Red Hat may make money from support, but consider that every time a support case is opened, Red Hat is losing money. Most businesses work very hard to reduce the number of support cases that get opened because of this. Red Hat won't be an exception there.
I really wish Redhat had some much cheaper, "updates only" version of their software.. When I worked in Education, we had a version that was $50/year.. I would love something like that for my own personal use.. and maybe a $100/y version for companies..
Actually, this exists! It's $99 and includes "Eclipse, Eclipse Tooling, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Operations Network, and one entitlement to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with built-in development tools, and Red Hat Network Access for development purposes."
Many Linux boxes are single user machines. Odd, but true. Sometimes these machines are even laptops!
Setting the time and setting the timezone are very different operations. The system time can be in one timezone while each user on the system can be in different timezones. In this case, changing the timezone is a reasonable operation.
This task exposed a problem in the way users view the regular user/administrator split.
People frequently can't imagine that setting the time on a computer is a big deal. When they go off to try a task which they aren't allowed to accomplish, isn't it a good idea to stop them quickly and let them know they can't do it? What's the best way to do that?
I once took $100 out at a ATM owned by a different bank from my own. The machine spit out $40, but then froze, and churned for a while. After about 30 seconds or so, the screen flashed, a motor turned a green card displayed on the interface to red. And the screen came up with a message saying it was now out of order.
I walked down the street and took up the remaining $60 from another machine. Later, I saw that both charges showed up in my account.
Believe it or not, I never complained about it, but two months later, I received a letter from my bank telling me that they noticed I had tried to withdraw money from a broken ATM and I had been overcharged. They refunded all of the $100. I meant to complain about that too... (I try not to steal $40, even from banks.) But I still haven't gotten around to it.
The Ximian Connector talks to Exchange 2000 via web-dav. Interestingly, Microsoft decided to group the options for web-dav and OWA together. You have to turn OWA on in order to get web-dav.
Calendar, Mail, Tasks, and Contacts are all accessed through Exchange 2000's web-dav interface. The Global Address List is accessed through LDAP.
This is the reason that the requirements are:
Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 or higher
An account on a Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
OWA support activated
I'm certainly biased, but the Connector feels smooth, integrated, and quick. And it certainly behaves itself very well. Here's a screenshot .
The Ximian Connector talks to Exchange 2000 via web-dav. Interestingly, Microsoft decided to group the options for web-dav and OWA together. You have to turn OWA on in order to get web-dav.
Calendar, Mail, Tasks, and Contacts are all accessed through Exchange 2000's web-dav interface. The Global Address List is accessed through LDAP.
This is the reason that the requirements are:
Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 or higher
An account on a Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
OWA support activated
I'm certainly biased, but the Connector feels smooth, integrated, and quick. And it certainly behaves itself very well. Here's a screenshot.
The problem with the ports system is the same problem as Slackware has: it works great, it's easy to use, it seems powerful, but it isn't a package management system. Why not?
What version of smtp are you running? Well, without version support, it's hard to find out. (You could telnet to port 25 on localhost to find out.) Or, I can type: rpm -q --whatprovides smtpdaemon which tells me: sendmail-8.9.3-20 This gives me a central place to track software versions and dependancies.
And, if I file a mysterious file or directory on my computer, I can find out what it does by asking the package manager! rpm -qf/var/spool/mqueue
As you manage more and more machines at the same time, real package management becomes more and more needed. Dependancies are wonderful. Listing all the installed packages are wonderful. Being able to erase a package without a care is wonderful. The ports collection has a long way to go before it can handle these problems. (And, if you just want each package to be compiled from scratch each time, you source RPMs or DEBs.)
People today believe that all Americans are exhausted, stressed, and dissatisfied with their jobs. But it's not true. When you poll people, as American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research did, you get a different story completely. 85% of the people polled were satisfied in their jobs. That's the same number as were happy in 1973. And 69% of people polled would take the same position again without hesitation. 75% of people polled were proud to be working for their employer. 70% of people polled are happy with their salary.
