If you take the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) to any main dealer they are able to order you a key or have one electronically cut while you wait. I have done this on a couple of occasions with an ordinary Toyota.
The VIN of my current Volvo is on display in the windscreen (to allow for law enforcement agencies to easily check it matches the Index plates).
An unscrupulous employee of a main dealer can easily obtain a new set of keys. The keys therefore will never all have been 'accounted for'.
Many Sys Admins I know already have all incoming port 80 traffic from MS blocked owing to the poorly behaved MS Search bot.
The search bot has slammed and saturated many Internet connections and is now blocked on every router that I configure and many of those of my colleagues too.
I have mentioned elsewhere the the bot exhibits very rude behaviour pulling full copies of websites and killed my bandwidth until I firewalled their bot.
I had 32Gig sucked off my servers in two days by their bot.
Most other search engines will drag the data over time dependant upon the size of the data and the total capability of the net connection. I know people who have spent ages getting their algorithms correct so they do not kill sites just because they have sufficient bandwidth,
The IP of their search engines is now blocked on every single network I run, as now will be their search site.
I am a Red Hat trainer working in the UK. There is no vendor lock-in.
This morning I have been teaching system V services. I have taught how to initialize these services on Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, Mandrake and Solaris.
This afternoon I am working my way through Squid. For Apache, Samba, NFS and all other services we recommend not using the GUI tools but vi (or emacs). All of these work the same way on all Linux as we deal with the application not the Distro. Where there are differences such as 'service httpd restart I also teach that you can use the full path to the script etc. etc.
The RHCE tests your abilities for applications - not RedHat thingys. Such as set up apache to do such and such, set up a mail server to receive mail. I tell my students that I do not care how they do it - use Postfix, sendmail or write a MTA that can do the job in the time allowed. We test the results not the method.
Red Hat do not modify their software so that it does not work with other software and we strongly believe in the GPL; hence our open sourcing GFS, the Global File System created by Sistina, allowing SuSE, Debian or anyone to use it to work with Red Hat systems.
In other news I thought I would also mention that I was very happy to see SuSE/Novell release the Ximian connector under an Open Source licence.
On their press release Red Hat provided an email address for more info. I have emailed them to ask if they are accepting donations to the fund. I have yet to receive a reply.
I would happily give them some cash to stick it to SCO and I am sure many other would.
In addition if they set up a paypal fund I am sure that they would get a lot of cash, even in dribs and drabs of a couple of pounds at a time.
It has been shown in many tests before (including those featured on Slashdot) that at 128k ogg came out well ahead.
If we take the comparison to vehicles that has been shown elsewhere I would see the formats as follows:
AAC (Pogo stick that costs £100) WMA (bicycle that costs £80 this year but will cost more next year and prevents you from using any other forms of transport) FLAC (HUMVEE that runs on water, great but may be too large for your needs) ogg (Mountain bike that is free, robust and does many tasks well) mp3 (Mountain bike unsure of full costs, which may change without warning, does many tasks well, though is often beaten by ogg.)
I did not see any links in the article relating to using these tests for further comparisons.
If people really want to see which is the best pogo stick; however if you are looking to review different transport methods, just comparing pogo stick manufacturers are best is limiting:-)
While it may be relevant to have a comparison between different AAC encoders the trial would have much more relevance to real life if it had included ogg and mp3.
A little extra work for a lot more sense in the results.
Your lawyers obviously do not have a clue what they are talking about.
Compiling software with gcc does not require you to release your software under the GPL.
If you are developing 'in-house' and are not releasing your software you do not need to release the source code.
If you use someone else's code, of course you have to comply with their licence. If that is the GPL and you want to sell your code as well as their code I should think you would have to release it.
If you incorporated a piece of Windows's code into your application, do you not think that you would have to comply with Microsoft's licence???
Linux has had Token Ring support for a long time; this looks like more FUDing and Trolling.
Ext2 is a well written filesystem and does not require constant defragging like Microsoft's filesystems do. This is lack of knowledge on your own part. I have a number of file and database servers running ext2 and ext3 that have been up for a number of years, while being heavily used and still only have 3 to 6% fragmentation.
Sorry to all others for responding to such an obvious Troll; however some fool had moderated it up.
Slashdot Mirror
This again is not quite accurate.
If you take the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) to any main dealer they are able to order you a key or have one electronically cut while you wait. I have done this on a couple of occasions with an ordinary Toyota.
The VIN of my current Volvo is on display in the windscreen (to allow for law enforcement agencies to easily check it matches the Index plates).
An unscrupulous employee of a main dealer can easily obtain a new set of keys. The keys therefore will never all have been 'accounted for'.
http://www.byte.com/documents/s=857/byt20010816s00 03/0820_pournelle.html
:-)
They did not like it when Sklyarov did it
Many Sys Admins I know already have all incoming port 80 traffic from MS blocked owing to the poorly behaved MS Search bot.
The search bot has slammed and saturated many Internet connections and is now blocked on every router that I configure and many of those of my colleagues too.
Xen does run windows. The developers used shared source and are not allowed to release the code.
I am told that it does run well though.
I know a lot of organisations that have blocked MSN search bots at their firewall.
The bot behaves very badly, frequently saturating the network.
Google has a great algorithm that tests total network bandwidth available and size of site and takes a directory a day or even just a page a day.
Once a range of IPs get into an admins firewall, they are not often removed. I see the same thing with IPs responsible for spam.
