For some servers, IBM does this. Even better, the ISO image is actually a small linux distro, which is much better than having a small floppy. Downside is last time I updated some SCSI BIOS on an IBM server, I downloaded an 300MB image. It does more than that but I only needed to upgrade one single component, not the whole operating system.
Wooo... That was a good one... Instrumentality is not my favourite "future". Well, give me Culture's backing any day and I'll take my chances against littul kittons!
It should be alright as long as Riker is not commanding it. Two times he commanded Enterprise alone, once he crashed the damn thing onto a planet (how can you not miss something that big!!), the second time he almost trashed it, still needed a service though.
Re:Was supporting open source Lou Gerstner's idea?
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Recently, a CEO asked me what I thought of Microsoft's.NET. I told him the biggest drawback was that using.NET means that you are a partner of Microsoft. (The second is that.NET programs are easily de-compiled; other people can easily examine your business logic if they have a copy of your program.)
Although I agree with some of the things you wrote, it is obvious that you have never worked with Java... It is trivial to decompile java classes.
Both IBM and Sun want you to support them. Microsoft just doesn't care as long as the unwashed masses pay money for crappy apps.
The nice thing about anime is you can find one for everyone.
Excel Saga is brilliant satire.
Narutaru is a wonderful psychological story.
Banner of the Stars/Crest of the Stars series are one of the best hard-core SF stories you can have.
Unfortunately a lot of people experienced anime first with naughty tentacles.
I completely stopped watching TV. Drama I can find on anime are a lot better than stuff I can watch on the stupid box. SF on TV is either dumb or quite stupid and SF in Anime/Manga is quite good most of the times.
When it gets to comedy, nothing beats a good SF/Comedy like Nadesico.
Is it the act or the actor? If it's the actor, how can you be Bad without doing the act?
I can live with the fact Han Solo fired before and killed Greedo.
As long as he acceps it, I'm happy with it. I can still like Han Solo with his failures. What I can't stand is when they try to make it look like it wasn't Han who fired first.
Why (if I were a PHB/RedHat executive) should I care? The network/server software projects are mature enough to survive without Redhat. I don't think hobbyists are the major source of updates/features/bugfixes. If the bugs that matter are raised by the paying Enterprise customers, let it be then.
Switching to Gentoo at home good, trying to justify it to a PHB is not good.
I believe you are missing the point here. I hope no one argues on what bin Laden and his cronies are: pain in the ass. There's no point: No one should give in to such people.
I'm more concerned about American hypocracy where it is alright to do the same as the ones you condemn (bomb indiscriminately, fund WMD and attack other countries without any justification).
I think even Hitler had more justification when he attacked Poland (Germans staged fake Polish a border incident and used this as a reason to invade Poland).
Dubya just decided that he had to kill the guy who tried to kill his dad. (Both Dubya and Saddam apparently failed in their attempts).
Don't worry, according to his template most of the people who call themselves muslim are not as well so he has to kill quite a lot of people before achieving his goal.
It reminds me of a old saying... I think it goes like this: "If you are funding them, call them freedom fighters. If you have no idea who they are, call them guerillas. If you are fighting against them, call them terrorists".
Afghan guerilla fighters were called freedom fighters when fighting the Ruskies. They are fighting USA now, guess what Dubya calls them.:-)
OK, what I don't understand is this: At the moment RedHat is subsidizing Fedora. Since this is purely a cost-cutting exercise and Fedora is there as a lifeline, what will happen when RedHat withdrews its subsidize? What will happen to Fedora Legacy/Core teams? Can they go on themselves? Why did they join forces with RedHat in the first place? The announcement states that Fedora people approached RedHat and suggested a merger, does this mean they ran out of money or what?
Why? Instead of 10000 users who pay 10 pennies each I would prefer selling it to 10 people paying 10000 pennies each. For Redhat the ratio is even better: Infinity. The amount of money spent in bandwidth/support to the free distro users like me is enough to make this viable as a business decision. If it was my money being spent in this way, probably I would have done the same...
