It would be almost impossible for 'Linux' to get certified. Linux is just a kernal, with countless variations of other stuff packed around it to make any of the myriad of 'distributions.'
Any one specific kernal could be certified, with a specific controlled and documented userland. That would mean that that 'distribution' as it stood, frozen in time, would be certified.
Formally controlled and released OSes, like Windows or Solaris or AIX are far easier to certify and have it mean anything. Probably the closest thing to a 'certifiable' Open Source Operating System would be OpenBSD.
Every time I go to the barber or the dentist I give them the option of taking out my eye with a blunt instrument. However, reasonable people make an assessment of what is likely, not what is possible, and move on with life.
Really, this kind of paranoia gives the anti-Microsoft people a bad reputation.
The reason for the tax is to pay for the road and traffic infrastructure. Why should I pay taxes for road upkeep when I buy heating oil?
BTW: 'Reduce pollution' is the reason some of the socialists and enthusiasts of state control over our lives want taxes. It's not a practical eventuality, it's a political ideology.
These laws date from back in the time when thermal fax paper was a significant tangible expense and people sending unsolicited commercial faxes were using a lot of it up.
K-Mart bought a site license. It covered the machines that belong to the company. When portions of the company are split off they are no longer covered by the site license.
It's the same as if a company bought a site license on 10,000 computers and then tried to claim those licenses were transferrable to individuals who they 'happened' to sell the computers to.
This truly wouldn't even be a Slashdot article if it didn't involve big bad evile Microsoft.
I'm glad to see you didn't outright advocate bash* in your comment.
(* the embrace-and-extend shell par excellance of Unix- bash silently replaces/bin/sh on many freenix installs, and silently incorporates new features that cause shell scripts to break when run on/bin/sh. Kind of the same thing Microsoft did with Java)
Looks pretty cool. Where's the left-handed version?
It's almost time for left handed people to start raising some holy hell about these blatantly asymmetrical designs, unless there's a corresponding left handed version. Not on the basis that we are entitled to anything, more on the basis of the false advertising that it's a 'ergonomic design.' To my hand it's aggressively NON-ergonomic.
It would be amazing, simply amazing, if the processor could run at 3.05 millihertz properly, without a static design and gargantuan power requirements. Because the dynamic registers would be DAMNED good at retaining charge at that refresh rate.
Until I blocked it all out, I had started to notice all the new Apple-related subjects and topics. The theory was that OSDN or VA or whatever they're calling the Slashdot owners now was courting to be bought by Apple Computer.
On days when it seems pretty quiet here I just assume there's some big furious Apple-related topic drawing all the eyes. It keeps me out of trouble (most of the time) to just stay away from those Apple types.
You should shop around for an era-correct glass teletype for it. Find a Lear-Siegler ADM3A or a VT100. Or some of the more obscure stuff. They're usually cheap when you can find them.
It doesn't help you to have extra bandwidth if you end up using it to shunt data back and forth to drives when you could have had it all sitting in memory in the first place.
Both of the Mbus modules in my SparcStation 10 have 1 meg of cache on them. I paid under $10 for the second one on eBay that I plugged in last week. And SMP is up and running fine on NetBSD/Sparc, you just have to compile an SMP kernal.
It's a good time to be running cheap Sparc hardware.
Solaris fanatics may shake their head in dismay at me, but I run NetBSD on all my Sparc hardware. And it's really, really cheap these days on eBay. Today an Ultra 1 (64 bit processor) with 256M of RAM, a Creator 3D 24 bit framebuffer, and four fast SCSI drives totalling 20 GB went for $107.
It feels so much cleaner to run Unix on hardware meant for Unix.
I always check off 'No Score +1 Bonus' unless I have something really relevant to say. Sadly, few others seem to do so. It has the added bonus that if what I say is considered important, someone marks it up and I get 'more karma'.
'run Linux' is such a subjective thing. Many of the platforms that 'run Linux' just barely wobble along running it. I.e. most people aren't that entralled to get a Bash prompt to sit and look at.
