the packages that are custom across the board and put them on the ftp and they are automatically patched across the network. This is much more difficult to maintain with gentoo and possibly debian (i have not tried this with the deb).
There is so much congestion in that market. Although google could easily get a great deal of business through that it would be one of those things that could in the future come and bite them...
but i would buy a domain from google if it was auto submitted into their search engine etc free or for a nominal life time fee..
One of the biggest benefits to open source is that it gives them a choice to use against microsoft and others on licensing fees. At the end of the day companies making billions in profit do it at the end users expense. I agree that they have R&D budgets to improve business and in general software costs are dropping but you cant beat the ability to develop your own operating system specifically for the department that you want and the root use of that departments need. eg water comapny only monitoring water etc.. no over heads reduced security risks etc. Its much more difficult to do on a windows based operating system simply because the underlying operating system still has the same fundamental flaws as seen previously with the rpc etc etc worms/vulnerabilities.
This doesnt really matter as you can still use google groups or any of the other web based usenet sites. at the end of the day the majority of good information can still be seen on usenet as its much easier to search through than web sites when trying to find cr*p. The primary reason i see for that is people that put up bs web pages that contaminate the search results with garbage or the term your using is very broad on the web but in the particular usenet group its automatically specific.
thats great to know that the kernel can handle 64way machines.. Especially since i just ordered one from my local pc store in bits to build myself..
Really the key will be when the system scales to 128processors and beyond.
at the end of the day if you really want security use a piece of fibre or stp and make sure you can see the cable from point to point so you know there are no taps.. then turn your computers off..
Redhat definition : Dependancy Jungle.. Bug Central With no QA.
It appears as though this issue has been a common problem since the later 2.4 and more particuarly with the 2.6 patch times. With an increased desire to have a quality check with "signing off" patches etc it seems as though the time to respond on open source patching is very long.
In the past patches for vulerabilities have been relased almost instantly / at the same time as the wide spread knowledge of the bugs are announced.
That was one of the biggest draw cards for me to open source. Now I have moved away from Linux to *bsd software in order to ensure minimum patch release times for security reasons.
This is an interesting development but is HP just using Linux to put further pressure on Microsoft as they have previously done?
This would be interesting. A large percentage of the sites running from china that would have promoted things like gambling etc are or would have been spam sites. It will be good to see if there is a drop over the next few weeks in spam on the internet.
This is inspiring. Having been in a situation where projects get cancelled and working on them from home and releasing the product later its good to see that even after such an issue the corp embraced the code. I hope that Apple appreciate the die hard following that they have.
What about invasion of privacy, theft, etc etc the list goes on about how wrong this guy really was/is.
I dont use AOL and have never used AOL (except when they had free trial when they came to Australia for about a week). But I feel AOLs pain.
The linux kernel has come a long long way in recent years. But when your running Linux on servers with more than 4 processors There is where you start to see issues. While running Solaris or Tru64, etc on 4 way systems or 8, 16 32 64 etc no problems at all. That is where Solaris has its stake and nobody can take that away from Solaris or any of the True Unix operating systems. With all the bitching etc about the differences both Operating systems have thier place and both are very powerful. IF sun release the Solaris OS will they also provide the compiler?? That would automatically improve suns image rather than being a dodgy rip off.
If there are bugs the wide spread adoption in using PHP with Apache 2.x would be more beneficial as it will resolve the bugs in a much more timly fashion.
I guess this is the joy of the world.. friction..
This could be the perfect appliance base. Use it as your media station no worries.. low on power and has a fast enough cpu (the C3 isnt as slow as people like to claim).
It maybe a good replacement for my current media centre..
Ok.. so based on what this guy has to say is that anyone using linux cant trust thier browser. Even though all the linux browsers are all installed etc pretty much the same way.
Its interesting to see that HP are dropping the Itanium even though they have got HPUX on the Itanium. Are they going to continue with the alpha or are they going to re-look into the PA-RISC?
This would have massive benefits to the right people. however it mis used it would be terrible for most people.
This would be very typical of the bush strategy. If someone can use it against us lets not let them use it. When in reality it would be a case of one person or group stuffing it for everyone.
This makes it even clearer that the EU needs to build a system that competes with and complements the GPS system thats currently in place. Regardless there is so much reliance on GPS in todays world that it would cause enconomic loss to so many millions of people based on shipping channels etc that now use GPS instead of many of the traditional methods of navigation.
this could move symantec into the Disaster Recovery world with anti virus and security solutions the next logical step is to have a segment that can secure data. With the Veritas backup suite of products it could realy provide them with the full suite of software packages.
All in all it could be a great merger. However having seen how both of the companies work it maybe a very difficult transition for the two companies to amalgamate properly. That could lead to problems.
I have heard of a report that Novel did before its migration of many/all of its systems to Linux (aparently) They saw a much greater saving than this report. Can anyone shed any light on that?
that is awesome. I personally prefer to use paypal on the internet if possible. It keeps everything nice and separate from my other bank / credit cards.
Any increased attention to renewable energy would be fantastic. Not only would it in the long term benefit the environment but it would also give the IT industry something else to fall back on in certain areas. For example the silicon valley turn down that we all to well know about would have been stored for a little longer if they had some other industries that they could fall back onto for revunue during tough times.
See most large companies wont just be doing one thing often touching in many induustries to try and diversify the bussines model for tough times.