Mandrake used to be the "Redhat w/o bugs". I really liked to use Mandrake. Since they are in financial trouble for some time now, their future is in risk as well.
I'm not really concerned what will happen to Redhat, I run a mixture of systems, mainly based on Redhat 8 but I can switch to anything I like, as long as I don't pay money for it. If my company wants to pay some money, it is their problem.
Currently we tend to operate in two main Linux distros, Suse for customers (customer's choice, not ours) and Redhat for boxes I administrate. There are some SCO-Linux boxes as well but I refuse to do anything with them as a principle. I will not install SCO if I can get away with something else and that something else used to be Redhat (at least PHBs know what that is).
Mandrake used to be too good to be true, after experiencing Mandrake 9 I no longer think that...
A weapon cannot be a deterrent unless you are ready to use...
Argh, I can't find the exact quote. It reminds me of the scene in Yes Prime Minister where Hacker cannot decide when he can press the button to stop the Ruskies.
That's why Bush and his cronies are trying to push for nuclear devices that are usable. Since they can actually threathen to use them, they can be counted as deterrent.
So, while the UN sat back while weapons were tested on Iraq's own citizens...
To put the history straight, Halepce massacre happened before the Gulf war, before the UN sanctions, before the invasion of Kuwait.
Iraq is not the only country who used WMDs against his own people. America "tested" nuclear weapons and "experimented" on its own armed forces. There are many accounts of soliders being forced into the blast area just minutes after the explosion, just to see the effects of the device.
Also in many cases cities in Nevada were in the fallout zone but never warned of the dangers.
Although most of these experiments happened in early 50s, they still are a part of the history.
How do you know you are the good guys? Most of the third world sees America as a bully, invading/bombing countries at will. In their view, America cannot be good.
Righteousness is relative and in this age no one can argue in favour of "Might is the right".
I see USA's view of "Although I can do these things freely, you can't" as a hypocrisy.
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I hardly ever ever listen to music radio anymore because I really hate being talked by someone acting like a 13 year old.
OK. Why don't you switch to a good talk radio? I live in UK abd BBC Four and Seven are just perfect most of the time.
If you live in "the good-olde-USA", I'm pretty sure there are even more talk-radios. UK's radio scene is not that big.
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First time it failed the nice graphical update process, I opened a shell and found the problem, ran the update w/o any problem. That's better.
For some servers, IBM does this. Even better, the ISO image is actually a small linux distro, which is much better than having a small floppy. Downside is last time I updated some SCSI BIOS on an IBM server, I downloaded an 300MB image. It does more than that but I only needed to upgrade one single component, not the whole operating system.
Wooo... That was a good one... Instrumentality is not my favourite "future". Well, give me Culture's backing any day and I'll take my chances against littul kittons!
It should be alright as long as Riker is not commanding it. Two times he commanded Enterprise alone, once he crashed the damn thing onto a planet (how can you not miss something that big!!), the second time he almost trashed it, still needed a service though.
if ain't broke, don't fix it.
They lost a lot of choppers in vieatnam... Quite a lot...
Although I agree with some of the things you wrote, it is obvious that you have never worked with Java... It is trivial to decompile java classes.
Both IBM and Sun want you to support them. Microsoft just doesn't care as long as the unwashed masses pay money for crappy apps.
No, we should design spacecrafts not bount to LEO. Proper space crafts. The stuff that goes around, like to Mars. And reusable. And flexible.
Excel Saga is brilliant satire.
Narutaru is a wonderful psychological story.
Banner of the Stars/Crest of the Stars series are one of the best hard-core SF stories you can have.
Unfortunately a lot of people experienced anime first with naughty tentacles.
I completely stopped watching TV. Drama I can find on anime are a lot better than stuff I can watch on the stupid box. SF on TV is either dumb or quite stupid and SF in Anime/Manga is quite good most of the times.
When it gets to comedy, nothing beats a good SF/Comedy like Nadesico.
I can live with the fact Han Solo fired before and killed Greedo.
