Yep. My ISP is Speakeasy in San Jose, CA. You would think they'd support IPv6 in the middle on Silicon Valley, but you'd be wrong. I've got a NetScreen capable of IPv6, but no way to use it without a tunnel. Are you listening Speakeasy?

Too bad you posted anonymously (though I understand why you did), as some may miss this post. Until we get everyone on the same page as to who should be prosecuted, it's just going to be too easy to hide.

The parent sums PCI up very nicely. My company is looking at the feasibility of implementing PCI vs outsourcing credit cards. Since we would be a Tier 4 vendor, we would be able to do a self assessment. Talking with other companies in Tier 4 uncovered a wide range of compliance from almost nothing to almost complete compliance. If the web site you're giving your credit card to is not a Tier 1 vendor, be very very afraid.

I'm not a Sarah Palin fan, but I hope this gets modded up as informative. It's amazing how many famous people are misquoted (no, Al Gore never claimed he invented the Internet).

Sorry, until you eliminate the 75% vote necessary to pass a budget, you'll get a mess that pleases no one, and is late to boot. Now if we can get 76% of one party voted in, we might get something to happen. And yes, I'm a native Californian but not terribly proud of it at the moment.

Yet more anecdotal evidence: we had a proprietary database system running on a old Solaris 2.6 system circa 1998. I was able to move the binaries to a Solaris 10 system and they ran without any modifications at all. Try taking a binary that ran on a Linux system from that era and run it on a modern variant. You'd have to play games with libc to even think about getting it to run.

So we only have a few data points here; perhaps if a few other post their experience you might be open to looking at another point of view?

True enough, the Solaris userland is not as robust as Linux out of the box. You can upgrade to a more robust userland through sites like Blastwave, that carry pre-compiled GNU-like programs.

OTOH, Solaris is much better at backward compatibility than Linux. I have a very old proprietary database that was once running on Solaris 2.6, running on Solaris 10. I didn't have to wedge in some ancient libc to get this to happen, it just worked. So like many things in life, and especially with computers, you trade have trade offs: stability or newer features. One size does not fit all.

The Fedora team has backported the KMS and R600/700 improvements to FC12, which I've been running for a few weeks now. While it's better than nothing, 3d performance still has a way to go. The performance of my old Heretic II game is still unacceptably slow.

The ATI drivers usually took the sacrifice of a goat to get them to work, but their performance was far superior. Too bad ATI won't support recent releases of Fedora.

I'm surprised that its taken this long for someone to mention 911. Your 911 cell call will get routed to God knows where, while your land lane gets routed to a local agency. When you call on your land line, your name and address appears on the operators screen, which might be really useful if someone who does not know your address is placing the call.

I ran across a MJ special last night while channel surfing on, I think, NBC. At any rate, they had a bit on about his molestation trial in 2005. Although he was acquitted, two of the jurors who had originally defended the verdict came back and said they thought he was guilty. If nothing else, there's a lot of 'smoke' around MJ.

Yep, he had a very different life from most people. It would be hard to be a 'normal' person growing up in his shoes. On the other hand he did have the power to try to change his behaviour, and from my limited view on his life he didn't seem to try to do that. It seemed he tried to play up his odd behaviour. I suppose that keeps him in the lime light, and there's no such thing as bad publicity in the entertainment industry.

There's a lot to be said for backward compatibility. I recently migrated a very old database off of a Solaris 2.6 system and moved it to Solaris 10. I didn't have to search for back leveled software, the application just worked. Granted, this isn't something I need to do every day, but it's an invaluable feature to have when you're dealing with trying to support enterprise applications that just refuse to die.

Mod parent up, as the above are Drepper's words with a bit more context. Nothing like stirring up the pot a bit with sensational headlines.

I completely agree; I can think of very few reasons to call someone a 'moron', especially in a public forum. I'll assume that the problem code passed some kind of peer review? If so, we have plenty of folks to 'blame'.