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WhenI signed up for Yahoo their ad said free email for life.Yahoo! Mail Now it says free web based email with no mention of the length of time. This sounded good to me back then because at the time the Yahoo site offered a more unique web based experience anda wider range of services than its competitors. It still delivers to this day Yahoo! Yellow Pages, Yahoo! TV - Listings.I think I will continue to use the free services and stop using my Yahoo email now that I have a hosted website of my very own. I do have my Yahoo email filtered through Spamcop.net and might consider using this on my own domain now that Iwill no longer be using mail forwarding. Another way to combat this in my case is to create spam accounts that I do not check and periodically delete from my domain. Giving only my real address out to friends and aquaintences.

I fear thatif I switch to theYahoo Pay servicesit will continue to receive spam by the bucketloads. They supposedly have filters already in place to blockemail that they have verified as spam, but I think their spam department consists of one really overworked NetAdmin. They never seem to catch everything that ends up in my Spamcop account.

If you take a look at theYahoo stock price you will see why they are trying to increase their profit margin. Here is thearticle on Cnet about them charging forEmail services. This sudden decision to start charging for services that were once free is not a suprise after the Tech boom has ended. Yahoo is looking for ways to add value to their company and the only way they know how to do this is increase traffic and start adding pay services. Geocities will also start charging users for two new versions, GeoCities Plus and GeoCities Advantage.

WhenI signed up for Yahoo their ad said free email for life.Yahoo! Mail Now it says free web based email with no mention of the length of time. This sounded good to me back then because at the time the Yahoo site offered a more unique web based experience anda wider range of services than its competitors. It still delivers to this day Yahoo! Yellow Pages, Yahoo! TV - Listings.I think I will continue to use the free services and stop using my Yahoo email now that I have a hosted website of my very own. I do have my Yahoo email filtered through Spamcop.net and might consider using this on my own domain now that Iwill no longer be using mail forwarding. Another way to combat this in my case is to create spam accounts that I do not check and periodically delete from my domain. Giving only my real address out to friends and aquaintences.

I fear thatif I switch to theYahoo Pay servicesit will continue to receive spam by the bucketloads. They supposedly have filters already in place to blockemail that they have verified as spam, but I think their spam department consists of one really overworked NetAdmin. They never seem to catch everything that ends up in my Spamcop account.

If you take a look at theYahoo stock price you will see why they are trying to increase their profit margin. Here is thearticle on Cnet about them charging forEmail services. This sudden decision to start charging for services that were once free is not a suprise after the Tech boom has ended. Yahoo is looking for ways to add value to their company and the only way they know how to do this is increase traffic and start adding pay services. Geocities will also start charging users for two new versions, GeoCities Plus and GeoCities Advantage.

There is a story about the IBM screen here. They have just dropped the price in the last few days 53% from $17,999 to $8,399.

Other links for further information:

Cnet

SATA and ISCSI

Intel Dev paper

Maxtor Whitepaper

Not quite. The Google toolbar is useful, but see this CNet article about privacy concerns it raised. It tracks all the sites you visit.

However, according to the News.com article, they are merely detouring people to collect usage statistics.

They'll also put referrals inside the browser window in some unspecified manner. Maybe this will take the form of some annoying extra ad banner, or maybe they will put a link to the Amazon.com page selling Britney Spears stuff every time the phrase Britney Spears appears in a web document. But that's only annoying, not "sleazy business practices".

More specifically, there's nothing in the article saying they'll hijack other people's links. See my other post, #3192878.

When you say p2p with brains, to me it means somebody has come up with a elegant balance between centralization and search speeds.

Ditto, Holmes. The real question is the scalability issue, and I'm not convinced that the traffic cop features implemented by Gnutella front-ends have really sorted this out.

When that's the case, that will be some p2p with brains. Right now, the networks only seem to be hanging on because the critical mass of crash-inducing traffic hasn't hit the super-peers yet; at least not on the permanent basis.

What would really make my evening interesting is if someone would be kind enough to contradict me.

I wonder if this is what being a god is like. Does she laugh at the pointlessness of it all too? Will Sony make an SDR-5X that makes little robots out of Mindstorms?

This one is more focused on Honda's robot, and their goals. Sony, Honda battle over bots

Microsoft is supposed to be coming out with some tablet thing called Mira. While the idea sounds intersting, I don't think I need or want another Microsoft product.

