It will indeed be harder to mount the partition. It may also be harder to use that XML data, since what we may be talking about is XML encapsulation of binary, proprietary, encrypted file formats. Don't necessarily think you're going to receive at the other end a plaintext file with a few tags - what you will receive will have been through a closed kernel "request" to an encrypted database "filesystem", a proprietary DRM system (hardware and software) - and you genuinely believe there just gonna bang it out as plaintext at the other end?
Wow, I was way off when I predicted that Microsoft would further obfuscate their Word format.
They won't have to. Since they are going the SQL server way for their filesystem, they can happily give away the hold they have on file formats, since they are going to have a stranglehold on accessing those files. You want an open file system? Here you go (and MS has a lot to gain by doing this - they instantly give Word access to most other data formats) - but don't think anything other than a microsoft OS will actually be able to access the files - thanks to our new deliciously obfuscated method of storing data on a disk. Reverse engineering kernel level SQL data (how a bit of crypto, for DRM of course, thrown in) will probably be even harder than reverse engineering file formats was. And impossible to do legally (say hi to all those DMCA guys out there.)
Great to see this getting modded up - it's like going to Microsoft and explaining that you really welcome the new license changes, and that the many hidden features are a real boon to your productivity.:-)
Then again, moving my shop required calling in a rigger.
You backwards redneck you - thinking that because you are white you can get other people to do the work for you. Pull up your sleeves, get your hands dirty and do it yourself, you lazy white trash.
I am wondering if it might not even be simpler than that... If a sniffer could pick up the packets it's sending "home" and you could just code a little app to mimic those packets using user-configurable MAC addresses. Reverse engineering packets containing a known MAC address can't be that hard surely... The linux CLI client appears to be a 20k binary - it can't use that complex a method for phoning home...
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Pay attention, this is a Whore that's actually building Karma with his whoring. Have a look at his user info, if you need to.
What I really dig about this kind of post, is reading through all the little explanations of Company X's activity that Slashdot posters will come up with.
Try and picture this - it's as if one farmer sued his neighbour, who made Ford parts out of plastic, and then sprayed graffiti on the underground to advertise the competitor who changed from plastic to steel, that made his farm go out of business because the wool his sheep produced made the jumpers that the plastic press operators wore to keep warm in the winter. You see? No press operators==no money==no jumpers==no sheep.
Is this kind of stuff really simpler to understand than just saying what SearchKing does? Can't people post without having to dream up amazing parallel scenarios?
oh my almighty god, i'm just the second poster, but that forum has already been/.ed
Slightly offtopic, but this always amazes me. Why oh why are people surprised that an article gets slashdotted straight away? Do you expect it to get slashdotted after, say, 150 posts? Knock,knock people - if it can hold up to the traffic to get us to 150 posts it isn't going to get slashdotted.
What I'm saying is that wold give companies no incentive whatsoever to develop native linux drivers, and take away what incentive there is for those that do it already. We'd be dependant on a flaky (because no/few specs available) reverse-engineered emulation of an implementation that was flaky to start with, and be at the mercy of patent/IP infringement claims - all that just to comfort hw vendors that can't be arsed to do decent native drivers in the first place. The energy used in developping such a botch would be far better used in developping native drivers, as it is no mean task. If you have hardware that you can't live without, then you'll need to use an OS that supports it. As for soundcards, there are plenty available that are supported, and supported well, under linux - so the question is asked, why did you choose one that wasn't?
How they would manage it without infringing on Microsoft patents and copyright is another problem.
Wrong, the "other problem" is how on earth it would help us get companies to port to linux. If you want a Windows compatible environment, I've heard MS Windows is available.
IIRC Linux can mount UFS partitions, and read solaris disk labels, so the best way to do it would be to install Solaris, then linux and simply mount the/home as UFS in linux. Again, there are FAQs all over the place about Linux/Solaris dual boot, I believe I even saw one on BigAdmin once. If not groups.google.com is your friend.
Probobly[sic] not official from Oracle, but it will run i guess. I don't have the money for it.
You just hit the nail right on the head. The kind of people who shell out for Oracle are never going to go for a "not official...but it'll run" OS. On the first incident, the first thing Oracle support will say to you is to install it on an approved platform and try and reproduce the problem.
You shell out the money for it because you need it.
If you need it, then it just has to work.
If it has to work, you'll need support.
If you need support, you'll need to be on a supported platform.
