It's not that dangerous with proper setup. I do the same with boxes 2500 miles from myself without shedding a bead of sweat. The trick is to use 2 root partitions, upgrade the spare one, try to boot it using the grub --once option, if it fails, power off and it will revert back the old working partition. The only trick is toggling the power in the event of a panic, we control power via a network power switch, but I'm pretty sure this could be a added to the uplink interface BIOS, kind of like a two-way wake-on-lan.
Maybe VNC, but Java X, I can't imagine it... X is fine on a LAN but on the net... ouch... every mouse movement would bring the connection to a grinding halt. I wonder if this *might* be a basic browser plugin like MS-Word Viewer. I can't imagine that they would have rewritten OO in Java like some other posters have suggested... way too much work.
So now we can advocate Netscape 8.0 that uses the IE rendering engine and really advance the adoption of open... oh wait... nevermind
I know, I know, the IE renderer is just an option, still, this won't really do squat for alternative browsers. Now, if this was Firefox by default, then it'd be a cause for celebration.
Government funding allows tax dollars to be sophened to companies that produce content that usually SUCKS - as along as it meets the "Canadian content" requirements by mentioning curling or the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Conversely, anything that involves the Toronto Maple Leafs usually SUCKS.:D Man! I really missed being able to say that! Hockey season starts in 5 days so pardon my enthusiasm!!!
Back on topic, you're bang on about the K-OS and Esthero, both excellent... but don't forget about Conjure One and Delerium both solid Canadian artists... sadly, this still doesn't excuse Celine Dion, we will continue releasing music from J-Lo until you agree to make her stop.
I disagree with you statement that this NEEDS to be a full time job. I've worked in a few positions where "innovation" time was built into the work week. Normally, one or two days a week was devoted to pet projects. If I'm not mistaken, Google does something like this as well. Funding, or more specifically access to resources, is important -but- this doesn't necessarily mean out right cash. Ironically, most innovation, more specifically the seed ideas, I've been privy to were formed outside the lab, either in a bar, in the shower, or while driving. Universities are a well spring of innovation precisely because they're effectively large social networks that offer a rich resource pool to people with free time to tinker. Many OSS contributors are in university or work for corps with an interest in OSS like IBM, Novell, RedHat, etc. The OSS community is much much broader than the (incorrect) stereotype of a loner in his mom's basement coding because he's afraid to talk to girls.
It's a nuisance when Windows Explorer on an average Athlon is slightly more responsive than Linux and KDE on an AMD64 x2.
Let's be honest here, you're really comparing apples to oranges when you compare completely different hardware like that. KDE and Win overall performance *as a desktop on the same hardware* is similar. KDE certainly isn't perfect, particularly it's task bar, but I'd be hard pressed to say Windows is so much better. On a side note, for a desktop, I think dual CPU boxes simply aren't worth the fractional performance gain they offer vs. their added cost. However, from a geek-cred standpoint, they do offer bragging rights that single unit systems don't.
I'm with you man... I smell a rat. I've worked with Linux for a long time and never EVER have I had the kind of experience they describe. If anything, Linux is EASIER to setup and maintain than desktop centric Win2K (no W2K3 exp yet). I recently setup a farm of 8 Linux servers from scratch in about 4 hours flat including Oracle installs (granted, I spent a good deal of time planning my installs beforehand). Smells to me like their IT shop was filled with MCSE button clickers who had a freakin' coronary when they saw a command line. If they'd like to give it another go, I'll gladly sign on for a 50% increase in my current salary on the condition that they:
- let me bring my documentation/process guy on board
- let me pick the hardware
- let me pick the distro
- let me architect the configs
- run SAP on Oracle (not adabas or mssql)
- give me a veto over any MCSE in IT lower than the CIO
- give me a direct line of communication to the COO/CEO
In return, I'll deliver a headcount reduction, a software license cost reduction, uptimes beyond their wildest dreams, performance they didn't know they could achieve, water tight security, and weekly reminders of just how incompetent their previous IT staff was.
Last time I checked, music pirates primarily used Windows only tools like Kazaa, most probably running on pirated copies of Windows. People who earn their livings using Linux, every single copy legitimately licensed I might add, are much MUCH less likely to participate in music and software piracy. Besides, if you're looking for anti-intellectual property types, look in the BSD camp. Last time I checked, my GPLd software did not grant me ownership of any of the itellectual property within the codebase.
