It seems a bit amusing that they suggest that desktop versions of their OS won't be as stable as the Enterprise, consdidering it runs off the same damn stable kernel.. what do they do.. write in an kernel panic after 60 days into the desktop version?:)
I have been using Red Hat 7.2 and 7.3 over three different servers.. the two 7.2 systems run a web cache, dns, and DHCP service which service about 800 machines each. They work like a charm. The 7.3 machine handles a webmail system - again, works like a charm.
I'll just continue to use the desktop / "home" versions with Enterprise level RHN accounts - seems to work really well even on high end Dell server gear!
I think its way too early to rule out Bluetooth.. it is still a relatively new technology, and its only now starting to see wider adoption - things like the Microsoft Bluetooth cordless desktop and the like have only been out for a few months!
Also heard about things like Bluetooth capable printers which sounds like a great idea.
I don't really see any suitable alternatives to Bluetooth as yet for short range wire-free communication between devices. The only thing that lets it down is the high cost of Bluetooth components in devices - on larger items like printers and expensive mobile phones this isnt too bad, but for smaller cheaper devices it kinda keeps the prices a little high!
SCO's case against IBM hinges on the idea that in the late 1990s, Linux seemed to get very good very fast. Too good, too fast -- Linux, which could run only on single-processor machines when it was created in 1991, worked on high-performance platforms by the decade's end. Open-source software developers take pride in such speedy development; it's one of the main advantages of the open-source model, they say. But in SCO's view, the fact that Linux evolved so quickly speaks to darker forces at work. Linux could simply not have improved the way it did without the help of IBM, SCO says, and everything IBM knew, it learned from SCO.
I have to say that this caught my eye. So apparently in 1991 Microsoft had just published Windows 3.0 - it had no support for multiprocessor and other goodies either.
The Linux movement surely has more people working on it that people programming MS Windows, so how the hell does it seem so unreasonable that Linux has only taken nine years to develop this kind of support?
Maybe SCO should be reminded that this is one of the huge advantages to opensource - ANYBODY can contribute if they are skilled enough. With that kind of workforce behind the movement, surely pretty much anything could (and has been) achieved in 9 years.
Well I gotta be honest and say.. from the shots I have seen, and from what I have read, I can't really see what the Ximian Desktop offers Red Hat users over the superb BlueCurve front end on the most recent versions.
Antialiasing, clean & well organised style, custom icons, and specially developed management tools. I really really rate what Red Hat have done, and I could never see myself paying for something like Ximian Desktop to replace BlueCurve.
I'd have said that its more of a PDA with telephone abilities, than just a phone.
Mobile phones are just going crazy.. don't get me wrong, I love phones with extra gadgets built in. The first Nokia phone with the camera in really surprised me.. you can take some really entertaining 'in your face' style photos with that thing.
But the P800 just seemed like it had gone too far. I think its a marvel of modern technology but it just seems to be so much more than a phone, that it really isn't just a mobile phone any more. Its also pretty freakin huge.
I'd personally be sacrificing stuff like the camera, enormous colour screen, and all that other stuff just to keep the size down. WAP already proved itself to be a waste of time a long time ago, so that can go as well.
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I dont know how easy it'll be, but I like the sound of it over doing it from the ground up...
An IT lecturer in our college just came to me the other day.. he has recently discovered Linux (one must ask why it has taken him this long.. but at least he is making the effort), and is currently learning it and playing with it.
He recently saw information on Linux clustering, and seeing as his classroom is made up of 18 or so nice 1GHz+ pc's, he told me it was something he'd really like to try out. Whilst I thought it was a great idea, I was a little concerned at the amount of time it would take me to get up and running - let alone the amount of reading up i'd need to do.
Just reading this has made me realise it could be the answer to all my problems..:)
Maybe Microsoft said.. "Look.. just have a go at trying to screw over Linux. We'll step in right at the end, and buy you out just as soon as the money starts to run out."
I don't think anything else can explain the bizarre & back stabbing attempts they have made to shit on the community.
Nasa obviously tried to make their products as safe as possible. Space missions are high profile, and if something like Columbia happens, then EVERYONE knows about it.
Companies like Ford were (are they still?) well known for only changing known lethal flaws if the costs of the law suits & damages were more than the cost of actually fixing the problem across the particular model of car.
Well.. its not an alien concept to think that some people just like to have the latest hardware to be able to run the latest games as fast & at as high a resolution as possible.
I have a GeForce 4 Ti4400.. don't get me wrong, it is a quick card but there is a lot better out there.
Yeah, it sucks that I can't afford to have the latest Radeon 9800 Pro or whatever, but I can understand why people would want them.
I wouldn't mind a 9800 ready for Doom III and Half Life II though;)
Re:Here's what SUSE is saying on their web site.
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Its crazy.
I find it an amazing move for all the wrong reasons.. at least if SCO had allowed the companies it works with on UnitedLinux 'out' of this lawsuit then they might have some friends to go back to after they get demolished in court by IBM.. but instead they are burning all of their bridges behind them, and leaving their allies confused and annoyed.
SCO deserve to go bust after this.. greedy sons of bitches.
