It's been easy to make a reformed version of Fedora, and the various Redhats, for some time. There hasn't been a GUI tool for it before, and they haven't called it a respin, but they've been there.
See here for example. It tells how to generate new ISO images from the original ISOs and updated RPMs. I've personally used the tools to build stripped down versions of Redhat/Fedora that include everything I need, but on a single CD. You can also include a kickstart file on the CD so that you can give a "linux ks=cdrom" at the initial install prompt to run a fully automated install. I don't think Redhat would have ever been as useful to corporations had it not had this option. Why install old RPMs? Install the OS with the latest, greatest everything.
I assume you meant GPL code, rather than GNU code, as GNU is a set of tools, rather than a copyright license. That aside, five dollars to man who finds me some GPL'd code in any Microsoft product not licensed under the GPL.
As far as BSD code...so what? It's perfectly legal to take BSD code and put it in a closed-source commercial application. They did just that, but can you blame them? If the code is good, why not include it? That was the spirit in which the BSD code was written. If you say otherwise you obviously haven't released any code under a BSD style license.
According to their nifty flowchart it supports whatever windows supports. It takes the inbound traffic after the hardware receives it, but before the TCP/IP stack. It sits in the same place as a software firewall, but offloads the calculations and filtering to the dongle's cpu.
Why would anyone want this? Well, a router that combines firewall, nat, vpn, etc. is fine for home use, but what about the coffee shop? For a mobile computer having a on-computer firewall is a must. As far as why anybody would choose to use this over any software firewall... I can only assume it's for people who don't want yet another piece of software hogging their cpu. Most software firewalls aren't that intensive, but if you're looking to free up that 3-5% of your resources, hardware is the way to do it. Of course, without a benchmark showing a difference, the actual performance increase is lost in the market speak.
How 'bout microsoft buyout some of that thevinylgroove.com or fishybell.com. I hear that even though they're offline they're worth millions. Millions I say!
Perhaps a two man soccer gamer with goals as wide as the field? Also, to make the game easier the soccer ball would bounce off of the side walls rather than going out of bounds.
I've released/maintain three different open source applications/frameworks; Tcl PIC, UPS Print Plugin, and WyattERP. All three of these were written to be used by the company I work for. Tcl PIC and WyattERP have been used for several years, and all of them are currently being used.
I don't expect anyone to contribute to any of the projects, but people have. As long as you're giving to the community, the community will likely give back.
You must be wary of the term "Open Source Community" because no such community exists. Instead there are thousands of individual communities. Yes, many people participate in several communities, but no one participates in all, and most don't participate so much as watch. Like any good spectator sport though, it's always more fun to play than to watch:)
Well, without reading TFA, I would say it's pretty similar to any other data loss incident. You notice someone has the data (or the internet has it) and you investigate. Oh, some of your previous employees work for them now, that's a pretty indicator of who-done-it. A few subpoenas later you've found out the entire story.
A company I used to work for lost their customer data in a similar way. An employee quit and took the entire database with him. We noticed there was a problem when a large amount of the customers started telling us about a competitor trying to sell them their product. Well, my company looked into it, and a few subpoenas and a lawsuit later everything was fixed.
How long do we need to wait for reasonably priced LED light bulbs? I figure the electrical will be significantly less than even CFLs, so how do they stack up now? I mean, if CFLs are saving us 150 bucks a year in electricity, would LEDs save us that much more? If so, I assume at even their current price they'll end up saving us money over 10 years or so (plus you don't replace an LED bulb I assume).
I don't remember the exact details about whether it's a mistrial or just a retrial, but either way he's still in prison today, and all his family and friends will continue to wait. These things take serious time. First we had to wait for sentencing (roughly two months), then we had to get a real lawyer (several months to raise the 10,000), then the lawyer filed several motions (mistrial, retrial, dismissal, etc). The judge took another two months to review the motions and then said a retrial will happen. It hasn't yet been scheduled, but guessing at the timeframes usually in place, it will be several more months from now, if not a year. More likely than not, that time will be spent by friend in prison. From what I've heard from him, his wife, and a friend who's a guard there, he'd better pray for solitary confinement.
