They aren't looking for Jeeves, I can guarantee you they want another of their products... Teoma which is already the most google-like competitor out there. (besides AllTheWeb which isn't hurting)
The headline really should have been "RedHat spins off free distro into Mozilla-like organization".
This is pretty much what happened with Mozilla, only RedHat will still maintain some control. My question is now that Fedora will not have commercial support, is the project now free to develop a free up2date network for fedora??? And more importantly, will they???
Will things like PowerTools creep back into the distro? Will RedHat keep Fedora from releasing their distro with certain packages (like openldap or SMP kernels)? And will Fedora support older distros of theirs (or will support only be provided for the most recent version)???
I could almost see a market for a group to provide most of these services to Fedora users for a small fee (less than $100/yr).
My point I guess is people put buzzwords and hot techs on their resume to get through the filtering process. We've all done it at some point in our careers.
Actually, I haven't...
I figure that it's better to underestimate and overdeliver. If I didn't know how to write a language at least enough to debug a program, it wouldn't go on there...I've got quite enough bullet points on my resume without embelishing my abilities. You have to understand, if someone wants a specific set of requisites, then they should have a good reason for it.
Now, making custom resumes highlighting specific skills you posses that may not be on a general resume are ok, but be prepared to list specific examples. Most ppl never really know why they were hired above all other candidates... And if they base their decision on a requirement that later turns out to be a false statement, they can fire you on the spot...
They've already tried this and they just blur out the codes. You can't really put an image across the screen that takes away from the visual effect of the film, and by the same token, you don't want tones on the audio track that take away from the soundstage.
Any watermark would simply be useless in the longrun.
If you own a BCOM 802.11 card of the 430x line, a company called Linuxant has released a driver loader that allows you to use the Windoze drivers under Linux. While not as good as a full GPLed driver, at least it's something. According to Linuxant, the 30 day trial is only temporary, they are supposedly working with BCOM and are aiming to make the driverloader free to end users.
Won't happen...a "do not call" list works because the companies calling/selling the service are operating inside the US (with unlimited long distance phone lines).
The industry is already regulated and it would not be cost effective for a company to call from outside of the US.
Spam is a different ball game. The companies are already outside of the US for the most part. The only way to enforce this would be to forbid US companies from doing business with known spammers...however, as soon as a european travel agency started spamming ppl in the US, the US travel agencies would cry foul...
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Umh, actually...
This is just the beginning of a whole slew of major players announcing the move to Linux.
Tell that to SGI...
This has already started to happen in the tech sector, the film industry, and many governments have already made the switch...not to underestimate this move, but it's happening/happened to some extent in every industry. Some have been small, others (like the film industry) have been massive.
The fact that companies of the size of Ford are switching, rather than just using the threat of Linux as a stick with which to beat Microsoft, will be sending real shivers of fear up the spine of the Beast of Redmond.
Not really...M$ has long realized that their OS division is going bye-bye...not because of Linux, but because their major source of revenue (the desktop market) has hit a wall as far as technology is concerned.
There isn't much for M$ to do in the realm of new features except maybe eye-candy and noone (ok, very few) is going to buy a new OS for more eye candy.
Think back, when was the last time you heard of someone buying a retail boxed version of a M$ OS for an old machine???
This is the point at which they have to start changing their business model, and fast, unless they want to spend a few years in the wilderness like IBM did after their business model died.
They already have...every heard of.Net?.Net is M$'s way of breaking into the content provider market...you know...low profit margins, customer support out the $#@!...
M$ knows it has to change, they're just trying to milk their current business model for all it's worth...
The toughbook can operate at tempratures up to 140F
and 95% humidity.
If you really need a ruggedized laptop, the toughbooks are the only way to go. I've heard stories about toughbooks falling into the Amazon and being pulled out with the screen still powered up...
The.mil also use the toughbooks in the field. In fact, the only real difference between the.mil toughbooks and the civilian ones is the case/color.
No matter how many times the SCO situation comes up, someone says that they're just trying to get IBM to buy them or something like that...
But it's just not going to happen.
Some ppl might remember back in the 70's-80's, IBM went through a whole round of anti-trust suits.
The outcome of this was that the company split itself internally (this is where PSG, Systems group, IGS, etc come from)...Some have changed over the years like the split of the Server group into Storage & Systems, etc...but it was all their way of reorganizing the company to bring the suit to a close...
Now, I'm absolutely certain that Sun, HP, SGI (not som much any more), etc would have major problems with this...
A move like this would be considered as an attempt to gain a monopoly on the *NIX OS market...a big no-no for IBM...
The most likely action by IBM is to quietly ramp up efforts to migrate servers away from AIX and toward Linux. Giving deals on servers that ship with Linux, migrating custom tools & software, etc. Doing this covertly means that IBM will be ready when companies want to start switching to Linux/BSD.
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They aren't looking for Jeeves, I can guarantee you they want another of their products... Teoma which is already the most google-like competitor out there. (besides AllTheWeb which isn't hurting)
My experience with MDK is that it doesn't have all of the packages that SUSE/RedHat have out of the box that make it "just work"...
With RedHat, I can be almost certain that if I need a workstation or server for something, RedHat is at least a good start.
