A few points from an arms-length admin (We have a 600+ user MF farm, I don't admin it [happy] ): - Printing can be a nightmare. The individual Win print spoolers hang, eating cpu and stalling print jobs for all users on that server. The solution to print jobs going just anywhere was to create an initial default printer eqivalent to/dev/null. - Roaming user profiles are insane. Add another server to collect them; it _must_ be up or the entire farm is useless. Need to make a global change? Everyone loses all customizations after all profiles are reset to the default. Try to find what svr a user is on? Enjoy browsing the uselist on each machine. - MS apps are the worst-behaved. Heavy memory footprint, cpu monopolization, cross-user flakiness & registry weirdness. What fun! - Vendors tout MF compatibility, it will be your problem to make it work (at all). - Install mode, execute mode and uninterruptible install reboots.
The MF admin now takes a fanatically strict approach about what makes it on the farm. Any slight weirdness, it don't make it on.
Would it be nitpicking to point out that SCO received their GPL programs from a distributor. If they state the GPL is invalid, they do not have a legal, licensed copy of that software and must stop using it immediately.
"When was the last time you saw a FTP-server that allowed to download its own password-file ? 1990 ?"
Not an admin, eh?
Many _default_ non-anonymous ftp services on unix|unix-like systems that I have dealt (recently) with allow the ftp user the same access rights to the entire tree as their uid:gid is allowed. So, on a system w/o shadow passwords, cd/etc; get passwd; is all that's needed to get started. (grr./ eats spaces...)
BTW, shadow passwording has the achilles heel of file security. I have dealt with systems where the file security of these files had been comprimised to solve some silly need.
Hey, make two of these: A speaker and microphone connected to your sound card (surrounded by rubber enclosures to reduce ambient sound), and your telephone receiver placed ear&mouthpiece near the speaker&micrphone.
You could communicate from one pc to the other by using the morse stream to modulate the speaker outputs, then demodulate the microphone inputs to reconstruct that morse string.
Intellectual monopoly doesn't stray far from the Intellectual Proprerty meme. Causing change in a meme is easier than replacing it.
Perhaps the term 'Intellectual Commons' could be used to express the free availability and expression of ideas under BSD, GPL, and similar licenses. It could be used as the antonym to IP.
Keeping proper care of a --bound-- lab logbook is something I'll carry with me always, regardless of my career path. I still hand-number RH pages in ink; TOC in front; notes on left page; --dated-- documentation on the right. My only backslide is the occasional use of pencil. (I no longer wrangle instruments, now sysadmin.)
Lemme guess, you write the VB 'gimmie 30 bux' shareware crap that permeates tucows (get it? tucows == two cows, what a hoot!).
If you don't wish to give up your s/w, don't use any open licence. Simple.
The copyright assignment of GNU licensed s/w diminishes noone and allows the FSF to act to protect that copyright, regardless of what duristiction it occurs in.
So, on the blinding chance that you write something good, and a corp decides to illegally take it from you, best of luck pursuing them on your own.
So what do you think the chances are that these guys have incorporated GPL source in their add-ons and are taking an aggressive stance to cover their asses?
Insn't this one of the senarios where assigning copyright to the FSF is helpful?
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My eyes! we don't all look like that, do we? I need another donut.
All others pale before this mighty distro.
Yeesh, what a question. Guaranteed page refreshes and add views.
Personally I:
% su -
# uname -n
and MAKE SURE I'M ON THE RIGHT MACHINE !!
# shutdown -r 120 'go away!!'
Most system's reboot invoke a `shutdown -r now`.
I'll see your SPARC Solaris and raise with PPC AIX. Any of 'em (5.1 at the moment).
aack. Ignore the ipaddr, I'm an idiot.
perhaps 317, --wx--xrwx, or 10.1.111 would be more appropriate|weird as text.
Sunspots.
A few points from an arms-length admin (We have a 600+ user MF farm, I don't admin it [happy] ): /dev/null.
- Printing can be a nightmare. The individual Win print spoolers hang, eating cpu and stalling print jobs for all users on that server. The solution to print jobs going just anywhere was to create an initial default printer eqivalent to
- Roaming user profiles are insane. Add another server to collect them; it _must_ be up or the entire farm is useless. Need to make a global change? Everyone loses all customizations after all profiles are reset to the default. Try to find what svr a user is on? Enjoy browsing the uselist on each machine.