I just had a dear friend of mine go through this exact issue. It wasn't about child pornography, but rather, the more serious charge of child molestation (or some similar charge with a more legal sounding ring to it).
The evidence presented was extremely slim, the witness statements all changed significantly, and several charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. In the end the jury only had a few charges left, but with hardly an hour of deliberation found my friend guilty on all of the charges. The judge noted, in court, that he believed the jury had come to the wrong conclusion and wasn't looking at the evidence, but merely reacting to the accusation. Because of minimum sentancing guidelines he was left with no choice and sentanced him to 25 years (parole possibility at 5).
After my friends family dumped their public defender and got a real lawyer he has a new trial up for scheduling soon. Assuming the new jury only hears the evidence not thrown out (things like testimony given during "play-therapy" and accusations from a person who's accused practically every man she's ever come in contact with of the same thing) he could be out of prison by the end of the year. The problem is, the damage has been done. He's been discharged from the navy, he's got 40k in student loans, 4 kids, and his reputation has been tarnished beyond repair. Any future employers who do a background check will never give him a second chance. He's trained as a nuclear reactor technician, but it's that's definately the kind of job that requires a background check.
Assuming he ends up spending the next 5 to 25 years in prison (and this the federal rape-him-in-the-ass, shiv-me-50-times-until-I-stop-moving, not-in-a-racist-gang-before?-you-are-now prison) he'll end up on the sex-offender registry. On there he'll be hounded by neighbors everywhere he lives. Neighborhood kids will pelt his house with eggs just because.
Assuming he doesn't kill himself inside prison (he's off the suicide watch now, thank god) he's not looking at a pretty shitty life whether he wins or loses.
For a good description of exactly the kind of thing that happened to my friend, read The Dark Tunnels of McMartin. This is probably the best site on the horrific media frenzy involving preposteruous claims by dozens of preschool students against their teachers (among other similar cases about sex abuse and the like). It started with one small claim, then it escelated. When the parents asked if the teachers had done bad things to them they made up stories in an attempt to make their parents happy. One of the absurdaties involved a tunnel for underground sex orgies and animal torture. If this sort of thing was brought up in a court about a car theft, the whole case would be thrown out. Because it was a think-of-the-children case, it was taken all too seriously by not just the court, but the media as well.
The truth is, child testimony is too easily coached. The only statements worth looking at are the original statements made. In the case of my friend, the original statement was that the girl had walked in on my friend masturbating. He was in a closed room at night. His wife was at a girls-night-out party, and apparently he got a little bored/lonely. He committed no crime, but because a child saw it things blew out of proportion. Even worse, she was less than three at the time and didn't really understand what she saw. However, as the years passed her parents kept pressing if anything else had happened. The constant bombardment of questions led to her changing the story and giving the police a statement that my friend wouldn't let her play a specific video game unless she touched him. Never mind the fact the video game in question didn't exist when the supposed event took place, but she would have been two at the time. She didn't play video games, and my friend didn't have the console to play it on, or a T
I'm sure AMD had/has/will have the same opportunity to slashvertise.
If the NY Times has an ad on a new blockbuster movie does that prevent the moview reviewer from creating a real review based on his/her opinion? Of course not. The movie reviewer had nothing to do with the ad, just as I'm sure most (if not all) slashdot editors had nothing to do with the Intel opinion center or any of the advertisements coming up on slashdot.
Everything worked except the antenna and the speaker. Couldn't make calls, but could look at contacts and play games without sound. It almost survived.
We have one sprint 700p and at least a dozen verizon ones. I can say that no, the sprint one hasn't acted up, but neither do most of the verizon phones. Even with the 650 no more than half would have problems, it's just that the ones that do have quite annoying ones.
At my work we have roughly 20 salespeople and project managers that are using Treo 700p's and 650's. Yes the 650's were a crapshoot, but with the updated firmware, they work great (and even survive being dropped, having the screen cracked, etc. and almost survive being washed). The 700p's though...not so much. They are in desperate need of a firmware update. Palm has hinted that the problems are hardware related, but as not Rev B. is slated for arrival, I'd say they're just too cheap or lazy to fix the problems.
