Well, as anecdotal as this is, my burners have always "just worked" with many disparate Linux distros (and worked without major effort in Win9x), it has always been a major pain in the ass with NT/2k. I've found its simply easier to boot Linux to do it.
Why the dispartity in our experiences? Let me guess, you're pretty much a windows person, right? I'm a *n?x person who boots windows to play games. Have you considered that maybe windows isn't any easier to use/setup, just that you're more used to windows?
Yeah, the VCs really wanted to pull out because of your use of the GPL. I'm sure it had absolutly nothing to with your being a dotcom. VCs are herd animals, they won't stray very far from the pack, and the pack is scared of dotcoms right now.
Whatever gave you the impression they were being truthful?
You won't have to relearn things to switch from RedHat to Mandrake. The only real difference is that Mandrakes GUI tools are a lot better than RedHats.
Mandrake will never, ever, make it as a server distro. RedHat has taken the middle road, trying to be both a good desktop, and server distro. Mandrake is a desktop distro, period. Guess what, they do it a lot better than everyone else. I'd recommend it to my father, if he didn't have to have the MS office tools (he's a freelance columnist). I'm expecting to be able to recommend Mandrake 9 to my mother.
This is standard practice in the film industry. They get so many unrequested manuscripts that they have to state that they ignore them, or they'll get sued when they release something similar to something that was submitted to them.
A binding constitution is pretty damned important (yes, more important than universal health care). A non-binding constitution is essentially meaningless.
As one of "the people there" I have to disagree with your assessment. Universal health care, in Canada, is worse than the HMO situation in the states. People are put on everlasting waiting lists for procedures that are readily available in the US (in fact, the rich in Canada often travel to the US for treatment). Basically we have one big, government run HMO in Canada. At least in the states, you can choose one.
The license requires all files to be installed in "exactly the same locations, that a user would obtain by installing one of my packages listed above".
So, unless a distribution happens to have the same directory structure/composition as djb, they have to choose between breaking the license, breaking their directory structure, or not including his stuff. The last option seems the wisest.
And completely ignore taxation, political freedom (Canada does not have a binding constitution), and availability of private health care (which is illegal in Canada).
These critics will be looked on as niave luddites at best (racist at worst) in a few decades. How will these children feel about being called "wrong in principle"?
On the other hand, will there be a "godhatesclones.com"* in 20 years?
*Yes, I know they're not clones, but its the same concept.
IIS is generally considered to be quite a bit faster than the standard Apache distribution
IIS is faster for static content. Apache is faster for dynamic content (SSI, CGI, et cetera). Speed on static content is rather useless, as it doesn't take much of a box to saturate a reasonable connection with either IIS or Apache.
You seem to be assuming that everyone here is an admin...
Plenty of us have no reason to keep track of bugtraq - because we don't admin servers. However, this is a rather major story (compared to the ones you've mentioned, anyway), and I'm sure lots of people are interested.
If it had been Apache, BIND, sendmail, or something, it would be here just the same.
He asked a valid question. Like it or not, Apache is the norm on the net (though not necessarily on the Win32 platform). So why should someone choose IIS over Apache?
Your post seems little more than an eloquent version of "Apache suxxors and IIS rules". Please tell us why IIS is a good choice.
is that not everyone will get laid off. If an employer needs to cut payroll by 25%, he'd probably rather cut everyones salary by 25% than lose 25% of the staff. The "downward stikyness" keeps the cutbacks from hurting most people (at the expense of a few).
It basically boils down to the union argument and, in a talent based field, unions don't usually make sense.
Then we'd be stuck with low budget tripe like Kids in the Hall, or SCTV instead of quality TV like Survivor, or Survivor 2. Thanks for dispelling that myth.
Then if 65 is "close enough to [insert xenophobic society of choice here]'s standards" why not have forced retirement, license revocation, et cetera at that point? Both ages are entirely arbitrary. I've not met many pre-18 year olds that consider themselves unworthy of said rights, nor any post-65 year olds.
Why have we not seen many restrictions on post-65 year olds? Because the people who get to vote will pass 65, but they'll never be under 18 again.
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RedHat wants a DB. RedHat likes the GPL. There are good, GPL'd DB's available.
Where's the justification for reinventing the wheel?
It's one thing to knock on the door, its quite another to wander around the house looking for a second story window you could climb into.
ie, it would be fine to "scan" a few common ports, but rather suspicious to scan a few thousand.
There a Slash based site for the Cube here.
If you take the computer out of your car, does i cease to be "embedded"?
Well, as anecdotal as this is, my burners have always "just worked" with many disparate Linux distros (and worked without major effort in Win9x), it has always been a major pain in the ass with NT/2k. I've found its simply easier to boot Linux to do it.
Why the dispartity in our experiences? Let me guess, you're pretty much a windows person, right? I'm a *n?x person who boots windows to play games. Have you considered that maybe windows isn't any easier to use/setup, just that you're more used to windows?
