It's still not as friendly as *nix, but MS has caught on. They have added some support for installing programs as other users, and running programs as other users, but it's still not all there.
There are ways to get around that. Make the compromised machine initiate all the communications, and you can punch a hole through all but the most determined firewalls. That's why irc bots are so popular.
My SCO supplier is seriously considering it's next move. Incidentally, they are also an IBM Service Partner, but only for Hardware.
If IBM does buy SCO, then there are certain issues which will have to be addressed.
Licensing of SCO software: Who do you buy user licenses from?
Continued Support: What happens when SCO stops supplying patches (even though they have been really horrible about this in the past.
Migration: Will any of the SCO products be migrated, or will they have to/can be run using the SCO binary compatibility of Linux?
Retraining: Who will become RedHat certified? Will they start pushing RedHat? Provide MS solutions?
This is not a light issue for any SCO partners out there, and anyone who can make it easy to move from SCO, providing documents, coding, expertise, whatever, will help out both the Linux cause, and business alike.
If I had any disposable cash, honestly I would. Their stock can't go much lower, and it's a win-win situation. SCO wins, then their stock skyrockets. IBM Buys SCO, the shareholders win. IBM wins, doesn't buy SCO, then we have Free-as-in-Linux stock! WE CAN'T LOSE! (unless you keep score with money)
As I don't do any programming, and I merely support the application, etc. I would have to say that the database is not indexed properly. As the databases grew here, and we added more functionality, we were constantly adding indexes to the databases to avoid slowdowns. From what I know, there is either no query timeout or a high limit set on the database, so it will look for damned near forever.
We ran into exeactly the same thing. There is a patch on the SCO website which deals with network resources being used up when receiving a packet addressed to 255.255.255.255, most commonly a DHCP packet. We ran into it when we put a NT4 Domain controller on the network, which also handled the DHCP server.
The patch was a bitch to find, but once we put it on, we've had nearly a year of uptime.
Yeah, 5.0.5. Sorry about that. Incidentally, does it shut down all network connections and only allow shutdown from the console? With absolutely nothing written in the logs?
I commend you for your honesty, and reccomend that you acquire the services of a lawyer should you ever have to go in front of the Judge. You're self-destructive!
As for the uprising, where do I sign?
I own my server outright, but I'm not going to add any more licenses to it. That's the only way I can vote.
But the information age is a natural progression in the evolution as a society. Perhaps it's a better idea to hurry through the industrial age, rather than skip it altogether.
With storage density ever increasing, I can see $1/Gig pricing for $150.00. But realistically, there is not a whole lot of physical difference in a drive that holds 60 gig to one that holds a thousand. Sure the heads have to move faster, be finer controlled, be smaller, etc, but it is easy to make a 60 gig drive using the same technology and parts that goes into even a Terabyte drive, just not the other way around. It is really not worth the company putting out small drives at the same time as huge drives, since the cost of material is relatively the same, and if you're going to spend $150 on a 60 gig, why not spend $160 on a 100 gig? The parts would be all the same inside, the warranty the same, seek times the same, basically the same drives, one with an extra 40 gigs.
The $75 dollar mark is probably the baseline for any drive. That's the point where they break even on the manufacture process, R&D, shipping, etc. So a dollar a byte is already here and gone, but you're paying $75 dollars for the wrapping paper.
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Medical Research
engraving
engineering
model building
mapping
weather forecasting
physics
civil engineering
automobile manufacturing
shall I go on?
Sorry to ruin your day, but if you think that the same code compiled on two different platforms, or using two different compilers on the same platform will create the exact same code, then you are grossly mistaken, or should consider a career change.
Yes, but the issue is the TCP/IP stack, something common to all internet-enabled OS's. You think that a large company (MS, SCO, Sun, Linux) would make damned sure to get that right.
And as for implementing properly documented standards, I've seen a lot of programs which are RFC compliant, yet are incompatible between systems (Kerebos). I've also seen different implementations of an RFC compliant program (MS's DHCP server) take down a seemingly rock solid OS (SCO), rendering it's TCP/IP compatibilities null.
