funny thing about that zoning jazz, I used to live in an apartment in in Chicago and half the people in the 3800 unit four building complex were running businesses out of their homes even though it was technically illegal - one neighbor on my floor was running a bankrupcy mill law firm out of his apartment! So it would be more correct to say if you think you'll get caught running a business go rent some property.....
starting a business doesn't require a loan, not in this era where world-wide publication / advertising is essentially free. In fact, I would question the ability of anyone to take $1,000's in a loan and succeed if they couldn't first demonstrate building up a business from a shoestring budget.
Plenty of low tech ways to make a copy that just contains the information, good enough for legitimate use, whether diazo blueprint or photographic film or old copier machine in the back room.....this new technology blocks those who intend to defraud by making copy (nearly) indistiguishable from original. My 7 year old parallel port scanner and the freebie software that came with it aren't going to be stopped by such things, and I only need 200 - 300 dpi resolution to make "good enough" copy for legal use, for example to make copy of my wife's passport required for immigration.
using a 120VAC cigarette lighter adapter, you can just put the microwave in the lap of your drunk and/or stoned friend on the passenger's side and let the hilarity ensue. if that's just too much hassle for a good time, you can always just heat up the lighter and toss it in said wasted friend's lap.
the kernel of OpenBSD really is lagging Linux in a few areas, number of architectures supported and hardware devices on those architectures. smp is quite new & experimental in openbsd, and not for all architectures. Theo should remember that openbsd wasn't designed and built from scratch, there's about 24 years of code Theo inherited when he threw a hissy fit and forked away from NetBSD. Linux was built from the ground up, and yet now works on more hardware and devices than openbsd: maybe there's a wee advantage to having 100's of developers rather than 60? Anyway, I love OpenBSD, great for internet servers and dedicated network appliances, but it's not for the desktop and its not a general purpose business enterprise Unix-substitute platform, it can't handle being a 8 or 16-way Oracle or J2EE server, for example.
that bit I threw in about windows 98 was about my 500MHz Celeron (with 128K cache, oooo) 256MB RAM home windows computer which I fire up a few times a year to do taxes, run my win-photo printer or win-scanner. Each time I do I get the latest load of updates from Microsoft. I just don't see any reason to spend $100 or whatever it is to upgrade to XP, working fine. When it dies I'll consider whatever the current flavor of Windows is. It does SMB to my main Linux box just fine, btw.
heh, by that I mean Linux has API for system calls from both, and also has or had legitimate "old Unix" code. Not infringing code such as lying stock fraudster Darl McBride and co. claim.
Bill Joy indeed was a co-founder of Sun and prior to that one of the authors of BSD. SunOS and many other commercial Unix(tm) were first BSD derivatives, and then becamse the were modified over time to be BSD with Sys V extensions, then usually licensed pure Sys V from AT&T and added BSD extensions (like current Solaris, HP/UX, IRIX, SCO Unixware, etc.). Heck, even FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD all have some Sys V API in them, and Linux of course has both flavors in it too.
large corporations do that, but most business is small and mid sized business, and they go ALOT longer with computers. At work I have a p-II running win2k pro at a 24 person business, mainly doing quotes and SOW for datacenter systems. Since MS is still providing security updates for win 98, why would anyone upgrade?
seems to me solaris coders could also be accused of such copying from GPL code, and the FSF has been known to sue too. If Sun starts frivolous suits just to dominate the Unix/Unixlike world, that will kill off OpenSolaris faster than anything else, it would become a dead skunk that no one wants to be near.
For Linux and FreeBSD and common packages/ports on opteron and ultrasparc there's still 64 bit cleanliness issues, and there's BSD issues running on Ultrasparc III and above chips (as in, can't do it). FreeBSD is still trying to implement fine grained SMP spinlocks which don't sieze up under heavy load & to get fine grained locks into tcp stack. Solaris builds backward compatibiity into libraries that Linux dosen't have, which is why when installing proprietary app binaries there's all kinds of neat patching and relinking that needs to be done (for example, installing Oracle on Sun is a breeze, but on Linux takes some care as to java and various library versions, and for another example enterprise SAN software such as veritas or Hitachi drivers only works with certain kernels). Solaris has the definitave and latest/greatest versions many services such as RPC and NFS (linux has some issues there)
there's a few more filesystems available to Linux, I've found XFS to be every bit as robust, and also faster to recover, as UFS. As a certified admin of a couple commercial Unix(tm) who also does Oracle/Linux clusters & builds FreeBSD servers, admining a Linux distro is no more time consuming or complicated than BSD, and a little easier than Solaris or HP/UX. The very highest performance and largest clusters on the planet are running Linux, so what is this nonsense about no scaling or performance. Oracle and SAP and many other enterprise grade vendors are moving their software to Linux. The high performance SAN and archival tools are running on Linux. IBM is running Linux on mainframes. Your post would have been true in 1995, but it's a trollful of baloney in 2005.
.....until he was 900 years old, when sadly the Imperial Supreme Court ruled the Empire's authority to ban medicinal pot superceded any planetary laws allowing use; whereupon Yoda quickly faded away.
Slashdot Mirror
that's the only thing that's missing from the current internet archives, here's hoping they devote some resources to indexing
funny thing about that zoning jazz, I used to live in an apartment in in Chicago and half the people in the 3800 unit four building complex were running businesses out of their homes even though it was technically illegal - one neighbor on my floor was running a bankrupcy mill law firm out of his apartment! So it would be more correct to say if you think you'll get caught running a business go rent some property.....
starting a business doesn't require a loan, not in this era where world-wide publication / advertising is essentially free. In fact, I would question the ability of anyone to take $1,000's in a loan and succeed if they couldn't first demonstrate building up a business from a shoestring budget.
