Nope. The good thing about Philips (arguably the most important cd patent holder) is that they got out of the media business by selling Polygram to Seagram. This is why they're on our side in stuff like this. That's also why they (and not e.g. Sony) are behind Tivo. They don't have to protect the IP of their media daughter anymore.
Tob
Re:Good Fnarg! that article is so full of shit.
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I wouldn't want to be the monkey in charge of swapping backup tapes for that filesystem:) It would be a full time job.
That's what you have tapesilo's for. I know sites with 3 silo's, each containing 5000 tapes. That's about 100 TB of storage per silo (depending on the kind of tape). And despite that, they still have people working fulltime carrying tapes around.
Tob
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How clueless can this guy be ? If someone went to such great lengths to defeat the 2gb limit, then I'm pretty sure it's because it's been a problem for a while. Uncompressed video comes to mind, where a reasonable clip bucket can contain well over 10gb of data. Databases also get pretty huge when you start collection data from the web (search engines perhaps, or DoubleClick stats). Next.
Once you've had one of your users fill up you 200 GB filesystem with a 150 GB logfile, you'll never look back again. And yes, I really mean 200 GB, as in 5 of these filesystems give you a terabyte. There really are people with that much data.
> I would contend that at least in the case of
> Bradly (Who I met and supported) the reason he
> lost is that in truth his poistions were not
> that much different from Gore's.
On some site, that allowed you to compare your position to that of a number of candidates, Bradley was the best match for me at ~60%, Gore was around 40%.
> And I don't know of any electoral system in the
> world where you don't have the problem from time
> to time of 2 very dull canidates.
I've never seen that happen in the Netherlands, we often have 3-6 dull candidates, and 3+ candidates that are anything but dull. I always vote for dull candidates because I don't want to live in interesting times. (Remember the chinese proverb?)
You want to be able to debug a running linux system remotely? Would running gdb remotely through a serial line work for you? Nobody is claiming (well, at least I'm not:) that linux is perfect. It's just that it's moving towards greatness with incredible speed.
If I remember correctly Bill Gates got an honorary doctorate from the only dutch private university Nijenrode. This university deals in business administration, and related subjects. No technology at all. Although they call themselves a university, it's more a school than an institution dedicated to science.
The shop where I always go to rent black and white tie, and morning suits, showed me a picture of Bill in his white tie dress, receiving his doctorate, because he had provided the suit. After I told him I don't like old Bill all that much he started complaining about the lack of style on Bill's part because he wore sneakers under his white tie.
I quite enjoyed the sight of Bill dressed up as a penguin though.:)
Tob (who openly admits to actually enjoying wearing formal dress, as opposed to the norm in our circles.)
> doesn't allow even internal distribution like > the GPL explicitly does
Quote please? Everybody is talking about this. I've tried reading it, but can't find this. Could you enlighten me? Or are you just repeating what other people have claimed here? As far as I can tell the GPL just says that you can't _copy or distribute_ without keeping the GPL on it.
I've tried reading the GPL, and my understanding of it is that you have no duties to the world at large. You have mostly two duties when accepting the GPL. - If you give someone binaries, you have to provide source if they want it. - You have to license software containing GPLed code using GPL when giving somebody a copy.
What follows from this is that Corel is wrong in putting restrictions on beta testers. Intel may be perfectly in accord with the GPL. Anyone who has a copy of their merced code has a right to distribute it, and has a right to the source.
Do you know of anyone abused of these rights? I can imagine that Intel kindly requested everyone not to distribute yet. That would be fine, depending on how kindly they requested it.
I sent a mail to unisys to thank them for their effort to stimulate the non-american computer industry:
Hi Guys,
Thank you for your idiotic behaviour regarding the lzw patents. With a bit of luck, your abuse (and that of many other companies) of the american patent system will kill off the american computer industry, leaving other countries to take over.
They claim there is no proper backup system for Linux. Perhaps the standard PC-centric tools like ARCserve are not, but at least on the client side, Legato Networker is available on linux. The best backup system I've ever seen, easily handling Unices, NT, Novell, and Mac systems mixed together from one (or more) server(s).
In my high-school (in the Netherlands) the official school newspaper was a little too official. Students started their own. School authorities forbade its distribution. It was passed out outside of the school gates. A year later it was an official school paper, and the old one slowly died. When I left school the whole story had started afresh, with a new upstart paper that had to be distributed outside the school gates. A lot of people learned a lot about standing up for themselves, which was a positive result of a dictatorial regime.
> I cant help but wonder who has a chance to > compete against SGI in the high end workstation > market with one of these babies.....
