Posts by Jad

Submit post: Illumos sporks OpenSolaris

"I know that RedHat makes a profit and has for years, whereas Sun didn't make a profit from Slowaris on x64 or OpenSlowaris EVER."

I don't know where you got your figures from but:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/10/sun_software_biz/

"... Sun said that based on results in the first and second quarters of fiscal 2009 (from July through December 2008), its software business was humming along at a $600m annual run rate and growing at a 21 per cent rate ... "

and "... But that is not really the Sun software story. Sun had $1.91bn in services revenues - which includes hardware and software support not included in the above numbers - in those six months ..."

The article talks about how they're not making money like they used to, but It's still well ahead of RedHat http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/fourthquarter.html for instance.

I know you're a troll, I know that facts don't stop you, I know you hate Solaris for existing, and that somehow it's existence causes you to foam at the mouth, but give it a rest already

Moving the buttons

As theregister pointed out in: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/30/ubuntu_10_04_review/ you can modify this in the gconf-editor ... and takes about 30 seconds ...

a nice walkthrough is at this site:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/

How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229

"A false sense of security is worse than a lack of security. And unsubstantiated claims of superiority don't help in a reasonable discussion either"

And yes I'm a Linux user.

RE: Meh!

I know I' m a Unix buff and general "windows hater", which gives me a head start with this sort of thing, but as long as you add medibuntu http://lmgtfy.com/?q=medibuntu you're most of the way there.

I used to install Linux in the real bad old days with floppy disks and you're right there were far to many magic chickens needing to be chucked at at, crossing fingers and throwing salt over your shoulder often helped too.

However; the number of magic chickens required for an Ubuntu install is almost down to 0 ... and although I avoided it for being too "easy" or "glossy", it does install really well and there haven't been any SuSE or Redhat installs (let alone slackware) in our office for almost 3 years.

It's worth a go, just give it a chance :)

RE: Hold on

American jurors can, and often do ... some juries make a lot of money for big trials from film right.

It's only in England that anonymity is granted and almost forced upon jurors with everything said inside the jury room kept as a state secret :)

RE: ODF not complete

"The Open Source movement largely consists of hobbyists ..."

Umm ... thats actually not true any more.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/linux_developers_pay/

You also have to remember that a large number of the people who work/worked on OpenOffice were paid to do it, and a large number of the organisations on the ODF consortium are highly paid individuals who do it for a job ...

Just my 2cents.

RE: BSD license allows for this, it's perfectly legal

the BSD license does allow for code to be reproduced, however there are incompatibilities between the BSD and GPL licenses that mean you cannot take BSD code and re-license it GPL or vice versa.

A good number of projects run dual licensing, but that requires the permission of the original authors.

If you search the web you will find a fair number of projects that have arguments over this sort of thing, in both directions, just have a look for the bcm43xx driver project for OpenBSD (bcw driver) : http://lwn.net/Articles/229742/ and forum entries related to this discussion ... they get quite heated.

RE: I'm afraid to say

I have to say that I have to agree.

I always run an adblocker, because the vast majority of sites I visit can cause a huge overhead on resources for my machine.

I have even installed it for all people on my network so that new starters get it by default, because most adverts are flash based and I'm fed up of the flash based memory holes.

I now treat ads as opt-in and on a reasonable number of sites i visit regularly I unblock the adverts that are not annoying, and some ad agencies like http://www.projectwonderful.com/ know not to do flashy adverts or popups so that one has been unblocked. However to paraphrase Gold Soundz, the Registers adverts suck ballz and although i keep unblocking them, i just have to block them again because they annoy me _too_ much.