"The files are all SECRET rather than TOP SECRET" most of the cables are not even marked secret..
"An honest whistle-blower who reveals true wrongdoing will lose their job when found out, but they won't be prosecuted for releasing the information."
again, are you kidding ????
(most) Americans seem totally America obsessed, there is more in this world than just the USofA
India is ususally more concerned with local politics, that is they are dealing with countries like Pakistan and China
they feel ususally threatened by China as does any other country over there, china being an expansionist power on their borders. Also they want to compete with china on equal footing. like with the nbr of people within their borders and likewise on the spacerace front..
No, the windows registry is a menace, its an impossible big heap of mostly crap. any program puts config string with diff info everywhere. one Software Vendor can create any number of product tree's cause developers 'just' think of something else every time a product or update/refactor comes out and they don't seem to manage how its gonna be put in there.
information is stored in there never to be found again, and it grows, oh boy how it grows;)
the windows registry is the worst invention ever, period.
quirks is what windows is most famous for, with every new windows version I had to learn another hundredplus or so ways to go around entirely new awkward behaviour..
And no way ofcourse to look into the source! and no chance somebody smart would find and fix that troublesome thing for ya..
So your logic is that since MSFT did not open their API's they are a monopoly?
no, I said that >90% market share is already a monopoly and since MS has about 98% of all desktops and I don't know how much % of servers. By the way, the servers came in via the desktops..
'cause of that it is necessary to be able to 'talk' to windows installations. Either desktop or server.
'Cause the negative situation of monopoly's is well understood the EU and US government try to stand against that. If you'd want any chance at all to bring anything new or competing you will at least have to 'work' with MS windows.
by the way, as a MS customer myself, I am thrilled about every bit of competition there is out there for Microsoft. It is the only way to make MS make better/newer stuff:)
Same for Intel customers, please buy some AMD stuff, just to thank them to make Intel create *much* better processors!
Why is everybody so hang up on the media player thing. That is just the result of bureaucratic wheels running 'very' slowly. that media player thing is from when there actually 'was' a battle between competing products like when there was a battle between 'browsers'. that is: years back! However what is the most interesting from the start and what this is all about now is opening the SMB/CIFS api's. The 'ability' to communicate with windows systems (clients and servers) on a level 'par' MS Software..
And that is what MS seems to dread more than anything..
for those 'in the know' mentioning other os'es competition. linux desktop is said to have a market share of 1% to 1.5% and that is the biggest contender..
I would call 90% cover a monopoly and MS has a lot more market than that
Here's yet another creative idea to protect FOSS developers. The Software Freedom Law Center has launched the Software Freedom Conservancy, which is designed to permit certain projects accepted as members, such as Wine, uClibc and BusyBox currently, to apply for and then benefit from nonprofit tax-exempt status. The Conservancy does all the onerous paperwork needed to set it up and run that way.
It does the paperwork and it provides the umbrella. It will file one tax return covering all members' projects, and it will handle the other corporate and tax issues that are associated with becoming a nonprofit and then operating as one, as well as holding project assets and managing them as the project directs. That leaves projects members free to code. It's a free service, if your project is accepted as a member.
Blu-ray is more interesting, cause it is a high density storage format. (More so than hd-dvd which is a continuance of dvd technology), making it possible to put 50GiB's on the one BD. 4 layers will give 100 GiB. Making a backup of a system requires that much storage and even more. Triple layer hd-dvd gives 45 GiB's.
everybody is talking high def video, but really who needs that. look at the poularity of lossy compression formats. is it necessary they put more "extra" stuff on the dvd's that nobody watches anyway?
in the backup industry people are used to paying for storage media. if a blu-ray dvd costs half that of a backup tape it is feasable and will be used.
anyway, they need to hurry a bit cause holographic storage is taking of too with 300 Gib's a disc, scaling up to a Terabyte / disc..
