>Man. If FOSS is so great, how come *we* don't have all of that money
>to do all of those things?
Very simple. Proprietary software is written for investors by
non-users. FOSS, for the most part, is written by the customers for
the customers.
FOSS is written by the people that have "the itch t
P.S.:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Michael Bilow
wrote:
> At this point, an unreadable block encountered on a block device is
> handled at a very high level, usually the file system, well above
> where things like AWRE on the hardware can occur.
Heck, it's not even handled by the filesyste
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
> They found little difference between enterprise and consumer grade lifetimes.
That doesn't surprise me. They're often the exact same hard disk
assembly, just with different firmware, or maybe a different PCB.
Despire marketing claims to the
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Michael Bilow
wrote:
>> Of course, mdstat still calls the array "clean" even after
>> mismatches are detected, which isn't what I'd usually call "clean"...
>
> Ther term "clean" in this context just means that all of the RAID
> components (physical drives) are sti
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Susan Cragin wrote:
> ... the National Security Agency, uses Linux and only Linux ...
That's flat-out wrong. Heck, their *web site* runs IIS 6.0. With
respect, please check your facts before petitioning the NH government.
If you charge in there like a zealot,
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
> The US Department of Defense appears to agree with the author [accepting Open
> Source]
Keep in mind that the US DoD is a huge organization -- one of the
biggest in human history. Some factions love FOSS and hate Windows;
other fac
"Jon 'maddog' Hall" writes:
>
> Yes, we know that it is crap and we know that FOSS is commercial
> software, but the enemies of FOSS (and this includes free information)
> have lots of money, hire lots of lobbyists, who takes lots of people to
> dinner and whisper things in their ear.
Man. If FOS
Yes, we know that it is crap and we know that FOSS is commercial
software, but the enemies of FOSS (and this includes free information)
have lots of money, hire lots of lobbyists, who takes lots of people to
dinner and whisper things in their ear.
It all sounds on the up-and-up. The "Business Sof
We need to check to see if the People's Republik of Cambridge is on the
list.
On 02/24/2010 04:12 PM, Susan Cragin wrote:
> http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3911/125/
> Apparently, Canada is an enemy, too.
> When they put Massachusetts on the list, I'm hiding.
>
>
> -Original Message-
>Piffle.
>
>From that article:
>
>"I know open source has a tendency to be linked to socialist
>ideals, but I also think it's an example of the free market in
>action."
>
>The US Department of Defense appears to agree with the author, cf.:
>
>http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2009/10/27/
Seth Cohn writes:
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Susan Cragin
> wrote:
> > I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor.
> >
> > Title: All NH taxpayer-supported computers and systems should run
> > open-source software.
> >
> > I need examples of municipalities, states, and so on
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3911/125/
Apparently, Canada is an enemy, too.
When they put Massachusetts on the list, I'm hiding.
-Original Message-
>From: Seth Cohn
>Of interest...
>"When using open source makes you an enemy of the state"
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technolog
Of interest...
"When using open source makes you an enemy of the state"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Susan Cragin wrote:
> I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor.
>
> Title: All NH taxpaye
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> > Huh -- I actually *have* had SMART tell me things were awry, several
> > times.
>
> Well, that's good to know. :)
>
> Just curious, did you get a chance to see if any of them ac
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