In the UK all wireless phones sold have to have batteries by law in the base unit to allow them to be used when the power goes out
There is a common file format and the next release of Abiword, Kword and Open Office should all use the oasis file format:
p ?w g_abbrev=office
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.ph
John, his bike
Jill, her bike
3M, their new product.
I have mentioned elsewhere the the bot exhibits very rude behaviour pulling full copies of websites and killed my bandwidth until I firewalled their bot.
I had 32Gig sucked off my servers in two days by their bot.
Most other search engines will drag the data over time dependant upon the size of the data and the total capability of the net connection. I know people who have spent ages getting their algorithms correct so they do not kill sites just because they have sufficient bandwidth,
The IP of their search engines is now blocked on every single network I run, as now will be their search site.
I am a Red Hat trainer working in the UK. There is no vendor lock-in.
:-)
This morning I have been teaching system V services. I have taught how to initialize these services on Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, Mandrake and Solaris.
This afternoon I am working my way through Squid. For Apache, Samba, NFS and all other services we recommend not using the GUI tools but vi (or emacs). All of these work the same way on all Linux as we deal with the application not the Distro. Where there are differences such as 'service httpd restart I also teach that you can use the full path to the script etc. etc.
The RHCE tests your abilities for applications - not RedHat thingys. Such as set up apache to do such and such, set up a mail server to receive mail. I tell my students that I do not care how they do it - use Postfix, sendmail or write a MTA that can do the job in the time allowed. We test the results not the method.
Red Hat do not modify their software so that it does not work with other software and we strongly believe in the GPL; hence our open sourcing GFS, the Global File System created by Sistina, allowing SuSE, Debian or anyone to use it to work with Red Hat systems.
In other news I thought I would also mention that I was very happy to see SuSE/Novell release the Ximian connector under an Open Source licence.
Have fun
If you want an easy solution I use sipphone.com
This is a voip solution that allows calls to and from landlines. There are windows and Linux clients available too.
I quote the BBC article:
"The MORI survey was commissioned by an IT consultancy which has worked on projects with the government."
So the Government pays for this and gets the answer it wants. Don't people here normally complain like hell when Microsoft do that?
Have fun.
It depends what questions are asked:
As the latest survey was sponsored by people who want to bring in ID cards I am sure it was along the lines of:-
I want ID cards introduced to stop immigrants stealing British jobs and money?
or
I do not want ID cards and want to try to prevent the government reduce crime.
http://openapps.harkness.co.uk/junk/
There is a copy of the article and the picture covered by the Daily Mail.
I got a rocket camera for Christmas from my brother :-)
estes rockets
It uses a couple of explosive packs and takes a picture at its apex.
On their press release Red Hat provided an email address for more info. I have emailed them to ask if they are accepting donations to the fund. I have yet to receive a reply.
I would happily give them some cash to stick it to SCO and I am sure many other would.
In addition if they set up a paypal fund I am sure that they would get a lot of cash, even in dribs and drabs of a couple of pounds at a time.
It has been shown in many tests before (including those featured on Slashdot) that at 128k ogg came out well ahead.
:-)
If we take the comparison to vehicles that has been shown elsewhere I would see the formats as follows:
AAC (Pogo stick that costs £100)
WMA (bicycle that costs £80 this year but will cost more next year and prevents you from using any other forms of transport)
FLAC (HUMVEE that runs on water, great but may be too large for your needs)
ogg (Mountain bike that is free, robust and does many tasks well)
mp3 (Mountain bike unsure of full costs, which may change without warning, does many tasks well, though is often beaten by ogg.)
I did not see any links in the article relating to using these tests for further comparisons.
If people really want to see which is the best pogo stick; however if you are looking to review different transport methods, just comparing pogo stick manufacturers are best is limiting
And now for something completely different...
While it may be relevant to have a comparison between different AAC encoders the trial would have much more relevance to real life if it had included ogg and mp3.
A little extra work for a lot more sense in the results.
Have fun
Xander
Ooooh great. We have secure passwords for an insecure operating system.
I really cannot see users going through any of that.
They have enough difficulty understanding warnings such as "You have six days to change your password"
So instead of changing it from doggy's name to daughters name, they just complain when they cannot login - "something is broken!"
Your employer needs to spend some money and watch Exchange crash and burn once a week or get a brain and install a couple of Linux boxes.
Whether or not it is your call I am not sure I could suffer such fools.
Condolences
Xander
Which has a higher data capacity?
High density or double density disks?
Pesky citizens allowing the truth to get out!!!
:-)
They closed down the Internet Cafes!
The Government now need to remove all mobile phones.
Breaking news is that they may ban speach altogether
Your lawyers obviously do not have a clue what they are talking about.
Compiling software with gcc does not require you to release your software under the GPL.
If you are developing 'in-house' and are not releasing your software you do not need to release the source code.
If you use someone else's code, of course you have to comply with their licence. If that is the GPL and you want to sell your code as well as their code I should think you would have to release it.
If you incorporated a piece of Windows's code into your application, do you not think that you would have to comply with Microsoft's licence???
Linux has had Token Ring support for a long time; this looks like more FUDing and Trolling.
Ext2 is a well written filesystem and does not require constant defragging like Microsoft's filesystems do. This is lack of knowledge on your own part. I have a number of file and database servers running ext2 and ext3 that have been up for a number of years, while being heavily used and still only have 3 to 6% fragmentation.
Sorry to all others for responding to such an obvious Troll; however some fool had moderated it up.
The licence for Star Office allows you to install it on up to five computers that you use.
:-)
The licence for open office......
Have fun