For all those saying that IBM only had one lawyer, read the article:
The trick, I gather, is to be the only one prepared to speak to the judge. While Mr. Wilson was trying to find his own lawyer, and did, and the lawyer needed time to get up to speed and evaluate how to handle the matter, SCO was telling the judge that IBM's Todd Shaughnessy was kinda sorta if not exactly representing Wilson. And compounding the problem, Shaughnessy, the only lawyer in the teleconference with Wells on January 26, and hence the only one who could rebut SCO's Normand as to what happened, was on vacation and unreachable. And from all I can see, by the time he came back, the North Carolina judge was already persuaded by SCO's whining about unfairness.
In short SCO said "this is the guy representing the proposed witness" - added to that, it sounds like the IBM lawyer who was on holiday was the only one who could represent otherwise or some other legal shenanigans.
SCO pulled a fast one and got away with it - this time. Doesn't mean that they'll win, but it sounds like they just might be able to drag it out a bit longer, unfortunately.
Yup, especially good with log files. We have some at work which are dd-mm and I keep having ls -lart them to find the latest. With ISO formatted dates, a normal ls will order them correctly.
Well, if you believe Sun's marketing, it's great for throughput. The new Niagara chips (in the T1000/2000 servers), each core has 4 compute threads. As thread 1 waits for RAM, thread 2 kicks in, repeat until we get back to thread 1, which now has its data from memory and gets a chance to do some work, before passing onto thread 2 etc, etc.
However, these chips are designed for throughput of multiple threads; for a desktop, single threaded app, you will still have the same memory bottlenecks we have now.
Pfft, what are they going to sue you for? It's your network, you can do what the hell you want with it. If they choose to use it of their own free will, what do they expect?
1. MS do their damndest to make it difficult to find & download the patches
2. That doesn't integrate into Windows update, so you'd have to go round all the PCs manually applying hotfixes.
If you buy 10 at a time, it comes down to around $47k each (http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process =SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=151017). Also, if you're paying list price on Sun kit, you're doing something wrong.
"Boss's ego" might be a bit strong; it should be a matter of pride to these guys that they can fix something in this state, even if the best plan is to hook up the drive to another PC, copy off the valuable files & reinstall.
While we can turn this into an MS bashing post, the engineers at Redhat/Sun/IBM/whatever should have enough pride in their OS that they will try to fix a badly corrupt system without resorting to reinstalling from scratch. Surely we should give MS the same credit?
In the UK, "Fit for purpose" is enshrined in the sale of goods act. It cannot be over-ridden by any contract or EULA and applies to all sales from a company to an individual.
Company to company sales can exempt themselves, but at that point, companies are expected to be able to cover their asses with lawyers (so to speak....).
If a user installs the wrong application and messes up the PC, re-image it from Ghost/unattend/whatever. Seriously. There should be nothing on a user's PC they cannot regenerate easily, it should be on server shares. Get this documented and approved. Throw in things like the amount of time (with a dollar amount) it takes to fix these problems. Over-estimate and embellish if necessary. Feel free to throw SOX compliance in (that always gets people twitchy) and overall security/virus threat; things which the managers understand, not technical stuff.
Once you have that all documented and approved, users will either take a clean build to be safe; especially after it's been rebuilt a few times...
I will agree one of the biggest failures in managers is believe their own tech staff. Luckily where I work isn't too bad at that.
Yeah, see what happened with Internet Explorer; it stagnated for a few years after they killed off Netscape (quite rightly as Netscape was turning into a piece of crap by version 4.7). Now that Firefox is gaining market share, they're starting to work on IE7, tabbed browsing etc and all the features people have been screaming for over the last few years and have gone to Opera, Firefox etc to get.
I'm not sure it would, actually; most of the initial boot sequence is run as root anyway, so dropping the set[ug]id bit wouldn't break most software. You'd get a booted system although some software may not work (e.g. login, ps, ping, sendmail...).
In short, it's a stupid idea, but I think you'd still get a bootable system.
I use a Samsung D600 which hooks up via USB to my laptop OK, although the software is Windows (2000/XP) only. It's quad band, so should work in the US.
Not far off the mark; in a lot of cases, it's simpler to say "we'll take this offline" rather than "I'll give you a call later to discuss this point". Once most people understand the lingo, it's not too bad, but the abuse of words like "paradigm" generally shows a level of bullshit which is beyond the pale.
Mission statements are a prime example; after hearing ours, I felt like standing up and shouting "house" (think buzzword bingo) it was so heavily laden with management-speak and generally non-understandable...
A week to late for me, unfortunately... Had I known, D-Link would have lost a sale.
I'll have to check my router when I get home to see if it's one of the affected ones.
Fully Compatible != fully supported by software vendors...
Going to Oracle and saying "well, CentOS is fully compatible with RHEL" isn't going to work.
This is the problem with Linux vs Unix arguments in the enterprise; Linux may be free to download & use on commodity hardware, but is that really what you'll do? Most people will buy mid to high-end servers with redundant power etc & use RHEL/Suse EL which winds up about the same price as commercial Unix on equivalent hardware.
