Erm, i'd say its totally *unsurprising* given what we've seen of how oracle is handling sun nowadays - you tried to get a patch cluster (or even patch info!) lately?
i'm not even going to mention killing off opensolaris or charging for odf plugins.
You can still download the DVD ISO's of Solaris 10u8, so it still works, so is it just patch cluster access (as reported last week) that's no longer free (hasn't been for years has it?) or are they saying that the next version of Solaris (11 I guess, based on OpenSolaris) will have some type of 90 day timeout upon which we get WGA-esque warning popups?
Not really sure I understand this move, with hoards of people moving to x86_64 from SPARC, the obvious move would be to use that x86_64 hardware to run Linux instead.
So it was basically putting in two sticks of RAM incorrectly (no dual channel for him - assuming he hasn't already fried the chips) and plugging in a couple of molex connectors that took 50secs.
It would be remotely interesting if it included fitting the motherboard and HSF, which are the only time-consuming parts.
How 1980's. Only incompetent bankers get bonuses these days.
I remember working for some prick who actually said "your bonus is still having a job" in a meeting once; well actually my bonus was leaving them and getting paid 15k more elsewhere.
I know CentOS is a RHEL rebuild, but I've looked a few times on the website and never found the source for the build environment.
I mean they must have something like a wget routine that mirrors the SRPM's, then something that greps for all the RedHat references and replaces them in the SPEC files, then compiles all the RPM's.
So where is this - in a GIT/SVN repo somewhere?
Say for example, we wanted to fork CentOS or back it up in case the project goes titsup or someone goes AWOL/honeymoon for a few weeks [again]?
Personally my home LAN is outgrowing GigE, I'd welcome an affordable 10Gig fibre setup, the ones we have at work are a bit pricey to say the least, 100G+ can only bring prices down.
I'm waiting for someone to announce 10Gig wireless that when you remove the marketing BS, actually works at 10MBit. 802.11N+ they'll call it I expect.
I'm all for supporting TPB, but I wonder if the Google defence is what lost them the case (as well as a corrupt judge).
Google does not host torrent files, without torrent files you don't have access to the content - sure you can use Google to search for torrents, but the results will be off-site (probably thepiratebay.org!) not hosted on google.com itself.
Google does not run trackers. If TPB's torrents were all DHT-only, then they might have an argument.
I thought the de-centralised approach was the whole point of BitTorrent (after the Napster etc. episode of shutting down one site kills the whole system) but it doesn't really work if you still need to host the torrents somewhere.
So how are they the same - are you really saying that every website with a search box is the same as Google?
My point was that most of the high-bandwidth-requiring things to do on the internet are frowned upon by the powers that be - I'm sure telecoms carriers won't like you using VoIP or video conferencing as much as the MAFIAA dislike music/video over BitTorrent.
As someone said above - why do we need the internet to deliver video when we already have cable/satellite and such?
If P2P is illegal - and frankly any internet traffic seems to be illegal according to the Orwellian UK government at the moment, what are we going to use 60Mbps for - checking Email?
Mind you, 60Mbps is really going to improve the performance of the botnets, so spam levels will go up.
I gotta say thats what I've always found with paid-for support, if you want the job done right, do it yourself.
Just the other week I had a problem with a certain piece of software we had bought to pentest a pretty dated operating system, after about 3 weeks of uploading logs and changing configs and turning on debugging for the "tech support" at both the software vendor and the OS vendor, I decided to have an in-depth look at the problem.
Guess what? Identified and solved the problem in about an hour.
And as far as Oracle goes, they should just make all their bloody shared memory and kernel tuning "enhancements" (that tend to break everything but Oracle) into a shell script or RPM and leave RHEL alone, its not as if the changes they make are enough to warrant a complete OS rebuild; they're doing it just to stick it to RedHat as there are some PHB's and DBA's who actually will use Oracle Unbreakable.
