For a single-user system, if losing / is 100% bad, then losing/home/user is 99% bad - the last 1% is trivial in comparison.
The article was talking about if Linux was the dominant OS. I was assuming users would be no smarter, and thus not backing up daily to other uids, etc. I've got 40 Gb of data in/home -- you just don't dump that to CD-R/DVD-R on a daily basis. End users don't understand "incremental" or "differential" backups, either.
I'd rather wipe out my system, and not touch/home than the other way around. I can reinstall most of the system in short order, but my/home directory contains all the important stuff.
Remember, it is the *DATA* that is important, not the programs. There are boxes and boxes of the same program on most computer store shelves -- or tons of.tar.gz,.rpm or.iso files for the download.
CD sales aren't down because of piracy -- they're down for several reasons.
1. Disks cost too damn much. Why can I buy a movie for $19.95, including the soundtrack on the disk -- and if I want the soundtrack CD separately it is $15? Movie production costs oodles more than music production -- tens of millions of $$ more, yet the music industry tries to sell CDs for only a fraction less.
2. Production costs on music CDs are down. Pros can and do produce CDs using laptops and home studios for a small fraction of the costs of the old rent-a-studio method. Have music costs to the consumer dropped proportionally? Has the profit given to the artists risen proportionally? (No, in both cases.)
3. A few years ago most baby boomers finished converting their old album, 8-track, cassette library to CDs. It was an artificial drive in sales -- buying the same thing on a different format. The last few years has reflected the loss of those sales. Unless the industry can convince us to all buy the stuff again, this time on DVD-Audio or something, that mechanism is gone.
4....Gone because the new format is digital music files, and the public no longer needs the industry to do the conversion for them. When cassettes came out, there was no easy or decent way to convert your albums. When CDs arrived, they weren't recordable at ALL and if you wanted your music, you had to fork over $$ again. NOW, the industry can kiss my ass -- I converted all my CDs to.flac files for archive purposes and MP3s for listening on the portable unit. I DON'T NEED THEM FOR THIS ANYMORE.
And the "sarcasm" part was meant for "...do nothing but..." part. People have jobs, school, and lives beyond the fucking entertainment industry -- most people's lives don't revolve around music, movies and downloading MP3s.
...defeat the purpose? I mean, everyone knows that end users can't be trusted. Given the chance, they'll do nothing but pirate movies, music, television and software, etc.
*** END SARCASM ***
I think DRM is a *good* thing. Once people have to pay for music, movies, etc. the industry will realize exactly what they were losing to piracy -- almost nothing. If someone could wave a magic wand and people had to abide 100% by the rediculous license agreements, you'd find that instead of buying what they were sharing, they would go without.
Or does Microsoft, the BSA, MPAA and RIAA really think all those people in Asia are going to pay a few months worth of wages for software or entertainment?
what i really need is the other way around. I send them the email, they print it out and snail mail it for me
CompuServe was offering that service back in 1989. You could send an "e-mail" to a physical address. They would print it out at their office closest to the final destination and stick it in the mail.
It cost something like $1.25 for the first 8x11 sheet and $.15 for each sheet after that.
I remember trying this out and having e-letters delivered from Orlando, FL to places like Kalamazoo, MI and Seattle, WA in 2 days.
Aren't they one of the highest taxed States in the Union? And they are complaining about costs? If anyone should be able to afford Microsoft fees, it would be Mass. Maybe they don't like the competition -- that MS tax and all.
Or if you get burnt from pouring hot coffee in your lap?
Oh wait, she won that suit..:)
This is america, common sence in these matters dont always apply.. And we are 'sue-happy'.
Update... McDonald's coffee was *too* hot -- about 180-190 degrees, or 20+ deg higher than anyone elses.. That woman needed skin grafts because of the resulting 3rd degree burns. If I spill coffee, I expect to get scalded but not need major surgery.
"Company documents showed that in the past decade McDonald's had received at least 700 reports of coffee burns ranging from mild to third degree, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000."
http://www.vanfirm.com/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit. ht m
The initial award ($3 million -- 2 days worth of coffee sales) was reduced by an judge to $480,000 worth of punative damages (down from $2.7 million).
McDonalds originally offered $800 for her medical bills (several thousand $$) and pain and suffering.
