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Re:$1395? I can top that at $450
Does that computer act as an 802.11b access point? As a four port switch? Have a single, easy to use web interface for configuring the VPN, Routing, Switching, NAT, DCHP, and firewall which the machine provides?
I think that, as usual, the summary was way off on what this product actually is. It is not supposed to be the replacement for the fileserver on your network, it is supposed to replace a bunch of network infrastructure boxes. Now, one of the reviews shamelessly stolen from another post suggests it is not terribly effective at carrying out those tasks (perhaps unsurprisingly), but it seems like it would be quite a valid solution for a small business which can't support any full-time on-location IT staff. -
Re:Why is it slashdot never reports......
OK, I'll bite...
Security issues in other browsers. That took 20 seconds to find.
IE
... most powerful? Exactly how is browser power measured and what bearing does this 'power' have on a security vulnerability?IE is not the most standards compliant browser, and what bearing does this have on a security vulnerability? (Favourite quote from the link: "While it is true that our implementation is not fully, 100 percent W3C-compliant, our development investments are driven by our customer requirements and not necessarily by standards," said Greg Sullivan, a lead product manager with the Windows client group.)
Mozilla will never be an alternative. Safari for Macs. Opera for PCs. Nothing else counts.
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Re:Slashdotted Already?
There is some info and a less than glowing review Here.
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Re:And groklaw...
SCO's ISP has also been contacted by zdnet.
Whould you care to provide a link? The only thing i can find is the this one., wich mention nothing more than the fact that SCO is under attack. -
Interesting note/errataHarnessing light particles to store and process data could aid the still distant goal of so-called quantum computers, as well as methods for communicating information over long distances without risk of eavesdropping.
But today the NSA's snooping capabilities are in jeopardy, undermined by advances in telecommunications technology. Much of the information the agency once gleaned from the air waves now travels in the form of light beams through fiber-optic cables crisscrossing continents and ocean floors. That shift has forced the NSA to seek new ways to gather intelligence -- including tapping undersea cables, a technologically daunting, physically dangerous and potentially illegal task.
In the mid-1990s, the NSA installed one such tap, say former intelligence officials familiar with the covert project. Using a special spy submarine, they say, agency personnel descended hundreds of feet into one of the oceans and sliced into a fiber-optic cable. The mixed results of the experiment -- particularly the agency's inability to make sense of the vast flood of data unleashed by the tap -- show that America's pre-eminent spy service has huge challenges to overcome if it hopes to keep from going deaf in the digital age.
Details of the NSA cable-tapping project are sketchy. Individuals who confirm the tap won't specify where or when it occurred. It isn't known whether the cable's operator detected the intrusion, though former NSA officials say they believe it went unnoticed. Nor is it known whether the NSA has attempted other taps since. Efforts to intercept all sorts of signals -- ranging from military radar to international phone calls -- are among the most highly classified U.S. government operations. Leaking information about interception methods is a federal crime punishable by imprisonment.
[Source]If the NSA supposedly managed to tap into fiber (light) what makes this guy so sure his studies would minimize/cut/halt the risk of eavesdropping? "Splice the line, and you cut off the light, at least momentarily," says Wayne Siddall, an optical engineer at Corning Fiber in Corning, N.Y. Even a second's interruption could be noticed by a cable's operator. Cable companies typically build systems with duplicate lines that take diverging routes, in case one of them is damaged or severed. One retired NSA optical specialist insists that the NSA devised a way to splice a fiber without being detected. "Getting into fiber is delicate work, but by no means impossible," the former specialist says. Neither he nor the NSA will discuss the matter further.
Spy agency taps into undersea cable
NSA Tapping Underwater Fiber Optics
And the list goes on and on. Bear in mind the NSA's date of achieving this, in comparison to the tech growth scale, I'd be willing to say that whatever Harvard is doing in being closely watched, if not already known. -
Re:about time
too bad the US still doesn't know the true meaning of "freedom from terror" either. sigh.
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Probably just replacing network printersAfter printing 1 million pages of source code, anyone's network might take a bit of time to recover.
