I know that ClearCase is a piece of shit, but I have users who use it extensively. Maybe IBM will improve it's Linux support. Perhaps light a fire under Rational's ass and get RH Advanced Server support. I'd also like to CC revamped such that it no longer requires a kernel module. It is WAY too kernel dependant. Perhaps then it'd be a viable tool for use on Linux.
What am I saying?? What I meant to say is that I hope IBM flushes it down the toilet and advocates Perforce....
I got suckered into watching Firefly by the Slashdot promo for it.
The whole western in space theme was just over the top. The original opening with all the covered wagons, etc., really looked stupid. They remade the opening credits and removed some of the western stuff and provided a better voice-over premise explaination. Too bad they didn't improve the show at the same time.
Not that Enterprise is any better....But, like sex, bad Star Trek is better than no Star Trek.
It's ASCI, as in Advanced Strategic Computing Initiative (that somehow has mutated into "Advanced Simulation and Computing Program).
http://www.llnl.gov/asci/
What is most hilarious about all this is that three years ago the same people at the Lab who put together this cluster, Livermore Computing, insisted that Linux was a toy....That it had no future in scientific computing....That it was a hobbyist's OS.
Ah memories....My first CS class used Waterloo Pascal on some big ugly IBM mainframe that had spare CPU cycles so they dumped us poor freshmen onto it....It had such a wonderful editor too...WYLBUR.
I have it from a well-placed source in Dell that Lexmark is going to be making the printers that Dell is going to rebrand.
Since I buy all of my x86 servers from Dell and am familiar with their support structure, as are my desktop people, this may be an attractive alternative to HP if the printers are decent. I personally have little experience with Lexmark, tho they do have some nice looking management tools. With Dell's backing I'd be willing to give them a chance. Dell has always given me excellent support. Such as recently offering to take back the Itanium servers that were bought by a group at work and give a full refund due to Itanium being the huge dud that it was.
We recently replaced several of our HP 5si's with HP9000's, and boy are they pieces of shit! We've had nothing but problems with them. And they just feel flimsy as hell when you open them up and futz around with their guts. Guess HP's been doing too much corner-cutting. I regret that we got rid of the 5si's as they are solid printers.
Actually, the SuperDrive wasn't given that moniker because it could read both Mac and PC formatted disks, but rather because it could write 1.44MB diskettes. At the time this drive was released there was no native MacOS support for reading and writing of PC disks. Apple later released PC Exchange which let you use PC floppies, but only from within the app - you had to copy files to and from the floppy, no on-the-fly use of the disk. Software Architects released an INIT/CDEV called DOS Mounter which would allow the use of PC disks natively within the Finder as if it were a Mac disk (and later PC SCSI hard disks). Apple later purchased the right to bundle this with the MacOS.
Apple is starting a dangerous game with Microsoft - buying software companies and discontinuing the Windows versions. M$ has more money to burn in this game. If I were Apple I'd be fearful of M$ retaliation - they could drop Office for the Mac. M$ could also purchase acquire Adobe and discontinue all Mac products, which would hit Apple in their core market.
I attended Oklahome State University, and our CompSci department's policy was that you were not to discuss homework at the algorithm/function/line level unless it was a group assignment. If a professor found homework that was too similar s/he was to give both students zero credit for the homework until one could prove that theirs was the original and that they didn't share with the other student(s). They didn't take too highly to the 'cooperate and graduate' motto.
I admit I only spent about 10 minutes browsing the web site, but I wasn't able to find any big name artists (by U.S. standards) that had tracks available for download. There was a link titled "... to buy or play tracks click here," to the right of advertised albums from such artists as Goo Goo Dolls, Sting, Ricky Martin, U2, Alanis Morrisette, but they all resulted in only being able to play a sample of tracks, not purchase the tracks as.mp3's.
One solution would be to use one of the various PAM modules that allow you to authenticate against a Windows domain - blaspemy, I know. You could also use RSA SecureID. This would give you a central crossplatform authentication system along with two-factor/one time password authentication. Of course you have to carry around a SecureID fob....
Another option is software for syncing passwords across various platforms (and software packages). The solution I use is called P-Synch (http://www.p-synch.com/). It works quite well, and is quite inexpensive (we paid something around $20/user).
I work for a large gov't lab where they run calculations for months on the fastest (currently) super computer, ASCI White. People who run codes for any period of time (generally greater than a day or two) write intermediate results a specified intervals so that they can resume in the case of an interruption. Seems like a good general solution that is OS feature independant (disclaimer for nitpicking flamming morons: This is with the assumption that the OS one is using has I/O capabilities).