In short, she was right to sue. McDonalds was gravely negligent and deserved a hell of a lot more than a slap-on-the-wrist of half-million dollars.
The common sense that should have prevailed was McDonalds not acting like assholes and paying the woman's medical bills to begin with.
The American telecom equipment would be Lucent, Nortel, Juniper, Ciena and a couple of others. None are in a financial position to do anything. They're not investing in a lot of R&D at the moment other than continuing existing projects.
Lucent uses Sun Solaris and HP-UX for systems control, depending on which equipment you are talking about -- ATM/FR or DWDM/Sonet/SDH. There was a pilot program initiated about a year ago in partnership with IBM Global Services to test Linux out in certain situations. I have no idea where that is at right now.
Nortel uses Red Hat in some situations. Actually, so did Lucent. Check out the bullet points in http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/press _Q12002.html
I've seen Red Hat boxes -- rows of them -- used in Verizon (Dell servers), AT&T, Williams Communications, Sprint and others.
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I don't know anyone running Linux using anything other than SSH/SSL or IPSec tunnels for VPNs.
Demolishing a house of cards isn't exaclty a difficult task.
Hell, the beta's for Red Hat Enterprise AW3 have IPSec tunnel wizards. IPSec is probably where it will all be at for a while -- it is lower down on the stack than SSH and while can be a bitch to configure, once done is pretty transparent to applications.
What the hell is an A-track? At first I thought it might be a type for 8-track, but A and 8 aren't even close on the keyboard. So what are you talking about?
He means ATRAC, like from Sony.
Didn't you know SCO bought Sony and is now claiming to own all prior music distribution formats?:-)
There are not a lot of stories that claim SCO might be right -- other then SCO press releases off of PR Newswire.
SCO has not presented any proof, and only made unsubstantiated claims. Until they substantiate, everything they say is open to question. The few times they *DID* try and present proof, it was demonstrated to be incorrect and they tried to spin their way out of it.
Finally,/. has linked almost ALL SCO stories, pro or con. It is just there are a lot more con than pro.
The Xeon series has always been Intel's "server" chips. Mostly a different pin out and lots more cache. They're souped up versions of the normal chips.
This reminds me of an old Bloom County strip where Oliver Wendell Jones built a nuclear bomb for his class science project. The teacher asked him where he got the fissionable material and he said he scraped all the glowing stuff off thousands of watch dials...
So does the United Kingdom, although I doubt the UK is even in the top 20 of their list (it's not in the article), thanks to having one of the worst deployed broadband systems in Europe.
Not really. Close to 50% of S. Korea's population lives in 3 metro areas. The greater Seoul area is over twice the population of greater London. Actually, Seoul has a larger population than London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds combined!
In Japan, the Tokyo-Yokohama metro area alone has a population equal to just under half of all the U.K.! (http://www.demographia.com/db-wldurb-2000r.htm) Population density of Canada is misleading. The vast majority of the population lives on the U.S. border. All that land area skews your statistics.
In the major cities of Korea and Japan, almost no one is outside of DSL distance limitations. Fiber links for backbones are nothing compared to the distances in the U.S. -- Miami to Atlanta is 2x longer than the entire length of S. Korea!
In Canada, while it is about 6,000 km from Halifax, NS to Vancouver, BC it is a pretty straight shot for a backbone. That covers about 80% of the population -- add a spur for Edmonton and a feed from Juneau to Yellowknife and you push that coverage to close to 90% of Canada's population.
The U.S. population is spread out more than most other nations, and it is one of the largest so linking it up is more of a challenge.
Even with all that, the U.S. was listed as #1 in connectivity when measured by total broadband subscribers and not per-capita.
Most of the supplier's information will come as EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). Big companies like Ford, GM, Wal-Mart dictate the data format to the suppliers, not the other way around.
Because, in larger business environments, they suck.
The argument presented in the paper is more of a thin-client vs client-server/desktop approach.
With the software properly installed and managed on a central server, not individually on each PC, there are significantly less problems.
Whole industries have been built around the Windows PC that aren't necessary from a corporate standpoint. I speak of client-side firewalls, anti-virus and disk imaging software.
