Contributing back to Open Source doesn't always mean "in code". In fact, most of the open-source coding I've done were of the local customizations variety -- nothing that you'd really want to release anyhow:)
But "contributing back" can simply mean that when you hang out on various mailing lists for packages you use, you help out once and awhile. Have hints on performance tuning? Post a wiki page. Deploy some infrastructure you're proud of? Give a talk on it at a conference.
Many of these sorts of things don't fall under what most companies deem their "competitive advantage" -- and not to mention they get you contacts that can help you out of a bind when YOU need it, and are great recruiting tools...
OpenID is a "standard".
SAML is a "standard".
Everyone seems to implement them slightly differently -- but at least folks are publishing how they're doing it, which is more than I can say of how things were 5 years ago.
Oh, come on. iSCSI...
ATAoE is one of those really horrible ideas that should have never made it out of some geek's basement when there was a standards-track solution already available.
I'd take them apart and use the magnets for an art project -- and use money you've saved from NOT running all of those ancient drives and buy a few modern 1TB ones.
One can't assume intent from the action. And its their interface, they can do whatever they want with it -- be it maliciously, humorously, or for some other reason only known to Steve Job's pet chinchilla.
Now, if you really want to do something -- lobby Apple for a *supported* interface to the device. If they say no, that's what you complain about.;)
...After years of migrating most of our datacenter operations from Solaris & IRIX environment to Linux, we have pretty much migrated everything back to Solaris. Reasons?
Cost - Solaris licenses are free. Support is good, and also relatively inexpensive. Cheaper than RedHat Enterprise.
Stability - We're talking interface stability, backwards compatability, etc.
Storage - Linux's storage subsystems are still a joke. A hodgepodge of filesystems, and don't even get started on enterprise storage technologies such as fibre channel & multipathing, where the linux solution requires a spool of duct tape, a pack of chewing gum, and some string.
Compatibility - Solarisx86 has had no problems running on any enterprise-grade server hardware (Dell, IBM, Sun). Many complain about Solaris not having the "driver base" of Linux -- but the question is, would you really want to run that hardware in your enterprise?
Quantum teleportation and entanglement have been proven bunches of times. It's the basis for quantum computing, too -- I doubt folks would be wasting their time on THAT if it wasn't valid.
Solaris having ZFS "soon"? Looks like an old link, as it's been part of Solaris 10 since last summer... My servers running it in production would be sad to hear if it wasn't...
With the advent of the spam bot networks, blacklists aren't as useful for spam fighting as they used to be. Greylisting + content analysis is currently the way to go; though Spamhaus still does a decent job, but not Spamcop due to their "unsolicited bounces" thing...
I mean really. I've always thought that Debian was a tad on the snobby side with the whole GPL thing, to the point of being rather unworkable. You can have software freedom, as long as it's a certain kind of freedom. All other forms of freedom are hereby determined not free by the arbiters of free! (doesn't that seem rather silly? Thought so.)
Good for Jorg to stick to his guns. He can choose whatever license he wants to release his code under.
No, that's bullpoop. The police could have come up with the subpoena in minutes if there was sufficient cause.
The woman in question is NOT in the position to make the policy decision that the information she could provide would be material in the case. That's a question for a judge.
Being NOT an OSS/FSS zealot, I can't say I feel at all "guilty" running OSX on my powerbook. I wouldn't run anything but. But then again, I'm also not one that that would want to run linux on his desktop/laptop.
Verbose, XML is. However, as storage & network bandwidth are have become very "inexpensive" commodities, the issue of bulk gets put on the sidelines, in comparison to the complexity of parsing more terse syntax. ASN.1 being an example of such an "interoperable" and "terse" syntax, which is complex enough that nobody tends to parse it right.
Those who are actually interested in using this stuff instead of just griping about things they don't understand should take a look at OpenSAML, a Java & C++ library for creating & grokking SAML assertions, at http://www.opensaml.org/
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Contributing back to Open Source doesn't always mean "in code". In fact, most of the open-source coding I've done were of the local customizations variety -- nothing that you'd really want to release anyhow :)
But "contributing back" can simply mean that when you hang out on various mailing lists for packages you use, you help out once and awhile. Have hints on performance tuning? Post a wiki page. Deploy some infrastructure you're proud of? Give a talk on it at a conference.
