If you've ever had to use openLDAP then you will never be happier once RH releases this. The features are limitless, but two things off the top of my head are that it has a significant improvement as far as speed and system resources go, and also it has good, advanced replication. It's easy to use and just an all around good architecture. Try it out when its released, it will speak for itself. Personally, I'm more interested in the Certificate Server. Regards, Steve
Mods: Don't mod me up if you feel the urge to, this is the 3rd time I've said this.
It's Red Hat's policy to open source everything they have. This also is true for their patents which are able to be freely used without fear of infringement by any free software project. Regards, Steve
Everything Red Hat has, does, or buys becomes open source. This is equally true for their patents (which are aquired for defensive reasons). Here is their patent policy. In short, it states that any patents they hold may be used by any free software project without fear of any infringement. Regards, Steve
Then this is definitly for you. Red Hat, as with all things, will open source this. A lot of people say bad things about Red Hat, but they do alot for the community, they just don't try to take the spotlight. I mean how cool is their patent policy? Any patent they get ( which is always for defensive purposes) can be used by any free software project without worries. Regards, Steve
In other news 7% of all Windows PCs have their operating system replaced with Linux... Yep 73% of all statistics are made up on the fly. Now seriously... I have never bought a Linux PC, but I do have 5 Windows PCs whose operating system was replaced with Linux upon first boot. All using the same media, that same media was used to install it on at least 3 other friend's computers as well. Lets see... that's 5 Windows PCs , one download of a distro's iso, and 8 more Linux PCs in the end. Although this may not be true for *everyone*, it does happen often. This would go to show that if you measured the Linux install base by downloads, it'd be 1/8 of what it really is, where as in my case its actually 1.375 times larger then the reported Windows install base, which is in reality a non-existant base. This would be reported as 5 Windows PCs and 1 Linux download, obviously its not accurate. I know that many places, especially universities, download once and install about 200 times. Gartner, go away. Regards, Steve
Agree with most of your post, but as far as I know, fully automatic weapons such as a machine gun have been banned since the 1930's to get rid of gangsters. Also, silencers are(once again, as far as I know) illegal unless you have the proper authority and training(i.e. some government agents) to use one. Regards, Steve
Crime is exponential in nature. America's population is as much as 5 times larger then some of the places you listed (or places you may have implied), the exact rate of increase I don't know, but I do know that means that America's murder rate should be significantly higher then 5 times what ever country you sampled. The following data was pulled from here. Now unfortunately the data is slightly old, but for everything I'm citing, its all less then a decade, which is reasonable. As stated earlier, the United States' population is approx. 5 times that of England's, because of the exponential increase in crime, our numbers should be at least (if not much higher) then 5 times England's. However, the United State's total homicide numbers are only 4.04 times larger. It seems we are doing something right. Our homicides by firearms are significantly larger, but all that this proves is that if you take away someone's gun, there are still plenty of ways to kill someone, and the folks from England seem to do just fine in finding alternatives. Germany seems to be doing pretty good as far as first world countries go, and interestingly enough, they fall just in range of a reasonable exponential increase when comparing them to the US. It seems that despite all of the hype that England gets for its gun laws, something is still lacking. Keep in mind, that Germany and America both have a significantly higher number of households with guns then England does. So although our numbers are large, they are no worse then is expected and better then Englands when you take into account other factors. My point being that humans will kill regardless of what you give them (or take away). Most murders, as far as the US goes, and I'd assume the rest of the world in general, is crime on crime anyway. Some would argue that we should just let the criminals keep killing eachother, whether you find that a sane oppinion is a personal preference. ( I personally would change that statement around a bit,as crime on crime murders still do affect normal law abiding citizens) I hope this helps in getting a better oppinion or at least a more clear picture from a different point of view. Regards, Steve
He wasn't trying to start a distro war, but regardless, yes RedHat is the largest distro according to several statistics not limited to just commercial sales but also including things like web server stats. Whenever a new Fedora Core is releaed, the amount of downloads is astounding. Regardless, it seems like your implying the rest of the world wouldn't use Red Hat for some reason, whereas I *know* that Asia has a very large Red Hat following. Just because your distro is different doesn't mean you have to go around ranting about oppisite distros, relax a bit, its a community. Regards, Steve
I can remove mplayer, and have done so, without any adverse affects on the system. It is also trivial to do. It is also not forced on me and is usually coupled with other media viewers. If MS shipped with Real Player, WinAmp, and/or iTunes then I don't think anyone would be saying anything, especially if you could just go to Add/Remove Programs and remove WMP. Regards, Steve
Look around at the shpinx project and freetts. Alot of really good voice stuff going on. FreeTTS is excellent, and if you've got time, you can even model your own voice:) Anyway... I forget which of the two sites I got to it from (think it was sphinx) and its got a whole scenario with an airport calling program, its very very nice and sounds great. Regards, Steve
I just think no one wants to use those formats. I don't believe I've *ever* seen a WMA or OpenMG file, although I know they exist. Just out of curiosity, anyone know how these formats encrypt or where I can get specs for it? Regardless, anyone with a decent sound setup can just loop the analog out back in and record, a little time consuming but it only needs to be done once to be enjoyed by millions. Regards, Steve P.S. Doesn't real claim intercompatibility with WMA? Not sure if they licensed it or reverse engineered it like they did with Apple.
