Just as long as SCO goes under in the end, does it really matter?
I wish Microsoft would just cut to the chase and buy SCO so they could take over the lawsuit. I guess it's better to sue by proxy to avoid anti-trust issues, but I think we're all reasonably aware of who is really behind this fiasco. Follow the money trail.
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I usally use me@me.com with a zip code of 12345. since it is 5 digits and windows programers never actaully check data being entered it's all good.
You should use someone@example.com instead. Whoever gets stuck with me.com is going to be pissed at all the spam they get.:-)
Woops, not Opera, I mean Firefox. Sheesh. Now that I think of it maybe I should test Opera. It's probably just a fluke that the Gecko engine renders it perfectly... hmm.
Perhaps PNG support in IE will have been improved then; this is good news for web designers.
IE's transparency support for PNGs is definitely screwed up. I made a transparent PNG and it looks absolutely beautiful in Mozilla, Safari, Opera, Camino, etc. Load it in IE and it's a light gray background... Damn, can't they do anything right? Now I've got to "fix" it since 90% of the people use IE so they'll think it's broke.
Solaris 8 used to be free. Solaris 9 has some funky license (unless they've changed it again) where it's free for single processors and then you pay per processor slot capable on multiple processor capable systems. I.e. a dual CPU capable system with one processor still pays dual CPU prices, a 64 CPU capable Starfire pays the 64 CPU price even if you have 12 CPUs, etc. Here I was advocating going back to Sun because of Red Hat's incredibly high Linux pricing for servers.. I guess we might as well stay with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the cheaper Intel hardware. Sun has you coming and going with their overpriced hardware and now charging high prices for the OS.
Linux is starting to get serious government atterion that it deserves here in the US.
This is horrible news! With Sweden claiming the world's richest business man owning IKEA here , Bill Gates needs all the support he can get to jump back on top. If we all work together and pledge to purchase a copy of Windows XP Pro and Office 2003 Pro we can make the dream happen... we can put Bill back on top and win one for America!! Down with crappy swedish furniture manufacturers and up with global monopolistic software giants! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
It actually seems quite fair to pay an employee overtime if they work more than 8 hours in a day.
What is this 8 hour workday I keep hearing people talk about?
- Salaried, exempt.:-(
Re:Can't recommend RHAT to customers these days...
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Fedora is a successor to RHL line and just as stable, RHL was also feeding to RHEL, did you consider it unstable beta because of that?
Yes, yes I did. RHL was unstable garbage. RHL 9 was the worst of the releases I have ever encountered. Various things broke because of their new threading library (which they seem to have fixed in RHEL 3.0 thank god). The DB4 packages were broken, pam_radius_auth wouldn't work without segfaulting under the new libraries, etc. RH 8 and below, Solaris, and every other Linux distribution I tried were all fine with the stuff I'm bitching about.
It must be morbidly entertaining to run something like Ad-aware on some machines after a couple years of accumulated crud.
I've had to do that a few times on my niece's Windows98 system before she went off to college (god only knows what shit she's got on her new system there), but she went 3 years with no virus scanner and no spyware checking. She was always complaining about how slow her computer was so I popped on over and removed the 250+ spyware components installed on her computer, along with 7 viruses. After that her computer ran "like brand new". Duh.
There are alternatives to Nvidia. No one is forcing you to use Nvidia hardware.
That sounds like the excuse people get when they protest about Bush taking away their freedoms. Nobody's forcing you to live here you know, you could move to Canada hippie. The fact of the matter is, in the desktop graphics world Nvidia and ATI cards are the only viable options. The rest of the stuff out there is crap hardware-wise. Unfortunately both of these platforms are encumbered with binary-only drivers.
Sure, there was a day when Matrox ruled the roost, but the days of 2D-only use are long gone by most people. Anyone hoping to play games will need to purchase an Nvidia or ATI card. Matrox is only good for spreadsheets, word processing, and CAD.
If this was the first attempt of breaking this record, I reckon it will be a matter of weeks or even days that this is achieved.
