BusinessWeek, InfoWorld and the EE Times Online all have stories about SCO's plans to send out license invoices to Linux vendors for 'Unix license fees for Linux.'
In other news, office products retailers across the USA noticed an overwhelming unpredicted demand for paper shredders.
I got an apology today from a wants-to-be-anonymous Microsoft employee who heard me talk. He asked me if anyone ever apologized, because what happened to me sounded pretty rough to him, and I told him no. He said, "Well, I am. But we're nice guys." I'm sure they are. When a machine gets too big, it doesn't know when it's stepping on ants. But every once in a while, you step on a red ant.
Didn't have a lot to contribute towards the conversation except that this guy sounds like a really cool boss. I have yet to come across a business around here where they aren't using any Microsoft products. It almost sounds weird that an average business guy would adopt that way of thinking.
The comment is marked funny but it's the last little bit that really made me smirk. There are dumb (or lazy) people everywhere using computers on the internet which probably is why I still receive connection attempts from computers infected by Nimda. I stopped hoping a looong time ago;)
Just wanted to throw my 2 Canadian cents in this discussion. Check out this project if you want headache free workstation/server replicated installations and management. It has been working wonders for me.
I was waiting for it too - as soon as it came on that a Canadian part of the grid was down, I was thinking, "They'll be blaming Canada any minute now." Sure enough, right on cue, it starts flying back and forth from CNN to MSNBC to FOX - Canada Canada Canada Foreigners it's all the damn furriners.
Heh you took the words right out of my mouth. I've been trying to find another story on google without much luck. Remember when those terrorists on the FBI most wanted list supposedly crossed the border from Canada into the US? There was this huge man hunt, their pictures were plastered on the FBI website and on all the news channels. Turned out it was a complete hoax, some of the "terrorists" who should have been running rampant in the US were actually in Pakistan wondering why they're wanted in by the FBI. Basically everyone and their grandmothers blamed Canada on all the Amercian news channels along with U.S. politicians (Hillary Clinton especially). When it became apparent that someone just blew smoke up everyones' asses there was no acknowledgement that the FBI, news channels and politicians screwed up, no public apology (not one), nothing. Damn Canadians couldn't even let these terrorists through their border into our country and made us look like hyper-paranoid fools in the end. Blame them for this too.
I know that your comment was meant to be humourous but on a more serious note, perhaps this event could serve as a wake up call to all the people who needlessly consume more than they have to (Yeah right, I can hope can't I?). I know so many geeks who run non-critical computers 24/7 which are chugging along just for the fact that they want to see those high uptime numbers. We all know *BSD/Linux is stable. You don't need to suck up power (pollute more by making fossil fuel power plants work extra hard) to prove something that's already obvious.
frankjr... I thank you sir. I was going through the comments and was starting to get alarmed. Something is wrong here; a story on Slashdot and I still haven't seen anything being mentioned about Gentoo or Portage??!! WTF?
P.S. I'm just kidding. Turn the flame throwers off
Notice that Eolas is going after Microsoft, not Sun or Mozilla.
What happens if a large corportation with not so good intentions (perhaps one with the most popular web browser out there) buys Eolas' patent portfolio and then goes after Sun, Mozilla, Opera, and so on. Lesson to be learnt here: all software patents are evil.
Imagine that you need to setup a web server at one customer's site that requires a set of packages from the ports collection to make the site work. A couple of months later, if you need another server like this, perhaps for a different customer, you might end up with different versions of the tools even though you're running the same version of FreeBSD at both sites.
You can generate packages (cd/usr/ports/www/whatever && make package) of whichever applications you want to install on a number of servers and then store them on a private server. Why use the ports collection each time and compile the same version of the same software when you can just do it once?
If the core benefits of NetWare existed on a Linux platform, nothing would keep companies from jumping at it.
For the benefit of myself and maybe other readers here who don't have experience with NetWare could you (or anyone else) please point out what these benefits are? Besides the cost of migrating old NetWare installations to newer solutions, what other reason do people have to still stick with that platform? And if you're feeling really generous then how about listing some cons along with the pros too.
Do you just die, wishing you were living just a little farther north?
