How is it Sun's fault that the GPL is incompatible with anything other than itself?
Because the CDDL was deliberately made incompatible with the GPL, that's why. Also ask Sun about the needless patents they seem to want to hold on ZFS.
Linux wanting to pillage from the project isn't a good enough reason to make it impossible for people to write non-GPL drivers for Solaris
People could still write non-GPL drivers for Solaris regardless. I take that to mean you don't understand the meaning of a GPL compatible license.
A lot of people have made a lot of the Novell/Microsoft deal because of patents that open source software supposedly infringes. However, once you buy in with Microsoft on one of these deals, it's a whole lot more.
I discovered a few weeks ago that as part of the Novell deal, and Microsoft selling SLES coupons supposedly, SLES actually has to be a subserviant within a Windows domain controller set up. Ergo, SLES can quite easily be replaced with Windows at a later date without anyone being any the wiser. Presumably, when this deal runs out in five years Microsoft will have hoped that they'll have replaced all the SLES and Netware servers with Windows, replaced a lot of Red Hat servers with SLES replaced with Windows, and Novell will be no more.
That deal Novell struck will do quite a bit of damage if any more like it are agreed.
Yes, she only broke the destructive unions that were impoverishing Britain
The trade unions needed sorted out, but she did it by destroying the working class and throwing away, and literally flooding, the best natural fuel resource we had - coal. Britain's coal is pretty much the best there is, and now all the pumps in the mines have been turned off, they're flooded and we can never get them back. We are now paying for that badly in terms of where our energy is going to come from in the next few years. Thatcher thought it was a fantastic idea to burn gas, which has a large volume, in something as hungry as power station to produce electricity. Great idea.
won a war that many thought was impossible to win
If you mean the Falklands, it was a war that never needed to be fought. Economically and politically, Argentina was in a mess, so a good war as an attention distraction didn't go amiss. As for Thatcher, she had an election to win;-).
Thanks in part to her help, over 100 million Eastern Europeans are now living free and better lives.
The Eastern bloc countries, former communist states and Russia are in a diabolical economic state as far as ordinary people go. The only thing that's propping up Eastern Europe right now is European Community membership and European Community money. Once the big European countries see that as the threat that it is, Eastern Europe will be sent right back to the Communist age.
I wouldn't call someone who is sceptical of Margaret Thatcher a twit if I were you. They have every right to be so.
If you haven't got them you're simply never going to get a big enough slice of the market for it to be profitable - and Apple have already limited the iPhone in terms of providers already. After years of not making any headway against Windows, and being beaten to a big slice of the big desktop pie (Apple pie?!), as well as seeing people run GPS applications and games like Splinter Cell on their phones, Apple just hasn't learned its lesson even now, has it?
There's also the fact that a number of RAID controller cards are buggy and others do most os the work in software drivers anyway!
It's vitally important that if you go the hardware RAID route then you get the right card. Do not get fake RAID cards, and check your Linux compatibility if you run Linux. If you get the right card than it's infinitely more preferable than software RAID, because there's so much less to do. The OS sees the drive as one big disk, and you can use hotswap cages much more reliably. Don't use hotswap on an onbaord or ad-hoc controller with software RAID. Strange things will happen.
For info, I use an Adaptec 2420SA - a very nice card as it turns out. I must commend Adaptec on pulling their fingers out on their hardware RAID and Linux support, as aacraid is right in the kernel now. Their previous cards were terrible.
Performance is also no longer a reason to use a pure hardware RAID solution, especially now that multi-core machines are available cheaply.
The bottleneck is in I/O, and not on the CPU.
Hot-swap is still someting that requires a good hardware solution, but that's about it.
Hotswap is quite important. If you don't have the convenience of hotswap then a lot of the reasons for what you have RAID for (easy replacement of downed drives) are gone.
Good (and well supported) RAID products cost good money too, and for most of us it's just not worth doing
Yes it is, and good hardware RAID cards are actually quite cheap. The convenience of the OS seeing an array as one big disk and having the hardware handle it is great, because it takes a layer of management out of the system. Just make sure you have good management tools, which Adaptec certainly seem to have, along with 3ware. Remember that the OS will simply not know if there is a problem, because all it sees is a disk.
