"Those ports are used for an external hard drive on USB and DVD burner on Firewire.. It appeared to combine them into a "Logical Volume" that I can only guess is some kind of raid setup.."
I'm sorry but no one in their right mind runs parts of the Operating System on hot swappable devices, you are asking for trouble. What parts of Linux resided on the external drive. You don't ever mount an external device into a Linux directory structure - it don't like it. Like, what happens if the USB device fails, you've lost your entire system.
"did you try any of the distros on bootable CDs", rs232
"No. I needed to be able to save settings and files", AmberBlackCat
I meant, boot from the CD and see if it picks up the hardware, before installing. Personally I have found the bootableCDs are very good at identifying hardware. Later on if the distro doesn't identify it, you know it's a missing driver or something.
"I didn't post to any support forums. I just went back to windows"
What part of Windows reside on the external harddrive ?
Provide a total consumer stack. For instance Red Hat merging with Dell and a Telecom Company and a Content Provider. Selling a full spec multimedia PC in the shops, they make their money back on subscription services. Now that would be money to retire on:)
LinuxMCE 0704 Demo Video
These boxes would fly off the shelves, where can I buy one ?
"I don't think this guy understands why the GPL is so important"
I think he does, as does MS and Novell.. which is why they would like to pretend it doesn't really exist. As a friend of NovoSOFT we can assume that Cohens thoughts on 'open source' are in synchronization. In order of importance that would be renting software, subscription services or lastly the GPL..
"in the end, it doesn't really matter if the final product is available via subscription, delivered as a service over the Web, or licensed under the General Public License that governs free software"
A customer goes to PC world to get his Windows laptop computer repaired. The repair man says it will be $160, and be done in a day. Customers asks can all photos and files be restored. Repair man say no, will have to do a total wiped and reinstall. Customer takes the machine to a small computer repair shop and they boot the machine on Knoppix and copy all the files to a USB device, then reinstall Windows and restore the files, all for the same price. They had to use a generic Windows CD as the customer no longer posessed the restore CD and the laptop company wanted $140 for a new one.
"The service industry is good work, but there is little opportunity to launch a retire-on-it type of project"
I've worked in the 'computer' industry for decades and I don't know anyone making money out of Windows whos name isn't billg..:)
"Right now I can't get Fedora Core 10 to recognize half of my hardware"
What hardware specifically, did you try any of the distros on bootable CDs, what was the response when you posted to the support forums, how did you manage to achieve dual-boot?
"The deal made sense then and still does. It lets Novell provide important software that complements the core, or kernel, of the operating system and enables interoperability between Windows and Linux"
That's a curious turn of phrase, does 'provide' man the 'important software' is covered by the GPL, or does it mean something else. And can something be considered truely interoperable if it only works on Microsoft Windows and Novell Linux.
Some Novell people have in the past refered to 'Linux' as just the kernel. And here we have Cohen saying things like 'if Red Hat relied on supporting the Linux kernel'. It was never about supporting the Linux kernel, whatever that's supposed to mean. Red Hat built on a distro, that Fedora built on, that CentOS built on, as the Open Source model is supposed to work.
"I was one of the few open-source CEOs to support that deal.. The deal.. lets Novell provide important software that complements the core, or kernel"
How does paying IP 'protection' money to Microsoft enable Novell to 'provide important software', what was hindering them before the deal. What obstacles are their currently that prevent others contributing 'important software' to the kernel.
"It's buying into a Microsoft FUD campaign that damages the business of many members", Bruce Perens on Cohens' endorsment of the MS/Novell pact..
What ever rights you currently have to the software can only be given up if you legally sign away your rights to the software. What are your current legal rights in regards to the software.
"My company is an open source software vendor/developer.. Over time we've seen our business model eroding as other open source projects produce free versions of the same extensions and utilities that are our bread and butter"
What's the name of your company, what are the names of the companies that eroded your business model. Under what license did you provide your software. Do these other 'open source projects' provide the software under the same license. If not shouldn't you report them to the FSF?
"Is open source ultimately a race to zero?.. As a professional developer, do I need to fear this or feed it?"
My understand is that with the Open Source model, you provide the software and make moeny on service contracts. As such there will always be a market for professional developers.
