For your Oracle instances, I HIGHLY recommend their Advanced Server. I've seen it in action and it is impressive. I would consider it to be worth the cost.
For everything else, CHANGE distributions. SUSE, Debian, Mandrake, ASP, Rawhide, pick one. Or ditch linux all together and use FreeBSD. If you guys are used to Solaris, FreeBSD will be a very simple transition. The other BSD's are good too, but Free is closer to Solaris, IMHO. I've found that my experience with Solaris has translated to it quite nicely. In addition, the documentation is fabulous.
Look,
I hate censorship as much as anyone. I think that, as an adult, I have the right to choose what I put into the brain and my body.
Children, on the other hand, are protected until such a time as they are deemed able by society to make choices. We don't let 5 year olds watch porn. Junior High kids can't buy Hustler. High School kids can't get into the XXX movie theater.
Why is keeping GTA - Vice City or the topless BMX game out of the hands of a 7 year old such a big deal? How is that any different than keeping them out R rated (and above) movies? We should be doing this.
We've already decided that these things are not fit for children in other media formats (print, TV, film, etc.). If they aren't fit for children in a static print format or moving pictures, they certainly aren't fit for children in an interactive paticipatory format!
Example - Blockbuster rents movies and games. My 11 year old nephew can can't rent an R rated movie there, but he can rent a game like Panty Raider????? Where's the sense in that.
2 cents,
Queen B
I know that this product isn't exactly open source, but there have been persistent rumors that it will be release as such. I would also urge many of you who are in commercial environments to investigate this product as it is enterprise ready, works well with Outlook, etc.
Why don't we repoint the core DNS servers that server the German IP space to the Hollocaust Center's web site? or maybe www.remember.org (another hollacaust site with graphic photographs)? or maybe http://www.gfh.org.il/?
I think that any of those sites would be a fine choice until the German ISP's choose to allow the internet to function properly. Since they seem to be up to their old tricks, perhaps they should be reminded.......
My 2 cents,
Queen B
Guess what? For once the goverment has it's act together. The whole move to HDTV is supposed to free that portion of the spectrum for all kinds of new devices. It's going to be the equivalent of Europe expanding in to North America. The frequency bands taken up by TV is HUGE.
Write the FCC and tell them to kick your local TV station in the pants and get them moving.
You know, so many companies are sending their sensitive data - like customer information, pricing, etc. to countries where there are no laws about identity theft, intellictual property, and pretty much no penalty for ripping off anything you can get your hands on. Personally, I am much in favor of them doing this. More and sooner would suit me fine.
Why, you ask, would, I - an American IT worker, want this? Let me tell you, when people starting going to India, Croatia, Uzbeckistan, or what ever place they settle in to steal their secrets while writing their code for $2 an hour - maybe just maybe the PHB's will wise up.
Most companies live and die by their data and information. They don't call them trade secrets for nothing. Farming this stuff out to some guy who's not getting a decent living wage and who hasn't lived their whole life place where you can do back ground checks and credit checks and security checks and who doesn't work in place where you can watch his every move to be sure that he's not ripping you off is the most ridiculous and idiotic thing the multinationals have dreamed up yet.
Try saying that the "actual damage to his victims was slight" to the corporations who spent millions of dollars cleaning up after one of his intrusions. Try telling that to the system and network administrators that had to clean up the carnage. Once a system has been compromised, it has to be rebuilt from the ground up.
Just because he didn't go in with a bomb and blow the place up, doesn't make the damage any less "real". So he didn't use gun to hold them, how do you know he didn't sell their proprietary secrets to their next biggest competitor? Information is as much a commodity as gear.
You have to trust your IT people in general and your security staff in particular. Once someone has shown themselves to be unethical, I would have to think twice about allowing them access to my sensitive information. Network security in particular is sensitive because we know where the firewalls, routers, proxies, etc. all are. We have accounts on most of them. Security people are the ones who are in the best position to create and exploit flaws in the security undetected. Why would you want to put someone like that in this kind of a position?
