You are so wrong.
The GPL does not defend the use of Code that you don't own in an OSS project.
The Lawsuit has not validated OSS and the GPL. This is a very different thing all together. What SCO are alledging is that IBM (and others) used code/methods etc that they own ALL the rights to in Linux. The GPL does not protect you where you have used Code/Methods that you don't own and have therefore submitted without the approval of the copyright owner for use in an OSS Project. Please read the TONS of information on this and other sites like Groklaw before making factually incorrect statements like you have done.
If the verdict goes against SCO and Novell prevails in their suit then we MAY see the donation of the rights that Novell have to OSS until that happens we can just hope that the various judges and/or juries make the right decision (ie against SCO) when the time comes.
Then, after a period of reflection there might be enough evidence already in the legal system for someone like Novell to take Action against Microsoft. I expect that Novell will examine their options very carefully in this respect after all, what is to stop a behmoth like Microsoft from buying all Novell shares and thus quashing any possible legal challenge which may or may not prove their complicity in the SCO/IBM affair. I, for one would not put it beyong them with a company like Novell. If IBM were to take on M$ then it would get very interesting indeed.
It might be obvious to everyone apart from SCO and it Lawyers but it still has not been proven in Court. Until that day arrives then the word to use is ALLEDEGLY.
Repeat after me
SCO Alledges that IBM (RedHat, Novell etc) has illegally used code they own the rights to in Linux
Until they Judge and/or Jury reach a decision then it is most certainly not proven even though it might be obvious to 99.99% of people. Just take a look at some of the silly and obvious patents granted by the USPTO. Sense and sensibilty are not part of the Legal Systems vocabulary.
Telephone Companies had known this for years. This is why you can get 48vDC versions of most systems. In a telephon e exchange 48v DC is the norm. They have huge batteries and standy generators to keep the phone syste, running.
As has been stated, this article is nothing more than "I want outlook on Linux".
If you take a good look at real world closed source software (ie sold by companies not based in Redmond, WA) you will find most of the top app providers already selling Linux versions of their products. For many, this was a no brainer as they already had Unix (of various flavours) versions of their key products. Then you get companies like IBM who are (IMHO) actually looking at replacing windows with Linux as the key dev platform. For example, if you look as some of the WebSphere range of products. Until fairly recently, there was always a need for at leat one windows system to act as the dev host. Now, with the switch to Eclipse based dev tools they can also use linux instead of Windows in this key area. Ok, they are not betting the farm on linux succeeding in this area but with each release the need to use windows grows less and less.
Finally,
We don't need Outlook on Linux. What we need is a decent email/groupware client that will interact seamlessly with MS Exchange that provides all the functionality of Outlook but without the underlying problems that it has.
What bugs me about Office 2003 is that outlook had lost its ability to export the account settings. What you have to use is the office exporter which produces a file which is a horrible missmash of Binary & XML (no the binary is not wrapped in XML) that only the office imported can read. I know this is part of the M$ lock in policy but previous versions of lookout so that other email clients can read them easily. So now, you have to import them manually. I get really annoyed with M$ when the go on about their interoperability policy. It if nothing more than pure FUD.
RedHat were somewhat a latecomer to the LSB group. The aim of LSB is admirable but probably fatally flawed as the first poster shows it all in his mention that Debian should have been used as its basis. The aim (I might be wrong here) was to be totally distro independant but make all the key bits be in the same place especially in/etc and a few other key directories.
Won't buy anythying associated with Sony after their rootkit fiasco and support for DRM and the RIAA, MPAA etc etc. And all those who don't give 2 hoots about the PC3 or any other gaming toy (especially XBOX) for that matter.(This is actually the majority of computer users if you care to research the stats)
IMHO, the capacity of BLURay of HD-DVD is still an order of magnitude less that what I really need for a backup device. IN the past few years, HDD capacitied have increased dramatically and there are more increases on the horizon. But, backup media affordable by the masses has not increased buy anywhere the same amount. So, I think it is useless! Why do I think so, Well as a professional software developer and systems integrator for the past 25+ years, I don't:-
Play DVD on my PC's
Listen to MP3's on my PC's (my Ipod is good enough)
Play shoot'em up games of any sort
So, why do I need HD-DVD or BluRay? What I want is an optical device tat can backup my 100Gb laptop HDD on ONE volume in less than 1 hour. Give me that, and I will eat my hat
I have to disagree with you on two points 1) The 747 was not the greatest aeroplane ever built. That honour has to go to Concorde. The FIRST Commercial Supersonic Fly By Wire Aircraft. OK. The second greatest aircraft is the Harrier! VTOL Great. 2) The A380 was designed and built with what is called "Launch Aid" These are LOANS that have to be repaid not subsidies which do not have to be repaid.