As long as he acceps it, I'm happy with it. I can still like Han Solo with his failures. What I can't stand is when they try to make it look like it wasn't Han who fired first.
Wow, that's a geeky anology.
A-bomb was just more efficient in bomber crew lives.
Indiscriminate bombing can be never justified. Never.
Switching to Gentoo at home good, trying to justify it to a PHB is not good.
I'm more concerned about American hypocracy where it is alright to do the same as the ones you condemn (bomb indiscriminately, fund WMD and attack other countries without any justification).
I think even Hitler had more justification when he attacked Poland (Germans staged fake Polish a border incident and used this as a reason to invade Poland).
Dubya just decided that he had to kill the guy who tried to kill his dad. (Both Dubya and Saddam apparently failed in their attempts).
Don't worry, according to his template most of the people who call themselves muslim are not as well so he has to kill quite a lot of people before achieving his goal.
Fundemantalism negates intelligence.
It reminds me of a old saying... I think it goes like this: "If you are funding them, call them freedom fighters. If you have no idea who they are, call them guerillas. If you are fighting against them, call them terrorists".
Afghan guerilla fighters were called freedom fighters when fighting the Ruskies. They are fighting USA now, guess what Dubya calls them. :-)
So you say as long as they are not polish, ukranian, italian, dutch, french that's alright and they don't count?
Exactly. The same can be said for George Bush and co. Thanks for proving my point.
OK, what I don't understand is this: At the moment RedHat is subsidizing Fedora. Since this is purely a cost-cutting exercise and Fedora is there as a lifeline, what will happen when RedHat withdrews its subsidize? What will happen to Fedora Legacy/Core teams? Can they go on themselves? Why did they join forces with RedHat in the first place? The announcement states that Fedora people approached RedHat and suggested a merger, does this mean they ran out of money or what?
Why? Instead of 10000 users who pay 10 pennies each I would prefer selling it to 10 people paying 10000 pennies each. For Redhat the ratio is even better: Infinity. The amount of money spent in bandwidth/support to the free distro users like me is enough to make this viable as a business decision. If it was my money being spent in this way, probably I would have done the same...
If I'm supposed to build everything from source, what the hell I'm bothering with Redhat? Gentoo! Here I come!
I'm not really concerned what will happen to Redhat, I run a mixture of systems, mainly based on Redhat 8 but I can switch to anything I like, as long as I don't pay money for it. If my company wants to pay some money, it is their problem.
Currently we tend to operate in two main Linux distros, Suse for customers (customer's choice, not ours) and Redhat for boxes I administrate. There are some SCO-Linux boxes as well but I refuse to do anything with them as a principle. I will not install SCO if I can get away with something else and that something else used to be Redhat (at least PHBs know what that is).
Mandrake used to be too good to be true, after experiencing Mandrake 9 I no longer think that...
Argh, I can't find the exact quote. It reminds me of the scene in Yes Prime Minister where Hacker cannot decide when he can press the button to stop the Ruskies.
That's why Bush and his cronies are trying to push for nuclear devices that are usable. Since they can actually threathen to use them, they can be counted as deterrent.
To put the history straight, Halepce massacre happened before the Gulf war, before the UN sanctions, before the invasion of Kuwait.
Iraq is not the only country who used WMDs against his own people. America "tested" nuclear weapons and "experimented" on its own armed forces. There are many accounts of soliders being forced into the blast area just minutes after the explosion, just to see the effects of the device.
Also in many cases cities in Nevada were in the fallout zone but never warned of the dangers.
Although most of these experiments happened in early 50s, they still are a part of the history.
Righteousness is relative and in this age no one can argue in favour of "Might is the right".
I see USA's view of "Although I can do these things freely, you can't" as a hypocrisy.
OK. Why don't you switch to a good talk radio? I live in UK abd BBC Four and Seven are just perfect most of the time.
If you live in "the good-olde-USA", I'm pretty sure there are even more talk-radios. UK's radio scene is not that big.