It can work. Remember that we're dealing with the general public here. We as technicians know spyware companies' names by heart because we deal with them hand's-on. The end user just knows "it was slow and had popups" and we subsequently "fixed it."
Example: eAnthology/eAcceleration/Stop Sign, etc. I remember removing tons of their spyware apps. Now they advertise on national television for their Anti-Virus packages, claiming to "make it faster than the day you got it." Did they clean up their act? I have no idea, frankly. But I know people are buying it.
I was addicted to MUDs, too. Currently I'm addicted to XBox. Just because (before I got another job) I spent 12-18 hours straight on the computer or with a controller in my hands doesn't mean I forgot to eat or sleep. Now I didn't eat well, just some Ramen, Mountain Dew, and who knows what other junk, but I did force some things into my stomach. And sleep eventually takes care of itself. Though the random characters from a face impacting the keyboard can have a negative effect on your gameplay...:)
IBM practices what it preaches, too. Several of our support tools (like ServeRAID Manager) run on bootable Linux kernels, and we have versions of our flash and log-gathering utilities for Linux OSes. It's pretty cool.
Our internal workstations are still Windows and Lotus, though, sadly.:)
This is probably true, which is surprising since Google is one of the sites filtered by China's Greate Firewall. If I recall correctly that's part of the reason the Google Mirror was set up.
If the controller fails in a serious hardware RAID setup, you can replace the controller and reimport the configuration. Granted, you did say "most" hardware RAID setups, but I do not think that this is a good justification for a bad idea. Even if you can't reimport the config, sometimes you can recreate the array around the data. And if it's a mirror, just re-set primary and secondary.
Just because some hardware RAID configurations have the controller as a weak point doesn't mean that "RAID on a hard drive itself" makes any sense.
Nor RAID 0, for that matter. But that's another argument for another day.:)
I'm not sure what area you work in, but I too work for IBM and I don't see it that way. Perhaps it's just because I'm in a support sector that is firmly established as staying on American soil and has an excellent, non-rigid working environment.
Sure, companies do things with the bottom line in mind. And I don't disagree that this move is shrewd. But saying there is not a bit of altruism is quite cynical. IBM also just volunteered its call centers to the government to work (paid) overtime answering calls from Katrina victims. They also have transferred employees to that area to work emergency support; provided 100's of Thinkpads to various agencies for testing water, processing calls, etc; got the Naval Oceanographic Office's satcom re-established so FEMA can use it as a staging area; and the list goes on. This is just for this one event. Yes, of course it is excellent PR, but good PR doesn't have to equal evil intentions.
And if you're so displeased at IBM, maybe you should volunteer for this program. Sounds like your manager might approve you.:)
This is a volunteer program at this point, and it sounds like the target is middle or high school, not college. They're wanting kids to do better on the standardized tests and go to college more prepared. The major effect on "the industry" will still be caused by college teachers.
Somehow I doubt the $80k-$100k salaried employees will be the ones applying and/or picked. Probably people more like me, making $40k in support, not $100k in product development.
Yeah, I know I do. I hate starting Lotus up. Using NotesBuddy helps a tad. It's a Sametime client that can act as a trimmed-down front-end to your Lotus Notes, so you rarely have to open it.
Any country where the students have planned walk-out protests every year (les manifestations, if I recall) can't have a strong basis in anti-corporate labor, can it?:)
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The only project they list is the Human Proteome Folding Project.
I know the UD client had some issues, which is why they dropped off of the face of the earth for awhile. I personally stopped using it because every time I installed it I ended up with an infected file on my hard drive. I never heard back from their support, so I don't know if it was a false positive, a corrupted mirror, or what. I just went back to SETI. So far this one has been okay. I mainly run it because, as I mentioned, it's kosher on my work desktop.
At IBM we're encouraged to run the World Community Grid program, since it's "Powered by IBM."
Some of you might remember it's original incarnation, the United Devices client. UD is still involved, and it's still on the same projects, like the Human Proteome Folding Project.
How about the fact that there are free viewers available for any Microsoft format? Merely link to them (as you have to do for PDF), and you're good to go.
As has already been mentioned, this was a purely monetary move. And an ostentatious one, at that.
And performance is only increased depending on the RAID levels available. Most likely they will be simply 0 or 1. With 0 you'll get performance, with 1 you'll get security. The article implies you'll get both, which really isn't accurate.