(This would have fitted on a single CD. I think we should add environmental terrorism to the list of SCO's offences.)
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Microsoft Chrome?
How does this relate in any way to Microsoft Chrome, of which I remember hearing quite a bit about a very long time ago?
I remember it was supposed to be the VRML killer, and the Flash killer, and that nobody was quite certain what it was. Has it mutated into this? Or is this just a simple namespace collision? -
cnet scooped /. by 10 min
google for microsoft html patent and you'll see:
News:
Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent - Slashdot - 30 minutes ago
Microsoft wins HTML application patent - CNET News.com - 40 minutes ago
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Re:Programming languages
First, HTML is not a programming language.
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One unintended patch..
Doesn't seem like Microsoft FUD, just an interesting story. Read the article:
"The company scrambled on Wednesday morning to figure out why a patch had been issued through its Windows Update service, when the software maker had declared on Tuesday that it would not issue any fixes in December.
The patch, for a flaw announced during its monthly fix bulletin in November, updates FrontPage extensions. It plugs a security hole that could allow malicious code to be run on a person's PC.
On Wednesday morning, Microsoft discovered that a glitch in the patching process resulted in a November fix not being applied to some Windows XP computers. The same patch was sent out again via the Windows update service on Tuesday night. The company is still investigating why and how the patch was reissued." -
Re:A cheapskate and you want to use a PC?
Only the US now, they stopped selling them sometime this year in the UK. Have a look at this
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now it is...
now it is... take a look at ms' new patent app.
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Re:ReplayTv
Hey, I'm just going by what I read in the news
(and when I say "current" I mean currently available for sale, namely the 5500 series).
Honestly, I don't estimate there's a significant difference between automatic commercial advance and TiVo's 60x fast forwarding. I can still get through an hour-long show in just about 40 minutes, plus I can stop and re-watch all the Victoria Secret ads... -
Re:New Standard
Yes, some of the initiatives have cack'ed, but not all. While I am pleased that several of the aforementioned initiatives either fizzled out or were stillborn, that does not remove the continuing assault upon the privaacy rights of US citizens by their own goverment. What's worse is when such initiatives trample upon the rights of those of us living elsewhere
As for the Cisco Example, I've not heard that the initiative was dropped, but it hasn't gone away
One of your more salient points is that "the U.S government is still subject to a little democrating oversight". It certainly would be nice were it subject to more. -
Re:How didAccording to the ZDNet article,
The newest department in the federal government, the Department of Homeland Security, got off to a bad start with an overall "F" for its computer security, despite the fact that securing the nation's network is part of its mission.
Either we've got a bunch of idiots for IT guys in the government, or they're bright guys who are battling the bureaucracy and losing. Personally, I think it's somewhere in the middle. -
Re:The RIAA must not like this.It's not as if they haven't tried this already... If you want more, Google!
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Re:The RIAA must not like this.It's not as if they haven't tried this already... If you want more, Google!
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Re:the real objective.
Here is a tutorial on connecting to AOL using GNU/Linux.
The warez d00dz have been able to connect to AOL using a leaked native AOL for GNU/Linux client. -
Music download services have jumped-the-shark.It was bound to happen eventually. I understand how Virgin or Earthlink would get into the music distribution/download business (one being both an ISP and a music publisher, and the other being just an ISP), but as soon as non-Internet companies get into the business, there's something wrong.
Why, oh why, does Coca-Cola think that they should be in this music download business (currently available in the UK only, but that could change)?
I think that the music download market can only handle 3-5 players. Any more than that and we'll be looking at another dot-com bust as consumers get confused over which service they should use.
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Re:jobs lies about subscriptionsI posted these below, but just so you don't miss them:
- Rhapsody: 250,000
- MusicMatch: 150,000 (scroll down - it's in the body of the article)
- MusicNet: 175,000
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Re:Brilliant
Apple, or most anyone else developing new software, isn't going to do anything with Win98 anytime soon.
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Re:Link to the Article by Dr. Robert M. Sauer?Valid criticism is one thing, but forking? Not a major problem in my life.
