Yeah that's the way I'm starting to feel too. I feel like I'm playing the "I need 250 windows server cals and 52 TS cals and..." game I used to go through with MS. The sad part is that now MS icensing is dirt simple for me because of the EDU package we have.
I work for a largish Canadian University in the electrical engineering department. We have a fairly large deployed base of Red Hat workstations in labs and various research areas and most of the support staff uses Red Hat on our workstations. Some of the other departments (Computer Science for example) are big users as well.
Given the EOL of Red Hat 9 we've been working on just what we're going to do in the future. We talked with Red Hat about licensing and got back some really strange answers. There is the $2500 base site license that also requires a per FTE (full time employee or equivilent) fee of $x. This sounded pretty good until Red Hat told us that we needed to pay for every FTE in the University or have each department get it's own license. There is no way for the EE and CS departments to license together.
I can kind of understand wehre they are coming from on this but it really is a deal killer for us. Why would we license evey employee of the University for RHEL when only a small fraction actually use it? On the other hand, we've been looking at Fedora and it looks like we'll be able do deplaoy and manage it well. I don't really see why many organizations would go for RHEL given the current situation.
No he's not being a twit, this did happen. Somebody got in via an employee's VPN connected machine and it took them a while to notice. I'm not sure it was months however.
While I agree with the article's point of view I'd like to mention that I have never seen anything more complicated that a pencil used in a Canadian election.
Umm Email? No sir this is not email! It is a message generated with the Advanced Information Exchange Protocol. It, err, moves information from one user on a system to another user, possibly on a different system. It runs on TCP port 205. No email here, nothing to tax here. No sir.
I ould maybe change that to " Software is nothing in the enterprise without a support Contract".
I've had support contracts with MS, Redhat, Oracle, DIgital, Dell, IBM and others. I was sure I had a contract, I'm not so sure I always had useful support though.
The levy monies go to the Canadian Recording Artist's org. It does not go to fil or tv industry groups.
Nobody in any position of authority has said that the act covers p2p. The act states that you are alowed to make a copy of a recording for your own personal use. It does not mention anything like a p2p system, some guy on some website wrote an article with the opinion that it might, maybe be sort of relevant.
I had a chance to use a Viewsonic tablet for a couple days. I was really disapointed with it.
You take a P3-900, a 20GB disk, that nice big screen and jam it in a tablet and you get.... sucky battery life and a 5 pound tablet. I think that is what really killed it for me, I was lucky to get 3 hours out of it.
Also, I found the wireless card very lame, when compared to a Netgear PCMCIA card it had much less range. The wireless card also really did in the battery.
I think the tablet concept is really cool and I was pretty excited about it but it just turned out to be a flat notebook. And a cruddy "desktop replacement" style notebook at that. I want a tablet that is about 1/2 an inch thick, has good wireless and lasts for 8 hours on a charge.
I can understand where you are comming from on this. I'm in Calgary and I was talking to a guy on the train the other day who had a run in like that. He bumped into somebody at a rave and by the time he turned around to apologize he was already being stabbed. I think this is a big part of why I won't go to clubs anymore, there is always somebody out to cause trouble. More often than not it's your average Asian "ganster" types too.
The reason this bugs me is I now have to give up my privacy to go to a club. Not because I have done anything to deserve it but because I have to share the club with a bunch of sociopaths.
If anything I think that this makes a great argument for the idea of a semi-private club. Anyone can join but once you cause problems you are out on you ass. I don't know why that isn't a more popular idea.
On a technical note, I do like the way they have done this. Sharing the data in realtime is the best part of it.
You know perspective can be a funny thing. I used to live in Montreal and I can not think of a safer city to live in. I never felt threatened by someone I saw on the street there. Wondering around lost at 3 in the morning downtown, no problem. Hanging out at the Metro on St. Catherine and St Laurent waiting for the train to cart me home and passing out for a couple hours, no problem. Things like drug dealing and hookers don't bug me too much I guess. If you leave them alone, they leave you alone.