As a former Admin I would say that its only the IT departments problem when you make us (IT department) come to solve your IT problem. Would we then find "any" not standard environment, we would solve this by putting a standard image on that hardware. End of problem.
point being: It is not the admins problem if you get your work done or not. Thats your bosses problem.:) If you don't report any problem, well:)
Best in such a situation would be to simply ask the IT department friendly guy if putting your preferred OS there is a possibility..
in reality, unless you are doing trivial network related stuff, only an admin can bring in another OS and make it work with everything cause you need to know a whole pile of configuration stuff.:)
also, last release hula-r276.tar.gz 10-Aug-2005 11:16 11M
funny to see what is listed under "Linux Distro's"
Linux - Hula has been built and run on the following Linux distros SuSE Linux 9.3 SuSE Linux 9.0 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Novell Linux Desktop 9 Ubuntu Hoary Slackware 10.1 Mandrakelinux 10.x Fedora Core 2 Fedora Core 3 Fedora Core 4 CentOS 4 Gentoo 2005.0 Foresight Linux Debian Sarge FreeBSD 4, 5 NetBSD 2 MacOSX 10.3.8 Windows 2000, XP, 2003
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"The files are all SECRET rather than TOP SECRET" ..
most of the cables are not even marked secret
"An honest whistle-blower who reveals true wrongdoing will lose their job when found out, but they won't be prosecuted for releasing the information."
again, are you kidding ????
(most) Americans seem totally America obsessed, there is more in this world than just the USofA
India is ususally more concerned with local politics,
that is they are dealing with countries like Pakistan and China
they feel ususally threatened by China as does any other country over there, china being an expansionist power on their borders. Also they want to compete with china on equal footing. like with the nbr of people within their borders and likewise on the spacerace front..
you are correct,
fact:
if slavery was not illegal it would be still in active practise.
(adding to this, slavery is not 'just' an american issue, it existed long before europeans came to America and about everywhere.)
opensource or free software is not about being free (as in beer).
think "free speech"
oh yeh and ususally you can get it (code/binary) for free (as in beer) too!
"a 100% efficient process is only possible at absolute zero." at 0 Kelvin there is NO process, everything halts..
what?
;)
No, the windows registry is a menace, its an impossible big heap of mostly crap. any program puts config string with diff info everywhere. one Software Vendor can create any number of product tree's cause developers 'just' think of something else every time a product or update/refactor comes out and they don't seem to manage how its gonna be put in there.
information is stored in there never to be found again, and it grows, oh boy how it grows
the windows registry is the worst invention ever, period.
working with windows clients since 3.x ..
..
quirks is what windows is most famous for, with every new windows version I had to learn another hundredplus or so ways to go around entirely new awkward behaviour..
And no way ofcourse to look into the source! and no chance somebody smart would find and fix that troublesome thing for ya
an adult fly is said to have about 100.000 neurons, so If you want to identify human life by the initial development of a handfull of neurons ..
China is the biggest investor in the US (or at least the second biggest) I believe, why would they want to destroy their own property? ;)
..
For Russia the US is one of the biggest export markets
wake up, this is the 21st century..
no, I said that >90% market share is already a monopoly and since MS has about 98% of all desktops and I don't know how much % of servers. By the way, the servers came in via the desktops..
'cause of that it is necessary to be able to 'talk' to windows installations. Either desktop or server.
'Cause the negative situation of monopoly's is well understood the EU and US government try to stand against that. If you'd want any chance at all to bring anything new or competing you will at least have to 'work' with MS windows.
by the way, as a MS customer myself, I am thrilled about every bit of competition there is out there for Microsoft. It is the only way to make MS make better/newer stuff :)
Same for Intel customers, please buy some AMD stuff, just to thank them to make Intel create *much* better processors!
For the EU that is kids pocket change ..
by the way, about the voluntary contribution to the state, didn't they invent something called TAXES for that..
Why is everybody so hang up on the media player thing. That is just the result of bureaucratic wheels running 'very' slowly. that media player thing is from when there actually 'was' a battle between competing products like when there was a battle between 'browsers'. that is: years back! However what is the most interesting from the start and what this is all about now is opening the SMB/CIFS api's. The 'ability' to communicate with windows systems (clients and servers) on a level 'par' MS Software..