As far as syncing is concerned, we use the 650's and the 700p's to sync through the phone network to our internal linux server. It updates their client contacts, the employee directory, and their personal contacts nearly flawlessly. It's not too hard to do with pilotsync and python/tcl/perl/whatever. We use tcl here, and the code to run the sync (connect to postgres, wrapper for pilotsync api calls, etc) is 474 lines of code, and the code to manage and initiate incoming syncs is 6.
Tad late to respond, but here it goes anyway. The server's need a "home" feel to them. There are 75 diskless client boxes that connect to the servers, and each one needs to present not just a usable desktop, but the same usable desktop. If average Joe logs into server A today, and server B tomorrow, he'll be very put out if they don't have the same apps installed, the same window manager, the same everything. To Joe he is just logging in to "his" computer. If the computer under Joe's desk breaks (as 10 year old computers are wont to do) I can have a new one set up and have Joe logged back in in under 5 minutes. None of his files will be gone, none of his apps won't be there, none of settings will be changed, even though now he's logging in to server C or D.
The computers can't run the "default" install as that is usually either gnome or kde; neither of which I'd call lightweight. We use fvwm so our Pentium II's don't spend all day redrawing the bubbly windows. We also need to install various non-standard apps to work with our internal ERP/CRM software. All of this, plus default settings like proxy settings, mouse speed, virtual desktops, custom menus, etc. gets set up automatically because of the install script. If there ends up being a problem with the system and I change the running servers and fix the install script so any new servers have the change already made.
Also, as the IT guy, I do need to impose on other people's choices somewhat. No you can't run Evolution, we run Thunderbird. Why? training. If 1/3 of the people are on Thunderbird, a 1/3 are on Evolution, and a 1/3 are using some other choice when it comes time to update choice A I have to find that 1/3 of the people to let them know the new options and make sure they are working. It's much easier to let everyone know of a change and keep everyone on the same page. If I upgrade the system next week I can send out one e-mail. Four or five people will come ask for help, and I'll help them. They'll go back to their departments and help three or four people each. In the end I can manage 75 people's computers, 10 servers, and 10 field representatives all because I make the servers have a "home" feeling to them that is standardized between computers. 90% of the users are either sales, shipping, receiving, or manufacturing. Only the 4 or so engineers even know of other choices. Everyone's content with the options I give them, if there is only one choice.
At my work I need to periodically add a new process server, it takes roughly 3 hours to get it to a "home" feeling. Most of that time is waiting for yum to run an upgrade, and 95% of it is completely hands off. Aren't scripts wonderful?
On windows, I can never get that "home" feeling. Mostly because of the select-to-copy/middle-click-to-paste idea hasn't been "innovated" yet on windows.
...it doesn't take 9-11 year olds 20 minutes to get bored with Monopoly. In a three person game their turn only comes up every two minutes, and they run out of steam before they've been around the board twice.
Simpler games, such as UNO or Mancala, or even more complicated games, such as Rummikub, offer more entertainment for longer periods of time simply because a turn lasts at most 30-45 seconds.
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See here for example. It tells how to generate new ISO images from the original ISOs and updated RPMs. I've personally used the tools to build stripped down versions of Redhat/Fedora that include everything I need, but on a single CD. You can also include a kickstart file on the CD so that you can give a "linux ks=cdrom" at the initial install prompt to run a fully automated install. I don't think Redhat would have ever been as useful to corporations had it not had this option. Why install old RPMs? Install the OS with the latest, greatest everything.
I assume you meant GPL code, rather than GNU code, as GNU is a set of tools, rather than a copyright license. That aside, five dollars to man who finds me some GPL'd code in any Microsoft product not licensed under the GPL.
As far as BSD code...so what? It's perfectly legal to take BSD code and put it in a closed-source commercial application. They did just that, but can you blame them? If the code is good, why not include it? That was the spirit in which the BSD code was written. If you say otherwise you obviously haven't released any code under a BSD style license.
Why would anyone want this? Well, a router that combines firewall, nat, vpn, etc. is fine for home use, but what about the coffee shop? For a mobile computer having a on-computer firewall is a must. As far as why anybody would choose to use this over any software firewall... I can only assume it's for people who don't want yet another piece of software hogging their cpu. Most software firewalls aren't that intensive, but if you're looking to free up that 3-5% of your resources, hardware is the way to do it. Of course, without a benchmark showing a difference, the actual performance increase is lost in the market speak.