Well, then I came across an annoucement at Internet Product Watch about this new Linux based tablet that seems pretty cool. Open OS... Open hardware... Good design, and the embedded universal remote control is pretty darn cool as well.

Think this would fly? Think it's another vapor-product?

HERE's a URL for this Linux thing.

Sorry, let me do this proper...

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-861947.html

I stopped being a Team OS/2er when they (IBM) started rounding up our names, addresses, emails and phone numbers. Of course, IBM is quite experienced in these matters.

Exact links are:

here here here here

Exact links are:

here here here here

Run the original article link through Babelfish.

The Phillips device is an implementation of Mira spec, not an "invention". There was a CNet article a few days ago about Mira devices presented at CeBit this year.

Microsoft presents something similiar on the CeBit. It's called Mira and is a hybrid between a PDA, a Webpad and a PC.
Read about it at CNet and Microsoft PressPass.

Note that Joseph P. Clayton, CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio, is also Vice-Chairman of broadband fiber provider Global Crossing, Ltd.

See: http://www.gavin.com/news/article.php?art_id=917

Interestingly, Sirius Satellite Ratio filed their petition just one week before Global Crossing Ltd. filed for bankruptcy.

Though often dismissed for its common use in annoying web advertisements and over-developed corporate web sites, I have had considerable success in leveraging Flash media for the creation of web-based e-learning tools for everything from offline CBT's to online distance learning programs.

With the introduction of the new Flash MX version, the abilities inherent to this tool are reported much expanded. This advancement in Flash media technology was discussed on Slashdot here and pays reference to this article at news.com.

Among its benefits, Flash it cross-platform and supported by most current main-stream browsers. For more information, you can visit their website.

All this talk about how this "new" Sun workstation will excel at things like oil exploration is a tad ridiculous. Currently, the #1 hardware platform for oil exploration is Linux running on the Power4, Power3, x86, or the G6 (the "old" mainframe processor by IBM). Check this article, titled "IBM to spend $1 billion on Linux in 2001". IBM sold a Linux-powered supercomputer (sporting a Power3) to Shell Oil for exploration of oil and gas.

This guy is apparently unaware of that AOL already relies on OSS like AOLserver.

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-860701.html

That's right: they (or rather, someone from their advertising agency) chalked "Peace, Love and Linux" all over Chicago and San Francisco. The artist got thirty days' community service, and IBM got fined ten thousand dollars. Here's the story Slashdot ran at the time.

As for your second issue, a nationwide wireless network might be stretching it, and there are a lot of issues still in need of work (naming, service location, etc.). But do a search on ad-hoc wireless networking, and you'll find protocol info. Look up info on Charles E. Perkins too, he's done a lot of work on that shit.. very cool tech, lots if potentials :)

Josh

AOL has now actually begun testing the use of Mozilla (Gecko to be specific) as part of its software. There are articles on this at http://news.com.com/2100-1023-860710.html and http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=2 169.

Of course some ./er's will take the opportunity to bash Microsoft but the article itself isn't.
The zlib library vulernabilty and how *nix based systems are affected has
already been discussed on slashdot.

This Cnet article references the previous Cnet article on the subject which speculated that since zlib is a programming library that could be used across platforms that other OS's application programs may be affected as well.

I don't see this article as Microsoft bashing. It just adds a new slant to the previous article and confirms that *nix systems aren't the only ones affected.

This is important information for those Microsoft admins out there who may not care about last weeks headline "Flaw Leaves Linux Computers Vulnerable". Maybe now they'll be keeping their eyes open for patches of their affected software

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As far as I know is that they get the software and hardware at very discounted prices, particularly from SGI, Alias/Wavefront and Pixar. With Pixar it seems that one of the conditions for Lucas to sell it to Jobs was to have early access to Pixar's technology, mainly PRMan (and I could guess also RAT now). From SGI they get early access to hardware thanks to their JEDI agreement (Joint Environment for Digital Imaging), I think it's JEDI III at the moment. According to some rumors is that part of the agreement is that ILM doesn't mention other platforms. They get the gear and give feedback to SGI along braging rights. From Alias/Wavefront they are also among the beta testers for all new versions. But in the end they wouldn't give it away as an incentive. Even if it was free if it didn't fit their pipeline it would be pointless.

