Copyright Law Can Meet the Needs of Software Developers

Around 2001, DataTreasury ran out of money and had to lay off most of its staff. For most startups, that would have been the end of the story. But DataTreasury had an ace in the hole: a portfolio of broad patents. One of them covered the concept of attaching a scanner (an “imaging subsystem for capturing the documents”) to a server (a “central data processing subsystem”) via a “communication network.”

It’s hard to see how anyone could build a digital check-clearing system without infringing this patent.

via Patently Absurd – Copyright Law Can Meet the Needs of Software Developers | Timothy B. Lee | Cato Institute: Commentary.

HowTos/KVM

For the impatient, here is our simple script. We’ll explain it afterwards. This is assuming that you’re on a 192.168.1.0/24 network with no DHCP server.

#!/bin/sh

PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin

sudo brctl addbr br0

sudo ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0

sudo brctl addif br0 eth0

sudo ifconfig br0 192.168.1.120 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

sudo route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 br0

sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.1 br0

sudo tunctl -b -u john

sudo ifconfig tap0 up

sudo brctl addif br0 tap0

export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0

sudo iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i br0 -j ACCEPT

qemu-kvm ~/win2k.img -m 512 -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no

via HowTos/KVM – CentOS Wiki.

Is VMware’s dominance of the virtualization market under threat?

But VMware has dominated the virtualization market for so many years that the massive shift found in the survey may take longer than expected, if it happens at all. The virtualization layer, primarily composed of VMware software, has so many hooks into security, backup, automation, disaster recovery and various management tools that swapping hypervisors is no simple matter, argues an analyst who read the results of the survey, but was not involved in conducting it.

via Is VMware’s dominance of the virtualization market under threat?.

And here’s the conclusion.

VMware shops are certainly kicking the tires on Hyper-V and deploying it at least in test and development scenarios, and Microsoft is trying to lay the groundwork for both small businesses and enterprises to switch from VMware to Hyper-V. If 38 percent of businesses do change primary hypervisors within the next year, the folks in Redmond are likely to be the major beneficiary.

Re-read The Partition Table Without Rebooting Linux System

partprobe command is part of GNU parted software. parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT, FAT32, and reiserfs partitions. It can create, resize and move Macintosh HFS partitions, as well as detect jfs, ntfs, ufs, and xfs partitions. It is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

via Re-read The Partition Table Without Rebooting Linux System.

# partprobe /dev/sdX

cPanel Inc.

cPanel is the industry leader for turning standalone servers into a fully automated point-and-click hosting platform. Tedious tasks are replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls. cPanel is designed with multiple levels of administration including admin, reseller, end user, and email-based interfaces. These multiple levels provide security, ease of use, and flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user.

via cPanel Inc..

$475/license for a single server per year.