....and Rolexes some moron will buy for a fiver, but what about all the stuff from Hong Kong that looks and sounds great one the page and then turns out to be utter crap when it arrives, and in some cases a fire risk - such as a power supply for a webcam I bought that was constantly painfully hot to the touch.
Plus then there's over-inflated postage costs that prevent you from sending the item back - if the vendor even offers that and doesn't just switch username in a week's time and gets all his Hong Kong buddies to give him feedback.
The speed factor seems pointless in this exercise - if they didn't write the exploits there and then at the conference, it effectively boils down to who can stick his thumbdrive in the slot and double-click the fastest!
Why did it take longer to kill IE8/Firefox if the exploits were already written and just needed to be run by clicking a URL?
Make the fsckers write their own exploits, and make them do it at the show. THAT would be worth 10k.
Debian ARM since ooh, about 2.2 kernel
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Debian has had an ARM port for years, so why is this news?
I used to run Debian on my old Archimedes, and then RiscPC which had a StrongARM (earlier version had ARM7 chips).
You do know that Ubuntu is Debian with some fancy graphics effects and dumbing down don't you?
It will be DRM'ed to death like iPlayer - which actually *is* BBC content and not some record company's. The the monopolies commission will bitch at them and they will create a rubbish version for Mac/Linux with a quarter of the quality and half the features.
Save yourself the hassle and just buy MP3's from Amazon.
you might be asking the wrong company there - as far as i recall, the main jython developer also wrote ironpython, and now works for microsoft who seem to not really take python seriously as its a bit of a bolt-on hack and not nicely integrated into visual studio like c++ etc; they're not exactly the kings of opensource either....
plus, even though the jython library version is out-of-date, it still makes c-python look like a snail - and i never thought i'd say that java is faster than c!
hopefully python3000 will bring us speed if not compatibility.
If your software is good enough and better than the FOSS alternatives, people will pay for it (bit like music).
It looks like a Windows app, so how FOSS editors are effecting sales of that I don't know - most FOSS people don't develop on/for Windows, and most Windows developers I'd say probably use VisualStudio (by choice or corporate policy).
I bet now its free-of-charge (not as in speech or opensource) people still won't use it!
it doesn't traverse the switch as i've tested by making a little loopback cable (rj45 connector with a couple of wires twisted) that is sufficient to fool the nic into a link-up state - but not actually be connected to anything and ssh (etc) still works between host and guests in bridged mode.
it definitely goes through the host's network stack, which is inefficient but convenient i guess.
its actually bloody annoying that vmware pays any attention to the hosts nic's link state, as if you're not connected to a switch/wlan, then you have no networking (unless you have a handy loopback cable!) and have to switch to host-only mode.
i'm getting a bit fed-up of vmware server though, especially that awful web gui in v2 beta, and they still haven't fixed the solaris10 networking issues that they've known about since before it was a "supported" guest os (try using nfs/jumpstart under vmware).
unfortunately i don't have the hardware to make xen/kvm useful, and virtualbox is a bit "unpolished" to be kind, seen bad reviews of parallels on the mac, so the linux version is probably worse.
Green Computing is going to make fsck all difference in the grand scale of things when we're paying naff all wages to people in China, and getting huge amounts of pollution back in return.
Using a few watts less on your gaming rig is not going to make any difference to your "carbon footprint" or your electricity bill.
not wanting to sound trollish (pun kinda intended) buit i thought python for series 60 was dead in the water - i.e. nokia themselves don't even support in anymore?
maybe i heard wrong, as its something i'd really like to look at - especially if pyqt will soon work on the s60 due to this move, gotta be better than that java rubbish.
so is it just ubuntu because ibm hates redhat/novell (the standard enterprise distros) or does their notes team read digg.com and think linux == ubuntu?
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Erm, i'd say its totally *unsurprising* given what we've seen of how oracle is handling sun nowadays - you tried to get a patch cluster (or even patch info!) lately?
i'm not even going to mention killing off opensolaris or charging for odf plugins.