No, I am not saying Japan is stealing anything. You do read English, do you not?
What I am saying, is that patent and copyright holders should be compensated in a fair and equitable manner. i.e. if some Japanese company holds a patent on a manufacturing process, etc., a licensing fee is due them for the use of their process. Ahead Software, a German software company that publishes Nero, is entitled to be fairly compensated for my use of their software. I do not have the right to steal their labor and capital (make copies, pass around to friends, etc.), any more than I have the right to steal your car and sell it to the highest bidder.
That said, I don't want to appear to hold the position that free (as in beer and speech) software is a bad thing - it's a great thing. As is open source software (which is not necessarily free, but is open to scrutinization, etc.). I also abhor the RIAA and their screwing of artists and consumers alike. And, as a bi-lingual individual, absolutely HATE the MPAA and what has been done with the total market control of DVD's. If I pay what is a fair price in Russia for a DVD, especially one that is not available in the U.S., I should be able to play it on my player. This goes beyond market control, and into culture control. French Canadians can not play DVD's from France as they are invariably encoded as region 2. This greatly limits access to what they consider to be their cultural heritage. And what about the poor Aussie's? They are stuck in a region that is predominantly Spanish speaking. I'm sure this affects their access to English titles.
I guess I sorta strayed from defending myself against Ewhac The Moron....
I lived in Kiev, Ukraine for a year (95-96). Piracy of music and software was/is common and not considered unethical by the populace. There are laws against it, but they aren't enforced.
While I am against market control to the extent that industry is trying with DVD's (region encoding controlling which discs you can play and from where you can purchase them), I do believe that protection of intellectual property is required to provide a more stable environment in which to do business. What is going on in Ukraine, and other countries such as Russia, China and the rest of Asia, is directly damaging to America's interests. We are providing the capital for the software development, and yet others are reaping the rewards, in effect stealing our labor and capital. This is wrong. If we were a rogue state that did not respect international intellectual property conventions/laws I would feel differently. However, we are one of the most strict enforcers of copyright/patent laws, and feel we deserve the same in return. (yeah, I know, our patent office is a joke, but this has nothing to do with enforcement of law). Difficult thing is, countries which do not respect international intellectual property laws tend to have little or no intellectual property themselves, thus it is to their immediate economic benefit to steal, and we can't do anything in return except impose tarrifs on their products.
I do think Ukraine is being unfairly singled out, and that the main thieves of intellectual property, Russia and China, should have been targeted first. I can only think that this is due to the fact that Ukraine is one of the main recipients of U.S. foreign aid.
Just to end on a personal note, I do find myself conflicted when it comes to punishing people for pirating Microsoft IP. It is a struggle between my love of country, and hatred of Microsoft's business practices, but in the end, love of country wins out.
I take exception with Kimbro Staken's statement:
"the engineer community is abandoning it left and right for Mac OS X."
I work for a government weapons lab and have seen no great move to OS X. And we are the largest Mac site in the world. What I have seen is people dropping their Macs, Windows boxes, and commercial Unix desktops for Linux in DROVES.
Linux is doing a good job of grabbing commercial Unix desktop and server market share; however, there have been practically no inroads into the Windows desktop/server space, and I don't expect to see it. Rare is it the Windows/Novell sys admin who shows any great interest in learning Linux. Face it, mousing around and figuring stuff out appeals to lazy people MUCH more that reading man pages. Thus, I don't see Windows/Novell IT shops dropping their platforms for Linux.
As for the common denominator desktop, do not underestimate the power of Office. A platform can not hope to succeed in the commercial desktop space without Office. Microsoft's contract with Apple to provide Office for the Mac at parity with the Windows platform has either ended, or ends soon as the 5 year contract was announced at MacWorld '97 in SF. Unfortunately MS holds the power to kill OS X as a viable commercial desktop because it controls the number one productivity package. And since the Bush administration has pussed out with the suit against MS, our only hope is that the hold-out states will get MS broken up into OS/App divisions with provisions preventing/limiting their collaboration, and a mandate to provide Office for other platforms at parity to Windows. I seriously doubt this will happen, but one can hope it will. Or pay enough bribes to counter-weight MS's payola to Bush....
I cracked up when "Marshal Wilenholly" introduced himself, but I'm afraid most of the audience was too young to get it. Marshall (the family's last name, but also how the father is often refered to, besides Rick), Will, and Holly are characters from Land of the Lost, a Seals and Krofft show that aired in the early '70's.