Ummm, Japan, the EU, Australia, Russia, Canada, etc... will be more than happy to export machinery and machine parts, integrated circuit, or soybeans if we don't. The US is China's 3rd largest trade partner after Japan and the EU, we don't have much pull to spare over there that somebody wouldn't be more than happy to take off our hands.
ln -s "drm for the masses script"/etc/init.d/rc3.d/S20DeleteThisScriptAndGoToJail
to keep yourself in compliance at each and every startup and shutdown... happy happy joy joy!!! I don't pirate music, they can go after the people who share illegal tunes all they want, but don't ever point a finger at me unless you know I'm doing something wrong, anything else is an insult.
If they spent half the effort signing and encouraging artists with talent that they do trying to prevent people from putting songs on their iPods, they might actually be able to address the root cause of their falling sales. I hardly buy any new music because every friggen tune sounds the same and they're dull as hell. The few albums I do buy are pretty much all on Nettwerk since they don't focus on the same vanilla pudding crap the other majors put out... and... get this... they don't shovel DRM... they actually sell MP3s.
Ok, now that's scary. It'd be a great coup, but scary becuase the software would be that good. As a bonus, they get to lock the music market with iTunes. Only problem is AAPL's market cap is $44B, they'd need to reach about 20% above that to get the board to sign on and MS "only" has about $40B on hand. I doubt they'd be keen to try and raise $20B to finance the buyout.
TIvo uses a custom filesystem for video, it's been "figured out", by Tridge if I remember correctly, but it's certainly their own creation. The actual Tivo linux OS piece is on ext2 or hpfs, can't remember which exactly.
You can't just lock out anybody who patents software. Lock out those who enforce patents, threaten with patents, sit on patents, etc... but simply owning a patent? A lot of these patents are used defensively. This new license would bar IBM, Novell, HP, etc from using software under the new license... heck... I think even RedHat has a few patents.
You forgot about the original Windows NT. I think the leap from Win 3.1 to WinNT was far more significant that Win 3.1 to Win 95. WinNT 3.1 came out in 1993. Granted WinNT 3.5 was much more usable, but WinNT 3.1 lay the groundwork for W2K, WXP, etc.
Ummm... I fork out $160 a year (2x$80) to Novell for the SuSE Pro DVDs. Last time I checked, Novell was an American company providing American jobs. Linux is for people who need an operating system they can tune for highly specific tasks. Show me the full source code for OS X including drivers and Cocoa, not just the bare bones Darwin kernel, and we'll talk.
I don't know if this post is serious but it's probably because wget works standalone and provides a heck of a lot of functionality out of the box without coding anything. I'm not a big perl fan but I do think cpan is one impressive collection of work, I wish other prog langs would follow that example.
The problem is it's not really an improvement, it's a change in base functionality. It was logged as a bug a good while back but Sun nixed it because they didn't want to cater to a individual x clipboard uses. The clipboard under x-win is a kind of a mess, there's the "clipboard" and the "primary", to make a very long story short, different apps use them differently. Sun *ALWAYS* uses the "clipboard", which really messes up cut-and-paste with apps that use the "primary". This is issue is older than dirt, and it impacts many many apps. However, with a closed source java, you're really screwed. You need to run a thread to sync the clipboard and primary and that ain't pretty at all.
Yeah, I was just reading the license... it's a pretty long and tedious read. Unfortunately, this doesn't really help me out at work. I'd like to customize the JRE for a production system. It would be nice if they allowed modifications for private commercial use. I do have to say, not to look a gift horse in the mouth, this is a certainly a step in the right direction for Sun. Kudos to them for doing this.
Can you compile a FULLY functional JRE (not just rt.jar) and javac? If not, then this is no better than the MS source code access program. Look, but don't touch or try to do anything with it. Judging by the "SCSL Binaries - needed to complete source build", I'm guessing no.
You'd only get the last site, not enough for any serious data gathering. You're right though, you don't NEED a cookie, a session id sent via URL works just as good -but- it doesn't have the big time benefit of persistence like a nasty evil cookie!
The e450 is the single biggest piece of crap that Sun *EVER* put out. I have 4 e450s that are part of the farm I work with and 2 of them like to puke on ECC errors at backup time. We've had the CPUs, mobos, memory changed... same story. So far as I'm concerned that particular model has a fricken curse! Understand that I'm a huge fan of Sun hardware, with the single ominous glaring exception of the e450s. Let me assure you that the experience you've had with these DOES NOT reflect the quality of other Sun hardware.
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It's not that dangerous with proper setup. I do the same with boxes 2500 miles from myself without shedding a bead of sweat. The trick is to use 2 root partitions, upgrade the spare one, try to boot it using the grub --once option, if it fails, power off and it will revert back the old working partition. The only trick is toggling the power in the event of a panic, we control power via a network power switch, but I'm pretty sure this could be a added to the uplink interface BIOS, kind of like a two-way wake-on-lan.