That doesn't sound like unhappiness to me. And I know *I'm* happy.
The article also mentions that Distiller will be available for free (beer), which would have been GREAT about a year ago when I needed to convert.ps->.pdf for every one of my essays.
I wonder why so few people know about ps2pdf? It comes with Ghostscript, and works great. It's been around since version 5.xx -- in other words, for years. This saved my life in college...
See what you get for complaining? Money! Hmm... I'm not sure that's the right lesson to take away, but congratulations.:^)
Let's see if it works for me. My credentials aren't as impressive as yours, but I paid Alan Cox to fix NFS on Linux so it worked with 64-bit NFS... (under SGI) Umm... I'm writing RPM Explorer....:^) Naw...
...it's a BUSINESS PLAN! No reallly! It is. It's Intel's business plan -- double the speed of their chips every 18 months. And they've followed it very closely. But there is no natural law which says it has to be this way. (Good plan though... It captured everyone's imagination.)
Here is how you stop the cookie spying problem: Click on Edit|Preferences|Advanced...."
And there it is! The radio button. Click this text: "Only accept cookies originating from the same server as the page being viewed."
Now click okay! Now you can only get a cookie if the server sending you the HTML (or whatever) page is sending it. Inline gifs from other computers can't send cookies. (Well, they can send them, but they are ignored.)
Your computer will not crash. Don't panic or reboot. As long as your kernel is older than.. Umm... I don't remember. Ask Alan Cox. (Who you should have been asking about this anyway!) But I believe that your uptime values will wrap around. The report will say one day. If you are REALLY concerned about it, get a screen shot of being in X Windows or something with an uptime of one second. (Sure, it might have crashed, but did it really reboot in 1 second?)
Okay. We should start thinking about what we can do to make this bill ineffective right now. I have a few ideas, but one in particular seems easy to do and feasible.
The problem for Linux isn't that crypto development work can't be done in the US -- although that is a problem. The real issue is that distributions in the US can't include strong crypto. (And the kernel can't either.)
So how do we get around this? Easy! Change your makefile to depend on a file which doesn't exist. To resolve the dependency, have wget pull the file from a web site. For distributions, this would fix the problem for people with great network connections. For others? Well, maybe somethign else can be worked out.
For the kernel, distributions will still have a problem, but there could be a small program called secure_kernel which downloads the relevent code and recompiles and installs the kernel.
And, of course, applications can link into a library for which the source is downloaded and installed at install time.
Does anyone else remember the old MTV.com? Every week there would be a few new.au files you could download. Gad, they were huge, and they sounded terrible. But I bought a number of CDs because I liked the music they offered. It was the whole song too -- but they attached the text message: "Brought to you by MTV.com" at the end of each song.
Ah... Back in the day. (And then they fired the VJ responsible for the whole thing... I also remember the fights they had over ownership of the domain name...)
Hmm... I think I got your attention.:^) First of all, YES! Linux supports a serial console. Good. Thanks. I'm glad you got that out of your system. Now, the REAL problem is that your BIOS probably doesn't support a serial console.
So what, you ask? Ah. Imagine that you have a box which you can't touch. You can't see it. You can only contact it through the net. What happens when it crashes? How do you turn it on or off? What happens if a device fails and it won't boot? You need the BIOS to send all messages over the serial console too. (Not to mention recieve things like reboot messages via that same console.)
x86 BIOSs don't tend to support this feature. My company bought a 4 way Xeon from Micron ( http://www.micron.com/) and it had this ability in it's Pheonix BIOS. And Denarius Enterprises, Inc ( http://www.denarius.com/) recently told me they will sell machines with this option as well. So others will probably sell you such machines -- you just have to ask.
This looks a lot like the press release which was going to be sent out when Linux 2.2 finally came out. If only I could find a copy of that and compare...:^)
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Red Hat may make money from support, but consider that every time a support case is opened, Red Hat is losing money. Most businesses work very hard to reduce the number of support cases that get opened because of this. Red Hat won't be an exception there.
