OpenERP looks like it might be a re-branding of TinyERP. However there's no obvious link from the TinyERP page on SourceForge nor on OpenERP's Launchpad page.
Probably a better one is Pupesoft, though the documentation is not quite as accessible to some as one might wish...
A note on geography: upstate New York is not NYC. It's the rest of the state, some of it is far enough away from the light polution that there is a chance see stars. There's small chance of seeing even the moon, let alone the milkyway in any major US city.
It's a shame. There's no good reason we have to spend good money shining light up into the sky, rather than keeping it on the ground where we paid for it to be. In a lot of areas a good case could be made to put the streetlights on timers and cut out after 11pm or midnight.
Odds are they'll simply tell him that linux is not supported under their network.
Disallowing operating systems other than Windows might make certain parts of CMU's computer science program more difficult for students.
That may very well be one of the intended effects of the "policy". Vendor sales teams embedded in the board of regents or, more likely, in the so-called IT department would have a snowball's chance in hell of changing the curriculum to suit their whims if they even had the cheek to try. Howwever if they dress it up as a "security" problem no one will ask, but if they do they can deny influence by distrcting from the fact that the students are supposed to be able to do course work on these same computers.
...How does Intel plan to compete against $6 Arm chips? A smart meter has no need for a 64bit, fat, power hungry, hot 3Ghz pc type chip with no peripherals builtin...
By buying up the main player in that market and either shutting them down or shoehorning 64bit, fat, power hungry, hot 3Ghz pc type chips with no built-in peripherals into the market niche formerly occupied by $6 Arm chips. Worked for Firestone and General Motors. Worked for Microsoft.
Developers are the easy target, but please stop with the trolling about software patents being a developers' concern. They just happen to be the first users with money.
Don't get copyright (distribution) confused with patents (usage). If you are doing the same thing as outlined in the patent, you have a problem if you are outside the EU. It doesn't matter whether the code doing it is closed, open, bought, borrowed, stolen, home made or found on the street: It's not the code that violates the patent, it's the activity.
Anyone doing basic XML editing is the target for the patent. You there, hosting the RSS/Atom feed. Yeah, you. Pay up...
Brave Homeland Security Officer: Place your thumb here.
Traveler: Ok.
*Presses thumb to scanner*
Brave Homeland Security Officer: Ah-ha! This says that you are in this country illegally! I've got you now!
Traveler/Illegal immigrant: Sooooo... since I'm not allowed to be in this country, do you want me to get on my plane and leave, or what?
Brave Homeland Security Officer: Yes! And, um, never come back! That'll teach you!
Traveler/Illegal immigrant: Yes, this punishment of being delayed from my flight for 30 seconds has surely made me so uncomfortable that I won't ever sneak back into this country. You win.
It's more than a 30 second delay. Make note that BHSO above didn't stamp TI's hand so he won't be able to get back in.
...You don't say anything bad about SAP, or you are out the door...
That'll get you in the next round of downsizing to pay for the M$ and SAP licenses.
God forbid you also have data showing the problems. That'll get you escorted to the parking lot.
...
2) The ZigBee Alliance have begun incorporating 6lowpan into their portfolio of "standards". The two understand the pervasiveness of IP networking.
Cool. So now 6lowpan is officially the way to head, despite the unfortunate name, even for zigbee projects.
Instead of one central purchasing order they will go after each state/county and government organisation parallely and independently.
And they'll say "Whoa, you're thinking of using what filthy hippy app?...
The 1990's called, they want their talking points back. Notice that after all these years, the best MSFTers can do to counter RMS is to call him names? Can't handle any of the ideas or technologies, can they?
We've known for decades that FOSS is about making money. Some discussions which might make the point that FOSS concepts dovetail with that:
zigbee was fine in certain circumstances, but has largely been superceded by IPv6 over Low power WPAN aka 6lowpan Two major advantages of 6lowpan are that it is more or less regular Internet (TCP/IP) the other is that, as a result, more secure and almost infinitely more scalable.
Additionally, zigbee is not a standard, 6lowpan is. That difference has important repercussions for long term planning of projects. The IETF has a good track record for standard maintenance. There are also GPL tools for 6lowpan devices.
6lowpan is more flexible. Unlike zigbee, which is fine in some contexts, 6lowpan works with a variety of wired and wireless, low-power, low-bitrate transmissions.
The Internet is where things happen nowadays. 6lowpan is part of that.