- MS apps are the worst-behaved. Heavy memory footprint, cpu monopolization, cross-user flakiness & registry weirdness. What fun!
- Vendors tout MF compatibility, it will be your problem to make it work (at all).
- Install mode, execute mode and uninterruptible install reboots.
The MF admin now takes a fanatically strict approach about what makes it on the farm. Any slight weirdness, it don't make it on.
$250,00 US... I was budgeted that much for a single systems project. It's not pocket change but it's not big cash either.
Would it be nitpicking to point out that SCO received their GPL programs from a distributor. If they state the GPL is invalid, they do not have a legal, licensed copy of that software and must stop using it immediately.
Heh, get used to that. More distributed control systems (DCS) are running on MS cuz that's what the customer wants.
Idiots. Both sides.
-1, pointless SCO reference.
I quite like that, when I saw it, your comment was moderated 'funny'. You did read my entire comment, yes?
In this case, I suspect there was a series of poor admin descisions, one of was allowing ftp access, that lead to the end comprimise.
"When was the last time you saw a FTP-server that allowed to download its own password-file ? 1990 ?"
/etc; get passwd; is all that's needed to get started. (grr ./ eats spaces...)
Not an admin, eh?
Many _default_ non-anonymous ftp services on unix|unix-like systems that I have dealt (recently) with allow the ftp user the same access rights to the entire tree as their uid:gid is allowed. So, on a system w/o shadow passwords, cd
BTW, shadow passwording has the achilles heel of file security. I have dealt with systems where the file security of these files had been comprimised to solve some silly need.
Oooh.
Hey, make two of these: A speaker and microphone connected to your sound card (surrounded by rubber enclosures to reduce ambient sound), and your telephone receiver placed ear&mouthpiece near the speaker&micrphone.
You could communicate from one pc to the other by using the morse stream to modulate the speaker outputs, then demodulate the microphone inputs to reconstruct that morse string.
Curious, we're buying more.
Greg Egan has a novel (Diaspora?? It's been a while.) that explores the protagonist travelling as information. A memorable, enjoyable, _hard_ read.
Intellectual monopoly doesn't stray far from the Intellectual Proprerty meme. Causing change in a meme is easier than replacing it.
Perhaps the term 'Intellectual Commons' could be used to express the free availability and expression of ideas under BSD, GPL, and similar licenses. It could be used as the antonym to IP.
StorageTek offers an IDE-based SAN storage device (BladeStore) that exceeds this and would be a whole lot easier to manage.
So if I understand this, the two BSDs will be spooning.
At sourceforge you can see it.
The Usual Suspects floored me when I first saw it. It's a _good_ story.
The Ref. This Dennis Leary flick kills me.
Oddly enough both are Kevin Spacey films.
Last, Reservoir Dogs. It comes across almost as a theatrical play.
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"Given that many Chinese probably do not even have televisions..."
Did you pull that one out of your ass?
China has roughly 300 million televisions. The US has around 215 million.
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China has 1.5 billion people, the US has 300 million. I beleve he's accurate
Keeping proper care of a --bound-- lab logbook is something I'll carry with me always, regardless of my career path. I still hand-number RH pages in ink; TOC in front; notes on left page; --dated-- documentation on the right. My only backslide is the occasional use of pencil. (I no longer wrangle instruments, now sysadmin.)
Good logbook habits avoid the WTF syndrome.
Lemme guess, you write the VB 'gimmie 30 bux' shareware crap that permeates tucows (get it? tucows == two cows, what a hoot!).
If you don't wish to give up your s/w, don't use any open licence. Simple.
The copyright assignment of GNU licensed s/w diminishes noone and allows the FSF to act to protect that copyright, regardless of what duristiction it occurs in.
So, on the blinding chance that you write something good, and a corp decides to illegally take it from you, best of luck pursuing them on your own.
So what do you think the chances are that these guys have incorporated GPL source in their add-ons and are taking an aggressive stance to cover their asses?
Insn't this one of the senarios where assigning copyright to the FSF is helpful?