Red Hat view (or at least did when I was in Raleigh last September) FC as an incubator for RHEL.
I discussed the release frequency and period of support, and they were pretty unsympathetic to the user's point of view. Their requirement is fast turnaround of new releases to ensure a strong test of new technologies / versions of new packages.
This has some upsides, like the multipathing support in RHEL4, Update 3 which means we can finally do away with Veritas on most of our machines. But it can suck for the user.
And yet each new release of Fedora Core has been an improvement over the last. Bleeding Edge does not necessarily equal less stable.
That was my understanding of the situation, dodgy but not in violation of GPL. As noted in TFA, if this wasn't a reality then FSF wouldn't be drafting up GPL v3.
The GPL doesn't necessarily say that you have to distribute the source, as long as you point people in the direction where the source can be found (which in the case of nVidia's case can be done).
You are quite correct. Australia I believe is a signatury to the relevant treaties. However you would probably find that something like the DMCA goes quite beyond what is required by the relevant treaties. My original point being that as a result of the US/Australia FTA Australia's patent laws (which would of complied with any treaties that Australia is a signatury to before the US/Australia FTA) are becoming more like the US's (if they aren't pretty similar already).
Well supposedly he was/is in the wet-Liberal (for anyone not from Australia, the more liberalist faction of the Liberal party) camp of the Liberal party. However his words and actions both as the Minister for Immigration and as Attorney General seem to indicate that he is not a wet-Liberal any longer. In any case his sense of homour has little to do with any of my statements.
US authorities can get access to EU citizens' data on phone calls, sms' and emails, giving a recent EU data-retention law much wider-reaching consequences than first expected, reports Swedish daily Sydsvenskan.
The EU data retention bill, passed in February after much controversy and with implementation tabled for late 2007, obliges telephone operators and internet service providers to store information on who called who and who emailed who for at least six months, aimed at fighting terrorism and organised crime.
A week later on 2-3 March, EU and US representatives met in Vienna for an informal high level meeting on freedom, security and justice where the US expressed interest in the future storage of information.
The US delegation to the meeting "indicated that it was considering approaching each [EU] member state to ensure that the data collected on the basis of the recently adopted Directive on data retention be accessible to them," according to the notes of the meeting.
Representatives from the Austrian EU presidency and from the European Commission said that these data were "accessible like any other data on the basis of the existing... agreements" the notes said.
The EU representatives added that the commission would convene an expert meeting on the issue.
Under current agreements, if the FBI, for example, is interested in a group of EU citizens from a member state who are involved in an investigation, the bureau can ask for help with a prosecutor in that member state.
The national prosecutor then requests telephone operators and internet service providers for information, which is then passed on to the FBI.
This procedure opens the way for US authorities to get access under the EU data-retention law, according to the Swedish newspaper.
In the US itself meanwhile, fury has broken out in the US congress after reports revealed that the Bush administration covertly collected domestic phone records of tens of millions of US citizens since the attacks in New York on 11 September 2001.
President George Bush did not deny the allegations in a television statement last night, but insisted that his administration had not broken any laws.
A simple google on Minix revealed this. Sure doesn't look like nothing practical. I might not completely agree with his arguments (interesting comment on the subject here), but that doesn't mean he isn't attempting to put his money where his mouth is so to speak.
I imagine it would be cheaper to rejig the power lines than to ad an fiber line to ever power line in existence. The interference thingy might stop it from happening though.
On the first point, that's if the Australian Communications Managment Authority decides to give the go ahead for it to move beyond trials (apparently they are concerned about BPL interfereing with wireless communications, don't know the exact details though).
We need variety in the UNIX market to result in innovation and improvements. With IRIX and SGI gone, Compaq and Tru64 gone, and soon possibly HP and HP-UX (there are doubts that the Itanium can fully replace the PA-RISC), the major UNIX vendors left are Sun and IBM. Frankly, that may not be enough to provide a sufficient level of innovation.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: UNIX is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered UNIX community when IDC confirmed that UNIX market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that UNIX has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. UNIX is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict UNIX's future. The hand writing is on the wall: UNIX faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for UNIX because UNIX is dying. Things are looking very bad for UNIX. As many of us are already aware, UNIX continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
HP-UX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time HP-UX developers only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: HP-UX is dying.
All major surveys show that UNIX has steadily declined in market share. UNIX is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If UNIX is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. UNIX continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, UNIX is dead.
steal 1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
I think the important part is 'to take', that is to say 'to deprive another of property without right or permission'. So when Joe Pimple copies Metallica's latest single, who exactly is being deprived of the song? The song is still in possesion of all others it was previously, so who exactly have you taken from in the copying of that song?
Additionally, what's the motivation for organizations (schools or ISPs) to fight for privacy versus just rolling over? I don't hear much of an outcry from the public over this bullshit, so it's not like they're really trying to protect their images. And, we all know that corporations don't go to much effort just on priciple (schools are a bit better in this regard).
Cause if you roll over on me without being forced to by some legal authority, I might just sue you or see if I can have charges laid upon you for breach of whatever privacy provisions are around in said area.
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Red Hat view (or at least did when I was in Raleigh last September) FC as an incubator for RHEL.
I discussed the release frequency and period of support, and they were pretty unsympathetic to the user's point of view. Their requirement is fast turnaround of new releases to ensure a strong test of new technologies / versions of new packages.
This has some upsides, like the multipathing support in RHEL4, Update 3 which means we can finally do away with Veritas on most of our machines. But it can suck for the user.
And yet each new release of Fedora Core has been an improvement over the last. Bleeding Edge does not necessarily equal less stable.
