I don't like the idea of network solutions and AOL getting cozy. AOL's market cap is 126 billion, whereas NSOL is capped at 10 billion. I see the opportunity of a merger here. And although ICANN has opened up the registrar business Network Solutions still has a virtual monopoly in this space. I do not like the idea of AOL controlling this very important piece of internet infrastructure.
'Justice for all' was not the first metalica record. It was the first one with an MTV video. Thus it could be said that it was the last album of 'Metalica the band' and the first of 'Metalica the business'.
I seem to remember them saying prior to that something along the lines of "we'll never make an MTV music video and anyone who has sucks". Not an exact quote but something along those lines.. it was a long time ago.
Although metalica's actions are not perfect, they are getting closer to the right way to handle this.
For a long time corporate groups like the RIAA etc.. attack 'infrastructures' for contributing to piracy, such as the napster/gnutella file sharing infrustructure or the DeCSS code. As many have noted this is the wrong way to go about it as it penalized legitamate users for the (alledged) illegal actions of a few.
Metalica has taken a step in the right direction by recognizing that the individuals who pirate their music are the ones who should be targeted rather than blanket-targeting all users.
What metalica _should_ do is drop their lawsuit against napster and procecute users who pirate their material to the fullest extent of the law. This is alot more work than attacking just one company but it the only solution for punishing the guilty without affecting the innocent.
While I may not agree with the IP laws of this country they are still the laws and if enough people want them changed badly enough to get off their couches and do something then they will be changed.
Katz was justified in attacking the lawsuits against infrustructures; but defending (and supporting!) blatant piracy on the part of individuals is throwing big stones from a glass house. Mr Katz can choose to provide his IP to free to anyone who wants it. But I don't think he does (nor would his publisher let him). I think Mr Katz would be very upset if he chose to retain his IP rights by restricting access to his work only to find nobody is coming to him for his works as they might all be available for free on the internet. Am I wrong? I doubt it. Otherwise I challenge Mr Katz to put his money where his mouth is and open all his works to the public domain.. Not 'open source' or any license; _public_domain_.
No? Yeah, thats what I thought.
-- Greg
PS: these comments are in the public domain. Abuse them as you see fit.
positive re-enforcement is one of the mainstays of behavioral conditioning (brainwashing for the laymen). If the electrical charge does produce a feeling of wellbeing while you are participating in the practice of belief it is much the same as giving a dog a treat whenever it performs a trick correctly.
We humans are just as conditionable as any other creature. After all the militaries of the world are conditioned to lay down their lives for the idologies preached to them since their youth (ours included).
Last comment, if your church does not restrict your rights to information or association than why post anonymously?
The obvious remedy for this is to have all the independent bands who chose to distribute their music over the internet rather than sell their souls to music labels go and sue metalica for restricting the distribution of the independent music.
Of course this won't happen or will have no effect becuase big-label bands and music label corporations have money and small bands do not. Might makes right, and the government will do nothing to stop it because these big corporations are who provide the dollars to get our politicians elected.
-- Greg
PS: WTF is a T2 line? does provide enough bandwidth to download Arnold with a shotgun and a motorcycle? T1, T3, there is no T2.
I think this stems from the government wanting to keep kevin on parole or in jail for the rest of his life.
Kevin peed in the cornflakes of the two groups that control everything, first by showing the corporations just how shoddy their security was then embarassing the government by not being easy to catch.
The expectation, even stated by the judge I believe, is that kevin will never be able to get a job above minimum wage for the period he's on parole. A person cannot get by these days on minimum wage. You can hardly get a place to live in a bad part of the country for 5.75/hr much less feed and clothe yourself. Their intent is to make kevin have no other choice but to violate his parole to be able to survive.
But kevin is not that dull, and managed to find a way to support himself without violating parole. Now the government wants to take that away. If they enforce this then kevin will probably find another job and the government will find something wrong with it too.