There are plenty of articles detailing Linux increasing use in VFX. Here are a some:

Linux Helps Bring Titanic to Life
The Little Engine That Could
Penguin Power
Linux Invades Hollywood
VESTECH 2000
Linux takes Hollywood by storm
Linux goes to the movies
Nixed for Linux
DreamWorks Feature Linux and Animation
Industry of Change: Linux Storms Hollywood

Dictionary.com
4 entries found for longhorn.

Pronunciation Key (lônghôrn, lng-)n.
1) Any of a breed of cattle with long horns, formerly bred in great numbers in the southwest United States.

2) A variety of Cheddar cheese molded into a long cylinder.

Cheese wins it for me!

Dictionary terms are so bland for codenames... Actually it's the longhorn saloon. If you visit that page you'll see another familiar codename, "Whistler" (That's Window's XP). And what's next to there? It's Blackcomb.. Blackcomb of course was originally the version after XP, but MS decided to insert a release between to the two - "Longhorn" - which is the ski lodge between the two mountains :)

I joined as a simple expression of my support for a company that provides an alternative to Windows. Recent settlement talks between DOJ and MS proved that the US government is not willing to or capable of support of diversity in software. The alternative is for ordinary people to express such support. The trouble with monopolies such as MS is that there is a very high treshold of getting into the market. Thus initially a company such as Mandrake may have to resort to unorthodox methods of staying in buisiness. Once a decent foothold is established they (hopefully) can be profitable, using good old capitalistic methods.

According to "Exclusive: AOL embraces Linux ...", AOL is "switching to Linux". This news is a major blow to Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW).

AOL is a major customer of SUNW servers and currently uses 4000 SUNW servers, according to "Sun steers clear of computing slump". However, AOL now intends to replace each "$80,000 box running proprietary UNIX with two $5000 Linux boxes". Clearly, "proprietary UNIX" means Solaris running on an ultra-expensive SUNW server.

Finally, one important point to note about the article is that AOL still refuses to produce a Linux version of the AOL (i. e. Internet) client. So, AOL's move hurts Solaris more than it helps Linux. Can someone please convince Steve Case to produce a Linux version of the AOL client? Anyone?

incase of /. effect Zdnet . And this one is a little, emphsis on a little, bit more techincal. Cause cnet is for the mindless sometimes.

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-857008.html.

Cheers
-^

Where do you get 10%. That's twice as high as the reported market share of 5%.

We need credit-card size devices or smaller

What, you mean like the Rex PDA? They were credit-card sized, but they never caught on in part due to poor marketing and difficult text entry. Early Rexes didn't even have any text entry: you had to type things in on your PC and synchronize it later.

And by the way, the Rex is dead. Of course, if you really want to fuck around with one, you can buy it on the secondhand market. Who knows? Maybe you'll start blindly advocating it over other PDAs with a dismissive swipe of your hand, like the wackos we get around here.

The most paradoxical comment within this letter is this:

The RIAA wants its intellectual property (music) to be protected. Authors want their books protected. I want my industry's intellectual property to be likewise protected. Is this too much to ask?

He also seems to give the RIAA implicit control over all music, but that's another flame war.

Here's the CNET Story

If you drill down a bit you find this letter from a programmer that complains about Open Source. While I found it both sad and funny, it does shed light on how Microsoft and other commercial software vendors view the movement.

To summarize: OSS is a bad thing because if free software is available no one will want to pay for software, which will drive programmers out of work. OSS is good in that it establishes competition for Microsoft, but that competition is better done through litigation or other commercial software.

Applying this point of view to Microsoft is humorous, of course, considering what they did with IE.

I actually don't think the developer has a point, though. Open source software has created far more jobs than it took. Linux, Apache, and other free platforms and development tools have meant, in my experience, that corporations are financially able to deploy systems that would otherwise have been prohibitive. The spread of such tools has also increased the number of people who are exposed to them - how many people would be running personal Unix systems if they had to have commercial systems? These people are able to get jobs in IT they would otherwise not be qualified for, or perhaps even know about.

In any case, Perens' response likening software development and protective measures against open source competition to buggy whips (actually ice, in his analogy) is only half the story.

If you drill down a bit you find this letter from a programmer that complains about Open Source. While I found it both sad and funny, it does shed light on how Microsoft and other commercial software vendors view the movement.

