Holy cow! I was looking at the SOHO animation linked from here and noticed that the last flare occurs after the story was posted on space.com and seems headed directly for us. This seems to confirm it.
Linux consolidation?!? How is this consolidation? That would involve mergers of companies doing Linux distributions. The closest thing we ever got to consolidation was UnitedLinux. With Caldera as a partner, we know how well that worked out.
No, this is just one software company buying another to enter a market. There is still the same number of fish in the pond. One just got a bit bigger than the other.
You mean, like asking a group of two or more geeks...
Whether Gnome is better than KDE?
Whether vi is better than emacs?
Whether perl is really a descendent of BASIC?
Which flavor/distribution of *nix is best?
Yeah, you get some rational answers there. Face it. Geeks are people. People are irrational. Therefore, geeks are irrational.
I don't believe that geeks are as irrational as the general populace, and certainly not as irrational as you make them out to be. While geeks may disagree, the fundamental difference between geeks and others is that they can hold the thought in their head that theirs is not the only way. Just look: vi & emacs are both installed on most systems. KDE, Gnome? Your choice! A geek would not legislate one distribution's use over another. They might, however, mandate standards compliance. Perl's lineage? Well, you've been hanging around the wrong Usenet groups...
But hopefully you get my drift. Yes, there are complicated issues. But at least geeks can come up with rational choices.
At least "fr" for France makes sense. How about the rest of Europe? It's amazing they have can use the internet at all with the screwed up TLDs they have:
.nl - Holland
.uk - Great Britain
.de - Germany
.es - Spain
What are those people thinking?
At least we in the US have sensible TLDs like.com,.net, and.org to organize our domains. Thank goodness we don't have to mess with no.am domain for America!
If everyone did it (for all copyrightable material) then we would know it for what it is -- a tax! And we would be supporting the humanities with federally mandated taxes paid to our corporate masters.
I, for one, welcome ou... just kidding. Up against the wall mother fudruckers!
This is especially true given the project's dependency on Python, the absolute simplicity of the Python bindings to CORBA and availability of a great Open Source CORBA implementation for Python, omniORBpy. The Python bindings to CORBA make writing CORBA-based applications a breeze.
Getting 5% interest on that $4, it'd be worth $10.61 by then end of the 20 year period. Averaging that out, the last watt costs you $.18 in 2023 money.
You cannot get 5% interest on a CD today. The best interest rate you can get today does not match the current rate of inflation for energy. Nor do you know that at any time in the future it will. In fact, you can be fairly certain that the rate of inflation will be quite close, on average, to the rate earned on a CD. So, there is no need to do this sort of calculation.
I have always thought that the GPL was at least a little unfair -- having to release ALL the code for any piece that includes a previously GPL'ed portion.
Sorry, but your argument is naive at best. One has an option to use copyleft code and follow the rules, or not use copyleft code and do as one wants. Certainly, in this case, there is a market for embedded operating systems and plenty of commercial and open source operating systems with which Linksys/Cisco could have kept proprietary their contributions, as they seem keen to do here.
What is unfair is taking code published in good faith under a very clear distribution license and then breaking that license.
During August, 67 per cent of all successful and verifiable digital attacks against on-line servers targeted Linux...
...
Microsoft Windows servers belonging to governments, however, were the most attacked (51.4 per cent) followed by Linux (14.3 per cent) in August.
So, how much of the "verifiable" part is due to the open nature of the Linux community compared to the more closed nature of proprietary OSes. The Linux community is engaged in actively reporting and fixing security issues as they arise. There is little incentive for this openness when dealing with Windows, for example. There is nothing anyone else but Microsoft can do about it.
It seems to me that the researcher's own experience is considerably different.
It's ironic that Microsoft provides that service for free, whereas Linux requires paying money. But it's good because at least here there's a clear way to make money off Free Software and keep programmers like me from going hungry.
Trust me, you pay for it. You just pay for it differently.
I second (third?, 20th?) this sentiment. I've owned a 8500-4 for about a year now with drives in a mirrored configuration. This is for a home system and has suffered numerous power outages and kernel-development related crashes (alpha release drivers and such) and I have never had a problem with recovering the data.
On the other end of the spectrum, however, is OS-level mirroring. I have only experience with Linux RAID-1, both that has never failed me either. I have run software RAID-1 for many years and have only (long ago) had problems where I had to "raidhotadd" a drive from a mirror set that was no longer recognized.
My recommendation, based on both performance and ease of use, is to use a 3ware controller. That coupled with Linux LVM makes disk management and resiliency a breeze.
My only disappointment with the 3ware controller is that one cannot make take a single disk with data on it, add a second disk and tell the controller to mirror the first disk to the second. With the 3ware, you will lose the data on both disks when making a mirror. (So says 3ware tech support.)
