This is just asking for more DRM and content protection from Hollywood and/or program resellers until we have totally decripled machines everywhere.
I think, it's much safer to just let it be some cheap subscription model and let people watch it on-demand instead of downloading the entire content and have some key to watch it.
The idea is nice, but I know where this is going, and I don't like it. I think, we should do whatever to discourage Hollywood/resellers from growing brain from already tiny head.
"Novell's never been a follower. They hold their own very well."
Not true. Novell always has been a follower who loves to pose as a leader. For instance, indemnification plan offered by Novell. Only reason Novell bought SuSE is because of IBM/SuSE partnership and because Sun and Red Hat was contemplating with an idea to buy SuSE in the first place. IBM needed Novell to buy SuSE, period. Novell had already made a deal to buy Ximian, and didn't even have enough cash to buy a freaking SuSE distro CD.
Anyway, this is getting offtopic.
To be honest, I don't buy into Novell's "OpenSource" marketing crap. I think, that's just a flashing light getting dimmer by the second.
Linux kernel 2.4 uses I/O elevator utility, elvtune (which tunes I/O queue time), in order to control request time in I/O queue. This used to be time consuming task. Since 2.6, 4 customized I/O schedulers has been introduced to further tune up queuing faster and easier.
By default, all 4 should be compiled, but primarily CFQ I/O scheduler is picked as the default (maybe i'm wrong on this). This can be changed by passing kernel parameter at boot time with;
elevator=noop or elevator=as or elevator=deadline or elevator=cfg
General consensus is that CFG is overall best for general purpose even for servers under heavy load, so that may be the reason why it's default.
However your mileage may vary and especially for system which may require different types of response time or application support, other I/O schedulers may perform better. For instance, DEADLINE may give better response time for real-time application.
Obviously this is for general purpose, however it can be a very useful way to tune a system; categorize then refine.
Overall, I find much easier and safer to tune kernel this way than spending weeks at a time to measure benchmark and open up a possibility to problems or undesirable effects later on.
Scientists can find facts and effect of global warming, but lacks sufficient evidence or adequate proof that points out the real cause.
No one is arguing that level of pollution has risen and earth isn't what it used to be before humans came along with something called "industrial era". This isn't what these scientists are finding out or "SOME" politicians try to discredit.
The core of this childish bickering is about us, the human. Redundant source of energy, cheap and environmentally safe and lots of it in future means the end of old and outdated energy/utility companies, however that's in no way near foreseeable future. Therefore we do what we preach to others that they shouldn't. After all, it's not the car or factories spilling chemicals those are making the environment the way it is now.
It's US as in WE.
You want to stop methane emission? Stop using gas stove. You want to stop oil companies spilling oil onto the ocean? Stop driving cars. You want to stop chemical production that creates toxic byproduct? Stop watching TV, stop using computers, stop taking medicines, stop writing on papers with pens, stop buying cars, stop using plastic bags, stop buying gold, diamonds, precious jewels.
If any of those scientists or/.ers refuse to acknowledge the fact that we demand more than we can handle or comprehend and try to brush the problems under the rug and point fingers at politicians and energy/utility companies, please, do the earth the favor. STFU.
After all, when all is done and gone, who should we blame? The hardass republicans? The friendly gas pump attendant? The utility company providing gas and electricity WE DEMAND? or the guy with IQ of 5 year old who throws out none reusable batteries in the garbage? or the assholes who turn on shit load of computers in an airconditioned room 24/7 so that someone can download porn off the internet?
If I were to blame someone, I rather blame the guy who pickups my garbage. After all, he is the one who's been dumping the garbage and polluting the environment. Right?
In the end, there will be only one difference between dinosaurs and us. That is, dinosaurs didn't know what hit them, but we know what will.
Are we looking at the DOTCOM bubble with respect to the entire industry OR a single company?
What you are saying is comparatively similar if one is to say what Apple/Microsoft was in the era of golden goose called DOTCOM, therefore any successful (no matter how bloated or overvalue it may be) venture cap or IPO is sign of dooms day to come.
As far as I can tell, DOTCOM burst was a chain of events caused by multiple catastrophic failure. Google is a leader in search/adclick provider industry, a very specific portion of industry which has matured and difficult to gain grounds. I should know... i work for one... arrgg
Why hasn't this ever considered as viable resolution to stop many problems we face today with China? Economical sanction against China may be difficult, but legal sanction against China would be feasible.
