That's not true. Oracle always supported SUSE and RedHat within its Unbreakable Linux project. The support that's in discussion is not the Oracle's support for the applications but direct customer support for OS issues.
Oracle's Unbreakable Linux support limited customers to certain sets of service packs, packages and installation and if you wandered out of these, the support would cease to be. Hopefully this will increase RedHat's usage but should not affect SUSE.
Even worse, this would hit RedHat more than anything because they wouldn't be able to cash on the support contracts - Oracle would get the main share.
Altough I share your views about SCOldera (as all know, current SCO is not the old SCO), it's a shame about Unixware - which is NOT a SCO product but the AT&T/Novell UNIX implementation for Intel CPUs. It was way better than OpenServer (an abomination) and scaled well and this was way before Linux even existed (first time I played with Unixware was when it belonged to Novell, around 1993-94, fiddling with netware extensions (literally the "ware" bit) in a mixed environment with Netware 3. It was more mature than the early Linux kernels in 90s but by the time SCO acquired Unixware from Novell and released it with version 7, already Linux had more hardware supported and was gaining - mind you, this is before IBM and Oracle embracing Linux - those two made a big difference in the Enterprise level.
I hope one day Unixware will be rescued from the hands of current SCO, on the other hand it will only be a curiosity, not a major OS - it never was but now it doesn't even have the chance.
What extra efford did you have to do? I think you are simply trolling.
The BOINC client automatically updates the SETI client whenever there is a new one - one less administration needed. I set up my BOINC machines with the latest available version and since then haven't upgraded a single one but automagically all of my SETI clients are upto date and working just fine, crunching data and contributing to the global warming (or reducing my heating bill during the winter).
With the old SETI client, I had to upgrade every single seti instance on every box multiplied by the number of CPUs. BOINC detects the SMP machines and invokes as many clients as necessary. I had to spend a bit of time switching everything to BOINC but this wasn't harder than upgrading any version of the old SETI client - plus the ability of using authenticated proxy servers was introduced and I finally got rid of the seti-proxy server in the middle, which was causing a lot of problems.
Ok, fair enough. Let's try to "git" the official kernel from one of the git repos. Errrm.. I have to admit that the days I used to compile a new version of the kernel almost daily from the sources are now in way back and I no longer do it as a matter of fact (compiling occassional released kernel or from a distribution's source and/or modules is fair game) but if I wanted to use something out of the release candidate, which one would it be? There's only (almost) a couple of hundreds of kernel branches there! Surely I'd like to use Linus's branch probably but it is not strictly clear.
On the other hand, this obscurity probably prevents the newbie compiling a crap and buggy kernel and destroying his/her system and serves a purpose. Who knows?
SuSE PRO is NOT their enterprise distribution. If you want to use the 5 year supported version, you have to switch to SLES9, which will be upgraded to version 10 sometime in June. Similarly, for desktop environments in enterprise, they also have Novell Desktop (which, shamelessly will be renamed to SuSE Desktop soon, if not already happened) and that shares the same heritage and support of SLES. SuSE Pro was, just like Redhat's now defunct offerings, for enthusiasts (like me (current mesage written on a SuSE 9.3 because I can't be bothered to upgrade right now, laptop and office workstation already on SuSE 10 but not 10.1, mainly because of the dissatisfaction with the new package manager).
Having a backup for emergency situations is a great reason to become a radio amateur but it shouldn't be the only one. I got into it because of radio astronomy, probably that's why I rarely pick the mic up.
5 years ago I didn't have HF priviledges but the HF bands were completely full. Now the laws have been relaxed in UK, I have HF priviledges but HF (compared to 2000 summer) is dead, dead dead. Worse, scientists forecast the next sun maximum to be the most quiet one. By the time we have favourable conditions again, every amateur will be dead and radios will be long used as boat anchors... This week's optimum MUF is 19MHz! Nineteeen! And we're almost completely into the summer. 24-28MHz is completely dead, if you are luck 14MHz is open. All that remains is 7MHz and it is already too small and too crowded. I am just so unlucky... If only I was born 20 years earlier - but then I wouldn't have access to cheap and good quality radios I now have.
Some people don't like to talk, I don't. I have a very low number of QSOs in the log book but I tend to listen a lot. One can argue that I should have stayed a short wave listener (SWL) but that's only the half of the fun. Probably once I get out of this apartment and manage to put up some antennas I'll be talking on the mike more often.
It is true that most of the radio amateurs are old smelly men but there are occassional young geeks (unfortunately, still smelly!)... I've only met one lady radio amateur in my life so it's also useless for dating scene! No change there, the usual geekdom but older average age.
