and if MS decides to use its patents against competing implimentations of the.net apis? that is the big fear, that kills mono dead, and all of the apps that people write for mono will get ported to.NET and everyone will switch to windows.
My dad is an attorney a few years ago he finally upgraded his office computers from 386's to p3s, I being the intrepid geek inhereited them (10 386's) I've stuck some ISA nics in them (He had a coax network) and have them running in a little cluster, they're my little toy.
I doubt it, the Stock hasn't "dumped" yet. The SEC won't get involved until there is clear evidence that SCO doesn't have anything to support their allegations. Until that time there is no wrongdoing. However, if in a few months SCO drops the case, or in discovery it becomes patently obvious that there never was infringement and the stock drops back to the.02 cents its worth (well its not worth that really.. but hey) then the SEC will certainly investigate. This is the first time I've seen the pump and dump scheme mentioned in mainstream press (No OsNews does not count as mainstream). If it continues to get into the mainstream press that they don't have much of a leg to stand on the SEC will take notice.
There is no value. I worked with Westwood studios before EA bought them, on the game Red Alert 2 they spent about 20% of the budget on the game on the copy protection they tried to incorporate. The protection was still broken within 2 hours of the games release. On their next game (BladeRunner) they dropped all copy protection because they found that they had sold nearly $1 million in Red Alert 2 because people got the warez copy, liked it and went and bought the real game. Basically they had spent around $10 million to try to prevent themselves from getting $1 million in revenue. Obviously this doesn't take into account the people that played the warez copy and didn't buy the game, but those people wouldn't have bought the game anyway I dont think (and either did they). There is no value in copy protection whatsoever, when will the RIAA and MPAA realize this?
In fairness to Roblimo, I think the article is a bit of a joke, however I've read alot of linux reviews that are just as biased the other way, complaining about silly little things that windows has that linux doesn't (I can't hit windows+e to open an explorer window?). Furthermore I think he makes some good points, if you had never used windows, some of these things might trip you up, or you wouldn't know where to go for the configuration (like quick launch which is off by default in windows xp) If you'd never used windows since win95, you wouldn't know exactly where to go to turn that on.
Its called quick launch rob! Its on all windows machines, and its called drag and drop! You just drag the short cut onto the bar- and voila! Mind you, i agree -you do have to be a smart windows geek to do that...
Well, you brilliant person you... unfortunately by default in windows XP the quick launch bar is turned off.
You have to right click on the start menu, click on properties click on task bar, and enable it. This is not rocket science but if I hadn't used windows since '98 (in 98 windows did not have a quick launch feature at all) I wouldn't know where to look for turning it on (I'd probably go to the control panel first, and spend hours searching there), just like people don't know where to go to turn on/off single clicking/double clicking in gnome or kde now.
I agree I think the article is meant as a joke/jab at windows however he does point out legitimate issues with windows that one wouldn't know having not used windows ever/in the last 6 years. (You have to double click the clock in windows as opposed to single click in KDE)
The driver issue is a valid one. Under linux (using a modern distro) just about any card/device that linux supports is in the kernel as a module. This means you can just drop any linux supported hardware into the box and linux will load the driver for it automatically. On Windows all to often the default system does not have drivers for hardware requiring downloading/installing from cd, and Windows XP is very annoying about new hardware, poping up all manner of windows announcing that it has found things. I like it that in Linux a new device just turns on without bragging to me that it found it.
LOL, I've actually done this to all of my families computers (changed the IE icon to point to firebird). The biggest complaint I've had has been "I used to get all these popups where did they all go?" (not really a complaint). I realize its not greate cause people won't know they're using firebird.. but, to get people to use it and t protect the computers from viruses this is the only way I could get people to use firebird always. I initially installed IE and firebird and told everyone to use firebird, but with both icons there everyone still used IE until I made the IE icon point to firebird...
