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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 01:53 PM EDT |
A better alternative to CentOS
We firmly believe that
Oracle Linux is the best Linux distribution
on the market today. It's reliable,
it's affordable, it's 100%
compatible with your existing applications, and it
gives you access to
some of the most cutting-edge innovations in Linux like
Ksplice and
dtrace.
But if you're here, you're a CentOS user. Which
means that you
don't pay for a distribution at all, for at least some of
your
systems. So even if we made the best paid distribution in the world
(and we
think we do), we can't actually get it to you... or
can
we?
Oracle[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Do you trust Oracle? Enough to use Oracle Linux ? - Authored by: greed on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:02 PM EDT
- Do you trust Oracle? Enough to use Oracle Linux ? - Authored by: Tyro on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:11 PM EDT
- Oracle Linux ? Yes - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:58 PM EDT
- You mean the "Unbreakable Linux"? - Authored by: hAckz0r on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 04:04 PM EDT
- Do you trust Oracle? Enough to use Oracle Linux ? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 04:23 PM EDT
- No. Why? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 06:07 PM EDT
- Amen - Authored by: Wol on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 09:31 AM EDT
- Point of order... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 01:11 PM EDT
- No - Authored by: Kilz on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 06:53 PM EDT
- Why Oracle? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 07:00 AM EDT
- Do you trust Oracle? Enough to use Oracle Linux ? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 01:13 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 02:16 PM EDT |
Not only does this briefing show that the Department of Justice continues to
strongly protect the FBI's NSL authority, it highlights a startlingly aggressive
new tactic used by the Department of Justice: suing NSL recipients who challenge
the FBI's authority, arguing that court challenges to such authority themselves
amount to breaking the law.
...
The Department of Justice promptly filed a civil complaint against the
recipient, alleging that by "stat[ing] its objection to compliance with the
provisions of" the NSL by "exercis[ing] its rights under" the NSL
statute to challenge the NSL's legality, the recipient was "interfer[ing]
with the United States' vindication of its sovereign interests in law
enforcement, counterintelligence, and protecting national security."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/07/eff-challenges-national-security-letter-st
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:04 PM EDT |
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-07-17/pdf/2012-16710.pdf
The above bit of governmental gobbledegook describes new rules that, if you
follow them, will let you (each individual) submit up to 3 documents to a patent
examiner along with an explanation as to why the documents make claims in a
particular patent application old or obvious. You can submit additional
documents, but then you have to pay a fee of $180 for every 10 or fraction
thereof.
This only works for applications filed on or after September 16, 2012...
Have fun.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:08 PM EDT |
Article.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:16 PM EDT |
They don't have a clue.
They don't even know where to start.
Film at Eleven. Click here [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:52 PM EDT |
Link
ASRock's newest UEFI BIOS setup program can
update itself by downloading the latest BIOS ROM image from the web, if you can
point it to a working Internet connection. Basic network/IP configuration,
including PPPoE authentication can be made within the setup program. Once
configured, the utility, called Internet Flash, looks up the latest version of
the BIOS for your motherboard on the web, downloads it, and updates itself.
It won't take much work, and soon you will be able
to have
your own UEFI OS!
Hard disk not needed, all browser based and cloud
based.
Remember, UEFI is an OS, C library, network stack included.
Why, even
Microsoft may not like that idea.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 04:01 PM EDT |
Link
Wait a moment there. Will the advent of
Windows 8 really mean that Microsoft's secure boot lock-in will be on every PC?
Cathy Malmrose, CEO of the Linux PC vendor ZaReason doesn't think it
should.
Malmrose told me “With UEFI's Secure Boot around the corner, we are
hoping to raise awareness that Linux distributors don't need to sign with
Microsoft [or use their secure boot. Computers that are rooted with open
bootloader are available. That's what we ship.”
She knows, “UEFI's Secure
Boot is implemented at OEM (originial equipment manufacturer) level, all new
PCs purchased (with the intent of loading your favorite distro) will have Secure
Boot." This cripples them as far as Malmrose is concerned.