Personally, I have grown to like a truly robust cross-platform OS, namely NetBSD. It's not just a kernal, it's got a full consistent userland and ports system that transports to every architecture it runs on. Not just an inconsistent wad of utilities and apps that someone calls a 'distro.'
'How long til it runs NetBSD' is consistently a more interesting question, but since this is a forum dominated by GNU-heads it seldom gets asked.
You are making the common, but fundamental error of assuming that the criminal wants to exploit bugs in the system. Revealing the source code shows vulnerabilities that might not be seen as bugs by any honest person, but that might provide the 'hooks' for a criminal to take advantage of.
A safe manufacturer does have an advantage if it doesn't reveal the mechanical layout of it's lock mechanisms. The criminal doesn't know where to drill to take out key bits of the mechanism and disable it, which would be much easier to determine if he had a set of mechanical drawings.
But 'security through obscurity is baaaaad' is a common thing for people here to bleat.
Also, others have posted that Suse is charging per connected user, rather than the total number of users who ever connect
The distinction is a lot less relevant than everybody here seems to make it. Places that use Exchange Server are businesses. Often regular 9-5 office type places. Everybody's computer is connected to the server concurrently. If you start telling people they have to pop in and log out because you're rationing connections, you're going to look like a fool and the guard standing next to you probably won't help you empty your desk into the box. His job is simply to escort you out of the building.
Umm, maybe this sounds like a dumb question, but where are you plugging in to do this sniffing? You say you're no longer associated as a consultant with the company you were with before.
Are you plugging in at random somewhere? Whose wires are you planning on or presently tapping into?
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It would be almost impossible for 'Linux' to get certified. Linux is just a kernal, with countless variations of other stuff packed around it to make any of the myriad of 'distributions.'
Any one specific kernal could be certified, with a specific controlled and documented userland. That would mean that that 'distribution' as it stood, frozen in time, would be certified.
Formally controlled and released OSes, like Windows or Solaris or AIX are far easier to certify and have it mean anything. Probably the closest thing to a 'certifiable' Open Source Operating System would be OpenBSD.
Do you honestly want to give them that option?
Every time I go to the barber or the dentist I give them the option of taking out my eye with a blunt instrument. However, reasonable people make an assessment of what is likely, not what is possible, and move on with life.
Really, this kind of paranoia gives the anti-Microsoft people a bad reputation.
The reason for the tax is to pay for the road and traffic infrastructure. Why should I pay taxes for road upkeep when I buy heating oil?
BTW: 'Reduce pollution' is the reason some of the socialists and enthusiasts of state control over our lives want taxes. It's not a practical eventuality, it's a political ideology.
These laws date from back in the time when thermal fax paper was a significant tangible expense and people sending unsolicited commercial faxes were using a lot of it up.
K-Mart bought a site license. It covered the machines that belong to the company. When portions of the company are split off they are no longer covered by the site license.
It's the same as if a company bought a site license on 10,000 computers and then tried to claim those licenses were transferrable to individuals who they 'happened' to sell the computers to.
This truly wouldn't even be a Slashdot article if it didn't involve big bad evile Microsoft.
I'm glad to see you didn't outright advocate bash* in your comment.
/bin/sh on many freenix installs, and silently incorporates new features that cause shell scripts to break when run on /bin/sh. Kind of the same thing Microsoft did with Java)
(* the embrace-and-extend shell par excellance of Unix- bash silently replaces
There's always been plenty of government work for an ambitious and well trained geek.
I think you meant to type 'an ambitious and thoroughly wallpapered credential-whore.'
If this is that clearly a compelling anime-fan article, it should be stuck over there in the anime topic heading where some of us wouldn't see it.
Looks pretty cool. Where's the left-handed version?
It's almost time for left handed people to start raising some holy hell about these blatantly asymmetrical designs, unless there's a corresponding left handed version. Not on the basis that we are entitled to anything, more on the basis of the false advertising that it's a 'ergonomic design.' To my hand it's aggressively NON-ergonomic.
What skills does an anime designer bring that are relevant to the design of a good mouse or pointing device of any kind?
This strikes me as more like the clumsy Mickey Mouse Telephone kind of thing. Or those awful mice shaped like a sports car or what-have-you.