You can still download the DVD ISO's of Solaris 10u8, so it still works, so is it just patch cluster access (as reported last week) that's no longer free (hasn't been for years has it?) or are they saying that the next version of Solaris (11 I guess, based on OpenSolaris) will have some type of 90 day timeout upon which we get WGA-esque warning popups?
Not really sure I understand this move, with hoards of people moving to x86_64 from SPARC, the obvious move would be to use that x86_64 hardware to run Linux instead.
So it was basically putting in two sticks of RAM incorrectly (no dual channel for him - assuming he hasn't already fried the chips) and plugging in a couple of molex connectors that took 50secs.
It would be remotely interesting if it included fitting the motherboard and HSF, which are the only time-consuming parts.
March 15th 2010: Slow News Day
It was Acorn RISC Machine way before it became Advanced RISC Machines Ltd; by almost a decade, when Furber ran the show.
I thought Sarkoszy was essentially a dictator when it comes to all things MAFIAA.
he pushes in laws that have been voted against all the way up to the european parliament.
What are they?
How 1980's. Only incompetent bankers get bonuses these days.
I remember working for some prick who actually said "your bonus is still having a job" in a meeting once; well actually my bonus was leaving them and getting paid 15k more elsewhere.
Well actually 2-4 weeks it seems:
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=22004&forum=37
Assuming no devs disappear or go on honeymoon ;-)
I know CentOS is a RHEL rebuild, but I've looked a few times on the website and never found the source for the build environment.
I mean they must have something like a wget routine that mirrors the SRPM's, then something that greps for all the RedHat references and replaces them in the SPEC files, then compiles all the RPM's.
So where is this - in a GIT/SVN repo somewhere?
Say for example, we wanted to fork CentOS or back it up in case the project goes titsup or someone goes AWOL/honeymoon for a few weeks [again]?
Title says it all: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp
Personally my home LAN is outgrowing GigE, I'd welcome an affordable 10Gig fibre setup, the ones we have at work are a bit pricey to say the least, 100G+ can only bring prices down.
I'm waiting for someone to announce 10Gig wireless that when you remove the marketing BS, actually works at 10MBit. 802.11N+ they'll call it I expect.
I'm all for supporting TPB, but I wonder if the Google defence is what lost them the case (as well as a corrupt judge).
Google does not host torrent files, without torrent files you don't have access to the content - sure you can use Google to search for torrents, but the results will be off-site (probably thepiratebay.org!) not hosted on google.com itself.
Google does not run trackers. If TPB's torrents were all DHT-only, then they might have an argument.
I thought the de-centralised approach was the whole point of BitTorrent (after the Napster etc. episode of shutting down one site kills the whole system) but it doesn't really work if you still need to host the torrents somewhere.
So how are they the same - are you really saying that every website with a search box is the same as Google?
My point was that most of the high-bandwidth-requiring things to do on the internet are frowned upon by the powers that be - I'm sure telecoms carriers won't like you using VoIP or video conferencing as much as the MAFIAA dislike music/video over BitTorrent.
As someone said above - why do we need the internet to deliver video when we already have cable/satellite and such?
If P2P is illegal - and frankly any internet traffic seems to be illegal according to the Orwellian UK government at the moment, what are we going to use 60Mbps for - checking Email?
Mind you, 60Mbps is really going to improve the performance of the botnets, so spam levels will go up.
I gotta say thats what I've always found with paid-for support, if you want the job done right, do it yourself.
Just the other week I had a problem with a certain piece of software we had bought to pentest a pretty dated operating system, after about 3 weeks of uploading logs and changing configs and turning on debugging for the "tech support" at both the software vendor and the OS vendor, I decided to have an in-depth look at the problem.
Guess what? Identified and solved the problem in about an hour.
And as far as Oracle goes, they should just make all their bloody shared memory and kernel tuning "enhancements" (that tend to break everything but Oracle) into a shell script or RPM and leave RHEL alone, its not as if the changes they make are enough to warrant a complete OS rebuild; they're doing it just to stick it to RedHat as there are some PHB's and DBA's who actually will use Oracle Unbreakable.
