Instead of crucifying a penniless web journalist, tie bonuses of the development staff to news leaks (or lack thereof). Give your employees a reason not to snitch on you.
Do you think that IBM would be reacting like this if news of a new Power5 server leaked?
Apple, you make interesting products, but I hesitate to buy from you as you so often act like a grade school playground bully.
Solve your problems with constructive action instead of trying to ruin peoples' lives.
I had sunk a substantial portion of my career into RedHat by the time these support changes began. I work for a fortune 500, and there was and still is a major effort (mostly driven by Oracle) to dump proprietary UNIX, but I have chosen not to be a part of it.
I have become very lukewarm to RedHat's distro. I have migrated all of my on-the-side jobs to OpenBSD (just because I don't like to patch).
When I have an application that requires RedHat, I've run Whitebox or Centos, unless there is a real need for support (which is very rare).
RedHat made a conscious decision to dump small business users and concentrate on large. We are gone, and we are not coming back. Why should we? For another knife in the back? I'll pass.
The couple must have discussed this after her discovery. Are those discussions admissable?
Could the wife simply subponea the mistress? While the chatlog isn't admissable, would any significant deviation from its content open the mistress up to perjury?
What does the woman gain by having extensive documentation of infidelity in a divorce proceeding?
Is some sort of non-executible stack possible on this architecture?
If I remember correctly, OpenBSD does not implement W^X on the MIPS architecture because the design of the unified data/instruction cache makes it impossible to mark pages as non-executible.
If NX/PaX/W^X will not work on this CPU, I'd be less inclined to attach it to the internet.
OpenVMS/GNUStep desktop? That would certainly raise Bill's blood pressure.
What? From his laughter you mean?
You my friend are a seriously deluded DECophiliac.
Mac OS X is currently the greatest challenge to Windows on the client.
If OSX applications could run under an OpenVMS cluster... and never go down, do you think that Apple might get a bit of traction on the server?
Spyware has become the greatest threat to M$ dominance of the client.
Would your company consider replacing the IE rendering engine with Gecko, and abandoning ActiveX?
The alternative seems to be an ever-larger stream of customers who leave Win32 behind.
p.s. The UNIX community would feel much better about you if you released UNIX clients for your larger applications and protocols. How long do you think Oracle could get away with supporting their db client only on Win32? This is exactly what you do with SQL Server. Sometimes, you are your own worst enemy.
Unless you are doing something radical with the OS, there is not excuse for not working with something off the shelf. Especially when the source and APIs are available for you to write custom device drivers.
Ok, do something radical. Bring back NextSTEP. The ties are there with Apple already.
If Apple refuses, bring in a staff to complete GNUStep.
OpenVMS/GNUStep desktop? That would certainly raise Bill's blood pressure.
Isn't this simply a "give the geeks what they want" list? The only good advice I saw there was "focus on enterprise systems", and "watch out in the printer division". What about this will fix their business strategy, or the very real internal problems resulting from the merger?
So you are arguing that doing nothing is better than trying to survive? A business strategy must revolve around quality products. Now is the time for decisive direction on product development.
Carly might as well have adopted "War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength" for the corporate slogan (at least for enterprise systems).
Sales are way down, lots of VPs have been terminated, and something needs to be done.
You don't understand. We are tired of HP making architecture decisions for us. HP should let the market itself decide. Maintaining both Itanium and Opteron is more reassuring than another jump.
CDE/OpenVMS? Are you on drugs? Show me someone who actually wants CDE.
You don't understand. CDE already runs on OpenVMS. X-Windows for VMS needs an update, and GNOME/KDE would be both market splash and reassurance.
Now here's another thought for you: ATX is a standard.
Fine. Keep the power supply connector.
The Opteron manufacturing rights vs. Alpha IP thing makes sense, but I don't necessarily see any reason that AMD would go for it.
AMD already manufactures a MIPS core.
Slot-A/Socket-A was originally the Alpha bus, licensed from DEC.
Alpha is designed for high speeds without a deep pipeline.
The enterprise systems division is in terrible shape. Attention must be focused first on the Operating Systems, then on storage and hardware.
The HP-UX/Tru64 merger should again be taken up, probably favoring Tru64. "TruHP 12 UNIX" should target PA-RISC, Itanium, and Opteron. GNU Userland wherever possible, RPM packager, AdvFS, 128-cpu scalability, binary compatibility with previous OS implmentations on their respective platforms.
An Opteron port of OpenVMS must be immediately undertaken. Opteron ports of HP's operating systems will prove HP's commitment. No customer wants a knife in the back of their OS.
In addition to CDE/OpenVMS, immediate ports of GNOME and KDE should be undertaken. OpenOffice should also work.
New, inexpensive SATA SANS using the DEC Storageworks command sets (in additon to Win32/X GUI). I should also be able to "run clone" via a TCP connection, without loading an ugly gui (or any gui at all).