“Yes, you can
disable it. But 'disabling' something that's 'secure' makes you bad.” Besides as
Malmose told me, “the keystroke(s) needed to get Linux to run on machines
post-2012 will be simple at first, becoming increasingly complex at a
non-shocking rate. It's a monumental shift at OEM level.” Malmrose fears that
this will desktop Linux “too difficult to new users, [and this will cause] slow
death by suffocation” for Linux.
So what can Linux users do instead?
Malmrose thinks we can avoid a "Greek Tragedy “ by recognizing that Linux needs
hardware vendors, like ZaReason, “who can keep things open, [who keep our
collective foot in the door at the factories.” Malmrose insists that it isn't
about her particular company. “There is 0 profit.* If we ever did have profit,
we would donate to support the EFF, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy,
LinuxFests, GNOME Foundation, various conferences, the works. Hopefully someday
there will be but most months it's a stretch to make
payroll.”
Support non-locked-down
hardware/firmware!
Boycott OEMS that support Microsoft.
Send the message
with your money!
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 08:41 PM EDT |
You all will recall the sagacious words of Judge Posner
during the Apple vs
Motorola case. Seems he has had more to
say on the matter, and some uniformed blogger has
ventured to critique his ideas. She
doesn't seem to be aware
of the enormous damage caused by software patents in
particular, and worries that patent reform will put US
competitiveness at
risk.
There are many here on Groklaw whom are very articulate
on the
subject of software patents and the need for reform.
I thought it might be a
good idea for you all to drop in on
the site linked to educate those nice
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 04:29 AM EDT |
Click
I actually
quite like Judge Birss for this sort of 'off the wall' penalty [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 06:31 AM EDT |
Thought the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was
bad? A similar bill
introduced into the Philippines’ House
of Representatives would penalize people
who illegally
download with a minimum two-year jail sentence and fines of
50,000 to 150,000 Phillippine pesos.
($1,200-$3,600).
[...]
Irwin Tieng has successfully introduced
two related bills
that became law. One, the Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act
of 2009, is designed to help government agencies better
crack down on
[redacted]ography, though critics say that
comes at the expense of the
government having too much
ability to dictate the role of citizens’ Internet
service
providers.
The other, the Anti-Camcording Law of 2010, severely
penalizes anyone convicted of creating, selling, or
possessing unauthorized
hard copies of movies by sending
them to jail for up to six years. According to
official
press release, that law was created with support from
Filipino film
coalitions like the National Cinema
Association of the Philippines (NCAP) as
well as the Motion
Picture Association of American (MPAA).
Kevin
Collier
, Daily Dot[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 08:23 AM EDT |
Pi in the Sky
A
well-written blog post describing a highly cool (ahem) use for a small Debian
box.
-O4W[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 09:25 AM EDT |
Elop admits to uncertain consumer demand for its Lumia
products. See Nokia Q2 Results: Bad bad and
will be
even more bad [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 01:55 PM EDT |
Re: An article
in the Register:
"Mega spam-spewing Grum botnet finally KO'd -
Zombies
lingered until security bods shot 'em down"
Chasing bot-herders from
Holland to the Panama and on to
the Ukraine, and finally cornering them in
Russia, GRUM, WORLD'S THIRD-LARGEST
BOTNET, was finally KNOCKED
DOWN.
Grum was the world's third-biggest botnet and
responsible for 18 per cent of global junk mail around the
time of its
takedown, or 18 billion spam messages a day. The
zombie network has been around
for around five years and
most often associated with rogue pharmacy and fake
Rolex
spam. Estimates vary but the number of infected drones on
its network
may number 800,000 or more. The stream of crud
is rapidly drying up, according
to FireEye.
Of course, not one of the articles actually
bothers to
mentioned that these vast botnets are composed of Windows
machines,
that was my addition. We can take that for
granted, because if it wasn't
Windows machines, it would be
headline news. This is Microsoft's legacy to
us.
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Authored by: kryos on Saturday, July 21 2012 @ 09:56 AM EDT |
Markus Persson, notch of Minecraft fame, tweeted this morning that Mojang were
being sued for patent infringement. He posted a link to a PDF
of the complaint filed.
He also had the following things to say:
"Unfortunately
for them, they're suing us over a software patent. If needed, I will throw piles
of money at making sure they don't get a cent"
"Software patents are plain
evil. Innovation within software is basically free, and it's growing incredibly
rapid. Patents only slow it down." [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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