Obviously, I don't have all the facts (IANAL). However, from what I've learned from these articles, I won't purchase anything from etoys, and I will encourage others not to do so.
You do not have free license to be impolite just because you are a large company. A courteous exchange of links would have saved everyone a great deal of trouble.
The Sybase 11.0.3.3 server on Linux comes from the same code base as MS SQL server.
This release is almost entirely free - you just can't rent access to it in a "service bureau" context. Go from development to production with no fees at all, and use some of the same APIs that work with SQL server.
Yes, there's no support, but I don't see why anybody is buying the Microsoft stuff.
When I graduated from the University of Iowa in 1994, there were no computer science questions on the EIT. It was all basic engineering (thermodynamics, statics, basic circuit analysis, etc.).
I was weak in the cross-discipline engineering stuff anyway (because I knew that I would never use it). The test had absolutely no relevance for my career, so I didn't waste the money.
The EIT and professional engineering certification seem more geared to mechanical engineering. The only reason an electrical would want it is if they planned to be wiring buildings for a living.
Also, someone who has passed the EIT needs to work with a licensed engineer for several years before they are allowed to take the state-specific PE exam. You're not going to find such a licensed engineer in the computer science field.
For engineers going into computer science, it is a complete waste of money.
Ok, I guess that I should have stuck a great big this is a biased view notice at the top of my post. Point taken.
As far as the employee departure issue goes, this was not the departure of a run-of-the-mill employee. This was not a low-level position. As it appears to me, this was the lead GUI developer with Red Hat, although I could easily be mistaken.
I'm tired of swapping GUI environments; I want to see Red Hat stabilize. That's not going to happen in the next release if we go to Windowmaker, or some other wm that supports gnome. This issue is worthy of an address by somebody in authority, even if they chose not to address Raster's departure. Personally, I hope that inertia keeps us with E (I don't know what's in 6.1).
As far as the IPO is concerned, lots of trouble could have been avoided if Etrade qualified you before you sent the money. Being denied with nothing out of pocket is an entirely different situation than being denied after sending Etrade a couple grand and setting up an IRA with lots of sticky tax rules. Maybe SEC rules don't permit this.
And maybe it is a little unprofessional of me, and maybe what I'm saying is under heavy FUD influence. But this is only because I myself have fear, uncertainty and doubt regarding the situation.
Red Hat is the best UNIX company, IMHO. They are the first with new standards, the first to GPL their work, and their ideals are laudable and serve us all (e.g., KDE). But they have had a few high-profile problems recently, and they need to insure that the trend does not continue.
I think that the most profound lesson that any of us can take from the past three months is that we can no longer implicitly trust Red Hat, either as a product or as a corporate entity.
I guess things had to go this way, but it is disturbing as more and more of my career is based upon Red Hat. I would have liked to keep the trust up at least a little longer.
We've seen two main problems recently: the IPO, and Raster's departure. Raster asserts that E will no longer be Red Hat's choice of a window manager, to which Red Hat has not replied. More GUI confusion is the last thing that Red Hat needs at this time.
I think that Bob Young should have wished Raster well in a public way, then confirmed or denied if E will be ejected from future distributions.
These problems illustrate bad management. I only hope that the ominous trend does not continue.
As far as CDs go, I am shortly publishing material that will include Red Hat Linux. The legal staff is having difficulty in getting permission to merge the updates into the distribution. If I can't do this, there won't be room for all these updates.
IMHO, whenever the updates exceed 50MB, there should be an automatic new version with the updates applied.
Red Hat needs to get its act together in many ways, but this would be a good start.
While I realize that you might not be completely objective about this question, what do you think of the design of the HURD, as it compares to Linux?
I once asked Linus himself this question and he replied in rather annoyed tones that "the HURD is a great academic design that would never work in practice" (or something along those lines).
Richard Stallman has been steadfast in refusing to endorse Linux as the GNU kernel. Does he raise these objections merely for emotional reasons, or does he see the HURD as having real technical advantages to the current monolithic design?
Forgive me if I am uninformed on these issues; I am not a kernel developer.
I've got admin duties for Postgres, Sybase, and MySQL, and MySQL is the one that I dread the most.
Why is "createuser" or "sp_addlogin" something that is so difficult for MySQL to accomplish? Adding users should not require me to insert data directly into the system tables.
MySQL access rights may be cool, but what does it really have over pg_hba.conf? Does this awful setup really beat Sybase access rights plus ipchains?
