We happily use CentOS and do our own support. Several years ago we looked into buying RedHat Enterprise Linux and their included support. I nexed the idea when I was told that Red Hat supported only the software installed from RPMs from their own repositories. In otherwords, a stock Red Hat environment.

Since we needed customization of our hosting stack, that wouldn't work for us. So we continue using CentOS.

I suppose there are a lot of stock Red Hat installations out there.

It likely doesn't end. If it did, then other contracts would end too, such as the one that gives Michael Jackson's estate the right to the music he's bought over the years.

I'm not an attorney, but I recently did some future-proofing for my business, and I discovered that (at least in the US) while a proprietorship effectively ceases to exist upon a proprietor's death, his estate continues to be responsible for his contracts.

But really, the important issue to his legacy and his thoughts and beliefs isn't whether or not Yahoo did right or wrong, but rather whether or not there are copies. If there are, I'm sure someone could be found to to publish the information.

Years ago, in Garland Texas, my then fourteen-year-old, came back from school with a note asking me to choose between paddling and detention (he had been caught smokijng). I figured that paddling might make him think twice more than would detention, so I gave permission for the corporal punishment.

He came back bruised enough (with broken skin) to warrant a visit to our MD, who educated me as to why corporal punishment might not be as good a punishment choice as I had thought.

My boy and I both survived.

My opinion is that it's the quantity of such expensive movies causing the problem. How many movies, at $12 to $15 per ticket each, do you really expect my family to be able to afford in one month?

It seems there's no shortage of money to make them, and we all love good escape movies (big explosions and the quality of acting you get from big-buck stars), but therek's a limit to how many movies we can afford to see before they inevitably come out on PPV, NetFlix, Amazon, etc.

In my case, as a child of the fifities, I decided my best option for last weekend's unusual summer rain (here in So. Calif.) was Man of Steel (a sort of prequel, if you will, to the 50s television series which introduced us to the Superman genre) but by then it was totally unavailable in 3D or Imax, those venues being taken by Pacific Rim, totally not on my list.

Purchasing offsets does not change the equation. The same amount of power is still being generated by the same sources.

The last time i paid employees (admittedly years ago) it was illegal in California to pay by any means except cash unless you offered your employees a way to to get cash at no cost, on company time.

We were in the garment manufacturing business (yeah, I know), and we paid a check cashing truck to come and park by our back dock area and cash checks for our employees.

To whomever moderated this as Troll:

Whoosh.

Web hosts and websites can't switch to IPv6 until all possible site visitors are on it, because simply you can't address an IPv6 website from an IPv4 address.

So neither hosts nor sites will switch until all the users are on IPv6.

Which won't happen because until all the sites/hosts ae on IPv6 there's no reason to spend the money.

I'm not commenting on whether or not Microsoft should have any rights to the domain name, but the obvious points to consider are:

The current owner has been sitting on it for almost a year and a half, and to a reasonable person that may look like he's squatting on it.

If Microsoft didn't have any name registration for any form of XBox One when the current registrant registered it (and they likely didn't, becuse you can't have a trademark in the US before you're actually selling something), then they don't have a dispute based on their ownership of the trademark.

This is Slashdot... if you need to explain it, don't bother.

If you want to learn Linux, take an old machine and install Slackware. That's how I did it in the mid 90s. It took me about a month. If you want to learn how to use linux, I'd say try Mint KDE. It's flexible, user adjustable (enough to drive you crazy), but can be used from the first install, before you learn how t do much with it.

Since when has the NYT offered comic strips?

Boy did that bring back memories. In the mid 60s, when I was a university student, I sold encyclopedias. I didn't do too well, though I never jumped out of any windows. I knew two fellow students who did very well at it, actually, and never bothered with graduating.

Poor guy. I pity you.