Oh please stop. We (Canadians) have health care but I wouldn't solely rely on that. Have you been to a hospital recently? Here in Ontario the situation is unbelievable. My dad had a serious heart attack a couple of years ago. He had to lie on an uncomfortable stretcher for almost two days before they got another patient to go home and used his bed. Just recently he was complaining about chest pains so my mom took him to the emergency room and he waited for a good four hours before returning back home without being attended to; thankfully it wasn't another heart attack and he was examined the next day by the family doctor.
Cancer is the number one killer (disease) in Canada and if you're a woman with breast cancer then you have to deal with a backlog for months to get a mammogram. Need a MRI? Deal with another backlog or do what most people (who can afford it) do and go to Buffalo to get one. That's great healthcare. Nurses here complain that their underpaid, short staffed and over-worked. Thankfully our current government has a great plan to work this all out: deny that there is a problem with health care. All I can say is that I'm glad I have company coverage.
Executives at I.B.M. and many other companies argue that creating more jobs in lower cost locations overseas keeps their industries competitive, holds costs down for American consumers, helps to develop poorer nations while supporting overall employment in the United States by improving productivity and the nation's global reach.
What good are lower costs for American consumers when the consumers are out of jobs or settling for lower paying jobs?
David Samson, an Oracle spokesman said the expansion of operations in India was "additive" and was not resulting in any jobs losses in the United States.
I'm surprised why they didn't also note that if you search for the term 'windows'
it returns search results related to *gasp*
Microsoft Windows. But if you refine your query to
'windows doors' then the results are more relevant. I wonder if there are people out there
gullible enough who can't see through this recent
round of FUD, actually nm, the answer is obvious.
I haven't tried this myself but I remember reading about LVM filesystem (incremental) snapshots? Or is that what the parent was referring to with the whole corrupt data description?
There is a lot of money out there for whichever company comes up with a decent non-MS solution for 'groupware'.
Well technically there is a decent non-MS solution for 'groupware'. It even works with Outlook; it's not cheap (then again neither is Exchange), it works great, runs on a number of platforms, but the only problem that management would often cite is that it's non-MS to begin with. Nobody got fired for buying from M$.
Heh, something interesting, on page 5 of that PDF, they list FreeBSD as a linux distribution.
That explains it then. I was going through this "FreeBSD" project's site and I noticed that they have something called a ports collection which makes installing software really easy. I should have known if it was just another linux distro, they probably just copied Gentoo's portage system.
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Why did you move to Ontario to begin with? Was it due to lack of jobs or other reasons? I'm just curious because I'm in Ontario right now and am thinking of moving to other provinces (I've considered Alberta). There's just so much competition here for the same lousy paying jobs. Now I've started to look for greener pastures elsewhere.
Sorta like how the US govt decided on its own (eventhough it's supposedly part of the WTO) that Canadian wheat is overly subsidised and placed absurd tariffs on all Canadian wheat imports.
I'm not trying to sell you anything but there's a better way of updating Sophos. Check out
Remote Update and Enterprise Manager. I haven't had to do the download, increment roll-out variable song and dance for a while now =)
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Hey sort of like these operating systems ;)
In other news, office products retailers across the USA noticed an overwhelming unpredicted demand for paper shredders.
Didn't have a lot to contribute towards the conversation except that this guy sounds like a really cool boss. I have yet to come across a business around here where they aren't using any Microsoft products. It almost sounds weird that an average business guy would adopt that way of thinking.
The comment is marked funny but it's the last little bit that really made me smirk. There are dumb (or lazy) people everywhere using computers on the internet which probably is why I still receive connection attempts from computers infected by Nimda. I stopped hoping a looong time ago ;)
The same book is available in downloadable versions here: http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/
Just wanted to throw my 2 Canadian cents in this discussion. Check out this project if you want headache free workstation/server replicated installations and management. It has been working wonders for me.
Heh you took the words right out of my mouth. I've been trying to find another story on google without much luck. Remember when those terrorists on the FBI most wanted list supposedly crossed the border from Canada into the US? There was this huge man hunt, their pictures were plastered on the FBI website and on all the news channels. Turned out it was a complete hoax, some of the "terrorists" who should have been running rampant in the US were actually in Pakistan wondering why they're wanted in by the FBI. Basically everyone and their grandmothers blamed Canada on all the Amercian news channels along with U.S. politicians (Hillary Clinton especially). When it became apparent that someone just blew smoke up everyones' asses there was no acknowledgement that the FBI, news channels and politicians screwed up, no public apology (not one), nothing. Damn Canadians couldn't even let these terrorists through their border into our country and made us look like hyper-paranoid fools in the end. Blame them for this too.
