From the article, "... SunnComm is taking a stand here because we believe that those who own property, whether physical or digital, have the ultimate authority over how their property is used. Owning copying technology is not an unconditional 'free pass' to replicate or distribute protected work." "
He just contradicted himself! Not even a sentence separating the two contradictory statements. If he believes that THE OWNER of a piece of property, in any form has the ultimate authority over how it is used, WHY DOES HE want to stop someone from using THEIR own CD copier in any manner they see fit? This guy is on the lunatic fringe...
Like many things favored around this public forum it just never got off the ground. Slashdot should consider registering the name "underdogs.org". That is just how I feel about all of this lately. M$FT won.
How can this possibly be considered "a step in the right direction"? The entire point of having a factory installed linux PC is the need for end-users to be able to get SUPPORT. A couple of CDs and then "You're on your own." is not even close to support. Why are these companies so afraid of providing support for a linux desktop? Can't they try it in a specific market and see how it goes? Most people who would want linux on a desktop would never use the support anyhow, but if you are a business looking at these machines as an alternative, you WANT support. This is more like jogging in place than moving forward.
The SEC would destroy every last one of them and bury them in criminal charges if they tried this... The end result would make Enron and Worldcom look like a warm-up round. Not that I would mind seeing SCO's CEO getting dragged off in handcuffs. I personally think they are just completely self-absorbed. Someone needs to take away their mirror.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice the changelogs have been missing from kernel.org's home page over the last few releases of 2.6.0-test. In case anyone else is interested:
Since when is eighty lines a major block of anything? They really believe eighty lines of code(some of them are even COMMENTS?) is worth a BILLION DOLLARS? Every programmer who has ever written a single line of code for work should be outraged at how poorly they are getting paid. Seriously, even if their claims are completely legitimate, the code thief probably did this without authorization anyhow. It's amazing they are making such a big deal out of something this silly.
You mean sort of like booting from a gentoo install CD, loading a few modules, and doing a dump of a device like/dev/hda to a network location using ssh, or just another device? Nah, Linux can't do that...;-)
cat/dev/hda >/dev/hdb
or
cat/dev/hda | ssh me@somebox.org "cat - > myHDA"
For restore, you basically just flip things around.
Interesting, are you talking about what is known as NIC load balancing? This is a really useful feature for HA work. I don't think I've ever used it on Linux, but I thought it was an option. Of course you could always use something like a virtual IP and achieve much the same thing to end users...
Sadly, police will likely be the first victims of this law. The state has much control over them and since it is their law, they will require their subordinates to lead by example. I really do fear the headlines to come...
This just in: New Jersey requires all gun owners to be fingerprinted.
Thanks for making me realize this. I don't believe anyone was required to be fingerprinted before if they didn't have a criminal record. Now you will have to be fingerprinted, as well as go to an authorized encoding center, to ensure that your gun is your gun. This is just unbelievable. Can I get a chip planted in my skull next?
A valiant member of the state police died today when his smart gun failed to discharge in a gun battle with a local street gang. Witnesses stated the officer had the jump on the villains but when his firearm failed to operate, the Evil Doers, using illegally modified firearms, opened fire and killed the officer.
--- No officer worth his weight will be caught "dead" using one of these things.
To find out they were really going after the "mom and pop" record stores, after Lars made such a big deal about MP3s being the killer of the "mom and pop" record stores. I wonder if they even know whose side they are on...
For some reason, I just don't buy into the whole "Terrorists want to bring down the internet." bullshit. I tend to think these types of morons would much prefer strapping a bomb to themselves. They would probably just look like a bunch of punk kids if they actually tried to bring down the internet. Afterall, it's all about image if you're a terrorist...
This is one area I can't agree with the linux crowd. Taking into account the limitations on an install of win2k server(and there are many), a properly configured win2k server, maintained by a proficient admin, can keep a windows box up for hundreds of days in typical situations. True, the linux box needs far less babysitting. However the overall stability of the OS on a win2k server install is very good. But don't get me started on small business server...;-) PS- Whoever decided to make a "back office" mail server(exchange) that hogs such massive resources, deserves an extra hole in their head.