Unless it is explicitly spelled out in an RFC as to how something is to be done, you're going to have failures on some things, unless everyone uses the same hardware, the same software, and the RFC's are actually code snippits for the only used prgramming language.
So Implementing properly documented standards is not as easy as you put it.
I am not stating that there are no benefits to this, but I am hesitant to just jam these countries into the international market. Your points are valid, and very interesting.
That being said, I think that we should not measure an economy by whether it is net-enabled or not. Yes we should bring connectivity to these countries, but that should be in addition to, not instead of making a concerted effort to bringing the basics of a stable economy. I am merely proposing that we should not treat this as an experiment to see what the internet can do to a community plagued by economic problems. We should ensure that we give the tools to use the knowledge as well as the knowledge itself. In short, let's not forget about this country like we've forgot about countries in the past.
So what you're going to get is a bunch of technocratic elite, rather than the monetary elite. Skilled labour != educated people. Skilled Labour == Trained Labour. What is the sense of training somebody to do something, but not giving them the tools to use their training? Infrastructure first! The Internet can be percieved as part of the nation's infrastructure, but only part of the infrastructure. Information is not a magic bullet, you do not shoot it at problems and they mystically go away. The internet is a novelty used to look at porn and spam without the tools to use the information. Even something as basic as farming would be able to prosper using information off of the Inernet. New ideas on crop rotation, new crop families, techniques, all of this would help Africa. But if people are plowing fields with a donkey and a one furrow plow, it's not because they think that it's the best way to do it, or it's the only way they know how. It's because they cannot afford the new technology to use more modern techniques, or these techniques have been made unavailable to them. Maybe crop rotation would help their farming, but when you only have one crop to grow (as is the case in most instances), what are you going to rotate it with, even if you DO know extensively about crop rotation.
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It's still not as friendly as *nix, but MS has caught on. They have added some support for installing programs as other users, and running programs as other users, but it's still not all there.
There are ways to get around that. Make the compromised machine initiate all the communications, and you can punch a hole through all but the most determined firewalls. That's why irc bots are so popular.
My SCO supplier is seriously considering it's next move. Incidentally, they are also an IBM Service Partner, but only for Hardware. /can be run using the SCO binary compatibility of Linux?
If IBM does buy SCO, then there are certain issues which will have to be addressed.
Licensing of SCO software: Who do you buy user licenses from?
Continued Support: What happens when SCO stops supplying patches (even though they have been really horrible about this in the past.
Migration: Will any of the SCO products be migrated, or will they have to
Retraining: Who will become RedHat certified? Will they start pushing RedHat? Provide MS solutions?
This is not a light issue for any SCO partners out there, and anyone who can make it easy to move from SCO, providing documents, coding, expertise, whatever, will help out both the Linux cause, and business alike.
Yeah, I wrote the grandparent post :)
I took that wrong, I thought you were replying directly to me, instead of along with me.
Nice nick. Maybe we could grab a beer and take turns blaming each other for all the worlds problems.
If I had any disposable cash, honestly I would. Their stock can't go much lower, and it's a win-win situation. SCO wins, then their stock skyrockets. IBM Buys SCO, the shareholders win. IBM wins, doesn't buy SCO, then we have Free-as-in-Linux stock! WE CAN'T LOSE! (unless you keep score with money)
As I don't do any programming, and I merely support the application, etc. I would have to say that the database is not indexed properly. As the databases grew here, and we added more functionality, we were constantly adding indexes to the databases to avoid slowdowns. From what I know, there is either no query timeout or a high limit set on the database, so it will look for damned near forever.
We ran into exeactly the same thing. There is a patch on the SCO website which deals with network resources being used up when receiving a packet addressed to 255.255.255.255, most commonly a DHCP packet. We ran into it when we put a NT4 Domain controller on the network, which also handled the DHCP server. The patch was a bitch to find, but once we put it on, we've had nearly a year of uptime.
Yeah, 5.0.5. Sorry about that. Incidentally, does it shut down all network connections and only allow shutdown from the console? With absolutely nothing written in the logs?
I wholehartedly agree. It seems that we are arguing over who can say the same point the best at this point.