I really wish Redhat had some much cheaper, "updates only" version of their software.. When I worked in Education, we had a version that was $50/year.. I would love something like that for my own personal use.. and maybe a $100/y version for companies..
Actually, this exists! It's $99 and includes "Eclipse, Eclipse Tooling, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Operations Network, and one entitlement to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with built-in development tools, and Red Hat Network Access for development purposes."
https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/developers/
the license is not for production machines though.
Also note that you can get free copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux if you are an ISV developing software for it:
http://www.redhat.com/partners/become/isv/
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/proceedings/papers /Harrison/blh_txt.htm
t s/papers/blh_bdy.htm
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/Electronic/documn
I have no idea where that space came from.
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/proceedings/papers /Harrison/blh_txt.htmc hi95/Electronic/documnt s/papers/blh_bdy.htm
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/
This should be pretty prior. This work was done a long time ago. The video demo is pretty convincing too.
I once took $100 out at a ATM owned by a different bank from my own. The machine spit out $40, but then froze, and churned for a while. After about 30 seconds or so, the screen flashed, a motor turned a green card displayed on the interface to red. And the screen came up with a message saying it was now out of order.
I walked down the street and took up the remaining $60 from another machine. Later, I saw that both charges showed up in my account.
Believe it or not, I never complained about it, but two months later, I received a letter from my bank telling me that they noticed I had tried to withdraw money from a broken ATM and I had been overcharged. They refunded all of the $100. I meant to complain about that too... (I try not to steal $40, even from banks.) But I still haven't gotten around to it.
Or you could just search Ximian's support site:
http://support.ximian.com/q?384
Interestingly, this has been fixed in Ximian GNOME for several months now.
Calendar, Mail, Tasks, and Contacts are all accessed through Exchange 2000's web-dav interface. The Global Address List is accessed through LDAP.
This is the reason that the requirements are:
- Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 or higher
- An account on a Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
- OWA support activated
I'm certainly biased, but the Connector feels smooth, integrated, and quick. And it certainly behaves itself very well. Here's a screenshot .Calendar, Mail, Tasks, and Contacts are all accessed through Exchange 2000's web-dav interface. The Global Address List is accessed through LDAP. This is the reason that the requirements are:
- Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 or higher
- An account on a Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
- OWA support activated
I'm certainly biased, but the Connector feels smooth, integrated, and quick. And it certainly behaves itself very well. Here's a screenshot.The problem with the ports system is the same problem as Slackware has: it works great, it's easy to use, it seems powerful, but it isn't a package management system. Why not?
/var/spool/mqueue
What version of smtp are you running? Well, without version support, it's hard to find out. (You could telnet to port 25 on localhost to find out.) Or, I can type: rpm -q --whatprovides smtpdaemon which tells me: sendmail-8.9.3-20 This gives me a central place to track software versions and dependancies.
And, if I file a mysterious file or directory on my computer, I can find out what it does by asking the package manager! rpm -qf
As you manage more and more machines at the same time, real package management becomes more and more needed. Dependancies are wonderful. Listing all the installed packages are wonderful. Being able to erase a package without a care is wonderful. The ports collection has a long way to go before it can handle these problems. (And, if you just want each package to be compiled from scratch each time, you source RPMs or DEBs.)
Chase Bank is pretty good. (www.chase.com)
And I've heard that Fleet Bank works as well.
People today believe that all Americans are exhausted, stressed, and dissatisfied with their jobs. But it's not true. When you poll people, as American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research did, you get a different story completely. 85% of the people polled were satisfied in their jobs. That's the same number as were happy in 1973. And 69% of people polled would take the same position again without hesitation. 75% of people polled were proud to be working for their employer. 70% of people polled are happy with their salary.
That doesn't sound like unhappiness to me. And I know *I'm* happy.