I had to restore a copy of phpslash recently, and MySQL made it hell. I even went out and bought the O'Reilly book, but it was no help.
Contrary to the obstructionist views of our elected officials, Americans want the freedom to communicate with anyone in the world without the fear of eavesdropping.
The only motivation stronger than the unreasonable lust for power in our executive branch is the unreasonable lust for interns.
When the American public understands what the government is trying to do, the government will be voted out of office. Until such time, I hope that the global community continues to sell fine encryption products to the United States, as we are in obvious need of them.
The products so far have been of very fine quality. Please send more!
So, attached is what was waiting in my mailbox this morning.
Is there an attorney out there who can tell us if we have grounds for a class-action lawsuit?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:42:57 -0700 From: Jason Saxon Subject: Redhat Community Member
Dear Red Hat Community Member,
Thank you for your interest in participating in Red Hat's initial public offering. We are aware that you have recently not passed the online eligibility profile. Understandably, you are probably frustrated, especially if you feel you've entered a response in error.
We are required to determine whether a customer is suitable to participate in initial public offerings (IPOs), which are speculative in nature. Our online eligibility profile allows us to gather important information about your investment experience, goals and financial background, in order to determine your suitability in purchasing IPO shares.
If you feel you've entered your responses to the eligibility profile in error, please feel free to call us at 888-707-8680 and use the PIN 4263. One of our specially-appointed customer service associates will be happy to assist you in updating your profile.
The only real reason that you need SCSI emulation is for CDR.
By the way, I am very pleased with Red Hat 6 in that the stock kernel comes with SCSI emulation as a module. You pass the device name of the drive as a parameter to LILO, then modprobe the scsi emulation, and voila your CDR works. No kernel rebuild required. Peachy keen.
I've got to say that I've had problems with instability in RH6.
When I upgraded from Starbuck, GNOME would freeze everything (not just X) every couple of days.
Choosing an upgrade from Starbuck also somehow corrupted my XF86Config file (I had to run Xconfigurator again). With all the changes in xdm and xfs, I think that upgrade releases are of limited value.
I have since wiped and reloaded RH6, and the stability is much improved.
It doesn't matter how difficult these people are to manage - Red Hat must maintain GNOME development staff. Red Hat chose to make E part of GNOME; no better resource on E is available.
You can't buck the GUI trend of the rest of the Linux distributions and dispose of the developers at the same time.
The GNOME in RH6 is very much a work in progress. Substantial integration issues remain. The timing on this is catastrophic.
This is a suicidial move by Red Hat. They might as well drop back to fvwm95.
I saw Episode I this morning at 4 a.m. The title sums it up.
I don't see how Obi Wan and Yoda could have such depth of character in the previous films, and yet the Jedi with whom we spent so much time in this movie can be so flat and lifeless.
Good grief, if the emperor's lackey hadn't finished Liam Neilson, I would have done it myself. Lucas should try not to hire corpses for his leading roles in the future.
Speaking from an entirely biased viewpoint, I have no desire to see myself become any less mobile in this field because of certification restrictions.
I also have no desire to fund another bloated, useless bureaucracy.
While there are a few core skillsets that have remained constant in this field, too much changes too quickly for any of these silly tests to remain relevant.
I must admit, I felt that I was persecuted when I was younger. I had silly adolescent dreams of revenge.
I did not understand people well enough to prevent them from hurting me. The school system retarded my progress in gaining this understanding, and for this the system should be faulted.
But now I am older and this childish pain is gone. I took an engineering degree, and now I have great success. I have published. I have a beautiful house, and I bought a Mercedes two months ago.
There is no real profit in revenge. There is nothing to be gained in it.
It is difficult to stoically endure the torture of social ostracism, but it is really the only answer. "How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not."
I plead with you, my oppressed breatheren, do not yield to the temptation of violence. If you are patient, life will yeild to you such joy that will draw the envy of all of your tormenters.
Be patient, my friends. Your time will come.
glibc 2.1 and ssh-1.2.26 - how to do it.
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Oh damn - I forgot to say that you should do this to login.c.
If you are trying to compile ssh-1.2.26, comment out lines 437, 441, 442, and 454.
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Obviously, I don't have all the facts (IANAL). However, from what I've learned from these articles, I won't purchase anything from etoys, and I will encourage others not to do so.
You do not have free license to be impolite just because you are a large company. A courteous exchange of links would have saved everyone a great deal of trouble.
The Sybase 11.0.3.3 server on Linux comes from the same code base as MS SQL server.