Car ECU's do seem to hold a lot more information than perhaps most people think they do... and I personally think its for the better.
I am certain that on a number of higher priced cars (such as Porsches or BMW's) they record lots of little details.. like the number of standing 'sprint' starts you have made as a pose to just regular pulling away from lights etc.
A friend recently had to visit the dealership to have his ECU reprogrammed on his brand new Peugeot 206 - they were able to determine from that what, amongst other things, his top speed had been since owning it.
I feel its a good idea for car manufacturers to do it though.. it helps them when it comes down to court cases and complaints about the 'quality' of their car, if they can see how their cars are been driven. They can then gauge if the wear on parts relates to the style of driving and can absolve themselves from any responsibility.
But don't SCO sell a modified / customised version of Linux of their own?
If its so damn illegal and so immoral, then WHY THE HELL ARE THEY SELLING IT.
What a bunch of idiots:|
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I am pretty gobsmacked they even managed to have a conversation as detailed about it as that.
I am kinda left with images of 70+ year old men sitting looking baffled in a half empty house of commons, prodding their neighbours and discussing under hushed voices what tinned meat has to do with these darn fangled computer contraptions.
Though to be fair my granddad used to be interested in the IT market at the ripe old age of 80, and would regularly clip out articles about the likes of Cisco and Microsoft, and post them to me.
I really wanted to put Jedi down on my Census, but the I had heard rumours that the UK government were going to fine people who put religion as Jedi so I chickened out.
As it turns out, the only part of the census the government can't fine you for is the religion option... as this snippet from a 2001 Register article says here:
We spoke to the Home Office - which was not overly entertained especially since the Census is supposed to be deadly serious. However the Home Office would not say what constituted a religion and we subsequently discovered that while you can be heavily fined for putting down false details on a census form, it does not apply to the religion question.
Ah well... I think 400,000 was more than enough anyway;)
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Homer : I reluctantly accept your proposal.
Bill Gates : Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
Homer : Hey, what the hell's going on!
Bill Gates : Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks! [insane laughter]
It depends on the systems you want to run.
:)
It seems a bit amusing that they suggest that desktop versions of their OS won't be as stable as the Enterprise, consdidering it runs off the same damn stable kernel.. what do they do.. write in an kernel panic after 60 days into the desktop version?
I have been using Red Hat 7.2 and 7.3 over three different servers.. the two 7.2 systems run a web cache, dns, and DHCP service which service about 800 machines each. They work like a charm. The 7.3 machine handles a webmail system - again, works like a charm.
I'll just continue to use the desktop / "home" versions with Enterprise level RHN accounts - seems to work really well even on high end Dell server gear!
Why the hell did I post this as AC.. damnit. Some fine karma whoring, and I threw it away :)
I think its way too early to rule out Bluetooth.. it is still a relatively new technology, and its only now starting to see wider adoption - things like the Microsoft Bluetooth cordless desktop and the like have only been out for a few months!
Also heard about things like Bluetooth capable printers which sounds like a great idea.
I don't really see any suitable alternatives to Bluetooth as yet for short range wire-free communication between devices. The only thing that lets it down is the high cost of Bluetooth components in devices - on larger items like printers and expensive mobile phones this isnt too bad, but for smaller cheaper devices it kinda keeps the prices a little high!
SCO's case against IBM hinges on the idea that in the late 1990s, Linux seemed to get very good very fast. Too good, too fast -- Linux, which could run only on single-processor machines when it was created in 1991, worked on high-performance platforms by the decade's end. Open-source software developers take pride in such speedy development; it's one of the main advantages of the open-source model, they say. But in SCO's view, the fact that Linux evolved so quickly speaks to darker forces at work. Linux could simply not have improved the way it did without the help of IBM, SCO says, and everything IBM knew, it learned from SCO.
I have to say that this caught my eye. So apparently in 1991 Microsoft had just published Windows 3.0 - it had no support for multiprocessor and other goodies either.
The Linux movement surely has more people working on it that people programming MS Windows, so how the hell does it seem so unreasonable that Linux has only taken nine years to develop this kind of support?
Maybe SCO should be reminded that this is one of the huge advantages to opensource - ANYBODY can contribute if they are skilled enough. With that kind of workforce behind the movement, surely pretty much anything could (and has been) achieved in 9 years.
God I hope SCO crashes and burns..
Well I gotta be honest and say.. from the shots I have seen, and from what I have read, I can't really see what the Ximian Desktop offers Red Hat users over the superb BlueCurve front end on the most recent versions.
Antialiasing, clean & well organised style, custom icons, and specially developed management tools. I really really rate what Red Hat have done, and I could never see myself paying for something like Ximian Desktop to replace BlueCurve.
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That must have been a real skim read by CmdrTaco!
Now THAT is a phone!
I'd have said that its more of a PDA with telephone abilities, than just a phone.
Mobile phones are just going crazy.. don't get me wrong, I love phones with extra gadgets built in. The first Nokia phone with the camera in really surprised me.. you can take some really entertaining 'in your face' style photos with that thing.
But the P800 just seemed like it had gone too far. I think its a marvel of modern technology but it just seems to be so much more than a phone, that it really isn't just a mobile phone any more. Its also pretty freakin huge.