Do you honestly think that the US Govt (Not the politicians...) would allow any foreign upstart to trade in the US that has billions in state subsidies? No matter how much the politicians may bleat to gain TV Air Time, the commercial facts are there for all to see. Other Airbus planes have had Launch Aid which was repaid with interest. The 747 was originally funded out of Boeings own pockets and it nearly bankrupted the company. Now it arranges commercial loans to cover the initial development costs.
If you look at the dates etc for the adoption of certain speific H/W components I expect there will be lots of teeth gnashing when users apply a Service Pack or so called "Security Update" and zap, their system won't boot as it won't meet the "New" minimun H/W requirement for Vista. I recon that your PC that quite happily runs XP now and is more than 2 years old (as at June 2006) will not be able to install & run vista in Dec 2007.
By the way, the latest Vista Upgrade Advisor will say your system can't run Vista if you have a HDD with the OS installed on a partition with less than 15Gb free. What a load of sh1t. My XP System has the OS installed on a Partition that is 16Gb and has over 8Gb free . There is over 100Gb free on other partitions yet the dumbass tool says "Get a Bigger HDD". I say F**K you. XP will be my last non server windows install.
Many parts of the world do not have ANY network access or if they exist the dialup lines are very iffy and/or expensive. I guess that many 2nd & 3rd world countries will be giving Vista a miss big time. IMHO, this is typical of a US centric corporation. DRM the Locals and stuff the rest of the world! The $100 laptop looks more appealing every day for many countries outside North America, EU, Japan, Austrailia & NZ.
The company where I have been doing some consulting recently has a firewall.router block an ANY Microsoft IP Address. I wonder why? Perhaps they have a crystal ball.
English is well understood by the Business & Scientific communities in Russia. Others who can afford it get their children educated in places like London so they can learn to speak English. I have worked in Russia (And places like Kazakhstan etc) and Englisg is becoming more common all the time. However, it may surprise you that the actual official language of Russia is FRENCH. By this I mean that wen the russian parliament passes a law, it is translated into French and that is the document that Putin signs into law. Granted that this (French) is not is common use but it dates back to the times of the Czars.
After the disintegration of the USSR, Dollars & Deutschmarks bacame the only hard currency you could use in Russia. Hotels would charge in Dollars a higher rate for foreigners who paid in Roubles. A few years ago, Yeltsin and now Putin got the Russian economy back onto a more stable footing and laws were passed making the daily use of dollars/euros illegal. The currency has stabilised somewhat and 1GBP is approx 50Roubles. You used to be fined if you tried to take roubles out of the country. Now I can order Roubles from a Bank(in the UK) just like USD etc.
The Russia of Today is a very different place that it was when I first went there (1980) and still has its problems especially with Mafia & Corruption but it is getting there. All the Russians I know both in the West and in Russia use sites like ALLofMP3.com all the time. DVD Piracy is rampant in Russia. After years of having nothing they really find it hard to pay for things like Music & Films.
You are spot on with your observation. I do and have done a lot of biz in 2nd & 3rd world countries. With the fall of the Soviet Union the newly independant countries went for the latest tect in a big way. Those were the days. I had to get a Supercomputer export license to hand carry an Alpha to Kazakhstan. Their lack of POTS for the majority of the population enables the take rapid up of Mobile phones. After all, who would ewait months to get a land line installed when you could get a mobile in minutes.
For the accountants/bean counters amongst us, a wireless infrastructure is far (by orders of magnitude) to install and maintain than a wired network.
I remember some prominent 1st world IT companies being shown the door when the proposed "not leading edge" tachnology whereas the company I was working for proposed 64bit Risc CPU's (this was in 1995) Guess who got the biz?
