Sorry to say (and this is not a flame) but the name Novell brings up connotations of losses in the server OS market, losses in the office suite market, etc. Too bad MySQL will now be associated with it.
I guess that depends on your view of MySQL...
I, for one, do not see this as a problem. Yeah the database is not too bad, but the lack of a clear license is a huge draw back. No thinks, I'll take the truly free alternative.
Umm, yes? Don't they (claim) to have an insurance policy that covers things like this? Sure, there is a $250 limit, but it is something. You also need to submit the claim in writing within 90 days.
I submitted a claim, and Ebay got email from the Jerk^H^H^H^ seller saying he was going to refund my money. They closed the claim WITH OUT notification to me! Bastards! They are turning a blind eye to the problem.
My network failed over to my other provider. At about 11:30 EST the net started to act funkey. Since I have turned them off things are back to normal...
The only thing worse then a failed T1 line, is a silently failed T1 line. What a pain.
Spend $60 bucks, buy a support contact, and get access to RedHats download servers. As an added bonus the money supports RedHat directly. I use thier product so I do not mind paying a little for thier support.
I had all three iso disc images downloaded Monday.
I am waiting for the mirrors to update RH 8.0 like a Lion waiting for fresh meat.
I'm not waiting, I'm pulling 8.0 from RedHat directly. Rather then buying a CD copy, I bought support a while ago. I am able to log in directly and download the ISOs. I'm getting 90kB/sec at the moment. Should take about 2.5 hours for each CD. I pull all of my ISOs down from them, and I know that some money goes back to them directly. Best $50 I spent all year.
900Kw of heat, and only a 100Kw laser? Wow, not to effcient is it?
I would bet that they could rig up some sort of Athelon style heat sink, the air flow over it at Mach 1 should be able to take care of the heat. That seems the be how much air flow is required in my Dual Athelon system here.
DHCP on the AP. It uses its external IP with NAT, and asigns the other addresses with the 10.x.x.x network.
Yes, that will work, but there is no redundancy, nuke that IP and you are off the air. Also whoever buys that IP from a braodband provider is resonsible for the data that flows accross it.
IF the point is just to provide access with no redundancy then this will work, if the point is to provide a way to get around the big backbone providers (routing around censorship damage) then this will definitly not work.
Thank you for pointing this link out, it is interesting.
This protocol looks like it is for Mobile routing only, how does it interface with the wired netowrk? And would it scale well? If you have a lilly pond with multiple entry points to the wired net, how will the wired net route your IP packets to you? I'm addressing the integration of the lilly ponds and the existing network.
I'm sure the the lilly ponds will work wonderfuly by them selves and with each other, the real trick is to get them to work with the rest of the wired world.
However I was thinking more along the lines of having, or allowing a direct integration of the current net with a mesh network though, with out using NAT. That way the network should be "healable", and route around damage, or offline nodes. If you have a bunch of "entry points" in the "net" then some of these points will get clogged, and you will have all of the users behind one NATed IP address. This would be problematic. If you can have a Mesh network that had routing capabilities, and could intelegently route to less congested hardwired access points you could really have a nice system.
This will require a whole new set of routing protocols, and possibly network addressing. The current IP scheme almost requires that the network be fixed in place since there are no effective routing protocols for individual network addresses. We are having a hard enough time routing CIDR blocks at this point....
A fundamental redesign of addressing, and routing would need to be implemented to make Mesh networks reach thier full potential, IMHO. I'm sure there are plenty of neat things we could do with all this wireless hardware in the mean time.
Perhaps IPV6 could fill in some of the needs here, I do not know for sure, IANAIPV6E (I am not an I P V 6 Expert)
You need a fundamenatly different method of IP addressing, new routing protocols, and methods for interacting with the current net as it exists. Do you think that IANA will easly start putting out IP addresses for Mesh networks? Even with IPV6?
The hardware is there, but more work needs to be done on the practical implementations of mesh networks and integrating them into the current infrastructure.
Then lets consider how ling it will take the "Bells" to wake up and notcie that thier stangle hold on the local telco market is threatened. It will not take too long for Congress to churn out some back-assward laws that stifle any creative use of Wi-Fi.
as long as I sell a variety of products, at reasonable prices, I should make enough money to cover my expenses and be happy
You are right, unless have a monopoly on the bread distribution channels, then you can charge anything that you want, feed us just white bread (and we better like it) and not fear that you will lose any customers. Your the only game in town... why worry about what the customer wants.
On Bruce's last day Carley was over heard cackling "I'll got you my pretty.. hehehe"
The short term gain (if you can even call it that) will be over shadowed by the ultimate demise or irrelevance in the market place of HP. As Bob Cringly put it a few months ago, after the merger the
"shot clock" was reset until the board could fire her. The shot clock cannot count down fast enough. She has decimated an excellent engineering company.