Apparently these people have failed to consider that nearly 20% of the population of the world is allergic to egg yolks. It's the second most common food allergy, next to diary.
Do you think that something like this will be used to drive IPv6 adoption?
Also, what about the new studies that show that CD sales have slumped due to lack of investment in new bands and new releases by RIAA member-companies?
What exactly will constitute an "unapproved device"?
I suspect that many of the people post here are not involved in any of the WG's anywhere. I've been involved in several of them. It's not always easy. People disagree in the WG for a variety of reasons - some technical and some not. The non techncial issues include things like financial issues (as in being employed by a major vendor), long standing friendships within the group (you are my friend therefore your ideas must be the best path), etc. My current WG is the IETF PKIX and we recently ran through and incident of threats involving custard and pie throwing. We've had a couple of other incidents that lead me to think that a split of the WG might be imminent. Much to their credit, those involved bucked up and started acting like adults with work to do. They put aside their egos, financial interests, and got to the task at hand. This doesn't seem to be possible for the XFree86 group.
People who participate in WG's do so because they are passionate. They get emotionally invested in their ideas. It's hard not to. I would imagine that any of the open source projects work in much the same way. Kicking out someone who seems have been single-handedly driving their major improvements seems foolish on the part of the XFree86 group to me. This kind of a childish knee-jerk would seem to be a sure signal that he's on the right path. It seems that he will need the latitude to explore some paths and that he wasn't getting much support from the "Core Team" in doing this.
I've taken some time to do some research on this and I would tend to agree. The current "Core Team" seems to be stuck on their own ideas. I suspect that Mike Harris feels the need to chase some of his own ideas and see if they acutally pan out into something useful. That is the best reason to fork a project. If the code base splits temporarily or permanently, then it will be for the best.
Take the long view - say 10 years. Let's play what if with the different scenarios. Will any of us care that Mike Harris stayed with XFree86 project and kept the status quo? Probably not. Will any of care if he left, created a new fork, and smoked the old project? Probably yes. Will any of care if he left, created a new fork, which produced some really good ideas that got rolled back into the main fork? Probably yes.
With the proliferation of video cards, perhaps a trade-off in favor of flexibitiy (aka more cards supported and faster driver release) would be in all of our best interests. Perhaps Linux adoption would increase if I knew that I could run the latest ATI or NVIDIA card as soon as it hit the store shelves. Card makers might be more willing to issue Linux drivers if they didn't have to reveal the inner workings of their cards in an XFree86 patch.
As more and more makes and models of video card continue to be produced, the current XFree86 design will eventually crumble under its own weight anyway. It's like me asking you for a penney today, 2 pennies tomorrow, 4 pennies the next day and continuing to raise the power of 2 each consecutive day. Pretty soon you can't afford to pay me. You cannot continue to add every driver for every card every made as a "patch" the product.
For those of you who are not familiar with this, it's how Ebay forced some bid watching web sites to quit their constant scanning of the ebay site. It's worked in other places. I'm suggesting that we band together and file class action law suits against them and shut them all down. I have had excellent success with sending out a "Cease and Desist" notice that my lawyer drafted. My spam complaints is very thorough, and include the open relays (if any) and all of their upsteam ISP as well as the spammer's site and all of his upstream ISP's as well. This has worked well even for overseas spammers because sooner or later, the ISP is stateside.
As Big Brother-ish as the whole thing sounds, it's not even the tip of the ice berg. Part of the new PKI-X standard includes a way for your government to issue you a digital ID. As efficient as the DMV and social security office are now, I can only imaine how much fun it's going to be to have to get a digital ID - Yes, could you pee in the cup? Oh, and we'll need to swap your cheek for DNA. Blood drawing is at the next station. The last stop will be the retina scan and hand scanner. Don't forget to get your transponder implant on the way out!
Let me start out by saying, I've lost a contact lens, so I apoligize for the spelling in advance. I'm having a hard time seeing. That said......
