Yeah, but they'd never generate enough cash to remain profitable from pure software. A better strategy would be for Apple to start growing their server business, with larger 2-8cpu & 16-128GB systems, and to back this up with Enterprise class Consultancy & Support services. They already have the storage in place.
Once that's in place (or growing) releasing the desktop to cheep cloners (providing they're restricted to the desktop) could be a gold mine for Apple. Increased desktop marketshare would increase demand for the more expensive back end servers, support and consultancy. IT Managers love constancy in their organisation.
I'm hoping that Apple will take this approach anyway, as there are loads of markets they just don't have a presence in right now.
More to the point, Intel drive their performance forward on two fronts, architecture design and clock speed. While the G5 is a strong contender from an architecture stand point, that still isn't enough on it's own over throw Intel's crown.
Fortunately, if Steve J's prediction of 3GHz in a year are on the money, the new G5 systems will be considerably more competitive on clock speed than their predecessor, complementing the G5's design strengths even further.
Given that Intel aren't planning any more speed bumps to the Pentium 4 for another year (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10121) until the Pentium 5 emerges, they could find themselves playing second fiddle to the G5 on anyone's benchmarks within 12 months from now.
To date, all the articles I've seen paint Linux with a broad brush. Which version of Linux are SCO referring to? Conceivably the code could be old, or have been ripped out in the 2.5.x stream during the re-write process.
Another point to note. In a previous statement from SCO, they also intimated that Mac OS X may be on their radar too. If that's true then considering Mac OS X's BSD roots, it strikes me that any code common to both is more likely to have come from a BSD source. In which case, SCO are skating on thin air!
No, but those same laws do stop the vast majority from 'breaking the law'. And that's the point, you will never stop everyone, but you will stop most.
What you're saying is if it ain't 100% perfect then throw the lot out. Well I've got news for you, there is no such thing as a perfect solution in this world. So we make do with the best we can.
That argument is baseless. The exception doesn't prove the rule. For every one criminal who ignores the tag, there may be hundreds that stop and think twice because of it.
In the UK, convicted pedophiles are held on a nation wide sex register for life. When ever they move town they have to register their whereabouts with the police. Despite this, many of them re-offend and the cost is sometimes a childs life and devastated family/community.
So it strikes me that this would be a great help in the battle against habitual pedophiles. If on release from prison they were legally chipped and their location tracked 24hrs, then the incidents of death by re-offenders should drop dramatically.
And yeah I know, its a breach of human rights, blah blah. But IMO, anyone who sexually violates a child for their own gratification forfeits their claim to the rights that the rest of us enjoy. And there are millions of parents all over the world who'd sleep better at night.
This sort of thing is going to hit the public consciousness very soon in the UK, cos over the last two weeks there's been a new TV advert, touting the release of Pink Floyd's 30th anniversary edition of Dark Side Of The Moon using the new high quality SACD (Super Audio CD) format.
Though they mention SACD, no where does the advert mention anything about copy protection. Some people are going to get a rude shock.
I can tell you that I'm almost certain where my email address(s) have been picked up from. I kick started my new domain about 3 years ago. So I was totally spam free in the beginning. That continued until one day I started posting to a Newsgroup and forgot to create an alias for the first post, using my real address instead. Almost immediately I started getting spam. Just one post, just one stinkin lapse of concentration was all it took. I could have kicked myself. After that I used aliases which I would delete when they became too big a target.
The next source was from online discussion forums. The KDE debug forum to be exact. Again, the "kbug" mail alias I was using on that list was a big give away. That got deleted too.
The only other source that I don't have much control over is e-cards. I had a big jump in spam just after receiving some e-cards over Christmas. That's how I think I got on emailhello's radar. So next time you're thinking of sending a friend an e-card for their birthday or whatever, think again. You just might be doing them a big disservice.
Well, that hasn't been my experience so far. It's dropped to single figures now.