Toughening up the export policy can do more damage than increasing tariff against China. Let it be crumbled like once Russia did. So many are blinded by the profit, policy makers are not presuring China as much as they should, in my opinion.
At least, IMHO, I don't believe, those two kids were to compete against hightech MIT/CalTech graduates. The idea itself is what is the most important thing here, not the technology of their choice.
Environmentally conscious education and kids inspired by the teachings to apply their talents and knownledge (no matter how inefficient or outdated that may be) in order to make a better devices, those are economically and environmentally friendly.
I think, that's enough to award their talents and invention. I, for one, would like to see more kids "applying" their telants in such manner.
I don't necessarily agree with Red Hat's approach regarding "trying to be everything" distro.
In recent years, one of the biggest selling point which Red Hat's business direction needed to attract consumers was to market specially compiled distributions, such as AS, ES, RHDB and EL Desktop, etc. However their distribution CD never shrunk, relatively speaking. Only minor difference in kernel + patches and application(s) compiled to match the distributions purpose are the differnce.
You asked, why one would need all 6 - 8 CD to install Red Hat distro. Simply because not many people can tell by looking at table files in order to know which CD will be needed to install which packages + dependancies. Surely KickStart over NFS/HTTP/FTP/HD sounds like easy task and resolve that issue I mention above, however that's anything close to what average Joe will do in practical reality.
Yes, Red Hat distributes DVD and that will most likely resolve the issue for those who can boot from DVD drive. But that's an assumption I can't bare especially when I know none of the servers I manage has DVD drives.
I believe, Red Hat should just package their specialized distro in 2 CD's as essential and leave everything else as "add-on" or "extra" GPL'd software as bonus. After all, why would one need hundred meg worth of XOrg + dependancies filling up the Web Server distro? Why should Desktop Distro CD#1 be boot disk and require users to pop in another CD to continue installing OS and packages? I've managed to package XOrg+KDE and everything else Desktop environment needs in one single CD with Slackware.
I think, learning curve in general is required for any computing. Heck, even Mac wasn't as GUI intuitive as one may have thought back in the days. And Mac had only ONE CLICK BUTTON!
For Desktop Linux distros, the downfall of it all, IMHO, is that they all are trying to mimic each other and at the same time forgetting to innovate with ease of use in mind. ie. worry about "function first, usage later" design. Biggest example of Red Hat's success would be KickStart/RPM/UP2DATE/GUI Package Management and at the same time, biggest example of Red Hat's failure would be 6+ distribution CD's just speaks for itself.
Maybe because those studies were done by researchers and professors in University?
I've seen many (now) tenures who had spent more time writting articles/jounals and conducting research to keep their jobs than actually teach to keep their jobs.
We should start giving condoms to kids in University, because they are getting royally screwed by unprotected University education.
Recently I've ran into a situtation where I had to fix Red Hat 8.0 with OpenLDAP server. Mac OX 10.2.x workstations were authenticating off Red Hat 8.0 OpenLdap server with DHCP w/ directory service string in broadcast. Curiously I've looked dazed at what the previous sysadmin had to go through to make secure athentication using OpenLDAP, Kerberos5, DHCP, DNS, YP, and nss-lib package.
Looking at the configuration and service list, anyone could have seen that the previous sysadmin had gone through hell to make it work.
And from my experience, it wasn't easy either. Working with AD from Win2K and Samba2-TNG with LDAP and Kerberos support isn't something I'm proud of doing. There were many hacks and workarounds done during that project which could have been a trivial to do under Windows AD only environment.
If I'd had to do it again, I wouldn't even try to LDIF strip off AD and make Linux machine act like Win2K AD server, just for the sake of "I have done it." bragging factor. I'm only glad that I've learned a lot about Win2k AD schema and authentication and OpenLDAP and nothing more.
If the intention of the article written was to entice naive Windows admins/Linux novice into migrating Linux into their environment, it's very misleading with captial "READ THE FINE PRINT".
Saying it's possible is totally different than it's practical and proven.
European's crazy keyboards and non-English alphabet alone will spark afew debate and I would like to see EU's version of ICANN up and running in this decade.
After all, this is what's all about, control of imaginary "Power".
although both their looks took a hell of a bitting through fame and fortune, i wouldn't mind swapping my boyish cute looks and charming personality with any of those two dudes.
1. Spend 10 years and 24 millions to invent instant cold/hot coffee 2. Find investers to spend another 24 millions on mass production and another 24 millions to pay off the previous debt 3. ? 4. Make Zillions of Dollars
BRILIANT!
