That's option B, option A is called "Open Source".

I hope.

Gun, bomb, assassinate, rifle, olympics, jihad if not ;^)

Seonded, and it still is the case in 2011. I'd done the RHCT on RHEL 5 under my own steam and my company paid for me and a handful of others to do the RHCSA/RHCE on RHCE 6. I would have done the same course as you and sat both exams on the Friday, RHCSA in the morning and RHCE in the afternoon. I passed both and at least 4 of my collegues did as well (although one used to work for Redhat as a trainer so it was a bit of a given), however we have several perfectly/very good sysadmins who failed.
It's not a gimme and requires actual hands-on expiriece, the course is crammed with around an average of 40-60 pages of material a day.

No-one mention the Hammersmith flyover okay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammersmith_Flyover

Although you did miss "regular supersonic passenager aircraft flights" off that list, it was so scienece fiction we stopped using it because it was making everyone else look bad. Oh and it blew up of course.

Will Smith had his day off interrupted?
God bless Will, God bless America!

I've heard rumour that Perl and PHP we going to merge back together now that they've hit version number parity again and that's why there's a massive delay with PHP 6 as well?

I'd argue that's a technicality but live by the sword, die by the sword, I can't argue when Wikipedia uses Mastercard and Visa as the primary example of duopoly eh? :^)
I'd still prefer to use the word monopoly in this case on the basis that the term carries greater negative connotations in the context and society in general and also on the Duck principle i.e. if it looks and quacks like one...

> Any company, including payment processors, have the right to not do business with companies that violate the law. They aren't making a moral decision but a legal one.

Except when they are participant in a monopoly or near monopoly (especially where collusion may be suspected), you may find the following links of interest...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_service_obligation

Given the current tendency for homogenization within the financial and payment processing industry the principal of USO should be extended into those areas. As another poster has mentioned the basic principals of Common Carrier Status could also be applied to the financial industry now that it has become an essential pillar of modern civilisations, people should consider whether it remains in their interests to allow the basic provision of these facilities to remain in the hands of private enterprise or whether the state should provide at least the very basic facilities for all it's citizens (see proposals for the Royal Mail/British Post Office). I am not however suggesting anything near or like the wholesale or even part nationalisation of financial industries, I think we have plenty of examples where that ends up.

Excluding government enforced break ups as a separate action for a moment the results of USO and common carrier status on the telecommunications industry has been largely positive in many examples.

Good news! There are indeed perfectly usable, green, old lady-less (one of her minions got a showing) one pound notes in circulation upon our isles...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernsey_pound

http://www.guernsey.net/~sgibbs/numismatics/1994notes.html

...you will of course be looked at like you've grown an extra fricking head if you present one on the mainland but.

Unless, and this is postulating a fair bit, that organisation wished to ensure the consistency of response between two independently run, organisationally compartmentalized systems by some other separate communications back channel? But yeah it does make you wonder what's going on there doesn't it?

If a government decided that the Internet had become "critical national infrastructure" and that a reliable, independently verifiable DNS system was a crucial component of that system then they'd not only have at minimum N+1 separate DNS servers but would also consider separating the management and operation hierarchy of those servers.

If I were designing such a system then (using British institutions)...

1) I'd have the Foreign Office running one, Nominet another, a coalition of (ISP/hosting) businesses another and then charge CESG with establishing an independent, isolated network for verifying responses and ensuring it's integrity. Obviously you'd DNSSEC the whole thing, have some hosted in your embassies in other countries perhaps, maybe do NTP and/or some PKI system at the same time. When I say "one" I mean an any-cast system backed by distributed servers in reality, hence you'd be protected by a geographically diverse, triply redundant set of N+1 systems run by separate organisations ensuring against infiltration/subversion or some sort of inherent system flaw taking them all out at the same time.
2) ????
3) PROFIT!!!

How hard can it be?

Anyone checked the ratio of those two black boxes to ensure neither is in the proportions of 1:4:9?
Maybe the wrist worn one is a 16 dimensional monolith whose projection into our space turns out to be in the form of a Möbius strip.
If they aren't monoliths then Slashdot has really hit silly season.

No wait! It fits perfectly with Microsoft's business model, I believe agreeing to a standard falls into the "Embrace" stage! Then in about 18 months they can extend it with a proprietary DRM system that fscks every other OS.

1. Embrace boot loader standard.
2. Extend boot loader standard with DRM.
3. Extinguish alternative OSes.
4. PROFIT!!!

Only those of us 31337 enough not to have Windows installed in the first place (or who can reinstall their boot loaders) will remain on Slashdot to bitch about M$ whilst Steve Job's umper lumpers will come up with a much sexier way to load their booters. Makes sense to me anyway.

Back to plot for a moment... sounds like someone wasn't drinking the kool-aid when they designed GRUB 2 frankly. It might be epic fail for applications to go fiddling in un-partitioned areas but it's still regular fail for the boot loader to be off doing the same without it being a well understood convention like the boot sector.

What happens when you want to back it up? Does dumping the MBR or taking a snapshot of the partitions capture this extra info or am I missing something?

Don't worry, no one's perfect. We can't all be system administrators.

I've heard this argument before, that it's not theft/stealing because you aren't depriving the victim of any physical asset, this is however disingenuous at best. You may not be depriving them of the talk's content or IP but you are depriving them of the bandwidth needed to deliver it.

I'd agree that in the real world the organizers would be buying such bandwidth in big chunks and that would imply that the odd hacker streaming it for free wouldn't push them over the edge of throughput capacity but it's quite possible that they're paying by amount used, amount used above a certain burst limit or that they don't factor that increased demand into next years budget and hence spend more on it the following year.

Basically, you are depriving someone of real a physical asset, bandwidth or otherwise as someone else pointed out the money spent on that bandwidth so can we drop this "It's not stealing because I'm not depriving anyone" crutch?

Finally, just because I've punched a logical hole in this particular point of contention you should not conclude that I don't, in some more general way agree with you on a wider standpoint.

I administer an online bingo site and just had a panicky moment whilst reading that headline. "Security, Bingo? Erk!"