I am still not sure if Hamsexy is taking the piss out of the antenna farms or if it is supporting it... I sometimes wander over there to have a look at the hilarous mobile setups.
You are free to not to visit any porn site. Why do you want to ruin my internet experience with your moral values? If you think your moral values are superior to mine, what is your moral basis in this? A fictitious book? I don't think you have the right to assert your own beliefs to others.
I achieved this by running Cygwin's X server implementation with multi-windows option and KDE for Cygwin a couple of years ago. Unfortunately you still have the Explorer around but probably you can hack the registry and make this environment your default shell (since then, on my Windows box, I started using GeoShell, which is waaay superior than Windows' Explorer). On every other machine I use KDE on a Linux or BSD variant).
Running ubuntu (server) configuration is not much different than running Debian unstable - almost the same packages arrive in any case, doesn't it? For a web/file server Debian might be fine, if you require some closed-source third party binary application, you might have to select a particular software, especially if you want to stay supported (AKA Oracle). If you have any of those software, you wouldn't be running Fedora either, this means that you either moved your desktop environment to something or similar. For example, my workstation is on SuSE10, I have servers running Oracle and other stuff on RHEL3/4 and SLES9. I have web servers running SuSE9 (FTP version), proxy server is running on Debian and the tape server is running on Ubuntu/server. If it is a project with money in it, you deploy something "supported". If it is something you are going to support for ever, you put your distro-of-the-week with the option of reinstalling/migrating your software when you have the time to do it.
I might move my SuSE10 environment to Kubuntu sometime in the future but first I would have to make sure that Oracle 9i and 10g are useable (Oracle is not supported on SuSE9/10 but it can be convinced to install and run). SuSE isn't making it easier, to be able to install Oracle on SuSE9 or 10, you need the old GCC package, which SuSE doesn't hand out, in source or binary, unless you have your support account with them (read you already purchased an SLES licence). If you have one of these licences, you wouldn't be installing SuSE10 either, unless you are a hard core user. Alternatively, you can do what I usually do, download GCC from GNU and recompile. Anyway, I digress.
The reason there are so many distributions is because there are so many solutions to the same problem: Having a nice environment to work with.
What do you think people did before computers, or today in places where there are no computers to play on?
Well, Einstein was working as a patent clerk when he came up with the relativity theories. Everyone does something to break the boredom. Einstein solves the mysteries of the universe, I post to slashdot. (I know, I am hopeless, I will never be able to finish my grand unified theorem which involves lots of nude ladies and milk chocolate cream).
Two very successful satellites: WMAP and Cassini prove that you are incorrect. Such science cannot be done in the same scale using baloons and ground-based research.
One of the main reason the supertankers are efficient is once you accelerated to your cruise speed, you only have use enough fuel to overcome friction and the energy needed to shove the amount of fluid out of your forward facing surface area. Since the volume increase is always greater than surface area increase, you always win by getting bigger. This is true for cars/trucks/aircraft as well. On the other hand, you can't sail your supertanker into most of the harbours, you can't land your huge aircraft on most of the runways and I don't think I can park a trailer outside my house.:)
As some other poster pointed out, you can't compare massive bulk transport with small scale.
Talking about jets, Airbus thinks big is beautiful, Boeing thinks small is better. I suppose it all depends on what kind of environment you are going to operate in. I still think sail ships are better than anything (at least they look beautiful, they are recycleable and don't use any unrenewable energy source).
And that's why both US and UK fleets used to have interceptors (i.e., F-4, F-14), to stop the bombers coming anywhere near to the fleet with the nukes loaded. I am not a military tactical expert but I would have tought that ICBMS and mid-range ballistic missiles wouldn't have enough accuracy to target a fleet in the ocean. Cruise missiles might but probably a fast aircraft with a nuke missile (i.e., Mirage 2000N) would perform better in such scenarios.
Well, would't it benefit Oracle's sales figures if Oracle managed to shift a couple of more overpriced CPU licences out just because more programmers and DBAs work with Oracle in an easier way? I would have thought a couple of $millions earned from the licencing would cover the marketing costs.
Oracle hands out lots of free utilities with their apps, they are just included with the package.
What annoys me is the lack availability of a cross-platform, cross-database system. TORA has a SQLServer plugin. DbVisualiser is Java and works with all JDBC compliant databases but is not really a RDBMS tool and it is commercial as well.