Yeah, the VCs really wanted to pull out because of your use of the GPL. I'm sure it had absolutly nothing to with your being a dotcom. VCs are herd animals, they won't stray very far from the pack, and the pack is scared of dotcoms right now.
Whatever gave you the impression they were being truthful?
You won't have to relearn things to switch from RedHat to Mandrake. The only real difference is that Mandrakes GUI tools are a lot better than RedHats.
Mandrake will never, ever, make it as a server distro. RedHat has taken the middle road, trying to be both a good desktop, and server distro. Mandrake is a desktop distro, period. Guess what, they do it a lot better than everyone else. I'd recommend it to my father, if he didn't have to have the MS office tools (he's a freelance columnist). I'm expecting to be able to recommend Mandrake 9 to my mother.
For the standard Mandrake 8 distro, its $5 a cd, plus $10 shipping. I assume they are selling the single disk for $15, and the 2 disk set for $20.
The "PowerPack" is $69 + $20 shipping for 7 cds. You can see what's in that here.
There's no need for newbies to even touch rpms in Mandrake 8. They've got a nice little GUI tool, which is, IMNSHO, much better than Windows Update.
This is standard practice in the film industry. They get so many unrequested manuscripts that they have to state that they ignore them, or they'll get sued when they release something similar to something that was submitted to them.
Quantum Leap was more appropriate for the religious channel than it was for the scifi channel.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Paramount let him turn trek into a pulpit.
A binding constitution is pretty damned important (yes, more important than universal health care). A non-binding constitution is essentially meaningless.
As one of "the people there" I have to disagree with your assessment. Universal health care, in Canada, is worse than the HMO situation in the states. People are put on everlasting waiting lists for procedures that are readily available in the US (in fact, the rich in Canada often travel to the US for treatment). Basically we have one big, government run HMO in Canada. At least in the states, you can choose one.
The license requires all files to be installed in "exactly the same locations, that a user would obtain by installing one of my packages listed above".
So, unless a distribution happens to have the same directory structure/composition as djb, they have to choose between breaking the license, breaking their directory structure, or not including his stuff. The last option seems the wisest.
And completely ignore taxation, political freedom (Canada does not have a binding constitution), and availability of private health care (which is illegal in Canada).
Countries that have started socializing everything... sweden, canada, germany, etc. enjoy some of the highest standards of living on the planet.
These "standard of living" surveys rank socialist leaning countries highly because they are, essentially, a measurement of how socialist a country is.
I'm speaking from a socialogical, not biological, point of view. They're both grouped into the "playing god is wrong" claptrap.
We are gods, just a little unpracticed.
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These critics will be looked on as niave luddites at best (racist at worst) in a few decades. How will these children feel about being called "wrong in principle"?
On the other hand, will there be a "godhatesclones.com"* in 20 years?
*Yes, I know they're not clones, but its the same concept.
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IIS is generally considered to be quite a bit faster than the standard Apache distribution
IIS is faster for static content. Apache is faster for dynamic content (SSI, CGI, et cetera). Speed on static content is rather useless, as it doesn't take much of a box to saturate a reasonable connection with either IIS or Apache.
Oh, and there's an Apache module for asp.
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Is that all their lawyers poured over the GPL, and determined that it was good for IBM. That is all.
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You seem to be assuming that everyone here is an admin...
Plenty of us have no reason to keep track of bugtraq - because we don't admin servers. However, this is a rather major story (compared to the ones you've mentioned, anyway), and I'm sure lots of people are interested.
If it had been Apache, BIND, sendmail, or something, it would be here just the same.
Cheers
He asked a valid question. Like it or not, Apache is the norm on the net (though not necessarily on the Win32 platform). So why should someone choose IIS over Apache?
Your post seems little more than an eloquent version of "Apache suxxors and IIS rules". Please tell us why IIS is a good choice.
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is that not everyone will get laid off. If an employer needs to cut payroll by 25%, he'd probably rather cut everyones salary by 25% than lose 25% of the staff. The "downward stikyness" keeps the cutbacks from hurting most people (at the expense of a few).
It basically boils down to the union argument and, in a talent based field, unions don't usually make sense.
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Yes, there is some magnetism, but not enough to affect a crt.
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Then we'd be stuck with low budget tripe like Kids in the Hall, or SCTV instead of quality TV like Survivor, or Survivor 2. Thanks for dispelling that myth.
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Then if 65 is "close enough to [insert xenophobic society of choice here]'s standards" why not have forced retirement, license revocation, et cetera at that point? Both ages are entirely arbitrary. I've not met many pre-18 year olds that consider themselves unworthy of said rights, nor any post-65 year olds.
Why have we not seen many restrictions on post-65 year olds? Because the people who get to vote will pass 65, but they'll never be under 18 again.