On the day they fire her ass, and she pulls the rip chord on her golden parachute, HP will be irreversably damaged...
Hell a group of about 100 of us now have our own private open nap network going and we have only high quality known good files.
You hit upon a good theme here. To counter act the problems, the signal to noise ratio, poisoning, etc, users will have to PUT MORE EFFORT into downloading warz, and MP3s. The P2P networks will thrive, but you will not have as much of the global swap fests, and free warz that you can get now. The most the people poisining the P2P world can hope for is to increase the level of effort required to use P2P effectivly. And along the way they will create some stonger social ties between the users. Ultimately they will end up strenthening the whole P2P movement...
It is a total crap shoot, I run an ISP out of my basement. I buy from a major provider and local provider, and resell T1s and colocation services. I can tell you that if you want a full up total T1 then get with a large provider and pay the higer cost.
However if you are interested in a T1 speed every once in a while (say when you need to download the latest OS patches, stream media, etc..) and the rest of the time is casual web surfing and email then get something from a local provider.
Going with the big boys you will most likley get directly connected to a larger pipe (T3) and will probably not run out of BW when you need it. But you will PAY for that privledge. This is no garuntee of service, just that you will most likley get more BW when needed. I have a major provider, UUnet, and it is a Frame T1, it bounces sporadicaly. I also have a local provider that has a T3, their like is rock solid compared to UUnet. So it is a crap shoot as to what you will get.
Most small buisness do not need that much BW. When I sell BW, it is metered and the clients know that they can burst up to a T1, but it is unrealistic of them the expect 24/7 T1 speeds at a discounted rate.
how many MS "learning", "reference", and nutshell(TM) books does OReilly sell that are directly related MS product? How much direct and indirect leverage does MS have with him as a result?
I don't know the answer to the second question, but the answer to the first is "a lot". So he does have an interest in pushing things related to MS. He also has an interest in pushing Java, Linux, Perl, Python... etc. But MS makes up a large percentage of his publishing. When you can mess with a mans means to make a living, you can influence his decisions. It would not surprise me if MS has put the squeeze on OReilly in some form or another, enough to tilt his opinion towards the "middle ground".
I have no idea if this is the case here, but I do not take what he says at total face value because there could be so many other factors that play into this.
What Suns wants to prevent is that Micosoft takes OpenOffice change the document format to a propriatory one and sell it as MS Word 2005.
This is what the GPL prevents, you sell modified GPLed software you have to provide the code. They cannot hide thier propritary formats that way. Also, if they are using openoffice for thier star office whats to prevent MS from using openoffice?
Sun must know this, they are just control freaks. They are making source code available to the public, while holding thier nose. Suns corperate culture still does not embrace real open source
pitty, because they could really put the hurt on MS if they could get past thier control freakishness.
China using Linux isn't about software - it's about politics.
It's not about politics! It's about Security! God knows what back doors the US Govt and MS have consipred to install in Windows and Office. Would the US allow any government office to install an operating system from some other country? I very much doubt it.
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I guess that depends on your view of MySQL...
I, for one, do not see this as a problem. Yeah the database is not too bad, but the lack of a clear license is a huge draw back. No thinks, I'll take the truly free alternative.
I submitted a claim, and Ebay got email from the Jerk^H^H^H^ seller saying he was going to refund my money. They closed the claim WITH OUT notification to me! Bastards! They are turning a blind eye to the problem.
But Certified mail is.
My network failed over to my other provider. At about 11:30 EST the net started to act funkey. Since I have turned them off things are back to normal... The only thing worse then a failed T1 line, is a silently failed T1 line. What a pain.
I had all three iso disc images downloaded Monday.
I'm not waiting, I'm pulling 8.0 from RedHat directly. Rather then buying a CD copy, I bought support a while ago. I am able to log in directly and download the ISOs. I'm getting 90kB/sec at the moment. Should take about 2.5 hours for each CD. I pull all of my ISOs down from them, and I know that some money goes back to them directly. Best $50 I spent all year.
I would bet that they could rig up some sort of Athelon style heat sink, the air flow over it at Mach 1 should be able to take care of the heat. That seems the be how much air flow is required in my Dual Athelon system here.
Yes, that will work, but there is no redundancy, nuke that IP and you are off the air. Also whoever buys that IP from a braodband provider is resonsible for the data that flows accross it.
IF the point is just to provide access with no redundancy then this will work, if the point is to provide a way to get around the big backbone providers (routing around censorship damage) then this will definitly not work.
This protocol looks like it is for Mobile routing only, how does it interface with the wired netowrk? And would it scale well? If you have a lilly pond with multiple entry points to the wired net, how will the wired net route your IP packets to you? I'm addressing the integration of the lilly ponds and the existing network.