But the minute or so of uptime you get by not having to power down the computer is more than made up when the controller chip on your beautiful RAID controller sizzles.
It's not particularly likely, but you can store the config on the disks and use battery backup - something software RAID does not provide. With software RAID you are very much at the mercy of the quality of your motherboard are disk controller, especially if you are hot swapping drives.
Decent hardware RAID, if you can get it, is the preferable way to go because the parent poster talked about dynamically resizing your arrays on the fly in order to take advantage of new disk space. Hardware RAID is much better at doing that.
You can't leave the conversion from sRGB to the printer's CMKY profile to the printer. Your sRGB image might contain colours that are impossible to print on CMKY.
That's why he advocated ditching CMYK, because it isn't device independent. After all these years, and especially in the digital age, this sort of thing should have gone the way of the dodo, but I rather suspect that CMYK has persisted because it makes people think that they look clever and to get people to hand over cash for something that now shouldn't exist.
The real secret of color in the printing world is that it's an inexact science. When you get right down to it, the right color is whatever the client says it is. If the client signs off on a piece, no matter how obviously wrong it is to trained eyes, then that's what the client gets. I have had clients tell me to take yellow out of images despite the fact that there's almost no yellow to take out. Make a little tweak, show them a new matchprint and all of a sudden they like it.
Dude, the right colour is what the client fucking well submitted. That's why we have digital technology these days, because fannying about with colour reproduction is what was done in the stone age when reproduction really was an inexact science.
It's horrible slow. At least on Mac. In Photoshop you can actually edit, move around curves and see the result live, in Gimp you can literally see how the screen builds up. And I talk about a G5 2.5 PowerMac with more than enough RAM...
That's because some people persist in believing that GTK is a cross platform toolkit, even after all these years.
With that said, Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 is a disappointment. Working with a number of applications or "heavy" documents was painful. The delay was too much, especially in Word and PowerPoint files that it wasn't possible for us to work with the device without messing up somewhere and not realizing it in the end. This lag is present across a number of other scenarios as well.
No shock there. I really don't know why Microsoft persists in believing that Windows is the fountain of all knowledge, and that everyone who owns a mobile device actually really wants their PC on their mobile device. When I went from a Windows Mobile phone to a Symbian based one the difference was like night and day, simply because it was clear that the Symbian phone was actually designed for the purpose and device.
If nothing else, it's an interesting gadget for the young and hip crowd, though we wouldn't recommend it for productivity hounds that are looking to do reports and presentations on the Wing.
Considering that this is yet another Windows Mobile device that tries to go way beyond a normal mobile device giving you a PC on a phone, and presumably why it has a QWERTY keyboard and you can work with Office documents, then it's a bit of a failure really.
Anyone who thinks their TV is more critical in their life than a computer deserves what they get.
Sorry, but nobody gives a fuck about their computer in the same way as they care about their TV - and I'm talking about normal people here;-). The TV simply has to work because that's where they get their news and entertainment from, whereas people unfortunately expect a computer not to work at some point and shrug their shoulders.
I can't see what's different about this review to others, really:
Finally, the extras were quite nice. DVD importer looks like it could work well, but it's illegal I think to backup DVDs even for personal use, right?
You've been involved with Linux for fourteen years and you're not familiar with this? Quite frankly, so what? Anything that you do with any kind of media these days can be deemed illegal. Why are you even considering MythTV or even Vista MCE if you think this is illegal, because this is the main reason you want a PVR system - to mindlessly pick what to watch and watch it without fumbling with discs?
The solution would have required me to learn the tv_cat tool well enough to concatenate the two sets of listings and set up a cron script to do this every night. A very simple technical challenge, by my standards but I gave up after my very first try. Despite the straightforward nature of any program with "cat" in it's name, I hit an error on my first try, put the keyboard down, and thought to myself... "Wow, I've done lots of configuration on this system and it's now feeling a bit like work. Maybe I should try MCE for a while- this pictures look nice!"
Yes, we know, MythTV configuration sucks, especially if you're changing anything after initial set up. Anything else?