Now I did not feel the same way visiting Manhattan although it wasn't bad per say. People seemed a much more tense though. Now Seattle, staying in Pioneer Square for a week, that was scary.
Boss: I thought I told you to put that RPC patch an all our client's servers.
Me: I did.
Boss: How come these guys have Blaster then?
Me: I dunno.
Now imgaine having that conversation starting out with:
Boss: On of our clients is being fined for worm traffic...
As much as I realize that people failing to update is one of the largest enablers of these worms, I know it is possible to do everything you are suppsed to and still get nailed. Firewalled (externally) and patched but I'm still cleaning it up. I don't think I deserve a fine for that.
It's not his fault he doesn't know that. My mom works in a school library and a few years ago she had to help some kids look up the War of 1812 for a report they were doing.
Half the kids got books published in the US and the other half got books published in Canada or other parts of the world. Much confusion occured because everyone with an American book thought the US won the war. Also interesting is that only a few of the American books mentioned that the Whitehouse was burnt to the ground.
This certainly has a lot to do with me not buying as many CDs anymore. Everyone I kow has a big fat "this stuff sucks" pile somewhere. I can remember a CD that got passed to five of my friends one after another. I gave it away, that person passed it on, etc. This was a top of the charts type CD, Jennifer Lopez's first one I think. Everyone hated it.
I just went through a stack of about 20 CDs that I've purchased in the last year or so. Only one is produced or distributed by a major label. Those CDs I like. Lawsuits are easier than making good music I guess.
I read the article you linked to and I'm not really sure I'd want to bet on that line of reasoning.
The act specifically allows you to make a copy of a recording for yourself. I am allowed to borrow a CD from someone and make a copy for myself. The author of the article reasons that
a) Downloading a song is the same as making a copy of the song from a CD you have in your hand.
b) The person sharing the song is simply "loaning" it to you so you can make a copy.
Now I think you might be able to sucessfuly argue A but B is the kind of pushing it. I don't think you'd have much luck with that kind of defence if you ever ended up in court over it. Could be that is why the RIAA's local stooge hasn't tried this in Canada yet however. Tough call.
Playing shell games with inspectors and flagrantly violating UN resolutions for ten years is "bending over backwards"?
By saying "inspectors" you seemed to be implying "weapons inspectors". The primary objective of those inspectors was to find WMDs or WMD programs and shut them down.
What company does NOT demand auto updating anti-virus software on every system connecting to their corporate network? What company does not have a person in charge of installing MS patches within 24-48 hours of their availability? Dont give me that crap about being afraid of the patches, because if they damage your network, you can blame Microsoft and save your fucking job.
24 to 48 hours is pretty damn quick for a patch. This paticular one caused 2 problems that I know of, it screwed up a graphics program called Gmax and it caused a failure of the RPC service on Windows 2000 SBS that didn't have SP4 installed.
I work as a consultant for small companys. I have a standard package we sell with a server and SBS and the option for one of our techs to spend 4 hours a week doing prevenative maintenance and keeping an eye on things for a monthly fee. Almost nobody goes for the weekly visit package, they don't think it is cost effective. Every one of those clients has ended up paying for some 2 day nightmare problem that could have been caught and headed off by routine checks. Most of them still think it's not worth it.
This isn't a black and white issue. All of my clients that had maintenance agreements were patched. Some of the others were as well, if we were doing some work that required a reboot we'd install it at that time. Probably 50% were not patched, they won't pay me to keep the machines up to date, and I'm not doing it for free. I went and did most of them Monday night, given the press coverage people were _now_ willing to cough up the money for me do deal with it. There is a difference in thier mind between me saying that this is going to be a problem soon (as I told everyone as soon as I read the advisory on the 16th) and the CNN anchor saying it is a problem now. My emergency rate is $100 an hour, I don't like having to do this but I'm not crying either.