Many of these sorts of things don't fall under what most companies deem their "competitive advantage" -- and not to mention they get you contacts that can help you out of a bind when YOU need it, and are great recruiting tools...
OpenID is a "standard". SAML is a "standard". Everyone seems to implement them slightly differently -- but at least folks are publishing how they're doing it, which is more than I can say of how things were 5 years ago.
Oh, come on. iSCSI... ATAoE is one of those really horrible ideas that should have never made it out of some geek's basement when there was a standards-track solution already available. I'd take them apart and use the magnets for an art project -- and use money you've saved from NOT running all of those ancient drives and buy a few modern 1TB ones.
Those players contain a new feature which keeps you from playing movies that suck.
One can't assume intent from the action. And its their interface, they can do whatever they want with it -- be it maliciously, humorously, or for some other reason only known to Steve Job's pet chinchilla.
Now, if you really want to do something -- lobby Apple for a *supported* interface to the device. If they say no, that's what you complain about.
Application is using a non-public interface to access functionality... Vendor changes said non-public interface... Community is SHOCKED! WTF?
...After years of migrating most of our datacenter operations from Solaris & IRIX environment to Linux, we have pretty much migrated everything back to Solaris. Reasons? Cost - Solaris licenses are free. Support is good, and also relatively inexpensive. Cheaper than RedHat Enterprise. Stability - We're talking interface stability, backwards compatability, etc. Storage - Linux's storage subsystems are still a joke. A hodgepodge of filesystems, and don't even get started on enterprise storage technologies such as fibre channel & multipathing, where the linux solution requires a spool of duct tape, a pack of chewing gum, and some string. Compatibility - Solarisx86 has had no problems running on any enterprise-grade server hardware (Dell, IBM, Sun). Many complain about Solaris not having the "driver base" of Linux -- but the question is, would you really want to run that hardware in your enterprise?
Quantum teleportation and entanglement have been proven bunches of times. It's the basis for quantum computing, too -- I doubt folks would be wasting their time on THAT if it wasn't valid.
Solaris having ZFS "soon"? Looks like an old link, as it's been part of Solaris 10 since last summer... My servers running it in production would be sad to hear if it wasn't...
One of our HVAC workers thought the red button, with the plastic cover that says "EPO", was a light switch ;)
With the advent of the spam bot networks, blacklists aren't as useful for spam fighting as they used to be. Greylisting + content analysis is currently the way to go; though Spamhaus still does a decent job, but not Spamcop due to their "unsolicited bounces" thing...
I mean really. I've always thought that Debian was a tad on the snobby side with the whole GPL thing, to the point of being rather unworkable. You can have software freedom, as long as it's a certain kind of freedom. All other forms of freedom are hereby determined not free by the arbiters of free! (doesn't that seem rather silly? Thought so.)
Good for Jorg to stick to his guns. He can choose whatever license he wants to release his code under.
No, that's bullpoop. The police could have come up with the subpoena in minutes if there was sufficient cause. The woman in question is NOT in the position to make the policy decision that the information she could provide would be material in the case. That's a question for a judge.
I'll just stick with my OSX "it just works" edition.
People have been goatse & tubgirlin' folks based on their referrers for years ;)
...and Bobcat Golthwait as that lovable, but often misunderstood, freshman cadet.
Am I the only one who thinks something along the lines of the ever popular Police Academy films would be an appropriate "wrap up" to the franchise?
Being NOT an OSS/FSS zealot, I can't say I feel at all "guilty" running OSX on my powerbook. I wouldn't run anything but. But then again, I'm also not one that that would want to run linux on his desktop/laptop.
Verbose, XML is. However, as storage & network bandwidth are have become very "inexpensive" commodities, the issue of bulk gets put on the sidelines, in comparison to the complexity of parsing more terse syntax. ASN.1 being an example of such an "interoperable" and "terse" syntax, which is complex enough that nobody tends to parse it right.
Those who are actually interested in using this stuff instead of just griping about things they don't understand should take a look at OpenSAML, a Java & C++ library for creating & grokking SAML assertions, at http://www.opensaml.org/