The new GPL is, well, "wordy", bit not all that clear. And to be quite frank, I understand that I don't understand it.
The new GPL have the following:
This License gives unlimited permission to privately modify and run the Program, provided you do not bring suit for patent infringement against anyone for making, using or distributing their own works based on the Program.
So patent law mixed with how I use the software, and privately at that. Can I use GPLv3 software in a company (it's not private, usually)? Can I modify it, but not distribute it outside the company? If I don't do this privately, but as a "corporate" person, then it's not private, so I can do what I want (of course not). This is just in the beginning of the new license, and it goes on and on and on and on etc.
Really, why not make a license that I don't need to be a lawyer to understand?
Your assumptions are too narrow. Again, RAID is not backup. What do you do if the RAID controller card goes bad? Or a defect PSU toasts the hardisks? Or you delete the wrong file (RAID won't help you here...)
Most home users are better served with having an extra harddisk that they backup to (may recover accidentally deleted files) than RAID. There are many programs to do that automatically. Of course, burn (high quality) DVDs regularly of the most important data.
It happened again- a machine on my home network died. Taking with it tons of data. It's mostly backed up. No huge loss. But I finally think it's time to get some sort of network raid disk. A unified place to safely store data accessible to the numerous machines on my home lan.
RAID could help with downtime, but is not a substitute for backup, really. Tape backup is still very expensive (high inital cost), and DVD's are limited in both quality and storage capacity. Well, I use both, but then my storage needs are slight since I burn my most important data to a DVD-RAM disc every night.
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) gives an opportunity to use multiple drives to give better performance, capacity and/or redundancy than one can get out of a single drive alone. While a full discussion of the benefits and risks of RAID are outside the scope of this article, there are a couple points that are important to make here:
* RAID has nothing to do with backup. * By itself, RAID will not eliminate down-time.
If this is new information to you, this is not a good starting point for your exploration of RAID.
Yet, this story has nothing to do with the US or politics really. What the EU does shouldn't be in this section.
In this you are very wrong. This is all about politics: get control of vital resources. EU views USA with Bush II in power with deep scepticism, and tries to wrestle as much control as they can since USA has become sort of unreliable. Quite simply, enemies of USA is scared more than ever and close allies are apprehensive. Those that thinks this is good are fools (not that I suggest that you thinks so).
i would like to see just the opposite, running OSx on standard x86 hardware...will this be possible with this new version of OSX??
Unlikely, because lack of drivers for various hardware. While there may be drivers for various thirdparty products, like SCSI cards made by the manufacturers, I don't think that will be the case for many chipsets used in motherboards. Remember that Apple is "closed hardware", so no hardware docs will be released either.
Oh my, big words. Just read the list of vulnerabilities in the updatelist on, say, Ubuntu, and you'll see alot of patches for kernel exploits. From last summer (I gather this
has not changed that much since june):
Linux kernel exploits
Re: Theo gave an interview to Forbes Mag. about Linux
From: Theo de Raadt (deraadtcvs.openbsd.org) Date: Fri Jun 17 2005 - 11:13:37 CDT
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:48:31PM +0200, J. Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: > > Theo gave an interview to Forbes Magazine, in which he stated: "It's > > terrible," De Raadt says. "Everyone is using it, and they don't > > realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it > > and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage > > and we should fix it.'" > > Heh. Theo never did pull his punches. I suppose there's now a war going > on in/. ?:)
If the Linux people actually cared about Quality, as we do, they would not have had as many localhost kernel security holes in the last year.
I agree. I've yet to remember a critical fedora patch for a not yet released Redhat FC distribution.
This says more about Redhat FC than Microsoft, in this case. Just about weekly there is discovered a new local root vulnerability in the Linux kernel, and having dozens of those in the last year or so does not speak well of Linux security.
Though, maybe we should take your tack and say all crimes are punishable by death! After all, it doesn't matter how bad the offense was, the punishment should be very high no matter what. So, lets give the highest punishment possible for every crime!