One of my clients did get nailed though. They are running SBS 2000 SP3 with the pach installed, I only deployed this machine 3 weeks ago. I don't know what happened yet but some change subsequent to the patch rolled the old PRC service executable in. I got the call saying exchange wasn't working any more, I poked around, found the problem and fixed it. Took about 2 hours. Is this really my fault this happened? I did my best to install the patch, Symantec corp edition was running with Live update and the latest defs, it didn't catch it. Can you really find a way to justify terminating my contract for this? Sometimes shit happens, not eveybody that got hit with this is a moron.
BTW, I let my MCSE lapse because it was embarassing.
You might have installed the patch and still got hit with the worm. I know this happened to one of my clients Win 2000 servers. I set it up about 3 weeks ago, I _know_ I installed that patch, I made a point of it as the RPC vulnerability scared the shit out of me. When I looked last night, it was infected.
With something like this it is pretty easy do "undo " the patch by installing something else afterwards. For the life of me I can't figure out what would have changed the RPC service, I suspect exchange.
Shit happens man, this is not the first time I've seen this.
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Where in the name of dog are you buying your CDs? Look around a bit more my friend, you can usually get a 10 pack with cases for $10 - $12.
You're confused, I'm confused, so is the RH sales guy. None of this makes sense any more.
That's kind of strange isn't it.
Given the EOL of Red Hat 9 we've been working on just what we're going to do in the future. We talked with Red Hat about licensing and got back some really strange answers. There is the $2500 base site license that also requires a per FTE (full time employee or equivilent) fee of $x. This sounded pretty good until Red Hat told us that we needed to pay for every FTE in the University or have each department get it's own license. There is no way for the EE and CS departments to license together.
I can kind of understand wehre they are coming from on this but it really is a deal killer for us. Why would we license evey employee of the University for RHEL when only a small fraction actually use it? On the other hand, we've been looking at Fedora and it looks like we'll be able do deplaoy and manage it well. I don't really see why many organizations would go for RHEL given the current situation.
If I can find a reference I'll post it.
*cough* Tom Clancy *cough*
While I agree with the article's point of view I'd like to mention that I have never seen anything more complicated that a pencil used in a Canadian election.
Do we really need to play this game?
I've had support contracts with MS, Redhat, Oracle, DIgital, Dell, IBM and others. I was sure I had a contract, I'm not so sure I always had useful support though.
Both stories are by THE SAME GUY!
Nobody in any position of authority has said that the act covers p2p. The act states that you are alowed to make a copy of a recording for your own personal use. It does not mention anything like a p2p system, some guy on some website wrote an article with the opinion that it might, maybe be sort of relevant.
You take a P3-900, a 20GB disk, that nice big screen and jam it in a tablet and you get.... sucky battery life and a 5 pound tablet. I think that is what really killed it for me, I was lucky to get 3 hours out of it.
Also, I found the wireless card very lame, when compared to a Netgear PCMCIA card it had much less range. The wireless card also really did in the battery.
I think the tablet concept is really cool and I was pretty excited about it but it just turned out to be a flat notebook. And a cruddy "desktop replacement" style notebook at that. I want a tablet that is about 1/2 an inch thick, has good wireless and lasts for 8 hours on a charge.
Nuclear reactors don't make electricity.
The reason this bugs me is I now have to give up my privacy to go to a club. Not because I have done anything to deserve it but because I have to share the club with a bunch of sociopaths.
If anything I think that this makes a great argument for the idea of a semi-private club. Anyone can join but once you cause problems you are out on you ass. I don't know why that isn't a more popular idea.
On a technical note, I do like the way they have done this. Sharing the data in realtime is the best part of it.
Now I did not feel the same way visiting Manhattan although it wasn't bad per say. People seemed a much more tense though. Now Seattle, staying in Pioneer Square for a week, that was scary.
I don't know the ins and outs of how that works but I do recall that some ISPs were fighting to get common carrier status and lost.
Yeus, Captain Tractor be good music for today.
Boss: I thought I told you to put that RPC patch an all our client's servers.
