If it wasn't crazy, I'd say that Unisys has just found a sure-fire method for driving down its stock price in a hurry. Makes you wonder what they're up to over there.
They used to be known for systems and management, but lately they seem like an "anything for money" company.
Either way, their position seems pretty much unenforcible, right or wrong. I just hope they push it far enough to tear a gaping hole in the patent system as it stands.:)
Hasn't this feature (bandwidth throttling per IP) been in IOS for a long time now? Granted, almost every network tool has a potential for misuse, but panicking over a hyped-up Yahoo newsbit is silly. Besides, if the cable companies decided to do it, there's really no way to tell except to subpoena the router configs for every upstream node in the network. Not exactly a PHB-friendly tactic.
Looks like this article's thrust is not so much to point out where the powerbase of the future is as much as to congratulate its readership for being able to click and drool its way through websites.
The idea of using your technical savvy as a means of achieving social status is kinda laughable. In the words of a really cool sysadmin I know, "True power seeks no status." Of course he's nuts, but what else is new?:)
This saddens an old crufty bastard like myself. It seems that the Linux community has learned NOTHING from the tragedy of the UNIX fragmentation failures.
Sad to see that you are so saddened by this. The only reason UN*X was fragmented was because of companies making PROPRIETARY builds against PROPRIETARY hardware for PROPRIETARY applications.
As far as learning lessons, I don't think this is even the same school. Linux distro's are built from mostly publicly available code for commodity hardware to run whatever application you care to write for them. The old UN*Xen imploded because they were exactly the opposite of this.
ATI, along with certain other (Creative) peripheral (Creative) manufacturers, has seemed very Linux unfriendly for a long time. It's good to see that they are recognizing the value of open specs, even if a little later than some of their competitors. Maybe I'll actually buy something from them, now.:)
But how are you supposed to fit the truth between commercials?
I think I'll stick with the Indies, anyway. Ron Howard hasn't done anything worthwhile since he lisped his way through "The Music Man." Not that that was meaningful or anything, but it serves as a pretty high point in his career.
Hopefully, this will be the only reply to this off-topic troll. Though I agree that camping out at ChumpUSA is pretty stupid, I don't think it has a helluva lot to do with glibc2.1
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If it wasn't crazy, I'd say that Unisys has just found a sure-fire method for driving down its stock price in a hurry. Makes you wonder what they're up to over there.
:)
They used to be known for systems and management, but lately they seem like an "anything for money" company.
Either way, their position seems pretty much unenforcible, right or wrong. I just hope they push it far enough to tear a gaping hole in the patent system as it stands.
Hasn't this feature (bandwidth throttling per IP) been in IOS for a long time now? Granted, almost every network tool has a potential for misuse, but panicking over a hyped-up Yahoo newsbit is silly. Besides, if the cable companies decided to do it, there's really no way to tell except to subpoena the router configs for every upstream node in the network. Not exactly a PHB-friendly tactic.
Looks like this article's thrust is not so much to point out where the powerbase of the future is as much as to congratulate its readership for being able to click and drool its way through websites.
:)
The idea of using your technical savvy as a means of achieving social status is kinda laughable. In the words of a really cool sysadmin I know, "True power seeks no status." Of course he's nuts, but what else is new?
Sad to see that you are so saddened by this. The only reason UN*X was fragmented was because of companies making PROPRIETARY builds against PROPRIETARY hardware for PROPRIETARY applications.
As far as learning lessons, I don't think this is even the same school. Linux distro's are built from mostly publicly available code for commodity hardware to run whatever application you care to write for them. The old UN*Xen imploded because they were exactly the opposite of this.
crufty indeed. :/
ATI, along with certain other (Creative) peripheral (Creative) manufacturers, has seemed very Linux unfriendly for a long time. It's good to see that they are recognizing the value of open specs, even if a little later than some of their competitors. Maybe I'll actually buy something from them, now. :)
But how are you supposed to fit the truth between commercials?
I think I'll stick with the Indies, anyway. Ron Howard hasn't done anything worthwhile since he lisped his way through "The Music Man." Not that that was meaningful or anything, but it serves as a pretty high point in his career.
Hopefully, this will be the only reply to this off-topic troll. Though I agree that camping out at ChumpUSA is pretty stupid, I don't think it has a helluva lot to do with glibc2.1
Did I miss something?