The blog entry is quite misleading (or maybe just assimilated). The market share of MSIE has only gone down as much as the market share of MS Windows has gone down. It can be that Windows has disappeared at a rate of 5% - 10% per year recently, but Microsoft is fighting back by tying IE to other products to block competition. That other product is MS Windows.
Does OpenBSD have any of the SELinux type security features?
systrace is a different kind of tool. It does allow you to set access policies, but for the system calls. Also, SE Linux is an add-on for the Linux kernels only. Systrace is available for Linux and the BSDs, which would include systrace for OpenBSD, You'll have to check if OS X is still covered.
MS has been such a problem by making unrefusable offers, that it's part of common culture. Making fun of it was probably a factor in a former political cartoon itself getting an offer it couldn't refuse and ending up under the control of MS' own competitor to Salon. A Gates-style "buy out" is a concept of its own.
... Their owners sell them because there's a chance their company will fail and they'll go under...
That's exactly the point repeated throughout this topic by many people. But you left off the reason: the small company will likely go under because it has been targeted by Megacorp, for a small business Microsoft is the kiss of death. Besides, advocating use of MS products at this late date is to knowingly advocate bleeding money from US workers. How many have to be fired to pay for the "upgrades", which in turn pay for the "buyouts"?
If you decide against, let Magacorp know immediately. Then get back to work, pronto. Looking back, second thoughts and re-negotiations are distractions, too. Let Megacorp know that your decision is final.
And get working on market share fast. If megacorp is Microsoft, they have a history of taking what they don't buy.
I don't think cost had that much to do with OS/2's failure....
It didn't. One reason was that since OS/2 was partially developed by what became IBM's competitor, the rights were partially controlled by said competitor. Further, that while that competitor had been working on its own OS to go against OS/2, IBM was under the belief that the competitor was developing OS/2 applications as agreed upon. Near the release date, no applications and, oh BTW, a competing system...
IBM wasn't the first or last to be suckered by M$. Burst, Sendo, SendIT, Stac Electronics, Be Inc, and many others bit the dust as the result of not treating MFTers with the distrust they warrant.
Hey. Why are the authors' summaries always so assimilated by the MS/Disney/RIAA mindset? Yes, there are some that assert that there are problems with specific torrents, but they (the complainers) and they (the disputed torrents) are not everybody, every country nor every torrent. Stop bleating the technology == piracy mantra spread by Bill and his minions.
There are plenty of legitimate downloads via the Pirate Bay, such as the CCC 25 presentations. P2P in general is full of legit traffic. Just last week, apt-p2p was mentioned, though is has been around a while longer -- long enough for HOWTO Forge to pick it up.
hopefully NASA intends to release something a little more high-res.
I couldn't see a specific mention of JPEG in the LA Times version. However, I've seen a number of other digital preservation efforts fail massively due to re-mastering as JPEG. Yeah, really, a lossy format for the digital master. Go figure. So the risk is there for this one.
JPEG is unsuited for master images, especially since these images will count as digital masters. GIF and even PNG are surprisingly compact and if only 256 shades of gray are needed, the GIF is usually the way to go for size.
Experiments like these are like putting people next to a jet engine to see if their hearing gets damaged. I am no PETA freak, but putting 200+ decibels is bound to do permanent damage. I know they said it is temporary, but that might be like my "temporary" hearing loss from the Boston show a few months back. Yes, I could hear fine afterward* but I wonder what incremental loss I might have had from all that loudness.
...
Probably much of what people claim as 'recovered' hearing is probably just getting used to the hearing loss.
I'm not sure how they spin the "temporary" aspect of the dolphin's hearing loss. Do the spinmeisters mean that some hearing is lost, temporarily when measured in the grand scheme of things? Or that on an absolute scale that although the hearing loss lasts for the rest of the dolphins' lives, that only amounts to just a few days and thus the hearing loss is 'just temporary'.
The software cost of upgrading is often effectively nil, because most large enterprise environments are on multi-year Enterprise Agreement contracts that allow for no-additional-cost software upgrades...
Like they haven't been already burned before by that company, at least once, by similar claims.
Deciding that a specific product is inappropriate is out of their purview...
Except if that product is known bad. They have an obligation to prevent further damage and / or to prevent good money from being thrown after bad. The recession is a depression in many areas, as evidenced by among other things, deflation. Regardless of recession or depression the times are harder, and not through getting harder, than has been experience for a few generations. And with that in mind, any wasted money means lost jobs. That wasted money can come through unnecessary licensing as well as lost efficiency.