The Cold War wasn't the only arms race going on. There's one that exits every day inside each one of it us. It's a race between various pathogens and our immune system. Oddly enough, DNA plays a HUGE role in the functioning of the immune system as a whole.
Did you realize that the reason that African-Americans have sickle cell anemia is that it is an evolved immune response? In order to develop the disease, you must inherit 2 recessive "defective" genes. But if you have only 1 "defective" gene and one "normal" gene, you are immune to malaria. Malaria is a mosquito borne disease that kills more than a million people a year in Africa. My point with is that genes that seem to be "bad" to us, might only seem "bad" because we don't have the whole story.
We've spent either thousands or millions of years, depending on your point of view, on this planet with our pathogens. They change us and we change them. We know that this happens because we can sit in a labratory and observe it. Antibiotic resistant strains are a prime example of this. I happen to call it evolution. Just as wolves thin the deer herds, making them faster, smarter, and stronger, so must the wolves become faster, smarter and stonger to continue to catch the deer. When you consider the amount of time that we humans have spent living with our various bacteria, parasites, etc. , it's logical to me that is happing with us on a microscopic scale.
Genes are very complicated things because they encode all sorts of information about how you function an unbelievably basic level. There are genes that encode the proteins that make up the cell wall. There are genes that encode the proteins that make up the receptor sites in cell wall. And guess what, mine don't look or work like yours! So I'm near sighted. My whole family is near sighted. My whole family also lives to be a 100 and it's a nice healthly 100, too. I suspect that there is some correlation since the ones that aren't near sighted died in their late 80's and early 90's.
The tinkering with plants hasn't gone as well as most of the public has been lead to believe. They figured out how to make cotton that didn't need to be dyed. It grew as red or blue. Well, they released it. People planted it and now they are being sued. Their neighbors are getting all kinds of odd color combinations in what was supposed to be their white cotton. There's also a "pest resistant" corn. Now that the corn flea beetle and corn worm can't eat corn, what will they be going to go after next? Or, worse yet, will they evolve in to a superpest that can eat the "pest resistant" plants? If they can eat the "pest resistant" corn, will they be able to eat the other "pest resistant " crops we're getting ready to release. We've created other "superpests" and a whole host of other problems with our use of chemicals because we really didn't understand the ramifications of what we were tinkering with - DDT, DES, MRSA, STSS, and a whole alphabet soup of acronyms. These are just the ones I can name off the top of my head.
This is a really really good example of "Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD". They don't understand what the side effects to the environment are with a simple thing like colored cotton. They sure aren't going to understand the full ramifications of making changes to humans any time in this century. Anybody that thinks that is a good idea, should probably get some IQ points spliced in to the DNS sequence.
Key locks - who thought that those would still be around? They date back to the Middle Ages at least. Where's my iris/retina scanner to let me in? Something's really wrong if I get locked out then!
Queen B
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With closed source code, how do you know that there isn't a root kit included? There are so many "undocumented features", "easter eggs", flight simulators, etc. included free of charge in Windows, what else is in there that we haven't found yet?
Let's imagine that your postman started bringing you 300 letters a a day about penis enlargement, herbal viagra, women who want to meet you, etc. Now, let's add a factor of 10 because you subscribe to some news groups - so now you are getting 3000 letters a day.
You have to hire your neighbors kids to help you sort the stuff. You have to buy a cart to haul it in. Let's say for a minute that you live in an aparment complex with a common mail area. Now all your neighbors are seeing all the email you get about penis enlargements (complete with glossy photos). Now you have this whole embarassment factor going.
The difference here is that the people sending the letters have to buy a stamp. The people sending out the "Visit my web cam" emails don't have to pay anything. Therefore there is not a financial incentive to discourage them. I know one person who is a spammer. He works for 4 hours a day and makes twice as much money in a month as I do in year.
If you want to stop spam, DO NOT RESPOND TO THEIR OFFERS. If you don't buy that toner cartridge, visit the web cam, order the viagra, etc., the finanacial incentive to spam just disappeared. If people weren't stupid and gullible, no one would spam. Moral of the story - Quit being gullbile and stupid.