You and me, Mad_Alchemist! We'll be going out on town and buy some fancy clothes and record players soon! Oh, I can't wait til those big city ladies check me out on my new flashy state-of-art polyester slacks and platform shoes!
this doesn't sound too out of ordinary to me. publishers and distributors already have been dealing with this type of issues through legal approach, just like film/entertainment companies and distributors. knowning distributors take big chunk of gross profit, i can understand why publishers/film/entertainment companies would take legal approach in order to protect their copyrighted content. after all, entertainment/publishers make the most money through well executed public-hype/marketing.
call me when you spent 10 more years and 20+ more millions on instant ice coffe in a bottle because i'm still working on how to disolve sugar and milk after mixing hot coffee with cup full of ice.
1) What's in it for me. 2) What does it do for me. 3) How much do I get out of it.
If any new OS can't fill in those 3 simple questions without comparing with the "other" OS, Fancy names and marketing won't save it... perhaps World Domination may...
During World War I, Naval Ships, mainly battleships relaying on long range artillery such as the Dreadnought used human computation for projectile of artillery. Dreadnought having eight 15-inch guns capable of firing a 1,920-pound projectile 35,000 yards (or 16 miles) and steam turbines reaching a speed of twenty-one knots, gave the extra edge to win the battle through precision of ballistic projectile from far distance.
Having said that, I believe, some of the points which the article brought up downplayed the importance of those "human computers" in some way.
I believe, those who filled the occupation as "human computer" led the way for greater precision and more reliable and faster computation if not life saving.
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It will be the day when RIAA start suing anyone who remembers the lyrics in their brain.
Watch out! Singing in the shower may violate RIAA's copyright!
Only way to boycott RIAA is to listen to only classical music which all composers and musicians had died hundred years ago.
This is just asking for more DRM and content protection from Hollywood and/or program resellers until we have totally decripled machines everywhere.
I think, it's much safer to just let it be some cheap subscription model and let people watch it on-demand instead of downloading the entire content and have some key to watch it.
The idea is nice, but I know where this is going, and I don't like it. I think, we should do whatever to discourage Hollywood/resellers from growing brain from already tiny head.
"Novell's never been a follower. They hold their own very well."
Not true. Novell always has been a follower who loves to pose as a leader. For instance, indemnification plan offered by Novell. Only reason Novell bought SuSE is because of IBM/SuSE partnership and because Sun and Red Hat was contemplating with an idea to buy SuSE in the first place. IBM needed Novell to buy SuSE, period. Novell had already made a deal to buy Ximian, and didn't even have enough cash to buy a freaking SuSE distro CD.
Anyway, this is getting offtopic.
To be honest, I don't buy into Novell's "OpenSource" marketing crap. I think, that's just a flashing light getting dimmer by the second.
Red Hat/Fedora : Leader
SuSE/OpenSuSE : Follower
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"put your tail behind your rear and walk the path, then you may see more things... their way."
Linux kernel 2.4 uses I/O elevator utility, elvtune (which tunes I/O queue time), in order to control request time in I/O queue. This used to be time consuming task. Since 2.6, 4 customized I/O schedulers has been introduced to further tune up queuing faster and easier.
CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP
CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS
CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE
CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ
By default, all 4 should be compiled, but primarily CFQ I/O scheduler is picked as the default (maybe i'm wrong on this). This can be changed by passing kernel parameter at boot time with;
elevator=noop
or
elevator=as
or
elevator=deadline
or
elevator=cfg
General consensus is that CFG is overall best for general purpose even for servers under heavy load, so that may be the reason why it's default.
However your mileage may vary and especially for system which may require different types of response time or application support, other I/O schedulers may perform better. For instance, DEADLINE may give better response time for real-time application.
Obviously this is for general purpose, however it can be a very useful way to tune a system; categorize then refine.
Overall, I find much easier and safer to tune kernel this way than spending weeks at a time to measure benchmark and open up a possibility to problems or undesirable effects later on.
What took so long??? Hey, someone let FreeBSD folks know that XBox 360 is coming out pretty soon.
No one wins. Only earth is the real winner here.
/.ers refuse to acknowledge the fact that we demand more than we can handle or comprehend and try to brush the problems under the rug and point fingers at politicians and energy/utility companies, please, do the earth the favor. STFU.
Scientists can find facts and effect of global warming, but lacks sufficient evidence or adequate proof that points out the real cause.
No one is arguing that level of pollution has risen and earth isn't what it used to be before humans came along with something called "industrial era". This isn't what these scientists are finding out or "SOME" politicians try to discredit.