And as for you people who think that this is kevin profiting from his crimes... Shimomura and Markoff have been making a ton of profit from Mitnick's crimes. And now some big movie theater is making a movie and going to be raking in the cash. Mitnick is not speaking on his exploits, he's educating people about the importance of network/computer security... Something much more helpful to society as a whole than having him flip burgers.
So a silicon valley startup goes through another round of funding. What an uncommon occurence!
Why this is considered 'important' whereas the turmoil of the _entire_ high tech sector week(s) ago was unimportant and shouldn't have been posted if not for us whining slashdot users... it's beyond me.
Perhaps my view of the glass is half empty whereas other's view is half full. But you are walking barefoot though pieces of the broken glass on the floor you shouldn't be pretending you can still drink from it.
"Why use HTML when javascript, cascading style sheets, java, cookies, imagemaps, and shockwave will do?"
Why do web developers feel the need to use every technology available on a website when they usually didn't need anything more complicated then plain-ole HTML? I dono how many times I've seen implemented in javascript the meta refresh tag!
Add on to the fact that most sites have become unnavigatable by text browsers and their users (such as the blind). My old boss used to have a saying: "A picture is worth a thousand words, unless it's a picture of a word".
All this 'rich content' that is arguably unnecessary and excessive means that the web is just that much slower, needing even more bandwidth to get anything done.
And my last gripe is about modifying HTML that was created in a HTML editor. Did any of the programmers who coded up these editors ever hear of wordwrap?? Every time I edit a file I have to re-format the whole thing to make it inteligable.
Yes, I'm griping. You can think of me as the crotchety old man who sits on the porch "Yeah, I remember the good old days, back when people edited HTML with 'vi' and we didn't have all these fancy-pants 'wizards' to generate webpages; you could search the web then and find the information you were looking for instead of a bunch of infomercial-like websites with too much animation hawking things. Why it must have been waaaay back in 1995, yeah, Yahoo was still a stanford tilde account back then."
As long as you trust verisign, or any certificate signer for that matter, to not 'create a new revenue stream' by partnering with predictive and providing a verisign-signed forged 'proxied ssl' service. After all, you did send them your certificate to be signed.
Granted it would be highly unethical to do such a thing, but thats never stopped a corporation with profit motive in the past.
I'm amazed at the "if we don't do it someone else will" justification I hear more and more these days from business leaders defending their unsavory activities.
Well now that Microsoft is officially a monopoly that illegaly abused its power there will be no reason for them to continue pretending there are other 'viable alternatives' to their operating systems.
Will there be any reason for them to continue to encourage or even permit their biggest customers to ship alternative operating systems? Will calls go out from Redmond causing the big OEMs such as Compaq and Dell to curtail their Linux offerings?
I don't know if that will happen but I suppose it's possible. I think that Linux would have done well over the last two years on its own; However I would question if it would have exploded like it did if the DOJ wasn't breathing down Microsoft's neck.
Keep your eyes open for the big guns coming out of Redmond targeted on Linux in the next few months.
Most business accounting books have sections dedicated to valuing a business (which is what a website selling banneradds is!). After all if we are talking hundreds of thousands of dollars it pays to spend a few days getting up to speed on the business side of it and be as educated as possible about the transaction you are about to undertake.
Linux has poor support for multiple (load balanced) network cards; but we already knew that. Nobody I know slaps multiple NIC's into their servers anyway. If you really need that 'width you go with a gigabit card. Apparently the only use for a multi-nic configuration is if your doing a 'benchmark' for a thinly veiled MS marketing campaign.
Well its pretty clear that the government and the press are swallowing the megacorps' allegations hook line and sinker, while having little consideration for our side. I do think its a shame we don't hear more from RedHat or VA on this issue.
The everyday commonman is only hearing one side of the story. He should hear both. I think it's time for another web blackout to draw attention to this corporatism run amok.
Oh, almost forgot. When your looking at options ask to see the business plan. After all they are asking you to take a pay cut at the option of taking stock, you want to make sure this time your invsting in the company is worth it. You may be supprised at the difference of what they tell you they are doing and their actual business plan laid out in ink; then again perhaps not. Either way you've got a right to be informed before making your decision.