I'd personally be sacrificing stuff like the camera, enormous colour screen, and all that other stuff just to keep the size down. WAP already proved itself to be a waste of time a long time ago, so that can go as well.
I dont know how easy it'll be, but I like the sound of it over doing it from the ground up...
:)
An IT lecturer in our college just came to me the other day.. he has recently discovered Linux (one must ask why it has taken him this long.. but at least he is making the effort), and is currently learning it and playing with it.
He recently saw information on Linux clustering, and seeing as his classroom is made up of 18 or so nice 1GHz+ pc's, he told me it was something he'd really like to try out. Whilst I thought it was a great idea, I was a little concerned at the amount of time it would take me to get up and running - let alone the amount of reading up i'd need to do.
Just reading this has made me realise it could be the answer to all my problems..
Maybe Microsoft said.. "Look.. just have a go at trying to screw over Linux. We'll step in right at the end, and buy you out just as soon as the money starts to run out."
I don't think anything else can explain the bizarre & back stabbing attempts they have made to shit on the community.
Die SCO, die.
..THIS game of life.. I couldn't quite understand out how that was going to work as it got spewed out of a printer :)
Indeed.
Nasa obviously tried to make their products as safe as possible. Space missions are high profile, and if something like Columbia happens, then EVERYONE knows about it.
Companies like Ford were (are they still?) well known for only changing known lethal flaws if the costs of the law suits & damages were more than the cost of actually fixing the problem across the particular model of car.
I guess thats big business for you.
He'd make a plan and he'd follow through.. thats what James T Kirk would do.
:)
Kaaaahhhhhn!!!!!!
Sorry
Wasn't it Goldmember himself who drove the Sparrow in the movie? Austin Powers was chasing him in a Mini! :)
Well.. its not an alien concept to think that some people just like to have the latest hardware to be able to run the latest games as fast & at as high a resolution as possible.
;)
I have a GeForce 4 Ti4400.. don't get me wrong, it is a quick card but there is a lot better out there.
Yeah, it sucks that I can't afford to have the latest Radeon 9800 Pro or whatever, but I can understand why people would want them.
I wouldn't mind a 9800 ready for Doom III and Half Life II though
And in other news, I am fucking blind.
Excuse me whilst I go and get my eyes tested.
Thought this sounded familiar.
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Same / similar story on Slashdot a few months ago
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/22152
Its crazy.
I find it an amazing move for all the wrong reasons.. at least if SCO had allowed the companies it works with on UnitedLinux 'out' of this lawsuit then they might have some friends to go back to after they get demolished in court by IBM.. but instead they are burning all of their bridges behind them, and leaving their allies confused and annoyed.
SCO deserve to go bust after this.. greedy sons of bitches.
Car ECU's do seem to hold a lot more information than perhaps most people think they do... and I personally think its for the better.
I am certain that on a number of higher priced cars (such as Porsches or BMW's) they record lots of little details.. like the number of standing 'sprint' starts you have made as a pose to just regular pulling away from lights etc.
A friend recently had to visit the dealership to have his ECU reprogrammed on his brand new Peugeot 206 - they were able to determine from that what, amongst other things, his top speed had been since owning it.
I feel its a good idea for car manufacturers to do it though.. it helps them when it comes down to court cases and complaints about the 'quality' of their car, if they can see how their cars are been driven. They can then gauge if the wear on parts relates to the style of driving and can absolve themselves from any responsibility.
You gotta do what you gotta do.. sorry Fry!
But don't SCO sell a modified / customised version of Linux of their own?
:|
If its so damn illegal and so immoral, then WHY THE HELL ARE THEY SELLING IT.
What a bunch of idiots
I am pretty gobsmacked they even managed to have a conversation as detailed about it as that.
I am kinda left with images of 70+ year old men sitting looking baffled in a half empty house of commons, prodding their neighbours and discussing under hushed voices what tinned meat has to do with these darn fangled computer contraptions.
Though to be fair my granddad used to be interested in the IT market at the ripe old age of 80, and would regularly clip out articles about the likes of Cisco and Microsoft, and post them to me.
Ah yes.. the ultimate pussy. Because I didn't put down a comedic religion on my UK Census. That *has* to make me into a total wimp!
Get a grip mate.
I really wanted to put Jedi down on my Census, but the I had heard rumours that the UK government were going to fine people who put religion as Jedi so I chickened out.
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;)
As it turns out, the only part of the census the government can't fine you for is the religion option... as this snippet from a 2001 Register article says here
We spoke to the Home Office - which was not overly entertained especially since the Census is supposed to be deadly serious. However the Home Office would not say what constituted a religion and we subsequently discovered that while you can be heavily fined for putting down false details on a census form, it does not apply to the religion question.
Ah well... I think 400,000 was more than enough anyway
What the hell version of Linux have you used that requires constant attention to prevent it from breaking down??
The thing I continue to love about Linux boxes is that you can set them up and stick them in a corner, and forget about em. They just work.
I could go on and on, but the conclusion is clear.. you don't know what the hell you are talking about >:|