Then there's 3rd party support...MDK just doesn't have the kind of 3rd party RPMs that RedHat does.
Sometimes I want to compile everything from source, but most of the time I just want it to work...
The headline really should have been "RedHat spins off free distro into Mozilla-like organization".
This is pretty much what happened with Mozilla, only RedHat will still maintain some control. My question is now that Fedora will not have commercial support, is the project now free to develop a free up2date network for fedora??? And more importantly, will they???
Will things like PowerTools creep back into the distro? Will RedHat keep Fedora from releasing their distro with certain packages (like openldap or SMP kernels)? And will Fedora support older distros of theirs (or will support only be provided for the most recent version)???
I could almost see a market for a group to provide most of these services to Fedora users for a small fee (less than $100/yr).
My point I guess is people put buzzwords and hot techs on their resume to get through the filtering process. We've all done it at some point in our careers.
Actually, I haven't...
I figure that it's better to underestimate and overdeliver. If I didn't know how to write a language at least enough to debug a program, it wouldn't go on there...I've got quite enough bullet points on my resume without embelishing my abilities. You have to understand, if someone wants a specific set of requisites, then they should have a good reason for it.
Now, making custom resumes highlighting specific skills you posses that may not be on a general resume are ok, but be prepared to list specific examples. Most ppl never really know why they were hired above all other candidates... And if they base their decision on a requirement that later turns out to be a false statement, they can fire you on the spot...
Not a situation I want to be in...
They've already tried this and they just blur out the codes. You can't really put an image across the screen that takes away from the visual effect of the film, and by the same token, you don't want tones on the audio track that take away from the soundstage. Any watermark would simply be useless in the longrun.
If you own a BCOM 802.11 card of the 430x line, a company called Linuxant has released a driver loader that allows you to use the Windoze drivers under Linux. While not as good as a full GPLed driver, at least it's something. According to Linuxant, the 30 day trial is only temporary, they are supposedly working with BCOM and are aiming to make the driverloader free to end users.
Won't happen...a "do not call" list works because the companies calling/selling the service are operating inside the US (with unlimited long distance phone lines).
The industry is already regulated and it would not be cost effective for a company to call from outside of the US.
Spam is a different ball game. The companies are already outside of the US for the most part. The only way to enforce this would be to forbid US companies from doing business with known spammers...however, as soon as a european travel agency started spamming ppl in the US, the US travel agencies would cry foul...
Umh, actually...
.Net? .Net is M$'s way of breaking into the content provider market...you know...low profit margins, customer support out the $#@!...
This is just the beginning of a whole slew of major players announcing the move to Linux.
Tell that to SGI...
This has already started to happen in the tech sector, the film industry, and many governments have already made the switch...not to underestimate this move, but it's happening/happened to some extent in every industry. Some have been small, others (like the film industry) have been massive.
The fact that companies of the size of Ford are switching, rather than just using the threat of Linux as a stick with which to beat Microsoft, will be sending real shivers of fear up the spine of the Beast of Redmond.
Not really...M$ has long realized that their OS division is going bye-bye...not because of Linux, but because their major source of revenue (the desktop market) has hit a wall as far as technology is concerned.
There isn't much for M$ to do in the realm of new features except maybe eye-candy and noone (ok, very few) is going to buy a new OS for more eye candy.
Think back, when was the last time you heard of someone buying a retail boxed version of a M$ OS for an old machine???
This is the point at which they have to start changing their business model, and fast, unless they want to spend a few years in the wilderness like IBM did after their business model died.
They already have...every heard of
M$ knows it has to change, they're just trying to milk their current business model for all it's worth...
Anyone who would purchase such a service would probably be smart enough to do a whois lookup on the domain first...
How long until some out of country ISP (that doesn't have to comply with the RIAA) starts offering a P2P tunneling service?
The only thing the RIAA will achieve in doing this is to make sure all of the big trader's IP numbers resolve to an off-shore ISP.
Check out this link.
.mil also use the toughbooks in the field. In fact, the only real difference between the .mil toughbooks and the civilian ones is the case/color.
The toughbook can operate at tempratures up to 140F and 95% humidity.
If you really need a ruggedized laptop, the toughbooks are the only way to go. I've heard stories about toughbooks falling into the Amazon and being pulled out with the screen still powered up...
The
No matter how many times the SCO situation comes up, someone says that they're just trying to get IBM to buy them or something like that...
But it's just not going to happen.
Some ppl might remember back in the 70's-80's, IBM went through a whole round of anti-trust suits.
The outcome of this was that the company split itself internally (this is where PSG, Systems group, IGS, etc come from)...Some have changed over the years like the split of the Server group into Storage & Systems, etc...but it was all their way of reorganizing the company to bring the suit to a close...
Now, I'm absolutely certain that Sun, HP, SGI (not som much any more), etc would have major problems with this...
A move like this would be considered as an attempt to gain a monopoly on the *NIX OS market...a big no-no for IBM...
The most likely action by IBM is to quietly ramp up efforts to migrate servers away from AIX and toward Linux. Giving deals on servers that ship with Linux, migrating custom tools & software, etc. Doing this covertly means that IBM will be ready when companies want to start switching to Linux/BSD.