I know that your comment was meant to be humourous but on a more serious note, perhaps this event could serve as a wake up call to all the people who needlessly consume more than they have to (Yeah right, I can hope can't I?). I know so many geeks who run non-critical computers 24/7 which are chugging along just for the fact that they want to see those high uptime numbers. We all know *BSD/Linux is stable. You don't need to suck up power (pollute more by making fossil fuel power plants work extra hard) to prove something that's already obvious.
P.S. I'm just kidding. Turn the flame throwers off
What happens if a large corportation with not so good intentions (perhaps one with the most popular web browser out there) buys Eolas' patent portfolio and then goes after Sun, Mozilla, Opera, and so on. Lesson to be learnt here: all software patents are evil.
You can generate packages (cd /usr/ports/www/whatever && make package) of whichever applications you want to install on a number of servers and then store them on a private server. Why use the ports collection each time and compile the same version of the same software when you can just do it once?
For the benefit of myself and maybe other readers here who don't have experience with NetWare could you (or anyone else) please point out what these benefits are? Besides the cost of migrating old NetWare installations to newer solutions, what other reason do people have to still stick with that platform? And if you're feeling really generous then how about listing some cons along with the pros too.
Lawyers also charge a hell of a lot more than someone doing freelance technical support.
Hmm, I wasn't able to figure out that latency problem the last time I was down at your place, what's this OJT thing? Sounds like it could help.
Oh please stop. We (Canadians) have health care but I wouldn't solely rely on that. Have you been to a hospital recently? Here in Ontario the situation is unbelievable. My dad had a serious heart attack a couple of years ago. He had to lie on an uncomfortable stretcher for almost two days before they got another patient to go home and used his bed. Just recently he was complaining about chest pains so my mom took him to the emergency room and he waited for a good four hours before returning back home without being attended to; thankfully it wasn't another heart attack and he was examined the next day by the family doctor.
Cancer is the number one killer (disease) in Canada and if you're a woman with breast cancer then you have to deal with a backlog for months to get a mammogram. Need a MRI? Deal with another backlog or do what most people (who can afford it) do and go to Buffalo to get one. That's great healthcare. Nurses here complain that their underpaid, short staffed and over-worked. Thankfully our current government has a great plan to work this all out: deny that there is a problem with health care. All I can say is that I'm glad I have company coverage.
What good are lower costs for American consumers when the consumers are out of jobs or settling for lower paying jobs?
David Samson, an Oracle spokesman said the expansion of operations in India was "additive" and was not resulting in any jobs losses in the United States.
Can you say "bullshit"?
I'm surprised why they didn't also note that if you search for the term 'windows' it returns search results related to *gasp* Microsoft Windows. But if you refine your query to 'windows doors' then the results are more relevant. I wonder if there are people out there gullible enough who can't see through this recent round of FUD, actually nm, the answer is obvious.
I haven't tried this myself but I remember reading about LVM filesystem (incremental) snapshots? Or is that what the parent was referring to with the whole corrupt data description?
Well technically there is a decent non-MS solution for 'groupware'. It even works with Outlook; it's not cheap (then again neither is Exchange), it works great, runs on a number of platforms, but the only problem that management would often cite is that it's non-MS to begin with. Nobody got fired for buying from M$.
Yup they are. They're quickly dropping Linux support.
That explains it then. I was going through this "FreeBSD" project's site and I noticed that they have something called a ports collection which makes installing software really easy. I should have known if it was just another linux distro, they probably just copied Gentoo's portage system.
Why did you move to Ontario to begin with? Was it due to lack of jobs or other reasons? I'm just curious because I'm in Ontario right now and am thinking of moving to other provinces (I've considered Alberta). There's just so much competition here for the same lousy paying jobs. Now I've started to look for greener pastures elsewhere.
Sorta like how the US govt decided on its own (eventhough it's supposedly part of the WTO) that Canadian wheat is overly subsidised and placed absurd tariffs on all Canadian wheat imports.
I'm not trying to sell you anything but there's a better way of updating Sophos. Check out Remote Update and Enterprise Manager. I haven't had to do the download, increment roll-out variable song and dance for a while now =)
Evidently you haven't been reading the EULA's thoroughly enough. Tsk tsk.