By distributing the source code or a binary version of the kernel you would be requiring the person who received the kernel from you to pay SCO $700. That is a violation of the GPL, no code can be under the GPL that requires a license fee to be paid. By distributing code under the GPL you forego your rights to charge a license fee for your IP. Hence if SCO knowingly distributed their Unix IP under the GPL they gave up their right to charge for it. the fact that they've been distributing the kernel since after they filed the lawsuit means that they are knowingly distributing their IP under the GPL, and hence cannot charge a fee for it. Doing so violates the GPL and allows *every* contributor to the kernel who owns a copyright in the kernel to sue them for violation of the license.
scientific things like fingerprinting/DNA are great, they establish fact. I am not opposed to good scientific proof. However, having the government be able to resolve peoples general location at a certain time is not scientific proof, it does give grounds for much more harassement, it gives the cops one more avenue for generating circumstantial evidence (there is no proof the murderer rode the subway, hence no proof that 1 of the 10 people they got from the subway search is the killer) However, I bet 9 times out of 10 one of those 10 people would get convicted. Maybe they get the right guy, maybe not, but adding heaps of circumstantial evidence does not lead to more accurate convictions. Your claim that innocent people getting jailed is not a problem is uninformed and stupid. Furthermore, this will inevitably lead to MORE innocent people being harrassed/jailed, because the cops will have tons more circumstantial evidence that will give them the opportunity to pursue that many more leads.
maybe there is a murder, and so they query the database and find all of the people that were in that vicinity at that time, and you (and about 10 other people) fit the description of the alleged murderer, so now they go to a judge and get a search warrant for your house because they have probable cause, and now they are digging through your house, trashing everything looking for the murder weapon. Dragging you down to the station for questioning, harrassing you to no end. This is why it is troubling.
this legislation would not put 50 million out of work, the telemarketing association puts the number somewhere between 1 and 2 million. 50 million vs 1 or 2 is not a difficult question to answer. If this went to the polls it would pass so easily it wouldn't even be an issue. I'm sorry if it puts that many people out of a job, but really the people have spoken, we are supposed to have a say in how we are governed and this judge overruling what certainly has a huge public mandate is egregious power grabbing.
um, I know exactly when I should need to put in my root password, and I would never put it in in a weird dialog that pops up saying "we're gonna fix the problem automatically". I've been using linux long enough to know that if somethings breaks I've got to fix it, there are no automated things to do that.
Furthermore, in a linux/unix environment where normal users are using linux/unix/solaris as their desktop machine the normal users don't know the root password, and so wouldn't be able to enter it.
Frankly if the admin is worth his pay the users don't need admin rights. Only in windows do users always need admin rights to do things... even this isn't true they don't but because of the way windows is set up they generally get them.
I don't think I would ever buy a hybrid. At least from what I've seen they have no power, especially on hills, or on road trips. I regularly drive between Vegas and Salt Lake City, and lately I've seen more and more hybrids out on the road, I always pass these cars, it seems they can only maintain about 60-65mph on the highway, and on the hills they are always going about 40-50mph... I've never driven one so I don't know but every hybrid I see on the road is going under the speed limit.
You ad can appear on the Default page which is seen by every user when any browser included in the product is launched.
How exactly does an official release get through with a typo like that??
I don't know what you are talking about. I run redhat 9.0 and 8.0 on 5 production servers hosting 200+ domains for web hosting and 4000 email accounts across those 200+ domains. One runs mysql, and another runs postgres, and one is a hot spare, that I've never had to touch. They are rock solid, since they've been up, I've only ever had to reboot for kernel upgrades. None of them have crashed ever.
When 8.0 eols at the end of this year, I'll have to use the hot spare, move the domains to it, upgrade the web server and then move the domains back, or it will become the hot spare (its the only 8.0 box left).
Point being, redhat's.0 release is not like a microsoft pre sp2 OS, its insane to even compare them, just because this is the first time the exact versions of the software have been put together in one distro does not mean it is the first time the software has been run anywhere (the case with MS.0 releases). Apache 2.0 was out for nearly 8 months before it was placed in the distro, GCC 3.2 was out for 5, php 4 has been out and being tested for like 2 years now, the 2.4 kernel has been out for 3 years, and is incredibly stable, in fact I've had many more problems with the kernel in 7.2 and 7.3 than I have with 8.0 or 9.0 (that is until the 7.2-7.3 kernel moved to the 2.4.20 branch about 3 months ago)... the software in the.0 release is not.0 software it has been tested for many months or years, and is reliable.