I think the goatse guy was the first patient in the trial of this monstrosity. How else did his arse get like that. That worm must be to blame for the abomination that is the goatse guy's arse.
That was my understanding of the situation, dodgy but not in violation of GPL. As noted in TFA, if this wasn't a reality then FSF wouldn't be drafting up GPL v3.
The GPL doesn't necessarily say that you have to distribute the source, as long as you point people in the direction where the source can be found (which in the case of nVidia's case can be done).
You are quite correct. Australia I believe is a signatury to the relevant treaties. However you would probably find that something like the DMCA goes quite beyond what is required by the relevant treaties. My original point being that as a result of the US/Australia FTA Australia's patent laws (which would of complied with any treaties that Australia is a signatury to before the US/Australia FTA) are becoming more like the US's (if they aren't pretty similar already).
Well supposedly he was/is in the wet-Liberal (for anyone not from Australia, the more liberalist faction of the Liberal party) camp of the Liberal party. However his words and actions both as the Minister for Immigration and as Attorney General seem to indicate that he is not a wet-Liberal any longer. In any case his sense of homour has little to do with any of my statements.
I think our patent laws are about the same as the US's, if not they're heading that way after the US/Australia FTA.
That's certainly a supprise given Mr Ruddock's backward views on just about anything else.
Agreed, that bit is just as easy. Using the partioning tool to do anything else is not.
The two goals are mutually exclusive?
For starters the partioning tool provided in the installation is nowhere near as easy as that provided by distros such as Fedora or Mandrake.
US authorities can get access to EU citizens' data on phone calls, sms' and emails, giving a recent EU data-retention law much wider-reaching consequences than first expected, reports Swedish daily Sydsvenskan.
... agreements" the notes said.
The EU data retention bill, passed in February after much controversy and with implementation tabled for late 2007, obliges telephone operators and internet service providers to store information on who called who and who emailed who for at least six months, aimed at fighting terrorism and organised crime.
A week later on 2-3 March, EU and US representatives met in Vienna for an informal high level meeting on freedom, security and justice where the US expressed interest in the future storage of information.
The US delegation to the meeting "indicated that it was considering approaching each [EU] member state to ensure that the data collected on the basis of the recently adopted Directive on data retention be accessible to them," according to the notes of the meeting.
Representatives from the Austrian EU presidency and from the European Commission said that these data were "accessible like any other data on the basis of the existing
The EU representatives added that the commission would convene an expert meeting on the issue.
Under current agreements, if the FBI, for example, is interested in a group of EU citizens from a member state who are involved in an investigation, the bureau can ask for help with a prosecutor in that member state.
The national prosecutor then requests telephone operators and internet service providers for information, which is then passed on to the FBI.
This procedure opens the way for US authorities to get access under the EU data-retention law, according to the Swedish newspaper.
In the US itself meanwhile, fury has broken out in the US congress after reports revealed that the Bush administration covertly collected domestic phone records of tens of millions of US citizens since the attacks in New York on 11 September 2001.
President George Bush did not deny the allegations in a television statement last night, but insisted that his administration had not broken any laws.
If the FreeBSD wants to compete with GNU/Linux on the desktop they're going to have to do something about installation.
Nothing Practical in 15 years?
A simple google on Minix revealed this. Sure doesn't look like nothing practical. I might not completely agree with his arguments (interesting comment on the subject here), but that doesn't mean he isn't attempting to put his money where his mouth is so to speak.
Until the share price rises and they sell of the rest, having already passed the approprieate enabling legislation through both houses of parliament.
config.trim_on_minimize does not seem to exist in 1.5 either.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/china-issues-new- rules-to-control-internet/2005/09/25/1127586740141 .html
I imagine it would be cheaper to rejig the power lines than to ad an fiber line to ever power line in existence. The interference thingy might stop it from happening though.
On the first point, that's if the Australian Communications Managment Authority decides to give the go ahead for it to move beyond trials (apparently they are concerned about BPL interfereing with wireless communications, don't know the exact details though).
We need variety in the UNIX market to result in innovation and improvements. With IRIX and SGI gone, Compaq and Tru64 gone, and soon possibly HP and HP-UX (there are doubts that the Itanium can fully replace the PA-RISC), the major UNIX vendors left are Sun and IBM. Frankly, that may not be enough to provide a sufficient level of innovation.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: UNIX is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered UNIX community when IDC confirmed that UNIX market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that UNIX has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. UNIX is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict UNIX's future. The hand writing is on the wall: UNIX faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for UNIX because UNIX is dying. Things are looking very bad for UNIX. As many of us are already aware, UNIX continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
HP-UX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time HP-UX developers only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: HP-UX is dying.
All major surveys show that UNIX has steadily declined in market share. UNIX is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If UNIX is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. UNIX continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, UNIX is dead.
Fact: UNIX is dying
x86 Unix systems have largely been also-rans...
Linux is a also-ran? What about Solaris on x86?
Or at least until longhorn goes gold
that it would of actually beaten Longhorn to be the first to go gold.
steal
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
I think the important part is 'to take', that is to say 'to deprive another of property without right or permission'. So when Joe Pimple copies Metallica's latest single, who exactly is being deprived of the song? The song is still in possesion of all others it was previously, so who exactly have you taken from in the copying of that song?
Additionally, what's the motivation for organizations (schools or ISPs) to fight for privacy versus just rolling over? I don't hear much of an outcry from the public over this bullshit, so it's not like they're really trying to protect their images. And, we all know that corporations don't go to much effort just on priciple (schools are a bit better in this regard).
Cause if you roll over on me without being forced to by some legal authority, I might just sue you or see if I can have charges laid upon you for breach of whatever privacy provisions are around in said area.