If the French Gendarmerie can reduce IT costs by 70% through use of FOSS, why isn't Texas allowed to do so as well? Or, as the original post states, why not at least be able to avoid shelling out for MS Vista upgrades and upgrade headaches?
I'm all over that. Odin, Vili, and Ve killed the giant Ymir and made the world from him, using his blood, flesh, hair, bones and teeth for the lakes, earth, trees, mountains and pebbles, respectively. It'd be a fine thing to be able to further our science of these great deeds.
However, the summary mentioned astrology. I'd like to a double major, but avoid the hard sciences for the second major and do something like economics or pro-wrestling instead.
Sun and Red Hat ought to get together and promote sparc: open hardware for open systems. Being able to run RHEL and/or OpenSolaris is a good selling point, but it should also be possible to do both at the same time. You should be able to set up multiple containers each running either RHEL or OpenSolaris.
(I myself wouldn't say no to a low-end Sun or Fujitsu sparc workstation, if offered.)
Garbage products like xbox have gone down in flames (pun intended) and MS has to make smoke (no pun intended) and noise to distract from the situation.
Same crowd is going on attack against OpenOffice.org and other key products. The universal office format, OpenDocument Format, is getting specialized attackers. Repeat lies often enough that people believe them seems to be an ongoing theme from MS.
Whether 1-, 8-. 16, or 32-node clusters, PS3s are useful in computationally intensive tasks. I'd like to see an add-on for Blender or other 3D software that allows adding a PS3 as a single node cluster. If it's there and you're working with a desktop, why not also use the processors of the otherwise idle gaming machine
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Vista 7 is made from chilli.
Nice true open source alternative to SAP:
http://openerp.com/
OpenERP looks like it might be a re-branding of TinyERP. However there's no obvious link from the TinyERP page on SourceForge nor on OpenERP's Launchpad page.
Probably a better one is Pupesoft, though the documentation is not quite as accessible to some as one might wish...
A note on geography: upstate New York is not NYC. It's the rest of the state, some of it is far enough away from the light polution that there is a chance see stars. There's small chance of seeing even the moon, let alone the milkyway in any major US city.
It's a shame. There's no good reason we have to spend good money shining light up into the sky, rather than keeping it on the ground where we paid for it to be. In a lot of areas a good case could be made to put the streetlights on timers and cut out after 11pm or midnight.
Odds are they'll simply tell him that linux is not supported under their network.
Disallowing operating systems other than Windows might make certain parts of CMU's computer science program more difficult for students.
That may very well be one of the intended effects of the "policy". Vendor sales teams embedded in the board of regents or, more likely, in the so-called IT department would have a snowball's chance in hell of changing the curriculum to suit their whims if they even had the cheek to try. Howwever if they dress it up as a "security" problem no one will ask, but if they do they can deny influence by distrcting from the fact that the students are supposed to be able to do course work on these same computers.
I'd agree with the earlier posts: switch schools.
...How does Intel plan to compete against $6 Arm chips? A smart meter has no need for a 64bit, fat, power hungry, hot 3Ghz pc type chip with no peripherals builtin...
By buying up the main player in that market and either shutting them down or shoehorning 64bit, fat, power hungry, hot 3Ghz pc type chips with no built-in peripherals into the market niche formerly occupied by $6 Arm chips. Worked for Firestone and General Motors. Worked for Microsoft.
Developers are the easy target, but please stop with the trolling about software patents being a developers' concern. They just happen to be the first users with money.
Don't get copyright (distribution) confused with patents (usage). If you are doing the same thing as outlined in the patent, you have a problem if you are outside the EU. It doesn't matter whether the code doing it is closed, open, bought, borrowed, stolen, home made or found on the street: It's not the code that violates the patent, it's the activity.
Anyone doing basic XML editing is the target for the patent. You there, hosting the RSS/Atom feed. Yeah, you. Pay up...
Brave Homeland Security Officer: Place your thumb here.
Traveler: Ok.
*Presses thumb to scanner*
Brave Homeland Security Officer: Ah-ha! This says that you are in this country illegally! I've got you now!
Traveler/Illegal immigrant: Sooooo... since I'm not allowed to be in this country, do you want me to get on my plane and leave, or what?
Brave Homeland Security Officer: Yes! And, um, never come back! That'll teach you!