"Amero was working on a very old Gateway PC running Windows 98, an
extremely vulnerable setup.. Detective Mark Lounsbury.. admitted under cross-examination that the
prosecution never even checked the computer for malware"
Before the Internet they were being abducted by aliens, before flying saucers they were being stalked by television news readers, before that they were receiving visitations from angels.. anyone see pattern here..
"When using the Fast Mode, ASRock advises you not to switch off the AC power to the PC at the mains.. Instant Boot will also only work on Windows systems (XP or Vista) with a single-user account and no password protection"
This the kind of innovation they are on about. Can any of these patents be turned into real working devices, without spending thousands of man-hours and huge wads of money. I'm thinking of the NTP v Blackberry litigation. NTP basically bought up some old wireless, paging and email patents, sat on them and them and then waited until Blackberry did all the work...
'NTP is a holding company created in 1992 to manage certain patents belonging to Thomas Campana'
"The VPN isn't, by itself, going to be filtering out phishing emails. And we've graduated from username/passwords some time ago."
The email system would only accept email from identifiably PKI certified senders and while this one uses PKI certificates it hasn't yet graduated off the InterTUBES, as in I can still send malicious packets directly to the server, which if the current infrastructure were adequate then the US Air Force wouldn't be:
".. fed up with a seemingly endless barrage of attacks on its computer networks from stealthy adversaries whose motives and even locations are unclear.. "
Netperger Syndrome: an obsessive compulsion to argue with total stranger over the InterTUBES
"Yes, I'm sure every potential recruit would just love to have to install a VPN client to go check out af.mil."
Pretending to be dumb is no excuse for a slashdot subscriber. Like the potential recuit isn't in du' Army yet, as such the recuitment site would have to be on du' InterTUBES..
'Hey dude, how can I get onto this FaceBook from this here 'secure' computer'
"You still have the problem of how to run www.af.mil in a manner open to the public, as well as the public sites for many military bases, while still securing them"
A contradiction in terms. You can't secure *.mil, at least in my understanding of the term. Never mind in technological terms just keeping track of the information. For low level mil traffic and public access, continue to use the InterTUBES.
"Still, wouldn't you LIKE to find out who's sending you spam/phishing attacks/etc... so you can, if nothing else, impolitely ask them to stop at 0100 in the morning?"
Any such attacks are usually from some compromised desktop in JP. Once the VPN filters it out, I don't want to see it. The VPN node keeps such logs. Putting a 'secure' system on the Internet with only a username and password for protection, is dumb as dumb can be...
HPDIA0200W Authentication failed. You have used an invalid user name, password or client certificate.
Whatever they do, don't do what the Russians did in last nights episode of Spooks. Those fiendishly clever Ruskies planned to launch a cyber attack on Brittan, to do this thay are going to tap into an undersea fiber optic link and cause a massive DOS attack against the UK commercial sector. MI5 came up with a counter-plan: bounce a zero-day-attack off the fiber link to the submarines communications and navigation system. To do this they would need the subs 'Remote Access Protocols'.
To do this MI5 blackmails the head of the FSB into sneaking into the Russian Embassy (where the nuclear access protocols are kept.. on computer ?) and steal the 'protocols' off the computer, copy them to CD and get out of the building.
They duly implement the plan, and on screen at MI5 headquarters, they see, the primary firewall and then the secondary firewall being disabled followed by the control screens on the sub going garbled and all the lights going out..
In episode one, al-Qaeda is planning to detonate a bomb with the support of Chechens with links to Russia..:o
Slashdot Mirror
Because that dinosaur has apparently patented advert placement in search results ..
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3387211
So when Microsoft eventually mops up Yahoos' 361 patent, that won't be an antitrust violation ?
"Those ports are used for an external hard drive on USB and DVD burner on Firewire .. It appeared to combine them into a "Logical Volume" that I can only guess is some kind of raid setup .."
I'm sorry but no one in their right mind runs parts of the Operating System on hot swappable devices, you are asking for trouble. What parts of Linux resided on the external drive. You don't ever mount an external device into a Linux directory structure - it don't like it. Like, what happens if the USB device fails, you've lost your entire system.
