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Comment Re:More than just support (Score 1) 666

by chipster on Monday October 31, 2011 @02:33PM (#37898080) Attached to: How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists?

Have you even tried? I think you'd find most of these install just fine on a CentOS box.

More than I care for. And much of the time, they didn't work, "even." Sure is nice to have a support engineer get it to work while I focus on making revenue instead of farting around with an arguably shitty re-spin.

Comment More than just support (Score 1) 666

by chipster on Monday October 31, 2011 @10:03AM (#37894130) Attached to: How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists?

Try getting Emulex HBA drivers, Mellanox InfiniBand drivers, and many other "enterprise" hardware drivers, etc. to work with CentOS. The manufacturers won't support those using CentOS over RHEL (which they're made for usually with RH's cooperation). Oracle will also laugh at CentOS users. But then yes, there is support, and my experience with RHEL support engineers has been impeccable.

Comment Because it costs money and... (Score 1) 665

by chipster on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:47AM (#35559272) Attached to: Why Doesn't Every Website Use HTTPS?

Verislime still ultimately "runs" PKI.

Comment "EPIC Fails?" (Score 0) 103

by chipster on Thursday December 17, 2009 @06:04PM (#30480020) Attached to: EPIC Files FTC Complaint Over Facebook's New Privacy Policy

^EOF

Comment For crying out loud... (Score 1) 329

by chipster on Saturday December 20, 2008 @10:22AM (#26183533) Attached to: Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again

Cut it out!

Wait..

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