"Still, only attentive, die-hard movie buffs will get them all. The cast, plots and references are closely tied to other Smith films, lines, scenes, actors and plots, along with some that aren't his. (There is a hilarious spoof of Good Will Hunting which Ben Affleck and Matt Damon good-naturedly join in.)"
In the above quote it appears that Katz is saying that Good Will Hunting isn't Kevin Smith material. Kevin Smith is a co-executive producer for the film.
The Slashdot description isn't accurate. Dell is only dropping their Linux business desktop and laptop offerings. They are keeping their Linux workstations and servers. This makes sense as they have had little demand for business desktops. People shouldn't expect them to pursue a market which doesn't provide profit.
I work for a DOE lab where I have been using Dell systems for years and have been VERY happy with their quality and support. I have been putting Linux on Dell systems for years before they sold them pre-configured. Matter of fact, Dell was quietly selling pre-installed Linux on their systems to DOE labs for almost two years before they offered it commercially. In any case, we have our own Red Hat based distro we image our systems with so it doesn't matter to us.
The only true help Dell has been to us is in writting the drivers for the Adaptec RAID chipsets that they use on (and have imbedded on) some of their servers.
So, as you said, let's stick to the facts.
Not that I'm a Mac or BSD fanatic, but BSD users are on the increase via MacOS X, which is heavily based upon NeXT Step (BSD based) and NetBSD, with a little FreeBSD thrown in for good measure.
Now for some speculation. With Apple shipping MacOS X preinstalled, and with commercial apps being ported to it (tho many will use Apple's proprietary Carbon API's), etc., there could be some positive fallout for the other BSD flavors. Who knows, with Apple producing x86 Darwin stuff, we could see Apple move to x86 hardware and really take off.
Notice that it doesn't say "18", it merely states that one must be at or beyond majority. This is because minors can not be legally bound by contracts, which the EULA is.
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I know that ClearCase is a piece of shit, but I have users who use it extensively. Maybe IBM will improve it's Linux support. Perhaps light a fire under Rational's ass and get RH Advanced Server support. I'd also like to CC revamped such that it no longer requires a kernel module. It is WAY too kernel dependant. Perhaps then it'd be a viable tool for use on Linux.
What am I saying?? What I meant to say is that I hope IBM flushes it down the toilet and advocates Perforce....
I got suckered into watching Firefly by the Slashdot promo for it. The whole western in space theme was just over the top. The original opening with all the covered wagons, etc., really looked stupid. They remade the opening credits and removed some of the western stuff and provided a better voice-over premise explaination. Too bad they didn't improve the show at the same time. Not that Enterprise is any better....But, like sex, bad Star Trek is better than no Star Trek.
It's ASCI, as in Advanced Strategic Computing Initiative (that somehow has mutated into "Advanced Simulation and Computing Program). http://www.llnl.gov/asci/
Nope....I heard it in person....
Classified networks are air-gapped from unclassified networks, which the Internet is by definition.
I love it when some U.S. gov't computer getting hacked makes headlines....The most sensitive info a hacker could ever get would be HR type info.
What is most hilarious about all this is that three years ago the same people at the Lab who put together this cluster, Livermore Computing, insisted that Linux was a toy....That it had no future in scientific computing....That it was a hobbyist's OS.
I sure hope they love the taste of crow....
Ah memories....My first CS class used Waterloo Pascal on some big ugly IBM mainframe that had spare CPU cycles so they dumped us poor freshmen onto it....It had such a wonderful editor too...WYLBUR.
Maybe we'll see Waterloo C#....
Wasn't talking about Lexmark inkjets - I've looked at them in computer stores and they look like total shit. We only buy laser and solid-ink printers.
As for the toner carts, my friend at Dell said they were going to offer supplies, and at killer prices. Won't know until we see the stuff tho....
I have it from a well-placed source in Dell that Lexmark is going to be making the printers that Dell is going to rebrand.
Since I buy all of my x86 servers from Dell and am familiar with their support structure, as are my desktop people, this may be an attractive alternative to HP if the printers are decent. I personally have little experience with Lexmark, tho they do have some nice looking management tools. With Dell's backing I'd be willing to give them a chance. Dell has always given me excellent support. Such as recently offering to take back the Itanium servers that were bought by a group at work and give a full refund due to Itanium being the huge dud that it was.
We recently replaced several of our HP 5si's with HP9000's, and boy are they pieces of shit! We've had nothing but problems with them. And they just feel flimsy as hell when you open them up and futz around with their guts. Guess HP's been doing too much corner-cutting. I regret that we got rid of the 5si's as they are solid printers.