My first problem came after the requisite "Windows Update" as one of the updates had crashed my system. I finally narrowed it down to the SATA drivers for the NForce4 (I think), disabled them, moved to a basemented IDE drive out of laziness, re-installed and was OK. As a Bonus, the IDE drive ran much quieter than the previous SATA!
Yes, installing a plethora of drivers on a Windows system after you've sat there endlessly waiting for it to install sucks. It sucks even harder when one of those drivers decides to not work, or you find that you have to install them in a certain order. Then an automatic update screws things. Linux scores there.
Only one of two tuners is recognized. I've tried all the standard tricks and latest driver releases, with no success yet. Even my long distance call to Hauppauge was fruitless and I suspect that I'll be waiting for some system update or new driver release before I can watch one show while recording another. Or maybe I will fix it before then, but certainly not without a little googling, FAQ searching, or phone queueing.
So you still have to fanny about with your system even when you've spent 198 euros on a piece of software that should just recognise everything and take the head scratching out of the equation that you had to do with MythTV? I think we have a winner there to be honest, because at least with MythTV there's going to be something somewhere that will enable you to get it working - however awful that is. Hauppage and Microsoft won't fix it because it will probably be down to a combination of drivers and MCE software, and anyway, they simply won't give a toss about you or your problem until you're stumping up cash for the next version.
That's probably the single biggest reason why no one wants Windows on their TV. Microsoft just don't get how much more critical a TV is to people than a computer.
Well, if you'd read TFA then you'd have read that this refers to Novell's virtualisation software and VMs. So yer, probably, and more likely than anything else. The article is not specific and is just flying off the handle.
I don't think this is quite as it looks. The documentation this refers to is probably for Novells proprietary products, such as Zenworks, their virtualisation management stuff etc. That's really what Microsoft is most interested in Novell giving them a leg up on - whereupon Microsoft will spit Novell out and start eating even more of their customers.
It won't affect the open source community one jot, but it's just further evidence as to how tight a grip Microsoft (Novell's number one competitor who wants to put them out of business remember) has on Novell's very small and inconsequential nads. Novell never ceases to amaze me with their incompetence unfortunately, and if they want to flush themselves down the toilet then that's entirely up to them.
We already have to put up with different memory card formats when we switch devices and phones, Mini SD, SD, XD, MMC etc. etc., and these people are creating a totally new format that we can all call a standard and not have to worry about it all any more?!
Forgive me for being a tad sceptical at that logic.
My 360 is the console I expect to be playing far into the future, while the Wii will be relegated to being the console that non-gamers have fun with at parties.
And that's why the Wii is winning. There's far more of them then there are of you.
The sole reason why Novell made this deal is because some executive at Novell got desperate and thought a deal with Microsoft would give them the warm fuzzies and get Novell competitive advantage. The only problem is that the reason why Novell are doing badly is because Microsoft are Novell's main competitor, they're taking customers away from them and are busy beavering away getting Netware and eDirectory replaced in many companies with Windows and AD. They've been doing this for years, long before Novell ever started using Linux, and it hasn't changed.
Linux also isn't going to save Novell because their customers that contribute to all their revenue are still using Netware and eDirectory, and getting might cheesed off that Novell haven't created a top-notch replacement (making them want to move to Windows and AD even more - nice one Novell!), and Novell are making no dent whatsoever on the Linux market Red Hat has got. Besides, the Red Hat Linux market is still somewhat smaller than Novell's dwindling and rapidly falling Netware market. Dilemma, eh?!
In short, Novell have failed utterly miserably to keep their existing customers really happy, and Microsoft are going to take most of what's left off them. Microsoft isn't worried at all about not being able to sell Suse coupons. They're putting Novell out of business for crying out loud!
In the past Microsoft sniffed and derided the GPL and anything vaguely open source as communist or just plain non-capitalist and generally plain ignored it. Now they're actually funding studies to tell us how about it is, and not only that, they have an agenda of what parts they don't like about it - namely patent reform.
Considering the rather silly deal Microsoft struck with Novell, and the silly deals they'd like to strike with other Linux vendors to get the message across to the corporate sector that if you use open source software you pay Microsoft for IP, this looks a touch suspicious. Maybe the FSF have touched a bit of a nerve somewhere.