One thing I do to hide the fact there's a 'live person' on the other end is to *never* read the spam I get. Most spam comes with embedded html, and if you look at the raw source (which I only do with the ethernet cable out) then you'll see that many of the links to the graphics and such point to the innards of a remote database. Resolve the link, and you validate your address.
I run Mac OS X, and Mail.app grabs just about everything that really is junk and sticks it in a Junk folder. So all I do is visually scan the sender and subject fields to make sure it's not grabbed something it shouldn't and then Select All->Delete.
I've also been pleasantly surprised at just how infrequently my email addresses do get passed around. I have my own domain, with the ability to assign aliases to my real address. So whenever I have to give my address out, to subscribe or receive something, I create a new unique alias. That way, if I start getting spam on one of my aliases, I know who the culpret is, and I can delete that alias without upsetting anything else.
In 3 years, I've only had this happen once, which leads me to believe that most spam addresses come from harvested sources rather than covert collaberation.
I've been getting about 20 spams/day, and did some checking into where most of it comes from. And 90% of it comes from the USA.
About half of that was coming from various domains that turned out to be owned by emailhello.com. To their credit, I sent them a mail requesting I be removed from their lists, and that I not be forwarded onto anyone else. They replied saying they'd remove me with 48hours, and true to their word, they did.
This speculation that most spam doesn't come from the USA is uniformed fud, and mostly untrue!
What is this story doing on SLASHDOT ??
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This "news" is going to be getting enough air time on TV and coverage on every paper in the world over the next few days!
Can we please have SLASHDOT declared a 'war free zone', so that the 'Nerds' of this world have somewhere to go to escape it all for a bit when we feel like a break.
We all agree that legislating Spam out of existance isn't going to work, due to the international design of the Internet
Correct. But it should still happen anyway. The wall that eventually stops spam will not come from one big fix-all solution, it will be made of many smaller bricks. And legislation will be one important piece of that. Reduce the area where these people can operate from, and you have one less place to look to track them down or block them out. Legislation IS important, and can't happen soon enough for me.
They are an organisation funded by OFTEL (Office of Telecommunications) a government body. So presumably, they have sufficient dedicated staff to deal with the complaints. More details are on their "What is TPS" page.
I just signed up to the UK version, www.tpsonline.org.uk. It takes a month to work its way into the system, then I'm promised a big reduction in unsolicited phone calls, currently running at around 2-3 a day. As I have to work from home some weeks, so this will be a great relief. I'm glad you guys have it too.
Support for hotswap CPU/RAM etc.... Solution: force the vendors to make Linux a priority on high end hardware.
Wrong solution, non-existant problem. It's a hardware thing, doesn't need to be an OS thing.
Not true. The OS needs to be capable of turning cpu's off and migrating processes/kernel threads elsewhere before you even think about popping the card out. On commercial unices this functionality comes with tools that allow you to create processor sets and shuffle cpu's around between them.
So no, it's not just a hardware thing!
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I was at a customer site last week, and they were looking at options for a 64 node (128 cpu) cluster. They had a 2cpu Itanium system on loan for evaluation from HP. They liked it, but decided instead to go with Xeon's rather than Itanium. The reason.. Itanium systems are just too expensive at the moment. Bang for Buck, Xeon's are just too attractive by comparison.
The Itanium chip will eventually succeed, but not until the price drops and the performance steps up another gear.
> Businesses however, can never get away with using whitelists,
They could if they had specific public email addresses that were open to anyone, with the rest private and 'whitelist' blocked. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
I get about 10 spams a week now from Argentina. Normal spam is bad enough, but I can't even understand what it is they are supposed to be selling. How silly is that. For the life of me, I can't work out where they could have got my address from. I've never had anything at all to do with Argentina.
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Yeah, but they'd never generate enough cash to remain profitable from pure software. A better strategy would be for Apple to start growing their server business, with larger 2-8cpu & 16-128GB systems, and to back this up with Enterprise class Consultancy & Support services. They already have the storage in place.