How 'bout microsoft buyout some of that thevinylgroove.com or fishybell.com. I hear that even though they're offline they're worth millions. Millions I say!
Perhaps a two man soccer gamer with goals as wide as the field? Also, to make the game easier the soccer ball would bounce off of the side walls rather than going out of bounds.
I've released/maintain three different open source applications/frameworks; Tcl PIC, UPS Print Plugin, and WyattERP. All three of these were written to be used by the company I work for. Tcl PIC and WyattERP have been used for several years, and all of them are currently being used.
I don't expect anyone to contribute to any of the projects, but people have. As long as you're giving to the community, the community will likely give back.
You must be wary of the term "Open Source Community" because no such community exists. Instead there are thousands of individual communities. Yes, many people participate in several communities, but no one participates in all, and most don't participate so much as watch. Like any good spectator sport though, it's always more fun to play than to watch :)
A company I used to work for lost their customer data in a similar way. An employee quit and took the entire database with him. We noticed there was a problem when a large amount of the customers started telling us about a competitor trying to sell them their product. Well, my company looked into it, and a few subpoenas and a lawsuit later everything was fixed.
How long do we need to wait for reasonably priced LED light bulbs? I figure the electrical will be significantly less than even CFLs, so how do they stack up now? I mean, if CFLs are saving us 150 bucks a year in electricity, would LEDs save us that much more? If so, I assume at even their current price they'll end up saving us money over 10 years or so (plus you don't replace an LED bulb I assume).
I only heard about the case from a documentary on it. I didn't read the site before linking to it. Assumptions were made, links were created.
I don't remember the exact details about whether it's a mistrial or just a retrial, but either way he's still in prison today, and all his family and friends will continue to wait. These things take serious time. First we had to wait for sentencing (roughly two months), then we had to get a real lawyer (several months to raise the 10,000), then the lawyer filed several motions (mistrial, retrial, dismissal, etc). The judge took another two months to review the motions and then said a retrial will happen. It hasn't yet been scheduled, but guessing at the timeframes usually in place, it will be several more months from now, if not a year. More likely than not, that time will be spent by friend in prison. From what I've heard from him, his wife, and a friend who's a guard there, he'd better pray for solitary confinement.
The evidence presented was extremely slim, the witness statements all changed significantly, and several charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. In the end the jury only had a few charges left, but with hardly an hour of deliberation found my friend guilty on all of the charges. The judge noted, in court, that he believed the jury had come to the wrong conclusion and wasn't looking at the evidence, but merely reacting to the accusation. Because of minimum sentancing guidelines he was left with no choice and sentanced him to 25 years (parole possibility at 5).
After my friends family dumped their public defender and got a real lawyer he has a new trial up for scheduling soon. Assuming the new jury only hears the evidence not thrown out (things like testimony given during "play-therapy" and accusations from a person who's accused practically every man she's ever come in contact with of the same thing) he could be out of prison by the end of the year. The problem is, the damage has been done. He's been discharged from the navy, he's got 40k in student loans, 4 kids, and his reputation has been tarnished beyond repair. Any future employers who do a background check will never give him a second chance. He's trained as a nuclear reactor technician, but it's that's definately the kind of job that requires a background check.
Assuming he ends up spending the next 5 to 25 years in prison (and this the federal rape-him-in-the-ass, shiv-me-50-times-until-I-stop-moving, not-in-a-racist-gang-before?-you-are-now prison) he'll end up on the sex-offender registry. On there he'll be hounded by neighbors everywhere he lives. Neighborhood kids will pelt his house with eggs just because.
Assuming he doesn't kill himself inside prison (he's off the suicide watch now, thank god) he's not looking at a pretty shitty life whether he wins or loses.
For a good description of exactly the kind of thing that happened to my friend, read The Dark Tunnels of McMartin. This is probably the best site on the horrific media frenzy involving preposteruous claims by dozens of preschool students against their teachers (among other similar cases about sex abuse and the like). It started with one small claim, then it escelated. When the parents asked if the teachers had done bad things to them they made up stories in an attempt to make their parents happy. One of the absurdaties involved a tunnel for underground sex orgies and animal torture. If this sort of thing was brought up in a court about a car theft, the whole case would be thrown out. Because it was a think-of-the-children case, it was taken all too seriously by not just the court, but the media as well.