For what purpose? Just because a bunch of guys brought their machines together for a few hours and wired them up into a cluster doesn't mean it's a supercomputer. How long are they going to number crunch? Until most of the nodes have to go home for dinner? It'd make more sense to do a distributed.net or SETI@Home style supercomputer over the Internet. Besides, there's nothing special about a supercomputer... anybody with enough money could build one out of off-the-shelf parts. If I went and bought 10,000 Mac G5's I'd have the fastest supercomputer in the world, but for what purpose?
Re:Can't recommend RHAT to customers these days...
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Red Hat is now three separate moving targets:
fedora
rhel
rh9
Not really. RH9 is irrelevent next month and I think it's been made pretty obvious that Fedora is the unstable beta development branch that feeds into RHEL and you use it at your own risk with zero support. Red Hat's only product is Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you're a home user then they're pretty much telling you to go use some other distribution. Mandrake would be the most logical choice for former home Red Hat users, but they should give Debian a try as well.
With all that in mind, our group decided to stick with Red Hat and purchased the 20 WS licenses and a couple ES licenses for our machines. I can't say I'm particularly impressed with RHEL so far. The lack of packages that used to even be in RH 9 is amazing. They don't even include xcdroast anymore so I'm kind of at a loss as to how I'm going to burn CDs until I can get it to compile from source (I'm having trouble with that for some reason). I also love how they leave out several packages like dhcp and openldap-servers from WS and expect you to buy the much much more expensive ES brand to get them. Not a big deal since you can still just download the server packages you need from the ES channel, although it probably won't auto-update through RHN. All-in-all, an incredibly lackluster product. If we didn't insist on "commercial support" I'd have just went with Debian.
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I notified their postmaster, but honestly who checks their postmaster account? Not Red Hat apparently as my work mail had more notices today.
How many times do you have to be kicked in the nuts before you buy a cup? Just filter them to the trash.
what would the 100 americans be doing that needed to have their 'happiness controlled'?
Happy Golden Joy Fun Election Day 2004!! Vote for Bush san to beat evil Democrats to reveal the secret power!! What is sekret power? Use happiness controller find out!
Breeding is irresponsible. We're overpopulated, we need to cut down.
The United States isn't overpopulated. We have plenty of food and land to feed our people. Tell the Africans, Indians, and Chinese to quit breeding like rabbits. Europe and America are doing just fine population-wise.
1. Go here.
2. After you come back, click on this link: Launch Now!.
That's better than applets?? Camino downloaded some.jnlp file that I had to manually execute and it started Java and executed something and started downloading jar files from that web site. Then an app window popped up warning me about how your java app is trying to gain unrestricted access to my computer and network! Of course I clicked exit since this is what the warning recommends. How about everyone stop writing in Java period and just use perl or php? Java sucks.
Yeah, this'll be *real* useful. A database with entries that become obsolete after eight hours. "There's a Linux kernel vulnerability, and it...aw, darn.";-)
Why would the data become obsolete after 8 hours? Not everyone runs out and installs the latest version of something for the hell of it you know.
Another April Fools article. We all know that Linux is not real. You can't tax something that does not exist. Grow up people.
In other news, SCO has announced their lawsuit against IBM and Linux users was all an elaborate April Fools joke. SCO CEO Darl McBride was quoted as saying "0mfG!!! lol0lol! st00p1d l4m3rz n00bz we r 0n1y fucking w/u!!!".
I used to work at a small local engineering company and they would say "We need a reporting program that takes the data from this Unix box and prints out nice reports in colour with plenty of options so we can select what prints." etc.
These days you don't need to write custom apps to do that. You just import your data into an Excel spreadsheet and hack away at it. I guess "real" programmers don't believe this is the proper way to process data, but people are doing it in the real world all the time now.
Because you know that a floppy drive adds hundreds to the manufacturing cost.