Not only does Red Hat open source *everything* they make, but they also allow any patents that they have to be freely used by any open source project free of royalties or any kind of legal penalties or infringments. Read their patent policy here. They come right out and say how they don't like patents and they have made several attempts (and continue to do so) to fix the patent situation in the US. They are also active in this fight in Europe and on a petition. They are honest and say that the reality is however we must have a few patents for defensive purposes, but to avoid hindering innovation, if your a free software project you may use it without anything to worry about. Now I personally think that rocks, especially considering all of the work they do and innovations they put into linux everyday. Look around sometime at projects like gnome (or better yet, just go to Fedora people under blogs.redhat.com) and see all the stuff they do. Whats even cooler is that they do all this without ever trying to hog the spotlight. Regards, Steve
Boo hoo, tell them to get a job and not feed off of society. The reason GPL software works so well is because people are forced to give back under certain circumstances, the same should apply here. Regards, Steve
*Ahem* That'd be 1995. Oracle announced _plans_ for linux in 1998. So were they running very early beta software? Also they say they've been running Windows 2003 for over two years. *Ahem* It is currently 2004, this sounds like a bunch of moron companies that have no idea what they are getting themselves in to and cut corners at every turn. The shopping cart crashing the web app has nothing to do with the OS! That's a bad programming error. They were probably just paying as little as possible to get the job done, and get it done quickly. Like they said, they hadn't budgeted for an online store for that year so they spent as little as possible. First of all, what kind of serious company rushes to put up a secure, stable online presence in under a year? And it had to be somewhat late in to the year or they could have adjusted the budget. These two examples of companies are ridiculous. Either they love rolling out production systems on beta(or non-existant) software, or there is some big corporation behind the scenes paying some money to get some good quotes out of them to put in advertisements that inform people about two competing operating systems. I'm not implying a conspiracy theory here, but there is definitly something weird. BTW, IngresSQL and BerkelyDB were both available and commonly supported on *nix back then, where they came up with Oracle is beyond me. Also they don't say what distro they were using back then, Debian was only two years old at the time, as was Slackware. The kernel was only at 1.1, what sane company would build critical software for use on a system like that? No corporate distro was around at the time (not that I know of). None of this is making any sense, either the guys are really dumb or... I dunno, this logic is driving me insane... Regards, Steve
Heh for a good time read this. Red Hat has done some things that may have angered a few for one reason or another, but I'm loving them more and more everyday. Regards, Steve
As far as I know, mothers and fathers can both take leave in the United States. And its been this way for as long as I can remember. Two friends of mine did it a few years ago. I have no idea what the grandparent was talking about. Regards, Steve
The MiG-29 came out after the F-15 so obviously technology would have advanced. Regardless, the F-15 is still far superior at Beyond Visual Range (BVR) combat and long distance fighting. Essentially, that MiG better be damn careful because an F-15 can detect it and destroy before it even knew there was anything else out there. If a MiG did get closer though, it does have a few advantages over the F-15. Thats why we built the F/A-18 Hornet many years ago. It'd be humorous to see a MiG-29 try to take one. Regards, Steve
You ever try Red Hat's support? First class, top quality. It doesn't get any better. Honestly, they are very focused on the end users simply because they have to be, they aren't in a position to force software on people or to pay Washington to do their bidding. I've never had support as good as theirs. Regards, Steve
Novell is certainly important, but as far as having influence over Gnome, I see red hat developers doing almost everything new and innovative with it, and its been that way for many months, maybe years. Just something that I've noticed, not tryig to flame here. Regards, Steve
Have you checked the changelog for Red Hat contributions? Or ever read their blogs? Every day they fix, implement or try to perfect many many features. Alot of the things that you take for granted is a result of them. Red Hat does a ton of work on not just the kernel, but in every aspect of linux. They just don't try to hog the spotlight like some other companies. I mean seriously, at least once a day check out what these guys are working on. Regards, Steve
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If you've ever had to use openLDAP then you will never be happier once RH releases this. The features are limitless, but two things off the top of my head are that it has a significant improvement as far as speed and system resources go, and also it has good, advanced replication. It's easy to use and just an all around good architecture. Try it out when its released, it will speak for itself. Personally, I'm more interested in the Certificate Server.
