When asked how the news system differed from the existing network of communications satilites, a spokesperson wailed "Won't somebody think of the children?" while the reporter was dragged from the room by Homeland Security.
You forgot to include: "if you feel the need to ask that question then the terrorists have already won".
GroupWise isn't free or open source but it's cheaper than the MS & Exchange combo. The backend can run on Linux, has Windows clients and support from Novell.
If you want a better deal then Novell has their Linux Small Business Suite package which includes SLES9 and GroupWise licenses.... along with a few other products. Still cheaper than MS small business offerings.
Except for a solution that is already deployed or maybe wanting to go with the market leader (for safety) why would someone deploy RHL vs Novell? I can't think of a reason off the top of my head. Maybe someone can enlighten me.
One reason could be that Red Hat makes the SRPMS for their RHEL line of operating systems available to anyone. This has allowed projects like CentOS to become so popular. Some people like having the option of using a RHEL-like operating system on servers that they know they can't commit big $$ to. You can install CentOS where it makes sense and pay for RHEL when appropriate. With SUSE Linux Enterprise you can use the operating system on several computers, I think, but you can't use the updates they provide. Which would be fine if the SRPMS were made available but.........
A new release of OpenBSD is made available every six months - no more, no less. Each release is supported for 1 year. Although 3.4 and 3.5 still seem to be receiving patch support in some cases.
One factor that mars OpenBSD's fair weather is its primary developer, Theo de Raadt. This individual is known to be highly unstable and even destructive at times....... snip, snip, snip, snip, snip....... Though excellent for network equipment, developers may wish to remain wary of this platform and its creator.
I hear this a lot but I don't understand this argument. If by "developers may wish to remain wary of this platform and its creator" you mean developers who want to contribute to the OpenBSD project itself then sure, you will deal with Theo. If by developers you mean, people who are going to use OpenBSD as a development platform, then who cares whether Theo has an attitude problem? You're just using the fruit of their (OpenBSD developers) labour. What you do with the source is your business and you don't have to get approval from them or something. I'm not a fan of the uber geek attitude like Theo's but his behaviour has opened more doors for Open Source when it comes to hardware manufacturers releasing documentation. The other BSD projects, and some Linux developers, for that matter seem to be fine using binary drivers and firmware. Atleast someone is taking a stand where this is concerned.
A TSA spokesman said the info will be destroyed when the test is over. My question -- will the test actually end?
My question is....can you actually believe them considering they have already lied uptil this point? How I would love to work in the government; lie right through your teeth to get what you want, if you get caught, admit that you lied, shrug and move on. No sweat.
On Windows I got tired of Adobe Acrobat crashing or bringing my laptop to a screeching halt. Now I use Foxit PDF Reader. It's small and fast. Just check out the download size if you don't believe me. And ofcourse there is xpdf on BSD/Linux.
I don't know if this is supposed to be a joke.....
Of course being a Canadian, I know what real freedom is... I can watch anything I want on TV, so long as it's Canadian.
If you're implying that there is a lot of Canadian content on Canadian TV then you're right. If you're insinuating that there is only Canadian content being aired then you're wrong. Flipping through any of these channels I can see butt load of American shows. BTW have you actually watched TV in the states? Are you aware of the amount of censorship that is enforced down south? I'm not talking about just news but sex, swearing, you name it and the government doesn't think you're mature enough to handle it. I spent five months in Chicago, seven months back in Toronto, another five months in Seattle and back again. Canadian broadcasting rules are a breath of fresh air compared to the way they deal with content down there. Europeans get to view whatever they want, we're wannabe Europeans and TV/radio in the U.S. well....
I can listen to anything I want on the Radio, so long as it's Canadian.
Same deal as the above. If you're driving through Buffalo then guess what? You're going to hear Buffalo/American content for the most part. If you get satellite radio then you can listen to whatever. Funny how that works.
I can smoke anywhere I want, so long as it's not inside or near a building, other than my own house (for now at least).
Good. Keep your cancer causing smoke in your lungs and and in your house. Thanks.
And don't even get me started about this DST crap!
Mostly what it means is that HP obviously doesn't have any long term vision anymore, and are probably very much on the way out.
Which brings up a discussion I was having with a coworker. If you were to go with a brand name vendor for server hardware, who would you go with? I don't like the current trend with HP. I always felt that Dell was the budget company when it came to brand name hardware. IBM is focusing a lot on being a services company. They sold their PC manufacturing unit but they still sell servers. For how long?
If I were you then I would contact Theo to see how you can get the box to a developer. By the way, no matter who you end up donating it to, it's an awesome gesture on your part. Good on ya.
Each of which needs its own software licenses. Cha-ching! As long as you can pull it off, it's a heck of a revenue generating business model!