The truth is, child testimony is too easily coached. The only statements worth looking at are the original statements made. In the case of my friend, the original statement was that the girl had walked in on my friend masturbating. He was in a closed room at night. His wife was at a girls-night-out party, and apparently he got a little bored/lonely. He committed no crime, but because a child saw it things blew out of proportion. Even worse, she was less than three at the time and didn't really understand what she saw. However, as the years passed her parents kept pressing if anything else had happened. The constant bombardment of questions led to her changing the story and giving the police a statement that my friend wouldn't let her play a specific video game unless she touched him. Never mind the fact the video game in question didn't exist when the supposed event took place, but she would have been two at the time. She didn't play video games, and my friend didn't have the console to play it on, or a T
Good thing we all jumped to conclusions.
If the NY Times has an ad on a new blockbuster movie does that prevent the moview reviewer from creating a real review based on his/her opinion? Of course not. The movie reviewer had nothing to do with the ad, just as I'm sure most (if not all) slashdot editors had nothing to do with the Intel opinion center or any of the advertisements coming up on slashdot.
Santa Rosa?
Robson Technology?
Intel Turbo Memory?
Q-series?
vPro?
Penryn?
My brain can't take any more buzz.
man...two canadian bacon referenes in one day...what's the world coming to.
Mountie: No, the capital of Canada is Ottawa.
Boomer: Yeah, right. Do we look that stupid? Ottawa!
Everything worked except the antenna and the speaker. Couldn't make calls, but could look at contacts and play games without sound. It almost survived.
We have one sprint 700p and at least a dozen verizon ones. I can say that no, the sprint one hasn't acted up, but neither do most of the verizon phones. Even with the 650 no more than half would have problems, it's just that the ones that do have quite annoying ones.
As far as syncing is concerned, we use the 650's and the 700p's to sync through the phone network to our internal linux server. It updates their client contacts, the employee directory, and their personal contacts nearly flawlessly. It's not too hard to do with pilotsync and python/tcl/perl/whatever. We use tcl here, and the code to run the sync (connect to postgres, wrapper for pilotsync api calls, etc) is 474 lines of code, and the code to manage and initiate incoming syncs is 6.
The computers can't run the "default" install as that is usually either gnome or kde; neither of which I'd call lightweight. We use fvwm so our Pentium II's don't spend all day redrawing the bubbly windows. We also need to install various non-standard apps to work with our internal ERP/CRM software. All of this, plus default settings like proxy settings, mouse speed, virtual desktops, custom menus, etc. gets set up automatically because of the install script. If there ends up being a problem with the system and I change the running servers and fix the install script so any new servers have the change already made.
Also, as the IT guy, I do need to impose on other people's choices somewhat. No you can't run Evolution, we run Thunderbird. Why? training. If 1/3 of the people are on Thunderbird, a 1/3 are on Evolution, and a 1/3 are using some other choice when it comes time to update choice A I have to find that 1/3 of the people to let them know the new options and make sure they are working. It's much easier to let everyone know of a change and keep everyone on the same page. If I upgrade the system next week I can send out one e-mail. Four or five people will come ask for help, and I'll help them. They'll go back to their departments and help three or four people each. In the end I can manage 75 people's computers, 10 servers, and 10 field representatives all because I make the servers have a "home" feeling to them that is standardized between computers. 90% of the users are either sales, shipping, receiving, or manufacturing. Only the 4 or so engineers even know of other choices. Everyone's content with the options I give them, if there is only one choice.
On windows, I can never get that "home" feeling. Mostly because of the select-to-copy/middle-click-to-paste idea hasn't been "innovated" yet on windows.
Simpler games, such as UNO or Mancala, or even more complicated games, such as Rummikub, offer more entertainment for longer periods of time simply because a turn lasts at most 30-45 seconds.
You can feel color?
Oops...nowheresville, UT already has residential fiber. See http://www.utopianet.org/ and http://www.iprovo.net/