I'll bite. I am currently running two SMP machines. Ok, one is for a DB server. Leave that one out of the question, it is actually underpowered for much of what it does, alas. I'm saving my pennies. The other however is my main desktop. It is not unecessarily powerful (2xPIII 600EB) compared to todays desktops systems, on the contrary, but I would never swap it for a single 1.2GHz (or even higher - a 2.8 P4 might get me thinking:-) ).
The reason is simple. On my desktop I frequently have a number of concurrent processes running (Mozilla, compile, ogg player, a few ssh sessions and I might even fire up a game from time to time while I'm waiting for a compile to finish...). This kind of use shows what a boost "low-end" SMP can be - the system remains perfectly responsive way past loads that would have a similar "horse-power" single CPU system groaning - and that is very important for interactive desktop use. My box at the office is a single PIII 1 GHz, which should, on paper, hold its own quite well. It feels markedly more sluggish for desktop use.
SMP systems are little more prone to "pissing competition" type purchases than say, GeForces and P4. I don't know many people who can actually use all the horsepower of modern systems on the desktop, be it under *BSD or Linux. As someone once said, todays desktops just "wait faster". At the moment at least I'd take a lesser CPU 2-way SMP system over a more powerful single CPU for my desktop anyday.
Though, generally speaking, follow-ups contain the text "Following-up from a previous article here..." or something of that ilk. It's only a follow-up if you realise it is before you post it, otherwise it's just a repost, albeit a better-than-the-original one:-)
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It will indeed be harder to mount the partition. It may also be harder to use that XML data, since what we may be talking about is XML encapsulation of binary, proprietary, encrypted file formats. Don't necessarily think you're going to receive at the other end a plaintext file with a few tags - what you will receive will have been through a closed kernel "request" to an encrypted database "filesystem", a proprietary DRM system (hardware and software) - and you genuinely believe there just gonna bang it out as plaintext at the other end?
Wow, I was way off when I predicted that Microsoft would further obfuscate their Word format.
They won't have to. Since they are going the SQL server way for their filesystem, they can happily give away the hold they have on file formats, since they are going to have a stranglehold on accessing those files. You want an open file system? Here you go (and MS has a lot to gain by doing this - they instantly give Word access to most other data formats) - but don't think anything other than a microsoft OS will actually be able to access the files - thanks to our new deliciously obfuscated method of storing data on a disk. Reverse engineering kernel level SQL data (how a bit of crypto, for DRM of course, thrown in) will probably be even harder than reverse engineering file formats was. And impossible to do legally (say hi to all those DMCA guys out there.)
I'd pay twice as much for the service just to keep it alive.
:-)
Not wanting to speak on their behalf, but I'm fairly sure that if you offer they'll accept
It's slashdot's take on release early, release often. :-)
Yeah, hats off to the guys at Sharp R&D - only yesterday they were announcing a glass computer. Err, hang on a minute.
Great to see this getting modded up - it's like going to Microsoft and explaining that you really welcome the new license changes, and that the many hidden features are a real boon to your productivity. :-)
There are some stories that everyone wishes they posted - and the great thing about slashdot is that everyone can! :-)
Then again, moving my shop required calling in a rigger.
:-)
You backwards redneck you - thinking that because you are white you can get other people to do the work for you. Pull up your sleeves, get your hands dirty and do it yourself, you lazy white trash.
Oh, err, wait, _r_igger.... sorry...
or by cracking the client-side part of COGS.
I am wondering if it might not even be simpler than that... If a sniffer could pick up the packets it's sending "home" and you could just code a little app to mimic those packets using user-configurable MAC addresses. Reverse engineering packets containing a known MAC address can't be that hard surely... The linux CLI client appears to be a 20k binary - it can't use that complex a method for phoning home...
Pay attention, this is a Whore that's actually building Karma with his whoring. Have a look at his user info, if you need to.
What I really dig about this kind of post, is reading through all the little explanations of Company X's activity that Slashdot posters will come up with.
Try and picture this - it's as if one farmer sued his neighbour, who made Ford parts out of plastic, and then sprayed graffiti on the underground to advertise the competitor who changed from plastic to steel, that made his farm go out of business because the wool his sheep produced made the jumpers that the plastic press operators wore to keep warm in the winter. You see? No press operators==no money==no jumpers==no sheep.
Is this kind of stuff really simpler to understand than just saying what SearchKing does? Can't people post without having to dream up amazing parallel scenarios?
