I wonder if they could be trying to sue the competitors to LSB-based distributions and trying to make their LSB-based distributions the only ones? If so, couldn't that be enough to sue SCO/Caldera for antitrust and/or anti-competitive violations?
You can probably keep using tape as an easier way to get data onto a more portable backup medium that can be locked away, then use snapshot backups to a set of mirrored or RAID-5'd array, which then send the data over a decent pipe to a remote server via rsync or scp (or NFS even) from the array, but probably not as frequently due to the time it would take to transfer the snapshot data (which may compress well, but I'm not sure).
One option that you may want to look at on the NAS side of things is to look at the Snap Server offering. They aren't exactly inexpensive but supports Windows, UNIX (via NFS or if your Linux/BSD system supports mounting CIFS/SMBFS shares) and Mac. The units come in either small desktop units or rackmount units. The desktop ones usually have one or two drives, thus aren't capable of RAID5, but the 1U units have four drives and support RAID 0/1/5. Most of the older 4000-line and lower units are capable of 10/100BaseT whilst the newer 4000-series models have copper Gigabit.
Another option would be to get a 2U rackmount server with 4-6 hot-swappable IDE bays (I don't have any prices on hand, some can be expensive, some can be had for a pretty good price), an older ATX or MicroATX P-III motherboard and one or two 3Ware low-profile 4-channel controllers (or if you have a PCI riser card, go with the 8-channel version). If performance is required, look at getting a dual Athlon MPX motherboard (using a single processor, two if you want to do data crunching on the box too), drop in a SCSI controller (along with Gigabit Ethernet) and get an IDE RAID -> SCSI enclosure system (as mentioned by another poster, Medea makes some nice ones based on what I've heard) that support the RAID levels you want and probably an internal boot drive loaded with your favorite OS.
InfoSync also has a news bit regarding an Ogg Vorbis(-only for now) player for the Sony Ericsson P800 cellphone. Now just think of you could have Ogg Vorbis ringtones;)
ExtremeTech has a review on the Quill Mouse along with a vertical-split keyboard. The reviewer found that the mouse was comfortable to use... but the thing does look funny:)
I'm no fan of the DMCA and I don't think it's the right tool in your case (yeah, yeah... IANAL). Instead, go after the person by going after the person with a regular copyright violation suit (you know, the ones used before the DMCA was spawned?). That's just my view.
BTW - I think the link for "Prof. Felten's answers" points to the wrong story... the link should point to this story instead.
Not really... I am listening to em, comparing FF5, FF6, FF7 and FF8 and the last two don't have that much in common with the first two (which are re-arrangements of the "true" Final Fantasy fanfare). FF9 is a more synthesized and whimsical form of the true fanfare.
FF8 is definitely different from the true one, FF7 is closer to the true when compared to FF8 or FF10... though I never liked FF7's or FF9's arrangement that much. FF6, FF8 and FF10 are the ones that like the most.
The fanfares for FF1-6 and FF9 are the same but touched up in each... but the ones for FF7, FF8 and FF10 are not the same. I should know... I own all of the Final Fantasy soundtracks from 1 (including the updated one for Origins) through 10, plus X-2 (which is crippled... copy protected unCD).
Caldera was started by some ex-Novell guys I believe and purchased SCO (who bought the UNIX rights from AT&T USL). So both Caldera and SCO had some form of ties to Novell but I doubht of Novell has any say in how Caldera/SCO is run and operated.
Forgot to mention, it looks like Windows Server 2003 will bring a form of DRM to networks via Rights Management Services (as stated in a previous Slashdot article).
IIS Sync failed for us as well, but in a domain-less environment, it crapped out and nearly cause the source server to implode... not to mention the destination server.
IIS Export is a near god-send for such situations... but it still isn't has great as being able to copy httpd.conf from one server to another along with the web store (or the web store could just be a clustered NFS server or servers connected to a SAN with mirroring or striping). I wonder if it will be anywhere close to being that easy with IIS 6.0 (something I doubt right now).