Floppy disks are irrelevent these days with USB flash keyfobs and under $25 CD-RW drives. A modern computer doesn't need a floppy disk drive unless you need to make a bootdisk for an ancient system that can't boot off a CD.
This sounds great at first glance but my gut feeling is that most of these units sold will be reformatted with Windows. That's the ugly truth methinks.
Why would you buy a Walmart PC with Linux on it for $300 and then go out and buy Windows for $150+ when you could just go buy a Dell with Windows XP preloaded on it for under $400? Unless you're planning on a five-finger discount on the Windows license it'd be more to buy a Linux box and put a non-OEM copy of Windows on it.
wouldn't it be lovely if there was GPL code illicitly stashed away in Unixware... now *that* would be satisfying;)
Not really. The GPL is invalid and illegal remember? SCO can use whatever code they want if it's distributed under the GPL as if it is public domain... according to SCO.
Few bittorrent sites, supranova.org, torrentz.com, and an irc.irchighway.net network later and I've dropped completely off their "This group watches TV" radar, when the fact is I have over half a terabyte of TV.
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I wish Microsoft would just cut to the chase and buy SCO so they could take over the lawsuit. I guess it's better to sue by proxy to avoid anti-trust issues, but I think we're all reasonably aware of who is really behind this fiasco. Follow the money trail.
You should use someone@example.com instead. Whoever gets stuck with me.com is going to be pissed at all the spam they get. :-)
Thanks, I'll give that a shot. I'm not a web developer, it's just for a logo on a commercial appliance. :-)
Woops, not Opera, I mean Firefox. Sheesh. Now that I think of it maybe I should test Opera. It's probably just a fluke that the Gecko engine renders it perfectly... hmm.
IE's transparency support for PNGs is definitely screwed up. I made a transparent PNG and it looks absolutely beautiful in Mozilla, Safari, Opera, Camino, etc. Load it in IE and it's a light gray background... Damn, can't they do anything right? Now I've got to "fix" it since 90% of the people use IE so they'll think it's broke.
Solaris 8 used to be free. Solaris 9 has some funky license (unless they've changed it again) where it's free for single processors and then you pay per processor slot capable on multiple processor capable systems. I.e. a dual CPU capable system with one processor still pays dual CPU prices, a 64 CPU capable Starfire pays the 64 CPU price even if you have 12 CPUs, etc. Here I was advocating going back to Sun because of Red Hat's incredibly high Linux pricing for servers.. I guess we might as well stay with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the cheaper Intel hardware. Sun has you coming and going with their overpriced hardware and now charging high prices for the OS.
This is horrible news! With Sweden claiming the world's richest business man owning IKEA here , Bill Gates needs all the support he can get to jump back on top. If we all work together and pledge to purchase a copy of Windows XP Pro and Office 2003 Pro we can make the dream happen... we can put Bill back on top and win one for America!! Down with crappy swedish furniture manufacturers and up with global monopolistic software giants! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
What is this 8 hour workday I keep hearing people talk about? - Salaried, exempt. :-(
Yes, yes I did. RHL was unstable garbage. RHL 9 was the worst of the releases I have ever encountered. Various things broke because of their new threading library (which they seem to have fixed in RHEL 3.0 thank god). The DB4 packages were broken, pam_radius_auth wouldn't work without segfaulting under the new libraries, etc. RH 8 and below, Solaris, and every other Linux distribution I tried were all fine with the stuff I'm bitching about.
I've had to do that a few times on my niece's Windows98 system before she went off to college (god only knows what shit she's got on her new system there), but she went 3 years with no virus scanner and no spyware checking. She was always complaining about how slow her computer was so I popped on over and removed the 250+ spyware components installed on her computer, along with 7 viruses. After that her computer ran "like brand new". Duh.
That sounds like the excuse people get when they protest about Bush taking away their freedoms. Nobody's forcing you to live here you know, you could move to Canada hippie. The fact of the matter is, in the desktop graphics world Nvidia and ATI cards are the only viable options. The rest of the stuff out there is crap hardware-wise. Unfortunately both of these platforms are encumbered with binary-only drivers.