On the other hand, if some of the above made you think - I can promise you that Debian certainly is a viable alternative at least for the machines I've dealt with so far.
Unless you want to run Oracle reliably, and have someone to pass the buck to if it doesn't work.
You are high, or highly misinformed. RedHat continues to develop a public release the beta for the next release (redhat 10) is available right now for public consumption. The simply aren't providing shrink wrap at compusa anymore, I think what the original story is referring to is the fact that each public release is only supported for 1 year, which is unacceptable in a corporate environment, to have to upgrade the OS of production boxes every year is not acceptable, and therefore requires that people move to ES, because it has 5 years of support.
sure, running as admin makes the NT box as insecure as 9x, but thats the point, by default ALL USERS ADDED TO WINXP are admin, all of them, and how many grandmas are going to go in and change their account type? How many parents? How many teenagers?? not many, the only ones who do are the ones who are gonna have the patches installed anyway. The permissions issue in windows is MS's fault for having entirely too wide open defaults.
thats fine, clinton had 8 whole years to stop it, and he didn't.. you sound like SCO "well, now we're not happy that this happened even though for the last 4 years we activly supported it"
Only one very large problem with your logic. Clinton deregulated the power grid, not Bush. Power Deregulation started in 97-98 not in 00-01 so you need to check your dates before placing blame, just because the problem occurred during this presidency, doesn't mean this president created the problem.
I wonder if Boies & Co in their initial consultation with SCO saw this and said to themselves "Hell, if these guys really want to try this they are going to get counter sued to hell... they want us to take the case on contingency... not good cause there's no way we'll win, but with all the countersuits we should be able to pull in some pretty hefty fees, lets do it!"
Maybe Boies & Co. is just trying to stick it to SCO too, that would be funny... although, probably questionable from a legal standpoint lawyers, as unethical as they are, can be disbarred for doing things like saying "Yeah SCO we think you can win that case" when they know they can't.
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and if MS decides to use its patents against competing implimentations of the .net apis? .NET and everyone will switch to windows.
that is the big fear, that kills mono dead, and all of the apps that people write for mono will get ported to
My dad is an attorney a few years ago he finally upgraded his office computers from 386's to p3s, I being the intrepid geek inhereited them (10 386's) I've stuck some ISA nics in them (He had a coax network) and have them running in a little cluster, they're my little toy.
I doubt it, the Stock hasn't "dumped" yet. The SEC won't get involved until there is clear evidence that SCO doesn't have anything to support their allegations. Until that time there is no wrongdoing. However, if in a few months SCO drops the case, or in discovery it becomes patently obvious that there never was infringement and the stock drops back to the .02 cents its worth (well its not worth that really.. but hey) then the SEC will certainly investigate. This is the first time I've seen the pump and dump scheme mentioned in mainstream press (No OsNews does not count as mainstream). If it continues to get into the mainstream press that they don't have much of a leg to stand on the SEC will take notice.
In redhat 9 I hotplug/unplug a usb mouse and printer constantly on my laptop (haven't tried a camera, but mouse/printer works fine)
There is no value. I worked with Westwood studios before EA bought them, on the game Red Alert 2 they spent about 20% of the budget on the game on the copy protection they tried to incorporate. The protection was still broken within 2 hours of the games release. On their next game (BladeRunner) they dropped all copy protection because they found that they had sold nearly $1 million in Red Alert 2 because people got the warez copy, liked it and went and bought the real game. Basically they had spent around $10 million to try to prevent themselves from getting $1 million in revenue. Obviously this doesn't take into account the people that played the warez copy and didn't buy the game, but those people wouldn't have bought the game anyway I dont think (and either did they). There is no value in copy protection whatsoever, when will the RIAA and MPAA realize this?
In fairness to Roblimo, I think the article is a bit of a joke, however I've read alot of linux reviews that are just as biased the other way, complaining about silly little things that windows has that linux doesn't (I can't hit windows+e to open an explorer window?). Furthermore I think he makes some good points, if you had never used windows, some of these things might trip you up, or you wouldn't know where to go for the configuration (like quick launch which is off by default in windows xp) If you'd never used windows since win95, you wouldn't know exactly where to go to turn that on.