Linus credits the GPL (as opposed to other open-source licenses) for preventing fragmentation:
I personally think that the BSD license is a dead end for serious projects, since it inevitably results in forking with no way to re-join if it becomes commercially viable.
Perhaps he has a point, because none of the GPL OSS I use has been spoiled by forking. -
Re:3D Control
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Cox Digital Telephone VoIP Service
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great quotes... innovation retrospective
this articles a good read so take the time to go through it as it summarises innovation from the early internet years to date.
innovation. The trick is finding that one crazy idea. The problem with crazy ideas, though, is that for every one good crazy idea, there's a thousand bad crazy ideas
the eternal quest for an idea. you better start with a good idea. if you don't, no matter how hard you try it wont pan out.
the Internet community back then, the key technical people, didn't want the Internet to become easy to use or graphical,
... Only smart people could use the Internet ...so we needed to keep it hard to usewhat other examples can you think of right now?... only smart people can use [insert you own example]
Mosaic started with 12 users in February 1993. It had 1,000 users within three or four weeks. About 10,000 users by spring. It was up to 1 million by early 1994
Posters who question why Andreessen has such prominence should reflect on this. No Mosaic (mozilla), no Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE Based on NCSA Mosaic code base licensed from Spyglass), no World Wide Web in the early to mid 90's. No doubt someone else may have invented the browser but how much longer would it have taken?
At first that makes you like a little bunny rabbit
... Everybody wants to play with you ....within a year ... fearsome competitors shooting at your head with high-powered ammunitionLarry, Sergi do you feel the hot breath of the MS juggernaut as you approach your IPO. Will google will be a repeat of Netscape/MS tussle?
Oracle database was a huge success
... Larry's spent the last 25 years trying to come up with the next productit sure helps when the government (CIA) is your preferred backer. Why does oracle feel the need to keep trying to re-innovate or create the next best idea?
innovation comes from companies that are 2 years old, populated by 19-year-olds
... preposterous that Marc should think that innovation is .. the province of little entrepreneurial companies.In fact it's both. The technical revolution was spurred on the back of the transistor. This was the combined effort of Bardeen, Brattain and shockley at Bell Labs - no small comany there
... but look at Intel, though a big company now, it was started with the (not so young) Noyce, Moore and Grove. What about the Linux kernel, third person shooters and that other search engine, Yahoo? -
Re:What IT manager is this
I forgot to add that Sun's Java Desktop is based on SuSe Linux. Go here: http://news.com.com/2100-7252_3-5060268.html
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Re:Oh Well, there not the first, there not the las
There have been 300 million downloads of "Kazaa Media Desktop" through Download.com.
2.5 million last week. If the bootleg clients have drawn and held anything like those numbers, I would be very much surprised. -
Body of Cnet article and Email
Cnet article:
Marcelo Tosatti, the deputy that Linux leader Linus Torvalds appointed to maintain the 2.4 Linux kernel, said in a posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List this week that the follow-on 2.6 kernel is mature enough that it should be the foundation of new projects.
Tosatti will accept some significant changes and some support for selected new hardware in version 2.4.24, now under development. But versions 2.4.25 and beyond will be released only to fix security problems or other critical issues, he said.
"2.6 is becoming more stable each day, and we will hopefully see a 2.6.0 release during this month or January," Tosatti said in a posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on Monday.
The 2.6 kernel is in final testing, and its maintainer, Andrew Morton, said in November that he expects to release it in December. The new kernel includes several features, such as the ability to work better on large multiprocessor servers, that are expected to make Linux more appealing to corporate customers.
Tosatti's decision didn't sit well with some who are reluctant to move so soon to untested software.
"I am terrified of the following scenario, which is extremely probable to happen soon," responded Jan Rychter in a Wednesday post. "2.4 is being moved into 'pure maintenance' mode and people are being encouraged to move to 2.6. While people slowly start using 2.6, Linus starts 2.7 and all kernel developers move on to the really cool and fashionable things. 2.6 bug reports receive little attention, as it's much cooler to work on new features than fix bugs."