Keep in mind that where medium to large organizations in North America are concerned the term "Linux" for the most part translates into Red Hat. On average, when managers in these types of organizations want to hear about how you're going to implement a Linux proxy or 'whatever' server they seem to want RHEL AS or ES because of the accompanying support and not Debian, Gentoo or Mandrake. In this regard the "revenue generating business model" is the same as it is for Microsoft or any other large software vendor. You have to purchase additional licenses for each RHEL test server. This is coming right from the horse's mouth - call Red Hat if you disagree. And no, you probably shouldn't use Fedora or Centos for the test servers....the whole point of having a test platform is that it should resemble the production one.
Money. Unless some other organization wants to step in and pay lawyers, developers & whoever else to make sure they won't be stepping on any toes if they release the code.
Good afternoon everyone. My name is Bruce Sewell and I am the Vice President and General Counsel for Intel. I was initially going to advise the rest of the board to fight this charges brought against us by AMD but after reading Mr. Garcia's post on Slashdot I have reconsidered. He has directly asked me to "just shutup and comply". He has also stated that no one believes me. Mr. Garcia addressed me directly because he knows that I hold his thoughts and opinions in the highest regard. In light of these circumstances I have no choice but to accept these charges and comply. Thank you for your attention. Now I must go home and cry on my pillow.
Just when exactly did you check this? Because if you check Red Hat's System Configuration Limits it clearly shows that any release older than version 4 supports 1 TB file sizes whereas version 4 lets you have 8 TB files. I don't understand why people just don't fact check when making claims rather than hide behind the "last time I checked" line.
What I personally will never, ever get around is how someone can become so sick that they believe they are doing the Right Thing when participating in terror acts such as this.
I remember watching bombs exploding in Iraq and couldn't help but imagine mothers, fathers, sons and daughters thinking the same thing. Did the "Coalition of the Willing" pilots think they were "doing the right thing" or just following orders?
Lesson to be learned here: what we describe as terrorism (and this was terrorist activity) is justified in someone else's mind. Question is how do you deal with it? Do we continue bombing entire countries, thereby creating new terrorist recruiting grounds?
Magnatune is awesome. I recommend purchasing these tracks or CDs: Tilopa: modern Japanese zen-flute. It's very nice to wake up to or just have in the background while going through man pages.
P.S. I'm not affiliated with Magnatune in any way. It's just nice to see a music site that's not evil.
P.S. again.. By man pages I'm referring to UNIX manual pages and not gay porn. Although I guess soothing music would help with that activity too.
Why don't we share free music instead? Pirating music is equivalent to pirating Windows XP
Here in Canada we pay a levy on all blank media which is supposed to compensate copyright holders for their loss with regards to piracy. So if we are already compensating them with this levy then why shouldn't we download music that we have already paid for? I've bought numerous packs of DVDs and CDs with the intent to provide file system images to clients so technically I should be able to download enough songs to fit on that media. No?
Otherwise what are we paying the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA for? I mean there is a slight chance that they are just greedy SOBs and just want more money but I really doubt that.
The second that the states get wind that Microsoft is canning Office for Mac then Microsoft will be keel hauled in court.
Right, because that worked out so well the last time around;)
Thinking about this scenario brings to mind an abusive boyfriend or husband telling his gf or wife "come on baby, this time around I won't beat the living day lights out of you, this time it will be different". What makes it even more sad is that a lot of the time the gf or wife ends up believing that garbage.
"This is an enormous amount of money, one of the largest settlements in the history of any patent system," Mr. Balsillie said. "I'm at a loss to understand what in the world one would want beyond that."
Umm, more money? And if you're the tinfoil hat type how about the fact that MS want to get their hands in the Blackberry cookie jar so bad, would they entice NTP, like SCO, to do something like this?
I personally think it's just for more money. I mean this is coming from a company that doesn't manufacture any products, contributes nothing and just sues others due to the fact that they own patents. Surely an organization of such calibre wouldn't resort to something like this;)
I suggest that if a great number of your users are using email as a file storage system that you as a diligent IT guy should spend some time figuring out ways to make it work for them.
Every new employee gets trained how to make efficient use of the services that are offered to them. They have access to email, small FTP quotas and larger Samba shares. They are shown how to archive any important emails or attachments and store them in the appropriate file shares. They are also notified that emails will be deleted after 180 days so it is their responsibility to archive important documents.
IT departments do not exist for the sake of IT although they sure do act like it a whole lot. IT departments exist for the sake of users, you know the people that it's so fashionable to arrogantly hate.