You've gotta be kidding. There is a reason people are using linux in the server room. Did you happen to notice IBM SUPPORTS LINUX ON EVERY SERVER THEY SELL? Yeah, that's right, the world doesn't revolve around Sun. Last time I checked I wouldn't touch their stock with a ten foot pole. Check that out 15 year old. By the way, contrary to what you've been told, small to medium sized businesses make up the core of the world's economy and they aren't buying million dollar servers. MS didn't get rich catering to "the enterprise". They made their money on SMALL BUSINESS SERVER LICENSES. While I'm at it, where the fuck did you find a copy of WinXP server? THERE IS NO SUCH PRODUCT! If you are referring to.Net server, it isn't even out yet! You almost had something there talking about "use what your user base requires". Then you turned right around and assumed that everyone in the world requires Windows. I guess you haven't been paying attention to the growing trend of government agencies around the world turning to linux as a cheap yet more secure alternative to Windows. I guess you also didn't notice that linux happens to be fairly popular among the masses in countries whose people can't always afford a forced upgrade. And as far as TCO, the only reason you don't give a shit about rolling out 400,000 copies of WindowsXP on systems is because you have a volume license key that doesn't make you register your hardware on every machine you "Ghost". Yeah, people without that key have to REGISTER every last machine they install. By the way, what job market do you work in? I'll be damned if I can find a Linux Admin. job that pays 100K$...
"Learn some crap. Free trade has never screwed over any economy. Dont believe theoretical craps."
Free trade has nothing to do with the FREE MARKET. The free market is THE REASON AMD is in the financial situation they are currently. You can't control what the market will do to the value of your stock as a company and the market doesn't always, if ever, do things that make sense. Your average trader couldn't give a shit if AMD has superior technology to Intel. Intel has superior marketing. Why? Because they have MORE MONEY coming in from stock holders to invest in more marketing.
At the end of the day, that is all there is to how the system works. It only rewards the company with the highest earnings/dividends per share.(read: the company that can fuck their customers over the hardest without the consumer getting too upset and perhaps even make them feel good about their ass reaming) Who here doesn't understand why converting 300M in debt into securities was a bad move for AMD long term? It is because it gives them less control over market forces on their company. This is a very bad thing when you have a lot of INTC stockholders who would love to see AMD stock plummet(thus making Intel more valuable).
For all that is good about a free market system, if I ever had the chance to own a company, I would avoid being publicly held at all costs. You can't even be responsible to your employees when you have an obligation to share holders.
Where do you draw the line between what is necessary to protect "the people" without becoming too invasive on privacy? When Larry Ellison suggested that privacy was an antiquated idea, and that privacy does not exist anymore, someone should have asked him what he considered necessary privacy. Should Uncle Sam have information on how many times daily I use the commode? It might be helpful to determine whether I'm a terrorist if someone were to suggest that terrorists tend to use the restroom 1.4 times daily... Bottom line: Every inch you give on privacy issues is one more inch they take. If your average citizen cared about privacy, they would be sure to understand their chosen politicians' stance on individual privacy before they vote for them. Obviously, with the passage of bills like the USA Patriot Act, plenty of people just don't care and are willing to give up some privacy for supposed safety. And when the safety legislation doesn't come through as promised, they'll say it was because they didn't have enough information to protect us... Some in government will never be happy until they have a chip attached to your optic nerve.(cheesy sci-fi movie anyone?)
MacOS X file manager is terribly slow. Try resizing the window. On a 733MHz G4 w/512MB RAM and a GF3 TI 500, you could see the machine struggle to keep up with screen redraws as the window changes. Come to think of it, it feels a lot like Windows XP! Of course, don't take my word for it, I'm very much a minimalist and expect things to be responsive. I take great joy in eliminating the hundreds of items from a normal user's Windows "startup" folder, as well as deleting everything from the "run" registry key...
[From the naturetech website] "We see it reasonable that list pricing for 888P and 888P+ should be within the range of $6,000 to $9,000" said Sam Chen, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing," and have confidence that no other similar can compete with this price-performance in the market."
If this is to be considered reasonable, I think it is fairly safe to say I won't be owning one. While there are some features in there which appeal to me(built-in SCSI, but no mention of whether the HD is SCSI) it had better be every bit as fast as my desktop for that price. I do realize that one should expect to pay a premium for a portable SPARC laptop but that is in the range of "I want to see it before I buy it.".
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From the article, "... SunnComm is taking a stand here because we believe that those who own property, whether physical or digital, have the ultimate authority over how their property is used. Owning copying technology is not an unconditional 'free pass' to replicate or distribute protected work." "
He just contradicted himself! Not even a sentence separating the two contradictory statements. If he believes that THE OWNER of a piece of property, in any form has the ultimate authority over how it is used, WHY DOES HE want to stop someone from using THEIR own CD copier in any manner they see fit? This guy is on the lunatic fringe...