Actually, the SuperDrive wasn't given that moniker because it could read both Mac and PC formatted disks, but rather because it could write 1.44MB diskettes. At the time this drive was released there was no native MacOS support for reading and writing of PC disks. Apple later released PC Exchange which let you use PC floppies, but only from within the app - you had to copy files to and from the floppy, no on-the-fly use of the disk. Software Architects released an INIT/CDEV called DOS Mounter which would allow the use of PC disks natively within the Finder as if it were a Mac disk (and later PC SCSI hard disks). Apple later purchased the right to bundle this with the MacOS.
Apple is starting a dangerous game with Microsoft - buying software companies and discontinuing the Windows versions. M$ has more money to burn in this game. If I were Apple I'd be fearful of M$ retaliation - they could drop Office for the Mac. M$ could also purchase acquire Adobe and discontinue all Mac products, which would hit Apple in their core market.
I attended Oklahome State University, and our CompSci department's policy was that you were not to discuss homework at the algorithm/function/line level unless it was a group assignment. If a professor found homework that was too similar s/he was to give both students zero credit for the homework until one could prove that theirs was the original and that they didn't share with the other student(s). They didn't take too highly to the 'cooperate and graduate' motto.
I admit I only spent about 10 minutes browsing the web site, but I wasn't able to find any big name artists (by U.S. standards) that had tracks available for download. There was a link titled "... to buy or play tracks click here," to the right of advertised albums from such artists as Goo Goo Dolls, Sting, Ricky Martin, U2, Alanis Morrisette, but they all resulted in only being able to play a sample of tracks, not purchase the tracks as .mp3's.
What's up with this bogosity?
One solution would be to use one of the various PAM modules that allow you to authenticate against a Windows domain - blaspemy, I know. You could also use RSA SecureID. This would give you a central crossplatform authentication system along with two-factor/one time password authentication. Of course you have to carry around a SecureID fob....
Another option is software for syncing passwords across various platforms (and software packages). The solution I use is called P-Synch (http://www.p-synch.com/). It works quite well, and is quite inexpensive (we paid something around $20/user).
I work for a large gov't lab where they run calculations for months on the fastest (currently) super computer, ASCI White. People who run codes for any period of time (generally greater than a day or two) write intermediate results a specified intervals so that they can resume in the case of an interruption. Seems like a good general solution that is OS feature independant (disclaimer for nitpicking flamming morons: This is with the assumption that the OS one is using has I/O capabilities).
No, I am not saying Japan is stealing anything. You do read English, do you not?
What I am saying, is that patent and copyright holders should be compensated in a fair and equitable manner. i.e. if some Japanese company holds a patent on a manufacturing process, etc., a licensing fee is due them for the use of their process. Ahead Software, a German software company that publishes Nero, is entitled to be fairly compensated for my use of their software. I do not have the right to steal their labor and capital (make copies, pass around to friends, etc.), any more than I have the right to steal your car and sell it to the highest bidder.
That said, I don't want to appear to hold the position that free (as in beer and speech) software is a bad thing - it's a great thing. As is open source software (which is not necessarily free, but is open to scrutinization, etc.). I also abhor the RIAA and their screwing of artists and consumers alike. And, as a bi-lingual individual, absolutely HATE the MPAA and what has been done with the total market control of DVD's. If I pay what is a fair price in Russia for a DVD, especially one that is not available in the U.S., I should be able to play it on my player. This goes beyond market control, and into culture control. French Canadians can not play DVD's from France as they are invariably encoded as region 2. This greatly limits access to what they consider to be their cultural heritage. And what about the poor Aussie's? They are stuck in a region that is predominantly Spanish speaking. I'm sure this affects their access to English titles.
I guess I sorta strayed from defending myself against Ewhac The Moron....
I lived in Kiev, Ukraine for a year (95-96). Piracy of music and software was/is common and not considered unethical by the populace. There are laws against it, but they aren't enforced.
While I am against market control to the extent that industry is trying with DVD's (region encoding controlling which discs you can play and from where you can purchase them), I do believe that protection of intellectual property is required to provide a more stable environment in which to do business. What is going on in Ukraine, and other countries such as Russia, China and the rest of Asia, is directly damaging to America's interests. We are providing the capital for the software development, and yet others are reaping the rewards, in effect stealing our labor and capital. This is wrong. If we were a rogue state that did not respect international intellectual property conventions/laws I would feel differently. However, we are one of the most strict enforcers of copyright/patent laws, and feel we deserve the same in return. (yeah, I know, our patent office is a joke, but this has nothing to do with enforcement of law). Difficult thing is, countries which do not respect international intellectual property laws tend to have little or no intellectual property themselves, thus it is to their immediate economic benefit to steal, and we can't do anything in return except impose tarrifs on their products.