You see, end users aren't concerned with technical details - for good reason, it's not their job. My job is to be aware of the technical details. If a messaging software vendor tells us that we should keep our mail spools maintained, trimmed, junk/attachment free for performance purposes then we make sure that happens. Then we write up these tutorials and training material to let users know what to expect. Then users ignore all of this, do the opposite, bitch when they pass quotas (which have been set for important reasons that I stated) and then all of a sudden, systems administrators are the arrogant ones. Nice.
Similarly, email has become our storage system for important documents and works in progress
If I had a penny for each time I have repeated this to users frustrated with their email account quotas: "Our mail server does not exist to fulfill your file storage needs." The file server is where people can store their important.......wait for it........FILES!
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You forgot to include: "if you feel the need to ask that question then the terrorists have already won".
Huh? Much more security?? The Marketing dept. is on the second floor. Thanks for dropping by.
If you want a better deal then Novell has their Linux Small Business Suite package which includes SLES9 and GroupWise licenses .... along with a few other products. Still cheaper than MS small business offerings.
One reason could be that Red Hat makes the SRPMS for their RHEL line of operating systems available to anyone. This has allowed projects like CentOS to become so popular. Some people like having the option of using a RHEL-like operating system on servers that they know they can't commit big $$ to. You can install CentOS where it makes sense and pay for RHEL when appropriate. With SUSE Linux Enterprise you can use the operating system on several computers, I think, but you can't use the updates they provide. Which would be fine if the SRPMS were made available but.........
It runs in SMP mode on the i386 and amd64 platforms.
OpenBSD is updated every three or four months
A new release of OpenBSD is made available every six months - no more, no less. Each release is supported for 1 year. Although 3.4 and 3.5 still seem to be receiving patch support in some cases.
One factor that mars OpenBSD's fair weather is its primary developer, Theo de Raadt. This individual is known to be highly unstable and even destructive at times ....... snip, snip, snip, snip, snip ....... Though excellent for network equipment, developers may wish to remain wary of this platform and its creator.
I hear this a lot but I don't understand this argument. If by "developers may wish to remain wary of this platform and its creator" you mean developers who want to contribute to the OpenBSD project itself then sure, you will deal with Theo. If by developers you mean, people who are going to use OpenBSD as a development platform, then who cares whether Theo has an attitude problem? You're just using the fruit of their (OpenBSD developers) labour. What you do with the source is your business and you don't have to get approval from them or something. I'm not a fan of the uber geek attitude like Theo's but his behaviour has opened more doors for Open Source when it comes to hardware manufacturers releasing documentation. The other BSD projects, and some Linux developers, for that matter seem to be fine using binary drivers and firmware. Atleast someone is taking a stand where this is concerned.
My question is....can you actually believe them considering they have already lied uptil this point? How I would love to work in the government; lie right through your teeth to get what you want, if you get caught, admit that you lied, shrug and move on. No sweat.
On Windows I got tired of Adobe Acrobat crashing or bringing my laptop to a screeching halt. Now I use Foxit PDF Reader. It's small and fast. Just check out the download size if you don't believe me. And ofcourse there is xpdf on BSD/Linux.
Of course being a Canadian, I know what real freedom is... I can watch anything I want on TV, so long as it's Canadian.
If you're implying that there is a lot of Canadian content on Canadian TV then you're right. If you're insinuating that there is only Canadian content being aired then you're wrong. Flipping through any of these channels I can see butt load of American shows. BTW have you actually watched TV in the states? Are you aware of the amount of censorship that is enforced down south? I'm not talking about just news but sex, swearing, you name it and the government doesn't think you're mature enough to handle it. I spent five months in Chicago, seven months back in Toronto, another five months in Seattle and back again. Canadian broadcasting rules are a breath of fresh air compared to the way they deal with content down there. Europeans get to view whatever they want, we're wannabe Europeans and TV/radio in the U.S. well....
I can listen to anything I want on the Radio, so long as it's Canadian.
Same deal as the above. If you're driving through Buffalo then guess what? You're going to hear Buffalo/American content for the most part. If you get satellite radio then you can listen to whatever. Funny how that works.
I can smoke anywhere I want, so long as it's not inside or near a building, other than my own house (for now at least).
Good. Keep your cancer causing smoke in your lungs and and in your house. Thanks.
And don't even get me started about this DST crap!
OK I won't ;)
Which brings up a discussion I was having with a coworker. If you were to go with a brand name vendor for server hardware, who would you go with? I don't like the current trend with HP. I always felt that Dell was the budget company when it came to brand name hardware. IBM is focusing a lot on being a services company. They sold their PC manufacturing unit but they still sell servers. For how long?
If I were you then I would contact Theo to see how you can get the box to a developer. By the way, no matter who you end up donating it to, it's an awesome gesture on your part. Good on ya.
