I don't think I could justify to my boss that we should pay triple our hardware costs per year for a support contract we're unlikely to use. I'd give a little out of my own pocket but I don't see a donate link either, and my home desktop runs Ubuntu for the moment.
They're really not doing too bad financially though.
Think about that thousands of independent projects that Red Hat bundles up and puts into their own RHEL product while giving those projects little or no compensation in return.
It's just how the GPL works. Everybody benefits from the work of everybody else.
It's worked out fine. Updates are released in a timely manner and such. The mailing lists are active and people appear get their problems solved (though we haven't posted to them). The only issue was that the GPG key used for signing the yum updates isn't automatically installed, but the faq mentions the one-line command needed to install it. Suggested donation is $12 per system per year.
RHEL3 in general is starting to feel a bit stale. For example, the samba packages are behind on many important bug fixes. Is this what you want?
Someone cloned your RFID tag, disabled yours with some sort of shock, went out and did a bunch of sex offending and stuff, then destroyed their copy of the tag?
If you get an email saying it's from ebay, and it sends you to a page asking you to enter in you social security number, credit card number, mother's maiden name, birthday, driver's license number, and bank account number, don't do it. I've already gotten 4 of those this week. It's hilarious. If anyone is dumb enough to fill out their lengthy form asking for their entire life story with all the important numbers, passwords, names, dates, and addresses, they deserve whatever happens.
Information markets as they exist today are an extremely inefficient means of distributing information while ensuring that copyright holders get paid. They're so innefficient that even open source methods are proving to be very competitive in many cases. Duplication costs are next to nothing, and can be taken on by consumers. We would be much better off if everyone had unrestricted access to all copyrighted information, if we could somehow figure out way to ensure fair compensation to authors.
Why should I pay $15 for a CD if I just want to listen to it once? Or pay the same to rent a movie whether I see it one time alone or 3 times with 10 of my best frients? Or what if I want to use a software product, but for the task I intend to use it for it's not worth the price? What happens is I just don't buy, and everyone loses.
I don't know of a solution to this problem, except that it's a very important problem to try to solve because current methods are failing miserably. An ideal solution would ensure that I could have unlimited use of whatever information I want, for such a fair price that I'd spend more than I do today.
Our nightly rsync backups consist of roughly 400,000 files. There were hourly in the past, and it was so transparent that we never noticed any problems or performance degredation, but we switched to nightly after two hard disks in the backup server died the same week.
Just make sure the backup server is properly configured (or very nearly so) I guess.
Our nightly rsync backups have saved us many times from user mistakes (oops, I deleted this 3 months ago and I need it now), but we haven't had a chance to test our backup server in the event of losing one of our main servers. We figure we could have it up and running in a couple hours or less, since it's configured very closely to our other servers, be we won't know until we need it.
It's much less network and hardware intensitive and with the right parameters, will keep past revisions of every changed file. Your hard disks will live longer.
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I guess sarcasm is a little too subtle at times. I've been running hoary for many months now. I can't stand stale packages.
I don't think I could justify to my boss that we should pay triple our hardware costs per year for a support contract we're unlikely to use. I'd give a little out of my own pocket but I don't see a donate link either, and my home desktop runs Ubuntu for the moment.
They're really not doing too bad financially though.
Debian releases when they're ready, and not a moment earlier.
On a closed LAN, reliability and data corruption bugs are the bigger concern.
Think about that thousands of independent projects that Red Hat bundles up and puts into their own RHEL product while giving those projects little or no compensation in return.
It's just how the GPL works. Everybody benefits from the work of everybody else.
It's worked out fine. Updates are released in a timely manner and such. The mailing lists are active and people appear get their problems solved (though we haven't posted to them). The only issue was that the GPG key used for signing the yum updates isn't automatically installed, but the faq mentions the one-line command needed to install it. Suggested donation is $12 per system per year.
RHEL3 in general is starting to feel a bit stale. For example, the samba packages are behind on many important bug fixes. Is this what you want?
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They've turned to the dark side.
"ANALyst" is sufficient.
When did you last pay for support?
but they will never keep, THEIR FREEDOM!!!" - Wallace
We had turned our office into one of those for a while. Imagine 100 frame 3D views of hundreds of products.
Someone cloned your RFID tag, disabled yours with some sort of shock, went out and did a bunch of sex offending and stuff, then destroyed their copy of the tag?
It's a good idea to recruit bloggers to advertise your product.
It's not a good idea to publicize that you're doing it.
Every GrokLaw article has a thread under it entitled "Corrections go here: So PJ can find them" or something of that nature.
Will these be bloated unoptimized debug builds? Or small optimized builds?
I hate to retread a previous comment, but according to the movie "Jurassic Park," it was replaced by UNIX systems.
http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
They're not my ideals. Half of us have barely any representation in our own government.
Don't buy it then...
Again, don't buy it...
I think you missed the part where I said, "What happens is I just don't buy, and everyone loses."
If you get an email saying it's from ebay, and it sends you to a page asking you to enter in you social security number, credit card number, mother's maiden name, birthday, driver's license number, and bank account number, don't do it. I've already gotten 4 of those this week. It's hilarious. If anyone is dumb enough to fill out their lengthy form asking for their entire life story with all the important numbers, passwords, names, dates, and addresses, they deserve whatever happens.
Information markets as they exist today are an extremely inefficient means of distributing information while ensuring that copyright holders get paid. They're so innefficient that even open source methods are proving to be very competitive in many cases. Duplication costs are next to nothing, and can be taken on by consumers. We would be much better off if everyone had unrestricted access to all copyrighted information, if we could somehow figure out way to ensure fair compensation to authors.
Why should I pay $15 for a CD if I just want to listen to it once? Or pay the same to rent a movie whether I see it one time alone or 3 times with 10 of my best frients? Or what if I want to use a software product, but for the task I intend to use it for it's not worth the price? What happens is I just don't buy, and everyone loses.
I don't know of a solution to this problem, except that it's a very important problem to try to solve because current methods are failing miserably. An ideal solution would ensure that I could have unlimited use of whatever information I want, for such a fair price that I'd spend more than I do today.
And Netcraft confirms it!
Our nightly rsync backups consist of roughly 400,000 files. There were hourly in the past, and it was so transparent that we never noticed any problems or performance degredation, but we switched to nightly after two hard disks in the backup server died the same week.
They don't provide a CVS history, just the modified files where nobody can understand how and when things have changed
diff is your friend.
Just make sure the backup server is properly configured (or very nearly so) I guess.
Our nightly rsync backups have saved us many times from user mistakes (oops, I deleted this 3 months ago and I need it now), but we haven't had a chance to test our backup server in the event of losing one of our main servers. We figure we could have it up and running in a couple hours or less, since it's configured very closely to our other servers, be we won't know until we need it.
It's much less network and hardware intensitive and with the right parameters, will keep past revisions of every changed file. Your hard disks will live longer.