Traveler/Illegal immigrant: Yes, this punishment of being delayed from my flight for 30 seconds has surely made me so uncomfortable that I won't ever sneak back into this country. You win.
It's more than a 30 second delay. Make note that BHSO above didn't stamp TI's hand so he won't be able to get back in.
...You don't say anything bad about SAP, or you are out the door...
That'll get you in the next round of downsizing to pay for the M$ and SAP licenses. God forbid you also have data showing the problems. That'll get you escorted to the parking lot.
... 2) The ZigBee Alliance have begun incorporating 6lowpan into their portfolio of "standards". The two understand the pervasiveness of IP networking.
Cool. So now 6lowpan is officially the way to head, despite the unfortunate name, even for zigbee projects.
And they'll say "Whoa, you're thinking of using what filthy hippy app? ...
The 1990's called, they want their talking points back. Notice that after all these years, the best MSFTers can do to counter RMS is to call him names? Can't handle any of the ideas or technologies, can they?
We've known for decades that FOSS is about making money. Some discussions which might make the point that FOSS concepts dovetail with that:
and so on...
zigbee was fine in certain circumstances, but has largely been superceded by IPv6 over Low power WPAN aka 6lowpan Two major advantages of 6lowpan are that it is more or less regular Internet (TCP/IP) the other is that, as a result, more secure and almost infinitely more scalable.
Additionally, zigbee is not a standard, 6lowpan is. That difference has important repercussions for long term planning of projects. The IETF has a good track record for standard maintenance. There are also GPL tools for 6lowpan devices.
6lowpan is more flexible. Unlike zigbee, which is fine in some contexts, 6lowpan works with a variety of wired and wireless, low-power, low-bitrate transmissions.
The Internet is where things happen nowadays. 6lowpan is part of that.
The blog entry is quite misleading (or maybe just assimilated). The market share of MSIE has only gone down as much as the market share of MS Windows has gone down. It can be that Windows has disappeared at a rate of 5% - 10% per year recently, but Microsoft is fighting back by tying IE to other products to block competition. That other product is MS Windows.
MSIE must be removed from MS Windows. Or better yet, just ditch MS Windows and save your economy.
Does OpenBSD have any of the SELinux type security features?
systrace is a different kind of tool. It does allow you to set access policies, but for the system calls. Also, SE Linux is an add-on for the Linux kernels only. Systrace is available for Linux and the BSDs, which would include systrace for OpenBSD, You'll have to check if OS X is still covered.
MS has been such a problem by making unrefusable offers, that it's part of common culture. Making fun of it was probably a factor in a former political cartoon itself getting an offer it couldn't refuse and ending up under the control of MS' own competitor to Salon. A Gates-style "buy out" is a concept of its own.
... Their owners sell them because there's a chance their company will fail and they'll go under...
That's exactly the point repeated throughout this topic by many people. But you left off the reason: the small company will likely go under because it has been targeted by Megacorp, for a small business Microsoft is the kiss of death. Besides, advocating use of MS products at this late date is to knowingly advocate bleeding money from US workers. How many have to be fired to pay for the "upgrades", which in turn pay for the "buyouts"?
If you decide against, let Magacorp know immediately. Then get back to work, pronto. Looking back, second thoughts and re-negotiations are distractions, too. Let Megacorp know that your decision is final.
And get working on market share fast. If megacorp is Microsoft , they have a history of taking what they don't buy.
There. Fixed that for you.
Other than those typos, you're spot on. The offer to buy is often more a threat for extortion. See Sendo and a long list of corpses. Over the years, MS has taken what was a diverse and thriving industry and killed it through secret APIs and undocumented formats and protocols, price dumping and giveaways, and predatory marketing.
I don't think cost had that much to do with OS/2's failure. ...
It didn't. One reason was that since OS/2 was partially developed by what became IBM's competitor, the rights were partially controlled by said competitor. Further, that while that competitor had been working on its own OS to go against OS/2, IBM was under the belief that the competitor was developing OS/2 applications as agreed upon. Near the release date, no applications and, oh BTW, a competing system...
IBM wasn't the first or last to be suckered by M$. Burst, Sendo, SendIT, Stac Electronics, Be Inc, and many others bit the dust as the result of not treating MFTers with the distrust they warrant.
ECIS, celebrating its 20th anniversary, has published good, but short, summary of Microsoft's history of anticompetitive behavior and consumer harm.
Avoiding Wintel is not just good security, it's good business.