But shifting attention to the new kernel isn't unreasonable, D.H. Brown analyst Tony Iams said. "It makes perfect sense to me that they'd focus on putting new features into 2.6," he said. "As soon as the new release is ready, the old release goes into maintenance mode. Any software release is going to work that way, whether commercial or open source."
The discussion about 2.4 and 2.6 was triggered Monday by a request by Silicon Graphics programmer Nathan Scott, who on Monday asked Tosatti to accept SGI file system software called XFS. Tosatti rejected the software, saying advocates should submit it for inclusion in 2.6, though he later relented somewhat.
File system software controls how information is written on hard drives, and XFS is a "journaling" file system in which logging features make it easier for a computer to recover from a crash. Three other journaling file systems--ext3, ReiserFS and IBM's JFS--have been accepted into the 2.4 kernel.
SGI developed XFS for Irix, its version of the Unix operating system, and said in 1999 it would contribute XFS to the Linux community. But SGI's handling of the software has led to a chilly reception by some--including Al Viro, a deputy who oversees Linux file system work.
SGI's emphasis could change, however, Iams said.
"Historically, it was true that SGI has focused on Irix as the primary platform for XFS, but I wouldn't be surprised to see tha
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Body of Cnet article and Email
Cnet article:
Marcelo Tosatti, the deputy that Linux leader Linus Torvalds appointed to maintain the 2.4 Linux kernel, said in a posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List this week that the follow-on 2.6 kernel is mature enough that it should be the foundation of new projects.
Tosatti will accept some significant changes and some support for selected new hardware in version 2.4.24, now under development. But versions 2.4.25 and beyond will be released only to fix security problems or other critical issues, he said.
"2.6 is becoming more stable each day, and we will hopefully see a 2.6.0 release during this month or January," Tosatti said in a posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on Monday.
The 2.6 kernel is in final testing, and its maintainer, Andrew Morton, said in November that he expects to release it in December. The new kernel includes several features, such as the ability to work better on large multiprocessor servers, that are expected to make Linux more appealing to corporate customers.
Tosatti's decision didn't sit well with some who are reluctant to move so soon to untested software.
"I am terrified of the following scenario, which is extremely probable to happen soon," responded Jan Rychter in a Wednesday post. "2.4 is being moved into 'pure maintenance' mode and people are being encouraged to move to 2.6. While people slowly start using 2.6, Linus starts 2.7 and all kernel developers move on to the really cool and fashionable things. 2.6 bug reports receive little attention, as it's much cooler to work on new features than fix bugs."
But shifting attention to the new kernel isn't unreasonable, D.H. Brown analyst Tony Iams said. "It makes perfect sense to me that they'd focus on putting new features into 2.6," he said. "As soon as the new release is ready, the old release goes into maintenance mode. Any software release is going to work that way, whether commercial or open source."
The discussion about 2.4 and 2.6 was triggered Monday by a request by Silicon Graphics programmer Nathan Scott, who on Monday asked Tosatti to accept SGI file system software called XFS. Tosatti rejected the software, saying advocates should submit it for inclusion in 2.6, though he later relented somewhat.
File system software controls how information is written on hard drives, and XFS is a "journaling" file system in which logging features make it easier for a computer to recover from a crash. Three other journaling file systems--ext3, ReiserFS and IBM's JFS--have been accepted into the 2.4 kernel.
SGI developed XFS for Irix, its version of the Unix operating system, and said in 1999 it would contribute XFS to the Linux community. But SGI's handling of the software has led to a chilly reception by some--including Al Viro, a deputy who oversees Linux file system work.
SGI's emphasis could change, however, Iams said.
"Historically, it was true that SGI has focused on Irix as the primary platform for XFS, but I wouldn't be surprised to see tha
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Body of Cnet article and Email
Cnet article:
Marcelo Tosatti, the deputy that Linux leader Linus Torvalds appointed to maintain the 2.4 Linux kernel, said in a posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List this week that the follow-on 2.6 kernel is mature enough that it should be the foundation of new projects.