I can't think of a single thing an anime designer would know about mouse design that any other joe off the street wouldn't be equally capable of.
It would be amazing, simply amazing, if the processor could run at 3.05 millihertz properly, without a static design and gargantuan power requirements. Because the dynamic registers would be DAMNED good at retaining charge at that refresh rate.
McNeely's gotta love it, though. Sold hardware is sold hardware, even if it sits in a broom closet.
You guys from Apple's astroturf department are working overtime tonight, huh?
Until I blocked it all out, I had started to notice all the new Apple-related subjects and topics. The theory was that OSDN or VA or whatever they're calling the Slashdot owners now was courting to be bought by Apple Computer.
On days when it seems pretty quiet here I just assume there's some big furious Apple-related topic drawing all the eyes. It keeps me out of trouble (most of the time) to just stay away from those Apple types.
You should shop around for an era-correct glass teletype for it. Find a Lear-Siegler ADM3A or a VT100. Or some of the more obscure stuff. They're usually cheap when you can find them.
It doesn't help you to have extra bandwidth if you end up using it to shunt data back and forth to drives when you could have had it all sitting in memory in the first place.
Both of the Mbus modules in my SparcStation 10 have 1 meg of cache on them. I paid under $10 for the second one on eBay that I plugged in last week. And SMP is up and running fine on NetBSD/Sparc, you just have to compile an SMP kernal.
It's a good time to be running cheap Sparc hardware.
Solaris fanatics may shake their head in dismay at me, but I run NetBSD on all my Sparc hardware. And it's really, really cheap these days on eBay. Today an Ultra 1 (64 bit processor) with 256M of RAM, a Creator 3D 24 bit framebuffer, and four fast SCSI drives totalling 20 GB went for $107.
It feels so much cleaner to run Unix on hardware meant for Unix.
I always check off 'No Score +1 Bonus' unless I have something really relevant to say. Sadly, few others seem to do so. It has the added bonus that if what I say is considered important, someone marks it up and I get 'more karma'.
the openoffice-hwr-devel module, currently at version 0.0.1a on SourceForge
cool, man! i can contribute artwork for the icon!
'run Linux' is such a subjective thing. Many of the platforms that 'run Linux' just barely wobble along running it. I.e. most people aren't that entralled to get a Bash prompt to sit and look at.
Personally, I have grown to like a truly robust cross-platform OS, namely NetBSD. It's not just a kernal, it's got a full consistent userland and ports system that transports to every architecture it runs on. Not just an inconsistent wad of utilities and apps that someone calls a 'distro.'
'How long til it runs NetBSD' is consistently a more interesting question, but since this is a forum dominated by GNU-heads it seldom gets asked.
Right on, man.
For once it was worth trawling below 2 to read a comment.
You are making the common, but fundamental error of assuming that the criminal wants to exploit bugs in the system. Revealing the source code shows vulnerabilities that might not be seen as bugs by any honest person, but that might provide the 'hooks' for a criminal to take advantage of.
A safe manufacturer does have an advantage if it doesn't reveal the mechanical layout of it's lock mechanisms. The criminal doesn't know where to drill to take out key bits of the mechanism and disable it, which would be much easier to determine if he had a set of mechanical drawings.
But 'security through obscurity is baaaaad' is a common thing for people here to bleat.
Also, others have posted that Suse is charging per connected user, rather than the total number of users who ever connect
The distinction is a lot less relevant than everybody here seems to make it. Places that use Exchange Server are businesses. Often regular 9-5 office type places. Everybody's computer is connected to the server concurrently. If you start telling people they have to pop in and log out because you're rationing connections, you're going to look like a fool and the guard standing next to you probably won't help you empty your desk into the box. His job is simply to escort you out of the building.
Umm, maybe this sounds like a dumb question, but where are you plugging in to do this sniffing? You say you're no longer associated as a consultant with the company you were with before.
Are you plugging in at random somewhere? Whose wires are you planning on or presently tapping into?
That's been my observation regarding many, many of the people who attack the Microsoft OSes.