Excluding hardware upgrade costs and licensing, I'm guessing that Microsoft is saying that Windows Server 2003 is more stable and scalable so that you can run multiple critical applications and services on one larger server instead of a myriad of less expensive servers (where have we heard this before?)... a form of consolidation I guess.
Will it work in reality? I won't be too optimistic about it until I really see it in action.
It currently is a bitch and a half to get web sites setup exactly the same way across multiple web servers in a farm behind a load balancer without the use of third-party utilities (IIS Export is really nice and isn't too expensive... Google it for more information). Also, if you have web servers that are not in a domain and you want to restore the IIS metabase on a rebuilt system... good luck. Even with some help by Microsoft, the process is very painful and isn't perfect either. Instead, we had to use IIS Export to migrate all of the sites from one server to the rebuilt server. Not a fun task to do for over 50+ sites.
Having text-based configuration files would be a godsend for people in such a situation! It would also make creating an restore image of a server much easier since you only have to update the web content to the latest version in production.
It seems that Microsoft is learning a bit from their mistakes with Windows 2000 by not enabling everything under the moon by default or leaving the default settings to be so open and ripe for exploiting. That and additional support for NUMA, better clustering supports (or so Microsoft says) and supposedly new features in Active Directory to make life a little easier (again, something Microsoft is touting).
As with Windows XP, it seems that Microsoft will be making additional components and add-ons available throughout the life of the product, including an updated version of SharePoint Team Services (which has been renamed to something I can't remember now) and currently unnamed components.
Personally, I think Windows Server 2003 is the latest salvo Microsoft has launched to get people out of Windows NT 4.0... just like how Windows XP was the latest salvo to get people out of Windows 9x/ME. It's an incremental step up from Windows 2000, but a much bigger step up from Windows NT 4.0.
Visual FoxPro, while it has it's own data format, is also a language that is supposed to be very good as handling data manipulation. Think of it as a combination of Perl and BerkeleyDB or Perl and dBase.
Visual FoxPro also supports ODBC and can connect to a SQL Server to get and post data. Beyond that, I don't know much else about it.
The one thing that may make it easier to squeeze out additional performance is that the video resolution for consoles is usually lower than for resolution on a computer (say 640x480 or 800x600 for the former and 1024x768+ for the latter). Of course, that gets thrown out the window if the game will run at 480p/720i @ 16:(9|10). By knocking the resolution down, you earn gain some additional frames per second right there.
Also, the textures may not have to be as crystal clear since a regular TV will just end up blurring it even more... but doesn't mean that the texture quality should be crap.
There are probably some other things that they can do to the graphics to make it more optimal for TV than for a computer monitor./shrug
It happens all the time already: customized versions of Internet Explorer/Outlook Express, special dialer applications, spyware, destroying other dial-up connections on a machine, etc. It's just something I threw out but it doesn't mean that it most be done nor should it be mandatory.
The only problem there is that the 12" Powerbook G4 doesn't run as cool nor is as power efficient as the iBook. I guess it's something that you trade when you want more performance.
An x86 iBook doesn't have to run say an Athlon or P3-M/P4-M/P-M processor, instead they could use a Transmeta processor to keep power consumption and heat production down while you get to keep AGP and decent memory throughput (with the upcoming Transmeta that is).
There is a kill executable available for Windows (at least NT/2000/XP) that allows me to kill IEXPLORE.EXE if it decides to hang on me. The other fun one is rkill from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit... it allows you to remotely kill processes (once you install the remote kill service on the target machine). It also provides a list of what applications are running and their PID.
It's still not a fun as doing 'kill -9 blah' or 'kill -1 syslogd':)
You can always provide a package containing Windows Update and apply the necessary registry settings required to have the client point to the ISP's Windows Update server rather than Microsoft's servers. In a corporation, you would use group policies to make the necessary changes without having to hack the registry on each client manually.
I believe that Windows Updates connects as an anonymous user to IIS (which is where SUS and it's files are accessible) and downloads them. Anonymous connections to IIS do not require CALs.