No need to "push" an image when the PC gets corrupt. No need to reboot the PC. No need to run and license individual anti-virus applications. No need to scan for spyware, etc on each PC.
"PC Empowerment" is a BS phrase. The only thing most PC's empowered the coporate user to do was send worms, catch viruses and play games. Applications like a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, CAD, project management, e-mail and other business software can just as easily be run via a central server. Administration is tons easier.
And with full-duplex, fast ethernet to the clients and gigbit or bonded channels to the servers, load and run times can often be faster than off of cheap PCs with hard drives.
For everyone complaining and bragging about how they built a mini-itx box for much cheaper, it's time for a whack from the clue by four.
These are terminals, not stupid little computers shoved up an ET dolls ass.
Terminals generally include monitor, keyboard and mouse, ready to plug and play.
Thank you, that is all.
Bzzzt. Wrong answer!
Monitors are almost always sold separately. Check out HP's site and you'll see them listed under "options and accessories". I've got an office full of monitors that'll work fine with thin clients. I don't want to pay for disposal of these, shipping for new ones, etc.
Keyboards and mice don't significantly add to the price of mini-ITX or thin clients.
Terminals cost more usually because of the management software/tools -- and less competition. There doesn't seem to be a lot of organized white-box terminals for either thin or hybrid clients.
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For a single-user system, if losing / is 100% bad, then losing /home/user is 99% bad - the last 1% is trivial in comparison.
/home -- you just don't dump that to CD-R/DVD-R on a daily basis. End users don't understand "incremental" or "differential" backups, either.
The article was talking about if Linux was the dominant OS. I was assuming users would be no smarter, and thus not backing up daily to other uids, etc. I've got 40 Gb of data in
I'd rather wipe out my system, and not touch /home than the other way around. I can reinstall most of the system in short order, but my /home directory contains all the important stuff.
.tar.gz, .rpm or .iso files for the download.
Remember, it is the *DATA* that is important, not the programs. There are boxes and boxes of the same program on most computer store shelves -- or tons of
CD sales aren't down because of piracy -- they're down for several reasons.
...Gone because the new format is digital music files, and the public no longer needs the industry to do the conversion for them. When cassettes came out, there was no easy or decent way to convert your albums. When CDs arrived, they weren't recordable at ALL and if you wanted your music, you had to fork over $$ again. NOW, the industry can kiss my ass -- I converted all my CDs to .flac files for archive purposes and MP3s for listening on the portable unit. I DON'T NEED THEM FOR THIS ANYMORE.
1. Disks cost too damn much. Why can I buy a movie for $19.95, including the soundtrack on the disk -- and if I want the soundtrack CD separately it is $15? Movie production costs oodles more than music production -- tens of millions of $$ more, yet the music industry tries to sell CDs for only a fraction less.
2. Production costs on music CDs are down. Pros can and do produce CDs using laptops and home studios for a small fraction of the costs of the old rent-a-studio method. Have music costs to the consumer dropped proportionally? Has the profit given to the artists risen proportionally? (No, in both cases.)
3. A few years ago most baby boomers finished converting their old album, 8-track, cassette library to CDs. It was an artificial drive in sales -- buying the same thing on a different format. The last few years has reflected the loss of those sales. Unless the industry can convince us to all buy the stuff again, this time on DVD-Audio or something, that mechanism is gone.
4.
And the "sarcasm" part was meant for "...do nothing but..." part. People have jobs, school, and lives beyond the fucking entertainment industry -- most people's lives don't revolve around music, movies and downloading MP3s.
...defeat the purpose? I mean, everyone knows that end users can't be trusted. Given the chance, they'll do nothing but pirate movies, music, television and software, etc.
*** END SARCASM ***
I think DRM is a *good* thing. Once people have to pay for music, movies, etc. the industry will realize exactly what they were losing to piracy -- almost nothing. If someone could wave a magic wand and people had to abide 100% by the rediculous license agreements, you'd find that instead of buying what they were sharing, they would go without.
Or does Microsoft, the BSA, MPAA and RIAA really think all those people in Asia are going to pay a few months worth of wages for software or entertainment?
what i really need is the other way around. I send them the email, they print it out and snail mail it for me
CompuServe was offering that service back in 1989. You could send an "e-mail" to a physical address. They would print it out at their office closest to the final destination and stick it in the mail.