As a member of the IETF for PKI-X, I can tell you that this whole thing is about to sweep the world. It all operates off Public Key Infrastructure. Essentially, you get a cert from the government that they can use to identify you. While there are a lot of legitamate uses, I think that all forms of government should be treated with a certain amount of paranoia.
How much more damage would Hitler have done if he had computerized access to everyone's banking records and been able to track every transaction? How about identification papers, travel permits, work passes, etc. that are signed with virtually unbreakable encryption? Let's see if that still makes you feel warm and fuzzy about your government knowing who you are when you send email, while your are surfing, and what you do when you are on line.
You are correct. The backend needs are very different for servers and desktops. Desktops tend to have at most 2 CPU's. Servers commonly have 8. Desktops tend to have 1 NIC. Servers commonly have 2+. Desktops need speed for foreground user processes. Servers need speed for background processes. This is not compatible in a single OS.
RedHat has already arrived at these conclusions. Their new "Advanced Server" will be strictly server OS which is mainly optomized for running Oracle. I've seen it in action and it ROCKS!
The also have the RedHat Workstation, which will be more optomized for the Desktop. It will have the nice GUI interface we have all come to know and love. So at least one Linux vendor is already moving in this direction.
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Further proof that GEEKS RULE!!!!!
HAH,
QueenB
For your Oracle instances, I HIGHLY recommend their Advanced Server. I've seen it in action and it is impressive. I would consider it to be worth the cost.
For everything else, CHANGE distributions. SUSE, Debian, Mandrake, ASP, Rawhide, pick one. Or ditch linux all together and use FreeBSD. If you guys are used to Solaris, FreeBSD will be a very simple transition. The other BSD's are good too, but Free is closer to Solaris, IMHO. I've found that my experience with Solaris has translated to it quite nicely. In addition, the documentation is fabulous.
HTH,
Queen B
Jimi
Look, I hate censorship as much as anyone. I think that, as an adult, I have the right to choose what I put into the brain and my body. Children, on the other hand, are protected until such a time as they are deemed able by society to make choices. We don't let 5 year olds watch porn. Junior High kids can't buy Hustler. High School kids can't get into the XXX movie theater. Why is keeping GTA - Vice City or the topless BMX game out of the hands of a 7 year old such a big deal? How is that any different than keeping them out R rated (and above) movies? We should be doing this. We've already decided that these things are not fit for children in other media formats (print, TV, film, etc.). If they aren't fit for children in a static print format or moving pictures, they certainly aren't fit for children in an interactive paticipatory format! Example - Blockbuster rents movies and games. My 11 year old nephew can can't rent an R rated movie there, but he can rent a game like Panty Raider????? Where's the sense in that. 2 cents, Queen B
Rule # 1 - pick something you can remember
Rule # 2 - pick something your team can remember
Rule # 3 - Rule # 1 is not necessarily equal to Rule # 2
Rule # 4 - Rule # 1 is not necessarily greater than Rule # 2
Rule # 5 - See Rule # 1
I know that this product isn't exactly open source, but there have been persistent rumors that it will be release as such. I would also urge many of you who are in commercial environments to investigate this product as it is enterprise ready, works well with Outlook, etc.
2 Cents,
QueenB
I particulary enjoyed the comment about the "foofie-lala new age aromatherapy".
Why don't we repoint the core DNS servers that server the German IP space to the Hollocaust Center's web site? or maybe www.remember.org (another hollacaust site with graphic photographs)? or maybe http://www.gfh.org.il/? I think that any of those sites would be a fine choice until the German ISP's choose to allow the internet to function properly. Since they seem to be up to their old tricks, perhaps they should be reminded....... My 2 cents, Queen B
Guess what? For once the goverment has it's act together. The whole move to HDTV is supposed to free that portion of the spectrum for all kinds of new devices. It's going to be the equivalent of Europe expanding in to North America. The frequency bands taken up by TV is HUGE.