Options are 'free' to the company giving them to you. It costs them nothing to give them out, and so are often used to try to entice people to work for less then they are worth.
I would demand what you are worth, and if they want to give you options on top of that so be it.
I personally would only accept options as a substitute of salary on three conditions. First I would have to really believe the idea was a briliant one with a good business plan. Secondly I'd have to really think highly of the management team of the company. Third I'd have to be in a position where I made a difference in the company and helped make desicions on the way it's run. (forth, goes without saying, it better be a truckload of options)
Lets face it, in this late stage of the game most all of the good management teams have already gone out and done most of the briliant ideas and taken them public. All thats left are the stragglers to pick up the scraps. Most only areas left for internet startups are highly specialized/marginalized fields where the returns aren't that great, or areas where there is already a giant dominating the market.
Options are a great way for startups to underpay their tallent and 'handcuff' them so that they won't leave when they'd rather be somewhere else. I know two people who were handcuffed and rather be somewhere else. One of them recently was fired (he was misserable for a year and still lost his options).
My opinion is to get paid more and invest the extra in the stock market or put it away for a rainy day. Either way _you_ controll your destiny, not some idiot MBA who wanted to do 'this internet startup thing' and needs your help just to open his email.
If your not following the rules layed out above buying lottery tickets might be a better way to go (about the same risk!)
Last suggestion: be an independent contractor.I get to work at a couple of new startups a year, make more than any human should, and get to do the fun stuff of building up their business without the boring side of having to sit around maintaining it for the following years.
The whole lawsuit system in this country appears more broken day after day. It has clearly turned into first a system to make lawers rich by filing frivous 'class action' or personal injury lawsuits against large corporations and secondly into a means for corporations to take the freedoms away from individuals who can never afford a defence against billion dollar companies!
For the first issue perhaps there should be a compensation cap for lawers to keep them from these huge lawsuits; also redirect 'punative' damages somewhere where they will be more effective; the government or perhaps nonprofit organizations in the related field.
For the second... Our court system provides for the defendant in crimial cases a public defender in the event that the defendant cannot afford a defense themselves. Perhaps this should be extended to civil suits if defending the suit would place the defendant into financial hardship.
I am begining to fear we are losing the internet to big business. They've basically come in and started doing what they want and use the legal system as a tool to take what they want.
Actually they do. When the US does a military deployment (my firsthand knowledge was in haiti, when I helped uncle sam replace one corrupt government with another) its not only the military that gets deployed. Most of the basic services provided to the combat units are subcontracted out to companies such as wackenhut. In haiti these civilian companies built the bases we stayed in, ran the mess halls, handled the fuel points, they even provided us with construction equipment for our missions (I was in an engineer batallion). To sum up they handle most everything that doesnt require guns.
Buying SCO you'd have to deal with all the bagage of supporting UNIXWARE and their existing customers. One of the great things about RedHat right now is that it doesn't have this huge load of bagage it has to deal with. They can stay focused on Linux.
Besides, who'd wanna buy a UNIX that sells the TCP/IP stack as a seperate product?? blah.
Spinning off Cray, still in the supercomputer biz
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SGI Installing Beowulf
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Well it looks like SGI is staying in the supercomputer business after all. I would not be supprised if they started selling beowulf clusters as their 'supercomputer offering' in the next year or so. They believe (probably rightly) that the old monolithic idea of the supercomputer is dead and the new supercomputer should be large clusters of workstations. Much cheaper to build a beowulf cluster than a cray.
SGI seems to be betting large chunk of their business on Linux. Is it a shrewd business move, or done out of desparation? Only the future shal tell. and, btw, at current market capitalization RedHat has become the second largest UNIX vendor (i.e. primary business based on UNIX). They could buy SGI and SCO at this point and still have some left over.