Buy Caldera outright, and drop the lawsuit.
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I commend you for your honesty, and reccomend that you acquire the services of a lawyer should you ever have to go in front of the Judge. You're self-destructive!
As for the uprising, where do I sign?
I own my server outright, but I'm not going to add any more licenses to it. That's the only way I can vote.
I've had great success with Openserver 5.5, although it only runs Progress.
The only limits I have is the freaking user licenses. That's killing me.
But the information age is a natural progression in the evolution as a society. Perhaps it's a better idea to hurry through the industrial age, rather than skip it altogether.
With storage density ever increasing, I can see $1/Gig pricing for $150.00. But realistically, there is not a whole lot of physical difference in a drive that holds 60 gig to one that holds a thousand. Sure the heads have to move faster, be finer controlled, be smaller, etc, but it is easy to make a 60 gig drive using the same technology and parts that goes into even a Terabyte drive, just not the other way around. It is really not worth the company putting out small drives at the same time as huge drives, since the cost of material is relatively the same, and if you're going to spend $150 on a 60 gig, why not spend $160 on a 100 gig? The parts would be all the same inside, the warranty the same, seek times the same, basically the same drives, one with an extra 40 gigs.
The $75 dollar mark is probably the baseline for any drive. That's the point where they break even on the manufacture process, R&D, shipping, etc. So a dollar a byte is already here and gone, but you're paying $75 dollars for the wrapping paper.
Only if they're ~200 gig. There's no margin on a $60.00 drive.
Sorry about the formatting.
And oh yeah, warehousing.
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Sorry to ruin your day, but if you think that the same code compiled on two different platforms, or using two different compilers on the same platform will create the exact same code, then you are grossly mistaken, or should consider a career change.
Yeah, but is it compiled with the same compiler? That also makes a difference.
Yes, but the issue is the TCP/IP stack, something common to all internet-enabled OS's. You think that a large company (MS, SCO, Sun, Linux) would make damned sure to get that right.
And as for implementing properly documented standards, I've seen a lot of programs which are RFC compliant, yet are incompatible between systems (Kerebos). I've also seen different implementations of an RFC compliant program (MS's DHCP server) take down a seemingly rock solid OS (SCO), rendering it's TCP/IP compatibilities null. Unless it is explicitly spelled out in an RFC as to how something is to be done, you're going to have failures on some things, unless everyone uses the same hardware, the same software, and the RFC's are actually code snippits for the only used prgramming language.
So Implementing properly documented standards is not as easy as you put it.
I am not stating that there are no benefits to this, but I am hesitant to just jam these countries into the international market. Your points are valid, and very interesting.
That being said, I think that we should not measure an economy by whether it is net-enabled or not. Yes we should bring connectivity to these countries, but that should be in addition to, not instead of making a concerted effort to bringing the basics of a stable economy. I am merely proposing that we should not treat this as an experiment to see what the internet can do to a community plagued by economic problems. We should ensure that we give the tools to use the knowledge as well as the knowledge itself. In short, let's not forget about this country like we've forgot about countries in the past.
But what about the other 5%?
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So what you're going to get is a bunch of technocratic elite, rather than the monetary elite. Skilled labour != educated people. Skilled Labour == Trained Labour. What is the sense of training somebody to do something, but not giving them the tools to use their training? Infrastructure first! The Internet can be percieved as part of the nation's infrastructure, but only part of the infrastructure. Information is not a magic bullet, you do not shoot it at problems and they mystically go away. The internet is a novelty used to look at porn and spam without the tools to use the information. Even something as basic as farming would be able to prosper using information off of the Inernet. New ideas on crop rotation, new crop families, techniques, all of this would help Africa. But if people are plowing fields with a donkey and a one furrow plow, it's not because they think that it's the best way to do it, or it's the only way they know how. It's because they cannot afford the new technology to use more modern techniques, or these techniques have been made unavailable to them.
Maybe crop rotation would help their farming, but when you only have one crop to grow (as is the case in most instances), what are you going to rotate it with, even if you DO know extensively about crop rotation.