While I've test driven the new fedora(8), and have found it to be by far the best fedora release to date, there is one fundamental problem I have with Fedora... the 13 month support cycle. I think to gain major acceptance on corporate desktops near and far, you have to have a long-term support cycle, ala Ubuntu LTS(or redhat, or suse enterprise). Also, if you're developing a product based off of a fedora release, what happens to your product when the release you've chosen goes out of support, and new bugfixes or updates are no longer applied to the distribution? If you released your code/product with say an Ubuntu LTS release, you know that you have up to 36 months of updates/bugfixes. To me it would make sense to develop code or a product that will be supported for a longer period.
As a sysadmin, it also makes alot more sense to roll out desktops of a product that will have long term support. I don't want to have to upgrade all the machines to a current release every 13 months.
All that being said. There are things that I love about fedora. I love how fedora handles automated installations(kickstart). I've had to install fedora with the same setup on several machines(all the same hardware), and the kickstart installations make that an absolute breeze. I like how SELinux is an option, as is a built in firewall. It's nice to see that emphasis on security.
As with every distro, Fedora has it's good and bad points, but the support cycle is the real dealbreaker for me.
I worked on a PC Repair Bench in a small town in WY. Someone brought their PC in for a cleanup and in the process of going through temp files and looking for common places that malware lurks(in this case a limewire download folder), I found a few kiddie porn videos. I immediately went to my boss and showed him what I had found. We then called the police, who sent a cop over to investigate. The officer viewed the files and they then confiscated the PC. Long story short, the whole case was thrown out because they didn't have a warrant to search the computer. They asked me if I would testify(because I don't need a warrant to search the computer) and I told them that I would, but it never got to that point. The case was thrown out, and that customer never did business with us again.
When we first found the videos, we did some investigation of our own, and we found out that the owner of the PC had at one time applied for a job where I was working(as a secretary or accountant or something), and we had her resume on record. She had previously operated a day care out of her home, which was the red flag that made it unquestionable as to whether we were going to call the police or not.
I know that the computer had several logins, and I'm pretty sure she had a teenage son. It was under his account that I found these files. It seemed that he just downloaded the content using limewire and viewing it, so I'm not sure the whole scenario was quite as insidious as it could seem. That is not my judgement to make. That is why we have the courts and a jury system.
What happened to mankind's fascination with space? These pictures are awesome to me not because of their scientific validity, but because they are a reflection of the way that mankind used to dream of the stars.
While great sci-fi is by no means limited to a distant past(thank you gaiman, stephenson, etc...), it is seems that space travel just isn't that romanticized in today's cultures. Have we stopped dreaming of an extraordinary not-so-distant future?
I've been thinking about different arguments in regards to fair use(specifically: the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole) and the technical nature of how bittorrent works.
Torrents are made up of a bunch of little pieces. Could someone even prove that you actually had a substantial amount of a specific file if you were in a swarm of seeders? Could you claim fair use given the fact that you might only have a piece of a file in question? Just a thought...
All these lawsuits are just an outdated industry with an outdated business model trying to stay alive. They want to keep the margins as high as they were when vinyl was being pressed. They're not adapting, they're just kicking and screaming theirselves out of business.
If it's the case that it only applies to new ownership, then it doesn't really change things that much as the current set of media moguls is really what needs to be broken up. All this bill would effectively do is prevent serious competition to the current media empire, no?
Freely accessible maybe, but it's not free to operate.
Someone along the line has to have a newsgroup server with decent retention, which is a shit-ton of storage required, and also all that bandwidth coming and going is hardly free.
Ok folks, comparing the density of sweden or norway is not like comparing the density of the US. First of all, the US is a shit-ton larger than those countries. I understand the argument, but I don't think they're really incorporating the total size of the US. When you take the lack of density and spread it out over an area that is many multiple times larger than norway AND sweden combined, I think you can better understand the technical problems and costs involved with such an endeavor.
That being said, I do believe that the ridiculous telco/cable monopolies that have been governmentally supported for so long now has an effect as well. It's a combination of alot of factors, just like most other things in life.
Yeah... they might have the right to detain you, but you have the right to run away. You can't be charged with any kind of "evasion" or "fleeing the scene" crimes unless you're directly running from a police officer, not some manager of a movie theatre or his pimply faced goons.
If you get busted doing something like this, just run away as quick as you can. By the time the police show up chances are you'll have escaped. If the police show up and start chasing you, well then you have to legally cooperate.
There are some companies out there(i.e. http://www.collectiveintellect.com/) that are using AI to mine RSS feeds and specifically the blogosphere, and selling that data to corporations for various reasons.
Lets say you're a drug company that is releasing a potentially controversial drug. You can mine the data of the blogosphere and issue press releases as a pre-emptive strike to larger media stories. This starts the real beginning of being able to effectively monitor and even potentially control some of the social aspects of the internet. I think it's a great innovation indeed, with potentially scary side-effects.