Unfortunately, the average Americans view of the world ends at 48 states. the 2nd & 3rd World are just savages with an IQ approaching zero. (this is a simplistic view but I hope you get the point)
Just my 0.02tenge ( tenge is the currency of Kazakhstan)
This week the Director General of the BBC stated that he was going to put even more of their broadcasted programs available for download and most of it in mp3 format. And here we have the USA(opps sorry the RIAA) government trying to outlaw this perfectly legal practice. A generation agom the USA was considered the centre of innovation. Now various vested interests are doing their level best to stop it all. This bill (if it becomes law) will force podcasters and other content providers to move offshore and millions of otherwise law abiding US citizens to breal the law on a regular basis. Somehow, someone must as the say in the USA, "Kick some Ass" and get that thing which is such an anathema these days, "Common Sense" into the US Leglislators to stop this madness. But until it does, get downloading guys and gals!
1) make page useless on all browsers apart from IE 2) Spend millions advertising said site 3) Wait while millions of users try to use it 4) Spend $0 broadcasting the kit rate 5) Wait as users give up on Firefox, Opera, Safari etc and turn back to IE 6) Profit from Browser Lock-in The cynic in me says its just part of the marketing push towards world domination of everything. The rest of me say "They can't be that stupid can they?" Time will tell which is correct./S
I know there are many claims to who is the inventor of the Telephone. There are similar claims about the TV. The link to the "inventor" of the tv fails to completely mention John Logie Baird. This very eccentric scotsman was a pioneer in TV development. There is still to this day a great debate amongst historians about who was first.
The first TV pictures he sent were down a phone line! At least the place where the worlds first TV station broadcast from is still standing and is a great monument to those involved.
I wonder how long it will take someone, somewhere in the world to 'fix' this little feature of Skype?
IMHO, it does not take a lawyer to realise this is a very sharp practice indeed. It makes a total mockery of Microsoft's "Designed for Windows xxxx" branding marque.
Personally, I hope that Skype gets sued all the way to the bankrupcy court on this one and drage Intel along with it.
Consider this analogy
Esso/Exxon produce a brand of unleaded fuel that can only be used by Brand X vehicles.
If you use it in any other marque then the engine will only deliver 50% of the horsepower that it would in an equivalently sized & tuned vehicle of Brand X. The fuel was able to tell what sort of engine it was being burnt in and changed its chemical formulae of the fly.
What sort of rucus would that scenario raise with the users of other vehicle makes.
Very soon there would be a million class action law suits filed.
Just my take on the issue.
I was using IP telephony 4 years ago so skype is nowt new./s
BG was awarded an Honarary Knighthood just like Bob Geldorf and many other FOREIGN citizens. These rank at the same level as Honarary doctorates etc awarded by Universities.
Real Knighthoods are reserved for British & Commonwealth Citizens.
There is a very good reason for having to tell the installer where you want to download the files from. In an organisation with several systems, you would be better of copying the RPMS directories from the CD/DVD's to a FTP/NFS/HTTP server on your own network. Point the installer at that resource and you can install the whole lot a great deal faster than over the internet.
Here is what I do. 1) install say FC4 on a server box. Select EVERYTHING. 2) then setup a cron job to do a daily "yum update". Add some logic in the script to detect if there has been a kernel update and reboot if required. 3) Copy the CD/DVD stuff into an FTP/NFS/HTTP accessible place. I prefer NFS as I can then use the X version of anaconda. 4) Setup another cron job to run on a daily basis to package the rpms downloaded to the master system into your very own yum repository.
Then on the other systems, point the installer at the master server and bingo, it all loads quickly. Once your system is booted, point yum at your own repository and update. No traffic over the internet etc etc and its much faster. This is "REAL WORLD LINUX SYSADMIN". As Fedora is a test bed for RHEL than the majority of users who run FEDORA will appreciate this sort of approach. The one great thing about Linux is that there is a Linux Distro that will fit the way you want to work. Be it SUSE, Deviant (sorry Debian), Gentoo or DSL. Finally, 99.99999% of people who do a FTP install of Fedora couldn't care less about the way dumb ass things like computer games work with network master server lists. Again, this is REAL WORLD LINUX Sysadmin. "Welcome To The Machine!"
There is a "Standard" (I know this is a dirty word to some) that commonises SQL over a number of platforms.
Do a google for SQL92. DB2 SQL is not a copy of Oracle SQL. There are lots of other database software that is complaint to a standard such as SQL92.
IBM has extended (another bad word on/.) SQL for use in some other products and called it Extended SQL (Websphere Message Broker). In this incarnation it is a programming language. It does follow SQL92 when accessing databases though. These databases can be Oracle, DB2, SQL/Server or Sybase.
