The OP is pointing out that _any_ switch to linux would save you MS license fees, that's a given. The question is; Does the increased cost of training, support, and administration swallow that savings?
IMHO, it's pretty clear that TCO is lower with a partial or total switch to linux. There are exeptions, like small businesses without IT resources, but by and large, IT costs go down.
80. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any substantial part of
(a) a musical work embodied in a sound recording,
(b) a performer's performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording, or(br> (c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer's performance of a musical work, is embodied onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer's performance or the sound recording.
So, any copying I do, for my own personal use, is ok. This includes downloading music. This seemingly does not include uploading music. See here for more.
The fact that ISP can't get subscriber information from ISP's for file sharers might not make it legal, but it sure does make it easy to get away with.
Yeah, that was before people started creating "hard drives" that one could put a system on.
There are huge security risks in this. I would never allow anyone to execute unknown binaries on my machine. (ie; in a production enviroment), and I wouldn't want my binaries exposed to a potentially infected system,
The drive looks like any other mass storage device to the OS. On linux, you can use the loopback interface to encrypt the entire filesystem, with the encyption of choice. I'm sure windows has some way to do the same.
The post by un1xl0ser (up a couple) asks a good question; What's the cross platform solution for this?
I don't have stats either, but I would think that most linux users with amd64's are running a 64-bit dist. That's why we bought them in the first place, isn't it?
Debian pure64 with a chrooted debian i686 install. A few scripts later and it's almost totally transparent to run 32-bit binaries.
Unfortuantly, this article doesn't mention if the dev kits actually include a running Cell processor or not. Given the extraordinary promisses made regarding the Cell's performance, it kind of seems like it would have to have a real cell.(As compared to the Xbox2 dev kits, shipping with G5s). AFAIK, we've never actually seen real hardware yet.
This is going to be the most interesting E3 ever, or I'll never fall for the hype again, damit.
Oh, well. I live in Canada, where P2P is legal, and the stores still sell music.
The OP's argument, that because the GPL rests on copyright law, the music industry's use of copyright law is right, is absurd. Copyright law was made to curtail the rights of publishers, and protect the rights of consumers. Now that we are all publishers and consumers, it can change to fit the new model. The fact remains that re-publishing for profit is different than sharing, even if said 'sharing' can amount to thousands of copies. Printing presses, phonograms, VCR's, and file sharing all threatend the established industry, and all resulted in larger markets for the content in question.
WTF!? Have you had a look at the server stats for wiki? You try keeping a exponentialy increasing number of users happy, while your only income is donation....
Agreed. xfce4 is the only lightweight desktop that looks good, but has next to no 'desktop' to it. Firefox brings a 300MHz machine with 64M to a crawl. This should not be.
If you've been to a music event in the last 50 years, you'll notice that most musicians are using amplification that will generally over power a system that one is unable to hear "with the system at ear level two feet away".
Philip Glass, OTOH, probably wouldn't need this much power.
Wikispecies is pretty slim right now. If you keep clicking 'random page' all you get is 'Taxonavigation' index pages....I suppose it has to start somewhere.
Wouldn't it be more usefull integrated with the Open Species Database?
Slashdot Mirror
No they're not similar at all. The microscope uses lenses and refractors, while the telescope uses magic.
IMHO, it's pretty clear that TCO is lower with a partial or total switch to linux. There are exeptions, like small businesses without IT resources, but by and large, IT costs go down.
Correct. Sharing is not ok. Downloading is.
80. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any substantial part of (a) a musical work embodied in a sound recording, (b) a performer's performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording, or(br> (c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer's performance of a musical work, is embodied onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer's performance or the sound recording.
So, any copying I do, for my own personal use, is ok. This includes downloading music. This seemingly does not include uploading music. See here for more.
The fact that ISP can't get subscriber information from ISP's for file sharers might not make it legal, but it sure does make it easy to get away with.
Update reguarly/automaticly, and keep an eye on an OS X site or two to stay abreast of things, and you'll be fine.
The default shell is Bash
The terminal app's fonts and antialiasing is really nice.
There are huge security risks in this. I would never allow anyone to execute unknown binaries on my machine. (ie; in a production enviroment), and I wouldn't want my binaries exposed to a potentially infected system,
The post by un1xl0ser (up a couple) asks a good question; What's the cross platform solution for this?
Debian pure64 with a chrooted debian i686 install. A few scripts later and it's almost totally transparent to run 32-bit binaries.
This is going to be the most interesting E3 ever, or I'll never fall for the hype again, damit.
The OP's argument, that because the GPL rests on copyright law, the music industry's use of copyright law is right, is absurd. Copyright law was made to curtail the rights of publishers, and protect the rights of consumers. Now that we are all publishers and consumers, it can change to fit the new model. The fact remains that re-publishing for profit is different than sharing, even if said 'sharing' can amount to thousands of copies. Printing presses, phonograms, VCR's, and file sharing all threatend the established industry, and all resulted in larger markets for the content in question.
That's the General Public License.
And getting more common every day.
I strongly agree with the OP. Even if HURD never competes with Linux, it's still important as a research project.
The Babel Fish.
Philip Glass, OTOH, probably wouldn't need this much power.
Wouldn't it be more usefull integrated with the Open Species Database?