I'm sure the the lilly ponds will work wonderfuly by them selves and with each other, the real trick is to get them to work with the rest of the wired world.
However I was thinking more along the lines of having, or allowing a direct integration of the current net with a mesh network though, with out using NAT. That way the network should be "healable", and route around damage, or offline nodes. If you have a bunch of "entry points" in the "net" then some of these points will get clogged, and you will have all of the users behind one NATed IP address. This would be problematic. If you can have a Mesh network that had routing capabilities, and could intelegently route to less congested hardwired access points you could really have a nice system.
This will require a whole new set of routing protocols, and possibly network addressing. The current IP scheme almost requires that the network be fixed in place since there are no effective routing protocols for individual network addresses. We are having a hard enough time routing CIDR blocks at this point....
A fundamental redesign of addressing, and routing would need to be implemented to make Mesh networks reach thier full potential, IMHO. I'm sure there are plenty of neat things we could do with all this wireless hardware in the mean time.
Perhaps IPV6 could fill in some of the needs here, I do not know for sure, IANAIPV6E (I am not an I P V 6 Expert)
Then lets consider how ling it will take the "Bells" to wake up and notcie that thier stangle hold on the local telco market is threatened. It will not take too long for Congress to churn out some back-assward laws that stifle any creative use of Wi-Fi.
You are right, unless have a monopoly on the bread distribution channels, then you can charge anything that you want, feed us just white bread (and we better like it) and not fear that you will lose any customers. Your the only game in town... why worry about what the customer wants.
Shouldn't that be a beowulf cluster of Natlie Portmans powerd by hot grits?
The short term gain (if you can even call it that) will be over shadowed by the ultimate demise or irrelevance in the market place of HP. As Bob Cringly put it a few months ago, after the merger the "shot clock" was reset until the board could fire her. The shot clock cannot count down fast enough. She has decimated an excellent engineering company.
On the day they fire her ass, and she pulls the rip chord on her golden parachute, HP will be irreversably damaged...
it is just sooo sad.
You hit upon a good theme here. To counter act the problems, the signal to noise ratio, poisoning, etc, users will have to PUT MORE EFFORT into downloading warz, and MP3s. The P2P networks will thrive, but you will not have as much of the global swap fests, and free warz that you can get now. The most the people poisining the P2P world can hope for is to increase the level of effort required to use P2P effectivly. And along the way they will create some stonger social ties between the users. Ultimately they will end up strenthening the whole P2P movement...
However if you are interested in a T1 speed every once in a while (say when you need to download the latest OS patches, stream media, etc..) and the rest of the time is casual web surfing and email then get something from a local provider.
Going with the big boys you will most likley get directly connected to a larger pipe (T3) and will probably not run out of BW when you need it. But you will PAY for that privledge. This is no garuntee of service, just that you will most likley get more BW when needed. I have a major provider, UUnet, and it is a Frame T1, it bounces sporadicaly. I also have a local provider that has a T3, their like is rock solid compared to UUnet. So it is a crap shoot as to what you will get.
Most small buisness do not need that much BW. When I sell BW, it is metered and the clients know that they can burst up to a T1, but it is unrealistic of them the expect 24/7 T1 speeds at a discounted rate.
~Sean
So Squid will be ported to APC? Cool!
that I can read /. on my UPS now?
that would be skychalking
Wait till the FBI puts out a warning about this: Watch out for low flying aircraft trying to sniff your network, er, um never mind...
how many MS "learning", "reference", and nutshell(TM) books does OReilly sell that are directly related MS product? How much direct and indirect leverage does MS have with him as a result?
I don't know the answer to the second question, but the answer to the first is "a lot". So he does have an interest in pushing things related to MS. He also has an interest in pushing Java, Linux, Perl, Python... etc. But MS makes up a large percentage of his publishing. When you can mess with a mans means to make a living, you can influence his decisions. It would not surprise me if MS has put the squeeze on OReilly in some form or another, enough to tilt his opinion towards the "middle ground".
I have no idea if this is the case here, but I do not take what he says at total face value because there could be so many other factors that play into this.
This is what the GPL prevents, you sell modified GPLed software you have to provide the code. They cannot hide thier propritary formats that way. Also, if they are using openoffice for thier star office whats to prevent MS from using openoffice?
Sun must know this, they are just control freaks. They are making source code available to the public, while holding thier nose. Suns corperate culture still does not embrace real open source
pitty, because they could really put the hurt on MS if they could get past thier control freakishness.
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It's not about politics! It's about Security! God knows what back doors the US Govt and MS have consipred to install in Windows and Office. Would the US allow any government office to install an operating system from some other country? I very much doubt it.