Why not tie the EOL for redhat desktop products to the vailidity of of the RHCE for it? For corporates, its going to be very hard to get approval for certification training if you know the EOL of the product is less than the period of the certification (I recall the figure of 2 major releases being mentioned by the instructor). This could damage RedHat's rep in the training market (one of their key publicity points in the last few years).
I'm surprised that people are still running RH6.0. It's far less secure than 7.x or 8.0. The desktop (and server environment) are much better as well. Sure there are some libc5 legacy apps but there's really no excuse for a server to be running it. Upgrade or do a fresh install and use the newer features (like journalling, LVM, iptables, 2.4 series kernels etc) because they make an immense difference. RH7.2 really should be a minimum if you are serious.
Judging from the posts, I expect you will find it difficult to find a clear path to make your decision from the posted stats on the web. I suggest a different approach - see what common sense tells you and analyse that.
Entropy and human nature suggest most of us are lazy. The argument that guns are inherently good or bad is a nonsense - its just a tool and people will use whatever tool they get their hands on to do things they really want to achieve. The thing you need to weigh up is how easy does having essentially unfettered access to guns make it for someone to commit a firearm aided crime (be it robbery, homicide, maiming etc). You could use another tool to achieve the same effect but it usually takes more effort and has a higher emotional cost (have to get nearer to person, have to confront them, need to conceal unusual object that is easily identified...) Management of what/how many guns are in general distribution will never eliminate firearm crime - it will just make it harder for someone to act out rage impulses. Try and take the easy option away and you have a chance that other measures (personal safety awareness, policing) could help. A teen "hacker" is so much more likely to use a rootkit or a script pack to attack machines than they are to try and write original code at the base OSI network layer level. Both sets of tools are there, they just usually take the lazy path.
Speaking from outside the US, try also to limit your reactions to "state control" and govt taking away "rights". When was the last time you ran across a civil servant that was eager to do more (and admittedly difficult) work?
On global warming - much of the evidence is related to the melting of the polar icecaps. If the magnetic fields at the poles have been decreasing over the last 20 years, how much of the melt is due to more energetic radiation sliding down the field (weaker field, bigger V at the pole and greater cross-section of absorption for the energetic particles to penetrate). From memory, I believe that sat surveys of metropolitan areas have shown a decrease of 0.5 degrees in the same period (ground data is polluted by greater ambient temperature from concrete structures, bitumen etc) and its really the pole data that underpins much of the theory. Its not going to be fun when the poles do drift - we could end up with multiple pole pairs with high latitude magnetic effects in current mid-latitude areas. The auroras will be pretty but the disruption to HF radio is going to mean a much greater need for landline communications.
Yes there are a range of MATLAB products that run under UNIX/LINUX. I've used it on DOS, Win32, HP-UX, Solaris and RedHat Linux 5.2-8.0. Some aspects of MATLAB are only available on Win32 - eg xPC target which is frequently used in control problems. You can export raw C code from MATLAB to apply on a target but using the standard development model in this area, you would usually apply Simulink, Real-Time Workshop and xPC target which requires a Win32 platform.
If you really want to support, try looking towards the real economics. RH is a service based company. Get your RHCE (or twice if you can get your employer to pay for it!) and convince your enterprise to take linux seriously and look at support contracts. You could even pressure your desktop/server supplier to get their machines certified.
some of the best wedding andd engagement rings i've seen had no diamonds. they were made to suit the person they were for and had special meaning for both parties. that said, if you have issues with monopolies or conflict diamonds, buy from a 'clean' source.
http://www.argylediamonds.com.au/
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Why not tie the EOL for redhat desktop products to the vailidity of of the RHCE for it? For corporates, its going to be very hard to get approval for certification training if you know the EOL of the product is less than the period of the certification (I recall the figure of 2 major releases being mentioned by the instructor). This could damage RedHat's rep in the training market (one of their key publicity points in the last few years).
I'm surprised that people are still running RH6.0. It's far less secure than 7.x or 8.0. The desktop (and server environment) are much better as well. Sure there are some libc5 legacy apps but there's really no excuse for a server to be running it. Upgrade or do a fresh install and use the newer features (like journalling, LVM, iptables, 2.4 series kernels etc) because they make an immense difference. RH7.2 really should be a minimum if you are serious.
Judging from the posts, I expect you will find it difficult to find a clear path to make your decision from the posted stats on the web. I suggest a different approach - see what common sense tells you and analyse that.
Entropy and human nature suggest most of us are lazy. The argument that guns are inherently good or bad is a nonsense - its just a tool and people will use whatever tool they get their hands on to do things they really want to achieve. The thing you need to weigh up is how easy does having essentially unfettered access to guns make it for someone to commit a firearm aided crime (be it robbery, homicide, maiming etc). You could use another tool to achieve the same effect but it usually takes more effort and has a higher emotional cost (have to get nearer to person, have to confront them, need to conceal unusual object that is easily identified...) Management of what/how many guns are in general distribution will never eliminate firearm crime - it will just make it harder for someone to act out rage impulses. Try and take the easy option away and you have a chance that other measures (personal safety awareness, policing) could help. A teen "hacker" is so much more likely to use a rootkit or a script pack to attack machines than they are to try and write original code at the base OSI network layer level. Both sets of tools are there, they just usually take the lazy path.
Speaking from outside the US, try also to limit your reactions to "state control" and govt taking away "rights". When was the last time you ran across a civil servant that was eager to do more (and admittedly difficult) work?
On global warming - much of the evidence is related to the melting of the polar icecaps. If the magnetic fields at the poles have been decreasing over the last 20 years, how much of the melt is due to more energetic radiation sliding down the field (weaker field, bigger V at the pole and greater cross-section of absorption for the energetic particles to penetrate). From memory, I believe that sat surveys of metropolitan areas have shown a decrease of 0.5 degrees in the same period (ground data is polluted by greater ambient temperature from concrete structures, bitumen etc) and its really the pole data that underpins much of the theory. Its not going to be fun when the poles do drift - we could end up with multiple pole pairs with high latitude magnetic effects in current mid-latitude areas. The auroras will be pretty but the disruption to HF radio is going to mean a much greater need for landline communications.
Yes there are a range of MATLAB products that run under UNIX/LINUX. I've used it on DOS, Win32, HP-UX, Solaris and RedHat Linux 5.2-8.0. Some aspects of MATLAB are only available on Win32 - eg xPC target which is frequently used in control problems. You can export raw C code from MATLAB to apply on a target but using the standard development model in this area, you would usually apply Simulink, Real-Time Workshop and xPC target which requires a Win32 platform.
If you really want to support, try looking towards the real economics. RH is a service based company. Get your RHCE (or twice if you can get your employer to pay for it!) and convince your enterprise to take linux seriously and look at support contracts. You could even pressure your desktop/server supplier to get their machines certified.
What mirror? Even the redhat FTP site has the 8.0 directory chmoded so you can't get in
This might be new in the US. I know a number of places are offering the Telecoms and Embedded Systems niche EE degrees. See an example at www.eese.bee.qut.edu.au/courses. For some reason, industry seems to think grads should be plug and play, with the result of the degrees being sought by entrants. A short sighted viewpoint but people with MBA's seem to think all degrees and graduate skills are the same as theirs.
some of the best wedding andd engagement rings i've seen had no diamonds. they were made to suit the person they were for and had special meaning for both parties. that said, if you have issues with monopolies or conflict diamonds, buy from a 'clean' source. http://www.argylediamonds.com.au/