"... there are far more Christians than just Catholics."
You must mean denominations, not practictioners, right? There are 1.5 billion Roman Catholics out of a total 2.1 billion Christians world-wide.
It's because Opera doesn't support XMLHttpRequest ... they will in a release to come I'm sure.
Maybe VNC, but Java X, I can't imagine it ... X is fine on a LAN but on the net ... ouch ... every mouse movement would bring the connection to a grinding halt. I wonder if this *might* be a basic browser plugin like MS-Word Viewer. I can't imagine that they would have rewritten OO in Java like some other posters have suggested ... way too much work.
So now we can advocate Netscape 8.0 that uses the IE rendering engine and really advance the adoption of open ... oh wait ... nevermind
I know, I know, the IE renderer is just an option, still, this won't really do squat for alternative browsers. Now, if this was Firefox by default, then it'd be a cause for celebration.
Government funding allows tax dollars to be sophened to companies that produce content that usually SUCKS - as along as it meets the "Canadian content" requirements by mentioning curling or the Toronto Maple Leafs.
:D Man! I really missed being able to say that! Hockey season starts in 5 days so pardon my enthusiasm!!!
... but don't forget about Conjure One and Delerium both solid Canadian artists ... sadly, this still doesn't excuse Celine Dion, we will continue releasing music from J-Lo until you agree to make her stop.
Conversely, anything that involves the Toronto Maple Leafs usually SUCKS.
Back on topic, you're bang on about the K-OS and Esthero, both excellent
I disagree with you statement that this NEEDS to be a full time job. I've worked in a few positions where "innovation" time was built into the work week. Normally, one or two days a week was devoted to pet projects. If I'm not mistaken, Google does something like this as well. Funding, or more specifically access to resources, is important -but- this doesn't necessarily mean out right cash. Ironically, most innovation, more specifically the seed ideas, I've been privy to were formed outside the lab, either in a bar, in the shower, or while driving. Universities are a well spring of innovation precisely because they're effectively large social networks that offer a rich resource pool to people with free time to tinker. Many OSS contributors are in university or work for corps with an interest in OSS like IBM, Novell, RedHat, etc. The OSS community is much much broader than the (incorrect) stereotype of a loner in his mom's basement coding because he's afraid to talk to girls.
It's a nuisance when Windows Explorer on an average Athlon is slightly more responsive than Linux and KDE on an AMD64 x2.
Let's be honest here, you're really comparing apples to oranges when you compare completely different hardware like that. KDE and Win overall performance *as a desktop on the same hardware* is similar. KDE certainly isn't perfect, particularly it's task bar, but I'd be hard pressed to say Windows is so much better. On a side note, for a desktop, I think dual CPU boxes simply aren't worth the fractional performance gain they offer vs. their added cost. However, from a geek-cred standpoint, they do offer bragging rights that single unit systems don't.
I'm with you man ... I smell a rat. I've worked with Linux for a long time and never EVER have I had the kind of experience they describe. If anything, Linux is EASIER to setup and maintain than desktop centric Win2K (no W2K3 exp yet). I recently setup a farm of 8 Linux servers from scratch in about 4 hours flat including Oracle installs (granted, I spent a good deal of time planning my installs beforehand). Smells to me like their IT shop was filled with MCSE button clickers who had a freakin' coronary when they saw a command line. If they'd like to give it another go, I'll gladly sign on for a 50% increase in my current salary on the condition that they:
- let me bring my documentation/process guy on board
- let me pick the hardware
- let me pick the distro
- let me architect the configs
- run SAP on Oracle (not adabas or mssql)
- give me a veto over any MCSE in IT lower than the CIO
- give me a direct line of communication to the COO/CEO
In return, I'll deliver a headcount reduction, a software license cost reduction, uptimes beyond their wildest dreams, performance they didn't know they could achieve, water tight security, and weekly reminders of just how incompetent their previous IT staff was.
Last time I checked, music pirates primarily used Windows only tools like Kazaa, most probably running on pirated copies of Windows. People who earn their livings using Linux, every single copy legitimately licensed I might add, are much MUCH less likely to participate in music and software piracy. Besides, if you're looking for anti-intellectual property types, look in the BSD camp. Last time I checked, my GPLd software did not grant me ownership of any of the itellectual property within the codebase.