Write the FCC and tell them to kick your local TV station in the pants and get them moving.
2 cents,
Queen B
You know if it gets published in Wired or Red Herring, managment will read it and begin to understand why we techies get so worked up over this stuff.
2 cents,
Queen B
You know, so many companies are sending their sensitive data - like customer information, pricing, etc. to countries where there are no laws about identity theft, intellictual property, and pretty much no penalty for ripping off anything you can get your hands on. Personally, I am much in favor of them doing this. More and sooner would suit me fine.
Why, you ask, would, I - an American IT worker, want this? Let me tell you, when people starting going to India, Croatia, Uzbeckistan, or what ever place they settle in to steal their secrets while writing their code for $2 an hour - maybe just maybe the PHB's will wise up.
Most companies live and die by their data and information. They don't call them trade secrets for nothing. Farming this stuff out to some guy who's not getting a decent living wage and who hasn't lived their whole life place where you can do back ground checks and credit checks and security checks and who doesn't work in place where you can watch his every move to be sure that he's not ripping you off is the most ridiculous and idiotic thing the multinationals have dreamed up yet.
2 cents,
Queen B
Try saying that the "actual damage to his victims was slight" to the corporations who spent millions of dollars cleaning up after one of his intrusions. Try telling that to the system and network administrators that had to clean up the carnage. Once a system has been compromised, it has to be rebuilt from the ground up.
Just because he didn't go in with a bomb and blow the place up, doesn't make the damage any less "real". So he didn't use gun to hold them, how do you know he didn't sell their proprietary secrets to their next biggest competitor? Information is as much a commodity as gear.
You have to trust your IT people in general and your security staff in particular. Once someone has shown themselves to be unethical, I would have to think twice about allowing them access to my sensitive information. Network security in particular is sensitive because we know where the firewalls, routers, proxies, etc. all are. We have accounts on most of them. Security people are the ones who are in the best position to create and exploit flaws in the security undetected. Why would you want to put someone like that in this kind of a position?
My 2 cents, Queen BApparently these people have failed to consider that nearly 20% of the population of the world is allergic to egg yolks. It's the second most common food allergy, next to diary.
Queen BDo you think that something like this will be used to drive IPv6 adoption?
Also, what about the new studies that show that CD sales have slumped due to lack of investment in new bands and new releases by RIAA member-companies?
What exactly will constitute an "unapproved device"?
That's it from me
Queen B
I suspect that many of the people post here are not involved in any of the WG's anywhere. I've been involved in several of them. It's not always easy. People disagree in the WG for a variety of reasons - some technical and some not. The non techncial issues include things like financial issues (as in being employed by a major vendor), long standing friendships within the group (you are my friend therefore your ideas must be the best path), etc. My current WG is the IETF PKIX and we recently ran through and incident of threats involving custard and pie throwing. We've had a couple of other incidents that lead me to think that a split of the WG might be imminent. Much to their credit, those involved bucked up and started acting like adults with work to do. They put aside their egos, financial interests, and got to the task at hand. This doesn't seem to be possible for the XFree86 group.
People who participate in WG's do so because they are passionate. They get emotionally invested in their ideas. It's hard not to. I would imagine that any of the open source projects work in much the same way. Kicking out someone who seems have been single-handedly driving their major improvements seems foolish on the part of the XFree86 group to me. This kind of a childish knee-jerk would seem to be a sure signal that he's on the right path. It seems that he will need the latitude to explore some paths and that he wasn't getting much support from the "Core Team" in doing this.
I've taken some time to do some research on this and I would tend to agree. The current "Core Team" seems to be stuck on their own ideas. I suspect that Mike Harris feels the need to chase some of his own ideas and see if they acutally pan out into something useful. That is the best reason to fork a project. If the code base splits temporarily or permanently, then it will be for the best.