Upon being required to enter the modem's serial number he, without thinking, pulled the card out to look at the back.
I think you hit the nail on the head here.
oh my almighty god, i'm just the second poster, but that forum has already been /.ed
Slightly offtopic, but this always amazes me. Why oh why are people surprised that an article gets slashdotted straight away? Do you expect it to get slashdotted after, say, 150 posts? Knock,knock people - if it can hold up to the traffic to get us to 150 posts it isn't going to get slashdotted.
Fellow Slashdotters, say hello to our newest reader, Timothy.
:-)
All together now, "Hello, Timothy."
What is sad about this is that the more that we integrate robots into our society, the more lazy we will all get, and then all will be fatter.
It's up to you - I want a robot to do all the boring stuff so I can free time to go and ride my bike!
It will never die, if it is still in your heart.
:-)
Kewl. Embedded Perl.
Should the heat get turned on news.com what reason would they have to keep the links in these stories?
Bucket loads of free publicity, I'd say.
What I'm saying is that wold give companies no incentive whatsoever to develop native linux drivers, and take away what incentive there is for those that do it already. We'd be dependant on a flaky (because no/few specs available) reverse-engineered emulation of an implementation that was flaky to start with, and be at the mercy of patent/IP infringement claims - all that just to comfort hw vendors that can't be arsed to do decent native drivers in the first place. The energy used in developping such a botch would be far better used in developping native drivers, as it is no mean task. If you have hardware that you can't live without, then you'll need to use an OS that supports it. As for soundcards, there are plenty available that are supported, and supported well, under linux - so the question is asked, why did you choose one that wasn't?
How they would manage it without infringing on Microsoft patents and copyright is another problem.
Wrong, the "other problem" is how on earth it would help us get companies to port to linux. If you want a Windows compatible environment, I've heard MS Windows is available.
I assume with will be Fortran200X, with X being whatever year they finally nail down the final spec.
:-)
Better make that 20XX then, just to be on the safe side
IIRC Linux can mount UFS partitions, and read solaris disk labels, so the best way to do it would be to install Solaris, then linux and simply mount the /home as UFS in linux. Again, there are FAQs all over the place about Linux/Solaris dual boot, I believe I even saw one on BigAdmin once. If not groups.google.com is your friend.
Probobly[sic] not official from Oracle, but it will run i guess. I don't have the money for it.
You just hit the nail right on the head. The kind of people who shell out for Oracle are never going to go for a "not official...but it'll run" OS. On the first incident, the first thing Oracle support will say to you is to install it on an approved platform and try and reproduce the problem.
You shell out the money for it because you need it.
If you need it, then it just has to work.
If it has to work, you'll need support.
If you need support, you'll need to be on a supported platform.
call me crazy
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:-) ).
Ok, crazy guy.
I'll bite. I am currently running two SMP machines. Ok, one is for a DB server. Leave that one out of the question, it is actually underpowered for much of what it does, alas. I'm saving my pennies. The other however is my main desktop. It is not unecessarily powerful (2xPIII 600EB) compared to todays desktops systems, on the contrary, but I would never swap it for a single 1.2GHz (or even higher - a 2.8 P4 might get me thinking
The reason is simple. On my desktop I frequently have a number of concurrent processes running (Mozilla, compile, ogg player, a few ssh sessions and I might even fire up a game from time to time while I'm waiting for a compile to finish...). This kind of use shows what a boost "low-end" SMP can be - the system remains perfectly responsive way past loads that would have a similar "horse-power" single CPU system groaning - and that is very important for interactive desktop use. My box at the office is a single PIII 1 GHz, which should, on paper, hold its own quite well. It feels markedly more sluggish for desktop use.
SMP systems are little more prone to "pissing competition" type purchases than say, GeForces and P4. I don't know many people who can actually use all the horsepower of modern systems on the desktop, be it under *BSD or Linux. As someone once said, todays desktops just "wait faster". At the moment at least I'd take a lesser CPU 2-way SMP system over a more powerful single CPU for my desktop anyday.
Though, generally speaking, follow-ups contain the text "Following-up from a previous article here..." or something of that ilk. It's only a follow-up if you realise it is before you post it, otherwise it's just a repost, albeit a better-than-the-original one :-)
Exactly, for a couple of gigs of pr0n and some hot grits you could probably pick up the passwords of half of the slashdot readers.