Don't believe that. I'm into Presales Consulting & Marketing for a major IT service provider, mostly doing Linux projects (about 110% of my work;-). None of our customers so far have been saying they were particularly impressed by the SCO crusade, and they will continue evaluating Linux potentials for their IT. The value proposition weighs far heavier than SCO's FUD.
Exactly. And these 5% were just those known by Netcraft to be web servers, which is only a small part of Linux servers in data centers (which is about 22% according to IDC, for which W2003 has a long way to go).
Get a decent sound card with an SPDIF input (a CMI8738 card is available for like 40$, and even less on Ebay), plus an optical cable, and use your CD player's SPDIF output. The only down side is that you have to cut the tracks manually. Duh. What the heck is this discussion about at all?
My 14 year old Sony CD player has an optical SPDIF out already. It's time CD players with SPDIF outputs are banned as circumvention devices. Or DVD players with 5.1 optical outputs. Oh - wait a minute... then you've got to ban your customers' brains as well.;-)
So much for "effective" protection methods. No I don't advertise pirating music. But I don't let the music industry control what I do with CDs that I buy for real money, and if I want to rip them to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis for my personal use, then I do that. Full stop.
The whole point is that the RIAA attempts to protect sales channels from the last century. They don't understand that this is futile, and that they've got to think about something new. We usually don't use horse carts now, do we? And did the horse cart industry manage to ban cars?
The project proper will not be contracted out before 2004, folks, even if the press would like to use the hype for more. What exactly will be done, and what Office suite will be used isn't decided yet. So keep cool.
Having used Knoppix for a while as a swiss army knife for about every possible rescue operation, I think the GUI is totally irrelevant. Xterm is the killer GUI for sysadmins. It is the completeness and recentness of tools on the CD that counts. So if a Gnome fork makes sense is at least debatable. IMHO it would make more sense to join forces and maintain an always up to date swiss army knife.
Don't get me wrong. I have been around in the Open Source realm for 10+ years, and I think it's good to have multiple projects for the same problem (competition counts) but sometimes there's an exception to the rule IMHO.
That being a bit contradictory to things like the homeland security act, it sound as if some spammers were trying to lobby. Nothing can be better for spammers than that. Conspiracy theory? I think not.
In Germany, there will be automatic cameras above the motorway to catch those who aren't logged in.
In any case, the system is a Bad Thing [TM], mainly because transport companies will forward additional costs anyway, and the consumer will have to pay. It would have been fairer to simply implement another consumption tax, instead of implementing a vast (and partly non-functional) system and having to pay for the entire administrative overhead. IIRC, we are talking about $400M of overhead - money that will be withdrawn from the economic cycle, further weakening our economy. It is ridiculous.
Can I also get some of the stuff you've been smoking lately? Heck, before I'm going to use a phone running some M$ crap, hell's going to freeze. I want to actually use my phone.
Yes but as the original poster said they will need Oracle in the future. Oracle is not certified for Debian, as aren't many other commercial apps. So even if you get support for Debian, you don't get Oracle support on Debian. For an IT manager this is a clear showstopper.
So it all boils down to you have to use the Enterprise releases of Red Hat or SuSE. This kills the old point of "Linux is cheaper and saves you the license costs" in many ways, because even if the price of an Enterprise package isn't license costs formally, the customer needs to pay a price no matter how it's called. That worries me.
Having used and tested about every file system, I have been using XFS exclusively even for my customers. Ext2 is solid but not good for production machines which need to be able to reboot without a manual fsck (this is why we started discussing journaling file systems in 1997 after all). ReiserFS managed to shred some of my files on root filesystems. Ever had a file which you could not delete without the rm command going haywire? Since then, I've been using XFS even on the largest RAIDs without any problem.
But let's wait and see how fast and stable reiser4 is once it matures into the stock kernel.
This is an interesting speculation. Actually, the project proper will not be contracted out before 2004, and the fine concept hasn't even begun yet. So folks, calm down.
That depends a LOT on the application. If you want to run things like StarCD, for example, you need the MPI libraries and a low latency network, like Myrinet or SCI.
Nay. The logic is more analogous to sharing MP3s because their information content has been reduced compared to the original, like withthe thumbnail pics.
Ummm - if anyone needed just another reason for her or his personal anti-Americanism, this is one. World domination is okay as far as the penguin but not the USA.