Low-end Storageworks for SOHO users. Works with any 3rd-party drives. Under $1k, maybe less.
The PC divison should do some real innovation. ATX was a step forward, but standard, easily interchangable motherboard form-factors (easy slide-out replacement, no tools required) would get you both recognition and sales. Give the designs to Dell, or anybody else who asks.
Storageworks in a PC bios.
Cross-license the entire Alpha architecture with AMD, in exchange for Opteron manufacturing rights. Give AMD the option to resume Alpha development/production if they desire.
Be prepared to lower the cost of printer consumables. The day will come.
Successful execution of the above will put you back on the map and in the datacenter. When you've done it, adopt the slogan "HP - when you want the very best." Don't adopt the slogan before you can back it up.
OpenBSD's spamd can be configured to protect any sort of RFC822 MTA running on any platform, and it will put an end to spam. I hear that Postgrey does pretty well too.
If you are willing to live with a 5 minute delay in email from a previously unknown sender, then why torture yourselves any further?
If the Chinese are such great people and trustworthy business partners, then why would they steal a W88?
The Chinese are large, powerful, and Machiavellian. China has no qualms in pushing us to the brink of war if it suits their desires.
I expect my government to be extremely cautious in dealing with China. They are the most dangerous situation we face today - our Arabic problems are a sideshow by comparison.
IBM is bringing out new Power systems targeted at Linux.
Might additional industry accolades be gained if this platform could also offer Solaris for the Power architecture?
This sort of tit-for-tat negotiation is better conducted behind closed doors. I imagine that Solaris on Power, plus more participation and control in Java, would make IBM very open to supporting Solaris wherever Sun wanted.
Cutler's original kernel was written in assembler. I assume that it was completely replaced with something in C. Was this done for VMS 5, or later (for the Alpha port)?
Was VMS designed with clustering in mind from the start? Did clusters really get going with v5?
Although, for a guy who implemented his kernel in assembler, Cutler's comment that UNIX "is a junk OS designed by a committee of Ph.D.s" is a little shaky, even if he was the project leader for Windows NT.
As far as I can tell from the 1st circuit decision, when I have my own MTA and I send sensitive, albeit unencrypted data out, the ISP can of course read that email, but it *is covered by the wiretap act* and if I catch them doing it the penalties are high, so if they act in any observable way on this data, I can sue them.
Now if I cannot use my own MTA to directly connect and they automatically queue all outgoing email to their hard drive, then I lose the protection of the wiretap act, and they can do whatever they want.
You're telling me that MySQL locks the entire table when I insert a row? You must be joking - that would bring a database to it's knees.
I'm an Oracle guy, and this is how they do it:
If you have an index on a NOT NULL column, count(*) will count the index, and it will be fast(er). If you don't have a suitable index, you will incur a full table scan. This is reasonable.
An Oracle table can have one or more "FREELISTS" - an insert will attempt to find a block from an available freelist, and a row lock will be applied to the transaction header of that block. If you have high insert activity, you can (re)build your table with more FREELISTS. You can have multiple transactions hitting a block if you don't exceed MAXTRANS. If you decided to shove the block clear full of data and you set INITTRANS to 1, you effectively have block-level locking, not row-level locking.
Oracle NEVER escalates a lock, and there is no table of locked rows in memory (and you should run away from any database that has such a structure).
Oracle has the best technology in the industry, hands down (DB2 didn't even get triggers until v5). Postgres appears to be paying much more attention to Oracle's methods than MySQL.
Guess which database I'd use if I had no money to spend?
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Instead of crucifying a penniless web journalist, tie bonuses of the development staff to news leaks (or lack thereof). Give your employees a reason not to snitch on you.
Do you think that IBM would be reacting like this if news of a new Power5 server leaked?
Apple, you make interesting products, but I hesitate to buy from you as you so often act like a grade school playground bully.
Solve your problems with constructive action instead of trying to ruin peoples' lives.
...and they are the second largest software corporation in the world.
Software producers, take note: you do not need copy protection to be profitable.
I had sunk a substantial portion of my career into RedHat by the time these support changes began. I work for a fortune 500, and there was and still is a major effort (mostly driven by Oracle) to dump proprietary UNIX, but I have chosen not to be a part of it.
I have become very lukewarm to RedHat's distro. I have migrated all of my on-the-side jobs to OpenBSD (just because I don't like to patch).
When I have an application that requires RedHat, I've run Whitebox or Centos, unless there is a real need for support (which is very rare).
RedHat made a conscious decision to dump small business users and concentrate on large. We are gone, and we are not coming back. Why should we? For another knife in the back? I'll pass.
Or does it require a connection to POTS/PSTN?
What if you have VoIP?
The couple must have discussed this after her discovery. Are those discussions admissable?
Could the wife simply subponea the mistress? While the chatlog isn't admissable, would any significant deviation from its content open the mistress up to perjury?
