Hello all,
It is nice to see some progress somewhere. I'm sure a deal will be struck
and their court problems will go away. After all, what good is all of that
cash they have been collecting if they can't use it to pay off government
officials, increase market saturation, and squeeze every one out? I find
myself having to defend my reputation as a sane person after making comments
like that. When you think of the possibilities when it comes to covert
operations, we are at an extreme disadvantage as it is. I only see the
potential to get worse as Microsoft continues to realize it's vision. Let's
face it, after 10 more years the TV will be for the lame. After 20 years
they won't remember what a TV was. Interactivity is where it is and
Microsoft will do everything it can to be the one everyone looks to in order
to make everything "easy". Meanwhile, encryption between the processor and
the application calls compounded by encrypted communication between
everyone's machine and M$ will remove our ability to know who is watching.
I see this as probably the biggest critical domestic problem we face for the
future. The only way I can see it stopped is if Linux can be sharpened for
desktop use by the "masses". I really like the Suse distro. I
predominantly used RH until they moved on to retail only. (Well there is
fedora, I haven't installed it yet, but from the description is sounds like
RH doesn't want to share "the good stuff", they sell that, but they can
provide a base system for the community to work on developing so that they
can reap the benefits and add it to their $1,500 version) I am now watching
intently on what is going on with Suse. If it can continue as it had, I
think it has the best shot at becoming an M$ replacement. The install was a
pain having to install from the net (no iso for a full install). I'm going
to pick up a retail box and see how simple/difficult it installs.
I hope I haven't gone overboard, having assumed the nature of discussions on
the list.
Larry
PS Anyone have any ideas on how to reduce the size of httpd children? The
problem I posted about the other day continues. Every afternoon the httpd
servers are of varying sizes. I changed my minservers (I think that was the
directive) to 5 instead of 10 which I think will help overall, but I don't
understand why each of those processes are so large. They are between 4 and
6 percent of the total memory each and I only had one user on the web site
at the time I looked this afternoon. Is there some way to put these
children on diets?
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From: flalug@nks.net [mailto:flalug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Smitty
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:19 PM
To: Florida Linux User's Group
Subject: [flalug] Japanese government raids Tokyo microsoft office
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