I do think Ukraine is being unfairly singled out, and that the main thieves of intellectual property, Russia and China, should have been targeted first. I can only think that this is due to the fact that Ukraine is one of the main recipients of U.S. foreign aid.
Just to end on a personal note, I do find myself conflicted when it comes to punishing people for pirating Microsoft IP. It is a struggle between my love of country, and hatred of Microsoft's business practices, but in the end, love of country wins out.
You're a moron. I seriously doubt Disney has more than 16,000 Mac's in a single location. We do.
I take exception with Kimbro Staken's statement:
"the engineer community is abandoning it left and right for Mac OS X."
I work for a government weapons lab and have seen no great move to OS X. And we are the largest Mac site in the world. What I have seen is people dropping their Macs, Windows boxes, and commercial Unix desktops for Linux in DROVES.
Linux is doing a good job of grabbing commercial Unix desktop and server market share; however, there have been practically no inroads into the Windows desktop/server space, and I don't expect to see it. Rare is it the Windows/Novell sys admin who shows any great interest in learning Linux. Face it, mousing around and figuring stuff out appeals to lazy people MUCH more that reading man pages. Thus, I don't see Windows/Novell IT shops dropping their platforms for Linux.
As for the common denominator desktop, do not underestimate the power of Office. A platform can not hope to succeed in the commercial desktop space without Office. Microsoft's contract with Apple to provide Office for the Mac at parity with the Windows platform has either ended, or ends soon as the 5 year contract was announced at MacWorld '97 in SF. Unfortunately MS holds the power to kill OS X as a viable commercial desktop because it controls the number one productivity package. And since the Bush administration has pussed out with the suit against MS, our only hope is that the hold-out states will get MS broken up into OS/App divisions with provisions preventing/limiting their collaboration, and a mandate to provide Office for other platforms at parity to Windows. I seriously doubt this will happen, but one can hope it will. Or pay enough bribes to counter-weight MS's payola to Bush....
OK, I guess I've ranted enough....
I cracked up when "Marshal Wilenholly" introduced himself, but I'm afraid most of the audience was too young to get it. Marshall (the family's last name, but also how the father is often refered to, besides Rick), Will, and Holly are characters from Land of the Lost, a Seals and Krofft show that aired in the early '70's.
"Still, only attentive, die-hard movie buffs will get them all. The cast, plots and references are closely tied to other Smith films, lines, scenes, actors and plots, along with some that aren't his. (There is a hilarious spoof of Good Will Hunting which Ben Affleck and Matt Damon good-naturedly join in.)"
In the above quote it appears that Katz is saying that Good Will Hunting isn't Kevin Smith material. Kevin Smith is a co-executive producer for the film.
The Slashdot description isn't accurate. Dell is only dropping their Linux business desktop and laptop offerings. They are keeping their Linux workstations and servers. This makes sense as they have had little demand for business desktops. People shouldn't expect them to pursue a market which doesn't provide profit.
I work for a DOE lab where I have been using Dell systems for years and have been VERY happy with their quality and support. I have been putting Linux on Dell systems for years before they sold them pre-configured. Matter of fact, Dell was quietly selling pre-installed Linux on their systems to DOE labs for almost two years before they offered it commercially. In any case, we have our own Red Hat based distro we image our systems with so it doesn't matter to us.
The only true help Dell has been to us is in writting the drivers for the Adaptec RAID chipsets that they use on (and have imbedded on) some of their servers.
So, as you said, let's stick to the facts. Not that I'm a Mac or BSD fanatic, but BSD users are on the increase via MacOS X, which is heavily based upon NeXT Step (BSD based) and NetBSD, with a little FreeBSD thrown in for good measure. Now for some speculation. With Apple shipping MacOS X preinstalled, and with commercial apps being ported to it (tho many will use Apple's proprietary Carbon API's), etc., there could be some positive fallout for the other BSD flavors. Who knows, with Apple producing x86 Darwin stuff, we could see Apple move to x86 hardware and really take off.
But HP does ship other drivers with their printers - at least Macintosh drivers, and maybe OS/2 (don't quote me on the last).
Notice that it doesn't say "18", it merely states that one must be at or beyond majority. This is because minors can not be legally bound by contracts, which the EULA is.