Right. But what will Management do?
Keep in mind that where medium to large organizations in North America are concerned the term "Linux" for the most part translates into Red Hat. On average, when managers in these types of organizations want to hear about how you're going to implement a Linux proxy or 'whatever' server they seem to want RHEL AS or ES because of the accompanying support and not Debian, Gentoo or Mandrake. In this regard the "revenue generating business model" is the same as it is for Microsoft or any other large software vendor. You have to purchase additional licenses for each RHEL test server. This is coming right from the horse's mouth - call Red Hat if you disagree. And no, you probably shouldn't use Fedora or Centos for the test servers....the whole point of having a test platform is that it should resemble the production one.
Money. Unless some other organization wants to step in and pay lawyers, developers & whoever else to make sure they won't be stepping on any toes if they release the code.
Good afternoon everyone. My name is Bruce Sewell and I am the Vice President and General Counsel for Intel. I was initially going to advise the rest of the board to fight this charges brought against us by AMD but after reading Mr. Garcia's post on Slashdot I have reconsidered. He has directly asked me to "just shutup and comply". He has also stated that no one believes me. Mr. Garcia addressed me directly because he knows that I hold his thoughts and opinions in the highest regard. In light of these circumstances I have no choice but to accept these charges and comply. Thank you for your attention. Now I must go home and cry on my pillow.
Just when exactly did you check this? Because if you check Red Hat's System Configuration Limits it clearly shows that any release older than version 4 supports 1 TB file sizes whereas version 4 lets you have 8 TB files. I don't understand why people just don't fact check when making claims rather than hide behind the "last time I checked" line.
I remember watching bombs exploding in Iraq and couldn't help but imagine mothers, fathers, sons and daughters thinking the same thing. Did the "Coalition of the Willing" pilots think they were "doing the right thing" or just following orders?
Lesson to be learned here: what we describe as terrorism (and this was terrorist activity) is justified in someone else's mind. Question is how do you deal with it? Do we continue bombing entire countries, thereby creating new terrorist recruiting grounds?
Once we have shredded the necessary documents.
P.S. I'm not affiliated with Magnatune in any way. It's just nice to see a music site that's not evil.
P.S. again.. By man pages I'm referring to UNIX manual pages and not gay porn. Although I guess soothing music would help with that activity too.
Here in Canada we pay a levy on all blank media which is supposed to compensate copyright holders for their loss with regards to piracy. So if we are already compensating them with this levy then why shouldn't we download music that we have already paid for? I've bought numerous packs of DVDs and CDs with the intent to provide file system images to clients so technically I should be able to download enough songs to fit on that media. No?
Otherwise what are we paying the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA for? I mean there is a slight chance that they are just greedy SOBs and just want more money but I really doubt that.
P.S. Mod me Insightful.
Right, because that worked out so well the last time around ;)
Thinking about this scenario brings to mind an abusive boyfriend or husband telling his gf or wife "come on baby, this time around I won't beat the living day lights out of you, this time it will be different". What makes it even more sad is that a lot of the time the gf or wife ends up believing that garbage.
Hasn't this also been their past and present?
Umm, more money? And if you're the tinfoil hat type how about the fact that MS want to get their hands in the Blackberry cookie jar so bad, would they entice NTP, like SCO, to do something like this?
I personally think it's just for more money. I mean this is coming from a company that doesn't manufacture any products, contributes nothing and just sues others due to the fact that they own patents. Surely an organization of such calibre wouldn't resort to something like this ;)
Every new employee gets trained how to make efficient use of the services that are offered to them. They have access to email, small FTP quotas and larger Samba shares. They are shown how to archive any important emails or attachments and store them in the appropriate file shares. They are also notified that emails will be deleted after 180 days so it is their responsibility to archive important documents.
IT departments do not exist for the sake of IT although they sure do act like it a whole lot. IT departments exist for the sake of users, you know the people that it's so fashionable to arrogantly hate.
You see, end users aren't concerned with technical details - for good reason, it's not their job. My job is to be aware of the technical details. If a messaging software vendor tells us that we should keep our mail spools maintained, trimmed, junk/attachment free for performance purposes then we make sure that happens. Then we write up these tutorials and training material to let users know what to expect. Then users ignore all of this, do the opposite, bitch when they pass quotas (which have been set for important reasons that I stated) and then all of a sudden, systems administrators are the arrogant ones. Nice.
If I had a penny for each time I have repeated this to users frustrated with their email account quotas: "Our mail server does not exist to fulfill your file storage needs." The file server is where people can store their important.......wait for it........FILES!
eDirectory is a requirement so grab the 250,000 free licenses first and then read the documentation like there's no tomorrow.