Speaking of abusing someone's good name, Jeremy Malcolm, the attorney in charge of sending out the licensing letters in Australia, has a long history of voluntary and pro bono work for the Internet and open source communities. This includes serving on the boards of the Internet Society of Australia, the Western Australian Internet Association, Electronic Frontiers Australia, the Society of Linux Professionals (WA) and the Australian Public Access Network Association. He also received the Community Award in the 2004 AUUG Australian Open Source Awards for outstanding contribution to the understanding of para-technical and legal issues surrounding open source within the Australian context. He isn't a Scientologist and never has been, by the way, although he believes in freedom of religion for all.
Don't you hate it when the mainstream media doesn't bother to check their facts? Why do what they do, then? The community stands for ethics, does it not?
If you are a journalist interested in writing articles that include the term "Linux," you do not need a sublicense. If you are printing up pencils, stenciling T-shirts, or distributing coffee cups with a legend on them like "Linux®is the greatest!" or "Even my Mother uses Linux®!" this is normally considered "fair use".
But I'm not a legal expert, so you might want to invetigate on your own.
The rate is on a sliding scale.
Check the LMI Fees Page to see where you fit. Based on your description, I'd say you're either non-profit or for profit tier 1, which would be $200.
The Groklaw article others have referenced mentions it, too.
Well, Linux is still free apparently, just not calling it that. It does seem a little odd coming from F/OSS, but it's not unprecedented to own the name but not the content.
I suppose technically that's correct. But, "The encryption schem you use today has holes in it, and the tools will get small enough to go through those holes just a few years down the road." just doesn't quite roll off the tongue.:)
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It can work. Remember that we're dealing with the general public here. We as technicians know spyware companies' names by heart because we deal with them hand's-on. The end user just knows "it was slow and had popups" and we subsequently "fixed it."
Example: eAnthology/eAcceleration/Stop Sign, etc. I remember removing tons of their spyware apps. Now they advertise on national television for their Anti-Virus packages, claiming to "make it faster than the day you got it." Did they clean up their act? I have no idea, frankly. But I know people are buying it.
I was addicted to MUDs, too. Currently I'm addicted to XBox. Just because (before I got another job) I spent 12-18 hours straight on the computer or with a controller in my hands doesn't mean I forgot to eat or sleep. Now I didn't eat well, just some Ramen, Mountain Dew, and who knows what other junk, but I did force some things into my stomach. And sleep eventually takes care of itself. Though the random characters from a face impacting the keyboard can have a negative effect on your gameplay ... :)
IBM practices what it preaches, too. Several of our support tools (like ServeRAID Manager) run on bootable Linux kernels, and we have versions of our flash and log-gathering utilities for Linux OSes. It's pretty cool.
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Our internal workstations are still Windows and Lotus, though, sadly.
This is probably true, which is surprising since Google is one of the sites filtered by China's Greate Firewall. If I recall correctly that's part of the reason the Google Mirror was set up.
If the controller fails in a serious hardware RAID setup, you can replace the controller and reimport the configuration. Granted, you did say "most" hardware RAID setups, but I do not think that this is a good justification for a bad idea. Even if you can't reimport the config, sometimes you can recreate the array around the data. And if it's a mirror, just re-set primary and secondary.
:)
Just because some hardware RAID configurations have the controller as a weak point doesn't mean that "RAID on a hard drive itself" makes any sense.
Nor RAID 0, for that matter. But that's another argument for another day.
On the Education Page, which the story icon links to, this and the original are separated by nothing. :)
I'm not sure what area you work in, but I too work for IBM and I don't see it that way. Perhaps it's just because I'm in a support sector that is firmly established as staying on American soil and has an excellent, non-rigid working environment.
:)
Sure, companies do things with the bottom line in mind. And I don't disagree that this move is shrewd. But saying there is not a bit of altruism is quite cynical. IBM also just volunteered its call centers to the government to work (paid) overtime answering calls from Katrina victims. They also have transferred employees to that area to work emergency support; provided 100's of Thinkpads to various agencies for testing water, processing calls, etc; got the Naval Oceanographic Office's satcom re-established so FEMA can use it as a staging area; and the list goes on. This is just for this one event. Yes, of course it is excellent PR, but good PR doesn't have to equal evil intentions.