Sure, there was a day when Matrox ruled the roost, but the days of 2D-only use are long gone by most people. Anyone hoping to play games will need to purchase an Nvidia or ATI card. Matrox is only good for spreadsheets, word processing, and CAD.
For what purpose? Just because a bunch of guys brought their machines together for a few hours and wired them up into a cluster doesn't mean it's a supercomputer. How long are they going to number crunch? Until most of the nodes have to go home for dinner? It'd make more sense to do a distributed.net or SETI@Home style supercomputer over the Internet. Besides, there's nothing special about a supercomputer... anybody with enough money could build one out of off-the-shelf parts. If I went and bought 10,000 Mac G5's I'd have the fastest supercomputer in the world, but for what purpose?
rhel
rh9
Not really. RH9 is irrelevent next month and I think it's been made pretty obvious that Fedora is the unstable beta development branch that feeds into RHEL and you use it at your own risk with zero support. Red Hat's only product is Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you're a home user then they're pretty much telling you to go use some other distribution. Mandrake would be the most logical choice for former home Red Hat users, but they should give Debian a try as well.
With all that in mind, our group decided to stick with Red Hat and purchased the 20 WS licenses and a couple ES licenses for our machines. I can't say I'm particularly impressed with RHEL so far. The lack of packages that used to even be in RH 9 is amazing. They don't even include xcdroast anymore so I'm kind of at a loss as to how I'm going to burn CDs until I can get it to compile from source (I'm having trouble with that for some reason). I also love how they leave out several packages like dhcp and openldap-servers from WS and expect you to buy the much much more expensive ES brand to get them. Not a big deal since you can still just download the server packages you need from the ES channel, although it probably won't auto-update through RHN. All-in-all, an incredibly lackluster product. If we didn't insist on "commercial support" I'd have just went with Debian.
How many times do you have to be kicked in the nuts before you buy a cup? Just filter them to the trash.
Happy Golden Joy Fun Election Day 2004!! Vote for Bush san to beat evil Democrats to reveal the secret power!! What is sekret power? Use happiness controller find out!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of search engine nodes.
(hmm, this is probably the one time a Beowulf post isn't a lame cliche).
The United States isn't overpopulated. We have plenty of food and land to feed our people. Tell the Africans, Indians, and Chinese to quit breeding like rabbits. Europe and America are doing just fine population-wise.
That's better than applets?? Camino downloaded some .jnlp file that I had to manually execute and it started Java and executed something and started downloading jar files from that web site. Then an app window popped up warning me about how your java app is trying to gain unrestricted access to my computer and network! Of course I clicked exit since this is what the warning recommends. How about everyone stop writing in Java period and just use perl or php? Java sucks.
Why would the data become obsolete after 8 hours? Not everyone runs out and installs the latest version of something for the hell of it you know.
In other news, SCO has announced their lawsuit against IBM and Linux users was all an elaborate April Fools joke. SCO CEO Darl McBride was quoted as saying "0mfG!!! lol0lol! st00p1d l4m3rz n00bz we r 0n1y fucking w/u!!!".
These days you don't need to write custom apps to do that. You just import your data into an Excel spreadsheet and hack away at it. I guess "real" programmers don't believe this is the proper way to process data, but people are doing it in the real world all the time now.
Floppy disks are irrelevent these days with USB flash keyfobs and under $25 CD-RW drives. A modern computer doesn't need a floppy disk drive unless you need to make a bootdisk for an ancient system that can't boot off a CD.
Why would you buy a Walmart PC with Linux on it for $300 and then go out and buy Windows for $150+ when you could just go buy a Dell with Windows XP preloaded on it for under $400? Unless you're planning on a five-finger discount on the Windows license it'd be more to buy a Linux box and put a non-OEM copy of Windows on it.
Not really. The GPL is invalid and illegal remember? SCO can use whatever code they want if it's distributed under the GPL as if it is public domain... according to SCO.
So basically you're pirating TV?