Unless, of course, it's "white collar crime", since it's not a crime at all. Just witness the cruel and unusual punishment that former Enron executives are recieving [/sarcasm]
It goes like this: if you, as a home user, are hacked, your time used for investigation/recovery are worthless because you can't bill anyone. A
company does not have that restriction. Welcome to the US style of democracy favoring those with money.
A time service is a sensitive, but important, service to use. Having many reliable time servers to choose among will lessen the security risk of hacked servers, or servers just out of sync for some reason. A public timer server will see alot of traffic, so not everyone has the bandwidth nor the hardware.
The OpenBSD
Network Time Protocol daemon selects randomly among various time servers, and is very easy to setup. However, if there are few time servers available, there is not much randomness to it...
IMHO your "debunking steve gibson" site is nothing but a smokescreen to divert the attention from Microsoft's vulnerabilities and backdoors.
In my not so humble opinion, you don't know what you are talking about. Go read some of the links in that site, and you'll see that Steve Gibson is one of the many "security experts" that have no clue but gives dangerous and very wrong "solutions".
when someone just plays a CD the user bought, and the user gets just about nothing in compensation? More importantly, this is not a deterrent for other/same company to pull the same stunt again.
I disagree. Instead of buying a completely new system, I just give the existing one a series of upgrades. Not only is it cheaper, but you can sell those "worthless components" for a decent amount of money. It's surprising how many people buy old components.
Heh, I just bought a used Sun Netra t1 105 with 512MB RAM, 440 MHz UltraSparc IIi and 18GB SCSI disk for about 110 Euro. This machine has no plug for a keyboard, much less AGP;-) Management is done by serial console, and you have full access to BIOS as well as powerdown/powerup (yes, it's just enough power running to powerup the machine). Makes for nice headless home server, albeit a bit noisy due to cooling, but uses less than 90W in total.
"Any respectable/. user should have most of this suite installed already (excluding a few things), but it will be nice to make it all widely available to the general public."
Any respectable Slashdotter will not just download random programs from Internet and install it on his pirated Windows machine overclocked to instability, or?
It favors those with deep pockets to bully and force their will upon others since just the hint of legal action is enough to deter most in USA.
Yes, those with "deep pockets" like... the public school system of Lake Township, Ohio.
All they need is deeper pockets than you. I'm sure that the public school system of Lake Township, Ohio, could afford to loose 10 000$. Can you? Dare you risk it?
Even so, it seems crazy to me to waste taxpayer dollars chasing down this citizen and even more dollars prosecuting him. While the law is supposed to be around to protect property, I don't see how this is a felony. He didn't do the refreshing, did he? He used his right to speak freely.
What's crazy is the legal system allowing this. It favors those with deep pockets to bully and force their will upon others since just the hint of legal action is enough to deter most in USA. RIAA actions are public examples of this type of behavior, along with US style patent practices/laws.
How about some SATA benchmarks? PATA is good, but I suspect things will be much improved with SATA and NCQ. Does anyone have any links?
Most won't notice any speed difference when moving from PATA to SATA. On PATA you typically have two harddisk one the same controller, but that hurts performance when using both disks at the same time. With SATA this is not a problem, assuming you have enough SATA connections available. NCQ may reduce desktop performance, and is most usefull for server like environments. For more info, search
Storage Review
Slashdot Mirror
The new GPL have the following:
So patent law mixed with how I use the software, and privately at that. Can I use GPLv3 software in a company (it's not private, usually)? Can I modify it, but not distribute it outside the company? If I don't do this privately, but as a "corporate" person, then it's not private, so I can do what I want (of course not). This is just in the beginning of the new license, and it goes on and on and on and on etc.
Really, why not make a license that I don't need to be a lawyer to understand?
Indeed, but what you suggest is a backup solution, not RAID. On the other hand, external backup using harddisks is a bit fragile ;-)
Most home users are better served with having an extra harddisk that they backup to (may recover accidentally deleted files) than RAID. There are many programs to do that automatically. Of course, burn (high quality) DVDs regularly of the most important data.
NFS only for "mac/linux"? What about Solaris, *BSD and Microsoft Windows?
NFS faster? That depends very much on your setup.
NFS is better? In what way? NFSv3 is a security hole, whilst NFSv4 is best implementented on Solaris.