Hey. Why are the authors' summaries always so assimilated by the MS/Disney/RIAA mindset? Yes, there are some that assert that there are problems with specific torrents, but they (the complainers) and they (the disputed torrents) are not everybody, every country nor every torrent. Stop bleating the technology == piracy mantra spread by Bill and his minions.
There are plenty of legitimate downloads via the Pirate Bay, such as the CCC 25 presentations. P2P in general is full of legit traffic. Just last week, apt-p2p was mentioned, though is has been around a while longer -- long enough for HOWTO Forge to pick it up.
hopefully NASA intends to release something a little more high-res.
I couldn't see a specific mention of JPEG in the LA Times version. However, I've seen a number of other digital preservation efforts fail massively due to re-mastering as JPEG. Yeah, really, a lossy format for the digital master. Go figure. So the risk is there for this one.
JPEG is unsuited for master images, especially since these images will count as digital masters. GIF and even PNG are surprisingly compact and if only 256 shades of gray are needed, the GIF is usually the way to go for size.
Well, now we see who is pumping M$ on Slashdot.
It looks like turfers are turning their poison pens towards Sun, just as near a decade ago they turned towards the late Novell.
Experiments like these are like putting people next to a jet engine to see if their hearing gets damaged. I am no PETA freak, but putting 200+ decibels is bound to do permanent damage. I know they said it is temporary, but that might be like my "temporary" hearing loss from the Boston show a few months back. Yes, I could hear fine afterward* but I wonder what incremental loss I might have had from all that loudness.
...
Probably much of what people claim as 'recovered' hearing is probably just getting used to the hearing loss.
I'm not sure how they spin the "temporary" aspect of the dolphin's hearing loss. Do the spinmeisters mean that some hearing is lost, temporarily when measured in the grand scheme of things? Or that on an absolute scale that although the hearing loss lasts for the rest of the dolphins' lives, that only amounts to just a few days and thus the hearing loss is 'just temporary'.
The software cost of upgrading is often effectively nil, because most large enterprise environments are on multi-year Enterprise Agreement contracts that allow for no-additional-cost software upgrades...
Like they haven't been already burned before by that company, at least once, by similar claims.
Deciding that a specific product is inappropriate is out of their purview...
Except if that product is known bad. They have an obligation to prevent further damage and / or to prevent good money from being thrown after bad. The recession is a depression in many areas, as evidenced by among other things, deflation. Regardless of recession or depression the times are harder, and not through getting harder, than has been experience for a few generations. And with that in mind, any wasted money means lost jobs. That wasted money can come through unnecessary licensing as well as lost efficiency.
If the French Gendarmerie can reduce IT costs by 70% through use of FOSS, why isn't Texas allowed to do so as well? Or, as the original post states, why not at least be able to avoid shelling out for MS Vista upgrades and upgrade headaches?
I'm all over that. Odin, Vili, and Ve killed the giant Ymir and made the world from him, using his blood, flesh, hair, bones and teeth for the lakes, earth, trees, mountains and pebbles, respectively. It'd be a fine thing to be able to further our science of these great deeds.
However, the summary mentioned astrology. I'd like to a double major, but avoid the hard sciences for the second major and do something like economics or pro-wrestling instead.
Plant nettles.
If anyone asks, they're tastier than spinach. Good in bread, good in soup.
Sun and Red Hat ought to get together and promote sparc: open hardware for open systems. Being able to run RHEL and/or OpenSolaris is a good selling point, but it should also be possible to do both at the same time. You should be able to set up multiple containers each running either RHEL or OpenSolaris.
(I myself wouldn't say no to a low-end Sun or Fujitsu sparc workstation, if offered.)
I think you are confusing actual research with ...
Then sit back down and shut up while you think about it. While you're sitting there, ostensibly thinking, here is some material to consider:
Garbage products like xbox have gone down in flames (pun intended) and MS has to make smoke (no pun intended) and noise to distract from the situation. Same crowd is going on attack against OpenOffice.org and other key products. The universal office format, OpenDocument Format, is getting specialized attackers. Repeat lies often enough that people believe them seems to be an ongoing theme from MS.
Whether 1-, 8-. 16, or 32-node clusters, PS3s are useful in computationally intensive tasks. I'd like to see an add-on for Blender or other 3D software that allows adding a PS3 as a single node cluster. If it's there and you're working with a desktop, why not also use the processors of the otherwise idle gaming machine