Traveling occasionally and being forced to use other's machines (usually windoze boxes) I've found a good way to get in without SSH and still keep the crackers off my back. I've installed OPIE, a one time password login mechanism; in addition I installed PilotOTP on my Palm 3 which travels with me everywhere. TCP wrappers are set up to give local network users the standard login prompt while 'twist'ing the rest of the internet to an OTP login..
hosts.allow has a rule for in.telnetd allowing local network standard access. in hosts.deny: in.telnetd: ALL : twist/usr/sbin/in.telnetd \ -L/bin/login.opie
Well, I just got notified that they were not able to allocate me any shares:(
I wonder how many people had the opertunity to participate in the redhat deffered shares problem. Obviously over eight thousand... Would be interesting if someone had an indication as to how many had the chance to participate.
If you were one of the lucky ones, congratulations.. Oh well, guess I'll wait a few days for it to drop down and buy it anyway.
Looking at CNBC, the guy is standing in front of the redhat ticker on the board. it comes out 12:15 EST, or 9:15 for us left coasters. thats in a few minutes..
Well, I just got the message, and was pannicked, as there's no 'Other questions' box.. After sitting on hold a half hour I was able to update my 'indication of interest'. I am one of those who got 'the letter', which I think means we've got more time to update our indications..
But one thing thats interesting, and probably screwed alot of people... E-trade's mail servers sat on this mail for nearly a half hour! Headers show it sitting on mx3.etrade.com, arriving there at 7:29 (PST), and then not arriving at the next hop (my server) untill 07:56. I think if E-trade is going to make you do jump through hoops in 15 minutes they should ensure their mail servers can do things in less than 30!
-- Greg
PS: I just got called by E*trade regarding updating my profile. I imagine they are calling everyone with 'the letter' who indicated interest. I think they are doing a good job of responding to their customers. As for those without 'the letter' who just got scewed by a slow mail box.. well I hope they'll fix it in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
There is an easy fix for this in DNS:
content.xyz.com. IN CNAME host123.akamai.com.
The problem is the same fix would also be used for the banner companies, making the new feature easily circumvented.
-- Greg
I don't like the idea of network solutions and AOL getting cozy. AOL's market cap is 126 billion, whereas NSOL is capped at 10 billion. I see the opportunity of a merger here. And although ICANN has opened up the registrar business Network Solutions still has a virtual monopoly in this space. I do not like the idea of AOL controlling this very important piece of internet infrastructure.
-- Greg
'Justice for all' was not the first metalica record. It was the first one with an MTV video. Thus it could be said that it was the last album of 'Metalica the band' and the first of 'Metalica the business'.
I seem to remember them saying prior to that something along the lines of "we'll never make an MTV music video and anyone who has sucks". Not an exact quote but something along those lines.. it was a long time ago.
Although metalica's actions are not perfect, they are getting closer to the right way to handle this.
For a long time corporate groups like the RIAA etc.. attack 'infrastructures' for contributing to piracy, such as the napster/gnutella file sharing infrustructure or the DeCSS code. As many have noted this is the wrong way to go about it as it penalized legitamate users for the (alledged) illegal actions of a few.
Metalica has taken a step in the right direction by recognizing that the individuals who pirate their music are the ones who should be targeted rather than blanket-targeting all users.
What metalica _should_ do is drop their lawsuit against napster and procecute users who pirate their material to the fullest extent of the law. This is alot more work than attacking just one company but it the only solution for punishing the guilty without affecting the innocent.
While I may not agree with the IP laws of this country they are still the laws and if enough people want them changed badly enough to get off their couches and do something then they will be changed.
Katz was justified in attacking the lawsuits against infrustructures; but defending (and supporting!) blatant piracy on the part of individuals is throwing big stones from a glass house. Mr Katz can choose to provide his IP to free to anyone who wants it. But I don't think he does (nor would his publisher let him). I think Mr Katz would be very upset if he chose to retain his IP rights by restricting access to his work only to find nobody is coming to him for his works as they might all be available for free on the internet. Am I wrong? I doubt it. Otherwise I challenge Mr Katz to put his money where his mouth is and open all his works to the public domain.. Not 'open source' or any license; _public_domain_.
No? Yeah, thats what I thought.