Tosatti will accept some significant changes and some support for selected new hardware in version 2.4.24, now under development. But versions 2.4.25 and beyond will be released only to fix security problems or other critical issues, he said.
"2.6 is becoming more stable each day, and we will hopefully see a 2.6.0 release during this month or January," Tosatti said in a posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on Monday.
The 2.6 kernel is in final testing, and its maintainer, Andrew Morton, said in November that he expects to release it in December. The new kernel includes several features, such as the ability to work better on large multiprocessor servers, that are expected to make Linux more appealing to corporate customers.
Tosatti's decision didn't sit well with some who are reluctant to move so soon to untested software.
"I am terrified of the following scenario, which is extremely probable to happen soon," responded Jan Rychter in a Wednesday post. "2.4 is being moved into 'pure maintenance' mode and people are being encouraged to move to 2.6. While people slowly start using 2.6, Linus starts 2.7 and all kernel developers move on to the really cool and fashionable things. 2.6 bug reports receive little attention, as it's much cooler to work on new features than fix bugs."
But shifting attention to the new kernel isn't unreasonable, D.H. Brown analyst Tony Iams said. "It makes perfect sense to me that they'd focus on putting new features into 2.6," he said. "As soon as the new release is ready, the old release goes into maintenance mode. Any software release is going to work that way, whether commercial or open source."
The discussion about 2.4 and 2.6 was triggered Monday by a request by Silicon Graphics programmer Nathan Scott, who on Monday asked Tosatti to accept SGI file system software called XFS. Tosatti rejected the software, saying advocates should submit it for inclusion in 2.6, though he later relented somewhat.
File system software controls how information is written on hard drives, and XFS is a "journaling" file system in which logging features make it easier for a computer to recover from a crash. Three other journaling file systems--ext3, ReiserFS and IBM's JFS--have been accepted into the 2.4 kernel.
SGI developed XFS for Irix, its version of the Unix operating system, and said in 1999 it would contribute XFS to the Linux community. But SGI's handling of the software has led to a chilly reception by some--including Al Viro, a deputy who oversees Linux file system work.
SGI's emphasis could change, however, Iams said.
"Historically, it was true that SGI has focused on Irix as the primary platform for XFS, but I wouldn't be surprised to see tha
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Body of Cnet article and Email
Cnet article:
Marcelo Tosatti, the deputy that Linux leader Linus Torvalds appointed to maintain the 2.4 Linux kernel, said in a posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List this week that the follow-on 2.6 kernel is mature enough that it should be the foundation of new projects.
Tosatti will accept some significant changes and some support for selected new hardware in version 2.4.24, now under development. But versions 2.4.25 and beyond will be released only to fix security problems or other critical issues, he said.
"2.6 is becoming more stable each day, and we will hopefully see a 2.6.0 release during this month or January," Tosatti said in a posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on Monday.
The 2.6 kernel is in final testing, and its maintainer, Andrew Morton, said in November that he expects to release it in December. The new kernel includes several features, such as the ability to work better on large multiprocessor servers, that are expected to make Linux more appealing to corporate customers.
Tosatti's decision didn't sit well with some who are reluctant to move so soon to untested software.
"I am terrified of the following scenario, which is extremely probable to happen soon," responded Jan Rychter in a Wednesday post. "2.4 is being moved into 'pure maintenance' mode and people are being encouraged to move to 2.6. While people slowly start using 2.6, Linus starts 2.7 and all kernel developers move on to the really cool and fashionable things. 2.6 bug reports receive little attention, as it's much cooler to work on new features than fix bugs."
But shifting attention to the new kernel isn't unreasonable, D.H. Brown analyst Tony Iams said. "It makes perfect sense to me that they'd focus on putting new features into 2.6," he said. "As soon as the new release is ready, the old release goes into maintenance mode. Any software release is going to work that way, whether commercial or open source."
The discussion about 2.4 and 2.6 was triggered Monday by a request by Silicon Graphics programmer Nathan Scott, who on Monday asked Tosatti to accept SGI file system software called XFS. Tosatti rejected the software, saying advocates should submit it for inclusion in 2.6, though he later relented somewhat.