Personally it is nice to be able to filter through a billion RSS feeds to find information that I'm interested in though.
Sounds like someone got lazy. Plus MS pretty much threw in 500 licenses for free (for home use).
I didn't know that such deals could be made. Sounds like it's time to talk to my software rep and renegotiate our licensing scheme.(citing this article of course).
I agree with this logic, it makes perfect sense. Internet radio can be streamed from anywhere. It's terribly easy to just move your operation to another country, and that's what I foresee happening.
I pray for the end of the RIAA and it's affiliates.
Up until about 6 years ago I used ASUS for all my builds, then I found that ASUS boards were giving me alot of issues and I switched to abit. While abit isn't 100% bulletproof(no hardware is), I found them to be by far the most reliable boards that I have experienced. And now that ABIT is using solid state capacitors in a majority of their new boards (AW9D-Max, IN9-Max, etc...) I have all the more reason to keep using them.
-gethoht
You can do a clean install.... just change the date in the bios before you do it. Then the file dates won't look suspicious
End of intel as likely as end of IBM
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Core 2 Duo is posed to dominate the desktop market unless AMD comes back with a strong chip ASAP.
It seems to me intel will gain back some lost market share with the Core 2 Duo.
It's ridiculous to add the "end of intel" comment to the end of the article.
What you posted is not entirely true, Mod parent down please...
If you have a machine that has the corporate version, you don't have to install over top of it. You can do a repair install. Just boot off the OEM version, and on the third prompt, select R for "repair" instead of installing over the current windows. This leaves the registry intact, all your programs the way they were, and lets you enter a new key as part of the installation process.
The only time you would have to a fresh install is if you went from pro to home.
I had an unfortunante incident with one of our suppliers that left us with a bunch of their corporate versions of windows on our customers machines. Customers started getting WGA errors all over the place, and we've found this to be the quickest legal method to deal with it. Magic Jellybean doesn't work because the windows versions are different.
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While I've test driven the new fedora(8), and have found it to be by far the best fedora release to date, there is one fundamental problem I have with Fedora... the 13 month support cycle. I think to gain major acceptance on corporate desktops near and far, you have to have a long-term support cycle, ala Ubuntu LTS(or redhat, or suse enterprise). Also, if you're developing a product based off of a fedora release, what happens to your product when the release you've chosen goes out of support, and new bugfixes or updates are no longer applied to the distribution? If you released your code/product with say an Ubuntu LTS release, you know that you have up to 36 months of updates/bugfixes. To me it would make sense to develop code or a product that will be supported for a longer period.
As a sysadmin, it also makes alot more sense to roll out desktops of a product that will have long term support. I don't want to have to upgrade all the machines to a current release every 13 months.
All that being said. There are things that I love about fedora. I love how fedora handles automated installations(kickstart). I've had to install fedora with the same setup on several machines(all the same hardware), and the kickstart installations make that an absolute breeze. I like how SELinux is an option, as is a built in firewall. It's nice to see that emphasis on security.
As with every distro, Fedora has it's good and bad points, but the support cycle is the real dealbreaker for me.
What about redshift? If this isn't true, please source.
I worked on a PC Repair Bench in a small town in WY. Someone brought their PC in for a cleanup and in the process of going through temp files and looking for common places that malware lurks(in this case a limewire download folder), I found a few kiddie porn videos. I immediately went to my boss and showed him what I had found. We then called the police, who sent a cop over to investigate. The officer viewed the files and they then confiscated the PC. Long story short, the whole case was thrown out because they didn't have a warrant to search the computer. They asked me if I would testify(because I don't need a warrant to search the computer) and I told them that I would, but it never got to that point. The case was thrown out, and that customer never did business with us again.
When we first found the videos, we did some investigation of our own, and we found out that the owner of the PC had at one time applied for a job where I was working(as a secretary or accountant or something), and we had her resume on record. She had previously operated a day care out of her home, which was the red flag that made it unquestionable as to whether we were going to call the police or not.
I know that the computer had several logins, and I'm pretty sure she had a teenage son. It was under his account that I found these files. It seemed that he just downloaded the content using limewire and viewing it, so I'm not sure the whole scenario was quite as insidious as it could seem. That is not my judgement to make. That is why we have the courts and a jury system.
What happened to mankind's fascination with space? These pictures are awesome to me not because of their scientific validity, but because they are a reflection of the way that mankind used to dream of the stars.
While great sci-fi is by no means limited to a distant past(thank you gaiman, stephenson, etc...), it is seems that space travel just isn't that romanticized in today's cultures. Have we stopped dreaming of an extraordinary not-so-distant future?
I've been thinking about different arguments in regards to fair use(specifically: the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole) and the technical nature of how bittorrent works.
Torrents are made up of a bunch of little pieces. Could someone even prove that you actually had a substantial amount of a specific file if you were in a swarm of seeders? Could you claim fair use given the fact that you might only have a piece of a file in question? Just a thought...