It cost something like $1.25 for the first 8x11 sheet and $.15 for each sheet after that.
I remember trying this out and having e-letters delivered from Orlando, FL to places like Kalamazoo, MI and Seattle, WA in 2 days.
I still think this would be a good idea.
Aren't they one of the highest taxed States in the Union? And they are complaining about costs? If anyone should be able to afford Microsoft fees, it would be Mass. Maybe they don't like the competition -- that MS tax and all.
Or if you get burnt from pouring hot coffee in your lap?
:)
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Oh wait, she won that suit..
This is america, common sence in these matters dont always apply.. And we are 'sue-happy'.
Update... McDonald's coffee was *too* hot -- about 180-190 degrees, or 20+ deg higher than anyone elses.. That woman needed skin grafts because of the resulting 3rd degree burns. If I spill coffee, I expect to get scalded but not need major surgery.
"Company documents showed that in the past decade McDonald's had received at least 700 reports of coffee burns ranging from mild to third degree, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000."
http://www.vanfirm.com/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit
The initial award ($3 million -- 2 days worth of coffee sales) was reduced by an judge to $480,000 worth of punative damages (down from $2.7 million).
McDonalds originally offered $800 for her medical bills (several thousand $$) and pain and suffering.
In short, she was right to sue. McDonalds was gravely negligent and deserved a hell of a lot more than a slap-on-the-wrist of half-million dollars.
The common sense that should have prevailed was McDonalds not acting like assholes and paying the woman's medical bills to begin with.
American as in "North American". I know they are Canadian (Northern Telecom).
:-)
Had I not mentioned Nortel, I'm sure someone from Canada would have bitched.
Besides, as soon as those idiots in Quebec finally cecede, then the rest will become States anyway!
But why are there not any American telecoms...?
s _Q12002.html
The American telecom equipment would be Lucent, Nortel, Juniper, Ciena and a couple of others. None are in a financial position to do anything. They're not investing in a lot of R&D at the moment other than continuing existing projects.
Lucent uses Sun Solaris and HP-UX for systems control, depending on which equipment you are talking about -- ATM/FR or DWDM/Sonet/SDH. There was a pilot program initiated about a year ago in partnership with IBM Global Services to test Linux out in certain situations. I have no idea where that is at right now.
Nortel uses Red Hat in some situations. Actually, so did Lucent. Check out the bullet points in http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/pres
I've seen Red Hat boxes -- rows of them -- used in Verizon (Dell servers), AT&T, Williams Communications, Sprint and others.
...of both the new AMD-64 and the Pentium 4 Extreme is that the prices of the older chips should start dropping like a stone.
The next major release of KOffice is supposed to adobt the OO file formats as their own standard.
Exaclty!
I don't know anyone running Linux using anything other than SSH/SSL or IPSec tunnels for VPNs.
Demolishing a house of cards isn't exaclty a difficult task.
Hell, the beta's for Red Hat Enterprise AW3 have IPSec tunnel wizards. IPSec is probably where it will all be at for a while -- it is lower down on the stack than SSH and while can be a bitch to configure, once done is pretty transparent to applications.
What the hell is an A-track? At first I thought it might be a type for 8-track, but A and 8 aren't even close on the keyboard. So what are you talking about?
:-)
He means ATRAC, like from Sony.
Didn't you know SCO bought Sony and is now claiming to own all prior music distribution formats?
Name a single pro article. There has not been a one.
Becuase no one has WRITTEN one! The best that has come out from sources other than SCO are articles along the lines of "what if they are right?"
The only "pro-SCO" stuff written so far has been SCO press releases.
There are not a lot of stories that claim SCO might be right -- other then SCO press releases off of PR Newswire.
/. has linked almost ALL SCO stories, pro or con. It is just there are a lot more con than pro.
SCO has not presented any proof, and only made unsubstantiated claims. Until they substantiate, everything they say is open to question. The few times they *DID* try and present proof, it was demonstrated to be incorrect and they tried to spin their way out of it.
Finally,
You're confused.
The Xeon series has always been Intel's "server" chips. Mostly a different pin out and lots more cache. They're souped up versions of the normal chips.