Ummm, Japan, the EU, Australia, Russia, Canada, etc ... will be more than happy to export machinery and machine parts, integrated circuit, or soybeans if we don't. The US is China's 3rd largest trade partner after Japan and the EU, we don't have much pull to spare over there that somebody wouldn't be more than happy to take off our hands.
Don't forget to add the following:
/etc/init.d/rc3.d/S20DeleteThisScriptAndGoToJail
... happy happy joy joy!!! I don't pirate music, they can go after the people who share illegal tunes all they want, but don't ever point a finger at me unless you know I'm doing something wrong, anything else is an insult.
... and ... get this ... they don't shovel DRM ... they actually sell MP3s.
ln -s "drm for the masses script"
to keep yourself in compliance at each and every startup and shutdown
If they spent half the effort signing and encouraging artists with talent that they do trying to prevent people from putting songs on their iPods, they might actually be able to address the root cause of their falling sales. I hardly buy any new music because every friggen tune sounds the same and they're dull as hell. The few albums I do buy are pretty much all on Nettwerk since they don't focus on the same vanilla pudding crap the other majors put out
Ok, now that's scary. It'd be a great coup, but scary becuase the software would be that good. As a bonus, they get to lock the music market with iTunes. Only problem is AAPL's market cap is $44B, they'd need to reach about 20% above that to get the board to sign on and MS "only" has about $40B on hand. I doubt they'd be keen to try and raise $20B to finance the buyout.
TIvo uses a custom filesystem for video, it's been "figured out", by Tridge if I remember correctly, but it's certainly their own creation. The actual Tivo linux OS piece is on ext2 or hpfs, can't remember which exactly.
You can't just lock out anybody who patents software. Lock out those who enforce patents, threaten with patents, sit on patents, etc ... but simply owning a patent? A lot of these patents are used defensively. This new license would bar IBM, Novell, HP, etc from using software under the new license ... heck ... I think even RedHat has a few patents.
You forgot about the original Windows NT. I think the leap from Win 3.1 to WinNT was far more significant that Win 3.1 to Win 95. WinNT 3.1 came out in 1993. Granted WinNT 3.5 was much more usable, but WinNT 3.1 lay the groundwork for W2K, WXP, etc.
Ummm ... I fork out $160 a year (2x$80) to Novell for the SuSE Pro DVDs. Last time I checked, Novell was an American company providing American jobs. Linux is for people who need an operating system they can tune for highly specific tasks. Show me the full source code for OS X including drivers and Cocoa, not just the bare bones Darwin kernel, and we'll talk.
I don't know if this post is serious but it's probably because wget works standalone and provides a heck of a lot of functionality out of the box without coding anything. I'm not a big perl fan but I do think cpan is one impressive collection of work, I wish other prog langs would follow that example.
The problem is it's not really an improvement, it's a change in base functionality. It was logged as a bug a good while back but Sun nixed it because they didn't want to cater to a individual x clipboard uses. The clipboard under x-win is a kind of a mess, there's the "clipboard" and the "primary", to make a very long story short, different apps use them differently. Sun *ALWAYS* uses the "clipboard", which really messes up cut-and-paste with apps that use the "primary". This is issue is older than dirt, and it impacts many many apps. However, with a closed source java, you're really screwed. You need to run a thread to sync the clipboard and primary and that ain't pretty at all.
The awt library, in particular the x clipboard.
The binaries are only fonts, sounds, and icons ... you DO get all the source code. I'm friggen impressed now!
Yeah, I was just reading the license ... it's a pretty long and tedious read. Unfortunately, this doesn't really help me out at work. I'd like to customize the JRE for a production system. It would be nice if they allowed modifications for private commercial use. I do have to say, not to look a gift horse in the mouth, this is a certainly a step in the right direction for Sun. Kudos to them for doing this.
Can you compile a FULLY functional JRE (not just rt.jar) and javac? If not, then this is no better than the MS source code access program. Look, but don't touch or try to do anything with it. Judging by the "SCSL Binaries - needed to complete source build", I'm guessing no.
You'd only get the last site, not enough for any serious data gathering. You're right though, you don't NEED a cookie, a session id sent via URL works just as good -but- it doesn't have the big time benefit of persistence like a nasty evil cookie!
The e450 is the single biggest piece of crap that Sun *EVER* put out. I have 4 e450s that are part of the farm I work with and 2 of them like to puke on ECC errors at backup time. We've had the CPUs, mobos, memory changed ... same story. So far as I'm concerned that particular model has a fricken curse! Understand that I'm a huge fan of Sun hardware, with the single ominous glaring exception of the e450s. Let me assure you that the experience you've had with these DOES NOT reflect the quality of other Sun hardware.