Before 2001 we were subject to horrible Space & SiFi movies in General. Remember all those wooden spaceships, wobbling scenery of all those 'B' movies.
Then came 2001 and Kubrick. With the vision of the Author, he broke the mould and moved SiFi movie making from the early 1950's into the 1970's. (I know it came out in the 60's but it was a long way ahead of its time) Pretty well all the StarTrek & StarWars movies owe a lot to 2001. Think of what the orifinal StarTrek TV series was like before 2001. Then think about post 2001. A big change.
However 2001 is not the best Space Movie. It is more thought provoking than most of the rubbish that goes by the term Space Movie. The original Star Wars was the next quantum leap in Space Movie making. IMHO, that is the best Space Movie of all time No 2 is 2001. All the subsequent prequels & sequels are utter rubbish. They rely too much on the good work done in the original to be really creative and imaginative.
Remember that anything RedHat pushes into the Linux Kernel will automatically become available for ALL OTHER LINUX DISTROS. So please forgive my ignorance, but where is the "badness" in that aim? AFAIK, nothing that RedHat has developed has been proprietary in any way. They do have a track record of buying things from other companies and releasing them as OSS stuff. Again please let me know of the badness in that aim.
IMHO, virtualisation is going to become very important to all sofware developers over the next few years. If it is easy to fire up a Debian system on top of a SUSE and have Mandriva & RedHat running as well then you can test your app on all these platforms at the same time. Hurrah!
American shysters trying to tell me I have won a fully expensed holiday in Florida.
I signed up to the UK version which operates 24/7 unlike the Aussie one. I did get some calls but I threatened to report them to OFCOM (Telecommunications Regulator). The calls soon stopped. And no, my number is not unlisted. I get all my friends to sign up to this service. It does work.
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You are so wrong.
The GPL does not defend the use of Code that you don't own in an OSS project.
The Lawsuit has not validated OSS and the GPL. This is a very different thing all together.
What SCO are alledging is that IBM (and others) used code/methods etc that they own ALL the rights to in Linux.
The GPL does not protect you where you have used Code/Methods that you don't own and have therefore submitted without the approval of the copyright owner for use in an OSS Project.
Please read the TONS of information on this and other sites like Groklaw before making factually incorrect statements like you have done.
If the verdict goes against SCO and Novell prevails in their suit then we MAY see the donation of the rights that Novell have to OSS until that happens we can just hope that the various judges and/or juries make the right decision (ie against SCO) when the time comes.
Then, after a period of reflection there might be enough evidence already in the legal system for someone like Novell to take Action against Microsoft. I expect that Novell will examine their options very carefully in this respect after all, what is to stop a behmoth like Microsoft from buying all Novell shares and thus quashing any possible legal challenge which may or may not prove their complicity in the SCO/IBM affair.
I, for one would not put it beyong them with a company like Novell. If IBM were to take on M$ then it would get very interesting indeed.
It might be obvious to everyone apart from SCO and it Lawyers but it still has not been proven in Court. Until that day arrives then the word to use is ALLEDEGLY.
Repeat after me
SCO Alledges that IBM (RedHat, Novell etc) has illegally used code they own the rights to in Linux
Until they Judge and/or Jury reach a decision then it is most certainly not proven even though it might be obvious to 99.99% of people.
Just take a look at some of the silly and obvious patents granted by the USPTO. Sense and sensibilty are not part of the Legal Systems vocabulary.
Nah,
They were Daleks. All they could say was
"Exterminate Exterminate..."
Most M$ and Apple fanboys won't know what you are talking about when you mention 'Paper Tape' They probably think you are talking about DUCT Tape.
Ah Those were the days. I still have my Paper Tape Repair kit from my days at DEC.
Telephone Companies had known this for years. This is why you can get 48vDC versions of most systems.
In a telephon e exchange 48v DC is the norm.
They have huge batteries and standy generators to keep the phone syste, running.
As has been stated, this article is nothing more than "I want outlook on Linux".
If you take a good look at real world closed source software (ie sold by companies not based in Redmond, WA) you will find most of the top app providers already selling Linux versions of their products. For many, this was a no brainer as they already had Unix (of various flavours) versions of their key products.