This release is almost entirely free - you just can't rent access to it in a "service bureau" context. Go from development to production with no fees at all, and use some of the same APIs that work with SQL server.
Yes, there's no support, but I don't see why anybody is buying the Microsoft stuff.
When I graduated from the University of Iowa in 1994, there were no computer science questions on the EIT. It was all basic engineering (thermodynamics, statics, basic circuit analysis, etc.).
I was weak in the cross-discipline engineering stuff anyway (because I knew that I would never use it). The test had absolutely no relevance for my career, so I didn't waste the money.
The EIT and professional engineering certification seem more geared to mechanical engineering. The only reason an electrical would want it is if they planned to be wiring buildings for a living.
Also, someone who has passed the EIT needs to work with a licensed engineer for several years before they are allowed to take the state-specific PE exam. You're not going to find such a licensed engineer in the computer science field.
For engineers going into computer science, it is a complete waste of money.
Ok, I guess that I should have stuck a great big this is a biased view notice at the top of my post. Point taken.
As far as the employee departure issue goes, this was not the departure of a run-of-the-mill employee. This was not a low-level position. As it appears to me, this was the lead GUI developer with Red Hat, although I could easily be mistaken.
I'm tired of swapping GUI environments; I want to see Red Hat stabilize. That's not going to happen in the next release if we go to Windowmaker, or some other wm that supports gnome. This issue is worthy of an address by somebody in authority, even if they chose not to address Raster's departure. Personally, I hope that inertia keeps us with E (I don't know what's in 6.1).
As far as the IPO is concerned, lots of trouble could have been avoided if Etrade qualified you before you sent the money. Being denied with nothing out of pocket is an entirely different situation than being denied after sending Etrade a couple grand and setting up an IRA with lots of sticky tax rules. Maybe SEC rules don't permit this.
And maybe it is a little unprofessional of me, and maybe what I'm saying is under heavy FUD influence. But this is only because I myself have fear, uncertainty and doubt regarding the situation.
Red Hat is the best UNIX company, IMHO. They are the first with new standards, the first to GPL their work, and their ideals are laudable and serve us all (e.g., KDE). But they have had a few high-profile problems recently, and they need to insure that the trend does not continue.
I think that the most profound lesson that any of us can take from the past three months is that we can no longer implicitly trust Red Hat, either as a product or as a corporate entity.
I guess things had to go this way, but it is disturbing as more and more of my career is based upon Red Hat. I would have liked to keep the trust up at least a little longer.
We've seen two main problems recently: the IPO, and Raster's departure. Raster asserts that E will no longer be Red Hat's choice of a window manager, to which Red Hat has not replied. More GUI confusion is the last thing that Red Hat needs at this time.
I think that Bob Young should have wished Raster well in a public way, then confirmed or denied if E will be ejected from future distributions.
These problems illustrate bad management. I only hope that the ominous trend does not continue.
As far as CDs go, I am shortly publishing material that will include Red Hat Linux. The legal staff is having difficulty in getting permission to merge the updates into the distribution. If I can't do this, there won't be room for all these updates.
IMHO, whenever the updates exceed 50MB, there should be an automatic new version with the updates applied.
Red Hat needs to get its act together in many ways, but this would be a good start.
While I realize that you might not be completely objective about this question, what do you think of the design of the HURD, as it compares to Linux?
I once asked Linus himself this question and he replied in rather annoyed tones that "the HURD is a great academic design that would never work in practice" (or something along those lines).
Richard Stallman has been steadfast in refusing to endorse Linux as the GNU kernel. Does he raise these objections merely for emotional reasons, or does he see the HURD as having real technical advantages to the current monolithic design?
Forgive me if I am uninformed on these issues; I am not a kernel developer.
I've got admin duties for Postgres, Sybase, and MySQL, and MySQL is the one that I dread the most.
Why is "createuser" or "sp_addlogin" something that is so difficult for MySQL to accomplish? Adding users should not require me to insert data directly into the system tables.
MySQL access rights may be cool, but what does it really have over pg_hba.conf? Does this awful setup really beat Sybase access rights plus ipchains?
I had to restore a copy of phpslash recently, and MySQL made it hell. I even went out and bought the O'Reilly book, but it was no help.
Down with MySQL!
Contrary to the obstructionist views of our elected officials, Americans want the freedom to communicate with anyone in the world without the fear of eavesdropping.
The only motivation stronger than the unreasonable lust for power in our executive branch is the unreasonable lust for interns.