-- Greg
PS: these comments are in the public domain. Abuse them as you see fit.
positive re-enforcement is one of the mainstays of behavioral conditioning (brainwashing for the laymen). If the electrical charge does produce a feeling of wellbeing while you are participating in the practice of belief it is much the same as giving a dog a treat whenever it performs a trick correctly.
We humans are just as conditionable as any other creature. After all the militaries of the world are conditioned to lay down their lives for the idologies preached to them since their youth (ours included).
Last comment, if your church does not restrict your rights to information or association than why post anonymously?
-- Greg
The obvious remedy for this is to have all the independent bands who chose to distribute their music over the internet rather than sell their souls to music labels go and sue metalica for restricting the distribution of the independent music.
Of course this won't happen or will have no effect becuase big-label bands and music label corporations have money and small bands do not. Might makes right, and the government will do nothing to stop it because these big corporations are who provide the dollars to get our politicians elected.
-- Greg
PS: WTF is a T2 line? does provide enough bandwidth to download Arnold with a shotgun and a motorcycle? T1, T3, there is no T2.
I think this stems from the government wanting to keep kevin on parole or in jail for the rest of his life.
Kevin peed in the cornflakes of the two groups that control everything, first by showing the corporations just how shoddy their security was then embarassing the government by not being easy to catch.
The expectation, even stated by the judge I believe, is that kevin will never be able to get a job above minimum wage for the period he's on parole. A person cannot get by these days on minimum wage. You can hardly get a place to live in a bad part of the country for 5.75/hr much less feed and clothe yourself. Their intent is to make kevin have no other choice but to violate his parole to be able to survive.
But kevin is not that dull, and managed to find a way to support himself without violating parole. Now the government wants to take that away. If they enforce this then kevin will probably find another job and the government will find something wrong with it too.
And as for you people who think that this is kevin profiting from his crimes... Shimomura and Markoff have been making a ton of profit from Mitnick's crimes. And now some big movie theater is making a movie and going to be raking in the cash. Mitnick is not speaking on his exploits, he's educating people about the importance of network/computer security... Something much more helpful to society as a whole than having him flip burgers.
-- Greg
So a silicon valley startup goes through another round of funding. What an uncommon occurence!
Why this is considered 'important' whereas the turmoil of the _entire_ high tech sector week(s) ago was unimportant and shouldn't have been posted if not for us whining slashdot users... it's beyond me.
Perhaps my view of the glass is half empty whereas other's view is half full. But you are walking barefoot though pieces of the broken glass on the floor you shouldn't be pretending you can still drink from it.
-- Greg
"Why use HTML when javascript, cascading style sheets, java, cookies, imagemaps, and shockwave will do?"
Why do web developers feel the need to use every technology available on a website when they usually didn't need anything more complicated then plain-ole HTML? I dono how many times I've seen implemented in javascript the meta refresh tag!
Add on to the fact that most sites have become unnavigatable by text browsers and their users (such as the blind). My old boss used to have a saying: "A picture is worth a thousand words, unless it's a picture of a word".
All this 'rich content' that is arguably unnecessary and excessive means that the web is just that much slower, needing even more bandwidth to get anything done.
And my last gripe is about modifying HTML that was created in a HTML editor. Did any of the programmers who coded up these editors ever hear of wordwrap?? Every time I edit a file I have to re-format the whole thing to make it inteligable.
Yes, I'm griping. You can think of me as the crotchety old man who sits on the porch "Yeah, I remember the good old days, back when people edited HTML with 'vi' and we didn't have all these fancy-pants 'wizards' to generate webpages; you could search the web then and find the information you were looking for instead of a bunch of infomercial-like websites with too much animation hawking things. Why it must have been waaaay back in 1995, yeah, Yahoo was still a stanford tilde account back then."
-- Greg
As long as you trust verisign, or any certificate signer for that matter, to not 'create a new revenue stream' by partnering with predictive and providing a verisign-signed forged 'proxied ssl' service. After all, you did send them your certificate to be signed.