And that is what MS seems to dread more than anything..
for those 'in the know' mentioning other os'es competition. linux desktop is said to have a market share of 1% to 1.5% and that is the biggest contender..
I would call 90% cover a monopoly and MS has a lot more market than that
"my only issues have been when web browsers or similar eat enormous amounts of RAM and I/O capacity"
yep, Firefox.
and it ain't crash proof either!
(compare that to opera 8.5, mozilla got some work to do)
the themes are nice though..
Software Freedom Conservancy offers nonprofit umbrella to free and open source projects
see this groklaw page for entire article http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200604011 21120517
Here's yet another creative idea to protect FOSS developers. The Software Freedom Law Center has launched the Software Freedom Conservancy, which is designed to permit certain projects accepted as members, such as Wine, uClibc and BusyBox currently, to apply for and then benefit from nonprofit tax-exempt status. The Conservancy does all the onerous paperwork needed to set it up and run that way.
It does the paperwork and it provides the umbrella. It will file one tax return covering all members' projects, and it will handle the other corporate and tax issues that are associated with becoming a nonprofit and then operating as one, as well as holding project assets and managing them as the project directs. That leaves projects members free to code. It's a free service, if your project is accepted as a member.
I mean If you got all those mailboxes in there with GB's of e-mail and attachments ..
keywords "SGI Free Software License B"
the license text is here
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/
in ps and msword
the important stuff seems to be in sections 2.x
As far as I understand it, it seems the Standard Implementation is licensed under a BSD, mozilla alike license
s e.html
http://www.sgi.com/products/software/opengl/licen
"believe" in evolution?
You don't need to believe, that is for unprovable things like religion.
Evolution is Science, it is proven. It is a workable theory that is expanded (incremental) en independantly proven over and over again.
It is used in many projects. It is common as gravitation.
Blu-ray is more interesting, cause it is a high density storage format. (More so than hd-dvd which is a continuance of dvd technology), making it possible to put 50GiB's on the one BD. 4 layers will give 100 GiB. Making a backup of a system requires that much storage and even more. Triple layer hd-dvd gives 45 GiB's.
..
everybody is talking high def video, but really who needs that. look at the poularity of lossy compression formats. is it necessary they put more "extra" stuff on the dvd's that nobody watches anyway?
in the backup industry people are used to paying for storage media. if a blu-ray dvd costs half that of a backup tape it is feasable and will be used.
anyway, they need to hurry a bit cause holographic storage is taking of too with 300 Gib's a disc, scaling up to a Terabyte / disc
As a former Admin I would say that its only the IT departments problem when you make us (IT department) come to solve your IT problem. Would we then find "any" not standard environment, we would solve this by putting a standard image on that hardware. End of problem.
:) If you don't report any problem, well :)
..
:)
point being: It is not the admins problem if you get your work done or not. Thats your bosses problem.
Best in such a situation would be to simply ask the IT department friendly guy if putting your preferred OS there is a possibility
in reality, unless you are doing trivial network related stuff, only an admin can bring in another OS and make it work with everything cause you need to know a whole pile of configuration stuff.
What Novell said is that they will focus on gnome on NLD and SLES. ..
That means its still there on (open)suse desktop
you've forgotten to mention the golfer :)
look at the developers list ..
c hbrowse.php/hula-dev/?id=1613&prjname=hula&mlname= dev
http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/maillist/ar
also, last release
hula-r276.tar.gz 10-Aug-2005 11:16 11M
funny to see what is listed under "Linux Distro's"
Linux - Hula has been built and run on the following Linux distros
SuSE Linux 9.3
SuSE Linux 9.0
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
Novell Linux Desktop 9
Ubuntu Hoary
Slackware 10.1
Mandrakelinux 10.x
Fedora Core 2
Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4
CentOS 4
Gentoo 2005.0
Foresight Linux
Debian Sarge
FreeBSD 4, 5
NetBSD 2
MacOSX 10.3.8
Windows 2000, XP, 2003
"Even then, it was usually better to observe the idea and clean room develop the library."
..
Good thinking, MS created an empire doing just that