It's incredibly funny and rather unbelievably naive that Microsoft would think that anything like this would sway anyone's opinions, certainly in the same manner as one of their 'Get the Facts' studies or one of those 'Windows Server beats everyone' studies. They really haven't learned a whole lot over the years. For them to claim the open source developers, the people who they've derided and don't have much time for Microsoft either, are under represented just seems like quite an above average desperate move.
They were found in the EEZ, which has become something of a grey area in the last few years. Even the US claim jurisdiction there. There is also the question of ownership, which being s salvager does not give you. It is merely an understanding of recompense. Lifting stuff straight from a wreck site on the basis of being in international waters is a bit of a bad idea. I wouldn't want to be an investor in them.
What was found was found on international water. As such, it's "Off" anything - including America, China, Antarctica, and even Pluto.
A lot of people just don't understand this. It's actually not in international waters if the last few years are anything to go by (even the US has claimed jurisdiction of its EEZ for all sorts of purposes) and there is still the question of ownership concerns - which many still expect to happen. See the quoted Motley Fool article above. Salvage does not give you exclusive rights or ownership to anything. It is an understanding that you will be adequately recompensed for your salvage efforts. It could even be deemed a heritage site.
Maritime law is full of grey areas and niceties to be observed because of the lack of clear jurisdiction. If you don't pay attention to them your salvage operation is likely to end up dead in the water with no items recovered and no money.
We're looking at Odyssey today as an exception, because it's August, half of you are on vacation, and this company has a heck of a fun story -- but all the fun is in the treasure hunting, not the stock.
Funny, thanks for the interesting info. So basically, they're most probably full of it in order to raise their stock price?
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A lot of people have made a lot of the Novell/Microsoft deal because of patents that open source software supposedly infringes. However, once you buy in with Microsoft on one of these deals, it's a whole lot more.
I discovered a few weeks ago that as part of the Novell deal, and Microsoft selling SLES coupons supposedly, SLES actually has to be a subserviant within a Windows domain controller set up. Ergo, SLES can quite easily be replaced with Windows at a later date without anyone being any the wiser. Presumably, when this deal runs out in five years Microsoft will have hoped that they'll have replaced all the SLES and Netware servers with Windows, replaced a lot of Red Hat servers with SLES replaced with Windows, and Novell will be no more.
That deal Novell struck will do quite a bit of damage if any more like it are agreed.
The real questions of any relevance are:
1. Can it run Linux?
2. Is there going to be a Beowulf cluster?
3. Is this actually a machine you can run Vista on?
I wouldn't call someone who is sceptical of Margaret Thatcher a twit if I were you. They have every right to be so.
Oh shit, I didn't realise I was on the wrong version. I better upgrade quick.
If you haven't got them you're simply never going to get a big enough slice of the market for it to be profitable - and Apple have already limited the iPhone in terms of providers already. After years of not making any headway against Windows, and being beaten to a big slice of the big desktop pie (Apple pie?!), as well as seeing people run GPS applications and games like Splinter Cell on their phones, Apple just hasn't learned its lesson even now, has it?
It's full of puke.
For info, I use an Adaptec 2420SA - a very nice card as it turns out. I must commend Adaptec on pulling their fingers out on their hardware RAID and Linux support, as aacraid is right in the kernel now. Their previous cards were terrible. The bottleneck is in I/O, and not on the CPU. Hotswap is quite important. If you don't have the convenience of hotswap then a lot of the reasons for what you have RAID for (easy replacement of downed drives) are gone. Yes it is, and good hardware RAID cards are actually quite cheap. The convenience of the OS seeing an array as one big disk and having the hardware handle it is great, because it takes a layer of management out of the system. Just make sure you have good management tools, which Adaptec certainly seem to have, along with 3ware. Remember that the OS will simply not know if there is a problem, because all it sees is a disk.
Decent hardware RAID, if you can get it, is the preferable way to go because the parent poster talked about dynamically resizing your arrays on the fly in order to take advantage of new disk space. Hardware RAID is much better at doing that.