Regards,
Steve
Mods: Don't mod me up if you feel the urge to, this is the 3rd time I've said this.
It's Red Hat's policy to open source everything they have. This also is true for their patents which are able to be freely used without fear of infringement by any free software project.
Regards,
Steve
Everything Red Hat has, does, or buys becomes open source. This is equally true for their patents (which are aquired for defensive reasons). Here is their patent policy. In short, it states that any patents they hold may be used by any free software project without fear of any infringement.
Regards,
Steve
Then this is definitly for you. Red Hat, as with all things, will open source this. A lot of people say bad things about Red Hat, but they do alot for the community, they just don't try to take the spotlight. I mean how cool is their patent policy? Any patent they get ( which is always for defensive purposes) can be used by any free software project without worries.
Regards,
Steve
Because this is a communtiy, and communities have to stick together.
My deepest sympathy goes out to the family, friends, and loved ones of Hans. I also wish the best of health to the others involved.
Regards,
Steve
In other news 7% of all Windows PCs have their operating system replaced with Linux... Yep 73% of all statistics are made up on the fly. Now seriously... I have never bought a Linux PC, but I do have 5 Windows PCs whose operating system was replaced with Linux upon first boot. All using the same media, that same media was used to install it on at least 3 other friend's computers as well. Lets see... that's 5 Windows PCs , one download of a distro's iso, and 8 more Linux PCs in the end. Although this may not be true for *everyone*, it does happen often. This would go to show that if you measured the Linux install base by downloads, it'd be 1/8 of what it really is, where as in my case its actually 1.375 times larger then the reported Windows install base, which is in reality a non-existant base. This would be reported as 5 Windows PCs and 1 Linux download, obviously its not accurate. I know that many places, especially universities, download once and install about 200 times. Gartner, go away.
Regards,
Steve
SWT is your friend in java.
Agree with most of your post, but as far as I know, fully automatic weapons such as a machine gun have been banned since the 1930's to get rid of gangsters. Also, silencers are(once again, as far as I know) illegal unless you have the proper authority and training(i.e. some government agents) to use one.
Regards,
Steve
Crime is exponential in nature. America's population is as much as 5 times larger then some of the places you listed (or places you may have implied), the exact rate of increase I don't know, but I do know that means that America's murder rate should be significantly higher then 5 times what ever country you sampled. The following data was pulled from here. Now unfortunately the data is slightly old, but for everything I'm citing, its all less then a decade, which is reasonable. As stated earlier, the United States' population is approx. 5 times that of England's, because of the exponential increase in crime, our numbers should be at least (if not much higher) then 5 times England's. However, the United State's total homicide numbers are only 4.04 times larger. It seems we are doing something right. Our homicides by firearms are significantly larger, but all that this proves is that if you take away someone's gun, there are still plenty of ways to kill someone, and the folks from England seem to do just fine in finding alternatives. Germany seems to be doing pretty good as far as first world countries go, and interestingly enough, they fall just in range of a reasonable exponential increase when comparing them to the US. It seems that despite all of the hype that England gets for its gun laws, something is still lacking. Keep in mind, that Germany and America both have a significantly higher number of households with guns then England does. So although our numbers are large, they are no worse then is expected and better then Englands when you take into account other factors. My point being that humans will kill regardless of what you give them (or take away). Most murders, as far as the US goes, and I'd assume the rest of the world in general, is crime on crime anyway. Some would argue that we should just let the criminals keep killing eachother, whether you find that a sane oppinion is a personal preference. ( I personally would change that statement around a bit,as crime on crime murders still do affect normal law abiding citizens) I hope this helps in getting a better oppinion or at least a more clear picture from a different point of view.
Regards,
Steve
Funny because its so blatantly obvious? I don't get it. What was funny about it?
Regards,
Steve
This should not be modded as a troll. Are the mods on crack today?
Regards,
Steve
He wasn't trying to start a distro war, but regardless, yes RedHat is the largest distro according to several statistics not limited to just commercial sales but also including things like web server stats. Whenever a new Fedora Core is releaed, the amount of downloads is astounding. Regardless, it seems like your implying the rest of the world wouldn't use Red Hat for some reason, whereas I *know* that Asia has a very large Red Hat following. Just because your distro is different doesn't mean you have to go around ranting about oppisite distros, relax a bit, its a community.
Regards,
Steve
I can remove mplayer, and have done so, without any adverse affects on the system. It is also trivial to do. It is also not forced on me and is usually coupled with other media viewers. If MS shipped with Real Player, WinAmp, and/or iTunes then I don't think anyone would be saying anything, especially if you could just go to Add/Remove Programs and remove WMP.