Like many things favored around this public forum it just never got off the ground. Slashdot should consider registering the name "underdogs.org". That is just how I feel about all of this lately. M$FT won.
How can this possibly be considered "a step in the right direction"? The entire point of having a factory installed linux PC is the need for end-users to be able to get SUPPORT. A couple of CDs and then "You're on your own." is not even close to support. Why are these companies so afraid of providing support for a linux desktop? Can't they try it in a specific market and see how it goes? Most people who would want linux on a desktop would never use the support anyhow, but if you are a business looking at these machines as an alternative, you WANT support. This is more like jogging in place than moving forward.
Try this:
h tm l
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/JennyChen.s
Redhat kernel 2.4.18-3 with SMP and EXT3...
Anyone who has tried this knows what I'm talking about...
The SEC would destroy every last one of them and bury them in criminal charges if they tried this... The end result would make Enron and Worldcom look like a warm-up round. Not that I would mind seeing SCO's CEO getting dragged off in handcuffs. I personally think they are just completely self-absorbed. Someone needs to take away their mirror.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice the changelogs have been missing from kernel.org's home page over the last few releases of 2.6.0-test. In case anyone else is interested:
5 932590109238&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=10
Sigh, if only my 54G wireless card had linux drivers...
Since when is eighty lines a major block of anything? They really believe eighty lines of code(some of them are even COMMENTS?) is worth a BILLION DOLLARS? Every programmer who has ever written a single line of code for work should be outraged at how poorly they are getting paid. Seriously, even if their claims are completely legitimate, the code thief probably did this without authorization anyhow. It's amazing they are making such a big deal out of something this silly.
If you want something to last, stone seems to be the way to go. George Washington stayed at this place!
http://www.stonehouseinn.com/
Seriously, it's in amazingly good condition for its age.
You mean sort of like booting from a gentoo install CD, loading a few modules, and doing a dump of a device like /dev/hda to a network location using ssh, or just another device? Nah, Linux can't do that... ;-)
/dev/hda > /dev/hdb
/dev/hda | ssh me@somebox.org "cat - > myHDA"
cat
or
cat
For restore, you basically just flip things around.
Interesting, are you talking about what is known as NIC load balancing? This is a really useful feature for HA work. I don't think I've ever used it on Linux, but I thought it was an option. Of course you could always use something like a virtual IP and achieve much the same thing to end users...
Sadly, police will likely be the first victims of this law. The state has much control over them and since it is their law, they will require their subordinates to lead by example. I really do fear the headlines to come...
This just in: New Jersey requires all gun owners to be fingerprinted.
Thanks for making me realize this. I don't believe anyone was required to be fingerprinted before if they didn't have a criminal record. Now you will have to be fingerprinted, as well as go to an authorized encoding center, to ensure that your gun is your gun. This is just unbelievable. Can I get a chip planted in my skull next?
A valiant member of the state police died today when his smart gun failed to discharge in a gun battle with a local street gang. Witnesses stated the officer had the jump on the villains but when his firearm failed to operate, the Evil Doers, using illegally modified firearms, opened fire and killed the officer.
---
No officer worth his weight will be caught "dead" using one of these things.
To find out they were really going after the "mom and pop" record stores, after Lars made such a big deal about MP3s being the killer of the "mom and pop" record stores. I wonder if they even know whose side they are on...
For some reason, I just don't buy into the whole "Terrorists want to bring down the internet." bullshit. I tend to think these types of morons would much prefer strapping a bomb to themselves. They would probably just look like a bunch of punk kids if they actually tried to bring down the internet. Afterall, it's all about image if you're a terrorist...
"May be worth flipping through."
c ke tman.ram
But not actually reading. For a sample of "Bill", check this out:
http://www.miserablemelodies.com/ram/shatner-ro
Oh my GOD! Wasn't that miserable?
Enjoy!
This is one area I can't agree with the linux crowd. Taking into account the limitations on an install of win2k server(and there are many), a properly configured win2k server, maintained by a proficient admin, can keep a windows box up for hundreds of days in typical situations. True, the linux box needs far less babysitting. However the overall stability of the OS on a win2k server install is very good. But don't get me started on small business server... ;-) PS- Whoever decided to make a "back office" mail server(exchange) that hogs such massive resources, deserves an extra hole in their head.