"did you try any of the distros on bootable CDs", rs232
"No. I needed to be able to save settings and files", AmberBlackCat
I meant, boot from the CD and see if it picks up the hardware, before installing. Personally I have found the bootableCDs are very good at identifying hardware. Later on if the distro doesn't identify it, you know it's a missing driver or something.
"I didn't post to any support forums. I just went back to windows"
What part of Windows reside on the external harddrive ?
You need to totally remove the Windows partition from the harddrive and install one of these distros ..
Volume Shadow Copy: sounds like LVM2 snapshots under Linux and VMS had real versioning file restoraton a long time ago.
Hierarchical Storage Management: HSM as implemented by IBM and then ported to Linux
Junction Points: sounds like hard links under Linux
Without any third-party shell extension ..
ln -s C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents \here
or
mount /dev/volume /here
Provide a total consumer stack. For instance Red Hat merging with Dell and a Telecom Company and a Content Provider. Selling a full spec multimedia PC in the shops, they make their money back on subscription services. Now that would be money to retire on :)
LinuxMCE 0704 Demo Video
These boxes would fly off the shelves, where can I buy one ?
"I don't think this guy understands why the GPL is so important"
.. which is why they would like to pretend it doesn't really exist. As a friend of NovoSOFT we can assume that Cohens thoughts on 'open source' are in synchronization. In order of importance that would be renting software, subscription services or lastly the GPL ..
I think he does, as does MS and Novell
"in the end, it doesn't really matter if the final product is available via subscription, delivered as a service over the Web, or licensed under the General Public License that governs free software"
An old joke goes something like this:
.. :)
A customer goes to PC world to get his Windows laptop computer repaired. The repair man says it will be $160, and be done in a day. Customers asks can all photos and files be restored. Repair man say no, will have to do a total wiped and reinstall. Customer takes the machine to a small computer repair shop and they boot the machine on Knoppix and copy all the files to a USB device, then reinstall Windows and restore the files, all for the same price. They had to use a generic Windows CD as the customer no longer posessed the restore CD and the laptop company wanted $140 for a new one.
"The service industry is good work, but there is little opportunity to launch a retire-on-it type of project"
I've worked in the 'computer' industry for decades and I don't know anyone making money out of Windows whos name isn't billg
"Right now I can't get Fedora Core 10 to recognize half of my hardware"
What hardware specifically, did you try any of the distros on bootable CDs, what was the response when you posted to the support forums, how did you manage to achieve dual-boot?
"The deal made sense then and still does. It lets Novell provide important software that complements the core, or kernel, of the operating system and enables interoperability between Windows and Linux"
That's a curious turn of phrase, does 'provide' man the 'important software' is covered by the GPL, or does it mean something else. And can something be considered truely interoperable if it only works on Microsoft Windows and Novell Linux.
Some Novell people have in the past refered to 'Linux' as just the kernel. And here we have Cohen saying things like 'if Red Hat relied on supporting the Linux kernel'. It was never about supporting the Linux kernel, whatever that's supposed to mean. Red Hat built on a distro, that Fedora built on, that CentOS built on, as the Open Source model is supposed to work.
"I was one of the few open-source CEOs to support that deal .. The deal .. lets Novell provide important software that complements the core, or kernel"
..
How does paying IP 'protection' money to Microsoft enable Novell to 'provide important software', what was hindering them before the deal. What obstacles are their currently that prevent others contributing 'important software' to the kernel.
"It's buying into a Microsoft FUD campaign that damages the business of many members", Bruce Perens on Cohens' endorsment of the MS/Novell pact
What ever rights you currently have to the software can only be given up if you legally sign away your rights to the software. What are your current legal rights in regards to the software.
"My company is an open source software vendor/developer .. Over time we've seen our business model eroding as other open source projects produce free versions of the same extensions and utilities that are our bread and butter"
.. As a professional developer, do I need to fear this or feed it?"
What's the name of your company, what are the names of the companies that eroded your business model. Under what license did you provide your software. Do these other 'open source projects' provide the software under the same license. If not shouldn't you report them to the FSF?
"Is open source ultimately a race to zero?
My understand is that with the Open Source model, you provide the software and make moeny on service contracts. As such there will always be a market for professional developers.