Take the long view - say 10 years. Let's play what if with the different scenarios. Will any of us care that Mike Harris stayed with XFree86 project and kept the status quo? Probably not. Will any of care if he left, created a new fork, and smoked the old project? Probably yes. Will any of care if he left, created a new fork, which produced some really good ideas that got rolled back into the main fork? Probably yes.
With the proliferation of video cards, perhaps a trade-off in favor of flexibitiy (aka more cards supported and faster driver release) would be in all of our best interests. Perhaps Linux adoption would increase if I knew that I could run the latest ATI or NVIDIA card as soon as it hit the store shelves. Card makers might be more willing to issue Linux drivers if they didn't have to reveal the inner workings of their cards in an XFree86 patch.
As more and more makes and models of video card continue to be produced, the current XFree86 design will eventually crumble under its own weight anyway. It's like me asking you for a penney today, 2 pennies tomorrow, 4 pennies the next day and continuing to raise the power of 2 each consecutive day. Pretty soon you can't afford to pay me. You cannot continue to add every driver for every card every made as a "patch" the product.
My 2 cents,
Queen BIf my copy of Mozilla worked, I might be able to read the document.
Yes, I know it's a troll
Queen BFor those of you who are not familiar with this, it's how Ebay forced some bid watching web sites to quit their constant scanning of the ebay site. It's worked in other places. I'm suggesting that we band together and file class action law suits against them and shut them all down. I have had excellent success with sending out a "Cease and Desist" notice that my lawyer drafted. My spam complaints is very thorough, and include the open relays (if any) and all of their upsteam ISP as well as the spammer's site and all of his upstream ISP's as well. This has worked well even for overseas spammers because sooner or later, the ISP is stateside.
Over & Out,
Queen BAs Big Brother-ish as the whole thing sounds, it's not even the tip of the ice berg. Part of the new PKI-X standard includes a way for your government to issue you a digital ID. As efficient as the DMV and social security office are now, I can only imaine how much fun it's going to be to have to get a digital ID - Yes, could you pee in the cup? Oh, and we'll need to swap your cheek for DNA. Blood drawing is at the next station. The last stop will be the retina scan and hand scanner. Don't forget to get your transponder implant on the way out!
Let me start out by saying, I've lost a contact lens, so I apoligize for the spelling in advance. I'm having a hard time seeing. That said......
The Cold War wasn't the only arms race going on. There's one that exits every day inside each one of it us. It's a race between various pathogens and our immune system. Oddly enough, DNA plays a HUGE role in the functioning of the immune system as a whole.
Did you realize that the reason that African-Americans have sickle cell anemia is that it is an evolved immune response? In order to develop the disease, you must inherit 2 recessive "defective" genes. But if you have only 1 "defective" gene and one "normal" gene, you are immune to malaria. Malaria is a mosquito borne disease that kills more than a million people a year in Africa. My point with is that genes that seem to be "bad" to us, might only seem "bad" because we don't have the whole story.
We've spent either thousands or millions of years, depending on your point of view, on this planet with our pathogens. They change us and we change them. We know that this happens because we can sit in a labratory and observe it. Antibiotic resistant strains are a prime example of this. I happen to call it evolution. Just as wolves thin the deer herds, making them faster, smarter, and stronger, so must the wolves become faster, smarter and stonger to continue to catch the deer. When you consider the amount of time that we humans have spent living with our various bacteria, parasites, etc. , it's logical to me that is happing with us on a microscopic scale.
Genes are very complicated things because they encode all sorts of information about how you function an unbelievably basic level. There are genes that encode the proteins that make up the cell wall. There are genes that encode the proteins that make up the receptor sites in cell wall. And guess what, mine don't look or work like yours! So I'm near sighted. My whole family is near sighted. My whole family also lives to be a 100 and it's a nice healthly 100, too. I suspect that there is some correlation since the ones that aren't near sighted died in their late 80's and early 90's.