And if you're so displeased at IBM, maybe you should volunteer for this program. Sounds like your manager might approve you.
This is a volunteer program at this point, and it sounds like the target is middle or high school, not college. They're wanting kids to do better on the standardized tests and go to college more prepared. The major effect on "the industry" will still be caused by college teachers.
Somehow I doubt the $80k-$100k salaried employees will be the ones applying and/or picked. Probably people more like me, making $40k in support, not $100k in product development.
Yeah, I know I do. I hate starting Lotus up. Using NotesBuddy helps a tad. It's a Sametime client that can act as a trimmed-down front-end to your Lotus Notes, so you rarely have to open it.
Any country where the students have planned walk-out protests every year (les manifestations, if I recall) can't have a strong basis in anti-corporate labor, can it? :)
The only project they list is the Human Proteome Folding Project.
I know the UD client had some issues, which is why they dropped off of the face of the earth for awhile. I personally stopped using it because every time I installed it I ended up with an infected file on my hard drive. I never heard back from their support, so I don't know if it was a false positive, a corrupted mirror, or what. I just went back to SETI. So far this one has been okay. I mainly run it because, as I mentioned, it's kosher on my work desktop.
I haven't seen anything mentioning Intel.
At IBM we're encouraged to run the World Community Grid program, since it's "Powered by IBM."
Some of you might remember it's original incarnation, the United Devices client. UD is still involved, and it's still on the same projects, like the Human Proteome Folding Project.
How about the fact that there are free viewers available for any Microsoft format? Merely link to them (as you have to do for PDF), and you're good to go. As has already been mentioned, this was a purely monetary move. And an ostentatious one, at that.
And performance is only increased depending on the RAID levels available. Most likely they will be simply 0 or 1. With 0 you'll get performance, with 1 you'll get security. The article implies you'll get both, which really isn't accurate.
I'm not quite clear on what you're saying here. We're in agreement that releasing "Red Hat Linux 9.0" for profit would require paying LMI a fee?
Excellent point:
Speaking of abusing someone's good name, Jeremy Malcolm, the attorney in charge of sending out the licensing letters in Australia, has a long history of voluntary and pro bono work for the Internet and open source communities. This includes serving on the boards of the Internet Society of Australia, the Western Australian Internet Association, Electronic Frontiers Australia, the Society of Linux Professionals (WA) and the Australian Public Access Network Association. He also received the Community Award in the 2004 AUUG Australian Open Source Awards for outstanding contribution to the understanding of para-technical and legal issues surrounding open source within the Australian context. He isn't a Scientologist and never has been, by the way, although he believes in freedom of religion for all.
Don't you hate it when the mainstream media doesn't bother to check their facts? Why do what they do, then? The community stands for ethics, does it not?
- Groklaw article
As much as we techies usually investigate things, we kind of dropped the ball on this one.
Actually, reading deeper, you might fall under "Fair Use."
From Groklaw again:
Examples of Fair Use.
If you are a journalist interested in writing articles that include the term "Linux," you do not need a sublicense. If you are printing up pencils, stenciling T-shirts, or distributing coffee cups with a legend on them like "Linux®is the greatest!" or "Even my Mother uses Linux®!" this is normally considered "fair use".
But I'm not a legal expert, so you might want to invetigate on your own.
The rate is on a sliding scale.
Check the LMI Fees Page to see where you fit. Based on your description, I'd say you're either non-profit or for profit tier 1, which would be $200.
The Groklaw article others have referenced mentions it, too.
Well, Linux is still free apparently, just not calling it that. It does seem a little odd coming from F/OSS, but it's not unprecedented to own the name but not the content.
Exactly. As I understand it, IBM developed and owns the 64-bit board architecture. Just a small thing.
I suppose technically that's correct. But, "The encryption schem you use today has holes in it, and the tools will get small enough to go through those holes just a few years down the road." just doesn't quite roll off the tongue. :)
Yeah, a lack of any pictures is suprising, especially as he makes such a big deal about all the hardware at the show.
And where are our gratuitous "Male booth dolly" cheesecake shots!?
But why else would they want the survey, but for external validation?
And why would they use the survey company again if they gave "bad results?"
I'm not a fan of funded surveys either. Let a third-party decide to do it on their own, anonymously.