Once that's in place (or growing) releasing the desktop to cheep cloners (providing they're restricted to the desktop) could be a gold mine for Apple. Increased desktop marketshare would increase demand for the more expensive back end servers, support and consultancy. IT Managers love constancy in their organisation.
I'm hoping that Apple will take this approach anyway, as there are loads of markets they just don't have a presence in right now.
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More to the point, Intel drive their performance forward on two fronts, architecture design and clock speed. While the G5 is a strong contender from an architecture stand point, that still isn't enough on it's own over throw Intel's crown.
Fortunately, if Steve J's prediction of 3GHz in a year are on the money, the new G5 systems will be considerably more competitive on clock speed than their predecessor, complementing the G5's design strengths even further.
Given that Intel aren't planning any more speed bumps to the Pentium 4 for another year (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10121) until the Pentium 5 emerges, they could find themselves playing second fiddle to the G5 on anyone's benchmarks within 12 months from now.
Should be interesting.
Macka
To date, all the articles I've seen paint Linux with a broad brush. Which version of Linux are SCO referring to? Conceivably the code could be old, or have been ripped out in the 2.5.x stream during the re-write process.
Another point to note. In a previous statement from SCO, they also intimated that Mac OS X may be on their radar too. If that's true then considering Mac OS X's BSD roots, it strikes me that any code common to both is more likely to have come from a BSD source. In which case, SCO are skating on thin air!
Macka
Apple have a solution for that too. It's called an iPod !!
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You're right, sorry. I didn't read what you actually said, I read what I thought you'd said. I need some more sleep.
No, but those same laws do stop the vast majority from 'breaking the law'. And that's the point, you will never stop everyone, but you will stop most.
What you're saying is if it ain't 100% perfect then throw the lot out. Well I've got news for you, there is no such thing as a perfect solution in this world. So we make do with the best we can.
Macka
That argument is baseless. The exception doesn't prove the rule. For every one criminal who ignores the tag, there may be hundreds that stop and think twice because of it.
Macka
In the UK, convicted pedophiles are held on a nation wide sex register for life. When ever they move town they have to register their whereabouts with the police. Despite this, many of them re-offend and the cost is sometimes a childs life and devastated family/community.
So it strikes me that this would be a great help in the battle against habitual pedophiles. If on release from prison they were legally chipped and their location tracked 24hrs, then the incidents of death by re-offenders should drop dramatically.
And yeah I know, its a breach of human rights, blah blah. But IMO, anyone who sexually violates a child for their own gratification forfeits their claim to the rights that the rest of us enjoy. And there are millions of parents all over the world who'd sleep better at night.
Macka
This sort of thing is going to hit the public consciousness very soon in the UK, cos over the last two weeks there's been a new TV advert, touting the release of Pink Floyd's 30th anniversary edition of Dark Side Of The Moon using the new high quality SACD (Super Audio CD) format.
Though they mention SACD, no where does the advert mention anything about copy protection. Some people are going to get a rude shock.
I can tell you that I'm almost certain where my email address(s) have been picked up from. I kick started my new domain about 3 years ago. So I was totally spam free in the beginning. That continued until one day I started posting to a Newsgroup and forgot to create an alias for the first post, using my real address instead. Almost immediately I started getting spam. Just one post, just one stinkin lapse of concentration was all it took. I could have kicked myself. After that I used aliases which I would delete when they became too big a target.
The next source was from online discussion forums. The KDE debug forum to be exact. Again, the "kbug" mail alias I was using on that list was a big give away. That got deleted too.
The only other source that I don't have much control over is e-cards. I had a big jump in spam just after receiving some e-cards over Christmas. That's how I think I got on emailhello's radar. So next time you're thinking of sending a friend an e-card for their birthday or whatever, think again. You just might be doing them a big disservice.