Plenty of low tech ways to make a copy that just contains the information, good enough for legitimate use, whether diazo blueprint or photographic film or old copier machine in the back room.....this new technology blocks those who intend to defraud by making copy (nearly) indistiguishable from original. My 7 year old parallel port scanner and the freebie software that came with it aren't going to be stopped by such things, and I only need 200 - 300 dpi resolution to make "good enough" copy for legal use, for example to make copy of my wife's passport required for immigration.
using a 120VAC cigarette lighter adapter, you can just put the microwave in the lap of your drunk and/or stoned friend on the passenger's side and let the hilarity ensue. if that's just too much hassle for a good time, you can always just heat up the lighter and toss it in said wasted friend's lap.
get the 80k one-sided diskette drive, and with a paper punch and scissors you can use BOTH sides of the diskette! Screw Linux and BSD, TRS-DOS rulez!
I'm coyping all my floppies to punched tape just in case.
to get festive with a CD requires a microwave oven, and it's much prettier.
$65 for a USB scanner & inkjet printer and you'll be set to copy anything anytime to your hearts content.
the kernel of OpenBSD really is lagging Linux in a few areas, number of architectures supported and hardware devices on those architectures. smp is quite new & experimental in openbsd, and not for all architectures. Theo should remember that openbsd wasn't designed and built from scratch, there's about 24 years of code Theo inherited when he threw a hissy fit and forked away from NetBSD. Linux was built from the ground up, and yet now works on more hardware and devices than openbsd: maybe there's a wee advantage to having 100's of developers rather than 60? Anyway, I love OpenBSD, great for internet servers and dedicated network appliances, but it's not for the desktop and its not a general purpose business enterprise Unix-substitute platform, it can't handle being a 8 or 16-way Oracle or J2EE server, for example.
and you include windows and other software with those $100-less-than-Dell systems? please post URL, we don't mind
see, this just proves my point, since I don't use acid and I have brain fart like that
that bit I threw in about windows 98 was about my 500MHz Celeron (with 128K cache, oooo) 256MB RAM home windows computer which I fire up a few times a year to do taxes, run my win-photo printer or win-scanner. Each time I do I get the latest load of updates from Microsoft. I just don't see any reason to spend $100 or whatever it is to upgrade to XP, working fine. When it dies I'll consider whatever the current flavor of Windows is. It does SMB to my main Linux box just fine, btw.
heh, by that I mean Linux has API for system calls from both, and also has or had legitimate "old Unix" code. Not infringing code such as lying stock fraudster Darl McBride and co. claim.
Bill Joy indeed was a co-founder of Sun and prior to that one of the authors of BSD. SunOS and many other commercial Unix(tm) were first BSD derivatives, and then becamse the were modified over time to be BSD with Sys V extensions, then usually licensed pure Sys V from AT&T and added BSD extensions (like current Solaris, HP/UX, IRIX, SCO Unixware, etc.). Heck, even FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD all have some Sys V API in them, and Linux of course has both flavors in it too.
large corporations do that, but most business is small and mid sized business, and they go ALOT longer with computers. At work I have a p-II running win2k pro at a 24 person business, mainly doing quotes and SOW for datacenter systems. Since MS is still providing security updates for win 98, why would anyone upgrade?
seems to me solaris coders could also be accused of such copying from GPL code, and the FSF has been known to sue too. If Sun starts frivolous suits just to dominate the Unix/Unixlike world, that will kill off OpenSolaris faster than anything else, it would become a dead skunk that no one wants to be near.
For Linux and FreeBSD and common packages/ports on opteron and ultrasparc there's still 64 bit cleanliness issues, and there's BSD issues running on Ultrasparc III and above chips (as in, can't do it). FreeBSD is still trying to implement fine grained SMP spinlocks which don't sieze up under heavy load & to get fine grained locks into tcp stack. Solaris builds backward compatibiity into libraries that Linux dosen't have, which is why when installing proprietary app binaries there's all kinds of neat patching and relinking that needs to be done (for example, installing Oracle on Sun is a breeze, but on Linux takes some care as to java and various library versions, and for another example enterprise SAN software such as veritas or Hitachi drivers only works with certain kernels). Solaris has the definitave and latest/greatest versions many services such as RPC and NFS (linux has some issues there)
macos ran on a 680x0 emulator on sparc. I can tell you it totally sucked performance-wise on sparcstation 2, and in any event that effort flopped too
because of course viewing source code you have legal right to see doesn't taint you
see, he stopped dropping acid and ported NeXTStep to beige box 486, and now the Mac's going to Intel. Someone get that man some Mickey Mouse Blotter!
but why did IBM choose Linux over its own AIX?
there's a few more filesystems available to Linux, I've found XFS to be every bit as robust, and also faster to recover, as UFS. As a certified admin of a couple commercial Unix(tm) who also does Oracle/Linux clusters & builds FreeBSD servers, admining a Linux distro is no more time consuming or complicated than BSD, and a little easier than Solaris or HP/UX. The very highest performance and largest clusters on the planet are running Linux, so what is this nonsense about no scaling or performance. Oracle and SAP and many other enterprise grade vendors are moving their software to Linux. The high performance SAN and archival tools are running on Linux. IBM is running Linux on mainframes. Your post would have been true in 1995, but it's a trollful of baloney in 2005.
.....until he was 900 years old, when sadly the Imperial Supreme Court ruled the Empire's authority to ban medicinal pot superceded any planetary laws allowing use; whereupon Yoda quickly faded away.
he was doing pretty well until 880 years old, then everything went to pot