Granted it would be highly unethical to do such a thing, but thats never stopped a corporation with profit motive in the past.
I'm amazed at the "if we don't do it someone else will" justification I hear more and more these days from business leaders defending their unsavory activities.
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www.battery.com
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Wellesley, MA 02481
phone: (781) 577-1000
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San Mateo, CA 94404
phone: (650) 372-3939
fax: (650) 372-3930
Write Robert G. Barrett (Managing Partner) and
show your displeasure at the types of company
battery chooses to fund. His address is
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Well now that Microsoft is officially a monopoly that illegaly abused its power there will be no reason for them to continue pretending there are other 'viable alternatives' to their operating systems.
Will there be any reason for them to continue to encourage or even permit their biggest customers to ship alternative operating systems? Will calls go out from Redmond causing the big OEMs such as Compaq and Dell to curtail their Linux offerings?
I don't know if that will happen but I suppose it's possible. I think that Linux would have done well over the last two years on its own; However I would question if it would have exploded like it did if the DOJ wasn't breathing down Microsoft's neck.
Keep your eyes open for the big guns coming out of Redmond targeted on Linux in the next few months.
Most business accounting books have sections dedicated to valuing a business (which is what a website selling banneradds is!). After all if we are talking hundreds of thousands of dollars it pays to spend a few days getting up to speed on the business side of it and be as educated as possible about the transaction you are about to undertake.
-- Greg
Linux has poor support for multiple (load balanced) network cards; but we already knew that. Nobody I know slaps multiple NIC's into their servers anyway. If you really need that 'width you go with a gigabit card. Apparently the only use for a multi-nic configuration is if your doing a 'benchmark' for a thinly veiled MS marketing campaign.
-- Greg
Well its pretty clear that the government and the press are swallowing the megacorps' allegations hook line and sinker, while having little consideration for our side. I do think its a shame we don't hear more from RedHat or VA on this issue.
The everyday commonman is only hearing one side of the story. He should hear both. I think it's time for another web blackout to draw attention to this corporatism run amok.
Oh, almost forgot. When your looking at options ask to see the business plan. After all they are asking you to take a pay cut at the option of taking stock, you want to make sure this time your invsting in the company is worth it. You may be supprised at the difference of what they tell you they are doing and their actual business plan laid out in ink; then again perhaps not. Either way you've got a right to be informed before making your decision.
Options are 'free' to the company giving them to you. It costs them nothing to give them out, and so are often used to try to entice people to work for less then they are worth.
I would demand what you are worth, and if they want to give you options on top of that so be it.
I personally would only accept options as a substitute of salary on three conditions. First I would have to really believe the idea was a briliant one with a good business plan. Secondly I'd have to really think highly of the management team of the company. Third I'd have to be in a position where I made a difference in the company and helped make desicions on the way it's run. (forth, goes without saying, it better be a truckload of options)
Lets face it, in this late stage of the game most all of the good management teams have already gone out and done most of the briliant ideas and taken them public. All thats left are the stragglers to pick up the scraps. Most only areas left for internet startups are highly specialized/marginalized fields where the returns aren't that great, or areas where there is already a giant dominating the market.
Options are a great way for startups to underpay their tallent and 'handcuff' them so that they won't leave when they'd rather be somewhere else. I know two people who were handcuffed and rather be somewhere else. One of them recently was fired (he was misserable for a year and still lost his options).
My opinion is to get paid more and invest the extra in the stock market or put it away for a rainy day. Either way _you_ controll your destiny, not some idiot MBA who wanted to do 'this internet startup thing' and needs your help just to open his email.
If your not following the rules layed out above buying lottery tickets might be a better way to go (about the same risk!)
Last suggestion: be an independent contractor.I get to work at a couple of new startups a year, make more than any human should, and get to do the fun stuff of building up their business without the boring side of having to sit around maintaining it for the following years.
The whole lawsuit system in this country appears more broken day after day. It has clearly turned into first a system to make lawers rich by filing frivous 'class action' or personal injury lawsuits against large corporations and secondly into a means for corporations to take the freedoms away from individuals who can never afford a defence against billion dollar companies!