"Amero was working on a very old Gateway PC running Windows 98, an extremely vulnerable setup .. Detective Mark Lounsbury .. admitted under cross-examination that the
prosecution never even checked the computer for malware"
don't talk to cops
"Bill Gates .. Brilliant young maths wiz .."
..
The Pivot Table
"The whole idea of time-sharing only got invented in 1965"
timesharing John McCarthy 1957
Before the Internet they were being abducted by aliens, before flying saucers they were being stalked by television news readers, before that they were receiving visitations from angels .. anyone see pattern here ..
"When using the Fast Mode, ASRock advises you not to switch off the AC power to the PC at the mains .. Instant Boot will also only work on Windows systems (XP or Vista) with a single-user account and no password protection"
"The New Yorker had an article [newyorker.com] about this six months ago", m000
Did the article also mention that Bill Gates of Microsoft also has a financial interest in Searete?
This the kind of innovation they are on about. Can any of these patents be turned into real working devices, without spending thousands of man-hours and huge wads of money. I'm thinking of the NTP v Blackberry litigation. NTP basically bought up some old wireless, paging and email patents, sat on them and them and then waited until Blackberry did all the work ...
'NTP is a holding company created in 1992 to manage certain patents belonging to Thomas Campana'
'on 20 May 1991. Campana filed a patent application for his idea to merge existing e-mail systems with radio-frequency wireless communication networks'
"The routers are mean to be as locked up as a voting machine, but because of the GPL they are forced to distribute the source"
..
No one is forcing Diebold Inc. to use Ghostscript in its electronic election systems
"The VPN isn't, by itself, going to be filtering out phishing emails. And we've graduated from username/passwords some time ago."
The email system would only accept email from identifiably PKI certified senders and while this one uses PKI certificates it hasn't yet graduated off the InterTUBES, as in I can still send malicious packets directly to the server, which if the current infrastructure were adequate then the US Air Force wouldn't be:
".. fed up with a seemingly endless barrage of attacks on its computer networks from stealthy adversaries whose motives and even locations are unclear.. "
Netperger Syndrome: an obsessive compulsion to argue with total stranger over the InterTUBES
"Yes, I'm sure every potential recruit would just love to have to install a VPN client to go check out af.mil."
..
Pretending to be dumb is no excuse for a slashdot subscriber. Like the potential recuit isn't in du' Army yet, as such the recuitment site would have to be on du' InterTUBES
'Hey dude, how can I get onto this FaceBook from this here 'secure' computer'
"You still have the problem of how to run www.af.mil in a manner open to the public, as well as the public sites for many military bases, while still securing them"
...
A contradiction in terms. You can't secure *.mil, at least in my understanding of the term. Never mind in technological terms just keeping track of the information. For low level mil traffic and public access, continue to use the InterTUBES.
"Still, wouldn't you LIKE to find out who's sending you spam/phishing attacks/etc... so you can, if nothing else, impolitely ask them to stop at 0100 in the morning?"
Any such attacks are usually from some compromised desktop in JP. Once the VPN filters it out, I don't want to see it. The VPN node keeps such logs. Putting a 'secure' system on the Internet with only a username and password for protection, is dumb as dumb can be
HPDIA0200W Authentication failed. You have used an invalid user name, password or client certificate.
Whatever they do, don't do what the Russians did in last nights episode of Spooks. Those fiendishly clever Ruskies planned to launch a cyber attack on Brittan, to do this thay are going to tap into an undersea fiber optic link and cause a massive DOS attack against the UK commercial sector. MI5 came up with a counter-plan: bounce a zero-day-attack off the fiber link to the submarines communications and navigation system. To do this they would need the subs 'Remote Access Protocols'.
.. on computer ?) and steal the 'protocols' off the computer, copy them to CD and get out of the building.
..
.. :o
To do this MI5 blackmails the head of the FSB into sneaking into the Russian Embassy (where the nuclear access protocols are kept
They duly implement the plan, and on screen at MI5 headquarters, they see, the primary firewall and then the secondary firewall being disabled followed by the control screens on the sub going garbled and all the lights going out
In episode one, al-Qaeda is planning to detonate a bomb with the support of Chechens with links to Russia
Spooks Episode 2 Series 7