Kdawson always posts complete and utter bullshit, but this really is over the line. I've been reading Slashdot for a long long time, but if this is seriously what makes it on the front page these days, there's really no point in even visiting here anymore.
It's been real everyone, last one out hit the lights.
I work for a SaaS company, and when we go through the inevitable rounds of security discussions any mention of open source software can be met with grumbles and a big discussion justifying it's use with some of our larger customers. Fun times!
It's not $4000 per product, it's $4000 for ALL the products
They also provide a variety of workarounds (registry files you can apply, and scripts to apply to a large number of machines remotely) for Windows 2000. If you don't like that, there's unofficial patches as well (http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/01/unoffici al-windows-2000-daylight.html)
Oh god help the IT people who have to administer those Office 2000 installations.:(
Office 2000 has to be the biggest pain in the ass to get patched and kept up to date out of any piece of consumer level commercial software I've ever seen.
I agree 100%. Look at all the promises Sony made about the PS2. How many of the came true??? Is the PS2 tying everything in your house together? Are you downloading movies (legally) and watching them on the PS2? Where's all the online services that Sony promised?
Sony has the position now of being able to sit down and say anything they want about the PS3.
So the "open source" response to iTunes is just a knockoff of iTunes, that runs only on Windows, and connects to music stores that no one wants to buy from?
You are wrong, but it seems you're not willing to accept it.
The only "subscription" based software licensing program Microsoft has right now is the Enterprise Subscription Agreement. On everything else, you OWN THE LICENSES once you purchase them, and not just for the term of the agreement.
I guess because I called you on your incorrect statement, I must not be able to understand acronyms and have no knowledge on what you're talking about.:rolleyes:
We have plenty of software licensed from Microsoft through various licensing programs. The expiration date is for the expiration of Software Assurance (if you purchased it), or the expiration date to purchase any other licenses at the open license programs.
Hell, I'm pretty sure this IS the press release, or at least excerpts from it (from here:
Mindawn, a revolutionary new online music and video service, has been selected by the University of California system as a partner to provide music and video to their approximate 200,000 large student population.
Universities across the country are facing increasing pressure to curb the practice of individuals distributing digital files of copyrighted songs and movies without permission on university networks. As creators and owners of intellectual property and licensed technology, UC has a strong commitment to upholding intellectual property laws, including the need to protect against the illegal sharing of copyrighted materials in digital format, which is where Mindawn comes in.
Most online music services tie the user to one or at best two computer platforms: iTunes is only for Mac OS X and Windows; Napster is Windows-only. Mindawn, on the other hand, works with all three major platforms -- Windows, Mac OS X and Linux -- and is fully compatible with all three. With Mindawn's cross-platform client software, you can even hear a full preview of the entire song, unlike competing services, which only offer brief excerpts.
Competitors also normally only offer music files that are reduced in quality through what's called " lossy compression". The more compressed a file is, the greater the loss in sound quality. By contrast, Mindawn offers its files in both Ogg Vorbis and FLAC formats. Ogg Vorbis, unlike MP3, is a totally free and open sound format, and offers superior sound quality compared to MP3 and other compression techniques. Meanwhile, FLAC is full CD quality and while 50% smaller, can easily be converted to AIFF or WAV files for use in standard CD players or converted to virtually any other lossy format for use on any portable media player.
Mindawn is the only online music service to offer FLAC and Ogg Vorbis as its standard music file formats, and is the only service to offer music in both "lossy" and "lossless" forms in addition to video.
"Mindawn will be a valuable partner for campuses instituting online entertainment programs because of its wide range of content by independent artists and its offer to allow UC students to market their own music," said David Walker, Director of Advanced Technology for the University of California, who oversaw the selection of vendors for UC . "This is an important endeavor that we are embarking on, and we are pleased to be working with an established leader on the project."
Shawn Gordon, President of Mindawn (theKompany) had this to say, "We are honored and excited to have been chosen to work with such a prestigious University system. We're confident that the technology we bring to the table will be a great fit for UC".
I have a smaller array, but it's been largely trouble free.
However, when a drive did drop off line, unless things are on their own channel, it seems to knock off the entire IDE channel as well. It ended up taking the better part of a day to get everything back online again, without any data loss.
It even seems like any time there's an IDE hiccup, you can knock your array offline.
It's definitely cheaper than hardware RAID, and I haven't noticed any performance problems, but sometimes the stability of good old SCSI raid is something I miss.:(
I don't recall seeing this in the EULA earlier, perhaps it has changed?