File system software controls how information is written on hard drives, and XFS is a "journaling" file system in which logging features make it easier for a computer to recover from a crash. Three other journaling file systems--ext3, ReiserFS and IBM's JFS--have been accepted into the 2.4 kernel.
SGI developed XFS for Irix, its version of the Unix operating system, and said in 1999 it would contribute XFS to the Linux community. But SGI's handling of the software has led to a chilly reception by some--including Al Viro, a deputy who oversees Linux file system work.
SGI's emphasis could change, however, Iams said.
"Historically, it was true that SGI has focused on Irix as the primary platform for XFS, but I wouldn't be surprised to see tha
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Builder.com Readers' ChoiceSee the 2nd Annual Builder Readers' Choice Awards.
The results for Best Modeling Tool (scroll to last chart) are:
- Winner: Visio 2003 - 37%
- 1st Runner up: Rational Rose - 18%
- 2nd Runner up: Oracle9i/10g JDeveloper - 7%
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AT&T Incompetence Shouldn't Surprise Anybody .If AT&T handles cellphone number portability issues with anywhere near the same level of incompetence and even malice as they have heretofore demonstrated in the way they handle complaints against their customers who send unsolicited commercial email, their stockholders should grease themselves up now and prepare for maximum fineage.
"Pink" contracts for spammers, routinely binning/ignoring/denying spam complaints, even supplying spammers with tools to bypass spam filters - The Death Star does it all if you want to spam.
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The URL you are looking for about the problem is..
The URL you are looking for is at thestreet.com.
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AT&T Wireless (AWE:NYSE - commentary - research) customers cannot activate new GSM cell-phone accounts or make changes to existing GSM service because of a glitch that a Wall Street analyst is blaming on an upgrade of software from Siebel Systems (SEBL:Nasdaq - commentary - research).
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And related.
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An executive in charge of consulting services at Siebel Systems is leaving the software company at the end of the year, a representative for the San Mateo, Calif., company confirmed Friday.
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And Siebel stock is now marked as a Buy. Go figure.
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Re:AT&T Wont UNLOCK EVER!
ATT would not unlock my T68 one year after my contract was up. Two years after I signed. So I went ahead and flashed my phone and unlocked it. Not something the average person is going to do. A class action lawsuit is in the works, you can read about it: here at C|Net
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Re:It's clear...
G5s all round then
*cough cough*
If that damn capitalism didn't wipe out DEC, and the next gen alpha was developed, it would have blasted all those other CPUs. Alphas always were the best. I shed a tear every day for the murder and slaughter of Alpha. -
Open Source in developing countries
This is certainly interesting to see that Open Source is being more widely accepted in the developing world. It bring to question, in what manner developers of programs that are not open source will attempt to combat this. Microsoft's recent pricing of Windows OS for only $40 in Thailand is an example of these attempts. Will this attempt by Microsoft really have an impact in Thailand, or is this simply an act of desperation? I wonder what the current impact is of computers running Linux in Thailand?
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already been done, long ago, in other news:
You can get dial-up Internet access with no AOL bullshit and a cool PC starting at only $20/month from PeoplePC while paying NOTHING down.
You can buy a PC for $200 at wal-mart.
... and that's just a few of many MANY options out there. Now why the fuck would you shell out $300 for an OK computer on-top of having to pay $24/month for internet service that'll suck phat donkey ass?go AOL. tsk.
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Deja vu, MSN
I distinctly remember Microsoft doing something similar with their $400 rebate for signing up for three years of MSN. They dropped it after a year or two. AOL's deal seems more financially risky to me, I wonder how they can pull it off.
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Toilet Computing
"Toilet computing is here to stay."
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But isn't this a circular argument?