Then you get companies like IBM who are (IMHO) actually looking at replacing windows with Linux as the key dev platform. For example, if you look as some of the WebSphere range of products. Until fairly recently, there was always a need for at leat one windows system to act as the dev host. Now, with the switch to Eclipse based dev tools they can also use linux instead of Windows in this key area. Ok, they are not betting the farm on linux succeeding in this area but with each release the need to use windows grows less and less.
Finally,
We don't need Outlook on Linux. What we need is a decent email/groupware client that will interact seamlessly with MS Exchange that provides all the functionality of Outlook but without the underlying problems that it has.
What bugs me about Office 2003 is that outlook had lost its ability to export the account settings. What you have to use is the office exporter which produces a file which is a horrible missmash of Binary & XML (no the binary is not wrapped in XML) that only the office imported can read. I know this is part of the M$ lock in policy but previous versions of lookout so that other email clients can read them easily. So now, you have to import them manually. I get really annoyed with M$ when the go on about their interoperability policy. It if nothing more than pure FUD.
RedHat were somewhat a latecomer to the LSB group. The aim of LSB is admirable but probably fatally flawed as the first poster shows it all in his mention that Debian should have been used as its basis. /etc and a few other key directories.
The aim (I might be wrong here) was to be totally distro independant but make all the key bits be in the same place especially in
Won't buy anythying associated with Sony after their rootkit fiasco and support for DRM and the RIAA, MPAA etc etc.
And all those who don't give 2 hoots about the PC3 or any other gaming toy (especially XBOX) for that matter.(This is actually the majority of computer users if you care to research the stats)
IMHO, the capacity of BLURay of HD-DVD is still an order of magnitude less that what I really need for a backup device. IN the past few years, HDD capacitied have increased dramatically and there are more increases on the horizon. But, backup media affordable by the masses has not increased buy anywhere the same amount. So, I think it is useless!
Why do I think so, Well as a professional software developer and systems integrator for the past 25+ years, I don't:-
Play DVD on my PC's
Listen to MP3's on my PC's (my Ipod is good enough)
Play shoot'em up games of any sort
So, why do I need HD-DVD or BluRay?
What I want is an optical device tat can backup my 100Gb laptop HDD on ONE volume in less than 1 hour.
Give me that, and I will eat my hat
I have to disagree with you on two points
1) The 747 was not the greatest aeroplane ever built. That honour has to go to Concorde. The FIRST Commercial Supersonic Fly By Wire Aircraft. OK. The second greatest aircraft is the Harrier! VTOL Great.
2) The A380 was designed and built with what is called "Launch Aid" These are LOANS that have to be repaid not subsidies which do not have to be repaid.
Do you honestly think that the US Govt (Not the politicians...) would allow any foreign upstart to trade in the US that has billions in state subsidies? No matter how much the politicians may bleat to gain TV Air Time, the commercial facts are there for all to see.
Other Airbus planes have had Launch Aid which was repaid with interest.
The 747 was originally funded out of Boeings own pockets and it nearly bankrupted the company. Now it arranges commercial loans to cover the initial development costs.
If you look at the dates etc for the adoption of certain speific H/W components I expect there will be lots of teeth gnashing when users apply a Service Pack or so called "Security Update" and zap, their system won't boot as it won't meet the "New" minimun H/W requirement for Vista.
I recon that your PC that quite happily runs XP now and is more than 2 years old (as at June 2006) will not be able to install & run vista in Dec 2007.
By the way, the latest Vista Upgrade Advisor will say your system can't run Vista if you have a HDD with the OS installed on a partition with less than 15Gb free. What a load of sh1t. My XP System has the OS installed on a Partition that is 16Gb and has over 8Gb free . There is over 100Gb free on other partitions yet the dumbass tool says "Get a Bigger HDD". I say F**K you. XP will be my last non server windows install.
Many parts of the world do not have ANY network access or if they exist the dialup lines are very iffy and/or expensive. I guess that many 2nd & 3rd world countries will be giving Vista a miss big time.
IMHO, this is typical of a US centric corporation. DRM the Locals and stuff the rest of the world!
The $100 laptop looks more appealing every day for many countries outside North America, EU, Japan, Austrailia & NZ.
The company where I have been doing some consulting recently has a firewall.router block an ANY Microsoft IP Address. I wonder why? Perhaps they have a crystal ball.
Just my 0.02sum worth
English is well understood by the Business & Scientific communities in Russia. Others who can afford it get their children educated in places like London so they can learn to speak English.