To be able to maintain secrecy, you should not keep it completely secret. Intentionally leaking a little bit of correct information with lots of incorrect data is commonly known as misinformation. Outright lying about everything is not useful because at least easily verifiable sections of the information package will be proven to be false pretty much instantly. For example let say you are going to launch a spy sat. Instead of hiding the whole launch and everything, you put out a little bit of nice information in a press release, which contains some correct information (small size, small launch vehicle) with false information (5.7m resolution size). This is both to hide the capability of your technology and the actual purpose of the device. Misinformation is still widely used by intelligensia and politic spin doctors.
Surely the reeeeaaaal solution is: ubuntuuser@ hackedubuntuserver$ sudo passwd Password: Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully
Ubuntu crowd again and again told the world that Ubuntu had no root password set up therefore couldn't be cracked in. I asked them (again and again) "surely you are setting this to something?" and they all said no. It is now perfectly clear that the people answering my questions had no clue. With every ubuntu installation the first thing I did was setting a root password, even if you don't have any intention of using it, in my opinion having a password you don't know about is worse than having a password only you know. This SNAFU proves my point.
If I'm not mistaken, Lithuania is reasonably close to the arctic circle, this means it was completey covered with glaciers during the last ice age. Glaciers sometimes create round depressions which might be mistaken for craters. (I am not a geologist and reciting something I read long ago, someone correct me if I'm wrong).
The screenshots were truly disgusting. I wouldn't have gnome screenshots anywhere near for an eye-candy race. Argh... I need a moment-of-zen image right now.
Really I wonder what is the problem with paper ballots? United Kingdom manages without any complicated hardware, just a stamp and a piece of paper folded into two does the job perfectly fine. Here the government trusts the people so that now they are allowing the majority to vote with postal ballots (that is, if you can trust the Royal Mail).
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Oracle's Unbreakable Linux support limited customers to certain sets of service packs, packages and installation and if you wandered out of these, the support would cease to be. Hopefully this will increase RedHat's usage but should not affect SUSE.
Even worse, this would hit RedHat more than anything because they wouldn't be able to cash on the support contracts - Oracle would get the main share.
I hope one day Unixware will be rescued from the hands of current SCO, on the other hand it will only be a curiosity, not a major OS - it never was but now it doesn't even have the chance.
The BOINC client automatically updates the SETI client whenever there is a new one - one less administration needed. I set up my BOINC machines with the latest available version and since then haven't upgraded a single one but automagically all of my SETI clients are upto date and working just fine, crunching data and contributing to the global warming (or reducing my heating bill during the winter).
With the old SETI client, I had to upgrade every single seti instance on every box multiplied by the number of CPUs. BOINC detects the SMP machines and invokes as many clients as necessary. I had to spend a bit of time switching everything to BOINC but this wasn't harder than upgrading any version of the old SETI client - plus the ability of using authenticated proxy servers was introduced and I finally got rid of the seti-proxy server in the middle, which was causing a lot of problems.
On the other hand, this obscurity probably prevents the newbie compiling a crap and buggy kernel and destroying his/her system and serves a purpose. Who knows?
SuSE PRO is NOT their enterprise distribution. If you want to use the 5 year supported version, you have to switch to SLES9, which will be upgraded to version 10 sometime in June. Similarly, for desktop environments in enterprise, they also have Novell Desktop (which, shamelessly will be renamed to SuSE Desktop soon, if not already happened) and that shares the same heritage and support of SLES. SuSE Pro was, just like Redhat's now defunct offerings, for enthusiasts (like me (current mesage written on a SuSE 9.3 because I can't be bothered to upgrade right now, laptop and office workstation already on SuSE 10 but not 10.1, mainly because of the dissatisfaction with the new package manager).
Forget about public service, there's still a lot to investigate and play with...
Having a backup for emergency situations is a great reason to become a radio amateur but it shouldn't be the only one. I got into it because of radio astronomy, probably that's why I rarely pick the mic up.
5 years ago I didn't have HF priviledges but the HF bands were completely full. Now the laws have been relaxed in UK, I have HF priviledges but HF (compared to 2000 summer) is dead, dead dead. Worse, scientists forecast the next sun maximum to be the most quiet one. By the time we have favourable conditions again, every amateur will be dead and radios will be long used as boat anchors... This week's optimum MUF is 19MHz! Nineteeen! And we're almost completely into the summer. 24-28MHz is completely dead, if you are luck 14MHz is open. All that remains is 7MHz and it is already too small and too crowded. I am just so unlucky... If only I was born 20 years earlier - but then I wouldn't have access to cheap and good quality radios I now have.
It is true that most of the radio amateurs are old smelly men but there are occassional young geeks (unfortunately, still smelly!)... I've only met one lady radio amateur in my life so it's also useless for dating scene! No change there, the usual geekdom but older average age.
I am still not sure if Hamsexy is taking the piss out of the antenna farms or if it is supporting it... I sometimes wander over there to have a look at the hilarous mobile setups.