The Itanium is the 64-bit unit.
This reminds me of an old Bloom County strip where Oliver Wendell Jones built a nuclear bomb for his class science project. The teacher asked him where he got the fissionable material and he said he scraped all the glowing stuff off thousands of watch dials...
"Attention students! Fire drill!"
So does the United Kingdom, although I doubt the UK is even in the top 20 of their list (it's not in the article), thanks to having one of the worst deployed broadband systems in Europe.
Not really. Close to 50% of S. Korea's population lives in 3 metro areas. The greater Seoul area is over twice the population of greater London. Actually, Seoul has a larger population than London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds combined!
In Japan, the Tokyo-Yokohama metro area alone has a population equal to just under half of all the U.K.! (http://www.demographia.com/db-wldurb-2000r.htm)
Population density of Canada is misleading. The vast majority of the population lives on the U.S. border. All that land area skews your statistics.
In the major cities of Korea and Japan, almost no one is outside of DSL distance limitations. Fiber links for backbones are nothing compared to the distances in the U.S. -- Miami to Atlanta is 2x longer than the entire length of S. Korea!
In Canada, while it is about 6,000 km from Halifax, NS to Vancouver, BC it is a pretty straight shot for a backbone. That covers about 80% of the population -- add a spur for Edmonton and a feed from Juneau to Yellowknife and you push that coverage to close to 90% of Canada's population.
The U.S. population is spread out more than most other nations, and it is one of the largest so linking it up is more of a challenge.
Even with all that, the U.S. was listed as #1 in connectivity when measured by total broadband subscribers and not per-capita.
The title says "GNOME-Office 2.0" but the rest of the post references "GNOME-Office 1.0". Which is it?
Most of the supplier's information will come as EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). Big companies like Ford, GM, Wal-Mart dictate the data format to the suppliers, not the other way around.
.doc, .xls or .ppt files. E-mail, maybe.
Customers don't send Ford
The vast majority of MS Office files are going to be internally generated, and Open/Star Office can handle them well enough.
Because, in larger business environments, they suck.
The argument presented in the paper is more of a thin-client vs client-server/desktop approach.
With the software properly installed and managed on a central server, not individually on each PC, there are significantly less problems.
Whole industries have been built around the Windows PC that aren't necessary from a corporate standpoint. I speak of client-side firewalls, anti-virus and disk imaging software.
No need to "push" an image when the PC gets corrupt. No need to reboot the PC. No need to run and license individual anti-virus applications. No need to scan for spyware, etc on each PC.
"PC Empowerment" is a BS phrase. The only thing most PC's empowered the coporate user to do was send worms, catch viruses and play games. Applications like a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, CAD, project management, e-mail and other business software can just as easily be run via a central server. Administration is tons easier.
And with full-duplex, fast ethernet to the clients and gigbit or bonded channels to the servers, load and run times can often be faster than off of cheap PCs with hard drives.
For everyone complaining and bragging about how they built a mini-itx box for much cheaper, it's time for a whack from the clue by four.
These are terminals, not stupid little computers shoved up an ET dolls ass.
Terminals generally include monitor, keyboard and mouse, ready to plug and play.
Thank you, that is all.
Bzzzt. Wrong answer!
Monitors are almost always sold separately. Check out HP's site and you'll see them listed under "options and accessories". I've got an office full of monitors that'll work fine with thin clients. I don't want to pay for disposal of these, shipping for new ones, etc.
Keyboards and mice don't significantly add to the price of mini-ITX or thin clients.
Terminals cost more usually because of the management software/tools -- and less competition. There doesn't seem to be a lot of organized white-box terminals for either thin or hybrid clients.
It isn't so much a copyright violation, but a breach of contract suit.
Apple promised not to ship music equipment and lost the first suit. Isn't that sound called "sosumi" or "So Sue Me", which was a dig at Apple Corp?
Again, Apple Computer is getting into the music biz when they promised they would not and put it in writing. They're gonna lose again.
Apple probably figured they're making more money with iTunes and the iPod than they will lose in a suit. Pure business.
For canadians and any other _englsih_ speaking people out there, that's cheque, not "check".
Mea culpa. Hell, I just corrected one of my kids today when he spelled "raquetball" as "racketball"!