When the American public understands what the government is trying to do, the government will be voted out of office. Until such time, I hope that the global community continues to sell fine encryption products to the United States, as we are in obvious need of them.
The products so far have been of very fine quality. Please send more!
So, attached is what was waiting in my mailbox this morning.
Is there an attorney out there who can tell us if we have grounds for a class-action lawsuit?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:42:57 -0700
From: Jason Saxon
Subject: Redhat Community Member
Dear Red Hat Community Member,
Thank you for your interest in participating in Red Hat's initial public offering. We are aware that you have recently not passed the online eligibility profile. Understandably, you are probably frustrated, especially if you feel you've entered a response in error.
We are required to determine whether a customer is suitable to participate in initial public offerings (IPOs), which are speculative in nature. Our online eligibility profile allows us to gather important information about your investment experience, goals and financial background, in order to determine your suitability in purchasing IPO shares.
If you feel you've entered your responses to the eligibility profile in error, please feel free to call us at 888-707-8680 and use the PIN 4263. One of our specially-appointed customer service associates will be happy to assist you in updating your profile.
Thank you, again, for your interest.
E*TRADE Securities, Inc.
You think NT is so great?
Just try changing the permissions on a file from the command line.
The greatest OS in the world is worthless if it is built in such a way that you can't use it.
All netscape in RH6 crash on Java pages. Run the following command as root to fix it:
chkfontpath --addThe only real reason that you need SCSI emulation is for CDR.
By the way, I am very pleased with Red Hat 6 in that the stock kernel comes with SCSI emulation as a module. You pass the device name of the drive as a parameter to LILO, then modprobe the scsi emulation, and voila your CDR works. No kernel rebuild required. Peachy keen.
I used a NEC 4x4 IDE changer last year. It worked with no problem.
You use the eject command with the -c option. The eject man page specifically mentions that it works with IDE.
You must unmount the CD before the eject will work. It is not really very convenient.
I've got to say that I've had problems with instability in RH6.
When I upgraded from Starbuck, GNOME would freeze everything (not just X) every couple of days.
Choosing an upgrade from Starbuck also somehow corrupted my XF86Config file (I had to run Xconfigurator again). With all the changes in xdm and xfs, I think that upgrade releases are of limited value.
I have since wiped and reloaded RH6, and the stability is much improved.
It doesn't matter how difficult these people are to manage - Red Hat must maintain GNOME development staff. Red Hat chose to make E part of GNOME; no better resource on E is available.
You can't buck the GUI trend of the rest of the Linux distributions and dispose of the developers at the same time.
The GNOME in RH6 is very much a work in progress. Substantial integration issues remain. The timing on this is catastrophic.
This is a suicidial move by Red Hat. They might as well drop back to fvwm95.
I saw Episode I this morning at 4 a.m. The title sums it up.
I don't see how Obi Wan and Yoda could have such depth of character in the previous films, and yet the Jedi with whom we spent so much time in this movie can be so flat and lifeless.
Good grief, if the emperor's lackey hadn't finished Liam Neilson, I would have done it myself. Lucas should try not to hire corpses for his leading roles in the future.
Speaking from an entirely biased viewpoint, I have no desire to see myself become any less mobile in this field because of certification restrictions.
I also have no desire to fund another bloated, useless bureaucracy.
While there are a few core skillsets that have remained constant in this field, too much changes too quickly for any of these silly tests to remain relevant.
No, No, NO!.
I must admit, I felt that I was persecuted when I was younger. I had silly adolescent dreams of revenge.
I did not understand people well enough to prevent them from hurting me. The school system retarded my progress in gaining this understanding, and for this the system should be faulted.
But now I am older and this childish pain is gone. I took an engineering degree, and now I have great success. I have published. I have a beautiful house, and I bought a Mercedes two months ago.
There is no real profit in revenge. There is nothing to be gained in it.
It is difficult to stoically endure the torture of social ostracism, but it is really the only answer. "How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not."
I plead with you, my oppressed breatheren, do not yield to the temptation of violence. If you are patient, life will yeild to you such joy that will draw the envy of all of your tormenters.
Be patient, my friends. Your time will come.
Oh damn - I forgot to say that you should do this to login.c.
If you are trying to compile ssh-1.2.26, comment out lines 437, 441, 442, and 454.
I haven't tried the ssh-2 releases.
Would anyone from ssh like to comment?
If you are trying to compile ssh-1.2.26, comment out lines 437, 441, 442, and 454.
I haven't tried the ssh-2 releases.
Would anyone from ssh like to comment?