The is pure FUD being spread by Pamela Jones. Anyone who cares about the GPL knows it is nothing more than SUSE with Gnome on top of it using Sun branding.
Yet another nail in the RIAA coffin. When will the RIAA and other organizations realize their outmoded distribution methods and crazed sue little girls and old women tactics will not save their business? How many times must we say this and flex this opinion where it hurts them most, in the wallet?
It looks like there is a web cast at 11 AM EST. Perhaps we will learn some useful information on what Novell is planning. http://www.novell.com/webcast
Being in IT for a large Fortune 500 company that sells an operating system among other things (no, not Microsoft), I can share some of my expereinces with you. So take it for what it is worth.
Our FTP servers run both HTTP and FTP providing the same content in the same directory structure. There are five servers that transfer an average of 1-2 TB (terabyte) per month each, so they are fairly busy. On a busy month each server can go as high as 7 TB of data transferred. File sizes range from 1 KB to to whole CD-ROM and DVD-ROM images. I think the single largest file is 3 GB.
The logs show a trend of HTTP becoming more popular for the last several years and not stopping. It is currently at 70% of all downloads from the "FTP" servers via HTTP. While the remaining 30% is via FTP. Six years ago (I lost the logs from before this time, they are on a backup tape but I am way too lazy to get that data), it was completely reversed. 75% of downloads were via FTP and 25% were via HTTP. 90% of all transfers are done with a web browser as opposed to an FTP client or wget or something.
One thing we learned was that many system administrators will download via FTP from the command line directly from the FTP server, especially during a crisis they are trying to resolve. They do this from the system itself and not a workstation. The reasons for this are a bit of a mystery. Feedback has shown that we should never get rid of this or we might be assassinated by our customers. We thought about it once and put out feelers.
I would say if you don't need to deal with incoming files and you file size is not too large then stick with HTTP. Anything over about 10 MB should go to the FTP server. An FTP server can be more complicated. It seems like the vulnerabilities in FTP daemons has died down in the past year or so. Also, fronting an FTP server with a Layer 4 switch was a lot more tricky because of all the ports involved. If you want people to mirror you then go with FTP or rsync for private mirroring. In reading the feedback, most power users seem to prefer FTP, perhaps because that is what they are used to. Also, depending on the amount of traffic you might need to consider gigabit ethernet.
The core dumps being uploaded are getting to be huge. Some of those systems have a lot of memory!
Gallery can read EXIF information. EXIF is very handy for caption information, dates, exposure, etc... My Sony DSC-85 stores the information. It eliminates the need for me to have to figure out when I took a photo. If I put my images in Gallery without retouching them, the EXIF information is saved. If I use Photoshop 7 to edit then it is lost for some reason. I have been unable to figure out how to retain them.
I have found gallery to be very flexible, easy to use and easily upgraded. My siblings and their families use it regularly for our family site but it still has not passed the "Mom" test. Not that any other stage of the digital photo process has passed such a test either. So we have one touch scanning for her scanner and it e-mails the photos to me and we edit, and post for her.
We maintain a copy of the photos on our local server on our home LAN with a RAID array. We keep an untouched scanned version and an edited version. And our family site server is in a secure co-lo facility in Utah somewhere. I use rsync for mirroring the data.
Considering that our family is spread accross the world and in many different states, it is wonderful to have online images available. "Hey, look at our recent pictures from Hawaii." We get to see what everyone else is doing as well. There is no way we can all get together and pull out the photo albums anymore.
I currently have "AT&T Broadband" service. I am scared that when the sale of this service to Comcast goes through I will get screwed. Why do some companies suck so bad and some are great?
According to the Tecmo website it says "Dead or Alive 3 it the latest installment in the popular fighting series from Tecmo, and is headed exclusively for Xbox November 15, 2001"
I believe it is for X-Box only, according to the local "Software, Etc." employees. BTW, their kiosk is working (for now).
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I stumbled across a site that has tons of detailed reports, research, and studies about Terrorism and Counterterrorism. Many may have see nthis already but a quick search turned up no hits within./ so here it is. The Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism "is dedicated to preventing and reducing terrorism and mitigating its effects."
It has many links tons of Articles related to terrorism from various sources, Fact Sheets from Governments, Journals, Terrorism-related journals and magazines published by the United States, State Department and various Institutes. Information describing the lessons learned from past incidents. Reports on Counterterrorism and related reports from governmental and non-governmental sources. And an image gallery. This is definitely worth checking out.
It works for the Israeli's. Every El Al has an armed person on board. When was the last time an Israeli flight was hijacked ? Shimon Peres made this comment.
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Lennart Poettering is part of a larger plan to take over complete control of Linux.
He presented at DefCon 21 this year. https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-21-archive.html#pukingmonkey
A new iPod? Don't the current iPods run iOS as well?
Is Thunderbird able to work well with Exchange yet?
This movie so bad it is truly painful to watch. It is ten times worse than the 1966 Batman movie.
... fight evil and dance ?
The Wild World of Batwoman
"Plot Outline: The pointlessly-named Batwoman and her bevy of Batmaidens fight evil and dance."
Huh?
This should help the adoption rate of SUSE, much like it did for Red Hat.
The is pure FUD being spread by Pamela Jones. Anyone who cares about the GPL knows it is nothing more than SUSE with Gnome on top of it using Sun branding.