Me: I did.
Boss: How come these guys have Blaster then?
Me: I dunno.
Now imgaine having that conversation starting out with:
Boss: On of our clients is being fined for worm traffic...
As much as I realize that people failing to update is one of the largest enablers of these worms, I know it is possible to do everything you are suppsed to and still get nailed. Firewalled (externally) and patched but I'm still cleaning it up. I don't think I deserve a fine for that.
Half the kids got books published in the US and the other half got books published in Canada or other parts of the world. Much confusion occured because everyone with an American book thought the US won the war. Also interesting is that only a few of the American books mentioned that the Whitehouse was burnt to the ground.
This certainly has a lot to do with me not buying as many CDs anymore. Everyone I kow has a big fat "this stuff sucks" pile somewhere. I can remember a CD that got passed to five of my friends one after another. I gave it away, that person passed it on, etc. This was a top of the charts type CD, Jennifer Lopez's first one I think. Everyone hated it.
I just went through a stack of about 20 CDs that I've purchased in the last year or so. Only one is produced or distributed by a major label. Those CDs I like. Lawsuits are easier than making good music I guess.
The act specifically allows you to make a copy of a recording for yourself. I am allowed to borrow a CD from someone and make a copy for myself. The author of the article reasons that
a) Downloading a song is the same as making a copy of the song from a CD you have in your hand.
b) The person sharing the song is simply "loaning" it to you so you can make a copy.
Now I think you might be able to sucessfuly argue A but B is the kind of pushing it. I don't think you'd have much luck with that kind of defence if you ever ended up in court over it. Could be that is why the RIAA's local stooge hasn't tried this in Canada yet however. Tough call.
The CD levy is $.21 btw.
By saying "inspectors" you seemed to be implying "weapons inspectors". The primary objective of those inspectors was to find WMDs or WMD programs and shut them down.
So you meant fruit inspectors or something?
Happened to me last week. Backups gooood.
24 to 48 hours is pretty damn quick for a patch. This paticular one caused 2 problems that I know of, it screwed up a graphics program called Gmax and it caused a failure of the RPC service on Windows 2000 SBS that didn't have SP4 installed.
I work as a consultant for small companys. I have a standard package we sell with a server and SBS and the option for one of our techs to spend 4 hours a week doing prevenative maintenance and keeping an eye on things for a monthly fee. Almost nobody goes for the weekly visit package, they don't think it is cost effective. Every one of those clients has ended up paying for some 2 day nightmare problem that could have been caught and headed off by routine checks. Most of them still think it's not worth it.
This isn't a black and white issue. All of my clients that had maintenance agreements were patched. Some of the others were as well, if we were doing some work that required a reboot we'd install it at that time. Probably 50% were not patched, they won't pay me to keep the machines up to date, and I'm not doing it for free. I went and did most of them Monday night, given the press coverage people were _now_ willing to cough up the money for me do deal with it. There is a difference in thier mind between me saying that this is going to be a problem soon (as I told everyone as soon as I read the advisory on the 16th) and the CNN anchor saying it is a problem now. My emergency rate is $100 an hour, I don't like having to do this but I'm not crying either.
One of my clients did get nailed though. They are running SBS 2000 SP3 with the pach installed, I only deployed this machine 3 weeks ago. I don't know what happened yet but some change subsequent to the patch rolled the old PRC service executable in. I got the call saying exchange wasn't working any more, I poked around, found the problem and fixed it. Took about 2 hours. Is this really my fault this happened? I did my best to install the patch, Symantec corp edition was running with Live update and the latest defs, it didn't catch it. Can you really find a way to justify terminating my contract for this? Sometimes shit happens, not eveybody that got hit with this is a moron.
BTW, I let my MCSE lapse because it was embarassing.
With something like this it is pretty easy do "undo " the patch by installing something else afterwards. For the life of me I can't figure out what would have changed the RPC service, I suspect exchange.
Shit happens man, this is not the first time I've seen this.