The core of this childish bickering is about us, the human. Redundant source of energy, cheap and environmentally safe and lots of it in future means the end of old and outdated energy/utility companies, however that's in no way near foreseeable future. Therefore we do what we preach to others that they shouldn't. After all, it's not the car or factories spilling chemicals those are making the environment the way it is now.
It's US as in WE.
You want to stop methane emission? Stop using gas stove. You want to stop oil companies spilling oil onto the ocean? Stop driving cars. You want to stop chemical production that creates toxic byproduct? Stop watching TV, stop using computers, stop taking medicines, stop writing on papers with pens, stop buying cars, stop using plastic bags, stop buying gold, diamonds, precious jewels.
If any of those scientists or
After all, when all is done and gone, who should we blame? The hardass republicans? The friendly gas pump attendant? The utility company providing gas and electricity WE DEMAND? or the guy with IQ of 5 year old who throws out none reusable batteries in the garbage? or the assholes who turn on shit load of computers in an airconditioned room 24/7 so that someone can download porn off the internet?
If I were to blame someone, I rather blame the guy who pickups my garbage. After all, he is the one who's been dumping the garbage and polluting the environment. Right?
In the end, there will be only one difference between dinosaurs and us. That is, dinosaurs didn't know what hit them, but we know what will.
Are we looking at the DOTCOM bubble with respect to the entire industry OR a single company?
/.'ers, sigs are for kids.
What you are saying is comparatively similar if one is to say what Apple/Microsoft was in the era of golden goose called DOTCOM, therefore any successful (no matter how bloated or overvalue it may be) venture cap or IPO is sign of dooms day to come.
As far as I can tell, DOTCOM burst was a chain of events caused by multiple catastrophic failure. Google is a leader in search/adclick provider industry, a very specific portion of industry which has matured and difficult to gain grounds. I should know... i work for one... arrgg
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silly
Why hasn't this ever considered as viable resolution to stop many problems we face today with China? Economical sanction against China may be difficult, but legal sanction against China would be feasible. Toughening up the export policy can do more damage than increasing tariff against China. Let it be crumbled like once Russia did. So many are blinded by the profit, policy makers are not presuring China as much as they should, in my opinion.
At least, IMHO, I don't believe, those two kids were to compete against hightech MIT/CalTech graduates. The idea itself is what is the most important thing here, not the technology of their choice.
Environmentally conscious education and kids inspired by the teachings to apply their talents and knownledge (no matter how inefficient or outdated that may be) in order to make a better devices, those are economically and environmentally friendly.
I think, that's enough to award their talents and invention. I, for one, would like to see more kids "applying" their telants in such manner.
I don't necessarily agree with Red Hat's approach regarding "trying to be everything" distro.
In recent years, one of the biggest selling point which Red Hat's business direction needed to attract consumers was to market specially compiled distributions, such as AS, ES, RHDB and EL Desktop, etc. However their distribution CD never shrunk, relatively speaking. Only minor difference in kernel + patches and application(s) compiled to match the distributions purpose are the differnce.
You asked, why one would need all 6 - 8 CD to install Red Hat distro. Simply because not many people can tell by looking at table files in order to know which CD will be needed to install which packages + dependancies. Surely KickStart over NFS/HTTP/FTP/HD sounds like easy task and resolve that issue I mention above, however that's anything close to what average Joe will do in practical reality.
Yes, Red Hat distributes DVD and that will most likely resolve the issue for those who can boot from DVD drive. But that's an assumption I can't bare especially when I know none of the servers I manage has DVD drives.
I believe, Red Hat should just package their specialized distro in 2 CD's as essential and leave everything else as "add-on" or "extra" GPL'd software as bonus. After all, why would one need hundred meg worth of XOrg + dependancies filling up the Web Server distro? Why should Desktop Distro CD#1 be boot disk and require users to pop in another CD to continue installing OS and packages? I've managed to package XOrg+KDE and everything else Desktop environment needs in one single CD with Slackware.
I think, learning curve in general is required for any computing. Heck, even Mac wasn't as GUI intuitive as one may have thought back in the days. And Mac had only ONE CLICK BUTTON!
For Desktop Linux distros, the downfall of it all, IMHO, is that they all are trying to mimic each other and at the same time forgetting to innovate with ease of use in mind. ie. worry about "function first, usage later" design. Biggest example of Red Hat's success would be KickStart/RPM/UP2DATE/GUI Package Management and at the same time, biggest example of Red Hat's failure would be 6+ distribution CD's just speaks for itself.