I have worked in Russia (And places like Kazakhstan etc) and Englisg is becoming more common all the time.
However, it may surprise you that the actual official language of Russia is FRENCH. By this I mean that wen the russian parliament passes a law, it is translated into French and that is the document that Putin signs into law. Granted that this (French) is not is common use but it dates back to the times of the Czars.
After the disintegration of the USSR, Dollars & Deutschmarks bacame the only hard currency you could use in Russia. Hotels would charge in Dollars a higher rate for foreigners who paid in Roubles.
A few years ago, Yeltsin and now Putin got the Russian economy back onto a more stable footing and laws were passed making the daily use of dollars/euros illegal. The currency has stabilised somewhat and 1GBP is approx 50Roubles.
You used to be fined if you tried to take roubles out of the country. Now I can order Roubles from a Bank(in the UK) just like USD etc.
The Russia of Today is a very different place that it was when I first went there (1980) and still has its problems especially with Mafia & Corruption but it is getting there. All the Russians I know both in the West and in Russia use sites like ALLofMP3.com all the time. DVD Piracy is rampant in Russia. After years of having nothing they really find it hard to pay for things like Music & Films.
Just my 0.02kopek worth
You are spot on with your observation.
I do and have done a lot of biz in 2nd & 3rd world countries. With the fall of the Soviet Union the newly independant countries went for the latest tect in a big way. Those were the days. I had to get a Supercomputer export license to hand carry an Alpha to Kazakhstan.
Their lack of POTS for the majority of the population enables the take rapid up of Mobile phones. After all, who would ewait months to get a land line installed when you could get a mobile in minutes.
For the accountants/bean counters amongst us, a wireless infrastructure is far (by orders of magnitude) to install and maintain than a wired network.
I remember some prominent 1st world IT companies being shown the door when the proposed "not leading edge" tachnology whereas the company I was working for proposed 64bit Risc CPU's (this was in 1995) Guess who got the biz?
Unfortunately, the average Americans view of the world ends at 48 states. the 2nd & 3rd World are just savages with an IQ approaching zero. (this is a simplistic view but I hope you get the point)
Just my 0.02tenge ( tenge is the currency of Kazakhstan)
And the crashing when moderating /. ?
IMHO 1.5.0.2 is pretty unstable.
This week the Director General of the BBC stated that he was going to put even more of their broadcasted programs available for download and most of it in mp3 format. And here we have the USA(opps sorry the RIAA) government trying to outlaw this perfectly legal practice.
A generation agom the USA was considered the centre of innovation. Now various vested interests are doing their level best to stop it all.
This bill (if it becomes law) will force podcasters and other content providers to move offshore and millions of otherwise law abiding US citizens to breal the law on a regular basis.
Somehow, someone must as the say in the USA, "Kick some Ass" and get that thing which is such an anathema these days, "Common Sense" into the US Leglislators to stop this madness.
But until it does, get downloading guys and gals!
Nope you got it right
/S
1) make page useless on all browsers apart from IE
2) Spend millions advertising said site
3) Wait while millions of users try to use it
4) Spend $0 broadcasting the kit rate
5) Wait as users give up on Firefox, Opera, Safari etc and turn back to IE
6) Profit from Browser Lock-in
The cynic in me says its just part of the marketing push towards world domination of everything.
The rest of me say "They can't be that stupid can they?"
Time will tell which is correct.
I know there are many claims to who is the inventor of the Telephone. There are similar claims about the TV.
The link to the "inventor" of the tv fails to completely mention John Logie Baird.
This very eccentric scotsman was a pioneer in TV development. There is still to this day a great debate amongst historians about who was first.
http://www.infed.org/walking/wa-baird.htm
The first TV pictures he sent were down a phone line!
At least the place where the worlds first TV station broadcast from is still standing and is a great monument to those involved.
I wonder how long it will take someone, somewhere in the world to 'fix' this little feature of Skype? IMHO, it does not take a lawyer to realise this is a very sharp practice indeed. It makes a total mockery of Microsoft's "Designed for Windows xxxx" branding marque. Personally, I hope that Skype gets sued all the way to the bankrupcy court on this one and drage Intel along with it. Consider this analogy Esso/Exxon produce a brand of unleaded fuel that can only be used by Brand X vehicles. If you use it in any other marque then the engine will only deliver 50% of the horsepower that it would in an equivalently sized & tuned vehicle of Brand X. The fuel was able to tell what sort of engine it was being burnt in and changed its chemical formulae of the fly. What sort of rucus would that scenario raise with the users of other vehicle makes. Very soon there would be a million class action law suits filed. Just my take on the issue. I was using IP telephony 4 years ago so skype is nowt new. /s
BG was awarded an Honarary Knighthood just like Bob Geldorf and many other FOREIGN citizens. These rank at the same level as Honarary doctorates etc awarded by Universities.