You've given a one line answer which will carry the argument in the majority of situations... well done. Just mentioning SOX should be enough to bring managers out in a cold sweat:)
I work in a bank and while I don't have files relating to customer information on my PC, I'm pretty sure I'd contravene some kind of law if I were to install Google Search & some files were transferred to Google. If I did have customer files, I'm almost certain some law would be broken if those files were sent to Google.
If CIOs or others want the kind of functionality & productivity that Google desktop search can provide, let Google sell local servers (same as they do for web search engines) so these companies can buy them and get the tools that way without the data ever leaving their networks & control.
Yup. Besides, just burning enough fuel for a big sodding rocket to escape the earth's gravity is probably a huge chunk of the cost of each flight; I'd imagine that the space elevator would be much cheaper to get into low orbit than a standard rocket. Also, the ride down would be smoother and much safer than existing technology.
The elevator is a fantastic idea, but there are a number of technological challenges still to be overcome...
Unfortunately, ZFS is still in a beta stage; I wouldn't want to trust anything critical to it just yet. Production release as part of Solaris is expected by the middle of this year, I think.
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SCO pulled a fast one and got away with it - this time. Doesn't mean that they'll win, but it sounds like they just might be able to drag it out a bit longer, unfortunately.
Yup, especially good with log files. We have some at work which are dd-mm and I keep having ls -lart them to find the latest. With ISO formatted dates, a normal ls will order them correctly.
However, these chips are designed for throughput of multiple threads; for a desktop, single threaded app, you will still have the same memory bottlenecks we have now.
Lol, I even put her in a flyer to get her out of Dodge & try & save her :P
Pfft, what are they going to sue you for? It's your network, you can do what the hell you want with it. If they choose to use it of their own free will, what do they expect?
1. MS do their damndest to make it difficult to find & download the patches 2. That doesn't integrate into Windows update, so you'd have to go round all the PCs manually applying hotfixes.
If you buy 10 at a time, it comes down to around $47k each (http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process =SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=151017). Also, if you're paying list price on Sun kit, you're doing something wrong.
Hrm, so if I'm a terrorist in a pawn shop and someone asks me where I was born, I say I was born somewhere else? Gotcha...
While we can turn this into an MS bashing post, the engineers at Redhat/Sun/IBM/whatever should have enough pride in their OS that they will try to fix a badly corrupt system without resorting to reinstalling from scratch. Surely we should give MS the same credit?
Company to company sales can exempt themselves, but at that point, companies are expected to be able to cover their asses with lawyers (so to speak....).
Once you have that all documented and approved, users will either take a clean build to be safe; especially after it's been rebuilt a few times...
I will agree one of the biggest failures in managers is believe their own tech staff. Luckily where I work isn't too bad at that.
Yeah, see what happened with Internet Explorer; it stagnated for a few years after they killed off Netscape (quite rightly as Netscape was turning into a piece of crap by version 4.7). Now that Firefox is gaining market share, they're starting to work on IE7, tabbed browsing etc and all the features people have been screaming for over the last few years and have gone to Opera, Firefox etc to get.
In short, it's a stupid idea, but I think you'd still get a bootable system.
My thoughts, mainly on option 3, however... A banner "ad" suggesting Firefox is the most you should use, to be honest.
http://www.linkable.co.uk/blog/samsung-d600-it-is- slide-it-baby seems to suggest that partial Mac support is there, but not contact syncing. A link from there suggests iSync support in 10.4.6.
Mission statements are a prime example; after hearing ours, I felt like standing up and shouting "house" (think buzzword bingo) it was so heavily laden with management-speak and generally non-understandable...
Only 281 for sex.eu?
A week to late for me, unfortunately... Had I known, D-Link would have lost a sale. I'll have to check my router when I get home to see if it's one of the affected ones.
Failured(sic) standards like NFS, NIS, PAM?
Going to Oracle and saying "well, CentOS is fully compatible with RHEL" isn't going to work.
This is the problem with Linux vs Unix arguments in the enterprise; Linux may be free to download & use on commodity hardware, but is that really what you'll do? Most people will buy mid to high-end servers with redundant power etc & use RHEL/Suse EL which winds up about the same price as commercial Unix on equivalent hardware.
You've given a one line answer which will carry the argument in the majority of situations... well done. Just mentioning SOX should be enough to bring managers out in a cold sweat :)
I work in a bank and while I don't have files relating to customer information on my PC, I'm pretty sure I'd contravene some kind of law if I were to install Google Search & some files were transferred to Google. If I did have customer files, I'm almost certain some law would be broken if those files were sent to Google.
If CIOs or others want the kind of functionality & productivity that Google desktop search can provide, let Google sell local servers (same as they do for web search engines) so these companies can buy them and get the tools that way without the data ever leaving their networks & control.
The elevator is a fantastic idea, but there are a number of technological challenges still to be overcome...
Unfortunately, ZFS is still in a beta stage; I wouldn't want to trust anything critical to it just yet. Production release as part of Solaris is expected by the middle of this year, I think.