Actually, in some situations, not only do 3Com's modems do 56k like advertised, but using Windows, I can get speeds of 115.2 kbaud when connecting to my campus's dial-in server using my USR V.90 Internal FaxModem. I'm not sure how it does it (although my guess is concurrent bidirectional traffic using different carrier frequencies). My understanding is that it only works because the campus server is using 3Com equipment as well, but it doesn't do it when I use the modem under Linux - maybe it's the serial port settings. Anybody else have some knowledge of this?
While that's true, unfortunately, this news does have a bearing on the case*. Any party who brings suit in court has to have standing to sue - the defendant must be accused of a specific harm against the plaintiff. If it can be shown that the harm no longer exists (the US Gov't no longer restricts source code exportation), the plaintiff loses standing and the case is dismissed.
What the DOJ is arguing is that the specific charge might no longer exist if the export rules are changed, which is true. From that standpoint, it might be better if the rules don't change before the case is decided...
...for science and engineering in general. We ought to reserve the designation of Law for fundamentally sound and mathematically provable phenomena, like Gravity and Motion. Even Relativity, which has more experimental basis and practical application than Moore's "Law," only rates a designation of Theory. I got sick of this in my Computer Architecture class, too. Why don't we get back to real science instead of playing prophet with Moore's Rule of Thumb?
There are no OEMs that provide uptime guarantees for Linux, unlike Windows NT where Compaq, Data General, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Unisys provide 99.9 percent system-level uptime guarantees for Windows NT-based servers.
System-level? Meaning the core operating system, i.e. the kernel? As noted many times above, the 99.9% figure still allows for one BSoD (Blue Screen of Death - a system-level crash) a week. When was the last time you saw a stable-release kernel, running on supported hardware, kernel panic (especially once a week)?
I think given those provisions, any of the distros out there could easily give a 99.9% system-level uptime guarantee. Now, service-level guarantees might be a different story. But then again, restarting a crashed service on Linux is just as easy as it is on NT - easier, actually, since you can log in remotely if it's any service other than inetd. Try restarting IIS from home!
Perhaps Qui-Gonn's death vs. those of Yoda and Obi-Wan has to do with the manner in which they die. Both Yoda and Obi-Wan surrender their bodies to the Force (Obi-Wan disappears before Vader's lightsaber strikes him), while Qui-Gonn is caught by surprise and actually killed by Darth Maul's lightsaber.
On the other hand, Vader/Anakin doesn't disappear either in Return of the Jedi after returning to the Light Side, so maybe it's just a trick Yoda and Obi-Wan know and Qui-Gonn doesn't...
If most of us had wanted a complete operating system that worked right out of the box, we wouldn't have started messing with Linux in the first place! We'd still be using Windoze...
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Actually, in some situations, not only do 3Com's modems do 56k like advertised, but using Windows, I can get speeds of 115.2 kbaud when connecting to my campus's dial-in server using my USR V.90 Internal FaxModem. I'm not sure how it does it (although my guess is concurrent bidirectional traffic using different carrier frequencies). My understanding is that it only works because the campus server is using 3Com equipment as well, but it doesn't do it when I use the modem under Linux - maybe it's the serial port settings. Anybody else have some knowledge of this?
While that's true, unfortunately, this news does have a bearing on the case*. Any party who brings suit in court has to have standing to sue - the defendant must be accused of a specific harm against the plaintiff. If it can be shown that the harm no longer exists (the US Gov't no longer restricts source code exportation), the plaintiff loses standing and the case is dismissed.
What the DOJ is arguing is that the specific charge might no longer exist if the export rules are changed, which is true. From that standpoint, it might be better if the rules don't change before the case is decided...
* Keep in mind, IANAL.
...for science and engineering in general. We ought to reserve the designation of Law for fundamentally sound and mathematically provable phenomena, like Gravity and Motion. Even Relativity, which has more experimental basis and practical application than Moore's "Law," only rates a designation of Theory. I got sick of this in my Computer Architecture class, too. Why don't we get back to real science instead of playing prophet with Moore's Rule of Thumb?
</RANT>There are no OEMs that provide uptime guarantees for Linux, unlike Windows NT where Compaq, Data General, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Unisys provide 99.9 percent system-level uptime guarantees for Windows NT-based servers.
System-level? Meaning the core operating system, i.e. the kernel? As noted many times above, the 99.9% figure still allows for one BSoD (Blue Screen of Death - a system-level crash) a week. When was the last time you saw a stable-release kernel, running on supported hardware, kernel panic (especially once a week)?
I think given those provisions, any of the distros out there could easily give a 99.9% system-level uptime guarantee. Now, service-level guarantees might be a different story. But then again, restarting a crashed service on Linux is just as easy as it is on NT - easier, actually, since you can log in remotely if it's any service other than inetd. Try restarting IIS from home!
Perhaps Qui-Gonn's death vs. those of Yoda and Obi-Wan has to do with the manner in which they die. Both Yoda and Obi-Wan surrender their bodies to the Force (Obi-Wan disappears before Vader's lightsaber strikes him), while Qui-Gonn is caught by surprise and actually killed by Darth Maul's lightsaber.
On the other hand, Vader/Anakin doesn't disappear either in Return of the Jedi after returning to the Light Side, so maybe it's just a trick Yoda and Obi-Wan know and Qui-Gonn doesn't...
If most of us had wanted a complete operating system that worked right out of the box, we wouldn't have started messing with Linux in the first place! We'd still be using Windoze...