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I wonder if they could be trying to sue the competitors to LSB-based distributions and trying to make their LSB-based distributions the only ones? If so, couldn't that be enough to sue SCO/Caldera for antitrust and/or anti-competitive violations?
You can probably keep using tape as an easier way to get data onto a more portable backup medium that can be locked away, then use snapshot backups to a set of mirrored or RAID-5'd array, which then send the data over a decent pipe to a remote server via rsync or scp (or NFS even) from the array, but probably not as frequently due to the time it would take to transfer the snapshot data (which may compress well, but I'm not sure).
Just a thought.
One option that you may want to look at on the NAS side of things is to look at the Snap Server offering. They aren't exactly inexpensive but supports Windows, UNIX (via NFS or if your Linux/BSD system supports mounting CIFS/SMBFS shares) and Mac. The units come in either small desktop units or rackmount units. The desktop ones usually have one or two drives, thus aren't capable of RAID5, but the 1U units have four drives and support RAID 0/1/5. Most of the older 4000-line and lower units are capable of 10/100BaseT whilst the newer 4000-series models have copper Gigabit.
Another option would be to get a 2U rackmount server with 4-6 hot-swappable IDE bays (I don't have any prices on hand, some can be expensive, some can be had for a pretty good price), an older ATX or MicroATX P-III motherboard and one or two 3Ware low-profile 4-channel controllers (or if you have a PCI riser card, go with the 8-channel version). If performance is required, look at getting a dual Athlon MPX motherboard (using a single processor, two if you want to do data crunching on the box too), drop in a SCSI controller (along with Gigabit Ethernet) and get an IDE RAID -> SCSI enclosure system (as mentioned by another poster, Medea makes some nice ones based on what I've heard) that support the RAID levels you want and probably an internal boot drive loaded with your favorite OS.
InfoSync also has a news bit regarding an Ogg Vorbis(-only for now) player for the Sony Ericsson P800 cellphone. Now just think of you could have Ogg Vorbis ringtones ;)
ExtremeTech has a review on the Quill Mouse along with a vertical-split keyboard. The reviewer found that the mouse was comfortable to use... but the thing does look funny :)
BTW - I think the link for "Prof. Felten's answers" points to the wrong story... the link should point to this story instead.
Okay... there's that one, though I don't like that version too much. I was referring to the main FF7 fanfare.
Not really... I am listening to em, comparing FF5, FF6, FF7 and FF8 and the last two don't have that much in common with the first two (which are re-arrangements of the "true" Final Fantasy fanfare). FF9 is a more synthesized and whimsical form of the true fanfare.
FF8 is definitely different from the true one, FF7 is closer to the true when compared to FF8 or FF10... though I never liked FF7's or FF9's arrangement that much. FF6, FF8 and FF10 are the ones that like the most.
The fanfares for FF1-6 and FF9 are the same but touched up in each... but the ones for FF7, FF8 and FF10 are not the same. I should know... I own all of the Final Fantasy soundtracks from 1 (including the updated one for Origins) through 10, plus X-2 (which is crippled... copy protected unCD).
For more, check out the Caldera/SCO timeline from the horse's mouth.
Forgot to mention, it looks like Windows Server 2003 will bring a form of DRM to networks via Rights Management Services (as stated in a previous Slashdot article).
IIS Sync failed for us as well, but in a domain-less environment, it crapped out and nearly cause the source server to implode... not to mention the destination server.
IIS Export is a near god-send for such situations... but it still isn't has great as being able to copy httpd.conf from one server to another along with the web store (or the web store could just be a clustered NFS server or servers connected to a SAN with mirroring or striping). I wonder if it will be anywhere close to being that easy with IIS 6.0 (something I doubt right now).
Excluding hardware upgrade costs and licensing, I'm guessing that Microsoft is saying that Windows Server 2003 is more stable and scalable so that you can run multiple critical applications and services on one larger server instead of a myriad of less expensive servers (where have we heard this before?)... a form of consolidation I guess.
