Over the last 30 years, about 10-12 years the "next big thing" (killer app) comes out. We are about due, but we don't know what it will be yet.
Whether the next revival will be in the U.S. or not remains to be seen. There is a significant software industry in other countries (e.g. India) and it may be that the revival will not be U.S. based (although the big software players are still here).
I'm not so sure that it is the wrong direction, just that the next "killer app" has yet to be discovered. We are about due for a "killer app" by my reckoning, it happens about every 10 years or so. In the late 1970's PCs were invented and took off in the early 1980's, and in the late 1980's and early 1990's web browsers were developed and popularised during the early/mid 1990s. I'm not sure what is next, but the idea that people don't want to be separated from their data seems right to me. Now if we can only figure out what users want to do (always the hard part).
This is interesting, given the current department of Justice, it is possible that they might be able to overcome anti-monopoly enforcement here in the U.S.
They would get some useful intellectual property (Java) and would cement much of their influence over the web. The only fly in the ointment is that Microsoft is unlikely to be interested in the server hardware business.
I don't install that often once I pick a distro/version combination that meets my needs.
However, the real problem lies in keeping control of installed packages during upgrades and doing routine systems administration. Unfortunately, this is the place where most fracturing of linux distributions have occurred. I really wish that there was some tool that the distributions would support and standardize on (e.g. linuxconf, although any good tool would do). We use redhat 7.3 in my lab (mainly because of its popularity) but the admin tools leave a bit to be desired.
Read or execute may only be a problem because when we want to allow stack access with read/write permissions, we wind up granting execute/write permissions. I think OpenBSD is working on getting rid of having both write and execute permissions on the same memory region. However, Linux may not be able to follow suit due to the use of trampoline functions (as described here). How OpenBSD plans to get around this, I'm not sure, it is possible that I have a faulty memory regarding OpenBSD's avoidance of write/execute in the kernel.
It may not be the oldest, but it was a very popular terminal emulation/file transfer tool back in the day. I still think Kermit may be used by some sysadmins and folks on modem based connections (although kermit has a lot more features).
Actually I've taught large software development courses and there is a surprisingly large number of differences between independently developed code, even if it is based on the same algorithm in the same text book. Perhaps they are just better at hiding the plagiarism, but when people share code the similarity level becomes much higher and it is very clear.
I think this was a mistake. In a way, it makes sense, because the amount they settled for is less than what it would have cost to defend them. I'm sure this is the biggest reason they took the deal.
What they should have done is not bothered hiring attorneys at all, appeared pro se, and then taken it to a jury trial and turned it into a circus. Believe me, that scenario would have the RIAA shaking in their boots.
Appearing Pro Se is too dangerous, unless you are truly indigent or the potential consequences are small (e.g. small claims court) I would not recommend that. People who appear Pro Se frequently make grave procedural errors, "paint themselves into corners" and sometimes alienate judges (who don't have much patience with that kind of tactic).` Otherwise your comment makes complete sense. What I think would have been interesting would be for the University to have stepped in and donated the services of their legal teams to raise the bar to the RIAA and serve them notice that going after students without first asking the administrators to look into it is against currently accepted practices for this sort of situation. If that had happened, the most likely outcome would have been quietly shutting down the network without fines and some form of academic probation.
At school we had an LCD projector that has severe color skew after 2 1/2 years of use. I agree that this testing method looked sensible to me, the projector sees a lot of use in academic environments.
The universities could have rallied their own legal team on behalf of the students, making it more costly for the RIAA, or done some behind the scenes negotiation threatening to make the fight unpalatable (having a student sued for billions of dollars is bad press, they probably wanted to make it go away).
I haven't personally met Alan Cox, but he seems like a reasonable guy. I think he might have gone a bit overboard bout not releasing security related bug fix descriptions lately, but I'm not sure tht makes him unreasonable, just cautious
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I'm not so sure that it is the wrong direction, just that the next "killer app" has yet to be discovered. We are about due for a "killer app" by my reckoning, it happens about every 10 years or so. In the late 1970's PCs were invented and took off in the early 1980's, and in the late 1980's and early 1990's web browsers were developed and popularised during the early/mid 1990s. I'm not sure what is next, but the idea that people don't want to be separated from their data seems right to me. Now if we can only figure out what users want to do (always the hard part).
This is interesting, given the current department of Justice, it is possible that they might be able to overcome anti-monopoly enforcement here in the U.S. They would get some useful intellectual property (Java) and would cement much of their influence over the web. The only fly in the ointment is that Microsoft is unlikely to be interested in the server hardware business.
I can't imagine SUN workers staying in an EDS corporate culture, they are too different.
I don't install that often once I pick a distro/version combination that meets my needs. However, the real problem lies in keeping control of installed packages during upgrades and doing routine systems administration. Unfortunately, this is the place where most fracturing of linux distributions have occurred. I really wish that there was some tool that the distributions would support and standardize on (e.g. linuxconf, although any good tool would do). We use redhat 7.3 in my lab (mainly because of its popularity) but the admin tools leave a bit to be desired.
Read or execute may only be a problem because when we want to allow stack access with read/write permissions, we wind up granting execute/write permissions. I think OpenBSD is working on getting rid of having both write and execute permissions on the same memory region. However, Linux may not be able to follow suit due to the use of trampoline functions (as described here). How OpenBSD plans to get around this, I'm not sure, it is possible that I have a faulty memory regarding OpenBSD's avoidance of write/execute in the kernel.
It may not be the oldest, but it was a very popular terminal emulation/file transfer tool back in the day. I still think Kermit may be used by some sysadmins and folks on modem based connections (although kermit has a lot more features).
Actually I've taught large software development courses and there is a surprisingly large number of differences between independently developed code, even if it is based on the same algorithm in the same text book. Perhaps they are just better at hiding the plagiarism, but when people share code the similarity level becomes much higher and it is very clear.
Great self portrait, the likeness is uncanny.
At school we had an LCD projector that has severe color skew after 2 1/2 years of use. I agree that this testing method looked sensible to me, the projector sees a lot of use in academic environments.
The universities could have rallied their own legal team on behalf of the students, making it more costly for the RIAA, or done some behind the scenes negotiation threatening to make the fight unpalatable (having a student sued for billions of dollars is bad press, they probably wanted to make it go away).
I haven't personally met Alan Cox, but he seems like a reasonable guy. I think he might have gone a bit overboard bout not releasing security related bug fix descriptions lately, but I'm not sure tht makes him unreasonable, just cautious
As others have posted, this article is a verbatim copy of the Kuro5hin article. When I asked Hemos to respond I got modded down to from 0 as an AC to -1. I'm not trying to be mean to Hemos, but it is reasonable to want to know what happened and how this occurred. I again invite Hemos to respond.