All these lawsuits are just an outdated industry with an outdated business model trying to stay alive. They want to keep the margins as high as they were when vinyl was being pressed. They're not adapting, they're just kicking and screaming theirselves out of business.
Get your facts right...
:P
They're hicks from Texas and Wyoming, not Alabama and Montana
If it's the case that it only applies to new ownership, then it doesn't really change things that much as the current set of media moguls is really what needs to be broken up. All this bill would effectively do is prevent serious competition to the current media empire, no?
Freely accessible maybe, but it's not free to operate.
Someone along the line has to have a newsgroup server with decent retention, which is a shit-ton of storage required, and also all that bandwidth coming and going is hardly free.
I agree...
It is nice to see someone who could *potentially* make a difference get riled up over this issue.
Let's just hope some change comes out of it
Also... the Canada argument.
Canada might be ranked "higher", and be a big flipping country, but 75% of canada lives within 90 miles of the US border.
Ok folks, comparing the density of sweden or norway is not like comparing the density of the US. First of all, the US is a shit-ton larger than those countries. I understand the argument, but I don't think they're really incorporating the total size of the US. When you take the lack of density and spread it out over an area that is many multiple times larger than norway AND sweden combined, I think you can better understand the technical problems and costs involved with such an endeavor.
That being said, I do believe that the ridiculous telco/cable monopolies that have been governmentally supported for so long now has an effect as well. It's a combination of alot of factors, just like most other things in life.
Yeah... they might have the right to detain you, but you have the right to run away. You can't be charged with any kind of "evasion" or "fleeing the scene" crimes unless you're directly running from a police officer, not some manager of a movie theatre or his pimply faced goons.
If you get busted doing something like this, just run away as quick as you can. By the time the police show up chances are you'll have escaped. If the police show up and start chasing you, well then you have to legally cooperate.
There are some companies out there(i.e. http://www.collectiveintellect.com/) that are using AI to mine RSS feeds and specifically the blogosphere, and selling that data to corporations for various reasons.
Lets say you're a drug company that is releasing a potentially controversial drug. You can mine the data of the blogosphere and issue press releases as a pre-emptive strike to larger media stories. This starts the real beginning of being able to effectively monitor and even potentially control some of the social aspects of the internet. I think it's a great innovation indeed, with potentially scary side-effects.
Personally it is nice to be able to filter through a billion RSS feeds to find information that I'm interested in though.
Sounds like someone got lazy. Plus MS pretty much threw in 500 licenses for free (for home use).
I didn't know that such deals could be made. Sounds like it's time to talk to my software rep and renegotiate our licensing scheme.(citing this article of course).
I agree with this logic, it makes perfect sense. Internet radio can be streamed from anywhere. It's terribly easy to just move your operation to another country, and that's what I foresee happening.
I pray for the end of the RIAA and it's affiliates.
They haven't lost a laptop that we know about, but how about a hard drive with thousands of SSN#'s on it?
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http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0
"The agency said it did not know whether the device is still within headquarters or was stolen."
That's interesting...
Up until about 6 years ago I used ASUS for all my builds, then I found that ASUS boards were giving me alot of issues and I switched to abit. While abit isn't 100% bulletproof(no hardware is), I found them to be by far the most reliable boards that I have experienced. And now that ABIT is using solid state capacitors in a majority of their new boards (AW9D-Max, IN9-Max, etc...) I have all the more reason to keep using them.
-gethoht
Most of the new ABIT boards have solid state capacitors in them as well. Just an FYI -gethoht
The free market attitude is what dominates us policy(except for huge subsidies to oil companies, tax breaks to mega corps, etc...)
Profit will always trump most other ideals in business today.
You can do a clean install.... just change the date in the bios before you do it. Then the file dates won't look suspicious
Core 2 Duo is posed to dominate the desktop market unless AMD comes back with a strong chip ASAP.
It seems to me intel will gain back some lost market share with the Core 2 Duo.
It's ridiculous to add the "end of intel" comment to the end of the article.
What you posted is not entirely true,
Mod parent down please...
If you have a machine that has the corporate version, you don't have to install over top of it. You can do a repair install. Just boot off the OEM version, and on the third prompt, select R for "repair" instead of installing over the current windows. This leaves the registry intact, all your programs the way they were, and lets you enter a new key as part of the installation process.
The only time you would have to a fresh install is if you went from pro to home.
I had an unfortunante incident with one of our suppliers that left us with a bunch of their corporate versions of windows on our customers machines. Customers started getting WGA errors all over the place, and we've found this to be the quickest legal method to deal with it. Magic Jellybean doesn't work because the windows versions are different.
This was noted a few posts up by the way....
--gethoht
"accidentally clicked"?
That's like accidentally opening the bible looking for scripture
goatse.cx is an internet legend!!
So... Instinct, backed by the will to be right...
that sounds like it could lead to any conclusion in the mind...
the fervor inherent in religion and politics makes sense to me now!