Even simpler: Use lynx or links.
You've gotta be kidding. There is a reason people are using linux in the server room. Did you happen to notice IBM SUPPORTS LINUX ON EVERY SERVER THEY SELL? Yeah, that's right, the world doesn't revolve around Sun. Last time I checked I wouldn't touch their stock with a ten foot pole. Check that out 15 year old. By the way, contrary to what you've been told, small to medium sized businesses make up the core of the world's economy and they aren't buying million dollar servers. MS didn't get rich catering to "the enterprise". They made their money on SMALL BUSINESS SERVER LICENSES. While I'm at it, where the fuck did you find a copy of WinXP server? THERE IS NO SUCH PRODUCT! If you are referring to .Net server, it isn't even out yet! You almost had something there talking about "use what your user base requires". Then you turned right around and assumed that everyone in the world requires Windows. I guess you haven't been paying attention to the growing trend of government agencies around the world turning to linux as a cheap yet more secure alternative to Windows. I guess you also didn't notice that linux happens to be fairly popular among the masses in countries whose people can't always afford a forced upgrade. And as far as TCO, the only reason you don't give a shit about rolling out 400,000 copies of WindowsXP on systems is because you have a volume license key that doesn't make you register your hardware on every machine you "Ghost". Yeah, people without that key have to REGISTER every last machine they install. By the way, what job market do you work in? I'll be damned if I can find a Linux Admin. job that pays 100K$...
Free trade has nothing to do with the FREE MARKET. The free market is THE REASON AMD is in the financial situation they are currently. You can't control what the market will do to the value of your stock as a company and the market doesn't always, if ever, do things that make sense. Your average trader couldn't give a shit if AMD has superior technology to Intel. Intel has superior marketing. Why? Because they have MORE MONEY coming in from stock holders to invest in more marketing.
At the end of the day, that is all there is to how the system works. It only rewards the company with the highest earnings/dividends per share.(read: the company that can fuck their customers over the hardest without the consumer getting too upset and perhaps even make them feel good about their ass reaming) Who here doesn't understand why converting 300M in debt into securities was a bad move for AMD long term? It is because it gives them less control over market forces on their company. This is a very bad thing when you have a lot of INTC stockholders who would love to see AMD stock plummet(thus making Intel more valuable).
For all that is good about a free market system, if I ever had the chance to own a company, I would avoid being publicly held at all costs. You can't even be responsible to your employees when you have an obligation to share holders.
Where do you draw the line between what is necessary to protect "the people" without becoming too invasive on privacy? When Larry Ellison suggested that privacy was an antiquated idea, and that privacy does not exist anymore, someone should have asked him what he considered necessary privacy. Should Uncle Sam have information on how many times daily I use the commode? It might be helpful to determine whether I'm a terrorist if someone were to suggest that terrorists tend to use the restroom 1.4 times daily... Bottom line: Every inch you give on privacy issues is one more inch they take. If your average citizen cared about privacy, they would be sure to understand their chosen politicians' stance on individual privacy before they vote for them. Obviously, with the passage of bills like the USA Patriot Act, plenty of people just don't care and are willing to give up some privacy for supposed safety. And when the safety legislation doesn't come through as promised, they'll say it was because they didn't have enough information to protect us... Some in government will never be happy until they have a chip attached to your optic nerve.(cheesy sci-fi movie anyone?)
MacOS X file manager is terribly slow. Try resizing the window. On a 733MHz G4 w/512MB RAM and a GF3 TI 500, you could see the machine struggle to keep up with screen redraws as the window changes. Come to think of it, it feels a lot like Windows XP! Of course, don't take my word for it, I'm very much a minimalist and expect things to be responsive. I take great joy in eliminating the hundreds of items from a normal user's Windows "startup" folder, as well as deleting everything from the "run" registry key...
[From the naturetech website]
"We see it reasonable that list pricing for 888P and 888P+ should be within the range of $6,000 to $9,000" said Sam Chen, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing," and have confidence that no other similar can compete with this price-performance in the market."
If this is to be considered reasonable, I think it is fairly safe to say I won't be owning one. While there are some features in there which appeal to me(built-in SCSI, but no mention of whether the HD is SCSI) it had better be every bit as fast as my desktop for that price. I do realize that one should expect to pay a premium for a portable SPARC laptop but that is in the range of "I want to see it before I buy it.".