The funny thing is that they are not high end workstations. They're intended to be low-end workstations, not as competition for their Octanes. It's just that some high-end workstations will have trouble keeping up.:)
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Nope. The good thing about Philips (arguably the most important cd patent holder) is that they got out of the media business by selling Polygram to Seagram. This is why they're on our side in stuff like this. That's also why they (and not e.g. Sony) are behind Tivo. They don't have to protect the IP of their media daughter anymore.
Tob
That's what you have tapesilo's for. I know sites with 3 silo's, each containing 5000 tapes. That's about 100 TB of storage per silo (depending on the kind of tape). And despite that, they still have people working fulltime carrying tapes around.
Tob
Once you've had one of your users fill up you 200 GB filesystem with a 150 GB logfile, you'll never look back again. And yes, I really mean 200 GB, as in 5 of these filesystems give you a terabyte. There really are people with that much data.
Tob
> I would contend that at least in the case of
> Bradly (Who I met and supported) the reason he
> lost is that in truth his poistions were not
> that much different from Gore's.
On some site, that allowed you to compare your position to that of a number of candidates, Bradley was the best match for me at ~60%, Gore was around 40%.
> And I don't know of any electoral system in the
> world where you don't have the problem from time
> to time of 2 very dull canidates.
I've never seen that happen in the Netherlands, we often have 3-6 dull candidates, and 3+ candidates that are anything but dull. I always vote for dull candidates because I don't want to live in interesting times. (Remember the chinese proverb?)
Tob
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kgdb/
Last I looked oil was doing $22-$23 per barrel. Not $50, but definitely more then the mentioned range.
Tob
Staying alert makes you look nervous and a prime target. It helps once you get mugged, but doesn't help preventing mugging.
Showing supreme confidence by ignoring the world around you is much more likely to hold off muggers.
Just my experience.
Tob
If I remember correctly Bill Gates got an honorary doctorate from the only dutch private university Nijenrode. This university deals in business administration, and related subjects. No technology at all. Although they call themselves a university, it's more a school than an institution dedicated to science.
:)
The shop where I always go to rent black and white tie, and morning suits, showed me a picture of Bill in his white tie dress, receiving his doctorate, because he had provided the suit. After I told him I don't like old Bill all that much he started complaining about the lack of style on Bill's part because he wore sneakers under his white tie.
I quite enjoyed the sight of Bill dressed up as a penguin though.
Tob (who openly admits to actually enjoying wearing formal dress, as opposed to the norm in our circles.)
> doesn't allow even internal distribution like
> the GPL explicitly does
Quote please? Everybody is talking about this. I've tried reading it, but can't find this. Could you enlighten me? Or are you just repeating what other people have claimed here? As far as I can tell the GPL just says that you can't _copy or distribute_ without keeping the GPL on it.
Tob
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
I've tried reading the GPL, and my understanding of it is that you have no duties to the world at large. You have mostly two duties when accepting the GPL.
- If you give someone binaries, you have to provide source if they want it.
- You have to license software containing GPLed code using GPL when giving somebody a copy.
What follows from this is that Corel is wrong in putting restrictions on beta testers. Intel may be perfectly in accord with the GPL. Anyone who has a copy of their merced code has a right to distribute it, and has a right to the source.
Do you know of anyone abused of these rights? I can imagine that Intel kindly requested everyone not to distribute yet. That would be fine, depending on how kindly they requested it.
Tob
Sorry, can't agree there. It's extremely bad form for a company to publicly discuss a former employee's departure.
Tob
I sent a mail to unisys to thank them for their effort to stimulate the non-american computer industry:
Hi Guys,
Thank you for your idiotic behaviour regarding the lzw patents. With a bit of luck, your abuse (and that of many other companies) of the american patent system will kill off the american computer industry, leaving other countries to take over.
Thanks for helping us!
Tobias Nijweide
They claim there is no proper backup system for Linux. Perhaps the standard PC-centric tools like ARCserve are not, but at least on the client side, Legato Networker is available on linux. The best backup system I've ever seen, easily handling Unices, NT, Novell, and Mac systems mixed together from one (or more) server(s).
Kremvax was named by Piet Beertema long before any russians joined usenet/internet.
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http://www.lysator.liu.se/hackdict/split/kremva
HTH
Tob
In my high-school (in the Netherlands) the official school newspaper was a little too official. Students started their own. School authorities forbade its distribution. It was passed out outside of the school gates. A year later it was an official school paper, and the old one slowly died. When I left school the whole story had started afresh, with a new upstart paper that had to be distributed outside the school gates. A lot of people learned a lot about standing up for themselves, which was a positive result of a dictatorial regime.
> I cant help but wonder who has a chance to
:)
> compete against SGI in the high end workstation
> market with one of these babies.....
The funny thing is that they are not high end workstations. They're intended to be low-end workstations, not as competition for their Octanes. It's just that some high-end workstations will have trouble keeping up.