The catalyzed reaction will produce water and CO2 - while the CO2 can simply be exhausted, what does the laptop do with the remaining water? The sum formula is:
2 CH3-OH + 3 O2 -> 2 CO2 + 4 H2O
i.e. 2 mols (64 grams) Methanol will produce 4 mols (72 grams) of water. Where does the water go? (And when will/. allow <sup></sup> tags?)
Does anyone know what the energy balance is from that reaction? There are some slides here but my chem classes were too long ago. In other words - considering the actual efficiency of these fuel cells, how much water will be produced for, say, an energy of 50 Wh, which is kinda typical for a modern LiIon battery?
This is an often stated but utterly misleading opinion. SuSE itself adheres to the GPL. You can do FTP installs for example, or download the evaluation ISO. The fact they don't offer ISO images of the entire distro comes from the variety of cloned (and sometimes strangely modified) Red Hat and other CDs for $1.99, for example. This is a supporter's nightmare. The YaST license, often blamed for non-GPL compliance, only forbids commercial redistribution. So there is nothing which prevents you from freely downloading and installing SuSE Linux. Some commercial or otherwise non-free parts (like XV) are missing but that is due to these components' licenses.
What you are requesting is avaible here, by the way.
What is not possible, though, is freely downloading any of the Enterprise" variants, be is SLES or SLED or any of the derived products. But then, nobody offers that. Nobody actually can offer that because that would jeopardize the entire business model of offering and supporting a stable distro over 3-5 years. TANSTAAFL, folks.
So don't spread false or misleading statements, OK?
The problem I have with the professor's story is that the historical part is very incomplete and inaccurate in some parts. How should I know if the legal part is any better (I have been around in the Linux community for the past 10+ years, but IANAL)? And what relevance do conclusions have, based on an inaccurate history plot ("the answer lies in the history and contracts")? Well, well.
Other than that, SCO did not prove by now who copied from whom. The best pieces of evidence may well be umpteens of kernel.org mirrors.
The point about GPL is that you can't get ripped off. If they rip you off, you can force them to release their derivative work also as GPL. If he chose the wrong license, he got what he deserved.
Well it's not that simple I suppose. If a company rips you off you can't simply "force them to release their derivative work". You need to go to court, and finance the case. This can be the single showstopper for individual developers.
As for the LRP, what the maintainer describes is nothing short of a declaration of bankruptcy as far as his interpretation of open source development is concerned. He hat got a number of points but IMHO he gives up way to early.
I am sure there will be others to jump in. The LRP mailing list has been quite busy lately. Or does some license prevent somebody else to jump in????
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Don't believe that. I'm into Presales Consulting & Marketing for a major IT service provider, mostly doing Linux projects (about 110% of my work ;-). None of our customers so far have been saying they were particularly impressed by the SCO crusade, and they will continue evaluating Linux potentials for their IT. The value proposition weighs far heavier than SCO's FUD.
Exactly. And these 5% were just those known by Netcraft to be web servers, which is only a small part of Linux servers in data centers (which is about 22% according to IDC, for which W2003 has a long way to go).
So keep cool folks.
Any BIOS with a USB console, yet? Start thinking first, folks.
Get a decent sound card with an SPDIF input (a CMI8738 card is available for like 40$, and even less on Ebay), plus an optical cable, and use your CD player's SPDIF output. The only down side is that you have to cut the tracks manually. Duh. What the heck is this discussion about at all?
;-)
My 14 year old Sony CD player has an optical SPDIF out already. It's time CD players with SPDIF outputs are banned as circumvention devices. Or DVD players with 5.1 optical outputs. Oh - wait a minute... then you've got to ban your customers' brains as well.
So much for "effective" protection methods. No I don't advertise pirating music. But I don't let the music industry control what I do with CDs that I buy for real money, and if I want to rip them to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis for my personal use, then I do that. Full stop.
The whole point is that the RIAA attempts to protect sales channels from the last century. They don't understand that this is futile, and that they've got to think about something new. We usually don't use horse carts now, do we? And did the horse cart industry manage to ban cars?
That would have been cool, and more data center like.
The project proper will not be contracted out before 2004, folks, even if the press would like to use the hype for more. What exactly will be done, and what Office suite will be used isn't decided yet. So keep cool.
... that this feature makes about as much sense as the pope's scrotum.
So you can only view the images in a browser using a plugin? C'mon dude. I am sure you heard about Imagemagick, The GIMP, and XV, for example.
I see the point you are trying to make but the point is moot...