I mean, according to Matthew Szulik, more advanced OSes are inappropriate for the casual computer user because you have to futz around with things like filesystem drivers:
"I would argue that from the device-driver standpoint and perhaps some of the other traditional functionality, for that classic consumer purchaser, it is my view that (Linux) technology needs to mature a little bit more." Szulik gave an example of his 90-year-old father going to a local retailer in order to purchase a computer with Linux: "We know painfully well what happens. He will try to get it installed and either doesn't have a positive experience or puts a lot of pressure on your support systems," he said.
So now that you'll either not "have a positive experience or put[s] a lot of pressure on [y]our support systems" trying to install a digital camera or flash media under Windows, do you think that Microsoft will have to drop their desktop distribution? -
Broken models and crazy excuses.
"The reason you're locked in is because your carrier pays a large subsidy upfront for your expensive cell phone. If you walk in with your own phone, no one is stopping you from getting a no-contract service."
Actually according to this you can't do that. The god-honest truth is much like other industries we know there business model is bait and lock, and number and phone mobility will break their model and turn them into "pipe providers", and obviously monopolies can make more money than not i.e. Bill Gates. -
Re:The only reason this is news...
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Re:I'd like to
Sprint is a very advanced service compared with Cingular -- lots more options, better email coverage, better customer service...
Except that it doesn't work a lot of the time. Sprint offers a lot of features at inflated prices that you'd be a fool to pay, but they can barely get their most basic services (call connections, call quality, voicemail) working properly most of the time.
A lot of this varies by area so YMMV, but I made the exact opposite switch you did - Sprint to Cingular - and I couldn't be happier. I'm saving buckets of money and getting better service - virtually no dropped calls, a less noticeable digital delay, and noticeably less static even when signal strength is low. I also never have a problem accessing my voicemail, which is a problem with Sprint at least 50% of the time. "Advanced service" is in the eye of the beholder, I guess - it doesn't matter to me how advanced a service is if it doesn't mean good call quality along with basic services that work properly. Not to mention that you're going to be stuck on their old CDMA network unless you pony up for a 3G phone and 3G service, which means big bucks in the end. Sprint nickel-and-dimes you to death with various $5 and $10 fees here and there, until you look at your bill and realize you're paying $150 a month base! Even their most basic plan, with no options, costs more than Cingular's or other carriers'.
A lot of people get taken in by Sprint's sexy features, but you see how many people on this thread are expressing their desire to dump them at the first possible chance. There are reasons for this.
Ok, back on topic so I don't burn through all of my karma by jacking the thread and turning it into a brand flame war. I switched before portability even came into effect. I honestly didn't care, and in fact purposely give out my cel phone number to so few people that it's actually been less trouble than not to keep switching my number every few years (somehow, telemarketers have always gotten my cel phone number eventually, and the number of calls grows exponentially like a virus over time - gee, I wonder why it hasn't happened yet since I switched away from Sprint?).
I think, honestly, that the portability rule is more hype than anything - people who want to switch will switch regardless, and I don't think there's a large number of people out there so tied to their phone number that they've just been waiting for this rule to take effect. If anything, there's a larger issue at work here that I think has a greater effect on keeping people tied down. But if you're really, truly unhappy with a carrier as I was, you'll switch regardless of anything. I could have bought a brand new $300 phone already with the money I've saved going from Sprint to Cingular, and I'm getting better service in the bargain. -
Re:Not free
Ok. What if this happens to you windows 2000 servers?
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Meanwhile...
AOL is testing spyware removal software for bundling with their service. So once it's released, your Dell (which includes AOL) will come preinstalled with spyware removal software.
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Heroes
Heroes of Might and Magic. Not just Might and Magic, but Heroes of Might and Magic. Awesome game. My wife and I started playing it when it was at number II and now it's at IV and we still play it. It's basically an animated map that you go around and collect resources, build up your castle, when you fight it moves to a full featured fight screen. Awesome game, I highly recommend it. It's really fun to go coop style on maps that support it as we don't care to fight eachother. Download.com has the demo.
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Kucinich wants investigation of Diebold DMCA abuse
At this end of this article , Congressman and Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich calls for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to investigate Diebold's DMCA takedown notices and their abuse of the DMCA. He also wants to stop other corporate abuse of the DMCA.
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