The tinkering with plants hasn't gone as well as most of the public has been lead to believe. They figured out how to make cotton that didn't need to be dyed. It grew as red or blue. Well, they released it. People planted it and now they are being sued. Their neighbors are getting all kinds of odd color combinations in what was supposed to be their white cotton. There's also a "pest resistant" corn. Now that the corn flea beetle and corn worm can't eat corn, what will they be going to go after next? Or, worse yet, will they evolve in to a superpest that can eat the "pest resistant" plants? If they can eat the "pest resistant" corn, will they be able to eat the other "pest resistant " crops we're getting ready to release. We've created other "superpests" and a whole host of other problems with our use of chemicals because we really didn't understand the ramifications of what we were tinkering with - DDT, DES, MRSA, STSS, and a whole alphabet soup of acronyms. These are just the ones I can name off the top of my head.
This is a really really good example of "Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD". They don't understand what the side effects to the environment are with a simple thing like colored cotton. They sure aren't going to understand the full ramifications of making changes to humans any time in this century. Anybody that thinks that is a good idea, should probably get some IQ points spliced in to the DNS sequence.
Queen BKey locks - who thought that those would still be around? They date back to the Middle Ages at least. Where's my iris/retina scanner to let me in? Something's really wrong if I get locked out then!
Queen B
With closed source code, how do you know that there isn't a root kit included? There are so many "undocumented features", "easter eggs", flight simulators, etc. included free of charge in Windows, what else is in there that we haven't found yet?
Queen B
Let's imagine that your postman started bringing you 300 letters a a day about penis enlargement, herbal viagra, women who want to meet you, etc. Now, let's add a factor of 10 because you subscribe to some news groups - so now you are getting 3000 letters a day.
You have to hire your neighbors kids to help you sort the stuff. You have to buy a cart to haul it in. Let's say for a minute that you live in an aparment complex with a common mail area. Now all your neighbors are seeing all the email you get about penis enlargements (complete with glossy photos). Now you have this whole embarassment factor going.
The difference here is that the people sending the letters have to buy a stamp. The people sending out the "Visit my web cam" emails don't have to pay anything. Therefore there is not a financial incentive to discourage them. I know one person who is a spammer. He works for 4 hours a day and makes twice as much money in a month as I do in year.
If you want to stop spam, DO NOT RESPOND TO THEIR OFFERS. If you don't buy that toner cartridge, visit the web cam, order the viagra, etc., the finanacial incentive to spam just disappeared. If people weren't stupid and gullible, no one would spam. Moral of the story - Quit being gullbile and stupid.
Queen BThey are true Unixes as well. NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD as well as some others are still alive and well and UNIX.
Queen B.
If VMWare was smart, they'd make an OS X port. The stuff already runs on Linux, so porting it to OS X shouldn't be that difficult.
Another 2 cents,
Queen B
As a member of the IETF for PKI-X, I can tell you that this whole thing is about to sweep the world. It all operates off Public Key Infrastructure. Essentially, you get a cert from the government that they can use to identify you. While there are a lot of legitamate uses, I think that all forms of government should be treated with a certain amount of paranoia.
How much more damage would Hitler have done if he had computerized access to everyone's banking records and been able to track every transaction? How about identification papers, travel permits, work passes, etc. that are signed with virtually unbreakable encryption? Let's see if that still makes you feel warm and fuzzy about your government knowing who you are when you send email, while your are surfing, and what you do when you are on line.
Queen BYou are correct. The backend needs are very different for servers and desktops. Desktops tend to have at most 2 CPU's. Servers commonly have 8. Desktops tend to have 1 NIC. Servers commonly have 2+. Desktops need speed for foreground user processes. Servers need speed for background processes. This is not compatible in a single OS.
RedHat has already arrived at these conclusions. Their new "Advanced Server" will be strictly server OS which is mainly optomized for running Oracle. I've seen it in action and it ROCKS!
The also have the RedHat Workstation, which will be more optomized for the Desktop. It will have the nice GUI interface we have all come to know and love. So at least one Linux vendor is already moving in this direction.
HTH,
Queen B