What does the woman gain by having extensive documentation of infidelity in a divorce proceeding?
Is some sort of non-executible stack possible on this architecture?
If I remember correctly, OpenBSD does not implement W^X on the MIPS architecture because the design of the unified data/instruction cache makes it impossible to mark pages as non-executible.
If NX/PaX/W^X will not work on this CPU, I'd be less inclined to attach it to the internet.
OpenBSD runs chroot() Apache. Does IIS have similar capability?
The chroot() patch was never taken up, but it would probably not be that difficult to install on Linux.
I would be disinclined to run any other way at this point.
Mac OS X is currently the greatest challenge to Windows on the client.
If OSX applications could run under an OpenVMS cluster... and never go down, do you think that Apple might get a bit of traction on the server?
Spyware has become the greatest threat to M$ dominance of the client.
Would your company consider replacing the IE rendering engine with Gecko, and abandoning ActiveX?
The alternative seems to be an ever-larger stream of customers who leave Win32 behind.
p.s. The UNIX community would feel much better about you if you released UNIX clients for your larger applications and protocols. How long do you think Oracle could get away with supporting their db client only on Win32? This is exactly what you do with SQL Server. Sometimes, you are your own worst enemy.
Ok, do something radical. Bring back NextSTEP. The ties are there with Apple already.
If Apple refuses, bring in a staff to complete GNUStep.
OpenVMS/GNUStep desktop? That would certainly raise Bill's blood pressure.
So you are arguing that doing nothing is better than trying to survive? A business strategy must revolve around quality products. Now is the time for decisive direction on product development.
Carly might as well have adopted "War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength" for the corporate slogan (at least for enterprise systems).
Sales are way down, lots of VPs have been terminated, and something needs to be done.
What exactly do you think that should be?
You don't understand. We are tired of HP making architecture decisions for us. HP should let the market itself decide. Maintaining both Itanium and Opteron is more reassuring than another jump.
You don't understand. CDE already runs on OpenVMS. X-Windows for VMS needs an update, and GNOME/KDE would be both market splash and reassurance.
Fine. Keep the power supply connector.
Now, HP, here is what you do next:
Successful execution of the above will put you back on the map and in the datacenter. When you've done it, adopt the slogan "HP - when you want the very best." Don't adopt the slogan before you can back it up.
OpenBSD's spamd can be configured to protect any sort of RFC822 MTA running on any platform, and it will put an end to spam. I hear that Postgrey does pretty well too.
If you are willing to live with a 5 minute delay in email from a previously unknown sender, then why torture yourselves any further?
Can they stop ctorrent?
Two societies - one governed by The Little Red Book, the other by the Declaration of Independence.
Which one do you think will work?
If the Chinese are such great people and trustworthy business partners, then why would they steal a W88?
The Chinese are large, powerful, and Machiavellian. China has no qualms in pushing us to the brink of war if it suits their desires.
I expect my government to be extremely cautious in dealing with China. They are the most dangerous situation we face today - our Arabic problems are a sideshow by comparison.
IBM is bringing out new Power systems targeted at Linux.
Might additional industry accolades be gained if this platform could also offer Solaris for the Power architecture?
This sort of tit-for-tat negotiation is better conducted behind closed doors. I imagine that Solaris on Power, plus more participation and control in Java, would make IBM very open to supporting Solaris wherever Sun wanted.
Screaming in a blog isn't going to do much good.
Cutler's original kernel was written in assembler. I assume that it was completely replaced with something in C. Was this done for VMS 5, or later (for the Alpha port)?
Was VMS designed with clustering in mind from the start? Did clusters really get going with v5?
Although, for a guy who implemented his kernel in assembler, Cutler's comment that UNIX "is a junk OS designed by a committee of Ph.D.s" is a little shaky, even if he was the project leader for Windows NT.
As far as I can tell from the 1st circuit decision, when I have my own MTA and I send sensitive, albeit unencrypted data out, the ISP can of course read that email, but it *is covered by the wiretap act* and if I catch them doing it the penalties are high, so if they act in any observable way on this data, I can sue them.
Now if I cannot use my own MTA to directly connect and they automatically queue all outgoing email to their hard drive, then I lose the protection of the wiretap act, and they can do whatever they want.
You're telling me that MySQL locks the entire table when I insert a row? You must be joking - that would bring a database to it's knees.
I'm an Oracle guy, and this is how they do it:
Oracle has the best technology in the industry, hands down (DB2 didn't even get triggers until v5). Postgres appears to be paying much more attention to Oracle's methods than MySQL.
Guess which database I'd use if I had no money to spend?
...please read SBC's rejection letter above in the thread.
I'd like to be able to use redhat's default sendmail config. How do I change the outgoing port without rebuilding sendmail.cf?
I'll back this off if I can't send email to any important contacts.
And how long until SBC blocks that too?
I am ameritech also. I found the notice on dslreports.com.
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