Quite simply, you know even less than me.
RAID could help with downtime, but is not a substitute for backup, really. Tape backup is still very expensive (high inital cost), and DVD's are limited in both quality and storage capacity. Well, I use both, but then my storage needs are slight since I burn my most important data to a DVD-RAM disc every night.
What OpenBSD thinks about RAID:
This aptly describes US defence and areospace industry.
In this you are very wrong. This is all about politics: get control of vital resources. EU views USA with Bush II in power with deep scepticism, and tries to wrestle as much control as they can since USA has become sort of unreliable. Quite simply, enemies of USA is scared more than ever and close allies are apprehensive. Those that thinks this is good are fools (not that I suggest that you thinks so).
Unlikely, because lack of drivers for various hardware. While there may be drivers for various thirdparty products, like SCSI cards made by the manufacturers, I don't think that will be the case for many chipsets used in motherboards. Remember that Apple is "closed hardware", so no hardware docs will be released either.
Oh my, big words. Just read the list of vulnerabilities in the updatelist on, say, Ubuntu, and you'll see alot of patches for kernel exploits. From last summer (I gather this has not changed that much since june): Linux kernel exploits
This says more about Redhat FC than Microsoft, in this case. Just about weekly there is discovered a new local root vulnerability in the Linux kernel, and having dozens of those in the last year or so does not speak well of Linux security.
Unless, of course, it's "white collar crime", since it's not a crime at all. Just witness the cruel and unusual punishment that former Enron executives are recieving [/sarcasm]
It goes like this: if you, as a home user, are hacked, your time used for investigation/recovery are worthless because you can't bill anyone. A company does not have that restriction. Welcome to the US style of democracy favoring those with money.
A time service is a sensitive, but important, service to use. Having many reliable time servers to choose among will lessen the security risk of hacked servers, or servers just out of sync for some reason. A public timer server will see alot of traffic, so not everyone has the bandwidth nor the hardware.
The OpenBSD Network Time Protocol daemon selects randomly among various time servers, and is very easy to setup. However, if there are few time servers available, there is not much randomness to it...
Ironically, both Symantec and the maker of Spybot-Search & Destroy (Safer Networks) are members
"Unix is the only way"? Eh, Microsoft is very successfull with it's own non-Unix operating system.
In my not so humble opinion, you don't know what you are talking about. Go read some of the links in that site, and you'll see that Steve Gibson is one of the many "security experts" that have no clue but gives dangerous and very wrong "solutions".
You forgot to add the /sarcasm tag ;-)
Yeah, but any slashdotter regular will fail the Turing test in the first place.
Open a console and execute "rm -fr ~/". Go have a look in your trash-can and search for files you won't find.
when someone just plays a CD the user bought, and the user gets just about nothing in compensation? More importantly, this is not a deterrent for other/same company to pull the same stunt again.
Heh, I just bought a used Sun Netra t1 105 with 512MB RAM, 440 MHz UltraSparc IIi and 18GB SCSI disk for about 110 Euro. This machine has no plug for a keyboard, much less AGP ;-) Management is done by serial console, and you have full access to BIOS as well as powerdown/powerup (yes, it's just enough power running to powerup the machine). Makes for nice headless home server, albeit a bit noisy due to cooling, but uses less than 90W in total.
Any respectable Slashdotter will not just download random programs from Internet and install it on his pirated Windows machine overclocked to instability, or?
All they need is deeper pockets than you. I'm sure that the public school system of Lake Township, Ohio, could afford to loose 10 000$. Can you? Dare you risk it?
What's crazy is the legal system allowing this. It favors those with deep pockets to bully and force their will upon others since just the hint of legal action is enough to deter most in USA. RIAA actions are public examples of this type of behavior, along with US style patent practices/laws.
Most won't notice any speed difference when moving from PATA to SATA. On PATA you typically have two harddisk one the same controller, but that hurts performance when using both disks at the same time. With SATA this is not a problem, assuming you have enough SATA connections available. NCQ may reduce desktop performance, and is most usefull for server like environments. For more info, search Storage Review