Regards,
Steve
Look around at the shpinx project and freetts. Alot of really good voice stuff going on. FreeTTS is excellent, and if you've got time, you can even model your own voice:) Anyway... I forget which of the two sites I got to it from (think it was sphinx) and its got a whole scenario with an airport calling program, its very very nice and sounds great.
Regards,
Steve
I just think no one wants to use those formats. I don't believe I've *ever* seen a WMA or OpenMG file, although I know they exist. Just out of curiosity, anyone know how these formats encrypt or where I can get specs for it? Regardless, anyone with a decent sound setup can just loop the analog out back in and record, a little time consuming but it only needs to be done once to be enjoyed by millions.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Doesn't real claim intercompatibility with WMA? Not sure if they licensed it or reverse engineered it like they did with Apple.
Not only does Red Hat open source *everything* they make, but they also allow any patents that they have to be freely used by any open source project free of royalties or any kind of legal penalties or infringments. Read their patent policy here. They come right out and say how they don't like patents and they have made several attempts (and continue to do so) to fix the patent situation in the US. They are also active in this fight in Europe and on a petition. They are honest and say that the reality is however we must have a few patents for defensive purposes, but to avoid hindering innovation, if your a free software project you may use it without anything to worry about. Now I personally think that rocks, especially considering all of the work they do and innovations they put into linux everyday. Look around sometime at projects like gnome (or better yet, just go to Fedora people under blogs.redhat.com) and see all the stuff they do. Whats even cooler is that they do all this without ever trying to hog the spotlight.
Regards,
Steve
Boo hoo, tell them to get a job and not feed off of society. The reason GPL software works so well is because people are forced to give back under certain circumstances, the same should apply here.
Regards,
Steve
*Ahem* That'd be 1995. Oracle announced _plans_ for linux in 1998. So were they running very early beta software? Also they say they've been running Windows 2003 for over two years. *Ahem* It is currently 2004, this sounds like a bunch of moron companies that have no idea what they are getting themselves in to and cut corners at every turn. The shopping cart crashing the web app has nothing to do with the OS! That's a bad programming error. They were probably just paying as little as possible to get the job done, and get it done quickly. Like they said, they hadn't budgeted for an online store for that year so they spent as little as possible. First of all, what kind of serious company rushes to put up a secure, stable online presence in under a year? And it had to be somewhat late in to the year or they could have adjusted the budget. These two examples of companies are ridiculous. Either they love rolling out production systems on beta(or non-existant) software, or there is some big corporation behind the scenes paying some money to get some good quotes out of them to put in advertisements that inform people about two competing operating systems. I'm not implying a conspiracy theory here, but there is definitly something weird. BTW, IngresSQL and BerkelyDB were both available and commonly supported on *nix back then, where they came up with Oracle is beyond me. Also they don't say what distro they were using back then, Debian was only two years old at the time, as was Slackware. The kernel was only at 1.1, what sane company would build critical software for use on a system like that? No corporate distro was around at the time (not that I know of). None of this is making any sense, either the guys are really dumb or ... I dunno, this logic is driving me insane ...
Regards,
Steve
Heh for a good time read this. Red Hat has done some things that may have angered a few for one reason or another, but I'm loving them more and more everyday.
Regards,
Steve
As far as I know, mothers and fathers can both take leave in the United States. And its been this way for as long as I can remember. Two friends of mine did it a few years ago. I have no idea what the grandparent was talking about.
Regards,
Steve
The MiG-29 came out after the F-15 so obviously technology would have advanced. Regardless, the F-15 is still far superior at Beyond Visual Range (BVR) combat and long distance fighting. Essentially, that MiG better be damn careful because an F-15 can detect it and destroy before it even knew there was anything else out there. If a MiG did get closer though, it does have a few advantages over the F-15. Thats why we built the F/A-18 Hornet many years ago. It'd be humorous to see a MiG-29 try to take one.
Regards,
Steve
You ever try Red Hat's support? First class, top quality. It doesn't get any better. Honestly, they are very focused on the end users simply because they have to be, they aren't in a position to force software on people or to pay Washington to do their bidding. I've never had support as good as theirs.
Regards,
Steve
Novell is certainly important, but as far as having influence over Gnome, I see red hat developers doing almost everything new and innovative with it, and its been that way for many months, maybe years. Just something that I've noticed, not tryig to flame here.
Regards,
Steve
I guess that plan went to hell then heh, Solaris is going open source, unless that was just a stunt to get the medias attention.
Regards,
Steve
Have you checked the changelog for Red Hat contributions? Or ever read their blogs? Every day they fix, implement or try to perfect many many features. Alot of the things that you take for granted is a result of them. Red Hat does a ton of work on not just the kernel, but in every aspect of linux. They just don't try to hog the spotlight like some other companies. I mean seriously, at least once a day check out what these guys are working on.
Regards,
Steve