Its called quick launch rob! Its on all windows machines, and its called drag and drop! You just drag the short cut onto the bar- and voila! Mind you, i agree -you do have to be a smart windows geek to do that...
Well, you brilliant person you... unfortunately by default in windows XP the quick launch bar is turned off.
You have to right click on the start menu, click on properties click on task bar, and enable it. This is not rocket science but if I hadn't used windows since '98 (in 98 windows did not have a quick launch feature at all) I wouldn't know where to look for turning it on (I'd probably go to the control panel first, and spend hours searching there), just like people don't know where to go to turn on/off single clicking/double clicking in gnome or kde now.
I agree I think the article is meant as a joke/jab at windows however he does point out legitimate issues with windows that one wouldn't know having not used windows ever/in the last 6 years. (You have to double click the clock in windows as opposed to single click in KDE)
The driver issue is a valid one. Under linux (using a modern distro) just about any card/device that linux supports is in the kernel as a module. This means you can just drop any linux supported hardware into the box and linux will load the driver for it automatically. On Windows all to often the default system does not have drivers for hardware requiring downloading/installing from cd, and Windows XP is very annoying about new hardware, poping up all manner of windows announcing that it has found things. I like it that in Linux a new device just turns on without bragging to me that it found it.
LOL,
I've actually done this to all of my families computers (changed the IE icon to point to firebird). The biggest complaint I've had has been "I used to get all these popups where did they all go?" (not really a complaint). I realize its not greate cause people won't know they're using firebird.. but, to get people to use it and t protect the computers from viruses this is the only way I could get people to use firebird always. I initially installed IE and firebird and told everyone to use firebird, but with both icons there everyone still used IE until I made the IE icon point to firebird...
By distributing the source code or a binary version of the kernel you would be requiring the person who received the kernel from you to pay SCO $700. That is a violation of the GPL, no code can be under the GPL that requires a license fee to be paid. By distributing code under the GPL you forego your rights to charge a license fee for your IP. Hence if SCO knowingly distributed their Unix IP under the GPL they gave up their right to charge for it. the fact that they've been distributing the kernel since after they filed the lawsuit means that they are knowingly distributing their IP under the GPL, and hence cannot charge a fee for it. Doing so violates the GPL and allows *every* contributor to the kernel who owns a copyright in the kernel to sue them for violation of the license.
scientific things like fingerprinting/DNA are great, they establish fact. I am not opposed to good scientific proof. However, having the government be able to resolve peoples general location at a certain time is not scientific proof, it does give grounds for much more harassement, it gives the cops one more avenue for generating circumstantial evidence (there is no proof the murderer rode the subway, hence no proof that 1 of the 10 people they got from the subway search is the killer) However, I bet 9 times out of 10 one of those 10 people would get convicted. Maybe they get the right guy, maybe not, but adding heaps of circumstantial evidence does not lead to more accurate convictions. Your claim that innocent people getting jailed is not a problem is uninformed and stupid. Furthermore, this will inevitably lead to MORE innocent people being harrassed/jailed, because the cops will have tons more circumstantial evidence that will give them the opportunity to pursue that many more leads.
maybe there is a murder, and so they query the database and find all of the people that were in that vicinity at that time, and you (and about 10 other people) fit the description of the alleged murderer, so now they go to a judge and get a search warrant for your house because they have probable cause, and now they are digging through your house, trashing everything looking for the murder weapon. Dragging you down to the station for questioning, harrassing you to no end.
This is why it is troubling.
this legislation would not put 50 million out of work,
the telemarketing association puts the number somewhere between 1 and 2 million. 50 million vs 1 or 2 is not a difficult question to answer. If this went to the polls it would pass so easily it wouldn't even be an issue. I'm sorry if it puts that many people out of a job, but really the people have spoken, we are supposed to have a say in how we are governed and this judge overruling what certainly has a huge public mandate is egregious power grabbing.
um,
I know exactly when I should need to put in my root password, and I would never put it in in a weird dialog that pops up saying "we're gonna fix the problem automatically". I've been using linux long enough to know that if somethings breaks I've got to fix it, there are no automated things to do that.
Furthermore, in a linux/unix environment where normal users are using linux/unix/solaris as their desktop machine the normal users don't know the root password, and so wouldn't be able to enter it.