You are free to not to visit any porn site. Why do you want to ruin my internet experience with your moral values? If you think your moral values are superior to mine, what is your moral basis in this? A fictitious book? I don't think you have the right to assert your own beliefs to others.
Here is the link to KDE on Cygwin project. It is still not native but almost there.
I achieved this by running Cygwin's X server implementation with multi-windows option and KDE for Cygwin a couple of years ago. Unfortunately you still have the Explorer around but probably you can hack the registry and make this environment your default shell (since then, on my Windows box, I started using GeoShell, which is waaay superior than Windows' Explorer). On every other machine I use KDE on a Linux or BSD variant).
I might move my SuSE10 environment to Kubuntu sometime in the future but first I would have to make sure that Oracle 9i and 10g are useable (Oracle is not supported on SuSE9/10 but it can be convinced to install and run). SuSE isn't making it easier, to be able to install Oracle on SuSE9 or 10, you need the old GCC package, which SuSE doesn't hand out, in source or binary, unless you have your support account with them (read you already purchased an SLES licence). If you have one of these licences, you wouldn't be installing SuSE10 either, unless you are a hard core user. Alternatively, you can do what I usually do, download GCC from GNU and recompile. Anyway, I digress.
The reason there are so many distributions is because there are so many solutions to the same problem: Having a nice environment to work with.
Well, Einstein was working as a patent clerk when he came up with the relativity theories. Everyone does something to break the boredom. Einstein solves the mysteries of the universe, I post to slashdot. (I know, I am hopeless, I will never be able to finish my grand unified theorem which involves lots of nude ladies and milk chocolate cream).
Two very successful satellites: WMAP and Cassini prove that you are incorrect. Such science cannot be done in the same scale using baloons and ground-based research.
As some other poster pointed out, you can't compare massive bulk transport with small scale.
Talking about jets, Airbus thinks big is beautiful, Boeing thinks small is better. I suppose it all depends on what kind of environment you are going to operate in. I still think sail ships are better than anything (at least they look beautiful, they are recycleable and don't use any unrenewable energy source).
And that's why both US and UK fleets used to have interceptors (i.e., F-4, F-14), to stop the bombers coming anywhere near to the fleet with the nukes loaded. I am not a military tactical expert but I would have tought that ICBMS and mid-range ballistic missiles wouldn't have enough accuracy to target a fleet in the ocean. Cruise missiles might but probably a fast aircraft with a nuke missile (i.e., Mirage 2000N) would perform better in such scenarios.
Oracle hands out lots of free utilities with their apps, they are just included with the package.
What annoys me is the lack availability of a cross-platform, cross-database system. TORA has a SQLServer plugin. DbVisualiser is Java and works with all JDBC compliant databases but is not really a RDBMS tool and it is commercial as well.
To be able to maintain secrecy, you should not keep it completely secret. Intentionally leaking a little bit of correct information with lots of incorrect data is commonly known as misinformation. Outright lying about everything is not useful because at least easily verifiable sections of the information package will be proven to be false pretty much instantly. For example let say you are going to launch a spy sat. Instead of hiding the whole launch and everything, you put out a little bit of nice information in a press release, which contains some correct information (small size, small launch vehicle) with false information (5.7m resolution size). This is both to hide the capability of your technology and the actual purpose of the device.
Misinformation is still widely used by intelligensia and politic spin doctors.
Surely the reeeeaaaal solution is:
ubuntuuser@ hackedubuntuserver$ sudo passwd
Password:
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Ubuntu crowd again and again told the world that Ubuntu had no root password set up therefore couldn't be cracked in. I asked them (again and again) "surely you are setting this to something?" and they all said no. It is now perfectly clear that the people answering my questions had no clue. With every ubuntu installation the first thing I did was setting a root password, even if you don't have any intention of using it, in my opinion having a password you don't know about is worse than having a password only you know. This SNAFU proves my point.
If I'm not mistaken, Lithuania is reasonably close to the arctic circle, this means it was completey covered with glaciers during the last ice age. Glaciers sometimes create round depressions which might be mistaken for craters. (I am not a geologist and reciting something I read long ago, someone correct me if I'm wrong).
The screenshots were truly disgusting. I wouldn't have gnome screenshots anywhere near for an eye-candy race. Argh... I need a moment-of-zen image right now.
Really I wonder what is the problem with paper ballots? United Kingdom manages without any complicated hardware, just a stamp and a piece of paper folded into two does the job perfectly fine. Here the government trusts the people so that now they are allowing the majority to vote with postal ballots (that is, if you can trust the Royal Mail).