I wonder why so few people know about ps2pdf? It comes with Ghostscript, and works great. It's been around since version 5.xx -- in other words, for years. This saved my life in college...
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/XFree86.ht ml. html
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/XFree86-libs.html
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/XFree86-devel.html
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/XFree86-doc.html
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/XFree86-75dpi-fonts
Of course, they could be named differently, but who knows?
I'd love to... But I'm in New York. :^/
See what you get for complaining? Money! Hmm... I'm not sure that's the right lesson to take away, but congratulations. :^)
:^) Naw...
:^)
Let's see if it works for me. My credentials aren't as impressive as yours, but I paid Alan Cox to fix NFS on Linux so it worked with 64-bit NFS... (under SGI) Umm... I'm writing RPM Explorer....
See what money does to us?
...it's a BUSINESS PLAN! No reallly! It is. It's Intel's business plan -- double the speed of their chips every 18 months. And they've followed it very closely. But there is no natural law which says it has to be this way. (Good plan though... It captured everyone's imagination.)
Here is how you stop the cookie spying problem: Click on Edit|Preferences|Advanced...."
And there it is! The radio button. Click this text: "Only accept cookies originating from the same server as the page being viewed."
Now click okay! Now you can only get a cookie if the server sending you the HTML (or whatever) page is sending it. Inline gifs from other computers can't send cookies. (Well, they can send them, but they are ignored.)
So stop complaining and click that button.
Your computer will not crash. Don't panic or reboot. As long as your kernel is older than.. Umm... I don't remember. Ask Alan Cox. (Who you should have been asking about this anyway!) But I believe that your uptime values will wrap around. The report will say one day. If you are REALLY concerned about it, get a screen shot of being in X Windows or something with an uptime of one second. (Sure, it might have crashed, but did it really reboot in 1 second?)
(What happened? I didn't mean to post... Grumble.)
Mozilla *still* doesn't understand multipart/x-mixed-replace as a MIME type. This has been around in Netscape since... Well, before 3.
And yes... I could try to find the problem and fix it, but enough other people have complained about this problem that I thought I'd be too late!
Okay. We should start thinking about what we can do to make this bill ineffective right now. I have a few ideas, but one in particular seems easy to do and feasible.
The problem for Linux isn't that crypto development work can't be done in the US -- although that is a problem. The real issue is that distributions in the US can't include strong crypto. (And the kernel can't either.)
So how do we get around this? Easy! Change your makefile to depend on a file which doesn't exist. To resolve the dependency, have wget pull the file from a web site. For distributions, this would fix the problem for people with great network connections. For others? Well, maybe somethign else can be worked out.
For the kernel, distributions will still have a problem, but there could be a small program called secure_kernel which downloads the relevent code and recompiles and installs the kernel.
And, of course, applications can link into a library for which the source is downloaded and installed at install time.
Does anyone else remember the old MTV.com? Every week there would be a few new .au files you could download. Gad, they were huge, and they sounded terrible. But I bought a number of CDs because I liked the music they offered. It was the whole song too -- but they attached the text message: "Brought to you by MTV.com" at the end of each song.
Ah... Back in the day. (And then they fired the VJ responsible for the whole thing... I also remember the fights they had over ownership of the domain name...)
So what, you ask? Ah. Imagine that you have a box which you can't touch. You can't see it. You can only contact it through the net. What happens when it crashes? How do you turn it on or off? What happens if a device fails and it won't boot? You need the BIOS to send all messages over the serial console too. (Not to mention recieve things like reboot messages via that same console.)
x86 BIOSs don't tend to support this feature. My company bought a 4 way Xeon from Micron ( http://www.micron.com/) and it had this ability in it's Pheonix BIOS. And Denarius Enterprises, Inc ( http://www.denarius.com/) recently told me they will sell machines with this option as well. So others will probably sell you such machines -- you just have to ask.
This looks a lot like the press release which was going to be sent out when Linux 2.2 finally came out. If only I could find a copy of that and compare... :^)