For the first issue perhaps there should be a compensation cap for lawers to keep them from these huge lawsuits; also redirect 'punative' damages somewhere where they will be more effective; the government or perhaps nonprofit organizations in the related field.
For the second... Our court system provides for the defendant in crimial cases a public defender in the event that the defendant cannot afford a defense themselves. Perhaps this should be extended to civil suits if defending the suit would place the defendant into financial hardship.
I am begining to fear we are losing the internet to big business. They've basically come in and started doing what they want and use the legal system as a tool to take what they want.
-- Greg
Actually they do. When the US does a military deployment (my firsthand knowledge was in haiti, when I helped uncle sam replace one corrupt government with another) its not only the military that gets deployed. Most of the basic services provided to the combat units are subcontracted out to companies such as wackenhut. In haiti these civilian companies built the bases we stayed in, ran the mess halls, handled the fuel points, they even provided us with construction equipment for our missions (I was in an engineer batallion). To sum up they handle most everything that doesnt require guns.
Supporting Legacy Systems
Buying SCO you'd have to deal with all the bagage of supporting UNIXWARE and their existing customers. One of the great things about RedHat right now is that it doesn't have this huge load of bagage it has to deal with. They can stay focused on Linux.
Besides, who'd wanna buy a UNIX that sells the TCP/IP stack as a seperate product?? blah.
Well it looks like SGI is staying in the supercomputer business after all. I would not be supprised if they started selling beowulf clusters as their 'supercomputer offering' in the next year or so. They believe (probably rightly) that the old monolithic idea of the supercomputer is dead and the new supercomputer should be large clusters of workstations. Much cheaper to build a beowulf cluster than a cray.
SGI seems to be betting large chunk of their business on Linux. Is it a shrewd business move, or done out of desparation? Only the future shal tell. and, btw, at current market capitalization RedHat has become the second largest UNIX vendor (i.e. primary business based on UNIX). They could buy SGI and SCO at this point and still have some left over.
Traveling occasionally and being forced to use other's machines (usually windoze boxes) I've found a good way to get in without SSH and still keep the crackers off my back. I've installed OPIE, a one time password login mechanism; in addition I installed PilotOTP on my Palm 3 which travels with me everywhere. TCP wrappers are set up to give local network users the standard login prompt while 'twist'ing the rest of the internet to an OTP login..
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd \ /bin/login.opie
hosts.allow has a rule for in.telnetd allowing local network standard access.
in hosts.deny:
in.telnetd: ALL : twist
-L
Hope this helps!
-- Greg
Well, I just got notified that they were not able to allocate me any shares :(
I wonder how many people had the opertunity to participate in the redhat deffered shares problem. Obviously over eight thousand... Would be interesting if someone had an indication as to how many had the chance to participate.
If you were one of the lucky ones, congratulations.. Oh well, guess I'll wait a few days for it to drop down and buy it anyway.
Looking at CNBC, the guy is standing in front of the redhat ticker on the board. it comes out 12:15 EST, or 9:15 for us left coasters. thats in a few minutes..
Well, I just got the message, and was pannicked, as there's no 'Other questions' box.. After sitting on hold a half hour I was able to update my 'indication of interest'. I am one of those who got 'the letter', which I think means we've got more time to update our indications..
But one thing thats interesting, and probably screwed alot of people... E-trade's mail servers sat on this mail for nearly a half hour! Headers show it sitting on mx3.etrade.com, arriving there at 7:29 (PST), and then not arriving at the next hop (my server) untill 07:56. I think if E-trade is going to make you do jump through hoops in 15 minutes they should ensure their mail servers can do things in less than 30!
-- Greg
PS: I just got called by E*trade regarding updating my profile. I imagine they are calling everyone with 'the letter' who indicated interest. I think they are doing a good job of responding to their customers. As for those without 'the letter' who just got scewed by a slow mail box.. well I hope they'll fix it in the future.