Considering that this is yet another Windows Mobile device that tries to go way beyond a normal mobile device giving you a PC on a phone, and presumably why it has a QWERTY keyboard and you can work with Office documents, then it's a bit of a failure really.
Yes, we know, MythTV configuration sucks, especially if you're changing anything after initial set up. Anything else?
Yes, installing a plethora of drivers on a Windows system after you've sat there endlessly waiting for it to install sucks. It sucks even harder when one of those drivers decides to not work, or you find that you have to install them in a certain order. Then an automatic update screws things. Linux scores there.
So you still have to fanny about with your system even when you've spent 198 euros on a piece of software that should just recognise everything and take the head scratching out of the equation that you had to do with MythTV? I think we have a winner there to be honest, because at least with MythTV there's going to be something somewhere that will enable you to get it working - however awful that is. Hauppage and Microsoft won't fix it because it will probably be down to a combination of drivers and MCE software, and anyway, they simply won't give a toss about you or your problem until you're stumping up cash for the next version.
That's probably the single biggest reason why no one wants Windows on their TV. Microsoft just don't get how much more critical a TV is to people than a computer.
Seriously.
I don't think this is quite as it looks. The documentation this refers to is probably for Novells proprietary products, such as Zenworks, their virtualisation management stuff etc. That's really what Microsoft is most interested in Novell giving them a leg up on - whereupon Microsoft will spit Novell out and start eating even more of their customers.
It won't affect the open source community one jot, but it's just further evidence as to how tight a grip Microsoft (Novell's number one competitor who wants to put them out of business remember) has on Novell's very small and inconsequential nads. Novell never ceases to amaze me with their incompetence unfortunately, and if they want to flush themselves down the toilet then that's entirely up to them.
We already have to put up with different memory card formats when we switch devices and phones, Mini SD, SD, XD, MMC etc. etc., and these people are creating a totally new format that we can all call a standard and not have to worry about it all any more?!
Forgive me for being a tad sceptical at that logic.
It's the long goodbye to Novell.
The sole reason why Novell made this deal is because some executive at Novell got desperate and thought a deal with Microsoft would give them the warm fuzzies and get Novell competitive advantage. The only problem is that the reason why Novell are doing badly is because Microsoft are Novell's main competitor, they're taking customers away from them and are busy beavering away getting Netware and eDirectory replaced in many companies with Windows and AD. They've been doing this for years, long before Novell ever started using Linux, and it hasn't changed.
Linux also isn't going to save Novell because their customers that contribute to all their revenue are still using Netware and eDirectory, and getting might cheesed off that Novell haven't created a top-notch replacement (making them want to move to Windows and AD even more - nice one Novell!), and Novell are making no dent whatsoever on the Linux market Red Hat has got. Besides, the Red Hat Linux market is still somewhat smaller than Novell's dwindling and rapidly falling Netware market. Dilemma, eh?!
In short, Novell have failed utterly miserably to keep their existing customers really happy, and Microsoft are going to take most of what's left off them. Microsoft isn't worried at all about not being able to sell Suse coupons. They're putting Novell out of business for crying out loud!
In the past Microsoft sniffed and derided the GPL and anything vaguely open source as communist or just plain non-capitalist and generally plain ignored it. Now they're actually funding studies to tell us how about it is, and not only that, they have an agenda of what parts they don't like about it - namely patent reform.
Considering the rather silly deal Microsoft struck with Novell, and the silly deals they'd like to strike with other Linux vendors to get the message across to the corporate sector that if you use open source software you pay Microsoft for IP, this looks a touch suspicious. Maybe the FSF have touched a bit of a nerve somewhere.
It's incredibly funny and rather unbelievably naive that Microsoft would think that anything like this would sway anyone's opinions, certainly in the same manner as one of their 'Get the Facts' studies or one of those 'Windows Server beats everyone' studies. They really haven't learned a whole lot over the years. For them to claim the open source developers, the people who they've derided and don't have much time for Microsoft either, are under represented just seems like quite an above average desperate move.
Maritime law is full of grey areas and niceties to be observed because of the lack of clear jurisdiction. If you don't pay attention to them your salvage operation is likely to end up dead in the water with no items recovered and no money.