Real Knighthoods are reserved for British & Commonwealth Citizens.
They are very different.
There is a very good reason for having to tell the installer where you want to download the files from. In an organisation with several systems, you would be better of copying the RPMS directories from the CD/DVD's to a FTP/NFS/HTTP server on your own network. Point the installer at that resource and you can install the whole lot a great deal faster than over the internet.
Here is what I do.
1) install say FC4 on a server box. Select EVERYTHING.
2) then setup a cron job to do a daily "yum update". Add some logic in the script to detect if there has been a kernel update and reboot if required.
3) Copy the CD/DVD stuff into an FTP/NFS/HTTP accessible place. I prefer NFS as I can then use the X version of anaconda.
4) Setup another cron job to run on a daily basis to package the rpms downloaded to the master system into your very own yum repository.
Then on the other systems, point the installer at the master server and bingo, it all loads quickly. Once your system is booted, point yum at your own repository and update. No traffic over the internet etc etc and its much faster.
This is "REAL WORLD LINUX SYSADMIN". As Fedora is a test bed for RHEL than the majority of users who run FEDORA will appreciate this sort of approach.
The one great thing about Linux is that there is a Linux Distro that will fit the way you want to work. Be it SUSE, Deviant (sorry Debian), Gentoo or DSL.
Finally, 99.99999% of people who do a FTP install of Fedora couldn't care less about the way dumb ass things like computer games work with network master server lists. Again, this is REAL WORLD LINUX Sysadmin. "Welcome To The Machine!"
There is a "Standard" (I know this is a dirty word to some) that commonises SQL over a number of platforms.
/.) SQL for use in some other products and called it Extended SQL (Websphere Message Broker). In this incarnation it is a programming language. It does follow SQL92 when accessing databases though. These databases can be Oracle, DB2, SQL/Server or Sybase.
Do a google for SQL92.
DB2 SQL is not a copy of Oracle SQL. There are lots of other database software that is complaint to a standard such as SQL92.
IBM has extended (another bad word on
Before 2001 we were subject to horrible Space & SiFi movies in General. Remember all those wooden spaceships, wobbling scenery of all those 'B' movies.
Then came 2001 and Kubrick. With the vision of the Author, he broke the mould and moved SiFi movie making from the early 1950's into the 1970's. (I know it came out in the 60's but it was a long way ahead of its time)
Pretty well all the StarTrek & StarWars movies owe a lot to 2001. Think of what the orifinal StarTrek TV series was like before 2001. Then think about post 2001. A big change.
However 2001 is not the best Space Movie. It is more thought provoking than most of the rubbish that goes by the term Space Movie.
The original Star Wars was the next quantum leap in Space Movie making.
IMHO, that is the best Space Movie of all time
No 2 is 2001.
All the subsequent prequels & sequels are utter rubbish. They rely too much on the good work done in the original to be really creative and imaginative.
So, do you think a terrorist is going to comply with the RIP Act? I'd like some of what you are smoking in your cloud cuckoo land.
Remember that anything RedHat pushes into the Linux Kernel will automatically become available for ALL OTHER LINUX DISTROS. So please forgive my ignorance, but where is the "badness" in that aim? AFAIK, nothing that RedHat has developed has been proprietary in any way. They do have a track record of buying things from other companies and releasing them as OSS stuff. Again please let me know of the badness in that aim.
IMHO, virtualisation is going to become very important to all sofware developers over the next few years. If it is easy to fire up a Debian system on top of a SUSE and have Mandriva & RedHat running as well then you can test your app on all these platforms at the same time. Hurrah!
American shysters trying to tell me I have won a fully expensed holiday in Florida.
I signed up to the UK version which operates 24/7 unlike the Aussie one. I did get some calls but I threatened to report them to OFCOM (Telecommunications Regulator). The calls soon stopped.
And no, my number is not unlisted.
I get all my friends to sign up to this service. It does work.