Having used Knoppix for a while as a swiss army knife for about every possible rescue operation, I think the GUI is totally irrelevant. Xterm is the killer GUI for sysadmins. It is the completeness and recentness of tools on the CD that counts. So if a Gnome fork makes sense is at least debatable. IMHO it would make more sense to join forces and maintain an always up to date swiss army knife.
Don't get me wrong. I have been around in the Open Source realm for 10+ years, and I think it's good to have multiple projects for the same problem (competition counts) but sometimes there's an exception to the rule IMHO.
That being a bit contradictory to things like the homeland security act, it sound as if some spammers were trying to lobby. Nothing can be better for spammers than that. Conspiracy theory? I think not.
In Germany, there will be automatic cameras above the motorway to catch those who aren't logged in.
In any case, the system is a Bad Thing [TM], mainly because transport companies will forward additional costs anyway, and the consumer will have to pay. It would have been fairer to simply implement another consumption tax, instead of implementing a vast (and partly non-functional) system and having to pay for the entire administrative overhead. IIRC, we are talking about $400M of overhead - money that will be withdrawn from the economic cycle, further weakening our economy. It is ridiculous.
Can I also get some of the stuff you've been smoking lately? Heck, before I'm going to use a phone running some M$ crap, hell's going to freeze. I want to actually use my phone.
Oh yes - ever run a multi-GB database off USB keys? Good idea.
So it all boils down to you have to use the Enterprise releases of Red Hat or SuSE. This kills the old point of "Linux is cheaper and saves you the license costs" in many ways, because even if the price of an Enterprise package isn't license costs formally, the customer needs to pay a price no matter how it's called. That worries me.
Having used and tested about every file system, I have been using XFS exclusively even for my customers. Ext2 is solid but not good for production machines which need to be able to reboot without a manual fsck (this is why we started discussing journaling file systems in 1997 after all). ReiserFS managed to shred some of my files on root filesystems. Ever had a file which you could not delete without the rm command going haywire? Since then, I've been using XFS even on the largest RAIDs without any problem.
But let's wait and see how fast and stable reiser4 is once it matures into the stock kernel.
This is an interesting speculation. Actually, the project proper will not be contracted out before 2004, and the fine concept hasn't even begun yet. So folks, calm down.
That depends a LOT on the application. If you want to run things like StarCD, for example, you need the MPI libraries and a low latency network, like Myrinet or SCI.
No, it's time for the users to move on.
Nay. The logic is more analogous to sharing MP3s because their information content has been reduced compared to the original, like withthe thumbnail pics.
Ummm - if anyone needed just another reason for her or his personal anti-Americanism, this is one. World domination is okay as far as the penguin but not the USA.
translate.ru (Promt based) has often proved to produce better German/English translations than Systran-based fish.
2 CH3-OH + 3 O2 -> 2 CO2 + 4 H2O
i.e. 2 mols (64 grams) Methanol will produce 4 mols (72 grams) of water. Where does the water go? (And when will /. allow <sup></sup> tags?)
Does anyone know what the energy balance is from that reaction? There are some slides here but my chem classes were too long ago. In other words - considering the actual efficiency of these fuel cells, how much water will be produced for, say, an energy of 50 Wh, which is kinda typical for a modern LiIon battery?
What you are requesting is avaible here, by the way.
What is not possible, though, is freely downloading any of the Enterprise" variants, be is SLES or SLED or any of the derived products. But then, nobody offers that. Nobody actually can offer that because that would jeopardize the entire business model of offering and supporting a stable distro over 3-5 years. TANSTAAFL, folks.
So don't spread false or misleading statements, OK?
The problem I have with the professor's story is that the historical part is very incomplete and inaccurate in some parts. How should I know if the legal part is any better (I have been around in the Linux community for the past 10+ years, but IANAL)? And what relevance do conclusions have, based on an inaccurate history plot ("the answer lies in the history and contracts")? Well, well.
Other than that, SCO did not prove by now who copied from whom. The best pieces of evidence may well be umpteens of kernel.org mirrors.
Well it's not that simple I suppose. If a company rips you off you can't simply "force them to release their derivative work". You need to go to court, and finance the case. This can be the single showstopper for individual developers.
As for the LRP, what the maintainer describes is nothing short of a declaration of bankruptcy as far as his interpretation of open source development is concerned. He hat got a number of points but IMHO he gives up way to early.
I am sure there will be others to jump in. The LRP mailing list has been quite busy lately. Or does some license prevent somebody else to jump in????