Maybe because those studies were done by researchers and professors in University?
I've seen many (now) tenures who had spent more time writting articles/jounals and conducting research to keep their jobs than actually teach to keep their jobs.
We should start giving condoms to kids in University, because they are getting royally screwed by unprotected University education.
Recently I've ran into a situtation where I had to fix Red Hat 8.0 with OpenLDAP server. Mac OX 10.2.x workstations were authenticating off Red Hat 8.0 OpenLdap server with DHCP w/ directory service string in broadcast. Curiously I've looked dazed at what the previous sysadmin had to go through to make secure athentication using OpenLDAP, Kerberos5, DHCP, DNS, YP, and nss-lib package.
Looking at the configuration and service list, anyone could have seen that the previous sysadmin had gone through hell to make it work.
And from my experience, it wasn't easy either. Working with AD from Win2K and Samba2-TNG with LDAP and Kerberos support isn't something I'm proud of doing. There were many hacks and workarounds done during that project which could have been a trivial to do under Windows AD only environment.
If I'd had to do it again, I wouldn't even try to LDIF strip off AD and make Linux machine act like Win2K AD server, just for the sake of "I have done it." bragging factor. I'm only glad that I've learned a lot about Win2k AD schema and authentication and OpenLDAP and nothing more.
If the intention of the article written was to entice naive Windows admins/Linux novice into migrating Linux into their environment, it's very misleading with captial "READ THE FINE PRINT".
Saying it's possible is totally different than it's practical and proven.
coming from developers, it could be just a pat on their own back.
yes, i've been screwed by developers all my life.
"This one is for you, all you lonely sysadmins sitting in a corner!"
European's crazy keyboards and non-English alphabet alone will spark afew debate and I would like to see EU's version of ICANN up and running in this decade.
After all, this is what's all about, control of imaginary "Power".
how sad...
would you rather be a hippie and be a legend like Stallman http://www.stallman.org/ or be snobby and rich like Marc Fleury http://www.jboss.com/company/management ...
although both their looks took a hell of a bitting through fame and fortune, i wouldn't mind swapping my boyish cute looks and charming personality with any of those two dudes.
-mod me as funny, there will be a hell to pay-
BRILIANT!
why, instant cold/hot coffee in a bottle?
BRILIANT!
1. Spend 10 years and 24 millions to invent instant cold/hot coffee
2. Find investers to spend another 24 millions on mass production and another 24 millions to pay off the previous debt
3. ?
4. Make Zillions of Dollars
BRILIANT!
You and me, Mad_Alchemist! We'll be going out on town and buy some fancy clothes and record players soon! Oh, I can't wait til those big city ladies check me out on my new flashy state-of-art polyester slacks and platform shoes!
this doesn't sound too out of ordinary to me. publishers and distributors already have been dealing with this type of issues through legal approach, just like film/entertainment companies and distributors. knowning distributors take big chunk of gross profit, i can understand why publishers/film/entertainment companies would take legal approach in order to protect their copyrighted content. after all, entertainment/publishers make the most money through well executed public-hype/marketing.
i'm not sure what the big fuss is about anyhow.
call me when you spent 10 more years and 20+ more millions on instant ice coffe in a bottle because i'm still working on how to disolve sugar and milk after mixing hot coffee with cup full of ice.
at least 1.3.x is safe from this, I'll sleep well tonight.
I guess, I have one more reason not to pick my nose.
1) What's in it for me.
2) What does it do for me.
3) How much do I get out of it.
If any new OS can't fill in those 3 simple questions without comparing with the "other" OS, Fancy names and marketing won't save it... perhaps World Domination may...
During World War I, Naval Ships, mainly battleships relaying on long range artillery such as the Dreadnought used human computation for projectile of artillery. Dreadnought having eight 15-inch guns capable of firing a 1,920-pound projectile 35,000 yards (or 16 miles) and steam turbines reaching a speed of twenty-one knots, gave the extra edge to win the battle through precision of ballistic projectile from far distance.
Having said that, I believe, some of the points which the article brought up downplayed the importance of those "human computers" in some way.
I believe, those who filled the occupation as "human computer" led the way for greater precision and more reliable and faster computation if not life saving.
of course, without reading the article, what do i do? i've visited securityfocus and symantec to dig out info on worm/virus named "rat"...
please, someone stick a fork in my ass, 'cuz i think, i'm done.