All 'solutions' to the spam problem that fail to take this 'demand' problem into account are, IMO, doomed to failure.
Court mandated rehab!
1. Patent SPAM Rehab business model
2. Convince administration to declare "War on SPAM"
3. Convince Congress to require SPAM Rehab(tm) (patent pending) for repeat users
4. Open SPAM Rehab Centers (including a few exclusive celebrity resorts)
5. Profit!
Somebody mod this damned humorless pedant into oblivion. And to those who know this person in meatspace: don't let them in to any more bars! We don't need this sort hanging around.
kernel-source-2.4.19.SuSE-106.nosrc.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.19.SuSE-133.nosrc.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.19.SuSE-152.nosrc.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.19.SuSE-82.nosrc.rpm ...
They have accepted and continue to accept [th GPL's] terms by having this Linux kernel source code on their FTP server.
Please look at that listing again, and if you don't believe the "nosrc" part, unpack the SRPMS and see for yourself.
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Holy cow! I was looking at the SOHO animation linked from here and noticed that the last flare occurs after the story was posted on space.com and seems headed directly for us. This seems to confirm it.
Linux consolidation?!? How is this consolidation? That would involve mergers of companies doing Linux distributions. The closest thing we ever got to consolidation was UnitedLinux. With Caldera as a partner, we know how well that worked out.
No, this is just one software company buying another to enter a market. There is still the same number of fish in the pond. One just got a bit bigger than the other.
<humor>Are you daft?</humor> This is the perfect target audience for advertisers. A fool and their money are soon parted. The more fools the better!!!
I puked my guts out on that stuff, man. No thanks!
The real Miguel de Icaza is miguel (7116).
Pretty high once the first drive-killing Windows-borne virus/worm is released, I bet.
But hopefully you get my drift. Yes, there are complicated issues. But at least geeks can come up with rational choices.
I thought the .am (in place of .us) would give it away. Tags or smileys take too much away from the reader.
.nl - Holland
.uk - Great Britain
.de - Germany
.es - Spain
What are those people thinking?
At least we in the US have sensible TLDs like .com, .net, and .org to organize our domains. Thank goodness we don't have to mess with no .am domain for America!
I, for one, welcome ou... just kidding. Up against the wall mother fudruckers!
This is especially true given the project's dependency on Python, the absolute simplicity of the Python bindings to CORBA and availability of a great Open Source CORBA implementation for Python, omniORBpy. The Python bindings to CORBA make writing CORBA-based applications a breeze.
You cannot get 5% interest on a CD today. The best interest rate you can get today does not match the current rate of inflation for energy. Nor do you know that at any time in the future it will. In fact, you can be fairly certain that the rate of inflation will be quite close, on average, to the rate earned on a CD. So, there is no need to do this sort of calculation.
I would guess it is because Microsoft has a modest edge over Linux International when it comes to funding research grants.
Bullsh*t: neandertal
A real pedant would demand it be spelled and pronounced Homo neanderthalensis.
Sorry, but your argument is naive at best. One has an option to use copyleft code and follow the rules, or not use copyleft code and do as one wants. Certainly, in this case, there is a market for embedded operating systems and plenty of commercial and open source operating systems with which Linksys/Cisco could have kept proprietary their contributions, as they seem keen to do here.
What is unfair is taking code published in good faith under a very clear distribution license and then breaking that license.
It seems to me that the researcher's own experience is considerably different.
Trust me, you pay for it. You just pay for it differently.
On the other end of the spectrum, however, is OS-level mirroring. I have only experience with Linux RAID-1, both that has never failed me either. I have run software RAID-1 for many years and have only (long ago) had problems where I had to "raidhotadd" a drive from a mirror set that was no longer recognized.
My recommendation, based on both performance and ease of use, is to use a 3ware controller. That coupled with Linux LVM makes disk management and resiliency a breeze.
My only disappointment with the 3ware controller is that one cannot make take a single disk with data on it, add a second disk and tell the controller to mirror the first disk to the second. With the 3ware, you will lose the data on both disks when making a mirror. (So says 3ware tech support.)
Right after the "double secret termination" phase!
Court mandated rehab!
1. Patent SPAM Rehab business model
2. Convince administration to declare "War on SPAM"
3. Convince Congress to require SPAM Rehab(tm) (patent pending) for repeat users
4. Open SPAM Rehab Centers (including a few exclusive celebrity resorts)
5. Profit!
You like pay taxes to fund the FTC and Justice department?!?
Oh, and for the humorless pedants: ;-)
kernel-source-2.4.19.SuSE-133.nosrc.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.19.SuSE-152.nosrc.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.19.SuSE-82.nosrc.rpm
They have accepted and continue to accept [th GPL's] terms by having this Linux kernel source code on their FTP server.
Please look at that listing again, and if you don't believe the "nosrc" part, unpack the SRPMS and see for yourself.