They also used to offer a RedHat AS Developer Edition for $60. This didn't offer any support at all, and was only licensed for use test, development and QA environments. This seems to have gone away, and the old AS Developer Edition url now points to their WS (desktop) product.
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Kdawson always posts complete and utter bullshit, but this really is over the line. I've been reading Slashdot for a long long time, but if this is seriously what makes it on the front page these days, there's really no point in even visiting here anymore.
It's been real everyone, last one out hit the lights.
I work for a SaaS company, and when we go through the inevitable rounds of security discussions any mention of open source software can be met with grumbles and a big discussion justifying it's use with some of our larger customers. Fun times!
True, I was just lazy and bored. :)
Shitty article with a misleading headline posted on Slashdot about Microsoft? I'M SHOCKED.
I've been running Ubuntu Server using Hyper-V since 2008 came out without any problems.
It's not $4000 per product, it's $4000 for ALL the products
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They also provide a variety of workarounds (registry files you can apply, and scripts to apply to a large number of machines remotely) for Windows 2000. If you don't like that, there's unofficial patches as well (http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/01/unoffic
Yay for overblown stories!
OMG M$ SUX THIS IS TERRIBLE I CAN'T EVEN FIGUrE OUT HOW TO LOGIN.
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I've saved the rest of you the trouble of reading all the way through this trash.
The foil IS PART OF the heat transfer material. Intel uses it on the pentium 4s, I've seen it on Dell servers as well.
Just another case of idiots on the internet pulling out the "jump to conclusions" mat.
Oh god help the IT people who have to administer those Office 2000 installations. :(
Office 2000 has to be the biggest pain in the ass to get patched and kept up to date out of any piece of consumer level commercial software I've ever seen.
So how do they get entourage & their PDAs syncd to this?
I agree 100%. Look at all the promises Sony made about the PS2. How many of the came true??? Is the PS2 tying everything in your house together? Are you downloading movies (legally) and watching them on the PS2? Where's all the online services that Sony promised?
Sony has the position now of being able to sit down and say anything they want about the PS3.
So the "open source" response to iTunes is just a knockoff of iTunes, that runs only on Windows, and connects to music stores that no one wants to buy from?
FANTASTIC!
Why did this get rated down? This really is a stupid, stupid question.
It's worked fine for us for since our initial Windows 2000 deployment. Just set it once in group policy, and don't worry about it again.
You are wrong, but it seems you're not willing to accept it.
The only "subscription" based software licensing program Microsoft has right now is the Enterprise Subscription Agreement. On everything else, you OWN THE LICENSES once you purchase them, and not just for the term of the agreement.
OH JESUS CHRIST.
:rolleyes:
I guess because I called you on your incorrect statement, I must not be able to understand acronyms and have no knowledge on what you're talking about.
We have plenty of software licensed from Microsoft through various licensing programs. The expiration date is for the expiration of Software Assurance (if you purchased it), or the expiration date to purchase any other licenses at the open license programs.
Uh, that's 100% wrong. An open license doesn't require any kind of repurchase in a certain amount of years. Using it after that time isn't illegal.
Who the hell modded this up?
Did anyone actually READ this article?
This company just replaced some of their windows firewall servers (running checkpoint) with OpenBSD. How is this a story? Where's the nightmare?
Quoted from the article:
"most of the migration to OpenBSD was replacing network security devices with Intel servers"
Out of all the movies to go to jail for, this guy picks Daredevil. Ugh.
I have a smaller array, but it's been largely trouble free.
:(
However, when a drive did drop off line, unless things are on their own channel, it seems to knock off the entire IDE channel as well. It ended up taking the better part of a day to get everything back online again, without any data loss.
It even seems like any time there's an IDE hiccup, you can knock your array offline.
It's definitely cheaper than hardware RAID, and I haven't noticed any performance problems, but sometimes the stability of good old SCSI raid is something I miss.
Except there's no drivers for it.....
I imagine it's only a matter of time before SanDisk drops support, as the Zire 71 is a discontinued model.
I don't recall seeing this in the EULA earlier, perhaps it has changed?
They also used to offer a RedHat AS Developer Edition for $60. This didn't offer any support at all, and was only licensed for use test, development and QA environments. This seems to have gone away, and the old AS Developer Edition url now points to their WS (desktop) product.
Here's a guide
2nd link in google. (searching for ie6 full download)
Thanks. I noticed the file names were the same as the old one, and was about to ask.
You're thinking of another thing called Blackboard.
Way to read the article, champ.