Will it work in reality? I won't be too optimistic about it until I really see it in action.
It currently is a bitch and a half to get web sites setup exactly the same way across multiple web servers in a farm behind a load balancer without the use of third-party utilities (IIS Export is really nice and isn't too expensive... Google it for more information). Also, if you have web servers that are not in a domain and you want to restore the IIS metabase on a rebuilt system... good luck. Even with some help by Microsoft, the process is very painful and isn't perfect either. Instead, we had to use IIS Export to migrate all of the sites from one server to the rebuilt server. Not a fun task to do for over 50+ sites.
Having text-based configuration files would be a godsend for people in such a situation! It would also make creating an restore image of a server much easier since you only have to update the web content to the latest version in production.
It seems that Microsoft is learning a bit from their mistakes with Windows 2000 by not enabling everything under the moon by default or leaving the default settings to be so open and ripe for exploiting. That and additional support for NUMA, better clustering supports (or so Microsoft says) and supposedly new features in Active Directory to make life a little easier (again, something Microsoft is touting).
As with Windows XP, it seems that Microsoft will be making additional components and add-ons available throughout the life of the product, including an updated version of SharePoint Team Services (which has been renamed to something I can't remember now) and currently unnamed components.
Personally, I think Windows Server 2003 is the latest salvo Microsoft has launched to get people out of Windows NT 4.0... just like how Windows XP was the latest salvo to get people out of Windows 9x/ME. It's an incremental step up from Windows 2000, but a much bigger step up from Windows NT 4.0.
That's my $0.01.
Visual FoxPro, while it has it's own data format, is also a language that is supposed to be very good as handling data manipulation. Think of it as a combination of Perl and BerkeleyDB or Perl and dBase.
Visual FoxPro also supports ODBC and can connect to a SQL Server to get and post data. Beyond that, I don't know much else about it.
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Of course, you have to pay shipping (or add something else to make the total >= $40 and get free shipping from them).
Funny enough, it's the exact same post that was in the Slashback, by the same person as well. Sad.
The one thing that may make it easier to squeeze out additional performance is that the video resolution for consoles is usually lower than for resolution on a computer (say 640x480 or 800x600 for the former and 1024x768+ for the latter). Of course, that gets thrown out the window if the game will run at 480p/720i @ 16:(9|10). By knocking the resolution down, you earn gain some additional frames per second right there.
/shrug
Also, the textures may not have to be as crystal clear since a regular TV will just end up blurring it even more... but doesn't mean that the texture quality should be crap.
There are probably some other things that they can do to the graphics to make it more optimal for TV than for a computer monitor.
It happens all the time already: customized versions of Internet Explorer/Outlook Express, special dialer applications, spyware, destroying other dial-up connections on a machine, etc. It's just something I threw out but it doesn't mean that it most be done nor should it be mandatory.
The only problem there is that the 12" Powerbook G4 doesn't run as cool nor is as power efficient as the iBook. I guess it's something that you trade when you want more performance.
An x86 iBook doesn't have to run say an Athlon or P3-M/P4-M/P-M processor, instead they could use a Transmeta processor to keep power consumption and heat production down while you get to keep AGP and decent memory throughput (with the upcoming Transmeta that is).
There is a kill executable available for Windows (at least NT/2000/XP) that allows me to kill IEXPLORE.EXE if it decides to hang on me. The other fun one is rkill from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit... it allows you to remotely kill processes (once you install the remote kill service on the target machine). It also provides a list of what applications are running and their PID.
:)
It's still not a fun as doing 'kill -9 blah' or 'kill -1 syslogd'
You can always provide a package containing Windows Update and apply the necessary registry settings required to have the client point to the ISP's Windows Update server rather than Microsoft's servers. In a corporation, you would use group policies to make the necessary changes without having to hack the registry on each client manually.
I believe that Windows Updates connects as an anonymous user to IIS (which is where SUS and it's files are accessible) and downloads them. Anonymous connections to IIS do not require CALs.