Yet another nail in the RIAA coffin. When will the RIAA and other organizations realize their outmoded distribution methods and crazed sue little girls and old women tactics will not save their business? How many times must we say this and flex this opinion where it hurts them most, in the wallet?
It looks like there is a web cast at 11 AM EST. Perhaps we will learn some useful information on what Novell is planning.
http://www.novell.com/webcast
Being in IT for a large Fortune 500 company that sells an operating system among other things (no, not Microsoft), I can share some of my expereinces with you. So take it for what it is worth.
Our FTP servers run both HTTP and FTP providing the same content in the same directory structure. There are five servers that transfer an average of 1-2 TB (terabyte) per month each, so they are fairly busy. On a busy month each server can go as high as 7 TB of data transferred. File sizes range from 1 KB to to whole CD-ROM and DVD-ROM images. I think the single largest file is 3 GB.
The logs show a trend of HTTP becoming more popular for the last several years and not stopping. It is currently at 70% of all downloads from the "FTP" servers via HTTP. While the remaining 30% is via FTP. Six years ago (I lost the logs from before this time, they are on a backup tape but I am way too lazy to get that data), it was completely reversed. 75% of downloads were via FTP and 25% were via HTTP. 90% of all transfers are done with a web browser as opposed to an FTP client or wget or something.
One thing we learned was that many system administrators will download via FTP from the command line directly from the FTP server, especially during a crisis they are trying to resolve. They do this from the system itself and not a workstation. The reasons for this are a bit of a mystery. Feedback has shown that we should never get rid of this or we might be assassinated by our customers. We thought about it once and put out feelers.
I would say if you don't need to deal with incoming files and you file size is not too large then stick with HTTP. Anything over about 10 MB should go to the FTP server. An FTP server can be more complicated. It seems like the vulnerabilities in FTP daemons has died down in the past year or so. Also, fronting an FTP server with a Layer 4 switch was a lot more tricky because of all the ports involved. If you want people to mirror you then go with FTP or rsync for private mirroring. In reading the feedback, most power users seem to prefer FTP, perhaps because that is what they are used to. Also, depending on the amount of traffic you might need to consider gigabit ethernet.
The core dumps being uploaded are getting to be huge. Some of those systems have a lot of memory!
I was getting really tired of having to use CDE on Solaris workstations. Gnome is a major improvement.
I wonder what sort of impact this will have on the usage and adoption of Solaris for workstation use?
Gallery can read EXIF information. EXIF is very handy for caption information, dates, exposure, etc... My Sony DSC-85 stores the information. It eliminates the need for me to have to figure out when I took a photo. If I put my images in Gallery without retouching them, the EXIF information is saved. If I use Photoshop 7 to edit then it is lost for some reason. I have been unable to figure out how to retain them.
I have found gallery to be very flexible, easy to use and easily upgraded. My siblings and their families use it regularly for our family site but it still has not passed the "Mom" test. Not that any other stage of the digital photo process has passed such a test either. So we have one touch scanning for her scanner and it e-mails the photos to me and we edit, and post for her.
We maintain a copy of the photos on our local server on our home LAN with a RAID array. We keep an untouched scanned version and an edited version. And our family site server is in a secure co-lo facility in Utah somewhere. I use rsync for mirroring the data.
Considering that our family is spread accross the world and in many different states, it is wonderful to have online images available. "Hey, look at our recent pictures from Hawaii." We get to see what everyone else is doing as well. There is no way we can all get together and pull out the photo albums anymore.
http://gallery.jacko.com
Off topic but ...
I currently have "AT&T Broadband" service. I am scared that when the sale of this service to Comcast goes through I will get screwed. Why do some companies suck so bad and some are great?
My average bill is $49.07.
According to the Tecmo website it says "Dead or Alive 3 it the latest installment in the popular fighting series from Tecmo, and is headed exclusively for Xbox November 15, 2001"
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You seem to be under the impression I had something to do with my own score. You may want to try therapy.
I believe it is for X-Box only, according to the local "Software, Etc." employees. BTW, their kiosk is working (for now).
I stumbled across a site that has tons of detailed reports, research, and studies about Terrorism and Counterterrorism. Many may have see nthis already but a quick search turned up no hits within ./ so here it is. The Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism "is dedicated to preventing and reducing terrorism and mitigating its effects."
It has many links tons of Articles related to terrorism from various sources, Fact Sheets from Governments, Journals, Terrorism-related journals and magazines published by the United States, State Department and various Institutes. Information describing the lessons learned from past incidents. Reports on Counterterrorism and related reports from governmental and non-governmental sources. And an image gallery. This is definitely worth checking out.
Many are in HTML but most are in PDF foramt.
A few that I found interesting include On Terrorism's Trail: How the FBI Unraveled the Africa Embassy Bombings and "Combating Terrorism: In Search of a National Strategy" .
The URL again is http://www.mipt.org
It works for the Israeli's. Every El Al has an armed person on board. When was the last time an Israeli flight was hijacked ? Shimon Peres made this comment.
http://www.elal.co.il/
These are people who are willing to die for The Cause
These people are lied to and essentially brainwashed to believe they will go to heaven. I hardly call them "willing."
<b>... Making a person a martyr to an already militant fundamentalist organization is much more dangerous than any other solution imaginable.</b>
At least he will be dead. That is much better then him continuing to kill more Americans.