Well, that hasn't been my experience so far. It's dropped to single figures now.
One thing I do to hide the fact there's a 'live person' on the other end is to *never* read the spam I get. Most spam comes with embedded html, and if you look at the raw source (which I only do with the ethernet cable out) then you'll see that many of the links to the graphics and such point to the innards of a remote database. Resolve the link, and you validate your address.
I run Mac OS X, and Mail.app grabs just about everything that really is junk and sticks it in a Junk folder. So all I do is visually scan the sender and subject fields to make sure it's not grabbed something it shouldn't and then Select All->Delete.
I've also been pleasantly surprised at just how infrequently my email addresses do get passed around. I have my own domain, with the ability to assign aliases to my real address. So whenever I have to give my address out, to subscribe or receive something, I create a new unique alias. That way, if I start getting spam on one of my aliases, I know who the culpret is, and I can delete that alias without upsetting anything else.
In 3 years, I've only had this happen once, which leads me to believe that most spam addresses come from harvested sources rather than covert collaberation.
I've been getting about 20 spams/day, and did some checking into where most of it comes from. And 90% of it comes from the USA.
About half of that was coming from various domains that turned out to be owned by emailhello.com. To their credit, I sent them a mail requesting I be removed from their lists, and that I not be forwarded onto anyone else. They replied saying they'd remove me with 48hours, and true to their word, they did.
This speculation that most spam doesn't come from the USA is uniformed fud, and mostly untrue!
This "news" is going to be getting enough air time on TV and coverage on every paper in the world over the next few days!
Can we please have SLASHDOT declared a 'war free zone', so that the 'Nerds' of this world have somewhere to go to escape it all for a bit when we feel like a break.
I was quite tickled when I stumbled on the iTrip.
It turns your iPod into an FM transmitter, so that you can listen to your mp3's on your home hi-fi, or on the car radio!
Don't know why this hasn't been thought of before. It's a really cool idea.
Correct. But it should still happen anyway. The wall that eventually stops spam will not come from one big fix-all solution, it will be made of many smaller bricks. And legislation will be one important piece of that. Reduce the area where these people can operate from, and you have one less place to look to track them down or block them out. Legislation IS important, and can't happen soon enough for me.
They are an organisation funded by OFTEL (Office of Telecommunications) a government body. So presumably, they have sufficient dedicated staff to deal with the complaints. More details are on their "What is TPS" page.
I just signed up to the UK version, www.tpsonline.org.uk. It takes a month to work its way into the system, then I'm promised a big reduction in unsolicited phone calls, currently running at around 2-3 a day. As I have to work from home some weeks, so this will be a great relief. I'm glad you guys have it too.
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No, that's Power Management - spinning down disks, slowing the cpu, blanking the screen - and other things used to extend battery life in notebooks.
My T68m died last week and I just replaced it with a new T68i. Bad timing on my part
Not true. The OS needs to be capable of turning cpu's off and migrating processes/kernel threads elsewhere before you even think about popping the card out. On commercial unices this functionality comes with tools that allow you to create processor sets and shuffle cpu's around between them.
So no, it's not just a hardware thing!
I was at a customer site last week, and they were looking at options for a 64 node (128 cpu) cluster. They had a 2cpu Itanium system on loan for evaluation from HP. They liked it, but decided instead to go with Xeon's rather than Itanium. The reason .. Itanium systems are just too expensive at the moment. Bang for Buck, Xeon's are just too attractive by comparison.
The Itanium chip will eventually succeed, but not until the price drops and the performance steps up another gear.
Macka
> Businesses however, can never get away with using whitelists,
They could if they had specific public email addresses that were open to anyone, with the rest private and 'whitelist' blocked. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
I get about 10 spams a week now from Argentina. Normal spam is bad enough, but I can't even understand what it is they are supposed to be selling. How silly is that. For the life of me, I can't work out where they could have got my address from. I've never had anything at all to do with Argentina.
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