To summarize: OSS is a bad thing because if free software is available no one will want to pay for software, which will drive programmers out of work. OSS is good in that it establishes competition for Microsoft, but that competition is better done through litigation or other commercial software.

Applying this point of view to Microsoft is humorous, of course, considering what they did with IE.

I actually don't think the developer has a point, though. Open source software has created far more jobs than it took. Linux, Apache, and other free platforms and development tools have meant, in my experience, that corporations are financially able to deploy systems that would otherwise have been prohibitive. The spread of such tools has also increased the number of people who are exposed to them - how many people would be running personal Unix systems if they had to have commercial systems? These people are able to get jobs in IT they would otherwise not be qualified for, or perhaps even know about.

In any case, Perens' response likening software development and protective measures against open source competition to buggy whips (actually ice, in his analogy) is only half the story.

RMS was fighting for it in order to counter the Mono threat

Are you sure? My link (4th paragraph, "With DotGNU and Mono...") says Stallman thinks its a good idea. Where's your link?

And I don't possibly see how C|Net could have known about the Monorail 7000 computer that came out at the end of 1997 (at $999 vs. the mac at $7,499)

At yesterday's conference call, Sun admitted that its sales are falling below expected "linearity". In other words, Sun is having trouble in exceeding last quarter's revenue.

Sun is losing market share. Read " IBM claims win in bruising server battle" As Sun's finances continue to sink, Sun will increasingly pursue lawsuits to boost its finances.

As another sign of desperation, Sun recently announced that it, too, will sell Intel-based servers running Linux. To understand the level of desperation, we note that Sun has been touting itself as the SPARC-only shop for the last 15 years. Sun claimed that it would never resort to selling Intel-based servers.

...and eye cancer [com.com] [com.com] (just to emphasize the rather ridiculous domain name:P). Although this study was a bit small (as the researchers say themselves), the results aren't too accurate. But the conclusion is that cellphone users are 3 times more likely to develop cancer of the eye.

Well, AOL time-warner *is* responsible for the Gnutella network..

I submitted this story yesterday.. you can find that atricle on ZDnet. It covers the same information, but with that "ZDnet" feel.

I don't know slashcode, but it should be possible to find out the semantics of the adserver URI.
slashdot should publicize it. Then we could write "plugins" for junkbuster, webwasher, squid ...
We could set a whole new trend, supporting the sites _we_ want to support when surfing.
Ah, we need a name, ...

let me think ...

oh, thats it:

smart ads(TM)

Tata

The video deposition is now available from CNET. This version is a much better quality for broadband users.

Here's a fun fact:

iexplore.exe (aka IE, Internet Explorer) and explorer.exe (aka Windows Explorer, the file browser) are identical binaries with different names.

If you can still browse your C: drive with explorer, IE is still on your system.

Now, this makes one of two things true:
1) IE really IS an integral part of the OS
2) Microsoft intentionally commingled the code for IE with that of WE

Since IE came about after WE, we have to assume that case #2 is true, despite Microsoft's continued assertations that they did no such thing.

Wait a minute... Microsoft lying in court? Why would they do such a thing? And how could they get away with it?

Here's a fun fact:

iexplore.exe (aka IE, Internet Explorer) and explorer.exe (aka Windows Explorer, the file browser) are identical binaries with different names.

If you can still browse your C: drive with explorer, IE is still on your system.

Now, this makes one of two things true:
1) IE really IS an integral part of the OS
2) Microsoft intentionally commingled the code for IE with that of WE

Since IE came about after WE, we have to assume that case #2 is true, despite Microsoft's continued assertations that they did no such thing.

Wait a minute... Microsoft lying in court? Why would they do such a thing? And how could they get away with it?

It's amazing what you can get away with when you have over $36 *BILLION* in cash reserves, isn't it? Of course, it makes it easier to build up a big wad 'o cash if you never pay your investers any dividends

Mea Culpa. I'm a dumbass. Those are the prices for the Treo, which I read moments after the RIM stuff, and confused the two. Cnet says: (at the bottom of this article.)

"The new BlackBerry is expected to sell in the neighborhood of $499, plus monthly network fees of about $40 depending on use. This compares with the Treo at about $400 plus monthly network charges, or $550 without. "

Again, my apologies.