Frankly if the admin is worth his pay the users don't need admin rights. Only in windows do users always need admin rights to do things... even this isn't true they don't but because of the way windows is set up they generally get them.
I don't think I would ever buy a hybrid. At least from what I've seen they have no power, especially on hills, or on road trips. I regularly drive between Vegas and Salt Lake City, and lately I've seen more and more hybrids out on the road, I always pass these cars, it seems they can only maintain about 60-65mph on the highway, and on the hills they are always going about 40-50mph... I've never driven one so I don't know but every hybrid I see on the road is going under the speed limit.
You ad can appear on the Default page which is seen by every user when any browser included in the product is launched.
How exactly does an official release get through with a typo like that??
wow!!
RHN, Apple Update, any system that installs more than 1 program based on prerequisites/requirements watch out MS has you patented.
don't you mean "sometime in the future" it is definately not inside the next 2 years, Longhorn will not be out until at least 2006.
I don't know what you are talking about.
.0 release is not like a microsoft pre sp2 OS, its insane to even compare them, just because this is the first time the exact versions of the software have been put together in one distro does not mean it is the first time the software has been run anywhere (the case with MS .0 releases). Apache 2.0 was out for nearly 8 months before it was placed in the distro, GCC 3.2 was out for 5, php 4 has been out and being tested for like 2 years now, the 2.4 kernel has been out for 3 years, and is incredibly stable, in fact I've had many more problems with the kernel in 7.2 and 7.3 than I have with 8.0 or 9.0 (that is until the 7.2-7.3 kernel moved to the 2.4.20 branch about 3 months ago)... the software in the .0 release is not .0 software it has been tested for many months or years, and is reliable.
I run redhat 9.0 and 8.0 on 5 production servers hosting 200+ domains for web hosting and 4000 email accounts across those 200+ domains. One runs mysql, and another runs postgres, and one is a hot spare, that I've never had to touch. They are rock solid, since they've been up, I've only ever had to reboot for kernel upgrades. None of them have crashed ever.
When 8.0 eols at the end of this year, I'll have to use the hot spare, move the domains to it, upgrade the web server and then move the domains back, or it will become the hot spare (its the only 8.0 box left).
Point being, redhat's
On the other hand, if some of the above made you think - I can promise you that Debian certainly is a viable alternative at least for the machines I've dealt with so far. Unless you want to run Oracle reliably, and have someone to pass the buck to if it doesn't work.
You are high, or highly misinformed.
RedHat continues to develop a public release
the beta for the next release (redhat 10) is available right now for public consumption. The simply aren't providing shrink wrap at compusa anymore, I think what the original story is referring to is the fact that each public release is only supported for 1 year, which is unacceptable in a corporate environment, to have to upgrade the OS of production boxes every year is not acceptable, and therefore requires that people move to ES, because it has 5 years of support.
sure, running as admin makes the NT box as insecure as 9x, but thats the point, by default ALL USERS ADDED TO WINXP are admin, all of them, and how many grandmas are going to go in and change their account type? How many parents? How many teenagers?? not many, the only ones who do are the ones who are gonna have the patches installed anyway. The permissions issue in windows is MS's fault for having entirely too wide open defaults.
LinuxNetworx is building the cluster,
they are another Canopy Group member,
I bet they are exempt from licensing fees
thats fine, clinton had 8 whole years to stop it, and he didn't.. you sound like SCO "well, now we're not happy that this happened even though for the last 4 years we activly supported it"
Only one very large problem with your logic.
Clinton deregulated the power grid, not Bush.
Power Deregulation started in 97-98 not in 00-01
so you need to check your dates before placing blame, just because the problem occurred during this presidency, doesn't mean this president created the problem.
I wonder if Boies & Co in their initial consultation with SCO saw this and said to themselves "Hell, if these guys really want to try this they are going to get counter sued to hell... they want us to take the case on contingency... not good cause there's no way we'll win, but with all the countersuits we should be able to pull in some pretty hefty fees, lets do it!"
Maybe Boies & Co. is just trying to stick it to SCO too, that would be funny... although, probably questionable from a legal standpoint lawyers, as unethical as they are, can be disbarred for doing things like saying "Yeah SCO we think you can win that case" when they know they can't.