....and Rolexes some moron will buy for a fiver, but what about all the stuff from Hong Kong that looks and sounds great one the page and then turns out to be utter crap when it arrives, and in some cases a fire risk - such as a power supply for a webcam I bought that was constantly painfully hot to the touch.
Plus then there's over-inflated postage costs that prevent you from sending the item back - if the vendor even offers that and doesn't just switch username in a week's time and gets all his Hong Kong buddies to give him feedback.
The speed factor seems pointless in this exercise - if they didn't write the exploits there and then at the conference, it effectively boils down to who can stick his thumbdrive in the slot and double-click the fastest!
Why did it take longer to kill IE8/Firefox if the exploits were already written and just needed to be run by clicking a URL?
Make the fsckers write their own exploits, and make them do it at the show. THAT would be worth 10k.
Debian has had an ARM port for years, so why is this news?
I used to run Debian on my old Archimedes, and then RiscPC which had a StrongARM (earlier version had ARM7 chips).
You do know that Ubuntu is Debian with some fancy graphics effects and dumbing down don't you?
Jees, has Digg made its way to Slashdot?
Nothing to see here move along....
It will be DRM'ed to death like iPlayer - which actually *is* BBC content and not some record company's. The the monopolies commission will bitch at them and they will create a rubbish version for Mac/Linux with a quarter of the quality and half the features.
Save yourself the hassle and just buy MP3's from Amazon.
you might be asking the wrong company there - as far as i recall, the main jython developer also wrote ironpython, and now works for microsoft who seem to not really take python seriously as its a bit of a bolt-on hack and not nicely integrated into visual studio like c++ etc; they're not exactly the kings of opensource either....
plus, even though the jython library version is out-of-date, it still makes c-python look like a snail - and i never thought i'd say that java is faster than c!
hopefully python3000 will bring us speed if not compatibility.
Imagine a beowulf clus.... No forget that.
How about a Quake server?
Boo fucking hoo.
If your software is good enough and better than the FOSS alternatives, people will pay for it (bit like music).
It looks like a Windows app, so how FOSS editors are effecting sales of that I don't know - most FOSS people don't develop on/for Windows, and most Windows developers I'd say probably use VisualStudio (by choice or corporate policy).
I bet now its free-of-charge (not as in speech or opensource) people still won't use it!
it doesn't traverse the switch as i've tested by making a little loopback cable (rj45 connector with a couple of wires twisted) that is sufficient to fool the nic into a link-up state - but not actually be connected to anything and ssh (etc) still works between host and guests in bridged mode.
it definitely goes through the host's network stack, which is inefficient but convenient i guess.
its actually bloody annoying that vmware pays any attention to the hosts nic's link state, as if you're not connected to a switch/wlan, then you have no networking (unless you have a handy loopback cable!) and have to switch to host-only mode.
i'm getting a bit fed-up of vmware server though, especially that awful web gui in v2 beta, and they still haven't fixed the solaris10 networking issues that they've known about since before it was a "supported" guest os (try using nfs/jumpstart under vmware).
unfortunately i don't have the hardware to make xen/kvm useful, and virtualbox is a bit "unpolished" to be kind, seen bad reviews of parallels on the mac, so the linux version is probably worse.
I wish I had some mod points to give you!
Green Computing is going to make fsck all difference in the grand scale of things when we're paying naff all wages to people in China, and getting huge amounts of pollution back in return.
Using a few watts less on your gaming rig is not going to make any difference to your "carbon footprint" or your electricity bill.
not wanting to sound trollish (pun kinda intended) buit i thought python for series 60 was dead in the water - i.e. nokia themselves don't even support in anymore?
maybe i heard wrong, as its something i'd really like to look at - especially if pyqt will soon work on the s60 due to this move, gotta be better than that java rubbish.
so is it just ubuntu because ibm hates redhat/novell (the standard enterprise distros) or does their notes team read digg.com and think linux == ubuntu?