I really don't understand why you people care so much about this. I mean who gives a shit about
how the latest OS from Microsoft is perceived from Dutch consumers. It's like how much
do we care about how the steering wheel of the last Volvo car model is designed.
Things have changed, Everybody I know that care about computers now don't run neither Vista
nor XP. My mother runs Vista.
"While patents are a really important way to reward innovation... today we see a crisis of confidence in the U.S.," Kaefer said. "At lot of people are asking, is the system as good as it could be?"
Microsoft claims that it should not be fined at all because it did not know its behaviour would breach EU law.
The excuse, "I didn't know I was breaking the law" never applies in court as far as I know. Imagine a burglar trying that as defence in court. Good luck.
Being an EU citicizen that positevely despice the bureaucracy in Brusssels it feels good that at least something appears to work there. On the other hand, I have no high hopes that they'll actually go all the way with this. It will will probably turn to water and be nothing more than a "We in the EU work very hard with ensuring that no single company can monpolize.... bla bla... "
Miguel de Icaza mentioned some of these at the introductory session, covering enterprise deployments, embedded systems vendors, and the open source world. Of particular note was an installation in Munich, Germany, supporting 350 servers and 150,000 users.
Uhhh, that doesn't seem like a wise move. They're running the unmature.NET mono code while deploying linux in Munich. Say it isn't true !!
Do you know of any Gentoo precompiled binaries repositories
Sure the binaries get outdated. However if you're implementing the IT infrastructure, for say Munich or any other semi large population of fixed set of computers. It would be more than feasible to provide not only a pre-fixed set of ebuild files (that you and your IT organization had verified) but also the prebuilt binaries. Right !
Noone has posted any pointers describing which linux technologies they're actually implementing in Munich today. (or maybe... someone has and I haven't read them)
Many of the backbone technologies are easy, or at least don't matter very much. Such as which smtp server(s) they choose for the Munich backbone -- that shouldn't matter much. However the desktop issues in a city are many. To be specific:
Which distro and which version
They're all running the same vw
Do they choose one single wordprocessor package or are the city officials supposed to pick and choose amongst abiword, oo, kword etc
shared resources, major issue here. Is everything NFS based with a fatso cluster of NFS/NIS servers and all the city officials computers NIS (+??) logins to the NFS cluster
apache webdav, ~user/public_html
Are they using wine to run old win32 ugly proprietary forms apps that read/write their old dbs
Are the city officials supposed to ssh back and forth between different machines
Are the city officials supposed to ever see the shell prompt ?
Uhhh.. following the URLs leading to their site is an altogether unpleasant experience.
The site is ultra commercial in the way that it tries to sell me something, however unclear what that "something" actually is. All links open up a new browser window.... which gives a sorta porno site aura. Maybe they want to sell me a subscription to their super-game-a-4d-experience-newsletter... or maybe it's something else.
And finally... with 4-5 browser windows and yet no meat, they want me to _login_/create an accout.
I say go away. Any game manufacturerer with such a stiff attitude on the site are bound to produce a boring game... in the lon run.
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I really don't understand why you people care so much about this. I mean who gives a shit about how the latest OS from Microsoft is perceived from Dutch consumers. It's like how much do we care about how the steering wheel of the last Volvo car model is designed. Things have changed, Everybody I know that care about computers now don't run neither Vista nor XP. My mother runs Vista.
"While patents are a really important way to reward innovation
Could the above be the understatement of the day?
Being an EU citicizen that positevely despice the bureaucracy in Brusssels it feels good that at least something appears to work there. On the other hand, I have no high hopes that they'll actually go all the way with this. It will will probably turn to water and be nothing more than a "We in the EU work very hard with ensuring that no single company can monpolize .... bla bla ... "
There is a packport patch which brings the 2.6 ipsec kernel stuff into a 2.4.21 kernel. Works perfectly.
It's at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/dav
Many of the backbone technologies are easy, or at least don't matter very much. Such as which smtp server(s) they choose for the Munich backbone -- that shouldn't matter much. However the desktop issues in a city are many. To be specific:
Uhhh.. following the URLs leading to their site is an altogether unpleasant experience. The site is ultra commercial in the way that it tries to sell me something, however unclear what that "something" actually is. All links open up a new browser window .... which gives a sorta porno site aura. Maybe they want to sell me a subscription to their super-game-a-4d-experience-newsletter ... or maybe it's something else.
And finally ... with 4-5 browser windows and yet no meat, they want me to _login_/create an accout.
I say go away. Any game manufacturerer with such a stiff attitude on the site are bound to produce a boring game ... in the lon run.